LIVE STREAM: Drawing In Yellowstone with Peter Han & Manu Carrasco

great but we thought we'd come back and do some drawing i've got mana carrasco i've got peter hahn and we thought it would be a really cool idea to come back and do some drawing and just bring you in on our experience we're going to share some of the experiences that we've had today and yesterday and the day before and uh and just bring you in on it and talk to you about how we what we do on these trips and all that kind of thing so once you follow me we're going to go into the uh into the apartment we've got dust in here as well nick is handling the camera hello oh and by the way it's peter hans and mandy's birthday peter hahn was a couple days ago and mandy is today so you got to waste my happy birthday speaking of which we're not going to be able to reply to questions because we're oh that's right yeah we can't do questions only because we're not able to read them the internet here is going to be bad right here we got the guys here's everyone here hey hey guys how's it going and so this is our little our little lodge that we rented for the uh for the for the duration and uh we've got a little picnic table we thought it'd be kind of fun we pulled up our reference when we go out and we draw we draw from life and we've shown you got the you know in the past and uh and so we've been doing a lot of rough sketching from life but then when we come back at night we like to take our sketches we like to take our photographs and everything and do more refined uh drawing with our reference but also using some of that muscle memory some of that uh sit down and do something a little bit more finished and so that's what we're going to do here today and uh and then just talk about our experiences right guys yeah yes one time in yellowstone yes yes yes yes cheers yep cheers guys got a little uh buffalo trace kentucky straight bourbon whiskey don't drink if you're underage so i've got uh this is a mother grizzly with two cubs that we came across uh dustin got a really great shot of and i just really thought that would be fun to draw and uh manny's got a coyote here one of dustin's shots i couldn't transfer any photos over to my ipad yet so get the bighorn sheep this is from yesterday so those amazing just rolling across that hill yeah that male lion the male one of the giant big horns of male the dominant male kept looking back and yeah scared away with something so yeah i'm going to show you guys some of the footage we got so far let's go ahead and you're seeing a screen of a screen so i apologize if it's uh [Music] let's try that again so this morning we saw bear cub black bear cub climbing the tree it was the coolest thing mama was right behind him little twins little twins yeah she had two cubs with her actually got a real nice shot here of the of the cup sticking his head out of the uh the drain oh you did get it yeah awesome aaron did some drawing right there on the spot yeah so we did some drawing these are uh oh actually go ahead and keep filming that and i'll show later what are we doing i'm gonna love the smell of that was he or was it grizzly and she had two cubs with her kept a pretty far distance from them so video is a little grainy yeah we had to uh you know they have very strict rules about engagement with the wildlife here especially the big the big predators and uh such as grizzlies and black bears and especially mamas with cubs it's even more strict then we went down we saw some harlequin ducks which were cold down by the there's a waterfall there a lot of restriction with those feet plenty of bison did a live stream yesterday some of you on youtube may have caught it we were live for about 30 minutes yesterday out in the field oh and this was cool this was a wolf he came up he swam across that lake climbed up on that log shook off and there was a buffalo carcass right nearby and he went over and started eating it but that's enough of that let's see what these guys are up to so these are some of the ruts this is what we would do on location so you can see these are quite a bit more rough so these are the ones that i drew as i was looking at the mama bear and her cubs getting different poses getting gestures that sort of thing so i have at least a notion of their form and that sort of thing when i come back to draw and now i sit down and i'm using a very light number three copic marker to rough in their rough shape just like a gesture and then i'll go in later with a pen and uh and tie them down and we apologize if the stream goes down at all we are streaming digitally so we're not quite sure we're streaming digitally we're streaming off of cell phone signals so yeah we're we're in the mountains out in the mountains in montana i'm using a chisel point um copic here gives me the uh accidents that i need to not stay so true to the photograph so all of us are using permanent tools but i always get that question of why you know why don't we use like pencils and stuff like this which are great tools myself but you know i have my own notions what about you guys i just like the purpose of you like with a pen you put the pen down you're done yeah i i haven't drawn with pencils since i don't know college to me it's uh problem solving peter yeah like i i uh set a line down and i have to figure out if i get something wrong i have to figure out how to correct that or what to do but uh i've done so many gestures and so much drawing that i'm pretty comfortable with not do you say you put down lines that are wrong i do most of the lines aaron's like what's that like i think there's always that concern from young people who assume that they all of a sudden be so perfect with the pen and the two and they think that's the only way to train i mean of course it's a great way to build confidence um yeah that whole idea of permanent permanence within the line is interesting yeah i love it dustin what are you working on i am currently working on editing the photos of the black bear and the her cubs that we got today in fact just finished this this edit here's the original as you can see it was able to bring out all the all the fur out and it can shrink it out down quite a bit in which i do quite a lot with this camera it's a lot cropping involved but it does bring back bring the composition that i really want so and again i apologize we're not able to see your questions i'm sure some of you are asking them we're just not able to see them right now so this is going to be sort of a one-way conversation more so than normal um if i can call them up here on another device i might try to do that but the signal here has been really spotty so we're just not able to watch the stream while we do it normally i pull it up on my phone but i'm using my phone for my reference reference so actually you can put yourself on your phone just maybe so what are you drawing peter what's that uh yeah yeah using the pikma fb pen from sakura felt tip uh soft and squishy so it gives you a lot of line variation that's like me so there you go did a pre-sketch earlier uh it wasn't necessarily for this piece it's just because i had all right i don't know they going cheap all that much i got some of the food are you still talking oh i'm sorry but uh got some uh facebook questions here from jay price hi guys hope you uh enjoying your trip any uh tips on how to draw a wolf running towards you in three quarters i was meant to ask you last week but facebook was down yes um you got but you gotta you gotta do it from life you gotta live it so what you do is you go out to yellowstone and you bring a couple of pork chops and you time around your neck and you put yourself out there you gotta wait and that sucker will come out there and then you got to run yeah and that's how you can do it like the wind put it put a gopro on your back but you'll never forget you'll never forget that by the way i'm kidding just so we can cover ourselves you're building that visual library [Laughter] you know that's for a question like that you know it's it's not something we can just tell you how to do it's something you gotta you gotta research and you know if you can't see the animal in the wild then obviously you wanna find the video anything you can that's going to help you uh fill in the information that you see what you're drawing there and i don't think i've actually shown your drawings yet so i'm uh doing this mama i just laid it in very lightly with this number three copic marker and so now that i got it kind of roughed in then i'm going to go in and i'm starting to blacken it all in and uh cisco jc says aaron blaze is left-handed cool always have been you and always will and at least would be here yeah it's funny the funny thing about it my whole family's left hand my father's left handed my mother's left-handed my brother's left-handed is travis yeah travis is left-handed oh you said my brother i wonder if to that guaran because your mother and father were both left-handed that that guarantee you both would be left-handed is that no i don't know i i have no idea i actually have i come there's there's nine siblings in my family um a lot of half brothers and sisters and my my full brother full-blooded brother is the only one that's