 Once again doing this format going live with my phone, but I really I couldn't figure out any other way to do it right now So we are going to do be doing some Some arts we're gonna be doing some arts some drawings I need to do a couple sketches for a couple people So I figured why not Have a little bit of fun and do that together and I can sort of see the screen I see Josiah and Matt how you guys doing hello everyone Uh, thank you for joining. I'll give everybody a little bit of time to uh Uh to gather your seats. Hey, it's comic tropes. Uh, hello. Uh, hey Chris Um, I apologize for not being able to stay very long for your live stream Um, uh, I I really hate missing stuff like that, but it's been you know, it's just been one of those weeks Um My my needed eraser is like crumbly I've had lots of needed erasers in my time, but They're not usually crumbly. What's happening there? Um, anyway, who we got? Hello, uh, Brandon and big gay Dave and mcdj acdc Um, I can I can mostly see Uh, the the live chat Uh, but I angled this so that I can I can draw As we are talking so Uh, oh, thank you comic tropes Um, uh, awesome. Thank you very much. Uh, thank you for the super chat And uh, we're going to attempt to draw a couple things here I'm going to try to draw, um falcon Uh, hello. I am falcon loot. That's lieutenant falcon to you Um, and I'm going to try to draw Uh a cobra officer. I did a cobra officer for a patron and I sent it and um, He indicated that he hadn't received it yet, although he should have received it by now Um, so just in case I'm going to draw another cobra officer Um, in case I need to resend it to that guy. Uh, as you guys know, uh, co Uh, joe fest. Oh, thank you. Um, who we got? Uh, hello, uh, victor and mike and mike All everybody's named mike. Hello all the mikes um Joe fest is coming up. Um, I will have a table there. Uh, I will be, uh, I will have some drawings available. Uh, hello, jeff Um, and I that's joe zaya again, but hello again And hello to exploriso so um I will have some artwork available. So I've got to do a lot more drawing. I've got to get a lot a lot more, uh, A lot more drawing done and I and I just managed to smudge um pencil on my Paper here, but I'm just going to use this to sketch out a pose real quick before I actually get started So I need to do a lot more artwork. I really really do Uh, so but we're going to get this started. Uh, these are for patrons. Uh, a couple patrons who Um are at the tier level where you can get a sketch Uh, so, uh, if if you would like a sketch, you know, check out patreon and you can get a sketch that way Um, otherwise, you know, come and see me at joe fest and I should have some there. Hello chad Uh, so I was just going to use this page to just kind of figure out a pose um Uh, this I don't know how well this is that's kind of showing up. Um For falcon Uh, I don't know. It's you know action poses that can sort of Uh become very samey, right? It's uh, it's hard to like come up with like a good new action pose Uh, but let's see if we can figure one out. Um Who we got um Okay, good. Good. I'm glad you can see um and and apparently you can hear too. That's awesome I love it when the audio and the video actually work. That's great. Um, so, uh, let me think for a second um If see if I have if I have his shotgun kind of across the chest like that it kind of covers up The um the details on the chest um I can have him, um Uh, see but well see I was thinking I was thinking like some some kind of dynamic like this would work But that would bring this arm over and that would also cover the details on the chest. Uh, thank you matt rubin Uh, will you be adding any more secret codes to your videos? Um, I don't know. That's a good question I really should um, but uh, but I haven't for a minute. Um, and Um, and I yeah, I I think I should I just uh, I've been so over focused probably on just getting The the videos done and keeping up with my schedule that I I haven't thought about like extra stuff like that um, but and also, um I know I missed last week, but um I know I missed last week, but um The video for this coming sunday is done Uh, and if you are on patreon, you will get your early access so, um So I'm getting back into the swing. I'm getting back into the schedule um, but um, uh, I think like maybe the next video after that I can put a code in it or something Uh, hey the photo viper made it on time. Awesome. Um Uh, see maybe you can uh have the figures pose and model It's uh, maybe not a bad idea um Let's see. Well, um See like, okay Here's the ultimate action. Hello, uh sergeant slaughter slaughterhouse. Nice to see you. Here's the ultimate action pose knees bent You know these pretty much for you know, that's pretty much all you need You know as long as your knees are bent. You're you're ready to spring into action, right? um Oh, I did want to say, um, I did the unboxing the donation unboxing from Of everything that I got in the p.o. Box during the month of march Uh, so you should see that tomorrow. Thank you to everyone who sent stuff. We sent I got a lot of stuff um, thanks to brandon and to uh, chris comic tropes who are in here and uh, did send things So thank you guys So, uh, yeah, look for that tomorrow. I am really really trying to get back into the swing of doing videos. Um Uh, I just you know, I needed a little bit of a break. I took a little bit of a break But uh, yeah, I need to get back into it. So Um Falcon has a shotgun here and he should grip it here. He should grip it here, but it's got this huge handle It's got this huge handle uh This huge grip It's kind of even in the wrong place Um, so let's all right. Let's figure something out here. Let's figure something out. Um I want I want him there for reference. I do have I do have the accessories somewhere Um, or the other accessories the backpack and whatnot. I've got that um But let's get this let's get this sorted out. I can't I don't I can't just spend all day talking about it I need to get this this sucker done. So we've got, you know, the basic torso Um And the card art just the card art is kind of like this. Yeah, it kind of has his shotgun kind of slung kind of low Um, but I don't want to copy the card art. Um I'm seeing okay, how about this? Um Um, how about uh Uh Let's see how about um See, I should have done this before starting the live stream Uh, that would have been smart. Uh, that's what smart people do. Uh, but um Let's see. Um, I think I'm going to go with Um, I think I'm gonna have him like in a bit of a running pose. Um, kind of a jog Um with like The shotgun this way Um That's going to be a little bit tricky, but let's see if we can make it work. Um Let's see if we can make it work. I'm just going to slide this over here So I can keep an eye on it. Uh, and let's see Let's try to keep this in frame in focus Um, who we got here? Hello sparkster. Nice to see you. Hello rob. Uh, thank you very much for being here rob and thanks for all you do um, and uh, I think I already said hello to mcdj acdc, but hello again anyway um, let's um See what I'm thinking is like This is going to be light for a second. So you it probably won't show up too well But I'm just trying to block this out. Also, I'm I'm not at a good angle Look, there's a reason that drawing tables are like at an angle. It's without the page at at an angle It's very easy to uh warp the uh The perspective And get the proportions off Um, but we're gonna do the best we can here. Um, I'm just gonna angle it a bit so I can get a better view of it Um Let's see. I'm gonna have him kind of looking off that direction I want enough space to fit the whole body in here So like this, um left shoulder back a bit right shoulder forward a bit kind of uh Open shoulders there Okay, like so And Let's see forearm Shotgun Kind of at an angle um Arm kind of going back and then forward Judding a bit And then he's gonna