*Hello!
Bowie, say hello to our friends!
*Cricket chirps*
Or not, just be rude, that's okay too, Bowie.
Hello guys, my name is Rae
and, as you guys know, I did a video about a month ago where I drew Lana Del Rey in 8 hours, 8 minutes,
and 8 seconds, where I created this masterpiece.
*Applause*
And the video is great, you know, it turned out to be one of my favorite drawing videos that I have ever made,
but what a lot of you guys don't know is that video is actually my second attempt. Originally,
I had done that exact same video except with oil paint and let me tell you guys, like,
everything that could go wrong that day went wrong.
And it wasn't even that I was unhappy with the artwork,
it was just like, a whole entire list of things that went wrong with that video.
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Absolutely nothing was working out in my favor and even though it's not technically *high-pitched voice* ugly or like, the worst thing I ever created,
it was a bad experience. But alas, you guys know me,
I'm a very positive person and I decided that I'm not just gonna throw away this painting that I spent NINE hours on. Instead,
I'm gonna try to turn lemons into lemonade. I'm gonna completely redesign the painting in a way that I would love,
I'm gonna experiment at color and just make it so much better. That way
I can have something that I'm proud of to hang up. And I've never done a video like this before,
but I think it'll be really fun and I think it'll be a great way to show you guys that like,
hey, not everybody's perfect.
And so, yeah, with that being said, here is the painting that you've all been waiting for.
Alright, now before I show you the piece, I just want to say that no,
I don't think it's like, the ugliest thing that's
*deep voice* like, ever existed.
But there is a lot of things that I messed up on, which has led to why I want to change it up. So...
*Deep sigh* Okay, guys, here it is. Here's the, the piece.
Boom!
Now at first glance, you're probably thinking "Hey, that doesn't look that bad!"
But I was going for photo realism and when you look at the two, it just doesn't match up.
But this time I'm giving myself 100%
creativity and also unlimited time so I can wait for it to dry, etc, etc.
Alright, so let us begin with the main thing that I'm gonna change up and that is the background.
Now, starting off is the background and instead of completely removing it, I really do enjoy that deep
blue-green color, it kind of reminds me of like, vintage fortune teller kinda thing and in my defense,
I know that they're looking a little, um,
wonky.
Oil paint takes a while to dry
so it's gonna take me a little bit to get it exactly as clean as I need
so in the meantime, we're stuck with the wonky.
*"The Price is Right" "You Lose" Music*
So I just got done working on the first layer of all the little stars in the background.
I'm definitely gonna go in later, fix them up, make them look a little bit nicer later,
but it's a good start and this leads me to the next thing that I want to work on on the painting and
that is the lower half.
Now I'm not gonna lie,
I feel like I made her shoulder a little bit too low
from where it would naturally fall and to be fair, the photograph was shot at kind of like, a weird elongated angle,
but by extending her body, making the shoulder a little bit higher, I feel like it'll give it more of a flirty pose,
it'll make it look a little less awkward and give it more of a natural flow.
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All righty, so here's the shoulders,
it's, the pose is already starting to look so less awkward,
and this brings me to the next thing that I want to work on. I love a good vintage shawl moment, very old Hollywood,
I think it looks really cool
but I don't like the contrast of all these crazy colors and then boom, a big ol thing of black.
So instead of having a black blob,
I'm going to replace it with a red blob, and red,
if you don't know, just so happens to be the color opposite of green,
so it's, it'll be a nice way to add like, a pop of color and make it more
complementary and give the painting some more balance.
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I'm gonna be quite honest here, I don't exactly know what I'm doing, I just kind of let myself have total freedom,
creativity, not worrying about, "Does this look right?
Does this look correct?", and I started doing this like, really fun
flicking effect with my paint and I just had so much fun doing it and I really like the look of it.
I like this so much more than the past one, like, if we do a side by side, I love this so much more.
*Batman music*
But this leads me to the next thing that I really would like to work on and that is her face.
Now, in the original time at painting, as you can see I spent about almost 6 hours+ working on just the face ALONE.
But out of all the things that I felt like went wrong that day, I'm actually really happy with the face
so I'm not gonna do anything too crazy to it.
But I am gonna change up her eye color to kind of match with everything. So instead of just like a normal brown,
I'm gonna go in with a deep blue and
you know what? Screw it, while I'm here I'm also gonna add in freckles since they seem to be like, the hot new thing.
But where was the same freckle loving energy ten years ago
when all the kids with ACTUAL freckles were getting made fun of? Where was that?
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Now, I am feeling in a very generous mood at this point,
I added in the freckles, I made her face change a little bit and I was like, you know what?
Why not add like, a really heavy
yellow light source? So I just straight up dipped in some yellow ochre and was going ham at it.
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Actually, no. No, I hate it. I hate it. I hate it! No, no no, no.
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I want every single person to know, young, old, expert, new to art,
sometimes you just try things and they just don't work out and you know what? That's okay.
And in this specific case, I thought it would look good and I yeah, I wasn't feeling it. So I'm gonna try a different method.
*Ding ding ding*
So going in with some -
thalo green -
as well as -
with titanium white.
And mix them together and make a less abrasive version of the background color that's already there.
*Chuckles* I just beat the devil out of it.
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Now instead of like, a super harsh bright yellow on the back of the green,
I felt like a nice soft turquoise to illuminate the back of her head would look pretty and very subtle!
*Continues*
Ay yi yi! Okay. So now that everything's kinda drying, back to the endless grind of trying to get these stars in order.
*Music*
Nyeeh! Eeeehh! Neeeehh!
I'm gonna be honest here. I don't think I'm gonna be able to get the stars as precise
as I want, because as you know, oil paint can take days to
literally weeks to dry, and I simply don't think it's gonna be dry by the end of this week, let alone today.
And I'm just gonna have to keep you guys updated on the process of these stars drying.
Bummer.
*Pac-Man "Losing" Music*
But in the meantime, this calls for the next thing that is super important: paint ya damn edges!
Painting your edges,
it makes the painting look a little bit more put together, a little bit more professional,
and if you're cheap like me, you don't have to buy a frame.
And for the last step,
I need to clean up any weird spots, fix the proportions up a little bit,
add a little bit more color here, a little bit more color there, and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the final piece.
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From where it started to where it's ended up, it's been an absolute journey.
I'm happy I was able to turn a negative memory into something I can proudly hang up and remember fondly.
So anyway guys, thank you so much again for watching and I will see you guys next video. Bye!
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