I guess we're the early ones, hopefully some more people will remember what the passcode is after the holidays. It's still a holiday season in some areas, so probably we will not reach 100 people as usual, but hopefully we'll have a few, a few dozen here. Hey, people are finding their way in now, yay. Hello, hello, happy new year everyone. Yeah, lots of happy new years in the chat, happy new year. Give people a couple more minutes to find their way here. I can't be the only one who remembered, I know the passcode is sevens, but I can't remember how many sevens. I have sevens. You just keep banging it until it works. Yeah, Jim, that was my approach. I started with five, so I was lucky, but I was thinking it's either five, maybe seven, something like that. Seven, seven, five, seven, six, sevens. Right, I don't see the participant number creeping up at the moment. How are we doing for quorum? We're not there yet, but we also don't have anything it requires at this morning. And that's a good point. Yeah, it's all good. All right, so why don't we gently get started? Thank you, everyone, for joining us today. Usual rules apply. You all made it into the meeting. And I'm sure I'm your update with the people who are present. And I think today it's all about updates from the six and hopefully kicking off another amazing and productive year for the CNCF. So do we have someone here from Contributor Strategy? Paris is definitely here. I think we might have put Paris in the spot, though. We can always circle back if it's, you know, something to do a quick look through the chat as well. I didn't see anyone updating from after delivery. I think there's still on vacation, but if you're here and you wanted to be able to do an update, that's perfectly fine, too. I'm here. Hold on one second. I'm having an issue for no worries. Do you want us to come back to you? We can move on to whoever's next. Yeah, that'll be awesome. Let's do that. Signetwork, I can see Lee's on the call. Are you good to go? Hello, good morning. I think so, as good as it's going to get. Wow, my goodness. Let me collect my thoughts. It's a new year. You think I'd be refreshed? Oh, there are. I'm heavier, if that's for sure. So just so everyone knows that, watch out for the Christmas cookies. I'll get you. Two, two items, three items. One is that we are in need of. I think we need to find a meeting time that's a little bit earlier in the day for a few of the participants. There's been we had some good participation in the last couple of meetings that we've had. A broad variety of topics. There's networking is a big old vast space. One of the working or the only sort of subworking group that we have at the moment is the service match working group. An update from. So there's a few threads of efforts that are going on inside that working group. And those are the bullet points on the left hand side of the slide. The since last we spoke. The hyperlink for a project called get Nighthawk wasn't there before. It's that project is trying to help bring some additional support to Envoy's load generator. It's Nighthawk is a sub project of Envoy. It's a low generator written in C++ helps characterize the performance of data for the service matches of data planes that run on Envoy. And so but it doesn't have it has a single distribution in one Docker container. And so the because of the interrelated work streams that happen inside of the service mesh working group, hopefully bringing some additional distribution to Nighthawk helping uplift that sub project and making it more accessible will enable a few of the service meshes that are looking at it today. Historically Istio has used a low generator called Forteo. It still does but has been looking more toward Nighthawk and its use. So has the app mesh team and so have maybe some others that are using Envoy in their data plane. So anyway, that's what that project in bold is about. And specifically some of the individuals that Red Hat and at Google who work on Nighthawk aren't in the time zone that works well for the 1 PM central meeting that we have. So the second update or the third update, so to speak, is on Ambassador. And it being it's been under review for some time. It's gotten thumbs up from Matt Klein from SID Network for opening to so its due diligence is sort of closed due diligence is completed and has passing colors. So I think it's we're already for open public comment on its proposal for incubation. I think that's us. I think that's SID Network. Awesome. Is that Ambassador due diligence document? Has that been circulated around the TOC? It might have been and I have just not noticed it. Let me let I'll slap a link into the. No, I think maybe there's two questions. One way of answering your question is no publicly. I don't know that it has not. I think it's like we're ready for a call for public review, but but sort of privately within the TOC. Right, I'm. Is Mr. Klein on? OK, I guess if he's not, we can call on him to let us know if Ambassador is ready for public dissemination. Yeah, sorry. Sorry here. Yeah, no, I don't think the DOC has been sent out to the private list, but I looked at it a couple of months ago and I think it's fine to go so we can send it around privately or just open the public comment period. Let's open it to public comment. Why not? OK, great. Thank you, Matt. Awesome. Thank you. And thank you, Lee. Any questions for SID Network? OK, Doug, should we go back to Paris and contribute to strategy? That looks like I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm I'm 20, 21 ready. I was like, Lee, I wasn't really ready. But anyway, so we actually have a lot. We we came into this update going, oh, it'll just be a quick one. And then we actually started updating and we were like, oh, a different story. So just in some meta news for us, we are going to have some incoming charter updates. The one charter update is going to be sort of a proposal of our graduation process for our docs and guidance. Now that we have this beautiful thing set up, it's cncf slash project dash template repo. We want to make sure that the TOC and the community is OK with the guidance that we're providing these individuals as well as projects. So the proposed graduation is the following. It's going to go into a draft state in one of our repositories.  