 Are we live? I think we might be live. But I do not know. This is exciting. I've never done this before. But I can take my introduction still. My name is Kim Diashol. And, ooh, here you see... Here you see, I have Google. My name is Kim Diashol. And I'm an artist from Bergen, Norway, creating art for free use. And I'm testing out my new streaming setup. I've got lights. I've got a microphone. I've got OBS. And I've never done this before. So, yeah. This is indeed exciting. So, I'm just going to see if the YouTube actually works, if I'm actually live now, because I don't quite know. I've never done this before. So, yes, we are live. But do we have a chat? I'm just going to... Oh, we even have a chat. Where can I find the chat on my... Ooh, do you have a hair routine? Yes, I have a hair routine, which is right before the stream. I comb my hair and put some of this Spanish stuff in it. What is it? I don't know. Whoa! Is something wrong with my mic? Can you hear me? Volume is a bit low, so... And it is a bit low. Should I have it higher? And I need to figure out, is the volume better now? Ooh, so many questions all at once. Okay, we will start this in a few seconds, when I figure out how to... Shouldn't there be a... This is confusing! Boom, boom! Is this the guy with the Marilyn Monroe hands? Yes, this is the guy with the Marilyn Monroe hands. I should do my nails before going live, but... I haven't, so... Sorry about that. Looking a lot like Ian Anderson from Yethro Tull today. Yes, Yethro Tull, the best hard rock heavy metal act of 1988. Wasn't it? Something like that. I do like me some Yethro Tull once in a while. And this seems to be working. The only thing that isn't working is that I have no idea how to get the chat up in the OBS. Okay, so one question. First of all, how am I dealing with all the snow these days? Because Norway is snowing down, and... Bergen, where I live, is usually not a very cold and snowy place, but we actually have about 30 centimetres of snow. And I'm down with the cold, but I still had to shovel our little hill so that the cars could drive out today. So I'm exhausted. So that's how I'm dealing with the snow, not well. But I would absolutely love to get to do some mountain walks and do some plein air painting or ink drawing in the snow. It's cold and it's mean and it hurts, but I absolutely love drawing and painting outside, especially in the snow. That's the best. Your thinks about Finland. My thinks about Finland are great. I think Finland is fantastic. I grew up reading the Moomin books, watching Kauris Mekki movies. I love Remedy games, I mean Max Payne and now Alan Wake 2. Alan Wake 2 is magnificent. I like Finland. Your voice is very therapeutic. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you a lot. Interview in 20 minutes. Any advice? Job interview. Do I look like a person who can hold a job? I'm not a person who can hold a job. What are your political views, my good friend? I know from your artwork and videos that you are pretty left-wing. I would classify myself as an anarchist. In the real socialist tradition. Supporting a classless society where everyone can have as much freedom to choose our own lives without it infringing on other people's freedom. Yeah, so that's basically it. Be sure your clothes have no stains. Try to sound smart. Be confident. You'll do great whether they hire you or not. Oh, that was the advice for the job interview. That seems like good advice. Do I know? No, I have no idea. Could you draw a 40k ink monster? No, I can't draw a 40k ink monster. I did play a little bit 40k as a kid. I played more fantasy battle. I was painting an ultramarine army. And I really like and admire a lot of the artists of the game's workshop. But I release all my art for free use. Which means that you can go to my website then ungehadhorn.com and you can download my art. And you can print it. You can sell it. You can do whatever you want with it. So me doing that with someone else's intellectual property would be very illegal. So fan art is unfortunately out of the question for me. Except at home for the kids. So when the kids start liking 40k I will probably do some 40k fan art again. Politics sucks in today's world. No matter where you're from. But I want to say one thing. It is very easy to say that politics suck. Because the realm of public grand scale politics does suck. And we live in a pyramid scheme that is presented as if it's freedom. But you do actually have a lot of chance to influence things on a more local level. Most places you do. But it takes a lot of work. So you have to, as the poet said, I think it was Google Burdello who said think locally, fuck globally. Or is it act locally, fuck globally. Something like that. I should check out Berserk. I know Berserk very well. I haven't read all of it. I haven't watched all of it. But I absolutely enjoyed what I've seen. What are your pronouns? I'm good with anything. But my bio says he, him. Because after many years of being not comfortable in masculinity, I think. I'm very comfortable with my masculinity today. But I also never, it has never made quite sense for me. So I add a they them and call me whatever. Call me Al. Ooh, do