 welcome to this week's Free Art Friday, the return of Free Art Friday, once again the return of Free Art Friday. So we're back and as you saw from the intro, it's a bit of a new format for the intro at least. That's temporary but perhaps it's cool. You saw me drawing a set here. You saw me drawing this in a time-lapse, which was requested by our friend Matteo Bacci or Bacchi. I don't know how you pronounce things. So that was cool. One thing you probably noticed or might have noticed was music or lack thereof, and I need some new intro music for the Free Art Friday cast. So and the important thing is that it needs to be music that YouTube doesn't stop every week for copyright infringement. So I have the permission to use the previous music, but YouTube needs to be reminded every week, so I don't want that hassle anymore. So I need to get some new music, maybe specially composed, maybe some of you listeners have something, or maybe some of my friends making music have something, or maybe I'll make something myself. We'll see if you have any ideas, then please do contact me. Last week I warned that I will be back in a slightly new format. We'll see how this format is developing. It will be pretty much the same as it has been so far, but with some minor adjustments here and there. One adjustment is that I will commit now to doing four Free Art Fridays a month every month by default, no matter how my campaign at Patreon.com slash Kim Hall goes, because I feel that it's important to have this show regular, and that the off week once in a while just ruins the flow of making this shit. Also, I feel that when I was away, I almost finished some episodes, but I didn't manage to finish them to Friday. So what I'm thinking now is that if, like today, I'm late making the episode, then I'll post it late night Friday, or I'll post it Saturday, or Sunday, or now Free Art Friday is the name of the game. Someone in the background says Free Art Friday-ish. Yes, that's the deal. The name isn't important. The thing that's important is getting a program out every week with new Free Art Art. That's not just free to look at, but that's free to download in high-res and to use for whatever you want. So if your project needs art, or if your wall needs art, you can have that art. Every week new stuff requested by you. So that's the plan going ahead. Now, I don't need a news jingle I think. So the most exciting thing that's happening now is Monday the 3rd of August. That's this Monday. Right now I'm going to Canada to Grim Potium and the Heavy Montreal Festival. I've been invited there by Dr. Vivek Venkatesh, who is arranging the Grim Potium seminar about, or seminar, the symposium, the Grim Symposium about extreme metal and culture. I'm going to have an exhibition together with the fantastic Philipp Ivanovich, who does a lot of... he works for some pretty high-profile game companies, and he does the work for Grim Potium, making the posters. Becky Klunen, the incomparable Becky Klunen, is going to exhibit with her stuff, which is fantastic, and the legendary Dan Seagrave, who has made some of the best metal covers ever, is going to exhibit his new series of paintings that no one's ever seen before. So that's exciting, and I'm going to exhibit some prints of my concert art in really large size. So these are actually prints that you can make yourself, just by downloading the files from my gallery, but it's exciting to see them for myself, and that people get to see them, and I hope people will come. So that opens, I think it opens the third of August in Montreal, Canada, and I'll be there, and on the fifth of August I'm going to have a conversation with Becky Klunen about copyright, which will be fisticuffs, I don't know, it will be fun. Hopefully exploring a bit more about why I think our copyright system is fucked. And also, very exciting, I will have a reading of three Lovecraft stories illustrated by me, set to improvise music by Nathan V from the band Cardinal Werm. Cardinal Werm. So hopefully that will be very cool, I'm excited. I was going to do four stories, but yeah, I'll talk a bit about that later. That's the most exciting news. Go to Grimposium on Facebook, find Grimposium, and you will find all the events, or you can go to my Facebook, and I will be posting about it there. So I'm hoping some Canadians turn out. Also, very exciting, the Heavy Montreal Festival, which will have a lot of good bands for me to draw. It's a bit bigger festival than I usually do, and some of the bands are a bit lighter than I usually draw, but hopefully I'll be allowed to draw at least some of the concerts at the main stage, and some of my old favourites are playing, so I'm very fucking excited. Come, come, come to the Sabbath. Now where was I? Yes, enough talking, let's draw some shit. Let's take a request. Okay, so we're going to be drawing an intimidating clown suggested by Peter Herber, or Peter, I just spit all over my, wow, that was nice and disgusting. I spit some blood all over my drawing. It wasn't blood, it was lemonade. Anyhow, what a great start. I already started this drawing like two minutes ago, but I had the camera settings a bit wrong, so I have to start again. Now I've spat all over it, so fuck yeah, this is going awesome. Okay, so the plan with intimidating clown is to just do a fucked up leathery, very graphical face, and then have some clown makeup on, and hope that somehow works, and just do it like straight portrait, black and white and red probably, and probably more a scary clown than an intimidating clown. I quickly googled evil clown before starting to draw this, and then found out no, I can't do that, I need to just google clown, otherwise I will just get all these images of evil clowns, and I will have to copy, or my mind will copy one of them, and so I googled clown, and the fourth result on the google image search was from it, and then the evil clown orgy began, because apparently you cannot have nice clowns anymore, that's an impossibility, so he's going to be looking straight into the, at the viewer, that's important for the intimidation, and he's going to, I don't want to do the scary teeth or that kind of stuff, I just want him to be sort of wrong, I don't know how much I need to actually sketch to get this done correct, because it should be kind of easy, it does fit my sensibility, but I haven't actually drawn many intimidating or scary clowns before, so who knows, and I'm a bit unsure about how I should do it even, should I outline the color shapes, or should I just do them straight with color, I don't know, all these questions we have to find out, but I think I'll, I think I'll just jump