Dragon Ball FighterZ, like most other fighting games, is an extremely difficult game to play. Take me for example, I've been playing the game since before it was officially out and in this video, I make it look like I've never touched a game controller in my entire life. Yup, it's one of those videos and I'm not gonna make any more excuses, I'm just gonna let you watch what happens to me. So let's see if my 17 can still cook all these, oh I got immediate Super Saiyan Vagina ASS, like it's season one release of the game. That was kind of clean, I don't know if that was like, I deserved it, I deserved it, man, I am getting cooked and I deserve it.  That was a great pick up, back down to the ground, uh-huh, oh let's go. Now I got you in the corner where I want you, behind the back, oh, play time's over, uh, uh, uh, Barnock level three, let's go, I could've probably done something a little more optimal there, I'm not gonna lie, I just kind of panicked, didn't want to stretch myself too thin, we use Spark, let's see if we can get a character for it. Dragon rush, doesn't connect, I really need to force him to block though, I must've let go block, oh no, Vagina assist to catch me lovingly in his warm up, whoa, that was crazy, he just got, block this, oh, you did it, no respect, no respect going for a level three like that, man, I can't get any respect around here, huh, that's fine, I'm gonna raw tag out, after I tech that, man, rollback is so clutch. So what I didn't want to do is go into a level one there, I'm not even sure how that input came out, everyday I get a little sadder, everyday I get a little sadder, not sure how it was a level one, even though we didn't get punished for it, oh, stop that, really, I could've killed with vanish, no, no, Vagina assist on block is still tough, Super Saiyan Vagina A assist is still a good assist, wouldn't say it's like one of the greats anymore, I definitely am not fearing it, but man, it's still one of the good, it's still one of the goods, I was gonna say greats even though I just said it's not, over under it, even though I'm still stuck in block, back dash that, oh god, I didn't get my back dash, stop that, oh come on, dash up dragon rush, why can't I get this, this Goku is sticky man, I cannot get this guy off the screen, except for right now as he's off the screen, man my commentary is, I promise I'm doing this like no reflight, he techs it, I drop it, man, oh man, I'm losing the defensive patience battle, I'm losing these trades, you can see on how Goku has gained back all of his health, I just need to get one good hit that's a hard move to interact with the neutral, oh please stop, please Tien, you gotta put me down, I have to start cooking right now, if I get hit one more time, I'm done for, bar cancel on Tien, there we go, I'll take that, I'll take it man, I'll take it, I really needed that, I'm just gonna level one into three even though this is not ideal either man, not very ideal, at least we'll kind of get cornerback thanks to Super Saiyan 3 Goku, but we need this character gone yesterday brother, we needed him gone so long ago, he techs it again, I'll take it, we hit the donut right instead of Tien with the ki blast, it wasn't worth throwing it and now Tien's gonna get out of there for Goku, we can't finish off a character, this match is tight man, this match is not the best for us, we got behind him, oh my god I actually thought I had spark, I was gonna get the three piece, we actually did get Tien though, oh my god we made it a one character game, I was looking at it like we needed the full combo, but the happy birthday was enough, never touched my barrier, I can't believe this match, this is tight, he did it again, oh my god can he kill off this though, spark, that sucks that he still had that, oh god, live the big bang attack, live it, yes good enough for me and he gets an immediate low, I thought I was gonna have time to jump, damn that sucks for me, okay okay okay all right hold on hold on, let's get into rematch, let's do better, we can always do better, all right I'll take half a bar, I didn't charge the power bullets, oh don't ever super dash in my face, little dash back to keep him guessing, didn't get the connection I wanted, damn I still didn't get the connection I wanted, all right Vegeta's out on point now, we haven't seen this before, both of the, all right I'll take corner, really what are you doing out here, drop that, you can't afford to drop that meme, I'll take, I'll take getting hit by the beam assist though, I'm not trying to block, wow again lovingly into the Keyblast arms, I'm so focused I kind of stopped talking a while ago, I'm sorry about that, just kind of really need to win this set here, I can't even be pissed because that was crazy, I can be pissed at that one though, I thought the beam wouldn't last that long, Android 17's down, damn and he still has so much health because we can't finish any character off, do you guys, okay I'm gonna say a weird thing now, but when you guys are getting outplayed at a video game or you're just losing, do you guys ever get uncomfortable where you're sitting and start fidgeting with shit, like I have this headphone cord that's on my leg right now that is pissing me off because I'm getting my ass beat in the game, I know it's