 Hello and welcome to the free art show season 2 episode 1. I am Kim Diaz Holm and also known as Den Ungerhard Holm and I draw art for free use. With me in the studio I have Echo. Echo will be reading comments and seeing if anyone have anything interesting to say and interrupting me while I draw. But the primal thing we're going to be focusing on is drawing your requests and I made a couple of posts around on social media asking for what to draw on this episode and I've picked a couple of them but I thought just as a warm-up maybe we should start by doing a daily ink monster and letting all of you have a chance to participate live and see what you think the ink plot looks like. So as a warm-up let's do today's daily ink monster. So we're going to do hopefully a quick one. Quality on YouTube is really low. Okay let's see if there's anything we can do with that. It shouldn't be low quality. Yeah so it's not blurry here. Is it blurry for the audience at home? Quality on YouTube is okay. Okay so now you see this ink plot. Do any one of you have anything you can spot in the ink plot? Also we need to make a little sign for the TikTok audience to show that they can go over to the YouTube and watch there as well if they want to see another view of the art. We should have planned this beforehand. Did we plan it? No. Okay so do any one of you see anything in this ink plot? I see a couple of things. It's almost like a skull already here and like a black inverted negative skull upside down deer thing. It is an upside down deer thing. Oh a spider. Let's do a spider. I can see a vicious looking spider with then we can do the skull thing. I have drawn a Vendigo before. I have drawn the Vendigo as a daily ink monster. It was one of my most requested ones and I will draw it again because I have been planning to do a sort of a three-part series on the Vendigo drawing it in three different shapes but the Vendigo will not be today's topic because that requires a lot of research. Now if anyone is interested in what I'm drawing today whether it be this daily ink monster warm-up sketch or it be one of the requests then anything that I'm drawing today is available during the duration of the show for a hundred dollars. So if you comment that you're interested in buying it then Echo will contact you and you can buy it. Afterwards it will be available for a bit more. Something. I don't know how to say it. I don't know how to say it. We're having live troubles. Live troubles are best when you're live. Live troubles while drawing a let's make this a sort of a more cathooloid spider thingy. Spider. Let's go live again on the tiktok. Someone is asking if you have drawn Oberon and Titania. Did I say that right? Oberon and Titania? Oberon and Titania? No I've never done that but that would be an idea for someday. You should request that maybe for another free art show so I can prepare for doing just that because that would definitely be cool. Excellent and this spider thingy is starting to come out better and better I think. Very hairy legged spider. It looks like bone wings. It does look like bone wings. Tiktok froze up. We had some tiktok difficulties. We had some tiktok difficulties and we might get more difficulties on all fronts but we're hoping that we'll get through this. Have you ever made any anime characters? What do you mean have I made any anime characters? I've never worked on Japanese animation. No. Have I worked with anime style? Yes I have. Do I work with it? No I don't because you know people who if you want to get good at drawing anime you should draw a whole lot of anime style but there are elements of my style that is definitely cribbed or inspired by anime artists such as Heroki Samura who did Blade of the Immortal, Goseki Kojima who did Blade of, no who did Long Wolf and Cub and you know what's the guy who did Akira? Akira Toriyama? Not Akira Toriyama but yeah there is Akira Toriyama in my stuff definitely because Dragon Ball was a influence especially the first few books of Dragon Ball is still an influence. There's a lot of anime in my style but I don't really do a lot of anime style now and I never really specialized and learned how to do anime style proper because that requires a whole ton of work. Now if you want to get good at doing anything you need to commit and I've never been in a place where I was ready to commit to doing anime. And Drargy is asking when will commissions be open again? I have no date for when commissions will be open again but most likely they will only be open for my patrons because people who support me on Patreon have asked that I open commissions for them or inform them first and the next time I'm opening for commissions I'll probably won't do many and I will announce them to my patrons first but if you want me to draw something for you that you will use and that you're okay with being available for free use then that's exactly what the free art show is for. It's for you requesting art that you're going to use and me drawing it and releasing it for free. So if you have a project planned or if you have a political cause that you need some art for or if you have something cool. He wants to purchase Buddhist style works. I want some for my meditation room. I will definitely be open to doing some Buddhist influenced or Zen art influenced pieces on the free art show because Chinese and Japanese especially Zen Buddhist artwork is one of the prime influences for why and how I started working with the brush and a lot of the techniques that I use were first developed through meditative ink practices that were created directly from Chinese and Japanese Zen Buddhist art. Robin Reich is right in that. He loves to look at the art when he is at Skapa Stovo. Excellent. Skapa Stovo is a maker space in Uus outside of Bergen in Norway where they have discovered that my art is available for free use so they do a lot of pieces based on my art. And they printed my art on shirts and on cups and they engraved it in tin and they made coins, they made cups they made all sorts of fancy stuff with my art and if you have a maker space near you then tip them off about my art because I have a trove of different work that is available under a Creative Commons