Draw This In Your Style Challenge 2020 – Tips, Process, Inspiration

hi guys and welcome to my new video and

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today I want to share with you the

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process that I take for creating artwork

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in perk right up so I decided to take

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part of the draw this in your style

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challenge and I found this beautiful

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amazing character by the artist on the

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left that’s their Instagram page and

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yeah I found this character I fell in

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love with her the one on the lap that’s

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the one I decided to take on and today I

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just want to share with you a video on

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how I got there and to her in my style

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in my process and just over all the fun

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I had and the tips I wanted to share

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with you okay

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so I’m going to keep the artwork on the

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left you should definitely check out

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this artist if you think you would love

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to see more of their work on your feet

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and just follow them on Instagram so

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okay so I started with a sketch

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obviously and it was just a very loose

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sketch and I did it on the symmetrical

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grid system right so in per created you

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can create symmetrical drawings and

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that’s what I started with because

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obviously a face is quite symmetrical

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especially if it’s looking straight at

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you but on the then I like lowered the

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opacity of the layer and on the new

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layer as you can see I made some

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adjustments so as much as symmetrical

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faces are great and fun the truth is

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that to really bring interest to your

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character or to your drawing you can it

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can just be completely symmetrical there

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has to be some parts there are not

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exactly the same and that’s what’s going

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to give it interest and believability

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and realism or whatever right so because

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nothing is exactly the same that’s very

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digitalized so I just kind of went ahead

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and decided to do this sketch I guess I

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wasn’t trying to make it perfect as you

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can see the lines are still very loose

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and exploratory I just wanted to kind of

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figure out for myself what are the

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major shapes how are they working

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together what is the big picture look

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like and so yeah I just I wasn’t trying

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to do a linear drawing that’s super

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perfect I’m just a sketch and I did the

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eyes I drew her eyes because it’s going

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to help me position every other aspect

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of her face if I know where the eyes are

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so I just kind of drew them first and

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then well then they will disappear and I

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was kind of struggling a little bit with

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a horn because on the left in the sketch

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the horns look really cool my horns look

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way less cool it’s probably the second

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time in my life that I’m drawing horns

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but it’s cool to take on challenges you

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know if you haven’t drawn something you

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might not even realize that you haven’t

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so drawing new things is always fun it

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helps you improve so definitely try to

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take on a challenge where you’re asked

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to draw random weird things that might

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not sound interesting to you but then

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they will help you learn how to draw

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better so for example have you ever

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drawn a banana or keyboard or I don’t

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know a screen uh-huh or a specific kind

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of flower the chances are you haven’t

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drawn everything there is out there but

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every little thing that you add to your

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drawing capabilities will help your

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overall drawing skill that’s what I

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believe so I always try to draw

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something new and I realized I don’t

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draw much horns and I should because

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they look pretty awesome okay so I just

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kind of keep playing with the sketch

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figuring things out and as you can see I

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create new layers constantly and I do

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something and if I like it I just merged

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the layer down and if I don’t like it

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see I just immerse all the layers but if

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I don’t like it I just delete it and I

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don’t have to worry about erasing it

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perfectly without messing up the lines

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that I actually like

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so in that sense I am using the digital

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tools that are available to me and I

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know some people these while they try

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not to use these tools because they feel

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like they’re cheating especially at the

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beginning of their journey they might

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feel like they’re cheating somehow

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that’s why they’re using these two not

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using the tools given to them but I kind

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of think it’s silly it’s definitely a

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fantastical challenge to just draw on

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one layer or just never use undo button

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or never use some filters it’s a

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challenge for sure makes your work more

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thought through it makes you think more

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it makes you be more intentional and

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more confident with your lines so it’s

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definitely awesome to do but at the same

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time if you need that help or if you

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want to speed up your process don’t feel

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like you’re cheating you’re just using

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the tools that are available to you it’s

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like when you’re drawing with a pencil

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right if you put the pencil on a certain

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angle you can shade with it it’s like

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saying hey don’t shade with your pencil

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because it’s cheating right it doesn’t

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make sense and so yeah just use all the

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tools are available too I think they’re

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all great especially like flipping the

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canvas or liquefied tools or the undo my

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favorite

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I actually don’t do a lot of traditional

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art anymore so when I pick up a

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sketchbook once in a blue moon and I

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start sketching I find myself trying to

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undo all the time because Photoshop and

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procreate allowed me to be more

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experimental and so I just kind of put

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on strokes without worrying and you can

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see it perfectly right now because this

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is my failed in quotes attempt to color

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which I’ll just delete later but I’m not

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worried about ruining what I’ve put in

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any more because I know I can undo and I

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know I can delete so

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it’s literally not a big deal that is

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why guys literally there’s no worries so

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I use the tools that are available to

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you especially at the beginning of your

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journey come on like it’s not cheating

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who cares how you created the work it’s

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all the same you need to know so much

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when you’re nervous there’s the lighting

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there’s the value there’s the color

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theory there’s the anatomy and

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composition and yada yada yada there are

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so many things just like make it easy

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for you create a process that works for

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you I still try to find mine and it

