Drawing in ink - Traditional Media

[Music] you okay everybody ever blaze here surprise I'm at my animation desk we are going to do some traditional drawing today we haven't done that in a long time and so I thought I'd bring you over to my other desk or I do all that and we're gonna have some fun and let's see it's August 13th it's Tuesday we're in a new week we had a great week last week and this week next week and half of the week after that it's for us it's going to be all about getting ready ready for the lightbox Expo that's your cue to you Dustin the lightbox Expo okay one more time it's up its up oh there we go I was looking at the wrong screen this this here's the live stream okay the up there that's the expo so lightbox Expo September 6 to the 8th in Pasadena California it's gonna be huge it's gonna be around 300 of your favorite artists for three days Friday Saturday Sunday we're gonna be there we've got a booth along with a lot of amazing talent that's out there it for us when we go to CTN we got a light box we go to these Expos in Las in California yes it's I love teaching and I love selling and I love all that stuff but for me it's really cool to catch up with everybody it's that one time of year where we get to meet up with a lot of our peers and trade stories and be inspired and all kinds of stuff and we get to see you guys so hopefully you can be out there it's on its ambassador September 6th through the 8th and it's gonna be a blast like I said we've got we've got a booth but I'm also gonna be teaching and demoing four different times during weekend and then also I'm going to be getting together with proko over his booth and doing a demo over there so there's five different demos and lectures that I'm going to be doing over the weekend and then and then also there's meetups during the night if there's time in there in which I'm not sure that there will be but if there is time I'm going to try to do a meet-up at the LA Zoo and do some drawing like I said I'm not sure if I'm gonna have time for that we're gonna try to work it in but that's that's definitely something that we're gonna try to do and so so that's the lightbox Expo September 6th through the 8th that's our big focus between now and then also on Thursday we've got another big announcement that I can't tell you yet but I want you to anticipate it so you'll be there Thursday so I'm in an out I'm announcing that I'm gonna have an announcement nothing you're gonna have an announcement yeah on a Thursday also what do we got we got a patreon I want to mention patreon I've got a brand new patreon page that's slowly building up with followers patrons I should say and I really would love for you to go over and check it out for a dollar five bucks ten bucks a month there's some really cool rewards you can get images you can get Photoshop files and you can get exclusive streams and this week see this week or next week we're doing our first stream just for our patreon members and because the patreon group is so small we might be opening it up to some portfolio reviews and so if that's something you're interested in you might want to jump over there and possibly get your portfolio reviewed because if it gets too big I can't do it for everybody but this is something that I'd like to start doing and patreon is one of the ways that we're thinking about doing it and that's a mere ten bucks a month so check it's over at patreon.com slash Aaron blaze art and like I said before when you know if you can help us out on patreon that helps us continue to do our courses and videos and everything else and live streams and everything that you guys like so much so there's patreon and then we also have our back-to-school sale that is still happening and oh you know we didn't do Dustin we didn't pull up deep thoughts over here oh yeah so we got to get Nick over here but um we've got so you have to use my laptop I think yeah let's pull over deep thoughts first but um we've got my back to school sale yeah so you got this one slide switch okay I know I get to doing three different things Dustin's going like a champ go like a champ you got to go up to nook marks go up to bookmarks over to the left and then so he sorry we're stalling out we know Dustin it's up in bookmarks up top here hold on one second I gotta show Dustin something oh here it is they go down too deep I think you have to shrink that window after this big this one fourth and so our back-to-school sales still happening it's 25% off of everything on the site plus 50% off first students and teachers for memberships and streaming so that's a big deal that's a big savings yep Dustin's gonna drag over deep thoughts for me there we go perfect nope nope you just leave it the way it is all right you can see Nick just over to the left there a little bit and then oh and then our our perspective to my personally my perspective of course is still in pre-order so you can still get a deal on that stay thirsty my friends stay thirsty you can still get a deal on that and that's over on the website creature art teacher calm and that's my linear perspective course that is in pre-sales right now you can get it for 40% off you're never going to get it that low and it covers everything you know that's yes we set it up that way Nick because we had to change seats around so we meant for the slide just to be there by itself Nick Woods is saying I can't see Aaron just the slide so anyway the perspective course covers one point two point three point perspective it covers projection it covers how to think do things to scale it's got all kinds of stuff in there everything that I know about linear perspective I put into this course it also covers shadows it covers reflections all kinds of neat stuff so if you get this course you're gonna be an expert on perspective by the end of it I guarantee it I think we covered everything so I gave myself a challenge starting yesterday I gave myself a challenge I realized I only had two and a half weeks left before lightbox and I wanted to have a bunch of original art ready for everybody and so I gave myself a challenge to do on average ten drawings a day between now and by the time we leave and if I do that that gives me oh about about 200 drawings no I might not hit ten but I'd like to have at least a hundred to 150 drawings started yesterday I got nine drawings done but two of them were a bust because they're using the wrong utensil I finally found the right with right pens and and I'm doing lots of little pen and inks and so I want to show you here's a down shooter go to the down shear and these are little ink drawings they're 9 by 12 inch ink drawings I'm going to put my spectacles on that I did yesterday and this is what I did this morning but I just wanted to show you that these are going to be drawings that are gonna be available at our booth at lightbox I'm gonna be selling all of these drawings now one of the things I'm also gonna do is we're gonna scan all of them and I think we might make a book out of all of them call it 100 drawings or something like that let me guess it's gonna be my my job I'll probably scan them along the way but it's just you know I'm a huge fan of Heinrich clay if you don't know I rendered clay look him up its hei n RI CH que le why Heinrich clay and he was a wonderful pen and ink artist I did a lot of animals elephants especially doing human activities like ice skating and I always loved that and so these are some of the drawings or all the drawings that I did yesterday this is definitely kind of a drawing in the style of Heinrich like I said I'm a huge fan of his and I love and I love you know doing these things that these little animal drawings I have all this personality and they and this is what I'm working on right now I was gonna save it until until it was time to shoot but then I was just sitting around for an hour and I don't want to waste any time so I've got a little bit to finish on this giraffe over here in a couple little details and then we'll do another one we'll do a new one live live an in person so without any further ado I'm going to start drawing and hopefully you guys can hear me okay we move the microphone around and kind of tested it excited can I do the typical hey hey hey hey yeah you all that water is delicious yeah what's that we got to oh yeah Dustin's here too so anyway let's just get going so as usual I've got Dustin here and he's gonna be manning questions and I've got Nick in Sarasota Florida and he's going to be manning questions and with that I'm gonna just start drawing one of the things I like about painter clays drawings is just how he just puts these animals in a situation and you can fill in with your own story and that's kind of one that I'm trying to do here I can't I mean I kind of got a caption for this but we got a couple of different captions Vedanta vedanta had a good one it was uh boys come in boys coming in boys come in yeah my mind was and Bob realized in about two seconds that the monkeys were right he shouldn't about the laptop right so I just like I like little doing little things like this I you know you just put animals in the situation and let the viewer kind of fill in the story and so that's what I'm doing here now one of the things I want to talk about is this kind of the technique of what I'm doing with the ink drawing you'll notice that the line work I try to follow the form that's something heinrich clay did a lot is follow the form of the please make sure I got the right pin here I got it I got the wrong pen you know you with the line work you just follow that form and it really really really gives that the drawing a lot more form and I you know I try to stay fairly loose with it too so I got a little bit of giraffe back here just want her to come down I'm just going to shade her and want to push her back into the distance did you get to watch some Serengeti on Saturday Saturday night Sunday night no I am I don't have cable is it on is it on anything that's streaming I don't know if it's on anything that's streaming let me know and I'll watch it because I definitely want to see it I've just given up my cable so I can only watch streaming channels I think we might be doing the similar thing with other cable base shows like they do on places like Netflix where they do the firt they do the season through the year like live uh-huh then once the season's over then they move that entire season over to like one of these stream channels like Hulu or Netflix like one of those places well if that's the case then I'll have to wait so I'm just quickly laying in this giraffe you'll notice I stay for stuff like this I try to stay really loose with it and and I'm constantly thinking about light over dark and dark over light in order to get things to read like I want this shoulder I want the elephant shoulder to read so I'm pushing the giraffe kind of darker into the background right along there then we'll get amazed dark spot on that giraffe then we collected there's an elephant in the room that's a good one they got a little strict at that might be that's what I'd like maybe yeah you guys can give me in the in the vein of what I'm trying to do here if you can you know like a saying like that I like that saying there's an elephant in the room and illustrate it and give me the challenge to illustrate it I like that as long as that was asking for the second drawing could you do a tap tap