 two three hi there and welcome to the free art show the show where I draw whatever you want and release it for free use under a creative commons license I am Kim Holm and with me today is only a dice and with that dice we will decide which of our six chosen suggestions will not only get their idea drawn but also win this postcard if you want a postcard we're already we have sent some of them out some of you have gotten them some of them we haven't sent out we will get better shall we go through the list of suggestions now the first suggestion is from Facebook from the user Mateo our friend who says he wants a giant or gigante I guess it was coming out of the ground his half half of his body still in the earth I I get a pretty good image in my head on that one and then number two is also from Facebook it's Jose who wants a devil cat versus a Viking cat or as we say DC VC the DC vs VC with a turtle throne in the mix that will be silly then we have from Instagram we have will up who wants two dancers at the end of time which is kind of esoteric and then from Instagram we have drone stuffy who wants a warrior with the demon sword facing an enemy army and then from minds.com we have truth freedom peace who wants a boy and his donkey standing on a hill over a village with green pastures and he's having his right hand open and up in the air somehow it's a very specific description but there's room there it will be different for me it's not so dark and then the last but not least we have from Facebook David Lille mark who wants a warrior on a horse but the heads are switched around okay shall we see what the dice won't the dice decides oh with DC VS VC the devil cat versus the Viking cat what does a Viking cat look like that's for us to decide right now and I will be contacting Jose so he can get his postcard or he can contact me that's even smarter the smart ones contact me because I'm slow okay hmm yeah with I'm thinking that I will do this drawing kind of silly but I sort of need to think some compositions we can do we could do them realistic than a giant turtle wild giant turtle the little turtle or I'm thinking we're doing them cartoony and we doing them in landscape and we need this should it be the cats jumping together or no it might be the cats sort of curled around in a fight and then the little turtle hiding there yeah this looks like the one for us today and when I'm doing a sketch like this I don't really need even to know what I'm drawing I just need to get a sense of the scale and the drawings and the composition and yeah even better if I do this the old wise turtle standing here and then the cat fight for moving that direction I think I'll do that and very often on the free art show I draw directly with ink but when there's more cartoony drawings I will prefer what will I prefer to do it with a pencil first so first of all the horizon line in the sketch I drew the horizon line straight but what happens if I pull it like this then you have the old wise turtle here maybe has he has a beard and you have this great turtle turtle shell design and yes he I don't know why he has a walking cane then you have the main fight here and he's a tiny turtle which is kind of fun because then he's watching Giants fight but we need we need both of the cat faces turned against the camera against the viewer otherwise or at least semi against otherwise you won't see that they are the Viking cat and the devil cat so Viking cat on top or devil cat on top should the Viking cat have Viking helmet with horns now it can't have a helmet with horns because the devil cat will have so the Viking cat needs to be slightly more realistic not not the cat but the helmet going to go very cartoony here very cartoony here like this I think that's good and then the Viking cat and I'm going to base the Viking helmet on the sole complete Viking helmet ever found embellish a bit and he needs I thought perhaps the Viking should have should they have weapons should the Viking have shield yeah shield and a spear Vikings like spears so it's a classic round shield and close out tails sort of both of these are long haired cats because I like drawing long haired cats better no the devil cat can have a devil cat can be shorter hair okay close out here closer out here then oh he's scratching his balls that's good for here think I have the sketch down that means I can start inking and I will start inking with my Chinese brush which will be ideal for the cartoony style with with thicker lines so ideally I should start at this side of the drawing so I don't wipe the ink over while I work but I will start on this side of the drawing because I want to get the line with on the on the turtle to sort of define how the rest of the drawing will be because this will have the thickest lines on the drawing and when and when I know what they're going to be then I can sort of mold the other lines after that makes sense to me and that's the only one it needs to make sense for we all have our own processes processes you know for me also the process changes a bit from time to time sometimes it changes by design like now and sometimes it changes by accident just because you're not planning everything perfectly when you're not planning things perfectly you have to adapt to whatever comes that's one of the most exciting things about art for me and that's also that that real realization informs a lot of how I approach art I always approach not always but most of the time approach art from the realization that if I plan too much I will kill the work so I would rather plan a bit too little than a bit too much that does not mean I don't plan that I don't research that I don't do tons of stuff that you will never see but it does mean that I try to stop myself while there's still room for improvisation even sometimes I plan things very well very meticulously do a lot of research and then end up throwing it away in the end and doing something different like we all we almost saw that with this drawing where I first did the tiny little sketch with the horizon line straight and then when it was time to put it on the paper I said no let's do the horizon line diagonal because that's fun since this is a daytime free art show we we are drinking tea and if you're if you're watching this in Norway while we're streaming you're probably at work and should go back to work or at school or you're skipping school then go ahead by all means skip school to to watch my show it so now when we're getting to the fighting cats the line work is a lot more detailed it's a lot thinner but just how thin was informed by how this turtle which I have no idea why there's a turtle there but there should the request said it should be a turtle there somewhere no I know the parameters of how thick the the line work can be based on how thick the foreground lines are that's one way of doing it the whiskers they are sort of essential because if I don't do the whiskers you will not see that it's a Viking cat you will just think it's some sort of monstrous thing in a Viking helmet but the whiskers are the only should should the ears come out do we have room to get the ears out I do like this yeah I think we have room and this is I talked about doing little research and this is a problem I could have solved by doing more research by doing sketches so it's always a balance