And several previous videos in this lecture series, we've talked about how one can prove a conditional statement P implies Q. And in the previous lecture for this series, lecture 24, because we're in number 25 right now, we actually talked specifically about bi-conditional statements. How do you prove that P is equivalent to Q? And of course to do that, you just make the argument that P is equivalent to Q is the same thing as P implies Q and Q implies P. So every bi-conditional statement has the proving cost of two conditional statements. Well, this is how you prove a bi-conditional statement. It kind of makes sense that the next thing to consider is what if you wanna prove a tri-conditional statement? What if P is equivalent to Q and Q is equivalent to R? That is all three of these are equivalent. Oftentimes you see the following phrase used. You say the following, following R equivalent for which that can be a mouthful sometimes. So it's often abbreviated as T-F-A-E, the following R equivalent here. So we have that condition I is that the statement P and then statement two is Q and then statement three is R. Now to prove that these are equivalent, we're saying all three of these statements are logically equivalent. Well, we have to prove is you have to prove that P implies or P is equivalent to Q. We have to show that P is equivalent to R and we have to show that Q is equivalent to R. That's what all of this says right here, which each of these right here cost two conditional statements. And so when you put those together, this comes at a cost of proving six conditional statements. So think of this as like six direct proofs. That would be the cost of proving if you have three equivalent statements. But wait a second, what if we have, wait for it, four conditional statements. So there's some other statement S right here for which if we want to prove that, we have to prove that P is equivalent to Q, P is equivalent to R, P is equivalent to S. We have to show that Q is equivalent to R. We have to show that Q is equivalent to S and we have to show that R is equivalent to S. Whoa, that's a mouthful. You have six possible pairings and each of those by conditional statements requires two proofs. So you're taking 12 conditional proofs that you have to do there, like 12 direct proofs. Whew, that's a lot. What happens if we do five or six or seven equivalent statements? Now you might think I'm being ridiculous right here, but in my linear algebra textbook, the non-singular matrix theorem states that like 20 plus conditions are equivalent to a matrix being non-singular. So this is actually not outlandish whatsoever. How would one go through the details of all of those? So if you have like N, if you have like N equivalent statements there, how difficult of a proof is that going to be? Well, if you have to prove every possible equivalence, then you're gonna have N choose two pairings you have to choose and then you have to go in both directions C times that by two itself. That's a lot, right? N factorial, sorry, N times N plus one, what am I talking about? N minus one over two factorial times two, those things cancel out.  That is a ton. And so if you throw in like 20, right?  That can get out of control very, very quickly. But it turns out that you don't have to do every possible check to show that these things are all equivalent to each other. Let me show you some examples here. So imagine, you see some diagrams here on the screen. Imagine the following. I'm actually gonna start here on the right. Imagine we have six conditions that we wanna show our six statements that we think are equivalent to each other. So this right here, let's suppose we can prove that A is equivalence to B. So we have proofs going in both directions. We have sufficiency and then necessity in both directions. So there's two proofs there, right? What if we've also proven that B is equivalent to C, okay? So again, we have sufficiency and necessity going both directions. You get two proofs there. Let's say that we've proven that B and E are equivalence to each other. So again, we have necessity and sufficiency going both directions. Let's say that we've proven that E and D are equivalent to each other and we've proven that E and F are equivalent to each other. So this gives us a total of 10 conditional statements, okay? Now be aware of that for six, that's dramatically smaller than the bound we have up here because if N equals six, you would end up with N squared minus N equaling 36 minus six, which is 30. So presently, when you look at this proof right here, we took 10 direct proofs as opposed to 30, so that's one third that's dramatically smaller, but it turns out that's good enough. Like we showed that A is equivalent to B, but how do you show that A is equivalent to C? Well, if you wanna show that A implies C, what you do is you're like, okay, A implies B, B implies C. So transitively together, that actually shows when you compose those two proofs together, that A implies C. So the proof that A implies B, when it's concatenated with the proof that B implies C, gives us a proof that A implies C. I don't actually have to provide it because by the hypothetical syllogism, right, this is something we'd seen before, if, so this was a valid argument, if P implies Q and Q implies R, we then can conclude that P implies R. The concatenation of the proof that P implies Q with the proof that Q implies R gives you a proof that P implies R. We don't have to prove them directly because indirectly we can infer that A and C are logically equivalent to each other because they're both equivalent to B. So A implies C follows by putting the proof that B is in the middle. You know the other two around. Since C implies B and B implies A, together that actually shows that C implies A. And therefore, without saying it, we actually get that A and C are logically equivalent to each other. How do I show that A is logically equivalent to E? Well, I go this direction and then I go backward. You have both directions. How do I get that A implies D? You just follow this path. You just concatenate those proofs together. And if you reverse the direction, you get that A is implied to D. Similarly, since A is equivalent to B and B is equivalent to E and E is equivalent to F, this actually tells us that A and F are logically equivalent to each other. I don't need an explicit proof because I can infer from the other implications. So this last example suggests that you don't have to do every possible direction because of hypothetical syllogisms. We actually could infer some of the ones that are missing, like there's implications going on here as well. This is just with respect to A. You can look at all the other missing ones as well. And so then it begs the question, okay, I can get something dramatically smaller than 30, like 10, how good can I get? Like what's the minimum number of implications you have to do? Like this one is having these implications go in both directions. You just don't need all of them. You need them to be connected to each other. As long as there's a path from one node to the other, that actually will give us a proof. So they have to, so you take all of your nodes, you wanna make a graph that are all connected for which you have directions going. There's a path from every vertex to any other vertex. If there's a path on this digraph, then it means they're equivalent to each other, okay? Let's look at this one right here. This one, I don't necessarily have bi-conditionals everywhere. Like we do have some bi-conditionals here, but these ones are only one direction, okay? So notice what's happening here. Is there a path from every vertex to every other? So A implies B. B is equivalent to C. So there is a path from A, clearly a path from A to B, but there's also a path from A to C. There's a path from A to E. There's a path from A to D. There's a path from A to F, right? And so it turns out A actually can reach everyone on the graph. What about B? Well, B can get to C. How does B get to A? There's not a direct path there, but if there's any path, that actually by hypothetical syllogism, if there's a path from B to A, that means B implies A, which notice you can follow this path over here to A. Of course, you can get to E, you can get to D, you can get to F. So B implies all the other six. C can get to B, it can get to E, it can get to D, it can get to F, it can get to A. So C implies all of them. E can get to D, it can get to F, A, B and C. And then if you follow all of them, it turns out that there is a path