hmm i'm not sure about the lighting in this
video but if i open this blind i'm going to be blinded by the sun we're
having a very unexpected burst of sunshine in
september and i'm quite enjoying it to be honest
though i probably would be enjoying it more if i weren't in my office but i
mean it's portable we could go outside later
on which is probably going to be on the cards
however anyway hello welcome to a another little studio vlog
this is one i've been waiting to film for you for so long
i've been trying to get through this adobe illustrator course that i'm
creating if you haven't heard about that course actually i might as well
do a little shameless self promo right now if you're into adobe illustrator and
you would like to learn more i go through it from start to
finish i've created a whole course we've got a syllabus we've got
modules you get a little exam as you go through and you get an
accredited certificate at the end when you complete it
so it's been a lot of work but it should be released between
mid to late october so if you want to sign up just put your email
down for updates you can i'll leave the link for that in the description of this
video so you can sign up so you know when my illustrator course is coming out
which is insane i'm going to have a course and if
you don't want to sign up yourself tell your pals i'll leave the instagram
post down below too so you can have a little read of that
so yeah basically that's why i've had to wait to film this video because i've
been trying to get all that stuff sorted and it's just made me even more excited
so i wanted to first of all shout out the lovely people who have
sponsored this video it is the team at hp
can we just take a minute you bet when i got this email i was like jumping up and
down like a crazy person because hp but if you can't tell i have a new
child in my office and she's beautiful but the
premise of this video is for me to test out
and use the new hp mv 15 laptop and see how seamlessly hopefully
it integrates into my work system so i actually received this
a couple of weeks ago possibly and all i've done so far is
unbox it i've set it up and i've installed
the adobe software on it that's all i've done so i'm going to insert those clips
of me opening this
now
so here is the laptop in all its beautiful glory
first thing i noticed is that the screen on this
is so much bigger than my existing laptop
and the quality and the clarity of it are insane so i'll show you so we've got
the power button on the keyboard and all the most
important elements that you need is all-in-one in this keyboard and if you
look here there's a fancy little thing and that is actually a fingerprint
reader yep i have a fingerprint reader and then also it's got like the typical
volume adjustment buttons you can turn on or off the webcam you
can turn on or off the microphone so you've got everything sort of two
hand and the actual body of the laptop is
made out of aluminium and as you can see it's intel core i7
10th gen and it's got a geforce rtx studio chip a little bit of a
disclaimer now obviously i'm not a laptop pro
but i do know that this laptop has been made specifically
for like high performance tasks so obviously i edit a lot of videos i open
and use a lot of software at the same time i multitask so that is
one of the biggest things i need i need to make sure that the insides of the
laptop can handle that power so let me just show you this fingerprint
thing because your girl's fascinated by this it's already on and it's waiting
for my fingerprint to sign in scan your finger
and just like that she's in first task on the agenda is to see if my
existing devices connect easily to this because i either work
sat at my desk here or i work sat on the bed i actually spend probably more time
sit on the bed but we'll pretend that that's nothing
although it's like a big screen it's not heavy at all like you can see how thin
the whole body of it is so it was a lot lighter than i expected it to be when it
arrived but you can feel the quality of it so
i'm happy about that i'm gonna have a look at setting up my keyboard and mouse
and we'll see how they work and how quick and easy it
is to do so i'm gonna go into settings and did
you know it's touchscreen which can't get over this is gonna make
my workflow so much better especially when
i'm just doing quick tasks that don't require my keyboard in my mouse i can
just touch the screen so i'm gonna set up my keyboard
now it's already popped up amazing now for the mouse
let's get the bluetooth discoverable and we want to add device bluetooth make
sure your advice is turned on and discoverable it
is we've got the mouse i can see it connecting
and it's working this is the efficiency i need in my life the only other thing
i might possibly need is my drawing tablet so
let's see how efficient it is for me to set this up
this is what i use a lot for my drawings which we are going to get into
drawing very soon so we've got a usb slot plugged it in
setting up a device we're setting up your device is that it
is that all i do your touch device is set up and ready to go i think now all i
need to do is install the software for my touchpad because it comes with a
software where you can like set things up
excuse the array of lighting equipment in the background
i have very easily set up my screen so when i record videos generally i have my
notes and things on my laptop and then i have the actual work that i'm doing on
the screen so it's good to know that i have both those options the final
thing that i like to do on my screen is obviously
screen recording if you've watched any of my other videos where i'm doing like
tutorials or anything you know that i have to record my screen
so usually when i do this the fan on my laptop goes insane and it
seriously slows it down so because this hp envy 15 has gaming
strength inside wow i love being a technical queen
that should hopefully mean that when i scream record
things are going to be okay but time will tell and then
i'll get away from the technical things i clearly don't understand
and we'll get to creating something because i'm actually going to create
something really really cool for a desk drop thing that hp want me to
do so i'm going to talk through that but yeah let's see if this screen recording
thing works and then you can actually see what i'm doing on the screen
so i am going to go into the settings and find
the gaming section because in here you're able to record your screen so
apparently if i press the windows button and g it brings up
the game bar aha and then i can start recording
so i guess now is the time for me to flip into
dual screen mode and you can see me working
