 the fancy intro where I draw this picture. Hi there and welcome to the free art show number one. Now if you're watching this on YouTube, you have seen the fancy intro. Very fancy. I would say it's about eight seconds long and you see me drawing this. And if you want to win this drawing, then you can comment on YouTube because this is a postcard. And we'll just write your name on the postcard and a little message and send it to you. Oh yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Only for YouTube viewers. So we will post this video on YouTube a little bit later in this week. And now let's get on with the show. Properly. I am Kim Holm and with me is my beautiful wife, Beanie. I am. I just have a silly voice. I thought before we start, proper. Proper. Proper. I thought I'd show you some drawings that I made yesterday of... I was drawing at the concert venue Hulun, which is actually a cave where you play rock. Play rock in the rock. Yes, yes, it's a lovely place. If you're ever in Bergen, go to Hulun. Rock out with your cock out. Don't do that. And anyhow, Sublime Eyes and Deception and Blood Red Throne were playing. And I drew some concert sketches. This is Deception. I'm currently working with Deception on an album or EP cover, which is going to be cool. So it was great to draw them. I've drawn them once before, but that was just one single drawing. But they're a young, energetic band. They pretty much kick ass. They're very tight, very good. I like it. That's some Deception for you. Some more Deception. Sublime Eyes. More Sublime Eyes. And also, this one is a funny one because you can hardly see what it is, but it actually looks like the guy. So whenever I actually make that magic work, I'm very excited. Oh, there I see the nose. Point at the nose, man. That's the nose. I'm kind of hoping you pointed the same way. Because the image is delayed here. You haven't pointed yet. Point. There you go. Okay, so more Sublime Eyes. And then that wasn't Sublime Eyes. That was Deception. And finally, Blood Red Throne. I didn't get to draw all their concert. I have drawn them before many times. But I finally got to get a good shot of their vocalist, Ingvar. Which again, is just nothing is happening here, but it actually looks like Ingvar. But that was cool. And now that we have had a look at the concert art, let's roll the dice. Because today, I don't know what I'm going to draw, but I have six different suggestions. And I will draw one of them. And I will let the dice decide which one. Do you have the dice for me, honey? Yes, here is a tiny dice. Should I? No, I will draw. I will roll it. You have to blow on it. No, you have to blow it on it for good luck. I have to blow it. Okay. I hold it. I blow. Two. I will be drawing a cool dragon. As requested by Yannicka. Just to show you, these are not loaded dice. I was not rigging it for a cool dragon. I seem to have been rigging it for a sewage demon. But it will be a cool dragon. And the only thing I knew about drawing today was that I was going to use red and black. A cool dragon has to have a cool, what's that called? A tiny little beard on the goatee. The goatee. A cool dragon. Oh, should I do it like a jazz cool dragon? No, I don't want to be... Everyone loves dragons. This is Paul McCabe. Everyone loves dragons. I really love drawing dragons. But I don't always love the dragons I draw. But this one is supposed to be cool. Yeah. How should I make it cool? I will not draw shades on the dragon. Shades? Yeah, and not a blues brother's hat. Oh, you meant sunglasses. Yes. I was wondering if you didn't know the difference between shades and scales. I do know the difference between shades and scales. Do you? Okay. I'm just trying to figure out sort of a composition. Should I do the whole dragon? Should I do just an outtake, close up? I think I'll do it close up. And we'll start with some... A cool dragon. Is that an ice dragon? Yeah, it could be an ice dragon in the... When I edit it, I could take all the red and change it to, for instance, blue. And it will be an ice dragon. Because that is cool. Yeah. I don't know. I'm using the red sort of to sketch with. But I can't sketch, you know. Ingrid Leon says hi. Hi, Ingrid. Ingrid. I can't sketch how I want with it. Because you will see the red once the black ink is on as well. But an ice dragon must be blue. It can't be red. It looks kind of silly, but I don't know. I can, you know, with the digital magic, I can fix everything. But it's supposed to be real. Dragons aren't real, honey. So you're going to make a slime dragon as well. So it's going to be green. Yes. And an oil dragon, a black one. I don't know. And a coffee dragon, a brown one. Not digging. Ingrid says I love your jobs. Thank you. Me too. My jobs. You're drawing? Yeah. I love mine. I love my job. You make wonderful work. This is not a cool dragon. What is it? Let me see. This picture which you can win by going to the YouTube and commenting on this video in a couple of days. It's a wolf-ish monster. It's not a wolf-fish, but it's a wolf-ish. Wolf-ish, okay. My only... I can see a dragon. Yeah, you can see it now. I like it. I've only ever been... I've only sung in a choir on a recording once. And that was on a song called Wolf-fish. Which is about... A fish, wolf. No, it's about fishing wolf-fish, which is standard in the region. What did you sing? I sang wolf-ish. And a single wolf-ish, yeah. But I only got to say yeah once. And the choir. A choir of men saying wolf-ish. It was good. Was it supposed to be Grogling? Yeah, it was the band's... Grogling man. The band's Satan from Bergen. Who were... I remember that. They recorded and released a CD in 24 hours. And had an opening party. And had the opening concert, yeah. And I was