finally revealing my SECRET project (i worked on this for 10 months)
it ended? next episode i also feel like i should mention this i'm not gonna tell too much about it but i'm working on something special for you guys ok i swear this has been taking a lot of my time but it'll all be worth it, i do have to keep it quiet for now because i'm so excited about it but i promise you something's coming if this ends up in the video, then good but i might cut it out but maybe i won't, we'll see but anyway i've been working on something special for a really long time i'm still not done with it so i'm gonna keep it hush but something's coming okay? i swear i'm gonna be honest, i didn't even realize time flew by that much it feels like i uploaded a youtube video a week ago i don't notice the days passing i was just getting messages from you guys saying "hey where are you?" "are you okay? you haven't posted in a while" "we miss you," things like that and i was here just like, was i gone for that long? but then i realized yes i've been very inactive so here i am, that's all i just literally have been moving that's it and i've also been working on my secret project that's literally taking forever to finish how do people do hand tricks with a pen? pencil? pen so i'm currently in the middle of trying to figure out what i want to do with my room and i'm also working on some things i am currently taking a little break from my secret project that no one cares about so i can actually focus on my life a little bit because to be honest i think this secret project is kinda killing me anyway let's get kinda productive wow it's finally happening ok i can do this ok so where do i begin? so i have had a secret for i actually found out recently that it's been 10 months that i kept this a secret i thought it was 9 months but it was actually 10 so it's been a long time coming but i can finally tell you what i've been working on for the last year i've never done anything like this i still am figuring out how to do this but it's been fun, it's been a great learning experience and i have had fun and not so fun times but mostly fun so i think in this video i already showed you i've been holding on to this secret for quite a while in some of my past videos i've been hinting that i've been working on something and i barely ever talked about it so some people may be surprised maybe you might have never heard me say that i'm working on something that's okay too then this will be a complete surprise to you but around february i think i first mentioned that i was working on something i actually started working on this thing since october of 2020 i had the concept for this for years but i didn't get around to actually finding a way to do it until 2020 and since then i've been working on it this was literally the hardest secret i had to keep whew i'm really about to say it but anyway so for the last 10 months, almost a year, i have been working on... *drum roll* a webtoon!! ahhh! yayyy oh god it feels weird coming out of my mouth it's always been a concept, an idea in my head and finally saying it out loud just feels... weird but yes i do have a webtoon i worked on this completely by myself this is not a collaboration or anything this is simply a project that i wanted to do for no reason actually there are reasons but no one told me to make this i just did it myself so i guess for now i should talk about the actual webtoon itself so my webtoon is titled 'to love and be loved' very romance very drama like i just thought it was catchy and simple to the point literally about the concept of loving and being loved this is a romance/drama not really slice of life but it's just kinda realistic it's not fantasy or anything but it is mostly a romance it's been very interesting to write and explore and then my name on webtoon is somiyu so i'm not going by oh no nina or nina yu i decided to choose a pen name for my webtoon if you don't know what it means, it's basically my korean name in the order of just a standard western english name so my korean name is actually yu somee but for my pen name's sake i did somiyu very simple, there's no other meaning than that i did consider yusomi but that would be too much like my name i also wanted it to be it's own identity and i also now have an instagram an art account it's called somiyudraws i'm gonna post more art related stuff on that account i still have ninaeyu which is my personal account that's kinda where oh no nina or me lives but i also do have a designated art account yay now for those of you who may not know what a webtoon is it is basically a comic that you can read on your phone on a desktop and you basically just scroll through the comic it has origins in south korea and it's pretty fun and popular a lot of people read webtoons so if you don't read them it's fine but maybe this is a good opportunity to start there are so many webtoons out there and now mine's there so currently there are three episodes out i definitely wanted to make sure there were a few episodes you guys could read and then the next episode is going up the week after that and i will be hopefully updating weekly i don't know how realistic that is because i am doing youtube at the same time that's an airplane as you know webtoons or comics in general take weeks, months, years to finish and that's what i kinda plan with mine as well i didn't make like 20, 40 episodes, although i wish i did but it's hard making a comic it's hard to make art in general so that's why it did take a long time to get this done so that is the gist of my project yay i finally said it omg now i guess i'll explain why i worked on this project why i'm doing this and how i started doing this so i have had an on and off relationship with art but in the beginning of my channel like years ago i would make content on sketchbook tours art related things not really a lot but i would show some art related things back then then once i got into college i kinda forgot about art for a little bit because i became very busy my college major was very intense on reading i didn't have real plans for what i would do with art i kinda just did it for fun especially because i started drawing around kindergarten and i loved it since then but i never saw it as a thing i would incorporate into my professional life i always saw it as a hobby and as time passed it started to become less of a hobby and more of just this thing i used to do and so for a long period of time i just didn't draw as much my voice just gave out for a second what the heck but on my channel i had the opportunity to get back into painting because alongside drawing i also liked painting i took 3 years of art in high school and then i took a drawing class in college in community college before i transferred to uc berkeley for a period of time i actually thought about applying for the art major at uc berkeley i really thought i was