attribution license so it's ideal for maker spaces who just want to make stuff. Okay, so that was the warm-up sketch for today. Let's go ahead and do today's first request and I picked a couple of different requests that I thought we might try and the first one I wanted to do was I've gotten so many requests to do a simple dolphin so why not do a simple dolphin? Two seconds here. And I'm still waiting for my lab monkey with microphone. Yes, so that would have been a good idea to request it in one of the posts I made for this show so that I would remember it for today. But I didn't, so I haven't prepared anything about a monkey. Maybe next time. Are you coming into Scarpa Stovo again? I hope I'm coming into Scarpa Stovo soon, yes. Johnny Crash is asking about the lab monkey with microphone and he still loves all your stuff. But we're on Patreon, how did he miss that? He's writing on the Patreon question mark, how did I miss that? You probably said something about Patreon. I probably said something about Patreon. I don't know what I said about Patreon. I don't know what you missed. I am on Patreon and if you want to support me with $1 a month so that I can make more art for free use. The poll, was it on Patreon? The poll? There wasn't a poll. There was a post about the free art show on TikTok, on Facebook, on Instagram and I've taken some requests from here and from there and from every single where. He already supports, that's nice, very nice. I will not be doing a Patreon poll for the free art show but that could be an idea. My teacher showed your art in front of my whole class Norwegian flag thumbs up. Amazing, where do you go to school where they teach such things? I missed it all good. So I have posted on my Patreon about the free art show today and I've also asked for requests there. So on the Patreon Discord so there should be plenty of opportunity to request more art. And after today's show I will definitely be making a new poll. Not a poll, I will not be making a poll. That was what I didn't make. I will definitely be making a new post and ask people what you want to see next week. We'll be going week to week like that. So if your request isn't picked up one week then ask again the next week. Your paintings are amazing. Thank you. Can I give you a challenge? Make Luffy from One Piece in your art style. I would love to draw Luffy from One Piece but I can't because I release all my art for free use. So that means you can download my art you can copy it, you can change it you can do what you will with it you can even sell it and that would not really work with copyrighted art, would it? So no I can't do Luffy I love Luffy, Luffy is cool but I can't really do any Luffy's. No Luffy for you but if you have characters from mythology or folklore or fairy tales or history then that's more possible. That just requires a bit of research. I really want to just randomly meet you in Balgan or on a trip on Lyddeholm. I do live in Bergen and I do love all of our city mountains. Lyddeholm is the local witch mountain where the witches of legend are used to gather for their witches' sabbats and ride their brooms to Blocksberg. But I have moved to the other side of Bergen so I haven't been on Lyddeholm for a long long time. Can you make a hero Luffy Luffy in film? Yeah so I have gotten a lot of requests over the years to do the Filipino national hero Luffy Luffy and there's even a city named after him. I would love to do that someday but I need to research and to do it properly so again that's going to take a lot of research. Do you like the Nettleshowers of Narok? I saw the first two seasons of Narok. I think it was entertaining, wasn't it? A bit silly. Narok, Norwegian show. I think it was silly and fun. So yeah, thumbs up. I think... So from the Viking age the Gigant? The Giant. The Giant Shrimp will be drawn someday. Definitely, not today. If you wanted to have me draw something for you today then you have to comment on the posts I did yesterday. So you have to develop a time machine and then fly back in time and get your requested. Because one of the opportunities of doing this free art show instead of doing just random live streams where I draw requests is that I have the opportunity to research a bit and to plan a bit. Is this very planned? No, I know I've planned way too little. But could I have planned? Yes, I could have. And you know, this is a little bit planned. I knew that I would draw a dolphin today. And I think we'll do something like this. Do you do a Chubacabra sometimes? I would love to do a Chubacabra sometime. Have you drawn characters or things from the Finnish mythology? I would love to draw things from Finnish mythology someday but I haven't gotten to it yet because it is a lot of research to find out about different mythologies and it takes a lot of time. And Finnish mythology is... I simply haven't found good sources for it because it's easy to find... I can read the Kalevala but that is a very dense text. All source mythological texts are extremely dense and hard to read. And it is simply very hard to make sense of it by reading just the mythological texts. So what I need is some good books that can put it into context in archaeological or historical or cultural context. Yes, my favourite artist hopes always well with you, Kim. Thank you, thank you so much. We have made a dolphin and I think I'm done with this dolphin. So what we'll be doing with the art today is I guess Ieko can actually scan it and upload it as it dries so that it will be available for free use pretty much by the end of the show. So we already made this spider god not to be confused with the Norwegian band Spider God which is spelled very different. Spider God. And we made this slightly wonky dolphin but I like it. It's cute. No please, crazy cat lady. Replies. Okay, and I thought maybe we would do a bet. What fish? Swordfish. Can you use your iPad to find photographs of flagger mus? It looks like a cheese milling. Yeah, for that I found this one, but I'm going to lose it. I've had mine with the wrong code. So, well done as always. Thank you. Okay, shall we try to draw a bet as well before we move on to today's main image. And remember, if you like some of the art