 That we are live. Oh, we're live and our microphone is falling over. So it's already starting. Well Jesus You'd think that after some months of this I would have gotten the setup right, but no I don't do right Don't do right. This is from a video where that I'll be publishing later tonight after the stream and Let's just say hello as a hi My name is Kim Diaz Holm also called den unge had Holm and I make art for free use every Thursday I Take a request from you guys and I draw whatever you want and this time I made a poll with Three different creatures that may happen to be in Dragon's Dogma 2 Who knows and It was Dragon it was what was it Dragon and Griffin and Sphinx and the Sphinx one Love your nails. Thank you Where are everyone Located today, where are you watching from and we Minana is here And if you see she's got that cool green she he it they who knows God has got that cool green Text and that's because they are a supporter on my youtube channel and you can also become a supporter and that helped me a lot so I can make More art for free use. That's the whole Thing in my Bob Uh-oh, we have some questions. I was just trying to find a video explaining the little Uruburu's circle Circle that you often use in your drawings any significance or is it just a cool symbol? I haven't made a video proper about it yet, but there is significance. It is a an and so which I Appropriated from Japanese Shinto Sen buddhism And there is a Let's say a religious significance for me, but The way I use it is if I suspect that the art may have some sort of spiritual significance either because of what I'm drawing or Because of the process of drawing it and things that have gone through my mind Then I sometimes put the anso there in order to check with the fates to see or With chance or with the gods or with whatever to see if I Can keep the drawing or not. So if I manage to make the anso in one Or Reasonably one go if it turns out well Then I keep the drawing if I mess up the anso then I have to tear up the drawing. That's the rules I didn't make the rules. I only made them Hi But you also have that as a tattoo, right? Yes, and if the tattoo artist had Messed up I would have Had to Tear up myself and toss myself out. No But the tattoo I drew in the tattoo shop They also in one go But yeah Let's do some art So you guys voted for the Sphinx Or a Sphinx And we're not going to do the Sphinx From Egypt But we are going to do a Sphinx Is it spelled and so yes, I think so There there are it is from Japanese. So there are Probably multiple ways of spelling it Found you through scott christen sova. Great. Are we drinking tea weird drink? I don't know what Tea this is it's a some sort of sleepy time flavor So if I fall asleep during the stream Blame the tea Hey from America Okay, so shall we start with Doing a Sphinx I think I'll start the Sphinx like this How how is that gonna be a Sphinx Oh That didn't help me Okay Maybe it did maybe it did I think it would have said on the tea if it was chamomile so the Sphinx in Giza in Egypt Is a seems to be a representation of a pharaoh and Is a generic sort of guardian figure that you find in a lot of Egyptian around Egyptian temples and stuff like that But we generally mix it up with The greek and also middle eastern Sphinxes Which Are more of a mythological creature. I guess that the Egyptian Sphinx was also a mythological creature but I haven't been able to find any reliable info on that and that's the problem when searching about Sphinxes is you all we find is Graham Hancock bullshit and ancient alien stuff and The problem where I I like a good Ancient alien yarn as much as anyone but the problem is that that there are so much Of it that it becomes impossible to find the actual factual information and not the shit that Graham Hancock Drammed up when he was on some trip whoop whoop halfway to a midlife crisis Who who's there? Oh 1983 I'm a 1980s child 1980 exactly So Yeah, this will end up well I Still have not come across the Sphinx yet despite beating the game looking forward to it dragon's dogma has been Uh, nothing quite like anything I've played before the dragon's dogma is uh, two is great so far Uh, I'll tell you a secret. I haven't came come across the Sphinx either but I searched for creatures in Dragon's dogma and I got spoiled so we're Yeah, it's a Graham Hancock arcing around hanging from right up Until the Sphinx racism comes into play Very uncool dude snake all salesman. Yes and that that's the problem of all the the the Alternative archaeology guys. It's not that we don't We need theories that challenge the current Archaeology and the current history because well a lot of the mainstream history is That you teach uh learning school and stuff is wrong because it is old-fashioned and it is Basically taking the narratives of kings as gospel but um The fact that we