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[Music] [Music] hey everybody aaron blaze here and it is december 17th friday and we are back again uh man these weeks go by faster and faster but i am so glad that we are back in uh streaming in your whatever you're watching us on and uh we're having we're gonna have a good time today today we get to announce the winner winners winner of our animal hybrids contest that has been going on for the last three weeks or four weeks man it's we got so many it took me a long time i hope you guys understand how long it takes to go through these well first of all it's an absolute pleasure to go through them because i have it's a lot of fun and i'm laughing and and i'm in awe and you know everybody's just always they they submit stuff that's so well thought out and really cool stuff so i decided to go ahead and pick i picked about 80 about 80 or 90 that i thought deserve some kind of response and for you guys to see i wanted to treat it more like a as if we were in art school and everyone's putting their assignment up on the wall and we're doing a critique and not that i'm going to critique them i'm not going to be harsh or anything but i did i did pick uh probably the top 10 that i liked that deserve some kind of you know recognition in some way or another and so uh we're going to talk about those and then i picked about nine or ten of my top picks and then we got the winner out of that so that's gonna be a lot of fun we're gonna go through that today and then uh but we also because we are so close to christmas we've got a lot of sales going on we are right in the middle of the 12 days of christmas um today is day five days of christmas day five so well not quite in the middle then so close just about right yeah we are having a new sale every day on the website from now till christmas and today is one of the biggest ones yet which is up to 60 percent off of our animation classes so our complete animation course our acting fair animation course storyboarding classes all that stuff anything that's animation related is 60 off uh or sorry 50 to 60 percent off um right now over at creatureteacher.com and i've posted the link on all of the chats and if not if you go right to the home page you'll see you know to see a link there technically isn't it all animation related i mean really when you think about it yeah yeah i mean i could animate a a painting it'd take me a long time but we could do it yeah so head on over to creatureartteacher.com that's today only and uh the complete animation course is the best deal that's 60 off and that's like our number one rated number one selling course so this is one of the best prices of the year to get it if you don't already have it and there's a bunch of other great stuff on there uh we've got two new courses coming out too uh very soon we've got uh a drawing um with light energy and story from david coleman that's 50 off uh that's uh comes out next week uh and we also have another 50 off class uh visual development uh with our on serano which is also 50 off pre-order and those both come out next week so uh if you head over to creatureteacher.com you can snag those uh for low prices and uh also it's a great time to become a member to our website because all of those things are included you know i want to just reiterate you know what what i think about when we bring in other artists to teach classes to teach these courses um i wouldn't hire anybody to bring i wouldn't bring anybody in that i wouldn't want to learn from myself or have worked with or something like that and i just want to let you guys know that every single one of these guys that are teaching on these courses i have worked with in the past at disney or somewhere else and uh mostly at disney armand and i worked together for years at disney david coleman and i worked together at disney and at paramount um chuck and i worked together for 20 some odd 20-plus years at disney tim hodge and i worked for years at disney lyndon and i worked for years at digital maine and disney um well after disney paramount that sort of thing um it's i've seen in other um colleges and things like that a lot of the instructors there and this is something that i experienced when i was in school so many of the instructors and i'm not pointing fingers and i'm not saying that this is necessarily how it is now but i'm going off of the way i experienced college many of the instructors i i had or that i saw were instructors that they may have been part of the the industry at one time but had left the industry and they just wanted to finish out their career and teach and they really weren't keeping up with any kind of relevancy within the field that they were teaching and that really bothered me and i and i and i sometimes see that uh in colleges with animation as well and that really bugs me i think especially nowadays when animation um and a lot of the things that that we teach are changing so quickly uh their industry is changing and um i want i want things to stay relevant and i want it's one of the reasons that we're continuing to create content as well with snow bear and that and that sort of thing but i want uh i want people that are part of that career part of the changing tide that we see happening you know in this industry those are the people i want teaching and so that's why we brought arman serrano in to teach visual development uh because he is actively doing visual development and the same with david coleman who's doing exactly what he's teaching and tim hodge who's doing exactly what he's teaching within the industry chuck williams doing exactly what he's teaching in the industry so those are the things and and you know because first of all when you guys learn them it's going to when you learn from these courses it's a direct reflection of what's current and what's relevant now uh so just i wanted to put that out there to uh just to reiterate why we're doing what we're doing with the people that we do it with so there you go here's a cool comment we just got on twitch hey aaron it's cal the winner of the drama of nature contest hey cal you got his ipad uh i want to tell you how much of an honor it is to have my artwork seen by you i'm a 15 year old boy and you are my biggest artistic inspiration i recently met manu karasu at the zoo and we talked about your next artist trip so hopefully i can meet you in real life one day right on the ipad arrived this week it's amazing thank you so much for this opportunity well look at that 15 year old he won the contest last week because one of the things that really struck me was his thought process and the concept itself that he put into it i thought the execution was wonderful but i also thought the thought process behind it was strong as well so when you when i'm going through these i'm not necessarily going to pick the best most beautifully rendered piece that's not what i'm looking for i'm looking for that but i'm also looking for thought process and originality and all of that and so uh i'm really glad cal that you got your uh your your um ipad and i'm glad you won everything i i really enjoyed doing that last week um you want to dive into this one you guys oh by the way we've got dustin here we've got nick here and uh so uh we're gonna get into this uh let me uh and uh by the way speaking of those ipads and this contest we definitely want to thank our sponsor have you gotten to this screen for donating the uh surprises yes so thank you cash for your mac and that's why we have animal hybrids as presented by well it's presented by us but it's sponsored by cash for your mac.com and um and so once again i just want to put a plug in for them because we couldn't do this without them and they're such a great company they're great guys they're kind of in it for the same reason we are and they want to give back and um and there's so many people out there that um want to get apple products and that but just can't afford it and cash for your mac dot com is a great uh uh option because they are used uh pieces of equipment that have been refurbished to new almost new and uh and i really recommend them well if you are starting out kind of getting in that trade-in and trade-up cycle yeah a good way to do it because typically what happens is you know if you know you use a model for two years you know in two years you