left-handed well that's because you had that same parents that's what made me wonder yeah exactly you know it's probably unusual for usual and this is part of our routine we love to get out obviously the our favorite part of this is getting out in the field and just finding the wildlife there's there's no better high and excitement than doing that but then we we come back at night and we tend to wind down especially when we're in africa um come back and wind down and we start talking about the day's events and we draw and we just have a really great time how many days has been already two two days yeah it's like like a day and a half it's only been a day and a half but it's weird it's only been a day to happen we already seen a lot we've seen so much in a day and a half that's the beauty of yellowstone right yeah yeah the expectations and the surprises i mean we came in in our first two hours that we were here we came across that wolf on that bison kill yeah sorry about the shaky camera guys i don't have a steady camera or anything with me oh man i had one shoot that's it manny would you please leave but there's always that mentality that people assume that i can't go to these places you know they're too far too expensive you can't go right now but yeah that's a good point but that's just i think a lame excuse i mean yeah it's not it's especially if it's something you really want to do you know yellowstone is very easy to get to if you're if you're based in the united states that's true um if you're not based in the united states there's you know wherever it is that you are there's there's a lot of natural places to get out to and sometimes it could be just right at your front door yeah absolutely just the ability to step out and not be stuck in your room in front of a computer all day and that's what we really recommend even if you just go out to the park or wherever you know get out and draw from life get out and you know look at the world around you i'm 53 now and i've just and i i just can't do this enough and i think i do it more now than i did when i was younger yeah how are we looking on questions dustin anything uh do they auto scroll yeah a comment to uh uh peter from jade hi uh peter hahn i learned a lot of your drawing pro uh problem solving during lockdown can't wait to start drawing uh trips again once uh we are allowed to yeah well that's the thing even with this i mean we're outdoors right now we're with friends and you know obviously we're all vaccinated and stuff like that we are conscious of things like spaces and people and big groups and whatnot so social distancing absolutely yeah let's reiterate that i just want to make sure because we get a lot of flack from people all of us are vaccinated yep yeah we're still going to wear a mask and especially outdoors and stuff like that but being in the outdoors you know with in our own group constantly you know we're in control of that so it makes us feel comfortable that we can still get together and be a part of something like this um right at some point you got to make that move and if you're constantly just in fear and just being able to step out behind the transition away from that life that we're all starting to become very settled into just staying indoors sitting inside of a room yeah becoming introverts i just busted my kneecap that was wonderful i felt that yeah all the way up in my butt talks oh man oh shout out to the bud right on the chair right on the chair bench seat so for me i'm pretty much at the point where line work-wise i'm relatively close to being done and i'm actually going to move into a watercolor just doing quick wash stuff yeah that's the other thing we should talk about a little bit is some of the materials that we bring with us yeah you know you can see we've got uh drawing pads and and drawing utensils but um like peter's doing there we bring watercolors we bring paints um i've got a really cool thing here that i carry with me i'm sure peter has something like this is there a little watercolor sense yeah the cotton you ever use that's yours is the newer model you can still get but these are really cool because it's very very compact you put it in your pocket and it opens up and all of a sudden it's got a little clip right here that can clip on the top of the uh the paint box and then on the back i've got a little loop where i can put my thumb through and hold it like this like like so and then i've got a little pallet here and you put your water in here and this part of the pallet is actually a bottle it holds water you put the water in there you got a little paint brush right here and you can sit and paint and it's very very handy to be on the field and do quick little washes little sketches i'm carrying something much bigger this is my watercolor tin got a whole range of colors in here this is a gift as well uh from uh hyunjin from the super ani crew it's actually from two years ago my birthday actually i got this one but um pre-selected like palette and i've been using this one for a little bit manny's doing push-ups and push-ups can i then it'll be a push-up competition yeah that night nice picture of the uh well that's gorgeous cute little kib did you guys see this one where you got the shallow depth of field that's got painting and for anybody that's wondering uh all these were shot with this camera here which is the sony alpha one thanks man you're welcome sorry and the lens i use is actually the lens right over [Music] you can just tell us there's a sony 200 to 600 millimeter lens awesome huge i'm currently doing aaron's wolf course on my laptop and watching this live stream on my phone phone at the same time you're crazy and uh nick heasley's asking have any of you done any underwater photography or like any uh shark cave diving i would love to no i did i you know i've never done a ton but when i was uh living on the beach a few years ago i was doing a lot of uh just free diving and snorkeling on the reef that was there so a lot of sharks a lot of turtles a lot of really cool stuff having grown up in florida i've kind of grown up around that stuff and it's always fun to have access to it yeah i would love to do underwater photography but that requires a lot of additional gear that i would need to get together in order for that to work but definitely something i plan on doing in the future i'm just about to sign up for a certification for scuba oh yeah yeah i think it should be fun for those that didn't tune in yesterday that might not have seen the the brief little stream what pen is that again that you're using there how many times this is a kurataki refillable i'm not sure what the uh actual name of the pin is is a gift from peter peter to do that he gives us all these really cool but uh it's a refillable kurtaki yeah this is the ink that we're using it's that platinum carbon ink i use this to fill up pretty much every other pen brush pens fountain pens yeah so this is this is a it's it's nice to try out new new stuff do you find that up sorry no no it's it's just fun to try out new stuff in it it's got a different feel something new uh peter do you use refillable ink and use that ink because you find it to be more economical or because you prefer that anchor is it both economical and not as wasteful yeah you know i buy thousands of you know felt-tip pens and stuff like this and they're great tools and i use them for classes and teaching but you know for me after 10 years of doing this kind of stuff teaching wise you can imagine how much plastic waste i go through so i tend to kind of carry like fountain pens and stuff like this or refillable pens because i know that this will if i take care of it last me a lifetime so yeah i'll spend a couple hundred dollars on something like this and people are like i can't spend that much on a pen but if it's a lifelong product i'm saving much more compared to spending you know on stuff like this which i'll buy uh here and there because i can't get certain kind of lines uh with this to us with this one but i'm conscious of what i'm getting do you guys want to show again because everybody watching now probably didn't see yesterday not to interrupt your train of thought but do we want to maybe show some of the stuff yeah that we did earlier sure sure maybe peter show his first since he's a little further along in his image image and then we'll come back to you right now in terms of the trip i'm thinking of what i'm going to carry with me of course and i'm usually having a small pack uh i flew from lax to here so i have one suitcase and one carry-on bag so i want to keep it as light as possible i carry one fresh new sketchbook with every new trip uh because i want to just have a different kind of paper i'm playing with or because it's going to be a different theme for the sketchbook so this one in particular it was started here on this trip already this is you know observation of like trucks and stuff and i'll draw everything from animals to landscapes to vehicles and people so anything that catches my eye visually i want to i gravitate towards it then of course drawing on location with the animals as well uh from you know the bears and stuff and all this stuff being distanced a lot of the perspective