from every vertex to another one. And so by the hypothetical syllogism, all of those statements are logically connected because our graph here is connected with a path from every point to another, okay? In this case, I didn't have to have conditionals because of my loop that I have. I can actually avoid conditionals here. It's similar to what we did over here. We have the two conditionals, the bi-conditionals there, but notice here, this loop only involves four. So when you add those all together, you're gonna get four plus two plus two. This was eight conditionals. So I improved upon it even more. You don't even have to do these bi-conditionals. Honestly, your best strategy is to make one giant loop, right? This one over here will be the optimal strategy. If you just have a loop, A implies B, B implies C, C implies D, D implies E, E implies F, and F implies A, then you loop around and everyone's connected to each other. A implies B, implies C, implies D, implies E, implies F. And you get that loop there. How about B? B implies C, which implies D, which implies E, which implies F, which implies A. So B does imply A. And what happens here? You have one, cause these are all conditionals, one, one, one, one, one. You end up with six, which of course six is N itself. This turns out to be the optimal strategy. If you wanna prove that you have a list of statements which are logically equivalent, prove them in a big cycle. The first one implies the second, which implies the third one, which implies the fourth one, which implies the fifth one. Until you get to the last one and then prove that the last condition implies the first condition. And then every other implication can be inferred from the N conditionals you just proved. And this is the optimal strategy to proving these. Now, of course, any of these diagrams works, but the most efficient one is to prove a loop. And so let's provide an example of this. So the following are equivalent. A is a subset of B. The union of A and B is a subset of B. The intersection of A and B is a subset of A. The set difference of A and B is equal to the empty set. Now, all of these implications are for the most part straightforward, but for the sake of this example, I'm trying to prove a TFAE theorem. TFAE, how do you prove this? What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna prove that A implies B. I'm then gonna show that B implies C. I'm then gonna show that C implies D. And then finally, I'm gonna show that D implies A. So there are four conditional statements that I have to prove. And if I do that, it'll prove all of the equivalences of these things, that each and every one of these things is equivalent, which is much better than the 12, right? The N squared minus N, N here since N is four, you end up with 16 minus four, which is equal to 12. If you prove every possible condition, you have to do 12 implications, but I can get away with actually four. Because of the strategy we're talking about here, four implications, four direct proofs. And so as a direct proof goes, we're gonna assume the hypothesis and then we prove the conclusion. So assume that A is a true fact. So A, the set is a subset of B. Now what we need to prove is that A union B is a subset of B. So we're gonna take an arbitrary element of A union B and I wanna argue that it belongs to B. Now if X belongs to A union B, there's two cases there, I have to consider two cases. X is either in A or X is in B. Now if X belongs to A, by assumption, since A is a subset of B, that means that X is inside of B. Now if X is in B already, then clearly X is in B. Both of the cases, because I considered two cases, X is inside of A union B, both cases lead to X being inside of B. Therefore A union B is a subset of B, which then gives us the first implication, A implies B. So that's what we've shown so far. So I'm gonna draw my four statements here. A, B, C, D. We have now shown that A implies B. Now for the next one, assume that statement B holds. Statement B says that A union B is a subset of B. I then want to use the assumption of condition B to show condition C. So I wanna show that the set A union B is equal to A, okay? How are we gonna do that? Well, to show that two sets are equal to each other, we show they're subsets of each other. Now one direction is super, super easy. Clearly A intersect B is a subset of A. I say this is clear because I don't need any further assumptions whatsoever. Any set A intersect any other set will be a subset of A, right? Intersections, by definition, you're in A and B, therefore you're in A. So I don't need a B. I don't need assumption B to get the statement. This is just always true. All right, now to show the other direction that A is a subset of A intersect B, what we need to do is take an arbitrary element of set A and show that it belongs to the intersection. So let X be inside of A. Well, clearly X belongs to A. So next, I need next show that X belongs to B. Now by our assumption here, well, not the assumption yet, note here that since X belongs to A and A is a subset of A union B, again, this is always true, that if you take a set and you unite it with some other set that makes the set get bigger. This tells us that X is an element of A union B. Now this is where our assumption comes into play here. Condition B says that A union B is a subset of B. So X, which belongs to A, also belongs to A union B. By assumption A union B is a subset of B, that tells us that X belongs to B. Now X is in A, X is in B, therefore X is inside of the intersection. This shows us that A is a subset of A intersect B, which then shows equality and that then gives us the second condition. We've now shown that B implies C. Now for the third one, what we're gonna do is we're gonna assume C. C says that A intersect B is equal to A. So that's the assumption we make. We then wanna prove B and to prove, excuse me, prove D, delta there. How to prove that is we wanna prove that the set difference of A and B is equal to the empty set. So that's what we're gonna do here. Clearly every set has the empty set as a subset. So what we need to do is just show that there's nothing in this. We're gonna prove this by contradiction. Suppose that the set difference A and B is not empty. That is there exists some element X that belongs to this set, A minus B. Well, if X belongs to that set, that means that X is in A, but X is not in B, okay? But by assumption, A is equal to A intersect B. So since X is in A, that means X is in A intersect B, which means X is in A and X is in B. And this is our contradiction. X is not in B and X is in B. So we get a contradiction, which means our assumption was bad and our assumption was that A minus B was not empty. Therefore, A minus B is empty and this shows that C implies D. And so to finish the proof, we have only one more implication to go. We have to show that D implies A. This is the one we wanna do here. How do you do that? You assume D and D was that A minus B is the empty set. We then need to prove that A is a subset of B. So to do that, I take a typical element of A, call it X, let X be inside of A. I'm also gonna prove this one by contradiction. I could do it directly, but I like the contradiction proof here because of the empty set that's going on right here. So take an element of A, take an element of A, call it X. And for the sake of contradiction, suppose that X is not inside of B, okay? Since X is in A, but not in B, that means that X is inside of A minus B. But this is the empty set. And this is my contradiction. Since this is empty, it can't contain an element, we get a contradiction. And therefore, because of our proof by contradiction, that gives that X is inside of B. And since X was an arbitrary element of A, this shows that A is a subset of B, thus giving us the last condition we were looking for right there. And since we've now constructed a loop of four implications, this actually shows that all four of them are logically equivalent to each other. And this is the best way to show that multiple statements are logically equivalent to each other, you draw a loop. The if and only if statements we had proven previously follow that same pattern, but you just have two conditions. You prove an implication in one direction, you then prove it in the other direction, and that then forms the loop you want for your graph. So for a bi-conditional statement, you really don't get a shortcut, but for longer ones, we have lists of three, four, 20, you can dramatically shorten the list by just going in order and forming one big loop.


