 Good day and welcome to the free art show. My name is Kim Holm and I draw what you want me to and release it for free use under a creative commons license. So you can use it for anything you want. The way we do this is I have a list of suggestions and I will roll a dice, not that dice throw, but I will roll it later to see which suggestion wins and I will draw that suggestion and the person who suggested it will win this postcard. But new from this week, they have to contact me to get the postcard, okay? Okay, so let's go through the list. Number one is a suggestion from Minds.com. It is nonfiction suggesting a pirate riding a dinosaur, which is just a great image for any day. And then suggestion number two is from Instagram, is a Van Den Hende jewelry who I know from his work doing video on the Roadburn Festival, I think, who had a very cool suggestion. It is a blacksmith that is slumped over in his chair having fallen asleep during his tea break, which is a really exhausted blacksmith. And I thought for some reason that was a cool image. And then we have Aston R on Instagram suggesting that I will draw Hephaestus, having used his axe on Zeus helping Athena, with her, okay, so this was a complicated description, but Athena is born fully armored and grown out of Zeus head, but in order for the birth to take place, the blacksmith's god and the sort of technology god and fire god Hephaestus has to help with his axe. So that could be interesting. Then from Minds.com is children of Toth who wants me to draw a crucifixion, but drawn from a first person angle. That's a bit hellish. And then we have from Facebook, Martina wanting us to draw Cthulhu arising and looking down on a little kid on a cliff. So that's Cthulhu and the kid. And last but not least, we have Ruben from Facebook who wants me to draw today's silliest suggestion a zombie ballerina moose dancing on Mars or the moon. We can pick and choose. So those are our suggestions and let's roll the dice to see which suggestion wins. Number six, we're going silly. So Ruben, if you're watching this, contact me and we will get you this postcard. And now we will draw something silly. Kevin says, no Leshy. I suggest the Leshy again another week because I just, is the Leshy and Leshy from the Witcher games or are they from Slavic folklore? Because if they are from Slavic folklore then I will love to draw it. If they are from the Witcher games where I know them from then I can't draw them because they're copyrighted. So if you could enlighten me to that, then Leshy will draw like this today. So every week I get too many cool suggestions and I have to make some hard choices. And generally if your suggestion, let's not rush this. Let's do some sketching first. If your suggestion is a single word or a few short words then you might get chosen but there's a likelihood that I will choose someone who has done more with their suggestion. But something like a Leshy, which Kevin now informs me is from Slavic folklore I might choose that just because I haven't drawn one and they're cool. But this week we're trying to keep a balance of some cool suggestions, some silly suggestions, some dark, some light. And this week Leshy didn't make it onto the list. Now I'm trying to figure out how to do a zombie moose ballerina. Because the ballerina part is, I think it's supposed to be dancing as well. And the zombie and dancing is hard together because if you're going to draw a ballerina, you're going to draw the dynamic dynamic. Poses, but all the dynamic poses are quick as opposed to zombie movement, which is slow. Or if it's quick, it's still stilted. So I really need to figure out how to do that zombie ballerina moose dancing. But I need to make some sort of a movement with body that is zombie-like, but still dance-like. Kevin says, no problem. I also like the other suggestions. That's great. Every week I have to cut suggestions that I love. And sometimes it's because there's no viable way to draw them in between 45 minutes and two hours like a free art show usually is. I think I have thought about the moose long enough so we can begin. And we'll begin by suggesting a landscape. Oh, if it's on Mars, then it has to be in color. That's exciting. Okay, I think I'll, hmm, how should I approach this if it is in color? Okay, I think I have an idea. Now, this is the point where I might just fuck everything up at the very start of the show, but we're hoping that I won't. I will take some yellow, some good liquid acrylic and some cheap normal acrylic and we'll, we want it slightly more watery. And then we'll mix it with just a pinch of red and a pinch of black, some white. And hopefully we get a pretty good color out of that. This is the color mix we have. And I'll use a big brush here and I'll mix in a bit of red. That's good. Too much black, let's see here. And that's actually kind of good. Kind of what I was after. A little bit more red, a little bit more yellow. And this is our base color and we'll pour it on quickly and as dry as we can. We will mix a few red colors. We will mix one that has a lot of red and some black and some of the, but it's some of the yellowish, but it's pretty, pretty pure red. You get a lot of it and we'll make our first picture plane, our first