Drawing in Charcoal Live Demonstration

[Music] everybody Aaron Blais here I think I screamed too loud hello yeah we got a mic a new mic right here I'm doing traditional drawing today I'm going to be drawing in charcoal and so we had to change everything up and we changed our mic and it's coming from right here and it might be a little loud but anyway how you doing I hope you had a great week I hope you had a long nice really awesome weekend here in the States we did how about you Dustin good good that's good good anyway but we're gonna do charcoal today so I still have a whole bunch of animation that I'm doing but I'm kind of getting burned out on on doing animation with you guys and I think you guys might be burned out as well so I would just want to change it up and you know last week we did that the digital drawing request day we did the Viking sheep remember that oh that was fun so but today I'm just gonna do some charcoal and shoot to the over over my shoulder shot Dustin real quick just show it will show you a kind of my setup so I'm sending out my animation desk today and I've got a big thing of newsprint and I've got this image right here see if you can see it or not I got this right here I've got this image right here actually go to the down shooter I've got this image that I it's a photograph of a lion you know at this photo I shot of a lion in Africa and I thought you know this I'm gonna do maybe like a little portrait and but show you my technique in charcoal how I do that so this is gonna be my reference and let's switch over to this guy here and and so I'm just going to show you my process my step by step process and and we'll we'll get over that the other thing I want to mention this is gonna be our last stream week for a while actually we're still Thursday we're streaming on Thursday but we're not going to be streaming for the next few weeks I have to be next week I'm going to be in Manila the Philippines for the week and then the following week after that we're going to be in Colorado teaching there and then the following week after that I'm going to be in Sao Paulo Brazil teaching down there and then two weeks after that I'm going to be in Tokyo so we've got a lot of travel coming up and it's just gonna be a little bit tight for us to do our streams so we're gonna have about a month-long break and so hopefully you guys didn't take some of the techniques that you use and go and have some fun with them but today like I said I'm gonna do some charcoal so as usual I've got Dustin with me my son and he's gonna be manning the questions and hey he's sitting in the pilot's seat well actually yours is probably the pilots usually because you're running everything I'm just drawing yeah so but anyway he's so he's got my usual seat I'm over here at my desk that's by the way go back to the over-the-shoulder shop this by the way for the note for those of you that don't know this is my original animation desk that I had at Disney so I animated the Lion King and buting the beast and Aladdin and Pocahontas and Mulan and all kinds of movies on this desk and so this test has got a lot of history a lot of nostalgia for me and so when I left Disney I said hey can i buy it can I bring it home with me and they said sure so that's what I've got here so it's just a really cool desk also I've got Nick in Sarasota and he is going to be as much as he can he's gonna be he's kind of splitting his time but he'll be answering some questions as well but without further ado I do and I have to stay I have to hydrate drawings tough work hydrate all right so I'm just gonna go ahead and get started first thing I've got let's go to the down shooter Dustin I'm gonna talk for a little bit then we'll open it up for questions the first thing I've got right now the first thing I'm going to sketch with is buying charcoal it's very soft this is it here this is called masters touch but it's called it's thin vine charcoal sticks and this is what I use to do my sketches with very loosely this is the first phase that I go that I use and I'm just gonna grab a small piece out of here there we go one that's already broken and the great thing about this and we see how where my hands are there we go I just want to see my window the great thing about this is that I can draw very loosely with I'm drawing on newsprint today newsprint is really easy it's just it takes charcoal really well it's a really great drawing surface and so I've had this newsprint for a while and excuse my little scab on my hand I burnt my burnt my fingers cooking bacon the other day but uh anyway I'm going to the first thing I'm going to do it I've been and the other thing too is with charcoal don't worry about getting messy but I'm just gonna get I'm gonna start kind of loosely and I'm just gonna start laying in this guy and while I'm laying this in I think Dustin can go ahead and start opening it up to some questions where do you sound probably I'm not sure we're in Sao Paulo I just know we're gonna be in Southall I'm not sure what schools we're going to right now but as soon as we know I'll post it on my Facebook how about after break you take some viewers submissions of animation and critique some of them that's a great idea and we're working out a way to do that and so we will definitely take you up on that this is youtube facebook twitter and twitch am i talking to laughs by talking to that there we go so I'm getting I want to make sure I've got my perspectives right I love getting these brows the big heavy brow in here you have a special daily routine that you use when when creating artwork I'm sure it is different for each medium weather field or at home but I was just curious as to how you prep or if you even need eye other than just prepping my materials I don't really prep I'll prep I kind of get psyched I try to psych myself up with the subject matter and I'll look at a different a lot of different images of whatever subject matter I might be doing but really I don't I don't have much of a routine other than just getting everything set I'm gonna push this a little bit any chance you open a school or a camp in Florida no right now or there's probably no chance that we're gonna actually open a school you know our online school that's our that's our that's really what we're focusing on to actually open a campuses that's that's really difficult so we're probably not gonna do that how are we looking at showing up good do you use a restream or Stream labs what what testing do you know what I think we're currently using a restream to to relay this broadcast to the other sites if don't ask me technical streaming questions that's not what I do but it will be likely upgrading to stream labs OBS in the future that's gonna be for another time so what I'm doing right here is just very loosely laying in my shapes you still sell the drawings after you have finished them on stream no I just kind of put them away in the closet and they just kind of sit in the closet they're usually these are just kind of exercises for me you know just to demonstrate it I might have to stand up a little higher because I'm getting a little want to make sure I'm getting the right perspective on this but no I don't usually sell them i I just rack them up to experience what program do you use to record your digital work to record my digital work I use ScreenFlow and then I use and I bring it all in to premiere and edit it there Adobe Premiere what are your thoughts um Bob Ross's art I love Bob Ross you know it's arguable about you know I don't think he I think he was an okay artist but I think he was what I really loved about Bob Ross isn't what he brought to what he brought to the masses he brought art to the masses he showed people that they could be artists and you don't have to be a great artist in order to enjoy art and to be honest with you Bob Ross is one of our big you know inspirations for doing what we do here and I think I really loved what he did yeah oh do you smear the charcoal to create shades or do you just use it for for outlines I'm gonna use it for both so you'll see right now I'm just laying in and you'll see I'm smearing it you're gonna get dirty when you do this I'm just very quickly laying in where a lot of the markings are gonna go and then you're gonna see me get really crazy with that I'm going to rub charcoal over the entire thing so you'll see the process so when I get something quickly so I've got quickly sketched this in it's like so so what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna go ahead and take a paper towel just a quick of a piece of paper towel I'm just gonna lightly rub this down now you can see it's really faint but there's enough there that I can see it so that now I can go in with a charcoal pencil which is gonna leave a more permanent line and I can go ahead and start tying down by drawing