[Music] Stan: Hey everybody! I got Karl Kopinski in the studio and while
I had him here, I made sure he did a sketch book tour. This is all new art that hasn't been published
yet and at the end, he showed us his new art book "The Big Kopinski". Enjoy!
Karl: So yeah, personal sketch. This is one I've just finished, probably say
I do about five or six of these a year and then other sketches five or six whole books. I started working in kind of prismacolor or
pencil crayon but mainly because I saw - you know Claire Wendling? Yeah. I was looking at her work a lot and she always
works in these colored pencils. They're quite good because they don't smudge
as much, so that you know, I'm left-handed so you can see even here I'm kind of a messy
messy artist. This is a study I did for "Journey to the
West" when I was a kid, there was a Japanese TV show that I really loved like nineteen
seventies. All about The Monkey King and I have a particularly
good knowledge of sort of Asian costuming and armor, but it's just that it gives me
another theme to investigate rather than always the sort of European influence things. I do a lot of these sort of pages as well
where usually if the drawings gone a bit wrong or you know, I'm not so happy I'll just fill
it with smaller studies. And I quite like them. For me, they're some of the most interesting
pages because there's just a lot of ideas and I can really work through things very
quickly and play with heavier tone. Again, another pencil crayon. Little pig and unicorn Teddy, Mickey Mouse
belt buckle. I like it when you kind of get soaked in-
I like a little detail. That's an Napoleonic study piece really. I was gonna do them all kind of going up here
but ran out of steam. Again, that's quite interest sort of military
history as a kids, so I'm not using any reference here. I've spent a lot of time trying to learn how
to draw the helmets right. German and - the U.S. Helmets are really difficult
to draw as well and they really circle line you have to do but quite like that sort of
thing. And I don't draw women enough or sometimes
when I draw them, they're a bit too masculine, so trying to practice a bit more feminine
but not like super pouty- oh, and like oh yeah, holding a gun, why are you going oh. And yeah, we talked about this a little with
Stan, just to talk - we did a bit of teaching with people and how to break it down into
simple composite element. And these were another set of studies for
the water demon guy in The Monkey King story, got nine skulls from monks. And - no, just - I don't need to say anything
about that. And some wolf's head studies and then these
were - a guy I know asked me to do a few tattoo designs in my style as it were, so that was
quite interesting to do. And then Mecca, quite into Mecca and it's
sort of Japanese influence but not really. Again, this is that process I said of doing
very quick loose lines. So, all of these armor shapes, even down to
this arm, you can see. You know, I wouldn't normally make that decision
to do an arm like that but I spent maybe an hour doing this. So, it's fast enough turnaround to play with
these ideas and I think you can do that digitally as well, maybe even quicker. You know, play with those shapes and it's
great for character designing computer games as they - often they want a distinctive silhouette
for each. Especially if you're doing Animes. Again, more sketches and doodles and trying
to do sexy girls. There are quite like astronauts as well, I
don't know why. Just like them. Astronauts again. And this one's no underdrawing, just straight
in with pen. But I don't know if you can see it, look I
went wrong, not as good as Jung Gi, correction fluid here. And I do a lot of these as demos as well,
how you can create authentic characters. And again, a bit of teaching about sculls
and how to light it and how to approach the various elements. This is Asterix from those com - Obelisk from
those comics I talked about, my version. And I went over to Seville in Spain and had
the best Mexican food I've ever had in Spain and after that, I started drawing Zombie Mariachi. Some reason, obviously as you do, you eat
- you eat a taco you draw Zombie Mariachi. Again, another head study. I can't grow a good mustache, so I'm always
jealous of a man with a good facial hair. That's one of my sons obviously zombie with
arrows and bones hanging out his mouth. And sketching in the airport as well. Quite happy with this girl's. Again, no
one to draw in here and I just went in with a pencil crayon. I remember at Games Workshop I was doing the
same face over and over again and either be - either I'd put my moustache on it or
it'd have no hair, would have a big beard or - and I thought this is ridiculous. And then you - its interesting, the more you
look around, if you bit of a people watcher, everybody's face is so different, you know? And there was an interesting thing I read,
it was all about the fact that this placement of features is more important almost than
the fine details of them. So you can recognize someone from you know,
100 feet away but you can't see what color their eyes are, you can't, but it's about
you know, the distance here and the face shape. And so, if you pay a bit of attention to that
kind of thing, placing and changing and - and you also, the more you travel, the more you
realize that even country to country is definite subtle changes. Maybe everyone's Caucasian or mostly Caucasian
but they'll still be something different in the bone structure. I quite like that, a really interests me there. And then some kind of random pirate woman. And then I was watching Crimes of Grindelwald,
on her plane over here so that's sort of Johnny Depp really as a pirate - was been a pirate,
was a different pirate. Batman, in like a sort of maybe First World
War uniform. Quite like the idea of something like that. But then I drew one of him with a tommy gun