need Better history and better archaeology doesn't mean you can come in and say that that Aliens built everything And I've been looking at images of uh, Greek Sphinxes all day So that is what I'll be trying to do Today, I don't have any reference because I forgot to print it out, but I think I can do A Sphinx without a reference I loved watching ancient aliens as a kid very late at night. Yeah, I mean I I watched all of that stuff and I watched uh far and high and I watched uh Uh searching for Atlantis things and I you know, I I absolutely love that stuff and I was also Kind of far towards believing a lot of that stuff for a while Enough the ancient aliens part, but uh, there has to be something more apart And a lot of the conspiracy Part and that's been very strange seeing that Uh, you know a ton of my leftist friends and me After 9 11 started believing more and more of the conspiracy stuff because there was You know, there was a conspiracy going on a conspiracy to invade iraq on false grounds Um But Then you started, you know getting into stuff like Alex Jones and all of that stuff and it led to worse and worse places But it was still very much, uh counterculture leftist thing to To fall for these conspiracy theories At least in my group And then Things shifted And Now it is a weird trumpy thing Who would have thought I'm so happy to live in the same part of the world as kim. I have always Time to watch draw What draw I think is I think I I think this is called draw what? I should know because I named it I can rename it Yeah, but anyhow the reason why i'm drawing the Greek Sphinx is simply That was easier to find stories and mythology about You're an anarchist, right? Yes, I am so The Greek Sphinx is most known From the story of edifice, you know the guy who Shags his mother and kills his father And one of his heroic deeds before he shy marries his mother and kills his father is that he Solves the riddle of the Sphinx and There are two riddles That the Sphinx tell and they are classic riddles And it's kind of fascinating that these riddles seem to be at least 2500 or maybe more years old And the first riddle is what has Four legs when it's young two legs when it's adult And three legs when it grows old And the answer is There's no price if you win You do one patricide and that's all anyone remembers. Yes. Yes. It is poor poor edifice So that was the first riddle and the second riddle is Two there are two sisters The first sister gives birth to the other sister And then the other sister Gives birth to the first sister Human human. Yes. What is a man? Yes As a young man getting my degree I love Joe Rogan and the fringed thinkers he interviewed Watching him sink into conservatism has sucked. Yeah. Yeah. I used to love Joe Rogan as well. I Still think he's funny and uh a good interviewer. I I don't know. I haven't heard anything from him A long time ago I fall for all that shit as well This myth is wild. Yeah night and day night and day is the right answer so on the uh first riddle it was a human because we um We Crawl on all on all force as toddlers and then we Then I'm trying to pay attention to the drawing as well as talking Then we walk on both legs and then We end up with a cane This was before Self-driving wheelchairs. Do you have self-driving wheelchairs? Do you should have self? driving wheelchairs I like her face right now Uh and then the Second riddle is of course that uh night gives birth today and birth gives day to gives birth Ah night gives birth to day day gives birth to night That's how it goes and I think it is I love this myth because it is It is such a fascinating way to transmit These two basic riddles. Um it's just uh A lovely way to pack Uh pack this Little bit of cultural knowledge, which riddles are into this larger narrative arc Uh, so you don't just remember the riddles because you're good at remembering riddles, but you remember them because They were the ones That beat The Sphinx herself Dear Kim, I don't know if you'd be interested in this, but I'm part of a young person's rights activism group in the UK Uh, we have an arts cafe Would you be interested in coming to speak at one? Are you sure if I can? Uh, if we can make it logistically, I don't have uh, yeah, I I would be very interested to I I don't yeah I like speaking and I like going places to speak so so I would like to do more of that definitely A riddle I heard in swedish The more you take the more you leave behind. What is it? The more you take the more you leave behind Uh Lovers Kim canceled that was a joke Uh I don't know. I'm really really bad at riddles but uh, uh, Ethan, uh, just contact me at um Post at den ungeherholm.com and uh, my associate christopher will answer you You The ah is the answer to the riddle time or is it a whole? Working overtime right now and this was just what I needed to help push