if you were to do like ooh man that's a tough one I really loved I think my favorite character - Anna for animation was Mufasa I think it would have to be Mufasa I think Tony Fedele who is the supervisor of Mufasa the supervising animator his animation is just amazing absolutely amazing advice former people aspiring to work in animation after college was the next step in the right direction after college you got to get a job you got to get out there you got to start getting out and getting experience right that's what you got to do and sometimes it's a little difficult but other times I mean you just got to get out there and you just got to do it real quick I'm sorry I'm gonna I'm gonna switch over this is another this is a different brand of charcoal pencil generals I use these a lot right there let me get the glare off of it there you go generals charcoal pencil i order these by the bulk i get on amazon i order about twelve packs of these at a time and and it's a little this is it goes on a little more charcoal II don't know how to explain other than that but this is a to be to be then I'll go in hold on I'll go in I'll go in later with a 4b when I'm really adding it you know the serious darks but what I'm doing now is I'm just I'm laying in the fine drawing now once I roughed it in now I can go in and kind of you know refined everything and after that I'm gonna put a tone over the whole thing and we're gonna pull out the highlights yep I'm sorry go ahead boys have you finished Colin and if you were to in the future would you do any lectures there I would love to go to Scotland no I've never been to Scotland and I would love to go and if I had the opportunity to do a lecture there I would absolutely do it yes that was it really does sound like a lot of fun doesn't it and you would really want to go wouldn't you oh yeah you just need a watch out for voice recognition technology [Laughter] what comic-book character would you like to draw I've always loved the Hulk Hulk Hulk yeah I've always loved the Hulk who's always my favorite character raging fire so so this is where you got to take your time or at least I do this is this is my technique and I know there's a lot of other people that draw like this but this is kind of the technique that I I've kind of developed this for myself when I was at Ringling I went to the Ringling College of Art and Design in 1986 to 1989 and so whenever I do my figure drawings in my figure drawing classes this is how I would do it it's my head getting in the way it's not isn't now they were able to see really well good Africa I've been to Africa a couple of times Kenya Tanzania and Alaska Alaska is also one of my favorites yeah so Africa and Alaska my two favorites what about Ukraine I have no plans on going to the Ukraine but if there's an opportunity that arises of course I'd go next any Street could you do a whole join I can try yeah that's a that sounds like a fun idea don't take me completely out of my wheelhouse because I'm not used to drawing comic book characters let alone so so it's complicated yeah what's your favorite thing about teaching people I just love I love people - I love it when I see people getting better I really love it I love it when they when they lose their fear of whatever it is that they're doing art-related and just realize all you got to do is get in there and once you start doing it you start learning and I love seeing people like I love seeing the light bulb go off you know what I mean and and and and just get it and get in and grow you know that to me is awesome I'm gonna switch over to the other pencil again any plans to travel to Canada not at the moment we we go to Canada every once in a while but not at the moment do you ever miss your days at Disney Animation working with all your other colleagues reminiscing good times I really miss them a lot I do actually I miss them I love what I do now I really do and and I don't miss the pressures of making animated films that that come with making animated films but I I really do miss my friends I miss the camaraderie you know I love working doing my own thing but there you know the flip side of that is that I know it's a lonely affair I don't I don't see too many people and so it's it's just one of those things also that you need a kneaded eraser whatever what I'm using here I got a youtube question when I try to design a character I tend to settle down to the first idea and I don't seem to be able to come up with something else how do I get out of this problem you stop doing that I don't I don't have advice for you on that other than you just have to force yourself to come up with other ideas you know look at it from think about it from different angles different attitudes different what's the story you're trying to tell how can you tell it in a different way so you just really have to force yourself to think and different in those terms I got at which question what kind of paint the Disney used for the background of the 2d animation it varied and varied from movie to movie and Pinocchio it was all watercolor and Bambi it was oil you know I know that when we did Brother Bear it was gouache and acrylic it just really varied from movie to movie I think Aladdin was acrylic and doing all the different textures gave each movie even deeper unique style of the animation not good yeah absolutely actually my own personal question like what it how do the directors all get the ideas of using these different dom materials of paint like do they sit around what kind of materials do we want to use for this it's you know actually the directors don't really do that it's up to the art director and it depends on the look of the film what kind of look are we trying to achieve you know I know when we did when we did trail mix up which is the role at Roger Rabbit short cartoon that we did we wanted a watercolor feel but a lot of the guys didn't know how to use watercolor but they knew how to use acrylic and so they just used acrylic really thin as if they were using watercolor and they were able to do it now why they couldn't just use watercolor I don't know but but they so they were able to do it in that way so it just really depends on the look that you're trying to achieve and that's gonna dictate you know like in brother bear we wanted a very painterly look our production designer had the style of painting that we really loved it so we wanted the movie to look like his his paintings and so JG and so we didn't want to use oil paint because of the drying time so we decided to use acrylic but use it really thick in a very painterly way as if it was done in oil I have a tendency to draw with too much details and it bothers me because I focus on one tiny details for hours and never think by drawing because I grew noid of it any suggestions to resolve that it's the same thing with about the guy that chooses the first pose stop stop doing that just what you have to so you have to discipline yourself though it really comes down to discipline just start disciplining yourself to break away from that look at other artists as well that that are doing what you want to do you know emulate the other artists it's okay to do that you know emulate other artists that are doing which you that that you admire you know there's a lot of artists that I admire that I try you know when I was younger I would try to copy their style so I would learn something by copying their style and would it would teach me what they were thinking you know in their approach and so that and mikta me it was really important I've got a twitch question here I'm Erin what do you think about practicing portraiture by copying photos when a live subject isn't available does it develop any bad habits it can if that's all it can develop bad habits if that's all you do and what I mean by bad habits you're gonna start thinking in two dimensions rather than three dimensions and you have to remember a photograph of somebody is just a two-dimensional representation and it's gonna lie because it's gonna flatten things out and sometimes it's gonna it's gonna kill the form and you're gonna misinterpret that form it just it happens and so if you have the ability to have if you're doing portraiture if you have the ability to have the model of there or the subject there and at least do some sketches you know at first or you know another suggestion that I have is if you want to do portraiture but you can't get them to sit take video of them and walk around them you're gonna get a much better three-dimensional representation of them then if you just shoot photos so combine that with your photos and you'll end up with a much better sense of their form because you're getting the the more three-dimensional look by shooting video do you see your own our artwork i separate separate of you as if someone else did it no I've