and everyone was like "Batman never uses guns" I go "OK". He used to just shoot people. Karl: Yeah, yeah bang! Get out of here. And the worst one I did was I did Hellboy
and I gave him the left hand of doom. And everyone was like "WTF! Yeah I flipped the image it look better". This is kind of Mobius inspired again. Like a robot hunter salvaging robot parts. I don't really know what's going on there. These were studies for a bigger painting I
did. Well actually, no, that was an initial drawing
and then the guy said "well, can't you do him in a similar pose to this one?" so then
I did a series of like a compositional study there and then playing around with different
characters, but there's no horses in the cover, they just happened. Astronauts... I don't - don't really like that pose. Just sort of ohh... Don't know what she's doing there. It seems like zero G. Karl: Yeah yeah and he's like "of course it's
zero G you idiot." Snape and Dobby and then drawing goats cuz
I was at a little place with a farm with my kids and we were looking at how fat their
stomachs were, how they're just a big ball. I think he was wearing a jacket. Karl: Yeah yeah, Fila jacket like a hipster
goat. And like some kind of deer hunter but not
Robert De Niro obviously. That's my son drawing on the iPad and that's
Batman taking a kick in. And then this was after a cycling trip I did
in Italy and I went up this climb that was known as one of the hardest in cycling and
it was just the worst day I've had on a bike ever, so I drew how I felt really. Kind of space pirates. I don't know what's going on here. That girl. Karl: Minibike race quite like with the guy
in, the Punk like the horse. Karl: Yeah, she's like "are you guys finished?" another mecha piece. Again like I said, a lot of it is born out
of those early scribbles you know? I have an idea of the pose but I'm sort of
looking for interest in shapes. It's a lot of Giger's work really interested
me and I think you know, like Moebius's approach to that, that often the armors feel a bit
more like organic shape. So, when we worked at Games Workshop, there
were definite shapes but they're all quite rigid geometric things and I like to play
with the more organic shapes a bit more. Then Batman caught in an alleyway by the police. A few people have proposed that maybe was
a urinating in a public place and he's been caught in flagrante or whatever the term is. I thing after that it's probably client work
that I shouldn't have show. And you fill up 5 of these
a year Karl: Yeah yeah. Wow! Karl: This is the next one, so just started
this one since I've been here. I just keep Terado did me a drawing, that
will be cut out and framed. But yeah, I just keep chipping away thats it. And
then obviously the demo we just did. The Big Kopinski! First Superani book I have done. It's available through Superani U.S. Or my
website. So, it's quite a nice throw because it's hardcover
and I didn't do a hardcover book before and I've produced this piece specifically for
the cover of the book. And then a few of these pieces hadn't been
seen before. It's got my dog in there, Molly, and then
my son's idea to put a mouse on top of the Bears head. A lot of pages of these pencil sketches I
did. A lot of these I self-published in volume
1 and 2 but it's out of print now, so we decided to collect them together in one volume and
make a big book about dragons, samurai rabbit hunters, got it all. Big variety of subject matter, well, not that
because this is pirates again, isn't it? Vikings. So it's quite interesting looking back because
some of this was done for Inktober, early days of trying my hand on ink works. I'm still sort of learning a bit. Quite like this one, I was always pleased
with this one. She looks like she's really doing something
and you know, she's sort of sexy but she's actually doing something. She's got big hands though. Big hands! And it's interesting going back looking at
this. That was - they were studied for a poster
I did for Lucca Comics & Games so they're your initial character in there. But yeah, there's a nice color section at
the back actually. That was a personal painting I did. That was one of the few I've sold that I was
a bit regretful about selling. You know, I don't like the wings though, they
annoy me. Well, that one's alright but what's going
on there? I don't know. That should be down here maybe. I'm glad I sold it. Karl: Yeah. These are just playing with watercolors a
little and then these are for a client called Mini or nots which got made into little 26 mill figurines
for a board game. And again, quite nice because he just asked
me to do my take on some kind of techy bits. This are some of the last pieces I did digitally. These are kind of fantasy Joker character
there. Yeah, I was thinking that. Karl: Fantasy Batman you know, used for Zombicide,
another game we did. Do you ever plan on entering back
into digital or do you just prefer a traditional Karl: I can - pro - pro-create sort of appeals
to me I think. Just because it's a bit more of a natural
interface, you know? It's there on my lap. So, I'm quite interested in that and then
having seen Katsuya Terada's drawings when - when he was over here, we we're sharing
the Airbnb and he went through his iPad and he showed me some of the playback on Procreate really
cool. So, that was - I'm gonna go and procreate. That's my wife as a gangster from the Godfather
board game I did. More of a black and white and pretty old drawings
now but it's quite nice to flick back through them and remind myself. So, yeah there we go. Stan: Nice, thanks Karl! I love the sketchbook and I even got myself
The Big Kopinski with an original illustration on the cover. If you're liking these videos, hit me with
one of those thumbs and if you want me to bring other artists into the studio for some
demos and sketchbook tours, let me know who. I'm definitely interested in bringing as many
amazing people into the studio as I can. Alright, see you tomorrow!