is very flat so we're not really pushing so much on depth and space more just based on silhouettes and value if anything else um and then once we get interesting shots that are a little bit closer maybe we can kind of push that and even then i'll even use a little bit of imagination to push the camera around a bit more as well but um all this will be again this is now from reference photographs i'll still start another headshot reference photographs but in the meantime i also would then carry other sketchbooks just for my i can kind of outside personal work so this is a personal sketchbook that i started you know last year and i carried this one because i'm still filling it up uh so awesome wow yeah while i'm drawing here from observation i'll get inspiration from that and apply it here so this is all you know from my head these sketches and drawings and creating creatures and animals that are not obviously real but they're inspired by reality right so it's cool that's why i like to carry dual books like this um and that's you know pretty much about it yesterday's for me yesterday stuff was a lot of doodling uh let's see let's see let's see so this is a really cheap oh there's one of my quick lines and i don't know if there's something on the other side this is something that we started then we left but here we go so this is a super cheap sketchbook that i bought that i love the paper a bunch of the doodles i carry kind of limited see these are just line gestures those are so nice we were sitting near the same bison for a bit and today i decided not to draw a bison because i've been drawing bison so i going with the coyote as far as what i carry um i always carry markers with me not necessarily any brand i really like these new sketch markers it's a company out of russia i believe and uh literally just called sketch marker sketch marker brush yeah and i really love their brush pen it's really nice and flexible gives you nice nice lines i like going with a a light color because i i don't feel like i commit to whatever i put down i can keep moving my lines around um i carry stuff to highlight with i guess a lot like aaron some whites and then a backpack full of uh sketchbooks and again like peter uh i like to try out new new sketchbooks so i just buy a variety this is a really cool oh and i dropped art supplies everywhere i'll share this with you guys this is a um handmade sketchbook this yeah that this book kills me so this is a handmade sketchbook from italy that i found from a company called epica and uh ethica epica epsc the last thing we do we're going to make sure that manny publishes so this is uh a lot of you know that i follow mountain lions a lot i track them i've always been fascinated with them if you guys keep up with me i've been tracking a big male and a female with a kit and these are just uh this is almost like cloth it's handmade paper the texture is incredible i've i've wet it down dampened it using a lot of alcohol on it with markers etc this is a combination of india inks watercolor ballpoint pens i love ballpoint pens just because of the water proofing of them when you run markers of it you just change colors and then people think that i did that on purpose it's pretty strange but these are these are a cat book that i'm working on this is one of the cast this is one of the five brothers that nick myself peter and aaron saw in africa in the masai mara this is a big jaguar i'm planning to go to the pantanol soon to see these guys in person and work with some biologists this is a tiger from the zoo actually the hoguel zoo in utah i think she's just passed away and then another snow leopard i was supposed to go to the himalayas with a friend of mine named sandesh kadur national geographic filmmaker who's got wildcats of india right now on disney plus plugging his show in this is a clouded leopard that he uh i think i got one more and this is an old aaron blaze draw a picture oh yeah yeah i went to visit aaron's studio and i stole this photograph from him and i think this is the last it was given willingly yeah but uh so i'm really excited about this book uh big cats of the world and then i'm also working on a mountain lion book but and then the coyote is special to me because i grew up with a coyote you had a i had a pet coyote growing up a very strange quick story uh we had some neighbors move next to us they stole a coyote from a den at a young age they moved away and left her and my grandmother started feeding her and her name was nikki and she was amazing and now we have a soft spot i have a soft spot for coyotes wherever you are and where are we at with your drawings or coyotes well i didn't bring a lot with me i wanted to travel light but i do have just the sketchbook that i started on this trip and there's not a ton in here but i do have um i like to work on the strathmore tone gray once again this is i like to start with uh um a fresh sketchbook as well when i go on these trips um and these are just very quick little scribbles um just to get the gesture down and some of you ask well why don't you just take photographs and draw from the photographs later and we do we do take photographs but there's something about sitting down drawing from life looking at the subject matter in three dimensions seeing them move you pick up so much even though we do know the anatomy you pick up a lot on getting that form that shape and embedded into your brain this is my view when we found the wolf on the bison kill i wasn't looking through binoculars it was just what i could see and sometimes it's kind of fun just to do that you know it's the whole landscape and so there was this wolf off in the distance about 150 yards eating off of this carcass and i thought it'd be interesting to include kind of the whole land uh landscape in there and see what it would look like and then some more uh bear gestures those were the grizzlies right yep yep the grizzlies the mama and the two cubs they're you're they're yearling cubs they're about ready to get kicked out um yearling meaning they're two years old not not fresh um the the black bear cubs that we saw today those are spring cubs so it just came out and then that was the start of another one and then uh these are some bison that we drew yesterday up in mammoth hot springs area and there's lots of little babies all the all the female uh bison are dropping their babies right now and so we've already come across several uh bison that one in particular that was still wet and still had the umbilical cord hanging off and very very fresh fresh out of the oven which is part of why you like that's one of the reasons we like coming here this time of year because you get to see you know it's the springtime it's the babies being born it's all that kind of thing as far as a lot of the adults they're a little bit ragged looking um only because they've just survived a harsh winter and so when you want to see the adults in their prime with the elk and their big antlers and the bear you know fully fattened up and all that sort of thing then you want to come in september yeah so there we are there's a magpie i drew last night and then very quickly as we were seeing that mama bear in her two cubs i just started to scribble really fast and so um she looks more like a grizzly but uh but there she is with the two cubs as i as i sketched that's all we've got so far on that dustin how are we looking at your pictures well i got a lot of the uh black bear today but let me show you some of the stuff i was able to edit the other day the other day the other day here so as uh dad showed uh there's the sketching of um of the wolf with the carcass but i was able to get real nice close shots real able to crop in and get real nice close and personal shots of that wolf as he was chewing down on the uh on the carcass out there you see see look at his eyes and then also at the same time i saw the coyote out there there is quick question hold on hold that thought jade says i've been purchasing andrew loomis's books and perspective close to 20 books now how many is enough to gain the quality of of your guys's work it's not about the books it's really about the the the pencil mileage you know you got to get in there and and uh and start wearing down some pencils and pens and styluses and everything else that you can use to make marks you got to start making those marks on paper and canvas and anything else you can and i've always thought of all the art books that i grew up in in peter and aaron you guys could chime in on this but there's so much information on some of those books that like certain books uh i only retain so much from certain books yeah you know like andrew loomis when i think of his name uh the first thing that comes to mind for me is landmarks he taught me about landmarks like in when you draw anatomy and phony landmarks yeah yeah so uh later on i started looking at his advertising stuff and then you know learning a little bit more but uh there's nothing that's gonna take the place of practice and and doing it and making your own discoveries yes yeah books are great but practical knowledge oh wow meanwhile we missed he's gone in peter's gone in and laid a whole bunch of watercolor washes in basically right