not actually a problem, I'm just losing man and I hate losing and I suck, but wait what if I catch him off guard, the level 3 wasn't necessary, I don't know why I did it, I was just hype, I was just hype, I can't even lie, I was just hype, all right two character game, I don't have spark, he does, but we've got a little more health, block that, okay I didn't get the reflect there, that move is getting to me today, that move is getting me, oh god, Vegeta combos, no cheap, and then TN level 3 probably just ends this after a big bang, god and the combo didn't end as soon as I thought I did, we're definitely dead now, no level 3, why, why though, I gotta ask why, did you think my Bardock was in a threat, did you think this man wasn't here to kill you, back dash, every, slammy, no way that didn't clip him, it's up to the hero Goku, please let the protagonist powers bless me, no way, I'm pissed, oh my god, I want my run back already, all right, I think you can tell that I'm done not super dashing that, I haven't been super dashing that out of fear, I'm done with that, should have level, should have super saiyan 3'd, it's still enough though, thank god, oh my goodness, okay, 1v1 against limit break TN with spark is not the position you want to be in though, I'm dead, I'm literally dead already, I should be dead already, that was an unfortunate thing to get clipped by, I died, I died, live it, live it, live it, I'm not living that, I'm giving my run back to please, you gotta give me my, please matchmaking, I know there's so many people playing fighters right now, please you gotta, you gotta run it back for me matchmaking, please run it back for me, ladies and gentlemen we did not get the rematch, but we are back and I'm still feeling pretty, wow the straight up super dash, that was crazy, I'm still feeling pretty emboldened, I still want to play a bit of a, oh I missed it, too much, okay, okay, I'm sorry, oh I had to hit the eject button so quick bro, let's go, I should have barriered, if I would have barriered that could have been an insane reset, if I was feeling it crazy enough, but I wasn't, oh my god the bomb loops, bombos, bombos, I want to play team gohan 2, I do want to play team gohan 2, okay, so when 18 call 17 at that, basically that means if you call an assist he'll immediately bomb it, so you don't want to do that, oh now let's cook, oh does that only work in the corner, I forgot, you didn't jump, that barrier was too long, my bad I'm dead, bro and I let gohan escape with like 75% blue health or something or did I not hit him that much, maybe honestly I'm, maybe I'm overestimating my damage, I might be overestimating my damage by a lot, all I know for sure is I need to go ahead and settle in and clutch up because I'm in a bad spot, a really bad spot actually, all right so let me just spark up real quick, oh god that could have been bad, all right I'll take this, I'll take this, this is a kill on 18, so let's go ahead and get a character out of here, nothing fancy, nothing fancy, I'm so trash, I'm so trash, I'm just super dashing because I know I'm trash, I'm just super dashing because don't mind me, no, no, oh god, die please 18 you gotta go bro, I'm terrible, I'm terrible, just die 18 please say in spirit, get out, get out of my game, okay, I'm done dropping supers for the rest of the video, call me out count, start counting them at this point because I'm done, it's gonna be zero, I know I said that sounds like I gave you guys homework but it's not homework because the answer is zero, look at that I'm crazy and you know what I'm pissed so I might as well super dashing your face, if he does anything I level three from full screen, I'm just different now, oh 2H missed, that was way too early on the 2H but we didn't get punished for too much damage, like I said I'm done dropping supers, I immediately go into level three, keep it base super saying so I can, I keep corner I guess, two went from half screen bro, a couple of kicks that doesn't work, oh I'm him, oh I dropped it, that's not a super though, don't add that to the counter, well why'd go out and hit the eject button like that, that was funny, Beerus you missed the assist, I don't know how you get to pretend you didn't, don't super dash, don't super dash part two, don't, don't hit any button, how about that, I should have been more specific, all right good, now we're up a character, we're gonna keep Bardock in the back just in case it becomes a 1v1 situation, actually is that smart, that's actually the dumbest thing I've ever said, beam beam beam, okay thank god, this should be good, if I didn't jump the wrong way, why does that keep happening to me, I keep getting the same side and then dropping it, oh god I'm dead, oh no, oh no, at least I have, it's basically a one touch game for him, a two touch game for me, but I'm still scared man, maybe that fear speaks to the fact that I am not a winner, is that what it is, is this, oh god, oh god I'm afraid again, drop it, you gotta drop it man, are your hands not sweating, yeah I could tell they were kind of sweating a little bit, I could tell, I could tell because I got that winner, I'm gonna love, I'm gonna raw level three, notably makes you actually believe me, you actually, I started that combo with the dragon rush didn't I, oh