I draw today you can purchase it for $100 per piece except for the large one which will be $200. Only today. Yeah, how do you use it? It's cute. Me too. Yeah, so there are bets all over but they fly very quickly so it's hard to see them. This is interesting. I want to use some color here. So let's start with a bat like this. A bat would be cool. A large fruit or a vampire bat. This will just be a bat. Then you can request a fruit bat for next week. This will just be a bat bat. It will be a bat out of hell. No, it will be like a bat out of hell. We're actually going to draw meatloaf. I'm sorry. I'm not going to draw meatloaf. I'm joking because I can't draw meatloaf because I release all my art for free use and meatloaf's family would not appreciate that. What's meatloaf? I don't know. Meatloaf, the legendary rock singer. Meatloaf, singer of bat out of hell and I would do anything for love but I won't do that. Do that. Yes, you know it. All the kids. Yes, exactly. You know the meatloaf. Also, does a great job acting in a lot of stuff. Mostly in a pipe club. Whatever that is. Whatever that is. I'm pretty sure that is explained in the lyric. But nobody listens to meatloaf lyrics. Why would anyone ever listen to meatloaf lyrics? Post. Norwegian? No, no American. It sounds so Norwegian. European name. Yes, because that's what people... Pardon me, it sounds Scandinavian. It does. And it's probably some Scandinavian ancestry. So this is the start of our back. European family or Scandinavian family? Meatloaf in the pipe club. Yes, because meatloaf's real name was something else. What was meatloaf's real name? That's what they keep chanting in. It's been so long since I saw a pipe club. I really like how this colour came out, managed. But his name is Marvin Lee Eday. Yes, it's coming out great. Thank you. Thank you so much. The challenge with these pieces is, you know, finding an approach that makes it feel alive and then, you know, just skating on the edge of, you know, one stroke may ruin it. Just tethering away so close to, always so close to ruining it. And that's sort of, that's the fun. So the spider god is now uploaded? The spider god is uploaded for free use in my gallery. Free art show gallery? Free art show gallery. The link is in the YouTube description. It's not the Batman. It's not the Batman, because that would be copyright violation. But a bat is not copyright violation. Diaz, really, one of your last names? Yes! My last name is Diaz. That is correct, because I am married to a lovely woman from Chile. It's a bat, man. Oh, man, it's a bat, yeah. So I would love to someday draw... Pero como orave nice. I would love one day to draw more stuff from Chile to go into maybe some Mapuche mythology and folklore and draw the giant snake Trentren and draw fairy tales about condors and about... all. Bat person? Bat person is okay. I was in Spain this summer and I found this fantastic Batman costume that was not a Batman costume. It looked very much like a very, very cheap Batman, but it was called Black Hero. And I thought that was beautiful and I wanted to buy it and then make a TikTok about it, but I didn't. So somewhere in Spain there is still a Black Hero costume. Waiting to be bought. Waiting to be bought. Man bat. Man bat is already taken. Man bat is one of the enemies of Batman. Why? No, man bat, because he's a half-bat, half-man. Yes, man bat is a half-bat, half-man. He is not Batman at all. He looks like a bat, but also a person. He is a man bat. Not a Batman, but a man bat. Why are there enemies if they are the same kind, kind of? They're not. They are both creatures of the night, but one is a... Just dressing up as a... One is a blood-sucking capitalist and the other one is a monster. I don't know. Where bat? Painted flamingos of the Atacama Desert. Oh, that would be... That would definitely be interesting. I want to figure out how to research more about Mavucha folklore and also Atacama menu folklore, if I said that correct, hopefully. Because that stuff is really... It is really special and it would be very... I would love to do more with it. I think that looks amazing so far. I know we've got the hype around Batman, because he's only a rich guy in a costume, but I totally agree with you. It's just like a tough dude with a fair of bats and he thought he did something with putting on a costume and going into the night and being an anti-hero. The flamingos in Chile on the super high desert is crazy. Always with the vampire fashion. We have feelings too, you know? Unfortunately, we can't see the sunset from here. We can only see a wall. We are very much locked in downtown Bergen here. So we're getting a downtown Bergen vibe outside. Downtown? Who's not the adding? The metropolitan jungle of Bergen. For those who don't know Bergen Norway, it's not a metropolitan jungle. So what's the name of the color of the base when you pay it to the bat? So the primary color I used, the sepia color here, what was that? That was an eco-lined liquid watercolor, which I almost said, which flavor? It's a watercolor, it is some sort of sepia. It's caramel taste. Yeah, it looks like caramel. Yellow ochre it is. Is it acrylic? No, it is liquid watercolor. The kanji doesn't mean anything because it's not a kanji, it's a tiny self-portrait. But very much in kanji style, definitely. That is my signature, it is a tiny self-portrait. Okay, let us move on. Yeah, it's a signature, it's a miniature portrait of himself. Yeah, that's right. Let us... The next drawing. The next drawing will be the last planned request for today, which will be drögen. Drögen. Drögen. So, and for that I'm going to need... You can let that one lie for a little bit, it's not completely dry yet. Yeah, I see. Drögen is a being of Norwegian folklore and I'm going to try to get into some of the history around it, hopefully make a good version of it. And I guess a good place to start would be... So you're choosing the big paper now. Yeah. I guess a good place to start would be the place where dröger is used, most these days, and that is in games... Not drögen. Yes. Dröger is used a lot in games like Skyrim and God of War, because dröger is old Norse for something like ghost or undead. And dröger was a