LIVE STREAM - Reworking an Image you are Unhappy with

[Music] everybody air blaze here it is Thursday January 20 2014 24th 24th I know we're in January so that's good but we're back we had a great stream on Tuesday where I was demonstrating my new mammoth-sized Cintiq Pro 32 it was awesome but I ended up doing an image that I wasn't crazy about we did this mammoth it was okay I kind of it kind of got away from me towards the end and I'm just not super happy with it so today what I thought I would do is kind of recompose it and redo it and kind of show you how sometimes when you get an image that you don't like especially working digitally you can go back in and redo it and so today is gonna be a lesson in improving a crappy piece of art so there you go so that's what we're gonna do I'm gonna take I'm going to take that image I did on Tuesday I'm going to recompose it completely you great still use the drawing but and then we're gonna do a new painting and and it's gonna be once again on this awesome Cintiq right here this nice big walking Cintiq Pro 32 and so consider this another demo I guess because it's I'm diggin it but anyway back to the green screen so the image you see behind me that's the that's the one we did on Tuesday for those of you that weren't there and it was fun he's just I kind of challenged myself to do this mammoth out of my head without any reference and and it was fun to do but like I said I tried to do it in flat light and just and I'm so no I just loved it just got away from me so um so like I said today I'm gonna I'm gonna have some fun with some lighting I want to get some modeling in there and I've since come back did a little research on anatomy and so I'm gonna make things a little bit more accurate and a little bit more fun and as usual I've got my trusty dusty Dustin duster dusty duster over here my son Dustin who's gonna be manning questions from Facebook and then over in Sarasota Florida I've got Nick Burch my business partner and he's gonna be manning questions from all the other platforms that we're on I think we're on Twitch and Twitter and YouTube and Facebook and a whole bunch of stuff all simultaneously so we get a lot of questions I know a lot of you get upset sometimes that we don't get to your questions but the fact is we've got we're getting questions from five different platforms and and I'm trying to draw and answer questions at the same time so I'm doing my best I promise and someday I'll get to you if I haven't gotten to you yet so be patient please but uh-oh also today for today since we are creating another mammoth and we thought maybe it might be nice because it's uh we're getting coming to the end of the week why not give a little treat to you guys for those of you that are watching the livestream today go to my website creature art teacher dot-com and any of the lessons anything you purchased today on your way out type in the checkout code mammoth ma mm oh th and you'll get a mammoth savings of 20 percent twenty yeah so you'll save 20% off your on your bill when you check out so so there's that type in the code mammoth and get 20% off so let's go to the screen Dustin hey Dustin do the thing the thing actually do I have ability to turn my fan on because I know you're probably hot but I'm really hot I mean I'm just turning that on just a little bit cuz I need a little air and as usual I have my hydration thank you module stay thirsty my friends oh I am I'm so thirsty today alright so here's the screen so this is what I did last week and so you're gonna see you can see already kind of what I've done so this is what I did last night last week but on Tuesday and it's okay I just like I said it's just kind of the fur and everything it's just not where I want it to be and I want to I want to I want to be more dramatic I want more form I want more lighting drama all of the above and so I've took that I took the same drawing basically what I did was I took everything and I stripped it down to just this there's that original drawing and then what I did was I created a new format this is 12 inches by 24 inches I believe and I dragged the drawing layers over to here so you can see that's where that's where those are if I turn these on if I turn those on and let me do this you can see here's there's the whole there's the whole drawing right there so I just recomposed it and whoops there we go so I just recomposed it then I went back in and I continued yep you're right sorry Nick I forgot you again that's did you see that I just completely drooled all over myself no I just spit all over myself the Cintiq I had a mouthful of saliva and I said Cintiq no the Cintiq does not generate Heap although my computer my Mac Pro Mac Pro creates a lot of heat there's the unboxing I'm checking out I was just checking this is I did an unboxing video Dustin and I did of the 30 - thank you I got a pull make up here Nick Nick Nick Nick yeah we did the we started filming last week but we were busy with other stuff going on but we finished it we finished it filming yesterday and I just finished editing it today so that was in the middle of reviewing it hello doc this my old friend Nicky Nicky alright so uh let's see here is not right yes Aaron is lusting over his Cintiq ass I mean do I want to make this small or I've got some fur no I you know I don't I'm just gonna do this why is it taking so long to transform there we go okay so I am going to just jump in so I've got the drawing done one of the things I've done is I've gone in and was a lot more careful with that the fur length and some of the groupings of the fur to get the fur to follow the form of the trunk underneath you know though the trunk and everything wrinkles just like an elephant nowadays it doesn't have the fur but that the fur has to sit on top of that so the fur is gonna catch some of those that form a little bit so I added a little bit in there as you can see you know throughout here whoops that's not what I wanted there we go I want this there we go so I just just hitting some of this I just and I'm knocking some of the underdrawing back back but but no you're just knocking some of that back run you fools huh there we go that was pretty good doesn't run you fools fools there we go so what I'm gonna do now huh I'm not going to add let's dive into the local color we're actually saving time today I am just diving into the painting as I've already done the drawing so once again just to clarify I'm taking this old image the image from Tuesday I blew up reconfigure the the actual arrangement so that we have a horizontal and then blew the drawing up oh the other thing I did too is I research the tussle a little bit till time to grow out and then go in this way and since we're looking straight at them they're gonna be kind of the forcing of perspective but I redrew them brought them down a little bit more and I purposely broke them up so that they break the negative space in kind of an interesting way and I you know I like I like having things go off screen and come back on I like breaking up the the two-dimensional space that way so we can create some nice negative spaces positive spaces what you know and what know what a lot so there we go so that's what I'm doing there so now let's just get in here and start to draw I might be down for it I just I want to make sure that I'm not sometimes you can overdo the hairbrushes I like to use the hairbrushes when I'm doing something that's photo-real and that's what that's what I use those for I still want this to have a painterly feel so I may not use the hair brushes although I can get some we might be able to get some nice texture out of it now I can build off of so maybe I will use them I'm not sure okay okay sorry got the press all right give me a good scriptwriter do you need to be a good novelist um no well no but I do think I see that I think script writing and nava and writing for novels are two different types of writing obviously basically the difference in when you're writing a script you can only write what you can see whereas in a novel you have all kinds of free reign to describe a person's feelings to just go to go back in time to give you no extra story to give Tonk context for different things but you know in a enough script you really are only writing what the viewer is going to see so so but the thing is a good novelist and a good script script writer they both know story right they need to know a story structure but they are completely two different disciplines so you know initially I don't think no I don't think you need to be a novelist in order to be a good script writer but I do think there's disciplines within this the storytelling and story writing that overlap that you do need to understand you know story structure and character and world building and all of that kind of thing that I think both both disciplines need in order to be good yeah I mean I yeah definitely but I don't think one you have to be able to do one to do the other right today once again I just want to remind everybody if you're if you're new coming in that we have the promo code mammoth ma mm oh th that's mam moth mam when you go to my website creature art teacher calm when you checkout use the promo code mammoth and you'll get a 20% off any order youtube question can you please show us some day how to animate one color transitioning to another color like when a character blushes or holds their breath and turns purple I ask because I have no idea how they do that well one of the very simple ways that they do that is you have one that's the color and you have one that's the other color with nothing in between and you can cross dissolve between the two okay so you can basically you change your exposure gradually from one to the other so that there's