 are live. Hello and welcome to episode 3 of season 3 of the free art show. My name is Kim Dias Holm. You can also call me Den Ungerhard Holm. I am an artist from Bergen Norway releasing art for free uses under a Creative Commons attribution license. So you can use it for anything you want as long as you credit me with my name. And the free art show is the show where I draw your requests and starting today I actually have a request that of course I forgot to write down who requested it. It was a request from the YouTubes but I thought it was a fun little request to start with and while I'm oh I love that I finally came in time for this good for you good for you while I love drawing and just talking about stuff let us also hear where people are located and see if you can guess what what the first request is. So I started the video recording. I have to draw this in less than 10 minutes. Okay let's see how it goes. Gonna start. After we're finished with this drawing I will be taking some request from you guys and then maybe yeah we'll see we'll see how many I take today. I'm kind of tired after the Inferno Festival still so it probably won't be that many but maybe a few. Oh I got a super chat for supporting the Iranian revolution and the Iranian revolution is still ongoing and the Iranian people still need our help. I've been making meaning to make another video about what's happening in Iran and I will hopefully get the time to do that soon now that the Inferno Festival is over. So we got viewers from the UK from Germany please make an elemental. Arizona USA is it an alien gnome? Oh it's kind of kind of an alien gnome. I can tell you what it is soon. Oh so many. It is not a squid. Why would this be a squid? Cuttlefish. It's not a cuttlefish. Why would I draw a cuttlefish? Nomapus. Cthulhu Rocket. It could be a Cthulhu Rocket. Cthulhu Rocket is my favorite post punk band. Cthulhu Rocket is more to the point. Squid. It's a spaceship. It's not a spaceship. Does this look like a spaceship? Oh I need to stop talking so much and and actually draw a little because the clock is ticking. I have 10 minutes to do this drawing which it should be good time but not if I forget to draw and only chat. Wizard octopus. It's not a damned octopus. Have you got octopuses on your brain? Love from Bangladesh. Excellent. Wizard Cthulhu. Very close. Very close but this is not a wizard hat. It's a type of hat that you would get if you were a bad boy in school. Could you draw my family crest and probably not. Dunce Cthulhu. That is correct. It is the Dunce Cthulhu but I think I will just call him bad Cthulhu because I think that's funnier. The request was to draw a eldritch horror with a Dunce cap. So Dunce Cthulhu came in my head immediately. So whoever requested that. Thank you because I got this exact image. Not exact but this approximate image in my head immediately. And that's the best that's the best type of request to do is the one that plants a seed in my imagination. We didn't get hats in my school because we didn't use those things anymore. Corporeal punishment still did happen but it wasn't supposed to happen. And that kind of making fun of the student. It's kind of disgusting that this is what schools are and have been. It's kind of insane. I'm feeling naughty. Penguin Cthulhu. Which number is it? We have to look here. It's number 1271. So at the start of doing my daily ink monsters I did one every single day for three years. But now if I'm drawing a lot of other stuff like I was doing at the Inferno I don't mind taking a little break from the ink monsters. And then I'm back to doing them every day when I don't have too much else to draw. Okay so here it is. Bad Cthulhu. Such a bad Cthulhu. She loves Dunce Cthulhu. Could I possibly do a water phoenix? What is a water phoenix? So as I said we will probably not be doing a very long live today missing the circle. No I'm not missing the circle. The Enso is a symbol that I put on some art when it's spiritually significant to me either because of the theme or because thank you for another big 20 euro super chat. The Enso is a symbol I put on art that has some sort of spiritual significance for me. And the reason I put it there is that I can show you. I can just illustrate it for you quickly here on a another sheet of paper so basically when I'm done with the drawing like say I draw this drawing here this is a little man you see it's and stream is down we're having some it was reconnecting I don't know why the is it laggy is the sound bad or is it just the reconnecting all good okay let us see so as I was saying when I've drawn drawing that I think might be spiritually significant for me either because of the subject matter or because of something I reflected on I check with the fates or the gods or the cosmos to see if it's worth keeping so if I do an Enso and it ends up looking like this it's worth keeping if I do an Enso and it ends up looking like this it's not worth keeping so if it turns out that way I will tear up the drawing because then the gods have decided that it wasn't meant to be so I would not put an Enso on bad Cthulhu unless it somehow was spiritually significant for me lucky he's not a tattoo artist yeah the oh my one tattoo if yet or two I have this one and I have one of my Enso's on the chest where I've started instead with Enso instead of ending with it and I'm going to get more tattoo artists to do my art on me in their styles so that's the idea let's find another request what do you want me to draw this time oh another super chat this should be enough for low cheap loaf of bread that helps every little bit helps maybe draw Jürgen gandit a bat a sea monster all good ideas a water elemental that is a good idea I'm still just waiting for something that sparks something in my imagination and I want a key oh what about a troll let's just do a troll because the trolls are some of my favorite things to draw and they're easy and I'm dead dead tired