 Hi there and welcome to the Free Art Show, the show where I draw whatever you want and release it for free use. I'm Kim Holm and with me is my giggling wife, Beanie, and first but not least, we have a bit of a situation with the postcards because I thought it was a great idea to have a contest to drive more people to YouTube by saying, hey, you can win this postcard by commenting and subscribing on YouTube. And then I thought, wait a minute, that's a bit shitty. So we're going to stop doing that and we're going to start giving away postcards based on who has the best request for me to draw. We will choose six different requests they need to be good. Then we'll roll the dice and whoever wins gets his request drawn, also gets his postcard. That's a much cooler idea, but that means we have to give away two postcards this week. So, yes, otherwise it doesn't add up. Oh, but I thought the postcard, this postcard would be given away next week to the next week. No, no, no, no, we need to get it. We need to get this straight. So in order to get this straight, we give away two postcards. First, we gave away last week's postcard to one of our two YouTube commenters, Gunn and Popovici. And Gunn is heads. What's heads on this coin? This is head. Head. The head. The head is head. Gunn is King Harald and Tails, the Viking ship, is Popovici. So let me see if I can do this. And the winner is, can you see? It's Popovici. Congratulations. Congratulations. So you will get this postcard and then the freshly drawn postcard we will have to decide which of the this week's suggestions. And we got over 20 suggestions this week as well. So Kim had to pick some of the ones, yes, but mainly you had to pick the ones that are drawable and fun. Drawable and fun. So we got a bit of different types of suggestions. Starting up silly with Ann Minky suggesting Tyr the god giving deworming cure to Fenris. I don't think it's a butt pill. I think it's a spoon. I think it's a sort of a joke because Tyr loses his hand when he has put it in the mouth of Fenris when they tie him down before Ragnarok because it gets too big and mean. Okay, I see the joke. There is a joke there. Yes, yes. But it's a bit difficult to draw the deworming cure, the deworming drink. Isn't it just a spoonful of sugar? Yeah, but how do you see that it's deworming? That's the problem we have to face. You have to draw a worm coming out of his bum as well. This is so logic. Okay, then how do we get, you know, this is a discussion we'll take if number one if the dragon shows. Then we have Jimmy suggesting me eating my own entrails. That's self-explanatory. It's a good image. And Jimmy is an old friend of the show, so we even know how he looks. And Demetis suggested my own take on Erlaya. And yeah, I've done Erlaya many times in some form, but why not do it again? And then we have T.P.Sko, T.E.P.Sko, suggesting the very last mammoth staring out. Jimmy Cowell says, yeah, he really wants to see himself eating himself. But this is a very sad image of the last mammoth. Died away 2000 BC, something like that. On an island, which was, this was a part of the suggestion, but we didn't write it up. But yeah, I can see it. Then we have Mus Bogdan suggesting a samurai honing his own mental blade while meditating. Yes, that can be nice. And additionally he says, if I draw it, he will get a tattoo of it. And that is... So I will draw it really crappy. No, you won't. You don't have to get a tattoo. One of you is waving at you. Wave that. That wasn't a wave. All right. And Udorable suggests Gere and Freke with Hugen and Munin. And actually, Muna also suggested Gere and Freke and Hugen and Munin. So it was double suggestion, but Udorable got it because she got it first. Okay, so are we ready to roll the dice? Those are them all. Now blow on the dice. Now it's her fault. Erlaya. We're going to draw Erlaya. So geeky. It is geeky. We are geeky. And we'll, we'll, we'll, I, this is one of the ones that are exciting. Just go with it. Figure it out. We'll start like this. That doesn't look like Erlaya. Come on. Oh, that's better. Where is Erlaya here? Yes, I can see it. Oh, no, that wasn't, yeah, like this. Okay, so now we have some towers and spires. And we have this, this. Okay, I'm done. Can't get better than this. Do you have to roll the dice again then? I'm not done. I will dry this up. Now we have the basic shape of Erlaya. And I think I'm going to need some acrylic color. But first, oh yes, I'll need acrylic color and I'll need it first. Not last. We'll take some Viridian. That sounds ocean-y. And we'll take some liquid blue, tail blue, so that's really a heavy blue. And we'll take some. Tonight XPC says hi. Love your art. Greetings from Chile. Greetings to Chile. We're, 50% of us in the room are Chilean. The 50%, that's not me. Yes, that's me. Oh, we're mixing up, hopefully, a nice color. I'm sorry. That was a bit darker than I had hoped. But we'll find the towers again. Okay. The towers are there. They're just hidden. Somewhere, not over the rainbow, is, are they? Are they? You know, under the ocean, somewhere under the ocean, the abyss is blue or black. You're the metal Bob Ross, you make me so happy and relaxed when you paint. So, see you on DB Kitchener. Thank you. Kim