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never will stop but you know anyway just

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don’t feel bad about using digital tools

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that’s kind of like I guess what I was

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trying to save this whole time and also

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I make mistakes all the time like look

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at this this is my second attempt is

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calling this drawing and it is not

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working like I just I don’t know it’s

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not working and I was trying to just

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relax while I was painting it and have

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fun so it’s not working okay bye Mike

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that’s it

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bye you’re not working for me I will not

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continue to try to figure you out I just

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delete it and I keep going and I try

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something new and try something new I am

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experimental in my process and maybe it

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seems kind of a crazy and messy process

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but I’m okay with it and if your person

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is very thought through and I guess

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perfect in its own way then I applaud

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you because you found it and it works

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for you and that’s fantastic

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and I guess for everybody something

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different works we’re all a different

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everybody has this their own little

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thing that works for them and I know for

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sure that there are some artists that I

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admire so much and their work is so

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clean and even if I tried to create it

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it wouldn’t feel right to me even if I

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could do it right because that’s not

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Who I am as a person I like messy lines

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I like molding things together I like

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putting random colors and then seeing if

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it works I guess we’re all different and

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that’s so beautiful because if every

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single piece of art was the same art

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world would be boring in fact I don’t

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think it would be a big thing I think it

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would be yeah just boring so I’m glad

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we’re all different and we should

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appreciate and accept that okay so back

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to the drawing I am finally getting into

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the zone where I’m like okay these

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colors are all right let’s try to figure

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them out so I’m trying to blend in some

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colors her lips are a little bit blurry

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at the top I just love that look and so

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we’re doing that and just kind of trying

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to see where are my lights where is my

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light falling down

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where are my shadows and how does it all

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work together essentially because the

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first two times the coloring did not

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work at all and I was trying to add some

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color underneath my line art this time I

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decided to just create a new layer on

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top of everything I’ve created and just

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go right in and try to figure out my

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forms and whenever I paint forms I try

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to like this is a weird one I guess but

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something I learned in my university I

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went to art university so something one

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of the teachers said that really stuck

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with me is like whenever you’re drawing

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or shading and you want to create a 3d

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form imagine as if you are touching that

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form right now what does it feel like is

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it round is it going down like what does

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it feel like so whenever I’m painting

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and shading and blending I’m trying to

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cause him to think like what would it

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feel like if I touched her jaw right now

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is it soft is it pointy like what is her

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chin I was struggling with that chin the

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whole time from beginning to the end

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it just did not feel right it didn’t

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feel like it has that proper shape but I

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only understood that because I was

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trying to understand what would it feel

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like for me to touch her face at the

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moment and yeah I think it really helps

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me all the time even when I’m just

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starting to sketch like figures or

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whatever it’s like what do their bodies

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and movements feel like what would it

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feel like for me to stand like that you

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know so it’s just kind of like a little

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tip right there try to feel your

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subjects and objects and whatever that

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could help you

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blunt better so in this video I kind of

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I could have just like you know speed it

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up to like ten minutes and just forget

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about it and put slop on some music and

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let you guys watch it if you’re curious

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but I wanted to see if you would like

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this if you would like me to speed up

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the drawing but also talk about like

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random things when I was sitting down

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here to talk about this drawing I was

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like I’m just gonna explain the process

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but as you can see I jump back and forth

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between different subjects and different

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things that I’ve learned and there’s not

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really a goal to this talk except that I

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just say whatever comes to mind and then

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I hope that some of it will be useful to

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you so I would really love for you to

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comment below if you would rather have

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me do these like long 20 minute videos

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and talk over with like the tips or the

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things that were going through my mind

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while I was creating this drawing or if

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you would rather me speed it up to like

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10 minutes and slap on some music and

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just shut up so you don’t have to listen

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to me by the way you can always turn

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this the hunt off and just turn on some

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music if that’s just you’re both better

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I’m totally cool with that but yeah I

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would just like to know so that if most

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of you don’t want to share me talk about

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different things

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I just won’t record it you know it’s

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less work for me um so yeah just let me

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know I’d love to hear from you

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and also if you do think that I should

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talk over my drawings then what should I

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talk about like what what is interesting

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to you

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there are obviously so many things I

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could talk about or just like today I

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freestyle it yeah I’d love to know so

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let me know let’s maybe talk a little

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bit about my process with the coloring

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so I create new layers all the time slap

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them in see if it works

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if it doesn’t I changed the opacity of

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the layer I changed the hue saturation

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brightness with the adjustments and I

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just try to make it feel right and then

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if it feels right I merge it down and

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then create a new layer and paint on top

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of that so I constantly protect myself

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from making big mistakes by working on

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new layers but also when I’m happy with

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something I just merge down and move on

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I don’t think too much about it and also

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I am working on a pretty big size I’m so

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if your regular portrait size is 8.5 by

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11 inches I’m working on double that so

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17 by 22 inches and I also have 300 dpi

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resolution if you don’t know what that

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means no worries in there are

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essentially two numbers you need to know

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for resolution 72 dpi and 300 dpi 72 dpi