getting there yeah just starting to lay in just initial temperature color uh going with the warm in the foreground with the actual shape and then the background will cool down offset them one brush through the entire thing not trying to get super specific detailed like even physically when we're working right now like neither of us all of us are not nose deep into the work we're not tense not tightening we're actually just being loose and kind of holding the pen a bit further back being a bit further in distance not trying to get in a position that's you know giving us overtly too much control uh this idea of settling feeling comfortable you know relaxed state is something that takes a minute to click into for most people because initially for young people when they start to draw such a high anxiety mentality because that burden of pressure like it's got to perform you got to do well but over many years and decades you know you can start to kind of move into that mode much much faster if anything were already in there prior so as we sit down we're already ready to go in that part um yeah what's that saying it's like you're gonna do 10 000 bad drawings so you may as well get them out of the way yeah something like that yeah and uh if that's the case then i failed already because i've done about 50 000 but you're not afraid to make bad drawings you just keep drawing oh you just get in there and draw man yeah so so i'm going in right now with the number three copic and just adding some tone in here it's gonna lighten up quite a bit but i like adding this tone and then i can go in with the pen later and push some of the darks i can pull out some lights with my jelly roll pen which i'll show you in a little bit which is a it's a white pen actually it's very cool any new questions dustin uh one second here really finalizing an export and we're multitasking here so again on the questions there's no way we're going to be able to get to all the questions we're just selecting jay says thank you for your advice guys cool okay that's not a question well there's no question so i just thought i'd bring in a comment and i'm sure there's questions on youtube and stuff but we're just not able to access everything right now so again yeah i think for us it's nice to hear questions and that's a part of what we want to do as well but i like the fact that we're also just together um sometimes this is not something that we do a lot me and manny will chat with each other have phone calls chat with on text or facebook message once in a while too but something like this is a rare occasion that we also want to ask each other questions like i wanted to know like how he's doing something now he's doing something so we're all learning while you guys are learning as well too so there's a constant activity of soaking information and experience it's really i mean we get together as much as we can and usually every time we do we try to include art in it yeah you know whether we're visiting ruins or going to moab or whatever you know i had a finally i got out to aaron's studio and that was such a good time we got to see some some birds with dustin [Music] that was a good thing um those memories are amazing you know there hasn't been a lot of conventions to to gather but usually i see my artist friends once a year so it's it's always nice to and this is a trip that uh i moved out here about six years ago around this area and something that i started doing and got invited with some other people and thought who would appreciate and i know aaron's in the past you've came out here oh yeah so it was just you know like minds kind of thing where how many trips is this out here for you eric how how many guys have you been to i don't know because i used to come out here all through the 90s as well and tomorrow we're going to hopefully head to jackson i'm going to jackson so we always got to put a song so that we can never monetize any of these videos i just said i just dipped my thing into that whiskey did you yep that's right it's healthy for you yeah you dipped it in the whisk yeah i think my watercolor pin on the you're a kid and you draw on paint you've never dipped your watercolor brush to your drink and drink it i've i've i have drank my watercolor in my coffee so many times so many times ooh if i almost did that again okay you got water weather peter what did i get oh you got another side it's fine that's right just this is a refillable water colored brush water brush but i haven't uh didn't fill it didn't feel it man didn't feel it do you want a little cup of water good i'm sure i'll share with i got whiskey whiskey whiskey when sketching birds quickly what tips do you have for getting the gesture and form down it's the same thing for anything else it's it's looking at the big shapes and it's it's literally looking at the gesture you want to find that that line of action through whatever that pose is that you're laying down and then build on top of that think of it as like the the scaffolding or the uh the framework in a building and you know you're building on top of that i really wish that i could i really wish that i could say a secret but there's no secret to there isn't uh it's just repetition and repetition yeah you know a lot of us are very passion driven so that's experience i think a lot of times that kind of question also comes in with this and it feels like people are trying to always separate these subjects of like birds and you know this ram or the coyote and humans and cars it's the same process it's all the same process if one thing can bridge into the other if you understand the approach mentality of it as aaron said all about the big shapes and being able to recognize and register those proportions and shape the forms i think for me i add to this idea of familiarity through archetypes so whatever types of animals you're looking at from fish to birds or equal animals if you find a certain one that you're studying primarily use it as an archetype to then bridge over to the other ones that are similar to it's a great it's a great advice much like drawing humans you don't start by drawing people as your young kid one specific person is in terms of a training point when you go to classes and stuff you learn about proportion and human anatomy and physiology and stuff like that you apply that then into live models and stuff so learn the actual inner structures of things i've pulled up some youtube questions here let me see if i can get some from our viewers on youtube while we're going through this oh cool on the twos of you my uh coyote drawings got buffalo trays all in it nice you put that there peter it's gonna smell good but it's doing something weird to the watercolor it's like this is it uh is it doing like it's alcohol right yeah alcohol yeah it's i'm not gonna drink it anymore because it's all about did you ever paint with coffee yes i do coffee tea i'm trying to get a shot here without that's all right i'm messing you up oh i love it i love it let's see what do we got here we got all right water brush smells like buffalo trace [Laughter] will you ever redraw drawings that you did when you were really young i feel like that would be a fun thing to watch oh wow no i didn't even i can't remember drawing that i didn't know we have a lot of the same interests and subjects i think they mean like revisiting something like maybe you did when you were really little like how you would do it now i think that's kind of what they're yeah i don't know i gotta show you i've been drawing animals as long as i can remember it yeah so i'm always i'm always revisiting it i guess to a certain degree aaron will be getting any of these photos as a reference pack on your site i don't know i gotta ask dustin about that well hopefully you have enough photos by the end of this trip though might make uh be able to make a pact together yeah yeah yellowstone pack that i'm i'm hoping that so i i have something here that my grandmother shared with me this is i was one year 10 months old when i drew this is the oldest drawing that i scanned it in and then i have one more and this looks like a house but these are both done on my grandmother's little uh that's actually pretty impressive for one year yeah man one year and i know yes missus when you're yeah so you're drawing you're drawing recognizable faces weird do you see that have you seen this before oh nice so funny yeah i don't have any any revisions i don't have any of that kind of stuff but my parents told me we were drawing drawing things like that at a young age faces but i was always fascinated by animals i'm always drawing yeah me too uh it's weird how uh everything comes back full circle so a little history about me i wanted to be a wildlife painter because of greg great quote rick beach was one of a bobcoon but comic book artist tried to break into all that ended up in animation uh but all the drawing that i did was uh inspired by mutual omaha's wild kingdom uh our own purpose yeah marlon perkins and pbs and all that kind of stuff so now it's kind of neat to be working with biologists and then going full circle and doing oh yeah do you guys date your sketches uh no i married them you beat me to it uh sometimes i do i