We already have some docs for review to go through that kind of a process. And we'll have an email list or excuse me, mailing list. We'll have a mailing list item out by the end of today, with some of those docs. For example, the contributor ladder guidance is included in that. I know Lee and a couple other folks have been eagerly anticipating that. So that's one of the many in there. And then other charter changes that we have coming down the road are really just based off of the roadmap that we had initially set forward. And I think we have hit and achieved all of those things that we said we would. So now we're going to include 2021 and beyond. So as far as sub-project activity, this is where the two slides was necessary because we were like, wow, we really did do a lot. For maintainer circle, guess what? We had our first one. That's awesome. It took like nine months to get that off the ground. And it really ends up just being one meeting. But it was awesome. Nonetheless, we had 41 maintainers come from seven different unique projects. The structure is the following. Hello, everyone, how are you? Here's the house rules. The second is Dorothy, in this case, Dorothy Howard, who teaches at University of San Diego and does research on FOSS. She came and did a little bit of a review of the research and the people that she talks to about her research and her burnout interviews and things like that. And then we had Erin Krickenberger maintainer on Kubernetes, Tom and give a very personal story about his burnout and some of the challenges that he had as well as some of the things that he's done to help himself. So we also had break rooms after each one. So there was a lot of introductions, a lot of camaraderie, a ton of personal stories. So that's why it was not recorded and they will most likely not be recorded in the future because there was a ton of personal shared, which is amazing. Everybody felt very comfortable sharing some of that information and it was very lovely. So future sessions expect us. We will be talking to you all on the maintainer C and CF list as well as maintainer circle on Slack. This will be at least once a month other future sessions coming to you are gonna be things like inclusive language, value and principal building for yourself as well as your project, maintaining conflict, managing during grief and loss and other really awesome things like that. So that's maintainer circle. Next slide please. Hey Paris, a quick question on the burnout aspect of things like that. Have any of the stories slash findings been shared with the chaos project folks so that they can maybe see if there's something to be learned there, community health. But yeah, I'm happy to link up with whoever. I have a to do item to get a kind of like what we learned out of the session to the maintainers list. So I can happily like take that info to them or whatever Dorothy included some of her research in things like that. So I can forward that to you or whoever. Thanks. Yeah. So governance and contributor growth are two other sub projects. We started to discuss the idea of taxonomies and then also building out all of the project templates and guidance, like I said that we've been building for governance taxonomies. I don't want to hit on this too much but I definitely think that TOC and folks will take interest in this. If anybody's read the Nadia working in public book this is what a part of the book, just one part that you know, it tends to do which is open source is so big now and there's more ways to eat or receive pieces. So therefore we should probably love this into things like contributor communities and not contributor communities and what have you because not everybody needs to have a contributor community to open source. So this is a discussion that we've been having and it's gonna hopefully turn into something. If you'd like to join us for this discussion and hopefully turn it into something potentially badging and other really cool things let us know. And then contributor growth. We've got a maintainer site that's about to pop up would definitely appreciate any and all contributors there to help us with that. This will be all information that is very relevant to not only new contributors and surfacing the GitHub repository that EOR and so many others have been steadfast and amazingly working on. So it gives some discoverability to that but it'll also bubble up maintainer information that isn't necessarily accessible at all. So that's the idea behind the site. We've also got a draft state of the recruiting playbook which will go into our larger contributor growth framework but if you'd like to take a peek at where we are with how to recruit contributors feel free to weigh in there. And then we still have the thing on deck where we were gonna talk about community management and a contributor strategy graduation requirement. But that's just again, that's more of a discussion right now still and on deck but that's pretty much it. Sorry I ate up all your time, we had a lot. So hope everybody has a good year. Wonderful, I'm just having a quick scan of the political concepts of the contributor maintainer site. There's clearly lots of good work going on in this SIG. It's amazing. All right, thanks everybody. Shout out to my people. Any questions for Paris? Which SIG is next? Observability. Yes, I might cut out again because my home line is having major issues the last few weeks. Also I'm not quite certain if we covered parts of this already because I kind of brain flushed over the new year. So stop me if you heard the title of this before. First is just a look back of the past six months of who attended. And we have a center called maybe 12 people. I'm not going to read out the list of companies but those are the companies who attended over this half year of SIG observability existing. Our current in progress efforts can be obviously seen in our GitHub. We are working on that white paper which we want to get out and still would like some feedback on our current design docs. We did finish the due diligence document for open metrics incubation, which is linked here. Last year we had a call with Alina and Dave who were both interested in sponsoring. Josh and Paris had some concerns that's sorry governance WG, not SIG governance but same difference, you know what I mean. There were some concerns but those have been resolved over new years. And as you probably heard, open metrics has also been submitted to the ITF as an internet draft which will then hopefully become an RFC. And I will be speaking at the next ITF conference to try and get that forward. Upcoming agenda items. We want to be taking a deeper look at stream latency in particular when you have like your whole pipeline of determining which part of what is adding that latency which is obviously super relevant for anyone with a cloud offering. We have scheduled a few meeting project things where basically projects can come and self-introduce themselves to SIG observability. And also we want to