 Hey everybody and welcome back to the average today I'm going to be trying this art academy for the Nintendo DS. I found it in a CX store which is like a second hand store in the UK and it cost £1 so I thought you know what I want to give this a go and see how it is. It looks pretty fun I never played it so let's see how we do. Okay let's do a lesson. Hi welcome to the first of the main lessons. In this lesson we are going to try pencil and paints together to make one picture. Oh wow I'm crazy. For this we need a canvas already covered with a wash of pale green. Artists often like to paint a canvas all over with the color before they start. This is true to get rid of the white color blazing white. Let's have a sneaky peek beforehand at what we are going to paint. It's going to be a tree! Cool. In stage one we'll sketch a basic outline of our tree in pencil. HB baby! I hate HB pencils. Too light for me. And now what? Are we drawing a tree now? What a beautiful tree. And now what? Now what? Eh? I'm done. Now what? Oh we click him. Continue lesson. We need pencil first because we need to sketch out an under drawing I never use pencil. An under drawing is a simple drawing that can help plan the painting. Wow! Should I begin? Next we'll do the trunk. Beautiful. Beautiful work by this guy. I've drawn it with a graceful curve. Okay mate. I don't want it to do straight and lifeless. Okay I started it from the ground up. Oh wow this is like super basics right? I guess I did start the basics of the basics. Likewise for the branches I'll start the trunk and draw them outward. All right. Okay. Love the music. It's very soothing. Okay next please. I think I got it. I think I got it. Man. I know. All right. What's he saying? It's like a firework growing up in slow motion. So slow we can't see it moving. What? This is what I did already. Could have learned a lesson from him. Let me rub it out so I can... I can... No I want the full effect. It's going to be so cross with me. I imagine like when he loses his mind he gets really really angry. That's what I can imagine about this guy. He's like, I told you to use that dammit. All right next. He's gonna be so angry. That looks nothing like history. That looks absolutely nothing like... Look I think he said go back and try again. He's absolutely gutted with me. Let's try this again. But this time I want that HB. I think I wasn't using that. Look I added a little curvature to my... Okay there we go. What a beautiful tree. Are you guys glad that you've watching this video? How'd it go? Were you able to imagine the tree growing as you drew it? Not really. Understanding how the tree structure work will help you make your drawing convincing. It's always good to try and see the movement in everything you draw and paint. Good point. I don't mean that the tree physically moves around everywhere. I didn't think you meant that. But when you draw a lot you discover that all things are made up of lines and shapes. I think I think we knew that already but you know maybe not. That appeared to move and flow in certain directions. Once you understand this you will find it easier to capture and objects true. It goes on doesn't he? It's like okay we get it. It's like the same thing you're saying the same thing again. Remember that the first lesson we talked about not having to draw everything that's there. It would take a long time to draw individual leaves here. Instead we concentrate on the drawing of the leaves of bunches and clumps. For now we can just imagine the clump of round balls or balloons. Oh no. There he goes. Drawing his circles. Okay. This is hard. I don't want to let him down. Natural clumps. Oh you can flick between yours and his to make you feel really really bad because mine is like taking up way less of the page than his. Whatever. Continue lesson please. Well done. We finished our understanding now so we won't be using pencils anymore. Uh oh. We're moving on to the big leads lads. He's doing it for me. Okay yeah I get it. All right let's do it. Okay flat brush. Yeah green paint. Boom. I didn't actually watch him do it did I? So just kind of assuming he means to like he didn't even do anything. Wait did he do anything? I'm confused. I'm gonna move on to the next one I think. Let's just do what I think he's gonna go with. Now to start painting. I did it again. I did it where I just went for it and now to start painting the leaf clumps it looks like it's best not to be too tidy. If it's not too tidy. What? That looks nothing like mine. And since I have the green paint I may as well have the paint in the ground too. Oh no. This looks very childish but sure. Trying to keep them slightly untidy for a more natural look. And now we go to mine. It's not natural at all. Oh because I didn't actually see the lesson. I thought he was just gonna paint over the clumps. He did this as well which is a tapping technique which he didn't actually say anything about which I think is unfair because I think that's like a technique you should let people in on. Oh yeah. Feel that paint. It actually has like a bit of a nice sound to it as you paint. Be youthful. What do you guys think? Let's compare. Here's to mine. What do you think? I don't know why I've got like a bit of green up there which I can't remove I think once you've painted I think that's it. That's fine a leaf is blowing away. Great we've made a good start on the leaves now. Continue. I mean can we just in stage three we'll move on to the body of the tree. It's trunks and branches. Let's do it. Let's do it boy. Right I need to pick tools and then play the lesson I understand. I want a small round I think and I want some brown. Is that brown? I can't tell. I think it is and now we'll go on with the lesson. We won't just go for it like I've been doing. The round brush is better for painting finer marks. As you paint remember how the trunk grows on the ground up. He's so much better than me. I'm having artist comparison vibes. This game is giving me bad feelings. Take care when painting the branches in between the leaves. Okay oh no look at my absolute clump of leaves that I've done. Okay movement of the tree. Movement of the tree. Boom. I mean mine's not too bad is it? It's not the worst thing I've ever done. Can't believe that I'm actually getting quite nervous about this game. I'm like I need it to be good. Oh no I don't like that. Can I undo it? Is there an undo button? I don't think there