just put years on it i put years yeah i never and there i am a lot of my field sketches i'll i'll do the i'll do the day and the location because one of the things i love to do is go back years later and look at them and uh so i like having the day the day or the day sometimes i even put the time here's a question i believe you guys all do digital art how come no drawing on ipads or anything there's something very satisfying to me of drawing on paper and seeing accidents and colors and different tools mixed i love uh digital i work at digital on my full-time job i work on digital so that's the only reason i get that cool logo here so yeah cool k-u-h-o manny does all the designs for cool and yeah he designed some of the clothes right look at our new bag it's available on our website cool.com look at this kuhl right yep really cool but um but anyway you were saying yeah i i love the the feel of analog stuff i i love i love digital i love i love trying anything experimenting as long as i'm drawing and painting or what for me i do enough digital work in my studio yes when i'm out in the field and i'm out in nature i want it all to be natural you want to be more tactile right i really do i want to be more tactile what about you peter i'm sorry so i'm just going to say i used to people ask me why you know do i bring my ipad out and draw with my ipad you know i really don't i could but i don't when i leave my studio when i leave my digital studio because like these guys i came up through my education primarily using animal tools so this is where most of my uh enjoyment comes from so it's not to say that i don't like digital stuff it's another just great tool as i see it uh i don't think it's wrong for young kids to learn digital tools while they're also learning analog as well too but for me i was at that cusp where we all started with like you know traditional tools like oils and acrylics and watercolor initially and then we moved into digital at the very end of it uh so even for me now i tend to kind of veer this still direction because it's kind of like inset in me at the young age but again if if i brought my ipad there right now would i even want to mix things together sometimes i do like to do analog and then take a picture of it go to procreate paint on that digitally so the idea is that it's just there as an opportunity but i don't feel like i'm forced to go there and use i think one of the issues from a practical standpoint that i found is there still just isn't an answer for the screen brightness if you're outside yeah yeah i never run out of the issue where the battery will die yeah i was like oh should i charge it now or the pencil will die or something like that so then i have to just wait and sit around but then i just turn to the sketchbook yeah i mean sketchbooks never failed me yeah so now what i'm doing is i've got this white pen and i'm able to go in and hit some of the highlights on this on this fur these silver tip bears i'm so afraid i'm going to drop this fella on your guys's drawings that's all right it won't hurt it yours they're in watercolor i'm going to fill up my water brush with buffalo strikes because one square for you one square foot yeah yeah exactly using he's getting some cool painting with bourbon yeah her whiskey doesn't know kentucky street bourbon buffalo trees this is still the middle of our trip we got another couple days and i'm excited some more live streams for sure um i'm excited about so there's a bear named 3.99 that they've tagged 399 in in the tetons and she's got she's a 27 year old bear i believe and she's got four cups and four four and she's all healthy they're all super healthy and i've been out there a couple times and yet to see her so i'm excited hoping that with aaron and peter and the rest of the crew and dustin we can all see her yeah those flying east shot shots i have a really good one here are you having a good time out here nick i'm having a great time this is my second trip and it's just breathtaking every time even just dr even if you don't see any animals just driving around is without going into people i'm gonna say nick is one of the most resilient human beings i've ever met just and i mean that from the bottom of my heart he's just an incredibly strong dude and i'm so glad that you're out here able to unwind and just relax a little bit oh it's it's unbelievable it's been great so what are your favorite spots in yellowstone so far and what are the best for getting good sketches um i come out here quite a bit uh i'm probably the one that's out here the most my favorite is the hayden valley and the lamar valley those two areas are are great uh we haven't seen anything in the hayden and hayden this this trip it doesn't mean we won't i think we missed it by a little bit but uh lamar valley is so vast and all the bison are there so they kind of uh take up the space if you don't see anything you know you can always see bison but i personally like the hayden in the lamar valley and sometimes into madison aaron yeah that's that's it i was going to say the same thing you know in hayden you always you're always guaranteed it seems like to see a bear or something in there and we haven't quite had that luck this time and uh my brother keeps texting me yeah and uh it was so fun though that right both trips i mean both both yeah both trips both mornings we've had really good luck like the our first outing right uh right outside madison junction we saw a grizzly with two like the yearlings that aaron was talking about and then now this this morning with the black panther was the black bear cups which are just so cute that was my first time seeing black haircuts yeah peter anything in particular you your partial two favorite spots i'm probably the i guess youngest when it comes to experiencing you know this landscape first this is what you're this is like your fourth trip or probably my sixth i would say in the last two years or so but uh the first time i came out was with manny aaron and a couple of people i don't know what year that was that 2018. if you end up seeing this you should be here by the way cooper david coleman should be here too david coleman yeah there's a lot of people joining us um but yeah for me it's been a great experience seeing it also through their experience of eyes as well too so hearing about all these locations and the places they've seen has uh led me to the kind of the same as you can see you know my my dream had always been because those who you those of you who know geico holiak and bob and those wildlife artists uh growing up i would always see pictures of of them in africa and with fellow artists and it's just kind of neat to that we're able to do that now together especially taking you guys to africa and yeah like meeting my friends out there it's just it was just like that i could be freaking emotional about it still man i don't know what did we talk about september yet we're gonna be doing in september yeah september we're hoping to go back to the masai mara to the cheetah attended camp timing at this time a little bit differently last time yeah yeah so i mean that's exciting i'm really excited about that i'm so ready to see the the lions and and see our friends out there for those of you that don't know the maasai mara the most amara is a tiny little tip of the serengeti the serengeti is huge national park in tanzania but it crosses over into kenya and the absolute northern tip of it becomes the maasai mara and it's the richest of the whole area mara is as far as wildlife goes from i get a couple questions here i'm going to hit when doing wildlife drawing any advice on how to get your figures down faster while keeping your drawings in proportion with good line weight especially with quick poses repetition it's the same boring answer that we're just going to keep giving you there's no secret answer to any of it there's no the best advice i can give you is doing it over and over again when i was doing it when i was younger my drawings were sloppy they had bad uh proportions i mean everything and and they're frustrating and it hurts and it's painful and and you want to throw it away and you just get sick of it but you got to keep doing it and eventually it gets less hard i'll never say it gets easy but it gets less hard one one one piece of advice i can give um and you know it worked for me well for you i'm not sure but i stopped using i used broader broader materials like like a broad marker or even like those china those china markers are they called the ones that you peel yeah just because you can't uh hyper detail with those uh good point you you stay big and chunky and the bigger it is the less detail you're going to pay to that i get the i ride did i get that claw right you're you're focusing more on the entire figure on the entire um language of it i guess i would say so that that would be my advice just like sketch with broadship you know broad markers uh which is how you started this one right yeah and i did and i still do that to this day yeah i went really broad and these are great i don't know how much longer they're going to be available but um these big broad markers but even like a regular marker um like the copics that aaron has and aaron