foreground plane. That's all we need here. And then we'll use some more red, but we will mix it with good chunk of white, some blue. I think we will need more white than this, but let us see here. Yeah, and we actually, what we need is more red. Then we'll do our secondary, our background like this, some Martian mountains. Keep the lines nice and broken, which will be good. And then we will make just a pretty blueish with just a hint of the red, a bit more of a hint of the red and that's going to be the Martian skies. For some reason I'm mixing up Mars and the moon. Mars would have an atmosphere with different daytime and nighttime, but it's a zombie. It's a zombie moose ballerina on Mars, so it would be during nighttime. Okay, so now we have our basic Martian landscape. We can fix some of the edges, but we do want the looseness. We don't want to lose the looseness. I think this looks like a pretty good start. Just need to wash my brush. Always wash your brush, people. Personally I'm really bad at taking care of brushes and I've gotten a lot better at it, but I know that I will always be bad at brush care. So I've gone from buying expensive brushes to buying cheap brushes because then I don't feel as guilty. As guilty when I'm destroying the brushes one by one. I'm still always working on getting better and better brush care. Even with a crappy, that's a house painting brush, but even with that, show it some respect. And with a brush like this, which is sable here, and kind of expensive, with a brush like that, you have to really take care of it. Otherwise it's abuse. Okay, so now, Jesus, how am I going to do this? Now I will first draw the mousse in a mixture of black acrylic together with ink, black fluid acrylic, together with ink to make it more fluid, even more fluid than the fluid acrylic. And we'll use the sketch sheet here just to point, to shape the brush so it gives us the lines we want. And this is, since it's pretty dry acrylic, it's already starting to dry properly. So I can start drawing on it now. And I want the ballerina in this, it needs the antlers or the, what are they called on a mousse antlers? The mousse antlers will stick up here above the mountains and up in the Martian sky. But the mousse itself, I'm going to keep it silly, but yeah, it needs to have arms extended like it's going brains, but it's actually going boos, probably. And if you're watching this on YouTube, then I'm sorry about the bad audio quality. I just couldn't find the right chord. And I chose starting the stream in time above spending more time finding the right audio equipment, the right audio chord, I should say. That's the, and the mousse has a head like this and an ear there. And some big dead mousse eyes and the snout goes up here. And then the antlers or whatever they are called, actually go, one of them go down there and one goes like this. Okay, then I'll go in and... Does Mars have any moons? Anyone watching know if Mars has any moons? Because it would be great with moonlight from here. But I don't want to do it if Mars doesn't have moons. So we'll extend the legs a bit. He or she, he is tiptoeing and I can be very loose with the mousse anatomy because it's cartoony and because you can, generally the less familiar something is with, for the viewer, the looser you can be when drawing it. And they won't, like, who's going to point out an anatomical error on Cthulhu, for instance. No one. Okay, just one second. I need to just get a, oh wow, some stuff in quarter and these are pre-mixed acrylic mixes that I use instead of water when painting with acrylic so that I don't mix too much water in the acrylic and make it flaky. This is our basic and then we'll go in and do something that's closer to actual painting. It's starting to smell. Not the dead mousse, the acrylic mix. So what do I need now? I need some liquid white. I think we'll go with some more red, some yellow. Then we'll start mixing a lot of white, some yellow. I'll get something close to a skin color but what we really want is something using the blue that we already have on the palette, which is a more fitting zombie mousse color and it will stick out real well against the red Martian background. That is so far so good. Since I started focusing more on painting, I guess around last spring, really around last summer, I think I'm already getting better at a lot of the color theory stuff. Just figuring out what will work and what will not work together before I apply it on the paper. Which is kind of interesting. I guess that has never been a focus of mine, but suddenly it has to be. I think this mousse looks kind of cool. And we'll mix a new color up which is more towards the orange, still remaining even more towards the orange. Let's see here. True bright now. That's more what I'm going for. We'll use that bone-ish color on the antlers. They'll stick out nice against the blue sky. Also I need more of that color. It was a bit transparent. We want it nice and opaque. It can be a bit transparent in the shadows, but not on the highlights. We might go over with a highlight color as well. We'll use that color for the eyes and for the teeth. This is perfect. Hi-haw, says Morten Sander. Morten, could you check? Does Mars have any moons? I need an