Can I remind members of the Covid-related measures that are in place and that face covering should be worn when moving around the chamber and across the Holyrood campus? The final item of business is a member's business debate on motion 1604, in the name of Casey Clark, on domestic abuse charges. This debate will be concluded without any questions being put, and I would ask those members who wish to speak in the debate to please press the request-to-speak buttons now. I call on Casey Clark to open the debate. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. It is a very welcome opportunity today to discuss the significant problem of domestic abuse in Scotland and how the legal system deals with those kinds of situations. I would like to put on record my thanks to the members who have signed this member's motion, which has enabled this debate to take place today. I will focus on the issues that are involved in domestic violence charges, rather than rape and sexual offence cases, which I have spoken about previously, and which the Government is of course considering in relation to the recommendations from Lady Dorian's report on rape and sexual offence cases. There were over 33,000 charges with a domestic abuse identifier reported to the Crown Office and the Procurator Fiscal Office during the year 2020-2021. That was a 9 per cent increase on the year before. About one in four of those cases were classed as common assault. Many women and girls, of course, do not go to the police. Violence against women and girls is endemic in our society. That relates to wider issues and the power relationship between men and women. However, the justice system has a track record of failing to deal with many of the domestic abuse cases that are taken to the authorities in an acceptable way. Many women and girls who have suffered domestic abuse have described their experiences of the justice system as being re-traumatising. It is clear that improving the experiences of women and girls requires significant changes to the justice system. Since the creation of the Scottish Parliament, MSPs in all political parties have attempted to highlight the issue of domestic violence and make legislative changes to improve how cases are handled. Some of the examples of how things have changed is that now we have separate facilities for domestic abuse cases in some parts of the country so that the complainer does not have to go through the unpleasant experience of attending court. In some cases, evidence is taken by commission, which means that the victim does not have to go to court. That is often particularly important when it is young children who are giving evidence. My motion calls on the Scottish Government to analyse and evaluate the outcomes of specialist domestic abuse courts, which have operated in some parts of the country, particularly Glasgow and Edinburgh, and to lay out a strategy for rolling out specialist abuse courts across the country. Potentially, specialist domestic abuse courts offer an opportunity to massively change the way that domestic abuse charges are dealt with, with trauma-informed approaches, the ability to have specialist premises, a focus on consistent sentencing and specialist prosecutors dealing with cases. On 30 November, we debated a Government motion on gender-based violence, and Scottish Labour put down an amendment to that motion, calling on the Government to evaluate specialist domestic abuse courts with a view to rolling them out across the country. The SNP voted against that amendment on that occasion, but I very much hope that this is something that the Government is willing to look at and that that vote was on a technicality and that the Government will accept that they have the power to introduce those courts throughout the country. In May last year, the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service set up a pilot project for virtual summary criminal trials to be conducted in Aberdeen and Inverness sheriff courts. After an interim report, a virtual trials national project board was established, where all interested groups were represented, and in Aberdeen, the pilot continued for domestic abuse cases only, using a remote facility for witnesses under the supervision of Victim Support Scotland. Last week, the board reported to the Lord Justice General and the Cabinet Secretary that it recommended that every sheriffdom in Scotland should have a dedicated specialist online court for domestic abuse cases. Their report says that a virtual dedicated specialist summery court would offer advantages by increasing protection, reducing trauma for complainers, making it easier for witnesses to give evidence, offering some efficiencies in reducing travel, maintaining efficiency and consistency and also introducing trauma-informed practices. It also said that virtual courts had the impact of mitigating delays caused by the pandemic, as about a quarter of all outstanding summery court cases are domestic abuse cases. Victim groups have been campaigning for these courts and have been positive about the pilot. The review also concluded that representation from defence agents was that the accused had received a fair trial. Of course, that is one of the concerns, in particular about virtual courts. It is clear that the way that the police, the courts and the wider legal system have operated in the past has not delivered justice to women. I hope that the Scottish Government will be willing to act to introduce specialist domestic violence courts. There is a debate to be had as to what extent those courts should be virtual, and I have no doubt that the Criminal Justice Committee will look at that aspect over the coming weeks, as it considers the Covid recovery legislation. However, violence and the fear of violence touches all women's lives. I look forward to the contributions from members, and I hope that we will get action from the Government on this issue. I thank Kate Clark for making this important topic to the chamber. As we already heard today, domestic abuse charges in Scotland have now increased for the fifth consecutive year. Kate mentioned her in about 33,000 cases in my constituency that was 111 incidents that were reported last year. That is one reported incident every three days. That alone is a staggin figure. However, we all know that those figures do not reveal the true extent of domestic abuse in our communities. Recently, I visited Eastland, Lothian and Zedd, and one of the things that they talked about was barriers about action going on. Talking about that, I suppose that what they have seen is justice for the actions that have been carried out in them. For a myriad of reasons, they do not often report their abusers up. I will let the minister address the key point that Kate Clark mentioned in her summit about domestic abuse courts. The scale of violence within our society has reached pandemic proportions. That violence is very core, and it is gender-based. Men's violence against women, girls or men's violence against men and boys. Domestic abuse, which is perpetrated by men against women, is rooted in women's and equal status in society, and that is at the core of the problem. Men need to be seen that more and more and more. It is part of the wider social problem of male violence against women and girls. Research from the University of Bristol reveals that sexism and misogyny set the scene for male abusive partners with coercive and controlling behaviours. Dr Jackson Katz researches delves even further into the root causes of male violence against women. That work focuses predominantly on attitudes and beliefs of manhood that society actively teaches. He encourages us not to think of men who are violent towards women as pathological monsters and not as individual perpetrators, but instead we need to think about our society.  