through Good to hear Except if you're working with something Important then pay attention to your job. Damn it a whole Just answer to the riddle What what is bigger the more you take away? Yeah First it give it then it take it away So We can do We can do the riddles if you bring them but uh, do anyone have any questions or or Something to discuss Superb, I'm myself. I'm an 18 year old anarchist black metal musician with autism And you have been instrumental in getting through my day today some massive. Thank you Thank you for sharing and for keeping on and it is Such a weird and wonderful privilege to be able to sit in my basement Draw stuff I like And talk out of my ass and then get messages from people who I've affected in some way Let's see if we can focus This camera now it's focused I think have you watched invincible? No I haven't I want to but I just haven't gotten to it What do you think of socialism? We need more of it It sort of depends on what your definition of socialism is but but if your definition is Uh, the workers control of the means of production then yes, we need more of it Or unions we need more unions Labor rights we need more labor rights equal rights for men and women and trans Thingamabobs Those are socialist opinions or Positions and we need more of them. Do you like rage against the machine? Yes, lovely band I mean I was What when is the first album is it 94? And I was 14 so that you know that was the shit Or have you watched that one show about cthulhu? Is there a show about cthulhu? I haven't watched it I didn't know I'm so out of the horror loop because my wife doesn't like horror And being out of the horror loop is lovely Because then the few times I get to watch horror. I get genuinely scared because I haven't watched anything for so long I'm messing up the sphinx Are you a fan of queens of the stonage? Certainly a few of their albums Then I They're one of those bands where I absolutely loved Their albums for a while and then I Fell off at some point. So yeah, I I'd call myself a fan. Yeah Do you Ever take commissions from a vtuber? What is a vtuber? I do take commissions You can contact me you go to my website and ungehadhome.com and contact me through there Well, there are socialist robots in an untitled pve game so Okay Do you prefer prefer a brand new brush? No, I mean Look at this Let's see. Does this look like a brand new brush? You can't see it, but it's not a brand new brush It is a poor old abused Brush A vtuber is a streamer that presents as an anime anime. Wow I've seen those um I guess I I wouldn't have anything in principle against Doing something for A vtuber I guess I don't know why I should have anything against that. I don't know should I? Yeah, so so there are a lot of reasons why you could Want to present yourself as a digital avatar instead of a real person and some of those reasons are Good and necessary and others are stupid. So I guess it depends You know like most things it depends Can I send you a reference photo to draw on a live? No That would be problematic on a live also because I release all my art for free use um and To draw someone else's photo without knowing if they Actually have the rights to it And then releasing it for free use so that anyone can download it and print it and Distribute it and even you know change it and sell it Would be problematic I've seen a few vtubers with black and white or ink avatars. Fascinating. I haven't seen that How would his art style? translate to anime Is anime Moving animated vtuber. I don't know I would like to see that I did ask people to All right I did ask people to um to Help me create a I algorithms or train a eyes On my art, but I forgot to follow it up. So I need to write a bunch of people an email and try to follow it up Can you draw a bird zombie or no? Hmm Maybe I think this uh swing is pretty much Is it done? It looks done so maybe I don't know what we'll draw now some but maybe a We'll see let's do an ink blot and then Distracted now because I'm I noticed I'm getting a bit of a I'm having a bit of a cold and I'm Sniffling and I don't want to be The snotty on the internet No one likes to be snotty on the internet So excuse me like this Just incredible You make it look so effortless What had the second most votes on the poll? I don't know I Guess we have to look Greetings and came love your art. Thank you so We can have a look Would someone have a look and see What was second place on the poll? I am not Sure that I want to draw that but Maybe and for the first time on alive You see that I'm not doing a numbered ink monster before anymore. I'm doing the date because I can't keep track of the Numbers anymore and I don't do the ink monsters daily anymore. I do a few a week but not every single day anymore so That means the Daily ink monster numberings are is dead now. I think Dragon is the