Ross, that's his name. Yes. I actually, this fall, I started learning the Bob Ross technique just because I love learning techniques. I'm not going to be a Bob Ross painter, but I wanted to learn the technique. I can sort of see the towers here. I can remember them. I can see them in my mind's eye. That's the joy of painting. I fucked up. I admit it. So, let's see. Here we get them back. Yes, lovely. So, I started learning the Bob Ross technique, but I only did one painting. But now, in my artist's studio, it's an art collective, so we have a lot of different artists. And one of them is primarily working in woodworking. Working in woodworking. So, he used to have a window by his workbench. And it wasn't a window with a good view. It was a window to another rule, but it was a view. And now he lost his view because we remodeled. And he asked me, or I volunteered actually, and then he took me up on my volunteering to paint some big ass Bob Ross images to have in the window over the workbench, so that he has something nice to look at. So, that's one of my next hobby projects. Just to learn the technique. It's good to have a reason to learn techniques. Well, now we have the towers back, but we need more. We will get some towers in blue as well. Now, if you're going to look at Lovecraft's descriptions of a lion, I will share it somewhere. It will probably not be a part of my free art project where I I share the rights to my work so everyone can use my work for free, commercially or personally, because I root for the pirates. It will not be a part of that, because I don't know. That feels weird. But I will share pictures at least on my Instagram. Maybe I'll do a Bob Ross with video. I'm starting to get the plan now. And I'm hoping this one will be hoping to do it a bit rougher than most of my acrylic pieces. I lost the brush. See on rope? I don't know what it wrote. Did it disappear? No. I think it's an emoji. Mmm. That is devil horns. Oh, nice. Thank you. I thought maybe it was somebody cheering, but then I didn't understand why his head wasn't there. Haven't you seen the devil horns emoji before? A moticon? Apparently not. It's so metal. That's turning out pretty shit, eh? Pretty shit, yes. So far. I don't know if that's positive or negative. I don't know. But right now I'm still flailing about not quite knowing what I'm doing. And I wonder if a Chilean friend wants to know what kind of paint you use. Yeah. Right now I'm using acrylic painting. So I'm using a mixture of these really good golden high flow acrylics and golden fluid acrylics, which are expensive. And then I'm also mixing them with these shitty, uh, it's not a thrift store, but it's a cheap brand, sang acrylics, regular acrylics. So it's a good mix. And there's nothing wrong in using cheap color. It's good to sort of losing my brush again and again. That's not good. It's, um, it's good. You have to tape it on your fingers. Yeah. It's good to test out new colors and stuff. But what you get with cheap paint is you get a lot of medium and very little actual color. So, so that's the difference. The expensive paint has a lot of color, a lot of pigment. So you only have to use a teeny bit? Yeah. But still, um, when I buy this set of 18 or 30 cheap colors, I get a lot of variety to test around with. And I don't need to really give a damn about what I do with them. But, um, when I buy expensive colors, I'd better know what I'm going to do with them. Yes, but these are really expensive. These? Yeah, these are really expensive. This is one of the... How much are they for a bottle? A bottle like this is 200. That's not very expensive. No, but I'm guessing you can find more expensive. Acrylic? Probably, yeah, but not that much. No, they're a really good brand. Or so people who know this tell me. I'm pretty new to acrylic, really new to... And the cheap thing is... Let's go. The cheap... So this is 200 corner for this bottle, and this is for 18 or 20 for something of these. It's under 200 corners. Yes, but they're tiny. Yes. Interesting. But it's basically the more pigment, pigment costs. And also the any good brand of acrylic or oil, the prices will differ so that a titanium white will be a lot less expensive than a let's say a Taylor blue or a cadmium red. And also the most expensive are you even get poison. Poison. This is some of them are poisons. Not that poisons. Because the good colors are heavy chemicals. So do you know what Urlaya is, my dear wife? It's a city under the sea. And who... It's where the little mermaid lives. Yes, who lives in Urlaya? I just answered that. Not the little mermaid. It's the guy with all the tentacles. Yes, it's the guy with all the tentacles. Kutulu, that's the guy. Kutulu is the guy who lives in Urlaya. That's correct. Very good. Poison. Lollis is my Australian friend tonight. And Jimmy Tolle says silently, I presume. No, cadmium is... It's not that... It's not a poison, but it's toxic. So it's not poison. Yeah, and there's also these debates in the oil painting communities. Because now all you buy is titanium white or zinc white. And while lead white, which is based on lead, is apparently a lot more durable. So... But people don't want to paint with lead anymore. And one of the reasons why the colors of old