DTIYS or Draw This In Your Style – is a challenge for artists that is oh-so-popular on social media.

The idea is that one artist shares their drawing with a #drawthisinyourstyle, #dtiys, or something along those lines… And other artists participate by taking that initial drawing and re-imagining it – taking it for a spin if you will.

Think of it as fan art of a sort 🙂

I think it’s definitely a fun way to try something new in your art, experiment, and move a few inches outside your comfort zone.

How to Participate in DTIYS Challenge?

Easy-peasy!

  • 1. Search up the hashtag #drawthisinyourstyle on your favorite social media platform and get inspired!

I love browsing through Instagram and checking out artists who participate.

  • 2. Find the work you love and taking it for a spin in your personal style and favorite art medium.
  • 3. Share it on the platform and don’t forget to give credit to the original creator of the work 👌

Here’s my spin on it – swipe to see the original artist:

You can see the full process I go through to make this drawing later in this article.

Draw This In Your Style Challenge: 2 Big Tips

So I want to share a few general tips with you, that I think might help you to create the best drawing interpretation and to have the most fun doing it.

1. It’s a “draw this in your style challenge“, not a “copy my drawing challenge”.

There is the big distinction right there that many beginner artists often misunderstand. The idea here is to show off you skill, creativity, imagination and style.

So draw as if you were creating a fan art, or “stylizing” a work.

It’s always more fun to pick the artwork of someone whose style is very different from yours – so both of your works can truly shine in their uniqueness!

2. No Limit Workflow

Don’t create rules where there aren’t any – and break the existing ones! 😈

Feel free to change the pose, the colors, the composition, even the working medium.

If you absolutely LOVE everything about the original drawing – keep it! If you think something can make it better – add it.

My DTIYS Process

I’m using Procreate app and my iPad Pro 13 inch to participate in this challenge.

I love using Procreate, and even created my own Mastering Procreate App course 🙂

Here are the basic steps I took:

Digital Painting Procreate Process Step By Step. Digital art drawing tutorial. Draw this in your style challenge girl fae fairy easy.

Feel free to save this image to your Art boards on Pinterest 🙂

The drawing took me about 3 hours to make, then I sped it up 700% and created a voice-over explaining my process, some tips and ideas along the way.

Check it out:

Video Transcription

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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guys if you want I forgot to mention I

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have free hair brushes that I’m giving

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out to people who go to my website my

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blog is called your art path comm um and

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yeah I’ll just leave a link down below

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so it’s not a big deal

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and in that link you will be able to

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sign up to my email list to get free

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brushes I know I’m very sneaky like that

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I just want to be able to contact you in

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the future while I release new videos

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and new articles so essentially I create

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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

22:17

two minutes left and if you guys don’t

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know anything about what I do it’s I

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have this big big passion of mine it’s

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called your art path calm

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it’s my blog that I’ve been working on

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