All those influences teach men certain lessons about manhood and social norms that are produced and reproduced at every level. Early today, I met with Graham Golden, formerly of the violence reduction unit. There was an eye opening meeting certainly for myself. He said to me in our meeting that it is the same system that produces men who abuse harm and violent towards women. It produces men who abuse and harm and are violent towards men also. That is not said in the spirit of minimising women's experience of male violence, but rather to illustrate that men and women have a common enemy and that is male violence. This recognition is important to help on his frame male violence against women in a way that brings men into the conversation. Again, we need to do that more and more and more. We have a leadership role in our Parliament to do that. Men have been largely raised from so much of the conversational subject which is essentially about men. That is why campaigns like Do Not Be That Guy campaign are so important because domestic abuse and violence against women and girls are symptoms of the socialisation of boys and the definitions of manhood society creates and upholds that lead to these current outcomes. For so long, women have been the only ones to stand up and speak out against male violence. I know men who care deeply about this issue, but caring deeply is not enough. We need more men to have the courage and the strength to stand up and not remain silent in the face of abuse. We need men to challenge behaviours and attitudes that have left alone manifest and transform into rape and murder of women. We need this, so abuse of behaviour will be seen as unacceptable not just because it is illegal but because it is wrong and unacceptable in pure culture. As the action cat says, we need men to break the silence in male culture about the on-going tragedy of men's violence against women. Just to conclude again, I thank Kate Clark for bringing forward this motion today. I am very pleased to speak in this debate brought forward by Kate Clark. I agree with her motion on what has already been said by her and the very important points raised by Paul McLennan about the deep-rooted nature of some of these crimes and the responsibility of men across society to do something about that. I have faith in the new Lord Advocate, Dorothy Bain QC, who has clearly got her work cut out. Not only has she been left with the mess of the rangers' malicious prosecutions caused by her male predecessors, but she has got even bigger issues of the tens of thousands of backlogged criminal cases and how so many women and girls are still failed by the justice system. Last month, the Lord Advocate candidly told the Criminal Justice Committee that victims of sexual offences may not be getting justice and her candor is welcome. While anyone can be a victim of domestic violence, we know that the majority of victims are indeed female. The National Procurator for Domestic Abuse, Moira Price, recently said that the Crown takes a rigorous approach to these crimes and the crime of stalking. Those include a presumption in favour of prosecution where there is sufficient evidence, better training and prosecutors working more closely with the police. I still hear far too many accounts of women being failed by the justice system. In recent times, there was the so-called Boys Club of Police Officers in Murray. A female police officer reported a catalogue of alleged bullying and criminality, but her concerns were ignored. Then there are victims of stalking who tell me how the criminal justice system exacerbates their ordeal. Manipulative men abuse our courts by using spurious excuses to string out proceedings. That can last for years, even before Covid, and I believe that it is a tactic of control that is in itself an extension of the stalking campaign. Then there is a woman whose serious domestic violence case limped through the courts for four long years. At every turn, her attacker played the system and sought delays and excuses not to proceed. In the end, he was even allowed to strike a plea deal to have numerous charges either dropped or watered down quite significantly. This brave woman and many others tell me that they would not go through it again. Damningly, they say that they would advise others in the same position not to engage with the system, which I would obviously not encourage, but these are people who have been through horrific ordeals. Some criminals know that using this tactic of what is known as churn the constant delaying of cases can result in witnesses moving on for getting key details and victims simply losing patience. Then there is also the practice of plea deals, which largely operate unseen from the public eye. I was pleased when the Lord Advocate gave a commitment recently. In response to a question, I asked that these will not, the temptation to use these by prosecutors to clear the backlog, will not happen. They will not be misused for that purpose. As I have already mentioned by Katie Clark, I am very interested in the new report by the virtual trials national project board. Among other things, it calls for specialist online courts to deal with domestic abuse cases. It sounds from what Ms Clark has said that these have been very successful and welcomed positively not just by victims but by legal practitioners and others involved in the process. They say that this would increase protection and reduce trauma for victims. It is this kind of radical approach that the Lord Advocate needs to consider. While she has got victims on her side and many MSPs backing change, one challenge might come from the powerful legal lobby, which often seems culturally resistant to change. I am sure that we all wish her the best of luck. I now call Pauline McNeill, who will be the last speaker before I ask the minister to respond. Thank you to my colleague Katie Clark for bringing this important debate to Parliament and the committee's excellent speeches of Paul MacLennan and Russell Findlay. The message of violence must remain at the top of the agenda of this Parliament because by it is very nature. Violence committed usually by men against