 And we are live because I forgot that today was Sunday and that I was supposed to go live. So this is the second Sunday I've forgotten, which means I will probably have to do something about the Sunday streams. Either move them to later in the evening or perhaps move them to another day. So we'll see. Now let's just wait for some people to get into the chat here. My name is Kim Diaz Holm, also called Den Bunga Had Holm, and I make art for free use. Hey, Michael Reynolds. Hey, everyone. Orange juice. Jane. Oh my God. I was first. No, Michael Reynolds was two seconds before you. Anthony McNeill. Hi, Kim. Good day. Good day, everyone. So since I forgot again my Sunday streams and that we were going to be learning how to draw together, I think that is a good sign that I need to figure out something with the scheduling there. And let's do a Q&A stream instead. So ask me any questions you want. And the first question is, do you play D&D? Not in forever. It's been so long since last I played D&D. I did try to play a little bit with my kids, but it didn't quite... it didn't stick. And I really want to play Outcast Silver Raiders, the RPG based on D&D 1 rule set, that I helped illustrate, or that I illustrated fully and which looks like a really cool RPG, but I haven't gotten to it yet. Have you heard of Dave McKean? Yes, Dave McKean is definitely a hero of mine. There's a lot of his work that is heavily influential on mine. There's Sandman Covers, of course. Kages, of course. Mr. Punch. Black Orchid. Arkham Asylum, surely. But I mean, most of all, Kages was very influential on my art style. And a friend of mine, the great Simon Dancaster, who writes lyrics for Abath, was visiting Dave McKean last year, I think, and brought me a book signed with a piece of art from Dave McKean to me. So that is a very prized possession that I have. Black Dog, I think the book is called. I haven't read it yet, but I am going to read it. Who is your hero? I mean, in life or in art, or what kind of hero? I'm not really, if we're talking about non-artistic heroes, I'm not really all that much for hero worship. But if we're talking about art, I mean, everyone from, like I said, Dave McKean, Frank Miller is probably my biggest influence and, yeah, artistic hero. Rob Halford and Jackie Chan in some other genres. Yeah, I like people who go all out and do their own thing. Guten Abend. What do you think about Brazil? I would love to visit Brazil someday. I think it seems like a fascinating country. I don't like Bolsonaro, but apart from that, you know, Pancon Queso. Thank you. Shite Mite says, just got one of your crows tattooed on my shoulder. I think the tattoo artist did your work justice. Wow. Thank you so much, Shite Mite. And thank you for the Canadian dollars. And do send me a photo of your new tattoo at den ungeherholm.com. The email specifically created so that people can send me their tattoos. Because there are quite a few people going around with my art tattooed on their skin. And that's just fantastic. Your art is magnificent. And I love your nails. OK, must nap after a very long shift. Go take a nap. OK, hide user on channel because we do not like racist jokes here. Have you heard that Aurora is releasing a new album on what happened to the heart on June 6th? I figured something was up. And I'm looking forward to it. I really enjoyed her last album. DC and or Marvel. Marvel all the way. I am eternally a Marvel kid. All my favorite superheroes are Marvel. It's Daredevil. And Wolverine. And Spider-Man. X-Men. I hide another user because I am disappointed. That's just because you have bad taste. If you like DC. Thank you for creating. You are my favorite artist. I'm looking forward to seeing your crow tattoo. Have we got any more questions here? Favorite type of mythology. Why does your eyes look red? I don't know. I did mess up that eye quite a bit on the festival. So maybe it's still something from that. I managed to, during my art performance, my lovecraft performance, I managed to smear green face paint into my eye under my contact lenses. And I wasn't smart enough to change or to buy new contact lenses until the day after. So this I got some real punishment. A tricky question. What folklore is more interesting? American, Asian, European, African. I don't think that's a tricky question because I think that's an impossible question. Because, first of all, it doesn't make sense to divide it like that. Eurasian folklore and mythology is very, very connected. And in part also connected with large parts of African mythology and folklore. And what I've found is when you dig down and start learning about any type of folklore, it all gets really interesting really fast. But if I just had to pick one that's been interesting to me the last few years, I think Filipino mythology