So today I thought we would take a look

through one of my notebooks.

I've been working on this sketchbook

since spring of 2010 when I was

a junior in college.

This isn't my only sketchbook.

I have plenty of others that overlap

with this one but this one is giant

so I use it whenever I need a lot of room

to sketch ideas or brainstorm or something.

So, let's take a look and see what's in here.

Okay, so let's get started.

First we have a blank page

because I never draw on the first page

of a sketchbook and I actually left

the first two pages blank in this one.

But then, we end up with my very brief

sketches for the VidCon poster,

for the first VidCon, VidCon 2010.

So here we can see the VidCon

and paper ripping around it.

See through two layers.

So that's kind of what the poster

ended up looking like.

Here we have a lot of words.

Oh right, this was when my friends and I

in college, wanted to make

a Ghostwriter episode to put on YouTube,

where we were all going to play all

the characters from that TV show Ghostwriter.

We never ended up doing it

but it would have been really fun.

What is all this?

This is just random ideas.

Oh yeah, I wanted to make this video

where all the fictional universes

were all in one universe.

So I had Buffy and Dr. Who

and Kim Possible and Dr. Horrible

and Dr. Drakken from Kim Possible.

I thought that would have been so funny

Doctor Who, Doctor Horrible and Doctor Drakken,

all in one video.

Can we make that please?

I think that would be hilarious.

Oh another initial sketches.

I wanted to do a parity of bad romance

by Lady Gaga I call bad type face

and just make a crazy Lady Gaga style video

except all about fonts and have all these

crazy props and stuff but I never really

thought it through more then

these three initial sketches.

And then we have some collage.

This is when I decided I was going

to start collaging in my sketchbook everyday.

Then I did this one and I wrote

a blog post about it and then

I never really did it again

because it's really messy

and you get scraps of paper everywhere.

When I did my internship in New York City,

I went into the internship three days a week

for I don't know, a couple of weeks

and I wrote a note of what I wore

every single day because I wanted to make

an info graphic showing what outfits

went together and what I wore the most often

and what I only wore once

and if I wore this I couldn't wear that.

So I had written down all the initial outfits

in a different sketchbook

and then I compiled them all here

and I never did anything with this information.

Oh yeah, this was my initial sketch

of what it was going to look like.

I illustrate all the outfits

and then I show the most and least worn

info about all that stuff.

I still think that would be cool.

Maybe I'll start tracking my outfits again

so I can make that one of these days.

Here we have some sketches that I did

for Leaky Con 2011 because I was on

the design year that year for Leaky Con.

These were the sketches that I made for,

we were going to make these bathroom signs

that said like wizards chamber and witch's chamber

I don't know if we ever actually made those

but I made a couple of sketches.

This was a school project for

a video class that I took.

Oh so senior year of college,

that's where we are now.

We're up to senior year of college

and I took a music video class

where we had to cut out these white letters

that spelled the word why.

I don't know if we had to spell the word why,

I think we did and then we had to make

a music video where we didn't move

the letters, we only used light

to tell a story and so I set mine to

Legends of our Trade by (mumbles) and these

were my initial sketches for that video.

It's on my second channel if you guys

want to see it, it's fine.

Here we have the page of when I was

trying to teach my friends binary

when we were just hanging out in collage.

If you don't know binary,

you count from the right and you go

one, two, four, eight, 16, 32, 64, 128

and so on and so forth and then if you have

one that means that you take the number

and you add it to any other number

that says one and if it's a zero

then you just ignore it.

So if this was a one and that was a one,

it would be nine, one plus eight is nine.

Do you guys get it?

And then this says, I made John made a marker

because John made it who's the president

of (mumbles)once gave me a thing of markers

that I kept in my college dorm room

and I guess we used them to draw this.

Cut out piece of paper and it says,

girl you've got curves by.

I don't know what that means.

I have no idea what this

piece of paper symbolizes.

Let's see and this is when I was working

on my senior year thesis project

which was all about You Tube.

So I was thinking about ideas of how

to redesign You Tube or different

layouts we could do.

Here, I was thinking what if (mumbles)

like vertical videos, we change the player size

so it was actually a vertical player.

For this one I wanted to do a back and forth

of video responses where you can just

see them all down a list, all on one page.

And this one's separating the video

responses from the comments.

This one was a band page.

So it's like you have a video,

you can stream the music right there,

you can buy it on iTunes right there,

you can see other music videos right there

and then a how to video where you have

instructions next to the video

where they update as the video goes along.

So you can see text instructions

along with the video.

I don't know.

Those are kind of some interesting ideas.

Another thing I should work on some more.

More structure than tumbler,

more flexible than You Tube.

That's great in theory, now let's design it,

that's the hard part.

Moving on to the more interesting pictures and things.

Here we have the initial sketch

for the Zombicorns book by John Green

which he wrote for The Project for Awesome one year.

This was actually drawn by my roommate

at the time Avian, who actually makes videos

on You Tube, YouTube.com/Lauriedays.

I will link it (mumbles).

They're really cute and she's obviously

a really amazing illustrator.

This was, oh no wait, I'm not going

to show you guys that because that

has to do with another secret project

that I'm sort of resurrecting.

So, you don't get to see that yet.

So now we get to the one part

of that thesis project I actually

really like how it came out.

And now there's my 10,000 subscribers poster.

This is my initial sketches of that.

That was when Sam Redge downloaded all this data

about my subscribers and I made

an info graphic poster about it so that was fun.

This is a script, I think,

did I ever make that video?

I don't think I ever made that video.

It's all about trying to take

the five stages of grief except

apply them in a comical way to

how to move in San Francisco which is

the most terrifying, difficult, annoying thing

you can possibly do in your life.

Here we have my initial sketches

for the shirt I did for Elmify.

And then we have all of the ways

that I drew her name in script.

I think, I ended up using a different E

and a different lmify.

I think it was this lmify

or maybe that one and I think it was this E.

I'm not sure about that.

Somebody look at the shirt and let me know.

Okay, so here we have the sketches I did

for the John Green box set.

I wrote down all my favorite quotes

that I could pull images from

and I started making lists

of different images from each book.

And then, back here, we can see some

of the sketches I did that I scanned in.

So that hurricane is on the book.

That might be the only thing

from this page that actually made it.

I think this flower did

and maybe this fen diagram.

I think all the rest I scrapped

and just traced from pictures and Illustrator.

And then I wanted to do a shirt

that said, "Why buy anything else

"when you could be buying books?"

And have piles of books everywhere

because I said that in a video once

and I thought it would be a good shirt.

Let me know if you want me to actually

make that shirt because I can

and we could sell it and you could have it.

So then this was for my graphic design

without a computer series when I was

showing that you should just sketch'

designs that you like.

And here we have the same sort of thing.

When I was sketching

various layouts from magazines.

And then we have, I drew the same thing again

because I didn't like the other picture as much.

And then we have the collage that I made

for that video which is fine, it's all right.

My initial sketches from my Karen Learns to Cook logo

for the series that I do on my second channel.

I didn't end up using either of these.

I ended up just doing it in Illustrator.

The drawings that I did for when I did (mumbles) survey

and I made these typography typographic

illustrations for all the questions.

It was fun.

It took me awhile, I think like

1,000 people saw that video, I don't even know.

Oh okay, so this is when I did that video

with Tyler Oakley when we made the 3D glasses

and before he came over, I sketched out

all of the ideas that I had for what

I wanted to do with my 3D glasses

and then I all ready knew

what I was going to do and then he just came

and (mumbles) and was like,

I don't know what I'm going to make

and I was like, I all ready have

all of these ideas, so ha.