never seen no I've never thought of that but I can't matter of fact I think the opposite of that that my artwork is me it's more me than anything else that I can think of I've never been I've been all over Europe but I haven't been to Italy so we plan on going we just haven't made it yet what do you think about about a crossover idea of drawing your favorite Cabo character your favorite Disney character Andy and Hulk that's kind of a funny idea that's a challenge isn't it person describes it as Bambi Hulk baby Hulk Ben bimbo hug [Laughter] bumper be going he doesn't talk very well does he so I'm still staying fairly loose even though I'm tying it down because the form is really gonna take off you'll see when I start pulling out the highlights do you question oh yeah YouTube question do I have advice about starting to use watercolor I started filling my sketchbooks with with sketches and we'd like to color with watercolor but I'm worried about ruining the drawing well sometimes you have to just get in there and ruin the drawing don't fall in love with your drawings first of all that's my first piece of advice don't fall in love with any drawing you've got a thousand more ten thousand more a million more right there in your hands now the next piece of advice is make sure that if you want to paint over what you've drawn make sure that whatever you drew is waterproof obviously that you used waterproof inks or you if you've used pencil or whatever and then if you know that it is waterproof then just get in there and start lightly start with washes and then you work your way towards and don't be really detailed with it you don't you can be fairly loose that's what I did with a lot of my drawings if I show you here these are watercolor quick watercolor sketches that I did on one of my trips to Africa and so these are waterproof the pen is waterproof and so I would do the sketches and pen first and then just do these quick little watercolor washes over the top there's a lioness that caught a piglet but I would do these little these little sketches and see here and so you can start out trying stuff like that and there it's a great way to record your trip if you're doing something like that but if so if you've got and there's some actual Serengeti grass in there if you've got a lot of writing there we go so there you go you know if you can just do quick start with that and then you'll work your way towards something a little more detailed here's some that are a little more detailed in though in the painting that I did these are travel these are paintings I did up in Maine years ago let me go back to the beginning here find detailed little little sketches but but yeah that's for me but with little watercolor little watercolor washes over the top of the drawing and so I really recommend just starting loose just be loose with your sketches and I mean with your weather your watercolor let your drawing kind of hold it together so that's these are all littles I did sketch after sketch after sketch so there's that so that was uh 2002 16 years ago yeah you know you were just a little squirt back then oh you weren't so here I'm just just indicating some hair shapes coming down actually I'll pull more out when I when I actually do the I actually do the tone over the top you want to be animated and what in what does the movie and what Disney believe what you want to be an animated character yourself I don't know that's a tough one that's a that's a good one Zootopia would be awesome yeah I think as utopia XE is a jungle either a lion or a bear okay so now you can see I've got the sketch in very quickly laid in we've been at it for about 20 minutes so we got to get the sketch in so now I've used this pencil because it's gonna hold when I it's gonna stay when I rub it down I'm gonna rub it all down again and let's switch to the over-the-shoulder shot Dustin real quick that's the pencil use for all your sketches by your charcoal sketch yes yes I have a number 4 number 2 number 4 number 2 plus I've got this it's a pit charcoal pencil this one's hard so it's not soft but go to the go to the down shot again real quick I'm sorry I've got this - this is charcoal dust it's just dust and I use this - to put tone over my over my drawings so let's switch to the over-the-shoulder shop and what I'm gonna do here well it's like a it's like a coal mine in here I'm just pouring some out oh that was way too much that's really wasteful I'm gonna try to get more in there but you can see it's like it's like super fine powder and it will get everywhere if you're not careful so I've got it all right in there you can see that you guys seem together like he did last time all right let's go switch to the down shooter oh yeah there we go switch to the down shooter okay so now real quick - I can keep from getting charcoal over myself I know so I'm going to put some actually sorry Dustin go do that go to the over-the-shoulder shot again I just wanna make sure everyone sees something so I've just got I've got paper towels kind of wadded up and I'm just dabbing the paper towel in there so I get it on the paper towel okay okay all right now go to the down shooter what are the do tune and so now I'm just gonna start to lightly tone it and you can you actually can have a lot of control with it I like to get like light and dark in the streaks and you can see and this will get everywhere too you got to be careful you can see that the drawing stays underneath so I'm just gonna start right now I'm doing it quite a bit and we used to do what's called scratch dialogue a lot in the beginning of an animated film when we don't have the actors yet we will a lot of times and record the lines ourselves when we're in storyboard form and I mean lightly lightly get rid of that as long as you don't press really hard you can keep it fairly manipulated so I'm just going to come up here a couple areas but yeah so I have I've never been a voice that's actually made it to the screen but I've done a lot of voice acting and I'm doing a lot of my own voice acting right now for the course that I'm doing on acting for animation okay so I've toned it now this is where you want to make sure you've got clean clean hands you don't want a lot of hand grease because and you don't want to be all over your drawing so this is gonna be a little bit tough because I have to hold my hand up but we're gonna start pulling out the highlights got a youtube question I usually don't like my work when finished so I tend to hide them from people who usually love them any thoughts on how to go over come in thank you yes stop doing that once again if stop if you don't like them then don't show them and then it's it's funny you said you hide them from people who usually love them so that means you're showing them so are you just trying to I don't understand if you're hiding them you're hiding them if you're not hiding them then just keep doing what you're doing but yeah don't be ashamed of your work and so what I'm doing now so I'm gonna go through and I'm gonna pull out I'm looking at my reference and looking at where the highlights are and I erase away the highlights have you ever painted with coffee like I have a matter of fact I have a youtube video where I do paint with coffee so now you'll see that I can start to pull out highlights what paperweight is that this is newsprint so it's very light it's just no newsprint it's just it's a cheap it's a cheap you know surface to draw on it's not I don't recommend doing drawings on newsprint that you want to keep forever because newsprint this is really full of acid and it deteriorates over time but for what we're doing today it's a perfect surface to do demos on which is what I'm doing today yes you're gonna use a need eraser to pull out tones and highlights that's exactly what I've been talking about yes that's what I'm doing because somebody just hopped in here and how does that question okay yes that's exactly what I'm doing I'm pulling out the highlights using the kneaded eraser right here right there and you can see it'll start the form will start to come out d sharpen your pencils with a razor blade or just with the mechanical sharpener mechanical sharpener I don't use a razor blade to do it so I just use it all I use as a pencil sharpener mechanical sharpener I want to sure this says stop doing that to stop it just stop it get some help now you'll see because one of the downfalls of working on newsprint is that I can't pull exactly all of it out there's a little bit of pigment left in there but it's still enough that we're getting a we're gonna end up with a cool image that a small book they showed earlier was that a water coloring book or is that just a standard sketchbook no that was watercolor paper so you'll you'll see that as I go slowly pulling out highlights lots and lots of highlights what