in the fire and start getting shit done, now I need to find my brushes, because hey, I haven't, you think I've prepared before starting this, no, that's not how we roll, we just start shit and don't think about it, that's how I do things, oh, there's the brush, is the focus good here, yeah, it looks decent, okay, hopefully the focus is good, it's hard to tell, so I'll start by actually encasing the colored areas in their own outline, ideally I think this sort of drawing I'm wanting to make, perhaps it should be done in sort of two different ghosts, so you have one where I do the face and then one where I do the makeup, but doing it this way, this looks, oh he's so cute, so now I need to start fucking things up, but what I was thinking was that I could do this thing a lot more graphic if I did it in two takes and did one with just the face and then one with the makeup and then could control how they interacted with each other because that's, I don't know, I don't know, I'm so eloquent today, feeling really eloquent today now, me talk good stuff, okay, so here he's probably has makeup on and makeup on there, yeah I think this will work, but perhaps what I'm trying to say is perhaps this is something that should get the best result if I do it outside of a free art Friday and you know spend the hours on it, but I don't really like to spend the hours, now I like to do it when I do my comic books because that takes hours upon hours upon hours, but when I'm doing illustrations I like just to find ways to get the shit done and get it done as quickly as possible because well one of the reasons is that there's just so many good illustrations out there and even so many of them are, oh I lost my brush, shit, there's so many illustrations out there that are technically extremely accomplished and thematically thought out, you know, every little bit is conceptually sound and there are so many good artists doing stuff like that, that I'm thinking that if I, being primarily a comic book artist, at least in my own mind, thinking about comics, dreaming about comics, living comics, living the comic book life, if I'm supposed to make something great in the field of illustration then maybe I'm better off harnessing luck than trying to engineer perfection, so I'm in my illustrations I'm not trying to find the perfect mate and race a perfect child, I'm trying to just spread my juice all over the place and hopefully one or two of the kids come out okay, that was that metaphor, fuck yeah, so what I'm saying is we'll see how it goes, now what's up with scary clowns, I think you know the first scary clown for most in my generation at least was Pennywise, the clown from Stephen King's It, which you know everyone loved that movie even though it's the ending is so bad and I haven't seen it since since I was a kid so it might not hold up but still you know Tim Curry as a scary clown, fantastic it's a match made in heaven and I recently for some strange reason completely unrelated to this I read up a bit about where I just glanced a review or something about it saying that you know this was no no actually this wasn't about it at all this was a review about Jurassic Park and it was an original Norwegian newspaper review from when Jurassic Park was launched and it it said that the movie was just the lowest of the low despicable because it tried to pull the cheapest trick of them all to get you scared because they were physically harming kids and and this of course made me think about it and Pennywise because it is a film about getting scared because the kids are in danger and and as an artist and writer now I can see that's probably one of yeah probably one of the easiest ways of getting someone scared is that you know you put kids in danger and everyone is like oh no not like kids and I recognize that in myself more and more after becoming a father that you know if anything bad happens to a little boy in a movie I'm all tears no it's awful I really feel for them the fictitious kids at them even in a bad product so it's very easy to act upon my emotions as a father by putting the kids in danger and you can very easily misuse that but I'm thinking that the other side of the coin is how do the kids feel the kids watching and you know childhood to a large degree is about just tackling realizing and facing the fact that life is awful and death will come something like that so so having entertainment products where kids life are put in danger is it may be a cheap way to scare adults but it's also an incredibly necessary thing for the kids because they need to face their own mortality through art and that's what you know some movies had decent depictions of children that were effective and more than the quality of movie perhaps it was the quality of the child actors and you know I liked the main guy in it so I sympathized so it made me reflect and that therefore it's not cheap shot at getting parents scared but it's an important life lesson featuring a scary clown so and then of course it became it becomes a giant spider from outer space in the end and the whole movie is ruined but who cares that the parts before are awesome I think I might see it again and I might be disappointed I saw my wife hadn't seen Highlander so I forced her to see that recently just the other day that hadn't held up well I loved the movie movie when I was a kid or teenager but but you know it was a turkey of a movie it was a bad movie always but but but but we got a lot of pressure out of it seeing it again that was kind of hard and it's not been like that with with most or with a lot of movies I used to love and I have seen again you know they truly have something you know Harley Davidson and a Marlboro man I saw it recently and it was still good and demolition man still good and and certain classics that that I love and I honestly mean our cinematic masterpieces like they live by John Carpenter or Suspiria by Dario Argento they are masterpieces but but if you look at them through certain eyes through new eyes you might be fooled to think that they are awful movies with random use of music bad acting bad dubbing and a barely coherent plot and you would be true you would be right to some extent but they are so much more and you know it's not the acting that makes they live a good movie it works for that movie it's not the acting that makes Suspiria a good movie but it works for that movie and yeah I'm liking this and with and these movies are they have so many other good parts that as a whole they come out as masterpieces now Highlander on the other hand it has a lot of potential and it has a lot of charm and it has all the you know some bad editing