Renaissance paintings are still so good is because they were apparently painted with lead. Jimmy says, I figure. Because there used to be signage in the blue paint. People used to paint at kitchens, like in the olden days. That might be... I haven't heard about cyanide in... That seems like a silly thing to do. But it stays in the paint. Does it? Yes, it does. Probably. But then we're talking about lead paint that houses used to have. But they were poisonous as well because... Okay. Slowly giving people cancer and stuff. Yeah. Cancer? Man, sir. I don't want to... I do not want to paint with dangerous paints because I always end up eating my brush. This is an awkward silence while my dear lovely wife is staring at me. And shaking my head because... Come on! No, it's actually a thing. But it explains all the painting spirit from time to time. So yes. It's actually a thing that a lot of ink artists do in order to get a good point on the brush you use your spit. Um, but oil... I don't know, just water around your fingers. No, but there are things in your spit that makes that point better. Then put spit on your fingers. That would also be an idea, but we're not all smart like you. It's an age-old tradition. Yes, artists. That explains so much. Keeping really rough. It still looks like nothing. I'm sorry. And I've seen... Z answers. DNA makes the painting better. Yes. If somebody is thinking about identity theft, most of my paintings have both my DNA and my fingerprints. And some of them even have my likeness. So it's... Tonight asks, what do you use to relieve acrylic paint to take you off this fleece just to steal my identity crisis you're having? So mostly I use water to dilute the acrylic and you can use... On good acrylic you can use about up to a lot of water, more than 50% water. Without a problem. On bad acrylics you should use a bit less. But if you're smart you will varnish or put some other type of coating on the drawing afterwards. And then you don't have to worry about flaking or other stuff. That might happen when you diluted too much with water. You can also use a retarder. And I can say retarder because it says retarder. It's okay. Which makes the drying time for the acrylic slightly longer. And I've experimented with that and that's good if you're, for instance, painting outside and you don't want the hassle of mixing new colors all the time. And then that's good because it gives you a little more leeway when... It's turning up beautifully. Thank you. See, Jan says. And tonight says, sorry to change the DNA subject. And Mona says, oh I see the castle from inside a grotto. Yeah, it's something like that. It's a city under the sea. And it's a cyclopean city. Okay, I have Little Mermaid's song going around in my head and then I only know the one. There are some Cthulhu Little Mermaid made mashups, of course. Otherwise I would lose faith in humanity. Is actually Ursula Cthulhu Little Mermaid mashup in all her tentatilness? Perhaps. I don't think Lovecraft can take credit for everything tentacled. But a lot of it, yeah. Yeah, but well. Okay, Mona says, city autocorrect. I see the castle from inside a city, maybe. Or I see the city from inside a grotto. I don't know. Which word was autocorrected, Mona? I see the castle from city a grotto. I'm going for that. Yeah, city a grotto. City a grotto indeed. It's a... The thing is, the problem with... The blue paint looks like a baby seal. That one, yeah, I see it. The problem with drawing Erlia is that the description of it is that it's cyclopean and that it's full of angles that do not add up. So, it's angles that are impossible. It's full of optical illusions or actually bending space and probabilist time. So you can't actually draw it, but you can give a hint, I think. And that's what we have to do here. So, we have to find some angles and just enhance some of them like this. We're just going around, trying to find shapes that are already there, but need to... But city not castle, says Mona Nygo. City in a grotto, perhaps, yeah. I see the city from inside a grotto. Yeah. Thank you, Mona. Try to give a lot of small windows here and there and openings. And... Is there a castle in there as well? There probably is. Some were in one of the Lovecraft stories that refers to Cthulhu as the High Priest of Erlia. So there should be a sort of a temple or that type of stuff. But the thing with the Lovecraft deities or entities is that it's not really clear what's factual about what Lovecraft characters write about them and what is just human misunderstanding of cosmic forces. So the whole High Priest thing may be just a misunderstanding. It's not necessarily true that the Star Spawn, as they are referred to once in a while, would have anything that we think of as a religion, but they would have some sort of technological, magical relationships to cosmic forces such as Asatoth and Yogsototh and Nirlathletap even. So there is sort of connections that we will interpret as religious, but that's the question. Is Cthulhu even religious? Is he an atheist? No, fuck that. Now the thing I'm saying is that... Are there people who actually view this as an actual religion? Yes, there are. There are at least two different... Are they called cultists? Yes. Or are they