kind of practice would you recommend to improve an artist skill level for a relatively new artist draw draw a lot if you want to get better as an artist draw look at the world around you draw from life thinking specific that they should draw animals draw people draw nature you want to learn how to draw go to nature and learn to draw nature because that is the where the secrets to everything our drawing nature that includes drawing people have you done any bleach drawings never done bleach drawings I didn't either I didn't know that was a thing see the great thing about kneaded erasers that I can I can shape it into a little chisel and I can get yeah hair you know like here sheeps can you use this method on any other types of paper that will last longer well there is charcoal paper I just I wanted to use the newsprint because it's got a slightly off-white and I might do some white highlights but there is yeah there's there's news there's charcoal paper have you ever blacked out the entire page with charcoal then drawn the with the eraser I've always really enjoyed working in Reverse to get my mind in a different perspective I've never done that but it's a cool idea yeah really neat idea well working on this particular piece do you have any reference or a lighting in mind do you have this piece already pre-planned there it is there's my reference this is a this is a photograph I took while I was in Kenya of a wild lion I got a question have you seen the honest trailer to the Lion King by screen junkies and what do I think of it no I haven't so sorry but I haven't seen it so I'll start so as I go I try to jump around a little bit jump around jump jump around and I just just a kitten you know keep it all balanced as far as where I'm working sorry if you were to do a charcoal piece that would stand the test of time what kind of paper would you suggest they like I said I get something acid-free is that that's what you want to stand the test of time and now you it can be toned I like the new charcoal on toned paper because then I can go back in and I can add a lighter pencil white charcoal I actually have white charcoal anything acid-free is what you're gonna want you to question yeah YouTube question kneaded eraser looses its point loses its point very fast does yours do that too oh yeah that's why you see me constantly picking it back up and reshaping it constantly reshaping it during the making of brother bear did you also go to bear dice ranch in the Aqua City Florida to sketch grizzly bears as a reference for our characters in the movie no we went to Silver Springs at one point with some of the other artists but we mainly went for our bear reference we really stuck to the wild and we got a lot of reference up in Alaska with wild Grizzlies I went to McNeil River State Park which is only accessible by airplane and very very limited number of people but because we're making a film they they brought us in and it was who's some of the most amazing look at McNeil River bears and you'll see it's one of the highest concentration of grizzly bears in the world I think outside of Kamchatka Russia after completing out the charcoal art like this how do you preserve the charcoal from smudging or fading do you this right sometimes I'll use fixative but fixative will will change the values a lot of times I just try to get it under glass as soon as I can and I don't touch it at all and and I'm so I won't actually put anything on it and that's the best thing it's the same with pastel if you can if you can get your pastel under glass you know get it in a frame and under glass as soon as you can then that's your best bet because spraying anything on your on your drawings is going to change the value structure and fixative fixative for charcoal tends to it tends to push the value range making it broadens the value range so it makes the darks darker it actually darkens everything it just and and even the light areas get a little bit darker but if it does push the value range a little bit would it be okay if I created a character design sheet of the Viking sheet sure do whatever you want any tips for an ink that is waterproof and light fast that you can use it a pen uh if it's first sketchbook the best ink you can use that's waterproof is just a regular ballpoint bic pen just get a 25-cent bic pen and you are good to go but if you want something that's more of a crow quill type pen or or brush pen India ink is usually waterproof so you can go with that so I'm working on getting those fur textures and you can see now that the the form is starting to come out now that I'm getting this charcoal down are getting the highlights pulled out I should say and it's fast this this technique is very very quick you can start to see really great results once you get your drawing done and for a reminder for the for the newcomers this is our last week of live streaming for the next month yeah for probably about the next month or so so I'm going to be traveling quite a bit and we just won't be here hey Ronnie Willeford brother Ronnie so I'm just working this working it working it doing it and doing it and doing it right there we go how detailed do you okay I can get as detailed as I wanted I'm not getting super detailed today I'm just really kind of sticking with but you can see here I'm getting a nice edge along this ear I'm not gonna be too detailed today you'll see when I get into the pencil that's when when I start pulling in my darks or adding my darks that's where the detail will start to happen and then I can go back and forth so now I'm going to reverse this and I'm gonna start pulling out some of the background here so that the face is gonna be light over dark and then the main back here I'm just gonna let it get kind of loose back here and it's gonna be dark over light I'm just gonna whoops I'm losing it here any date set for the release of your procreate no there's no date and yes I know we get a lot of requests for that too but I just haven't I haven't made any brushes appropriate yet I will be visiting London probably well there's a chance that we might visit it in December now I'm not sure if I'll make it down there or not I'm going to be in Manchester actually and a near Manchester and Knutsford and I'm not sure if I'll be able to have time to make it down to London or not so here I'm just just going in and kind of first off thanks for sharing your experience with us but I was wondering if you ever have problems with back pain and do you also have a height adjustable desk and draw standing up I do have a no I don't have a height adjustable desk no I don't draw standing up because I do have back pain but not because of art I broke my back when I was a kid I fell out of a tree and so and the the vertebrae didn't heal the right way there this is kind of a kind of a just a crushed mess in my back and so I I have nerve issues that go down my leg but as long as I exercise that it's ain't seems to be okay but I have to sit because if I stand my my right leg feels like it's on fire and it goes numb for people who don't have back pain getting an electric or or any sort of death sized height-adjustable on the fly is such an amazing thing to have because if you get drowsy or anything you can raise up the desk and you can get the blood flowing by standing up for a little bit and and YouTube questions yes I will be participating in October in October I didn't do it last year I just didn't have the time I didn't like got sidetracked on other things and what is it's we do an ink drawing every every day through the course of October every day every day Wow it's a challenge halfway through you're gonna be like would you be willing to do a lion that had a bad Botox treatment and a few too many plastic surgeries of the future um no how about no so sir so you're basically talking about it Beverly Hills lion sorry I gotta take this away from you I'm dying over here there if you get too hot dust what will trade oh okay because I'm sure I'm sure Eddie shredder even I see close you might be a all right so I'm getting there to where I can start to going with some darks and start defining this a little bit more twitch question what do I recommend for someone that is super anxious to see the final result and end up screwing the piece in the final moments because of anxiety stop it don't don't do it now it's gonna come with it'll come with with with experience so if you just be patient you know this this is a sign of your generation sorry I'm sounding like an old man I'm gonna I'm gonna make some of you mad at me right now but this the the generation now is so used to having everything so quickly and it's not your fault I mean it's instant everything is instant access instant instant instant everything on your phone is instant you have a question we we're talking about actors and I was on first from a