today self-portrait not today but let's do this troll I'm just going to do a time-lapse video of it so that I can use it as a short later Hustumpte would be good but it's not a Hustumpte it's just a troll it's just a troll do you see the troll I see some trolls there's a lot of possibilities here Donald Trump yes I said I would draw a troll does anyone know the ink he uses so it's a regular india ink I'll show the bottle I just need it's india ink from talents and royal talents it is I buy it because the local art store has it in liter bottles okay let's make this troll happen molehead big jaw that I can see that uh but I'm not going to do that what brushes uh do you so this is a very destroyed regular aqua brush or or watercolor brush I'm using the destroyed one because that's easier to do the broken lines with now we're going to give the troll one eye here and this is an ear okay and then the next eye has to be here but I want a little bit of highlight on the nose and a few teeth down here okay so that's the first troll head but trolls don't only have one head or they can but many times they don't so we will start going in with another head here this is going to be the shadow under the chin and then yeah I need to use a brush that's slightly less damaged because I have a lot of brushes lying around in all states of disrepair and I because I use my ooh another super chat because I the hype super chat thank you so much for the super chat because I abuse my brushes so much I have gone over to buying almost only cheap brushes once in a while I will buy a like a Kolinsky brush a sable hair brush a Windsor Newton series 7 or something like that but very very seldomly because I destroy the brushes so quickly so I buy cheap synthetic hair not not like Dimes or a dollar store cheap but but but art store cheap ooh another super chat fantastic thank you so much for the super chats it helps a lot the fact that youtube is going so well now means that I can invest more into to to my art into the free art show into making videos into doing a lot of fun stuff I hope so yeah I will I I can't say how appreciate it ooh another don't take you all and be stoned to you yeah so that sounds like a thing you'd say to a troll that turns to stone in the sunlight so let us just gather our minds again buy all 58 people to from mason kim how are you today I'm tired after inferno still I will be tired maybe for a week more um but but I'm good I'm actually good so let's get back to this what was I talking about yes the super chats super chats help a lot uh supporting on patreon helps a lot uh and just watching the videos or and using the art this will be uploaded for free use tomorrow we will probably have it up on the web store as well for $200 for the original you can if you the original is too expensive you can print it yourself and get it for free you can also earn money on it as long as you credit my name so this troll is kind of disappearing so we will need to go in with some white ink or some white uh thing hey kim I sent you an email a couple of weeks ago what's the best way to get in touch with you email is very good um but I apparently didn't reply uh because I get too many messages I get too many messages on my instagram on my email on my facebook and on my tiktok so I'm sort of overloaded with messages these days and it's hard to reply to all of them uh but again with the extra money that's coming in from youtube and from other places from patreon from the web store I will be getting help to do all this so that I'm you know uh so that I don't have to do all of it myself uh it's what brand of colored inks do you use I right now I use two different brands of colored inks for acrylic inks I use Amsterdam and for non-acrylic inks I don't know if I have one here I I have one that's empty I use senileer and and both of them are great senileer is a wonderful brand uh Amsterdam I they are good uh I when it comes to acrylic I prefer golden um let's see here should it be a two-headed troll or a three-headed troll you guys decide I can fit another head do you happen to know what determines the number of a troll uh heads the troll has no is this some obscure folklore that that that you know or did you just ask because if you just asked the the answer is how many it needs to have two heads eating a third how can you draw what's in your mind I can't do anything realistic uh without reference I if I want to do realistic I used reference this isn't realistic reference wouldn't help that much but it does help that I've used a whole ton of reference all through my life oh another super chat super chats are really rolling in today that is super super appreciated when you start doing art when I was one year old I started doing art I think these two are good with just two heads and we can even let's throw in a third head that they're eating yes third troll head so um if the question was if there is any justification in the the the uh I don't know of any justification for trolls having more than one head uh in the folklore or fairytales or sagas for instance uh one of the first attestations I know of uh Juten with many heads is the grandmother of Tyr the god in the story where Tyr and Tord goes fishing uh or Tord and uh what's his face the Juten the stepfather of Tyr in the story where they go fishing it says that Tyr's grandmother has I think a hundred heads or a thousand heads and that seems to be sort of the general gist of how troll heads work is that if it needs to be impressive it will have more heads the more impressive it needs to be the the more heads and the larger it will be and it doesn't really heads or more like faces all over the body in the um north poetry I think it says a hundred or a thousand heads uh I would have to double check I don't I've never heard of an interpretation that says it's all the heads are all over the body or anything like that uh but um one thing we have to remember that I keep reminding people