second It's very close Do you go live this time every week? Yes Have folk said you kind of remind them of merlin? Yes Uh, do you ever do cyborgs robots or things of that sort? A couple sometimes, but I I prefer this shit Yeah, shall we see if we can do a quick dragon? It's been a while since I drew a dragon It's been a while since I drew a drake Lake It's been a while since I fought my brother in the tv show ricky lake That song went downhill quickly with an outdated reference zombie bird with the dragon Zombie bird with the dragon We'll see we'll see. I don't know. We'll do like this Oh The dragon is already drawn It's a complete dragon. I don't have to draw anything This dragon is already drawn if I don't mess it up Then it will be cool. I think I messed it up. Oh, shit Maybe tlaloc. Yeah, so so the the thing about doing Stuff that requires research is that it requires research And that's very hard To get done While you're streaming So I would love to do more Aztec mythology and All of that fun stuff but It's not going to happen on the live unless I've already researched it like You know the reason why I I knew anything about the Sphinx today is you know I I have researched those stories before and I have you know I've heard of the Sphinx before but I also Read up on the Sphinx and you know found images and all of that stuff before The stream so that I was prepared but with Something that that I'm doing live with you guys and you guys help Shape the art as I'm drawing that then it is harder to do something that I'm actually prepared to To do justice to so so tlaloc is something we have to save for For another day, I guess I haven't drawn Any Ulster cycle heroes or gods Uh, I Don't know if I've drawn any monsters from Them but that would be a higher chance of that I guess because I've drawn a few Celtic and irish monsters, but I don't Uh, I don't know. Um Yeah, I definitely should Look more into the Ulster cycle at some point research and mythology is a minefield Shitty AI slump around every corner in that field. Yeah, so you usually you uh Usually don't have troubles with AI if you stick with you know, if you do image searches type in archaeology as well or in greek cases a vase or Sculpture then you will get a few like Garden sculptures and stuff like that, which is annoying, but at least it's not a fake AI Image I'm not quite happy with how this dragon is Developing You did draw, uh goddess kali. Remember. Yes, I have drawn kali Long time ago. I would love to do it again What was your first car? I I can't drive I've never had a car my wife now Drives and has a car. So I probably should get the driver's license at some point I don't really want to Think I would make a great driver Yeah, I'm messing this up more and more. It had a lovely eye there, but it's Looking worse and worse I think maybe if I Move the eye over Here, yeah Then it's getting a little bit more of that menacing look What kind of paint and art supplies do you usually get look in, uh, the the Description of my long form videos and I think also of some of my lives and you will find a complete list of different tools I tend to use but I do vary it and I do Change it up if I can Let's do a bearded dragon because I've Not done enough of those Kind of looks like venom it does doesn't it Do you have any tips on getting rid of art block? Yeah I should do a video again about that but but you know uh ink monsters is a way of getting rid of art block and and This is going to sound It's going to sound wrong But art block doesn't exist There is no such thing as art block creativity, however has naturally ups and downs and Like anything else if you overuse it if you use it too much Uh It will get tired and you will get it down And If you stop using it You will become out of practice So what happens what people call art block is that they encounter they've been on a creative Upward where things are going well, and then they start Going to a creative downward And their drawings start becoming crap and their ideas start becoming crap and Then they stop drawing They stop being creative and then after A week or two or or maybe be months Creativity comes back And then they sit down and try to draw But They're not warmed up So the drawing comes out crap, and they think ooh I have art block. I just can't do it anymore but it's kind of like if you You train and train and train to run a marathon And then you manage to run a marathon And then You decide to just continue running And it becomes harder and harder and harder That's natural, right? And then instead of Just toning down the exercise You instead choose to stop running at all and just lay on your couch and play dragon's dogma 2 and eat chocolates and then There's another marathon Some months later And you decide yeah, I'll join that marathon But I won't run it. I won't train for it I'll just