 Okay, here is yesterday's inktober is pinktober drawing and we're going to make a new one today and we're even going to do a very quick ink monster after that. So, stay tuned, I'm going to just get my stuff ready, get my mess ready. Hello, Preston. So, as I was saying, this is last night's inktober drawing. As you can see, the white was slightly more white yesterday, but I knew that the pink would seep slightly through. It has seeped through less than I thought it would, but I think this one looks good. And we're going to make another one today or any of you drawing inktober or pinktober or any of the other drawing challenges that goes on this October. Hey, Phoebe. Hey, Roach. Roachin. I'm doing it, but I'm late. Being late is okay. It's not a contest. It is an excuse to draw more than you usually do. Hello. Hello. It's Kimtober time. A name tag. So Roach, what are you using a prompt list or are you just going from your, are you just doing a ink drawing per day or some other type of drawing? So I've started doing ink but drawing, but right now my mind can't make sense of any. It is. Well, I will first draw the inktober drawing and then I will sort of show you what I do when I can't make sense of anything because I'm every day I've been doing this inktober. I've been saying, oh, I'm even more tired than yesterday. And guess what? I'm even more tired than yesterday. I actually have to do the daily ink monster as well today and I want to do it. And I will be extremely exhausted when I do that. So then I need to do some techniques to, let's say, some techniques to push through and make something, even though my mind will probably just say nup, nup, nup, nup, nup. Just wanted to say thank you. Thank you, Naya. You inspired me to do ink art and that really helped while I was surviving in the military and really helped my mental health there. I'm so thankful that you share this with me and I'm so incredibly grateful that I'm in a position where I can do what I love doing, which is drawing, and talk about, you know, whatever meets my fancy that day and people get something out of it. And that is an extremely, I'm extremely grateful to be in that position. Hey, can you draw Indian mythological figures at one point? I will do that at one point. I have a couple of times, but I don't think I made any videos of that. But it's mostly a question of research and trying to, you know, the more people I have watching me and the more I feel more pressure trying to not do things wrong and trying to not misrepresent things because, yeah, because people are watching. And so when it comes to doing something like Indian mythology, I need to know that I am saying the right things, that I'm presenting a perspective that I can stand for. So for instance, today, no, not today, a few weeks ago or maybe something like that, I did the Lucifer drawing and a lot of Christians didn't like what I said in it. I am very much sure of the things I said. There might be some small errors here and there, but the overall thing, I'm extremely certain of. So I don't mind, I don't mind people getting angry at me as long as I know that I can stand for what I said. So if I'm going to do Indian mythology, I need to know it well enough to be able to speak with certainty. But I'm also trying to do more lighthearted videos where I don't really kill myself through the researching that I'm more quicker to make because right now I am working on so many projects that I can't really justify researching a whole lot right now. But I want to research more Indian mythology. I've read a little, but it's a huge expansive field. Especially when you're talking about living religions, it is really hard to double check everything so you know. So I'm not a researcher, I'm not a scientist, I'm not an academic, I'm an artist. My mind makes up stories. And when it comes to trying to speak facts or opinions about someone's belief system, I need to make sure that I'm not making them into a story for people's entertainment and that I'm actually saying things that are in some sense true. Ooh, sub game loves incontent, keep up the great work. Thank you, so cool seeing your images being pulled out of the fog. You're such a master of ink. Thank you so much. Is that a self-portrait? Yes, I'm actually looking in the mirror going while drawing. It's not going to be a nice self-portrait. I'm loving what's happening with the black now. Do you understand? I really love your story telling too. Thank you. Left-handed representation, yes. I mean quite a lot of artists are left-handed. It's not uncommon in this field. I think I make it mirror scared, you know. So far, most of my inktober has been self-portraits of some kind. Yes, I think it was, was it last year? Last year or the year before, I think it was... I have no concept of time anymore. I did all self-portraits documenting a bipolar depression through Oktober. That was hard. Do you think you could do nöcken from north and Swedish folklore? I've done nöcken a couple of times. There probably should be some videos around of that. So look for them and yes, I will revisit nöcken because I haven't read... I don't think I've exhausted the topic. But nöcken is fascinating. And there's so many variations of these types of drowning spirits with related names all over Europe, I guess. Hello, I'm glad to see the full process of painting for the first time. Excellent. Hopefully it's entertaining or interesting or both. This might not be a very nice topic, but you've made multiple videos that have some kind of political views in them. What's your opinion on what's currently happening in Israel? I'm very much pro-Palestinian. I think that when you have, regardless of all the details that people argue over, or when did this happen and what happened then and there, when you have two peoples or powers or whatever you'd call them in a constant state of repeated wars or clashes and one side always kills around ten times more than the other side. It is the responsibility of the most powerful side to find a solution. Israel is not doing that. Israel is creating... is a apartheid state. I know people in Israel, I understand that they are in a very stressful and fearful position and with, I'll say