generic term for the ghostly or undeadly. And they weren't quite as ghosts are in modern folklore, but they were reanimated corpses, that they were shapeshifters. They could become big and small and they were often of a ghostly blueish hue. And they were also described as a sort of a troll, because anything evil in those days, or anything of ill intent could be described as a troll. But then the word started to evolve into the modern drögen. And even the word itself is likely from an Indo-European root, and is related to the concept of dröge in Soroastrianism. So in Soroastrianism you have the Asha, which is the good or the truthful, the great truth. And then you have the druge, which is the lie or the great lie. And dröger is most likely related to that word. And so that means it most likely has a common root. Perhaps even to where it's like Betray. Zombies slash undead in Niflheim in AC Valhalla. Yes, so dröger are in AC Valhalla as well. And they're all around. Dröger's all around you. No, that's wrong. But in modern Norwegian folklore, the meaning of the word started to drift and become more and more just skos of people who died at sea. Can I interrupt you? I specifically have a question for you. I see that you're drawing some kind of ocean. And I wonder how it looks just so effortless. How are you managing to paint oceans so nicely? So yeah, that is a good question. First of all, things that look effortless are not effortless. There is a lot of effort here. And I'm always inches away from ruining it. That's constant. But also what I'm drawing here is I'm not drawing the ocean at all. I'm drawing your image of waves. I'm drawing an icon of what you think waves should look like. So I'm drawing shapes that remind you of waves. And then your head brings it together and says, ooh, loads of waves must be an ocean. So this is sort of... The chando and the highlights and how you should put it. So this is all trickery. And it's all based in not in realism, but in cartooning. So it's based on simplifying shapes and exaggerating them to make an icon of what they seem like. I'm not really interested in the physical reality of what I'm drawing. I'm interested in just making the icons of it. Making your...making you imagine. That it's an ocean. So this, again, is very much like what you'd find in a lot of Chinese and Japanese Zen Buddhist art. Where one of the techniques you use in Japanese ink painting is that you sit and you look at an object. And you look and look and look and look and you don't draw. You just look. And then when you're done capturing its essence, you try to draw its essence. Not the thing, but its essence, its soul, in as few strokes as possible. So you spend a whole lot of time looking and then you end up doing a few quick lines that capture the essence of it. It doesn't capture the light and shade. It doesn't capture the form. It captures the essence. And that's sort of where... When you look at... If you look at medieval art or if you look at Japanese ink art, there's no use in asking why doesn't it look real. Because they're not trying to make it look real. They're trying to make it look like the essence of what it is. And that's in some sense, for me at least, more interesting. Even when I do portraits and sit with a model and try to capture the reality of how they look, I'm more concerned about the essence of who they are and letting that shine through in some sort of sense. And that's why there are a lot of artists who do a lot of more fancy work with angles and getting interesting ways to show what they're drawing. While my stuff is... A lot of it is pretty straight on, straight forward. A lot of my compositions are pretty flat like this. There is depth in the ocean, because the ocean is deep, but there's no depth in the plane that you're looking at. I'm drawing it from this imaginary side angle, sort of like if it's the ocean in a computer game, a 2D side-scrolling computer game. Because that's the easiest reality to start showing the essence of. Our own minds give it depth. But how do you highlight? There you don't have ink on the middle of the boat. But you don't have paint there. How do you know that this was on purpose, where you should put your highlight? Again, a lot of it comes from experience, from sitting and drawing like this for hours and hours and hours. And also from drawing real life, drawing both the kinds of images that we talked about where you try to capture the essence. And also drawing life-like portraits, drawing realists and trying to actually not capture the essence, but to one-to-one translate what you see in front of you, whether it is in real life or it is from photographs. For example, I wish I could be better at drawing hair. We can talk about hair someday. The thing is that once you've spent enough hours drawing both things as they are in reality and drawing things as their essence, then you start making these silly decisions on the fly, like I've been doing here. Is there a reason why there's a highlight on the boat there? No, there is absolutely no reason except because it looks good in the composition. It needs to have a highlight there. That's the reason. And that's based on gut feeling. That's not based on how it is in reality. It's based on how it feels when I see the art develop on the paper. Same with what I'm doing now. I'm taking away some of the darkness here because it feels better that way. Adding some of it in, is there a reality to why there should be shade at the top of the sail? No, I don't think so. I don't think so. But it works. And that is from both doing it right in quotes, right enough time, and also capturing its essence enough time and just in the end you have to develop a gut feeling for... Bored of skin and practice. Yes, it is. Of course, everything is. Everything is. So this was a request? Yes, this was a request. Let's go back to the request. We were talking about how Deregur started to, instead of being just a generic word for ghosts or for undead, it started becoming more associated with those who drown at sea. And in that period of transition, you can also see fairy tales about people who... There's one fantastic fairy tale about someone who... antagonizes Drogen, the