Welcome to Monet Café! This is your artistic happy place where you can learn art from the convenience of your own home. And I'm excited to bring you this lesson today of some beautiful Queen Anne's lace flowers. And if you haven't subscribed yet, I hope you will and become part of the Monet Café family. This is the third painting in a series of long format paintings I'm doing on regular watercolor paper. I'm going to be making my own pastel surface that I'm going to show you how to do here. And I actually did one more painting after this with the same format. So there's four in total. But in this lesson I will be using Richard McKinley curated set of Terry Ludwig pastels. I do like this set. I haven't used it a lot and I actually was kind of surprised to see how many light colors were in this set. So here we go. We're gonna get started and it's gonna be a lot of fun. Oh here I am. It was early morning when I was painting here. As in the other three paintings I'm beginning with a technique. I mentioned in the last video upload I made that I was going to slow it down and show you exactly how I use this new underpainting technique or how I create this new technique. Oh don't you love that purple there? And I'm actually going to be toning the watercolor paper with pastels. A lot of times I do under paintings with different mediums like watercolor or acrylic ink. But this time I'm using pastels. I actually had one of you guys request a painting using only pastels. And I do often use just pastels and use them as an underpainting. I do like to do under paintings. I have a lot of videos where I talk about what they are. These are some of my general colors. I'll talk about those in a minute. And it really does create a nice base. There's multiple reasons why underpainting is a good idea. So I'm just pulling out some colors that I think are interesting. By the way the reference image you can see there on my iPad is from unsplash.com. Look at the light in this image. I actually want to do this painting again larger and really try to capture that light. So I am getting in a basic value study and some colors that are going to set the stage for this painting. Now once you to notice as I'm putting the pastels on you can see I'm darker values are usually in the foreground and also in vertical elements like that tree. So I'm just kind of blocking in. I decided I wanted the tree a little bit larger. And notice how textural this is. And the color is not very vibrant. You know look at the pastel. The pastel is really vibrant but when I put it on the watercolor paper I'm using the textured side of the watercolor paper. It's you know it's it's kind of dull looking. Now notice the colors I'm using here. Once again I chose a dark for the foreground and the tree. Now look at that little band in the reference photo. There's a band there's a dark element in the foreground bottom right and then there's a little bit more dark as you kind of go up to the left. But in that middle diagonal almost going from the bottom left corner sweeping up to where those tallest flowers are. There's like a light band and so that's where I'm trying to get that warmth. It's like the sun is just or that area is just catching the sunlight. So I'm making this as a nice underneath tone value study and it does influence the final painting. So also notice that it cools off a bit in the distance. The area I'm working on now if you look at that little area that's so light by that tree right kind of underneath that as you go to the left. It's almost a little purple and pink and it really cools off and lightens up back there. So I just saw a little sliver of something that looks like maybe a pink. These are all darker than they will be in the final but we work often with dark to light in soft pastel. Unlike watercolor we usually work light to dark. We always preserve the lights and watercolor but with pastels we can get our darks down. Now I know this is a little strange looking right now and it might get even more strange looking and I remember when I first started painting and I saw some people doing under paintings I thought how on earth did they know to pick those colors? I mean look at this kind of pale muted neutral green I'm putting in the sky. Why would I put that in there? Doesn't the sky look white in the reference image but I'm seeing that the color is influenced all over the whole painting. There's almost like this paled out neutrality to it and I'm getting some boldness underneath to capture some brilliance and I will layer my neutrals and my other colors on top of it. So all of these things come in time the more you paint the more you watch the more you practice and I wish there was a shortcut to all of this but it's just the same kind of learning process that I had to go through too. Being confused at times being frustrated at times but you know the determined artist will persevere and you'll definitely get better. Now this is the magic product I used in all of these. Now I'm showing you exactly what it is.  I bought a whole bunch of them at the dollar store and I just cut them up kind of like I cut up another little product you'll see later. Now look at the magic. Remember how I said how dull that pastel was when I put it on?  See how it makes all those little linear strokes in there and this is just blocking in. I'm still calling this the blocking in stage. We're just wetting the pastels to get that vibrancy. Now by the way pastels really are not that much different than other mediums. They just happen to be a dry medium so that when we add liquid to it, whether it's alcohol, I do alcohol with pastels often as an underpainting, or water. You can use water. We could do both of those with what I'm doing now or this matte medium. There's multiple different ways you can do this. Notice how I'm turning my little scrubby to get a clean area to work the next color, but when we wet the pastels it becomes just like paint. Isn't that cool? I'm just really playing with this color, getting a nice and vibrant underpainting to start. Like I said, I'm going to be adding a lot of neutrals to this so I didn't want it to be totally flat and boring without any color and I know there's a lot of light and brightness to this and I thought these pretty magenta purples, golden colors, and a little bit of lavenders and reds would be such a nice underpainting color for this. Again, you see how I'm doing that band? If you look at the reference image, you could almost see that horizontal band of light once again, that it's some of the grasses and the flowers catching that light. By the way, I called this painting early risers and it just came to me. I often really don't like naming my paintings. I feel like I'm just kind of out of my creative juices and I don't feel like it, but sometimes something will just come to me and I've been an early riser lately. I'm having to get up, I like getting up early anyway, but I'm getting up even earlier just to get a lot of my me time. I've been sharing the last few videos. We have my mother-in-law living with us now. God bless her. She's got terminal cancer and you know just dealing with that whole heartache and tragedy and lots of changes in life so this is my time for me to paint. Now look at that, it's textural, it's fun, it's just blocked in and it might look like a mess, but I know this is going to be a great beginning to start laying down these pastels. But first, okay it's dry now, this watercolor paper won't hold the pastels so I'm making my own pastel surface using clear gesso made by Liquitex. You can use whatever clear gesso you can find. Oh it had a little something on the top, but make sure I'm doing this for a reason. Make sure to get the clear gesso because you can't hear this or feel it, but it has a little bit of grit to it. I can feel it between my fingers. It's like a little bit of sand or pumice added to it and when I apply this to the paper it will make it a bit like some of the sanded papers that we can buy, the very expensive pastel papers. And I always mention make sure you get the clear not just because of the sand in it, but also because it's clear. You see it dried clear. You can see the underpainting. If you use regular gesso it's white.  Now I zoom in often on my reference images if I have it on my iPad because sometimes you can get an idea of color better. Why did I put that purple down or that bluish purple? Because down in that bottom right corner it's cooler. It's further away from that sun and I'm just cooling it off with some of these colors. And I've got my gesso applied now so it's I've got a little gritty surface. I'll be able to layer my pastels but now I'm going to address something some of you have mentioned. Some of my patrons from my Patreon page. Thank you patrons for your support. I am so grateful for those of you who pay $5 a month to support this channel and it's really a help to keep these videos coming. So one of my patrons I think it was my patron or maybe one of my members or subscribers in Monet Cafe mentioned that painting like I'm doing right now on this surface coated with clear gesso is a little rough and look at it. It is rough. Now what am I doing now? I'm using a piece of chamois cloth. Now you could use whatever blending tool works for you. A lot of people use pipe foam insulation. You could even use a paper towel but look at what's happening. Now I turn my chamois cloth. I cut them in little squares.  