of and I need to make a thousand videos about is that folklore and mythology thank you for another super chat actually you gave one earlier as well I think so thank you for the super chat and folklore and mythology is not a dungeons and dragons manual it's not a bunch of pokemon cards these are not defined species they are they are much looser terms they are um they are changing terms so for instance the word troll originally is used for almost any kind of a monstrosity uh so so sea serpents can be trolls and mermaids can be trolls and and trolls can be trolls and ghosts can be trolls it does indicate it seems to indicate a sort of a maliciousness and a sometimes stupidity as well so it and size so basically if it's big mean and stupid it's probably a troll and then with the years it seems like the more monstrous aspects of the jortens like the like the two's grandmother with a hundred heads seems to be more cemented into the modern idea of trolls uh but the modern look for trolls doesn't come from the folklore and the fairytales there are some indications of looks for trolls such as the the troll in the billy goat fairytale having eyes as big as plates and a nose as long as a broomstick but apart from that they don't have a defined look until the fairytales are collected and printed by in norway by osperation and mu and drawn primarily by Theodor Kittelsen who got his the job through his friend Erik Varenstrol and Varenstrol and Kittelsen are the especially Kittelsen but also Varenstrol are the two that define how Norwegian trolls look John Bauer is the one that defines how swedish trolls look these are modern interpretations of the fairytales in an age of science and it's not before we get uh those visual interpretations that we get the trolls defined as a as a species of its own and that's you could see that happening all over the world at that time that uh uh inspired by Charles Darwin and by Carl Linnaeus and by the scientific revolution folklorists were going around collecting tails and collecting creatures and they were also starting to define that this is a troll this is a dwarf this is a fey this is a vette this is a hulder this is a and and they they made up those categories the the the words were there before the ideas were there before but they were very interchangeable and often much looser than we like to think of them because folklore is not a dnd manual that it's not a dnd bestiary that's the point i always come back to we can't think of these things as different species or or really defined things they are much more vague more dreamlike more in a sense more menacing that way because you can sort of prove that a troll as a species doesn't exist but it's harder to prove that uh uh the the concept of big stupid maliciousness in the night exists or not it is easier to fear and believe in it no i'm not a believer in anything really but but uh you should have in the hall of the mountain king playing as background skillet we can we can just all together hum it ourselves and we can make this happen we can go dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum and if you all hum it all over the world we can probably if we get enough viewers we can get the world to shake it now we don't get enough viewers and it wouldn't work that way i i'm just very tired but if someone um if someone wants to hum along to uh dovri gubben's hall or the hall of the mountain king we can do it now and go dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum i really like your nails uh oh thank you thank you um there was another question about what's a basic color theory to learn so so i'm not very color smart i'm bad with color in the sense that it took a lot of time for me to learn it um and this of course depends on um on what level you're at so i don't know if you want a basic color theory about the color wheel or a basic color theory about uh hot and cold colors how uh if the lights are hot then the shadows are cold if the shadows if the lights are cold the shadows are hot though there's many types of those theories but one thing thank you for one more super chat thank you so much ashley right i suspect you're the superist uh the superist of them all today so the one thing that taught me more about color theory and how colors work than any other thing it seems so stupid and so simple but this was what taught me the most learn how to mix gray learn how to use the primary colors or whatever colors you have vibrant colors like this and mix gray from them and then you can start and mix that gray with hot and cold colors and get hot and cold grays and i don't know quite why but that taught me so much about how colors work that i never understood before i sat down and learned how to mix gray and when you mix gray you need to use a medium such as i think you can do it with gouache i'm not sure i have yeah i've tried to do it with gouache you um i can use oil or you can use acrylics you can't really use watercolor or markers or those don't work that way so i would sit down with acrylics is probably the easiest to to use and and learn how to mix gray and and when you mix gray when you've learned how to mix gray then you can start adding color back to it and and those colors you you mix with the gray they become a lot more subdued and subtle than the colors you use otherwise and so you learn subtlety in the art those legs were quick yeah they're basically just shadows so so it's i'm getting very tired now so so i'm trying to it would be wrong to say that i'm trying to get this over with quickly but i am trying to get this over with quickly without losing quality so uh drawing for five straight days drawing concerts for five straight days at the inferno festival and meeting so many people uh it was incredibly hard and incredibly rewarding and such a joy and privilege but a joy and privilege that takes its toll okay and the reason why i'm back drawing already even though i'm dead tired is that's what i