sea Drogen. And then when Drogen runs after him, he lures him up towards the graveyard. And chance... Rise up all Christian corpses. There's a sea Drogue here. There's one who wasn't buried in Christian soil. And all the Christian, the land Drogues, they don't take lightly to that. So they rise up out of their graves and have a big battle with the sea Drogue and kick the sea Drogues ass. So Drogues are humans that are dead? Yeah. Zombies? Zombies goes something in between there. And it changed over the hundreds of years, I mean. And so there is this transition period Drogue in many places where you have these stories about sea Drogues and land Drogues interacting. And then towards the end of the 19th century, when a lot of these stories get collected and when people were very unarmored with this idea of different species they wanted to know which species trolls were and which species fairies were and they wanted to categorize it more and more. Martin is asking, does the word Drogue in Norwegian also affect the objects in a way? I'm thinking derelict haunted boats. No, no, no it doesn't. And the word Drogue isn't used in Norwegian because what we're left with is after the Romantic era where the national Romantic era where all these stories were collected and where they are collected in the books of authors like Jonas Lee and there's a bunch of others, Arnegadeborg and a bunch of others tell these stories of Drogue then more and more becomes a singular figure. It becomes the modern Drogue in which we know now today which is a sort of a spirit, a sea spirit of some sort that is clad in oil skin, you know, semen's gear and maybe has sometimes he's headless sometimes he has the head of a fish sometimes he has head made of seaweed and he becomes more of this singular Drogue character and that's sort of what I'm trying to draw today it's where Drogue ended up and we have completely abandoned the word Drogue that's not in use anymore it is only Drogue or if we're talking still multiple Drogues that is still the sea spirits sometimes associated with being a dead fisherman or a dead sailor and other times just being a sea spirit associated with collecting the dead sailors and fishermen a crazy, crazy cat lady asked so was it used as a Christian propaganda to scare people into converting? So is it only happened to you if you were not buried in consecrated dirt? No, the myths about the sea Drogue fighting with the Land Drogue are much later they are from the 19th, 18th, 17th century I'd guess so that is Norway has been properly Christianized for hundreds of years at that time and also we don't really... it is very easy to sort of look back at our Norse myths and look at Christianity and then say that somehow Christianity changed the myths or that these myths were taken by the church or something like that but actually if you look at the Christianization of Scandinavia it was bloody at times and it did have elements of propaganda and all that stuff of course but it wasn't like the Christianization of the Americas or of Asia or anything like that it wasn't this sort of outside force huge outside force that came in and took the myths and banned them and changed them like that it was a... in a lot of places it was a voluntary thing especially for... a lot of the fighting was done by the nobles who wanted to become Christian or not for political reasons but a lot of the farmers seems to have more or less... the poorer people, the not landowning people seem to have converted more or less willingly to Christianity because it offered a lot more than the Norse religions which was at least the parse that we still know today was very much an elite religion while Christ was... he was for everyone Christ, a dude for everyone and so what happened with myths like... like the Druid myths is... it's not that they... get changed due to Christian propaganda it's that they change when the people telling them gradually convert over to Christianity and there is this huge periods of hundreds of years where these stories very much have both heathen and Christian elements hand in hand and it becomes this unique Scandinavian Christianity which is interesting in itself but all of this is over when we get this modern sense of the word Drogen so when... but the myth of the Drog is from before 1000 AD, isn't it? the myth of Drogen as the sea spirit which we're drawing here is no more than 500 years I hazard to guess while the word Drogen is probably older than that but you know it found... it probably did find its... itself a comfortable place in Christianity I mean there's nothing in the... the only reason I ask is because AC Valhalla takes place before the Crusades yeah but first of all Assassin's Creed Valhalla is not a historical source not again they do do a lot of research but they play it very loose and fast with a lot of these concepts and again when... the nature of a computer game is that you need Drogen to be a neat concept that you can attach to a set of character models and you can say all these character models are Droger but mythology, folklore is not contrary to popular belief a D&D bestiary people in the Viking Age didn't go around classifying what they believed in and saying this is a Droger well this is a ghost while this is a zombie while this is a... all of these concepts they... they overlapped and they were a lot more fluid than we think of them today because we're viewing these concepts from a very modernistic point of view which has very little to do with actual mythology and with the actual folklore what keyfasher is looking for a tattoo inspiration for undead dragon or undead face for uniqueness, can you show me? I... there is a gallery on my website on... which is called Drage fjell and some of those dragons in there look pretty undead to me and they are pretty cool as well so I'd go and look there and that could possibly be a good place for that the spider god is supposed to be in the free art show or should it be in daily ink monster also? the spider god should be in the daily ink monster and then we can collect it in the free art show as well okay, yeah because now the dolphin is uploaded also the dolphin is uploaded, okay so now the finishing touch to this one