hey guys i wanted to do another evil thrift store makeover today but it's snowing outside i know
they're out there which is great and all but it means i can't go to the thrift store no worries
though i have a lot of junk laying around that could use some customizing so i dug this thing
out of the attic it's just like a wooden box crate basket storage thing you get the idea
it's pretty plain very dull there's not much going on at all but that just means there's a lot
of prime real estate begging to be painted so it seemed like a good choice i started off by wiping
off all the dust mites and dead skin cells won't be needing their services anymore this crate is
a little big so i have to film it front on instead of overhead which i normally do making it a bit of
a challenge but i'm doing my best and now that all the dirty work's done i'm finally ready to paint
just so you know usually you're supposed to drown this in tons of gesso i don't have
gesso and i couldn't really go get any right now so there's no white base coat which i
would normally do no need to panic though i'll just do a million layers of paint it's fine so
first i'm going to paint this whole crate one color and then add details to the top
here's me trying out a peachy color just to see if i like it
yep good that's the one it looks like it's definitely gonna take a couple coats just as
i expected so then i decided to just paint layer after layer after layer of peach onto this wood
crate i'm trying to cover up the wood grain as best as i can with the paint
i don't really want any of that ghosting through it took me a couple centuries to paint this whole
thing peach but you won't realize that in this 10 minute video normally for my thrift store
makeovers i sculpt something either with sculpey or epoxy and build off whatever item i have
today though i just wanted to sit down and draw and paint just a chill day there's still gonna
be a couple murders taking place just not as violent as usual i chose this crate because
once it's painted it can kind of be like for decor but also it can be used as storage
killing two birds with one stone and now that i've painted the outside i'm going to
turn my attention to the insides i didn't have enough white paint for a base coat but i have
enough for painting just the inside so that's what i'm doing just working with what i have
i went in with some tape around the crate just so i could also paint the top edge tried making
sure i didn't miss any spots even went inside the little handles with a small brush okay
okay after peeling the tape off i went back and did some touch-ups oh and of course wouldn't want
to forget the butt so then i painted the bottom of the crate just the same peach color as the sides
i chose this very light color scheme because my plan for this is to paint slurp on top and
i really wanted him to stand out while still sticking to slurps main color palette i thought
about painting the base color of the crate a light pink and have a blue slurp on top but
that's too close to some of my other characters and i figured slurp needs his own time to shine
a lot of you guys really seem to like slurp even though i don't really talk about him too much
so many people always seem to draw him even after all this time which is really cool to see
i've gotten so many drawings of him over time that i couldn't really fit them all into the video
slurps the very first clay monster i made on the channel he definitely holds a very special place
in my heart grumpiness and all i started off by planning things out with a little doodle i
then wanted to resketch out everything on the box before going in with paint just in case i wanted
to change anything or alter any dimensions so i drew slurp with his anglerfish antenna thing and
a little fishbowl i kept having to redraw the fishbowl because i couldn't get the size right
it was a bit of a struggle i didn't want the fishbowl to end up too big or too small wanted
it to be perfect not that it's anywhere near perfect but yeah slurps like a little sea monster
the diver of doom when i originally made him he was holding a little fish his main diet consists
of fish so i wanted to draw his lunchtime routine i'd just like to put a disclaimer out there for
all the sparkle butts these are not real fish they're goldfish crackers clearly they might
look somewhat realistic in certain lighting but uh slurp would never dare eat a real fish
this whole sketching process was a bit awkward because i'm doing it at a weird angle because
of the camera and because of how big the box is it's harder to draw and film with something this
bulky something i hadn't taken into account before starting so then i pulled out my posca
which i'm sure you saw coming posca pens always do an amazing job hence why i love them so much
and for whatever reason the posca pens really really seem to pop on this one i really like
how the color is turning out it almost looks like it's glowing originally slurp was a pretty ugly
blue painted with some very cheap paint i'm much much happier with how the pasta pens are looking
on them not sure if that's because of the color contrast or because of the material of the crate