women is committed to get behind closed doors. It is on the increase that is more prevalent during the pandemic, and sadly, those figures are heading in the wrong direction. The men who think that they will never be held accountable when they use physical or psychological violence have to fear a robust criminal justice system, and that is why the existence of specialist domestic courts can play a very significant role. Male violence against women is endemic in our societies. We have all debated many times what we know is a global issue, and it is on the rise globally, sadly. If we have to have any chance of making any serious inroads, as I have said many times, I believe that we need to start teaching our boys and girls at a young age what is and what is not acceptable in relationships. As I have had a chance to discuss with the minister the cross-cutting programmes that are being conducted and are needed in justice education and equality are absolutely vital. I know that we agree on that point. Talk of rape culture in schools, the sending of unsolicited photographs, is becoming commonplace. Every time I open a newspaper, I am reading more of this. Sexual violence inflicted on teenage girls is really alarming, and sadly it is more alarming now than it probably was a few years ago. It is something for this Parliament to address. In a recent Sunday Post report, three out of five girls said that they had endured some form of sexual harassment. We need a seismic shift in attitudes to reverse this trend and we need to focus on what is happening in our schools and in our education system. I fully support the Government's equally safe programmes that promote healthy relationships, and I also support the work of Rape Crisis Scotland. I think that we need to hear how it can be rolled out across the country. The pandemic has highlighted just how unsafe home is for many women. The United Nations declared a shadow pandemic as women across the world face being stuck with their abuse and unable to get help or respite. Lockdown also caught off access for children to a safe space out of the home. The number of domestic abuse cases reported to the police in 2020-21 was over 6,000 or 5,000. Those are quite shocking statistics, but we consider that only one in 10 cases are estimated to be reported. It gives even more pause for thought. Specialist domestic abuse courts seem to be an appropriate way to address the magnitude of the problem of domestic violence. If we think that there is an appropriate solution, then we need to make sure that they are rolled out. Of course, domestic abuse does not only take the form of violence. Psychological abuse such as coercive and controlling behaviour can have a profound and damaging long-last effect on any individual. It is a part of behaviour that is often not obvious at first, but it can do real damage. It has been a crime since 2019. We also have to be alert to the fact that perpetrators are now often using social media and software like Apple air-tags to track victims. It was Isabel Unane from Women's Aid to Zed stocking and tech abuses are very real and dangerous forms of abuse with survivors who have been sought by their ex-partners often at the greatest risk of harm. Given the scope that domestic abuse can take, we need specialist courts to provide the resources and expertise to deal with this issue. I am glad to take part in a debate, although I am obviously sad to reflect on the figures. I know that there is absolute energy behind this in terms of the Government's approach to this and the cross-party issue. I do not think that it is a party issue. It is sadly an issue for society to deal with. It is not just a problem in Scotland, but in Scotland we are leading the way and we can continue to lead the way by the further adoption of domestic courts to apply our specialist prosecutors and those who work in our courts to make sure that we can provide a solution and make it clear that we have a robust system for anyone who wants to abuse men or women. I thank Kate Clark for lodging the motion for debate today. I commend her clear desire for action on the subject, which I would like to see. Domestic abuse has been one of this Parliament's priorities with a sea change in public attitudes since this Parliament was formed. In the not-too-distant past, all too often, there was a dominant view that domestic abuse was a private matter that took place behind closed doors and that it was no business of the criminal law or the justice system. Thankfully, that misjudged view has been well and truly demolished. There is a broad consensus that domestic abuse is a shared issue and that effective justice system response is essential in protecting victims. The vast majority of domestic abuse is committed by men against women. We all recognise that this is not a women's issue but that they are disproportionately affected by it and that men have to take responsibility. It is heartening to see that so many men are taking responsibility for their own actions and no longer being bystanders to the actions of others. That was a point that was well made by Paul MacLennan in his contribution. The Parliament has taken significant steps to improve the criminal law response to domestic abuse. In 2010, the Parliament acted swiftly to close a loophole in the breach of the peace law with the introduction of a new offence of threatening or abusive behaviour. In 2016, the Parliament introduced a new statutory aggravation of domestic abuse and, in 2018, a new specific offence of domestic abuse was introduced. That has been lauded by experts who work with victims of domestic abuse as being world-leading or gold standard legislation. Countries all over the world are looking to learn from the Scottish domestic abuse offence. For the first time under the criminal law, the new offence captures the totality of what domestic abuse is for victims. Conduct that is criminalised includes physical abuse but also psychological abuse, all to evidence in the coercive and controlling behaviours displayed by perpetrators. The value of having a law that captures this type of insidious behaviour is that victims and those supporting victims can see that the law is on their side. Perpetrators will also understand that behaviour amounting to coercive and controlling domestic abuse is not tolerated and can be dealt with under the criminal law. The motion for debate raises important issues about how the justice system responds to domestic abuse and the role that specialist domestic abuse courts may have. I agree with a number of contributors, Katie Clark and Pauline McNeill among them, that they appear to play a significant role in that. It is important to briefly remind the chamber that the operation of the criminal courts is an independent responsibility of the Lord President as head of the Scottish judiciary. The Parliament has enshrined that independent role in statute through the Judiciary and Courts Scotland Act 2008. As such, it is not for this Parliament or