and Filipino folklore because I've so enjoyed learning more about that. I'm quite sad that you said I have poor taste. I mean, that's not me. It's just the universe decided that DC sucks. I'm kidding, of course. I do love some DC. I mean, Frank Miller is my favorite artist and some of his best work is Batman. So of course I love DC and he's not the only one. We're talking about Sandman which is under DC and Vertigo and Vertigo comics was really influential on me. But the main DC characters I've never gotten into the same way as I got into the Marvel characters. That's all. This is the first time I saw a live stream of yours. Do you generally work day or night? I used to work night and day and night but that was hell for my bipolar or that was perfect for my bipolar. So I have pretty strict rules about not working into the evenings. I love Joker and Scarecrow, yeah. Joker and Scarecrow, I mean DC has some great villains. Okay, ooh, I have a question. What's an ink painting that shocked you when you envisioned the end product? I think that will be a disappointing answer because that's usually not how it works. I usually don't envision the end product. I envision bits and pieces of it and I'm usually not shocked. So I can't really say that any of them shocked me or especially not when I envisioned the end product. But there is one that became quite popular that has some of those qualities and that is there was an ink monster I did of Hale, a goddess of the North Underworld and that's one of the times where I kept staring at the ink blot and basically saw a very close to finished thing quite clearly. But usually, I mean, if I see something finished, an end product in the ink, then usually that's a bad sign because that's a lot harder to draw. Have you ever drawn busk gods? No, I know very little except for the busk black goat thing. DC will always be my favorite, mainly because it was my introduction to superheroes. That's a good point. Thank you for that, Mr. Hall. No problem. Dark Knight is my favorite DC film, not a huge fan of the Red. I like Dark Knight. Okay. That's a fantastic answer. Thank you. Thank you. Hi, Zoe. Do we have any more questions? You're a great artist. It's a pleasure to watch you work. Thank you. Artworking in October, black and white face, kind of looking like Michael Myers Mask. I'm wondering what's the story behind it because it's really stuck in my head. And I want to make it an album cover. You can make it an album cover, but I don't know which one you are. I'll try and look at my computer, so it's in my Inktober Gallery. Is that correct? Is it from this year or is it pink? Send a link. That's easier. If I remember the story, then I will probably answer you. Okay. Any more questions? Just for Danny Wilde here and for anyone else interested. All my art is available for free use, so you can download it and you can print it and you can use it as an album cover and even sell it as long as you put my name in as an artist. Were you the art kid growing up? What were your art goals? Yes, I was an art kid and my art goal was to make comics. I worked with that for a very long time and in the end I had to fail and give up and fall down to become a goddamn fine artist instead. What's your favorite thing about working with ink? That's a good question. I think, and this is specific for ink and brush, but I think it's something so simple as going from super thin to super thick lines and being able to define shapes so directly as you can with black ink. Can I do your accent without being an appropriator? I don't know what that means. I really, really hate it when people do my accent, but that's a me problem because that's all got to do with being bullied for my speech as a kid and not having dealt properly with that trauma. So I really absolutely hate when people mimic or do impressions of me. I despise it so, but that's a me problem. I absolutely love listening to other people doing impressions of others, so I can't be that offended, but yeah. As someone with bipolar disorder, do you experience hyper-focus? If you do, do you experience burnout and how do you handle burnout from it? Do you have any tips for prevention? Yes. First of all, Danny, if you can go to the Inktober archive, then most of them have, how can you do that? If you press the info thing, you will see what they're called, like Inktober 2050 22 Lovecraft Tie is the one that I'm looking at now. So just see what the file is called and just say that to me and I'll get back to you. Love, the droger art, thank you. But I want to answer Eda's question. Yes, I have experienced hyper-focus. That's a pretty big part of my art and I have also experienced burnout from it and periods of more hyper-focus and extensive burnout is a large part of my bipolar cycles. And the tips for