really bad acting plot holes plot holes plot holes so so it's got all these it's got some good pieces and some really bad pieces but all together is sort of false short so it's potential is kind of better than the the movie itself I think and yeah this had nothing to do with evil clowns except that I'm interested in in seeing if it still holds up it's fun to go back and see these things often even when they disappoint because good or bad things shaped your or shaped my taste my personality and and figuring out how you as an adult I'll do some sort of thing above around here I won't be quite I don't need to show what's around here I just need to hint yeah what was I saying I was saying figuring out how you relate to the things that shaped you now that you're an adult because tastes differs and taste grows and having seen eternally more horror horror horror and movies as a whole then I had when I saw it maybe maybe it will have ruined it and all I have is the memories or maybe it stands up and it has charm it has life that's the most important thing in art charm life so now we're going to use some red I like this one so far sort of it's generic it's generic yes but maybe it has life and that's the fun of doing this you know by the edge of my seat with very little planning very little preparation very little sketching is that you know you might create something that's full of life I think it became worse with the red right now so that's not good but we'll have a red nose as well I'll be careful not to trip red other places and I think I'll do red eyelids just because fucked and then I'll turn around and do blue on the painted eyebrows that will be good hopefully now this was the poorest choice of a blue so I'll just see if I can make it work the ink is dried so I need to add some water not too much the ink is heavy so it actually paints over black ink that's interesting see here the same now it's watered down but still it almost erases the black lines this that's a good look okay now we need to go in with some yeah I need to draw the ice actually and that I need to focus on because they need to actually stare at you and you get one chance of making the ice stare at you otherwise you have to start fucking around that's never fun and my head in the camera here yeah that clown is looking at me awesome I'll just do some small things here with white ink and then we'll call it done he clown here really admire men that went when they they go start going bold they decide fuck it let's go full clown I don't think I would dare what when I start going bold I will go all half word just get it off but going natural clown who that takes balls now since I'm doing this since I'm talking live and and drawing I'm applying the white ink a bit early so some of it gets gray oh well now all these things add up to the details that now once in a while make your stuff greater than it is you have to allow room for chance and then you also have to allow room for fucking up because you're never gonna get lucky if you don't fuck up first a thousand times this I don't think this was a fuck up I think this was yeah intimidating clown a okay in my book so that was for Peter Herbert so that was a scary scary clown I like it and you can actually win it figure out how find out how shut up I have an audience I don't like my audience okay I was yeah find out how you win this piece of art after I were shown a bit of this namely seems I shouldn't talk bad about my audience okay so what I wanted to show now is them as I said I will be reading tree lovecraft stories at Green Potium Wednesday the 5th of August and the fourth one I wanted to I wanted to have it finished but I simply didn't manage to do it in time but I've started at it and I thought I'd show my progress so far it's near Lathathep the crawling chaos I am the last I will tell the audience void which is a good start and when I'm this illustrated Lovecraft prose poem it's not a comic book adaption it's just an illustrated version and it's done as a sort of a stream of consciousness art project drawing directly with ink set to music trying not to to make a definitive version of Lovecraft story but just to to accentuate it in ways that are personal to me and hopefully make it a better read for some people because I find these stories are really underrated and beautiful and I have done there are four prose poems that Lovecraft wrote and all of them are fantastic in my opinion I'm very underrated and so I've already done memory and what the moon brings and ex oblivion and your Lathathep is the last one that remains the problem with these images here is that I sort of lost there was a period here of some months where I didn't work on it and I lost the drive and I'm not quite certain that I can find it again without starting fresh so now that I've finally cancelled this for the grim posium show I I'm free to to figure out if I'm going to work with this art I've already done or if I'm going to do something new and the important thing is you know getting the flow of it and getting it to be a coherent singular piece with a singular mood which is one of the admirable qualities of the prose poems is that they are intensely about their one narrow subject in such a poetic way and that's what I want to do and that's what I'm not certain that I managed to capture in this round with Nier Lathep but the next round will begin soon because in November Vivek Venkatesh is doing grim posium in Bergen as well and there I will be reading the full four stories the quadrology okay now let's end this shit we've had two drawings today the setter setter setter and the clown and you can win the clown if you share the video and comment here or on Facebook what should this clown be called and we'll pick a winner in some fashion or another so who's this clown you decide and the best suggestion will win the original art so hopefully that's cool now we're coming to the end of this free art Friday it's good to be back and next week I'll be in Canada I will try to make a free art Friday on time still and I will try to have some extra goodies for you hopefully everything will work out in the meanwhile all the art I draw here you can find at my gallery at den unge adholm.smugmug.com and if you like what I do you can buy my art there you can download it for free use in high res so you can do whatever you want with it yourself you can buy originals you can buy print you can get it for free or you can go to my patreon campaign patreon.com slash Kim Holm and support me so that I can do even more of this and you know we're gonna try to do it every week from now on okay and we'll see how it goes thanks for watching