 So, we're going live, a little bit of fiddling to get the setup working, okay, looks like the camera is running, running is the camera running, hi howl, okay, like those, so the plan for today is just to do a hello, to do a impromptu little live where I draw today's ink monster and maybe get you in on the process. So, do you guys want to help me make an ink monster? This is my first time watching this, excellent, it is my first live in a long while it is. Hi Kim, excited to watch you draw, thank you, I hope I can live up to it. Okay, I'm going to grab some paper because I've been out of my regular paper so I've been using up these very fine studio watercolor pads from Fabriano but I actually like doing my ink monsters and stuff on this paper which is a Fabriano start paper which is a little bit cheaper. Only seen your ink monster shorts grating from Ireland, loads of people here. I haven't had this much people in a YouTube live before so let's just go around and say where are people from? Ireland, Black Shuck, shall we do Black Shuck from Mexico? I can do Black Shuck from Pakistan, Germany, United States, Tennessee, India, oh so many countries. Netherlands, New York City, Lithuania, Denmark or as you say in Denmark, Al, Canada, South Africa, do we have all the continents? We have North America, we have Europe, we have Africa, we have Asia so we're missing South America. Shall we start by doing Black Shuck or shall we start by doing, I should save doing Black Shuck to a a video that I actually filmed because Black Shuck is a kind of cool myth and I need to research it a little bit more and tell something about it but I've already researched it a bit so I could do it but any Antarctic researchers in the chat, oh that would be nice. Okay shall we start by just doing a random ink monster? So I'm going to do an ink plot, do you want me to do a specific color? Booneep would be fine but not today. I'll do a random monster and you can be a part of deciding. Yellow, okay the first color I saw was yellow, we have some yellow acrylic ink here from Amsterdam is the company or is the brand, it is Royal Talent so it's the same as the Indian ink. Please green, please green you should have been quicker so shall we blow on it or shall we dab it or do something else? Yellow demon, how long have you been drawing? Since I was one year old so for 42 years almost. Blow, okay something else, what is something else? Use a wet brush, I haven't I haven't changed my ink water so if I use a wet brush it will be all gray. Dabbed, okay let's do a blow and a dab, okay so we blow on it and then we dab, dab, dab, dab, dab, dab, dab, dab, spinning, turn into a video game character monster maybe or design your own. I can't do copyrighted characters, I can't do Friday night at Freddy's, I can't do you know five nights at Freddy's it's called, I can't do any other video game characters but what do you see in this thingamabob? Looks like a bird monster, where do you see the bird? Oh I see the bird, okay shall we do a bird monster like a giant canary, the great canary, yes let's do the great canary. Oh I haven't washed my brush properly so we got some dark in there, I will find a way to to include that in the art but first I want to take another brush that's slightly less dirty and maybe like this and then we do a giant evil canary, now we're going to do it a bit cartoony so very simple. Oh I got a super chat, how can I see or is it a super chat? I don't know I've never gotten a super chat on a live before, I think I got it, I wasn't paying any attention, I don't know, oh here I can see, I enjoy your shorts very much, so soup or cereal, cereal for breakfast and soup for the rest. Okay let's do this, so when I do more cartoony work I like to have really thick lines around things, I could go even thicker than this but oh another super chat, I'm very new to being monetized on the YouTube so I'm still figuring out how this all works so if you see annoying ads on my stuff, oh another I think, oh I've gotten a lot of super chat now, wow, I didn't know this was how it worked, right, you should go live more often it seems I was thinking and I was drawing and I want this canary to look very stupid so I'm going to push the beak slightly down from where it should be and I'm going to give him a underbite beak and then half closed eyes, this looks awful, I'm hating this so much right now, not the live but just where the art is right now, right now it looks very cartoony and very generic and I don't know if I like it, the chat suddenly disappeared, let me see, oh top chat, swag bird, maybe there's a swag bird, how could we make it swag, oh I know what we can do, we can give it a crown and it can be king canary, I am from Norway so I'm sitting in my home in Saalhus outside of Bergen Norway, make it wear glasses, oh that's also a good silly crown, oh actually we can make it wear sunglasses because I wasn't completely happy with the eye, thick