the Scottish Government to instruct the judiciary as to how the courts should operate. Where the judiciary themselves consider it appropriate for specialist courts to operate, it is right for Parliament and Government to consider how best that can be supported. On 21 January, the virtual trials national project board, chaired by Sheriff Principal Pyle, published a report on the piloting of virtual summary trials recommending that specialist online courts be set up to tackle domestic abuse cases. The report highlighted the opportunity to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on court processes for survivors of domestic abuse, as well as reducing trauma. We will now work with justice agencies to move those recommendations forward. A key aspect of specialist domestic abuse courts is that they guide survivors through the process to sentencing with appropriately trained staff available and advocacy support built in. Specialist courts can have a significant role to play in delivering better access to justice. That is why specialist domestic abuse courts operate in Glasgow and Edinburgh as part of how the judiciary consider it best to deal with such offending in those areas. The original pilot of specialist domestic abuse courts in Glasgow, dating back in the mid-2000s, was positively evaluated and praised by victims' organisations, resulting in its permanent establishment and other courts followed. The motion rightly talks about evaluation of the benefits of specialist courts. I am aware that Katie Clark was not in Parliament when the new offence of domestic abuse was being debated in 2018, when there was discussion about specialist courts at that time. Parliament agreed that understanding better how different types of courts deal with domestic abuse was an essential element in assessing the role that specialist courts could play. That is one reason why there is a statutory reporting requirement contained in the Domestic Abuse Scotland Act 2018, which requires the Scottish Government to publish information on the experiences of victims and witnesses in relation to the new offence. That information will be published in a series of reports that we are expecting later on in 2022 and into next year. Respecting the constitutional position of the Lord President, one of the reports will contain information provided from the Lord President as to how domestic abuse court business has been arranged to deliver that efficient disposal of cases. The impact of the pandemic, I imagine, will permeate through the reports from which I am sure there will be further learning. The motion notes that official figures reflect an increase in domestic abuse reporting. That was a point that Katie Clark made in her contribution this evening. Although that is a stark reminder of how far we have to go in eradicating domestic abuse, it may indicate that more victims are coming forward to report. Recent figures show that 84 per cent of court proceedings involving a charge under the Domestic Abuse Scotland Act are leading to a conviction. I am very encouraged that the law is doing what it was intended to do. The prioritisation of domestic abuse cases was a welcome decision taken by the Lord President early in the pandemic as a recognition of the trauma for such cases and survivors. The Scottish Government funding of £50 million in this financial year to support the criminal courts system recovery from the pandemic was also an essential part of helping to deliver justice, including in domestic abuse cases. That has been a useful debate today with some very important issues that have been aired. I just want to reaffirm the Scottish Government's commitment to preventing and eradicating violence against women and girls and to continue to support the work of justice agencies and the third sector in delivering better outcomes for survivors of domestic abuse.


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Hello everybody and welcome back to The Average. I'm Steph, I'm the Average Artist. In case you're new here, I called myself that because I had a comic once that was The Average comic and now I'm stuck with it and I kind of like it. So there we go. I have finally finished a sketchbook. This is this beautiful beautiful sketchbook by Lana J. Arts and I will link her Instagram down below. This was from her shop but I think she's sold out now. You can sign up to be notified when products are back in her shop so maybe she'll restock the sketchbook. I don't know. So anyway I really like this sketchbook. I have a whole kind of review on it so we won't really get back into that much. It's a beautiful sketchbook and I really enjoyed using it. I really liked the style of it. So let's get into it. Page one. So slowly I started to run out of room and actually this is my most recent drawing. So this is kind of my last drawing of the sketchbook and it was just a doodle for my Hogwarts Sona thing that I did with Colour Holds creations. It's my latest last video and I was just doodling out maybe some YouTubers as well as Louisa and yeah. It was fun. This is also quite a recent thing. When I finished this end of this sketchbook I went to the beginning again to start to use the front pages which is now open by the way guys if you want to go check that out. Link in description. And so I have the book club tier, tip jar tier, YouTube tier and I don't know I was trying to make some really nice icons and then in the end I kind of went with these because I really like them and I used like alcohol markers of them and the monotone markers for these. So this is like paint and this is a call marker which I really enjoyed. So we're getting to the actual beginning of the sketchbook. This is the very first thing that I painted in the sketchbook. It's from my horror comic that I'm still working on. You guys are getting bored of hearing that and then I doodled some statues and stuff. I'm trying to get used to working with tones and as the sketchbook goes on you can see that I'm studying a little bit more trying to get a little bit better at things instead of just painting nice pretty things and I'm actually trying to study anatomy and all these. Here is another picture similar to the last one.  