create a architecture catalog which basically tells potential users how actual end users are using observability tools in their own. I'm going to guess that network issue did come back to bite Richard. I was a little worried that was just me. Yeah. I think we all had the same reaction. Oh God. It was looking at other people's faces and thinking, yeah, they're also not hearing anything. It did warn us that there was in fact some issues, so. You did indeed. Yeah. I'm curious about the last item on that page about scheduling and explainer session. I guess, should we move on to the next one and when Richie comes back, we can hopefully Absolutely. Hear about the last three bullets. All right. I'll drop to runtime next. Hello, runtime. I think I saw Ricardo. Hey, happy new year everyone. Hello. Yeah, so runtime. We didn't have a lot of activity in December. I think some of the folks that were actually out, but yeah, we're continuing with the projects and reaching out to some of them. And we did actually have one meeting, another one of our meetings got postponed. So on the different spaces, so we have containers and runtimes. We have this project called SysBox.  So they're gonna be presenting on February 4th, so next month. Trout is another project that we've been talking to for a couple of months already and they're still gathering some information and they will be presenting sometime in the future. This is a container image registry is written in Rust. So that's Trout. Then we have a few WebAssembly projects that we reached out to. So WebAssembly is a very new area and I guess exciting, so a lot of people are interested. So we want to get more engagement there. So Swam is WebAssembly runtime written in Scala. So hopefully we'll get them to present. Then Wasmur is another WebAssembly runtime which touted them and then finally Gasm, which is a WebAssembly in Go. So lots of stuff with WebAssembly. So on the AIOps and IoT space in our only meeting that we had in December, Open Yert presented. And this is a project that allows you to extend Kubernetes to the Edge and it's a very similar project to Cube Edge. So they're actually a CNCF sandbox project now. So they're happy to be in the CNCF and they mentioned that they've gotten a lot of traction from being in the CNCF. So they're pretty excited and hopefully they're looking at going maybe into the next stage and their project lifecycle. Qflow, so we've been talking to them for already a couple of months and they had our meetings or presentation schedule in December, but they ended up postponing and they're actually presenting on the 17th on this month. And K3S is another project at the Edge or targeting Kubernetes at the Edge and we have been talking to them and they'll be presenting soon. They're already a CNCF sandbox project. So exciting projects. And in the other area, we have the operating systems for containers or operating systems in general. Another project is Vortail and they'll be presenting on Thursday. So yeah, so this is a lightweight operating system that allows you to run containers. It's similar to some of the projects that presented in the past like Talos and Flatcar. And then we have REST CTL project from the folks at Facebook and this allows you to control resources in an operating system using metrics like latency and errors and, you know, SRE type of metrics. So they'll be presenting soon. So, and yeah, and that's the activity that we have for the projects. And as far as the SIG, we're planning to meet all the chairs and maybe set up a plan for next year and to see where we can get more engagement. I mean, we've been getting a lot of these projects coming to present, but maybe we can think about some of the things that this SIG can actually increase the engagement. Yeah, and then we're looking for some guidance from the TOC to as far as, you know, where to go this next year is there's some new things that, you know, their TOC is thinking about in them where the SIGs actually can help out. Yeah, and that's it for the updates. So any questions? Awesome, I think it's super interesting that are all these different WebAssembly runtimes. I'd love to know what the differences are between them all, but I mean, that's a whole separate discussion, but it's amazing. All right, any questions for Ricardo before we can try going back to Richie if his internet connection is holding up? I can try, but not promise. It's been horrible the last two weeks or so, which is great with the lockdown, not having internet. Anyway, I've been informed that the last thing which was open was TOC requests. Basically, Liz, you wanted to have a bit of an explainer about open metrics, open telemetry, open tracing, open sensors, all the other opens. And I just wanted to ask the group when you would like to have that scheduled, basically. I think that would be great. Amy, can we put that onto an agenda for one of the non-SIG update meetings? Our next one is actually available if you'd like to be able to do it on the 19th. Too soon? I mean, you have to fix your internet in the meantime, Richie, sorry. I think we lost him again. I think we have. Okay. I thought that must be so painful. I'll take it offline with him. Move on to whoever is after SIG security. Okay. Hello, everyone. Quick update from us. We have 73 members now from 60 different affiliations. And we wrapped up our nomination process to determine who we would like to nominate as additional technical leads to the two that we currently have. So on this slide, we've got Ash and Aradna and Andres with a breakdown just like we did last time about why we feel like they would be excellent technical leads for SIG security. So I believe we're just waiting on approval from the talk with the nominations that we have. I think, yeah, we have, I think strictly speaking, the processes we're supposed to have a vote. I can't remember if I actually called for that vote. I think it's open because I think I voted. Yeah. Because I remember we were sort of unanimously happy with those leads. It was just before Christmas though. So probably everyone else didn't notice it. Yes. So we can dig out that vote and just recirculate it to make sure everyone is happy. Awesome. Thank you. And that's all that we have currently. We're ramping back up for a great 2021. Any questions for SIG security? Awesome. Thank you, Emily. Storage. Hello, everyone. Alex, hi. Happy new year such that it is. I've hit a special personal milestone in 300 days of not seeing anyone in person. So that's fun. So anyhow, SIG storage. So Project Lawn of Marn, we need to start the DD process with SADS to move the project from sandbox to incubation. It looks very strong. So