chains, the problem is if I start drawing chains then I need to go in with white ink or white acrylic to make it look right I can do that, what kind of feet do you want, I now realize that you were talking about the canary and not about what type of feet I would ideally want in my life but I'm pretty happy with my own feet, I hope they would hurt less but I'm not young anymore, long legs, he's got legs, he knows how to use them, okay we're going to, I don't like doing art where I plan on erasing and adding things, I like to do as much as possible correct on the first go but if he has a chain he should have a big sort of flavor-flav watch and then I'll erase this part or not erase, I'll paint it white I can put in the clock stuff like this, what time is it and yeah long legs and wellingtons, yellow wellingtons, I always love opening your wits like ooh what's in this one that's almost what it's like for me, ooh what's this drawing going to be, this one came out very silly but I was hating it more and more for a little while and now I'm liking it more and more, how far does the desk extend out of frame, not that far, I'm sitting in my basement so it's not it's not a perfect studio, I do have a studio in town but after COVID I've been very lazy at getting back to my studio which is a shame because then I'm just throwing money I don't have out the window but I do need a studio because at home I can't really work on anything bigger and I do like working bigger once in a while so let's do some golden fluid acrylic, ooh another another super chat, thank you so much Ashley, sorry I mentioned Zina Bird that hurt, I like this one, in most art you get a point where things look great and then it starts looking bad and then it looks great again and it's back and forth like that, erase a little bit here we don't need to, long live King Canary, the ugly stage, first time in your stream, love from Vietnam, excellent, love the nails, thank you, what if he has a suitcase of money beside him, yeah he should have a suitcase full of money, I'm not fond of drawing suitcases we can do a little suitcase here, and it's like the mysterious suitcase in Pulp Fiction, it just needs some shiny light out of it, what do you think about the current art culture in Norway, I'm not really that connected to a lot of the art culture in Norway, I am and was or more was than am a part of the comic book community for a long while making comic books and we had a very vibrant, we have a very vibrant comic book community and but I'm not really a part of that much anymore and we have talented artists in Norway but you know most of the I keep contact with a couple of Norwegian artists and a couple of a bunch of our artists internationally that I chat with once in a while I'd love to see your interpretation of the erd tree, yeah I can't really do copyrighted stuff because even the erd tree is copyrighted, I love Elden Ring, I haven't beat it yet but I am at the final boss and then I put it down to play God of War Ragnarok, so I am at the Elden Beast so what do you think of Marvel's take on Tode and Luke, I love it, I know I'm a huge fan of Jack Kirby who created basically all the Marvel characters which number are we at today, we are at number 1246 and it's King Canary with a K and an I because that's how we write it in Norway but it should have been Kong not King but I love this guy, let's do another one as well let's see if we can do one that's a little bit more less cartoony, more less cartoony, let's do some those purple, yay another one, ooh just found a channel, love your art and the energy, I can't read your whole super chat but thank you so much, thank you so much, wow cave, maybe do a living shadow book, what I will do this time is I will make a black dab, first of all I will refill my ink bottle, I keep my inks, keep my inks like this and here is my ink bottle and here is my big ink bottle, ooh 50 euro super chat, wow thank you so much, I must say the chat is going too fast, I must say you have some hardware, gather skill and talent, I can't read, you can't forward minor, I need a better setup to I need a better setup to read the comments because right now the phone holder is that I'm using to film is blocking, blocking, it's blocking a lot of the comments especially the super chat ones but thank you, this is amazing, this is a good hourly wage now I think you can click on it to view more, yeah I could do that, I did that but I still couldn't read the whole thing because of how the phone holder is gripping the screen so now we have more ink and I need my good paper back, not paper back but paper back draw a massive final bosta, maybe maybe maybe it will be that, okay we're going to do a black dab first because that is usually what works for creating creepier or more epic stuff, usually it's not always, so I will dab it in another way, then I will do like that without seeing you, I feel like I'm watching Billy Conley, I'm not Scottish, is