 live for October is pinktober day nine that's correct day nine okay so we're going to set up the camera as per usual like this and like that and like that and uh okay so this was yesterday's inktober piece which came out great still here hi afternoon afternoon great to see people in here at this time of day hi hello local vampire hi rain cloud i love you are so much thank you so much still here good morning hello where are everyone tuning in from i'm here in my cellar in saalhus outside of bergen norway where are everyone watching from let's uh begin by removing yesterday's piece england main east coast you say okay florida the dickstar sydney just watching a bunch of your videos and the live stream went up excellent good timing maryland chattanooga oklahoma vermont texas a lot of americans what time is it college dorms college dorms college dorms love your nail polish today thank you brazil now it's early early in the morning for some half past two in the afternoon for me okay so what we've been doing this is the inktober is pinktober stream number nine and what we've been doing is we've been starting with writing the uh almost signing the image writing them thingamabob uh the keyword for today oh for some it is night time i almost put the yeah the ink monster number but this isn't an ink monster drawing and today there will not be any ink monster on the live because i've already done one and hey hey spooky season and i've um i i don't have a lot of time today so i need to be quick in and out and i'm going to solve this very simply so you like dnd can you please draw dnd monsters i like dnd i can't draw dnd monsters because i release all my art for free use so anyone can download and change and even sell my art and you can't do that with intellectual property that others have the right to um but i but most of the dnd monsters are just monsters and i can do that i draw monsters that fit into um that fit into dnd let's do it some more where did i put that thing that thing the thing thing thing all i know is how to make stink monsters oh happy stream thank you for dropping by and saying hi i didn't know you streamed i've been streaming every day of october and you know i'm going to stream more regularly after october as well but not every day but this has been a nice change of pace for me it's been hard start for on the month but uh lovely as well thank you any questions while i work on this thingamabob have you ever done sculpting not much not much i'm my mind isn't rigged for sculpting so i've tried it and but i don't i don't think in terms of sculpture i do think in terms of in terms of um 2d pictures and story mostly i think in terms of story and sculpture is a tough storytelling medium what kind of ink to use right now i'm using eco line um liquid watercolors and then i'll be switching to uh regular indian ink for the for the the the black lines you i've been trying some of your techniques to get my brain from painting with oils to watercolor thank you for listening listing requirements here i feel i can move more freely now excellent i struggle with watercolor at least with using watercolor as watercolor so right now i'm using watercolor as if it was ink and it is for all intents and purposes this is still an ink drawing even if some of the material i use is watercolor it's not the watercolor painting loosening up requirements uh that makes more sense i was like did i list require i i don't remember listing requirements but uh that wasn't that wasn't it was it i do too i find i got a lot better layering watercolor as if it were oil yeah so i learned to work in oil only a few years ago hmm and that sort of cracked the code for painting for me because i am primarily a drawer a draftsman not a painter um and painting and drawing are not the same they're kind of kind of the opposite so when you're i've talked about this before but when you're drawing when you're drawing you are uh you're are constantly playing with negative space um so the most of the lines you put down are not supposed to represent anything at all they are not really in the world you're drawing they are lines that delineate the negative space where the where the viewer the beholder can imagine the picture so um drawing is about drawing things that are not there to make people see them there and then painting is about laying down uh blots of color that represent things in the world so it it is sort of exactly the opposite that doesn't mean they don't go hand in hand because they absolutely do but but in terms of mindset it is completely different and but that doesn't mean you have to use you know if you paint and draw with the same mindset that's fantastic great for you and uh you do you but uh how can i say it um hi mona uh let me see i lost my train of thought hello okay did you have to learn how to see in negative space or did it come naturally i mean negative space isn't a concept that exists in reality it is not something you see in reality it's not something you're born seeing it is a way of um structuring the drawing i can show you quickly after i've done this one because this is going to be the whole damned drawing i don't want to do anything more than this i need a cherry tree so very simple very very minimal but i can show you very quickly afterwards black ink is um indian ink from talons i buy it because that's the brand that the local store sells liter bottles of that's uh that's the reality of why i use that specific ink and it's good i love it but there's so many other good inks some are too thin for me some are too thick for me a lot are just right