it should be fairly straightforward. Open EBS, we're still in some ongoing discussions with the project team on some changes that are needed. In terms of some new topics, one of our members proposed a disaster recovery as a discussion and we've started ordering a document which we're going to share with the group at the next call, which is going to cover a bunch of topics, some of them theoretical, some of them sort of pragmatic how-to's in terms of implementing disaster recovery in cloud native ways between clusters, and talking about different replication mechanisms and failover mechanisms that are available, which is proven to be a really interesting topic for everyone. We also had in our last call a discussion to set up a set of I guess community presentations to build out some community content. So this will probably take the form of some presentations and recorded sessions, which we will be sharing as part of a way of disseminating information, but also getting a bigger community in sick storage. We're still working on the performance and benchmarking my paper, although that kind of stalled a little bit over the holidays and we've been looking to recruit some additional tech leads with the SIG and we have two or three candidates now who are very interested and we're talking them through the process. So we'll probably be looking to nominate those leads in the next call. And that's it for me. Great. Maybe a conversation we'll want to take offline, but I know there's sort of some similarities and some differences with open EBS and Longhorn. And I think this is a good question where we should be or a good example of where we need to be, I guess, cognizant of what we're recommending. Does it make sense to have both of those? Are they sufficiently different? Do they offer sufficiently diverse properties to their users that it makes sense to have two different options? I'm not saying we have to necessarily put them head-to-head, but I don't want to be in a situation where, since, yeah, it has 58 storage solutions and they're all basically the same. And the same would apply to any other situations. Any other? I mean, that's a fair comment. I think there are some similarities. It's, right now, Longhorn seems to be sort of on a trajectory of kind of sailing through the process as far as we can tell. Open EBS has some additional challenges which we're working through, which is probably gonna slow things down. So we'll, I'm quite happy to have that discussion if we think that that's important. Obviously, there are other CNCF projects where there are some overlaps and I think we're gonna see similar sort of things in storage too. But I think architecturally, the projects do have some interesting differences. Which I think if we can articulate why different projects are suitable for different reasons in different environments, it totally makes sense to have multiple. But I think it's something we've worried about before the proliferation of the landscape. Agreed. Yeah. Okay. Any other questions and thoughts for six storage? Is that all the six? Is indeed. Great. We flew through that. Anyone got any other questions or points they would like to bring up today? I'm shocked by Alex's 300 days. That's really sad. I don't mean to say it as a sad thing, just as a notable milestone. One last note. Chris has put some notes into chat about the upcoming TOC elections. Feel free to reach out if you've got questions, but these come from both the GB and the end users this time around. That is a great point. So there's what, just under a week to get nominations in? Yep. It's like Monday next week. All right. And if anyone has questions about the role of being on the TOC, feel free to reach out to me or I'm gonna assume anybody else on the TOC would also be happy to add color there as well. Okay. I think we can go and get on with our 2021s. Thanks, everyone. Bye-bye. See you, everyone. Bye-bye. Bye-bye, all. Bye, everyone. I'm back right now.


Now let's go over the store policies. How do we actually set those policies? So what I'm going to do on Etsy under my shop manager is scroll down to settings and let's start with the delivery settings.  I'm going to create a new profile so you'll see how to do it from scratch. So I'm going to click on create profile, country of origin. So where are you shipping these items from? In this case, let's go with United States and we're going to add a zip code in the US because we may not know exactly which warehouse is going to come out of so uses a code in the US and processing time. How long will it take you to ship out that order? Or in other words, how long will it take you to provide tracking information? Okay, in this case, let's go with three to five business days. Since I know that Walmart in this example is going to ship out that quickly and then we've got the standard delivery. So what is a delivery service that you are going to offer? Now in this case, we can't know for sure that we're going to get a USPS or a FedEx or a UPS tracking number so we can go with other. Then select a delivery time. The delivery time is how long it will take the item to reach the buyer's address once the item actually ships out. So let's say you gave it three days handling time so that's three days. Now after those three days, how many more days for it to deliver to the customer? So in this case, let's say another three to five business days. Okay, and in this case, we're going to offer free shipping. So instead of giving a fixed price we're going to offer free delivery. Since this Etsy account was opened up in the United Kingdom, then it's also asking me about my domestic delivery service. So in this case, I'm going to say other and about three to five free delivery. Now everywhere else. So worldwide delivery. Can you ship globally? If your supplier can, then again, you're going to go with other and give it a delivery time. In this case, I would say 10 to 30 days since it's worldwide. You don't know how long it's going to take and you're going to offer free delivery or maybe you're going to charge for shipping. In this case, you can say exactly how much you want to charge. Okay, you can add another location if you want. If you want to be able to ship to a specific country or location that's not worldwide, you can do so here.  