assume that I can do it And that's what people do with creativity all the time They assume That they can just stop Doing creative things stop drawing stop painting stop making music whatever and come back right as They were and you can't You have to ease into things and you You know even in a period where Even in a period where You are creatively low you should Have some creative exercises that you can do like drawing silly ink monsters That you don't have to show to anyone drawing doodles drawing from life following online courses following books going to courses Educating yourself as an artist is a brilliant thing to do in an art block because You shouldn't expect To do it well You can The art can come out crap, but you can still learn let's draw this thing Thank you for the super chat. Yeah, thank you so much You can give super chats that is much appreciated And the text says for art block try app oblique strategies by brian eno I don't know of that app, but I should think that brian eno has good strategies for art block He is a magnificent musician and composer and I have grown up with his music and still Listen to him a lot What about digital art? What about digital art? digital art is awesome and all the same things that applies for for Traditional art applies for digital art What are your views on today's capitalist society? Don't like it I'm First of all, I more and more think that that Calling it capitalism is Getting to be more and more a misnomer capitalism Failed and died And gave birth to something new and strange Janis Varoufakis calls it Techno feudalism. I like that. I think that makes sense Post capitalism can make sense Surveillance capitalism, but I think techno feudalism is closer to what we live in and yeah My favorite version of the Joker would probably be Uh Brian Boland's in the killing joke wonderful artist I'll look more into Techno feudalism do that. I haven't read Janis Varoufakis book I have read some of his other stuff. I want to read techno feudalism Uh, definitely My favorite Yeah, favorite Joker was Brian Boland's but but uh jack Nicholson was good as a Joker if you're meaning as an actor I I didn't like the movie all that much, but I think heat ledger did a terrific Joker Uh, you know jack Nicholson's is uh magnificent. It is To cure my art block. I just go outside to find inspirations And if I don't get any then I have some ice cream I think it's difficult to argue against Jack Nicholson Being the best Joker and probably Difficult to argue against heat ledger being the best Joker and I haven't seen joak in phoenix, but probably him too But but it's very different jokers. So so I got some art supplies lately and discovered new way to draw with pen shading excellent discovering new ways to draw is such a good feeling And uh, I wish I could do it all the time but uh Unfortunately It doesn't work like that I haven't seen the new batman adventures. I loved The Joker in batman the animated series Jared leto was good. It was so such a awful movie that I I And of terrible design, I think you know, you're allowed to say I'm wrong and to say why I'm wrong, but I Don't think it had much to do with Jared leto, but it was in my opinion an awful movie an awful Joker, uh, but I don't think it was Leto's Fault Is it strange to have a connection to the stars? No, I think people have held connections to the stars for millennia for Hundreds of thousands of years probably Jared leto was absolutely terrible I agree with you. He also made the design. Yeah, but but but I Uh I I I know nothing about that it was just It sounded like a bad production all the way who is your Um Favorite superhero spider-man Either that or daredevil or wolverine, but spider-man it is spider-man Uh Is there anything you might want to say to your young audience of 17 year olds? That is a good question. Uh I I would say find ways to be yourself in a way that doesn't Destroy anything for others either And most of all Try to do better Than those who are my age because Uh, we fucked up and those before us fucked up and Those before us fucked up And we need people young people to do Better and you can probably I mean young people today are Generally so much smarter And so much more knowledgeable and more reflected Than my generation was So you can probably do a lot better than we did Just yeah It's norway cold in norway is still cold No sign of summer here for a long long time I love Batman in case you couldn't tell I could tell Michael I could tell I like Batman as well Batman year one is magnificent there's uh I read a lot of Batman growing up Um Thank you for the encouragement and reviews It's touching 40 degrees celsius here already Oh That is I mean It is uh Less than 10 degrees celsius here and it's can drop to minus degrees still But but spring is slowly coming. Yeah I like Adam west. Yes. Uh, that was a