basically did the same thing as well yeah so yeah let's start with the light yeah the broad marker and this is a great illustration to to show that is aaron just laid down what he needed yeah you can see it just it started out really rough but then you can lay in all your detail no commitment to any of that line work that he's put there right exactly aaron any thoughts on doing a trip like this for your members maybe they pay their way and you guys guide the whole thing it's funny you mentioned that you know we've been doing our you know before pre-covet we've been doing uh watercolor um and painting uh seminars where we get together for four or five days uh we did one in england where we rented out the castle we did one in sarasota florida right before covid and as nick and i have been driving through the park we just keep commenting on with each other about how much fun it would be uh we don't know the logistics of it or how we would do the infrastructure or how we would just handle it but how much fun it would be to do an animal drawing slash painting trip out here with a group of about 20 to 25 people and um it would take some doing but uh we definitely want to do that here in uh in yellowstone do you guys know kim jong-ji oh that guy yeah he's a hack yeah we do we do one of the best artists in the world yeah but what about him you know it's pretty obvious as to what you know because then abilities are repetition's representation he's a perfect example of you know just how that guy just loves to draw i think they were wondering if you knew him personally oh you guys have all met him right yeah yeah uh peter and i still fanboy i get nervous when i talk to him i geek out peter what would be your tips for artists that still have a bit of a challenge with something like directly drawing with a permanent media like pens and and struggling with not messing up proportions and such well i mean this goes again back to that whole repetition what we talked about with that word uh but when artists or professionals and teachers say you just use repetition and do it over again it sounds not necessary um so broad in terms of more details repetition is important but not just to redraw the same thing again what i tend to want to do is in my read pizza drawings especially for training for young people is start off without the intention of trying to quote unquote finish it so intention and drawing for me is very important because the first step is to understand let's say like proportion shapes so if i start with that i stop there i got the shapes and i got the lines i don't need things like details of eyes and fur and you know surface information i got that information i need about that specific thing repeat now this is where the repetition comes in draw that thing again but then now add a little bit more right get it to a certain point of intention now i want to add a bit more anatomical details stop at that point i'll repeat the third time take it to another level now it's about the surface infer and the light and the value and all those kind of textural details so the idea is that in a single drawing you don't take it to the full you know realization of what that thing is what you're seeing and then messing it up and trying to do it again because it's such an investment of time so the idea is to get it to a certain point of a quick sketch five ten minutes get a couple lines of shapes stop but learn how to stop then move on and repeat again or get a wizard get a wizard or a doctor who's very strange aaron you mentioned before that brother bear was inspired by native american legends where did you find those sources from i live in the uk so my knowledge is very limited it was anywhere i could find it was i looked up every book i could find that specialized in native american myths and legends and there's a lot of them out there i can't give you specific sources it was 25 years ago but um i was funny it was recently going through some boxes when i moved and i found every single book that i had purchased during that time when i was doing the research but i spent about a year and a half researching before we actually started to write and because of that i mean the reason behind that was i wanted to write an original uh native american legend or at least write something that had the flavor of it and i wanted to uh respect the the structure and the way that they go about you know creating their their legends so i got a comment that's relevant to what dustin's showing right now so that's where the canadian geese go [Laughter] oh yes dear bud that's exactly where the canadian geese goes yeah i got really lucky with the with these two flying by uh it was after the uh black bears and we stopped to uh see what's going on because there's another spot where people were stopping and were looking around and while we were waiting these two geese started flying through this canyon and so i just started shooting like crazy i'm just like please play let these let these be good and when i when i look through there so they're just perfect peter and manny you guys watching ufc tonight yes yep watching i want to i'm actually playing for charles oliveira you guys on the car you guys don't know manny knows all those ufc fighters he's really good friends with all that beautiful a lot most of them yeah it's kind of crazy that's how ronda rousey ended up doing a piece in the expedition art book right yep that's all she did yeah she did the vaquita who else is in the car tonight uh well it was nick diaz but he pulled out because of an injury so let's reschedule that so i hope aaron's going in on that other bear going in on the other bear working on getting my darks in i'll tie it all together here in a little bit the mama bear didn't come out too great i'm not really happy with how she turned out but overall i think it's an okay drawing how are you feeling about yours manny i'm liking it um the bourbon is making some weird weird like alcohol like i'm doing an alcohol pen thing i keep forgetting and i'm keep dipping into it but i'm happy with it and peter yeah i'm having a lot of fun if anything else i'm honestly not really concerned about the end result of this piece it's just fun being with these guys and talking with you and everyone else so it's more the experience as we kind of mentioned beforehand that i really try to be in the moment for so i mean is this you know going to be a great piece to show off and it doesn't really matter if it does it does if it doesn't this is more important you know see if i can get a few more questions here get very close to [Music] [Music] i've been looking forward to this any tips on layering when using watercolor start light work dark if you're doing transparent that's the most basic piece of advice i can give you all right i kind of jumped in there sorry peter no no no no do the same thing too yeah yeah if you if you like to work traditional watercolor um then which is transparent then yeah just start light and work darkness that's a basic rule of thumb i think we're trying to head back out right yeah we're going up towards see if we see uh a wolf kill oh that's right okay like five three or six yeah we need to get out there and i got directions to it a lot of people are saying that if we do a yellowstone trip they're in head on stay down i'll tell you it's a lot of fun and you really grow as an artist just being able to be out here and experience the uh and just the environment man the environment the sights the smells the everything in terms of like meeting the right people i get that kind of question as well it's like right now i don't know anyone there's like no one within my local area like we can get together and draw and schedule i only know people online that are like really far away and some of those are really hard to get recommendations or advice to because for us sometimes it's just by chance and luck you know we just got together we happen to just know other people it was uh yeah just that kind of it's there is a there is a thing that goes with persistence if you persist in what you love doing eventually you're going to meet other like-minded people and it's just over time with me i've been doing this you know for 35 years you just make connections and those connections grow over the years part of it's putting yourself out there though go going to events going to stuff sketching out in person and someone walks up and goes hey i draw two what are you drawing you know and that's how you make artist friends you know so many people talk about how they don't like people walking up to them and asking them questions when they're drawing uh like out in the zoo or um and i and i really discourage people from not liking that i try embrace it people are they're truly curious about what you're doing and they want to you know and what you're doing is magical to them yeah and really embrace that and strike up the conversations and talk with them you never know who you're going to meet don't be self-conscious that's the other thing they get is they say they get self-conscious about people coming up and looking at it they also say like well you know i'm not good enough just yet i don't have the experience like you guys but in my opinion