That's a trick that I like to do also on eBay where I can say, okay, your item is going to ship out within 10 days, but if you pay another $5, it's going to ship out within six days. But either way, it's going to ship out within six days. Okay, so you can do that here and the name of your profile. Okay, so in this case, US and worldwide, call it whatever you want, save your profile and that's pretty much it. Now we have another profile called US and worldwide with a processing time three to five business days and how many active listings you have with that policy. In this case, I've got five listings which you already saw on my Etsy account that have the regular USA shipping policy, but this is how you can create another policy. And of course I can move those active listings to this shipping policy if I wanted to do so. Okay, so that's how easy it is to create your shipping policies. Now let's go back to the settings and create our policy settings. Or in other words, what do we do when it comes to returns and exchanges? Okay, so let's go ahead and create a new policy here. So I'm going to click on create policy and here you're going to specify if you accept returns. So if your supplier allows you to return the item, then you're also going to allow the buyer to return the item. The better service you can give the buyer, the higher the chances that you're going to make more sales and of course more profit. So here for example, I do accept the returns of this item, exchanges. I accept exchanges. So when the customer returns a product, I can either send them a refund or send out an exchange, another product instead. And buyers must contact me and send the item back within how long. So do you want to give them seven-day returns, 30-day returns, 90-day returns? That is completely up to you. So you can choose it right here in the dropdown menu. In this case, I'm going to keep it on 30 days of delivery. And the conditions of the return, you can't really touch this. The buyer is responsible for return postage costs, even though you can still offer free returns and let the buyer know, hey, you know what, I'm going to pay for your return label, but only do that if you're going to get a free return from your supplier too. And buyer is responsible for loss in value, as agreed upon with seller, if an item isn't returned in its original condition, okay?  Okay, then we're going to go with save and apply. Well, in this case, I already have a policy with those policies, so it's not going to let me create a duplicate, but of course I can do it again. In this case, I'm going to go with 60 days returns, then I'm going to click on save and apply. And of course, success, your policy is set. Okay, now I don't have any listings with that policy. You can see right here that I have my 30 days in exchanges and I got my 60 days with no active listings inside that policy. Okay, so that is how you can create your returns and exchanges policy. So we learned how to create our shipping policies, our return policies, how to create our seller account, how to research the right products to sell, how to add products to Etsy, how to optimize our product pages, what we cancel, what we cancel, and everything that goes along with that.


What makes you a good teacher? The role of a teacher is to help students acquire knowledge so that eventually, they can be competent in understanding and communicating in English. A good teacher is a successful teacher. The success or failure of a teacher lies not only on his, her teaching styles, but more importantly, the learning of the students. To a certain extent, the personality of the teacher may affect the learning of his, her students, but what is more indispensable is the relationship between the teacher and the students. A non-threatening relationship with the students can help to build the students' interests in learning, and create an atmosphere that is conducive and light-hearted for learning. A good teacher is also a responsible teacher who takes time in planning and organizing his, her lesson and his concern about his, her teaching so that the students can gain the most of the teaching. 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Morning everybody, welcome back to the average artist channel I am Steph, I'm the average artist and I am making a horror comic And if you don't know or haven't seen this process Basically, I'm documenting the whole process from beginning to end so starting out from just rough concepts to vinyl pages I will be vlogging it all so if you want to see those vlogs we'll start from the beginning I'm gonna put a playlist right here in the corner so you can catch up and basically where I left it I was showing you guys the final pages and I'm colouring them And different stuffs happening. I coloured this one on the stream last week I'm doing Friday morning streams Friday morning my time, so it's plus one GMT So if you can join me, let me know I probably start about 11, 12 depending on my awakeness Really to be honest with you and we did a couple of pages I think I coloured this one and then after that I did a couple more So today I've been basically what I do I went to the darker room to use the lightbox and I've been lightboxing these pages But some of them because they literally came from my roughs in my sketchbook So what I've done is I've taken these roughs that I've done so I've done all the pages with this And basically tried to like get it as final as I could in the sketchbook What I did is scan them and blew them up and then printed them out And then I had some empty spaces or things that weren't really defined So when I get to the next page I have to draw whatever I've left out Or fix things to make them look better So when I come to do the lines of the lightbox they won't look so crappy So I had to do these panels yesterday But I had already done them like I'd already drawn them really small in my sketchbook So I just had to copy them across because I knew what I wanted them to look like That's the rough and then I did the final page which is this one I didn't vlog this but yesterday I... So this page I did a couple of pages I did this page as well and this bit was all blank I had left that blank in the rough so I had to do it all over again I did this in the morning and I just hated it I really hated her face so even though this took me all morning for some reason It took me like a couple of hours not all morning I was like I need to do it all again And I really had to fight myself to be like yeah you have to do it again Because I can get really lazy sometimes And something that I've been working on since I was younger Because I know in my past projects in like uni and stuff I'd be like yeah that's good enough and just let it go And it's something that I started to notice as I was getting older Like I would just be like instead of being a perfectionist I'd be the opposite Like yep that's done and there's a fine line isn't there Where something it's perfectionism or it's just plain laziness And I was like borderline