I don't know what I was doing here. I think I was having that you know when you first start a sketchbook and you just kind of draw stuff and you're like oh I don't really like that. So I was just trying to get that out of the way and again here just like a pattern weird pattern random. This is watercolor and as you can see the paper kind of doesn't hold that very well but as I've said many times I really like that texture. I don't know why I've just find it really appealing. Yeah I don't know why I can't explain it. Here is some more work. I was going to do a paper cutout art thing and I was going to do like a shark in a hallway because I was thinking that's going to be part of the comic and then doodling because I was trying to get out of the way like I said all this block that you first get when you first start a sketchbook. I don't know if you guys get that but I definitely get that because there's always that intimidation of the white page and starting something new. I got a nib and dip pen you know there's like sort of like a quill pen but not really and you dip it in ink and you draw with it. I did a whole graphic novel with that pen when I was in university and I forgot how much I really liked it like the style of art that um style of line that you can get and I wanted to try using that again so this is just me experimenting with trying to use that pen and well how to use it again getting used to it basically. This side is my old house before we moved so this is my old living room that I drew out with like a fine liner and then I just water colored over the top. I really like the way that this turned out even though it's kind of messy. Just do a little bit of a zoom in for you guys so you can see like all the stuff on my shelves and my old desk and books and lights and posters and I do really like that because it's kind of captured like a time for me that if no longer exists and this is where we're staying right now during quarantine we stayed in this flat and I had an empty page so I went when I finished the sketchbook I went back to fill this out and I thought it would be a nice comparison like before and after like different views so just this one didn't take me very long this one took me ages so this is me experimenting again with the dip pen I think I can get some really expressionate lines here. I don't know if you guys have seen the craft but it's one of my favorite movies it's like 90s movie about witches and it's really cool. A little bit scary at the end it's not like super scary but it's creepy. It scared me when I was a kid though but yeah really cool characters and I was just drawing them and I really like this kind of style. Here I was preparing for book paint over for crazy rich Asians and I was drawing out different things that I could put on the cover and then the expression of the main character and different things so yeah fun nailing basically. I made my mum like a either a mother's day card or a birthday card I can't remember at this time but yeah that's my mum and I made her this card and turned out quite nice and then I was just doodling I think it was still a bit like what am I gonna do with this sketchbook at this point. More random doodles and little thumbnails for a glow in the dark video that I made. More craft kind of fan art here. A doodle of one of the images for my glow in the dark image that I did which is this so I drew out what I wanted to do here. I also drew like a sort of cowboy girl realistically just to kind of find out how to stylize her if that made sense because I wanted to draw like an adventurer. I remember that and then I made ghosts because I used like this glow in the dark paint and I really really like this piece. I'm really proud that I did all this preliminary work because that piece turned out something that I really enjoyed so there we go and this is a sticker by Joy San from her Patreon.  So I had this glow in the dark paint like I said and I drew this so this should glow in the dark. I kind of like this a little bit but it's just wrong as well like a hands wrong and I think I just went for it with the the pen and I didn't really care. I think this was inktober so I was thinking of like what to draw for that. Yeah one of the things was snail and jam I'm not sure. This was for my it paint over so I was drawing different clowns and stuff trying to figure out how to make a scary clown and I think I accomplished it because I really like that book paint over. Again it's a video on my channel so if you guys want to search for it just search for it but yeah this is the clown that I went with eventually and it was kind of like a cover that you opened up and then the inside I drew the losers gang which you can see here it's kind of a thumbnail and then here was my idea that I was going to do for inktober so I went ahead and I drew out all these different thumbnails for each one and I really really like these. I got really inspired by them and sort of this angular style that came up from nowhere but then when I went to do them I used that ink stuff that I got from a subscription box I can't remember which one it is. I think it might be palette full um they sent it to me and I used the alcohol inks and yeah you can go see that video if you want but I did every single one of these in there on that alcohol sheet and they didn't come out as clear as this so they were kind of cool but they're not as I don't know I really like some of these little doodles so yeah I don't know um they're pretty cool. Next page and here okay this one is a mess I think I hadn't at this point drawn in my sketchbook for a long time and yeah I wanted I went through a stage of wanting to quit my job like there's no problem me saying that because my work knows that and we sorted things out so I don't know I quit that day and I just doodled and that's why it says I quit but I'm still at the job and I'm really happy now so don't worry about me um here is my doodle of how I felt so like the progressive like feeling here is a weird like little t-rex image of pesto which looks a little bit crazy there so we're just going to skip past this page. This is my thumbnail for the hate you give uh book paint over I really like this paint over I think it turned out really well it's one of my favorites ever and I love that book and it's kind of important that book it's quite prominent at the moment so if you feel like reading something about racial tension and things like that that is a really amazing book here is a little doodle for the horror comic I was just I don't know I was like thinking of oh what could I do with like floating things above pool or I don't know I was just messing around with this concept so I kept this in the sketchbook to remind me of that that idea so that's that here is let's try to like draw creepy things that might appear or not appear so I was just trying to because it's kind of hard to draw something scary if that makes sense I think trying to convey something or mood or feeling it is difficult with a comic trying to make scary things and I saw this giant bird that was quite scary so I drew him out this one is kind of something that I just did after all this to fill the page and it was with my monitor paint markers and it's a painting called pintura de albert anchor I don't know um yeah but I really like the way that turned out the style of it with the alcohol markers coming through the page and giving like this pattern I liked it I kind of like this guy he's kind of scary and I like this melty face because I want to do something with that imagery I painted a girl and she turned out looking like that girl from hereditary that movie if you've seen it that horror movie but like subconsciously I didn't I made her up so creepy um and then I used the alcohol markers to just doodle some