specific movie and I wasn't boom you pull up the cast of that movie and you know the actor's name right away or you're looking for the average rainfall in the Amazon basin you get that it's just whatever it may be and there are certain things that you just can't have instantly and one of them is you know learning art and and you know the process of art it just comes with experience and you have to do it and and so and also you can't get to the end of a of a painting or drawing without taking the proper steps to get there and so you just have to take your time and be patient and so that's my that's my crotchety old man talk for the day how would you compare Apple pencil to the Wacom pro pen - that's tough to say I haven't used a walk-in Pro pen - yet is that the one with 8,000 layer levels of sensitivity I think it might be I think so I think it's apples and oranges because because I mean obviously the pencil is good best to use on an iPad or on iPad I'm gonna switch over real quick sorry I'm gonna stop talking for a second and I'm gonna go to my 4b I got a twitch question did I like school not art school but more like high school and grad school exactly cetera I didn't go to grad school but hold on one second like I went back and forth I'm like I think I was like anybody else I wasn't crazy about school when I was there I need this go to my over the hedge over the shoulder shot this or drawing or painting this one is just homemade I just a dowel that I put a whole bunch of paper towels wrap them around and put a sock on the end of it and so I can touch it to whatever surface I'm working on so that's what this is and you can see I can just rest my hand on it and it works divinely so now I can get in there and get some nice little details oh but I you know I liked school okay I really enjoyed college high school you know I had all the usual high school issues that you know early high school I didn't like it later in high school I did okay I moved out early from home I was still in high school when I was living on my own so when I was a senior in high school when I was out on my own then I really kind of enjoyed it because I was calling my own shots to be like Aaron Blaise what's your advice to wait I got it draw draw yeah just first of all it's not to be like me it's to be like you so be the best that you can be whatever you're doing though don't try to be me try to be you and and it's really just all I've done is I love what I do I've always loved what I do and so that's my big secret it's just I do it because I love it and so I do it all the time I don't think I drew any better than anybody held that much better than anybody else I look back on some way old drawings and they're hideous but I just got better at it because I was determined to but if you want to be like in just grow out a beard grow up grow your hair and just draw a lot of bears yeah perfect I'm not afraid of a lot of stuff I'm not afraid to just dive in and take chances I've always had that ability I've always had that where I've had a lot of kind of adversity so I never really scared me to think oh this might go wrong and I might lose everything because I've had it where I had nothing and it doesn't scare me that much and so you know don't be afraid to risk it all that's the biggest thing just don't be afraid to don't be afraid just get in there and do it as Shia LeBeouf says have you had how to draw animals both publish not a book I've got I've got several how to draw animals courses on my website creature art teacher calm if you go to creature art teacher I've got how to draw bears how to draw big cats how to draw horses how to draw wolves foxes and coyotes I've got all kinds of stuff in there and we're always adding more so but I haven't published a book yet and hopefully we will at some point so I'm just trying to be very careful right now we don't stop talking this for a little bit these elbows wrists press patent pending now this these have been around since Leonardo da Vinci yeah these are these are been around forever but I really recommend using one if you want to do some charcoal there for me it's indispensable for charcoal to make yourself or can you get them pretty simple you can get them you can get them already made but I mean really is literally nothing to it it's a wooden stick with stuff on the end of it it's a sock it's a giant King Kong q-tip I mean they sell them online but they're ridiculously overpriced you can just make it yourself little your watercolor course come out I'm doing my the watercolor course is going to be happening right after I finished my animation course I don't have a date sorry no seob a really a really interesting YouTube video would be a how to how to make what an armrest for that am all stick em all state okay like how to assemble one I'll do that it's like a quick like 5 10 minute video just below something post on YouTube yeah so now what I'm doing is I'm just going in and I'm adding details within the shadows I actually want to pull out some more of those highlights a little bit more hello eridan dusty hello I want to know what was the worst pitch meeting you had at Disney like the person pitching it just wasn't good the jokes didn't land and the executives wasn't having a chat around like well I've never had a new bad ones like that oh it looks like we lost Nick can you redo that can you Reese I've never had any I mean we've had ones that landed not so well but I mean we never had anything that was a complete failure but the most stressful one that I had where I was I did screw up because I was so nervous so I had them I had to pitch to Steve Jobs at Pixar a movie I was working on and and I got so nervous I forgot part of the story that I was trying to tell and it was a story that I wasn't so much the story I forgot but I forgotten the abbreviated version of what I was Tito what I was trying to pitch and but my buddy's you know my co director and producer Chuck Williams and Bob Walker they were there to to help me because I I was dying there was also Steve Jobs so come on give me a break snow if you have any interest in meetings like clay sculpture or wood carving just for fun yeah there you go yeah yes no but um I actually I've done a little bit of both I just I just don't have time to do all of it but I love it and we're gonna be adding a course on sculpture sculpting to our website not with me but with another artist that I'll announce later he's the next Disney maquette sculptor and he does you know regular clay sculpting he's done big monumental pieces and he did all of our maquettes for brother bear did a lot on the cuts from Mulan and he's going to be doing a course on sculpting coming up soon auction off your life drawings for charities that you support that's a good idea that's a good idea I'm gonna switch over to the for be the for be is a softer he's laughing the dust and laugh he next item in Aaron's online store Aaron's old worn smelly socks on a stick yeah there you go did we get did we get Nick back up no not yet all right that's texting him but it all right it might be might be my internet too I've been having some issues with my internet lately but hopefully I think every that everything else is going alright though right so I'm just getting some details in here you can see is it getting is it washed out it's just that's just a screen yeah okay good so you can see that you can get really detailed with it so what's the animation course about it's acting for animation so I've got a little bit of acting for animation in my general animation course but this one goes much more in-depth the issue ok so just for a few we'll be focusing mainly on questions what's your take on Tom Bluth I take on Don Bluth is that he's a great animator great filmmaker yeah I love his work he's made some great movies I love secret of NIMH it's all your own booth is a tenth obey as far as I'm concerned he is well so is Glenn yeah so I'm just going in now and just adding texture and you know some of the darker areas down under question sure shoot Dustin Fred okay actually that wasn't me that said it was somebody else's that got my the question no I know no it's on your drawing table if you have a Doberman Anatomy model and a lion model where did you get them from oh I can't read his name doggone it I'll have to pull that up and post it later I'm sorry I can't remember his name I'm an idiot they've made a interesting request just for the fun of it so that you should draw yourself as a bear drawing the lining that looks like Dustin that's really bizarre are you going to cover this line or is it just gonna be black just black and white I'm just this is just our Cole strictly charcoal huh we got someone at the door no no I think what doctors got it do you have to have no no no you just have to be able to enemy you just got to be able to animate killing