(romantic music)
- Ready? - Yeah
(romantic music)
(camera clicking)
- Good morning everybody, by the time you are watching this
it is Valentine's Day.
So, happy Valentine's Day.
I thought I would spice things up for this video
by allowing you guys to control our date today.
I did a poll on Instagram
and I gave you guys some options of what we can do today
and it feels really nice that you guys have control of that
because, you know,
I make a lot of decisions every single day.
So it's nice not having to worry about that.
I am gonna go wake up Ben
and we're going to start our day today.
Let's go.
(relaxing music)
(slippers scuffing)
- [Jenn] Hello
- Oh hello, good morning everybody.
- [Jenn] Good morning
- Thank you.
- [Jenn] So today's the day we're doing the date.
- It's a good excuse
for us to have a lovely day together as well.
So everybody wins and we like all the polls
and stuff you guys did.
We had some very close calls in the decisions.
- It is 8:58 right now.
We had two decisions, hiking won by 68%.
- Yeah, I'm happy about it you know.
I think creating our exercise means
we're going to have to do more exercise.
Sweating our faces off in front of the camera.
Hikes easy, you know?
- That's true. But it's nice because the one that we do
is quite challenging.
And I'm ready.
(upbeat spa music)
We made it to Griffith Park.
This is our favorite hiking trail.
- We do love this place.
It's just easy to get to, parking is great,
and the hike just starts over there.
- How long do you think the hike is?
- It usually takes us 45 minutes.
- Yeah, 3 1/2 miles? - Yeah it's about 3 1/2 miles.
It might take a little bit longer this time
because, you know , we're with you guys.
(laughing)
And then we'll go eat some food.
(Ben groaning)
(upbeat spa music)
- Okay so we're here.
So go all around, like such.
- [Ben] Lots of trails guys.
If you haven't been to this area before.
Highly recommend it, but that's where we are.
Don't know where we're going.
- [Jenn] Yeah, I don't, I think the trail that we go on
is not even on here.
We're off-roading.
- We don't live by the rules guys.
We've got all these options
and we're gonna do an option that none of it has.
(laughing)
- [Jenn] Oh poop.
- [Ben] It's always quite worrying the fact that
I'm always quite tired in the first two minutes.
- Oh I know right.
Since it's rained for several days,
it's actually green for once.
- Oh yeah
- [Jenn] Yeah look it, doesn't it look nice?
Don't you feel like you're in San Francisco?
- [Ben] That's grass
- [Jenn] It's grass
(sand crunching)
- [Ben] And you're doing what?
- The sound of the sand crunching.
It's my favorite sound.
(laughing)
There has to be pure silence.
(sand crunching)
- [Ben] Riveting.
(laughing)
The viewers are loving this.
- People are going to be loving this.
- [Ben] I know that's the weird thing.
They're going to love that, aren't they?
That's the big mountain up there.
Doesn't do it justice,
but it's a lot steeper than you think.
- [Jenn] This is more steep than usual.
- [Ben] It's definitely more steep than usual.
- [Jenn] Yeah, cause I think it is more steep than usual.
We haven't even gone that far and I'm already scared.
- [Ben] We've actually just started.
Look at her racing up there.
(heavy breathing)
when ever friends do this hike with Jenn,
they always mention how she just sprints to the top
of the bloody mountain.
Look at her.
I know what you're all thinking,
come on Ben, catch up.
You can't even see her anymore.
Very aware of that.
(breathing heavy)
I'm already boiling.
I was freezing, like 20 seconds ago.
- [Jenn] This is the prettiest
I've ever seen these mountains.
(breathing heavy)
- [Ben] There's a horrible view.
The last steep bit.
There's a lovely view there.
(laughing)
And a lovely view there, wow.
- [Jenn] Final stretch.
- [Ben] Nearly there.
- [Jenn] Nearly there.
80%
- [Ben] Maybe even 95.
- [Jenn] Yeah
- [Ben] Maybe even 97.
- [Jenn] 98
- [Ben] Oh
(upbeat music)
She's done it.
- Yeah
woo
(victory jazz)
When we say we did it, like yeah we did it
but we've still actually got half of it to go.
- Yeah there's still a lot left so,
- The hard bits done.
- Exactly
(upbeat smooth jazz)
( car door opening)
- Okay hike is done.
- Knackered, let's go back and have a shower
and then see what the next activity is.
(tongue clicking)
- Hello
Alright, welcome to phase two of our date.
We had two options for this segment,
they were
- Either the museum or make you're own art.
And you guys decided
(tada music)
- Let's get painting.
- Let's do it
(finger's snapping)
- [Both] Wow
- I kind of knew that this would win.
I mean who wouldn't want us to create our own art?
- Yeah, it's more exciting.
- Mm hmm
- Only problem is, I don't know if I've ever done this.
My apologies in advance for mine,
but I'm excited.
- I haven't painted in a very very long time either.
But I used to really enjoy doing it.
- You did.
- It's been like 10 years since I've painted.