you have a favorite folktale? I actually do. And I've actually, if you go to my YouTube channel, and now we will probably get some, I'll do so that we don't have to get any noise. Why? Now there's no sound on. Maybe we go like... I forgot something. So we will be back very soon. Two seconds. I'll be back. Sorry about that. I forgot that I had a package delivered. Okay, yeah. So I was trying to find Pergisven. The video are done. And it's this one. That night till the morning came I set out running but I take my time Friend of the devil. Piritail. Strange land where the roads stretch as far as I can see without a single turn. After following the roads for a quarter of a year, it comes to a city. In the city there is a church. Outside of the church is a block of ice. Inside the ice is a corpse. Confused, the boy asks the priest and is informed that the man in the ice was a wine server who mixed water and wine so no one wanted to pay for his funeral. If this punishment sounds extreme, know that in medieval times, wine and beer was considered safe to drink as it was purified by the alcohol. But if you mixed it with potentially dirty water, you could end up poisoning people. But the boy also thought the punishment was harsh. The boy spends all his money on paying for the man's funeral. They get the corpse out of the ice, lay him in consecrated soil, sing and ring the bells. The priest tosses a handful of earth over him. Then they laugh and cry as they drink grave or grave beer in his memory. With empty pockets, the boy wanders on. But soon a stranger appears. I'm figuring out OBS while I'm doing this. So this is very helpful for me. I don't know if it is a live that will be staying up because I'm fumbling with all the technology and the equipment and the thingamabobs. The first thing I hear when I join is paying for his funeral. That was the sound from the video I was trying to... I saw the chat a little bit too late. I need to figure all this stuff out. And that's why I'm doing an Ask Me Anything. And I didn't see the chat while the other video was playing too loud. So I need to figure out how to do this in a better way soon. And I will. Thank you Lifi for sending a Super Chat. You can send a Super Chat if you want more lives. I will be doing two lives every week the next few months at least. We will be doing a Thursday live where I will be drawing and you can ask me requests and we'll be having fun. And on Sundays I will be doing a Sunday study live a Sunday study live where I will be working on my fundamental art skills together with you guys. We'll probably continue working with the Bridgeman Anatomy book because I like going through that once in a while and then I'll do something else. Oh! Do you have any favorite horror movie book or any other media? So if you look behind here we have a bookshelf we can even get it in focus I mean it's pretty much it's horror I mean not all of it but pretty much half of it is horror of some time from all of these cheap focus again from all of these cheap dime store paperbacks to bonafide classics and of course a whole ton of HP Lovecraft including volumes of Lovecraft criticism and biographies and different collected editions and minor tales and all that stuff. Which Bridgeman book is it? I now have a collected Bridgeman book it's behind here somewhere and it's got all the different Bridgeman books in it. I grew up with I think I had most of them as a kid but I really Bridgeman's art was extremely influential on me not just because of the books which are slightly difficult books but also because of his influence so few of the artists who really influenced me were artists such as John Buscema Will Eisner Frank Francesetta all of whom had been in Bridgeman's classes and then other artists were Frank Miller Simon Bisley Sam Keith all of which were influenced by people like Buscema Eisner like so everywhere in my artistic upbringing I found the influence of George Bridgeman Thank you so much for the Super Chat. You can send Super Chats and I appreciate that so incredibly much and you can also become a YouTube member and finally figuring out how to do the YouTube membership in a more in a way that rewards you more for joining and for supporting so right now there is a five dollar here that will remain but there will also be like perhaps a 25 dollar here and both of them will get some exclusive videos those will be the same as on my Patreon but it's all in the planning stages okay do you create lore and backstories for your new ink monsters yeah I have only done that as an exercise when making making the videos about them and I used to do that early in the my rise to tiktok fame I did a few videos where I made up short stories for the different ink monsters and that was really fun but I quit doing that because because it was when I was doing both real mythology and I was making stuff up it very quickly became confusing for some viewers but I will hopefully find a way to do something like that again have you read Blood Meridian no I have not are there any anarchist bands, creators you would like to highlight yeah I mean I've been called Alan Moore I really dislike looking like Alan Moore because I don't