Hey everyone, today we are going to talk about product management and how product management differs between a B2B product and B2C product. So yeah, thanks everyone for joining for this session and I look forward to share my knowledge and insights with you on this topic. So what we're going to start with is really talk about what is a B2B product first and what is a B2C product and really just starting off with a definition before we dive deeper into what are the differences, what are the similarities, are they even too different from each other when it comes to product management. So a little bit about me, I have been doing product management for about a decade now. I started on consumer side of the house managing Black Friday experience for Delft e-commerce experience. I also built their account management experience on consumer side, eventually moved on to do B2B for large enterprise products such as building enterprise APIs so that we can support submitting of purchase orders or providing shipping notifications to large enterprises when they make large purchases. I also dealt with medium businesses when I built their checkout experience and so on. Most recently, I've been a product manager on Alexa smart home front with Amazon so kind of going back to my roots on consumer front. So let's talk about B2B product, what is a B2B product? At the very core of it, it's really just a business model that focuses on selling products or services to other companies. So when we look at examples of such companies, like you can think of Salesforce, ServiceNow, you can think of LinkedIn as well with what they provide to the recruiter and employer side of the house and everyone's most favorite paper company, Dunder Mifflin, if any of you are there are office fans, they too are considered a B2B company having selling paper products to other companies. When we talk about B2C product, this is something that most of you would have experienced on your day to day life really prefers to selling products and services to the consumers and the end users happen to be the recipient of whatever product or services the company may have to offer. So we can think of Snapchat, Electronic Arts with their gaming products, Tinder or even Mint with their financial products. So with that behind us really just the definition of what a B2B product is and how does it differ from B2C as far as definition is concerned, we can now just start talking about the customer base. How do the customer base differ between these two? So on B2B front really you are talking about CIOs who end up deciding which enterprise software to use in a company like do I want my company to use Google G Suite or do I want them to use Office 365. You have got procurement manager, they are responsible for deciding how much to procure, what to procure and so on really just working closely with the next person which happens to be finance manager. You may also be working with an IT architect or engineer in your customer's company especially when it comes to helping them decide what's the right product, what's the right solution set. This is where for example AWS comes in picture and a lot of the decisions being made about what of those services and products are to be used is decided by engineers and more of developer persona. Lastly you have end users as well who may eventually end up using your product for example like if the CIO or procurement manager decides to use Microsoft 365 or Office 365 in your company, you could consider that the end user is actual employee who is using like Outlook or Word or other Office products. Now when we look at B2C on the other hand really the decision maker is the user right so as we were talking about B2B products where the CIO happens to make a decision or a procurement manager happens to make a decision along with finance manager while end user really gets to use the product. On B2C front as you can imagine decision maker and user are really the same personas. They happen to be largely role agnostic. Of course you can tailor your product to a specific demographic and specific persona of people but largely speaking traditionally you would have B2C products that are role agnostic and rather profession agnostic as well. Next let's talk about customer needs right how do they differ when it comes to B2B versus B2C products right so on B2B front it's largely relationship based. You would have a lot of decisions being made based on relationship trying to decide okay I am going to use the software for next 10 years and this is the kind of investment I want to make so that my employees or others can get the most out of the B2B product so it just happens to be a lot more relationship based between the sales people in your company or product owners in your company and actual enterprise customers. You do end up depending a lot more on industry insights like for example if you have built a B2B product suite for automobile industry right so you would end up having to depend a lot more on okay what's going on with automobile industry where do they need the most help what kind of product solutions features and services to be built for them. And lastly you also depend a lot more on identifying process maps and how do you help customers simplify the same with your products or services. In contrast when you look at B2C like it's largely data driven you do end up depending a lot more on what's happening at micro level sometimes micro but mostly micro level with your product trying to make right decision in terms of what's the right path forward to daily optimized experience. As opposed to industry insights you would be largely dependent upon aggregated user insights in terms of most of your in terms of what your most users are doing with your product and it's also experimental right so for example like on Alexa front you would have you would have a new feature that says Alexa should be able to do this or that you can then let your customers really see how the experience is you can really test out if we introduce new friction or if the if the virtual assistant did what she was supposed to and really make the right decision as to do we really globalize the feature do we add more features to it and so on. So really you end up getting to be more experimental with B2C products while on B2B front you really want to make sure that you are very much in tune with what your customer wants to do what they're really trying to solve for and really just go after those unique set of use cases for whatever industry or segment that you are serving. Now let's talk about product decisions right how how do how do we really make decisions when it comes to managing a B2B product as a product manager and B2C right so on on B2B front you would depend a lot more on customer feedback right so let's say you own a B2B product suite you've got like 20 large enterprises in your account as your customers a lot of your roadmap decisions a lot of your feature decisions will really come out of the fact that okay customer A says this is the set of processes that is broken and this is where I need your help so customer feedback kind of takes a front seat when it comes to managing B2B products because that's what really what you're trying to solve for those 20 accounts in this example. Next is of course product teams ideas and decisions can come out of product teams right after that when it comes to B2B product competitors is the third one in that sequence really trying to make sure that okay if there is a competitive advantage that we can have on our product that will bring more enterprise customers to my B2B product than that aspect to ends up driving a lot of product decisions and lastly internal suggestions this is where your procurement manager or your sales people will come to you and say hey if you give me feature A or feature B I'll be able to sell more or these six of my customers really want us to build this feature can we really make it part of our roadmap and those internal suggestions end up playing a huge role in collaboration with of course customer feedback to to drive your product decisions. On B2C front really yeah your product teams end up making a lot of decisions in terms of what are the right feature sites how do we really prioritize it really measuring impact that okay if we were to build feature A prior to feature B or if we were to be prioritized feature B completely what kind of impact will we have in terms of the KPIs that you really care about internal suggestions also take a huge role in product decisions on B2C front this happens to be your stakeholders or your engineers or your designers and so on and then of course competitors as well and lastly customer feedback the reason why kind of customer feedback is still important on B2C front is because you want to stay close to qualitative feedback so that you can really pad it up with your quantitative insights and build the right things but in terms of customer feedback on B2C front you end up having to again look at like aggregated qualitative feedback to go after the right things in prioritized manner so like this is this is a