there's always going to be someone that can learn from you like someone lateral that's growing in the same direction as you are so whatever information that you can get based on what you're going through the troubles that you're having you'll find like many people here i'm saying that's that linkage that you're looking for yeah i couldn't agree more i learned to draw from a kid that i used to sit next to on the bus that he used to draw comic books and i just thought that was the coolest thing so i wanted to do it and then i learned from him and then i started going on art school and then learned from a bunch of other people and then yada yada you know but it's you know there for a while i think passion passions kind of connect each other yeah you know for me i know uh for those of you that know tara whitlatch uh amazing animal and concept creature artists for star wars and i think worked with aaron and brother bear as well but uh terrell had been trying to hook cook me up with aaron for a long time he goes you guys should meet you guys should meet you guys think alike you know so it's it's kind of uh passion sort of they kind of find each other yeah so you don't know me yeah i don't know me that's why that's someone asked any national parks that you've visited in the uk any of you i did uh when i was out for the falconry meet but i'm not sure what which ones they were no well i don't know about national parks but we went to uh tiger tiger we've been to tatton park titan park which is i don't know it's a national park yeah i went to some i don't know if they're national parks but there were like wildlife areas yeah game farms and things like that and uh i went with another falconer out there but i was in a place called the cotswolds and that was that was really beautiful out there and what was neat is i was there for a falconry uh festival and the after the the time after that was done my friend said do you want to go into the city or do you want to see you know the the countryside i was like no i want to see the countryside i don't want i mean i'm not that i have anything against the city but i'd rather see the countryside and it was it was absolutely beautiful all the thatched roofs and the history and so that was and one of the best zoos i've ever been to is hubs yeah one of the best zoos we've ever been to is uh the chester zoo chester zoo absolutely yeah that was amazing and we were really disappointed to hear that they recently had to close down during covet and but they raised money no no you're not what i was gonna say the chest the chester zoo is doing great they thankfully raised a lot of money to stay open it was a really good story but the chester falconry place unfortunately had to close right in chester there next to the cathedral and we went there a couple times that place was awesome well we actually hired them to do some demos for us part of our class yeah was there anything that they didn't teach you in art school that you had to learn yourself i didn't go to art school so everything yeah yeah a lot of it you know they don't teach you uh live animal drawing is a pretty good example i think yeah but the biggest thing is just consistency just doing it doing it a lot and it's not something that i don't at least not really didn't really press it well generally speaking live animal drawings not something you get in school i mean there are examples where they bring in animals but it's not i mean you got to get out into nature that kind of stuff we go to the zoos and whatnot those kind of locations we do a lot in school and for me it wasn't technique it was it was the idea of being out there in the real world you know how to like run a business or something like that uh freelancing even just like running your own ips and building projects and copywriting stuff or just knowing how to just talk with people the business of our business of art how to present how to talk about yourself how to talk about your work and formatting in ways where the work itself yeah will speak by itself but you can definitely sell it as well too so yeah that idea of the use of wood that's something i learned more just by going to shows comic con yeah being behind the table talking to people constantly i remember when i got my internship with disney back in 1988 it was about uh i got after my second year in college so i still had a third year to go to it but i remember after that i think the first two weeks of my internship working with these professional artists remember thinking that my god in two weeks i've learned more than i i have in two years in school and it just became from practical use you know yeah i've been experiencing severe hand pain from drawing for almost three months now during this time i've been resting my hand and trying to help it heal i think the problem is i've been drawing from my wrist and tighten my grip on my pencil too much i've tried drawing from just my soldier shoulder with a light grip and it's nearly impossible for me my lines have no no control to them any tips on this i do um weirdly enough you need to exercise your hand a little more uh they sell this little donut ring that rock climbers use yeah that you squeeze in and out and i found that i do jujitsu so i use my grips a lot but uh that exercise of just that with that ring and they sell like in three different hardnesses like a really soft one and then to really hard one doing exercises with that will help i think being physically active in any capacity is going to help i think it's always yeah that's always the thing the more the the human body is strange in the fact that it's the only machine that the more you use it the stronger it gets so uh that's that's my advice is to actually get you like a an extra even the old timey spring things but i find that the uh the distribution is wrong even if you do flip it over and i like the ring a little more so it's a rock climbing tool that the guys use to warm up their hands and stuff but that that helps a lot i tend to find working the forearms more actually helps too because people tend to centralize under the wrist and hand but i've actually focused on the muscles in their forearm a lot further but i think it looks like diversifying your movements a lot so not always being stationary get up that's exactly what i was going to say i find that there's a tendency of artists not as not all of them but as a you know as a painting with a broad brush pun intended um there's a tendency for them to be more sedentary and i think it's just how our bodies were designed to be yeah we weren't supposed to be sitting for like six seven hours two three hours is enough stop get up move around do something else then come back to it but yeah use the bourbon use that bird what about like just a stress ball a stress stress ball is better than nothing but you need the resistance i guess yeah in my in my opinion tried sketching my dog today to try live drawing he did not look impressed that's okay do it again i'm afraid i might have offended him i'm really glad we got this to work this is fun and i'm sorry for those i'm sure there's people watching on twitter and twitch i'm just not able to monitor those questions there so yeah if you want to ask questions come over to facebook or or the youtube the twitch people just went no i will never go to youtube vice versa i wonder if bourbon has a color he's just painting straight bourbon now yeah i'm just seeing it as a color it's probably going to evaporate it's going to evaporate yeah that's what that's good russian smells good i love the smell of bourbon integra so what i'm doing now is just hitting these you know the the bear's fur along the edges tends to catch a lot of light so you get these light kind of halos around the bear give your white headlight tool which one yes see art is sharing tools that's what this is all about right there people people loving people stop touching my sharpie have any of you been to the zion national zoo park brazilian national park yes would you ever be willing to do one of your classes or gatherings there that'd be awesome yeah where is that i got a zion and uh yeah zion was one of the parks that that was part of our inspiration for brother bear you actually live in utah right man i live in utah that's why i'm always tracking mountain lions i want to be a manga artist any tips from peter hahn please why just because he's the asian guy i've never done you know actual mangas and stuff like this the only graphic novel i've done with my own from just two years ago i think maybe they were just associating some of your art style with that i mean i was inspired by mangas and animes for sure 100 uh but did i ever want to do stuff like that when i was a kid for sure absolutely but i went more towards the direction of design uh which eventually led me back to comics but i don't think i ever wanted to professionally still but in terms of recommendations i mean it'd be training like an end of the kind of field learning your foundations fundamentals but yeah storytelling is a huge aspect to it right that's the fun part i think yeah i want to do a comic so bad i just don't know and it's funny because i come from the world of animation where you spent five years creating an