can trade it in for a newer model and get a great value for it and just kind of keep up to date it's a good option versus always buying something brand new you know which is just unattainable for a lot of people absolutely so let's dive in so what i'm going to do is i'm going to go through i'm not necessarily going to be able to hit everyone's names um uh just because we haven't had time to do all of that but i did i did go through and pick the images some of the images that just struck me some of them i thought were funny some of them i thought just had nice texture i'm just gonna go through and and talk about uh quite a few of them and then we'll get to our top picks and then we'll get to our winners so um i'm just gonna start clicking through this one i just thought you know what if you're gonna blend a bison and a rhino this is a good job these first of all i thought it was a really great combination a bison and a rhino have similar shapes um they're completely different animals but have similar shapes and so i thought it was interesting to put them together and they blend together so well and i thought this one was rendered nicely by fareed khan this one made me laugh at first when i saw it in the thumbnail i thought he was uh throwing his middle finger at me oh it's a banana but i love the reference for this one too the uh the the um it's a type of cardinal that has this big red flare you see them a lot they're from brazil but you see them in hawaii a lot as well um that mixed with the the tree frog i thought was a really cool little bit this one just made me laugh and i i didn't throw in the the finished render i did i liked the little thought process behind it but especially the one that's just in pencil right here imagine coming out and seeing this little trash panda that's actually a that's what i tiger was funny just raccoons that are ferocious like tigers could just i thought was hilarious um i love the rendering on this one the pencil the uh i i know that it's digital but the uh just the the pencil-like line work on the fur and everything i thought was really nice i really loved this is a cougar moose about bear mix cougar moose bear i think is what it is um really nice uh i love the texture i love the handling of the fur uh and it really it kind of stopped me in my tracks and made me want to explore it a little bit this one this one what struck me about this one is uh first of all it's it's horrifying they're ripping apart an elephant like this uh but they're they're vultures and i was amazed and these are specifically these are turkey vultures and i was amazed at how well a turkey vulture mixes with a giraffe's head they're basically the same shape so i thought that was kind of cool and i really like the textures of the head and all that there's some cool stuff in there i like the rendering on this this guy feels wet and uh it feels like he's right there and uh this tree frog in bat mix oh yeah that one's nice i haven't seen that one yeah it just it's funny how these and i learned this a long time ago when i was trying to paint something wet i did this hippo painting years ago in oil and it it's not until you get to these little sparkly white highlights that you kind of put tastefully all over you know in the right places that all of a sudden it becomes wet and very glisteny and it's very cool this one though there was their their their shepherd australian shepherd mixed with a kangaroo and i just i love the look on the shepherd's face he's just the the reference was their shepherd looking out the window uh and they just kind of put that on on a bouncing kangaroo i thought that was funny by the way if uh you see your artwork uh today please let us know in the comments you know yeah get the chance to put everybody's names up so yeah yeah i just i didn't have time to go through and do that but i i really liked that this is from jet cestaro one of our friends on facebook and um i i just laughed out loud when i saw you know this basset hound and uh cow with the most disgusting udders i've ever seen that's pretty rough i don't i don't want to milk that cow everything's droopy and one of the things too that i do want to you know if people don't mind i will throw in a uh pieces of advice and little bits of critique here and there one thing i could say for this one jett is don't be afraid a lot of times i'm seeing on your illustration some a lot of softness don't be afraid to put some hard edges in there um uh and hard textures and that sort of thing because that it'll help especially in areas where you want to draw attention it'll help to bring definition and uh and draw attention to the right places but i love this this is a bear correct that's the other thing too the other thing that made me laugh is the the idea of a completely unrelated this is a bear and a lobster a bear it's a bear lobster yeah at first i thought there was an owl in there too and there might be i can't remember but i know i remember looking at it it's a bear lobster yeah now this is another one where i'll throw a little critique in there um one thing that would help it when you look at that if you want if i would recompose it um looking at that lobster claw the way the lobster claw comes around and reconnects right at the point of the claw right in the on the side of the mouth there um not the lower claw but the upper claw the big thick part it becomes a tangent and it becomes an area of tension where everything kind of meets up there and you can't tell when you first glance at it if that claw is separate from the body so if you were to recompose this and kind of break out that claw in silhouette from the rest of the body it would be a clearer uh representation of of the animal itself but that being said i thought this was still pretty cool this one too i just thought it was fun lots of fun and uh a sloth gecko thing so very very cool very appealing this is one that i picked out um i i love love love the presentation i love the presentation the thinking everything that you put into it um the final render i i think you could have taken more time and think about shape more and treat areas like uh treat large masses like shapes like the fur and that sort of thing and treat them a bit more solid you're breaking up your values a lot there's big changes in values throughout and so what happens as a result in your finished piece is that you lose the form because the value is being broken up so much um your lights and darks and shapes um uh and forms get broken up too much okay but that being said i really wanted to i wanted to include this so that people could understand the thought process and see all the work that you put into it because i really think it's great now let me let me uh let me i want to go back really quick on this look at number four if you look at the upper the upper part um where you have your sketches um if you look at number three and number four as far as your lighting goes that is much clearer than number five where you add your detailing because once you when you added your detailing you started to go in and add too much light into your shadow areas and that's where you lost your form if you wanted to aaron you could jump out of full screen and drink a little trouble okay i'll definitely do that cool and also autumn uh autumn beverly commented saying that uh the giraffe of ultra was hers oh right on cool i love it this just terrified me yeah i saw that one it reminds me of like um isn't there like a famous greek pain of zeus or something like her um yeah not zeus but it's like the father yeah he's eating his children yeah it reminded me of that i saw that i was like and it's just you know and he's got a horse wrapped up i mean geez yeah it just terrified me so it did it did a good job there i thought that was cool this one stylistically i loved it i just loved the style of this and i just thought it was worth uh throwing in here um oh yeah that's cool i just love it yeah this i would frame this and hang this on my wall um i really really dig it and now you know we're doing a uh we just finished up taping a new animation course with tim hodge where he's doing kind of do-it-yourself experimental animation and some of it is some of what we've done what we did or what he demonstrated was paper cut out animation and um and i could really see this as being something that uh you