going to, i even considered art history but eventually i did end up choosing media studies because it focused on stuff i liked it focused on tv, movies literal media, visual communications so instead of doing art related stuff i focused on media which i still love especially because i'm on youtube and social media takes up a majority of my life so i don't have any regrets about studying media studies it basically shaped me into the person i am today but i did kinda stray away from drawing and from art and this hobby that i loved since i was a kid so that's how i spent a lot of my young adult life in college i was just reading so much focusing on studying, exams and i had very little time to make art or dabble in this hobby that i loved but through youtube i was able to go back to it i would paint for youtube videos but painting's not my strongest medium i actually love drawing with a pencil or pen especially a pen so around 2020 i got into digital art which i never thought i would get into because i've always been a traditional art person i was like i'm never gonna figure out photoshop or clip studio paint procreate, i'm never gonna figure that out i would say that i'm pretty analog and it's hard for me to adapt to new technology but somehow i am now actually decent at it it took me months to finally figure out clip studio paint which is by the way the program i use to make my webtoon i had to figure that out for the last few months while i was trying to finish this webtoon i was also learning that was challenging but also very fulfilling but anyway for the last year basically i was trying to focus on what mattered to me and as a media studies major as someone who loves media and the power it has to bring people together to share stories to create some kind of impact long lasting impact thereof i was figuring out a way to do something i really cared about alongside youtube which is also something i really care about so around the end of 2020 i found out that people can make webtoons i first found out about webtoons in 2017 when i actually transferred to uc berkeley in one of my classes there was a person sitting next to me and on his phone, he was scrolling through something i just happened to peek because his phone was literally right here, i couldn't not peek so i just peeked for a second and then he was scrolling through something and i was like wait is that a webtoon? because i've seen it before and sure enough it was and so i was like huh maybe i'll start reading them too and that actually inspired a scene in my webtoon i didn't get to talk to the person at all but i did gain an interest in webtoons through that moment so i downloaded it for myself, i read some webtoons i knew about it since 2017 but it wasn't until 2020 that i found out that literally anyone can make one for some reason i always thought there was a huge barrier i always thought you needed some sort of connection some sort of publisher like a team of artists and writers, things like that i always thought it was something you couldn't do on your own like i didn't think of it as youtube where for instance me, i just uploaded a video did that myself blah blah but then i found out about webtoon's canvas it's basically a platform where anyone can make a webtoon or webcomic so i was very excited i was like, "anyone can make one?" from then on after late 2020 i found out what programs people use i worked on the story i have had this story since probably 2017 i had a vague idea of it but then i started fine-tuning it around 2020 obviously because i found out about my desire to make a webtoon so much goes into making a comic, so much i have learned so much through this process it is hard and there were a lot of times where i wanted to give up which is also why it took so long it took months to write the story because a strong story or a stronger story is one where you kinda know the beginning to the end so you can kinda plan things out when you would hint at things that happen in the future characters you have, all that so i had to sort of have an idea of the beginning and end i have an ending already so i had to come up with the entire story another reason why it took so long for me to finally get this out was almost every other day at the same time that i was working on this project that i was spending all these hours on this project almost every other day i just thought of stopping which is also why i kept this such a secret because i didn't know if i'd actually pull through i didn't know if i'd actually commit to this and release this eventually even though i had worked months on this there was always some sort of doubt because this was something i've never done before i didn't have anyone to go to for advice or anything except for youtube videos i would watch for research it was honestly hard to commit to this and believe that i was going to finally do it but i spent so much time on it that i was like at this point you're gonna do it, you have to do it so even though it was hard, and even though i had a lot of hesitation i just knew that this was something i cared about that i wanted to do that i just thought every single day about and worked almost every single day on that i was just going to do it anyway it's done it's out there, or it's going to be out there there's no going back this is something that i wanted to do and i did it i just also knew that if i was so nervous about this then that means i was doing something worthwhile i guess i haven't felt this much literal anxiety but also at the same time thrill over something in a very long time it was just a nice feeling to finally just feel proud of something i was doing so hopefully people will like it literally my days would be just 10+ hours of me either drawing or writing or doing research because a lot of research goes into writing stories but i have always been someone that loves storytelling i love books or i loved books because now i don't have any time to read books but i loved books i love tv shows i love movies i almost became a film major but media studies was a little more my style but i was always fascinated by the power of storytelling and for the longest time i just didn't know how to do it myself i didn't know what was going to be the best medium for me to tell a story and when i found out about webtoon i was like this is perfect it combines my love of storytelling my childhood love of art, of drawing and it also combines social media, technology it just literally combined everything that i loved and that's why i was so, i guess, passionate about it it's weird to say i'm passionate about something but literally everyday i thought about this project and i would work on it so i was like i can't give up on it even though every day i did consider giving up there was a part of me that knew i wouldn't give up but sometimes i was a little pessimistic anywho that is the origins of this