I'm trash at the game, the air because I'm different and by different that's just stupid, oh my god that was the dumbest thing I've ever won a game with, that was the dumbest thing I've ever won a game with, holy I'll take it though, I don't even care if it was done man, I don't even remember how to do the 17th, it's light, normal medium medium, I keep doing 2M, I promise I know what I'm doing with 17, I promise I know what I'm doing except I don't, oh my god too much damage, way too early, I'm just gonna spark, I told you, I told you I don't know what I'm doing, that was the Xbox controller, okay so for those that watch all these videos, if this is not gonna, oh I'm trash at the game, if you watch all these videos in my last video my game crashed, I don't know why it's the rollback beta so I'm sure it's just a beta thing, but my playstation controller stopped working and every time I would plug it in and move the game would crash again so I thought it was the controller, I'm back on Xbox which I don't play fighters with and basically I'm struggling and that's why you guys should believe me that I'm better at the game than I'm displaying right now, but anyway back to the video, damn I got hit with a level 3, down on my luck hard knockdown, what do I do, just gonna reflect, get him off me, I'll take it man, that was not skill at all, I'm just mashing but I mean what am I to do at this point, why do I save all this meter, it's because afraid, I like it, I gotta stop super dashing, I have to, damn that beer assist is kind of annoying, go on why, why is beer assist cooking me like it's the best assist in the game, my god beer assist does not have to be doing me like this, okay, down on my luck again, my god I'm just, I didn't even touch, this is the worst I've ever played, this is the worst I've ever played the game, this is the worst I've ever played the game, oh my gosh, oh my gosh that might have been the worst I've ever played fighters, that one game if I saw that, if I saw me play it I'd be like wow, I'm so happy new players are coming to the game man, I've been playing this game for five years, I've been playing this game for five years, there's no excuse, I am going to cook now, I didn't cook, I didn't cook, and then when I don't cook I super dash because I think they're going to super dash and then I get cooked again, all right hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, that's the thing is we, every day, every day I get a little further, I get a little further, I get a little closer to the edge actually, I don't get, I don't get further from anything, no, I'm gonna throw up, I'm gonna throw up six M into a jump, that was, that was the controller guys, it was supposed to be six M into air dash into medium, guys, guys you gotta believe me, yeah you gotta believe me guys, it's the controller guys, I'm not used to the controller, I'm playing on the Xbox analog stick bros, you gotta believe me, you gotta believe me, I'm saying this for my sanity guys, I've just lost it, there's nothing here anymore, these fighters rank videos are supposed to be like ha ha fun, you know return to form, the old days it's good, it's wholesome, guys, I'm gonna be honest, I can't go on much longer guys, I need my PlayStation controller back but if I plug it in the game it's gonna crash, I need my sustenance, I can't do it, I'm gonna lose this, I'm gonna lose this match, no no no I know I'm not, lock in, lock in, enough panicking, enough pity party stuff, come on grab, I didn't react, lock in, I'm so locked in right now it's crazy, as soon as this combo ends he doesn't hit me again, controller that's just me super dashing I beg of you bro lock in, I beg of you, somebody on my team needs to lock in, that one was close, please lock in Bardock, it's just I take L's with every interaction, come on lock in, lock in let's go, I'm just, I just super dash way too much, I just super dash way too much to the set, kill me, you gotta kill me, actually let me live, let me live so that I can make it up, so that I can, he did the hold vanish and spark, didn't expect that, oh can we get one more, can we get one more set, was that two, oh can we get one more shot, I need one more set this video, I'm gonna actually throw up dude, hey man you standing in the corner, yeah I was, I was gonna come over here and stand in the corner too, I guess I'll go to the other corner, all right this guy's name is Super Dragon Ball Z better which I'm sure most of you don't even know what Super Dragon Ball Z is, but it actually is a really good game, better than Fighters' Cap, but basically I said all this to, if this guy thinks Super Dragon Ball Z is better and he's playing Fighters this guy's got like it video games, anyway I said all that because this is my last set, I need to clutch up, I can't afford to lose unfortunately, oh I could have done so much more and I accidentally walked forward, oh wow he gotta, he gotta gotta rob, oh you can have the corner if you want it that bad, super dash, I don't know why I thought he'd super dash, roll back, oh my gosh roll back what are you doing, I mean I'll take it, you benefited me but that was a bit wild, all right, oh what, wait what, oh my god how many people is this, how many people in my combo, wait what, wait what's happening, what