could do you know uh with that course it's really cool i just love this i just laughed at it and thought i liked the the attitude of it the atmosphere it felt cold uh but the idea of sandhill cranes and deer this is actually uh the reference for this dustin was your mother sandhill crane and baby oh really yeah yeah they used one of your one of your shots oh that's awesome yeah and then and then the deer oh yeah i can kind of see it now yeah it was really cool we got some really nice entries yeah i thought we got some overall just really really nice ones this one here i i i just wanted to call out the dappled light i thought you did a great job um you know and i'm obviously being a lemur and a leopard i thought that was cool too but i just thought overall your environment the lighting i thought was really nicely done so good job these two um i was dog shark that's a saturday morning cartoon man right there yep dog shark yeah he he patrols the beaches and and uh and it's gonna write itself i just love it the the lower right one i thought was a little too far your last last some of the anatomy but uh the upper two drawings really stopped me in my tracks i just love them i love them love them i thought they were great yeah the style of that is super cool yeah yeah i want to see it as a cartoon i'm telling you i loved uh this one i just i really liked how you did the photo bashing tech uh textures and um and that gorilla's face with chameleon eyes is just really creepy but i thought it was cool a nice job on like i said nice job on those textures yeah i just once again i just thought i thought this one blended together nice i wanted to pick ones that kind of stylistically uh went out on a limb a little bit too and i like that they did this on a textured background um and i like that you know rather than being ferocious and trying to kill something like a lot of them have done um you know you've got two major predators and he's just sitting there having his teeth cleaned by some plovers this one i thought overall was a really cool um uh illustration uh and had a very nice kind of magical feel to it i also picked it for a little bit of a critique because i love that you're trying to do the dappled light um but part of the dappled light lighting fails a little bit because of the hard edges on those shadows and so if you could if you would just blur those edges on those shadows on the dappled light then it would be much much more successful and uh it wouldn't feel so broken up because a lot of the the edges on the shadows are just as hard as some of the edges on the markings and it starts to break the form up there's a nice storybook feeling to this it really does have that kind of whimsical fairy tale storybook feel to it and right away i got it was it was a fox and a monarch butterfly i got all of that um like i said i i chose it for the two reasons i liked how whimsical it was but i also wanted to point out you know in order to get that better shadow effect and dappled light effect um don't forget to soften those edges you can sometimes get somewhat hard edges but by and large when you see dappled light especially from trees those edges are going to be soft the shadow edges i just liked it i loved the the uh the photo bashing and the textures and i just thought it was a really cool uh mixture of orangutan pangolin and we got a little bit of uh jellyfish in there as well in his little cheek flaps i'm sorry i'm starting to get cheek flaps i think that's an interesting combination yeah and when i uh you know what else i like he's using uh or she i think are they using i don't know if they actually used real fur i think those are my fur brushes at first i thought it was real fur but i think they actually used all fur brushes and i know that fur anywhere that's i now that i'm looking at it really hard that's uh from my fur brushes i thought for sure it was uh at first uh orangutan by the way yesterday's sale was all brush and texture sets for a dollar and uh that's still going because i didn't turn it off so you can still get all brush and textures yeah so if you want to be able to paint fur like this because this is this is definitely my fur brushes if you want to paint that you know go on over and check them out i've got two sets of fur brushes that they work great hello for two bucks yep yeah come on two bucks two dollars and i think it for two dollars i think it's like 40 40 or 50 brushes this one i thought was just really well done i thought it was uh i like the lighting i like the texture i like the style i liked everything about it and uh so um nice job on our giraffe kangaroo james gurney yeah yeah i like the texture in the back and the like right along where the trees meet the sky that texture right there i thought that was nice uh the painterly quality of it nice job on the forms everything everything works great this one i laughed out loud i just laughed with your gecko chihuahua there you go i'm trying to mix the the names of the difference and stylistically i like it too i just like the bold little brush strokes but uh yeah this one just made me laugh this one too i just thought this was really really cool i'd love to see it animated well marmoset yeah that's neat yeah harmon marmoset and uh i'm assuming it's a uh uh a macaw i can't remember i didn't look at the uh this one i can't remember looking at the uh their prompts i love the colored turquoise and awkward greens kind of yeah i mean i was just down no that's the other thing i want to tell you guys i was just down at a place called natural encounters if you want to see them go to naturalencounters.com and these are some folks actually i consulted with them when i did my birds of prey uh course how to draw birds of prey and we're talking about getting together again maybe in the springtime and doing a uh actually in person workshop where we draw birds not just birds of prey but all kinds of foreign bills and cranes and storks and eagles and hawks and all kinds of stuff and one of the things they have is about 150 different uh macaws all different species and um uh and this just reminds me of that it was really really amazing this one i love this drawing i love this illustration i thought it was great until i went to i saw their the this person's um sketches and i actually and this is no i'm not slamming what you've done here but i do like look at the ones on the lower right some of those drawings i liked even better there's there's so much i just saw these and just got completely sucked in in these little character drawings and i just absolutely love them thought they were really cool i i really kind of wanted to see one or two of these rendered out um in the same way that you rendered the one where he's sitting because i think i think they might be a little bit more descriptive but either way i thought it was done well so there's there's your finish which i thought is great but i really uh love these sketches especially the ones on the right there really cool job barracuda this is a barracuda uh gull yeah a barracuda girl and i think there's a mackerel mixed in there too yeah barracuda gold it's a flying fish have you ever seen a flying fish flying fish i don't think you i know you've never seen a flying fish you ever seen a flying fish nick yeah yes it's the most i used to see them all the time when i was a kid we'd go out and we'd uh we'd fish for mahi on my father's charter boat we go out and remember one time we were coming back we were coming back in the dark and we're coming back in really high winds and uh and i was sitting on the back of the boat looking back towards the the spray of the boat looking backwards and um and the spray is going over the back over the top of the boat and i'm just looking into the darkness and this and uh there's a light on on the stern the stern is the back of the boat there's a light on shining you know behind us where we've been and this fish about i don't know nine ten feet off the water a fish just flies in to the light so imagine sitting on the back and you just and it's and that's all the spray is flying over the boat and all of a sudden this fish just comes flying into the spotlight and it's fine he's flying like 10 feet from my face and just gliding and then turned and glided into the darkness it was the most bizarre thing i've ever seen yeah yeah the reason i kind of