tap you're taking paper taper and a okapi Ochopee so copy okapi running around and having a good time that's pretty specific and I got to pull up a lot of reference for that those aren't ones that I have in my head but I can do that at a later date but a YouTube question how do you approach your ink drawings in combination with Copic markers well I make sure that my ink drawings are waterproof because I do the ink drawing first and and then and then I do that and then I lay in the color right over the top the color I don't do Copic markers like some people where they really render with it I don't render with my with Copic markers I just lay in some color here and there and not even color I just lay down tone somebody quoted an elephant never forgets oh that's a good one need to figure out some something with action I love this one was a lot of fun this one right here and it was just just elephants ice skating but I had a lot of fun trying to figure it out and come up with the pose bull in a china shop oh that's a good one frog cotton the thrill for the giraffe a lion taking a lie-detector test they're streaming The Lion King Oh either oh okay that one's a actual that was not a quote that wasn't actually actually saying you're streaming The Lion King oh where I think I'm at least Jimmy on Discovery Channel the doctor saying Mac Mac hey Mac so oh the other to the other thing my equipment the paper I'm using I love this paper this is Strathmore toned gray nine by twelve it's really good this is a these are all sketches from Wyoming I'm just using a I only did a couple pages in here these are some of the sketches that I did while I was in Wyoming last time I thought was Montana not yeah in Montana sorry with Montana and there's some grizzly black bear black bears that we saw along the road and I did some sketches gentlest shooting yep Dustin did all the shooting I'm sorry Dustin didn't get him credit and then and then all the rest of its blank so I'm just using that paper to do these drawings and so it's really nice quality paper and then what's nice is that it's halftone so I can you know and then I can do the ink drawing and also with my jelly roll jelly roll right there jazz don't know if it's gonna focus focus focus focus with my gelly roll pen I can do the white lay the white tones in like you see here so it works really really nice makes really great drawings and then it's for pens go I found these I went yesterday I've been doing brush pens a lot and I decided not to use brush pens I wanted to go back to like uh not quite a ballpoint but like a steel ball something that was going to mimic what Heinrich clay used which is a crow quill and so I found these steel ball and gel pens at Office Depot and you know I got a pack of 12 right here for like eight bucks or nine bucks and then another pack for another eight bucks and they're different sizes so their point seven or point zero seven point zero five and and so they're just are really really great and they go down I lean in very lightly as you can see little pencil pencil guidelines and the ink goes over the pencil sometimes you get pens that won't lay in over the over the over pencil it won't be mobile it won't write it's really frustrating so in this case it does so you just keep it nice and loose I'm gonna zoom in on this so you can see the drawing a little bit more that's pretty close yeah yeah it's I just want them to be able to see the line work how loose it is yeah you know mystic wolf mystic wolf art or could be mystic wolf art asks could you do a wolf for your next drawing hungry like a wolf oh that's a good one dressed be like which one it has more memory the elephant or the Mack did you cover these catches with Copic markers yes I did on some of them not all of them only a couple of them so I'm just trying to keep it nice and I want the line to have some life to it how about flies trying to land up on a zebra because of landing stripes but since zebras have billions of stripes of flies hit-and-miss I'm going to keep the I'm going to keep the composition to bigger animals is this one currently being Donald Copic no this is a tool T there it is tool to like you Dustin you're a tool it resists tool me have you ever seen a komodo dragon i have seen a komodo dragon they're awesome I've never seen one in the wild absolutely does not ask that yeah I've never been to the island of Komodo where did you get the jump it's I don't believe I saw it in here and yeah uh at my local Michaels there there I got these I got an office depot but I'm pretty sure Michael sells them as well I'm creating a story for fun and it ran into a problem my villain for story reasons I feel that it has to be designed using rounded shapes but in theory round shapes for villains is a no-no at least I've known that I eat here all the time do you think it's possible to make this work yes of course don't every theory is meant to be broken you can't you can make you can make villains that are round yes that's don't don't stick so hard to some rule that somebody told you that you are sacrificing creativity so you can absolutely make a villain out of round shapes boo Tiger singing eye of the tiger that's a great one I'm gonna do that do you prefer digital or traditional drawing um you know it really depends on my mood I think at the end of the day I mean I love digital drawing don't get me wrong because I love the ability to just sit and create something really quickly in full color but I have to say I love having something you know tangible like this and there's a you know that's a big deal to me so I'd have to say probably traditional is a you know slightly more favorite of mine but I love love love digital I can't resist reading this one out I'm gonna go wide again how's your animation short coming along did you finish it the snow lion thing cuz the lion thing I don't know we're not done yet and it's snowbear snow lion do a cat in purgatory I want you to see one of the things I really studied with Heiner clay is how loose he would get and not really worry about it and that's it's and it really gave his his ink line a lot of life and so and he would he actually actually go against the grain on some of his some of the work just to get the right values and tones and stuff draw a chlorophyll hot dog maybe like a super dog that has like this superhero suit buzzed on fire he's a hot dog yeah I'm gonna do I like the eye of the tiger thing Tiger singing do you find any animals scary or unsettling like Komodo dragons or scorpions no now I find animals obviously that you need to respect Oh daddy just came on hey Gabby Aaron I gotta say I absolutely love these sketches you're doing lately does Gabby Thank You Gabby yeah there are a lot of fun it's fun just to kind of kick back and go back into storyboard mode you know because it's you're trying to tell a little bit of a story through an image and and like I said if you guys go to a light box all of these drawings all 100 of them or more if I get more done will be available for sale YouTube's question is it possible to practice drawing incorrectly such that you won't improve if so how do you avoid it well one of the things you can do incorrectly is just to do the same thing over and over again or just stay in your comfort zone one of the biggest mistakes I see our young artists that have grown up learning how to draw anime or other comics in certain styles and they refuse to go and try anything else and when I try to tell them to try something else they get really defensive but you got it you got to break that those those some of those habits because you won't grow otherwise you can always go back but you gotta you gotta try to you know try other things since you're talking about Komodo dragons its World lizard day today and it was a world lion day and then it was world elephant day which I luckily I got some elephants done and then it's war a blizzard day Wow have you seen the two new volumes from Heinrich Clayton are their mouths in 2012 volume one has a lot of paintings I've never seen before no I've never seen that I'll have to check it out there so there's my there's my little composition right there so now I want to go in with my white pen just hit a couple of areas like his tusks have you ever met Paul cow the pencil artist Paul Kelly Paul Kelly never did hyoeun planning on coming to denmark anytime soon not anytime soon we a lot of our travel is kind of taking it we're taking a little bit of a break from travel trying to settle in you can get a little bit more some of our other stuff done like snow bear and [Music] yeah this next year is really going to be focused on a lot of domestic stuff here in the United States and a lot more on master classes we we had a great time with our master class here a week and a half ago and we want to start doing more of those here in Florida and also around the country so that's we're gonna be focusing on those quite a bit over the next year so these going to be staying as originals or will you be printing copies for the light box I'm sorry say that again are you gonna be selling just the originals or will there be copies are gonna print out we made make copies I'm not sure right now it's just gonna be the originals but like I said I might turn this if I get a hundred of them done I might turn it into a little book as well so they say he's also a Love Tainted date well there you go I'm doing that I am left-handed to which question our suggestion what about a groundhog golfing like he's out of business meeting that's kind of funny not golfer golfer that miners miners when are we gonna have air blaze Rome day probably next year you know here's a nice sweet tough sorry Dustin go ahead would you ever draw prehistoric mammals from the Ice Age like a giant ground sloth saber-toothed cat short-faced bear or woolly rhinoceros like would you ever draw any of those sure have you seen The Chronicles of Narnia the lion the way to the road roam the world or wardrobe yeah I like them think of having trouble saying that word Ward view okay wardrobe weird room won't work so I'm just adding a little highlights I'm thinking about the light coming off of the the monitor screen and how it might be hitting we zoom in a little bit so you can see whoops the other way and I shaded in here I shouldn't have I probably shouldn't have shaded it but here is the animal drawing in Florida still going on in the going on this spring I'm working on it we are definitely working on it if we can make it happen which I'm pretty pretty confident we can we are going to have some animal drawing here in the springtime another person so just how about an escape goat scapegoat that's pretty funny there we go yeah I shouldn't have shaded in these these feet I should have this new live-action Mufasa remind you of aztlán from from the movie narnia no I think he's a lot better than aslha go go back and look at aztlán again people you know I'd like every time I draw a tiger it doesn't matter what the tiger looks like and everybody goes oh that looks like sheer Khan looks nothing like you're gone they just see a tiger it's the same thing with lions I think you know it doesn't look anything like them who wait where to find Mufasa or Iceland we all know who Foster's gonna win actually no scar let's go just in this say the sidelines I'm just adding a little bit of white honey here to give them a little I want him to be the center