in my unofficial tutorial setup it's a chill one today but i'm gonna
show you how i'm gonna create a desktop wallpaper
then i'm gonna make a coloring page because i had a lot of fun creating
coloring pages um a couple of months ago and it's been
a while so i'm gonna make one and show you how i did it we're gonna
test the power of this laptop with both screens open
and lots of information going on we'll see because i know not many laptops can
stand up to this sort of pressure i have adobe illustrator open
and the first task i'm gonna create a new document i want to create a
desktop wallpaper first so let's go with web web large 1920 by 1080p
i feel like that's a standard desktop wallpaper size
all right so i have on my screen the desktop sized
artboard i also have open pinterest the laptop's handling it which i'm very
impressed with so far so we've got some kind of cute little
sunset vibes going on so i have that open on my second screen
so i can see it actually when i film videos
normally i tend to have a word processor document open of some sort
um with notes on i'll have my organization app
and sometimes photoshop as well so i have a lot of documents open which i'm
sure will probably end up getting too but i am gonna just get straight in so
i've not even sketched this out i'm just gonna
have a play around and see how it goes i am gonna do
the skyline or like the is it a skyline do you know like when
you do perspective it's the vanishing point i'm doing like
that but i'm not using perspective because
ain't nobody got time for that so i want the color color guide please
and i want a lovely pink shade and i want a lovely
pinky shade i'm gonna make the most of the color guides
helping me choose what sort of shade range to go with because i feel like
it's rude not to and if it's helping me out
might as well go with it right so i'm thinking
a lighter shade for this part which will be
like the c of course we can change it let's go with mm that's a bit too pink
for my liking yeah let's go with that then for the sky choose a rectangle tool
this time be a lot easier the sky i'm gonna do
something a little bit darker hmm let's go with that
yeah i don't want the outline though okay and the plan
is to let's drag this in here so far this software is
handling it absolutely fine like as fine as
ever and i'm happy with that i'm gonna build up
this in layers so all i'm gonna do is i'm looking at building a sun
somewhere in the background i'm thinking maybe some mountains and then i'm
thinking like a lake in the middle and then some landscape
around the outside and some mountains in the background and then we'll add some
textures and some like stars and stuff so it
looks like a sunset and hopefully it'll look cute
it's one of those things where in my brain
it looks great it's whether when it comes out
in person it does or not so we will see but q the time lapse
all right i've made a little bit of progress we've got a design
sort of starting i actually want to have a little play with the touch screen not
gonna lie so i'm gonna play with the either the
blob brush tool or the pencil tool and i'm gonna do the little
squiggle for the like motion in the sea
so i have my drawing i have the pencil tool
and i want it to be like squiggly and i could draw it by hand
but why should i draw it by hand when i can do this
okay maybe let's try it with a blob
brush
magic not my neatest work it's kind of hard to do with one hand but
i'll perfect it in a second are you getting where i'm going with this
does that make any sense i need to make that look better
but i am buzzing that i can do that with the touchscreen
okay back to the time lapse
i've relocated over to my bed because we all know this happens it's much
comfier i don't understand how people can work on
office desks permanently but i've changed the colours
in this drawing and i really really like it
i think i'm going to add a couple of ripples to the ocean and then i'll be
able to show you the final results
i have made progress so we've got a desktop wallpaper and we've got a
phone wallpaper and these are going to be
available to download i love them they're showing
up a little bit lighter on my camera but they're actually like a really
vibrant orange blues purples pinks kind of colors and i
absolutely love them so i actually am going to do a
little coloring page now and basically what i'm going to do
is in fact i could do this with a touch screen
i can go to view outline and that is all the outlines of my work
and i'm gonna sort of follow along and get a rough
idea of the artwork so people could download
and print it as a little coloring sheet too so
yeah look at it it looks so nice i mean treating my own horn here but
yeah and i have not had any issues with this laptop so far
one thing i have noticed is that how smooth this touchpad
is it has like a glass cover on it which is a first for the hp envy laptops
so i'm very very impressed with this and i've also been sat listening to music
and having the controls up here is obviously something i'm very used to so
having that available is amazing and yeah even though it's on
my knee the fans aren't going crazy it's keeping its temperature really
really well which is great because we all know i'm lazy and i
like laying on the bed okay so last little bit i'm gonna do the
coloring page and i might actually try and do it with my finger on the touch
screen just because it's great and why not use it
so i'm actually gonna create a new artboard
and then we will try and do the um coloring page so cue a time lapse and
i'll see you when i'm done
hey so i have had such a fun day creating something different
i feel like it's been so long since i've just sort of let my mind go free
and played around with stuff i'm really really happy with how it turned out and
i actually got on so well with that computer often when i
switch computers i get really frustrated with it trying
to pick up something new but this one was just seamless and yeah
i'm very very impressed with it so yeah thank you so
much hp for sponsoring this video and offering me this opportunity to try out
the new hp envy 15. like i said it is a brilliant
laptop you guys know i don't recommend anything
that i don't like so this is a prime example i will leave
the link to the laptop and hp products in the description
so you can check them out if you're in the market for a laptop and any extra
information i've not included i will include in there
too and yeah i will make sure to create some exciting things on this
laptop i'm very excited about it so yeah thank you very much for watching
this studio vlog and i'll see you soon for another one
bye
you