paused when i saw they were kind of way off in the distance so i yeah but i didn't really get it well most of the time most of the time you see a flying fish you're uh we'd be cruising along and they'll get going and they'll they'll kind of ride their tail their body will come up out of the water and they'll ride their tail for a little while and then they'll just hit it and then their tail will come off the water and they'll fly about three feet off the water and they'll actually follow the waves they'll you know as a wave comes up they'll go up and go over the wave and follow the contours and then splash back in but this fish because he was flying into the wind he had caught that wind and was just like eight ten feet off the water and just gliding along it was amazing that's pretty much exactly what i saw would you describe the way but it was like i said more often than this yeah this one i i really love the rendering of this one there's an illustrator back when i was um when i was in college there's an illustrator and he still might be illustrating i don't know his name is bralt bralds what brought brawls brought brawl yeah very well known uh i think he's from the netherlands um it's bra l d t look him up see if he's still around bronze but anyway i i really loved his anime his illustration style and this reminded me of his work i just thought it was really cool also anita koontz anita koontz was another illustrator i think she's still around this is i'm talking 35 years ago so i don't know um but this i just love the style of yeah this are fine this is another one i love the drawing especially on the face the head the front end um i just thought this was a really cool drawing between you know and i loved the reference i didn't save the reference but if you guys could see it this uh this blinded hyena um was really cool along with uh the gorilla and all that i thought they mixed it well but i love the the caricature of the hyena that they did here yeah i mean that seemed believable yeah completely it's a squirrel platypus yeah the squiloplus that one just made me laugh when i saw it i thought it was cute yeah i thought it was really cute and this one you know i saved this one because i was amazed at how well it worked yeah kowal ko wow but yeah it's really funny you just change the shape of the nose you gotta you got an owl and this one too i like the style um i thought it was really well rendered and stylistically i thought it was really cool some of them you know there's quite a few that i picked you know for varying reasons and this one i thought it was a really solid solid piece um it's a mixture between uh uh vulture um owl and fox and uh i love their their reference sheet that they showed and and this is really nice another one i just it just made me laugh seeing this tiger's head at the end of this long neck i thought it was cool so i threw it in there i liked it i like it i like it i like it a lot yeah there's something about the color palette that makes that work yeah it does absolutely this is one i just loved all the little sketches i just thought it was really cool to take uh a links and a seal mix them together and then all these cute little great little poses that they came up with i love it you know this is this is the kind of thing that we would do at disney when we were coming up with our our characters and we just sit there and come up with poses and situations and and uh you know and this is how they would develop and so i love i love seeing this because i'm seeing a thought process and i think it's great this one that was really cool um a bunny elephant taper i think so the the far eye i don't think you needed to have it there i think you could have gotten away with not putting it there but uh and then that that uh the end of the trunk is really cool it's creepy but it's cool it reminds me of the um the monster from stranger things yeah yeah but friendly we're friendly yeah he's going to kiss you with that trunk and then hit you yeah i've been watching this uh that show um uh invade is it invasion on uh apple yeah we talked about it last week yeah and uh the creatures are kind of funky mouths like that a little bit i like the render on this i just thought it was a nice render so i thought i'd throw in there nice some nice drawing in there nice textures nice mix you know gorilla and rhino that's kind of a terrifying mix yeah yeah there's no there's no uh defeating that yeah there is something nice about how the arch of the apex of the gorilla head comes down it fits the form of the rhino yeah well exactly what what would you how would you pronounce the name of that one this is a gorilla or rhinoceros all right nilla this one i just thought was super cute yeah it's a little miniature horse mixed with a bumblebee and if you saw the uh yeah gretchen uh if you saw the the reference it's literally a little mini horse and it's really super cute yeah and i but i just love using the bee's eye there's something about the shape of a bee's eye that's really pleasing and really beautiful and she used the fur brushes on here too which i thought was cool and the the enlargement of the eyes makes you a lot more pleasing and welcome yeah very wholesome yes this one i could see this in a movie i just thought it was cool as soon as i saw i loved the silhouette i loved um i don't know i just thought it was really cool and uh it's a really cool take on centaurs you know i'd for a while back you know uh the bancroft started uh tom bancroft started uh mermaid and uh and i thought about it and i thought you know why couldn't wales be mermaids as well and so i came up with this big whale thing and that's why i like this person taking the centaur and saying you know any primate can be a centaur i just thought it was cool so uh this one i just really loved the the thinking and the all the reference they pulled together for this i thought it was really great um the uh they did a lot of prep thinking about you know how things work how the markings work they created brushes for it you know all kinds of stuff i think in the in the execution i would have liked to have seen maybe a more intimate uh pose something where you could get more into the textures and that sort of thing but i really loved all the work that was put into it that's why i wanted to to show this because there's really a lot of thought that went into it look at all that musculature they really thought well about it this guy's i just thought it was funny that it's a a giraffe and a hound dog he's tripping on his ears made me laugh nice look at that neck i thought this was beautiful i like the colors in it for no other reason i just thought it was really colorful and and fun to look at so our little squirrel peacock ram thing this one i was like oh my god this one had so many so many uh um uh animals in it lots of reference there was a lot of a lot of study being put into here but i just thought it was an interesting i just thought it was interesting this one kind of stood out from everyone else so i threw it in there that's not super cool it is very what the hell is going on again that feels like out of a book yeah exactly illustrative quality to it look at the lion on the lower right he's like oh my god yeah it's got a it's a horse hyena water buffalo cape buffalo mix thing so this next one i burst out laughing this next one yeah it's a cat giraffe cleaning himself like a cat i thought it was hilarious there's a lot of um there's a lot of funny little sketches that went with it listen i just thought it was interesting from a thought process so as i when i was going through i see that you know there it's a a big cat whether it's a lion or a leopard mixed with a red deer uh because the red deer have to have the white spots and the uh and the antlers uh but they've also taken down a real red deer and it's like well that's kind of introspective and contemplative and kind of crazy i like that you you kind of uh you did the grass um in a way that really kept the eye in the in the composition i like that i loved loved loved the illus the illustrative style of this i thought it was really really great very unique this bare crocodile gary all looks more like a gharial combination but uh i love the just like i said stylistically the brush choices the roughness of it uh the way you've rendered the fur on the bear um the