is that he's gathering souls so we need some very simple shapes in the water that sort of looks like bodies following the boat just keep it very simple again, we're not trying to make the reality of... just like what you did with the roses where you painted one rose and the rest was just ink plots and our minds perceived that it was a rose yes, that's... what I'm doing almost all the time that is one of the things that I find most fun and how did you learn that you could do that? how did I learn that I... human brain how did I learn that I could trick human brains? I don't know, how did I learn that? yeah, like do you have any tips to give for young artists? how to trick human brains? how to trick human brains? volume one okay, so... I don't know that is certainly a good question Hasta luego amigo Hasta luego I guess one of the main things I started doing was to draw I started with comic book penciling and all my skills are based in comic book penciling and I started being inspired by artists such as Frank Miller obviously I started doing tight comic book pencils and then seeing how much of the outline I didn't need to draw so draw the pencils tight and draw full pencils and then start adding shadows but not adding the outline and then your mind starts having to... you want to finish the drawing you see how much you can do and then playing around with... I had a few jobs where I had to do iconographic work where I had to make icons for boring things for advertising catalogs and stuff like that and that's where I developed my signature while working on... for doing a catalog of icons for a stupid advertising thing I don't know if it ever came out but that was a stupid job but I... it was extremely worthwhile in what I learned now I want to give this a more ominous feeling so I'm going to... So the volcano is asking which is the best in Miller's work ooh I'll get back to Miller I'll get back and answer the best of Frank Miller's work so after I've talked a little bit more about the icons because seeing how you can make icons and make them pop sort of was a huge part of learning how to manipulate the mind and then seeing the connection between drawing the icons and drawing the more Miller stuff seeing how those... both of those happen in the mind and how you can connect them so you can make icons where most of the icon is made in the mind you can do... what's the icon? icon icon like the little icons on the screen there the icons okay so and the final thing that taught me so much about all of this stuff was starting to draw metal concerts live because when you're drawing bands playing live and the lights are flashing and everyone's moving and you're moving your head banging and you just have to make these split decisions and then I very much fell in love with drawing these spaces where you can barely see what's happening and where you're leaving so much up to the eye of the beholder to the imagination of the viewer so that's sort of the long-winded answer to that and then we can talk about the best Frank Miller work I will have to say that the reason I go towards Frank Miller is his storytelling and what he does with his images so some of his best work are you know some of the early superhero works like Daredevil born again it is fantastic it's such amazingly written superhero comic Frank Miller is a comic book artist who you should know I should know he is one of the sort of comic book legends very much the one responsible for the new and darker Batman that came in the late 80s and he is responsible for a lot of the new and darker superhero stuff overall and for making superheroes for adults so you're like superheroes do I know about the series The Voice? yes I do know about that I haven't seen the TV series I've read some of the comics which were very fun it's based upon a comic book I know and then they have created a show for it 10.000 likes on the tiktok that is amazing very nice guys but yeah the best Frank Miller work in my book is because I'm looking not for the story in itself I'm looking for how he tells the story and for me Sin City family values is perfection it's just a joy to read it flows so perfectly and it's such a silly stupid mafia revenge story it is just utterly stupid in the best way and that's how I like my Frank Miller when he's utterly stupid in the best way not when it's utterly stupid in the worst way like in Holy Terror or some of the other newer stuff I do love the Dark Knight strikes again the sequel to Dark Knight Returns that is also one of my favorites of his so but what has that to do with Drogen? I don't know just jumping from topic to topic yeah I'm thinking that I'm probably very close to being finished with this one nice yeah I think it's going to look amazing I think it's not going to look very different from what is looking now because I think I'm at this point where if I keep working I will start ruining it instead of making it better and that's one of the most difficult things is learning when to stop so I think I am going to probably stop around here which means we still actually no I don't think maybe I'm not finished yeah I'm not finished so we're going to take a little bit of this color we're just going to hint at some mountains here and hint you seem like you would like poor man's poison I do not know what poor man's poison is not me either folklore art discussions and beautiful art so awesome thank you thank you thank you so much thank you to everyone who's watching and asking questions and also we know if you're enjoying these then you if you want an original you 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addiction personified addiction I I'm having a bit of problems with those types of requests I know that a lot of artists like doing that I don't really like doing the personifications of those the problem of witches dancing around the fire crazy crazy crazy cat ladies the problem of witches dancing around the fire really the problem of witches dancing around the fire Samuel I am the god of hell fire and I bring you fire I want you to burn yes let's do that so which color should we should you choose which color for the witches which or which the wicked witch ding dong the wicked witch is dead