Achilles wants to bark so bad Achilles don't you bark don't you bark you hear um he wants to park so bad what do you think about oh you say are you saying that I get it every time I love pride over the other Miyazaki very much so and uh guess this is a late car because he's asked you know what kind of paper this is this is newsprint I'm working on just regular ol very cheap newsprint this is what I use you know whenever I love Dustin sneezing this is what I use when I go to the zoo and and you know just to do cheap drawings you know quick drawings practice drawings you know whatever you use Newport newsprint and so and then going in with the charcoal pencil you can see I can go in and get some nice textures going and I'm just keeping it fairly loose but you can see that you know you can get tighter in other areas and then what I really like to do is you know pick an area to get tight with it in detail and then and then leave other areas just kind of loose and just let it fade out what's your opinion on the surface pro as a drawing tablet as opposed to the Apple iPad pro and are they about the same I don't they're completely different in my mind an iPad pro I've got both actually the surface pro is I think it's a little more sensitive and I think the the color is a little better but it's a it's a fair amount more expensive to so it just depends on I think the the Apple is really good for what it is and you know and it's really lightweight and small and and we're back so it just depends on what your needs are but I love them both alright Nick says you should mention my charcoal drawing course Nick just did yes so if you guys want to see this more in depth I've got a course on my website on creature art teacher comm on drawing in charcoal where I cover all of what I'm showing you guys today plus even more detail so you can see I can go in and I'm really I'm drawing in like the negative spaces you notice I haven't drawn in white we've just pulled out some lighter areas the other thing too I want you to notice is the darker we get around some of these light areas the lighter they look just by comparison why does Dustin's nice boy have you heard of the horse three curly you should try drawing the one with pastel they don't look anything like normal horses okay I'll look out no I've never heard of him so I'll check them out how's that I'm looking on the monitor too so here I also want to make sure that I'm balancing everything out so I'm gonna come down here I wonder I've got a big area big awliya of darkness that I want to get as you looking inside his ear [Music] when working on the widened did you get a chance to meet Robin Williams and did you ever get any signs of his severe depression and was he difficult to work with no first of all I did meet him and he was wonderful there was no sign that he was depressed or anything like that he was he was a really cool very upbeat very kind person he was not difficult to work with it all I didn't work with him personally but the people that I know that didn't work with them have nothing but wonderful wonderful things to say about him and when I did meet him he was just an incredibly kind and gracious he came to my desk and and and he was just really super interested in what I was doing and and just kept saying wow this is amazing and and just he was just super super engaged and kind and yeah and complimentary and everything so yeah he was he was a wonderful person we had sing like all the behind-the-scenes stuff with him like from all the shows that he's done like you can tell that he's definitely one of those kind of harder guys who just want to hang out with ya would you consider the the newsprint that are using a special kind of paper it's just standard newsprint it's just regular old newsprint it's um this drawing is not going to you know this is just a practice drawing this drawing is going to just go in the closet because within about 20 years this drawing will fall apart and you say there's a paper specific for charcoal is it just charcoal paper I don't want to show you it what exactly makes the charcoal paper it's just a more durable surface it does grip it in a different way but there's Strathmore charcoal paper and it's just a lot it's a much brighter surface and it's more like I said it's more durable but it doesn't it's it's a tighter weave so when you it won't hold if you want to wipe the charcoal off or erase it Italy race completely which is a plus YouTube question what do I mean by saying don't fall in love with your art but that's what I love to do can you explain it can you that can I explain that deeply please I mean don't fall in love with every individual piece of art you do of course you love what you do I'm not saying that but don't fall in love with everything that you do it's just don't not every not every drawing is precious is what I'm saying just get them out there draw quickly make mistakes did you learn life learn yeah did you like the live-action Beauty the Beast I did I did like it it's about it I wasn't a huge fan of it at first but after but the more times I watched it after that the more I enjoyed it you talk about you just specifically you yeah that's why I personally thought oh yeah I've been like that with other movies two fingers just a whole yeah I was just so used to the animated movies yeah so you can see once you have those those lights pulled out it really does establish the form and then you go back in with these darks and it just reiterates you're just you're showing up which you've already established with your mid value and your lights there's no tighter weave mean there are less places for the charcoal to get into exactly exactly that's exactly what it means what's your opinion on Galaxy Note smartphones for drawings I don't have an opinion I've never tried it seems like an awfully small screen to draw on I like to draw big even when I go out to draw you usually bring a big newsprint pad like this how do they bring your photo realistic creature concepts to life how do I bring them to life I mean how do I make them I'm not sure that I don't sure I'm not sure I understand the question I I mean making them that's a whole other that's I've got a whole course on how I make them that's a big that's a big question but that's that's all I got to say I mean it's there's all there's I use a lot of photoshop and for that and I do I use a lot of realistic textures that I I bring in I create I shoot my own textures to add and photograph my own textures to add to my drawings you know iPhoto bash I draw and render my you know myself I combine all that together and that's how I come up with my creatures and then it just comes with a lot of also just a lot of anatomical study of other animals that helps are you going to wanna scan this in with you guys I'll probably just photograph it no I can't stand it so now I'm just getting to the point now where I'm just I'm just gonna let this get a little looser out here YouTube question what do i what do why do you think I just put important not just personally but the importance of art in the world I think art forces us to see the world differently and good art will make somebody to think about the world differently you know right now I'm just rendering a lion so maybe that doesn't show you the world differently but for me personally when I do this what I mean when I'm taking a natural phenomena like form and light and you know what we see and I'm interpreting it through my mind and making it come out of my hands as my own interpretation there's something kind of intoxicating about that there's something kind of well you feel almost Frankenstein ish godlike you're creating you're creating life on a two-dimensional surface with just pigment and there's something really cool about that and so just from that standpoint that's why I enjoy doing it that's why I enjoy doing realism but you know I like doing abstract work too just to express emotion sometimes and so I think art has a lot of different it just has a lot of different avenues that it can take for you to express to heal to you know any number of things inside that's why I think it's important I think it's gonna you know I think other people need to see the world through other's eyes and I think an art is a good opportunity for that so you can see I'm starting to get we're starting to get there a little bit I'm getting pretty close are we doing on time Justin okay I'm not gonna take this a lot further I want to see I might spray it I actually might spray and show you guys what what happens when you spray it I'm gonna take some of this Rudy's course but man but made a really menu wish I could see the legend of Timbo see the light up see me light some day unfortunately no I don't think it's gonna get made so yeah I know it's it's a real sad situation I wish we could have got that movie