documenting it in a little comic book about the recording process. And in that I also got to sing. You can call it sing. That's probably... I remember the first time we met. You sang. The first time. It was a concert in a house, in an apartment. Ingrid says the colours you use are always great. Thank you. Just for the art geeks. This is a golden, pyro-red light. So it's a very light. But clear. Red. Acrylic. And it's good. I like it. So should I start with black? Maud Nelson says smaug. Smaug. For copyright reasons it's not smaug. No. It's just a generic cool dragon. Generic. Yes. Generic. Your average cool dragon. From your friendly cool dragon. Hood. Sure. We don't do slogans here. Yes. Find the shapes here. Just a slogan. Your friendly neighbour, Spiderman. Your friendly neighbourhood. Smaug. No. No, that's... I don't know. Inker. Yeah. But it's all kidding aside. The reason why I can't draw, for instance, smaug, even though I'm very fond of the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit, more specifically, the books, is that I'm going to release this art for free use. And... Do you know what I saw on Wish? Of somewhere? Let me... Sorry. I just came. Okay. Ask me later. I will ask you what you saw on Wish. It will be relevant. So when I release this for free use, I can't release anything that's copyrighted because that's not legal for me to release for free use. So when you're making requests for what I should draw on free art Friday, then take something which is from your own head or something which is from whatever we have in the comments. So myth or old books or stuff like that is okay. But... Modern literature. Modern stuff is not okay. And the reason I'm doing all this art and releasing it for free use is because I think we need a copyright reform so that people can both share stuff and use stuff so that art can live freely. Ingrid says she's also an artist. I hope you can see some of my works. I would like a critique of yours. Drop me a link either in the comments or in my inbox. And I'll check yourself out. And I can't promise to give a detailed critique but I'll give you some words at least, okay? And Mark Nelson says you are fantastic. Such energetic lines. Yeah, energetic lines is... First of all, thank you. But energetic lines is one of the things that I try to focus on. So if we got this... Often energetic lines can conflict with... Ingrid says thanks. The energetic lines can conflict with how the shapes are perceived three-dimensionally. And that's what I'm struggling with here because I have some cool shapes and I have some cool lines and they're actually quarreling right now. This wants to be one shape and this wants to be another shape. And I'm trying to find some medium between how I shape the drawing as a 3D object and how I draw the object as a flat surface. And that's... 90% of what I do, basically. Paul Mcabe, McCabe probably. Yes, wants to know what are your thoughts on how Geiger's work? HR Geiger. HR Geiger. I did, probably. I loved Geiger's work to inform my poor wife. Poor wife? He's the one who did the designs for the Xenomorph in the Alien movies. And he also did... Oh, he does that. Yeah, he did the flesh walls where you have a wall of penises and vaginas. And he was a deadly candidate's album cover. He did the... It's kind of a cool story. I got to talk with Tom Warrior of Celtic Faust about this and about how cool Geiger had been when Geiger was really famous in the early 80s. And they were a tiny Swiss band that played music that everyone hated. They were Hellhammer at the time. And he had no reason to listen to them at all. They were playing noise at the time. And they were kids and they were not really good. And they were playing what became black metal later. And they asked him if they could use one of his pieces as an album cover. And he said, yeah! Hey you kids with no money, please use my piece. And that's pretty amazing. But what do I think of Geiger? I really like Geiger. But in a way I like thinking about Geiger better than actually watching his art. There's something primitive and unpleasant not about his subject matters but about how he renders it in a very slick way. Which is very sort of different than what I'm aiming for. I'm also aiming for primitive but in a sort of the opposite primitive of him. So he represents a lot of things that I don't want to draw myself. But he was without a doubt one of a kind. Genius and terrific weirdo. I also drew an illustration of Geiger and Tom Warrior before Mark Rudolph's anthology morbid tales attribute to Celtic Frost. So there I got to draw a bit of Geiger's face and probably some Xenomorph-ish things. And you know the Xenomorph design is just amazing. It's one of the best or one of the only good Lovecraftian movie designs, beast designs. Because it's one of the only that both look like real being and has just a hint of the other role in this. That you get or that you aim for with good old HPL. Okay someone asks if I made an adaptation of a Lovecraft novel. I think we're out. I did make an adaptation of HP Lovecraft's Pikman's Model. Just to have enough names in the title I should have called it Kim Horns' HP Lovecraft's Pikman's Model. Which is a very faithful adaptation of Pikman's Model using as much as possible of the original text. I did make some edits here and there. Some I even regret making. But most of the text is there and it's work I'm really really proud of and it got very well received. And you can still order it through Print On Demand. Probably by just Google searching Kim Horns' Pikman's Model. You also made these. Yeah oh and also this is a working progress I guess it is. It's not an adaptation it is a densely illustrated prose poem by Lovecraft. Which I'd