rough idea around like where do the product ideas come from on B2B front and on B2C front as you can see like customer feedback given B2B is more relationship driven product management you do end up depending a lot more on customer feedback and really diving deeper into the same on B2C front as we discussed product teams end up getting to make a lot of decisions try and make sure that they are really really solving for the customer main points next is ROI decisions right when it comes to really monetizing a B2B product versus B2C product right so on B2B front it really depends upon organization really adopting your product or feature for example if you launched let's say a brand new email campaign service right now the email campaign service has to be adopted by X number of enterprises to be able to say that okay we are really getting returns on our investment when we build this product we are able to monetize it or not so it really depends upon really organizations or companies or enterprises saying that yeah I do see value in this product and I do want to adopt it so that like thousands of my employees can really benefit out of it it is most likely a pre-monitized product to an extent unless you are building something brand new which has never been done before but in general let's say you are building a SaaS product and that has been approved market for something like that you can go into the market with a pre-monitized point of view and say hey I'm going to sell it for this value annually to be able to really make up for my investment and then you end up depending a lot more on support and services and subscriptions as well especially if it's a harder product you end up going out to provide necessary support if it happens if it happens to be a software product you do get to really refresh their licenses and so on to be able to truly monetize all new features that you add on top of your existing products and then lastly it could likely be a tiered pricing in B2B case especially if you are serving a generalized industry you really want a tiered price based on like the size of the company that you are really serving so B2B products are likely to have tiered pricing on B2C front like unlike B2B which is largely dependent upon organizing or organizations adopting it B2C is really all about really your customers adopting it you really finding a right marketing challenge to reach out to these customers and have them use your product for example like you could do I don't know Instagram ads to be able to sell your app and get people to download it more and really drive adoption you can monetize it at launch depends on what kind of model you go after but if you really want to get a feel of how really customers are interacting with it are they liking it or not should you drive any improvement or not you can do monetization after the launch really after getting the feedback in terms of really different models you could go after just serving ads keeping your application free and really generate monetization out of ads you can do premium model as well and lastly subscription applies to B2C as well B2C product could have flat pricing but it can also have tiered pricing depending upon what you are really trying to sell like if you were to look at a few examples right so on B2C front you've got like Google GC in this case you can see you've got tiered pricing really based on like number of users per month that are going to use the GC product and that really drives the monetization strategy and so on on B2C front you've got an example of headspace right that happens to help you meditate through an app like you can see there is a tiered subscription pricing there as well so it really depends upon what kind of market you are serving what kind of monetization strategy works for you and really optimizing the pricing of your services to meet the customer needs. Let's talk product deliveries right and how product deliveries really differ between these two disciplines so on B2B front you've got largely longer iteration cycles especially if you are serving large enterprises with complex process maps you end up having to tweak and fine tune a lot more so that you are not building a product just for one customer so it ends up taking a lot more time to make sure that whatever features and services and applications that you are building is applicable and useful across the segment that you are really serving with your B2B product in comparison as you could guess on B2C front you could have shorter iteration cycles especially in relation to the experiments you may run so like it's quite possible you launch a tiny feature run an experiment do a b testing and figure out okay this performs better than this recipe and then really do another launch to go after the optimized experience on B2B front you are largely like customer roadmap dependent it's quite possible that you may build a product but customer may not have their engineering capacity or any bandwidth to really adopt your features or services for example let's say you built an enterprise API so that your customer can submit orders from their portal or transactions from their portal now you could build all the APIs that you really want to offer but if your customer doesn't have the bandwidth or capacity to do the integration work do the work on that front to really use your products and features then yeah you would have adoption challenges so B2B product is largely customer roadmap dependent as well what you do want to do is really before really building a feature or as you are building the feature you want to be in constant touch with your customers really honing into the relationship based product model as I was referring to earlier and really ask the questions that hey if you were to build this feature in this timeline you think you would have available capacity or a bandwidth to really adopt these features and then for the reasons I described your adoption cycle could be longer right like out of your 100 enterprise customers and of them could come through and say yes we like this feature and we are going to adopt it in the year that you launched it well like rest of the customers may come to you and say hey can you add few more features before we can adopt it or some customers may come to you and say hey we cannot do it this year but we really like this feature you're going to try and prioritize it in our roadmap next year right so your adoption cycle usually becomes longer on B2B product and that is that that happens to be by the nature of the discipline on B2B front on B2C yeah it's unlike B2B being customer roadmap dependent dependent on B2C front it's largely user behavior dependent so if you come to realize that customers are using this feature a lot more than that feature you can really go after optimizing what you think is most appropriate for your product right for example if you've got a social media app and you come to realize that your customers are using the filters feature a lot more you can really go after it and decide hey do I want to optimize it further to really improve my engagement KPIs and so on and then lastly you would have it's mostly shorter adoption cycles like you learn something your users or customers may like it accept it or they may not like it not use it and reject it so you would have much more faster way to fail or succeed on B2C front to really decide okay how do you want to prioritize your next set of features next is really the question like are they really different right so far we talked about like how do you make product decisions how does monetization really between the two the definition of the two and really we saw stark contrast between managing products across both of these disciplines but like when it comes to like the core of the role the question is are they really different so let's really talk about what are the similarities right what what does not change regardless of the product that you are trying to manage so across both disciplines like you would have to know the customer base but regardless of you managing a B2B product or B2C you would want to know who you are really serving you would have to dive really deeper into understanding what the needs are like what are their challenges what are they trying to solve for are there process issues or are there engagement issues that really what you are trying to address across both roles you you will end up working very closely with designers on enterprise front on B2B front the nature of the work that you do with your designer could be a little different than B2C but at the very core of it you do end up working with that group of people in your company equally across both kind of products you do end up building a lot of solutions with engineers as well across both disciplines so regardless of your product being a B2B product or B2C really just partnering with your engineers plays a core role as well and lastly and more importantly really delivering monitoring and iterating on a feature does not change of course the length of the cycle and length of adoption and the rate of adoption may differ between B2B and B2C but really at the end of the day at the very core of it yeah you would be delivering features monitoring them and really iterating upon them so this is what I want to leave you with I would say this is something that I really like by Halim Donski he says your product or mine won't be confused about it won't bring happiness so what I would really say is try both if you are already in a product career and you have been doing consumer side of product a lot more feel free to jump to doing enterprise or B2B product management and really see the difference or similarities for yourself if you're doing B2B try and do the same on B2C front if you are starting off your career trying to decide like which role to go after which company to go after what kind of product is so I would say just go after what you feel most passionate about at first but then be open to really managing any kind of product and really become like agnostic to what kind of product you serve or build as a product manager with that said I would say if you do want to reach out to me you can find me on LinkedIn look up Partha Charya or if you do want to set up mentorship sessions or just one on one I do host office hours every weekend in the morning you can find me on tannily.com slash Partha Charya and I'd be happy to become part of your product management journey in any way or form possible thank you


Mr. Secretary, happy New Year to you and on behalf of the Vale Global Energy Forum, thank you for taking the time to talk to all of us. It's an outstanding forum and I'm watching it develop over the years. It's quite impressive. You can learn a lot if you keep your ears open. And you have, in fact, a few years ago, you had suggested that we put some focus on the North American energy as a regional energy focus and indeed we have followed up on that. And in this meeting, I think we have a pretty healthy mix of Mexican, Canadian and American dialogue and participation. So thank you for that leadership in which we have followed. I want to get into, first, the United States, your views of what's happening, then the North American focus and then the world. There is a very important transition going on right now as we speak in Washington, D.C. And we, of course, want the next team to be as successful as possible. And you have been through many such transitions in the past and any such transition opens up opportunities that we never had before. From what you've seen so far, where do you think we have for the United States the biggest opportunity? I think, first of all, that the future in energy looks really good, almost no matter what. We've learned some things. We're not going to learn them about how to develop fields. We've learned a lot about solar energy and wind energy from what I can see in listening to the scientists involved. We are soon going to have large-scale storage or reasonable-scale storage of electricity that takes the intermittency problem away from solar and wind, gives us some security in case the grid is knocked out. So lots of things are happening. And as far as North America is concerned, Canada is a energy-rich country. Mexico is but has not been able to develop its resources because of regulatory requirements. Those have been lifted. So put this all together and you can't go wrong. Terrific. Now, given the new team coming in, they obviously will take a little bit of time to settle down and introduce some policies. Where do you think that could go and where are the biggest opportunities out there? I think the basic policy structure should be support for energy R&D. Actually, the federal government's support is not very large. And when it comes to, say, Stanford or MIT or somewhere, there's about a three-to-one private match. So the private sector is very much into this. And then I'd like to see that accompanying what the incoming Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has long advocated, namely a revenue-neutral carbon tax. So you put all forms of energy on an equal footing and let them compete. You knock out all this regulatory morass, put a price out there and let the market decide. So in the past, you've always advocated and taught us that any choice of decisions we make on energy has to have a balance between our security, our economic growth and our environment. And I think what you have suggested and I've been saying for a long time, the revenue-neutral carbon tax gives you an insurance policy to address issues of the environment and the climate change, et cetera. How do we get that done? Well, you can get it done by advocacy, by example. It's really astonishing how much pricing of carbon there is around the world. It's very widespread in the United States. If we could do it on a revenue-neutral basis, we'd be well off. And we can internationalize it by saying we'll put a border tax on an incoming goods and we haven't had a carbon adjustment in them. And if people say, and that can be part of the money that's distributed, and if some other country says, how do we get rid of it, we say it's easy. We impose a revenue-neutral carbon tax. So you get this spread around the world and you'll be in business. Now you have advocated in the past not only a revenue-neutral carbon tax, but to take those revenues and give it back to the people. That's revenue-neutral. And that can be done by putting it in the hands of the Social Security Administration. Because that's a bureaucracy that's accustomed to taking money in and passing money out. And they do a pretty good job of it. Now, this has been tried out as you know. We had a whole workshop out here at the Hoover. This has been tried out in British Columbia. And there they have introduced not only the money going back, but also a little bit of that being used for corporate taxes and others. Where do you stand on, do we give everything back? Or is there room for helping the industry? Is there room for helping R&D with that? Or do you think we should give everything back? Where do you stand on that? I think we should return the money to people. And the corporate tax system needs revision. You don't have to bribe it. It's obviously way out of the kilter. And I think from what I read it's going to happen. So we don't have to mess with that. I'm ashamed of the environmentalists on this. There was a vote in the state of Washington on a revenue-neutral carbon tax. And the environmentalists all opposed it because they wanted the money. They don't care about the principal. They just want money. Nuts. Give the money back to people. So you have been a huge fan of R&D. That the government should support the R&D and get out of the way for the industry. What's most exciting to you? What have you seen? You're here at Stanford. You are the chair of the advisory board of both Stanford and MIT Energy. What excites you? Well, it excites me to see the high quality of scientists of different dimensions who are working on this in a very energetic way. And that's fun because they're learning things. Learning is always fun. So I watch people learning and I'm learning in the process. So it's very good. And I think it's not only MIT and Stanford that's what we're familiar with. And we have a little consortium almost. We published a book called Game Changers based on our joint efforts. But all over the country there are people doing good things. So that's exciting. It's also true, little noticed, little noticed that we are learning how to use energy much more efficiently. There's a book by Jim Sweeney here at Stanford that details this out. His graphs are astonishing to show how much savings there have been. And the inflection point, interestingly, is 1973. I remember it well. I was secretary of treasury. Here comes the Arab boy blockade. And it was a huge event. At that time a lot of electricity was produced by oil. So we were way down. And it was driving. Gas stations closed on weekends. And Christmas lights, awful. But it made a deep impact. People have learned how to save in their use of energy. They're careful with it much more than before. So looking ahead, obviously it's very hard to predict crises coming up. But do you think we are prepared for something similar to that coming in the future? We hope it doesn't happen. But should it happen, do you think are we prepared for that? Well, I think where we're going is if suddenly there were another boycott. Or if Hopec decided to stop producing oil, which they can't do. But if they decided to cut way back, we conserved. And we're getting less and less dependent on oil and gas anyway. I have solar panels on my house here at Stanford. And I've long since paid for them by what I've saved on my electricity bill. And I drive an electric powered car, which uses less electricity than the solar panels produced. So how much does my fuel cost me? Zero. What's that to like? On that very high note, Mr. Secretary, thank you so much. And again, on behalf of the Vale of Global Energy Forum, I greatly appreciate your time. Well, I congratulate the forum on the way it has developed. And it's making a real contribution to our understanding of important issues.