I just turn them to maximize keeping it clean and as I'm moving to a new area I turn it and I blend and yes pastel is falling off. Some people have mentioned a lot of pastel seems to fall off. It's falling off but that's okay. It's falling into my little aluminum foil trough I have. But look at what I just did. I created this nice underpainting to start applying the pastels. Now that was my answer to how gritty it might seem at first when you use the clear gesso technique. All right I'm going to talk a little bit more about my pastel application and now at this point I am speeding up the rest of the video to keep it manageable to be able to upload and I still think you can follow along even though I've sped it up just a bit. Notice too that in the reference photo that you can still see in the top corner there on the left. Look at that tree. Look how even though I laid the dark down it's really kind of light. That sun is really just bright and this golden color I have in the sky well it's going to get lightened up too and that's how I was talking about before we can work dark to light. The influence of this golden color is going to show through from the pastels that I lay down. Now this is kind of that nice muted light green like a neutral green. I just love it. See it's already looking kind of cool. Now I got one of the lighter colors in the Richard McKinley set and I'm just really intensifying that light at the horizon. Usually at the horizon line especially if the sun is setting you're going to get lighter values at the horizon line. Now I'm taking this kind of a lighter dull neutral green and there's going to be some contrast. These little flowers that are peeking up right over the horizon they're catching the majority of that bright light and there's a few of them happening kind of like in that tree area. So I'm just using the corner of this pastel giving a little shape to them and the ones that are sticking up that I did over to the left they're actually going to have more contrast than they do right now so I'm going to probably or I will get the value a little darker later but I'm getting the general shapes gesture and feel of where these flowers are. Now I even went in there and carved in I think I wanted to change the horizon line maybe give some sky holes to this tree so and often too when we paint a tree we negatively paint the spaces rather than painting the branches into the sky we carve the sky into the tree and that is usually so much more painterly looking and just a lot of lost edges that happen and it really looks more professional when you paint negatively with sky holes in trees rather than painting the positive shapes. Now there's that I talked about that purple I laid down I love that purple that I have I think it's a rimbrant color but now I'm putting in a little bit of darker I think I got them too green right here but it was a darker value so I just wanted to kind of intensify the contrast I had going and later I'm like oh that was a little too green but that's the neat thing about pastels we can we have a limited ability to layer and alter things you don't want to take advantage of that because you can really flatten out and muddy your colors if you just think oh I don't care I'll use whatever because I can just layer so be careful with that. I am going to be adding some music to the last part of this video the point of this video each of the four paintings that I did in this format with the same technique I kind of focus on a different teaching aspect in this one it was about the matte medium so I kept it real time and hopefully I've given you a lot of good content in the first 14 minutes that I've been talking but I will be now adding soon some music and you can enjoy watching the rest of the process like I said I've only sped this up slightly and I will apologize like I said I called this painting early risers because I've been getting up early and I've been using this time kind of for my my art therapy time myself and just when the house is quiet you know it's so awesome by the way I occasionally use my little blending technique as I work but never in the last stages these are always only in the initial stages I don't like to over blend a lot but anyway so since this was my me time in the morning I don't overly focus on teaching I just kind of turn my camera on and know I can edit it and do a voiceover later so oh let me pause station break I am wearing my Monet Cafe bracelet I show this because I love it so much I had a jewelry designer make this for me I'm using my essential oils and those little pretty colored things you see those little balls they're lava rocks and they soak in essential oils it has a little Monet Cafe charm on it and what I find is awesome my idea was I love essential oils so much I can smell them as I'm painting because I'm moving my arm around so I just want to share that with you I do have a link in the description of every video that it's down towards the bottom it says Monet Cafe bracelet if you'd ever like to get one now this is the Mount Vision uh thunderstorm gray set remember how I said there was a lot of cool colors going on in the bottom right corner and those flowers yeah there's a little bit of lighter color catching the sun on the left side of that flower but they're really darker than you think so it's always best to get the dark in first sometimes I paint with my right hand when it's more convenient you'll see me doing that later too I often find you can get sometimes more gestural strokes if you use your non-dominant hand and I know I am gonna add some music like I said but one of my points I was trying to make before was that I apologize because this was a bit of a painting experience for me and I just happened to turn the camera on I accidentally got my shoulder in the way didn't have my camera just right so there's a little bit of footage that's a little blurry but you still should be able to follow along I kind of tried to edit it after the fact um a little bit so that you can follow now I'm going to share before I add the music real quick that I often say this that I like a lot of my stages in my paintings prior to finishing them because I often have to finish things in a hurry I know it sounds like I'm complaining sometimes when I say that but I just kind of know I'm probably not going to get a chance to get back to the painting so sometimes I just keep working so this is my advice to you try not to do that walk away give it a break when you think you're about I don't know 60 through with your painting just walk away go do something else and come back to it with some fresh eyes I love the colors that I'm using here and probably about 10 more minutes into this painting I really liked where it was I think I overworked it a little but not too bad I was still happy with the final okay I'm really going to add the music at this point you guys enjoy and as always I like to say now or actually as of late I like to say now if you create from this tutorial I don't have many rules but if you share it on social media I would love for you to tag me on Instagram or on Facebook on Instagram I'm at Susan Jenkins artist if you haven't followed me yet on Instagram I would love that and on Facebook the art of Susan Jenkins is my Facebook page my artist page not my personal page so find me there and follow me there as well and of course you know we have the Monet cafe art group on Facebook I said 12,000 members the other day we're at 13,000 members anybody can join you just have to answer three questions if you want to know more about pastel painting everybody helps each other in that group it's just so awesome and here is that music I keep promising I will be back at the end so just enjoy the painting experience getting close to finishing at this point and once again I apologize for my shoulder getting in the way adding a few highlights to the tops of the Queen Anne's lace this just felt romantic to me right so if you've hung in there to this point of the video God bless you I know that we share so much together even though we're not together that's what's so cool about this channel right we have this beautiful connection all right happy painting until next time