be all right. So that So the left leg is gonna be forward since the right arm is forward the left leg is gonna be forward And then the right leg will be trailing a little bit Knees And foot Why that's that's sort of it, right? Okay, uh, all right. Let's let's see if we can block this out a little bit and Make this Work, let's see Let's see if you can see any of this Let's see. So the shotgun will be kind of like that Okay, just something Something kind of like this All right, uh, can you see can I don't know you probably can't see that you'll see it better once I start Sketching in some of the details Um, so anybody else new? Uh, let's see um Who would um fans of this channel be called? Uh cgs cgs. Uh, sometimes I've used seven eight eighters. Um, that's not the most creative name It's uh, you know It's hcc years eight hcg years. Um Uh, yeah, you know something like that. Okay, so now that I've kind of kind of blocked out Uh the proportions a little bit I can sort of work in the details and try try to um Yeah, this I have a kneaded eraser, but this thing is like dried out. It's like the worst kneaded eraser I've ever had It was cheap I can see why it was cheap um, all right, so He's got his beret Head goes kind of like that Head tilted back, but he's going to be kind of looking off to The side a little bit a little bit of side eye I do like, you know having a character kind of looking off to the side of the page. It's uh, it feels a little bit more dramatic and dynamic And and I I am trying to keep um Keep an eye on the live chat. I do apologize um, I can't always Draw and read at the same time But I will try to keep track of what you guys are chatting about Uh, so Yeah, uh, so yeah, and I'm I'm I'm a little rusty when it comes to uh to the drawing, you know Um I don't do it nearly as much as I should Uh to stay in practice I I had been doing better, you know, uh for for a couple years there I had kind of um Uh kind of kept uh I give him a little snarl kind of kept in practice But it's one of those things where you kind of have to practice um So we've got the beginnings of a face coming in there got the beginnings of a face Um, but man, that is tricky now. I'm I've got the figure here and I know he's got this kind of uh neck cover. So let's let's sketch that in Give him some good detail Or at least try to anyway that is tied like that um, let's see Well There we go Um All right, and we got a you know kind of sketches sketch in his uniform a little bit. We know that he has He's got some uh Some straps here got some Load bearing equipment there. Oh, yeah, we got he needs his um, where to put that backpack He needs his uh his radio pack His radio antenna Come along Like like so And let's see He's got his sleeves rolled up You know Because he's a working man. He's got to roll up his sleeves and get down to business um Hello jls. How you doing? Thank you very much for joining Uh, and I'm sure I've missed uh folks coming in. I I'm sorry for for uh Uh missing you if you came in the live chat. I didn't see it But hello to everyone who is here um We're we're getting it here. We're we're working on it So it's gonna be like so Uh, let's see. Let me take a look at this. So he's got this like radio um Like a cb radio, uh microphone here, uh, and the that antenna is supposed to like go Under this shoulder, that's a little tricky that that's going to be a little bit busy there, but Uh, we'll just make it work and then he's got a knife right here And And like yeah clasps there Like so and in this, um, he's got this You know this device thing this this doohickey Oh, and that's we he's got a pouch. We gotta draw in the pouch Something like that And then he's got that whatever the thing is Like so Uh, and then Yeah, we've got like shirt buttons. Okay. So that's sort of coming together Um, uh, thank you Josiah for the super chat. Um, I'm pretty sure falcon had the coolest voice actor Well, he certainly was cool Um I mean, you know, he that was a big star, you know At the time Let's see he's got a patch there. I probably won't be able to get all the detail in the patch but we're gonna We're gonna sketch it in anyway So like so Getting these the angle on these arms will be a little bit tricky, but let's let's figure it out Let's let's figure it out Um Let me set that aside for now. Let me take another Look at at an angle Uh, having the camera set up here is a little bit on the tricky side, but Uh, we're making it work. We're just gonna make it work. We're gonna make it work Okay, so Kind of uh arm goes like that And like That And then we got a like he's got to have fingers gripping The handle that is bad. That's terrible. Why did it? Why'd you guys let me draw a hand like that? Why didn't anybody stop me? You guys are supposed to stop me from like drawing poorly Um hands are are tricky. They are complicated to draw and get right uh lots of it like When they're done, right they they look fine, but they're very very easy to to get wrong and And they look terrible, uh, so So we're gonna have like a trigger finger, but not inside the trigger guard. It's gonna be like outside of the trigger guard You and then like yeah something like that and then he's got the knuckles And he's got um He does have a watch, but it's on the other wrist And okay, so let me try to get that forearm a little better. Just get the form of it um, all right, so Like so and then a thumb is gonna come out here And like so about got it About got it. Okay, so I'm gonna I'm gonna sketch in that shotgun a little bit Because that just looks like it's gonna be a pain Uh, so, you know, I have another one. Hold on Why why why am I gonna risk? Breaking the figure's thumb when I can just pull another one out and uh, kind of look at that for reference um, so Uh, see what else is going on while I'm doing this, um It is Tuesday. That means there is a new um Episode of half the battle This time a timber went to a comic and toy fair in belgium So, you know, that's that's fun and I'm totally drawing that wrong Well, I what look I'm I'm holding the audience responsible for me drawing something incorrectly um So, um Yeah, so guys, you know, just jump in there if I'm drawing something wrong. You got to you got to stop me. You got to let me know You know help me out here So this this part needs to go a little bit more. I am not drawing this this erroneous grip here Because it just doesn't make sense And I will be sacrificing some detail in the shotgun because I have to But And this isn't like a fully rendered illustration. It's supposed to just be a sketch But even as a sketch, I'd like it to be, you know It's somewhat detailed and feel a little bit finished so We're gonna we're gonna make a little bit of effort here to Uh make the shotgun a little bit good Without with you know without going overboard Uh, so okay, uh, what's we got going on? Uh, rob vegas, um, must be something about wearing a beret and carrying a shotgun Yeah, um Yeah, like flint did that too, right? So I think maybe it's a gi joe thing if you're wearing a beret that just issue you a shotgun All right, so That is you know, I drew a the left hand Almost pretty good almost pretty good um But at that angle that angle there didn't make any sense All almost pretty good Okay, so thumb there Shot gun barrel Little sight at the end I'm doing this without A straight edge Because I like to live dangerously um Let's draw a happy gun. Yes It's a happy little happy little shotgun Um, okay Uh, we are going to we're gonna say that's good. Um, it probably isn't But um, you know, it's close. I just think I drew it a little bit too thin I just need to Expand that a little bit make it look a little meatier And we've about got it Yeah, that's acceptable That's acceptable Okay, so, uh, my lead is getting a little bit dull. I'm gonna sharpen it sharpen it here real quick Um Going to try to notch Get lead shavings