but something was definitely working because it's wood i'm trying to be careful not to press down on
the poscas too hard because that would rip the nib of the posca markers i love my poscas too
much wouldn't want to destroy them in my original sculpt i had made a pink and green fish for slurp
so to stick with that whole theme i made one of the fish green and one of the fish pink the
color choices for the fish really didn't matter i just thought it would be cool to incorporate the
original colors but yeah slurps not picky about his fish he'll eat any kind raw cooked from the
wild or pets in a fish bowl nothing's really safe if you're new here and you don't want to end up as
slurps lunch you should consider selling your soul to me by subscribing to my channel it's the only
way i can guarantee your safety i post new videos every friday anyways i then went in and added some
highlights and some shading to make it look a little more dimensional and a little less flat
after that i went around and outlined everything and touched everything up made everything nice
and tidy when painting with pastas you have to take little breaks between layers just to
let it dry or else the paint just mixes together and it's annoying there's some water drops here
there everywhere i even added some little puddles under slurps feet as a fun little addition
i also thought about adding bubbles but ultimately decided not to i kind of liked the simplicity of
it as it is didn't want to make things too busy i couldn't leave good enough alone so i added in
some lines at the bottom kinda like for a surface but then i changed my mind it doesn't really need
it so i painted back over those so then i turned the crate around well that's a whole lot of wasted
space i figured i should paint something on the back didn't want to leave it as is it was feeling
a little incomplete at first i didn't know what to paint i just knew i wanted it to be cohesive and
flow together didn't want to just stick something random on there i decided to still keep with the
same theme of slurp eating fish this time though i drew a dead fish on a plate very appetizing
i wanted to try and draw everything as evenly as possible but slurps arms are a little off
one's a little bigger than the other but it's okay it's okay it's not a big deal i think
it looks decent i was just kind of eyeballing things there's very little precision involved
by the way side note there's always someone in the comments telling me i'm not evil or that my
drawings aren't evil i just wanted to clarify for the naysayers that slurp is a monster he
may be creepy cute but that doesn't mean he's not bad to the bone he's about as evil as they come
so anyways there's a white plate with white fish bones this requires quite a few layers some of the
pasta markers you really have to layer up to make sure it's not too transparent this was especially
true for the wood because the wood just soaks up the paint and lighter colors take a lot more paint
to show up so i really needed to work on and build up that white paint it's really annoying but it is
what it is the fish is looking kinda bony because slurp already devoured it and there's some green
fish guts everywhere i'm sure fish guts aren't usually green i don't know though i'm no fish gut
expert i just made it green because he's supposed to be eating the green fish from the other side
so you see it comes full circle at some point i added some blush on the dead fish i guess
i don't remember doing that i don't even know why a dead fish would be blushing but yeah that's
there now and it's there to stay slurp's holding some utensils the fork's fine but i accidentally
made the knife a bit too small at first so i had to go back and fix that that was bothering me
to seal everything in i went over it with a nice layer of some normal matte mod podge i didn't have
glossy mod podge so i settled for matte either one's fine i think but wait there's more i'm
gonna add a few more things to this so when you normally push or pull on a crate it's loud noisy
tough to maneuver in order to conserve as much energy as possible i decided to add some wheels
to this crate gosh i'm starting to sound like an infomercial i just really wanted to add wheels
i felt it add something to it these are from home depot they have a ton of different options
i'm sure you could just pull some wheels off an old desk chair i just didn't have one of those on
hand so i'll be using these wheels from home depot instead side note if you were to slide this crate
into like a shelf this side with the handle would actually be the front but since i'm not storing it
on a shelf or anything like that i actually made this side the front sorry if that bothers you
and just like that i've done it again it's not perfect by any means but i think it ended up
looking pretty cool and it's definitely something i'll be using for storing my stuff oh my gosh
slarp is in your fish tank right now if you want to save goldie click on the top right or bottom
left hurry oh my gosh there's water everywhere there's water everywhere help someone else