Hey everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. This week's hobby-based kit tutorial is this Z-fold card using the stamp set that we received and a few other bits and pieces from the July kit which is themed under the sea. So I've created this underwater little scene and it is gorgeous, I've really enjoyed making this one. It's got a really nice profile when it's stood upright. Loads and loads going on here, you've got the embossing folder that I used on the card that was in the kit and this card was already shiny so again the card looks like it's wet and you've got the bubble effect there. Then I have watercoloured all the critters and fussy cut them and then I've covered them with glossy accents again to make them look like they are wet and then the little treasure chest which has sunk to the bottom of the sea there. I have used the WoW Salsa embossing powder just on the part where the jewels are so now it really does sparkle and it's just a nice little extra that you see on the side piece there and then I've got my little octopus on the front he's nestled amongst the seaweed and it's a nice little birthday card and then on the back it says let's celebrate and you can write your message. It's a 4x6 card so it's a really nice size, it's more compact and smaller than I usually do but I think it works really well with this little cute scene so let me show you how to make it. Okay so you are going to need to choose your little creatures. I've cut all sorts out here from that stamp set which is this one here, sort of looks like for the leather stamps under the sea by Hunky Dory and it is lovely and I've already used it quite a lot so I just went in, I haven't used the shark, I don't know he's got a smiley face but I know sharks are lovely animals they're not all bad but I just feel he looks more sinister than the rest they all look really super happy so maybe I should give him a go I might add him in later we'll see. So I have stamped them all and I have water colored them all and I have fussy cut them all and if you want to see how I do my watercoloring I will share in a few other tutorials for you to see but I've just kind of gone through and done that in my own time and yeah they're really cute I really like those. Then we received this this was a a five sheet of card obviously I've got some scraps I've gone in the bin now but basically I've cut that down and it's going to be like the sea sky kind of background. For the main z-fold card you need a piece of 12 inch by 4 inch okay and that will give us that six by sorry six by four card base so that that's the size that will fit in your envelope. So what you want to do is first of all along the 12 inch side score it six inches okay so like so and then you fold it in half okay now because you've folded it obviously that way when you do your next so where was I what did I just do that yeah so I just just scored that way that's six and folded it so you do six inches that way then flip it over and do three inches that way because that stop your cracking because you're going to have that go that way so I don't know that go that way and then that's going to fold that way okay just check I did do that right yeah so you're going to fold or you can do it three inches this way then flip it over and do six inches that way but either way you need to do one or the other just so that you won't get that cracking so if you scored them both the same way it will be say for example the three inch one you would end up folding back against the score line that you made and it could crack your card okay so either way do the three and flip and do the six or do the six and then flip and do the three but that is what you will have there's your z-fold card okay and then just burnish and that one there like so then these pieces are going to mat on each of these sections so that one there this one and this one so you need a piece that is five and three quarters by three and three quarters and then two pieces that are two and three quarters by three and three quarters so I've just dropped them down by a quarter of an inch just so that we get that nice border on all of the sides now before we stick that down so let's pop all of these to one side get rid of my scoreboard we also received in the kit this embossing folder which is by crafts to you bringing crafts to you yeah crafts to you www.crafts2u.com okay so this is bubbles so again looks like it's under the sea and I just thought to bring some texture to the card I'm going to emboss these pieces of card that I have here so I'm just going to bring over my machine and I just need to set this up for embossing my base plate and I've got my card there that will sit perfectly just line up in the middle just so you get those bubbles going all over it and then pop my top plate and run that through come back you don't have to but that way you just know you have got that perfect impression and then look at that it looks so good and because the card they sent us was shiny that is given us there you can just see that shine I think that looks absolutely awesome that is going to look so good on this card okay so then I'm going to pop through those okay so I have been busy die cutting I wanted a seabed and the stamp set does have a couple of stamps here but I really didn't want to fussy cut those and I want loads I want it really really full so I've just raided my own stash these are actually from a succulent stamp set but succulents look so much like seaweed so it worked really really well so I've just die cut loads of them none of this is stuck down I'm going to take it all away in a minute but whenever I work like let's start planning a scene I like to lay it all out and then I can kind of determine if I need anything else so this is obviously going to be the front now I've got this I've stamped this let's celebrate which I think I'm going to have there on the on the front of the card I'm not entirely sure yet then I have used this speech bubble die which is from these are really handy it's the lawn forner birdie told me and I've used these a lot these speech bubbles are brilliant you can see another one and they face different ways you've got some that face left some that face right yeah really really handy and it comes with a really nice stump set as well so anyway I've just done that one there so those and that are my own stash everything else will be back to here now I have coloured in the little treasure chest there now what I'm going to do is I've got this the wow salsa which is what we received in the kit and what I've thought about doing is grabbing my anti-static buddy just go over it so we can get rid of any grease or any little areas that might be sticky that we can't see and then I have got now it doesn't matter if you don't have one of these I've got the Versa marker and these are brilliant they're great if you've got lovely handwriting I don't because you can do the brush writing and then you can sprinkle your embossing powder over and then you can heat set that and you'll have lovely wording but I use it for let me just get rid of some of that dust there for just adding tiny little details to die cuts so I'm going to use the the finer nib here and basically I'm just going to cover this top area it's kind of run a little bit because obviously this Versa mark isn't good with the stays on but that's fine because you're not going to see any of it but I've just covered that whole area there and then just grab some paper here sprinkle this over tip off the excess I know that does that looks really really good can you see it just looks like a whole mound of gemstones or diamonds that looks brilliant I'm really pleased with that so let me just tip this back in and I'll get that heat set okay so I hope this shows up it's come out really really well I'm so pleased that looks brilliant I think that looks so effective so yeah so there you go so this is going to look like obviously it's fallen deep deep deep down into the ocean and it's going to kind of pop up amongst the seaweed there at the bottom so I've got all my little critters the octopus is going to be on the front then that will fold over covering the haversplashing day so that then when you open it up that's what you will see and then obviously when it stood up this is going to be the main kind of scene I've got the little crab coming out there like I said nothing's stuck down so I can keep moving it around and I've got the little starfish in there as well but I really like how this is coming together now I'm going to use these little square foam adhesive squares I've got here just to put everything and bring it lift it up a bit so it's got dimension again when you're working with a sea theme if you have them lifted it gives the illusion of them floating because it creates that shadow behind them so again it's another fun way see if I lifting up that whale like that you can see the shadow under here and it just looks like he's swimming around so I am going to go ahead now and get that all stuck down I'll speed it up but you can watch me the process of me putting this all together okay so I've stuck that down let me just take these all off just so you can lift that up you can see just how lifted off the pages there they are so what you want to make sure is when you're getting to your corners here and make sure that they're not going to catch so mine's okay it's just matching there and the same with that one so it folds over just check that you're not going over more so that one because obviously they fold in and I can see there they're okay just keep you know looking up making sure you're happy that it's all where it needs to be so next I'm going to work with my little critters down in here down the bottom of the seabags I want them kind of poking up because they kind of sit in there without even being stuck I will stick them down but of course you can just I think that looks quite good like that and then he is going to go down here and you can kind of have bits of them overlapping the seaweed which looks nice so I've got a little bit tucked behind there but then over the front in that on that piece and what I might do is also bring other bits up and put it behind further up there as well so I've got these four little bits left over there so again I'm going to carry on and just keep it on high speed just so you can see what I'm doing okay so I've spent ages just playing around with the sentiment I had it mounted on some black background but then I didn't like it but let's celebrate I just thought was too big the orphan tastic I just didn't like on the front so I decided to stamp another starfish he's my favourite I think he's really cute and he's down there and he's going to overlap the front here so again I'm going to pop this on some dimensional foam and so the I probably spent half it's half the time it's taken me to do the whole card just faffing about on the sentiment because it's on the front and it's kind of like the main the first thing people see so yeah crazy I know so let's pop that one there and this one again this is very very thick foam backing which I believe I brought from a very inexpensive shop in the UK so but it's really thick so it really gives you that deep dimension that nice height so I'm going to have one of his little feet behind the sentiment like so I just bring that up there you can see now I think that looks much more fun and I've lifted up the octopus and I've put loads more seaweed behind him so it looks like he's really kind of hidden in the the seabed there so I think that is looking really cool and you've got that sparkle there from the treasure chest which is a nice little you know thing to kind of see when you open it you've got that there so now also what I've done is on the back is I've cut a piece here and this measures at five and three quarters of an inch by three and three quarters of an inch so before I stick that one down this is the one where I'm going to put um it's your birthday on it actually I've changed my mind instead I'm going to have let's celebrate so just ink that one up that I've already put some double-sided tape there on the back so I'm just going to get that stuck down okay so I stuck that down on the back there and then as I was going through just kind of looking at if there's anything more I can add to it because it's an underwater theme can you see now everything is shiny I've just added glossy accents over all the little critters so you've got the sparkle in the treasure chest we've got the shimmer the shine even on the all the little critters there so I'm just going to finish my big whale I've left them to last so this is just using the ranger glossy accents it's brilliant to have you can use it as an adhesive as well but it's perfect for just especially if you're working with underwater themes or the sea this just really does you only need a very thin amount and just kind of just go over your image see this is bigger than I would usually do you want to make sure it completely covers and creates a nice kind of seal over the top and it will all kind of fall into place I'm just going to carry on and get him covered okay there is my finished card so you can see my whale there you don't want to go too thick with it because otherwise it will start to look quite cloudy although it will eventually dry clear if there is too much on you still won't get a real crisp clearness but that is just in any if anything it's actually highlighted the color even more made it more vibrant so yeah there you have it so there's loads to that card you know it's just I always say if you oh for losing my words there but you know you can have you know stamp an image and stick it down and stuff but you know by just putting it on some foam adding this kind of this clear cover that completely transforms it putting the glitter on the little treasure chest there you know there are ways to really get the most out of your stumps and I'm I'm hoping that I've showed you quite a few ways there so that is my z-fold card using the some of the supplies from the July hobby base kit if you are interested in signing up for the kit you've got until the 21st of august to receive september's kit so I will send I will send I will pop all those links in the video description below and it will also be on my blog and I will back again next week with another hobby base tutorial I'll get my words right today see you then bye


Good morning everyone, happy, happy Wednesday everybody. Good to see you all right and early, nine a.m. in the morning here at Cybertria University, couple of good things we're talking about and see what's moving. We've got some nice little pops, couple of little cheapies that are moving, we're gonna check them out. I guess that was a very interesting day. We're gonna talk about that too. Good to see you too, Kathleen, Michael, everybody on YouTube, Facebook, everyone. Welcome back. A lot of very interesting stocks. I made some big moves. I know we had some big news that are coming out this week, but I wanna focus on some of the catastrophes that we had, Boeing. I mean, listen, it trickled down. There's, this is why when you deal with more expensive stocks, you gotta watch out. But the real big news that I wanna focus on is made in the video. My God, the video was unbelievable. You know, yesterday I was on a timing research and by the way, if you're watching on social media, I'm gonna be doing a live event tomorrow teaching you about Nasdaq Book Viewer, level three, level four. And they got a great example of NVIDIA, great, huge iceberg order. When that stock broke that big 500 resistance levels, I mean, you broke through the roof. Look at the chart on this thing, unbelievable. But you know what? It's not that, you know, the thing that I wanna kinda focus on on NVIDIA is that it's about, you know, iceberg orders. They're on every single stock, you know? And this one just, when we talk about stocks, we always get people like, ah, those are small cap stocks, I don't know it. Listen, they do it on every single stock. So if you wanna see that good example on NVIDIA, you definitely wanna be there tomorrow and watch it. And I'll go over in great detail because I have like a lot of screenshots of it. And then, but the thing is, you don't gotta trade NVIDIA. There's a lot more out there which I wanna touch upon those first. So before we go through the watches, like always let's go through some of the picks that we traded yesterday. Some of you guys were trading. I wanna start off with R, was it R, A-R-D-X? So A-R-D-X has not only been a little bit of a good day trade, it's been a good swing trade. So you can see here in the past couple of days, stock was at $6, it shot up to nine. I still like it. Do I have it up here? Yes, I do. So this is the issue. Hold on, let me see if I got it up here. A-R-D-X. Yes, okay. A-R-D-X, just writing it down. We're gonna come back to it because there's something I need to show you. There's a huge iceberg order on it, on A-R-D-X. But it was a great, great runner. It was a nice mover. You can see how the stock from, we're talking today's Wednesday. This was Tuesday, that was Monday. I mean, a really, really good move. And this is why I rather trade this and trade NVIDIA. But iceberg orders, you wanna see one? Wait till I show you the one that's on this one. If you're still out there, when you get back to it. But I'm putting this back on the watch list. A-R-D-X was a nice little move. Another one, GRTS, oops, gotta put a two-day chart on here. There's another one that had a really nice move. Very inexpensive, nice mover. It was slow, but it did go from $2 up to about 260,000 shares, $2,000 investment, 600 bucks, not bad for a day's pay. Even to just trade up until about 11 o'clock to make 40 cents, nice little cheap little stock. Once again, nice mover. Now, 4C, another one that we traded, this stock has been, it's weird. We traded it back in December, in mid-December, it was at $1.20.  It started becoming a short-term swing trade and obviously, short squeeze kicked in and basically did a slingshot. But it started to creep up again. Obviously, whatever they came out with is good news. They like it, okay? They like the news on that stock. And I'm really curious to see what happens when it gets close to that big resistance levels back on December 14th, which you can see right there. But I'm putting this on the B list. And you know what? If we go back two years, three years, four years, you can see the stock was not $8 might look pretty good as a yearly chart, but the stock obviously has been around for a while and has been up in the 40s and $50 price ranges. So there are gonna be some big support levels and resistance levels to focus on back in 2022. So we'll keep, but that's where I'm seeing, we're getting a little bit of a kryptonite right there where it might have a tough time breaking. But that one yesterday was also a really nice move. LAES, this stock, great move yesterday and she's moving again this morning. She's just been a nice little pop this morning. So let me bring up, let me see what we got going on here. I'm gonna put this on the watch list. Again, LAES, and once we're done, we'll go back and we'll look at level four and we'll see how where all the orders are. GRFS, another one that had a really good move. Once again, stock got crushed. This is stocking from $10 down to seven, but she came back. This was a nice little bottom fish right here yesterday. Went from $6, $6.70 all the way up to about $8.50. Within an hour, within one hour, great, great move. I thought that was probably the best trade out of them all, which was the GRFS and GRFS. If you remember yesterday, we only had three stocks on the watch. We didn't even have that much on the watch list yesterday, but I had it on there and I liked it and sure enough, it's going back on there again. So maybe whatever they came out