is going on, 6M, I'm terrible, I'm terrible, dude I'm throwing, I'm actually throwing in so many unique ways it's impossible, I knew this video was titled like whatever it is it's gonna be about me being bad at the game and I've earned that but I continue to shock myself, this is supposed to be my lock-in set, this is the part of the hero's journey where the hero like succeeds or something, I wanted to roll back barrier, admittedly that was kind of a crazy strat I was going for a little random but I thought it would look cool, now I'm getting die 7 bars, does he spend it, yeah we're gonna see some spending here probably 2, 2 bars from Trunks and then I think he's still at level 3, that's expensive, that's expensive, if 17's gonna die, I'm okay with him dying to that, now we just have to get Gojita out of the way though, he's still a spark and we've got 6 bars ourselves, 2H that, yeah, yeah, notice how I'm not really super dashing, yeah I'm not really in a super dash mood after that last game, level 3, tell me you clicked the button bro, oh you bagdash, what are you bagdashing for, get over here, come on, get over here, the whole family's involved, now wake up spark, please, why am I, admittedly, why am I going for funny things, I gotta remember this is the lock-in set, this is not for fun, this is not for, you know, a good time, this is all business, this is all business, oh that was a good bagdash, whoa, whoa, let's cool it there, let's cool the jets there Trunks, okay Gojita has recovered a lot, let's hopefully get Trunks out of the way though, no way, I don't know why I came in here with Barba, oh you can get a flip into a super dash, what is the point for the flex, I'm dead, and Gojita's at full health, oh wait I'm not dead, dad please, you gotta take that, oh god, the lock-in set, dude I'm crumbling, dude I'm crumbling, Dragorus please, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, please, please bro, oh god, oh god, this isn't, drop it, can I get a drop though, if you drop it right now, I said hope, hope, hope, hope, hope, hope, I'm super dashing now, I don't care, I'm just, I'm gargling everything, if you think I'm playing defense you're insane, oh sparking dash, I can win the set still, bro I just be lying to myself at this point, I just be lying to myself at this point, it's looking bad, it's looking bad, okay come on, focus up, let's see if I can't win, he went high again, what, dude why is it so laggy, admittedly thanks to the rollback it feels slightly better, that was almost cool actually, I didn't mean to do that but that was almost cool, nice beam, I gotta give it up, my inputs, I'm trash, I don't know why I did level three because I wanted this, I could have done so much more damage, oh my god the basic drops on basic things, just wow, I'm gonna lose it, I'm gonna, oh god, okay, oh man, this is the hardest game I've ever played, this, the way I'm playing right now, Dragon Ball Fighters feels harder than playing chess against a Grand Master bro, it's impossible, this is Starcraft 2 top 15 ranked in the world and I'm still just doing crazy stuff, okay I was getting a little crazy there, look sometimes I just want to prove that I still know some stuff, I was getting a little crazy, wow if I had like Yamcha assist that would have been a crazy mix, or Krillin assist actually, anyway I'm gonna mash bro because you'd be doing stuff, I still have to win this set though, all right, we got one, we got one, we got one, I can try Gojid, I can try, oh god, why am I jumping, where is Power Blitz, there it is, that's what I'm looking for, that's what it's all about, I'm just gonna level three, I'm just gonna spam level three again, okay, admittedly that was not gonna work, oh good patience, I'm gonna spark now, all right I agree, there we go, now we got the 6M dash in that I was talking about earlier, okay, okay, all right I'm feeling good, I'm feeling good again, I'm feeling, I'm starting to heal, nature is finally starting to heal, we got a Barak level three, I probably just 2M here, get dp'd, that's fine, that doesn't have to, oh god, that's bad, it's okay, now it's getting a little bad again, starting to panic again, down on my luck, Gojida do your thing, do your thing, Gojida do your thing, that's fine, yeah, big bang, calm down, very impressive stuff, now if I lose this, there's not gonna be an outro to the video because I'm just gonna be in the corner in shambles, oh that was cool though, that was cool, I'll take it, now I got a smile on my face and I can try to win this set, let's go dude, finally, a victory, oh my god, it's been forever since I saw a gold star next to my name, holy, let's do it, let's do it, whoa, that rollback was crazy, he like, whoa, wait, what, why did we end up on, okay, okay, whoa, whoa, the rollback is rollback in today, rollback, rollback to when I wasn't in a combo, wait, what, he should have to reach me, I'm on his side, all right, full beam, we'll take the coming round, all right, all right, we'll take it, we'll take it, I've been too fancy for too long, don't hold this against me, all right, let's do it, I was supposed to come with a heavy, bro, bro, ain't no way, bro, bro, ain't no way, bro, ain't no way, whoa, okay, okay, all right, I'm feeling good again, we got a whole character lead, the