of attention really draw your eye in hi Aaron I just joined your patreon page okay thank you well any of these line drawings be available for download since they are not digital if that's something you are interested in then we can make them available yes I can scan them and make them available how about raining cats and dogs oh that's funny did you know that the actual lion who played Aslan for the 2005 Narnia film resided in a lion sanctuary in Australia did not know that that's wild wild stuff there's some wild mouse stuff and all the way down under yeah Wade and under put some prunes on the baby just adding a couple of light finally touches here and there just to get him to pop a little bit Bella ass hi Aaron have you ever had a dream about an unknown animal like it wasn't in games of our movies or anything you just not only in your dream or in real life I got you I don't know what the abbreviations are Thanks yeah I are Alice dance for it in real life is this real life is real why no I've never had a dream like that to be honest video we got to pull out another pin jazz this other one certainly come up on me nu-uh giraffes playing basketball giraffes playing basketball I like that idea it's gonna give him a little bit of backlighting just get him to pop a little bit just let it fade out live a little faith it's gonna talk like Bob Ross right now and I can create any in one because this is my world it's your world he said Aaron I think he started inktober tad soon was there a certain art style that you first gravitated towards when I was a kid I really gravitated toward watercolours and ink drawings actually there it was daredevil cheetah who wants the little forever I remember there is an artist I used to get Audubon magazine it's a wildlife magazine here in the States and and on the back back in the 80s in the backs of the magazines they would showcase a wildlife artist there's this one artist that did all these beautiful ink drawings of snowy owls I remember her being just absolutely mesmerized by this guy and these drawings of snowy owls from the 70s it's really beautiful I think you and Mel Minton should challenge each other into a drawing duel are you down I'm not gonna challenge Mel first of all Mel's gonna kick my butt and second of all I'm not competitive like that with Mel I love mill actually I haven't seen melon Facebook very much lately wonder where mr. Milton has been Tim Podge is here Tim Mudge and actually Tim Hodge was the person I was talking about the lost art stuff and how much do you have the one the height the Heinrich oh the network labeling Oh timbers are when they were saying and I believe it was well it was tonight oh by the way too if you guys are interested in cartoon animals and that sort of thing Tim who's on watching right now Tim has put together a really beautiful course for us on drawing cartoon animals it's really neat because he covers ink drawing like what we're doing today a little different but it's you know in the same ballpark and watercolor and caricature and really and covers you know really kind of the basics it's definitely for a younger audience but even for those people that are just barely starting out drawing it's a really great course and it's called you know drawing cartoon animals I want something that's like creature art teacher calm go check it out and Tim is asking how much do you have have to cheat real elephant an enemy in a drawing like this you know I don't know because I'm I'm definitely giving it human elements but I'm trying to I'm really kind of digging into my knowledge of comparative anatomy where I'm kind of taking the same part of the human it's in order to hit the pose of a human and grabbing the same part of the elephants and just morphing it so you know if you look at the forearms the forearms are definitely bigger because though that's their front leg but I try to keep it in the same kind of shape as a elephants there's it's it's a little bit of morphing you know if you look at something like this here I really tried to keep it as accurate as I could I just really pushed the pose same with this one I'm gonna pull out this is right here I really tried to keep the anatomy accurate when I twisted it you know like here this elbow wouldn't be this long and it would be able to twist it in this way but I tried to do it in a way that's believable that's the thing I just want I want you know if I put them in any in a certain pose I want that pose to be believable so like this here like this lion this lion could actually get in this pose the elephant could kind of get in this pose they couldn't really walk like this and but it's you know it's it's it's believable that's the thing I want them to be believable and then obviously that's just a regular cat pose was there a youtube question what paper would you recommend if I want a smooth drawing pencil but also work with some watercolor you can get anything get a nice heavy hot press watercolor paper hot press watercolor paper is smooth and it's made for watercolor as well so hot press watercolor hey Aaron I mentioned this once before and you seemed to open to the idea but would you please do a dragon tutorial my daughter is struggling with the anatomy and how to combine dinosaur bird and snake anatomy to create a and anatomically correct dragon okay well first of all there is no anatomically correct dragon because nothing is that real you can make anything you want but if you're talking about creating one that's believable and I know that's what you're saying then yes we can definitely do that let's get this little apple we'll go on here yeah just for Dustin there we go I've done 812 for the last few years with actual ink but do you think it would be bad if I didn't digitally this year yep it's called inktober it's not called digital over these are did you over did you or pixel over October so yeah do it with ink and ink you just want to go to the digital good you want to make it easy keep it hard baby and I think the digital stuff should be put in December and call it picks Ember so there it is so there's my next drawing that was they're getting more and more complex that didn't rape if you can avert on Tarzan which character would we'd like to have animated Kerchak the leader either Tarzan or Kerchak yeah the guerilla leader Kerchak I loved I think Bruce Smith did Kerchak so there we go another one bites the dust no no no so you'll see the details kind of fun and they go pretty quick I do one of these drawings in about an hour Charles on you to suggest idea play on the stork delivering babies Oh bingo what I like that what is it storks delivering babies Oh yep it would what does that show up good there yeah yeah let's do another one so this is what I do so here's the paper just go to a page and figure it out are you going to film anything from the lightbox Expo I'm sure we'll do some filming there yeah and that's this the paper is perforated along the edge great by the where the little shards of where you tear it out it's all perforated right there so you can just tear that off end up with a nice clean sheet of paper let me go a little wider on that little wires still there we go African Wild Dogs having a wild party these are all really specific I'm gonna I'm gonna go to some so I don't have to pull up reference cuz otherwise I gotta pull up for reference trace Snow Leopard from the next one it's been a while it's been a while since I drew a Snow Leopard [Music] oh let's see how much free sketch do you doing a piece like that before you make a final if you do one at all well I do a pre sketch I definitely do because I want to make sure that I'm hitting on my posing silhouettes all that kind of stuff clearly so like our tiger that we're gonna do right now I want him to be singing eye of the tiger so I'm getting this head here I want to get the body coming down there are so many interesting suggestions I got in late of what was the prompting just any animals doing animals doing stuff I just I like to I'm doing all these ink drawings and I like just creating an image and letting this the viewer fill in the what it might be there we go Nik hazel hazel says crazy like a fox crazy like a fox crazy like a fox are there hippos in the back dancing with the tiger so I got a nice sweeping kind of composition I went here don't like I don't like what's going on with my with the arms I'm a nice clear silhouette like I've got going but you turn this around there's just a werewolf but it's a chihuahua what a werewolf Chihuahua these know how werewolves are usually like big wolves but it's a where wah-wah-wah-wah so here just I'm just scribbling trying to get I've only for the next one a lizard playing a guitar of a Sun lounge lizard by Jim Morrison Oh Rock and Robin there you go and see there's like a red like Red Robin burger without electric guitar just shredding and all the other birds Charlie what are you doing well here I'm just right now I am going to try to figure out is your Tiger singing it's the young of the me I'm gonna turn it over so whoever buys this is gonna get to have a scrim Lee drawing on the back almost every single one of these drawings has me starting over as I got a start I got a start I don't like that pose it was kind of cliched I want to get something that's a little more you know that's always asking me a question deston correct me if I'm wrong but do you draw architectural designs I think I heard something like that several lifetimes ago I don't I had never really drew architectural stuff like buildings I mainly drew vehicles like mechs and tanks and spaceships all that kinds of stuff like that's that was my go-to for drawing this is missing a red rooster singing I'm a red rooster okay this looks like he's blowing on it I'll try some different posing here you guys are gonna see me struggle and figure it all out the eye of the me sketch isn't a oh oh well I gotta have you ever drawn a Wolverine no I never have drawn motor fox singing what does the Fox say that was that song will never go away it's not coming oh I got it I got it have you ever worked with Don Bluth never work I know I've never worked with Don Bluth no the work with Walt Disney no suggesting a bird playing little wing on the guitar yeah maybe Hendrix it says a hyenas skate rolling with helmets on Roche Guinea with helmets on well I like that - as I was saying an Italian stallion what is the hardest hook what is the hardest post you can draw like I think meant by hardest pose it was the most difficult pose oh I don't know there's one I saw a post the other day from Tom Sita where they were trying to figure out what would be the hardest thing to animate and it would be a horse on all fours walking down a spiral staircase on all fours for horse but walking down a spiral staircase maybe says an errand blazed musk ox or bison I like it yeah it's now national apart yeah so I'm gonna put his hand out like this there we go it is like a comic-strip suggestion here but maybe have a random animal seeing in Lion Sleeps tune hi with the line near by Kelly I'm trying to at least if you'd stop singing when I was playing so it's just a fox playing foxy lady mmm foxy they do you know nikolai la Kherson walk ersten No I'm going to get that rib cage the right way a summer Snow Leopard at the beach a leopard playing Def Leppard I can't hear you a Def Leppard Eric Dino everyone on this earth yes Aaron heavier draw