with, the bad news obviously could be in fake news, which by the way, we're going to talk about the fake news about what happened with Bitcoin yesterday. I don't know if you guys heard what happened. The SEC got hacked, the Twitter account, and all of a sudden everyone thought that they got the approval. I don't know if you heard about that, but that was really, really, really cool. So we're going to cover that too. What else we got going on? Oh, NVIDIA, so NVDA, just like, I don't know what more to say about it. NVIDIA is doing incredible. Obviously, AI is for real. This is not your typical pot thing, the potstock. This is not your typical, the Bitcoin thing, that was a flat, this is for real. I mean, AI is actually here to stay, all right? And basically, the big convention in Vegas, they've obviously made a big launch and that obviously had something going on. I don't know what they were talking about, but NVIDIA has got locked in. And it just broke 52-week highs. I mean, I'm not saying 52, it broke yearly highs, yearly highs. So that one is going to be on our radar for a while, which is going to trickle down to other stocks. So that's the next thing we're going to be focused on. This is what you're going to learn about being here, being a trader at Cybertrain University. It's not about trading NVIDIA, it's like, okay, what else does, who else is going to, does NVIDIA spill down to? Remember, there's a pyramid effect. NVIDIA is the one on top. But what about all the other ones? Just like when we saw what happened with Bitcoin, Coinbase obviously is running, but then we have CLSK, we have Mara, we have Riot, we have all these, there's so many other stocks out there that do trade with it too. So you don't have to, you can't afford the expensive one. There's other cheap ones that are going to go with them. And usually the cheaper ones go up faster because more people can afford them. And that's another reason for that. So we'll keep an eye on the NVIDIA and then there was a couple of nice, you was a great short yesterday, that stock got crossed. And so same thing with JBLU, JBLU. JBLU took a nice little hit yesterday too. So a little cheaper, a little bit more branding. So let's get right to the market, see what's going on. That's what happened yesterday. Let's talk about what's moving this morning. So there are a couple of decent stocks. I want to start off the ones that we, that are spilling over from yesterday. So ARDX, so it's cool that ARDX is this. Let me change my chart and bring up the level three so you guys can see side by side. All right, so ARDX, do you guys notice anything unusual here? Anybody see anything? Students, traders, you should see it. I know some of you here in YouTube and Facebook and wherever you log in X, probably like, what's Faustal talking about? Look closely guys, do you guys notice anything? That's right, Lita, that's right. There is a 100,000 share seller at $9.34.  They bring it up over here so you can see it, ARDX. And not only that, but when I bring up level four, let me show you what happened. It's a ladder effect. He was out there at 9.50, he just lowered his offer. So he's really trying to push down the stock. Now, if you're watching on, I see Carol's on Facebook. You know what, where else are you gonna see that? You want me slapping an indicator there because I don't think that's gonna tell you that. So until that guy moves out of the way, it's not looking too good for ARDX. So as much as you might think it's gonna go up, you know what, you gotta deal with him first. But if someone does execute that guy, we know what happens. Same thing, I'm gonna talk about what happened with NVIDIA, all right? So we have that one moved, A-L-E-S. So we got going on with that. So that one is trickling on and moving along with it. A-L-E-S, got a couple of decent iceberg orders over here, 11,000, 13,000. Not bad right there, about a dollar or nine.  Am I really seeing at 4,000? Nothing really crazy there, but I like it. That one's going on our watch list. We already have it on there. GRFS, now remember these are all the stocks that are spilling into from yesterday till today. So, you know, these are the things that we kind of look at.  Stock got beat up, she's picking up a little bit. The only issue you gotta worry about is stocks got very small tiers. Remember what we always taught you? And we covered it in phase one. If the stock's not tradable, be very careful because you didn't make any money until you sell it. So those stocks are spilling in into today. Now there are a couple of stocks that are moving also that are not just short-term swing trades from yesterday. There's a couple of other ones like this, CMDN. And this one right here, see what I got going on over here. So this one has a latter effect going on right now. And CM was at CMND. So we got a latter effect that's going on here. I'm not seeing that many big orders. There was a trader out there. It's not looking good on level four. It's kind of a little messy, but she is kind of moving the stock. Obviously you could see it was a gap up right here. It was down over here. I don't know if that probably looks like a reverse stock split honestly. So it's going up. I'm not seeing too many orders. There's one order that was out there earlier. You could see them right here. And that was for, why can't I get it, 1800 to 18,000 shares. Okay. He's not there now, but he was there earlier. So we're going to keep an eye on that one right there. That one's going to watch his biggest percentage gain up 66%. Here's another one up 45%, $2.81. Cheap little stock right here. And what do we got going on here? N, V, and I. Couple of decent orders, a couple of thousands. Still a little short, nothing that really jumps out at me, but it, see it's got resistance at this 350. It's coming back down. Not the real trend. Not really sold on as much as the other ones, but I love the volume, 7 million shares in pre-market. That is a lot. Still not the best out there. Now this stock is probably going to be extremely volatile. She just started making a big move. It looks like it was a reverse stock split. It was at five, a half a penny. They must have done like a hundred to one stock split on this one. Don't even waste your time with this. This is going to really hurt. L-E-L-A-E-S, we already know about that one. AMRN, cheap little stock, 16 million shares. Not really seeing a big trend on it right now, but we definitely got a lot of big orders out there. 10,000, 12,000, 22,000. Looks like we got some big supports. AMRN, cheap little stock. I know everyone could afford that. A lot cheaper to probably trade this in some options. This one too. Did I put this on my watch list? No, this one just probably showed up just earlier. Wow, there's a lot of stocks this morning. All right, we got some 4,000 share buyers out here bidding up, 15,000 share buyer out there, 255. Kind of makes sense right there. Big supports starting to trend up. No real big resistance, which could mean you could probably continue to go higher, but we do got resistance on the long-term chart around $3. So another nice little day trade that looks like it's moving. A lot of cheap ones out there. A lot of cheap ones. All right, I'm really curious what's gonna happen with Mara and Coinbase after that hack that happened yesterday, but they're obviously starting to trend down. The new is supposed to come out. I mean, I think it was today or tomorrow, but that obviously is not cool. Coal's going up. That means boil's going down. I got out of boil. I took my profit. Just wanna let you know. I got out of boil. It was great move yesterday. Boil was one of our good, good moves. It was a great swing trade. I got in right around, I think it was like $29. I think I got it somewhere around 36, 37. Right around here. I could've made more, but I'll buy back. I'll buy back. You know what, it's been a fun stock. I wanna keep an eye on it, all right? And that pretty much does it. So let's get ready for the market open up. I don't see anything else out there. There's usually nothing in New York stock to change. Losers is really, this one's getting crushed, by the way, but it's gonna probably not be on our short list. Not gonna be on it, because it's under $5. Anything else out there? Yeah, so everyone, we just posted a link in the cybergroup room. If you're a student, remember today is phase three with me. You're gonna have it in the morning, first hour and the last hour. So if you are a student or if you're not and you wanna know how to get in there, just click on that link. If you're on right now, if you are watching on social media, we're gonna post up that link right there. I'm gonna, there's a one week big event with Welfare 65. Please make sure you click on that link. We'll see you all there. Register on that link. If you do register, we've got, we're gonna give away some prizes for that. So make sure you use the link that we give you and nothing else, all right? And in the meantime, let's get ready for the market open up. We'll start at, we'll be here, we'll start about 15 minutes. If you're watching on social media, remember, on the top left hand corner, grab your phone, scan it, join our room. And you got a week, you can see what we're doing all week, how we're gonna trade these stocks and everyone else I'll see in class. Good luck everyone, happy trading, trade safe. We'll be back.