So we'll see if I've still got it.
- And we've picked our photos we're going to draw.
- [Both] Each other.
- I picked this photo out because
I thought it would be very pretty if it came out well.
- And I picked this one because I guess,
Jenn just looks lovely there.
And I felt like not having scenery and waves
and backgrounds might be easier
but I think you're really going to see
how it doesn't look like a face cause it's so close up.
(laughing)
- [Ben Voiceover] Wow you guys are very lucky,
you are about to witness a masterpiece in action.
First of all I start with a slight sketch
using a nice lead pen.
This is probably my favorite and most proud bit
of the whole painting.
Which is a shame because it's the absolute beginning.
Got the fingers in there nicely,
I think the outline looks good.
And this is were you can see I screw it all up.
Look at those eyes.
What's that mouth doing?
Look at the teeth.
The chin's way too big so I better shorten that.
Get a nice little earring there, little hair.
I did far too much sketching
because once I start painting
it's just going to get all muddled in.
Doing some nice brown shading to the eyes,
which I'm soon going to have to paint over
when I do the actual skin tone.
Which I'll later regret.
What is that?
What are those, why an I doing such a weird orangy yellow?
So, okay, don't know what I was thinking
but here we go, get a nice shade of that in.
As I said earlier, doing the eyes and the lips before
was probably a bad decision.
Because now I have to paint around it.
So here is where the stencil start smudging in
so you see lots of nice little black marks,
and I'm just, basically just playing around for awhile.
Get a nice little dark tone above the top of the forehead.
And try to shade in the neck slightly
and try to give it that depth.
Again it gets lots of the black stencil shade
so, it's just looking a bit black and dirty.
Jenn looks so dirty.
I mean look at it.
Oh here comes, the hair.
Look at that hair.
This was actually quite fun to do the hair.
You know just get some nice swirls.
A few slightly darker black shades here.
It just it really gives some texture to the hair.
Proper little finger nails on there you see.
Look at that.
Here's where I try to get some black outline in the hair,
to give it some depth and some texture.
Oh, look at that, look at all the hair now.
Look at that, so I'm trying to make the shadows in the mouth
but it just makes it look like Jenn's' been eating charcoal.
(sighs)
So then the ear, I have to start just covering up with hair
because it is looking horrendous.
It looks like a walnut.
So I have to cover that up.
I've got some more dark, dirty orange tones under the chin,
and then just nicely finish it off,
wait why am I putting darker, okay
it' just looking dirtier and dirtier.
There's a little necklace here which is pointless
and very time consuming but.
And there you have it guys, the masterpiece.
By Benjamin Jolliffe.
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- [Jenn Voiceover] I started off with a sketch
using my lead pencil.
I just wanted a general idea of where Ben would be.
This is actually my second time sketching it
so there is, you know, eraser marks everywhere.
And then I decided on this nice peachy shade
for Ben's flesh.
This is when I realized that the paint would bleed into
the flesh color not ideal.
Then I mixed this gray shade to make his blazer.
And, it's looking not that bad.
And while I waited for that paint to dry,
I started to work on the background.
I picked this cerulean blue as the ocean color.
And then I wen straight to the hair.
I'm actually pretty proud of the hair.
It looks fairly realistic.
The I decided to draw in the sunglasses,
but the paint was too wet,
so that proved to be a struggle.
Yeah, I just had a lot of difficulty
maneuvering this paint brush.
I drew in some stubble.
And then I realized I had to just wait
for the paint to dry more.
So I made this gorgeous sea foam background in the back.
And I just tried to make the water more realistic
by adding some layers.
Not this part I'm very excited about.
It is the ear.
I believe that this is the best part of my painting.
And also the peak.
The blazer was truly the hardest part of the painting.
I didn't realize how difficult it would be to draw one.
I also ran out of that shade of gray
because it was a custom color
and I think I kind of released my frustrations
by using that gray on the sea foam back ground.
Causing it to be kind of a muddled mess.
But it's okay.
It picks up from here.
For the background I went for an abstract approach,
as apposed to a literal approach
because it was clearly not looking very realistic over here.
So we've got a layer of dark blue, then cerulean blue,
and then a muddled sea foam shade.
The blazer just kept on going down hill.
I genuinely did not know how to make it look like fabric.
So as you can see I'm just piling on fifty shades of gray,
for this blazer.
And I just called it a day.
And this is my masterpiece. Voila.
- Are you going to show yours first?
- Yes my masterpiece.
- Alright, let's have a look at how beautiful I look.
(laughing and clapping)
That's kind of good though.
- Really? - The hair's the best bit.
- No actually, the best bit is the ear.
- [Ben] Oh yeah
- I'm like the most proud of that ear.
- [Ben] Very Good.
- You like it?
- Yeah, what do you guys think?
(upbeat music)
- Don't zoom in.
- [ Ben] Thumbs up if you like it.
- Let me know what you guys think.
Please be gentle.
- Talking of being gentle.
And here we are. You.
(laughing)
Look at it.
- It really does look like me.