ever draw a bear from South America the ones had like sunglasses around the eyes spectacled bear that's a spectacled bear spectacle there beautiful horse shouting hold your horses who said Jimi Hendrix's lyin Hendrix oh there you go what about three little birds singing three little birds by Z Marley what about this alien mom frog down doto totally nee but this Gator oh yeah there's a neck a little longer so I'm going to drop everything down I want to get a little more negative space under that chin good make it a monster you can't refuse how about walrus shouting I am The Walrus coo coo cachoo that's actually really funny this is coming up really flat but might be a fun one to illustrate anyway new pandas out of bamboo buffet or for beetles playing is Jamis together the beetles cat singing stray cat strut or sharks singing Mack the Knife is so lady another way another pretty to turn the head we confer there's a lot of times I'll sit in with these and I'll just I'll play around with a pose Guerry suggesting animals morph as famous as famous pop culture people that looks and that looks similar I'm neglecting my my questions here hold on twitch suggesting how about a secretary bird writing a note with a little snake for an ink pen these are all great the great suggestions I'm gonna try to determine to get this lion or a tiger to work man he's asking if air drew himself as an animal what who what would he draw himself as a koala damn right so this is what pose I like here oh this was a good one from from Anthony Burton actually know what I'm gonna do I'm gonna race this guy right off you're gonna see a little under drawing of him but that's okay who cares and Anthony's suggesting a buffalo soldier buffalo soldier dreadlock rasta all right I like this pose and so and this is gonna give me a chance I'm just gonna do part of his body a group of dogs asking themselves wait that would be a GU these are all nothing but suggestions there's no questions without superwoman worse by horse jockey riding a human in a race oh that's funny I like that right here I'm gonna you want to caricature it more to sometimes I get those really struggle with it [Music] it might bring out another piece of paper you get this sent it more now I got to figure out is and figure out the how's that holding microphone I'm gonna get another piece over here I'm just gonna keep working it who is the best of the nine old men the not all night you know all of the nine old men all of the nine old men were completely different so I don't think there was a best you know Milt Kahl is probably the best draftsman and so and so you know Ward Kimball was probably the best at unique weird designs and animation you know there's what pencil hardness do you use for your initial sketching oh they probably H I think this is an HB how many those views in America is actually producing classical animation I don't know Oh somebody's asking what are we dressing up as for Halloween hey I don't know if I'm gonna dress up this year or I just might find trying to find a simple cost though I don't dress up we um but I do I do um love Halloween we first of all we get the most candy in the neighborhood I have two years I want to be that guy the past two years would have so much candy like hundreds of people's will come through yeah and we was still like half half of the left me like the year before Austin got how much how much money's worth of ridiculous amount of money's worth of candy we're just I'm still I'm still working on this the movie cars does lightning McQueen have car insurance or life insurance that's pretty funny Samuel some young artists believe that professional artists never do bad drawings and some even think they never erased and made themselves feel that erasing a shameful where the heck do these thoughts come I don't know they definitely never hung out with me because I'm always I Glen Keane used to say it really well he he always used to get really nervous he he'd say you know what they're all they're gonna figure out that I don't know any I don't know anything they're finally gonna figure it out and and and yeah that's how we feel as artists you know we just that's why I like doing this because doing these types of streams because you know I don't I'm not any better than the next guy I just struggle at it I just I don't give up and and they know there's a I've got a few tricks up my sleeve but but other than that I'm [Music] I just don't give up I don't give up easy okay I'll bite this bait seriously nobody asked Aaron but uh how was it working with Walt Disney yet there's an elephant hello could you make a video how to draw animals in the style of cave painting sometime that's very specific I can try to do that somebody's all suggesting an elephant in a crystal shop oh yeah like it yeah like a that's like the the bull in a china shop do you have a favorite spot went out sketching and studying life yeah I mean the yeah Yellowstone like you know like the San Diego Zoo right I do Yellowstone Alaska I mean there's places all over all over the world I love so here I'm just trying to get a nice really simple pose here those there's a go fly to Florida to trick-or-treat at Ayers house we do have the best candy so here I feel like I'm getting something for anything I know I'd hit it eventually though it says a tiger tattooing a zebra oh well you know they did come up with one you know how people say your tiger can't change the stripes yeah just have a tiger that's all in plaid or you or like you to see the tiger like tearing off a stripe like it's velcro yeah what are you doing changing with stripes and I think it'd be funny like seeing a whole bunch of horse out on the pasture and then having like like under a tree like a horse getting striped up like a zebra oh yeah that's kind of cool like with pink with like a paintbrush with a guy up or to say like like you're tied to yours but this just straight up paintbrush yeah it's roughly going in yeah what's the difference between supervising animator and animating animation director are both the same now an animation director is usually directing all of the animation for a project that's everything then a supervising animator is usually supervising at least one night when I was doing animation the way we did back in the 90s a supervising animator was in charge of a character but supervising animators have also been put you know they could be in charge of a sequence you know something like that yeah baby you put a little collar on what do you think so I'm suggesting how about 1950s lion-like like having the main slicked back like a greaser now this does definitely singing the entire there now if you feel like you've gotten too much graphite down like I might have here I'm a stickler for anatomical structural perfection when using references from real life but my sketches look almost lifeless especially when drawing figures in motion or with expressions any tips that could help liven up my results while maintaining the realistic appearance yeah just stop being a stickler go for the gesture first go for the dynamics and and go beyond what you think the body can do and stick with it because we really can't go beyond what a lot of people realize that's the problem I think with a lot of stiff CG animation is a lot of them will come at it from a very analytical standpoint rather than trying to be dynamic and and it comes out looking stiff everything that is tiger is more recruiter than a rock singer yeah well he's getting in there he's feeling it so maybe he's crooning eye of the tiger it's a brand new arrangement [Music] [Laughter] Aaron and or Dustin have you watched tailspin love how they makes the jungle books with tales of the gold monkey and more from other stories on bellezza of the old series no I've never seen it I've watched it uh growing up it was on cartoon Disney I think it was it was hard to Disney and and I loved watching it all the time I just don't remember I need to get the subs I just remember the opening so I want you guys to remember how much I struggled on this only because I think we're gonna have a pretty good drawing here I feel it feeling pretty good about this but not you know none of these drawings come easily even looks like I'm trying to give them like a little goatee make it look like he's got a goatee hey goatee what has been the most entertaining experience when sketching in the city what has been the most entertaining experience while sketching in the city that's a very specific question I don't I don't know I mean I've been to a lot of really cool cities the cities themselves have been you know really great and entertaining and very cool yeah Erick's are just hired what about something oxymoron like like a jumbo shrimp oh that's a cool idea how many types of directors are in a studio project well it depends on the departments I guess but I mean if you're thinking about directors there's really just one director and then there's you know director of this or that but still it's still the the main director still overseas those people and then for the the actual teens for like the animators or for or for like sound or any that like you get supervisors yeah that talk to the directors right argh link sticking to my arm my mummy starting of the video I saw the other day were guy was laying out on the beach and gives it all old guy but he gets up and he starts trying to look for his phone and it turned out the whole time he had his phone's got stuck up to on his back under his chair and everything on the beach but he got stuck on this one he can't fight for guy can you see this I guess they can see this okay right yep is it a little small I might be a little small if you're watching it on a phone but that's good you're watching it on a 32 inch screen you made a look on here yeah look on your phone are using an automatic pencil or a black ink pen this is an ink pen that's I'm using a tool tul gel pen by oh five millimeter is it just these right here Jill yeah I'm jelly yep see oh okay yeah I guess you're right they have a favorite medium when painting or is it your digital oh no I like I like I really love watercolor I love oil you know there's all kinds of mediums that I love get back well when you guys hear funny sound you mimic each other and are satisfied after saying it a few times true yeah we're those kind of kind of people have you keep the face expressions appealing I just keep working it and working it until I like it but I you know there's certain rules that I follow like you know I try to make sure that I keep the expression simple you know that's number one if you can keep that expression simple then you're off to the races really well putting in too many stripes here but I'm just gonna roll with it I like it to be its I am to me I like that I'm gonna steal that whoever gave me that suggestion thank you it's the eye of the media yeah if this was for inktober would you consider the graphite sketching you did before inking cheating no it's still an ink drawing as long as like the final product is Inc goodnight and everyone's still hung up on this whole cheating thing what is cheating there's no cheating people now someone asked earlier about if they should do to digitally that's not cheating that's just not doing it an ink and I that's what I was saying yeah you should keep it an ink like it doesn't count if it's if it's digital yeah I like this guy giving