like looking like anyone else but me but I sometimes hear oh he looks like Alan Moore and the funny thing is I've never been the biggest Alan Moore fan I really appreciate this stuff I really like I mean from hell is magnificent but he's never been my favorite and one of the reasons why is that both spiritually and politically he seems very close to a lot of my ideas and I've had all of these you know my own thoughts around politics and around magic and spirituality and atheism whatever I've sort of developed them on my own and then I once sat down and wrote an article about Alan Moore for a comic book magazine and I started researching him and buying all the books with interviews and stuff like that and reading everything and it was just so much stuff there that I was eerily similar to my own and I didn't like that because I like thinking I'm unique my ego is too big but yeah I would absolutely recommend Alan Moore from that all my favorite artists are people I disagree with I mean Frank Miller is just such an inspiration to me and probably don't agree with him politically or spiritually about much anything do you have a favorite dinosaur yes I'm boring that way because the triceratops triceratopses are magnificent any specific favorite animal would you like to draw I love drawing rats I love drawing wolves and crows and yeah rats, wolves and crows and monkeys what is the currently the favorite drawing you've made let's go here for a while I let me see if I can find something if I go to the Patreon exclusive content here there's a lot of content that I haven't released publicly for pre-use yet because I'm slow but some of that I really like I think I like this one a lot I think this one is cool but not my favorite what else do I like this one is magnificent can we get that to be full screen for a little while but if we do like this we do like this and oh oh oh that didn't work it's not full screen this didn't work at all ah like this yeah I like this one this is probably the drawing that I've spent the most time with let's see if I can figure out how to get the window back for my first proper live which will be tomorrow I hope that I have all this stuff figure out better I'm trying to learn everything at once now let's see if I can find the chat again and answer some more questions did we get another we got another super chat thank you so incredible Chris when working on live music pieces does the rocking out affect the result of the work as in does the music move your body in a way that you can perceive in the final art yes absolutely absolutely and I will try to I will try to find some examples again we're going back to the gallery we can do some of live art that hasn't been released quite yet because it is a bit of struggle sometimes to tag and categorize and get everything out there in good quality ok this is taking too much time so let's go back to not the patron exclusive thing let's go back to the heavy metal concert art and here I will probably find some of it so I can start I can start explaining with some of these pieces this is a drawing I did of Imperial Triumphant during the inferno festival and I really like Imperial Triumphant and I really enjoyed the concert but it was the first concert of the festival and I'm not familiar enough with their music I've listened to one of their albums a few handful of times but I'm not familiar enough with them that I managed to sort of get my body moving in a way where I could lose myself in the art and therefore I like the art but it came out a bit stiffer than I aim for so when I look at these pieces you can like them however much you want but when I look at them I sort of think oh I didn't quite get into the zone and then we had obliteration where I definitely got more into the zone that was fun and then we have my best drawing of Chuck Moll from Dark Funeral I definitely got into the zone oh my best drawing yet of Ishaan from Emperor I think and I absolutely loved that concert this is the keyboardist the guy from Norwegian Shining and I absolutely love that but let me see if I can find some of the ones where I, yeah okay this is Colombian band Massacre and Massacre had a such a magnificent energy on stage and I had no relation to the band from before but I completely lost myself in the music that was the top concert of the festival for me and it was also ironically the physically worst concert for me because it was on the smaller John D stage and I didn't really have room to stand so I was half standing sitting in a really painful way but by getting into the music you just start headbanging and you don't really see or care what's going on on the paper you just lose yourself in that and I just when this concert art stuff works it is like a meditation where for these brief moments eternally long moments of maybe one to three seconds you have no ego you have no self you have no thoughts it's just you and the movement and the music and that's where I create the best live concert art so in order to do that more often I will start headbanging while drawing the music in order to try to provoke that flow state it doesn't always come their mood was magnificent and it definitely had parts of