made for that it was so much fun oh yeah you were good too yeah I think I was I was super nervous dude with my first time ever doing this yeah a lot of crucial things you should have in your animation portfolio besides drawing of the human body but pencil broke can you repeat that question can you repeat the question please this way I'm done okay what are crucial things you should have your animation portfolio besides drawings of the human body animation have some animation in there I don't care if you have if you don't have anything else you got to put animation there it's got to be good animation I you know don't put animation in there of your first year walk cycle yeah I say I say this each time as well you know Studios aren't interested in seeing that they want to see acting they want to see emotion they want to see entertainment you know they want to be they want to laugh they want to cry they want you know they want to see what you can bring to the table in those departments you're the actor you know as an animator it's your job to entertain so that's what they're going to see they want to see the entertainment it helps to have a few animal drawings if you're if you're doing 2d animation they want to see that you can draw but really the most important thing in there especially nowadays is to have that animation in there I know I'm speaking the obvious but you really do any advice at how to be art blocks well if we just draw just your father no really that's that's the advice I have the only way you can be art blocks is to break through them I used to have them as well and you just have to force yourself to draw and you'll break through you know all of this is hard aren't arts not easy you know our ting is hard and and if anyone tells you otherwise they don't know how they don't know and so you just when you hit those hard times you just have to force yourself to push through like anything else what is the best position to draw standing drawing on or or drawing on a table I don't know that there is any best position that's whatever is most comfortable for you really so I'm gonna start getting looser you know I like to sit when I paint I like to stand it really just depends on what I'm doing so I'm gonna get really loose out here let this come out I like the pencil being a pencil you know just not worrying about how it's gonna be out here there we go just let it let it get loose I'm just gonna let it get loose I want that focal point to be over here these are just getting a really high quality camera for reference or is anything even down to a camera phone fine as long as you're getting it depends on what you're shooting for reference if you're trying to shoot you know a bird flying then you might want to get something other than your phone but if you're shooting flowers then maybe a phone will be okay so it just really depends on what your I shoot a lot of animals I go out and photograph should say photograph a lot of animals that I use for reference and I can't do that with my phone so I have really good camera equipment I'm a big believer in getting the best equipment you can for the job that you're trying to do you'll hear me say that a lot and so I just I just really think that's important I miss just real quick Dustin before we do any more talking I want to see really quickly I think I know what's gonna happen it's gonna turn to mud I'm gonna pull out I've got this white these white charcoal pencils that I use and the thing you got to be careful with these especially on something like this is it hasn't been fixed and so you want to make sure like it doesn't yeah see like if I go over that it's gonna turn the mud it just starts turning the gray mud I'm gonna go over anyway and just try to be sparing with it but these would be but if you putting white on like I'm doing now just be really sparing with it I'm not even sure if the cameras picking it up I can see it but one way that will help it is if you can spray it I think I might give that a try oh this is working it'll be fine if I may answer a question go for it son thank you Father hey that's an other than assisting err what else do you do do you also draw I draw a little bit but I actually work for for dad here as not only this which is I I personally call as a livestream technician I guess you could say because I set up all the cameras I set up the the livestream I also work as a cameraman whenever we go out in the field a video editor for all the courses in fact I think my first one the idea with you guys was a the bear force yep and and also I helped make Photoshop brushes and I think ok I'm gonna hit that sorry man yeah see the thing you want to avoid is making mud like I am if you if you use a spray fix over the top of this a lot of times that'll that'll it'll fix them the the charcoal and it won't make mud this isn't too bad that's why I'm continuing but usually I would this is why I like to work on a much more toned surface than this because then when I go in with my light pencil like this and for the details it really pops it gives it a much more three-dimensional feel so what about light prismacolor it's a little too waxy i'm using i'm actually using like a white pastel white charcoal and it's the same material so it goes on a little bit better white prismacolor will be a little too waxy looks like you got a little buddy over there Dustin oh I thought you were petting the dog's head there's another question though if Disney was still hiring for hand-drawn animators would you be Disney material no I mean I do drop out not to that level and cut the dog oh he's dreaming he was dreaming it's him burg he's dreaming that he's out chasing squirrels looks like you got a couple of questions from Nick no those are old ones are they yeah oh hello do you ever give away some of the pieces you made in your live streams to your followers I got my mom watching the stream and she was curious no I haven't I mean we do auctions and we've done sales and things like that but you know if we start doing this on a regular basis that might be something that we'll do and we'll raise money for charity so maybe we'll start auctioning these off and then we'll like for this I would love to maybe we auction it off and give it to the money to a national Geographics big hat edition or big hat big cat initiative which we've donated quite a bit to over the last couple of years and so it would be nice to do some more so right now I'm gonna go in and I'm going to do the whiskers do the Hustle bap bap bap bap well using the white a a white out brush or pen help out with the mud making when getting those very white highlights say that again with using a white out brush or pen help out with a mud making o when getting those very white highlights yeah but it probably would but I've got I'd have to go much broader on going much bigger with it right now now the best thing to do is not work on newsprint and to work on a much darker tone board that's what I usually work on a board where the board itself is about this color right here or that value and then and then whoops and then I work the charcoal over that okay now I'm gonna put in some wee scars showing up with yours we scars kind of hitting the finishing touches here I was gonna say the whiskers is usually the last thing you do yeah sure yeah sure you're right I hit some over here ladies you could say this was a rather short farewell oh we're not done yet got a fair number of whiskers to do we still got questions I know we baby [Music] so I'm just I'm pushing down fairly hard and I'm not being sketchy with it I'm just really I'm just picking a line and drawing it in like so that's kind of how that's what you want to do when you're adding these whiskers so they don't get get away from you go ahead Dustin sorry come on people I already asked about the white prismacolor right yeah you ever unhappy of a whisper yeah I've put some bad whiskers down that's funny you go to art museums to get inspired by the old masters yes I do anytime I can and what snowbear is currently being storyboarded I haven't had time to storyboard it and I thought you know what I have someone that is a much better storyboard artist than I am and so my good friend Lyndon ruddy who did our storyboard course he is actually gonna be storyboarding snowbear for us so we're very very very happy about that is there an art medium that you don't really enjoy working with no trying to think there's something I've never used that I'm kind of nervous to use like like a scene I'd love to use casein but it seems like it'd be kind of hard but maybe I'm completely wrong it's a kind of like a milk based paint and yeah and it dries too like a hard shell you know how like egg you can do with egg too like egg or you know when it dries on a plate it gets that hard shell that's what the that's what this does oh you guys