 Live! And there's already comments. Can you try God Shiva? Yeah, I will get into Hindu mythology at some point, but not today. He said he knew so little Hindu mythology that he needed to do better research for storytelling and to not misrepresent. He might explore Shiva in casual videos. He's going to do it himself. That is a succinct answer. I do know a little bit about Hindu mythology, but it's one thing when you're talking about something like Nourish mythology where there are no direct connections to any living believers in it. The neo-pagan Nourish mythology is a separate thing. If I get details wrong, then it's not that important. But when dealing with things like Christianity, Hinduism or any other living religion, it's more important to get the details right, so that not in order to not offend anyone, but in order to know that if I offend anyone, then I can stand for what I'm saying. Good morning, Munna! Excited for Scott's collab. Yes, that will happen tomorrow. Hello from Denmark. Let's turn the camera around and get this party started. Like this. Yesterday's Inktober is Pinktober drawing. The prompt word was the thing you shouldn't say, and we came up with Speak of the Devil and you'll hear him flap his wings. Hinduism is so diverse that your mistake would probably be someone's belief. Yeah, but that's the same with Christianity and Islam and Buddhism. Big religions are really, really diverse. And it's more about knowing that I can stand for what I'm saying. Today on this Inktober is Pinktober, daily October drawing. I will be trying to make my quickest Inktober is Pinktober drawing, because I have other things I want to draw. So we need to hurry up and let's get to the prompt word for today. Okay. Let's get some pink ink. Okay, so we'll write Pinktober 23. And today's prompt word from Stuart Sample's Pinktober prompt list is Sweet on Friday the 13th. That is, would you ever collab with Jessa? That's the Australian guy doing fun art videos, right? Yes, I would collab with any cool artist, especially doing different stuff than me. That is the exciting part. So 13. Now let's draw something sweet. Kitten name suggestions. I don't know. What does the chat say about kitten name suggestions? Happy to new kittens, by the way. Let's draw something sweet. Sweet tooth. We could do a sweet tooth. What I'm going for now. Sweet leaf. When I first met you, I didn't realize. I can't forget you and your surprise. I agree with the ones saying that we need to know the color before suggesting any kitten names. That's important. So if you're going with a mythological name, you could go with Hugen and Munen, but they are female kittens, females. Then you shouldn't go with that. Then you could go with... Now, my mind is blanking out right now. Abadan and Asmodeus, that you could go with. Cats traditionally are associated with the devil and demons, so demonic names is good. I also do not remember the names of the cats drawing Freja's wagon. Shiva, Shakti. Oh! So that is Begull and Treigull. But they are... Are they golden cats? Athena and Artemis, that could go, but for black you should have Nyx and... So what's from Greek mythology? Nyx and... Rain, slow! You could go with Nyx and Hecate, but I wasn't thinking. I was thinking of... Is it Nyx and Chaos? Nyx and Nemesis, Persephone and Hecate is possible. All is possible in love and war and cats' names. Nyx and Erebus, deities of the day, night cycle... No, Nyx and... I don't remember. I don't even remember what my point is. I am a big fan, thank you! Vesna and Marona. Nyx and Discordia sounds nice. Oh, from Cyprus. Love your drawing a lot and you're my inspiration. Love your drawings a lot. Thank you, thank you so much. Lytton Kittinson. So good to hear. It's a very strange and thankful position, privileged position to be in, to have people call you their inspiration. That is joyful, unexpected and a bit scary. A bit scary, better than I could do. I couldn't even draw a stickman. But you could draw a stickman and most people can draw a stickman if they have hands and even if they don't. And loads of great art is made with stickmen. The point of art is to communicate and if you manage to communicate through stickmen then that is better than not being able to communicate through hyper-realism. There's plenty of people who are not able to communicate even though they are great artists. So even if you don't have hands, it seemed like a joke but it wasn't. We are subscribing to the Foot and Mouth Artist Association's Christmas card and that's people who don't have mobility or don't have hands and they can draw and they can paint and some of them are really good. A lot of them don't really communicate that much with their art because it is... But some of them do and that is really special and then that's the point. The technique isn't the point. I have worked a lot on my technical skills, sure. But the technical skill doesn't get you anywhere without also focusing on what you're communicating. Whether that be storytelling or it's more just in terms of moods or ideas you have to communicate something. Tips about drawing antlers. Yes, the best tip about drawing antlers is study antlers. It's not more difficult than that. If you want to draw antlers, then find pictures of antlers. Read up on antlers. Read how they form, why they form, like they do. Differences between different types of antlers. Then you draw them all and you draw first, you draw from photos and then you try to find the structures of drawing them and then that's what you do. Yo, YouTube's new features. What are YouTube's new features? I haven't paid attention. Short slimes. Yes, yes, yes. Whenever you press the go live, it says that doing it in the short format is preferred and that's also preferred for me because I can easily read from my phone like this. Beautiful ink art. Oh my God, I'm in live. Thank you. Short live is now a thing. Yes, and I'll try to keep this live short as well because I have a couple of other things I want to draw today before I make dinner for the wife and the kid. Just one kid at home today. When do you think you'll hit one million? I try not to think about it that much. It stopped at around a little bit below 300,000 for a while. Now it's growing. It would be very nice if it continued growing and reaching a million this year would be very nice. I would love that. But it's not just about the numbers. I do love the numbers. I like having the numbers high. It feeds my ego, but it is also about connection. So I would rather have a few loyal people, fans, followers that really connect with my art than have millions of years that are more casual. The idea is to try to grow in a way that is reflecting of my personality so that the people who follow me don't just follow me because I draw black metal art or they don't just follow me because I draw monsters. They don't just follow me because I talk politics or mental