We're getting a ton of rain right now in Southern California. It's supposed to rain for like the next four or five days, but it's miserable out here. There's water everywhere, clouds in the sky, there's no sunshine.  I don't know if you're on the frame or not, but... Yeah, this is gonna be the rainy day art vlog. So I hope you guys enjoy the video. You know, living out here in California, I've gotten really soft to the weather. Like it never rains out here. It's always sunny, but then when it does rain, I get bummed out. And it's weird, because considering where I lived in Sydney, it rained like almost every week, you know?  Like it rains here for a little bit on and off, and then it usually dries up, but I think we're gonna get like a bunch of rain this weekend, or Christmas weekend.  I've seen a snow, I've seen a snow skate in Zoomy's. It was an ambition snow skate. It was like, how much was that 130 bucks, I think? Really keen to try that out. So let me know if you guys wanna see me have a crack at snow skating. I'm actually really keen to try it. I've never done it before. So yeah, let me know. Could I get two brandy hot chocolates with oat milk? Two brandy hot chocolates with oat milk. Did you start with the whipped cream on her? No, on both of them. Pulling in to Starbucks right now, I'll get some hot chocolate. Because it's cold, and I want a warm drink because it's cold. It's cold. You guys back east are probably laughing at me, saying that it's cold in California during winter. Is that how it places for your people? Oh, we're gonna get hit by Jose in the sipping. Everyone's, sorry, his red curves outside of Hobby Lobby. We're trying to be fast here today. I just need blue ballpoint pens. I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. I just need blue ballpoint pens and some paper. That's all I need. Just out here in Hobby Lobby, guys, about to select some paper for this art piece, artwork I'm about to make. What paper do I get? This one? Just drawing. Some drawing paper. A bit of drawing paper. How about that one? This one feels good. It's like textured, but not as textured as the watercolor paper. I'm going to go with this one. I'm going to trust my gut to go with the mixed media. I'm trying to go for a prison-style art thing, so I just need normal ballpoint pens because these are way too fancy to use. They just use those blue pens in prison. Hobby Lobby didn't have any blue ballpoint pens, so we're going to Target now. Look at it. It looks like I live in Portland right now because look at the weather. It's terrible. Rainy. It's cold. It's not really windy, thank God, Yeah, it's rainy and miserable. I'm getting rained on right now. We've secured the big pens. There's $1.90. $1.90 each. I'm getting two packs just in case. I want that blue. That prison blue. Pelican Bay blue. I'm at home right now watching Magnum PI. Got my big pens. Got my paper. I'm going to start drawing. I'm going to do a rose to start off with. I could probably do this super clean and detailed if I wanted to go through the whole process, but I'm just going to try and sketch it and then make it a final product on the same piece of paper because what I would usually do at work, I would treat this like a tattoo stencil. I would do a rough sketch on paper, take a photo of it on my iPad, create the final outline on Procreate in my iPad, and then print it out so I have the outline to work off. But I'm just going to try and sketch and then finish it on the paper. It should be pretty interesting. Just to give you guys an update. I was trying to get a rose done. I thought I could shade with a blue pen and it turned out like rubbish. So, yeah. I'm still figuring out this blue pen technique. Ruby seems very interested in what I'm talking about right now. Yeah. I think I'm going to do a skull next and try to make it nice because this looks terrible. I don't have the patience, honestly. Like, I think you got to go section by section to get it to work well. And I've just tried to go through it and sketch everything in. This is like way more slower than tattooing. I feel like I can tattoo way faster than I can draw if that makes any sense. But, yeah. I'm going to try to draw something else.  Fingers crossed anyway. Before I go any further on this sketch this is just a rough as guts sketch of a skull I'm trying to figure out. I'm going to keep chipping away at it and I'm going to keep you guys updated. Yeah. Because the first sketch turned out so terrible. So, yeah. Fingers crossed this one goes a lot better. Guys, this is the best you're going to get out of me on a freehand loose ballpoint pen sketch. There's ways I could make this look super clean and tidy but that whole process is another story, you know. And it would be traditionally based on how I would design stuff for tattooing. If you guys want to see that let me know. I can make like a way more polished off better looking drawing than this but this is like proper freehand prison style even though it looks like rubbish. But yeah. Alright, so for the people wondering what I mean by like proper polished off sketch design whatever you want to call it here's an example right here. I had a dream one night of a idea of a frog doing a backsmith so I went to work the next day it was quiet and I designed this artwork here. I designed this artwork. What I did was I did a sketch then I did a final outline then I used a light box to trace on the final outline onto this bit of paper then I had a solid outline to work with I knew where everything needed to go and it turned out pretty decent for what it is a little frog or toad doing a backsmith. I did this other one here it is Joshua Tree there's like a cow skull and some rocks and a little cactus here and then the moon and some mountains and a Joshua Tree same thing again. Same thing with this one I haven't finished this one yet but this is a this is actually a designed by Sailor Jerry Swallows he was tattooing out of Canada we have the flash up at the shop and I took this design I just put some chains and yeah so this is what I mean by like polished off such art work design thing as opposed to just a freehand thing like this or even worse like this so that's what I mean these are like proper outlined pieces that you use a light box to trace the final design onto a piece of paper then go from there this is just like freehand rubbish So I was reading some of you guys' comments and someone asked for an update on the YZ125 everything is here like everything is in this box ready to go in apart from the engine the engine is at the mechanics we are trying to chase a fork shifter number 3 for a 2000 YZ125 they don't make that part anymore so it's been extremely difficult to find the shift fork but I kind of cleaned up this this gold series the other day it had a bunch of gunk on it I mean it's not the best before you know so yeah little by little chasing up this fork shifter it's been a pain in the ass but I'm so keen to just have this thing done and just go and rip it so yeah here's an update guys I have pretty much all the plastics here ready to chuck on ready to go but I'm just waiting until the engine comes back I gotta clean the carb as well so the carb needs to be cleaned and put back together but yeah there's a little update on the YZ125 if you've enjoyed this video let me know I just got a ring light for Christmas Merry Christmas everybody if you've enjoyed this video let me know if you want to see me do more art vlogs or art vlogs let me know if you're new here subscribe if you want to go on over to evening mob.com and pick something up there's free shipping within the US up until the new year just use the code lower 48 when checking out and you'll get free shipping we just got a ton of hoodies made so yeah go and check out evening mob.com cheers for watching the video and yeah I'll see you guys in the next one