extremists in Israeli government, it is strange that a lot of people can't see outside of their own agenda, but as long as one side is killing ten times more than the other. There's no question. Israel should be the one to create a peace solution that Palestinians can live with. That's their responsibility as the most powerful in the conflict. That should be the two-part solution that has been proposed since the 70s and that only Israel and the US has boycotted. That's my general opinion on Israel. I don't know if you wanted anything more specific. I know that there are a lot of new things happening there, but I am not terribly updated right now. What's your favorite movie? Oh, so many movies. It depends on the day. Good evening. Hello, Lenez. Will you ever try works inspired by Kurdish mythology? I would. I don't really have any good sources for that, but yes, I should definitely do tie that in with the situation in Rojava, which I've done way too little on, but which is a very interesting situation, because in Rojava the Kurds have created functionally a successful anarchist state while they've been fighting a war on two or three sides. It is fascinating, but I know way too little about Kurdish mythology, so I need to research that as well. Where can I research Kurdish mythology? I know quite a bit about Iranian mythology and the Avesta, but I don't know much about Kurdish mythology. Sorry. Got to see you again, Mona. Värdag. You draw a lot of folk or a mystical creature, but what could be more mysterious than itself? I draw a lot of myself as well. People often ask, do you ever do self-portraits? And that only shows that they haven't been following my work very much, because yes, I've done a whole lot of self-portraits. I love doing self-portraits. I love drawing myself. This one is a slightly darker variety. Kim is a mystical creature. I'm not that mystical, I'm just... Shamadan is an incredible tale in contrast to many different cultures. For Kurds, snakes are a sign of blessing, unfortunately as opposed to many cultures. I need to check that out. I've heard of it. If you had just said to me, have you read the Samaran? I wouldn't have been able to even identify where it comes from. So I know very little about it. I do remember having some conversations with someone about it one time, but that's too many years ago. Or maybe I just made that up right now. That's the problem with my mind. I never know if I know something or if I made it up on the spot or if I made it up so long ago that I believe it. Loving yourself is the first step to being a jerk-off. I think that's how the saying goes. No, I don't mean that. Do you know a god's snakes are ever in Hinduism too? Yes, there's actually quite a few cultures and religions that revere snakes, including parts of Christianity where you have all this snake handling thingamabobs and stuff. Nobody knows our brains trying to fill the gaps with whatever. Some people have more active imaginations and some people have active imaginations and spend their whole day exercising their imaginations. And that makes for a lot of stories and many of them not true at all. So I need to check and double-check everything I write. Okay, what do I do with this? It came out beautifully down here and here but it needs to be more flowing from here. Yay, stories! Me when I stub my toe. That's what this painting definitely is about. Toe stubbing. I call this one the Toe Stubber. This isn't the happiest Inktober painting I've ever done. Do you have an image of the paintings before they happen or do they appear in the mind at the exact time you're painting them? It is a little bit more complicated than that. It sort of depends. But I think just broadly speaking this idea of artists having a perfect image in their mind and then executing that image that is largely fantasy from people who are either not artists or amateur artists. The more you work with art the more you figure out that you have to figure things out on paper. It doesn't matter if you have the perfect image in your head because most of the time it will not translate perfectly. So you need to figure out things in your head and stuff like sketches and thumbnails and studies and all of that stuff in order to get what you see down and what you feel is more important than what you see in your mind. I think. Now, for instance, with this one I knew what I was going to do. But still, most of the thinking happens on the paper. I know a feeling I want to evoke. I know the symbols I'm going to use to create that feeling and I know the general composition but I leave spots to improvise because for me improvisation is fun. Now, generally with the ink monsters what usually happens is that I see a tiny bit of it at a time. So basically when I'm drawing I'm always penciling or sketching in my mind's eye so that I'm always a couple of steps ahead of where my brush is. But I'm not more than a couple of steps. Once in a while I have gotten very complete images in my mind from the ink plots and that becomes a problem because then I tense up trying to perfectly render what I see in my mind's eye and that is a lot more difficult. Not impossible, but difficult. Personally, most of my ideas come from music. Certain pieces of music can make me see such vivid images of extremely abstract concepts which inspires my own music and writing. Excellent. I don't know if it's intentional but this piece reminds me of the traditional Jesus depiction reminds me of the death and resurrection story. That wasn't intentional. I was thinking about sewing the eyeshadows but I will put this away for a little bit. I will draw a silly ink monster and then I will get back to it once the ink has dried a little bit more. I teach art and engineering, have an architecture background even with something planned out as architecture as technical drafting I ensure students always start with a hand sketch. Good. Are you planning on telling any more stories? I absolutely loved hearing Fölgersven. I'm so happy to hear that. I love to retell the story as best as I can. Excellent. So yes, I'm working on a similar story as Fölgersven or a similar retelling as Fölgersven but I'm going to use the fairy tale of King Ren or the eagle