health or do storytelling. They follow me ideally for all of the things because they like what I do and they like that I do a lot of different stuff. This is the sweetest thing I've drawn in ages. It just happened this way. I had periods of my life where I've made my living more or less doing art for kindergartens and for birthday parties and stuff like that. That was a lot of art in this style. And that was not fun. That felt soulless and empty and it felt wrong. But switching it up and sometimes doing something unbearably cute feels just right. It is. I love this stuff. I just don't love it every day. Pink kitties, pink kitties. Why are you so cute and pink? What's t-o-t-k-k? Tears of the Kingdom. I love it. I don't know if I liked it as much as Breath of the Wild but I absolutely adored it. I need to do another playthrough or just try to get all the Koroks or something to figure out if I like it better than Breath of the Wild. But it's an amazing game to adore your art and information. Thank you. Can you draw monsters from Slavic mythology? One day I will do that but I need to research and do it proper like. But it has taught me so much about folk stories and myth but also about well-being and bettering oneself. That I must say, thank you. Thank you for saying. I must go for meditation. Have a great meditation. I suck at meditation but I do a lot of more casual mindfulness things in my daily life and there are meditative aspects of my art not that I get to do right now when I'm drawing for you guys but I've incorporated meditative techniques into my art for ages. It's been a focus since I was 17. In miniature wargaming we often paint the same style of minis for weeks but we need a different thing. I currently paint bones all the time then I painted an orc because I wanted to paint green. If I ever pick up miniature painting again I will be painting orcs because I like orcs. Your art style is so distinctive, I love it and this is kind of outside of my regular art style I would say, isn't it? Pink kittens isn't what most people follow me for I think maybe I've judged my audience wrongly. Have you ever drawn a dragon? Have I ever? Have I ever? Someone in the chat can probably answer that. Yes, I have drawn dragons. I've drawn so many dragons you wouldn't believe how many dragons I've drawn. I've drawn ridiculous amounts of dragons and some of my dragons are my most seen art and we're not just talking hundreds of thousands have been seen the videos but like tens of millions it's kind of insane how many have seen my dragon drawings. And I appreciate it very much. This is the best feeling to meditate within your expression. Yes, play music and it's flow and it's meditative. That is, Conan, what is good in life? To meditate and find the flow in the art you perform. That is good. Your dragons are kick-ass Kim. Thank you. New YouTube short live feature? Yes, they're pushing that so I oblige. That is more practical for me because then it's easier for me to read your comments as well. Let's just go all out with these cute kittens and then end the stream. Do I ever clean up my table? It's clean. No, it's not. Very occasionally. And I do. My wife despairs I get a little bit out of it if my drawing area is too clean. This messy is not good because I can't find anything but too clean is not good either because I get frustrated. Can't seem to find the flow when it's too clean around. So I need to find some sort of middle ground. Okay, I wanted to do a short live maybe just like 20 minutes but we've already gone to... We've already gone to 26 minutes but I'm done with this one and that will be my only image for today but I will stick around and answer a few questions if you have them and I will also say that if you like my art even if you like art like this then you should go to my web page den ungehardholm.com and use the promo code inktober23 for 20% off all October. If you want to support without buying anything you can go to kimholmblu to patreon.com slash kimholm to support with a monthly sum and if you don't want to use money but still want to support you can share my art. All my art is available for free use you can download it you can copy it you can even change it and sell it as long as you credit me as properly. Do I stream off live? This month I will be streaming every day I've been streaming every day so far and I'll try to keep that up all month with another Inktober is Pinktober painting drawing. Any advice for someone who wants to express their imagination through art but is high functioning? So we're talking about being a high functioning autistic or on the autistic spectrum my advice would be and this is hard for a lot of people who are on the autistic spectrum and it's hard for a lot of people outside of the spectrum as well but to play around to be silly to toy around with different art forms and mediums and once you find something you like then do your focus deep dive into that and learn everything you can about it and then go to the next thing and learn everything you can about that and don't worry about expressing yourself until you have something to express yourself with I mean there are two year olds out there that want to write poetry but their vocabulary isn't really good enough to write what they feel even though they feel very simple things but simple emotions are difficult but as you learn language you can express more and more and the same is true for art if you want to do stickman art you still have to learn your craft of how to express your ideas with stickman and that takes time and have fun play around find things you like and learn everything you can about them favourite animal rat or ocelot or cat or yeah animals are cool is Kim Diaz Holm your real name or an artist name? Kim Diaz Holm is my real name I was born Kim Holm and I married a Chilean and now I'm Kim Diaz Holm and yeah my biggest issue is not understanding objects in a treaty space I don't really understand objects in a treaty space I'm bad at treaty but you can still and that's another advice if there's something you really don't like drawing draw it a lot learn everything you can about it and then it will feel better to draw it you still might not like drawing it but you'll have the skill to do it without making yourself insane so if you don't understand objects in a treaty learn everything you can about perspective drawing okay the ability to bear one soul to the world is neither easy or quick it's joy of self-discovery well said good morning I'm making coffee and excited to catch you live but you're just at the end of the live and now I will bid you adieu and today we were drawing something very sweet and tomorrow the sweetest man on YouTube Scott Christian Savard at Savard will be joining me for a jewel live and heaven knows what we'll be drawing so do check in tomorrow at four o'clock Norwegian time and join me and Scott as we draw bye bye