hey guys today i'm doing another dollar store makeover a part two because a lot of you guys
really seem to like the first one i walked around the dollar store for like an hour
just trying to figure out what i could customize and paint on there's not a lot of good options
maybe oh maybe
maybe it wasn't easy the first time around and it was even harder the second time around eventually
i found some things that i thought might work a coffee mug some hawaiian buckets and a ninja mask
unfortunately i didn't run into any my little ponies this time either so the search continues
slaughtering plastic ponies will have to wait but i think this is a pretty good dollar store haul
to make over so first i started off with the coffee mug it's a pretty basic boring looking
thing personally i like my cups to have a bit more personality and make me laugh when i look at them
this one's personality is pretty dull though hey sparkle bud i could have just painted on the mug
but i wanted my character to have bulging eyeballs sticking out so i decided to use the mug as a base
to sculpt on top of i also wanted to add a mouth to the mug character out of epoxy i figured it
would be impossible to blend the epoxy into the mug i wanted the texture of everything to match so
i decided to just cover the whole cup in a layer of epoxy i don't plan on drinking out of this mug
it's really just for decor so it's fine it's fine it's fine i know i could have just made a mug out
of tin foil or something but it wouldn't have been as sturdy and plus i already have a mug so
it's just easier to use this as a base i tried to smooth everything with water as best as i could i
then took some epoxy to build a mouth i wanted it to be like an open mouth like he's screaming or
shocked i then added two bulging eyeballs sticking out one of them is bigger than the other he's got
some messed up teeth i feel like the imperfections make the characters more lovable at least for me
i like my characters to look a bit deranged and silly i didn't know what color to choose for him
so i just went with a light blue color for the mug i touched up the eyeballs with some white paint
just to clean it up a bit i wanted the eyelid to stand out a bit so i went in with a slightly
darker blue he has a grand total of six teeth which is actually a little more than honey has
so not bad i'd say he has one green eye and one colorless eye i don't know it adds to the cartoon
aesthetic also i just like it this way some of you guys have previously suggested adding glossy
varnish to the eyeballs which i have tried and i loved i think it gives it that nice glassy
eyed look so i did that again for the eyes and for the rest i just covered it in matte varnish
afterwards i noticed there's something about mugs and mug characters that makes me lean towards the
color light blue for whatever reason he kind of looks like he could be booboo's dad or something
which wasn't intentional i just briefly for a second forgot about boo-boo
he almost looks horrified of boo boo's relationship with honey he thinks honey
is too much of a scaredy cat he's not a true ogre because of course true ogres are
fearless somebody help me i'm actually just going to kill you if you're new here and
you don't want booboo to bite your face off you should consider selling your soul to me
by subscribing to my channel and ringing that bell thing so you don't lose me on the internet
i post new videos every friday next on the list are the hawaiian buckets
there were some very miniature teeny tiny buckets the size of my thumb like three for a dollar which
was nice but i thought they might be too hard to paint on one because of their size but two
because they had ridges on them these buckets on the other hand were bigger and had a flat surface
some of them did have flowers on them but i figured i could paint over that so i ended up
going with these they're like these metal buckets i know the paint won't stick to them well so i
first have to cover them in mod podge for these buckets i thought it would be cool to paint some
of my original characters on each of them but i didn't want to paint the whole character on it
i wanted to more just stick their faces on it i painted the first bucket a base layer of yellow
this one was the easiest to paint just because the bucket is a plain white i guess this one didn't
get invited to the luau i'm going to be turning this bucket into the zombie astronaut bunny i
made in my last squishy makeover he's a pretty new character a lot of you guys seem to like him
so i figured he could make a second appearance today i sketched him out in pencil on the bucket
i really just included his face in the astronaut window his ears flopping down and his toxic waste
symbol which i accidentally drew upside down so i had to redo that for those of you that notice
things you might notice that his exposed brain and carrot stab wound have been replaced with an
actual bunny ear this was from before the accident also i just didn't know how to fit the brain and
carrot wound onto this bucket without it looking weird and deformed i mean
he still looks weird and deformed hey i just didn't have space for the carrot to be honest i