Hello people of the internet. My name is Johnny and welcome back to another reaction video It's it's fortnight, right? It's fortnight season nine Um, I'm super excited for it. Obviously this is being recorded after Um, I've seen all the changes and stuff and I'm gonna talk More about what I think of the changes after I gotta show you my reaction But right now I just want to say welcome. This is fortnight. I know youtube doesn't like When I do stuff like this. I know you guys don't really like when I do stuff like this But I love fortnight. I really think it's a good game I play it all the time by myself with my friends And I actually do really like it Oh my god Why am I so out of breath? Oh, yeah, it's because I ran up the stairs So I know not many of you are into fortnight and that's fine But honestly, I just want to put it out there just in case any of you guys are into it And even if no one's into it, I'm probably still gonna keep doing it because it's something I love Honestly, it really is So, you know, yeah I don't care, you know, like last reaction I did Not many people were happy with it because again, it was fortnight. Um, I see that happening with this video as well I'm actually calling it right now before it gets uploaded. So Yeah, honestly, I don't care honestly really if you want to leave dislike because it's fortnight. I understand But keep in mind I'm gonna keep doing this until the game is dead or until I get over fortnight or whatever. I honestly just love fortnight. It's really really good I know it's it's basically like minecraft where it's like, oh you play fortnight.  I love fortnight. I love finnaf and um, you know, this channel is mostly finnaf But it's fortnight every now and then we've been doing some live streams And now we're doing or we've been doing some reaction videos. So I think I've talked long enough. Sorry for Going on and on but here's the reaction first We have the trailer for it and then we get into the game. Look at some map changes. Check out the battle pass And it's pretty cool. I'm not gonna lie right So So they went into a bunker Jonesy ate peely And now it's the future Man, the future is truly tilted Hey, I like that loading screen The future is now the volcano has erupted in some long lasting locations have changed Explore everything new Season nine battle pass and the combat shotgun. I completely forgot that was being added Oh my god, that background looks pretty awesome Okay, battle pass Yeah, so I want to check out Fort bites New took the season's battle pass off fort bites Use clues to earn and locate hidden pack ups or pickups around the island helping you unlock rewards And uncover the secrets. All right, that's pretty cool. Don't want to take a look at that just yet Because I want to take a look at this background. This looks Awesome, isn't this neon tilted? I'm pretty sure that's what it's called Yeah, neon tilted right there I am yeah, so we have fort bites Oh my god This is going to be absolutely insane so they're all I don't know where any of them are apparently utopia Uh, that's a pretty cool thing And then there's a mystery character and then loads of battle pass right Daily challenges and weekly challenges and then oh my god. Look at All these characters have unlockable skins Rocks sentiel sent sentinel Bunker jones the vega Stratus and dear me and then but All right, sure Let's kind of looks like the Oh, that's not what I want to look at This kind of looks like um drift a little bit Tiny tiny bit. I'm sure there's nothing new. All right battle pass rocks I'm pretty sure she was in The um The thing the banner not the banner the loading screen She completely reminds me of diva.  These characters have loads of stages And it's no longer xp. It's fort bite This is a pretty cool guy. It looks like a transformer All right Rock-love. Oh Actually added in the rocks. That's awesome tomato head What is this I don't want to see that I'm going to look at this. How do I do that? Oh, that's pretty cool. All right. What else got some more wraps Another banner not banner spray neon tubes. All right. That's okay Oh my god, what are these? Oh my god, those are harvesting tools That is awesome Cutler so they're adding a bit of heads um ltm Loading screens. I like those Oh my god, no way I love the music so much. I got to get that this way Bro, what is that squeaking sound? stop Turbo spin. That's a um It's a pretty cool glider. I like that. Oh, that's not the right button. Let's say drifting So they just Oh my god, right. That's pretty cool. They're just adding the heads of different characters Pixel Jonesy. All right, that'll go with pixel Ramirez rocks Is this another one of those animated loading screens? Ah Keep sending me back the old flyer I'm not really a fan of these types of gliders Just kind of like the default reskins Bunker Jonesy Oh my god That's pretty cool. He also has some challenges for a harvesting tool a nano cape backbiting Take a look at that Dot dot dot awesome Vibrant I like that. That's actually pretty cool A sun bird I really like the sprees.  Oh, no That's so good Conquest that's pretty pretty good cursed That's okay. Kind of just looks like a metallic thing So they didn't add back the actual chicken thing They just replaced it. That's fantastic love ranger a frisbee Okay, that's pretty cool that way bright future some bacon Bunker basher I kind of like that. It's dumb, but I kind of like it Skull it strike That's okay. It's got a neat design Fate yeah, they definitely upped their game with the sprees A hunt. Oh two tilted. That's that's pretty decent Oh my god, they just keep adding the heads And then there's another color for you Are you kidding me?  I don't think I'm pronouncing that right at all Um, okay, so this is outlasting bonus. It's not fought by its bananas Jesus air royale derby Afterburner You guys probably can't hear this, but this actually pretty good. It's pretty nice. Vox. All right, mic Nana nana skull trooper Pink splatter. All right Splatoon a bit. I like it another reskin a bush peak Sign spinner All right, that's that's pretty good There's gonna be a lot of people using that when they win Molten legends Another frisbee. That's really fancy This guy he was in the teaser. He looks Pretty pretty cool. He reminds me of A tiny bit of dj yonder Skeptical oh wait, that's actually animated That's awesome Reskin. Oh my god. These loading screens. Oh my god, that is awesome All right, why does this look Like the one before heat surrender Storm. Oh, that's pretty cool but That's great Tell me we've seen her Why does she kind of look like a vampire?  They've they've added a lot of music, which I love Oh, no, I just saw that. Geez Neon glow. I like that All right, the dancers aren't the best Power surge. Oh, that's pretty good. I actually kind of like that That's really sick. And then what is to 100? Let's see. Can it up its game from last season? last season Lux was just let's be honest. Lux was pretty bad First female skin to 100 female skin Didn't do so good This isn't bad I don't like that green variant though. I don't really like that green variant All right, I want to take a look at what we can get from their challenges Oh, some more pickaxes, right? That's a pickaxe Yeah, I like how I have dual pickaxes Are you kidding me? What the heck? Sure All right, whoa. Okay. Oh my god.  All right What is that with vulgar? That's pretty cool. It's fairly decent. All right. What's he got? Tailwind twister All right, sure. And then the back tracker Which just reminds me of the aim skin and his backling All right These are pretty well. What the heck? All right, sure You right. It's a pretty interesting backling And then his pickaxe Okay, fairly decent And I still got to do Lux. I know I'm bad I think now Um, oh, yeah, they do have two years That's very good for me and the boy. Oh my god. I didn't even buy the battle pass. What am I doing? I don't have enough of the battle bundle. So I'm just gonna get the standard one Battle pass up graded Awesome got loads of stuff. We got some skins Got the challenges. I'm got loads of challenges and just straight up battle pass itself So as much as I love The black widow skin, I'm gonna have to trade it Do I do you Or you You right I don't like her stance. It's very Suggestive, I guess All right, now we're gonna go check out neon tilted and I believe it's called mega mall Which replaced retail row So, yeah, let's get it. All right, let's check this out. Whoa Oh my god, they actually added the um the volcano is natural place Pressure pressure plant and then yeah mega mall That is very mega neon tilted loot lake is changing Pull the peak at a check to see if there's something new with that and then here you can see all the jet streams For the wind streams pretty sure they call the jet streams All right boys Oh my god, they actually changed the spawn island as well What's up homie Look at this blow practicing his edits You're doing good. Nice job. All right, this new loading area is actually pretty sick I like how they change it with every new season Stop shooting. Oh, yeah, they vaulted the pump shotgun, which is like my favorite weapon in the game So I'm pretty mad about that But then again, they did have the combat shotgun So yeah, I feel like I want to go neon tilted first and oh my god. What is that? Are these the streams? Oh, no, these are blimps These are really high blimps. Can you land on them? I don't want to I just want to read what they say purely Fantastic. Oh my god.  