animated movie yeah but uh sitting down and doing i'd love to do a a comic book but i just don't know if i could i don't know if i could i try to break into comics back when i was younger and then i i never did it sort of came to me because i went to so many comic book conventions and uh i was asked to do one yeah i looked at the discipline and everything like like the peter yours and all the all the work he put into that and being consistent with it it's like oh it's daunting it is it takes me a month to do a course and i'm ready to throw it out the window by the time i'm done i notice that if you know how to draw people it's easier to learn how to draw animals do you guys agree i don't know that it's okay sorry yeah i think it's uh i think it's a that's a 50 50 thing i mean the anatomy wise there's so there's a lot of similarities right but [Music] um i like doing both but to me it's not so much about the subject matter it's just drawing in general yep bourbon brush gotta get that bourbon if you ever make it to zion national park for a workshop i'd love to go i actually live right behind it we almost did a concert concept art.org workshop in uh around that area it didn't work out because we couldn't handle the amount of people we were going to break out since you said that you learned more from your professional internship any advice on how to get an internship jeez my internship that i got was 34 years ago so um things have changed a little bit well some of it some of it's still about a strong portfolio it's a strong portfolio um as far as the processes of getting in i'm sure like having a decent website and all that yeah i mean a lot of studios these days do offer certain programs for internships and summers and stuff like that unfortunately a lot of them require you to be a full-time student in colleges universities so being just educating yourself it would be kind of hard to break into some of those but i will say in this day and age the internship actually has become more mandatory as an experience as a young student um as someone who's trying to hire a studio they want people with at least a little bit of you know knowledge of how they behind the scene kind of works so um especially like an animation feature they do a lot of that tv a little bit as well too games not as much i worked in constant starting games about seven years and yeah we were taking interns once in a while but it's very very few and far between and usually it's kind of based on word of mouth and it really wasn't a program but a lot of it is very much based on just researching as they said through their websites and whatnot and you can find some things like that you can sign up for so yeah your big studios have entire sections about their internships and did you guys see that the dreamworks campus is up for sale for sale nice really yeah the main campus yeah if you guys if you think we can pull together 300 million i think it could be ours i'm done we just let me just pitch in my ten buds here i had no idea yeah i think we're just about ready to wrap up yeah i'm still just got a little bit more here almost done aaron do you see any disadvantage to being left-handed in terms of drawing no but you smear your ink more right yeah just i gotta start on the correct side of the paper but no it's to me it's no different than someone right hand you just got to think in reverse scissors those are the ones that always mess me up scissors and it still bugs me yeah because it's hard to find left-handed scissors it's so weird to me that there's even a difference but there is i guess yeah they don't they don't work it feels like you could just flip it around but i guess no it doesn't it doesn't work that way bourbon marks yep that's funny so bourbon has a color it's just called warp warp so one of the cool things about especially doing foliage and ground and stuff like this you can get in all these little dark areas but notice how in the reference i've got all these really light bits of dried grass coming up that's where these these pens come in really handy especially over dark you draw over the dark and create these really great little bits of dried grass the bison calf are so cute currently on uh working some photos here oh right now i think manny's done i'm done yellow stuff it was fun yellowstone national park yeah we also we're part-time jingle writers as well teton national park it's great you sir jingle riding genius don't hide that talent under a bushel basket hey sonny i really got a jingle right now how would you like to be part of everybody's hey yeah that's fine you done yeah i'm done you a little bit of aaron blaze magic environmental details my art before i bought stuff it's still it's been in there for months that was fun fun it was a gas you know what do you think of this one ain't that a cutie oh yeah look at the color on them what's the what's the theory behind their color red dogs i have a theory the wolves wolves and canines can't see color is that true i've heard that not all color so yeah there's a whole world they can hear dogs in general so this is my theory with the with the bison and the calves because they're obviously easy prey for wolves where the hydrogens are easy but if a predator came in i don't know if the cattle the the bison can see color but um if they could that that color orange is really easy to spot in a stampeding herd right yep that's kind of my theory is that yeah that sort of makes sense we should ask terrell yeah she wouldn't know she would we should call her oh yeah she did i'll read terrell's text this morning to me you're gonna love this almost there almost whatever almost dryer oh well well that was a different one but oh yeah did she wish you a happy birthday yeah she did but it was just really cute a very terrible wet latch yeah that she's told all the unicorns to grant me a great day [Laughter] she's one of my favorite people she's amazing i love her she's a beautiful person normally you would call shenanigans but with her you're like that seems about right yeah if anybody could do there we go oh and uh becky had asked if we were going to do reference packs of these but she must have missed that question she came in late the answer is yes we are planning on having photo reference packs on the site from this trip hopefully in the definitely planning on it in the near future yeah i think i have a strong feeling i might get it i think this is what i say i say we come back in september to fill it out seriously so we can get the you get the elk and their full antlers and oh yeah true beer and their full fatness so this time of year you're getting the cubs and the babies and all that kind of stuff and the guys coming out of hibernation or whatever you call it look at that see that's a piece of art right there that's art no i'm not being i'm not being sarcastic i love that one of my fast doodles it has all the essence of bison right there oh that's beautiful look at that background even how it's how his eyes perfectly framed between the bushes yeah but i say we come back in september and round out everything we've got i love it and then put together a packet we'll figure it out i just did there we go i think i'm done too when painting in plein air how do you recommend controlling the colors of your palette i find some of my colors get muddy when i try to match animal fur don't concentrate so much on your saturation and your like i've always try to keep things on the monochromatic as far as color wise before because you can always sort of control your tones i guess more than your [Music] color and i've noticed that in my own experience i get to i used to get too caught up in that like i'm getting caught up and not replicating the right the correct color or whatever as opposed to the composition the structure everything else yeah i was going to say basically the same thing is just be careful of the number of colors you start mixing together yeah and and not having such a huge palette as well that helps immensely doing earth tones i try to not mix more than three colors a lot of times i try to do it with just two you know using compliments let's see the final area nice all right well i think we're gonna mama grizzly say goodbye you think everybody you want to keep going or i don't think we're good thank you time to go see more uh that was awesome so we're going to do this again on this trip you guys so stay tuned um we really wanted we've been wanting to do this for quite a while on the on trips like this so this is the first time being able to do it so we're really happy look at see look look what he did look what he did see that's 50 years of knowledge right there dustin yellowstone nationals yeah and uh sending off this one last little image of a cute little little calf bison is that your lens on the table are you just happy to see me yes this is this is the lens i'm going to use what do you want them to do aaron draw go out and draw then come back and join us later when we do another live stream get out and draw just get your paper dirty because if your pencil isn't touching the paper you're not learning so do it thanks guys thanks see ya cheers

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Published: Sat May 15 2021