need to do to keep some of the momentum and use that momentum hopefully to go from a depressive period which i had for over like between six and nine months now and go hopefully to a non-depressive period that would be ideal and if i just lay down and accept that i'm exhausted uh that i i will probably fall back into the depressive period but if i push the right amount and let myself rest enough but also push myself to get the to continue the good things i started doing before and during the inferno festival then that will likely help push me into a better period whether that better period be short or long i don't know but but that's the hope that's the hope so push yourself just don't push yourself too much push it to the limit don't push it to the limit i pushed it to the limit during the inferno festival and but i did it in a controlled way so i think that was very good for me but it was very exhausting just wanted to pop in and you're kim can you once make asdaha asdaha now i'm very tired and that names sounds familiar but i can't place it is it from the avesta is it from something like that is it from hindu or is it just warhammer can you draw king kong i have a king kong video i want to draw king kong again take it to the limit from the avesta yes so i yeah i will probably do more things from the avesta and from suru astyan and proto iranian religion from early iranian religion uh i did when the revolution in iran started i took that as the opportunity to read up a lot on suru astyanism do you like to smile i don't know what smile is they're gonna change public domain laws again though i haven't heard about any imminent change so if that's true then that is worrying because they never changed them for the better for the freer we need freedom of art is this piece going to be available at your shop yes so tomorrow i will upload it to my shop tomorrow or friday it will be uploaded to my shop for the sum of 200 dollars and it will also be uploaded for free use at the same time so if you don't have 200 dollars for the original you can get it completely for free do you ever draw anything cute i'll i'll show you cute god damn it this is a little bit cute now it's not cute cute strunberg i like that head i think this one is more or less done what shall we call them they need three names just realize you're left-handed i am i am i am left-handed can you draw king kong not today and i have a video up drawing king kong and talking about how i can draw king kong and why it's not copyrighted probably lefties unite yes and also left-handed people unite go to slumber yeah i will go to slumber soon what shall we call our three trolls kevin is the one in the hand will do a variation on kevin uh dyslexics untie that is a good dad joke i'm punished in school because i was left-handed hunts we can do hunts okay so we this is ink monster number 12 72 and it's queen so it's larry moe and not curly but kevin or rarly ome and queen that's a way i like to make silly names is just to take normal names and mess around with the letters nice thank you frogger if you ask me again if i like to smell your art i will mute you for a while because i have already answered it and i don't know what it means and it sounds like some stupid internet joke i think that will be the last ink monster for today okay you didn't hear the first time yeah i i have no idea what smell is so someone asked for a cute ink monster or cute something cute and i think bad kutulu is very cute oh and uh rarly ome and queen not quite that cute but you know it is what it is now if you want to support my art you can buy me a super chat or you can buy me a uh super thanks if you want to support on patreon then the best thing you can do is to support with one dollar a month only one dollar a month helps more than you can ever know if one percent of you supported with one dollar a month that would uh change my life and if you want to buy my art then you can go to my web store at den ungeherholm.com and buy prints t-shirts and originals and lastly if you uh do not have the money to support you can support my art by downloading it and using it for free you can even sell my art as long as you put my name on it and if you manage to make money on my art you don't owe me anything you just owe me the use of my name and i release all my art under creative comments attribution license so legally you are obliged to put my name on it and if you're thinking oh but i can't use your art or download it and print it without giving you something that would be unfair no it would not using my art is supporting me even if you don't pay dime you're spreading my work bad for me that you didn't see my comment but that's not important which comment was that uh there's so many comments this time so i couldn't see everyone but i'll give a tiny little look for that comment again so if you post it again i can see if i can answer it and then that will be the end of life and we've been going for 50 goddamn minutes so long i thought i would do a half an hour but but i'm bad at doing short things that's an amazing approach to growing your art i admire you for that it is it is something not something i do lightly it is something that i spent years planning and it is something that makes a lot of business sense if you're doing it's right and it's something that can be very scary if you do it without that's what she said it can be very scary if or stupid even if you do it without having thought about the implications and how that affects what type of work you should do we're just wrapping up but can you rewind it re you you can rewind it when that uh that stream is over just said that it's amazing to see your channel grow so much i remember when your channel was much smaller with less subscribers i've been subscribed for a long time hello my fellow norwegian bro hey a bro there okay so that was the last comment for today and thank you all for watching and do support my art by using it bye