Irish Scottish, Billy Conley is amazing anyhow, please make seal, seal the singer, okay so look at this ink block, do you guys see anything here and I will not pick the first comment this time but I will pick one of the comments and try to work from there, I see a couple of things, a sore or of a zombie face there, a woman facing right, woman facing right, do I see, yeah I see the woman face, no that was the woman facing left, feral tapper, a brain, night helmet, seahorse, a woman skull, yes we always see skulls and ends, there's a couple of skulls, yellow fish, an old witch, which old witch, the wicked witch, which the wicked witch is dead, I'm from Norway, that's the second time I'm answering that today, that's okay, brain zombie witch, oh brain zombie witch, let's do a brain zombie witch, I see two possibilities, a brain zombie witch, I don't know what a brain zombie witch is, brain zombie witch, looking that way or that way, what is Norway, yes that's a good question, that way or that way, I'm from Denmark, cool or as you say in Denmark owl, I say left, okay this is the left, let's do, so then I see, I see a couple of different things, we could have this as the nose or we could have this as the shadow on the nose and that as the eye, I think I will go with that, okay, then a long nose, this is going to be maybe more of a troll corner than a witch but those things are overlapping or but it was going to be zombie as well, so we have to we have to make it work somehow, all those things in one the last two big spots on the side look like eyes, yes there could be eyes but I'm not going to put the eyes there, there's usually a lot of different ways you could do these but you have to make decisions and you have to make decisions kind of fast because otherwise you start second guessing and that's usually not good, so while I have you all here I can let you in on a little secret, it won't be a secret for long, my patrons over at patreon.com slash kimholm already knows but today I just uploaded t-shirts to my web store, so we have merch for the first time, just three different t-shirts so far but if you guys want some cool t-shirts and I'll be announcing it tomorrow, angry bird facing left, you could call her an angry bird, it was a common live chat, what's the web store den ungeherholm.com, if you go to my bio you can find a page with loads of links there, the comments are disappearing too fast, Norway is what an Australian says in disbelief, have you ever tried pixel art? yeah so I started making pixel art animations back on the Amiga 500 and I made all these short and even some long ones, like ten, not ten minutes, perhaps five minutes animation of stick figures painted with a mouse just you know black and white pixel stick figures you know doing action and karate and exploding and stuff like that but I suck at pixel art so I don't do a lot of pixel art, I'm not good at those things that require, what should I say, I'm not good at things that require that type of, there's a certain type of planning and calm you need for good pixel art and that's not my jam, I definitely want a shirt yeah so go and check out the store and also okay so a question about, there was one question about am I a communist? no I'm an anarchist, there was one question about free my five nights at Freddy's and making a game in pixel art but I didn't catch the whole question and there was another question about since I released my art for free use am I making a living of my art and yes I am, I've been a professional artist since 2004 scraping by, I'm not rich, I'm not ever successful yet but the tiktok fame and the youtube fame now if we can call it that is starting to help so the goal now is to be able to say no to a lot of commission work because commission work is really hard when you are bipolar, there was another question here but do you want to be really rich? no I don't want to be really rich but it would be nice to have money to pay up pay down debts and to live comfortably and also to invest in art projects that would be cool but yeah I am making a living, I am selling art, I have a patron that's doing well I have done a lot of commission work, I've done some teaching work, I've done all sorts of art jobs that you wouldn't believe and that's how most artists, okay let me see that question I'll repeat the question since I'm coding a horror game like Five Nights at Freddy's would it be possible to make it using pixel art or does pixel art not bode well with the horror genre? I think there are some great horror pixel art games, I remember my first sort of horror game experience was on well it wasn't a great game but it was Friday the 13th on the Commodore 64 and there was this one sound of of Jason killing people and you had to stop him before he killed that and that many people or something I don't remember what the game was all about because I didn't dare play it because I was a kid but that sound the scream of of people