do you have any new colors since last time I don't know if I have any new colors yellow what I want to do is actually I'll use a third type of paper here and I will take it to not to the ground to the table the colors of all four elements it's non-crazy crazy cat ladies you're not making this easy for me non-crazy crazy cat ladies she's precious we have less than half an hour to go of this stream then you reduce your technique on preserving the minds of making for stick figures and calling it witches I will make stick figures and calling them witches that's exactly what I'm planning on doing author of necronomicon necronomicon you need to learn these things echo Abdul Alhasred necronomicon is a fictitious book made by Lovecraft HP Lovecraft it appears in a lot of his stories and it appeared in so many of them and of his compadres stories that people started believing it was a real book and then people started publishing hoax versions of that book so it was a fictitious book and now it exists in many fake forms and one of the funniest things with this is the name Abdul Alhasred because Abdul Alhasred isn't an Arabic name no one is called Abdul because the full name would be Abdullah because the Dulla part is Allah servant of Allah is Abdullah I think but Abdul Alhasred is not an Arab name but what it really was was a nickname for young Lovecraft he was 4 or 5 or 6 years old and read through his grandfather's library and was really fond of the 1001 Arabian knights his grandfather nicknamed him Abdul Alhasred because he had read all the books Abdul Alhasred and that's the utter name of the book so it's a completely silly fictitious name well my favourite colour is blue but you should use the colour you are inspired to will do some blue flames of hell for the witches have you tried improvising with randomised incentives for example one character one action one object and one dice for each of the three incentives I can elaborate on discord if needed elaborate on discord because I didn't understand anything of that I think it's like if you have a dog a colour and an action like a position or an action it's supposed to do and then you have a dice and then it's just randomising what you're doing I think that's what he is meaning but I'm not sure that's how I interpret them interpret them the text yeah so I have done a lot of improvisational exercises including ones that get randomised with dice that is a lovely way of learning how to create and to to connect with your creativity so I would definitely recommend doing something like that and that would also be fun to do on a life someday definitely okay so now we're doing this will be the last request for the day just to see try doing a red light painting what is that I have no idea what a red light painting is oh I know you have a room which is red or like you scroll through your phone with a filter that is red and then you're supposed to see like where the shade is and the palette is showing all red colours but it's shade of red but it's actually different colours I think that's what you mean I think I understand I've never tried that that would be fun but I guess I actually do you have like let's say the ring light you have now gave out red light or like a dark room with portraits you know when you're making pictures you have a red light in a room and you try to draw with your colours but you cannot see the colours because it's all red yes I understand the dilemma because that's what's happened when I draw live metal concerts and band the light man decides to flood the stage with a single colour and I can't see so I've done it by accident and that's always fun there was a bit of sarcasm in the tone it would be nice to do it on purpose as well like this except except the big one is it dry yet it looks pretty dry if it's not dry then you can dab it with this and make it dry it's pretty dry now I have it's my fault but I have fire stuck on my head fire the song by Arthur Brown also sampled by the prodigy I am the god of hell fire and I bring you fire I want you to burn completely my fault greetings from Federico this will be the last request for today but I guess four drawings for one free art show that is pretty magnificent that's nice that's grande grande mucho grande what's your favourite food they ask what's your favourite food that depends on the day I mean on the time of day and you know on what's your favourite can only pick one I can only pick one if I can only pick one then I'd pick something really boring that I could stand for a long time so yogurt with grains that's what I'd pick yogurt with grains sounds delicious that's what I'd pick but favourite and I can eat other stuff as well then they're so much good my mind is saying something sushi these days sushi is so good if you haven't tried sushi you should definitely try sushi or but there's so much good food or eat yogurt with grains like Kim that's also good but not the answer because tone what do you mean what is wrong with my tone echo's tone when echo is talking about yogurt I'm so happy about yogurt I understand what's your favourite pickled food pickled omelette yogurt with grains I really don't like yogurt with grains the fluidity of this one is already amazing this is a request yes this one was a request here on the live by non-crazy-crazy-cataly totally witches this is a witch's sabbat with big flames and they're dancing around the blue fire this reminds me of a cave painting yeah and that's sort of another thing that you know I haven't studied it as much as I did with Zen Buddhist art and stuff like that or comics or whatever but studying some cave painting seeing what makes that tick and what makes that work and that's all about this finding the iconic finding the essence of things and drawing their essence instead of drawing their boring reality and that's definitely what cave paintings were about they were not interested in portrait likeness Martin said that's it the thing he explained about the improvising of the randomizing of the senses for example the character action object he also said he'd like to pay to see you drawing during a mechuga gig drawing during a mechuga gig would be amazing because when I draw metal concerts I sort