only thing he has against us is spark, but I'm feeling fine with that, what, wait, rollback is rollback in today, man, put me down, okay, nice, nice reflect, I'll give it a, ooh, nice, nice jab, I'm so focused, I'm so focused on getting this, that I've gone quiet, I'm sorry, I am dead with Bardock, that is true, one bar, four bars for us, I'll take it, you know what, not panic time yet, so I'm trying to stop myself from panicking by just talking, just talking it out, there's no need to panic, ooh, beautiful jab, he tried to get a little run up in there, we're not gonna let that happen, drop the combo, it's still not panic time yet, got hit by an assist, still not panic time yet, so I'm just not gonna panic about it, like I'm not gonna panic about it, if that's what you're wondering, like when I'm gonna start panicking, it's time to click off the, it, okay, it's panic time, it's panic time, but I'm not gonna allow it, oh dude, dude, this is getting sad, dude, oh, and he gets to switch, oh god, and now we just have 17, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, I just have 17, seven bars, wait, no I'm dead, wait, I know what I have to do, rollback, what was that not rollback, it looked like I hit him with my 5H, I can't, what the, dude, dude, I couldn't have blocked that, that was like too, wait, if I'm alive, then I'm still in the game, no I'm dead, all right, good games, dude, good games, I gotta give it up, I gotta give it up, I'm pissed, I'm pissed, all right, all right, hey, sometimes, you know, sometimes you get God, dude, sometimes you get God, why are you guys still cheering, I don't even know why I put myself in this corner, hopefully you guys enjoyed the video, if you did like, comment, subscribe, I'm gonna, I'm gonna go take a little mental break, and then I'm gonna come back to the fighters and I'm gonna win, and I'm gonna win like nobody's ever won before, I'll play my main and I'm getting my, my commitment, my main controller work, I'll be back.


Welcome to Monet Cafe Artist and Friends. I'm artist Susan Jenkins and oh just take a deep breath and let's just try to enjoy and cherish the holidays. Today's tutorial is going to be simple and fun of some Christmas tree that you can make little green cards out of if you like and oh praise the Lord that love came down one night. This was me doing a little intro to the snowman video. This was all kind of part of the same day of painting and I was trying to get in the spirit even though it's hot in Florida. Alright let's get started. You know I almost forgot that I had this little video recorded of the Christmas trees because I already shared the video of the snowman painting. So if you'd like to see that I'll put a link at the end of this video and I'm just showing here how it was kind of a project to maybe do greeting cards if you'd like to do some. And most greeting cards, this was a painting of mine that I literally just had printed out to send as greeting cards, but most greeting card sizes, if you do a five by seven painting, kind of like this little card, they fit. Also if you'd like to send original artwork, ClearBags.com has a neat little frame card option. They have various sizes, they have envelopes that these fit into and you can check it out at ClearBags.com. I'll put a link in the about section of this video. I thought I'd also share something neat about this particular card. It was sent to me from a ministry, a worldwide ministry that's by Johnny Erickson Tata. It's called Johnny and Friends, J-O-N-I. She is a paraplegic and an amazing artist and a beautiful soul. If you need encouragement, find her on YouTube. She has the most beautiful ministry. This is some of her artwork. It's just amazing. Also my son actually went on many mission trips with her ministry and met his wife in Romania there and his wife is a precious daughter-in-law. Alright, let's have some fun here. This is going to be a relaxed, easy, and carefree video tutorial. I'm using Arches 100% cotton watercolor block. The reason it's called a block is it's a pad of watercolor paper that's glued on the sides. There's a little notch at the front or at the top that that's how you basically just get like a sharp edge and run it along it to peel it off after you're done painting. The reason this is a good idea is because it keeps your watercolor paper nice and flat.  This is how I did the four paintings. I'm doing some little measurements there. What I wanted to do is have a white border around each of the five by seven cards. So what I did is I literally just used the white tape as the border on the insides of each card. Then I put more tape around the outsides and I measured to where when I pulled it off I could cut kind of in the middle where each of the tape strips were and it would allow me a border at the end. You'll see at the end how it works. You don't have to go to all this extent to do this. I just, my time is very precious as my husband and I have so many other things and businesses that we're trying to do to make ends meet and I need to maximize my time. So at the end you'll see how I cut these. The supplies for this tutorial are very simple. Some brushes, some water, of course your watercolor paper, some paper towels, any kind of watercolor. I'm using this little neat Arteza 36 set. I really love this little handy dandy set that they sent me. It's got a neat little travel pen. You can put water in the back of it.  