a transition so you get the smooth transition that's how like when you see a cross dissolve where the frame doesn't change and in a movie and but you want to show time go by in an animated film we use like from night to morning we use two different paintings one is night time one is daytime but of the same layout and we just take the take the two and we just cross dissolve between the two a long cross dissolve and it looks like a transition from day to night and that's basically how you do the same thing on a character changing color question can someone get hired at Disney for for writing a script absolutely we hire I don't I say we loosely because I don't work there anymore but they they hire script writers all the time and a lot of times script writers become directors there now we're Knights didn't say a lot of times nowadays they're starting to become directors there and the writers are starting to become directors and they're hiring great writers they're you know what I did do a let me see if I can find it they pull it up here really quick and a fault Sabretooth C Sabretooth - no I don't know where it is doggone it yeah see Nick's pulling that up what's that what I save it under well let me just let me just bring it over here for some reason I couldn't find it Nick but thank you for pulling that up let me control save this image eyes to my desktop bulk and let's go to my desktop my full crazy desktop there it is sabertooth and let's pull that over to here here so this is a saber-tooth cat that I did back in 2015 I was a long time ago but what I did was I took one of the skulls I found the skull online and I drew over the skull and built it out and then added fur and I did kind of like a forensic rebuilding so I had the skull photo and then just started drawing muscles and drew the the skin over the top and then added fur and this is the image that I came up with so that was a lot of fun this is the saber-tooth cat home ethereal yeah well this is a little bit of the fur brushes but then I drew over the top of it as well so that's that's how I got that texture so there you go and as far as the color and the look that was just me speculating I've looked at other cats and I kind of made it a little bit similar to kind of you know somewhere in between a tiger and a lion obviously the more leaning towards the lion but there's some markings in there I pulled from tigers as well so there's that yeah it was fun I would like to do some dinosaurs with feathers by the way question how do you know when to change the tip of your wok and change the tip of your welcome tip that's from your from the department of redundancy department how do you know who to change the tip of your welcome tip well the tip of the tip is right here that's some of the tip I uh when it's not working for you the tip the tip will get all just all smooshed and that's when I change it and it feels so good when you change it to the new tip because you forget how lucky they were you don't realize how lucky they are because they you get gradually yucky that's a technical term by the way yeah yeah yucky yeah that's my that's my 50 year old man very adult term yucky yes that's how he direct movies that that's yucky that's intense that's just so yucky right on Bielecki I kind of changed my uh once again I'm going back and forth a little bit on my sensitivity I'll bring that down a little bit there we go the process well--there's I've got some books for you to read that will help you figure out your problems and if you're talking about scripts or script writing actually it helps with any story it helps you with structure there's a book called story by Robert McKee very good book on structure for scripts and storytelling that sort of thing there's also another one by called save the cat by blake snyder which is another kind of really great kind of I wouldn't I don't want to call it a formula but it helps you break down three act plays like it with films into kind of the structure that we are all aware of and just how they how they fit together and what's great about them is that I use those things that I've learned in those books as a template for when I'm writing and I'm having trouble I'm kampf if I'm stuck from a story standpoint they're really great to go and you start going back in and looking at okay how is my change in the mid act happening or how is my launch into the second act half an hour these it's whatever there's any number of things that you can kind of check against the story that you might be writing and it helps you identify your problems a little ease more easily and then incorrect things so once again that's story by Robert McKee and then save the cat by Blake Snyder those are two of my favorite books unscripted just did I just barely did a little bit of work for them on wolf walkers I did a little bit of drawing for them but I wouldn't I wouldn't even say was enough for them to really get anything from so I just did a little bit of drawing wolf walkers it's a film that hasn't come out yet and I'm very excited for I really love cartoons to loom those guys are just amazing and I'm hoping to get to see we're gonna be an over in Europe in April and I'm hoping to get to see those guys Nick and I over in Dublin right around the end of end of April sort of towards the end yes that that's not locked is it in future live stream do you think you can do something with cloth and folds and yes I would love to do that actually I saw that note from someone the other day and I would love to do that matter of fact I'd like to put a course out on that so yes we don't lock this sooner question how often you use Photoshop bat photo bashing I'm only in high school but I've heard photo bashing is very important in concept art should i prioritize learning it yeah you know what I don't use I don't use probably uh photo bashing as much as I used to I was really fascinated by some of the looks I could get I use it a lot when I'm doing concept work because it helps me just get to a finished idea quicker rather than trying to render you know fur textures or skin textures especially for something that's going to be photo real in a film then I can just take those textures that have been done photographically and I can bring them in I can lay them over the image that I'm creating and let them do the work rather than me trying to render and then I can create my own shadows and everything and so photo bashing to me is fairly important definitely important in concept work do you should you prioritize it as a young student where you said you're only in high school I I don't know that I would probably prioritize it as much as just prioritize really learning good art learn you know there's so much to creating art that's more than just drawing and painting pictures digitally there's so much about composition lighting formed different types of drawing different types of drawing and painting get out and learn traditional media along with your digital media these are things that you can you don't have to go to college for if that's an issue you can learn right off of youtube we've got courses on our own site creature art teacher but as a young artist don't don't just pigeon your holes pigeonhole yourself to doing digital art really and this is the time for you to really experiment and expose yourself to different mediums and everything because you're young and your brain is gonna soak it up and it's gonna be really cool and you're gonna make discoveries that are awesome and what's really cool about trying all these different areas of art including music I mean I would even argue that because I play music as well they all affect one another they come together and in your brain you brain mixes them up into something new and that only that you uniquely will pull together and create but if you're pigeon holing yourself to just doing one type of thing like digital art then you're not going to expand as much as you would if you tried everything so yeah as a high school student I really recommend try sculpting try watercolor try oil painting try acrylic try ink drawing try digital painting to do all of it and and you'll learn an incredible amount so that's my old man tirade right there photo photo bashing is when you take like what I do with my my elf characters like when I took your eyes and put them into the elf and and the different textures and lay them in and then I paint around it and all that kind of stuff exactly that's photo bashing yep so here I'm adding a little bit of grayer color because I'm imagining that maybe there's not as much fur around the eyes I have not I'm ashamed to say I have not seen it so you're saying it wasn't good so I'm gonna grab I'm gonna select color range I'm gonna grab that white and now because I want to add a little bit of discoloration to the tusks that are the local color whoops like a little yellowing you know they might have a little bit of yellowing around the tusks and streaking not streaking like naked streaking but drinking at the quad yeah I throw with to get the right reflected color have you any tips you struggle to get the right reflected color well a lot of times you got to think about when you think about reflected color think about what is that reflection where is that color coming from that's being reflected so you want to use that color and what's the color that's that is being reflected onto so you want to take into account how those two colors are going to come together and create a new color and often you want to think about how reflective is the surface so sometimes you know that reflected light is not going to be super reflective because it's coming off of a very matte surface or you might have a surface that's very reflective so there's a lot of different factors to