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Happy December everyone! After a weeks break due to a massive work overload, I’m back working on some new brass artworks! I’ll be working some Christmas folklore and fairytale themes and will continue the Zodiac signs which I didn’t manage to finish within November. Super excited for this month!

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1 week ago | [YT] | 1,148

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First of all, thank you all so so much for your ideas on my last post. It was incredibly helpful and uplifting! I have so many ideas, including recording sounds from our forest to use on your videos.

Until I get my gear and new sources set, I’m still uploading with the old music in. A making of video is now live, and I’m uploading my first 3-hour long ambience with sun and moon artwork compilation. It might take forever to upload but it will be so good in the end!

Lots of love from our rainy island!
Corina

Ps. We’re joining Black Friday and the brass framed artworks are 10% off for the first time, including up to 40% off for everything else. You can find more on cocorrina.com <3

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2 weeks ago | [YT] | 1,367

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I finally understand why so many YouTube creators end up using AI music. Ever since I began making playlists three years ago, I used Epidemic Sound. Everything worked perfectly until this summer, when one perfect day they flagged all my videos because they don’t allow their music in YouTube playlists anymore.

To be transparent, I do monetise my videos. There is an ad at the beginning and I get paid for the views. I’m not going to hide it… it’s honestly amazing. It covers my groceries every month and it also makes me feel good about the hours I spend creating the art for each playlist, searching for music, animating, and editing every video.

I’m not greedy, and I know I would earn more if I added mid-video ads, but they completely kill the flow so I’ve kept only the one at the beginning. After the Epidemic Sound flags though, I haven’t been able to monetise most of my popular playlists anymore. I can’t change the music, only delete the videos, and YouTube automatically adds mid-video ads so the companies profit from my videos instead.

In September I researched and moved to Artlist, which from what I saw (both on their website and from other creators) seemed like a good fit for playlists. I’ve created so many ambience videos since then… and while working on the Leo zodiac one today, I suddenly received a claim from Artlist saying they also don’t allow their music from now on in YouTube playlists. They’ve suddenly changed their terms, and it’s no longer a safe space. Welp.

So now I’m in a place where all my videos might end up flagged, maybe with mid-video ads that I’m not allowed to remove. The only alternatives seem to be making my own music, which I’m not a musician, or using AI music, which I don’t support.

You might say I could upload without monetisation, and I hear that. This is not my main income, and I will create the brass art anyway for my own happiness. But the time I put into everything doesn’t justify the frequency of uploads if it becomes only a hobby.

So here I am, wanting to be completely transparent with you in case I stop uploading or upload less until I figure out what to do. Maybe silent art-only videos could work. I don’t know.

If you have suggestions I’m all ears. Until then I’ll be brainstorming with my partner. Thank you so much for being here and for your support.

3 weeks ago (edited) | [YT] | 3,332

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Recorded a two-hour long video of the whole process from beginning to getting a head artwork framed. Only in the last half of it did I realise that my microphone wasn’t connected and then thinking I turned it on I did the exact opposite and the video is mute. So, naturally it will take me a lifetime to edit now

1 month ago (edited) | [YT] | 736

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November, the month of Zodiac Signs (and all things celestial). Since I love working with themes, I challenged myself to create artworks for each zodiac sign this month, let’s see how it goes! I selfishly decided to create Pisces after Scorpio, as I proudly am one.

Would love to hear what sign you are! Which one should be next?

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1 month ago | [YT] | 1,598

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Had a few tight deadlines but I’m back just in time for the final Halloween themed video! Let’s see if I can animate a flame with brass.

1 month ago | [YT] | 664

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Meet my biggest piece, my most ambitious one yet. I have no idea how I will cut the windows, but I’ll do just about anything for Fourth Wing / Hogwarts vibes.

1 month ago (edited) | [YT] | 1,245

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Above everything I get to create, I believe myself to be a storyteller. I’m obsessed with building a world, and that goes way back to my childhood and my way to deal with stressful situations. I would lose myself in my own worlds, live in them so strongly that the line between what’s real and not was easily blurred.

I went from studying to become an interior designer, to discovering my love for graphics somewhere in between, to working for almost a decade as a brand designer and helping people share their stories, to creating my own brand we’re I got to build my own worlds and share them with the world.

Through all the phases, my love for the metaphysical and magical world was always my anchor. In 2019, a little before the pandemic hit, I begun to illustrate my first tarot deck card by card, the Divine Feminine Tarot. Little did I know that people all around the world would love it.

The second production came in 2022 and we’ve sold 8000 copies since then, all self published. Today, with my heart beating rapidly, I just clicked on the Launch button on Kickstarter for the release and pre-order of the 3rd Edition of the Divine Feminine Tarot - Luminous Edition.

In case you’re interested here’s the link to the campaign www.kickstarter.com/projects/cocorrina/the-divine-…

I know I’m new here on YouTube, and most of you know me from the ambience videos and my brass artwork (which is a very new medium to me) b j wanted to thank you for accepting me, welcoming me and embracing me in this platform. I truly feel like myself here again.

1 month ago | [YT] | 666

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There’s nothing more fulfilling than seeing my brass artworks framed and shipped to their new homes. Making these with my hands (and my jewelry) makes me the happiest I’ve ever been in my entire life as a designer (boy, it’s been 16 years!).

I still use my computer for digital drawing, editing etc etc, but the more the world is drowned in technology, filters and fakeness the more I want to run away from it and burry my hands in some soil and grass.

So a little addon, I decided to make a stamp (that I drew with my own hands yes) and put it on the cover of all of my videos here. Made by a human. Because what a crazy world we live in -it’s now essential to state it.

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1 month ago | [YT] | 1,912

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Just wrapped up the brass work for the whole month. All the originals are now framed and available on cocorrina.com Coming soon with music for you!

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