on my paper Let's see how well I do Uh turbo says used to draw TMNT. That's cool Uh There we go Try to not knock it out so I can't see the angle Okay, okay, so Let's let's let's continue. Let's carry on. So, uh, here we have a belt It's a pretty thick belt With pouches and and whatnot. It's a good looking belt. I like it Uh But I you know, I like this figure just in general Uh, let's see. We are going to make this pouch just a little bit bigger than it appears on the figure itself Just because I want to Because I feel like it Uh, okay, so there's the belt Strap goes there strap goes there Not too shabby Still gotta work out some of the angles on a couple of these things Uh, but you know, we're we're making progress there. Like I said, I'm a little rusty. Okay It's it's been a little while since I've done significant drawing. Uh, all right, so the uh Like the shirt tail of his bdu uniform kind of comes out under the belt like so okay, and um Let's see on his legs Let's see right like he has a flashlight And a pocket left like he has just a pocket Okay, so Let's see and I got to remember that that left leg Is angled back. I think I'm about to give up on this thing The left leg is angled back a bit. So I have to keep that in mind It's supposed to be the right leg forward or I'm sorry the left leg Well, I can I'm getting my left and right confused. So the right leg is angled back Like this There's the flashlight on his leg and I'll just kind of draw the pocket in there too And so and then the The lower Uh, right leg is Going to kind of fade back There's the the boot line and A boot Uh, somebody said oh cyclonus. Hello. Hi cyclonus. Hello, beta ray bob. Nice to see you And I don't want to overdo that boot About got it about got it And let's say now let's uh, let's sort out this uh Uh, this left leg which is going forward There's the pocket knee and then Left boot and then the okay. So this is a running pose. So This boot we're gonna see just a little bit of the bottom of the boot as he You know thrusts his left foot forward In a running motion Uh laces On the front and a canvas side on these boots these old vietnam era jungle boots I used to have a pair of boots like that. I remember as a kid. I got some at the Uh army surplus and I thought they were the coolest things ever You can keep your your nikes You can keep your adidas Uh, you know you you can keep your uh your rebox Uh, just give me some Uh olive drab canvas side side jungle boots And i'm happy. Okay, so There and you know, he has like a knife in his backpack. Sorry. You can't see that He has a knife in his backpack Uh kind of like Like that. You can only see the the handle of it though Okay, you know that you know that's good enough for the girls I go out with Uh, let's uh, let's start um finishing this up a little bit and making this A completed sketch this is going well, uh, it's going better than I thought But we have two to do in our Livestream and I think I'll just try to keep the livestream going until I finish The second sketch which may go a little longer than an hour We'll see So, yeah ears He's got his brown hair Under his hat That's that's usually where you keep your hair You know if you're wearing a hat You know that the hair usually goes under it usually I suppose in theory it could go the other way But uh, but usually if the if you're wearing a hat and your your hair if you have hair You might not have hair But if you have hair and you're wearing a hat if the if the hair Isn't under the hat you you're probably wearing the hat wrong You should probably talk to a hat consultant About the proper way to uh, you know wear a hat Um, okay All right, we gave him a little snarl there All right, that's there's how the face is coming in It's hard to get to draw at this angle. It's also hard to show you guys at this angle Need a writing stand that may help. Yeah, it would definitely help The difficulty this evening is uh, both drawing and getting this This here camera at an angle where you can see it I have done this a couple of times and I've tried it a couple different ways Um, but I'm not entirely satisfied with any of the camera angles that I've had So this is what we're going with this evening Uh, and we'll just make it work Uh, let's see So we can use the uh, this little Um bandana thing he has tied around his neck To imply some motion To imply some motion and some depth. What do we got? Oh brandon? Thank you next to the live stream do a gijo choose your adventure That uh, maybe what we are doing. I don't want to spoil anything. I don't want to give it away But I do Have something of a plan For next week's live stream Um, but I can't do it this week. So this week we are doing some sketches And I needed to do the sketches anyway. So, you know, we're killing two birds with one stone here Uh, hello, eric nice to see you. Oh, I didn't see cobra island come in. Hello cobra island. Uh, welcome So let's uh, let's get this little CB radio thing that he has This is when he needs to call bj and the bear Uh, what's this? Oh josephia, uh, was valcan tunnel rat chuckles outback law and order and the renegades I think 1987 was the best, um year For figures and less cobra law are counted Uh negative. Yeah, uh, there were some really good figures that came out in 87 That that is absolutely true. Uh some some favorites of mine Um and tunnel rat. I just think tunnel rat is um an excellent figure Uh and valcan, you know, um There was a lot of strangeness in that era a lot of weirdness But there was a lot of really grounded stuff too Uh, so it was a mix, but you know, it may be worth it to get Uh figures like falcon that were so reminiscent of like, um The the classic gi joe the uh Like the 1960s 12 inch military era Um green beret That's that's what makes me think of anyway So this wire for the microphone is gonna kind of come over like that Uh, let's see. Let's try to make it look a little bit more like a microphone And then there's this knife That comes up like that Like so and like so and Like so There is one skill that I used to have. I don't know that I still do um for whatever You might have thought of my Uh The art itself, you know, whatever you thought might think of my artistic virtues Um at the very least I could draw fast You know, I always had that going for me and I I figured if I go in if I ever went into the field If I ever became a commercial artist at least At least I'd be able to to make deadlines. So that that's something right. Uh, thank you chris. Thank you very much Um I've had the privilege of being able to watch you draw Uh many times and I think that's a great idea. I think that's a fun thing Uh to do for a live stream is something that I probably should have done Myself But I think it's a fun activity Uh because not only can we talk live like this It also produces something at the end of it that we have all sort of been for, um The creation so I think it's a fun idea. It's a good idea and I'm totally stealing that idea right now Uh, so yeah, that's me basically ripping off all the ideas I can find Let's see here Let's try to get this hand. I I feel like and I already am I'm smudging I'm smudging some of the Drawing here, but we're going to try to get it without smudging it too much that um That's always been one of my problems is um smudging Drawings with the edge of my hand as I rest it on the page um, that's you know, I really shouldn't do that Um and like if you're an experienced artist you you probably don't Uh, but that's just something that I've always struggled it with without any good excuse um, one thing that I used to do and what I probably should be doing this evening is oops is um Using a second sheet of paper to kind of cover The lower half of the drawing while I work on the the upper half So that I can Just not smudge the The pencils Maybe I'll do that with the next one. I should have thought of that