(gentle music)
- Okay, before we start this video,
I started drinking oat milk recently,
I don't wanna drink as much normal milk.
And when I bought this very simplistic branded oat milk,
I noticed that the character on the front
kinda looks like me, it kinda looks like
they stole my identity, and then put me in a duck suit.
Here look, for example, who wore it better?
Now just imagine me in a duck suit.
Right?
What's going on guys, my name is Chris Hau,
and on today's episode, we are gonna be talking about
how to stand out on Instagram and to double your likes
or double your following, or double your engagement,
with one single hack.
Now a few months ago, I connected with somebody
named Nick Iby, he is an artist out of Boston.
He is super talented, he actually made me a piece of art,
for my office, here,
I'm actually gonna go get it to show you.
There.
(grunting)
Piece two.
It looks good, I like it a lot.
Okay, so Nick is a super talented artist,
and then I asked him, I was like, "Hey Nick,
"can you take my photos and draw on them?
"Here is a link to Dropbox with all my photos."
And then he came back with these.
(fingers snapping)
When he sent these to me, I was like,
"Dude these are awesome."
I wasn't too sure if the audience on my Instagram page
would like it, so I kinda sat on them for a few weeks,
and then one day I was like nah, screw it,
I'm gonna post these things.
I posted them, talked a little bit about collaboration,
and why they are different, and why I like them,
and wouldn't you know it, this post literally got
twice as many likes as my previous post.
If you look at this post right here, it's a good post,
really great photo, really love this photo.
Nobody cared because there was no drawings on it.
Now let's go to this photo,
where we swiped through them all,
this little carousel, and we're using humor,
we're using awe, it looks different.
This is kind of a style that I remember seeing
from somebody named Garrett King, also known as,
I'm eating my hair,
Shortstache on Instagram.
I always loved his style,
so I thought this would be really cool
to start drawing on my photos.
This was a really great way to boost engagement,
to stand out, to be different.
And I think on a platform
where everything is overly saturated
and one of the biggest feelings that people have right now
is that everything looks the same, or nobody's trying,
or there's a lack of creativity.
So this is a little technique
that we're gonna teach you today.
Nick is gonna join us on the channel,
he came all the way from Boston to be here in Toronto,
in my little apartment here, to come and teach you guys
a tutorial about how to draw on on photos
so you can actually double your likes on Instagram,
and stand out, let's introduce Mr. Nick Iby to the channel.
(hands clapping) Hey we'll do that,
we'll do the thing that people on YouTube do,
oh my god, I'm gonna snap my fingers, and then.
- Okay that was a cool transition.
(laughing)
Anyways, Chris hyped me up a lot,
and I hope I can live up to the hype
with this little tutorial.
The first thing you wanna do
is decide how you wanna draw on your photos.
There's two ways, you can either print out a photo,
draw on it, like on a Sharpie, scan it into your computer,
and bring it to Photoshop,
which that's what I did for Chris's photos,
before I got my iPad, or you can use an iPad.
So after you know how you're gonna draw on your photos,
the second step is pick which photo
you wanna draw on.
You want a photo, ideally,
that has a lot of space around the subject.
You don't want something all up close and personal.
Because the more room you have in the photo,
the more room you have to draw.
My intentions, when I draw on photos,
is to try to evoke a certain emotion.
And my go-to emotions are like humor,
like an aww, or a like a cool factor.
Today we're gonna focus on humor.
Now it's time to actually draw on a photo.
There's a bunch of different apps out there
that you can use.
The first one I fell in love with was Adobe Draw.
The first thing we wanna do,
I just select iPad Pro portrait.
Then we wanna just simply choose an image layer,
on your iPad, all photos, boom, photo of Chris.
And we just gotta size this up.
It's not gonna fit perfectly,
but that's the power of Photoshop.
So we're gonna drag this draw layer on top of the photo,
and then to the left,
we have a bunch of different pen options we can use.
I like this one, it's the fourth one down.
And typically I like to just use white color,
because white stands out the most,
especially with a more darker photo like this one.
My thought process, when I first saw this photo,
was it kinda looks like Chris
should be like waiving down a waiter,
like hey, check please, check.
And you do that weird thing where you're like.
Chris is trying to get the attention of a waiter,
at least in my mind.
So I thought it'd be funny
if we literally just write the words check please.
A lot of this is trial and error, you do something,
mm, get rid of it.
So there is this little setting section.
You can increase the pressure dynamics.
The pressure dynamics will give you
a different range of size for your pen tool,
so the harder you press down, the bigger it'll get,
and the softer you press, the smaller the text will be.
So it's a cool way to have more control.
It's not just one solid line the whole time.
So I like to have my pressure dynamics
all the way up to 100% because that's what feels
the most real, and the most organic.
And one cool feature, if you tap the pen,
it changes back from your pen to the eraser tool.
Okay, so we got our check please.
Now we need like a though bubble around it.
That's a little too close to Chris,
but the cool thing with this draw layer,
if you click on the layer once, you can transform it,
so then you can just move it
a little bit more away from Chris,
so you're not tied down to where you left your pen strokes.
You know, maybe I could add a little smiley face
or something, make it a little bit more,
Chris is a nice guy, he's not gonna be like check please.
He's gonna be like check please.
Put down the side a little bit more.
Oh yeah, check please.
So one thing I like to do is to add a 3D effect
to a photo, and the best way to do that
is like on an arm or a leg,
or like something that's like has a lot of space around it.
Down by Chris's legs, if we drew a circle, just like this,
double tap the pen, and erase one side of the circle,
and if you zoom out, it looks like the circle
is wrapping around Chris's legs,
which gives like more umph to the photo.
And maybe I can do it around the knee too.
So if I double tap, get the circle,
erase one side, and now you got like two 3D circles
on Chris's limbs.
So another thing we can do
is just add lines around the rings,
to just draw more attention to it, and just add more depth.
So we're adding humor and a little bit
of that cool factor I was talking about earlier.
So the picture is done, I really like the way it turned out.
Thank you for watching, thank you having me here, Chris,
I appreciate it, and hope you guys learned something.
- Awesome, a big shout out to Nick
for teaching us this tutorial.
Nick has a YouTube channel with a bunch of awesome content.
Links are below.
And if you guys produce any doodle images
from this tutorial and post them to Instagram,
please tag myself, and Nick Iby, @NickIby,
on Instagram, and we'll comment, share, things like that.
As you can see, this didn't take a lot of time
to produce an image that actually stands out,
looks a little different, and ultimately from my experience,
increase the amount of likes and comments that I got
on my Instagram, so yeah, it's a little hack
in terms of Instagram in 2019 and 2020.
Thank you guys so much for watching,
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and we'll catch you guys in future collabs,
future videos, future everything.
And to end out this video, I'm gonna go make a coffee,
because Nick has never had a coffee in his entire life.
Ever, I was like, "Hey let's get coffee
"when you're in the city."
He's like, "I don't, what's coffee,
"I don't know what that is."
I'm like, "What?"
He's like, "I've never had coffee before."
I'm gonna make him one, I can make it like very oat milky,
and I'll wear a duck suit while I'm making it.
He's gonna try it, and he's gonna give you
a reaction right now.