Oh, you literally just get out of them. All right So now let's actually explore around. Hopefully I don't get killed The pump gym.  I just want to look around. Oh my god. This is pretty cool I should turn off visual effects for this video.  Oh my god. Wait. Oh, did they turn loot lake into like a power plant? I think they did Yeah, they turned into a little power plant for um For neon tilted. That's that's that's a neat touch What the heck is that?  Let's talk about this Oh my god Okay, so we went to neon tilted again Didn't get to check it out as much as I hoped But it is gonna be a pretty hard drop. So is mega mall So I'm gonna save that and I'm gonna go to pressure plant Uh, which is the volcano and it looks like it's been hollowed out of Which with wheel volcanoes volcanoes. I don't know if you can actually do the head Also, I want to know what that thing is over there I'll I'll get to it eventually Also, maybe you want to check out the block. I don't I'm not sure. Oh wait.  There's one over there Do these just boost you up? Oh, they do All right, get down there Whoa, right Whoa All right Oh, look, there's the helicopter All right, not sure if I want to go down here I didn't want to It's fine. I got a pistol now. All right So it is just kind of a hollowed out Volcano and it's it's basically just uh dusty divot Just in a volcano now. It's pretty cool So now I want to head over to He's gonna be very helpful for getting around I want to go to the mall And I think that should be it actually I'm gonna use one of these to get over there Seeing as they're new and I probably should use them Am I being followed? I am Uh-oh These these are pretty good. I do like the new ways of getting around Oh my god, look at this. So not all of Retail is gone. It's just the upper part that was actually destroyed So let's get over there Oh, hello just passing by Oh, I get it So the tomato head this guy looks very weird. I'm not sure why So the tomato controls mega mall And the duraburger has neon tilted. All right, they unvolted the grenades I'm gonna die here.  Oh, okay, so they're just fans the pizza pit I don't want to fall down here. I really like these I'm not gonna lie. I like those a lot. I like those. There's just stations as well And you don't really have to control where you go You just go there It's nice Gives you a bit of a break. Oh my god. Look at this place Look, they've got a giant Thing Giant statue in the middle. Oh, there's a reboot van. My god It's basically just a glorified tilted. I think we all needed this and this place This building is still here it seem It seems so much bigger And it's really not the nugget hut It's really not bigger. It's the same size.  That's awesome Is that the real time? Wait, let me see it six seven almost It's seven twenty eight. Oh my god. This place is so good It's gotta have a lot of chess surely Now I'm gonna see if I have time to win this game. Oh my god. There's eight people left I was little I I've been doing nothing but looting this one house for this entire time How are there seven people left? Man people are very aggressive this game I also don't have a shotgun so, um Double plump buffet Ha ha I get it. It's like double pump God epic you're so funny Good evening What's that little peely friend? Did he die? Oh my god the combat shotgun Right boys. This is a showcase video now Oh my god.  Are you kidding me? Oh my god Combat shotguns pretty good though Yeah, it's fine. I'm going up against a guy with a baller. That's fantastic Oh, hey, I teared up of it. Do too All right pretty cool Neat I'm gonna level four already Rock love Oh Now that you've seen the reaction now, I'm gonna talk about my thoughts on some changes that were made and That's it Just the changes that I made my opinions on the theme of season nine the map changes and everything basically I'm just gonna be talking about season nine. That's really all I had to say This season for me it seems like the first season or at least the start of A new phase of fortnight because it doesn't Seem like fortnight and I know I'm gonna start to get used to it and accept that this is what fortnight is now Not saying that it's bad. It just doesn't feel like fortnight, especially with the um, the updated locations like neon tilted mega mall pressure peak or something no pressure Place i'm not sure the volcano basically The volcano is not that bad. It just reminds me of um, what dusty depot is right now But neon tilted and mega mall Feel like a new and advanced version of fortnight and I feel like That's what epic games is trying to do since not many people are Into fortnight anymore, especially since they got rid of the um The siphon mechanics So I think that's the way of trying to bring people back to this new An exciting updated version of fortnight the future of fortnight The one thing i'm really upset about is that they vaulted the pump shotgun I I said this in the video Made I'm actually I might not have left this in but they did vault the pump shotgun in season nine And i'm pretty mad about that. It was my favorite weapon in the game I'm so good with shotguns not to brag or anything, but i'm pretty decent with shotguns But the combat shotgun I feel like it's a good replacement for the pump It's it's honestly a lot better and I can see myself loving it getting used to it And all that stuff. So I think the combat shotguns couldn't be pretty cool It reminds me of the um The heavy shotgun a little bit just when it started off. I was like, uh, I don't really know I still kind of prefer the pump and that was when We didn't even have epic or legendary variants of the pump And then I started using the heavy and I was like, you know what it's actually really really good So I think that's what i'm gonna be like with the combat shotgun As for the new locations I love them. I don't see myself probably going to them all that much Um, especially during the beginning phases phases of season nine because they're just going to be insanely hot drops Especially neon Do I call it neon or neon tilted? It's the first ever location that doesn't have a um Alliteration in the name. I just realized that That's that's weird, but it makes sense. You know, you can't replace tilted. You gotta have neon tilted I don't know But yeah, I didn't really go to tilted all that much in the first place just because I knew That's where all the sweats go and now that it's a much bigger Highly advanced better version of tilted. I don't know if I'm ever gonna go to neon tilted really It is a great location though. All the changes that they made to the map. I really really love them The um Oh, what are they called the the the hoops in the air that you can zoom through? You know what i'm talking about.  It's going to be super easy to get um to get lost in the storm now because those are Um, basically almost anywhere really Especially in the center of the map So that's going to be very easy to get to safe circle Uh, I really really like those. It's a definitely definitely a small mechanic Very different, but I feel like it's going to be used in a very clever way Overall, I'm really happy with season nine and I feel like I'm going to play a lot more fortnite with it Because it just adds so many more cool things to fortnite So hopefully you guys are going to play fortnite as well. It is a pretty good game Trust me. I know it can be a bit cringy at times and the people playing it can be a bit cringy But give it a shot, you know, especially with the new update. Now's your chance So thank you everyone so much for watching. There's a link to download fortnite It is free in the description below. Thanks everyone so much for watching and I will see you all on the flip side Goodbye heels to season 10