stylistic choices that you did for the caricature of the of the gariel um i just love everything about it i think it's really cool and would make a great children's book to scare the heck out of a kid it is it actually gives you vibes of um like it's uh um off species of uh godzilla yeah catcher i think it's the way that tail is i just like this zebra meerkat i just i liked the environment i just thought it was cool that's why that's why it's in there someone just asked how many inches we've got we got a little over 400 so almost the same as last time i think it's slight slightly yeah a lot a here's another one where i really like the the stylistic uh the way they illustrated it and drawing it i would love to see when you look at how you've handled the fur and everything in the face i'd love to see you handle the rest of the composition uh with that much uh care and detail you know let me take that back you don't have to do that much detail throughout but that style that you have in the face feels like it feels like you lose that style a little bit as we get into like the tree and i think the tree could have a little bit more um could be broken up in ways that sort of like the face to keep that stylistic feel throughout the entire composition but uh i really i really like it really nicely done this one i i can't remember the type of bird that uh this person based this on um i can't remember the name of it it's this bird with beautiful plumes coming off of its neck and chest but what came out of this i it just stopped me just looking at this creature it very much feels like a miyazaki type of creature doesn't it that you'd see in a miyazaki film yeah i think it looks like it's based off of uh prince modern okay like the tree spirit but maybe it's just yeah it's just magical i just wanted to throw it in there because i felt like it deserved another look by everybody yeah i really like this one too really cool um i'm not sure that this is any specific animals mixed together other than maybe a deer and bird and dog or something or wolf um i'm not even sure if this was specifically done for this for this const contest but i thought it was a really cool drawing i love the anatomy it's well thought out i like that spiral composition yeah the tails and the horns they definitely feel like they've taken terrell whitlatch classes courses that's just that made me laugh it deserves to it deserves to be seen by everybody just love it now that looks like a piece of inspiration he's in the face the way that the facial gesture is yeah going for his little sunflower seed i love it and i i love you know they're stylistically you know what i love about people that do are able to do this kind of thing is they're keeping that style throughout they're really making conscious decisions like i'm not going to go too dark in my in my main focal area that you know they only go down to about a medium uh darkness about a number five on the scale and keep it all in that range and it kind of has a certain look to it and then when you get to the foreground element which is the the finger that's in shadow holding the the sunflower seed that's when they allow themselves to go a little bit darker which all it's all of a sudden draws it closer and puts more attention on on the main subject which is the the rodent so i just think there's some really good thinking going on in here i love the drawing on this i love the face on this warthog and the way it's drawn into the the arms on the gorilla and the behind legs of the warhog i just thought everything was thought out really well and i just thought it was drawn well nice job we've got the same thing with this one the rhino pangolin penguin uh scales aren't easy to draw so i thought this is kind of cool it's more armored up brighter that makes it even more cheerful yeah so look at this one look at the reference on this one so as soon as i saw this i just laughed because that's what we came up with yeah this one i love this one i love that they're wearing my hat and they're sitting down there painting with the art of aaron blaze hat so i love it i thought it was funny yeah we gotta talk to this person i'm a big tiger bear we gotta talk to this person because i might need to make a t-shirt out of this [Laughter] yeah i love it love it love it yeah there's nothing that snorted at this one i think we followed it a little bit yeah that doesn't crack me up he just nailed that facial gesture perfectly i like that shot of you just in the middle just staring blankly at the camera [Laughter] i love it great job this one was so simple and and uh i love that they just included these two pieces for their reference a mockingbird and a snail and then came up with this really cool it's almost like a tattoo illustration uh really really neat i love it i thought it was really cool this one made me laugh tanya farn i thought that was cool it was funny and the the reference is a dude like kissing his his his uh his biceps and a bull and all that they just mixed them together into a really nice funny little bit here whether that be called a instead of centaur was it a snake top yeah i guess and this is another one i just i liked it just i i love the the presentation of the composition the idea of this dog owl wolf owl coming out of the moonlight thought it was neat i like the the the way they represented the wings the stylized the wings yeah yeah all that stylization is nice i think you could have you could have pushed the rim lighting even more and uh it would have had a pretty cool effect um yeah moonlight yeah or at least i take it as moonlight because it's an owl all right uh i thought this is a really cool pencil drawing i like the the rendering of it i thought i think it's i think it's original or a pencil yeah yeah and at first i didn't even i didn't even recognize that it was six-legged they really thought about the the idea of you know because it's a rhino beetle and so they they put the six legs on i thought that was the first thing i'm like why do you why do you think that two two left legs yeah i know it's six legs yeah nice texturing on the the pencil work that's a wolf in sheep's clothing i thought it was cool nice cool shadows i really like the cool shadows with the warm uh reflected lights so you really got a great sense of light in here um and i just thought it was interesting you know we all we all have heard the wolf and sheep's clothing turn before and so here you see it literally it's kind of cool so this i had to include this one because it was just insane look at all the animals so you get all these animals and then you get what the hell is that [Laughter] what i thought it was great it's funny look at that snake he's that's horrible he's just getting ripped apart ripped in half and look at his face wow yeah anyway it made me laugh and you know it's funny we had several gorilla leopard uh submissions i mean yeah i think like three i thought this was and actually they were all pretty cool um i'd grab this one because i thought it was done well uh with the markings and everything but yeah i grabbed this because i thought you do a gorilla i did i did a long time ago i did it as a i think a live stream i was just thinking about uh yeah this is another one where i thought the uh i thought the little sketches were really super appealing and uh i think i guess it's a pug and a gecko mix i think yeah except for the little spikes on the back a salamander uh is an amphibian so they wouldn't have the little spikes that's the only thing that made me go reptile but like the little that little sketch on the lower left how simple how simply handled the anatomy is but how really nicely accurate it is i really love it i love these little sketches makes me want to animate it erica says she loves the top right yeah yeah i agree i want to animate it i thought this is i just put this one in here because i don't know anybody that would have handled the face and head in the way that this person did i just thought it was really interesting yeah yeah it does doesn't it just fresh out yeah and i thought this was clever too mixing a a a weasel a ferret or a weasel and a goose and really just discarding the goose's body and letting it feed right into the the spindliness of the body of the weasel um nice illustration it is you know they they flow together really well i thought that was