So I'm going to try something different. Instead of scanning my sketchbook, I think I'm going to do a sketchbook tour with you guys. It might be a little bit boring because most of my fun sketches are going into Chapter 6 or they are going into stuff for Copic videos that I share here. Or basically my normal sketchbook is mostly just practice stuff right now. But I still thought I would share with you guys. So I always leave my first page blank because I don't like it rubbing up against the cover. And I like to use Blick 9x12 top spiral bound sketchbooks. Sorry, they're a little bit big for on the go. But I've been trying to improve being in the draw at a variety of sizes and I've been using these for years. They have thicker paper than the Strathmore sketch, but they're very affordable. You can get them on DickBlick.com. Wait, is it DickBlicker? Is it just Blick? Well, I'll post the link in case you guys aren't familiar with it. If you aren't familiar with it, you should become familiar with it because it is a great resource for art supplies. So most of the pictures I have in here are reference from photos, either from the Sartorial list, from Pinterest, from Senshi Stock, from the humans of New York, but kind of rarely. So they're from all over the place and I don't actually write down where they're from, because I'm terrible. And a lot of them are in color pencil. I like using Prismacolor color pencils to do toned sketches. There's my Christmas card design. There's the thumbnail and there's the rough. If you check out my blog, you can actually sign up to get a handwritten Christmas card from me this year. You can check that out at nato-soup and at to soup.blockspot.com and it's in the sidebar. You have to fill out a Google form with your name and your mailing address, but I'm the only person who can see it. And there's a little doodle of Kara looking sleepy and a little sad. And that was me swatching some Copics for one of the Copic illustrations I did for you guys. Here are a couple of prints I'd like to work on in the future. Reference from senti-stock. After I cut my finger, I felt really bummed. So I drew Kara with a hurt knee because I put those negative emotions to good use, right? And I was noodling around with motion portrait, which is a iPhone app on my Instagram. And I was trying to determine what kind of parameters in the like wet size eyes, what shape of face works best with the program. So I did a few faces. More senti-stock. More senti-stock. I like to draw Kara based on Japanese emoticons. And it's better if I don't know what they actually mean because then I can interpret them on my own. And this is a fun exercise I like to do whenever I'm kind of braided, but I still want to draw in the evening. I think it's a review you guys probably understand that feeling. I recommend it. What are your characters based on emoticons? Sorry. More senti-stock. Still more senti-stock. Senti-stock. A possible future illustration. It's Kara kind of popping out of the panel border. I thought that would be cute. More senti-stock. Now I'm playing around with adding a little bit of atmospheric shading to help the figure pops. And again, pops. Pop. Again. More senti-stock. This is a new sketchbook. There isn't a whole lot in it. And I've been doing so much drawing on everything else. I might as well show you some of the other things I've been working on. So yesterday I drew an opossum and a fox on canvas and I'm going to do a posca video with them. And then I'm going to sell them in my shop. So if you're kind of into that, you can soon find them in my shop. And there are alternatives canvases, which are some of like the best built mini canvases. They're much nicer than the Dickblick mini canvases. I recently inked what I'm going to call my monster pieces. And they're just like miniature canvases with monster girls that I'm going to color with posca. And they're also going to be available for purchase in my shop. I think I'm only going to sell them as a set. But we'll see. And I'm going to record the video for you guys. I'm kind of obsessed with cyclopses as a, especially cute, like Shodow cyclopses is my thing. I also have this poison dark tree frog. I'm going to ink and render for you guys. And this illustration of Kara, which I'm going to marker with Copic markers because I'm testing the Windsor Newton marker pattern. I actually really like it so far. And I was going to ink this and color it with zig brushables as part of a review. I was thinking about coloring this with posca, but I might do it with watercolor. This is Stonehenge paper. This is definitely going to be posca because I want to test how well it can handle skin to how well I can do skin tones with posca. I'm probably going to marker this for you guys today. This is on Crescent marker board. So it's going to be part of a review. This is, I'm testing. I review a lot of things. And if you want them sooner rather than later, you should donate to my PayPal. So I know that you care financially and it's easier to spend to put the time in doing the reviews. If you don't have any money, that's fine too. Your support by sharing it to your social networks goes a long way to let me know that you care. It makes it a lot easier to stay up at night and write reviews or do video reviews, put the time in, recording and editing. So I'm testing several Strathmore visual journals. This one's the Bristol Vellum. I inked this a couple days ago. I'm going to test Copics on it. I think I've used it in the past, but I wanted to do a more, what's the word, official? Here's the Strathmore watercolor journal. Here's a sketch of a pumpkin roll. I had the other night. It was delicious. Here's a doodle of cara that I'm going to watercolor. And then I'm probably going to pop it into motion portrait and see if I can animate it very cheaply, very lazily. And then there's a letter B because my name is Becca and I was having a really bad night last night and I wanted to do something nice for myself that isn't cara related and isn't necessarily for the blog. But I might record this anyway. Sorry, I keep turning away. Okay. So I have this, which is on aqua board, which I'm going to write if you want yet another thing. I'm going to watercolor it. I just haven't yet. And it's like a masonite board. Pretty neat actually. It handled the ink really well. I thought I was going to eat my pen alive. Here are two Copic pieces I recently did. I recorded both of them. This one is going to be a time lapse. This one is going to be a step by step and I talk through the whole thing. And I think I have a couple more things. Sorry, give me a second. I have another visual journal. This is their Mixed Media, which is like the thinnest. This is also Strathmore Mixed Media paper, but it's like 400 or 500 series. So it's nice and thick. This is very thin for Mixed Media paper. And I was thinking about doing like a little Copic illustration of cara in like stained glass. Because when I went to the Ghibli Museum, they had all these beautiful stained glass windows. Here's a leopard gecko. I'm going to ink with, I'm going to color pigment markers. Here is my, oh my gosh, a swaddle. We always call them mud puppies. My axeladdle character that I was going to probably do with Posca, but I might do a Mixed of Posca and Windsor Newton, or maybe even Posca Copic and Windsor Newton, it really depends on how crazy I'm feeling. I've been like playing around more with Mixed Media. So I think that's pretty exciting. And I guess I have a couple more super recent things. This cat that I recorded for you guys was done with Posca on Art Alternatives board. And it's going to be available in my shop really soon. This cat, which was done on Ranger card stock, but I taped it down, hence the white border. And I have a review on that paper coming soon. And that's my cat Bowie. I think I recorded this video as well, me doing a field test of the pigment markers portrait set with some of my own other pigment markers thrown in for color, because Potter's Pink isn't included and neither is Hannah and neither is Cpia. Anyway, so that's pretty much what I've been doing lately. Most of my sketching has not been in my sketchbook, which is fine. Sometimes I like full sketchbooks up really quickly, and sometimes I'm drawing everywhere but my sketchbook, so it takes a while. Anyway, I hope that was at least a little bit inspiring for you guys. If you like me doing my sketchdumps this way and prefer it to me doing sketchbook dumps on my blog, picture by picture, leave a comment and let me know or send me an email. I think that's about it. Good day guys, bye.