different scenes and stuff I'm going to zoom in here for you guys because it's kind of hard to see but I was just messing with style and trying to convey an idea with just a couple of colors and yeah kind of like the way this turned out it's kind of cool here um a lot of the alcohol markers came through the page so I just stuck this down and I like this kind of style with the pencil and then colors on top um I think it looks kind of nice so I think it's like a hard pencil or a soft pencil rather and then just the alcohol markers on top and this is a scene from a movie Leon which I really like again that's a good movie and then I drew this woman painted her I hated her face it was so weird so I did like an ocean in her face I don't know why very random but kind of like it so a little bit weird here were some different thumbnails for different videos so this was for the little women hundred page doodle I drew out like I don't know if you can see that very well but some just random sketches of how they would look um I don't know just trying out things I think this was for like a christmas card so I was like drawing different things this was for the haunting of hill house I read that book and I wanted to do a paint over but I never finished it because I just didn't like where it was going so I just stopped I kind of like that thumbnail though here are a couple of ideas for my save the dates for my wedding I wanted to do like a constellation theme so it was just like painting out the stuff and I think this is quite pretty here is uh this is for a redraw of something in the past and I was just trying to sketch out how I could do that again this is kind of an idea I've had with the the head of the woman coming off for my horror comic you probably can't see that very well because it's pencil but it's just Batman alien again and then I was doing an invite idea for my friends for their wedding um some live drawing on this side which again is kind of difficult to see but if I do that you can see it it's just some random sketches and then some thumbnails for my friends this was for the painting of painting with makeup so I sketched out what I wanted to draw here and then I think I was like testing the paint which came out of the painting with makeup here I was just like using it on this page page of different things to uh see what the colors were like and they are very nice so this is the start of the lockdown so this is when we moved to this flat and I was just drawing the room of the living room of this place this is quite funny this is a little sketch a comic idea that this is me working from home and then I could hear the cats to my left eating so just look and you just see Gigi like the mess I named him and then Pesto like delicately eating and then Kubo just shoveling down the food in his mouth and then he would like he'd like to shovel it all into his mouth and then lay it on the floor and eat delicately off of him in the morning okay you do you yeah that was a quick comic that's not really a comic it's kind of just a random idea that I sketched out really quickly there here is a picture of Kubo and some flowers here is the first images I did with my new alcohol markers that I got free from Artex they're very nice actually I really like them and as we go on you'll see that I got more into using them I'm not sure I really like these houses I didn't really do the pens that much justice but I kind of like them they're kind of quirky so this is when I started to get into the groove of my art again and this sketchbook so I painted this thing here I just did like lines have you ever heard of that exercise if you have like a brush pen with ink if you do a line and then you try to do it line a little bit just further away and then try to keep that going and keep going with a single line that's really good for your brush control I've heard so that's like a good practice technique so I was doing that a bit because it's like a fun exercise and also it helps you but also it's like kind of meditative meditative do I mean yes meditative then I wanted to draw like a bit of a melty face and it ended up looking a little bit like myself so it's kind of creepy and it is very creepy but I really like that and I want to do something like this in the comic that I keep talking about I'm really tired of talking about it I need to just do it everyone who's new here is like morning talking about making a comic it's a horror comic I've said it a thousand times so I'm talking really fast a little bit here is some ideas I had for my switch paintover that I did and yeah I really like some of these I wanted to do like a whale in water inside it and before that's going to be really difficult for the first time of painting on something so never mind here is a doodle of kubo again and here are some random pebble things here I was watching or listening to a stage play that they were putting on and I just paused it and drew out like try to draw out really really quickly the characters on the stage and yeah this was kind of the outcome of that didn't really like the way they turn out with the kind of expresses so maybe it's a good idea um I drew my work desk as we were on a really long call I was drawing like people's icons on because we're on teams and you see these icons of people I work with kind of like doing that it was fun and then you could see like my work desk and stuff I like doing that that was fun and then I was sitting out on the balcony enjoying the boats that were like in the sea ahead of me and drawing pesto and then kubo I was like kubo is it long and then I drew him again like extending longer and longer and here's pesto I really liked that and did if here was like a black splodge and I was trying to make it into something and then it was just getting worse and worse so I just put this down and then drew some more boats because I liked everything else on this page so I didn't want it ruined by just having a black splodge like I said sketchbooks are meant to be messy but I kind of like this I saw Minnie Smalls doing this um she's another youtuber she's really cool um in her sketchbook so I was like you know what if Minnie does this I'm gonna do it so I went for it here I was trying to draw like different faces I was trying to get a little bit more diverse for the normal faces I would draw I'll draw this old woman and this kind of like Japanese guy who looks kind of angry and then this very interesting looking face of another guy um yeah I was just trying to get a little bit more diverse but looks kind of cool together with this little image I did which I like this is like alcohol markers and pencils I think and then just ink I saw this cat in like a wattmelon shop so I wanted to draw that and then I started to think about this is when I started to think about my patron thumbnails so I was thinking what I could make and I do like these but they don't really um they don't really suggest what each tier is about so I let them go I tried to draw like a wave