interesting it was nice thinking so this one i i i think the illustration is okay what really struck me on this one uh was the thought behind it i looked at this and a lot of this stuff i like better than the illustration i would have loved to have seen you take more time on this on this illustration and i would have loved to have seen a little bit more care taken in like the fur textures and and that sort of thing it's a nice it's it's a nice idea but i love would have loved to have seen you just take it a little further but what i really love like i said is this bad eared fox and a jackrabbit and you know exactly like if you look at the the illustration the upper right it's a one-year-old male this person's really thinking about the age and how the bones are growing and um if you read some of the notes down here there's a lot of thought going into all of this now the juvenile with antlers if you look at the lower left illustration um there's a lot of thought that went into this and i would have loved to have seen that amount taken into the final illustration really really cool thinking really really well done i know this is simple i know this is um you know it's a bit primitive and i but you know what i could see this animated and then you know and if it really if you if you guys saw the latest uh suicide squad with the shark guy yeah this to me felt like that it was that simple i can totally this is a a hippo shark and like i said um it i could see i could animate this and it would be really funny it's done it works it just works and i thought you know and so that's what i want people to see is that you don't always have to have super complicated super complex um anatomy for something to work um you know if you find the right style you could come up with something that's really simple and and i'm not not being uh insulting there's a child childish quality to this and the way that it's rendered um a child like i should say but it's clear and it's got great silhouette and i could see it moving around and i can see character coming out of this and there's something about this i really like and so i wanted to get something to include impression that just works yeah yeah so it not everything has to be super rendered or super uh full of anatomy um sometimes you can just do something simple like this and it kind of works um this one i thought was really cool it's uh a civet uh a fossa not a civet a fossa um and a glass of frog where you can see into their guts and i just thought it's like oh my god that's a really weird concept and uh so anyway that's that's this right here this is the thinking they put behind it and i've drawn fossa's they had a fossa at the chester zoo and uh the tail is as long as the body it's really really long and a lot of fun to draw and you can see they've got this great anatomy to them and uh so i just i really enjoyed growing up reference sketches yeah and what's really cool look at the cat and all the guts yeah that tiny little illustration in the upper left they've uh they've basically figured out where the guts kind of go and worked it out on the on the adult it's really neat um uh rebecca bell how often do you do these uh drawing contests uh well it's we've just started doing them this is only our second one so uh like five years ago oh did we yeah yeah we're going gonna try to do it more often but uh but here yeah so look at this look at the the amount of work put into this and uh it's just really really cool um and i think the final illustration is is pretty neat there's another one i thought was really fun to look at and just a fun illustration a chameleon uh bison so and he's knocked over some toxic waste so i think that's why we're seeing a chameleon bison camellia son chameleons [Music] by alien committee son i like camilla's son chameleon but nicely done really nicely done and this is uh this is another one i just thought was interesting some otters and and uh peacocks mixed and uh i love the circular composition to it um nice clear silhouettes and uh fun just fun rendition of of this concept i thought so that kind of covers all of our initial ones that i thought you know garnered some honorable mentions and for everyone to see um there is hundreds more and if you didn't see yours it's not because it wasn't good enough we only have so much so much time otherwise i'd be sitting here for the next six hours um but please know that i was really happy with everybody's and and uh just i can't wait till we do our next contest because i'm i'm so uh i just get so excited to see what people send in especially you know when we come up with a theme and so you know we'll be doing more of that but this is uh these are our top picks and uh and i'll talk about for various reasons uh this first one coming up i just really love overall the action going on the thought of the anatomy um the rendition of it um i have a feeling this person laura hansen um i have a feeling this person studied with terrell whitlach there's definitely some terrible wetlands feel to it but i don't know but the idea of a pterosaur and uh uh lemurs mixed together i thought were really cool it tells the whole story of predation and fighting over the kill and i just thought it was really neat and the the anatomy is really done well really done well so nice job a lemur dactyl told todd says oh hey that's mine great awesome boo uh well it's tot on youtube that's their their uh this is laura hansen yeah okay from uh on the earlier oh gotcha so melissa mcconnell um this one i loved the mood i loved the background um first of all the the the animals themselves are very believable and the way that they're the red deer mixed with horses uh but just the whole composition is pretty well thought out and it has this magical fairy tale kind of feel to it that really drew me in and uh so i just i just thought it was really really nicely uh drawn and rendered and so i thought it deserved a nice little spot in here alyssa i get excuse me so melissa i guess you go by elissa so this is alyssa mcconnell this one made me laugh right off the bat i loved uh this is a very nicely refined style from stephanie shaw uh this is a hippopotamus no a hippopotamus yeah you can't get any better than that name and she literally did it because of that name she created this character based on that pun a hippopotamus and once again i loved you know keeping everything in a certain key like the background everything's in a high key that airbrush quality to it uh the caricature of the eyes the face everything i just really like this uh yeah when i first saw this i almost thought it was cg i was like is that a model yeah it feels it does feel like it doesn't it yeah really nice yeah very very nice here's another one where um at first you get a little bit lost in um where to look but if you blow it up like i see it on my screen um this is from jolene vittorovic i think from serbia uh the illustrative style of this really pulled me in there was i didn't see anything like it and and any of the submissions and i loved the the design quality and all of the line quality your eye never stops moving it's all it's swirling all throughout the composition um and it's a mixture of of rooster bird peacock fox um and i really like i said color wise and line work-wise i really love this image and uh thought it deserved a a big mention because they really did kind of break from trying to be photographic and just create something that's stylistically really unique very pleasing yes he's very pleased alvin says it's almost van gogh yes i agree yeah very very cool this one i thought man what a great character um this is one of my top four picks right here and uh this is from muhammad afiq and salah i think i hope i said it right from um uh malaysia uh and uh just really really beautifully done nice character everything fits together really well beautiful color i love that um yeah it's just a great illustration really love it so this one um i got to tell you joel jensen um these are so we're we're getting into the top three now and this one has my vote for the most beautiful rendered piece out of in the entire group um it's so beautifully rendered so thoughtfully done uh i love looking at it i love exploring it um i love the idea of the antlers being tree branches um the the markings yeah the markings on the deer or the elk those are okapi