called cultists? There are at least two different schools of... Two different organized attempts of making religions out of Lovecraft's writings. Why? Well, I know that one claim is that Lovecraft thought he was writing fiction, but being inspired by his dreams, it was actually the elder forces talking through him. I do like that. I do enjoy that. And I think that one of the most influential happenings in getting Lovecraft into the realm of new religion is the Church of Satan, where in Anton Lavais' Satanic Bible they only view Satan as a metaphor. So in order to illustrate it, in one chapter they exchange Satan for Cthulhu. So they have a ritual for Cthulhu in the Satanic Bible. Why? Because it's a metaphor. So that's one of the thoughts. The Church of Satan isn't a religion, it's a set of rituals and a philosophy. So that might be one way to view it. And the other is that these are real forces that Lovecraft thought he was making up. That's another way. Slightly silly. No, don't be silly. Billy, whatever you want. And also it's the chaos magic idea. In chaos magic you can worship whatever you want, because it's all part of chaos. And Cthulhu and the like are manifestations of chaos. So it's very easy to see why it would work in that setting. Don't you see? My dear lovely wife thinks I'm talking about the most boring thing in the world. Yes, I wasn't paying attention. I'm sorry. It is not very fascinating, no. I know you think so. There are some fascinating ideas in Lovecraft's work. And it's not the worst thing that a modern religion has been based on, to say it like that. It's not a worst thing an old religion has been based on either. And I think that Lovecraft, who was very much anti-religious, would find some of this rather amusing. I'm not quite certain where I'm going with if I can make the effect that I want now. It's hard, because you don't want to put too much in, because then everything is obvious. And then it's obvious that it's not so as detailed. And you don't want to put too little in, because then it's just messy. It's a sunken city, so it's in ruins as well. We've got some ruins here. And that's good. That creates depth. That's good. We need that. And of course, as some of you probably know, that attempts at making a religion out of Lovecraft even includes writing the Necronomicon, the fictitious book that Lovecraft mentioned, and publishing it as if real, which has happened many times, or at least a few times. Is that the book from The Evil Dead? That is the book from The Evil Dead. Now, in Lovecraft, it doesn't mention Clowter Verata Niktu. It doesn't mention that it's bound in human skin. And just as a sort of bummer for all those who thought it was real, the author of the Necronomicon is Abdul al-Hasred. Now, Abdul is not a name, because Abdullah is a name. Abdullah, the servant of Allah, Abdullah. Abdul is not a name, but Abdul al-Hasred was a nickname for Lovecraft when he was a kid, given to him by an uncle, because he had read all the books, including A Thousand and One Nights. He was Abdul al-Hasred. And yeah, that's why... This, I have to live with this. I have to live with this. You're talking to people watching me draw. I feel generally certain that they appreciate my geekiness. No, I actually like that story. Yes, it is good. Tonight says Necronomicon part, and then she says, wow. Yes, you know I enjoy some geekiness. Yes, you enjoy me. This is a deeply problematic image. Try to capture it here. I feel a lot is going right, but I don't know if I can... Tonight says geeking out about Lovecraft is always a good thing. Oh, indeed. One day I might read my first Lovecraft book, but probably not. Well, you're going to have a problem reading your first Lovecraft book. Novel, dingy. No novels. One novel, actually. And it's a short novel. Why would I... It's short stories. That's all of them. All of them short stories. Okay, so he could be bothered to write a proper book. He wrote two books and tried to throw them away, but they are published now. But yeah, it was short stories. Okay, I think we're going to go in with white ink and a bit of the bluish. It's going to pick up some of the bluish, no matter what. But this is a very green color. We'll see how that works. Some light. Just create a bit of space between the shapes. And to tone it down, do that with water. And it will settle in and will be a lot less extreme. Again, just following the shapes that are already there, caring too much about what it actually is. See. See the... I don't know if you can see it on the live stream, but it's... It creates that instantly. Very satisfied. And this should probably be in front as well. And what I imagine this actually as being is sort of a city in the hydrophermal vents, but there should be some bubbles going up. But I don't really want to do that too clearly because... Or it can... The foreground, it can happen. Because if I do bubbles back here, then it will make the city look tiny. And that's not what we want. That's the sort of considerations you have to make pretty much on the fly when doing something like this. But I hope that you guys at home can appreciate how much depth these tiny touches of green turkeys turquoise turquoise turquoise turquoise turquoise turquoise are