think about when you're thinking about your reflected light but it's mainly think about the the surface you're reflecting off of which is the that's going to be the color of the light that you're going on to and then the then the surface side it's actually reflecting on through that you want to think about those those two things right there I think I said that right yes we finished it and Dustin did a unboxing video and we made the well technically you did the unboxing video just well I mean you did the other thing yes yeah we did the filming we started the filming last week we did the official unboxing last week but we did get to do the official review on it because hey you need to build a stand and be if we had a guest over over the weekend so we had to put a pause on it but we finished filming yesterday I finished the editing today so hopefully if things go to plan we should have the video out either later today or tomorrow and probably today I'm one Nick to see it Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick so I'm just adding a little bit of texture dirt no mammoth in a spider-man suit no no they display your peak but that's alright maybe I'm gonna maybe gets a little blondish I don't know let's go a little blondish advice on translating correct human proportions into gestures always feels incorrect me when well I'm not sure I understand the question but I mean when you're doing gestures you still want the same proportions you know you want correct proportions and so just try to get in the habit of hitting those proportions correctly I mean you're drawing you're gonna be drawing fast but you want to draw accurately and so a lot of times when people are doing their gestures they kind of take that as drawing sloppy and you don't want to draw sloppy and I'm once again forgive me if I'm misunderstanding a question but just try to get in the habit of drawing quick but accurate and just just know that you're gonna be doing a lot of bad drawings you just will but over time they'll get better it was something that I started because randomly I had the thought of the show avatar Legend of Korra in the back of my head and there's a character in that show who has he's he's a rich guy he has an assistant who he tells tells her Zhu Li do the thing she does the thing without him every penny to explain what it is and it just kind of popped in my head of just randomly like that was asking me for for something to help out with a swim yeah good the thing and it became our thing it's funny so here I'm gonna go ahead and put a background in there that's I'm gonna go a little oh cool with it on the bottom I'm gonna do this designers have a clear story of every character he or she designs you should you should at least have a base story a base idea yes otherwise what are you designing you know the character designer is not designing just a look that's not what you're doing you're designing a character a character is someone that has emotion personality feelings okay that's a character otherwise you're just doing a figure you're a figure designer if you're just drawing you know these characters that have really no background if you don't know who your character is then then you've got nothing there's nothing else to go off and one of the first things I tell people to do when designing a character it's don't you don't draw it's it's a researcher character right the character who what's their background where they come from whether there's wants needs what what are their fears what does you know what drives them you know what is what's their paradox what is what's been surprising about them all these different things I really recommend doing that because as you do that you your character becomes alive it becomes real and you can create something that has a lot more depth and you're gonna create props you're gonna create costumes you know how how would this character wear this certain outfit well you're gonna know that if you know the personality of that character right so the more you can do something like that the more you know your background of your character the better off you're going to be and the more interesting that design is going to be and then all of a sudden what does it do it becomes a character because when you're also when you do character designing you should be putting your character your drawings your poses not just you know 0 poses you should be putting them and act imposes that describe personality and so when you understand who your character is and you can do something that's going to describe the personality so yeah I recommend that I think this should be is like getting the story down like the like the the timeline the designs of everything else around the character to be able to form the character further further further like George Takei you must enjoy YouTube question do you have a course for drawing prehistoric creatures I do not so that's a great idea I will I will do that we will get into that actually Erik asks speaking of dinos are you familiar with Charles or Knights Dino paintings yes I am the brilliant absolutely brilliant real quick back to the painting I'm gonna I'm gonna do the lighting I think which way should I do the lighting Dustin which way should I do the lighting I could do it from the right side coming in I want it I want to show the form of the animal see if I do actually you know what I'm gonna do it from the left side the lights coming in from the left side and that way and I'm gonna have more shadow than light but it will be very awesome what yep Nick drama you watch I'll show you there we go if you could have illustrated a children's book would it have been something to do with the animals animal book I actually have a coloring book out in the market did you know that yeah I do I have a coloring book it's still on the market it's called Florida's crazy critters Florida's amazing I did it when I was in college until and it's still there it's you can get it on eBay flora Florida's colorful critters Florida's colorful critters I did it in college to make money it was a freelance job and I needed to pay my rent and so there was a woman that was doing this this book and she wanted me to do the illustrations and so I said sure and it's still in print still out there Florida's colorful critters well this one this is the high end so don't get freaked out this is the high end Wacom Cintiq and this one is about 3,600 I don't know how much it is with the stand because I make my own stand yeah as you can see in camera - yes you mean your grandfather and so I mean they're the 27 is a bit cheaper I think it's how much is the 27 I think it's around 3 to 20 and 2,900 baby those are the Pro Edition pro models they have a Cintiq 16 which I demoed which I'm going to be using on the road quite a bit I've got that over here and that one is six hundred and fifty dollars but it doesn't have oh this one right here so this one I mean if you're looking to upgrade in size then this is a the one for you but this is the Cintiq 16 not pro so there's a few things missing on this but for me like it's not a 4k screen you know there's a couple of different things that are that but I don't really notice them for me being a being on the road as much as I am it's a great it's a great model I'm gonna have a little I'm gonna I'm going to do my usual people are gonna hate me for this I'm gonna do my my errand blaze shadow going across it's a 24 I'm sorry you're right the 24 it is you're absolutely right they stopped producing the 24 2007 yeah it's a 24 the 32 I don't know do I look like a mind reader no no I don't know when using the 16 inch while you're what are your laptop prospects I've got a Mac Pro a Makarov McKnight MacBook Pro and it's uh one of the specs it's attended that it's Mac 10.2 or higher I think is what you need on it Tim on YouTube asks what is the weirdest thing you've ever eaten that you actually liked well Tim I may eat everything I really do I eat everything and trying to think what so weirdest thing I've ever eaten that I really like I've eaten a lot of insects and I thought they were you know grubs like grubs the size of my pinky deep-fried grubs that were kind of gooey on the inside I thought they were delicious Nick had some of those I've eaten you know bull balls I had some had some bull testicles that were about that big in Africa and I ate all those testiclees what else the weirdest thing I mean I've eaten a lot of crazy stuff in Asia one of the things I ate that I really did not like is I had a bowl of chicken feet that were chilled I had those in China and I wasn't a fan that was they were hard to get down they were very hard to get down oh good so it's a MacBook Pro it's a 15-inch Retina screen yes the processor is a 2.2 bigger her Intel Core i7 which I said is a really really good processor it's got a 16 gigabytes of memory RAM and using Macintosh hard drive we using an Intel graphics card which is basically an integrated graphics card into the motherboard and that's basically about it so it's so - it's a medium to high end Mac Mac laptop right but as long as you have at least 8 to 16 gigs of RAM you can pretty much hook up the 16 inch to about anything in fact the Wacom Cintiq s' works on both PC and Macintosh cool I've got a couple more questions periscope question what are your favorite art of books for inspiration you know growing up my favorite absolutely and I didn't have enough money to buy them so I just kept going to the bookstore and reading them over and over were the Frank Frazetta the art of Frank Frazetta Frank Frazetta was such a huge inspiration for me as a kid and like I said I could never afford any of his books and so I used to just go back to the to the art store as often is like nothing artist or but the