- Yeah, it makes me wonder how my art's gonna look in 10 years. (screaming) (logo chimes) Hey guys, welcome to another
episode of "Ross Draws." And my newest book, "Bloom
2" just came out on Tuesday. To celebrate, I will
be redrawing the cover in five different popular styles. If you wanna join me, I'll be hosting a Draw This
Thing Your Style challenge on Instagram, and the winners get a signed "Bloom 2" and a signed "Bloom 1." (whistle blowing)
This is sold out. This is the only way to get it. So if you wanna learn more, details is in the description below and let's jump right into it. (thud) So the first style I'm
gonna draw is, Disney. I'll be aiming more for
a cinematic Disney look like "Tangled," "Frozen," opposed to a 2D animated
look like "Mulan." So the first thing I noticed here is, their doll like feature. Big eyes,
(blues music) and then their nose and
mouth are a little smaller. Usually contained at the
lower half of the face. Their skin looks very smooth. They tend to have a blush. Dug up this sketch here from the "Art of Tangled" book. This is great for me to look
at as I'm sketching my version. With all that in mind, let's
try to take a crack at it. One thing I've noticed
in the examples here, their cheeks, their face looks
like squishy marshmallows. And so I'm tryna capture
the roundness of the face. And so now I'm gonna
put my liner on multiply and put in the base colors. Nice, so one thing I've
noticed from these examples, is there is the really
nice sense of rhythm. Really simplified, and then inside, there's a lot of texture. Right now, I'm gonna try and
capture that airbrush look. You know, there's a sense of
smooth rendering on the face. And so what I'm gonna do, use an airbrush, and try to capture that
roundness of the cheek. Try to shape this hair at well. This is without the line art (laughs) So one thing I've noticed about
the cinematic Disney films, they have very vibrant
colors, vibrant lighting. There's a clear separation
between this warm light, the cool shadow. So I'm gonna try to implement
some of that in my piece. Now I'm gonna try to
capture all this hair. Oh, somehow without drawing
every single strand. So here we go. I think one thing is
really coming in handy and that is, (indistinct)
(celestial harmonizing) I'm using it for the highlights right now, and show you what I mean. (celestial harmonizing) All right, and the second art style is, - [Lady] Fight plant it. "Valorant." "Valorant's" a game developed by Riot. It's one of the biggest games right now. I have a whole number
of friends who play it, and that are part of the art team that helped develop this style. I think it looks really cool. It looks super angular, you know? The Disney style was much more softer, like pinch that marshmallow. This, you don't want to touch
it because it will slice you. Yeah, I'm excited to capture some of this geometric jagged aesthetic. So let's try it out. Looking at the Valorant art style, there's barely any curves in here. If something looks like a curve, it's actually a series of straight lines. And so let's keep going. So I started using the
polygonal lasso tool, and it helped give it a lot of features, it helped give a lot of angle. And so this was before, after. I'm gonna try it a little
bit with the hair here. The one I could shape. Ooh, that's sick. I love that. Yeah, this is very satisfying. And so, if you're ever looking for a new creative way to paint, I would say, try to paint
your whole entire piece with the polygonal lasso tool. It'll give you some really cool results. Yeah, I'm just gonna try and move forward with just this lasso tool. This is surprisingly
really fun and creative. It's taking me, completely
out of my comfort zone. Now I'm gonna approach this awesome rim lighting around all
the characters here. And I think that's what's really
gonna help this piece pop. So, let's try it out. So next, I'm gonna add a background and this salmon red on black
is really speaking to me. So I notice here, even though the highlights on the hair and the
jacket are really sharp, there's this glove to
soften everything up. (celestial harmonizing)
- [Lady] Victory. - And the third art style is, nineties magical girl anime. "Taylor Moon," "Cardcaptor
Sakura," "Sparkle," big eyed, transformation sequences. To match the style, I'll have to focus on line
work and cell shading, opposed to brushwork and rendering. (funky music) Yeah, so right now this
is my initial line work. This is a lot harder than I anticipated. I am actually gonna draw it over again, but with clean line work, tryna tap into that manga, the ink work, make it super clean. You know, looking at the reference here, I can't believe they had
to draw every single frame. This beautiful wine work
for 30 minutes, 60 minutes. Now we have some really clean line art, and let's start cell shading. Highlights, here there's two, here there's two and then some lines. And this one there's three. So, we can have some