illustrated each small passage. And right now I'm working on four of these pieces and I'm also working with a great artist and musician Kostin Cherno who has made some music for it and we're going to get it into some shape in the near future. Which will be this year, next year, some year. Is it right? No. Is it right? Yeah. So you have more key? I can find it honey. There you go. That's you. Yeah. This is Mark Rudolph's Morbid Tales. Which is a great little tribute. And here is Geiger. And I think in the beginning. Yeah here's my drawing of Tom Warrior and Geiger. Paul McCabe says yeah that Sonomorph was one of his greatest creations. But yes his work is very unsettling in a lot of ways. It's so incredible. Yeah without a doubt. When I said things about his primitiveness being sort of opposite from mine. It's not really a critique of his work. It's just how my mind works when analyzing different artists. So I see artists which I love such as Geiger or Möbius who also worked on the Alien franchise. And with Möbius I absolutely love his stuff. And it's the complete opposite of everything I'm trying. He still has some elements that I get really inspired by. Mark Nelson says wow. Paul McCabe says incredible. And Mark Nelson asks how is Mark Rudolph? I miss Art and Story. Yeah Art and Story was a podcast by Jersey Drost and Mark Rudolph. That was when I first started getting my hands dirty with some podcasting. And eventually streaming like this. Well first it was as a guest on their show. And I haven't talked to Mark in a while. But I see his updates on Facebook all the time. And he seems to be doing good. And his drawings are fantastic. He's getting better and better. And he's a regular in metal hammer and decibel magazine now. So if you miss his art then you can find it there. I think like me he's been doing less comics and more art than illustration. Perhaps not as drastic as me who have now sworn off comics. I had to explain this to a cartoonist friend of mine recently that when it comes to switching from comics to making art I have to basically treat comics. Or I have to treat myself as a drug addict and comics as my heroine. Whenever I hear people talk about comics I get the shakes. I get the urge. I really want to do it. But in order to lead a happier life a better life I have to stop for now. Stop forever. In the end you were making wonderful pages. Huge pages. But then you always thought about it being a whole picture. The whole page. So you were kind of designing a whole picture. You weren't designing comics. You were designing the visual art I don't know how to say it. I know what you're saying. Most comics make one image at a time. Poor comics are one image at a time. And I don't like that when you're making comics. And now you're getting me to talk about my heroine. I am so sorry honey bunny. And when making comics you have to think of composition on many levels at once. So you have this which is a single image composition that has to work. And then you have the sort of the localized row or cluster of images which have to work together. And then you have the single page which has to work together. And then you have the double page which has to work together. But often you don't have control over how your work is going to get released. You had some meltdowns when they decided to start printing your page on the wrong side of the page. Oh yeah that's hard. That's so hard. Mark did it in one of the anthologies but he apologized profusely. There was some miscommunication I guess. Probably my fault but it's hard. When everything you do is based on the timing that when you turn the page you will get this reveal. And the psychology of how a comic book reveal works because it doesn't work the way you think it does. Again you got me talking about my heroin. I love you baby. When you're thinking about a comic book reveal you think that okay you turn the page and then the reveal is there. That's not correct. It should be on that page. The reveal has to be here because that's the first place the viewer will see. So this has to be a build up to the reveal. This has to be suspense before the reveal. Without being too much. So you have to get to the reveal quick enough. And it's a hard... Comics are a hard place to put a reveal. Put a surprise. So whenever the weather permits it and you're at home you tend to go outside and paint the view. Yes. See that's not comical. That's not comical. That's very artistly. So tell us about it. Yeah so this last August I started oil painting and as you probably noticed right now I am used to thinking like a comic book artist. And most everything I said now is completely irrelevant as a painter. It has nothing to do with painting. So now I have to learn how to paint. And how to think like a painter. And one of the things I'm doing is what's called the end plan air painting. Open air painting. And basically we have a very lovely garden with a fantastic view. And whenever there is good weather and I don't have a deadline I set up a little easel outside. And I use about 45 minutes to an hour to do a quick little landscape. And then when I'm done and I pack up my stuff I look up at the skies and they're exploding in all different colors and shapes that weren't there when I was painting. This has happened now four times. And one time where I was waiting for sunset and the clouds were just amazing and all kind of different yellow and the light was doing all these fantastic things. And then I set up just at sunset and ended up painting a snowstorm. It was gray and some white. And so yeah that's fun and that's also a very good way for me to, as I said, start thinking like a painter. Instead of thinking in lines and the flow of compositions together, I'm thinking