book store I just go to the book store as often as I could and I would just sit there and just soak them up I just sit there and look at the books and and try to remember what they were and then go home and try to draw and I just absolutely loved them and then you know as a wildlife artist that's always started out I was a big fan of the art of Robert Bateman guy coeliac John Siri Lester and then the older guys were Karl Ron yes wilhelm keuner t' these are all you know turn-of-the-century beautiful incredibly beautiful animal artists so now what I'm doing is I'm painting in that texture I'm painting in the shadows see I'm taking a little bit more time and twitch question do you have a certain height distance height do you have a certain distance height you like for your Cintiq I can never find a proper height and I'll and I'd get arm fatigue well I I like mine up and down and a lot of people if you can go to the over-the-shoulder see a lot of people don't like this because their arm gets tired I'm I'm as strong as the Hulk right no but I just I I like drawing like this because it's it's very much like working traditionally at an easel and I work at an easel a lot and so keeping my arm up and painting like this doesn't bother me at all so I prefer this kind of stance on my Cintiq and and if you do it enough your shoulder you know your shoulder gets immune to it and it doesn't bother you so I like this stance so that's that's my two cents and then I you know my I've got old man eyes so I have to wear glasses but I like to keep that probably 1 foot distance from the screen James gurney is brilliant James journey and I indirectly we kind of know each other we know of each other we've promoted each other's work before and I think James gurney is an absolute God he is an art God he is amazing and I'm I look at his his like his Instagram account and as some of his other social media accounts his YouTube channel and I look at the work he does and it's just so incredibly brilliant the way he can do with you can sit down and crank out when he cranks out his his plein air paintings they're just amazing really are oh Kim Jung ji yeah Kim Jung ji is he is he truly isn't our God that guy's not human he's not human he just doesn't know you just sits down and just starts drawing Kim Jung ji Korean artist if you don't know who he is look him up because he's absolutely incredible how many DP ideal work in the file the last and last time I wanted to write I see lines I work at 300dpi yeah and most of my and most of my dimensions like this I don't do any dimension longer than 20 inches I just don't feel like I need to go that big so nothing larger than 20 inches like this one right here I actually I take that back because this might be 24 let me see image size this is yeah this is 12 by 24 mainly because it's such a whi short height I wanted something I wanted to give it a little bit more resolution I guess well I mean imagination is like a muscle the more you do it the better you get at it and so if you're disciplined enough to do it a lot then you're gonna get better so there's my answer for that but I mean you just you just have to practice at it really it really does it's like anything else you just got out of practice there so we're starting to get a little bit of form here that I like they're using the book by ng called the photo art yes a matter of fact Nick birch for Christmas boom look at that the photo arc Nick H got that for me for Christmas so there you go yes I've seen it I think it's a brilliant and I've also got the birds of the photo arc two amazing books that I highly highly recommend YouTube question would you ever consider doing a demo featuring a Marvel character beast from the x-men perhaps maybe I'm not big on doing other people's designs but it's something I could I might consider but I really don't like creating someone else's designs I like to create my own so there you have it that's Matt's micromesh inside yeah that could be kind of cool all right so now we've jumped over to the overlay mode and I'm gonna do something I want to hit some of these highlights some of this fur here kind of hard light some of those fur yes Heinrich clay is an incredible art they draw you know wonderful ink drawings that's right beautiful beautiful work for those of you that don't know who Heinrich Lay is I recommend that you go and look at his work it was a turn of the salad wasn't turned maybe a little earlier than turn-of-the-century german pen and ink artist did a lot of editorial type work animals humans beautiful beautiful work yes they were inspired by especially with the the the crocodiles and the hippos that sequence yeah exactly for Fantasia YouTube questions what's something you wished you knew when you were newer into animation I'm having trouble timing out poses for our characters dance well for something like that don't be afraid to look at live-action for reference you know just do it timing is something that she'll just over time no pun intended over time you'll get better at it and it's something you'll feel it's it's even becomes intuitive and so just give it give it time and you'll get better at stupid but as far as something I wish I knew when I was newer to animation man there was so much I didn't know it's hard to it's hard to say because there was a lot that I I just didn't know I mean I mean from just basic drawing my drawing is so much better now than when I was a young animator you know everything gets better you know I never have I've got friends that have done a lot of that and I think it's brilliant but I've never done it no design right so here I'm trying to get these textures what are you laughing at boy oh there's somebody it's a job brew from halo it was a brute is really really big in me that you they you usually face off in the game halo gotcha another question how is snow bear coming well it's funny you ask that we had a great session our story our our teacher who did the course on storyboarding Lyndon ruddy is gonna storyboard snow bear for us and so he flew down over the weekend and hung out with Nick and myself and our other friend Ronnie Willeford we all got together and we turned it into a snow bear weekend and really made some great headway on story and meanwhile Linden's gonna go away and work on some of the story boards and once he's done with that I'm gonna take over and start laying it all out and we're gonna start animation you know we're hoping that haven't done this year it kind of stalled out just because of all of our other responsibilities that we've had on other projects and travel and whatnot YouTube questions do I have an artistic habit that I try to do daily I don't have any specific artistic habit that I tried to do daily I just tried to draw or paint I try to create as often as I can and so that's really my habit and I wouldn't say that I don't draw every day I don't paint every day my advice for anybody is you know try to draw or paint or create as often as you can do you need to do it every day no you don't but you know don't put weeks be you know between sessions because you you know like anything else creativity once again creativity is a muscle and if you don't use it you lose it and it gets weaker so this mammoth I think is coming up much better than the one that I did the other day and it's got a lot of form to it which I like yeah one of the things we want to do Nick and I have been talking is taking a lot of our courses and turn them into print form and so once I have a nice full series on how to draw animals I definitely want to turn that into a book series follow show so here I'm going to go in and just darken a few of the shadows and here darken some of the shadows within the shadows and I'm keeping my shadows somewhat warm right now now I'm going to go in with a reflected light and and and change that up no I have it but I can matter-of-fact oh let me just real quick to just to let you guys know I'm sure I did I may have but I am going up to I'm going to Montana next there a week from today I'm going to Bozeman Montana to photograph wolves bears mountain lions that sort of thing so yeah I'm gonna meet up with my friend management manual mani mani hopefully you manis listening along with a few other artists many Carrasco Carrasco yeah and so we're gonna be meeting up and we're gonna be doing some photography we're gonna be heading into Yellowstone Park in the north end of the park hopefully with the government shutdown we'll still be able to get in but so we're not going to have a live stream next week on Thursday we'll still have a live stream on Tuesday but next Thursday it's going to be I'm going to be out in the wild it's gathering more material for more paintings and having a ball yeah the national parks get shut down well there's no one in there to handle the trash or there is nowhere around yo blink for our on youtube says hi I see you have some delay when you're painting you can fix it or can you improve it if you disable smoothing in brush settings I hope I can help a tiny bit with this I love your art I actually I'm not having any delay at least I'm not noticing it maybe when I get to the big brush it delays a little bit which all right now I've got smoothing at zero I appreciate the I appreciate the advice but right now I don't have any delay at all oh yeah no it doesn't affect us no more than it affects anybody else in the country federal workers you know poor federal workers who have been paid for two pay periods now are coming up on two pay periods yeah it's pretty ridiculous no I teach animation on my own website creature art teacher com so no school ism is school ism which are they're great guys Bobby Chu is awesome matter of fact I'm going to be doing some stuff with Bobby Chu over in London