near laziness so I was trying to fix it But realising it myself that that's what I was doing So this page I was like nope do it again Because I want this comment to be the best it can be And even if it takes me a bit more time than I originally thought Then you know what screw it because I want it to be good So we did it again and I need to like obviously this looks very cheesy But I'm going when I colour it I'm gonna like smudge her up and stuff So it's not gonna look like that cheesy You see her through the window basically but it's like a silhouette of her So but I much prefer that face to to that face right This one is fine but it's not what she looks like So if you're looking at that and you're like I don't really see the problem is just because it doesn't look like the character It was a bit off model if that makes sense to you guys So yeah all these boxes are a little bit askew as well And you're probably thinking like that looks a mess But what I'm gonna do is when I scan these I'm gonna just fix stuff up in Photoshop So all the little mistakes that you see like here the lines are kind of blurring And the spacing is not very good I'm gonna sort all that stuff out in Photoshop and you'll see that when I've got to that point Which might be soon because this is I'm on page 9 basically of 17 But I'm really thick guys here here it is again I'm thinking of adding two more pages to the end just because of having a little bit of an epilogue kind of thing I hope I mean an epilogue that will be really embarrassing if I don't mean epilogue And I just think like it would conclude the story a little bit better No I don't know I don't know what to do guys I'm just I just need to figure it out Okay so today I'm thinking what I do is just color some pages and chat with you guys This is a page that I did yesterday and I'm very pleased with its outcome There's a few things that I want to change a little bit but I can do that in Photoshop And I really like this the way this bit turned out because there's someone shouting at the side why not I started to do the storm clouds yesterday and I just hated them I was like what have I done And then I kept going with it like push through the pain I want that woman to stop shouting Who shout talks anyway? Oh wait I do Hmm never mind Anyway push through the pain and yeah I really like the way this turned out I like the textile graphic look that I get with the Copics and the pencils I just think they look really nice together and they're visually interesting And they draw the eye and yeah what do you guys think I like it So so far the color schemes have changed a little bit But I think that is due to sort of the weather and time passing within the comic But they still have a similar vibe if that makes sense Obviously this one's very blue and this one's very purple They still have pops of color that this one has and they still have similar tones within the pieces And the pencil and stuff kind of brings it all together and you know that these two belong in the set Yeah um okay so let's get going with the coloring I was also really I'm really unsure what how much to show you Because I obviously I've said this before and I have decided that I want to do a crowdfunding thing for this So I can have enough money to print them out and send them off to people And that would be really cool if I could just get like a tiny bit of money and that would be That would just help me create this And it's really exciting because I've never done that before or I've thought about it so many times I've even I've even made like two projects on Kickstarter and never published them Which seems a bit silly but um the last one was due to like tax reasons Because they didn't want to tax me in Gibraltar or whatever So I think I'll have to use a different site to Kickstarter So they actually recognize my country but we'll see And I'm not really sure how much to charge for each comic as well I obviously don't want to make them too expensive because I want to I want more people to be able to enjoy it And it's also scary in the fact that this will be a comic that people will read Because I've never really had that before I have people online reading my Slice of Life comic and really enjoying it But I've never had like a book that people who aren't my friends kind of read Kind of read completed and done and ready So that is really exciting and I really hope hope to God that I can get this Kickstarter funded Or crowdfunding project because that's another terrifying thought that I won't manage to do it But obviously I think I'm going to set the bar very low so So I can actually accomplish it Oh my gosh you guys seriously This lorry came up and it was just like reversing and you can probably still hear it But it literally I've been here waiting ten minutes like Whenever you want, whenever you want to just you know leave Where was I? I don't even know so I'm probably going to repeat myself now But I was talking about the Kickstarter and Or a crowdfunding project and we keep calling it Kickstarter because that's kind of Simonymous Simonymous Okay it's kind of the word that people use to talk about crowdfunding Because I think it's the most famous one it managed to beat all the other And you know why I think it's the most famous one Because it wasn't the first I don't think maybe it was But I think it's just got better UI better UX like web design stuff It just looks better and people trust it more and that is a big deal If you're going to start a business and you want a website Make it look good pay for it to look really good And be really easily usable and accessible by multiple people And that will seriously put you on top like I don't understand why People always put like Patreon right? The UI it means user interface is just terrible on Patreon I can't stand it there's so many little things I'm just like why haven't they fixed that For instance I was updating my description and then I clicked to on the same page I clicked to add a discord to it I added to it and it refreshed the page And I lost all the stuff that I was doing like all the written stuff I'd made So I had to redo it all again I'm just like that is a simple just save you know It's so annoying just little things and the navigation is all screwed up And I would just love to be like calm down Maybe I should email them and be like please change this, this, this, this Because what are you doing? What is that? Okay my Patreon rant is over and obviously they're doing a good thing Helping people reach an audience and receive some money for their creative projects But also they take a lot of them like it's not a lot But they take a small percent