is is there. It's a green. I can paint over it. Sucker. Sucker. There we go that's my tree. History which I mean if I was supposed to copy it I'm not winning any prizes but I don't think it's that bad. Does that mean we're done or shaded parts? Oh wait it's lesson four of six. God how long is it gonna take? In stage four we'll add more volume to the tree with dark areas of the shade. Let's start with the leaves again. Remember the apple lesson? Imagine that the light is falling. Wait what apple lesson? I didn't do an apple lesson. You didn't show me no apple lesson. You said this is the first lesson. Let's go for it and now I regret my decision. I don't know anything about apples. If we do we can start imagine our leaves and clumps as fuzzy spheres like this. Oh no he's gonna go back to the round ball leaves thing which I didn't do. I just went for it. Maybe I should listen more to what the lesson plan actually is instead of just deciding for myself. We need some dark green paint for the shadows. I think I've got this. I got this. I want dark green and I want to change my brush to a bit of a fuller brush. Let's go. Let's go to the lesson plan mate. I got it. Now I'm gonna add some shadow areas to my leaf clumps. It sounds gross. Remember it's easier to imagine them groups of fluffy spheres. I did not do that again. I mean okay he's just adding shadow underneath the fluffiness. I think he added some extra leaves though which is cheating because he says we're adding shade. We're not adding leaves. He's a liar. It's too much. Okay I got it. I got it. I got it. There we are. Just imagine the light falling on broken fuzzy surfaces. Okay about that. Fought some feelings guys. Fought some feelings. Okay I think that's fine. I mean I think I like mine more than the the professors. Am I getting an A in this class? Like am I getting an A? Next. Next we can do the same for the trunk of the branches. Yes I've decided this is his voice. This time we'll try to imagine how the light would fall on a collection of tubes like these. We need a small round brush for this. Sure we will. Okay it's best to try and keep them slightly loose and expressive. Remember if it goes wrong you can do it. Do we like this voice? Do we like this voice or is it a bit cringe? That's it remember the true example. I tried not to get the exact the exit sign. Do I need a darker brown or is that brown fine? I'm not sure. Let's try it. Okay that brown is fine. Yeah whatever. There we go done. My tree. His tree. My tree. Fucking professor. Great work. We finished off the tree by painting a shaded area. In stage five we'll continue by adding or his voice completely changed. Adding some more detail to our painting. Can you see it? I feel like I've gotten a lot of disrespect for this professor right now. It started out with a lot of respect and fear and I thought he was a better artist than me and then it slowly turned into I have no respect for this man. Now he has a weird voice. Okay can you see just how adding some shaded areas gives an illusion of light falling? Here are the examples, extra touches. Mochi you can you kind of in the way there. Mochi. Mochi. The professor doesn't have to deal with this like kitty cat action. Hi Mochi. So cute. Wasn't paying attention. What does he want? I'm gonna click what he says. This screen okay. Oh we're getting deep guys are going into some. Oh Mochi. Mochi. No that is not a home for you. She's trying to get in the light. Mochi. Yeah I think that's good enough. You know I'm saying like I'm making it worse. I'm making it worse. It doesn't matter. Right. We've added the interest to the ground with some darker grass. Okay and now for the final touch which is I bet it's a sun. We'll crown the painting with some last splashes of color. How about jazzing it up with some colorful fruit? I think that I should use some red paint for this. Okay I get the drill. Get the red paint. This doesn't need to be a thing. Like I can I understand how to get the red paint. Like now to paint apple. It's not too ready though. It looks nice so just a suggestion. I feel like he's done one too many to be honest. Oh no it can't really draw a circle. That completely ruined it. That looks so fake. But okay we're done I think. As the fruit looks good perhaps we should liven up the ground with some flowers. Let's try yellow paint for this. They could be daffodils or maybe dandelions. Dandelions. Okay yellow. Yeah I get the drill. Next lesson. Did anybody play this game when they were younger? I mean it would be interesting to know if you think it was actually helpful. I mean there were some good pointers in this but I think it's kind of drowned out by the voice of the professor who's gonna haunt my nightmares. Like putting an undercoat on the canvas was a good tip that I don't see a lot of people doing and like movement and flow of the paint maybe is quite a good tip. So yeah but I think it's kind of like a nice little game especially for beginners. I think it would be like a fun thing to do. Especially if you wanted at the time to get into like digital art. I think it helps you navigate a little bit. Like Photoshop and stuff. It's good to get used to tools early on. I'm saying that as if you were playing this as a child would be probably quite beneficial. This lesson has given you a good idea of the structure of all the lessons to come. Okay you're far and I think you're ready to work from there. I didn't read that. See you next lesson. Fabulous. Thank you very much. Now I've got the pear unlocked. I've got the pear lesson unlocked. I think I'm gonna call it a day now but let me know if you guys want to see more of this game because I could do another lesson. It was quite fun. Oh he's got a little dog. Super cute. Look at the sprinkles. Quite fun to try it out. Let me know if you guys have ever played this when you were younger. I feel like I was probably past the point of needing to play it when it came out. But I think it's a really good tool maybe for like younger kids actually. So I might give this to Anise and see if they like it. Because of the navigation of like the different tools and stuff can be a good starting point into digital art maybe. But yeah this is quite fun and despite the old man's voice I did quite enjoy it. So hope to see you next time guys. Please give me a thumbs up and yeah. Subscribe if you haven't that would be awesome. And thanks again to my patrons and see you next time.