2.56 million dollars will be sent to you Freedom Family tomorrow. I loaded our PayPal account with this amount of money, what you see behind me. All of that will be sent to you tomorrow for all your hard work. I want to jump straight to a comment by Monster Hunter 108 who asked George whatever happened to the 200 million partner special and where has the George show been? I apologize for being out of action for some time. This is because we are getting ready to announce some great new things for the Freedom Family as part of our 2017 shiny new year. It has to do with indie game development. You already know we're making a game. Click that I if you didn't to learn all about the latest state of age our first game. But we're also working with industry. Some of you have been picked to work on a professional game project called the station. 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Hello everybody welcome back to another Adobe Illustrator 2022 tutorial and this one I'm going to show you how to use the new 3D and materials panel right here to create big brass balls.  The first step I'm going to do is I'm going to go to the left side here going to grab that ellipse tool and I'm just going to go ahead and draw out a perfect circle this looks like a good size for a ball so we're going to have a nice cool looking purple ball to start. I'm going to go ahead and hold down the alt key if you're on a pc option key if you're on a mac and I'm going to drag the side so we're going to have two balls all right cool the first step is I'm going to go ahead and left click on the on the left ball and I'm going to I'm going to open up the 3d and materials panel or window now when you do that you have a bunch of different options but what we want to do is we want to inflate the balls all right cool you see what we did there we've got some inflation on that left ball now we want to go to materials so I've taken the object we're in 3d materials we've inflated the ball now we're going to go ahead and switch down to materials and when you do that you're going to see a whole bunch of different options for the balls now when we go down to the bottom here I mean if I look at this die cast brass this is a pretty sweet looking ball so I'm going to go ahead and left click on die cast brass and presto we've gone ahead now and created a nice looking brass ball now you can of course go in here and make some adjustments if you want if you want to see what a gold set of balls like gold finger might look like you can left click on gold leaf ball or gold natural for that matter and you've got another cool looking ball or even copper foil actually this looks really cool too and this does have a sort of brassy look too so I'm just going to show you a few different options for the balls let's go ahead and right click on this one and I'm going to make this one a die cast brass ball so we've got a brass ball and a copper ball so that we're working and taking a look here let's work on the copper ball I'm going to go now and switch up to lighting and I won't go and bore you with the details but you can make a whole bunch of changes like the intensity of the lighting the rotation of the lighting depending on where you want your light source the softness of the lighting the ball and stuff like that and even things like intensity so I'm going to go ahead and dial down the intensity and again these are all different options that you can work with we can also change the color so if you want to go to a like a bit of a darker color for the light for example maybe we'll go with something like that hit okay we've got a darker colored ball but this is how you go ahead and make some really cool adjustments and you can start making that brass ball look let's go ahead and add in some variation here you can add in some irregularities so you're getting the point here but the main thing is yeah aging let's get some old grandfather balls um and I mean that like as in a grandfather clock uh but yes there are an amazing amount of material properties and things that you can do but but just going into this 3d and materials and adjusting the different um materials here like traveled what would a traveled ball look like um I don't even want to guess but uh yeah okay let's travel the ball so again guys this is how you go ahead and make brass balls and a variety of other balls inside adobe illustrator using 3d and materials that's all for this tutorial thanks for watching be back


Today, let's talk about squatting shoes and what you should be wearing while you're squatting. In my mind, there are three possibilities. There's barefoot, let's say four possibilities. There's barefoot, there's shoes that support you, there's shoes that are like standing on pillows, and then there are shoes that are really firm elevated heel made for squatting. What are the advantages of barefoot? I get a lot more feedback from the ground. I'm not going to tell you really if one is right or wrong for you. It depends on who you are. It depends on what you're capable of doing. Maybe we'll fast forward. There is one that I really just don't support, but I'm going to start with barefoot. Barefoot gives you a lot of sensation from the ground. You get a lot of this feeling. You're not biased by your shoes. That can be really appropriate for a lot of people because they get this good connection with the earth while they're doing their squats. Not always appropriate if someone has poor, bony, shoe, foot, ankle, alignment stuff. If you really, really need arches in your foot because your feet are flat, because the bones have grown differently, then it's very appropriate for you to wear those arches. Those can help very, very much. You might not want to be squatting barefoot because it might be collapsing your feet and your knees inward. Second option. You got shoes that support you. Some of these traditional Asics looks like grandma shoes. I don't really know how else to describe them. They're big. They're puffy. Those can be pretty good. Those are generally stiff where you need them to be stiff around the heel and the midfoot. Then they're pretty flexible around the toe. If you have a shoe that does that, I can really support that shoe. I might not squat really heavy in those because that sense of collapse in the foaminess doesn't always help, but if you're trying to do a squat where you're trying to just achieve the most amount of depth, you're not trying to necessarily gain the most strength, gain the most speed. You're just trying to stay healthy. Those shoes can be really good for you. Third type of shoe we mentioned was a really soft but unsupportive kinds of shoes.  There are some like Reebok CrossFit shoes. Everyone makes them. I'm not singling out any company or anything. Nike Freeze are just the easiest one for me to picture. They're really light and they're cool because when they kind of look cool sometimes and when you're running, you don't really feel them. It's like wearing socks, right? But those are so cushiony that they keep your heel totally off the ground so you don't get any sensation from the ground. And the ground is the only thing that tells you how you're dealing with gravity, right? So this is very important. Now especially when they're old, they really collapse and they just drive your ankles in. I've had a few people who I just couldn't fix. There's one guy recently I actually bought shoes for because I know he's busy. He just needed a new pair and I'm like, I need you to have these. That's how much I believe in those. I actually bought him the second kind of pair. The ones that are a little more cushiony give you some more support. I didn't want him hurting his knee anymore and I think his shoes were related to that a lot. So they just increased his sense of control and his sense of space, you know? So try to avoid those those number three. So we've talked about barefoot. We've talked about supportive cushiony. We've talked about unsupportive cushiony and the last one, weightlifting shoes. So the big difference with the weightlifting shoes is there is a very deliberate heel lift. It's kind of like wearing high heels except they're low heels, right? It's kind of like putting your heels on a plate while you squat. What does that do? Well, it helps you control your weight a little bit actually and it takes some of the mobility needs out of the ankle. So when I squat down, I need hip mobility. I need my knee to bend this way and I also need my ankle to let my knee come forward. If I don't have that ankle motion, you'll see people squatting like this, bending over a little bit more, or you'll see people just letting their heels leave the ground. So what's nice about the weightlifting shoe or the heel elevation is it makes that better, okay? It takes that out of the equation. It gives me some ankle mobility by straightening my ankle. I'm trying not to use the word plantar flexion, but it's okay. That's what it is. It's plantar flexion. Plantar flex is my ankle and it lets me have more mobility while I'm coming down. This is why when you see people who might not be quite as fit, might not be quite as used to exercising, when you tell them to squat all the way down, lots of times they'll come up onto their toes like this. So they plantar flex their ankles so that they can find extra mobility. With sporting demands like doing the snatch and the clean and jerk for Olympic weightlifting, it's very important that you squat as low as you can so that you can get under the bar to catch it, right? So in those cases, it's very, very appropriate and I would be, I would be hard pressed to find an athlete who was able to maintain like barefoot clean and jerking or barefoot snatching. So for those types of people, for people who squat depth is really important, maybe you need some weightlifting shoes. But if you're just worried about, you know, being generally strong, not necessarily competing in anything, barefoot will take a long way.