April 18th and I'm gonna be doing a course for him but no my day-to-day is my own website creature art teacher calm yeah you already answered a question did I ever read shadow mountain by Renee Askins no I haven't the story of a woman who devoted 20 years of her life reintroducing Wolves into Yellowstone Park it's an amazing book thank you I will check that out definitely see here I'm just pushing some of the darks in here that would be very helpful yeah we can do that actually that's a great idea put those out as a free download speaking of the website for those of you have just come in a little bit later we are running a special today I am drawing a mammoth and so if you go to the website creature art teacher com anything you purchase when you check out type in the discount code code mammoth ma mm o th and you'll get 20% off of your order hey take down to Cody so you'll get some mammoth savings a creature art teacher comm so this is coming together a lot better I think it's got some nice drama drama as my that's my old directing partner Bob Walker who used to say it's got a lot of drama wolves horses and bears oh my oh my that sounds crazy but we could do like predator bundles like herbivore bundles or like that's a weird bundle they understand what I'm yeah so far I think that'd be a really cool idea bundling them up into different I agree yeah yeah so I'm just going in and hitting some of these shadows pushing them a little deeper but I want to get this texture feeling good and I'm feeling good there we go as helpful as zoos are museums can be a tool to yes museums are a huge help you kidding me the Smithsonian which by the way is losing a million dollars a week throughout this shutdown the Smithsonian is yeah is awesome I love going to the Missal the Smithsonian to draw so just adding some texture to the trunk YouTube question hello from South Africa man I love South Africa hello do you have any favorite memories of the places or people you visited on your African trips yes some of my favorite matric memories when i was when we went into the masai village and and one and hung out with them and also when we I think it was Sam I think it was Sam guru people that went with us when we can't remember who's Messiah Sam boomer people but when we were in Tanzania there was one night our entire can't all the people in my kin my group they all went to bed but I stayed up and the only guys up were the Sambu or gentlemen that were working the the camp for us and so I stayed up with them until two o'clock in the morning sitting around the fire and just talking about each other's culture and cultures and really had an amazing time it was such an eye-opening experience that I had and one of the things that I thought was really interesting I was talking to one of the men the very young young guy he's probably about 18 and he's asking me about the United States and and he asked me you know what was it like because the United States is just one big city and it took me a little while because I didn't quite understand what he meant but then I came to realize he thought that the United States was literally New York City from coast-to-coast and I had to explain to him that it wasn't that there was a lot of open places just like you know where we were visiting there in Africa and things like that and and to me it just it was such an eye-opener to see what the perception was from other cultures to to us and but and vice versa I mean there it was so much I didn't know that I learned that night and we really had we had such a great time that whole evening and it was just them and myself and I'll never forget that that to me was one of them most amazing kind of cultural exchanges that I've ever had Nick asks just curious how Smithsonian is losing money since it's a free museum maybe donations in gift shop yes that's exactly yet Nick who thinks he knows it all I was reading the article the other day there is that it's all stuff that people purchase and just hurt you know that kind of tourism the article was talking about how they lose how they're losing a million bucks a week there we go but it is free free to the public I don't know I know I know I know nothing I don't know you know that it wasn't always snow there so you know we're in their environment the snow would melt I think over time therefore would've been success make sense just wondering I love you Nick but I was just kidding I was just rising knit alright so I'm gonna start painting some Opaques now so what I've been doing is I've been painting in different blend modes overlay and multiply and I've got kind of the you know I started out drawing or putting in the local color which is flat and now I've created light and shadow with overlay and multiply as you can see so now I want to start painting right opaque right over the top and really start bringing this thing to life a youtube question hey Erin when drawing as a beginner do you recommend drawing human anatomy first or can you start off with whatever animal you like you know when you're starting off as an arguable as an artist just draw whatever if you want to learn how to draw humans then get out there and learn how to draw humans if you want to draw animals and draw animals just you know try to do it the right way which is you know try to learn from life if you can that and that is if you're trying to be a representational artist I mean you can I don't want to pigeonhole you right off the bat you can do whatever you want but if you want to be a disciplined representational artist then I would recommend drawing from life whenever you can and then learning you know there's a lot of stuff out there on YouTube and Google and and everything else to get a lot of other information as well Erin I have trouble sketching in Photoshop because my lines always look too smooth and artificial any tips for brushes to get more more pencil you look yeah just you know if you go to my not to do a a plug but I'm gonna plug it anyway I have a whole bunch of Photoshop brushes that are more natural media looking because I I agree with you I don't like artificial looking brushes you know I don't want my mic my digital art to look digital I don't want to look computery if that's if you understand what I mean there and so I've gone made a whole bunch of natural media looking brushes and they're on my website creature art teacher calm and pack number one is probably one of the best ones it's one of the first ones I made and if you go today and put in type in mammoth you'll get 20% off of those brushes like the brush I'm using now is included in that pack I don't know that I don't know and we need a museum or gallery of Aaron Ayers work that's very nice of you but no you know there's way more people out there better than me I deserve to be in a museum there's another thing always remember there's someone better that you can learn from you can be inspired by I'm always inspired by other artists that's one of the things I love about social media as an old guy you know I've got access to so many great artists I can be inspired by and learn from YouTube question Erin can you please show this work without the outline yes here you go there it is without the outline so you can see how much the line really holds it together but as I paint I'll slowly get starting to get rid of the holding line that's the strongest one right there and but as I paint over the top it'll slowly go away what is my favorite art museum my favorite art museum is the Orsay in in Paris it's a impressionist Museum I think it's Impressionism museum might not be specifically Impressionism but they have an incredible collection of Impressionism yeah in Paris it's just I think it's an absolutely every time I've been there I've been absolutely in awe and I sit and I draw the sculptures and and I just I spend days there at a time and I love it the Orsay it's beautiful it's an old used to be a train station back in the 1800s and and they transformed it into an art museum and it's absolutely stunningly beautiful beautiful work so here I'm just adding light on some of these wrinkles I'm gonna lie think I like some of this these dark lines coming through what do you think Dustin of the drawing you know some of the dark lines of the drawing I kind of like it coming through I like that yeah so in here I want to go I want to get some reflected light up from the sky I don't want to go too light though I'm gonna try a little darker a little bluer how far do you go on greyscale before um I really don't even use greyscale I sometimes do but I usually just draw yeah see I'm still going look how look how dark I'm going look how dark that is see how dark that is and I'm still getting a nice wanting to be a little maybe a little bit later and a little grayer for this reflected light to really pop see that's gonna this is going to give it some nice form are the prices up on creature art teacher only in US dollars no you can you can pay with credit card from any the prices that are there yes they're listed in u.s. dollars but you can pay from anywhere if that's what you're asking I guess that's a dumb a dumb answer because of course you can pay from anywhere but uh I think it's gotta be more down here and a little grayer what's a YouTube question what things in particular didn't you like about the last mammoth picture and can you show them side-by-side I really didn't like the way I rendered out the fur for one thing I didn't like that I didn't like it was all very flat I felt like the forum was just lacking and so I felt like it was the drama wasn't there that I wanted it to have and so that really bugged me and so I decided to do this and let me pull up the other one yeah see that that see that reflected light here over on the right side we've got all