answer. Pronto. I can't fake an answer as well, but I would like to know. That Morten just gave us a very bad pun in our region. We love it. Should we do a highlight color as well? We'll do two highlight colors. We'll do one, which is basically just white and blue. We'll use that. There are a couple of touches here and there on the mousse, just to make it stand out from the background even more. Then we'll mix one that's almost the same, but this one is pink instead. The antlers, and actually, so it's only very slightly pink, but the wind says the planet Mars has two small moons, Phobos and Deimos, that probably are asteroids trapped by the planet's gravitation. Two moons, that makes it even more exciting. That's good to know. We'll make a shadow color that is just the green, mixed with more blue and some black, just to expand the shadows a bit here. Thanks for the answer, everyone. Then we will mix the blue and the red, and actually some white to make shadow number one, and then we'll mix it with, it takes the same mix, have a lot more red in it, so it's almost red, and then we'll do shadow number two, and we'll use those mixes to make some rocky formations here and there in the landscape, and we'll use the lighter mix, some white here, and we'll do some shadows behind, on the Martian mountains, keeping it very loose, just giving indications of what is behind there. And we're going to mix a yellow, and I need to wash my brush first. We're going to mix a yellow and red, and some of the white here to make a highlight color for some of these rock formations. Just a touch of stuff here and there, and we're going to align of it just about so, defining the space between the foreground and the background even more, and then we're going to take that same mix and put more white in it, and a touch of blue in it, even more white in it. So then we have something like that, even more white, but not more red, not more yellow, and then we'll have a nice highlight color for the background mountains. And why is there two shadows? Because, of course, there are two moons. Ooh, I've almost forgotten the tutu skirt itself, which should just be a nice clear pink. How bright can we get the pink? We don't need anything more than the pink. Isn't she lovely? He. It's a bull, elk bull. So, we'll expand the skirt a bit more, make it more extravagant. We have room for that, and we'll go in and do some shadows upwards. So, I need to pick up some of the shadow color again and just stretch some of these shadows more. And now we are going to switch to a bigger brush, not too big, and we'll fill in the night sky. And we're keeping it really rough. The idea is for those broken lines to create a sense of life and movement. And you can sort of, if you have time, you can plan it out in detail and do everything right. But if you're lucky, you can do it in a minute like this. And it will look okay. Yep, I think that looks okay. Then, I think I see that I need some more of that red, yellow, orangey highlight color. We'll just create some better sense of ground texture in the foreground. So I'm already starting to overdo a lot of stuff here. I'm sorry about that. But that's the way it goes. I'm talking about this almost every time, but it's always a struggle between doing too much and doing too little. And I'm not sure if too much is better, but too much is safer. It's really hard to do unsafe things once in a while. Now I'm just trying to put in a few details to make the mousse seem more sambaish. Also to finish the tutu skirt. And we're going to need some just a hint of blood here and there around the teeth. These details are probably hard to view on the camera, but when you see it in person, they sort of stand out. And I need a tiny little shadow for the pink as well. That was too much. Now I will pour more liquid or fluid acrylic. And first I will mix it with some blue and a tiny touch of red up here. Then we'll take the same mix and we'll do one moon around here. While we're waiting for that to dry, we will do some spatter. My favorite thing in the world. Spatter, spatter, spatter, spatter. Always spatter. We'll use a toothbrush. Just dip it and cover with my hand, but I really don't need to cover all that much because you just need it on the very top here. That's enough stars. Then I will mix a white that has just a tiny, tiny touch of yellow and red. I will get the blue out of the brush first. Just a tiny touch of yellow and red. Almost completely white. We'll start with a small moon which is not full. Then we'll start over to the big moon. I should have known about the Mars moons myself because I've played Doom. I've played a whole lot of Doom and that's taking place on the moons of Mars at least. The first one will make this more like a crescent moon. It will take away. I'm not sure that this is how the moons of Mars work but it's a look. Then I will go over with some white detailing here and there. Some white in the eyes. There! I do think we have a drawing. I'll sign it. A painting I would call this even. Somewhere between a drawing and a painting. It's a drawing! Goddammit! Ruben contact me and you'll get your free art show postcard from the introduction and the rest of you. 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