and the Ren about how the tiny little bird, the Ren, became the king of all birds. Hello, how are you today? Happy Saturday, my friend. Thank you, happy Saturday. Yesterday I got very tired and today I'm more tired. It's a very difficult measure but it's a very good measure. I'm drawing a lot of art. Yesterday I was very tired but today I'm very tired. Thank you. More tales. Let's do a quick ink monster and then return to the inktober drawing while it's dry. I said that I would show you what I do when I don't have energy to find anything in the ink plots. Now, even though I haven't made the ink plot I have decided exactly what I'm going to do. Not exactly. There's a lot of room for improvisation but I know because, for instance, in it is an excellent artistic game. Good Spanish skills. How many languages do you speak? Norwegian, English and I'm trying to learn Spanish. I speak English. Hello, Spanish. Hasta la vista, baby. Italian. Mamma mia! French. Je m'appelle Baguette. I speak Japanese. Oi, Canada! And I speak German. Schnell, schnell, Kartoffelkopf. And I speak all the languages. And I speak Danish. I did this joke, I think it was yesterday or the day before yesterday. I really just speak English and Norwegian. Norwegian is my main language, English is. Do you speak Finnish? Of course, Perkele! That's all. Okay. Let's get back to this one. Because I was going to tell you if I'm really tired like I am today, I can see maybe we could start a skull here or maybe we could do something here or I don't know. Do you know any person not outside of a few phrases from the Avesta or a few names established from the Avesta? So, okay, so if I try to draw, let's say skulls are easy to find. I can't find a skull here and I can make this into a skull. That wouldn't be a huge problem but it would require concentration and drawing skills. Which is really hard when you're this tired so I got to figure out something else. And what do I do when I want to figure out something else? I place an eye. Okay. That's good. Now we almost have the same type of skull but with one big eye. Let's give it a little, make it a little cute. That's wrong. That's a nice eye. But it looks a little bit like the skull still so let's place another eye of slightly different size. Okay. There's a highlight and the same play. Now I'm drawing the eyes too well too complicated for my sleepiness. Okay, so how do we combine these? Well of course we do like this. Okay. What's going to happen here? We put in some shade there. Shade there. Then what do we do here? I could draw a body but that would be hard so instead of drawing a body I will draw legs with big toes running and because this has some shading it's actually becoming more difficult than I had anticipated. So I'm failing my own assignment but at least I'm drawing something silly. I should have not gone with that much shading. A little penis. They all need a little penis. It's a toe stopper, it is. Since we've already made things into a silhouette let's just continue with the silhouettes. And yeah. Okay. And then we'll draw a shadow underneath him. It's going to be a lively shadow since he's running. And then we'll add some ink spatter. Well even. I don't often do this with these small silly monsters but we'll go in and fix something. Fixed. And yeah. That's it. Now we've created the ink monster and we didn't have to imagine anything. We just had to start by placing eyes. We could have placed one eye. We could have placed two. We could have placed three. And it would have been something different. The eyes could have been different and it would have become something even more different. And that's all there is to it some days. Now which number ink monster is this? Poor... Oh that's the 1406. So... 1407. And it's called the Tolstubber. And now we've created a monster and it's perfect. And we didn't have to become all precious. Do you like Kittelsen's art? Yes, I absolutely adore Ted Kittelsen and Erik Werdenscholl. I've even made some longer videos where I talk about their influence on art. So check out those longer videos about trolls. They're the last... From the Traveling Companion video where I don't think I talk about them even though they illustrated the fairy tale before. But I talk about Kittelsen and Werdenscholl in a couple of videos after that. So check them out. I have to watch all your videos. Yes, all of you! Watch all my videos and also subscribe, hit the bell button. 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And if you don't want to sell it you can download one of my images and you can print them and you can send them as a Christmas gift to your aunt who lives in a cabin in the Rocky Mountains and have no art in her house and suddenly she has a little hut made by me and that would make me very proud. Hey Kim have you seen the situation in Israel and Palestine right now? Oh I did get a question about this earlier and I just answered very generically about Israel's responsibility but no I haven't seen it so if there's something happening right now then I should see it. Thank you, hope you get top of your class. Oh yeah so don't tell me you came out and yeah you did, I'm sorry we will be ending this one I am very satisfied with how this one came out and even more satisfied with this. No I'm most satisfied with this. Thank you all for watching. It's been a pleasure even though I'm very tired and I need some rest. It's been lovely it's great to hang out and talk. Do you know any members of Mayhem in person? I've met a few of them but I don't know them. There are very few people in the black metal scene that I know I know a few of the people in enslaved I know Isham a little mostly these are people I only meet at festivals so yeah It's been a delightful experience. I wish you a wonderful time. Thank you thanks for hanging out in the chat. Okay for the last time go to I'm so good at chilling my wares Let's turn the camera around. I should drink more water today. Okay let's turn this camera around so that has been the live for today. I will be back with another live tomorrow. If you want to buy my art then remember to go to den ungeherholm.com and use the discount code October 23 I feel like a proper youtuber now. Bye bye