giving the image. We're going to mix them up with more white and more green. And we're going to... Oh, too much. Too much, too much out of the light in the foreground as well. Yes, it looks very gloomy now, so see on. Gloomy in... Yeah, it should be a gloomy city. It's not exactly Las Vegas. Oh. Or maybe it was. It's a city of poor, unfortunate souls. So who? You said... The little girl made. That's Ursula City. She collects poor, unfortunate souls. Oh, all right. The Little Mermaid has always been one of the Disney movies that I don't get. I'm sure that's prejudice just from the time it came out. But I know it's considered as a part of the Disney renaissance, but it's not up there. I do like most of the other films of the Disney renaissance. I like it. I enjoy it. The Little Mermaid made? Yes. Yeah, it's got... I'm actually not... I haven't seen it in many years. I remember we tried to watch Peter Pan. Yeah? It was kind of racist. The Peter Pan... No, it's got the Indian scene. It's not a very fortunate depiction of Indians. It's a good movie. And today we saw Mulan with the kids, which got the incredibly racist depictions of the Huns who are also completely badass. So on the one hand, they are walking gorilla beasts. On the other hand, they are so fucking cool. So if you are... They all really look evil. Oh yes. And you have to do stuff like that. You can't have an occasional bad guy looking like a good guy. Frozen does it well. A lot of other movies do it well. You have to have the stereotypical, really evil looking people. And you have those of all varieties. They're never blonde. Yes, they are. Yeah. Huns, no. Any stereotypical Aryan white-haired, a bit-to-pale blue-eyed is an evil fucker in countless fantasy and action movies. And you've got the very evil Uber Aryan. That's definitely a stereotype. It definitely works. And living in Norway, being from Norway, I've met a few people who are so pale that it's creepy. It's a good look for being creepy. Yes, in the wintertime some of you are see-through. Yes, it's very good. You're actually blue. Yes. I don't know how much more I'm going to do with this, because if I do more, then I will probably start losing some of the mystery that is there. I will do some spatter, because I am me. And first we're going to do very high above, just to get a few some dust in the water. And then we're going back with some black. And you probably, you can see this on the YouTube video, but you probably cannot see this on the live stream, but the little dots are making a difference. A slight difference, but a difference indeed. It gets impressions of figures in the foreground, it's a seon. Excellent. What's thinking, maybe you should try it when you're finished. Try to, can you lower the camera slowly? So you can actually zoom in on the picture. No, we can try. Are you finished? Yeah, I think I'm finished, I need to sign. You know there's a white dot all the way down there. There? Yes. Yeah, yeah, that's okay. It's supposed to be there. It's supposed to be there. Or white instead. There, there, it's okay. This is the foreground. Okay, this is tricky. Things might fall apart, things might not work, but I'll try to lower the camera. Advanced zooming. Yeah, this doesn't work. No, it doesn't work. This is shaky. Yeah, and it also gets out of focus. Okay. It is work-ish. Work-ish. It worked for one of the cameras, not for the YouTube one, but for the other one. What didn't it work for the YouTube camera? Because then that doesn't see the whole image anymore. So we'll take it back up. This was an experiment. So you're going to have to lift it up. Yeah, that would be smarter. But the other one would have been more professional-ish. Yeah, again that doesn't work for the YouTube. We're so sorry about that. Um, how long have we been going? I don't know. Do you have any energy? Do you, should we do- I have no idea what time it is. Meme neither. Should we try to do the samurai one as well? What time it is? I do not know. It's 10 o'clock. I think we've been going long enough time. I did want to do the samurai one because I did want someone to get it tattooed on themselves. But yes, we've been going long enough. Maybe you can do it as warm up some other time. Yeah. Mora Nigos says she loves it. And tonight, Telsus, we've been on about one hour. Thank you. That seems about right. That seems about right. And yeah, my head is a bit fried. If I were to try to draw the samurai thing now, it would probably look something like this. See, Telsus, that's amazing. Thank you. Here is the samurai. Now he's got the samurai here. Why is he so sad? Because I'm tired. So that's why I'm not drawing that now. But generally, if- and now he asks you to get this tattooed. Generally, if you're going to use the drawing for something, it gets you a lot better chance at getting it. How about this? I want to draw the samurai for him so he can tattoo it on himself. So maybe we'll put it on next week as well and let the dice decide. Oh, yeah. That's reasonable. And some weeks we might do two drawings, but then we have to be a bit more awake. He really wants someone to put his ink on themselves. Someone has. I know. You want more. Yeah, I want more. 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