 These are the results of yesterday's free art show. First one was the fish, then it was a golem. Which was the main request. I like how that turned out. And then finally it is trickle the troll pickle. Now these came out okay. And these will be later today they will be uploaded to my online store for $150 and $200 and $200 for the next two weeks and then they will be removed. Nice golem thank you. Good morning Ilva, good to see you. I thought I would do a shorter live today to do a daily ink monster, get it done in the morning. Hope you're doing well. Yes, I've had my first morning run in a while. It was a slow run. I need to integrate doing slow runs a lot more than I have because they are a bit boring but if you have an audiobook you're listening to they're okay and they are great. Especially for the endurance. So I'm going to try to integrate the slow runs more. But now we're not going to do slow running. We are going to draw some ink monsters or at least one. Do you guys have any opinions? Should I do color? Should I do back in white? Should I dab? Should I blow? Should I do something else? Exercise is a great start to your day. Yes, I need to try to start my days with exercise because that is one of the things that keep depression not away but maybe minimizes my bipolar depressions. But when the depressions get too hard it's very hard to keep up. So let's do a black and white. Should we blow or should we dab? Black blow with one dash of color at the end. Okay, let's see if we can do that. Black and then blow. What do you guys see in the ink blot? So with these it's always tempting to do a dragon, oh a heart, you know, it's always tempting to do something that's running and the hair going back like that. But we could make it a dragon. I can see like two ways it could be a dragon, an explosion, the beak of a rubber eagle. What's a rubber eagle? I guess it's a eagle made out of rubber, like a rubber duck, but I don't think I've ever seen a rubber eagle. Do you take a bath with your rubber eagle? Do you, does it roll behind you on small wheels saying quack quack? Does the eagle say quack quack? Eagles don't say quack quack. Just discovered your channel recently. Thank you. Am I weird? I see a cavern. No, you can see whatever you want. That's the fun. There's no right or wrong answers in these ink blots. You see what you see and some of them are more fitting to drawings, but some of them are... Everything is as valid and if I had all the time in the world I could make countless different things just on this one ink blot. Fallen Comet. I think the first Comet was dragon, so let's do a dragon. Now we have decided is this the wing or is this the head and I think it is the head. The interactivity is amazing. The interactivity is what makes it fun for me. What makes drawing fun but streaming is when I not only get to chat with you guys and draw, but actually where you, your suggestions, push me to do things that I perhaps wouldn't do without you. I don't know if I like this dragon head. The Lost Guardian is a... I never finished The Lost Guardian. I finished Eco and Shadow of the Colossus. They are among my favorite games, but I never finished Lost Guardian. It was ambitious, but it was harder to play than Eco and Shadow. Trunks invades the streams. Let's hope not. I want to become good at inking too. This dragon will not be a more Asian style dragon because the head that I see is more European, but it can be more snake like dragon. So in that sense, it can be older type of dragon. So I've made this point many times, yes, but all the words we have for dragon are related to the words we have for snake in every language. All of them are rooted in the word for snake. That's because dragons were snakes, flying snakes. And there's a lot of theories. There are these kind of modern theories that it must have been dinosaur bones that people saw. And there are theories that it must be a combination of all the predators we were scared of as apes. And there are all these different ways to look at it. One thing that I like is the idea of linking dragons with rivers because once you get to a high place, you see rivers snaking around the environment like giant snakes. And that's a reason why or that can be a reason why dragons again and again are linked to water and to the weather. So I like that idea as well. It's slightly less obvious than the dinosaur bone idea or the all our predators idea, but I think it also makes sense. With these things, it can always be a combination. It almost always is a combination. I don't know what Septimus heep is. I think it sounds like something that's copyrighted and if it's copyrighted, then I can't do it because I release all my art for free use. So that means I put my art up so that you can download it, you can print it out, you can tattoo it, you can even sell it. So when I, for instance, do the video where I draw Kratos and say that I'm not allowed to do Kratos because I release my art for free use, a lot of people say, but yeah, it's no problem because you do it for free. But that's not what free use means. I made a few t-shirts designs through a spread shirt, would like to keep them online for sale. If that's okay for you. I'd like to share any profits. So sharing profits, the best way is to just support on Patreon. Start with a dollar a month and if you actually manage to sell some shirts, you can up that sum. I would recommend people to try to make an identity with, if you're trying to sell my art, have your own identity, do something with the colors, the designs, remix them, add yourself into the mix somehow because otherwise it will be very hard for you to compete with me because I will be doing more and more shirts and stuff like that. And unless you can bring something to the table that I'm not bringing to the table, it will be hard to sell them. But I want people to sell my shirts or to sell my art on shirts and on merch and everything like that, but I'm just saying that it's going to be a hard sell if you can't have your own identity to your store because otherwise people will likely print their own shirts or go to me. So you don't take them down. It's not really competition or it is. But how can I put this in a good way? If you just take my art and slap it on a shirt without adding your own identity to it, it is a competition that's favorable to me. So it's going to be hard for you to earn money on that. And I want you to earn money on that. So to do something that has