of latch onto the rhythm and that's what I'm trying to draw all the time and with mechuga that would be hard because they have some really weird hellish rhythms what is a mechuga mechuga is a Swedish metal band math metal mathematics metal all their songs are in rhythms they don't play a 4-4 rhythm they play like a 16-7 rhythm or a 22-23 rhythm I don't know they play complicated rhythms and very hypnotizing and heavy music I get it so a special kind of band? definitely a special kind of band I think I might have drawn one drawing of them live but not more than one because this was at the heavy metal festival and when they played I was gearing up to draw something else and so I was really far away from the stage but I still tried to draw one drawing of mechuga live but I would love to draw mechuga proper proper concert I was hoping to catch this mechuga means crazy in Jewish ah nice I get it now I have sort of crazy rhythms so fitting name doing well thank you thank you so much shall we start talking about what my plan for in October is? they are mostly shifting long-facing sequences over 4 and 4 but that's a lot of complicated words to say ok yeah so now you're planning so October starts very soon and I have a plan for what to do and what I'm going to do is that I have a mailing list based on people who have signed up for the mailing list and never gotten a mail and people who are supporting on Patreon and I thought I'd make an offer to the people on my mailing list and anyone who signs up for it for a chance to win a original hand-drawn postcard everyday of inktober so I will draw a little postcard and I will send one of them with a little written message everyday of inktober to one lucky individual every day not the same one every day I will not just pick one winner and then send that poor soul 31 original pieces that's not how we're going to do it but we're going to be sending a postcard to a fan everyday of October I hope that sounds cool and I hope that people sign up for it I will be sending out an email probably tomorrow or the day after and those who reply to that email will people are asking how you're signing up so you go to the link in my bio to the beacons link and then you sign up for the newsletter it says there somewhere or you can go to my Patreon and sign up for the Patreon and then you will be automatically added to the newsletter so it's better to go through Patreon both are if you go through Patreon then you will have to pay one dollar a month but I don't mind that I don't mind that that's how we pay the bills but this isn't just for people on the Patreon you can't give away like that on Patreon but this is for everyone who wants to be part of the newsletter that will start writing so that's sort of one of the ideas behind this is to kick myself in the ass and start doing that damn newsletter that I've been planning on doing for such a long time just added myself to your mailing list so happy I called to stream I hope you're having an amazing day today you're lovely human and and for this one I'm going to draw one of those I'm going to see if the gods accept it but it's going to be one of the gods and the gods accept it so that was the last piece of art for the free art show episode 1 season 2 and every Wednesday hopefully from now on and a few weeks at least we will be doing another live stream drawing your requests and I will be making a new post on TikTok and Facebook and all of the places Instagram for new requests for tomorrow's show and you will get exclusive news subscribe thank you so much I'm only 52 actually I thought I was finished with this one and the gods did approve it but they shouldn't have because I wasn't finished then you have to make a smaller a god of approval no no but the gods see everything so they knew this was coming they already pre-approved it yeah you need the shadow as well they just didn't tell you because you should know it already the gods know everything which kind of gods is it the fates the fates the god of fates the fates fates so the that's probably interesting that's probably it the morrigans maybe maybe the demogorgon not the demogorgon the demogorgon okay so the gods definitely did approve this one still approved world wealth gathering world wealth gathering world wealth gathering world wealth gathering yes volvenus volvenus dance hexa dance we started this live stream chatting a bit about the fact that I don't haven't visited Bergen's witch mountain leaded hoon in a long while and now we're we've drawn what happens at leaded hoon what happens at leaded hoon stays at leaded hoon as the saying goes okay so this was very very fun if you liked the free art show live stream then we will do another one next Wednesday the same time I will be announcing that and asking for requests soon if you want more free art then please do sign up for my patreon you can find the link in my bio or in the youtube description if you want to use my art and it's all available for free use so that you can download it, you can copy it, you can change it you can make your own versions of it you can print it, you can tattoo it you can even sell it as long as you put my name on it and if you have something that you need art for then that's the point of the free art show it is to make a space that you can ask for art for free use for your project and we can help and get you some cool stuff so if you need art for your witch dancing circle then here you go all your witches enjoy and that was everything we had time to do today let's go through them all if you can give me the different art pieces and the one that you're scanning all wrong now not wrong, it's right it's right, okay I have four sides because half and half and I forgot the middle part so I'm taking half of this and half of this side absurd, absurd okay, so we will take it in we started with a warm up doing the spider god as a daily ink monster then we went on to do a dolphin slightly wonky dolphin then we made a bat and then we made dragon gathering souls of the dead at sea and finally we made a witches coven dancing leader hoon probably at leader hoon thank you all for watching it's been very fun to be back doing the free art show thank you so much bye, bye