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Welcome to Monet Cafe Studio and this soft pastel lesson catered for the beginner artist. In this month's tutorials I'll be sharing beginner-friendly products that are also budget-friendly. These art supplies can get expensive. This lesson will feature easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions and it promises to be lots of fun. So come on in the studio and let's get started. Oh yay! Here we go. I am a believer that soft pastels is such a great medium for beginner artists and it's great to know that you can actually get started on a budget. These are Kansan XL dry media pads that come in two colors and they have what's called a sand grain. Now this is just a texture to the paper. If you've been painting with pastels for a while, you know many artists prefer the sanded surfaces but they're more expensive and while you can get a lot of layering with those expensive products, I have found that these Kansan XL pads really do allow beginner artists to get started in an affordable way. This is the paper I'm going to be using for this painting tutorial. The set of pastels or two sets actually that I'll be working with primarily are the Paul Rubens sets. There's a 36 set and a 72 color set and these are quite affordable. You can get them on Amazon, pardon mine look very dirty. So that's the 72 set and they also have this 36 set. I'll have all the links to these products in the description of this video but I find these pastels are very affordable and they are of a medium consistency allowing you to work on these unsanded surfaces and still get some pretty good color. And here's a more in depth behind the scenes of my set up. I have my reference photo that I've printed out. It's from unsplash.com, isn't this gorgeous? I really want to do this as a more serious piece. I loved this reference image but I'm going to keep it really simple for this tutorial and I think even the most beginner artists can follow along. You probably notice I have my set up upright. I'm standing to paint and that is the preferred way to paint with soft pastels because they can get a little dusty. But I have a HEPA filter. It's a filter that I got on Amazon. They don't have this one available anymore but I'm going to share in the link or in the description of this video one very similar. Now let's look behind this set up. That's just a French easel sitting on my desk and I have folded the legs in, made it a tabletop easel, literally put a 20 pound weight on it so that it doesn't move. Now you guys don't have to film like I do so you don't have to worry about that. But my desk is an adjustable desk so if my poor old legs get tired I can lower it and sit down to paint. So there's my set up and here we go. And before we start painting I have a small favor. Would you go ahead and like this video, leave me a comment and by all means subscribe to my channel so you don't miss any of the lessons I upload here on Monet Cafe. Also if you'd like a little bit more, would you consider becoming a patron of mine? It's only $5 a month. You can cancel at any time and by becoming a patron you get all of the extra content I often talk about in my lessons. I also get to see your work, just lots of fun and you get to become part of the family. I love our family of beautiful artists from my Patreon page. Alright we're going to paint now. I have my Canson XL paper taped to my board and I'm using a Derwent charcoal pencil. This is a light pencil and you can use whatever you have to get in a basic sketch. I am speeding up the sketch portion a little bit so this video isn't so entirely long. But I just want to talk you through this. All I'm doing with the initial sketch is getting in my big shapes. Of course we have some of those big flower shapes and we have a little bit of a tree line in the background and a building. Now that's going to be the most difficult thing about this but it's really not that hard. It's just triangles and keeping it really simple because this building is in the background and it's going to be very subdued anyway. So keep it simple. It's amazing how often we over complicate things when we are starting as artists. We want to put in every detail but in time we learn that less is truly more especially if you love impressionistic painting like I do. And now it's time to add soft pastels. The remainder of this tutorial would be sped up only slightly. You should be able to follow along just fine. Now I did use a few pastels that are not in the two Paul Rubin set that I shared but I will share links to some darks. That's what I'm using now. It is very important to have some dark values in your painting for contrast. And this is just a dark green Terry Ludwig pastel. Again I'll have some links to some darker pastels you can buy as individual sticks. Really all you need is about you know two or three dark pastels. Even the Paul Rubin sets has a dark. It has some I think a black in one or both of the sets. But also you can control how light or dark something is with pastels by your pressure. And now on that note we are working on an unsanded surface. Because this is a beginner tutorial I want to have products that are affordable. Unsanded surfaces don't take a lot of layers. So keeping a light touch at the beginning is important. Now I got in some of my darks. If you have a problem seeing your darks just squint your eyes really hard. Now I'm getting in my lightest light and that would be the sky. That's pretty obvious in this reference image. The sky and the front of that building. Another thing to keep in mind is our light source. Where would you say the light is coming from?  Looks like it's a greenhouse or something. The light is definitely coming from the left. Now I like to combine a few colors for the sky. I started out with the light kind of a pinkish color. These are all the Paul Rubin's pastels. I used a little bit of blue and a little bit of this lavender color. While you can't mix pastels like you can with wet mediums you really can when you just scumble colors and lay them down next to each other. Alright what am I doing here? I have a paper towel and I'm going to use it to blend in some of the pastels I've laid down already. The reason I'm doing this is it's important early on not just with pastels but with many mediums of painting is to do what is called a blocking in. You're getting in your main values really a high priority of getting your values in. That means your lightness to darkness in a painting and your colors of course but you want to get those in as a base early on. And so I'm using this paper towel to just blend areas in and like I said if you squint your eyes you can see there's a majority of green in the reference image or dark I should say darker values kind of around those main flowers that I've already kind of sketched in. And so I'm just kind of blending things in and also vertical elements are almost always darker in a landscape. And so I'm just kind of blending in I've got in my basic sketch I've got in general values right now. Now the blending is done and I'm taking the same pastel I've only used a few colors at this point but this is my same dark green pastel again I'll have a dark green link in the description of this video if you don't have any darks and I'm using it again squinting my eyes really hard looking at where my darkest darks are. I think you can see those now I have a little more blocking in to do and I'm going to start working on this building now our brain tells us that building is probably white you think that side of that building is white but it's in shadow the sun is not hitting that side of the building so I'm going to combine a few colors like I did with the sky I used a little bit of a turquoise color and under the little eve of the roof of course that's a little darker it's in shadow. So I'm not going with a super dark color yet and one of the reasons or I don't at all actually in this is because that is not a focal point it's far away I do darken it a little with this purple that I think this one is from the 36 set but I kind of subdue a little blended in and continue to add colors and values kind of like I did in the sky to let the pastels blend themselves now this is something that was so hard for me when I first started pastel painting I am using my finger to blend a little bit here I don't do that all the time but it took me so long to realize that colors are interacting with each other in in nature in life and if we think we have to find the exact color to put in an exact spot like a paint by number our paintings are going to be lifeless and lack that feeling of how things are in the real world so now I'm using that same purple that's in the Paul Rubens 36 set and I'm just blocking in the shape of this main flower now if you're a patron of mine on my patreon page my patrons are they probably laugh at me by now that I never know the names of flowers my mother was a flower expert she was so good and I miss her so much she passed away a couple of years ago and she would be mad at me for not knowing these flower colors but my patrons always say oh it's this type of flowers I don't know what this flower is I should know by now but I it doesn't matter because I just really have to look at the general shape of this flower and it almost has all these little individual flowers coming out in a cone shape like a bouquet so I'm just kind of scumbling in some of the shapes and I'm working