in Marx. And I never even knew that art that painters talked about their marks. So when I started listening to different paper podcasts and heard them talking about marks, I didn't even know what they meant. Are they going to hit people? Yeah. But gradually I'm understanding what makes a mark different from a line. And it's very different. And I'm not sure that I know it well enough to explain it yet. Probably will someday. And you will all go, oh now I see how a mark is different from a line and you will all be for Germany. Yeah. Isn't that Austrian? Yeah. Because that is Arnie. And he's Austrian. I have no idea why I did that and I'm already regretting. But this is a cool dragon, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Very dismissive. Okay, so I'm going to let it lie for a second while I drink. Remember the video will be available on YouTube in a couple of days, hopefully. Yes, yes, yes. And then if you watch the YouTube stream, no video. And comment on it. Then you might win this awesome art which will also be made into an intro for today's show. Yes. It's a postcard. Send it to you. He'll put a stamp on it. Okay, and we will draw the winner next week on the live cast. Did you know there's a postbox next to the bus stop? I did not know. There is. We can put this postcard in the postbox next to the bus stop. We're very synchronized. Nice. Okay, I don't need more coffee now. I need this stop. Paul McCabe says I'll have to get subscribing on YouTube then. Yes, you will have to do that. Yes. Kim will post the link on his site. And I will remind him. You can post the link in the comments now. Can I? Yeah. Den unge herdholm on YouTube. Okay, so I should have to. I think it's probably youtube.com. I'll figure it out. While you figure it out, I have to say that if you enjoy watching me draw, then please share the video. And when I post the art, which will be posted in high rest for free. It's Kim Hall. No, but it's always. Yeah, that was intro music to the old free art Friday. We will not be using intro music like that anymore because then we have to. Subscribe, subscribe, subscribe to the YouTube channel. Den unge herdholm. That's not what we have. That's what you have to when you're watching this. The problem with music on YouTube is that you get copyright notices, even though you're allowed to use it. And you have to quarrel with them and say yes, we're allowed to use it. It gets back up, but it's a hassle to do that every week. So we will just be using something. You'll see, you'll hear. Kim will go next to it and just whistle. Yes, I will whistle the tune. He's not a whistler. No, I'm not. But I didn't used to be a painter. So perhaps with practice I can become a whistler someday. Now, if you enjoy this piece of art, it is available for sale for a limited time only. Until next episode, maybe. Until next episode, it's available for sale for 100 euro including international shipping. And you can claim it here or claim it on YouTube or claim it by sending me a message. And whoever claims it first gets the art. Should I do a little thing in the background? Something cool? Yeah. Okay, I'll do something that doesn't actually touch the dragon. So that it adds a background, but it's still easy to cut it away and just use the dragon. And we'll do a little red mountain here in the background. Yeah, I think that works. Thank you. An Oni mask suggests formicade. To draw an Oni mask? That would be cool, but save it for the suggestions. For next week's show, I will try to post the suggestions much earlier next week. Because we were very late with the request. But I need to get early with the requests. But save that for next week because I would love to draw an Oni. Do you know what an Oni is? Dear wife? No. It's Japanese for ghost. Spirit. So it's an Oni mask. You can probably, if we say Japanese ghost mask, you can probably visualize how they look. Cool? Okay. This is probably it. I think we're done for today. I'll sign this. Yes, that is a cool drawing. Is it? Remember if you enjoy the cast, please do share. Yeah, share, share, share. We need to get more viewers and more requests and more of everything. I have a lot of plans for the future and for them to work. We need to, we have a decent audience for a very small thing. And we have people who are participating and asking questions and requesting. Interesting questions. So that's very cool. But for this to make sense in the long run artistically and economically and everything, then it needs to grow. And I'm pretty sure it will once I get my ass in gear. And this is the first part of getting my ass in gear. This is the free art show. Number one. My ass has been geared. That is our tagline. No, it's not. Thank you for watching the free art show. And thank you, Janneke, for requesting a cool dragon. If you want to buy the cool dragon, then you can claim it and pay 100 euro, including international shipping. If you want to win this piece, then comment on the YouTube video before next show. If you want to buy this piece, comment and claim it before next show. And if you want to follow me on Facebook, I'm den unge her Holm on Facebook. I'm den unge her Holm on Instagram. Den unge her Holm on Twitter. And apparently Kim Holm on YouTube. No, it was den unge her Holm there as well. Den unge her Holm on YouTube. I'm guessing you can also... Okay, I'm gonna stop. Thank you for watching. Go subscribe on YouTube so that you know when the video is up. I will be posting this for my Patreon backers in a day. And for the rest of you in like two days for free download, high res, free use. Words out of my mouth coming with more strain. There are more Kim Holms on YouTube. Don't confuse things. Yes. Okay, thank you for watching and goodbye.