but yeah I think having those whiskers way out back of the helmet sort of works in here and we have a comment Morten says the old turtle is ordering pizza he may be ordering pizza he could have a little cell phone with a antenna an old cell phone with an antenna that could be good but we won't do that let's trace too far the description to find the cat head more from here fix he has a chain mail what is it coiff that's a word is that even a word chain mail hoodie thing under the helmet lots of shaggy cat fur cat beard cat Viking beard I'm guessing it is yeah so far it's a good if it's a Viking cat it seems legit and says Morten and coiff goes in the head coiff is a word it seems if we are to trust our viewer Morten who we should never trust I think they're in here a bit more battle-worn and now we go to the shield generic reflection on the metal part in the middle mostly one stroke two strokes that's good and scars from all the battles it's seen that's good Morten says so typical ordered pizza from Viking cats and someone always tries to steal it that's my headcanon since I don't know today's theme okay let us repeat today's theme and it just might be that Morten's headcanon is right because the only description is that it's a devil cat versus a Viking cat and somehow there is a turtle in the mix so he might be ordering pizza we could do a little cell phone up there and of course if you're watching this on Facebook or later on YouTube and enjoying it then please please by all means please share it so that more people can watch it either live or share the arcade version on YouTube this is going quite well so far I guess I forgot to to to explain why we're recording on a Wednesday now and I think you guys deserve an explanation for that so I love recording the show with my beautiful wife Beanie and in order to do that we have to do it in the evenings when the children are in bed but the problem is that every single weekend while we've been meaning to record the show we've just been so totally exhausted and we thought that changing it from Fridays to sometime during the weekend would help but that didn't really work we were still just as exhausted every time and doing this show while being totally exhausted it's doable but it also leads to results being less good than they should be so so in the end I felt I had no choice but to to move it to a work day so I do it within my work hours this is work so it should definitely be a work hours thing and then like now I'm a lot more awake I think I'm more on point with the drawing thus far knock on wood and hopefully we're going to get better results by doing it this way but we're not going to get my lovely wife Beanie except on special occasions but from now on at least for a little while I'll try to have the free art show every livestream every Wednesday at around 12 Norway time and we'll see how that works and sorry there's been so much back and back and forth but that's sort of the nature of the beast we will settle into a rhythm sometime but I can't really promise when now Morten says I try to draw a poly hydra but I got confused by the shapes that's that sounds reasonable explanation mafia he also says I I'm going to try to look for other people to guest host with me because it's easier when someone else is what did I do can I say this I can say this in my head that line was going to make completely different impact that one as well now suddenly I talked about things going well and I instantly lost my ability to draw what was this yeah you can save this I can save it I can definitely save it but I don't quite know what happened I'll drink some tea and relax take a deep breath and try to get my focus back really there I I can save it I don't know what I was thinking okay so I guess the Vikings did have cats because Freya the fertility goddess goddess the fertility goddess has cats that pull her wagon that's pretty cool or maybe that's a sign that they didn't have cats because apparently they didn't know how impractical cats are as animals I think this is a drawing that will do well with some digital coloring at a later point so I won't overdo things with shadows and stuff like that we don't need that much shadow but Morton says cats have tamed humans for eons that is correct I just don't know when they started spreading this far north but maybe they came with us from the very start I said not too much shading and then I did too much shading and then I continue doing it while talking about it being too much that's an interesting approach to art Kim that's better try to analyze the places that need to be put this be set apart with some shadows now I will use some white ink to hopefully save the drawing and then we will do some ink spatter some stuff at the very end for the white ink we will change brush to much thinner and gentler brush and the first thing we're going to do I'm guessing is that's interesting thinking that's just about what I need to erase so just going over here and making sure it's a good opaque layer with of white acrylic and then we will go in with a tiny bit of black acrylic which will sit together well with the ink you won't really be able to tell all that much difference but it will mix on to the white acrylic a lot sooner and a little touch white again nice and finally I see that I forgot a line somewhere so we forgot here and we need some spatter here and some spatter flying off the tails perhaps spatter as shadow under here and we'll just the air should have some debris in it from the fighting that's what we're trying to accomplish with this spatter fest okay and then then I think we and then I think we're almost done I will sign it and see if I still like it and if I like it we will be done that's a weird signature some small fixes and oh I forgot to spear handle Martin points out easy to forget stuff and I want just a bit of the ground here and there just to get that diagonal horizon line because that sort of makes it more dynamic the whole thing okay does this look good to everyone are we good okay then I'll start the end talk if you like this show then please do subscribe to us on youtube at youtube.com den unge her Holm you can also follow me at facebook den unge her Holm on instagram den unge her Holm on minds.com den unge her Holm that's where I'm the most active these days still figuring out how minds.com will work and I'm not sure that it will but it's exciting so far and we need open source alternatives to facebook to google to twitter twitter.com slash den unge her Holm and if you liked the drawing even more you can purchase it for 65 euro including international shipping just by claiming it it will be on sale for that price until the next show next wednesday at 12 o'clock Norway time and more than that I will be working on my patreon campaign the next week and we will get that up and running again before next time that's yeah I'm committing to that no I'm not finished damn it I thought I was out but what I forgot to draw pulled me back in I forgot the back foot the other back foot of viking but that needs actually to be more in shadow yeah that's better oh my god he almost lost a foot says Morten he almost lost a foot but what's a foot between two brave kitten warriors with that I think we're done for today thank you so very much for watching and have a good one we'll see you next week