silly show But I was always Very disappointed with the Joker in The old Silly Batman show never liked that Joker The comedy was gold, but probably can't say much these days. What what do you mean? Have you ever felt drained? After completing uh art piece yes You should and after such cases you should relax Uh It is It is kind of a weird How Artists are So incredibly afraid of Taking time off me included but if A weightlifter Set a new personal record They would They would plan for recovery after that That's simply what you do you plan for recovery And and you do recovery and then you do a D-load week or two Or you even take a complete vacation and then you start easing into it again. You don't go Full force personal record Again and again Because that that's impossible and It is more possible with art than with weightlifting But what happens is and this is kind of insidious Is that if you're working constantly And just creating art art art art art art You don't see that you're starting to repeat yourself and I I'm guilty of that Look, I'm drawing a dragon mother. Why did I say mother? Oh, is it possible to Buy any drawings? Yes. Go to den ungehardholm.com and also Yeah Use The promo code Thank Slash no You oh, sorry. Sorry Thank You use that promo code for 20 10 20 for some percent off I should really pay attention to my online store But I try to pay as little attention as I can I need to make some videos about that Because we're celebrating that I've been 10 years on patreon and we're giving everyone a promo code. So yeah Uh do that and yeah go to let's see den Unge hardholm.com I don't know if You can see that or if the It gets censored. I don't know It's a gold dragon. Can you see the link? It must have been a Freud and Slipple. I mean nipple. I mean mother I mean slip Yeah, the mother thing was I was trying to Say something like look ma another dragon, but then I fumbled it And it became it's another dragon mother Which doesn't sound As cool. I guess Advice. Thank you Thank you all for Hanging out and for having fun Yeah Why is this dragon standing like this? I don't know but uh It is I think this I think I like this dragon. I mean it should have his wings out like that, but But I wanted to draw it without the Wings out Dragons are my favorite mythological creature. Yeah, I think they're mine too That are trolls. I don't know something Okay What shall we name this dragon? Another dragon mother No Okay, I think I'm pretty much done for This stream how long have I been going an hour? That's not too bad So I there was a question if I get uh exhausted or drained after Uh doing art and after doing these lives I do get drained because because talking trying to be coherent and entertaining and reasonably honest And drawing at the same time and reading your comments. It's a lot to juggle in a poor Head brain thingamabob You did draw a raasvelger. I did have drawn a raasvelger. I did a very nice uh The rendition of a raasvelger Mother dragon Mother dragon My favorite mother dragon Sure, I can spell today But you are my mother dragon anyway Okay Before I leave you guys do you have any Questions Any final questions Minane says Kevin. Oh, I should have called her Kevin, but she is mother dragon You're ending the stream now. No Yeah, I think I am because uh Uh I'm still a bit exhausted after The inferno festival. It's been taking a lot of time To get back to normal and my normal is A bit bipolar anyhow, so so it's ups and downs Um Yes, if you do not Want to answer this one, please it's up to you. Oh, I'm waiting with anticipated breath But just wanted to ask you about how are you mental health wise? So, uh, I am uh bipolar Uh, and my bipolar is Is generally a lot of long depressions and uh A lot of long depressions and then shorter periods of Hypomania Hypomania Right now, I'm not quite sure where I am. I Suspect that I am in a sort of a middle depressive period Uh, but it's very hard to say because I Overworked myself so much during the inferno festival That I haven't quite gotten on my feet yet and that might be because I'm in a depressive period or it might be because I overworked myself or it might be because both so so Generally, I'm uh Okay I guess Um, do you find your bipolar cycles correlate with the seasons at all? Yeah, I usually get my Longest and deepest depressions during summer Um, so there is some correlation. Yes Hi Kim, how's it's going? Hello, Tobin Did you watch shogun not yet Do you know exactly how many ink monsters that you made so, uh My last numbered ink monster was 1,550 something I think or 60 something so we're we're closing in on 1,600 ink monsters since I began This batch of ink monsters and before that, I mean I used to do a similar thing that I also called ink monsters In The early 2000s I probably made a few hundred then as well, but they were crappier What is the festival