dying on my Commodore 64 was just it was horrifying it still chills me and I think that in computer games, video games I think in many respects sound is more important than art style when it comes to making something scary at least that's my two cents and there's been some good indie horror games that are more pixel art like Eternal Darkness is one of my favorite games of all time I've one of the only games I've played through like I think I've played it through four times because I did it three times to get all the endings and then one time just to one time just to play it again thank you for your videos your art and your words sparked back the will to pick up a brush that's that's so good to hear it is nothing that's more fulfilling than hearing people pick up the brush or pick up any art or creative practice again because of inspiration from me that is just amazing and kind of unbelievable but it feels good it feels good what resolution should pixel art be in for a game I I don't know have you played Master Blaster on the NES no I didn't have access to NES so I think I've probably tried it on an emulator sometime but you know Primal I remember Primal I I I I remember that game I I never played it but I wanted to but in that generation I was or was that a multi-platform or was it just PlayStation 2 I did have a PlayStation 2 for a while to play what were my favorite games on the PlayStation 2 to play eco and what more devil may cry the first devil may cry was amazing but I was a Gamecube kid definitely or it wasn't that much of a kid I've seen OSR shorts what is your favorite OSR retrocom okay so I worked for the OSR game called Outcast Silver Raiders that was successfully kickstarted and is coming I think this fall and I did it I don't know if it was 150 or 200 pieces of art for it and that was very fun I haven't done much role-playing the last 20 years I would love to begin tabletop role-playing again again so I I haven't ever played an OSR game but I think my first OSR game is going to be Outcast Silver Raiders so I think one of the best games uh with art was Dishonored yeah Dishonored is amazing uh very cool style I'm a very big fan of the games of um oh what are they called creators of Arcs Fatalis and Prey and Deathloop I just finished Deathloop last year um words just slip my mind what's this art called by the way ink art I don't know I'd be I don't think it's for the artist to name it dark art ink art I don't know did I ever play the Bard's Tale yeah we played Bard's Tale a little bit on the C64 um I remember that but but we never got into it uh so it was one of the because you could copy games on the C64 so so it was one of the many games we tried but never stuck with in how much bulk do you buy your ink liter I buy liter bottles so the reason why I used Talon's brand is because my local art store sells liter bottles uh have you played Celeste yes I uh haven't gotten far in Celeste uh but but but uh because it's hard and I I suck at platformers but uh I actually booted it up again um I think last month and I played a few levels I haven't gotten to the parts where people say you figure out the story and get amazed yet but uh that that may come if you made a game what would the concept be I have a couple of ideas um the the first would be uh a a just storytelling horror game experience based on a nightmare I had when I was 19 years old what's your favorite RPG um favorite RPG pen and paper is uh Call of Couture or Vampire the Masquerade a favorite computer role playing game has to be a couple of different picks but Daggerfall Elder Scrolls 2 Daggerfall is one of my favorite games probably my favorite game of all time uh in more recent times I absolutely loved The Witcher 3 um yeah uh what other role playing games have I enjoyed oh I played Disco Elysium I think that was early this year and that was magnificent one of the stories of games how old am I oh I'm 42 years old I think 42 yes uh have I seen The Witcher show yeah I enjoyed that I and you know I enjoy like I usually say I enjoy any show with swords and naked men that's sort of my go-to if I don't have anything else to watch I'll watch any show with swords and naked men ever tried psychological horror games yeah we were talking about eternal darkness that's definitely a psychological horror game I don't play much horror games anymore because I have kids and I have a wife who hates horror so there's not much time for myself to play horror games um no that was wrong two four seven and this was Brain Witch Zombie which Brain Zombie Brain Witch Zombie I think it was you like high fantasy yeah I love fantasy uh I you know I grew up on Lord of the Rings and Dungeons and Dragons and um all that stuff movies like Conan the Barbarian and Willow and uh Legend Sina Warrior Princess I love Sina Warrior Princess and then you know uh I was totally labyrinth is cool I love the style of dark sun uh yeah definitely does making these ink monsters