that with very little headbanging but with the physical movement back and forth to the music and Sarkis Tolle solo definitely had some of that Nile was magnificent but Nile was something of a struggle as well but so fun so fun and oh this one of Bataille was just I was so exhausted at that point that you know getting into the zone it was was so it was just effortless so yes the headbanging the movement of the body is incredibly important in the physicality of the art and the connection between the physicality of the body the hand doing the art the eye, the music all of the energy it's all connected and when it all works it is a I said this to Tom Warrior after drawing Triumph of Death because I really like Celtic Frost and I really like our trypticon but I have no relation to Hellhammer because I was too young but drawing drawing Triumph of Death was the highlight of that festival for me and I said to Tom that it was a religious experience I came in a bit skeptical because I had listened to the demos and it's impenetrable noise when you have no relation to it but live I was just able to let go and be loose and lucid and get into the flow and it is a physical at its best it's a physical experience it's a spiritual experience and it's a egoless experience for brief eternal seconds do you know Savard? I do know Scott and I think I am not speaking out of out of Q out of step here when I say that actually Scott and me are planning on doing a monthly stream together and figuring out the date for that it will not happen in January because of time but it will happen in February so stay tuned for the Kim and Scott show the Scott and Kim show this Kim show I don't know though Scott is amazing he is he is an inspiration how he manages to be authentic and tell great stories and just be awesome at every point who way, action through non-action yes absolutely absolutely let us see Schim Schim yes what do you mean from Daoist internal alchemy so there's a lot of my thoughts around what I'm doing when I'm doing live concert art that is specifically inspired by Daoist philosophy and meditation and also from later Shinto Buddhist practices around art and meditation which has been part of my life for a long time do you watch youtube often if so which channels do you watch yes I watch too much youtube these days I've been watching all the how to get big on youtube because I'm planning to do a lot more youtube this year and I'm planning to figure out how to do something that works in the long format for youtube but also is different and also is me so I've been watching too much of that stuff and it's funny but other things I just finished watching Miniminuteman's great takedown of the ancient apocalypse tv series Miniminuteman is a mutual of mine on tiktok and he is an archeologist and he did a really entertaining takedown 4 hour long takedown of why ancient apocalypse or whatever it's called sucks and I enjoy all that stuff I'm a sucker for conspiracy theory and ancient aliens and all that stuff but I do recognize that in reality real archeology is a lot more interesting and is a lot more honoring of the complexity of humanity and so so do you like draw pee? I've seen some draw pee stuff I don't remember much so I don't remember I know I've checked out draw pee but do you have an experience with supernatural things or unexplained things or this seen as magic so when I used the word magic I'm not necessarily speaking in a I'm not necessarily speaking in a way that is paradoxical to my own atheism I have a religious view and I have a spiritual view and I have an atheist view and they go great together and it's not an agnostic view I don't like the word agnostic because I don't really know what it means I don't believe in supernatural things or in in cryptids or anything like that but I have had experiences that are unexplainable but I don't really I know my mind is powerful enough to trick me and I don't really I don't think it matters I think that I think that one of the major faults of a lot of modern atheism which I'm a part of is that it's so easy to discredit supernatural experiences by saying yeah but they didn't happen but whether or not they happened has nothing to do with whether or not they're significant and I think that humans experience a lot of things that are that may be beyond our capabilities to explain with science but they're still significant I mean consciousness is something we can't really explain with science maybe never but it is significant so saying that ooh you think you saw a ghost but that can't be explained by science so that doesn't matter is like saying ooh you think you're conscious but that can't be explained by science so it doesn't matter of course it matters that sounds like an agnostic take from you fuck off sorry I don't know why I've never liked the word agnostic I don't think that fits my philosophy do you know Susumu Hirasawa no I don't I love your art and comments could you please do a picture that reflects new world order only if you're talking about the ministry song if you're talking about conspiracies theory stuff then no I try not to are you an Urura fan yes and I didn't know much about her except that she was