- All right, Kevin.
- Hey Jackie.
- We're doing something, a little different today, guys.
- Today, we are drawing character mashup,
from the wheel.
- So we're going to spin the wheel twice,
and whatever two characters we get, we gotta mash them up.
- Oh my god, I'm scared.
- Oh boy!
- Oh, Sonic. - Sonic.
- Sonic.
- Okay. - That's a solid,
solid character.
- And Mario.
- I just have to technically take one of these characters
and make like a fan hedgehog.
Who are you going to get?
Who's Kevin going to get? - I don't know.
No-Face from "Spirited Away".
All right, No-Face and? - And
right in the middle! - Right on the edge
- I'm gonna make you do Kermit.
Kermit, No-Face, sounds horrifying.
- Uh-oh, no!
- Johnny Bravo. - I'm cool with Johnny Bravo.
- Kermit. - And Johnny Bravo.
Oh my god! - I'm down with that dude.
Oh.
- Woody, oh dang.
I thought it was gonna be like Sailor Moon.
Woody and-- - This is great.
Oh. - Johnny Bravo.
(laughs)
- Brent gonna be?
- Uh, oh, god no.
(laughs)
And.
Yes!
- Oh! - Shrek laugh!
- Oh, Jerry, - Jerry,
- from Tom and Jerry, okay.
- Okay, you got a mouse.
Garfield!
- Jerry and Garfield, okay, okay, okay.
- [Brent] Okay, so.
- Okay, so let's get started.
- Let's do it.
- I'm gonna mash the hell out of these characters.
- That's weird, don't do that.
- All right, I don't think I need to use reference,
because like Kermit's literally just like.
You know, there's like--
- Do you remember what Kermit looked like?
- I kinda do, yeah.
- A Shrek snowman or ogre Olaf.
- I think ogre Olaf.
- Is this gonna be a grotesque one for you?
- You know it might be,
'cause I'm like afraid,
'cause this is just like a cat and a mouse.
- Should I draw Kermit drinking tea?
- Oh yes!
- [Kevin] Yeah all right.
- Oh of course, why did you even ask?
When it's obviously a yes!
- You gotta do the meme.
- What did you decide to go with?
- Shrek snowman.
- Shrek snowman?
- I think it's kinda the vibe I wanna go for.
Did you like "Frozen" Jason?
How do you feel about "Frozen"?
- (laughs) I did not like "Frozen",
but I also have a one and a half year old,
and it's like maybe I will start to like "Frozen".
- You gotta be ready for that.
"Frozen 2" is coming.
- So which do you prefer?
Sonic or Mario?
- I think Mario, I've played more Mario games,
this is going weird.
- It's suppose to go weird.
- It's like strange, I don't really know,
if what we're doing is moral.
- It is absolutely not.
- My process is, most people are probably noticing,
is a little bit different than,
I think a lot of what other people have done.
I use a lot of shapes, I use a lot of forms,
I work form values a lot.
Oh, I like to work from values
because it gets me there a little bit faster.
But it is very hard, I'm not going to make it sound like,
Hey I just paint in values,
you guys will all be all right
Like it takes a lot of work,
it takes a lot of effort to get good at it.
Like I spent years, getting good at it.
Like what process do you prefer?
- Well, I think for this one,
I mainly am starting from sketching,
I'm just like okay,
I'm trying to feel the gesture
and I'm trying to feel like how the pose is gonna be.
- Okay, this is going to be a very simple drawing.
- Is it?
- Yeah, 'cause No-Face's body is just black.
- Why do you love Shrek so much Brent?
You actually talk about him a lot.
- I do talk about Shrek a lot,
there's just something, it's half ironic,
half genuine love for this character.
I just love the artistic direction Dreamworks
decided to take with these characters.
Like they weren't really sure how to do CGI,
back in the early 2000s,
and all these creepily, realistic faces.
- I love Kermit the Frog.
- Do you love Kermit the Frog?
- I do.
- What do you love most about Kermit the Frog?
- He's just so, good natured and--
- I thought you were going to say,
he's so good looking.
- He's just a handsome, young man.
- He's just the most handsome frog I know.
- He's just trying the best he can,
and everyone around him is an idiot,
or a weirdo.
Don't you watch The Muppets?
He's the straight man,
he's the one who's holding it together.
- Wait, did he have a short sleeved shirt, Johnny Bravo?
- What does your reference tell me?
- Yes, he had a black, masculine shirt,
that super muscle type.
- Like a clubber shirt, like he's going to the club.
- Yeah. (laughs)
- He definitely skipped leg day though,
that was a thing, right-- - Yeah, that's true.
- like he-- - Yeah.
- definitely skipped leg day.
- Dang it, I wish I did better.
(laughs)
- You feel self-conscious again,
no don't let the art demons get to you.
- I'm not, I will try my best until zero seconds.
- Jason, you got to level with me here
are you going to be ruining some childhoods,
with this one.
- Oh yes, it's not even a question.
- I'm going to try and bring in,
some of that Dreamworks detail,
because the difference between Dreamworks and Disney,
is a pretty, stark divide between their approaches,
to character design.
I think the key here,
is to just lean into what an abomination,
just the concept of these mashups is.
- [Jason] Yeah.
- Like get a Cronenberg monster, out of this thing.