The hair is great too.
I think the shading of the face is the best.
- I actually really enjoyed that.
- Yeah
Who do you thinks painting is better?
Let us know.
I think they're both great in their own way.
Well done.
- There we are guys.
- So now that this is done,
lets move on over to the third portion of our date.
But first we've got to figure out
what we're going to wear there.
The results are in, the polls are closed.
Drum roll
(imitates drum roll with tongue)
(bell dings)
- [Both] Casual
(door opens)
- Right. Casual.
How are you going to do this?
- Uh, I've got a couple causal outfits in mind.
- You know you guys are asking causal,
I'm gonna give you casual.
You ready?
- Yeah let's do it.
(both grunting)
(laughing)
(doors closing)
(doors opening)
(sighing)
- oh my God, no!
- This is casual, this is the most causal,
the most comfortable.
- This is my robe.
- Yeah. - This is actually my robe.
- It was your robe.
- From Wilfred.
- Fun fact, I actually wore this robe the entire weekend
for my bachelor trip in Joshua Tree.
Is this even comfortable?
These things feel itchy.
- It's cozy.
- No, common.
Now if I'm changing, you're changing.
I want more comfortable, somewhere in the middle.
- Somewhere in the middle?
- Good luck mate.
(doors closing)
(doors opening)
- Oh causal.
- I like this
- This is basically what I wear all the time.
- It's like the classic Ben Casual look.
- I like this though.
- Thank you.
I went for a little funky casual coin toss type of look.
Uh, I love this UPS jacket.
This is vintage.
Shout out to all my sponsors.
- Oh
- This video is sponsored by, okay I'll stop.
- I'm not on it.
(laughing)
so we did a poll and the options were,
wine bar or dive bar.
And you guys voted, and this is actually the closest one,
- It is
- And the winner is
(both imitating drum roll with tongue)
- [Both] Dive bar
- Very happy with that.
- Yeah me too, I love dive bars.
- We love a dive bar.
- We are going to take you to one of our favorite ones.
- Mm you ready?
- Yes
- Let's do this. Dive bar.
- Let's dive right in.
(upbeat music)
- So we are having dinner, sorry we didn't update y'all.
- Yeah we're very sorry
that we didn't give you guys the choice of where we eat.
Where are we?
- El Compadre.
This is just a classic traditional Mexican place.
The only problem is, there's so many options.
It's stressful.
Yeah how you doing man?
Yes I think we're ready.
- Can I get the two fish tacos please?
- [Waiter] The plate?
- Yes, plate.
- [ Waiter] Thank you
- An I'll do the veggy enchiladas please.
- [Waiter] Veggy enchiladas
- Thank you man
and I think we're good right?
- Yeah, it looks like I get a choice of soup and salad?
- [Waiter] Soup or salad okay.
- What's the soup?
- [Waiter] We've got tortilla or albondiga.
- Can I get the tortilla soup?
- Good choice.
- [Waiter] Will that be all for you?
- [Both] Yeah that's it.
- Thank you
(silverware clanging)
- [Waiter] Thank you
- [Both] Thank you
- Happy with our decisions.
- I am
- The best thing about these places.
- Mm my soup. Thank you.
- [Ben] Wow
wow
(mouths it's good)
(jazz piano music)
(mariachi music)
- We are approaching the dive bar.
- Yes
- Our favorite dive bar around this area
is The Short Stop.
- Very good bar, good drinks, good vibes.
- And it's happy hour.
- And it is happy hour because it's very early.
(upbeat funky harp music)
- Cheers babe to a well deserved drink.
We like coming to dive bars
because as some of you guys might remember,
we actually met in a dive bar.
- We did.
- San Francisco
- I would say if you're ever in the LA area,
I think The Short Stop is a good place to start the night,
or end the night.
- Yeah - Right?
- That's true.
- Cause there's a lot of bars surrounding this area,
so you can kind of hop around.
- But owner be advised.
- We could do the photo booth.
- Yeah
(smooth jazz)
- Oh these are the walls.
ready? - Yeah
- Very good, happy one first?
- Smile.
- Wow
- Like an arrogant
ahhh we did it.
(smooth jazz music)
- [Jenn] Your turn.
- That was stressful
- They came far too fast.
- That's an advanced photo booth move.
Each person gets their own square.
- It's advanced.
I mean we didn't do anything to make it seem
like we're advanced, but it is advanced.
- I mean I'm a veteran.
- Well we'll see
- We'll see.
- [Jenn] In a sea of photos,
I see something that looks familiar.
- [Ben] The best photo of all.
Our photo.
- Aww - Aww
- [Ben] Love the branding they're got got going on.
Make sure everyone's photo says, "The Short Stop."
- [Jenn] I know right?
(laughing)
- [Ben] Ready there, I'm about to do the Home Alone thing.
Mysterious.
I look destroyed.
- [Jenn] oh my God
♪ Love is all you need ♪
Please don't copyright us
- Oh yeah and we did seven seconds of that.
(jazz music)