you attended? You can watch a few of my videos about it. I got a fever Got a fever so I didn't manage to make too many shorts about it, but There will be some more videos From then it was the inferno festival, which is a black metal festival in oslo Dimmu bodygid played Tauke played My highlight was Arthur Brown The crazy world of Arthur Brown, you know the guy known for I am the god of hell fire and I bring you I want you to burn he was It is 82 years old and he did a Totally magnificent show. He was just he was literally on fire They set set fire to his head and he danced around singing fire And he was just seeing Singer with that much experience and lived life Just take over the stage and command it and With such joy and Gratefulness to be there That is fantastic. I think that the gratefulness To be there is something You sometimes get it with young bands Then it often disappears And then as they get older it just increases and increases and I mean there are bands that are super grateful to be there at any age, but generally there is There is a time where it can become sort of mechanical And then you know at some point if you like what you're doing and you get to do it until you're 82 Then that is kind of magical and when Arthur Brown was alone on stage And the other music faded away and he had his Silver uh or gold skull makeup on And stood alone with the microphone Singing again and again I will sing with the voice of love The voice of love The voice of love That was just Yes Literally on fire truly inferno. Yes And it was so you know fantastic to have this 1960s legend that that inspired You know kiss and Alice Cooper and Rob Halford and Aussie Osborn and just inspired Generations the generations that became metal and to have him at a black metal festival at an extreme metal festival and there's nothing Metal about his sound or music And and to just have him be So perfect for it and so vital and uh Yeah, it's so well received as well I love your work. It's so inspiring got any tips or tricks that have helped you improve in the past I feel like I'm getting nowhere with my work So tips for uh improving is I I did a uh I Tried to make a podcast a few years ago And one of the episodes that are still on my youtube is called How to start at art and that that has basically my approach which is play around And when you find something you like playing around with Or That you would like to play around with but you hate doing so you need to get better at it Study that And when you study that Get to a point where you can execute it And if you have those Three faces you have play study an execution Then you can play then you can move around those three faces in any order you want and Start improving But it it's not necessarily that you should improve everything You shouldn't improve linearly like a straight line That that's not how you improve art You should sort of improve like whoops this way whoops this way whoops this way so you Play around If you're stuck with something You've been studying Try executing it if you can't execute it try playing around with something else and When you find something you like Start studying it Then execute it or play around some more. Those are the three steps that you sort of can can Can move about and Start improving and also, you know Look critically At your own art not to say oh i'm So bad i can't draw but say Like if i were to look at this Critically i can say that yeah The head turned out really good. This part turned out really good. Here is a little bit of a mess. I should have Perhaps done another composition. I should perhaps have done a wing up here and then Up there, but the silhouette on the tail Works the silhouettes here The whole position it's a bit wonky all in all Some things Work and i've done better than usual Some things don't work and i've done worse than usual What should i try to improve to next time? yeah I personally feel metal uncomfortable because i'm more inclined to classical Rabindra Sangit I Don't know what that is, but i would love to hear But watch someone singing while on fire is pretty cool And so Arthur Brown wasn't metal at all that it is 60s rock and roll that that that's what it is It's always nice to hear people talk honestly about how they are doing from an adhd Perspective i can kind of empathize i can definitely empathize with adhd I was diagnosed with it for a long while because These things overlap Also another Manner to improve is not to dwell On the piece you are struggling with instead Find a way to improve upon it the next piece. Yeah So there are periods Where you should If you're studying then you should probably never Make a finished piece. There's no reason to make a finished piece When you're studying you can just do sketches and sketches you shouldn't catch us Then you get to this point where you have to start