with this one um, so Like so um, now I did You know, I've done Some artwork in the past. I've uh Done a little bit of professional artwork not very much But you know, I did I did go to school for this I I've I have had some formal training Um Here's a little completely irrelevant trivia for you You know, I'm a fan of the the new england patriots football team They they had and I assume they still had have a podcast Called pfw in progress pfw was patriots football weekly It was the team newspaper and the the writers for the team newspaper They would do a little uh daily podcast There was a guy on the show By the name of eric who was also an artist And made a little video of himself about his art And the video starts with him saying the words I've had no formal training um So yeah, it starts with the words. I've had no formal training and then uh the next couple minutes of the video talks about the formal training that he's had I always found that amusing All right, there we go Let's see, but I have had formal training. So I I don't have quite as much of an excuse. You know what I'm saying It's got a a thumb there That looks odd, but I don't know where else to put it or how else to do it So, you know, we we we do the best we can We do the best we can we remember old sandy's rule It's good enough for the girls I go out with and that's that's That's the approach we take to it. There there has to be a good enough factor to this If I were doing this in a professional capacity um I would absolutely have to Have to figure it out, but we um We are we're working with what we got here. We're doing the best we can with what we have And let's see here Uh, let's see here One thing that I've never been great at Uh, well, I mean it used to be better than I am now, but uh, but shadows just, you know, simple shadow work Um, which is really not that hard But uh for me it is because for me everything is hard Uh, I'm gonna actually make that pouch bigger even bigger than it is. There we go Uh, and oh, sorry about that. I've kind of ignored the the live chat for a minute Uh, what how's everybody everything going? Hey, it's codename new to ver 2. How are you doing? Good evening to you. Uh, very glad you're here um Would gi joe win or who would win gi joe or power rangers? Well, I think I think power rangers have an unfair advantage given that they have like hooby juby, uh magical alien technology or whatever um, but gi joe has the uh Uh the skill the expertise and I I think you know, I think gi joe would win Uh, I I just think they're they're uh, they're training and experience Ultimately would would win the day That that's my belief that's I'm going with that I'm going with that Uh, so yeah power rangers they they can get in their giant robots, but you know what gi joe has vehicles too Vehicles that could take down giant robots Potentially All right, um, I haven't even thought about like the camouflage pattern on this guy. Anyway, this is how it's coming Yeah, there you go Uh, I'm sorry just checking in, um What are we drawing? I'm drawing. I'm I'm hopefully gonna do two drawings. I've got falcon Um, and I'm gonna try to draw a cobra officer So we're working on falcon and I'd say we're about halfway done or so I'm just uh taking the rough sketch and then kind of Uh flushing that out a bit Uh, let's see something like that Something like that something like That Okay, you know it's sort of coming together. So we've got the flashlight detail He's got the flashlight On the leg and actually I think I need to add a bit more detail to that. So let's Let's let's yeah, let's I think that flashlight would be a bit more Visible on the leg at that angle. So let's uh Let's do that. Okay. All right. I feel better about that. I feel better um So let's uh Clean that up just a little bit Something like that Um, I just I feel like I want to get this boot a bit better Feel like that's better Let's get the outline Something like that there I feel not terrible about that Could be worse Let's keep that in mind. It could be worse all right So yeah, I'll I'll uh, I'll put a camouflage pattern on this guy here before we're done So now we've got a forward thrust leg for the right leg because he is in a running pose I tell you what I will need to do though is I will need to take a brief comfort break between drawings here So you guys may have to wait for me just for a little bit. Uh, hello Jeffrey I don't think I said hello to you, but hello. How you doing? Um Quinn and the Arctic set. Okay. Yeah, um, I was been curious about the Quinn and the Arctic set I was not in a position to um I was not in a position to get it when it was out um, but um But I was very curious about it Uh, so let's let's sort this out. Hold on. So this this Boot needs to be about like that Let's uh Let's clean that up a little bit Something like that. Um That's how she's coming together. Uh, I really should have finished this backpack out while my hand was up here Gotta I gotta pay attention to that stuff. Uh, think of it at like a scanner I'm just kind of scanning top to bottom I'm not supposed to go back up to the top. That's how you get uh smudgy pencils Um, let's see. Let's see. There's that Uh, now that's gonna be like Something like this Like that And then it comes up like that And then it'll be likes there's his uh His communications antenna Uh, gotta do that belt buckle a little bit better There we go Now let's let's try let's try not to to screw up this This foot here Um, and I'm I'm depending on everybody here in This live chat to not Let me screw up this This foot Um That that's that's awful. See that's what I'm talking about guys. That's what I'm talking about. Why why you why you let me do that? um, so the heel And it's it's gonna it's gotta come like in and back out and then The outside of the foot is there And then we've got like the sole of the boot and then the toe And then like there's a heel and there and there's a tread and then I've really got to clean that up I've really got to clean that up. That's that's pretty bad, but I can I can fix it. I can fix it There are no no mistakes just happy accidents somebody famous said that and uh Nobody famous ever said anything that was incorrect. So You know, that's what we're sticking with I'm gonna kind of put the suggestion the hint Of boot laces. In fact, I need to do the same on here Like so, all right, let's clean that up a little bit Clean it up a little bit. I'm being a little a little too Bold and confident with my line work here Um, and I think I think I need this lead is a little bit soft. So let's so let's sharpen her up here just for a second Uh, how's everybody doing? How the hell are you? It's taco tuesday. Hope you're doing well Uh, did anybody actually have tacos today? I did not have tacos Uh, let's see. Uh, there we go. Sorry Offscreen here just for a minute just uh Get a little sharpening done All right There Okay, so let let's let's clean that up Now I've got a nice sharp Pencil and I can do that much better now Yeah, something like that Sort of works Sort of So that's gonna be The underside A little bit of tread there Like so All right, that's sort of works. Um, okay now. I feel like all I really need to do is um Get a camouflage pattern on here and we've basically got a falcon more or less Uh, let's see. Yeah, I feel like we need a little bit more detail there and here Uh, let's let's kind of outline that patch a little bit because that will get lost in the camouflage if I don't So let's kind of do our our squiggly camouflage lines That's how we do camouflage in gi jo. Oh, except it's tiger stripe camouflage. Let's sharpen those lines a little bit So remember it's tiger stripe camouflage A uh a true Vietnam era Uh green beret special forces throwback The tiger stripe camouflage Let's uh, let's get that on there Like so Like so there we go We're getting it. I can also use the the