of what you earn and they keep it themselves And I honestly don't know if like the website is worth that They're doing well so they don't give a shit that their website is cack a bit I hope I'm not putting you off using Patreon because it is good in the sense that You can connect with an audience and they can connect with you and you can do it like that There's just small things like you can only upload one image at a time What's that about? And then you can upload one image that people can see and then the other images People have to download them just to look at them which is so stupid You're a creative site obviously creative people are going to be uploading multiple images Now there's a car thing that Laurie got me in a bad mood Okay and I'm calm I'm also very very appreciative of having Patreon Obviously if that website didn't exist I wouldn't have the money that I get coming in from them And people supporting me which I really appreciate like don't get me wrong at all I super appreciate that and I really like connecting with people on Patreon And yeah my Monday video I did a shout out to my patrons And I'm probably going to do it again now just to like cover all bases And I think I'm going to do a monthly exclusive video but I'm not really sure what to put in it So maybe I'll do like a private stream or something But then it would just be like me and one person I think And I think that's you Miguel so we could just have a phone call Funny Yeah my Patreon is not crazy popular but it's doing very well for me I think I'm very pleased with it and I really really super, duper, duper appreciate people Who are following me or supporting me and it just is such a nice feeling I don't know there's nothing really compares to it like getting that email when Oh you've got a new supporter it's just like it's so nice And then the website pisses me off so you know it swings around about I don't know what I was going to say but the colouring process I think is the most enjoyable part For the other one I kind of went ahead and just coloured it straight And I haven't done that before like all the other pages I kind of scanned them and did like practice colouring And I definitely regretted it with this one because I think it could have been done a little bit better But I like the way that it turned out and yeah So I think like straight ahead colouring is not too bad Really it kind of works and at the end I'm going to go over everything Oh another thing that I wanted to speak about is pencils that I'm using to draw this So I have this one, the early learning centre one I think it was like a full big pencil when I started And now the lead inside is so brittle that I can barely use it I can use it for like two seconds and then it snaps So I had to bite the bullet and start with this sort of erasable black one It's not erasable at all, it's slightly erasable I got them from Lidl, they're like these coloured pencils from Stedler And I was like oh they like those erasable colour arrays I don't know what brand the colour arrays ones but you know the ones I mean like the really nice soft pencils I thought they were like a cheap alternative to that And they're okay, they're okay, like they are a cheap alternative You get what you pay for right So I've been using this black pencil to do the lines And then sort of going over parts of this one to make Because this one's more, it's darker and it's like thicker and more smudgy And this one's sort of more hard and not as smudgy So I've been using these two pencils and this one was as well a full pencil So I'm kind of worried about what I'm going to do when these run out Because they've been going back and like going over lines with this black one To sort of make sure that everything is looking similar But I think I'm just going to have to bite the bullet again And just go for like another black pencil It's been seriously hot recently I think it's one of those things where it's just for the next two months It's going to be boiling, boiling hot And I just can't, like it drains you You don't even realise like it slowly gets to you and it drains your energy And it's just, it's been doing that with me And I just feel so tired all the time And I'm just trying to like keep cool and keep having like cold showers And then getting back to work So I've been trying to do like long, longer days And I've got a few commissions now which is really great Oh if you guys don't know in my other video The Squishy Wern, which you probably might not have watched Because you're here for the horror I like horror and squishies Like a bit of a juxtaposition of things to like But I don't care Anyway, you might not have seen that I opened up my commissions So if you guys want to commission me I'm doing like about $30 per like a character Like a full character coloured So just let me know if you want that Or if you want something smaller we can discuss prices Like I can go cheaper or whatever I don't mind Um, yeah So working on commissions as well as like doing my comic is quite fun Because that gives me a break away from the comic Today I was working late on the comic till about 8 o'clock at night I know it's bad but I sort of don't really work very well in the morning So I'm just a zombie in the morning So I kind of take it really slow in the morning And then the afternoon evening is my time to shine I'm like bam bam bam And then after that I was working on my commission for about an hour and a half Just getting the sketch down But it's really fun to just take a step away from the horror comic Like I said in my Squishy video that you probably I don't know if you watched it But I got some random squishies and I took them as inspiration for character design And it was really nice to just focus on drawing something else And something I need to do more of because I want to do a sketchbook tour soon Like another half way one Because I think I'm nearly there because of all this horror stuff But obviously I don't want it to just be horror stuff that everybody's seen So I want to focus more on the sketchbook And do more studies and stuff as well Because I think I'm letting that slide a bit which is wrong Because I think you should always be learning how to draw stuff Because it incorporates itself back into your work So say if you did some life studies then the way that you draw people would become easier I think that's why I draw women so much Is because when I was in university we had a lot of life study classes But they were mostly with women So I got really used to drawing women And we had like one male model once I think that really affected the way that I draw Like I obviously draw women a lot more and