them a little bit of a slick look get that head back one thing I've always I always try to make sure on a cat just to make it look like a cat to help make it look like a cat is to get that break you know the head slopes this way and the nose slopes that way with a dog the head slopes this way and the nose would slope in the same direction so one of the things that makes a cat look like a cat is that kind of thing because they're doing the thing do you think that break there yeah do you prefer this pen or micron pen I actually prefer this pen I really like this pen and they're waterproof you'll see in a little bit I'm going to go into this with a Copic and the Copic will not smear it it's the eye of the tiger as you grab this for Zootopia sequel yeah see now I can't help but sing with you if you seem like your character or talk like your character the drawing comes out better it's the eye of my species see is me is that what it was yeah I just had a little tweak to it you need a line for a king of rock rock and roll now yeah I've never drawn before with joke your tutorials do you recommend well I've got drawings on character design to talk about the basics I've got character tutorials on lessons on Anatomy which is someplace that you should start there's quite a few plays things in there but those that's probably where I would start so here's the other fir over there so I want to make sure I have the same tough to fur on this side working in the same perspective ah [Music] I can hear them say [Music] so I'm drawing in the direction of the fur as well there's things that dumb Joe put the new lead singer in the eighties metal band Stryper YouTube question hello every you probably get this a lot but what would you recommend to someone who wants to get into digital drawing to focus on first and what start a tablet would you recommend I would probably get if you can afford it go right to the top so I would give a Cintiq pendous way you can probably get a 16 inch where do you find if not can it get them into US pro because that's just as good you know for if you don't mind looking somewhere else I mean think I shouldn't say just as good cuz I don't think it's just as good but it's it'll get you started what I should say and and as far as focusing you know digital drawing to me in digital painting it's no different than traditional as far as the fundamentals go because you still need to understand form and shape and light and all of that so I would still focus on those elements and just because you're digital drawing and painting doesn't mean you're putting your traditional stuff away I would recommend that you draw traditionally as well because it really will helped help it'll help you your your your digital work as well I know your lessons are digital but do you think you'll have lessons in book format later too we have definitely talked about doing it we just at some date we will yes book formats is in like like forming a portfolio no lessons book form just what we have lessons you know where you can buy a book and ever less oh oh oh that kind of book format Oh here we go so you saw how long of a struggle that was and yet here we go I'm coming up with a lion that I'm actually kind of liking this is thought of a different version of the tiger changing his stripes like a curvy tiger taken off its stripes at a stripe club [Laughter] I don't get it did I did I miss something a strike club taking off this Oh stripe Club and it's a trip club I was a little bit of a reach for me bit of a region yeah yeah still staying loose let me see where this arms gonna go I want to get these arms and Oh bringing that down do you clearly see in your mind what you are wanting to achieve has a finished piece before you start working no I have to find it you thought you guys thought how much I'm struggling to find a pose sometimes it just comes to me but more often than not I'm struggling to find the clearest way of staging something and so ya know I don't always see it but once a once I get it kind of square then yeah I can see it pretty good so that's one of those words like you you have the idea of what you want as a subject but just trying to figure out the right pose a competent composition of that poem of that subject have you tried blender No I have not don't Taylor set titles this at Chartres Cod sings his hits this one I admit does have a little sheer con vibe to it just because of the big the longer nose yeah I'll make sure I get those folds right good question how do you develop patience patience what what is this thing called patience I've never I've never heard of how do you develop patience well first you take the mental hospital but how do you get him out of the hospital the first place do you just throw them out the window or do you take just throw them down the stairs well they're still in their wheelchairs Oh ah what is blender do you know a blender is another digital painting program I believe YouTube's question would you ever recommend taking a break from art just for a day we hear you're gonna dress oh yeah I don't draw every day I mean I'm drawing every day for the next few weeks but there's plenty of times I don't draw following on from the comment knowing visualizing the image as you draw it do you ever hit a block like you don't know what to draw or nothing inspires you if so what do you do to get it back a great drawing as always by the way oh I just you know what like this one here I struggled to get this one right there was kind of a block there wasn't you know I had the suggestion wasn't quite sure what I was gonna do I just don't give up I just keep drawing and drawing and drawing and even if I have a blocked where I don't know what to draw at all I just force myself to draw something doodle I'm left-handed I've been told that we are more creative do you believe in that no well now I do think there's a lot of I know there's a lot of left-handed artists artists I said it's probably per capita you know as far as the averages across all the way across society compared to ours there's probably more left-handed people doing art but there's a lot of right-handed people doing art that are way more talented than then you know a lot of left-handers I know so you'll definitely I don't think we I think we have the the corner on that so to speak that's a blender is a free animation software Oh as like for 3d modeling and 3d animation and all that it's it's an open-source maya basically oh I didn't know that I thought it was a painting program that someone else is saying it's a scaled-down version of ZBrush there we go there's our microphone so to come at a left hand left-handed people are in their right mind that is true I'll give you that one for the clothes in the pose I'm rather imagining him singing stand by me [Music] well I mean I thought you're gonna pick it up this may leave you hanging all right we gotta get this the microphone look at that nice car you and there's a nice curve bingo Mike that's a why they need a Mike yeah that's a Mike standby me only reminds me of Timon and Pumba is seeing it in their cartoon I remember that I loved watching that all the time but just Timon and Pumbaa Timon and Pumbaa I think it was saying they sing the lion sleeps tonight no no they they did a separate music video sort of deal it was it was the open short or an opening short and I think they did it up front of it was either Honey I Shrunk the kids or the goofy movie I don't mind the goofy actually no it was come on man you leaving me hanging google the bull have you seen Game of Thrones of course I've seen Game of Thrones who hasn't seen Game of Thrones now I know there's a lot of people haven't seen Game of Thrones but no I've seen it I love it I'm really excited about the new one coming out on Amazon the what was that called cannery row carnival row Canterbury we're not going with cannery carnival row so just you know what I'm doing drawings like this I'm just staying loose oh that's what it was look it was um appearing most of the trailers at the beginning of the best of Roger Rabbit shorts oh that's what it was it was also company the theatrical release of Tom and Huck back in 95 as I was in the Roger Roger Rabbit collection gotcha that's what it was I worked on Roger Rabbit not the original love animating Roger there's cool drawing almost the tiger almost looks like Tony Bennett there you go Tony the Tiger Bennett and toady that I get Benny hey he's really cool carried we got a cool cat you everyman hey it's Tony Bennett here we see Helen Baldwin do Tony Bennett does is so perfect oh my god also Ivan's on has a Lord of the Rings series coming can't wait I heard about that that they're doing a they're doing a series on the Lord of the Rings world yeah pretty freakin awesome ya see take enough time patient you can get it to work I was struggling on this drawing yeah you have to do cross edge yep I'll just I'll do whatever it takes to get it to look right you'll see that even though I'm kind of hatching I'm kind of following the form I don't mind being really messy in the areas that aren't the central area of attention he says it's great there we go there we go have you worked or known Richard Williams I get this question every day every go scream as well yeah never met Richard Williams I used to work with his son Alex Williams who's a very cool dude then Alex went off to law school became a barrister in England and then he went back to the patient okay super smart but the real question everyone's known is did you ever work with Walt Disney yeah let me tell you about the times I had with Walt there is no yeah I'm gonna actually I've got a picture of with Walt I had lost it for a while but I'd lost it for a while but Tim Hodge found it for me and sent it to me where is it here it is let's see if I can pull this up this is back in their first studio this is back in our first studio I am third from the left with roy senior right here if you look you can see me third from the left with Roy senior and and then Walt is on my Latin on my left just to the right of me and Roy is just to the left of me and you know we were celebrating this and you know we're celebrating the studio first getting open so I had a cigar and yeah we were having a great time I love those pants I missed those pants man and I'm this I was one of the first hippies you know this is 1920s or early 30s I can't remember but I had long hair man people tease me all the time but there I am third from the laughs right there yeah when did you make that [Laughter] do I make it what are you talking about Tim sent it to me YouTube comment you can also do 2d animation in blender 2.8 similar to TV paint one thing I've been wondering when you say to work broad what do you mean I mean work loose don't get you know when you know you see what I'm drawing I'm drawing really loose and I'm drawing broadly that's what I mean by broad I'm doing I'm being loose that way you can see that the line work on this is pretty scribbly but when you step back from it it comes together okay so now now I want to get in here everybody wants to be cause we can see we can maybe Ronnie sing that Oh have you heard Ronnie sing that but everybody wants to be cat yeah I don't believe if I have runny it's got a great rendition of that and only one effort someone asked me if I could talk like Stephen Fry I just looked up boosting Fridays and I can not he has like such a harsh