require skill in character design it is a lot of the same types of skill that you would use in character design so I'm trained you can't really see this but I'm trained as a comic book artist so when I draw this I sort of I draw a little bit here and then in my head I pencil the nose and then I draw that and then I pencil the cheek and then I draw that no uh do you like Frank Fressetta yeah he is a definite uh concrete influence on me I have copied a lot of Fressetta works both his paintings and his drawings uh so so I'm very much into to uh Fressetta any character design advice I would the first thing is to draw everything especially if you're going to do something like character design you should develop a taste for detail not detail in the drawing but detail in how people dress how people act how they stand so do life drawing do uh as much you know fashion drawing and people on the street and different cultures and hairstyles and anthropological drawings and do do all that stuff and then just have fun draw everything every day yes so one of my favorite artist is Sergio Aragonis who drew a lot of cartoony stuff for Mad Magazine and his style was really really cartoony but he would he drew this comic called grew the barbarian which is a fantastic Conan parody and he he would draw everything like if you saw women knitting in the background they would be knitting accurately in the cartoony style if you saw a ship in his background it would have all the ropes in all the right places but in the cartoony style if you saw armor it would be fastened in the right places but in the cartoony style and the reason for this was he studied everything so he would take classes in historical knitting in the architecture of medieval Spain in all types of any class he could he would take just to integrate it and to learn how it works so he could draw it better in the super cartoony style there shall we do one final drawing let's hear from people one final ink monster yay let's do one final ink monster do i like the band death i've never been to into death i like a lot of bands that like death but in terms of death metal my favorite death metal bands are probably uh entombed which you know arguably death metal nile is fantastic but i don't listen to that much death death death metal has never been the favorite metal genre but i like it some of my favorite bands to draw live are death metal bands i call for a dragon anywhere i can share doodles i have the terrible habit of answering as many messages as i can but i need to stop because there's too many messages but on my patreon if you support with one dollar a month or more then you get access to the discord channel and if you post your art there then i will definitely see that that's yeah dragon dragon no i think i will do something silly we did something with yellow what color do you want now uh my partner is diagnosed tattoo bipolar i can only interact with her in my second language so hearing your explanation helps me understand the illness much better that's good to hear but also remember that i remember that every person with bipolar is different so my experiences don't necessarily translate to every other person with bipolar but they might too soft let's take this and dab it shall we oh that's an interesting shape shall we get one more color as well have you seen made in abyss no i haven't a green let's see if i have a nice green here teal would turquoise turquoise work let's do let's do that okay do you guys see anything in here tornado i see a couple of solutions here man with a big nose where is the big nose human heart circle is the eye okay yeah yeah i can see that monkey facing left so i actually see something like that but i will change it a little bit to hopefully make it cooler no this now i'm messing up i thought this would go another way oh but if we mess up we can make it into something else oh that's nice yeah i like this guy uh this one is going to be very cartoony we can make it macabre as well i noticed you slight move your brush before drawing yeah i practice the strokes yeah let's give him tiny feet like things like just toasts going out and we need some more pink on him have i ever done a miniature yeah i in my teens i painted warhammer and stuff but i i never got that far because uh i was always better at art than my big brother but he was better at uh drawing miniatures than me so i i quickly gave up i did have you know i had a blood bowl human blood bowl team called the the graceland raiders who were all painted in american flags and stuff it was my america satire when i was 15 years old perhaps 14 i had a a lot of orcs i loved orcs i had some space marines this is almost like diglett from pokemon yes and we're going to i want to i don't want to do too much black here but i want to just have a slight touch of black like those maybe just a tiny line halfway up here and then a couple of more tiny lines just add a little bit more depth some