think the window is kinda uneven it's pretty hard drawing on a cylindrical surface just like it was
when i was trying to draw on starbucks cups it's not the most convenient thing to paint on even
though it is a little uneven it doesn't really bother me that much i think it's a look it's
it's grown on me over time i've come to terms with it for the next bucket i painted
it a dark brown as a base color for this one i'm going to be painting the reverse centaur
she is infamous for her massive underbite and large derriere that means butt if you don't know
unfortunately her dump truck won't be making an appearance today it's mostly just her face
so i hope you'll still be able to recognize her without her rotund bottom half she does
have big bulging eyes i'm not sculpting on the buckets so they won't be sticking out i'm just
drawing them on 2d style i colored the teeth in white but i added some yellow between the
teeth they're meant to look slightly rotting she hasn't gone to the dentist in a while so
it's all catching up to her i added some drool and the top of her mane peeking down
also went in with some flies just because i can i don't really have a reason for him
she's supposed to look dimwitted and i think she does but looking at it top down she looks
more angry like she's about to charge at you and trample you with her large derriere but she's not
meant to look like that she's not really mean or mad she's not really thinking anything actually
i then went ahead and painted the third bucket green i wanted this to be the tutu hey witch
the tutu which was originally created in my first ellowell doll makeover about a year ago
after that she's made a couple appearances most notably in a create this book episode
and a paper squishies episode she's basically an old goblin witch with a pointy nose that wears a
purple tutu and a witch hat and carries around a magic wand her main occupation is fairy godmother
of the dark side to summon her you have to fart three times while spinning around in a circle
her pointy nose has caught the attention of many suitors mainly because of the giant wart on it
last time i drew her i apparently forgot to draw the wart and some of
you guys pointed that out so i guess the cat's out of the bag now the warts face
she puts it on for added appeal i guess if you're into that i didn't want to let you guys down so i
told her to wear it today her wand witch hat and tutu were not able to make the final cut today
just like the other buckets it's just her face but at least the warts there so that's something
i didn't paint the insides of the buckets i kind of liked the contrast so i left them as
is i did varnish all the buckets with glossy varnish just to give them that
more finished look and to prevent any of the paint from chipping off
the last thing i picked up at the dollar store was this ninja mask
there wasn't like a whole shelf of masks or anything there was just
this one random mask all by itself that i happened to stumble upon it's not my size
it says 3 plus on the packaging and i'm 3 plus a few but it really dug into my face
particularly around my nose and unibrow area but i'm fine i'm recovering it actually lights up too
i figured it would be really cool to sculpt
on top of it and turn it into one of my original characters
that was the thought process at least i didn't really know who to turn it into but
i eventually settled on this sloth character that i actually made in my last dollar store makeover
i've had the idea for him floating around in my head for a while now i imagine a lazy like grumpy
kind of looking sloth that's just kind of hunched over and wears a black beanie and doesn't really
care about much nothing really excites him in life i've been wanting to draw him and bring his whole
character to life which i haven't had the chance to do yet but i thought he would make a cool mask
i was wrong this is the stuff of nightmares i completely covered the mask and epoxy i wanted
it to look like the beanie is pulled right down above his eyes so i added the band of
the beanie he has a big nose and of course his signature frown first thing i did was paint
his beanie black it was kind of starting to look like a bank robber at this point
i may have made his teeth a little too long i was trying to exaggerate them i thought it would add
to the whole mask kind of look it's kind of hard to tell it's a sloth with the whole human face
shape i'll be honest it doesn't look like a sloth at all not even with the brown rings around his
eyes this wasn't really what i envisioned in my head at least i can say it's scarier than
the original ninja mask i think it would give anyone a heart attack so i'd say that's a win
for the dark side also the mask gained quite a few pounds after i added the epoxy to it
so it hurts even more to wear it i'd say it's for decor but let's be honest this is too cursed to
have laying around the house this one's going in the vault far away so i can forget about it
i'm pretty happy with the mug and the buckets they look like my kind of aesthetic the mask
not so much you win some you lose a lot we'll just pretend the mask never happened
what do you want i wish you would click on the top right or bottom you left sweet