personality and has your own take, your own brand, you can do things with text, you can do things with the designs, with the colors, with everything like that. You need to stand out and you need to have an audience to sell it to. Otherwise, you will likely see too few sales. And I want you to have many sales because that would be advantageous to me. So if you have a spread shirt store up, then please by all means keep it up. But just know that it's not an easy way to make money because in a sense you are, even though you are promoting me, you are competing with me and people often like to buy it directly from the artist. So that's why it's even more important for you to have your own personality in whatever you sell with my art on it. So a great example of what I mean is if you're a musician and use my free art as a CD cover, people are going to buy the CD because of your personality, because of your music, not because of my album cover or my drawing. It's going to lead a couple of sales perhaps, but not more than that. So you need to have something that is akin to the personality of music. And that can be if you, for instance, if you have a great sense of humor, there are loads of different ink monsters I've done that are kind of funny. And if you put them together with a funny text, it could be even funnier. So I did a live video, a free art show live video yesterday that was a bit longer. And I decided to still do a morning show today, which is just going to be this one ink monster. Trans rights are human rights. Thank you, Brazil. Yes, it is, it is very disheartening to see the normalization of fascist propaganda when it comes to trans rights. And that is what it is. When people talking about protecting the children and all that stuff, it is repeating fascist viewpoints without knowing that they're rooted in fascism. And you know, there are legitimate concerns about how to do gender affirmant care for minors and, you know, when is it right to do puberty blockers? When is it right to do do surgical transition? And the quality of the surgical transition is still at a still not good enough. So you're not getting a fully functional sex change, as it would. You're getting a aesthetic change primarily. So there's a lot of difficult things to talk about with trans issues. And trans people generally do a good job of talking about it, but anti trans activists and anti trans sentiments are again and again rooted in these fascist and turf propaganda myths that really have nothing to do with reality. And it's and I see so much of it in the comments because I do check out comments and I do ask them for sources. And, you know, when people say, oh, yeah, but this and this child transitioned when they were four and regretted it as an adult. Yeah. Yes. They socially transitioned when they were four and then they'd started puberty blockers when they were in their teenage years. And then they transitioned medically when they were 17 or 18. And, yeah, that can be a problem. So and fascist. Yeah, nobody's transing the kids. The fascist rhetoric is to confuse these terms. It is to to say that when we're when people are talking about children transitioning to make it sound like that is medical transitioning. But it's not it's social transitioning for a four year old or a six year old is them being insistent that they are a boy or a girl and the world around them accepting, OK, we'll treat you like a boy or a girl and we will let you have the name of a boy or a girl. That's that's all it is. And in the fascist rhetoric and in the turf rhetoric, that becomes synonymous with medical transitioning, that really isn't happening with kids at all. And it is really frustrating to see that again and again and to have to explain it again and again. And. Yeah. And I don't want to talk on. Be half of trans people or or over trans people, but I try to. Share a shed a little light on some of these issues. Trans rights are human rights. Yeah, I got a little idea for a drawing. Can you put an egg or something in the upper hoop? Yeah, I don't think maybe I can. Maybe I'll just do the the Encel circle here. I'm going for a first meeting for anarchist students this evening. Yeah, I'm one of the many anarchists that are terrible at anarchist meetings. I've been to anarchist meetings. I absolutely hate it. But that's more a quirk of my personality. So I hope it goes better for you. I currently work overnight and never thought I'd catch a stream during my lunch break. Thank you so much. So both with the. Videos where I've talked about trans issues and even more with the videos where I talk about LGBTQ issues, I sort of have a fear of. Appropriating the issues because I am bisexual, but at this point in my life, I am theoretically bisexual because I'm in a monogamous straight relationship. I have a wife, I have kids. I will probably never. Have a relationship, a sexual relationship with a man again. So it's all theoretical for me right now. But it's still grounded in the fact that I feel deeply uncomfortable. When people assume I'm straight and I feel. Deeply uncomfortable in very straight settings because I know that these very straight masculine settings are settings where. People might be dangerous for queer people. I'm trying to. Monitor the chat as well as I can. But the somehow on my YouTube, the comments just disappear almost the instant. We'll see if I can put on the live chat. So. Right now I or not right now, but for the rest of my life. I will likely be. In a straight relationship. But but I feel. Very much uncomfortable with straightness. And I and I try to sort of be. Wary of that and to not talk over. LGBTQ people who are have more pressing concerns. Than mine. Respa, Bain, Australia. Where are everyone located today? I don't know if we did a check on that. Thank you for the super chat, Demi. Thank you so much. Super chats are a great way of. Supporting and supporting on Patreon is a great way of supporting. And of course, going to my Web Store is a great way of supporting and all. I'm a close neighbor to the east to the east. So that's so you live in Osana. Middle Sweden, oh, that far to the east. Sometimes on these lives, there has been. Like people going, yeah, I'm a close neighbor. I live like three houses away. A bit more east, yes. Unleashed in the east. Unleashed in the east by you, Judas Priest is probably some days it's my favorite album of all time. That has nothing to do with Sweden. But I just wanted to say, unleashed in the