more comfortable with it Which is really strange Yeah, it's been something that's affected my whole postgraduate art situation Which is fine because you know If you can recognise your weak points in your art and you can dedicate time to it Then you'll learn If you can recognise in yourself where you're not good enough And you sit down and you say okay fine I've done this with hands before a few times I could draw hands really well And then I went through a phase of when I was working not drawing for ages And I just lost the knack of drawing hands So what I did was I would sit down and study Like do pages and pages of hands And study the way other people draw hands And if I like that way like try to incorporate it into the way that I draw hands See in your own style And I think I really improved I'm drawing hands, I'm not perfect They were all striving to be better artists constantly I'm not saying like I did that exercise and I was That's it, I'm a famous artist now And Michelangelo, no You have to keep going with it And keep striving to be a better artist And as long as you can see improvement I think that's a really good thing And I'm saying that as somebody who totally does that You know, totally avoids drawing men With this comic I was like this guy And I had to keep stopping myself from drawing him small like her Because I realised as well Not only is he probably bigger I mean you can have men that are the same size as women But I wanted him to be imposing And I just wasn't doing it I was just automatically drawing him quite small And I realised that she's going to be quite a petite woman anyway So it didn't make any sense So I really had to stop myself and think about what I was doing wrong And because of that it looks better So if you are really critical of yourself it does help But yeah, so I've always just been Not the best, not the worst So just got used to working hard And just trying my best and not comparing But it's hard to just be like No, I'm not going to compare because It's easier said than done, right? I have quite a lot to get on with And I feel like I'm a little bit behind on the comic Because I did take that sort of art blocky break in the middle And now I feel like I need to catch up I don't know what I should do Because I don't know how long this project will last That's another thing that I need to consider After this project's done I don't know what else I'm going to do I might try and do another comic But I'm not sure what type Probably something maybe completely different to horror I've always had it in my head That I want to do an autobiographical one About me as a kid and like My dad and the army are moving around Like things that we faced in that situation That people probably might not be aware of Because it's very It's a very specific thing to Be an army brat and have that experience Of moving your whole world Basically at a young age It's a strange phenomenon And like culture shocks and things that affect you I don't know It would be fun to talk about that in art stuff I've always been inspired by Craig Thompson who wrote Blankets And that was his autobiographical Book And I thought it was so good And just inspiring And such a good story And it's his life And he just lays it all out on the table Type thing Like he's just super honest And you guys should check that out If you haven't read it It's like supposed to be one of the best comics ever It is to me as well Like I think it's super good So check it out It's super interesting It's okay I think we went on a massive tangent there A little bit And I hope that I have some Relatively good footage to show you And not just me rambling on about Random stuff And I'm just gonna get on with this really Because I hope by On Friday I'll do another live stream baby Actually really enjoying them And chatting to people Is quite exciting Whilst I'm colouring And answering people's questions Is really fun So I hope that I can do another one on Friday I get a bit nervous about them But then as soon as I start them I'm fine It was really fun So yeah I'm definitely gonna do another one on Friday Look around for that Or like click the bell icon And then you won't miss it at all Because you'll get a little notification If that's what you're into And if it won't wake you up at like 5am You let me know What you guys think of this series And I really appreciate all the comments I've actually up to date on my comments now And replying to you all Which is really cool So leave a comment And I'll definitely reply I can say that now Guaranteed Because I have replied to all of them And I really appreciate everybody Supporting me And giving me time And watching my stuff And liking my stuff And it's really cool being monetised now I mean I'm not making You know anything Any money but Like hardly anything But it's really cool It's just nice And hopefully like The hope is there That maybe I'll get some money from YouTube Just a little bit So I can keep working on stuff like this And like I said Once I finish this comic Maybe I can do the The autobiographical thing Which would be quite cool And I've always wanted to do that Because I think it's an interesting story That certain era of my life It sounds really self-absorbed But I think it is a good story So I want to tell it And yes So thanks for watching guys Please like and subscribe For more content And I will see you next time I just want to give a shout out To my top tier patrons For supporting me Those guys are Cecile James Liam Staff Megan Tom And Tim These guys are the real Mbps And if you want to shout out At the end of my videos Then go check out my picture Bye


So I got the camera on, which turned out to be way more dramatic than I thought it was going to be.  So what happened? I was the one who stopped me getting my first tattoo, but so he put my cameras on the side, took my cameras off me.  Because there's only a 10 minute walk. I followed the tattoo bandage done. We had that for another few hours. Then I'm going to follow the do's and don'ts of tattoos. Nothing, they printed a do's and don'ts sheet. So let's talk about what it's like getting a tattoo. So first of all, it's not painful, it stings. When he put on the stinger, it's actually quite relaxing. I genuinely found it very pleasant experience. But that's just me. I would love to know your experiences down below in the comments. Do you plan on getting more? No, I've got the test one. This was a test. I see I can manage only paying a cast. So I'm going to be getting more to cover my scars and hopefully they'll let me film in the future. We never know. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in my next video. Peace.