scariness okay i don't know why but i like this guy i like him a lot what shall be his name it's a nice shadow yes it worked what will be his name tootie tootie is a good tootie funk i can go with tootie funk that means i will be wrapping up this live but i can answer a couple of questions so if you have any questions now is the time to ask them and i will also so we can take to take the camera up here then we can move things to the sides and then we can actually show all the three pieces we made marines check out hilda yes i love hilda hilda is great fantastic if kirby ate mic from breaking that yeah that's it that's definitely it that that was exactly what i was aiming for i like kirby i like jack curvature than kirby but i do like kirby and like this can i show of the nail polish yes what does this creature eat it's kirby who ate mic with the character design design advice i meant less general stuff but how to build up skill and like how to build up skills but more stuff to keep in mind and do whilst this um so my advice for more specific things is kind of the same but if you have the drawing skills and you have a good eclectic library of things that you know how to draw and how it works and you know clothing styles and anthropology and all of that stuff then you should start looking in unexpected spaces if you are going to draw make characters for a sci-fi game don't look at other sci-fi games if you're going to do a fantasy don't look at other fantasy look at completely different stuff that you can somehow translate have you ever seen people with tattoos of your work yes um have i've seen some of them in real life and i've been sent photos from all over the world of people with my art on their skin and it's just amazing and the fun thing is that some of the tattoos are amazing they are great they are just the tattoo artist has done his own style their own style and really mixed it up and made me look better and some of them are just awful and you know there are some people with tattoos of my art and they've picked a weird piece that i was never satisfied with and they've given it to a fresh young tattoo artist who doesn't have the skill and it just looks awesome or awful it looks awful but it feels awesome because it's still my art on someone's skin and it's very weird and i'm very thankful for it have you played Skyrim yes i've played all of the Elder Scrolls games it's probably my favorite series but everything after Daggerfall while i like elements of the games they are moving further and further away from what i wanted out of a Elder Scrolls game and that's okay even arena yes i've played arena i haven't finished them god forbid forbid yeah god forbid finishing in an Elder Scrolls game but i spent so many hours in Tamriel yes okay i think that's everything for now we've been live for an hour and i've gotten my first live super chat so that was amazing i didn't expect to get that much on a single live so that is just awesome if you like my art and if you like art for free used and please do check out my patreon where you can support me with one dollar a month i'm still figuring out how this monetization stuff on youtube works so i might do memberships here if people want that but it might also be easier to just do it on patreon i don't know we'll see if you have ideas it's comment and i'll take things into consideration and if you like my art but don't have the means to support with money thank you for the super chat then there's another way you can support you can support by using my art my art is available for free use so when i've scanned this and if you download it and print it out and frame it even if you don't give me a single dollar and then you give it as a birthday present to your 83 year old aunt and she goes uh that's the worst art i've ever seen and then she dies of a heart attack but she leaves the art in her will to her very poor son who in three years wins the lottery and becomes a millionaire and becomes a kim diasol art collector because you printed this piece so if you want to support me but don't have the money to do so do it by using my art it's free to use you can download it you can sell it you can tattoo it you can do whatever you want with it as long as you remember to attribute me do you like pink floyd no not particularly i don't hate them but what i really like about pink floyd is that if you meet a pink floyd fan a really true pink floyd fan you can piss them off so much by by saying yeah i like pink floyd dark sided of the moon is a decent album decent decent decent i think that's fun but it's a decent album okay it's the most exact scenario okay uh thank you all for watching i will be going live more often on the youtube's this was fun uh now i just need to figure out how to stop this okay i figured it out thank you for watching bye pink floyd aren't as bad a tool fans yes that's true that my last word for the day is pink floyd fans aren't as bad as tool fans