 Okay, so we are streaming live, live from the basement. I am Kim Dias Holm, also called Den Ungerhard Holm, and this is a test run to see how the YouTube live works and to draw a Daily Ink Monster with whoever will be joining us. So the Daily Ink Monsters is an ollie, it'll be cool. Let's just dive into it and start. Okay, so usually when I do these, I have my paper vertically, because that's the format I mostly use on TikTok. But today, since we're streaming on the YouTubes, it's a good chance to do a horizontal Ink Monster. Now we've made the ink plot, so let us see what sort of shapes we can find in it. And you know, we're looking for not necessarily something that looks complete, we're looking for something that looks like the start of something, something that looks like a little shape of something. Hello, HeavyHexer, good to see you. So do you guys see anything in this ink plot? Because you know, I see for instance, there's maybe an eye there and a mouth there, or maybe it's the mouth over there, or maybe this is the sort of the shell of something. We also have a good little eye there, hello Ilva, good to see you all. Good day, Richard McKay. So do you guys see anything in the ink plot, like the eye there, or a dark eye there, or a mouth there? I don't know, I don't know. I think I will, I think I will try to make something a little bit ambitious today. So some of the ink monsters can be very, very simple and silly, but today I think I want to try and aim for something a bit more, a bit more technical. So let us just start by establishing that this is the eye. So it's almost complete already, it's got a nice little shine, now there is the eye. And then that means that this shape here, that has to look of maybe something like a shield or some sort of head covering, so we'll build out a little bumpy shield shape here. And we're sitting in my basement so you can all hear my squeaky chair. So I'll be doing another live, which is episode one of the free art show season two. The free art show was something I did a few years back where I took requests for what to draw and then uploaded, drew them on a live stream and uploaded them for free use. I'm going to restart that, we're going completely back to basics and to just do low-fi, low-budget YouTube streams while drawing requests. And if you guys have something you want me to draw tomorrow, now is the time to say. Or you can comment on my TikTok or my Instagram, looks like a big rat. I could see a rat in here, I'm not quite certain we're seeing the same thing, but I'm not going to draw a rat, I'm going to start to fashion something of a snout here and maybe with some, maybe with some horns. Horns are always good. When we're drawing monsters, horns are always good, but we need to give the snout sort of a direction and maybe turn it into something more of a beak like this. I'm splitting the hairs of my brush in order to get this nice broken line, which is very good for creating halftones with ink. Halftones is usually kind of difficult to create with ink, but the broken lines are definitely a good way of doing that. The problem is of course that when you do a lot of these broken lines, you're rough on your brush. That's why I always buy, or mostly buy reasonably cheap brushes, because I go through a lot of them. So, let us under the beak, let's give him some gum in her, I don't know. Let's do it like this, some gum and under the gum, let's do some teeth and for the teeth we need our brush to be sharp, not to do the broken lines, very thin, very angular, very jagged lines to get the, you know, we're not necessarily looking for something super real, we're looking for the feeling of it, so getting the feeling of the sharp teeth is as important as getting the actual shape of them, also for the sense of tree dimensionality, I think some of the front teeth to be in front of the tongue is good in order to make it feel more three-dimensional. Here the gum as well, so do any of you see what I'm drawing yet? Do I see what I'm drawing yet? That's one of the exciting things about doing these ink monsters is that you're just improvising, so halfway through something you might, you might change your mind and it's possible to change directions and draw something new at any point or at least up until towards the end, so the way I'm going to do the live stream tomorrow is that I will have dual streams, one TikTok stream and one YouTube stream and hopefully that means it'll be a sort of a lively chat and I'll have my assistant echo with me and will hopefully have a good time reviving the daily ink monster, no not the daily ink monster, reviving the free art show, creating more art for free use, so I'm giving this guy some sort of loose flaps under the throat, looks good, continue with the head, now let's do something interesting because I could just go like this straight behind but I can also make some interesting shapes, so let us make some sort of big horn, this little looks almost as a bony, almost crystalline or stony, I don't know, and let's do another one in front of it, all the while I'm doing some very basic shading, so on one side I'll always put more of the shadow and on the other I'll make the line work a little bit lighter and in the background as well I'll try to make the line work a little bit lighter so that we get some sense of some sense of three dimensionality to it, much simpler ink monster would be to make something much flatter and much more two-dimensional, just used ink pot as a silhouette or something but this kind of sculpting with ink is kind of fun and exciting and yeah I like it, now of course with today's ink monster I will not be able to put the whole monster, I could put the whole monster in and I could make a tiny little body and some tiny small feet down there but it is looking good like this so I will rather I will just make a huge body and let most of it go off the sheet and in here I will just fill with black but leave some some gaps of light because that usually creates again creates more room, creates more depth and on the upper side we need to be sculpting it and make the feeling of a sort of a massive neck and give some hints at texture and some hints at scales because yeah by this time I guess the cat's out of the bag it is a dragon and the dragons out of the bag I've drawn a lot of dragons as daily ink monsters but they they don't tire me it's always fun to draw a dragon and it's kind of interesting because trolls drawing trolls is always fun and most of the time it's you know no ink monster is really easy to draw if you want to draw it good I mean it's easy to draw if you just want to draw something but if you want to produce a good work of art it's always hard in some sense but trolls are reasonably easy to draw dragons really fun to draw as ink monsters based on the random ink plots but always challenging always challenging me so yeah the troat is going out like that then we'll shape some of the thing about here we don't need much light underneath but some of the light is reflected from the floor because maybe the floor is lava that would make sense dragons surely must have lava floors but we'll we need something here to sort of establish sort of hint at the anatomy of the thing we don't really need to do a whole lot of it because it's in shade we can basically just make silhouettes down here but it needs something to just show the size and the shape of the beast so we're just hinting at a dragon's claw here and when we're done hinting at that we will make some shadow not a lot just a little bit and some ink spatter especially around the shadow we'll also make some ink spatter around again the ink spatter is you don't have to make the ink spatter but it is a sort of a good way to tie the whole piece together now i just hope that none of the random ink plots will fall at stupid places so because that can ruin the piece but it didn't so that means i think daily ink monster number one one three five is done and but his name well is it dashi i just got a word in my head and i'm toying around with it mobla why mobla i don't know it's not the most epic dragon name devourer she's a devourer it is a she i decided it is a she and we sign it and then i think we're done yeah so that was the test run for how to stream on youtube and hopefully the video will turn out good and it will be up on the youtube forever more so anyone can enjoy it this piece of art will be scanned and uploaded to my gallery at den ungeherhorn.smugmug.com where it will be available in high resolution for free use that means you can download it you can copy it you can change it you can gift it you can tattoo it and you can even sell it as long as you attribute me if you think that's a cool idea and if you like my art and want to see me make more art then please consider going to my patreon patreon.com slash kimholm i'll link everything in the in the in the description and uh yeah i think we are pretty much done this one whoo i just noticed that i had a lot more of comments that i didn't see because i hadn't understood the youtube thing quite so that's why we do test runs because half of the stream i didn't see any comments because i didn't know how to see them but now i see them so thank you all for watching and we made a great little dragon let us figure out how to stop this thing yes bye bye see you tomorrow for the free art show stream seven o'clock a p.m norwegian time bye