uh which is a a very very closely related animal to giraffe that live in you know central africa um i just really really i i thought it was great and uh there's a couple other ones under me coming up that i thought took the assignment which is i just thought they took it a little further uh but like i said this one here um it's in the top three and before we move on i think uh aaron went back and forth between these two i did i kept going back and forth this one's the winner this one's the winner this one's the one yeah i did and so this one isn't necessarily the winner but i do want to give the next two i want to give them um because i really couldn't really decide i thought we were going for all three we were gonna do the membership i thought the membership goes to the top one anyway right but for the touch for we didn't say that we were getting the membership oh i'm sorry so uh that's why i was i was i you just did i was getting to that that's when i was getting ready so joel uh we're gonna give you may already be a member if you are we're gonna give you a one-year annual membership to our website yeah so if you're already a member you'll get another year three another year and that's we're going to do that for these next three and of course the winner is going to get the ipad yeah so there you go so joel uh great job beautiful illustration and uh you've got a uh a year membership to our site zounji zanji's the guy that uh we know zanji he's on our live streams all the time and um on facebook and over here oh right on well zoungji you you you you you made me laugh i love the thought process through all of this this is and you know i think your rendering is great um but i really more than your rendering i love all the elements you put into this and the thought process behind it i love that you've got a parakeet as part of as one of the hybrid animals and so therefore you've got an australian stamp in the background and i see it says james james which i'm assuming is james gurney on there which is super cool i love that you've got a picture of mom and dad on the mirror mom is a parakeet dad is a chipmunk you know i just think there's so many cute little things in here that just really make this illustration and tell a story i love this it was like a norman rock ball company it really does yeah i love the soda can or the soda the soda bottle uh top uh being used as a mirror and you can see the reflection in the mirror um all of that i just think it's really really great really well thought out um fun to look at at night and and a nice blend of the two animals as well so um i think i'm pretty sure you're already a member on our site um but you got a free membership coming up for next year yeah wonderful yeah and so this next one uh is the winner and i gotta tell you kitten sue um once again i went back and forth between these the these three illustrations but ultimately i really love the story being told in this one i love the fact that you have two animals very very well blended together um uh you have a hummingbird and a jaboa or you know something it could be a kangaroo rat but it's more specifically a jaboa with a tail like that and uh i just really love that that blend of the of the bird of the hummingbird ruby-throated hummingbird and jaboa but also the praying mantis and the snake mixed together um you're using your lighting to draw attention to the right places um you know the lighting on the snake uh praying mantis is great because it pulls your eye right down there um the flow you know my eye goes right along the the mantis snake right into the tail of the hummingbird through the flower they're watching on youtube right now and they say oh my god thank you so much i can't believe it so good i'm happy you know and i'm looking at the the beautiful greens that you used in the leaves up in the upper right it really reminds me of bambi and the way if you look at bambi and the way the backgrounds were portrayed in bambi this really has a bambi quality to it so everything like i said these top these top uh illustrations all of them were beautiful and you guys made it so difficult to pick uh but i do this one i kept coming back to kept coming back to it kept coming back to it because it was you know first of all we got we got four animals mixed together and um but it also has got you know some action to it and um like i said story uh just like the other ones as well but there's just something about this i just really love i love the blurring of the wings the action the the little bit of nectar coming off the beak into the flower all of it so there you go there's our winning winner kitten sue i think i'm saying sue sir anyway um really really beautiful work from everybody uh thank you so much for for uh participating and how long we've been at it today hour and ten minutes oh and and so thank you so much to cash for your mac.com for donating our ipad that's our price yes we just want to give a shout out to them again uh if you are in the market for a new ipad or iphone or anything like that they've got a really wonderful trade-in program on their website so it's definitely worth checking out and uh as our previous winner cal knows it's uh they're they're great ipad pros uh coming your way uh kitten and joel was watching who did the deer and says thank you so much it's an honor to be in the top three and uh yeah these are awesome yeah and once again you guys thank you so much for taking this seriously and really putting your effort in there i i wish i could give something to everybody um everyone's done you know put so much work into it and i really enjoy looking at the work and if anything if you didn't win if you didn't get recognized you know i'm hoping that you guys are watching i'm hoping that you're getting to see what some of your peers are doing because that's how i learned you know as i came up through college and and my young days at disney i really learned not so much by learning concepts by by really seeing what where other people what they were doing and how they were being successful and trying to imple implement some of their at least their theories not necessarily copying what they were doing but their thinking into my work and my work grew as a result and that's really how we learn together and so hopefully through you know looking at this critique and seeing some of the other work you may have gotten some ideas and how you might take it further in your next uh piece of work yeah and i think some people i've seen in the comments some people are saying they're a little discouraged that they didn't do better and some people are saying that they're taking it as motivation to do better and i think i think yeah do not do not take it as discouragement at all yeah i think i think exactly to aaron's point the idea is to learn from other people but not compare yourself to themselves exactly so you compare yourselves to yourself so if your art is improving and your art is getting better that is the most that's the only measuring stick that happens it doesn't matter exactly you know and and it's all subjective anyway it is who cares what i think aaron literally i mean there's probably 10 that could have won exactly and not to take away from our winner because it's an outstanding piece i'm just saying that you know it's hard hard to judge art yeah but but that being said once again what nick was saying earlier has a lot of merit and this is and it's one of the things that i think i deal with the most with young artists is them complete they get self-contained they get self-conscious because they feel like they're not doing as well as the next person or that person or that person and you really can end up in your own head and you can't do that you really got to compare yourself to to how you were the day before the week before or the month before that if you're learning and if you're growing then it doesn't matter how you compare to somebody else that you're growing at your own rate and eventually you're going to get to where you need to be because i know that you know i was guilty of it too when i was younger i would i would compare myself to other artists and just get so caught up into you know why can't i see it why can't i do it like that and it really it just it's it's something that takes time and and these these concepts and these uh um exercises and those