- Oh my god, that's like, my dream.
- This is weird, I don't like this.
- Get weird with it Jackie.
- I don't know what to do with his other hand.
- (laughs) What are you doing?
- [Jackie] I'm trying to figure out--
- Are you modeling?
Do you want me to model it so you can see?
- No, I don't need your pity!
No!
Boo!
- It's me, Sonic.
- I went to AI,
we had a teacher who once like told a student,
just like. looked at her in her face and was like,
You'll never make it, in this industry, ever.
- Really?
- [Anthony] Quit now.
- Oh my gosh.
- Like I'm not like even sugarcoating,
like I'm telling you,
he just straight up told her like,
don't chase your dreams, quit life,
and get out of my room.
- Really? - And I was like whoa!
The reality is like the industry,
is not like that,
you know, people don't like talk to you that way.
They will hire you if they feel like you're qualified
and if you're not, you just gotta work towards that.
It's really that simple.
Stay positive guys.
Keep drawing.
- [Ross] Yeah
- Draw everyday.
- How are you doing with yours?
- I feel like it's coming together,
the creepier, the better, you know?
- Yeah, I went too ambitious,
but I really like it,
so I'm gonna go with it.
- Well, this is weird,
this is a very strange thing that I'm drawing.
- Is it? - Yup.
- How so?
- It just looks like Kermit,
wearing a black robe, sipping tea.
- There is a meme like that, isn't there?
Like, Kermit, talking to himself with the black robe on.
- And slipping tea? - With the black robe on.
- Oh yeah!
- That's what you're drawing.
- I didn't even think about that, ooh,
should I do a triple mashup?
- A triple mashup?
- Two Kermit meme's and a Spirited Away character.
- Why not?
It's not like we're running out of time at all.
- Okay, you know, you're right.
- Got 'em.
But can you do it?
- I'm gonna try.
- Okay, come on, hurry, hurry.
- All right.
- Just five minutes, wow!
- I'm gonna get on to some color.
Moment of truth Jason, green snow or gross brown snow?
- I want green snow.
- Green show, all right, we're doing it.
Ah yeah!
He wants you out of his swamp,
because he is the swamp.
(laughs)
I am the swamp.
My Shrek, he's a tragic character you know,
he's not long for this world.
- What does Woody say?
Like stone to the sky, no that's Buzz Lightyear, right?
Wait, like reach for the sky, right?
Reach for the sky-- - Reach for the, yeah.
- wait is that Woody?
- Yeah that is.
I love Toy Story, like so much.
Wasn't that great though, in that movie,
where Woody like turns his head, like 360,
like when that moment where like Sid was gonna
set them on fire, I love that moment.
I remember watching it as a kid,
and being like, Ah dude, dope.
- 30 seconds Jackie.
- 30 seconds.
- I believe in you. - All right.
- Home stretch. - And then, and then--
Fast like Sonic. - You know what.
Excuse me, I need to focus
and you are not helping at all!
- All right, Olaf, Olaf Shrek,
there you go.
- All right, I'm as done as I'll ever be, for now.
- All right.
- Okay.
(groans)
- I think I'm good with this, yeah.
(laughs)
- How'd you think you did Brent?
- Well I think I really captured the spirit
of what it means to mashup two characters
into an ugly abomination.
- It just looks like I,
neither know what Sonic or Mario looks like.
(laughs)
- Feeling good about mine,
but I think I could of pushed it more.
- Mine looks like, I took a Kermit and repainted him
and put him in a giant black sock.
(laughs)
- Huh.
- Wow!
(crickets chirp)
- Oh god, what? - Wow!
- What, Jason!
- Oh this is so good!
- Yours is super good.
- Ah, I hate you, this is so good.
Ah! I'm going to quit art!
- Oh my god, this is incred--
I think you destroyed more childhood's than I did.
- I don't know if that's true.
- It looks like Kermit died,
he became the new Grim Reaper
and this is him,
after a lovely day of taking people's souls.
- He's like, you may be goin' to Heaven,
you may be going to Hell, that's not my concern.
- That's what this is, it's very spooky.
- This is actually what I should of done.
- No!
- More of like a...
- No, your narrative is spot on.
- Nah.
- Like it has some much good character in it.
- Na, I think yours is.
You're just too nice dude.
- It looks like he's eaten multiple Jerry's.
- There's multiple Jerry's in there.
- What the?
- If I had more time, there'd be vomit.
- Jason, you are the childhood slayer,
I'm gonna say that much. (laughs)
- Yours is really imaginative.
- Is it?
- You know what, yours is a great mashup,
so here's the thing, don't be so hard on yourself.
- Aw.
- This mashup is incredible,
I think yours was very successful.
- Okay, well I appreciate.
- Yeah, I think yours is very successful.
- Mashing up characters is on the spot,
is very hard.
- Yeah, you gotta think of a lot of things,
and you gotta design it very quickly.
- Mashups is a genuine strategy for design.
- Yeah
- I think like people don't realize that a lot,
of like their favorite TV shows, movies,
video games are a mashup of some sort.
- I agree, I think like mashing up stuff is
also a great way to get out of your bubble.
So, I think it's like a great thing for people to try.
- Get out of here Kevin!
I don't wanna see you anymore.
- See ya tomorrow.
- Oh god.
(playful guitar music)