tiger stripe to sort of add to the illusion of of uh depth and dimension On the legs Like so Like so All right, I think I think that's gonna do it. I think if I do anymore, it's gonna be overdone I think I gotta know when to stop here and that's I think that's it. Um, let's see Yeah, you know, it's you can tell it's a person You know, you can tell it's a human being and in my book That's a win. Uh, so let me uh, let's see And we are in april 2022 Oh, that's uh Hcc 788. Okay, so there is Drawing number one I'm gonna let you guys stare at that just for a minute So that I can take a short break and uh Make myself feel a bit more comfortable and I will be right back talk amongst yourselves Thank you very much guys. I will be right back. I don't know if you can get a good. There isn't a good angle. Anyway There's that and there's there's falcon. I'll be right back and we will start drawing a cobra officer Hang loose for me Okay, I am back. Uh, yes, I did wash my hands. Thank you very much Uh, let's see glasses Um See who we got we still got cobra island. Uh, we've got Who do we have I can't read that because I can't see anything Thane woods and hey diana davis is here. How you doing? Now. Thank you for joining. Hello, rhodomus Thanks everybody for being here So, uh, we're we're setting aside falcon. Uh, that is going to go to a patron. Hope they like it and We're gonna try a cobra officer. Uh, this is a redo in case the guy who Ordered the cobra officer And who for whom I already drew a cobra officer Doesn't get it because I did send it out but things unfortunately do get lost in the mail. So In case that guy doesn't do it get it. I'm gonna redo it and resend it to him if I have to Anyway, uh, let's figure out a pose for this here cobra officer The file card has a pose kind of like You know the with the ak 47 kind of out here in front And he's got kind of double bent knees kind of like that Um, and that's fine. Um There's nothing wrong with that. Um I just don't want to directly copy the the card art. Oh, I'd like to do something a little different Um, but let's see. He's an officer. You know, I could have him standing at attention, right? I could do a totally non dynamic pose and just have him basically like, um Standing with Uh, you know with his with his rifle down or with his rifle up something like that um And that see that reminds me kind of of uh, the Uh herb trippy artwork in order of battle um kind of Just a simple Simple drawing like that which is great actually for for that purpose for kind of showing off the uniform and just how The figure or how the character kind of looks Um, so that's not also not a bad idea. Um I can The thing is like if you if you do like super dramatic poses like if I have him like Lunging forward and in like a a full tilt run like This arm forward with rifle, you know, we've got a Um, you know a knee forward As he's running forward this that's like a super Uh dramatic pose But like it covers up a lot of the uniform you would the uh rifle would be over The lower part of the chest and the belt, you know, you don't get any of the leg detail Uh, so even though that is like if I were drawing a comic book panel That would be a nice dramatic pose But drawing a sketch for a dude, uh, who wants to see his cobra officer that that may not may maybe he isn't the best so Um, let's think about this for a second Um, and I know yeah the we've been here pretty much an hour already, but I'm just going to keep going until um Turning him just into a scar face from the early comics. Hey, that's not a bad idea That's not a bad idea. You know to to that end What I could do Um, if I could do a like a torso I usually when I do a sketch I usually do Like the a full body sketch um Um, but if I did like a torso Just like waist up Then I could um I could get more of a close-up On the face and like show off the scar face um Maybe we'll do that and then we can like zoom in a little bit on the On the rifle get some of that detail as well um Let's yeah, let's let's break the mold a little bit. Let's let's uh, let's depart from our typical routine And um, let's do a sketch. Um, oh, thank you for the super chat bubble wrap memories. Uh, stop drawing. I received. Oh, okay, cool Um, uh, that's awesome. Well, hey, if it's okay with you, I'll just I'll just draw anyway Um, I'll just do it anyway um Uh, let's see Let's sharpen this a little bit again and uh Um, so I'm I'm really glad you got that. I'm really really glad you got it. Um in that case I'm still gonna draw it because you know, I I I said I would Um, what I'll do though is I will make this the first of the sketches that I draw Uh to bring with me to joe fest. I will have a table there. I will have some sketches there um, I will I got a table in artist alley. Um, that's I will be selling art there, but there will be like actual professional artists Um in that area. So uh, if you want, you know, really good professional artwork You'll have plenty of choices if you'd like an amateur dude, you know um Just just doodling, you know If you I got I've got you covered there. I've got you covered there But regardless of if you pick up any artwork or not, I hope if you are at joe fest that you will come and say hello As with the 2019 Joe fest, I will have a card For everyone to sign because I want to remember everyone that I meet at joe fest as part of the uh The fun of the convention for me and I've I've always gone to conventions for Uh, the people that I'm able to meet and connect with there. I've really never gone for Uh, like convention exclusives. I know those are big and and some people like go really for that That's the thing that they want. Um codename new two vero two um We'll be flying in and driving over from florida Uh need a help assistant be more. Hey, that's cool. So uh codename new two vero two Is coming out that is awesome. It'll be really cool to meet you in person. I'm looking forward to that very much um, so Let's do this And I I may I'm uh Speaking of assistant. I I might very well Uh be able to use one. Um, I will I should in theory at least have my my daughter with me Uh, and you know, she she could very well Uh help out as an assistant. She could that doesn't mean that she will Uh, so we'll you know, we'll see about that. Um But yeah, um, uh hitting the dealer floor was also a really big, uh deal for me. No pun intended. Um I I always I've I've always been able to find really good deals. Uh, let's see. I see a super chat What we've got all those cartoon kids don't know, uh who um You comic kids are talking about with scarface unless uh, he looks Um more like chuckles scarface scarface a very famous Cobra officer kind of a special agent Uh who was distinctive because he had like a v-shaped scar in front of his uh, or um along his eyes and um Yeah, it's not a character. I mean he was a very important character um when he was in the comic book, but Uh, he it wasn't an action figure. So you know what that means, you know, he's he's destined to to to be killed Uh, and that's exactly what happened to him. Uh, he he met his demise um But um, I've told this story before but when when I was a kid my friends and I Uh had this uh belief that there was this kind of urban legend that was going around that there there was a scarface action figure that some of the Uh cobra officer action figures Uh, if you look closely at them, you you can find you could find figures that had That had the scar Uh, you just have to like look really closely, but there would be Allegedly, there were some Cobra officer figures with scars kind of sculpted on them And we we sure looked for it We didn't find it. Um One reason we didn't find it is it doesn't exist But you know, it's just it's one of those sort of playground legends that kind of sprung up Uh, among me and my friends That there was a mystery Scarface figure um In the stores That we just we just