that blue sky and it's gonna it's gonna interact with some of that fur on in the shadows the shadows are gonna pick up some of that light and so that really starts to feel nice to me I like that that light coming in there let me show you the artists so here it is it was just kind of sloppily sloppily sloppily done bring it down exactly I mean I was talking a lot not really paying attention and just I just let it get away from me and you can seek compare this to what I'm doing here where I'm really taking my time there's a huge difference there and so that's that's what I'm trying to do I hated it [Music] what if anyone can name that what's that what that's from do it again name I want to see if any we can name that so and see if you can name what that's from it's a comedy comedy show would you like to see ever the costume I'll show you nothing really because everything's already multiplied over-the-top or opaque so if I set the sketch layer to multiply there it is it really doesn't do anything chicken dinner was it yeah Little Britain yes polina on YouTube says hello all the way from Belize baby yes you know Nick and I have a dream of moving our families to Belize and opening up a a an eco-lodge where people can come in and draw and paint and do workshops in the jungles and we run our business from there we've been talking about it for years I think it would be spectacular so here I want to go a little bit lighter because the the Tusk is going to be more reflective we gotta listen to me I'm a mouth-breather never getting a little bit of nice some nice lighting here can you quickly explained to us that Anatomy of voice recognition technology you know love in Scotland Scotland every time Oh tinder no we did not mean on tinder we both went to this we both went to the same College we both went to the same College but we were 12 years apart in college and but Nick was doing some stuff for uh where he's um interviewing alumni for a project that Ringling was doing he's doing he was doing some work for Ringling College of Art and Design where we went to college it was a new yeah and and so he was gonna interview me actually I think some of his students wanted me because he was teaching wanted me to come and speak and that's how we kind of met that way as well kalos on youtube ass hey Aaron hello can you give us a sketch book tour someday greetings from Brazil I absolutely can actually I think that's a great idea I like doing those my sketch books are very personal to me so that's why I like sharing them because those are that's a nice emotional road to go down and I remember everything that I was doing when I do those sketches so those are how like I like doing it so yes I would love to do that it's asking asking me to say certain quote from How to Train Your Dragon by saying is Scottish accent they always steal your laughs always an assault every time there we go noise so texture texture I'm trying to get this sky reflected trying to get this guy reflected in the fur excuse me while I kiss this guy there we go there we go hardly maybe so this is coming up much better much happier we will also be adding some environmental effects Sam on YouTube asks any advice for a first-time dad whoa boy where's the balance between drawing working and keeping this little monster alive well the first thing you got to do here's my advice tell you what if your first-time dad you know what when the baby's crying at night you get up you change the diaper you feed them well not feed the baby if the baby's breastfeeding then you do everything else you need to bring the baby into mama and you let mama sleep that is my biggest piece of advice for you because that will score you some points and you'll bond with your with your child ya know I'm talking about the baby and you know and and but as far as you know the your first priority is your family and your children so art will always be there your children won't your children will grow and don't regret well Mike my kids have grown so fast and I get so sentimental sometimes that you know for the days when Dustin was young and his sister was young and and and I'm a softy I cry at the side that's a drop of a hat and whenever I started thinking about those things especially if we're sitting outside having drinks Dustin they'll tell you I'd start I start bawling yeah and you don't you don't want to have and I don't have any regrets I really had a lot of fun with my kids because I didn't just let Disney and my art and all that dictate my time I really valued my family and you really have to so don't don't let your family drift away your art will always be there but if you put too much in time into your art maybe your family won't be so really and at the end of the day that's what really matters is our family actually Ralph - they they haven't seen we're talking about parenting and everything at how it should be like yeah and it actually makes a whole lot of sense and it's perfect yeah well good because yeah I look back on those on you know everybody tells you you know enjoy him now because he grew up so fast and you know and that's it it's a truth that's absolutely true and you know I look over and I see my son who's 29 to 28 years old now and and it seems like you know just a few weekends ago he was just this little guy running around saying hi dad and uh oh stop talking for a second Paul my scouters accents a hundred times better than simon Pegg's a Star Trek duelist got spanked I will do my best there we go we're getting there how often did you work Oh every project yep we worked overtime on every project YouTube question have you seen Bedknobs and Broomsticks yes I have you to question a comment just about the scent one brush is looking forward to using them awesome I love Bedknobs and Broomsticks I love the animation that's one with the soccer game in it right we bred dogs and Broomsticks ups along with a soccer game with they're playing against the animal the predator the other predators is what am I I love the gorillas hanging off the goalposts and kicking the ball yeah so here I'm just I'm just putting in just a few little highlights I'm kind of dragging my feet on this so I'm gonna speed up a little bit got some nice reflected light and some of these pieces of fur I'll probably go in and hit them a little bit more my favorite fast food is wow what is my favorite fast food I love burgers I love what's my favorite fast food no not Taco Bell it's disgusting yeah I mean there's there's good food that they can make fast yeah you know any kind of sandwiches I'm I'm a sandwich fiend I love any kind of sandwich there's a place here in town called Manzano's that's probably the best sandwich in the world that's amazing we really considered fast food no it's not gonna be like dry it will be like drive-through right right I hear you here so here I'm going in and just hitting a little brainer some of these areas and the reflected light just getting a little bit brighter in another country I wanted to work for Disney and Burbank how would you go about it you got to put four in a portfolio but I mean a lot of people do you just got it you got to find get into the recruiting office and which you can usually find there there online and and get a portfolio to them there's a lot of people that do freelance from overseas it's not easy and it's you know it's harder to get in that way but it's done memories how can I pick up a memory of myself and transform it to a story that others well the biggest thing is that's the key that others can identify you want we all have a story and I think and I think most of our stories are universal we all have Universal emotions we feel loneliness we feel sadness we feel anger we feel empathy we feel whatever it might be and and it's tapping into those stories that really capitalize on those emotions because those emotions are universal and so when you can capitalize on a story that really even though the story may be unique in the experience the emotions that you feel are universal when you can tap into those that's when it really becomes a really great story you know that's one of the things that I think Pixar does so well you know they create these really crazy worlds but the stories they tell a universal the idea of belonging and and wanting to belong and and and love and and all of those things and wanting to feel useful you know look at Toy Story you know they feel like they're not useful anymore that they've worn out their their usefulness that's you know every old person that's ever lived has felt that emotion at some point and and those are things that you know you don't want people to feel them but they're there they make for great stories and great emotions and stories I am it should never be brighter than the light source itself so it should never be brighter so I like you can see that even though this is a fairly bright reflected light look how dark it is on there so it's never brighter than the light that's providing the reflected light Tory on YouTube asks you mentioned recently that multiple scene proposals get rejected before studio decides on one is it disheartening to have to keep redoing ideas ever had to scrap something you were really proud of of course I had I've had to scrap lots of things I was proud of the thing that to remember is especially in a studio atmosphere ideas creating animated films any of that stuff it is all of it it's always the art of making it better and I was gonna say compromise but it's not really compromise sometimes it is the art of compromise you have to maybe compromise an idea to let someone else come through with a better idea but but it really is it does come down to making an idea better a picture better or whatever it might be and so you have to accept the fact that that's