types of things they have to grow they've got a they've got to propagate in your brain they don't they don't just pop in there and all of a sudden you can do it it has to you have to get the concept and then you have to you have to propagate it and you have to work it and you have to learn through doing it and make mistakes and and that's how you're going to learn and i think it's also probably important for people to realize that the way you grow as an artist isn't a straight line it's just it's usually a series of plateaus but you might feel stuck at a level for a long time and then all of a sudden you'll make a huge breakthrough and you'll jump up to the next level and it's just yeah it's it's little spurts and plateaus it's not it's not like a straight diagonal line you know between how you get how to get floating boat rated right so anyway so i want to thank you guys for all of your hard work and the participation we're going to be doing this again probably in the new year um next week we are going to be back with a new live stream on christmas eve so that's going to be a nice halloween themed image so we'll do a christmas themed image next week i'm not sure what we're going to do but i think we're going to call it for today but uh first should we ask the quality question yes we have a question here we have a dude we do have a quality question and so the quality question if you could uh go to excellent thank you um i am a student currently studying uh agrometrology agrometeorology acro what he said agri-meteorology uh but really passionate about art and i have been giving time uh to it a lot i want to know what process should i take to step up my art career thanks well first of all agrometeorology is the study of weather and how it affects prop or crop growth and how you can use weather to increase your crop yield or or why your crop isn't yielding it all has to do with the weather and how you can utilize the weather uh better so there you go you know wait the more you know the more you grow is there anything that you don't know well there's a lot in there in just the in what it's called it's aggro meteorology right so it's agriculture and weather right and uh by the way that question is from uh t bling's 50 um yeah i mean it's well first of all that's a cool field that you're in uh i it kind of goes i don't know i'm sure there's areas that that it can mix with art but as far as getting an art career going it literally is finding whether it's an hour every day um or two hours or whatever time you can find it's sitting down and dedicating that amount of time with no distractions uh toward your art so um i'll give you an example now granted i was already doing art but this is i think it still applies when i was uh when i left college and started at disney while i was in college i never had any intention of being an animator i wanted to be a painter and so when i got my job at disney that quote paid the bills i still wanted to be a painter and i still wanted to show in galleries and so what i would do is i would go to work and we this is when we were working on you know beauty and the beast and aladdin and all these movies that you guys know of um i would work on those during the day but then i would go home and i would play with a young dustin who was about two years old at the time and my and my daughter as well who was three years old and we'd play and have fun and and we'd have dinner and i'd throw us over the boats and throw you over the boat yeah you guys would get on my feet and throw them up in the air on the on the living room floor um but then they go to bed and at nine o'clock every night and i and i did this five nights a week i treated it like a job on the weekends i took it off but uh five days a week monday thursday monday through friday um i would start at nine o'clock and pull out my easel and i would start to paint and i was doing my wildlife painting and i would paint sometimes it would only be for an hour but other times i might paint till two or three o'clock in the morning but then i'd have to get up at you know eight o'clock seven o'clock to go to work so i was always careful about you know how late i painted um uh but i was able to do that and you know over the course of a year or two three four five years um i was able to get work into galleries and and kind of keep a painting career going my my goals have shifted since then and i've since steered away from uh you know gallery work and that sort of thing but my point being is at the time i just literally had to make the time to do it and that's what you need to do if you want to do art and and grow as an artist um you can be a meteor or an agro meteorologist um at the same time uh but you're at some point you have to squeeze in your art time and so whether it's an hour in the morning or a few hours in the evening um that's what you got to do and i and the you know the follow-up question to that is you know i have so many people going um but how do you how do you deal with uh motivation or how do you deal with finding the time well if you first of all if you're if you're having motivation issues for doing your art maybe you don't want to do art because you shouldn't have motivational issues if you want to be an artist that burning desire should already be there so think about that and if that burning desire is there then you find the time at some point during the day we all are on our phones you know for hours and a day we're all watching television for hours you know during the day um and so take some of that time that you have doing one thing and reallocate it to doing art and you'll be surprised at how much time you can find doing that so there you go there's your answer is it's basically finding that time dedicating it towards doing art and just whether it's drawing painting whatever and it doesn't you don't have to create masterpieces just sit there and create matter of fact i recommend making a lot of mistakes because if you're not making mistakes you're not learning so um you know try to find some kind of structure in your life where you can set some time aside to do your art and you'll be happy so there you go and thank you so much for that question if you want to see your question your quality question answered in a future live stream if you go to caspermac.com aaron they've got a form there where you can submit your question and uh hopefully you'll see it on a on a future stream uh they've got some special promos going on over there as well so thank you again for that and be sure to check them out and we are pulling these questions exclusively from there so if you want your question featured that's the place to go do it um before we wrap up i want to remind everybody that this weekend or actually today only we've got uh 50 off all of our animation lessons including 60 off our complete animation course which is our number one rated course and number one selling course um it's where aaron takes you through the 12 principles of animation his scene approach course his lip sync in there dialogue acting for animation is on sale uh animated and calipad with travis blaze is on sale scene approach course um this uh now every day through christmas we've got a new sale going on on the site and all of these by the way all of our courses can be sent as a gift so if you want uh whether it's for yourself or if you know an artist in your life that you think uh could benefit from some tutorials or has an interesting animation you can go click this uh gift to this class button on any of the courses and it'll let you basically send it and you can schedule the delivery for any day you want be it christmas their birthday whatever so i wanted to let you know so now is a great time to do that um and thank you for watching yeah i had a great time today i didn't get to draw but i really had a great time sharing all these beautiful entries with you guys and once again thank you so much for everybody that participated um you did a great job and i can't wait to do it again so thanks you guys have a great week have a safe weekend go out put some beauty back in the world create some art make someone else's life better that's what we need in this world and i can't wait to see you again next friday so have a great week and i'll talk to you then see you people bye

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