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is for work that’s going to be displayed

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online and you never ever ever want to

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print it and 300 dpi is for work that

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can be later on printed because it has a

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lot more dots per inch so a lot more

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pixels and you can print that work so

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honest I don’t print my work that often

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there’s always the possibility of like

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hey what if some day I want to print it

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so I always try to work on as big size

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and this best resolution as possible

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because you never know so I just worked

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it 300 dpi and I believe I can only have

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like 12 layers in procreate with such a

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big size and such a good resolution and

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because of that I have to constantly

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combine my layers and it’s just kind of

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like that’s why this process

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works for me and that’s how this process

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happened and Photoshop I kind of tend to

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have like a hundred layers sometimes and

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it just gets a little bit messy

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okay so right now I figured out that her

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hair is kind of bothering me that it’s

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so white so I decided to do something

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with it underneath you know how some

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people paint their hair underneath a

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different color than it is on the top so

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that’s kind of what I’m going for and I

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first I thought maybe some very bright

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accent color would be a really cool but

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then I realized that hey this dark super

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dark brown looks really cool because her

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horns her blindfold and her dress or

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shirt look awesome that color so

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altogether it just kind of works it

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creates these very interesting shapes

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inside of the story if you just squint

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your eyes and just look at the shapes

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that it created

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it looks really really cool so obviously

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squinting your eyes is something as well

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that is a good trick to see if you’re

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drawing works just squint your eyes and

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see like what’s up you know and in this

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case I feel like it’s working pretty

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well although spoiler alert

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at the end I am changing the background

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color I know it’s not ideal your

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background color should not change at

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the end because it changes a lot of the

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things that are happening within your

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drawing essentially your background

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color as one of my professors at

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university said it’s your air color so

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what is an airhead color the air you

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breathe what would that color be and in

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this case I picked this light to

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saturate and blue color and air color is

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very important because it reflects onto

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everything within your drawing so I

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should have just kept it and been happy

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with that but I finished this drawing

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three hours later and the next day

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I realized that I don’t like that it

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doesn’t have enough contrast so I spent

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20 more minutes adjusting the colors

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with different adjustment layers and I

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added the exclamation point

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and I changed the background color and

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then I had to go back inside that

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drawing inside the figure and add that

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color to the figure so it all looks

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cohesive there are so many things about

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art that I wish I could just explain in

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five words that you would understand

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right away what I’m talking about but

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especially for beginners it’s kind of I

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might be speaking gibberish because I

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swear like five years ago when I just

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started and uni I think I didn’t

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understand most of the things that they

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were teaching me I only started

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understanding it better and better

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because they were teaching me the same

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thing year after year after year and

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that’s when I was like oh okay alright

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so flipping kind of a super duper

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important I keep talking about it all

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the time flip your commas kids seriously

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flip them way more than I flip them

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because this the longer you wait the

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worse it gets the worse your situation

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is and so just flip them all the time

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you know I keep telling myself Anna

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flip your canvases but I forget anyway

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just keep flipping them it’s a really

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cool things you happen started a long

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time ago with our traditional artist

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putting a mirror behind them to see

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their drawing flipped essentially in a

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mirror so they can fix the mistakes but

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we don’t have to put a mirror we just

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have to press flip canvas and we’re good

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to go so yeah flip your canvases and

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more articles currently so on my blog

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but I would like to create more videos

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I’m just not sure what sort of videos

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I’d love to be creating for you guys so

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if you have any ideas again please new

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comments and I’ll look at your ideas and

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see what I can do maybe I can create the

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idea that you suggest or maybe I can

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just share my process like I am doing

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today and whether it is with a voiceover

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or just a regular time-lapse I guess

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we’ll find out quite soon when you guys

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respond to what do you think is the best

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choice for me what else can I say

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yeah so I’m just kind of constantly

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pushing the saturation seeing how far I

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can take it because these little accents

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of saturation are just so beautiful so

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attractive and I love adding them

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wherever I can as well as using a little

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bit of color dodge to brighten some

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parts of the face and you can see the

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ice behind the fault and I kept it

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because you can kind of see them on the

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original sketch in my sketch there are

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no eyebrows you can see the eyebrows and

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I kind of regret that at the moment I

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think having eyebrows would be really

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cool and I should have had eyebrows I

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kind of didn’t think about it I think so

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it’s fine

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and I also merged everything together

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and playing with different colors we

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have your yellows magenta and whatever

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and I just used the mid-tones shadows

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and lights and I adjust them to see if I

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like it but I always do it on a new

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layer so I can switch them back and

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forth and see if I actually like it or

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not and I wasn’t sure if I should keep

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the exclamation point but then at the

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end of the day I ended up liking it as

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you will see very soon actually because

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we’re almost at the end I can’t believe

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I was talking nonstop for more than 20

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minutes that’s kind of crazy mmm I don’t

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talk that much you know I just paint and

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watch movies and play video games and

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right for my blog I don’t talk that much

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so this was very fun I hope you didn’t

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get bored of my voice yet there is about

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with the drawing I spent a little bit of

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time editing it the next day here’s what

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