British accent he's the actor who plays as Sherlock's brother in Robert Downey jr. Sherlock Holmes Game of Shadows other places Mycroft the bigger older brother yeah the bigger elder brother yeah I never really watched that much of Vince I can't really can't really grow it off that way I'm baby viewing it here what is the bear statue on the right from you on the plank in the closet huh where's our from the statue right there's no beer statue when are they looking at is that it ss maybe they're adult at you I'm the what do they say what's the question well it's the barrier statue on the right from you on the plank in the closet don't know what it what you're talking about bud hey but I want to sit there and let it marinate have you met Abraham Lincoln well only in passing I wouldn't say I met him but we we were definitely aware of each other yeah me you guys encountered each other at the theater right no I mean if we did any things might have been different so if I want to have a chance to get one of these I'm assuming I need to be at the expo on Friday yep you got that rigged but got that right there but he's that wait wait eat hey where can I get one this is called a jelly roll you order mine online i order boxes of them at a time you can just go on Amazon and this is a jelly roll oh eight and then I also use a one right here here's the one it's an even thicker line it goes down nice and thick if you have any of these drawings left over would you consider selling them on your website maybe yeah yes that's the whole point of doing these is to sell them so yes you're being really jerky about it now only if you come to lightbox no but um they're pretty we have a pretty sneaking suspicion that they're gonna sell out that's the reason I'm doing as many as I'm doing is I'm trying to do it according to the demand that we've got so I think I don't know that we're gonna have any left over but if we do it we'll definitely put them on on the site she likes brothers played played by the legendary British actor Steve fine yes I was talking about that just earlier gelly roll pen is it true that you're up now knowing tailors asking is it true that he or Nolan Taylor's biggest fan or he who were you in the construction of the pyramids yes I was there Corey says I love you you so they were supposed to be cubes oh yeah that's tough they missed I love you some white highlights on gray paper I just started using great tone paper in my art and I really like it thank you for the inspiration well I am glad that you got inspired good times with Walt oh yeah well what a kook man what a kook Peter a fatal baby hey Barry are starting a dog cook there Lindsay says I said think your friend requests talk to the Masterclass still nothing uh you know what I'm sorry Lindsay I uh I'll run back through I get a I get a lot of them and I to me on the street I don't really look at them because I'm so caught up with other social media so I will go back and check that sounds really for lack of a better term douchey of me but sorry how many t-rex have you seen in a while what'd you say dress up on a good one [Laughter] Jessie Park didn't you have experience t-rex's actually did have a little bit more feathers but no it was pretty good the southern tier X's were a little bit more bald so it was close 70 right you taught Walt everything that you knew there we go yeah we got a little Tiger going Oh fun fact Erin actually drew saber-tooth cats from life that's why he's so awesome now man I wrestled them oh you know drawing you wrestle I had one his name was - thief - thief yeah so instead of toothless it's - he was toothy you go to my one again to see such a big tooth it's quite a big booty cut there but mouth-breathing can you hear me look I'm Barney Rubble chiseling on the stone tablet nice that is definitely a Tim ha jealous tration you know the irony is what Tim is older than me really yeah I just looked over and I've been cursed with this since I was a kid I could buy beer at the age of 14 credit my favorite Bible stories about Aaron and Eve pretty good good let you walk out of these hands going on there may have seen me around a little bit and drew I was drawing the snake over there I saw you over here so walk over say hi I'm gonna are gonna eat that Apple how about a t-rex dancing hip-hop but while trying to do a handstand flip big trouble short arm issues yeah so there's my crooning tiger everybody missile to be the lesbian you can gonna do one more what time is it it is to 49 to 49 so we've been at it for almost two hours now almost well I could probably do one more a small one so here's what we got so far today today d we got this guy here did he got a couple of sketches done the other day he and this one here did he and then where's the other one these guys I get these this morning singing singing a song it's a pretty good driving there but so yeah anyway I'm just gonna do something quick like a I'm just gonna do a something in the style of Heinrich clay which where I like so much that's one got trashed I'm just gonna do an elephant an elephant a will do one more once again I want to recommend you if you can jump to the Dustin if you can jump to the Steve some of the slides the paint my patreon my patreon page oh yeah I think we think we won't put some of these on patreon I can talk to Nick about it this could be an ongoing thing and maybe we'll do like raffle giveaways or something for originals definitely digital copies and so yeah please you know if you could support us it would be really great because um it really does help us ever even even every little bit you know helps for us to give us time to create for you guys all right water next one yeah yeah and then a light box I just want to mention light box again don't forget we are going to be a light box September 6th through the 8th that's why we are doing this this is why we were drawing we're gonna have our booth there we're gonna be promoting our site we're gonna be talking about education I'm going to be speaking on different subjects such as painting and character design and animation all kinds of stuff and and then we're also gonna be selling a lot of art original art prints all kinds of stuff so it's impassive Dena California September 6th through the 8th and so check it out it's gonna be awesome we've also gotten a back-to-school sale happening at creature art teacher calm and that is 25% off everything on the site if you guys are going back to school you know that it can get a little costly these lessons will really help you out plus if you're looking for a membership or streaming you can get up to 50% off if you're a student or a teacher so I'm gonna go back I'm gonna get back to it now and about the perspective course oh the perspective course to the perspective course I just finished a brand new course on linear perspective and some pre-sales and it is up for sale right now on our website as well and so go check that out creature art teacher comm its linear perspective it covers one two and three point perspective it covers projection it covers all kinds of stuff so go check it out so here I want to I want to get a nice kind of fluid pose but do it with an elephant Erica babe became a patriot member today hey Erica thank you you know severe violence as a book subscription would be awesome what a book book subscription book like turning these lessons into into books or something like oh yeah that would be awesome huh so I'm drawing an elephant and he's feeling fabulous and that tiger you drew was great so what I'm trying to do here so I think of I think of you know when I'm drawing animals I break them up into a head neck shoulders and arms body we have here and then hips pelvis back legs and entail so see your truck drop joinin elefante I found so here I want to put a twist to him I think I'm making them too big for the page which is something I always do oh well the way a lightbox Expo every year yes I'm gonna be there every year so now I got to get back and just get get more careful with my size is this here in the first light box explores this is this is the first one I'll give you I'll do an African elephant I want to show you if you're drawing a head you've got this hourglass thing here's the here's a head coming over there here's the eyes right here then it comes in like an hourglass the trunk comes off of here the tusks I mean will this series of drawings include birds oh I'm sure I'll have some birds in here I'm sure I'll have a bird or two so here's there's a who's ahead you can see this hourglass shape the dents you know the office the eye sockets where the eyes are get a big dent in the skull here and then cheekbones are way out here then it goes under for the for the jaw the lower jaw we're looking down on the sky what kind of pencil are you sketching with right now this is just an ebony ebony pencil so get those ears come back just make him you know elephants can't run but this one will we're really I'm running hard bring that leg up here this other leg back here oh so like turning that head a little bit actually you know what I might do hey Dustin yeah you know what I might do what that question is directed towards you I'm going to turn the hit make it even more dynamic yeah what's this Simon suggests a punk squid Sid Vicious the squid vicious that's awesome Oh aunt Lightbox we're gonna be in bun booth 203 thanks for that that's Nick when he goes well problem Dustin digit I almost did there we go they were you they give him a big belly bring that me back here that way I'm not having a tangent on this foot that's gonna be fun there's gonna be a fun drawing we would keep on the elephant like Superman oh yeah we go and if I hear I'm sorry good and I'm finding it really jarring trying to simplify my work for animation as opposed to games where it's highly rendered how do I get over this and Dustin please come can we have some Elvis I've already been doing log off this but freer and how do you get over highly detailing animation stop it I don't know what to tell you other than you gather this be more disciplined you know you don't have to you don't have to be super detailed so yep you know discipline yourself to stop doing it let's stretch this arm I'll see I want to not clear or silhouette so I'm gonna bring this arm way back here there we go I'm being asked to give art classes to children from 1 to 6 years old what have your work with children this little and what advice would you give I'm terrified I assume I should just let them get messy with the paint yeah just let him get messy you know there's really no teaching a child that young art it's really just introducing them to it so you know let them explore color let them explore you know all of that stuff of that you know yeah I don't know what to tell you I had to give a lecture to 4 year old kids in China that that scared the heck out of me there we go the running running elephant sandir drape says hi Aaron and Dustin it it has been a while oh well since you did some urban sketching on did some urban sketching on location such as temples in Japan next year will be a huge urban Skechers symposium in Hong Kong where a lot of artists are going to be going to give workshops how they approach sketching in urban areas are you interested in doing some workshops there as well good luck with all the activities yeah I mean I love I love this in Japan it's in Hong Kong but you did but he did do