Now let's get started with this. First of all what I'm going to be doing is what's called a wash. I've already got my paper nicely divided. I'm choosing on the first one. I want to do two different color themes. So I'm choosing kind of like a Prussian blue and I think I use a different blue after that. I'm speeding this up because it's it's really pretty simple. We're going to just paint our surface with water for the wash. It's called and I'm using, oh actually I changed my mind. I'm using two different types of blues and what I do is I mix a nice little puddle of water and watercolor so it's kind of nice and liquidy and then I just brush it on nice and loosely. I've learned with watercolor just to let it have more freedom. Don't be so fussy with it and I'm doing a wash where it's a little bit darker at the top. Kind of like it's a midnight sky or something and then I'm going to, I don't think I do add multiple colors. Yeah I do. There's my, that one's a little bit more of a maybe a phthalo blue. It's just a brighter pretty more of a blue than a purple like the other one and so I'm just combining that on there. Actually in hindsight I would have rather just let them mix a little bit more than I than I did it. Now I said don't dip your brush in your candle. I had to move my tea and my candle back so I didn't accidentally have an accident there. Now the same idea. I'm going to be using more of these cool greens. Brush on the water on the paper. Make a nice soupy mixture of watercolor and water and just paint it on. Now if you want to intensify the effect you can prop up your watercolor paper. It'll kind of drip down and I choose another color to add with this I believe and I'm going to find out what it is. I'm sorry I have to do these voiceovers after but sometimes my house is just noisy. My husband and I both work from our small home and sometimes our businesses collide. But that's all right. I appreciate him very much and I will definitely work around him. All right so I've got my two colors on each one. I'm just blowing it dry because I don't have time to wait and then we're going to get started with doing something you've probably seen if you've watched my videos. Well first of all, no I do that later. First of all we're going to make a neat little watercolor kind of a general start for our tree and I'm using a dark color. I think I'm using a dark blue and almost like a black.  And I saw this little technique done on another watercolor artist's YouTube video. I can't remember her name right now but she did hers all in watercolor. I'm going to be adding pastels but I thought this is going to be very simple for anyone who doesn't know how to do a tree. You basically make like almost like a big leaf-like shape or like a teardrop almost shape and I end up making mine bigger and I'm making this dark on purpose. You don't have to make it this dark. I'm going to put pastel on top of this and then after you get this in it's just kind of a easy neat Christmas tree shape instead of drawing a triangle. They're not usually don't have hard edges like that. Then she just took, I'm not sure if she took a fan brush but I got a fan brush and you just kind of splay out the edges while it's still wet. You just kind of take it and smudge them out from the sides. Now for this next one I'm going to do a different color for the other tree and I think I'm going to do it on the opposite side. So same idea. We're just going to take and make a trunk and a little tree shape and it's again it's just an easy nice beginning shape. I make this one a little bit more squared off at the bottom a little bit more like a triangle and I did really like this green color with this. So they both kind of look when this is done they're both going to look more like a an evening scene a little darker but one the one on the left is going to be a little more moody and now is where the fun begins. We get to blow this dry. I already did it and apply what I was going to say before the clear liquid gesso. Now why do I use this product? Because I'm applying pastel only to the trees in this. Okay so the rest of the paper is watercolor and the trees need something for the pastel to stick to. If you put the pastels on this watercolor paper it's not going to adhere very well. You won't be able to get many layers and there's something wonderful I don't know who originally discovered that clear liquid gesso has a little grit a little bit of sand to it just blowing it dry which allows the pastels to stick. Now don't get the regular gesso because it doesn't have the sandiness to it for some reason the clear does. Now I've magically added some pastels there. All I'm doing now over my little teardrop shape is I'm doing a little zigzag design kind of a gray dating from small to large as you go down. You can see it a little bit better on that one and this technique does really emulate the shape of evergreen trees and also I'm using the dark because I wanted to have a base for the different colors and lighter values that I would use to represent the trees and I wanted the trees to be pretty dark because I really wanted those lights to look like they're illuminating