never never found um, in fact like well, um Before I actually got back into Um collecting gi joe, you know, I I had found yo joe.com and I kind of browse it a little bit You know just kind of take a little trip down memory lane um Remembering the figures that I had remember the toys and vehicles that I had Seeing the ones that I didn't have and kind of wish that I had um, but it wasn't really until then that I had Basically irrefutable confirmation that the scarface um Cobra officer figure did not in fact actually exist Um, I think I think I kind of knew that I think I kind of figure that out but um But you know that stranger things have happened, you know, there are variations of figures that make it out there uh, but um, but not that one not that one that was uh um One that did not exist now. There there there is a modern scarface figure Of in the uh, I believe that's in the it was in the 25th anniversary line and um, Jeff Adams, one of my favorite canadians Sent me that figure and that was really cool That was like an actual scarface figure um The figure of legend, of course, it wasn't it was a modern figure. It was not the 25th anniversary Or that wasn't that like I'm sorry the vintage o-ring style figure But still the point is it was really trippy and kind of cool To have an actual star scarface figure in my possession Like a real one So yeah, that was that was pretty awesome But we're gonna we're gonna attempt to do scarface here Uh, let's see. Let's kind of mark out where the cobra emblem is going to be. Um, let's see what we got Codename newtuber or two been meaning to ask maybe You address this when you Realize you had this when did you realize you had this talent? Did you work on it? Any aspirations of creating your own gi joe comic? Uh, that's a fair question. Um, I I mean I was drawing A lot from an early age And when I was 18 I went to art school in Dallas Dallas, Texas Because that's really what I thought that I wanted to do as a career That that that really was that was my expectation is that I would be a comic book artist or some other kind of A commercial artist That didn't work out for a variety of reasons um I won't go into them not because they're so private but because There there are a lot of reasons that that didn't work out Um, but you know, occasionally I'd still pick up the pencil just to kind of keep my keep my hand in um And I I actually had not drawn anything for quite a while. Um Uh, I I I dabbled a bit in some comic books I had a couple web more than a couple I had a few web comics back when web comics were you know, just becoming popular and were becoming a thing Um, one of which was kind of a gi joe clone Um Let's see. Now the helmet the helmet is important. I gotta try to get the helmet right Uh, let's see. It's something like Let's see and it's gotta come up like Yeah, something like that. Okay um But uh, you know, I There was a lot going on I couldn't keep up the web comics. There's just it was just too much Uh, but at least I was drawing and then I really didn't do anything after that for quite some time um Life goes on many twists and turns, you know, I I go to law school Um in law school. I pick up gi joe again. I actually start actively collecting. Um, I that's when I uh Encountered, uh form bx257's videos Uh, I'll still love Kevin. I hope he's doing well. He's been kind of uh MIA But um But I was a big fan of Kevin and I started collecting again Uh, and I then I started doing videos and then I was like, yeah, you know I haven't drawn anything for a long time And I decided to kind of pick it back up again and give it a give it another shot give it a whirl um and um Even though I have had some formal training, um, that was a long time ago Uh, and I still remember some of it like there there's still some, you know Basic graphic design skills that that I still draw on that were kind of drilled into my brain Way back then and like what the hell year was that it was like 1994 or something like that Gosh, that was a long time ago um But um, so that it does help it does help so i'm not exactly starting from scratch But you know, I i'm not I'm not as practiced as I once was um like, uh One thing that I one thing that I've decided when I started drawing again and kind of doing gi jo sketches related to my gi jo channel Is um, I decided I wanted to keep it on the fun level like I could I could get a bunch of, uh Professional tools um, I did have an art table at one point, but Uh, I didn't I when I moved here. I didn't have enough room for it. Um, but um I I didn't want to Turn it into like something that I did Um professionally I I didn't want to devote quite that much time to it I just wanted to have fun with it and I wanted to enjoy it and I wanted to draw things that I liked um So yeah, I I kind of made that choice the choice that I made was I'm first of all, I'm going to draw I want to draw I want to draw more and I I want to be reasonably good at it but I'm I I do know what kind of dedication and commitment it takes to to draw at a professional level Uh, that is really bad. Um to draw at a professional level and I just I I'm not prepared to put that much time into it Um, and that's one of the reasons why I have a lot of respect for those who do Uh, it it takes You know, it takes some uh, some real work to Make a living as a professional artist And I have all the respect in the world for those who Take on that commitment and actually do it. That's Uh, that takes some serious chops And a lot of work So kudos to those guys for that I I have all the admiration in the world for it Um, and I and I'll say you know, I'll say this. Um Take your Rob Liefelds. All right I am of the opinion that your Rob Liefeld is not Really a what you call a good artist He has a style But I feel like his style is Based less on artistic choices and more on the limitations of his skill Um, but having said that I mean the guy's still drawing You know, the guy's still working professionally Uh, he's got people who who like his work uh who who buy his work and um I you know that That in itself is an accomplishment and I can't take that away from the guy Um, so Yeah, so I even even your Rob Liefelds as much as his art And his style are not for me Um, I I still have to give him respect and props for Being able to make a living in a really difficult field Let's see. Uh I'm trying to get the angles on these straps here Uh, let's see How are we doing in there? I haven't been able to look at the at the live chat in a minute How how's everybody going? How is everybody doing? We've been going for an hour and 16 minutes not too shabby not too shabby. I'll just kind of Suggest the lower half of the body here And kind of a belt there And so on okay, it's taking shape. It's taking shape that is That's really hard to see at that angle. It's it's taking shape Um It's it's it is awkward drawing at this angle. I'm not gonna lie. It's it's a little awkward drawing at this angle But we're we're we're figuring it out We're getting it So, yeah, the cobra officer has some like Inverted v-shaped straps here Uh, let's see um I have oh, uh, let's see. Who said that um cobra island asks Um, if I've heard from byron lately. I have heard from byron lately Uh, and he seems to be doing okay. Uh, I think he's a little busy with like real life stuff Uh, you know, he's been dealing with a few things. So, um, I try not to bother him But I'm I'm always happy to hear uh from him when he when he reaches out to me Um, this is one of those things where I don't want to I know he's busy. So I don't want to you know Bother him too much But but I do like to hear from him and by the way byron if you happen to be watching this I love to hear from you I just I just don't want to be intrusive and I don't want to bother you when you're busy I get that I understand Um But uh, yeah Yeah, uh, it's still still nice to hear from you