on the darker purple flowers first somebody tell me in the comments what these flowers are I love these flowers I should know their name and I I'm just kind of getting in a general feeling of the flower I am not trying to get every single little part of this flower right I'm getting the the life of the flower and the essence of the flower in so to speak now there's one in the distance there it's very dark in the distance it's cooler because it's in shadow it doesn't have the sunlight hitting on it so I'll I'll work on those values as I continue to progress in this painting there's some more purple flowers back here so this is still part of what's called the blocking in stage I'm almost done with the blocking in stage as you can see I've got a few little blank spots left with some of the flowers and some of the building and I would say I'd like I said I've sped this up a little bit this took me oh maybe an hour and a half to finish it and I can actually work a little bit faster using the more expensive sanded surfaces because you have a little bit more leeway you know you can layer and cover things and that's one of the challenges with unsanded papers is you don't have that ability to put down a lot of layers so it is more affordable and that's why I wanted to use it for this beginner lesson but I know that I'm only going to get about I don't know four to six layers if that when creating a painting on an unsanded surface now I do love unsanded surfaces let me let me talk about what I'm doing first for a minute I've gotten in my purples I use that purple to make my darks a little bit darker notice down deep in the beside the flowers there's some dark areas and also notice I'm well you'll notice by the end of the painting I'm not trying to paint everything in this I'm not trying to paint there's like a fence there there's another building kind of to the right beside the one flower I'm just focusing on simple elements for one it's a beginner tutorial and also because I want this just to be very loose without a lot of fussiness to get busy in this painting is a dark blue pastel another one that is not in the set of the paul rubens the main ones that I've used that are not in the set so far as a dark green um actually the dark purple was one of the paul rubens and this dark blue again I'll have some links for some darks in the description of this video and I also encourage doing something called color echoing meaning that you kind of incorporate the same colors throughout the painting um that's again what happens in life and I'm just getting some of that darker blue it's a little darker than the purple in some of the center areas of the flower I know that this is just the base layer again my blocking in so to speak and I'll start developing the details on these flowers later and on my final layers right now I'm just focusing on those values and as you can see I've got my general flower shapes in I've got my darks in down by the roots of those flowers I have my basic shapes in blocked in the big areas of grasses in the distance and now is when I'm going to start getting more of those greens in the grasses these are going to be very suggestive I've lightened up my green um even though what's down there is light because I blended it with the paper towel but it's lighter the one I'm using now is lighter and warmer um these are grasses where the sun is hitting um again the sun is kind of to the upper left area and it's going to cast down on some of those grasses but I'm still just getting in like I said I know I've got a little bit of layering capability so I'm using this green I believe this is it might be a senelier pastel the greens in the paul rubens sets that I shared don't have a lot of middle value greens I noticed so that's why I used another middle value green and now this is a paul rubens pastel it's a little bit of a rusty color now that um side of the building I'm working on is a little bit darker you notice in the reference image and I'm going to address that with the ability to layer but I'm just blocking in the rest of this building now what I'm going to do is get in any area that I see there's a little bit of warmth using this kind of um I don't know rusty color a little bit almost like a brick color and you can tell I'm layering very lightly I'm not pressing hard and now I'm adding a little bit of this turquoise blue if you look at that side of the roof there it's darker and it's cooler the reason for that is it's in shadow I'm using a paper towel right now to blend a little more things that are in shadow are going to be cooler I always say you cool off in the shade so do colors so that really does help as a little general rule to realize you can just use a cooler color in the shadows now I went a little bit lighter in value and a little warmer for the front of this building here's a little bit of that layering principle and we often in pastel painting work dark to light opposite of watercolor if you're a watercolor artist and so I know I've got a few layers I can get down even though it's an unsanded surface so I get in layers that are the deeper orange if you look at the front of that building where it looks really golden there's a little bit of a hint of a darker orange so that's why I put that on the front you'll see me lighten it up with the yellow in a minute now I'm getting this roof roof even darker and um notice how this is very gradual again that was one of my big mistakes when I started soft pastel painting is I was painting like a paint by number and I didn't realize the beauty of how colors can interact and work together so now I'm getting a I used a little bit of a pinkish color and now this is not in the Paul Rubin set it's a darker burgundy there's a little bit of a a shadow under that eve on the front part of the building and a little bit of dark around some of those windows or whatever they are I love how we don't even have to know what things are when we're artists we can just we're looking at shapes and even though when we're first painting we feel like we have to get everything so detailed guess what your viewer doesn't need to see all that detail the biggest detail will be where your focal points are the rest is just subdued a suggestion all right I use some of these colors from the Paul Rubin set to get some of that pretty sunlight hitting the front of that building and now it's coming together look we're getting really close to having everything blocked in we've got our flowers our grasses and our building is close to being blocked in a little bit more dark here but I'm actually going going to tone this down a bit too it's getting a little bit too much attention I don't often use my fingers to blend but with these unsanded surfaces it's really kind of easy and now I realize my top of my roof line wasn't dark enough so I added a little of that purple to get the value a little darker now I'm going to use something I I just came up with for this painting I got some q tips and I thought you know my elements in this need a little more blending notice there's like spaces between some of these flowers and I'm just using it to blend in to get a general dark value and fill in some of those blank spaces that are kind of between the flower shapes now I am using the original darker green that I started with and I am getting the trees behind the building a little bit darker remember I mentioned earlier that vertical elements are typically darker in a landscape however they get lighter as they progress in the distance it's a concept in the laws of physics called aerial perspective things get lighter in the distance think about mountains in the distance they're not nearly as dark and they're cooler now add a little bit more of that warm color to the front of the building now let's get in a little bit of these windows they kind of have a little arches to them the bottom was a little darker and part of that's because there's a lot of grasses growing up around them and the tops of those arches are a little bit lighter so I first just block in this main color that is kind of a pinkish lavender the values pretty close and later you'll see me come back in and add a lighter highlight to the the lightest part of that front of the building now I know there's a element of some kind of leaves a tall stem of something that has all these leaves so I'm using a darker green just to get in some of these shapes of the leaves again I don't have to be too precise it's just you know getting the concept or the idea of where some of these darker elements are and you know really I always say this painting is not hard once you know the rules and when you know a few rules you realize a lot of this is easier than you think we make it harder on ourselves when we're first beginning but there are some rules and I know that sometimes it can seem overwhelming when you're first getting started that's why I