from my town and that she made music until I found her on tiktok and she found me on tiktok in I don't know if it was in that order and she commented on a few of my posts and I started checking out her music and she is magnificent such creative being gracious and interesting and funny I've never met her but she seems very cool and I would like to draw one of her concerts someday what are your favorite 3 books ok favorite 3 books I don't read all that much nonfiction and it's been so long since I've read these books but my standard answer would be something like Lord of the Rings American Psycho or perhaps Glamorama and The God of Small Things by Arun Datu something like that may your pants make art of you or for you or will that upset you I love when people have done pan art of me portraits or caricatures I love getting drawn I think that's incredibly fun so please do draw me what made you start art so I was I was one year old when I started drawing and around 3 and a half when I started talking and from an incredibly early age I was expressing myself through my art when I was happy I would draw when I was sad I would draw the sadness when I was angry I would draw angrily so yeah how old are you 43 years old do you listen to rap at all yes I I have a few favourites those are mostly 90s and early 2000s so Rootsmanuva The Roots The Streets Fugees Wutanklan all of that and of newer stuff I am sadly outdated but I try to listen to stuff when I find it I listen to Chancellor Apper and Kendrick Lamar and Missy Elliott and yeah would really like to sculpt you oh that would be fantastic please do do you read Wuxia novels Wuxu novels no sorry I do read many novels I do read horror short stories but it's been a while I read a little bit Lowcroft I've read a whole lot of comics but I don't read many novels I read a lot of non-fiction listen to the artist Poppy I don't think I've even heard of them what's your most memorable ink monster ooh memorable in ink monster let's go back to here and find the ink monster gallery and see if any of them strikes me as memorable yeah this one is very memorable because this was done on a live and someone asked me to instead of doing one ink pot do ink pots all around and find something in between it and I did and I just struggled and I struggled and I was about to give up when suddenly I saw a only mask where I only paste from Japanese art and broom in some a few minutes it was done and then I went to figure out a little bit more about the only and learned that only is one of the possible meanings of the word only or the possible etymology of the word only is the hidden one something that's hiding and this one was hiding for so long and it came up apart from that I mean this one was memorable because I was doing a pun or a joke of people who read the bible run and got accused of being racist and I understand why so I had to reflect and figure out what I had done wrong this one was memorable because it was done while being interviewed about ink monsters this was this is probably my favorite video that I've ever done I'm so satisfied with that the art itself isn't that memorable let me see most memorable most memorable ink monster let me it's very hard because I remember some things about most of them and other I mean others are a bit more vague this one I remember very well and I think this was one of the ones where I had an image in mind and I had to do it a couple of times before it hit this one I remember because this was number thousand so this one was done at the gallery of the black metal artist gal live with an audience while talking about the mythology around umid so that was difficult but I think it worked this one was fun and someone asked me about anarchist artist that I like Charlie Christensen who did Arna Unka of the Swedish comic I think he is anarchist in persuasion and he is magnificent one of my favorites this one was also memorable just because it came so easy and it looks so good it looks planned but it wasn't and also when I did the first video about this I thought I was really funny because I answered a comment asking can you draw a mad unicorn and I the video answering he isn't mad he's just trapped in a mad world and then I paid it over to the mad world music and I thought that was so hilariously funny I thought that was the best joke ever and no one got it everyone was like this is a propound and not that they were wrong I just was judging the tone very wrong I don't always know this one was memorable this was done to a viral sound on tiktok and also I think I did like 3-4 versions before I got this one which is perfect I love it one of my favorites I've done a few ink monsters I've drawn a few I've done a few ink monster I've drawn a few this one changed a lot of my approach to everything because it was about the massacres in or the genocide through the residential school systems in Canada and it was the video about it was embraced by a lot of survivors from that system and that was powerful for me to see that my art could affect people who have gone through something awful should I go back to the chat let's see let's just scroll all the way down I think the most memorable is actually