that's just the process that is the process and and I love it I really do and it's really taught me to push myself when I'm especially when I'm creating on my own I used to not do as many iterations before I settle down on anyone but now I'll do a lot of different iterations before I'm happy because I I've learned through experience that whatever idea you might have it can always be better no matter how good you think it is it could always be better and so you got to really discipline yourself to get in there and create more and push yourself to make it better make it better and make it better and make it better because um that's how greatness is created it really is yeah totally there we go so we're getting some nice fur textures happening here yeah I just got a little tinnitus in my ear so started ringing no I don't think it was that so what I don't want to go to break too quick so though that a little bit of bright color that I was just laying in there was feeling a little bit too white and blown out air duster Nick should get their own TV drawing show with comedy elements I think we should also have been watching a lot of Grand Tour and I feel like that's the kind of kind of comedy we would be able to do but instead of about cars would be like different styles like maybe art do you explain that yeah [Laughter] I'm currently working on a story themed portfolio what would you look at look at before I submit to Disney if your story theme then really make sure your boards are really clear well staged make sure that the the idea is that your boarding are like changes of ideas and they're interesting ideas because that's what that's what the the you know you're gonna be judged by board artists at Disney and they're gonna look at how well you portray ideas how well you staged how well you draw and how great are your ideas can you write you know those are all parts of good storyboarding and so you want to make sure that those ideas are as strong as they possibly can be so that you get you know an edge in on somebody else that that is gonna be good as well YouTube question my brother is studying animation and his main struggle is time pressure to meet his deadlines well you know he's got to meet your deadlines how did you make sure you deliver the animation on time I cranked I'd like to say that I sat on my butt and just worked but in my younger days I goofed around a lot but I also I I I really focused when the time came to draw and I really cranked and my older days it's it's a matter of just you know put your butt down the seat and do it and just sit and draw and you'd be amazed at how much time we waste by getting up you know talking to people or going to get a sandwich or whatever it might be and so you just want to make sure that you're in your chair and working and that's that's the best piece of advice I can give you and don't you know when you're animating just blow through it I I would rough out a scene very scribbled first and then once it's scribbled out then I would check the animation make sure it's working if it's working then I would jump in and start tying it down but I don't I don't like to tie down a scene before it's working because you don't want to waste all that time drawing an animating and then all of a sudden discover that you've just wasted your time because the animation doesn't work so that's one of the ways I was able to get things done quickly because I I didn't spend a lot of time on him until I knew that the animation worked so there's a lot of different piece of advice I can get for that by Tigerlily on periscope asks when will you make part two of hair in the bear or bear in the hair the British public are still talking about it that's awesome nothing has since come close to to their current that in their campaigns you know I didn't may I mean I directed the animation and and designed the characters and animated it but it wasn't my job I was hired so that's really up to John Lewis the company the department store that hired us to do it you know as to whether or not they're gonna make another one yeah and that's you know I uh I like to use the bear in the hair commercial as an example of how you can tell an entire movie basically it's it's a three-act structure in two minutes you know and it's it's all right there and the bear and the hair it's pretty neat YouTube question however considered using a vibrant color for your original sketch or under painting and letting some of that peek through to add something unexpected to your piece you know what I never have I've never thought about that and it might be something I might try I like to go for stuff that tends to be a little bit more realistic and having a bright kind of unexpected color is not something that's usually in my wheelhouse or for my style but I like the idea I might give it a shot sometime so here I'm just getting a little bit of fur texture inside the darker shadows say the Dickies shadows I love that if you if that's what you guys feel then my work is done I love the I love Bob Ross when we set out doing this I wanted to be Bob Ross is my hero I love the man this year you need to wear the Bob Ross bro yeah that's a good idea you need to yeah the man was a genius or thanks now we'll just do are there any animal Anatomy boats you could recommend I don't know specifically about animal Anatomy books because I don't really have any there are you know creature books and and artists out there that I really recommend you know Terryl Whitlatch is one of the best that i really recommend for that sort of thing but not not specific animal and I don't really a matter of fact I don't really have any so I don't know what to tell you there but there's a lot on the Internet yes you know I for a guy that teaches animal Anatomy it's surprising that I don't have animal Anatomy books but I just don't it's all stuff that I've kind of gathered up on the internet or just studies that I've made over my over time and over my lifetime there we go sorry I'm my brain shorting out shameless plug if you like this video please hit the like and share buttons actually you know but really if you do like them if you like the video please hit the like and share buttons because that really helps us out and a youtube question thanks for the insights I'm going back to skulls are there any skulls you'd like to acquire yes I want some big skulls so I want I'd love to get an and I they don't have to be real skulls because I don't want any animals especially these big animals hurt in the process but I would love like a hippo skull an elephant skull there we go I would love an elephant skull yeah I don't know where I put it there we go we're okay now I want to get some of this texture on I'd love a t-rex yeah I don't I used to have a cast of a gorilla skull but I don't know what happened to it I think it's in storage had a hand to a girl a hand cast oh really yeah I was from a zoo specimen that had passed away and they did death death death cast of the skull or of the face and the hands and it's pretty sad but it's also very cool how he was able to how they were able to use him to it you know even in death he was he was helping to educate question when should someone start posting their art on social media I think whenever you feel comfortable with it do it anytime I you know wouldn't you feel like it it's ready to go then get out there and do it nick says have you ever shown a know have I ever shown the giraffe skull on video you know I don't know that I have I may have let me um I'm gonna do one more thing real quick I just wanted while I'm here I want to darken some of these shadows just a little bit but I'm gonna show you something very cool I've got a giraffe skull this is a real giraffe skull I picked this up in a taxidermy shop in Texas I'll show you how big a giraffe is there we go let me get this in here sorry I just want to make sure trying to push some of these shadows a little darker so I feel like I'm really getting a better sense of light you know it's not a matter of the number it's the quality just make sure that the the videos that you have in there are good strong acting because you know don't put in your walk cycles from first year and all that kind of stuff you don't no one wants to see that stuff what they want to see is your acting chops and so you know put in the scenes out of your best acting scenes don't you don't think you need to go more than a few minutes worth of animation maybe it's five or six minutes but um but you know just don't and then don't quote me on that because it might they might want to see more but for me I never needed to see any really more than that and then and just make sure that it's really good quality acting but um where's my where is oh it's behind me isn't it yeah this is the draft store Oh this is a real giraffe skull all right here so our I don't want to drop it hard but you can see how big these are this is a real deal so this is a draft skull and I mean it's just giant oh and wait yeah they weigh about 25 pounds but it's a beautiful beautiful skull and I love the form and I'm actually sketched in a few times I really love it so I want to start putting some environmental elements in here too so right now I'm still gonna push some of these darks coming up here because I'd like to put some snow in here like I did in the other one but just very sparingly and yes you can have snow and like blowing snow and a blue sky all at the same time let's see Robo on YouTube asks I've ever tried abstract art what do you what do I think of it yes I have tried abstract art and I love doing it it's a very great for me it's a great release to be able to do that non-representational well let's see that's the thing some people think I mean it's random but it's not it's it's