sketches of temples in Japan yeah right you know that's it's awesome doing that I'm gonna stylize his nose a little bit yeah you know we may or may not be there next year it's something that's definitely very cool but like I said we're we're also trying very hard to knock our travel back a little bit actually I'm gonna let that curve come right around you get a nice clear silhouette right there Thanks nice slow even curve there we go let's rub all this back a little bit then we've got a drawing so you can see that a lot of times I'm building the drawing I'm finding what works what doesn't work so here I've got a drawing that I feel is nice and you know decent enough that I can get in and have some fun with it there we go and now I'm just gonna get in there with my pencil oh my fearful pencil I like getting nice and detailed on that eyeball right on that ball of eye or worked with an intern who had the mindset of the one one six-year-old yeah definitely worked with interns that wouldn't listen I know one I taught in arts and animals kids summer camp I went with various ecosystem themes each week taught them about the plants and animals that lived in different areas it had books and magazines out to let them draw from those oh that's cool but I even think yeah you know what she was saying one to four year olds yeah so if that's when you're old I don't I don't know how you teach them when you're old anything with our know that other than just here go nuts they opened a can of worms Oh what is it worse intern story oh I just just it's done I don't have bad intern stories just intern stories where they won't listen they want to do which they won't take the advice that you give them and then then they fail you know so it's it just takes a while for them to come around because it's love you know I've had a lot of interns that thought they knew better or it's not that they necessarily knew better but they just didn't have the confidence and letting go and the way that I wanted him to let go remember like when I was working in a 3d business at this point I was like I worked there for about two years and a new guy arrived and he was here's no like he was on his 90-day probation like he wasn't an intern but he was he was still on that new face you know and there's this together said if you want your help you like yeah exactly yeah I mean that kind of attitude is just yeah you can be nice with people like you were with that guy yeah and you know but if they give you that kind of attitude back you just let them hang themselves yeah that's what's gonna happen and that's that's exactly what happened yeah later he got like there is a question up there do I like do I prefer brown or gray paper I I like both anything that's toned I like do you have advice for a live animal drawing I'm planning to go to the zoo and do some studies we do advise to pick two or three animals study their Anatomy and draw just them and what kind of supplies do you suggest yes yes oh you just nailed it on the head I wouldn't I would find those figure out what animals you want to draw brush up on their Anatomy ahead of time so you're not going in cold and just going with pencil and paper or pen pen and paper maybe bring a little bit of watercolor if you want but just keep it simple and and but the most important thing is you know getting in there and you know understand that anatomy before you start because then that really helps and you know I'll help you you know if you're struggling with getting some good drawings in YouTube's question it would be interesting to know at what age you started to seriously draw and study Anatomy I drew I've drawn all my life from the time I could I could hold a pencil literally I was drawing and my mother told me that I used to draw faces and you know things like that you know when I was nine months old but as far as seriously studying and wanting to to be you know looking at Anatomy and all that I was probably about ten but I wasn't that great by any means but it's when I first decided that's what I want to do I'm gonna zoom back out in pretty pretty close to the hand with that without much new I feel if he had the opportunity to intern at Disney you check the ego at the door yeah but you know and there's some idiots that don't and that's the best way I can put it there idiots there's one guy he had so much ego and he got he got reprimanded for it and so when he did his his uh his thesis or his little student film for his intern film it was basically just an animated foot coming down on Mickey Mouse and stomping him and that was it and then he left of course he never got a job but is it somebody else wrote I can attest to that for the disk ECP the amount of people who who go home in the first month due to ego is a lot oh yeah are you ever going to have a people portrait class in your on your site oh you know what that's a great idea and I think we will I don't do portraits a lot and I wouldn't i wouldn't do i wouldn't do a course you know because I you know I want people to be experts in creat courses so and I don't consider myself an expert at all in the realm of creating portraits but I do know a few guys that are and that's a really great suggestion it would be interesting to know Cory asked do you have any quick inking tips inking has always been tough for me well it depends you know like inking like this just stay loose and I try to follow the form if you're talking about inking where you want it to be more precise then it's really doing exercises that you know like like here it used to drawing that line and not picking it up just practice nice clean lines you know and just practice doing things like this and then you know when you have when you're inking over a drawing try not to pick pick it don't do this thing if you're looking for the clean line the person that said that she was gonna be teaching one to six year old you're old yeah Oh God just cut told that I'm good classes to children from one to sixth grade no I was six years old what a relief yeah that's a little better but even still you know with first graders you really just you just want to have them have fun don't get too academic with them can one get an apprentice with an animator oh absolutely I'm not sure who we're we're but I know it happens oh it's Chelsea from the master class hey Chelsea from the master class just wondering Aaron if you worked on the circle of life and air environmental fable they used to play at Epcot oh do they work on that ya know was that Chelsea yes that was just and you had nothing to do with the that thing for every okay hey did you get so say you didn't take part of that do you know anybody that did or did did the animation department have anything to do with it all I can't remember which one it was I'd have to see it if it was to the enemy there's a good chance we had something to do with it we had a division within our division called special projects that's where a lot of our commercial stuff our in-house stuff would go I love drawing elephants decided pretend that there keeping it loose baby my friend Amos Lee says keep it loose keep it tight what's that mean how do you keep it loose and keep it tight circle of life environmental fable was a 70 millimeter film shown in a harvest theater in a land pavulon at Epcot and Walt Disney World opened January 21st 1995 replacing symbiosis symbiosis the focus of the story was Simba that opened up back in 1995 and it closed February third 2018 it was a blank it was based on the Lion King so I think that was where the question came from yeah you know it's probably a special projects group that did it Oh two pawns worked on it or did he he said I worked on that I animated a couple of Pumbaa and Timon scenes oh cool so was done with special projects although to is working special projects so it was yeah Tim says was me Chris Bradley Rob Corley Elliott Bauer Alex Williams and Greg drop drill a Greg drill a drill that our director poor Greg Gillette's passed away well that's a good group of guys right there I'll tell you what every single one of those guys are good guys except for Tim he's great there we go so trying once again trying very hard to kind of draw the style of painter clay and this was feeling kind of fun I got to admit listen I'm liking the modeling that I'm getting with the pen Simon asks have you tried the Pentel pocket brush pen I have Pentel I think it is it's a fantastic water-based black ink cartridge and with a great variety of strokes yep I have I have like a flood says I have the opportunity to put up to pet a baby elephant at the zoo and their skin texture is not what it looks like is completely different it changed my whole way of drawing them yeah especially when you pet them behind the ears it's like the softest leather you've ever felt yeah when I when I went to the elephant orphanage in in Nairobi you know getting together with all these elephants it's like playing with a whole bunch of puppies that want to jump all over you except the puppies are 500 pounds apiece see here I want to make sure I get those nice little fat rolls and all the subtle little rhythm changes in the arm loosen tight equals light right yep you know pull out a little bit more go you send that your favorite animated movies Robin Hood and but who was your favorite character in that film I feel like it's a bit underrated I love Robin Hood the little John even the even the rooster yeah the lute playing rooster rooster or whatever it is he's playing now I didn't say it was my favor and I said it was one of my favorites my favorite is obviously Bambi you know the other one I wish forget when we talked about you know when people ask me my favorite movie animated movies I always forget I enjoy oh yeah so this one I'm feeling I'm happy that I took the time to get this pose right before diving in with the ink because it's really enabling me to find the with the with the ink strokes really defining the body shape and contours how would you feel Disney made a live-action Bambi I would definitely go see it so he says that the fox in the Hound I feel is underrated I don't think it's underrated I mean I think I don't I've never heard anybody say it was bad at least I am I think everyone that seen it loves it and it's just that not that many people have seen it though or other that are completely forgot about it I mean I think it's excuse me I think it's a really great story it's the best animation maybe not you know I think there's some maybe some films that they've done some better animation on but I definitely I love that movie I remember seeing it when I was a kid it was such a hard winter you should do a stream listing your top ten favorite animated films on why so here I'm doing the shading and very subtly trying to get through the shading and following the contour of the body but I'm also cross hatching that contour so they can get a subtle feeling of the skin the roughness of the skin it turns your plan definitely falls the same categories underrated glen keane animated the scene with the bear in the Fox and Hound yes yeah matter of fact I've got Xerox copies of the bear animation ever thought about becoming a tattoo artist like on the side putting your beautiful artwork out of permanent canvas no no tattooing wouldn't be my thing that's a whole other thing yeah I mean I'd be so afraid to mess up and with with tattooing there's no erasing or control or control-z