quite easy because the most memorable you'll find it soon I've done too many ink monsters I haven't done oh I've done one ink monster this year this was my first ink monster it's Hugh the Hangry Minotaur and I love him perfect ok so let's see the questions many questions favorite comic book series Sin City by Craig Miller absolutely do you support Israel do I support Israelis do I support the genocide of Palestinians absolutely not Israel is an apartheid state that is practicing a genocide and live-streaming more or less and I have family, distant family in Israel and people I met would don't want to see any harm come to you know and even someone I last met in while he was like yay tall and now he is on active duty in Gaza and these are people I would absolutely not want to see any harm come to but the genocide of Palestinians has to stop the ethnic cleansing of Gaza has to stop and the US of A has to stop blocking the international community from holding Israel the state of Israel the government of Israel accountable for the active war crimes they are doing are you Muslim? atheist and satanist have you ever done digital art? yes definitely I have done quite a lot of digital art shall we look at some of my digital art or do you have any experience with Christian monks and do you think they can have spiritualities that are genuine and resonate with you as a person even if you are not Christian? yes I was talking earlier about Daoist and Shinto Buddhist philosophy influencing my art but the Bible has influenced my art Christian mysticism has influenced my art and my philosophy and these types of experiences religious experiences religious experiences I think are very close to the artistic experiences absolutely valuable to me I saw on your website that you once painted a giant squid attacking some fisherman not the Kraken image what was the story behind that? that sounds like Cthulhu or something what is your favorite let's go back here and see what we can find do like this I've been live for a long time now how long have we been going? if we favorite dragons I think I like this one it's a bit hard to see perhaps will get higher resolution soon I think I like this one I think this is one of my favorite and I got a question about the digital art I used to work digitally for a long time I got a Wacom board in 2004 and for 10 years most of my art was digital and I still have some of that art up on my website old art if you go into other art old art then you can see some of my digital work I this one I like that was a poster I did for a lecture about Satanism in Gothic and conspiracy theory as well I think and this Lovecraft portrait I like a bit goofy and also I did I did a lot of more cartoony art I think I even had a gallery of just cartoony art and most of it digital and it's family friendly it's cool hmm hmm tree wolfish moon that was funny extreme pastry with lemmy and oba I like that one hmm and I like that one so yeah ooh we've been screaming so long that my lights are going out so I think that is um a sign that we have to stop streaming let us see may ask what is Satanism Satanism is a bunch of philosophies and religious movements that are in some way most of them are atheistic and are putting themselves as an opposite to a lot of the more mainstream Christian beliefs because Christianity and Islam and Judaism and other world religions have done incredible evils and and I don't think that's cool so if that's what God does then hail Satan and also it is a reflection of recognizing darkness recognizing death and recognizing joy and my own Satanism is my own it's not Anton Leves Church of Satan it's not the satanic temple it's not anyone else it's just my own I've been making ink monster while watching where can I share with you on instagram or facebook or on my discord but now soon this other light will go out and we will be screaming in darkness and that's not too cool what happened here watching I need to thank you I need to end this live now because the lights are going out I need to figure out a way to actually have the lights on for a whole stream it's let me just answer a few last question it's 9 o'clock in Norway I don't have any spiritual connection to Osatru I do have a very deep connection with the tales of Norse mythology and Norwegian fairy tales share on discord please do that I have very much against religion as institutions that religious any religious institution is survives only so far as it's useful to the structures of power and state and I don't like that but I have nothing against religiosity, spirituality religious people many of my favorite people are religious people with that I will be back with probably another Ask Me Anything tomorrow daytime and then the first proper live stream 7 o'clock Norwegian time tomorrow and I will be drawing your request and as Dio would have said Dio ok bye bye before I say bye bye support on Patreon becoming a member or go to my webshop where you can buy art, merch all of that and you can also support by using my art because all my art is available for free use and you can even sell it and do me a favor and earn money on my art if you can that helps a lot too bye see you tomorrow