it are going to sound awful, but one of the things I started doing was every time I sat down to draw, I put on a timer for 25 minutes and whenever the timer rang, I had to get up and move about for a minute, two minutes, 30 seconds even. And that and other similar practices started breaking up my hyper-focus and also making it easier for me to focus in a short amount of time and also reducing the burnout. Still, in order to function, I have to set rules for myself and those rules are like boring rules that don't work into the night. And especially if I notice that I sleep less and less and a hypomanic period is coming, then I have to be very strict and cut the work at six o'clock in the evening. And just... Are you a Norwegian? Preferred paper and ink for your work? There is a list. On all my later videos there is a list of materials that I use, so go there and see that. Hello, Burnout Saxman, take all the time you need. Yeah, I'm kind of burnout after the Inferno Festival. So yeah, I guess that's something that's happening. As we say, it's Nameless, but I send you other art in October. Yeah, I found the one. It is... Let's just turn around. It's this one, right? And I have to look for... Look at it a little while. I don't really... I have to look at the one before and after because this was the first inktober that I managed to do all 30... 31 images in daily images. So in 2014 was the first year I did the whole inktober. And this one is between this weird abstract thing that I think was supposed to be from The Whisper in the Dark by H. G. Lovecraft. And then after that it is At the Mountains of Madness by Lovecraft. And I'm not 100% sure, but I think I maybe just wanted to play around with shadows. Sorry for the boring story behind the art, but I think maybe that was it. And I don't... Usually I remember a little bit more about my art, but somehow not this. Thank you for answering my question. I struggle with hyper-focus and usually end up crashing really bad. Yes, I struggle a lot in listening to my own signals, hence my question for tips. So for me, monitoring sleep has been the most important. And so basically I sleep around seven hours per night, but if I start going down to six or five, and I'm still energetic, then I need to start worrying and I need to start exercising more, running more, not running fast but running slow and long and lifting weights, not heavy but slow and long. And doing things to exhaust myself. And I also need to set limits for how long I can work into the evenings. Because what happens is that I will gradually need less and less sleep and be more and more awake, and I will get hyper-focused on my art projects. And if I don't have a strict rule and no working after six o'clock, then I will start just working through the nights without pause, and then I will crash really bad. But if I, instead of that, if I sit up and read books and play video games till three or four and then get up at six or seven in the morning, then I've still slept a little bit and I can do that for a while and I will crash afterwards but I won't crash as much as if I hyper-focus and just lose track of the day and night. Yeah. Let's see, have you heard of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared? Thank you so much for everything. I wish you the best. Thank you, Danny. Have you ever tried other natural methods for coping with depression and major mood changes like psilocybin? I haven't tried that yet. So psilocybin is illegal in Norway and I'm in a situation where I have kids, I have a family and I'm a reasonably public person and I would like to be honest about as much as I can and so I'm not going to try any illegal self-medication until at least the kids are grown. I think psilocybin treatment sounds like a very promising avenue of research and I hope that Norway will allow for more of those things in the future. It's a horror show on YouTube. Haven't heard of it. I like your streams. They have been helping me get back into drawing. Thank you. That's so good to hear. So good to hear. I think unless there are any final questions I think I will keep it short and sweet today. I am really exhausted. I will be back with a stream on Thursday and we'll see what happens to the Sunday streams. Ooh, favorite animated Joker. Fair enough. Love your art. Very soothing voice, by the way. Thanks for taking questions. It was a cool conversation. Thank you. Favorite animated Joker. I grew up with, not grew up, but I was in just the right age and level of geekiness for the original Batman the Animated series and I absolutely loved Mark Howell as the Joker there. So yeah. Thank you all for streaming. This is my mindset today. Thank you all for joining me on this stream and for hanging out and asking me questions. I'll be back Thursday. Goodbye.