Hey guys it's Hetty and welcome back and I'm back! I'm not going to limit myself to posting every week guaranteed because it's still a bit hectic around here but I'm definitely back to recording videos and I really want to do this month's prompt for the Art Addicts Alliance so here we go and this month's prompt was to create a character based around your favourite drink and I have a few favourite drinks and I had to decide between two but I really like a maca but I drink a lot of just normal instant coffee at home so I was really tempted to do that one but I went with the maca instead and it took me a while to get the initial sketch down and I don't know I just had a really cool idea to start with but that idea was working towards the other drink that I was going to do and then I changed my mind at the last minute to go for doing maca and ended it with this but yeah and I'll get all the little announcements out of the way first so this month we have a featured artist and her name is Madeline Janelle Art I hope I said the name right and she has a really cool graphic drawing style but she's also really got a realism and I'll leave her link in the description below but yeah you should definitely go check her out but yeah going back to the piece I'm I really wanted to because I've been doing a lot of watercolour work and that seems to be where I'm heading now with my art pretty much most of the time I do still love using markers and stuff like that but I think I just have a really big love for watercolor now and even though it takes a lot longer to do which isn't ideal when I need to get things done I'm sure them at a time so I ended up doing three or four pieces at once like when I was painting this one I was actually while this was drying I was doing two others at the same time but yeah my idea for this was to do like a huge kind of chocolatey coffee spill like behind us so it's kind of like a wave and then she was a mermaid coming out of it and but I really struggled to get the effects of a mocha I think because I wanted to try and make her pale but when I was taking the masking fluid off I had really struggled because the masking fluid ripped the paper so I ended up having to use markers to try and colour the skin tone and all of my light skin tones are completely dead and not usable so I had to just work with what I had it turned out okay and I kind of like how the skin worked in the end but I don't know if I was to do this again I think I need to be a bit more careful with the masking fluid to be honest but to help with the skin tone and the contrast because I wanted to keep her hair white to simulate the whipped cream on top of a mocha I had to do black outlines which is not something I've done in or something I haven't done in a long time because I've been trying to avoid it so it gave it quite a graphic style and then to match that I had to make kind of the coffee have that same sort of style to tie it in and I've been really trying to focus these last couple of months on my composition over all of a piece so I've tried to make the hair match the curve of her body but I ended up having to hide that because of the issue with masking fluid so you can't even see most of her body sadly but in a couple of my other pieces that you'll see coming up soon you'll hopefully see where I've managed to progress in doing that sort of thing but in the end for this piece I had to go in with my markers, pencil crayons and just an abundance some finalments that I have ended up being a huge mixed media piece but oh well it still worked out I'm quite happy with how the piece turned out so that's pretty good and considering this is my first official video back there was kind of hoping of a bit better piece but never mind here we go this this is what we've got this is what we're working with but anyway I hope you've all had an amazing couple of months while I've been away and thank you for sticking around while I've not been here I'm planning on doing some update videos soon as well because I actually now have a new desk so it was kind of a iffy thing if I was going to get this video out there because there's been a lot going on it's been a new workstation I crashed my car it was only a small accident so don't worry everyone's okay except for the car we've got written off so I've had to get a new car my printer died I had a convention at the weekend it didn't go very well but never mind I've got another one coming up soon hopefully but anyway yes apart from all of that drama we got the piece of work done and we got the video edited yay well then be but anyway and we're coming to the end of the video now so I hope you'd like the video and sorry for all the random rambling but anyway thank you for watching please like and subscribe and don't forget to hit the notification bell to let you know when I post a new video maybe the next video won't be so rambly anyway thank you for watching bye