you know a lot of it's very very thought-out marks on a canvas or a paper or whatever you wanted to find it that are gonna evoke an emotional response I think some is bad some is good I mean I think some is bad a lot is bad and and some it is very good so I just really depends on I've always seen like Japanese calligraphy like kanji as a form of abstract art that I really love alright so I'm going to come over here and this want to go a little cooler with it brighter there you're getting a little bit of reflected and why don't you like a whole scene often like a deer in the forest or a tiger in a jungle and all the characters with a full background I tried to do it as often as I can I have to actually do do that every once in a while but um I get some time I don't know I think it's I like I like focusing on the faces a lot of times because that's where the personality is and that's that's kind of where I end up going to I know it's kind of my my my go-to is that that portrait and a vignette background and you know it's I don't always do that but yeah you're right I do I do it a lot and um it's just because I think I'm trying to I'm going for that personality I want you to see their personality yes yes well you just got to get that Scott in there don't you a youtube comment I think this mammoth could have longer eyelashes elephants already have huge long eyelashes and the mammoth would need it against the snow you know it person on YouTube you know what I think you're absolutely right Oh Dustin Dustin smashton but what does that mean doesn't even mean this real life and they they also their eyelashes is a kind of crazy a little excuse me holy moly all over the place give that cat flying lessons yeah I think you're right longer eyelashes baby you nailed it do you have any an artistic comfort zone a set of things you like to draw over or anything else yeah animals cool animals man I can't hard I can't talk I'm stuck this and as it illustrator do you think that a detailed background could rest impact to the pic well no I think a background is as much a part of as much of a part of the the out as far as the elements go as any other part of the image it's just that you'll have to plan it all especially when I'm doing a live stream you know getting that background in there sometimes you know it takes a while to plan that out for me from a compositional standpoint original black-winged pencil that was owned by no no don't do that don't buy it that's ridiculous yeah no that's just that's someone trying to cash in don't give them the satisfaction whoever's asking that don't do it I don't know Nick do the thing maybe there's a there's a run and it's shutting down there we go image rotation Howie what time is it 249 so we only been at it for an hour and 49 minutes that's not bad is this YouTube question is this mammoth doing a slow-motion hair flip maybe it's just me I used to do that I used to could I used to could you be coming over on 2:45 with the kids oh my grandkids little bastards I love those kids those crazy little monsters alright so let's do this I'm gonna put a little oh well they're a little later there let's get some texture in there yes I had a corned beef sandwich a Reuben oh I hear it I hear it yep oh boy I think we're gonna be having to finish up here I put a little layer over the top yeah faster I know right so crazy there let's get a little bit over on top the man is just looking at there because it's worth it because it's worth it nice I like it because I'm worth it yeah there's no parallax there's no parallax at all so the pen wait where the pen touches that's where the cursor is it's very very cool I love it do I want snow on him shall we go down that route again no don't don't do that don't Aaron don't nice no that feels pretty good egg right but that feels just up beep right all right let's see you're an idiot you're funny all right there we go so wasn't there a scene in wreck-it Ralph too or it becomes Bob Ross yes what is Bob Ross oh really there is yeah there is and when when that big came up it was only for like three seconds but when that happened I laughed so hard is really thought of you Oh dad would love this because it was during the scene where he's like go through like all the different viral videos and all this different reactions and everything and Bob Ross came up and I I couldn't breathe I was like it's oh that's hilarious so he here could you hear my granddaughter crying in the background she hates getting dropped off and then all of a sudden she's my best little buddy scary man look at you try not to you look like a freaking sasquatch do I look scary all right so I'm just gonna finish this up I'm go don't finish it don't finish it so this is my redone mammoth I feel is a lot better than the other mammoth that we did yesterday and actually I really like this kind of I'm kind of happy with how it came out I think the background can be a little different and I definitely could work it more to get rid of the the line drawing underneath but for the time we had and considering my granddaughter is here screaming I think it's I think it's not too bad I mean that was just two hours two hours worth of work over the sketch someone off topic but do any of you like Nick Aaron or Dustin do you guys play tabletop RPGs you'd be great at it and would enjoy it uh me know I was never part of an RPG tabletop like Dungeons & Dragons but I was I used to play a lot of world of Warhammer 4040 K and what that was able to build up and paint my own models and everything and I like emphasizes this this is 12 by 24 inches at 300 dpi so let me finish this up really quick for you guys save it and I'm going to take all of this and put that into a folder and we're going to repeat the folder and then I'm gonna lair it so I'm gonna flatten it I'm gonna merge it come on baby merge that group now one thing I want to do is I'm gonna put a layer on top set that to multiply I want to push that darkness just everywhere ever so much just a little bit so I'm gonna do a little gradient right here there's that little gradient see there yeah see like see there whoops that's not supposed to happen she's not having it you might have to go and do something thing hold on I got a meet at this lair hold on my our merge layers repeat this man I'm flying now because I got a little kid okay we're gonna push that saturation just a touch it's all saved I did I did want to lose some of the edges but I'm just gonna leave it now and let's get rid of this we're gonna drop that opacity way down to 8% we're gonna go to color dodge not sure how this is gonna work but let's try it let's burn some of that in really get some light on the subject I went a little hot on that coming right in here on the husk it's got a little heat there on the tusk up here pinky Tuscadero I just bought your brush set right at all man thank you okay I'm gonna run over here let's just do this just a little bit while I can almost there just want to soften some of these edges or I just burned it yeah just yeah just like to I like to lose edges where I can it just helps just losing a few edges here and there is nice what's the coupon code again coupon code is mammoth ma mm oh th few a few are watching today head on over to creature art teacher comm and pick up a lesson or two or paintbrushes or whatever you want and when you checkout put in the discount code mammoth and you're gonna get 20% off you're gonna get mammoth savings yay yeah just some fur they're just softening just a touch here and there yeah I want to get like see that the softening some of these edges really kind of gets it to sit nicely yes yes I like that we live there we go there I can always erase it back so there's my mammoth for today I've still got a lot of work I can do on this but I got a little granddaughter to go attend to so thanks you guys for hanging out today that was a fun two hours remember if you've got a bad piece of art don't give up on it you can always go back and rework it do whatever and sometimes it's better just to move on and stuck it over but today I really wanted to show you that especially in the digital world you can peel away some of those old layers and say you know what I'm gonna start over I'm gonna recompose I'm gonna do everything you know using art that you already did so in this case I use the drawing that I had already created the day before and just recomposed it and changed a little bit of it and then repainted it and completely we have a completely different image if you look at these two images together whoops where did it go we go this so if I turn this on right yeah so there's there's the image I did yesterday right here for some reason your your mammoth came onto my screen oh it did oh that's weird so there's uh so there is the mammoth there and then here's the one we did today which I think is more interesting and a lot more fun and dramatic and whatever so just remember you can change things up and have fun with that I got to go attend to my granddaughter I had a great time with you guys today so we're gonna see you next week on Tuesday but remember we will not be here on Thursday as I'm gonna be up in Bozeman Montana photographing lions and tigers and bears oh my and having a great time and but you know until then have a great week have a great weekend put some beauty back in the world go paint a mammoth do something have some fun I really enjoyed having you guys with me today I hope you guys had a good time and with that put your grocery card away and Dustin take it away [Music]

Channel: The Art of Aaron Blaise

Views: 18,180

Rating: 4.9479165 out of 5

Keywords: The Arts, Animation, Art, Illustration

Id: wmt0I3mSZiE

Length: 122min 59sec (7379 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 24 2019