Okay something like that uh, let's um All right, let's oh we he needs eyes. I I guess he needs eyes, right? This head is not quite the head's not quite proportional. The helmet's okay. I think But the head inside the helmet is not quite right so Um, let's just let's just rein it in just a little bit Uh, let's see Let's see. How does this go so this goes like this and he actually has like a A flap on his shirt that goes this way and uh He's got like Cobra rank insignia on his collar Cobra's rank insignia has always been a little bit vague I always assumed the silver Um Chest symbol was a sign that he was an officer But then there are other cobras who are clearly officers Who do not have the silver chest symbol And there are other cobras that are very likely not officers that also have the the uh Silver chest symbol. So Um, yeah, anyway But we will say that uh that chevron on his helmet That that's gotta be Officers insignia, right? That's it's just gotta be So we're gonna make scarface's eyes Just a little maniacal, right? He's gonna have the angry eyebrows But his eyes are gonna be just a little Little wider then your average Same person He's just he's just slightly mad Clean that up a little bit This is an awfully crumbly eraser that that eraser is a disappointment. I'll never buy that brand again Of course, it was some off-brand and I don't remember what brand it was, but but if I find it again I'll never buy that one again All right, so he's gonna be like he's gonna be more like looking at camera if I can get that angle, right? That's more or less it eyes eyes are also A little bit complicated Uh getting them looking in the same direction can be a little bit tricky There there are techniques to it, but I'm not Perfect at any technique And see that's terrible All right guys, you know if I keep drawing badly, this is gonna take forever um Yeah, this one this one has clearly clearly dried out. I've never had one dry out that badly though and that quickly I had one that I used for years and it was great um And then like yeah when I when I moved Um, I just wasn't able to take everything with me. I thought I took certain things like my art pencil and my erasers and stuff, but Then when I Tried to locate said things um They were nowhere to be found See you now. He's I'm gonna get this. All right. I'm gonna get it I'm just I'm not giving up. I'm not giving up See now I'm thinking about it too much if I weren't thinking about it I'd probably just breeze right through it But because I was talking about it. I was thinking about it and because I'm thinking about it. I can't do it right All right. I'm I'm gonna clean that up maybe later But if I spend all the time trying to get the eyes right, I will never finish the rest of the thing So let's get his mask Like so Nose and now he's got the scars that cut right Through there All right scars Uh, all right, we'll kind of get uh Get the mask there Okay, we can we can kind of start fleshing this out a little bit All right, let me get that helmet a little bit better Um, the uh early cobras did have like a a unique helmet shape that I've always really liked Um in the comic book series they were drawn kind of like a fritz helmet But that's not exactly The shape that they were on the figures or the early card art um They were not quite like the old steel pot helmets but uh But they had this unique shape that I just Always fascinated me and they're very rarely captured in In their various media forms um So Uh and not that I've necessarily captured it well here, but um, you know, I you know kind of close Uh, how's everybody? Hey, we still have 50 people in here, which is amazing I am impressed guys that you have stuck around as long. All right get his Uh indistinct cobra Ranked insignia here Uh, I I I believe now I I don't have no proof But my it is my belief that They never actually figured out The cobra rank insignia that they never actually had like a A plan for it. They they just Wanted the figures to have something that looked Like you know insignia And like another example on the crimson guard like the medals on the crimson guards uniform the ribbons and stuff um I think the specific actual meaning of all those things was never actually fleshed out I'm sure somebody could and I'll bet I'll bet somebody has you know, I bet in the intervening years somebody has worked out Uh a rank Um, you know rank badges and such Uh for the cobras, you know what I'd like to see I would like to see The uh the classified series adopt a uniform rank structure And insignia for the for cobra in the classified line. I think that would be a nice idea I think there is a little bit though because because there there was like a A chevron arm band that came with the cobra islands um Cobra troopers So they may have that they may have been going for that Um, but I just I'd just like to see that fleshed out a little bit more You know and deliberately, you know consciously Uh, and I think that would be that would be a cool thing to to for the classified series to to, uh, have a plan For you know, how cobra rank is going to work and then stick with that plan and reflect that through You know through the line through the series one thing the classified series. I think could use is A bit more of a through line Uh, they they started out that way they actually had a little bit, um With the joes having like the uh, the blue communication device things And the like the the gold or or bronze whatever color you have that the the armor pieces kind of futuristic looking And I think I think that was kind of that was kind of the idea Is that um, these would be common design elements that you would find Throughout the series and that would like be be specific to the classified series And and I like that idea. I don't know that, um, I prefer those specific design elements But but I think it's not a terrible idea Uh, they seem to have gotten away from that a little bit and I think I can kind of understand that as well but, um But you know that that's not necessarily a reason to give up on the idea I I do think it's not a bad idea. Uh, generally speaking To have a through line In the series, uh, some just some kind of commonality Doesn't necessarily have to be You know exactly the same thing on every uniform, but just some some kind of common thread I think would be really cool Uh, let's see Uh, thank you for your patience guys. Um, and thank you for the super chats as well. I really appreciate that I um, I know that it's more fun when we can like do something when we have like activities where You know, we're more interactive, but I just thought it would be, uh A nice change of pace since we haven't done it in such a long time Uh, to do a little, uh draw and chat I can't really do a drink and draw Because I don't really drink anymore Uh, so We do a chat and draw Uh, let's see. Let's get these pouches What we got going on? Uh, somebody talking to uber hulk, um, about tiger force and And thank you comic tropes. I'm really I'm glad you really like it. Um I will say I think comic tropes has been a really good friend and has been very patient with me when I have not been uh very Responsive and you know, I I have to apologize for that You know comic tropes, uh, chris is that's he's proof that people really do care Which you know, sometimes and I get into a mental state where I It's hard for me to see that people actually do care, but But but they do and I need to recognize that and I need to Acknowledge and appreciate that I I do I do appreciate it. I just need to express that more um, and you know, that's I think that's a good Thing to keep in mind for life, you know when when you have people that Care about you and that demonstrate that they care about you, you know, should Take the time and show your appreciation for that You you may not always have those people around so, you know Take the time