image here and it didn't really turn out how I liked it so I just did like a yellow splodge here and I don't know why I just left that so anyway um yeah and then I did like a lot with my alcohol markers different sketches I do really like this page again it's kind of cool and it's kind of quirky I like it together and yeah I like this page it's good here I was trying to experiment with my style a lot more so I'm using the Molotow pens here and then the alcohol markers and pencils and things like that and this was um my I called it my lockdown walls so these are kind of where I've been staying for all these weeks and not seeing anyone and just being in these kind of four walls for ages so I doodled that out from my memory and I really like the way it turned out it's very cute and so I got inspired by that to like keep going with that kind of style here is my milk bottle the bottle paintover that I did I kind of did like a quick sketch out of what I wanted to do here's a little illustration of me and Kubo and me playing the switch because during this lockdown I've been obsessed with animal crossing I've kind of gotten away from that a little bit now but yeah I really like that I drew out that woman without the head missing that's been a prominent image for me in my mind for the horror comic so because I like that Molotow style so much I was like maybe I could do that for my horror comic so I was just testing out how it might look I do enjoy that but I think as you go as I go on through this sketch book I get more inclined to go back to the alcohol markers one morning I woke up and Pesto just decided to like knock water over my laptop and I woke up to it like just pouring over my laptop like no Besta what are you doing and my laptop's fine so no harm no foul but yeah that was a scary wake-up call here I was drawing different heads again just trying to get just trying to get better at anatomy and yeah trying to be a little bit more diverse trying to draw men a little bit more than just women you can see that I was drawing men and then I was like whatever women again like I have a problem here I was experimenting with the pastels and paint just like a crazy mixed media thing that I think turned out quite nice I don't love it I don't hate it another lockdown image that I drew quickly with this brush pen that was running out of ink so I really like the dry bushy style that I got with it I think these would be really cool to look back on once we because we've got a new flat and I'm moving out and we're going to stay in this new flat permanently I think it'll be nice to see this flat that we stayed in during lockdown like these images in this sketchbook of looking back on it in the future would be quite interesting so I'm glad that I've been documenting it a little bit here is an image of me and my ideal desk I don't actually own one of these drawing desks you know the ones that lift up like that that would be my perfect scenario and a really nice comfy chair and like a big light and just you know just a little area for yourself I was daydreaming that that was be mine I like this drawing I can't really remember what was going for my brain but I think it's supposed to be me and I'm just like lockdown and I really like that though I don't know trying to cartoonize that's not a word try I was watching a show I think and I was just doodling out like what I saw on the show and I really like the way that one turned out I'm not sure what's going on here I think I was trying different techniques um here again Patreon ideas you can see as I go I'm trying to build upon past ideas as I've been drawing um different things so each each time I do them I'm trying to update them here is a quote by uh Frida Carlo and it says nothing is absolute everything changes everything moves everything revolves everything flies and goes away and I really like that quote so I just wanted to draw it out um I think it was very meaningful for me meaningful for me at the time when we had the lockdown and we didn't know what was going on what was going to happen so I really connected with that quote a little bit so I just wanted to write it down to remember it here is me messing with style again so I think this is a mixture of water colour and then the Molotow pens on top so I really really like the way this turned out I like this is like the bay the view from this plot this is my this was my desk at the time pesto sleeping books I don't know what this is like plants and stuff and then this is Chris playing and then these were people from the show we were watching I was trying to doodle them again and then a different place and yeah I really like this style the watercolour and then the Molotow pen as I said before you can see like a little bit of that texture here that I was talking about that you get from this sketchbook with the watercolour and yeah I like that style again experimenting with style here with using a lot of mixed media so I think I was using the Molotow pen watercolour and um pastels here I do like I do like the style because it gives a definite mood to everything but I think it's too difficult to work with all this media together it kind of fights each other but I do enjoy that as well so it depends what mood I'm in but yeah I like I really think these set a really nice atmosphere I really like them I might post an Instagram of these actually which I haven't done he was like a painting of a girl that I did just using watercolour and pencil I think a little bit I do like this this piece by itself and then I really like this one too this was this preliminary thing that I drew for um testing out the pastels and also watercolour together again and yeah it's really really nice I like this one it's a lot of atmosphere to it um it's a bit chalky bit of a mess but I kind of like that so whatever here I am trying to draw stuff I think fashion pieces that I saw on Instagram you ever have those adverts when they just advertise like these amazing bald gowns that you know won't look like that if you order them I was just drawing them out and then I was drawing like different bases trying to be more diverse again random noodle I don't know just messing with things basically here again was kind of like a mood research I would say of different stuff so again with the pastels it won't come off because I used hairspray pastels and then like a really dry brushed ink pen and different media like drawing different faces here different things here I thought I would try and draw a sign with using the black to actually make the shapes and then I drew this and I drew this girl here and it looked awful so it just went over and did this like weird face over it here is my pesto page as you can tell I'm a bit obsessed with her she was sitting on a chair near me so I was just drawing her she has a very expressive face so it was quite cute to see her like looking around and trying to just get those different angles and I really like these I think they really convey pesto so it's cool