started this channel Monet Cafe because I was overwhelmed I didn't have any lessons YouTube wasn't even much of a thing back then so I had I almost quit I almost quit painting with pastels but while I'm scumbling in some of this pretty warm green in the distance let me tell you that I love soft pastels because they're very user friendly you don't have to worry about mixing colors I still had kids at home they were getting bigger but I could leave my pastels out and go make dinner and come back and they they didn't dry up so it's a really great medium um if you're new to painting um or if you've been painting with other mediums oh I gotta tell you so many people have fallen in love with soft pastels for the same reasons I have I love getting your comments um from my videos so feel free to comment on this one too all right I'm adding a little bit more of these light greens this is one of the paul rubens pastels a really pretty light almost grassy green and I do know that I'm going to be soon getting close to my final layers like I said you get about four what did I say five to seven sometimes it's four to six layers so I'm being careful not pressing too hard and generally even when you work on sanded surfaces you keep a light touch early on and you preserve those final uh marks that have more pressure and more strength to the very end they're going to be like your icing on the cake where you want a lot of color punch and drama so I'm just getting in you can see in some of the grasses or whatever they are bushes in the distance um they're a little bit lighter on the tops where the sun is peeking around and catching them now I've got an even lighter pastel that is one of the paul rubens I'm um using my artistic license to even lighten uh up even more some of the grasses even more than what I see in the photo because I know from the front of that building there's some serious sunshine hitting it I kind of liked that little play of warm versus cool in this painting um with the sunshine uh hitting that building and creating that beautiful warmth a little more dark and you can see I was equate painting to like a dance you can see it's like a little dance um just working here and there and everywhere like in this little harmony now I've got this dark blue again that I'm adding to some of the um the purple flowers that I want a little more depth these are my flowers that are more of the focal point and if you were to guess even if you're a beginner artist if you were to guess what the focal point is of this flower I just blew it didn't I of this painting what would you say it is it's that largest flower focal point often is something that's large something that has high contrast something that has more color and more detail so this flower the the size of it and just you know you can't help it when you look at this photo that's what you see so I'm giving it a little more blue now you might be thinking well that flower looks purple why are you putting blue in there believe it or not when you have purple often there's a combination of purple and blue so you'll see me come in after and add more of the purple but I realized I needed a little more of this um pretty blue this is not one of the paul rubens I apologize I didn't use every single pastel that was one of the paul rubens but um sometimes you just don't have all the colors you need and that's why it is a good idea to buy a few sets and give you a little bit more color variety these are I believe some of these are senelier pastels and I often share that once you think you're getting serious about soft pastels if there's a set that you can get of quality pastels that would be awesome for your pastel palette it would be and affordable the senelier 120 half sticks that I'm going to write that right down right now to add to the description of this video 120 it's called the paris collection and it is 120 half sticks I love half sticks because they're kind of short they're perfect for painting with and these pastels senelier pastels are just so vibrant with color so I'm pretty sure that's what these are and having 120 colors is just awesome they're on amazon the cheapest I've ever seen them was 113 dollars for the 120 half sticks that's less than a dollar a half stick so really good set if you're getting started once you know you're serious you know so now I just added in some more of these pretty blues now here comes the purple you'll start to see how this blue and purple are working together if I just used all purples for these flowers it wouldn't have had that color vibration and color excitement it's as I've been saying often in this tutorial alone that part of the beauty of painting and color is how they interplay with each other it is totally what happens in nature everything is bouncing all off of each other with light and color so the more that we can understand that law of physics and recreate it in our art the better and that's just one of the great things about soft pastels too is that beautiful ability to layer and mix colors together on the surface I love that and now I'm finally going to add some of that warmth notice in that main focal point purple flower it's a bit magenta while I'm still painting some of these blue flowers now I'm just adding little flowers in the distance um even if I don't see them just to make them meander in the distance all right here comes the magenta now why would you think that that main focal point flower has more warm magenta colors on the left side instead of the right side well that's because the sun is on the left side you can tell again from the front of the building so that's why I am getting some of this warmer a magenta is kind of like a a warmer purple it's kind of a pinkish purple and that is why I'm adding that warmth to the left side follow the rule of the sun things in the side of the sun where the sun is hitting are going to be warmer now I got a little bit too light with my magenta so I kind of changed it up I am getting a bit to my maximum layering ability here and I'm starting to press a little harder this is my focal point flower so I'm getting a little bit more of that color drama going on and a little more detail in my focal point areas and now it's getting time to turn the lights on remember how I said with soft pastels we work dark to light and one of the reasons is here's the way I like to think of it we work from the inside out the darkest parts of the flower are those inner parts so when we lay down the darks first we gradually can build the flower from the inside out you can see me doing it with some of the blues I worked in a middle blue now I have my lightest blue and I'm just using this light blue to get the tips of these flowers where the light is hitting and you can see again from the left side the sun is hitting that's why the majority of the light areas are on the left side of these flowers some of it filters around to the kind of the back around to the to the right and so we're getting in the final stretch here we just got a few minutes to go and now I'm taking some of this pink I wanted to incorporate some of these warmer colors so I'm just scumbling it in on some of the this is a little light for where I added it here but in some of the distant flowers I just want to suggest that there might be more of these flowers of course they're gonna get smaller and just very subdued in the distance I needed to give these flowers some stems so I'm using a prismacolor new pastel notice how they look long and rectangular these are also very affordable pastels for the beginner artists great for making stems and grasses and notice how I use a press and release type of stroke we want to keep our stems and grasses kind of like a broken line now here's where I'm going back in and getting that lightest part of the building like the sun is just hitting on um like I said it looks almost like a greenhouse and it just gives a little interest to the painting a little bit of a final golden to the building and also some of my lightest lights on the just the little highlight areas on the left sides of these flowers it really brightened it up made some of these more of a focal point also some of the focal point flowers had little bits of dark in the center so I came back with one of my darker pastels and just for a few of them you don't want it everywhere just gave a little bit of that contrast with some of the darkest darks and I hope if you're a beginner that you learned something I hope you'll give pastel painting a try here was the final once again inexpensive products and a sweet little impressionistic painting I hope you've enjoyed this no matter what level you are as an artist I hope you'll subscribe to this youtube channel and enjoy this pastel painting journey and become a patron if you'd like to support this channel and become part of my beautiful family of patrons as always god bless and happy painting