Hey guys it's Hetty and welcome back to my channel so I know I've been away for, well not that long really but I have, especially not doing voiceovers but I did miss last month's Art Haddics Alliance theme and I really wanted to make sure I could do this month's. Even though I am late putting the video out there I'm still glad I actually managed to get it done because it's really difficult with them and it's a fine time to get things done so you have to bear with me I'm sorry. But yeah the theme for this month was magical sea creatures I think and I didn't want to do a typical sea creature at first I was going down the route of like Coutulu and the Kraken that sort of thing and then I ended up running out of time because I was talking to my husband about it saying I'll just need to make sure I've got this bit like some spare time so then I can do this piece that's going to be out for the next week and then I clicked the day after I said that to him it's like oh crap no it's going to be done tomorrow so yeah I actually recorded this in my dining room while I was holding baby Ben and Leo was running around going crazy and yeah so that would be why part of the footage is actually missing so when I'm first putting the colours down of the paint it's actually missing because I didn't realise it wasn't recording but yeah so I ended up going with the mermaid even though that was what I didn't want to do but I still got Coutulu in there because I did a mermaid in a Coutulu hoodie which I now want a Coutulu hoodie but yes anyway onto the normal announcements I believe it's the ink tangles you know what actually you know I'm sorry I do not know whose giveaway is this month I've been trying to keep on track of everything but I'm sorry yeah so I guess we'll skip the announcements then just the normal thing of like links to everyone's channels are below and I'm sure you've probably seen all their videos by now anyway but yeah back to the artwork or just go to that instead I'm actually really like how the piece turned out I'm not too keen on how the background came out but the character itself I actually really like and the contrast of the red while reddish pink hair to the green hoodie I think makes both of them stand out quite well and work together but I think if I was to do this piece again I would try and use more light tones and shadows because it's just a lot of mid tones throughout the whole piece which does something I normally struggle with anyway I tend to just go for loads of mid tones and not do enough light and shadow so that's one thing to work on for next year but yeah I wanted to try and get in the Christmassy theme a bit because we're in December so I like an open Christmas present box in the bottom corner just because it's a Christmas present that she got the hoodie that was my idea for it very simple and the end of the tale at first I was trying to go for like a feather look but I really didn't like how it looked so I just repainted it over the top of that and this piece is actually a more colour which I'm sure you've seen by now and they used a mix of sharpies and just random pens that I have and another thing I would do differently is not do the dark green outline and the hoodie I think the lighter green looked better but on some parts the dark did look better so I just went over with that and yeah it still looks okay but I preferred the lighter green but considering this is my full first piece of artwork I've done since I had been and he's now six weeks old I'm I am happy with it I've been doing some sketchbook work but it's just not the same so as for a full painting I'm actually really happy with how this one came out and I suppose little things I have to announce maybe is I will be doing the Q&A video soon and I've got all the questions written out now and I'll be recording that hopefully in the next couple of days so it should be out for next week that's the goal and I've also nearly finished my sketchbook because even though I haven't had time to record I have still been drawing so I've nearly filled my sketchbook I think I've got like 19 pages to go something like that so yeah there's a sketchbook talk coming soon hopefully yes so we're coming up to the end of the video now and I hope you like how it turned out this has been kind of a erm and sort of video I've been using a lot of erms but yeah sorry about that a bit out of practice for the voiceovers too maybe I'll be better in the next one I can't guarantee it but anyway thank you for watching please like and subscribe and I will see you in the next video bye