creative freedom here. One, two, three. Ooh, cute. Let's do the background. I'm really attracted to this transformation sequence background with the bubbles and the sparkle. It's very nostalgic to me. And last but not least, we'll
add a retro grain filter. So I'm gonna merge the whole thing. Noise, add noise. How much do we want, ooh, that's a lot. I feel like it's missing something. Oh, the yellow and black anime subtitles. That's actually pretty good. (celestial harmonizing) And the fourth style is, "Steven Universe." Yes, "Steven Universe" is
a show on Cartoon Network. You guys have been asking me
to do some fan art for years. So I thought today we can
mix the two a little bit. I've chosen Pearl as my inspiration. You know, she looks the most
similar to our cover girl here. Just as the last one, this will also be cell
shaded and line work, which I'm kind of scared about, but let's see how this goes. (blues music) (water splashing sounds) I'm trying my best to get
that right perfect line wave. So I'm controlling,
(tapping sounds) until I feel really good about it. Also one thing I've noticed
is a lot of their mouths, are like bean shaped. So I'ma try and capture that. Yeah, I got kinda lucky, and there this episode that features a whole bunch of butterflies. So let's use this style. (celestial harmonizing)
- [Boy] So cool! - I think it turned out really cool. It's not one-to-one, you know, I put a little
bit of a Ross flare. The thing about these simple styles is there are so few elements
that if you get one wrong, it becomes super noticeable. Let's start our final drawing. And the fifth and final drawing style is, semi realism. This is probably gonna be the most comfortable style for me to draw. And semi realism is less
stylish proportions, more realistic anatomy. The colors seem more accurate to what you see with the naked eye. And two great artists
who draw semi realism, Artgerm, and early works of Bao Pham. Bao Pham is an artist that
inspires me and 10 years ago, they were putting out
work similar to this. But nowadays, ooh, look at that. That's so cool. Their style changed drastically. It's really cool to see
people's art journey and how everything evolves. Yeah, it makes me wonder how my art's gonna look in 10 years. (screaming) So I'm gonna approach
this a little differently, and draw over and edit the original cover to show you what elements you can add to make your piece feel more realistic. First thing I'm gonna do
is use the multiply layer and darken my cover. The next thing I'm gonna do is shade it. You know, bring out that form. The original cover, I
flattened things out. It looks very stylized, very illustrative. And so I'm gonna bring that form back in. Yeah, so this is the progress so far. And I think it looks
pretty good, you know? One way I'm making more realistic is adding a full range of values. With the cover here, there is no deep shadows,
there is no black. Everything is kinda high key. And with my new drawing over
here, there's more dark. So you can see there's
more form with the shadows. So let's move forward. Another way I'm making my
piece feel more realistic is with the shadow colors. That's something I
learned in my art journey that's really important. If you want your shadows
to feel more realistic, implement the sky color and the atmosphere surrounding color. This shadow color here is
if I just kept it the same, but I implemented some of that green, some of that yellows, and it looks more realistic. You know with the original cover, I think I used about
two and a half brushes, mostly a round brush. But with this new piece here,
I'm using an acrylic brush. It gives some texture to the hair. I'm also using a textured pen brush, to create some hair strands. Even skin isn't perfectly smooth. You know, there's some pore,
there are some textures on it. And so I'm gonna use a bladder brush, to create some skin (indistinct) Oh, and one last thing. Let me just do some color dot. I've barely done any
color dots this video, so. Nice.
(celestial harmonizing) And so those are the five styles. That was so fun to get
out of my comfort zone. We had the original cover. We did the "Valorant"
style, the Disney style, semi realism, "Steven
Universe," and nineties anime. And so I'm posting another Draw This Thing Your Style
event for you guys to redraw the cover of my new book. Yeah, the last one we did, I gave you guys a week
and you guys crushed it. I originally was gonna do five winners, but ended up choosing seven. So this time around use
the hashtag #BLOOM2DTIYS. And the deadline is August 8th. I'll reveal the winners on August 9th, and you'll win a signed "Bloom 2," a signed "Bloom 1" and
a $250 shopping spree on my entire store. So good luck, and don't get to subscribe. And remember every day
is a (indistinct) day