project and that is what i've been working on and i don't know if you were able to notice but the last year, the last few months i would take some time off of social media i would be kinda inactive on youtube it would take me weeks to upload a video and that was simply because i was working on this webtoon it was kinda hard to make content on youtube and also work on the webtoon because i had to separate them since my webtoon was a secret i couldn't show it at all in my videos most of my life was me sitting at my desk here i can show you how i work on it tada it's just my ipad pro then i've got my apple pencil you've probably seen me work on my ipad yes indeed that was me working on my webtoon i would blur it out in my videos now you know but because i couldn't show myself working on this i didn't want any hint or any sign of me working on digital art it was hard to make youtube content and work on the webtoon so that's why i would just take weeks off youtube even though i didn't want to do that but at the same time i wanted to finish this project as soon as possible a lot has happened this year i moved around april i was very busy in my personal life and i was working on this it was hard separating it and i didn't want to separate it but i also didn't want to show too much of what i was up to just in case i gave up on it i didn't want to disappoint hundreds of people thousands of people here is art neen i am so excited to kinda get back into art neen it's been a long time coming but hopefully i will have much more content and i can show you more of myself without holding back i guess now i should talk about what the actual webtoon is about so let's get into that i have the about written on my phone and this is on webtoon, and i'll just read it for you a story of two individuals who have always felt better off alone hardworking, friendly, but harboring a side she doesn't like to show, jihyun kang aspires to be a director shy, reserved, but full of love and passion, chanyoung kwon aspires to be a screenwriter the two college students cross paths and together they learn what it means to love and be loved as they navigate their lives trying to make it in the entertainment industry so it is essentially about two college students they are... how do i talk about this without giving too many spoilers i don't wanna give spoilers for my own story how do i do that so essentially these are two college students yes it takes place in college right in time for back to school season it is about two introverts different kinds of introverts there are many kinds of introverts but they are two kinds they meet each other and through each other they basically find out what it means to love and be loved that is all i can say without spoiling too much should i talk about the characters? for now i will talk about the two main characters but there are a lot of main characters coming so basically we have jihyun kang or kang jihyun she is studying film with a concentration in screenwriting and she is an introvert but she is also trying to grow out of her comfort zone out of her shell she is pretty sociable, approachable, friendly and she's very hardworking she kinda wants to get what she wants she wants to achieve what she wants to achieve and although she can get along with people she also kinda is used to being on her own she prefers to be on her own and she can kinda tend to shut the world out you'll learn more about her later and then we have chanyoung kwon, or kwon chanyoung he's also studying film, he aspires to be a screenwriter and he is the more shy introvert he's also pretty reserved he doesn't really feel the need to kinda to let people know who he is but he's also pretty hardworking he has a great imagination and he is trying his best to overcome childhood fears, insecurities same thing for jihyun and basically together they help each other grow, things like that i'm gonna stop talking that's that for now there's going to be a lot more characters coming as the story progresses and a lot more things happen so stay tuned for that i also wanna mention that this is completely fictional i don't know anyone hopefully by these names these characters are fictional they're not based on anyone in my life there might be some inspiration from my life experiences experiences i've heard but it is for the most part fictional it's not an autobiography and i don't intend for it to be an autobiography or a biography of any sort these are just fictional characters with their own stories and hopefully i can touch on topics and things that i always wanted to talk about but just didn't have the means to so it's fictional! fiction! do not associate me with it something that i worried about with making a webtoon is that i'm clearly not anonymous my life is already on the internet so people know me i guess pretty well but i wanted to make these characters for people to relate to to empathize with maybe not understand too and basically just like any other story just characters that you can kind of what's the word? how do i explain this? (engage with) all i want with the webtoon and the story and the characters is basically to bring you some sort of comfort the whole reason i even made youtube videos was with the goal to make videos that comfort people make them a little happier because that's what youtube did for me and that's what i wanna do with my webtoon as well i just hope that it can be a source of comfort and that it can make you smile, make you laugh maybe even make you cry just feel some kind of emotion i hope this is a story you can kinda relate to or just learn something from i think i covered most of what i wanted to talk about i can talk more about it in the future maybe even show you the process of making a webtoon or just more digital art things more traditional art things but yeah i hope you enjoy it i literally worked for 10 months on this the story means a lot to me and i hope that it means something to you i hope you can enjoy the characters, enjoy the story so as you're watching this the webtoon is out it is out, it is on naver webtoon i'll have a link to it in the description in my instagram bios i have an art instagram you can follow it's somiyudraws, that's my account i'm still gonna post regularly on youtube, on my regular instagram, on twitter nothing has changed except for the fact that now i have this project for you to enjoy as well i hope this shows more of me and is kinda like a new chapter but that is that for this announcement video this is my secret project! thank you for your patience and your continuing support and i hope this is a pleasant gift to you i guess i will see you in my next video and i will also see you on webtoon and my social media as usual we're going to end it with a hug! ignore my pajama pants i hope you enjoy the webtoon and my future videos and i will see you next time goodbye my friends :)
2021-09-02 11:34