really you miss a lie you miss a longing there we go coming up with something I like here so you can see if you if you follow the contour of the body you can end up with some really cool results there we go have you ever done art that people have gotten tattooed or got a gotten a tattoo Commission yeah I know several people that have used my art for tattoos in fact you did your your own art for your for your own tattoo I did yeah I didn't know they did other art for other people to get I I didn't intentionally do it they just like the arts when they had a tattoo yeah go turn this around you know fun fact Glen Keane wanted to animate the bear in charcoal but for some reason that didn't happen it was probably stylistically outside the look of the film the art director said now what do you think of the Aristocats I really like Napoleon muff I yet George do you know what I can't remember the only seen it what - two or three times you guys used to watch it a fair amount oh yeah hold up there I'm the leader I'll tell you what we say no all right here we go George go elefante depandi I get that tail way down here this is I would love a live-action Treasure Planet I would - that would be that that's what I think would translate to live-action really well yeah like I say good live action's it would be like Treasure Planet even like journey dream to Atlantis like those movies would be amazing and live-action and I think bulan is gonna be good there's just something about Treasure Planet and Atlantis that just feels like they should they would do even more in a live-action you know like life like an anime they look great but there's something about a live-action that just seems more interesting you know question drawing birds birds characters a bird's knee bends backwards would you change that some birds knee does not bend backwards that's the ankle that's not the knee a lot of people think that's the knee the birds knee is up closer to its body and it bends just like a knee the ankle bends just like an ankle so what was the crime sorry Sabine and bends backwards we would you change that to bend forward as human needs of illustrating for example in illustrating a children's book like if you're drawing characters in a more humanoid proportion no I wouldn't because you don't have to and we see your tattoo I don't know if you can see it on here but if it's gonna be silhouetted they won't be able to see it I don't think here can you see it yep it's leaked in front of the lake right there so it's a portrait of Karen my wife that passed away 12 years ago there we go now can you talk like a baton Anastasia Oh talk oh yeah sure blame the bat what the heck we're easy targets that was uh Robin Williams right no it was oh no Robin Williams was from Fern Gully yeah for Melanie but I kinda did Bartok he was the camera guy that will old Godzilla he he does like over half of the voices does it big Azaria yeah I'm just just going to do my job sheriff or they give her huh and I honey yeah and then my ticker sir [Laughter] can I do y'all yeah from a la king of the rock and I am Yao king of the rock and if you just do about it but my favorite line of his does this dress make me look fat but yeah and he doesn't kind of nasally smack me Disney is also doing a live-action Hunchback of Notre Dom I really much I really like the animated version but we'll see we'll see how it goes see how that may be yes we will yes we will go almost there we all just gotta take it to the gun show with you showing your arm that's mostly fat they say that was the show to see the little 22 yes the 22 do you have a favorite Mickey Mouse era drawing style like I really like how they how he looked and behaved in the early days like the 20s and 30s era plane crazy Steamboat Willie Mickey Garden etc I you know I I can see the appeal of that I'm not a huge fan of that era I like what I like it when the animation got more sophisticated then I Ortiz in 50s era Mickey I really I've really enjoyed personally like the way they use that old old-fashioned Mickey Mouse for that animated short that they did that was the opening for frozen yeah where they didn't make some - no it's all greedy and it was all here at Goldberg oh yeah I've been missing questions twitch question how much attention to line weight are you giving to these sketches well it's it's really line way is it's line amount I guess because I can't vary the line weight on any of these pens so it's just the amount of line that I'm putting in would you use Dustin for a voice if he had done another movie with voices if I had a role that he fit certainly is that a joke this is a joking yes the wait is he joking what pen are using right now sorry this is our just like discuss this answer gel pen it's called a jelly roll jelly roll yeah is there a book or resource you recommend as an introduction to animal Anatomy there are other resources out there I don't know of any books specifically on animal Anatomy but Terryl Whitlatch is a wonderful resource she's a creature designer and biologist and [Music] her work is amazing terrible Terryl Whitlatch a mere au revoir says maybe Robillard anyway be Robillard says please hold this one for me at lightbox Expo and we Robillard already has some work I've got some of hers yes elephant running through crowd what role would Dustin fit to be like oh I don't know what kind of role would I get I don't know that's a good question there's a very good question what do you think you'd be good at Justin's so I'm adding a little bit of light on this on this leg and foot to pop it forward and I think Mike what I think um role would just depend on what kind of characters there that are involved well yeah like think I don't need to see the art first before I can figure out a boy's room yeah but you got to play it natural to I mean the best voices aren't they're not put on yeah nick says that was actually a question about the black pen oh sorry yes the gel pen is too low - just like Dustin they tool yes I am the - tul gel retractable pens I got a set of 12 here for like 9 bucks great pens do you find that a gel pen is the best way to add white two-toned paper like that yes is another gouache you can do it with white gouache to get it it could be a different type of look but yeah let's clean this up a little bit bibbidi-bobbidi-boo that person is asking the voice acting King said sighs Eddie you'll be a singer I think maybe a jazz jazz looks like you steppin money didn't do that one there we go where's the audience at pally [Laughter] [Music] and that was Sammy Davis jr. impersonating Dean Martin where's the audience patty that's you impersonating Sammy Davis jr. abated personating Dean Martin Ziegler and know who that is not in our room to run that if he if the elephant was the ritual running he would have both arms facing behind him what's not rude is that the Japanese information yeah I'd say it's a particular style of running that was brought out from the Naruto ninja series where the quote code ninjas would run like this with their arms behind their back oh and it's a hole it's become a hole mean towards like the area 51 is like well all of Naruto run so the so will outrun the bullet splinter but we're storming area 51 like it's obviously a joke but some people are like yeah we can do it three nights done with this one so I got a dozen how can it you know how can an animator maintain his career after 50 years old I'm doing it right now just keep doing it find other ways of doing it I'm doing it now I'm 51 there boom there's our running elephant boo who all right I think we were done for the day or at least I'm gonna take a break I gotta get some food man yeah go get some fate yeah I'm hungry hungry hungry like rock what's that mean hungry like the wolf oh there it is so that's uh those are our introns you're gonna be doing this and all the live streams because I need to up until the lightbox Expo because I've got a whole bunch of drawings to get done and they all need to be this quality or better and I need to do a hundred of them one hundred are we here yeah oh there we are I was looking at the wrong screen again so anyway so thanks a lot you guys actually go back to the down shooter so I just want to review again what we've got so we got this guy we got these guys they were fun we got these guys we got the crooning Tigre then there's a regular tea day and we got the ice skating elephants and I'm dancing elefante got the zebra is that but I'm more real I'll be doing a few of those I don't know I know I see that Zeke and then buy a little flirty wall hippo Wilson walrus but the way the the top of the eyes are is more like a he farted parotid little bundle of us so so take this technique it's a lot of fun and try it out get get yourself a nice black gel pen or or anything a ballpoint pen and get that white gel pen those are great and and try it out look at Heinrich clays work also really really beautiful work I'm such a fan of his work and and I've always tried to draw like him this one's probably the closest I've gotten so far in drawing like Heinrich but um you know but ultimately you you know you want to draw like you but it's okay to be influenced and this guy is uh he was a good one to be influenced by so look up Heinrich clay go check out his work you'll be happy you did it's really really great stuff and so anyway back to the camera remember the lightbox Expo September 6 through the eighth it's gonna be awesome we're gonna have all kinds of stuff there I hope you can make it and then remember I've also got a patreon page that we would love some support on it really helps us to create gives us the means to create more for you guys and we're gonna be doing some cool stuff like live streams where we're gonna be reviewing portfolios and that sort of thing so check that out so that's at patreon.com slash aaron blaze art and then also we've got our linear perspective class that is in pre-sales right now so check that out at creature art teacher com it's one point two point three point perspective all kinds of stuff it's got projections it's got how to do shadows how to do reflections all kinds of really neat stuff so go check that out it's a very thorough course and and then what am I missing our back-to-school sale we've got a great back-to-school sale that's happening everything is 25% off on the site and teachers and students get 50% off of memberships and streaming so that's a big deal so check all that stuff out and by all means I hope you guys learned something and had some fun today and go out and put some Beauty back in the world that's what we do as artists and we need to make it a better place because it's it's kind of there's some places that aren't so nice right now to make it nicer go out and be a positive force in the world okay put your shopping cart away and with that I'm gonna hand it over to Dustin I hope you guys have a great couple of days I'll see you on Thursday all right guys thank you guys so much for watching whether you guys enjoyed this dream hope you guys do a few drinks as well and see you guys on Thursday and as always cowboy bebop see you guys

Channel: The Art of Aaron Blaise

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Keywords: drawing, ink, traditional, lessons, elephants, animals

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Length: 164min 25sec (9865 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 13 2019