and here again drawing her and then also Kubo because they were lying like at the end of my bed and then I was trying to do like different colors I like this one of Kubo I think it's really cute these were my thumbnails for the most recent no it's not most recent it's my pastel video that I did recently and it's just different thumbnails basically to see what I wanted to do I think this is one of my favorite pages of the book you can see that I'm starting to really get into it again get into drawing feeling inspired not feeling in a rut like I had done in the beginning of the sketchbook and yeah you can see I've got different things um just doodling out different stuff that's that sailor moon challenge that came out and I just doodled out I didn't want to make a big thing of it I just wanted to add it to I was trying to draw things that I was grateful for so I was like grateful for the cats I got this new face mask from the ordinary I don't know if you guys have heard of it it's just this brand and it looks like blood but it's totally and it's just like a a really good face mask and it's really cheap so I really like that and I've got a new dressing gown which I really like so I was just you know doodling out things that I was grateful for for the time I don't know I think that's a good thing to do when you're feeling a bit down is appreciate stuff around you here it was a little comic that I wanted to do um I was thinking about doing a zine I think I've already explained this actually somewhere anyway I was thinking about doing a zine where I drew out houses that I've lived in because I've lived in a lot of houses being an army brat so to speak so I wanted to draw like a comic about different things and basically in this one I think I was like four maybe and there was this this light and I was really scared of it for some reason I thought it's gonna attack me it was one of those like swirly fan lights and then my grand bought me like this little toadstool house um light and I really like that and I have a really like solid memory of getting that and just having it for years and years really interesting isn't it but yeah I think it would be cool to have like a little slice of life little story for each probably more for myself than anyone else but that's the best way to write stuff right is for yourself here again I was thinking about Patreon I'm sorry to keep going on about it don't worry about it if you don't want to join whatever I'm not trying to push it on you guys but I'm just trying to explain what's in this sketchbook and I was thinking about using pesto as one of the thumbnails for like the chip jar I know you did this and I was like that is awful and I did this and I was like that's a little bit better than that but it's still awful and then I got totally sidetracked by drawing pesto again and I really love this piece so I wanted to keep it blank all around her but she's so cute guys she's so cute I'm obsessed with her and she was lying at the end of the bed so I just joodled that out and I really liked it again more Patreon noodles trying to figure out how to show what the book club will be the book club is basically like we'll pick a book every month and then we'll draw art on it and we'll make like a dedicated video for it and stuff like that and then more pesto drawings this is my lockdown uniform I think it's just leggings and a t-shirt and like some thick socks just living my style and just like with really messy hair doing whatever then more Patreon thumbnails and then it got super distracted doing a kiki that kiki redraw thing that was going around as well I did that and then I kind of like it but I don't love it so I didn't post it anywhere this is the end of the sketchbook this is the final page basically more sort of Patreon things I think I used these two in the end and then also these ones at the front because I did these recently because I like that style of the alcohol markers and then the pen I think I really like that so I think I'm going to look into doing that for more comical stuff because this is what I did for my old horror comic and I think I really liked it then and I really like it now so I don't know why I would mix it up so much if I still really enjoy this this is a friend of mine she had a birthday recently so I was trying to joodle her out because I wanted to make her a card but then I just got a little bit insecure about it and I was like well what if she hates it it's insulted um here's pesto on my desk again and some different doodles with the alcohol markers and also like a layer of Molotow underneath I wanted to try out how that would look this is a card that I got with a code on it from a shop and it says you matter so I just put that in there this also has like a little um pocket at the back I forgot the word for pocket and I've been talking for too long sorry guys and I just kept in stuff that I've done over the time of having the sketchbook that I've done outside of the sketchbook so this is my dibby paint over um there's a different one I think I did this for like arctic sent me some of the their pens and stuff so tried out some more stuff so yeah I just keep stuff in the back I want to frame this one I think I really like that I framed the other one one second so here's the other framed version and I yeah I really like this so I'm keeping it um frame like that and I think it could be a patreon reward because I've got on my patreon if you have a certain tier you can get like an original by me every month yeah so I really like that one I was thinking of using that as one of the rewards but no one's picked that that option which is fine so I get to keep it and yeah that is my my sketchbook tour of this sketchbook I'm really kind of sad that this sketchbook is finished now and I don't think she's gonna have any more available anytime soon on my ask her actually because I really really liked it I really enjoyed using it and I would love to get another one I've got a new um a new sketchbook and you guys have probably seen that if you seen my last video it was like the start of a new sketchbook and I really I'm not sure if I like it as much as this one so far but maybe that's just the adjustment period that I go through every time and I'm getting used to it I kind of like it but I like a bigger spread to just kind of work across and make like a full page stuff yeah anyway that's my my final thoughts on this beautiful sketchbook and I'm gonna miss it but it's finished and I'm proud of it thanks for watching guys please like and subscribe if you want to see more content please go check out my patreon even if it's just to like view it it really helps my channel really helps support me to keep going and doing this stuff I really appreciate you guys and to give my patrons a little bit of a shout out I'd like to personally thank Steph, Meghia and Katie for being part of the boss here and you guys get a shout out at the end of my videos so thank you so much guys it really means a lot to me bye