Communicate, you know tell people you care about them Do it while you have the chance because you may not have the chance later so Here's the progress. Here's the progress. It's coming together So like it's hard to get at the camera angle because like if I if I do this It looks like he has a giant head and if I do that it looks like he has a giant arm But like I'm trying to get it so that you can see Actually see how it's coming uh, let's see. Let's uh He's not he's not gonna be exercising. Oh, uh, thank you. Josiah. Thanks for the stream I hope to see everyone friday on what's on joe mine. Yes, please check out what's on joe mine. They should have Excuse me their weekly live stream on friday. I try not to miss it So hopefully I will see everyone there um Let's see, uh Uh, yeah, somebody oh somebody talking to rob I'll try not to interfere with your Your your private conversations that you got going on on But I'm glad I'm glad everybody's chatting and everybody's having a good time Now he should not have his finger in that trigger guard He should be exercising better trigger discipline than that. But but this is a cobra. We're talking about here You know, he he don't play by your rules um Uh, he also, you know, he doesn't have the best aim, you know, uh, he's not the best marksman But uh, given his poor trigger discipline, he he could accidentally shoot himself Might accidentally shoot, uh, cobra trooper standing next to him. So let's uh Let's get the The contour on that that famous famous curved Kalashnikov ak 47 magazine The proportions are not going to be a hundred percent Accurate, but we're gonna we're gonna just we're gonna go with it. We're just gonna go wild Make some bold choices We're gonna be brave and courageous here Uh, let's see here like so Let's kind of give that a little bit of a bevel there All right, so um progress progress Um And then once again, we were drawing scar face there. There is his scarred face And let's see here You know, I I do talk a lot about like my experience with gi joe as a child Uh, and I had quite a lot of experience with gi joe as a child but um I guess like the dirty little secret it's not maybe too much of a secret and it's not too dirty is that like I talk about what I can remember That does not mean I can remember everything There are tons of things about my childhood that I I do not have clear Uh memories of I do not have a good recollection of I just don't talk about those parts. I just talk about the parts that I can remember um But as far as gi joe goes there are a couple milestones that I I I don't know that I remember that well. I don't think I do Uh, one thing that I don't remember perfectly well is Which issue of the gi joe comic book Was my first issue which was the actual first one that I picked up I think I know which one it is But I'm actually not sure I do remember that I I was um An avid reader reader of the comic book series. It's pretty early on Like I once I picked it up. I was a regular reader Um, I did miss a couple issues and I had to go back and eventually get them as back issues um because uh, I was getting them at the newsstand and um If they were sold out or if you know, they just didn't carry them that month or whatever um I we didn't have a really good Local comic shop for a while. We're talking this stuff. We're talking about the early 80s here Um And by the early 80s, you know, there were some, you know, good Comic shops springing up around the country the first common the first local comic shop that I recall having um in my area was um Was a place called pegasus And um It was on shared in that's it was on It was this little tiny tucked away place on shared in Uh, I want to say it was like 11th and shared in Which nowadays is not a very good part of town really, uh But uh, it was not far from where I grew up And I remember going into this place and it was like a wonderland It was like well, they had like back issues of comic books In all these long comic book boxes. I was pretty young at the time Uh, but yeah, that's where I started picking up some of the back issues that I missed Uh, and that was really sorry. That was really helpful Uh, uh, sorry. Sorry. Sorry tripod fell. Sorry about that guys Um, that that was a big help because then I didn't have to worry About like missing something on the newsstand Um, I could always just go to the comic shop and pick it up now. Um Of course, I wasn't old enough to drive myself Uh, so I had to depend usually on my dad to take me and you know My dad didn't want to take me all that often because like that wasn't his interest it It's like he he had to go but then like wait around for me to To do my thing Um, so that that problem that I don't think that was his favorite thing to do So he didn't take me super often um, but eventually There was another shop that opened Called starbase 21 um And that's the starbase 21 was open for a long time It was kind of a a star trek place as uh as you can Take from the name. It was like they were star trek fans. Um, but um But you know mainly focused on comic books and um, that was a little bit more convenient. It was a little bit closer. Plus, um That was what street was that on that was not Sheridan um Man i'm blanking uh on what street that was Anyway, the um, man, I I know where it was like I I've driven by it not that long ago um The the forum play it's it's where the uh, the old Casablanita was You know where the Casablanita i'm i'm telling this to the internet like you are gonna know what i'm talking about Anyway, it was where the Casablanita was it was next door um And uh, my uh, my parents had a Uh, this uh chinese restaurant that they like to eat at that was just across the street from there So, um while they were finishing up, you know having their chinese food My brother and I could you know just skip on over across the street And uh go to starbase 21 and pick up Uh, you know pick up some comic books, you know Um, okay. There we go that I think I'm gonna call that a a completed a completed cobra officer, which is uh It's our scarface cobra officer So, yeah, I'm calling it. I'm calling it. Let's sign it Let's let's scribble on it. Hold on. Let's There we go Let's sign it over here Uh, hopefully, you know as I get back into practice I will get better at this. I feel I feel like I I have done better and I think it feel like I can do better Um But I I I always draw at the best You know the best that I can do at the time that I'm doing it, right? Um And uh, that's that's not to say that it's the best drawing. It's just the best drawing I can do But as I get back into practice and you know, um Shake some of the rust off Uh, maybe I can maybe I can do better. We'll see Anyway, so there are our two drawings. There are two sketches for this evening Uh, we did have an extra long live stream because I wanted to finish these Uh, thanks everyone for sticking around. I really really appreciate it. Let me see if I can, uh, well, this let me Well, this let me I think it will If I do this Hey, it's me There we go Anyway, uh, thank you everyone for watching. Thanks for sticking around here. I will let you go. Um, I Have a bit of work that I need to do before I turn in this evening. Um, and um, you know, uh So yeah, I will I will have to wrap it up, but I really appreciate everybody being here. Uh, thank you comic tropes for sticking around. Um, I Again, I I greatly appreciate comic tropes. I greatly appreciate chris for for all that he he has done Uh, and just the the overall Kindness that has been shown to me. So thank you and thank you to everyone else here a game masters hobby I don't think I saw you but hello. Thanks for being here Um, thanks all. Um, I'm gonna wrap it up. We will do this again next week I have special plans for the live stream next week, but for now, let's let's call it. I uh, thanks everyone And I will see you next time. Bye Bye