executing Because if you're not executing the art Then you never see how good you how much you learned So what I see a lot of people do is They will study and then they will Start making What should become a finished picture and then halfway into it. They would say no This isn't working out so It wasn't the right time I had a lot of things at work and I was distracted by this and I you know And then they will Just continue making unfinished pieces As a way to protect themselves from having to see How much they've learned and in any piece of art you do there will be a thousand reasons why You could have done better. You could have done worse it And life never gives you the perfect opportunity to give to make your art So it comes out warts and all so When you are Have studied or have played around for a bit execute Make finished pieces warts and all Then make a new one then make a new one And have them be finished signed everything And then study play around But you have to sometimes execute the art and see how far you've gotten and We all have excuses for why our art could be better But it's not We aren't as good as we think we are. We are as good as what we managed to put down on paper And I eat a bit Of everything when it comes to music right now. I listen to studio ghibli music mostly yo, he's He's shy she studio ghibli is has a lot of fantastic music I Probably mangled the name though I worry too much and I don't know what to draw I've been up most of the night. So if you have been up most of the night, don't draw go to bed Let's start drawing in the morning Start by doodling You know what a morning drawing can look like Let's let's make a morning drawing Okay, so You start your morning drawing If you start your morning drawing Before coffee You start going like this And you've drawn an ugly dick With your eyes closed and that's the start and then you start doing ooh it's Why is it scream it scream except the guy in Scream is tap dancing okay, good and Then you start doing ooh What if we combine this and it's The scream guy I regret drawing that penis It's the scream guy Skateboarding on a penis. That's not good. Then you scrap that and Start early in the day with the creativity and that will follow you throughout the day Um I know that a lot of people think they only get creative at night and that is for the reason why Your brain needs to start mixing things up And drawing connections that shouldn't be connected like Edward monks scream a penis and skateboarding And for a lot of people that starts happening when they are tired after a day But you can also start making that happen earlier through the day and probably benefit from that Have you ever worked on black paper? Yeah, I have some black paper I have Let me see. Let me look is it rotted and covered in No, that's wrong here. I can show you a secret work Can you see on black paper? It's not that way. It's In this way So yeah, I work on black paper with white sometimes, but it's uh Yeah, I I like Drawing black on white better than white on black Apologies if this poor stream etiquette, but If you're currently looking for an idea, I know I've drawn two Two things already The music I mentioned is uh relaxing and slow-paced. Yeah, what did you call it so I can write it down? Where was that comment Bindra Sanjeet Okay, I will check out what that is I am an indie game developer and my brain comes up with amazing ideas between 2 a.m. And 6 a.m. Yeah, and that is a habit I'm not saying that you have to change that habit, but Uh for a lot of people it's both possible and better To change that habit for me, uh, I I used to have that habit and that was a big part of Making my bipolar cycles worse Because I started working from 2 a.m. To 6 a.m. To then to 7 To 8 9 then then I turned the the The day around again and again and that's not good. So if you can try to Make Have techniques to turn the day around And start your creativity early Uh that will be helpful in the long run, but it's not something everyone can do some people do Magnificent work and only at night and So it's not I'm not saying this as a blanket everyone should get up at 6 in the morning, but If you manage to do that then that's probably better long term Oh, let me see I My computer is just messing up now. So I think That's time for me to end Let's see what we drew We drew a dragon And we drew a Sphinx Thank you so much for watching me today. I will be back next week For now I'm stopping the sunday streams So it will just be thursday streams for now and Yeah, it's been fun. Go to den ungehadholm.com to buy original art or prints or merch Or support by becoming a youtube member or sending super chats or becoming a patreon member or most importantly Support by using my art all my art is available for free use. You can download it. 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