another Oh question what does a typical Disney office look like cubicles no there's usually a lot of toys if you can go to my over the shoulder shot what you see here this is pretty typical of what my desk looked like at Disney I had a lot of different I had watercolors on it I had I had everything all over my desk and every other guy had yeah like I always had skulls all over my desk you know lots of skulls but other guys had action figures and we had people had mice and rats and cages we had Star Wars Kevin yeah with figures you know there's a lot of a lot of young boy Minh oh oh I had a lot of ladies - but the guys tended to have a lot of Star Wars action figures and you know boy stuff right business but uh but it was funny I mean we just had a lot of and it's funny when Michael Jackson came in to tour the studio and I was the one lucky enough to show him around and saw him take him around and kept trying to talk to him and he kept going by each of the desks that had the action figures he'd pick up the action figures and start playing with him Michael Jackson it was funny yeah yes he was like that's how he was that day he was kind of cool so I'm just gonna I'm just finishing this up adding final details you can see I can add I can draw into that charcoal oh yeah I'm gonna start learning uh ZBrush I want to start doing some character design ZBrush what animal Anatomy books did you use to learn to draw animals I really didn't use an animal Anatomy books too much I just I really looked at the real thing and anytime I could I was a creepy kid I would pick up a roadkill and bring it home and draw it and then I would let it decompose and then I would draw the bones and figure out where the muscles attached and you know weird stuff like that and that's how I taught myself then they were the graves I dug up at the cemetery Oh what it does to just looked at me like what when the animated did you have the tank bar on the bottom for the top bottom always I don't understand how anybody does top pegged animation I don't get it and I'm not saying that it's I just don't understand how you do it and I know a lot of people do it well what's the pegs are on the bottom if the picture on the bottom I can take the paper and I can flip it like this you know I can flip the paper this way if the pegs are on the top how do you flip the paper other than just one drawing at a time yeah I don't understand how you flip it it's it's it's too flippin crazy so there is there's my there's my lion sketch what did what did Glen Glen had all that whatever character he was working on at that time that's the inspiration he'd have inspiration for that so he was like very yes yeah always do I have any hand exercises to help me from cramping up I don't cramp up I've never had any problems with my hands cramping up so I don't you know I don't know I don't know what to tell you go out and lift some weights do I like to work without music or doesn't influence my work I don't I don't like it quiet obviously when we're doing live streams we don't play music but when I'm normally doing when I'm drawing like this I'm listening to music all the time if I'm animating when I'm first figuring out the shot I can't listen to music I just can't do it too distracting but once I get to the point where I'm just tying down drawings then it's okay and and it's easier to to just I can I can just kind of put it on autopilot and draw and then that's when I start listening to a lot more music so here I'm just uh just going to throw in a couple of extra details you think courses is one of the animals people struggle with the most personally I find horses and you to be the hardest to draw you know I think it's I don't think any animal is any harder than any other animal once you understand the anatomy then you'll it's just it's like anything else you have to study it once you get it down then you'll you'll get it can you show us animal Anatomy models under this sure this was pretty cool this one is a lion that it's on one side it has all the musculature and then on the other side it shows what the musculature looks like under the skin and so how the skin kind of how it smooths out the muscles so to speak so that's that's really cool I really dig that and so there's that and this one here is the same thing so in this head actually interchanges with the head that I just had on there so there's lion head with muscles and then there's a lion head with the skin this one's a little different this is the dog and on this side this shows basically all the muscles on the surface and on this side it goes a little bit deeper and shows some of the muscles especially in the rib cage underneath like the the muscles that are underneath the latissimus there's the latissimus dorsi muscle and if you pull that away it shows what's underneath that over the rib cage some of the striatus muscles and that sort of thing here's the right here it shows that you have the trapezius muscles I'm down to trees this is up here but triceps deltoids biceps are in here there's a lot of very accurate and very cool models I love them and I do use them for reference I'll use them a lot there's a pectoral muscles the chest muscles like we have it's very cool very cool stuff but uh but anyway there's there's my lyin charcoal drawing and it was a lot of fun to do I hope you guys learned something the charcoal course for today along with all my courses the charcoal course if you're interested along with any of the other courses it's 30% off it's the Labor Day Sale that I had going through the weekend that's gonna end that's going to end tonight so if you're interested in any of these lessons go check out my website it's creature art teacher calm and Dustin's makin faces at me and I got another question I'll answer real quick what kind of light source do I recommend for working indoors if you can if you're working during the day try to get north late try to use natural light coming in through your window and if you can't have that then I have I use both cold and warm lights and I mix them so it feels more like a daylight and so I try to mix both warm warm light cool light and I get a much more balanced light especially if I'm painting if I'm painting under artificial light you want to make sure that you have a really balanced lace not too warm it's not too cool because obviously it's gonna affect your color choices so you gotta watch out for that oh he's great Omega actually he's getting really big so I think we're gonna do it next time we do a live stream I think we're gonna get him we'll get him into the studio and we'll do some more live drying he's gonna be he's gonna be big yeah he'll be full-sized exactly but why we should get back to the down shooter real quick just one last shot so there's there's our you can see my little bag clip on the side just to hold it all together well that's our back much my bad clip see it says bad clip but um but thanks for watching you guys remember charcoal doesn't have to be messy and scary and all that kind of stuff just like I said you start with that soft vine charcoal you do your rough sketch rub that down then you go in with your charcoal pencil which is going to be a little bit more permanent you can get in there and press a little bit harder and get the drawing down and then once again rub that down with Tom I use like I said I use this charcoal powder and but you can also use vine charcoal or anything else and rub the whole thing down put that tone down rub it away and then start pulling out those highlights with your eraser and once you get those highlights out and you start finding that form then it's just a matter of adding the darks and details and you end up with a drawing so there you go I hope you guys learned something like I said and go out put some Beauty back in the world like I always say I'm going to see you guys on Thursday and then remember that's going to be the last time I see you for about a month we're going to be doing a lot of traveling we're still going to try to broadcast when we can and we'll let you know where we're at we're gonna try to you know shoot some hellos from Manila and South America in Tokyo but anyway I hope you guys learned something put some beauty back in the world be nice to somebody put your shopping cart away always put your shopping cart away and and I oh and like I said remember we got a great sale going on at creature art teacher calm the Labor Day Sale everything is 30% off including my charcoal drawing course so check that out and put some Beauty back in the world and I will see you on Thursday thanks a lot you guys see you guys later

Channel: The Art of Aaron Blaise

Views: 233,910

Keywords: The Arts, Animation, Art, Illustration, charcoal, drawing, lion

Id: obwSXeDnRQM

Length: 101min 31sec (6091 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 04 2018