east. Scotland, Hungary, Hungary. Midlands, OK, so now we are going to get that dash of color because that was our goal today. Was a little dash of color. Hingerland, where is Hingerland? Have a good day, pal. That snake looks sick. It's a dragon. But it's a snake. I saw Amon Amarth at a reason not fast down here. This is an road. Yeah, Amon Amarth are great fun life. Snagon, so a little dash of color like that out of two people. Two are named Caitlyn from Sydney. OK, let's do an Enso Moscow. Let's do an Enso in the middle to see if this dragon has earned the right to live. So if I manage to do the circle, I will keep the drawing. If I mess up the circle, I will tear it up right here in front of you. And it will hurt. But that's the will of the gods and the will of the fate. And it's always so nerve wracking to do this. Concentrate. Oh, I love that with the slight dirtiness down there. That's life. That's what all the people say. A dragon this moment. Then recycle bin next day. This is number twelve hundred sixty seven. This dragon's going to heaven. Is it? Yeah, because it's flying. That's life. What's I know. So if we take Dino for Dino Martin and we start, we mess around with the letters, we get an edu and we'll save the dragon because people won't understand. It is a dragon unless we say a dragon because they will think it's a snake. And it will be our secret tribute to Dino Martin. That's life. Not as epic as the singing. Is there a red spot as his forehead? There is the eye. But that's the only red spot there. The eye is the red spot, but maybe there's some reflection here. I can't see the I can't see what you see. I can't see what you see. OK, this will be the only piece of art that I do on this stream. But I can't stream for a few more minutes. And I'll answer a question or two. Because then I can monitor the chat directly from the phone I used to film the dragon. Where's the timestamps? Can you timestamp directly? Where do you get inspiration from? I get inspiration from the world. Why do tear up the drawing if the circle is wrong? Because if I feel that a drawing has some sort of spiritual significance, which is more to do with my internal dialogue with myself during the making of the drawing, then I will let the gods or the fates decide if the drawing has the right to live. Any music recommendations recently? I've listened to too little music recently, and when I've listened to music, it's been all old music. So it's been re-listening to a bunch of Judas Priest albums and stuff like that. I'm trying to remember the last new release I listened to. It was probably Sturgill Simpson's latest stuff, which was good. So intuition focused drawing method. Yes, definitely. What is the hardest thing for you to paint? I mean, I hate painting cars and skyscrapers and everything technical. I used to do it a lot more when I was drawing comics. And then I started slowly hating it less and less. But but it is technical stuff has never been my strong suit. So cars are the worst. Old music counts. Yes, it does. But I usually like to listen to a bit new music. But it just hasn't been happening lately. So I go back to my old metal and old country records. And I listened to Croftwerk the other day. That's old music as well. But Croftwerk is cool. You should make Reddit and other platforms. We can show our shirts with your drawings. That's a good idea that I won't be doing myself. So right now I'm in the process of turning over more and more of my social media and stuff to my partners who I'm making my web store with. Because I don't have the time to keep up all the things myself. I haven't seen Parkway Drive on stage. They sound nice. Do we have a I will email the Reddit subreddit. Do that. The more things that fans can set up. The better it is for me. OK, any final questions before I go about my day, what should we name it? I'm terrible at naming things. Just wanted to say hi. Where do you get your ink and supplies? Most of my ink and supplies I buy at the local art store here in Bergen, Norway. And then I once in a while I order things and I try to order things directly from the producers, such as the Dr. P. H. Martin's radiant watercolors that I need to order more of and not order it from Amazon. But I'm lousy at that. I do use Amazon for books and stuff like that, even though you shouldn't. Have you? It shows from your YouTube name, to be honest. Yes, I wasn't thinking of an international audience when I named all my social media profiles. Then I had home. That wasn't forward thinking. And also it means the young Mr. Holm, which was OK when I started my first my first art business when I was twenty four years old. But it's getting a bit embarrassing now that I'm forty two, forty three soon. So so. When will you stream again? Maybe tomorrow morning, maybe Monday morning. But definitely yeah, I won't be streaming a lot next week because it's the Inferno Festival and I'll be headbanging and drawing extreme metal still young. Thank you. Characters from Watership Down won't be appearing in my ink blots because. And this will be my final answer for today, because I release all my art for free use and free use doesn't mean. That I that you can just download it for free. Free use means you can use it for free. You can sell it for free as long as you. Credit me as artist. And that's very illegal when it comes to other people's intellectual property. I don't support copyright laws. I do support that we should have some protections for artists, but copyright is the wrong way to do it. If you like my art and you like the idea of art for free use that you can use and change and sell as you want, then please do consider supporting by Super Chat by Super, thanks or on my Patreon with one dollar a month. If you don't have a dollar a month to spare, then you can also support by downloading my art and by using it. If you use my art, you can print it on a t-shirt, you can print it and send it to your high school teacher that you liked and somehow one. Why would you like a high school teacher? You could. You can give it as a gift. You can sell it on the street. You can do whatever you want with it. And as long as you mention my name, you are supporting me for free. Very final question. What paper do I use? This is regular drawing paper from Fabriano. Fabriano start 160 grams. I should probably have this up to 250 grams, but it works OK. Regular drawing paper. Thank you all so much for watching and see you before you know it. Bye bye.