the goldilocks ink okay so that was today's inktober piece that went well and go to a dentist jared okay so let's find another piece of paper you can use this one okay so let's say we're going to draw um let's do two quick pictures so here is a picture of a person and another person and some clouds okay now when you're drawing a picture of people the negative space is a couple of places okay so first of all there's negative space here that makes up the face but you you'd think of that as positive space even though it's not supposed there's nothing there and there's negative space here and there's negative space here and of course there's negative space here the main negative space in this drawing since it's a drawing of faces is all the background area that's the negative space in this one okay then we're going to do almost the same uh drawing we're going to change color we're going to do the same drawing except this time we are painting the sky with two people blocking it and some nice clouds here so in one of the pictures the background was the negative space in the other the foreground characters becomes the negative space and that's the thing about negative space it's all the space that you don't want the viewer the beholder to think about it's space that's the function of that space is to lead the eye to the interesting points so if you do a sky painting with some figures the point of those figures is to lead the eye into interesting stuff happening in the sky and if you do a portrait of two people with skies in the background then the function of the sky is to draw the attention to the faces the negative space is whatever is not supposed to be in focus so you that's not something you're born naturally seeing it's not something you have to have talent to see or to use it is it is something that it's a trick you use to to structure a hierarchy of importance in your drawing the negative space has another function and the positive space is the primary function so if we do another i'm just going to show you a way to practice negative space we're going to draw a face and we're going to draw the standard face like this like this this and this this is a face perfect okay um now with that face we're going to do some heavy shadows we're gonna shadow in the ears i'm gonna have some dramatic shadows in the eyes okay and then this we're gonna make it even more like this even something like that so the way to practice your negative space skills is to draw something like this and then once it's dry and i don't have the time to let it dry now just erase the lines and see if it still works okay and you can overdo it for instance and for instance if i was to create this shape like that it's not necessarily enough to see what it is but if i add a little like that you see it more clearly so it's about finding the balance of what outlines do you need to interpret that space as positive and what outlines can you can you just remove and the brain will still sort the negative and positive space um i don't know if it's the gestalt principle i've never gotten my head around what the gestalt principle is except that it's got something to do with that what i do um i'll show you a little thing more because okay we'll continue on this one even though even though there's no outlines here you still see that this is a different color from this both are white but your mind sees this as a different color from this okay but you know your mind reckons that this is probably some sort of skin color so it can't be a light skin color it can be a dark skin color it's some sort of skin color but your mind has no idea what color the background is that's just white now okay and now we're going to color the background using black and white what color is the background now it's blue because that's clearly a blue sky and that's everything important in this drawing it is done with with how can i say it it's done by manipulating negative space and it would be the exact same if i did an outline around it if i did an outline around him and this is his head i'm just messing with this outline your brain still interprets the drawing in the exact same way these lines don't exist in your brain and this is skin color and this is blue okay so when wanting to learn negative space do exercises where you can see how many of the outlines you can remove and the brain still makes sense of the image okay good luck luck with that i have to end the stream because we did today's pink pinktober and i inktober is pinktober picture using steward samples pinktober prompt list the prompt for today is i need and i do need a territory if you like my art and you want to get some of it then you can go to den unge had holm and use the discount code inktober 23 for 20 of all october if you want to support but don't want to buy my art then please do go to patreon.com slash kim holm patreon is where you can pay one dollar a month to support or more a month to support and patreon gives me a hope of financial security that is very hard to get other through other means as a independent artist and if you don't want to use any money or don't have any money to use and you still want to support then you can share my art you can download it copy it you can change it make it your own you can even sell it as long as you put my name on it and even if you're selling it and don't share a dime of profit with me you are supporting me through spreading my art and spreading my name and that was today's live stream and i'll be back with another one tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow a live stream tomorrow