and the dark background helps that. Now I'm adding kind of a deep blue bluish green to this one you know see how it makes those leaves look like evergreen leaves and am I doing the same kind of the same color with that one doesn't show up quite as much but it gives it that evergreen feel of different layers. Now I'm adding a little bit lighter and you're just kind of turning your pastel a little bit sideways and going along zigzaggy a little bit random but you know kind of an idea of where highlights would be on the Christmas tree. Alright now fun fun fun I've got a combination of some bold colors and also those at the top are the iridescent Mount Vision pastels. I'm going in with this really deep blue and you go why are you putting that deep blue? Often when you want to do something that represents kind of lights if you put something dark down first and then put a lighter version of that color on top of it it gives it a base and it makes it appear brighter and and glows more so I did the same thing with those purples and I'm just going to keep doing this process kind of random. Now see I'm putting down the red deeper richer high chroma and then I add a little orange with that iridescent pastel from Mount Vision. They're fun I've got another neat idea. Now you see how those yellow ones now look like they're glowing let me zoom in a little bit. Alright now you can probably see this a little bit better but you see how those lights on the other tree they're just kind of glowing. Alright I'm putting in some of that deep red now a little bit of the orange kind of just to where you still see a little bit of red underneath it and a little bit of that bright yellow on top of that orange and a little extra in other places but that that really does give it more of a glow when you put down layers of different values of colors. Alright now I'm doing some other little random lights a combination of some blues that blue really shows up more on the darker tree and some random marks of stars in a sky. Now be careful with stars because we have a tendency to put things in a pattern and you really want to try to make them random. Random in spacing random in size and sometimes it's real neat there's a process you can use where you kind of scrape off a little bit of pastel and you sprinkle it on and then you kind of put some glassine on top and roll it on with like a even like a cookie dough roller but if these will be sent as cards or mailed that's not the best technique. This is something I was experimenting with I had some gouache that I kind of mixed up a little soupy and I it's more opaque not translucent so I tried tapping it and it worked a little bit but it didn't show up as white as I as the pastels did but hey I was experimenting making some snow but this is another technique that you can do with water color but again there is no white watercolor once you lose the white on watercolor paper you can't get it back unless you use something opaque oh look at that to to put on top of it so that's why I'm using the gouache it appears as white because it's uh it's more opaque like I said not translucent. Alright so finishing this up here now you're gonna see my next experiment which was not a great success sometimes I sometimes I kind of like hand lettering but I just don't think I was in the mood for it this day and I took a little micron watercolor pen these are great because they don't smudge and so I just tried doing it in black and I didn't really like it in black I thought white would have been prettier so I thought hmm let's try white on the next one and I wasn't super happy with my hand lettering but you'll see a fix that I do for this at the end kind of cheated now I'm using gouache to do the lettering in white on the next one and I did like that better than the black it just felt more clean and fresh and so I'll speed through these a little bit and I'll show you the final and what I did to fix my poor hand lettering. Here is where I will peel off the tape and cut these. Now I did learn a little trick about actually I've already peeled off the tape here when you pull off watercolor or tape from watercolor paper do it gently and slowly and also pull your tape away from your painted image kind of at an angle away instead of straight down you don't want to pull up the paper so so just be gentle and now here is where I was saying that I had measured so that when I cut these in the center strips or areas they will have the same measurement as the outside borders so then they will all have this nice little clean white border around each one now you don't have to do the borders you can tape it off to where you just paint all the way to the edges and you don't have a white border but I thought it made them look really neat and they were a lot of fun so here are the finished cards and here's my little solution and my trick I put them in Photoshop and fixed the lettering it looks much better this way and I can make prints from these cards I hope you enjoyed this video and I hope if you like these videos you'll consider subscribing to this channel also you can find me at all those links above and if you'd like a little bit of behind the scenes or would like to just support this channel please consider becoming a patron of mine alright guys happy painting