* Hey guys, it's Rae here and welcome back to my channel!
Today, I am going to be finally, finally, finally doing the timed drawing challenge. Now,
I am gonna challenge myself to draw the exact same thing in 8 hours,
80 minutes, 8 minutes, 80 seconds and 8 seconds. My item of choice will be none other than
colored pencils, my absolute favorites. And yeah, as you guys can see, I have a lot of drawing on my plate today
so let's just jump right into today's video starting off with the big boy, the biggest one, the hardest one, 8 hours.
And it starts right now.
Starting off,
I am working with the proportions and the outline.
And sometimes, you guys know, I like to use the chalk/carbon print method when I'm short on time to save on time
but with this challenge, I have all the time in the world to work on proportions, which was so nice.
I feel like it's been a hot minute since I've just sat down and drawn something,
you know, for this past month, I've been doing like, some
experimental, like, fun videos, you know. I had my mom on my channel, shoutout to you Mom!
I know you're watching this!
And it's fun to film videos like that, you know, I love mixing it up and expressing myself creatively
but it's nice to go back to like, some old school drawing challenges.
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Now, about the drawing challenge itself,
this might sound a little strange, but I learned something about myself and that's that I work fast.
You know? It took a lot of discipline throughout this whole entire 8-hour drawing process,
I had to stop myself several times and be like, "Girl, you are working way too fast!
Slow your roll, you have eight hours." and I'm laughing at myself thinking about this because never in a million years,
I knew that drawing fast would be a challenge,
but I never, ever thought drawing SLOW would be a challenge and this challenge made me hyper
focused on everything because I had SO much time to work on,
every single strand of hair, every little bit of this, every little bit of that.
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Now, at exactly 5 hours in, I stopped to go to sleep and when I woke up, my timer reset itself.
Which was, ay yi yi, it was so frustrating.
So I'm gonna be now stopping, instead of 8 hours,
it'll say 3 hours because that 3 will be added to yesterday's 5, totaling 8 hours.
Can you imagine if like, I had woken up and I saw it was reset and then I started from the very
zero again for like, a brand new drawing and all of that 5 hours had gone to waste. Can you imagine?
Actually, and just keep this between you and I, this was gonna be an oil painting challenge
but I swear, and I started filming the video, I was 8 hours into that video,
and I swear that video was cursed because EVERYTHING that could go wrong with that video went wrong.
I was having trouble with the memory cards, and then I was having trouble with the artwork itself,
I was not happy with it
and it was one of those times where I just could not fix it!
And for the first time in literal YEARS, it had snowed so I couldn't have proper ventilation,
so all the thinner was messing with my lungs!
So not only could I not breathe, not only was I having technical issues, I was unhappy with the artwork
so I just decided to scrap it and I'm glad I did because I like this one so much more.
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And with that, that is time. 8 hours in.
So yeah, this was 8 hours, I'm very very very happy with how it came out. I put in so much details and places
I normally don't put details in.
All right, so now let's move on to the next one which will be 80 minutes.
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Now, the goal of the first one was to focus on as much detail as humanly possible
but this time around, I had to focus on the exact
OPPOSITE of adding as much detail as possible.
The best way I can describe it is that I had to be VERY selective with what I was gonna spend my time on.
And I am definitely one of those perfectionist where if something doesn't look right or it looks a little wonky,
I can just like, redo it and redo it, redo it till I overwork it and mess it up!
I'm sure all of you if you've ever done an art piece, know what I'm talking about
and the cool thing about this challenge is that I realized I don't have time to be like, "Oh, it doesn't look right!"
focusing on my imperfections,
because the clock is ticking, you don't have time to fix it up and make it look perfect,
you just gotta roll with what you got and improvise and to be honest, I wouldn't even call this a challenge.
I would call this an art exercise, you know, flexes that art muscle of mine! It felt really good.
And out of all the cases that I'm gonna be working on today,
this one is the one that surprised me the most, so I like this one the best out of all of them!
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5, 4, 3, 2...
*Phone dings*
Done! Done, done, done, done.
I'm really happy with how this one came out,
I think it turned out really really good.
And at the end, I'm gonna show you guys all of them, like side by side, right next to each other
so yeah, I'm really happy with how this one came out.
Alright, so now next up will be the 8-minute one.
On my mark, get set and go!
So for this one, I'm gonna have to make it a lot smaller,
I'm gonna have to focus pretty much only on the fundamentals of the image
and I can't really mess up, or if I do mess up I'm just gonna have to roll with it.
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Now I thought one hour and 20 minutes was bad
but that's NOTHING compared to 8 minutes of drawing, which is not a lot of time to complete a whole entire drawing,
INCLUDING coloring. And it's just interesting because as each challenge
progresses into a smaller and smaller time space, we really have to consider, what is the most important thing that you're gonna focus on?
5, 3, 2, 1...
*Phone dings*
Wow, that actually wasn't horrible! *Laughs*
Lana, I am so sorry. Like, on behalf of everything, I am so sorry.
I had to like, really focus on like, what was THE most important aspect of her face.
You know, for all this stuff that I had to do, like coloring it in, her proportions, getting everything shaded correctly, coloring,
it's honestly not that bad.
Now if 8 minutes wasn't enough time,
now I gotta cut it down even SHORTER to 1 minute and 20 seconds, for 80 seconds.
1, 2, 3 and
start!
Okay, so for this one, I'm really just gonna have to focus on like, her eyebrows.
Oh gosh, okay, I gotta do her nose.
Oh crap, her nose is too big. Aghh! I can't go back! Oh my gosh, this is coming out, so - 42 seconds already! How is that?
Okay, lips, uh...
This is almost like, borderline Picasso.
20 seconds, gotta draw her neck.
Oh god, 10 seconds! 10 seconds!
3, 2, 1...
*Phone dings*
That went by so quick! I can't believe how quick that went!
As soon as I started it was already ending,
I didn't even get a chance to erase or anything.
So, here's my one minute!
*Laughs*
Let's try out 8 seconds next. 1, 2, and 3!
Got the eyes, got the nose...
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Boom!
Alright, boom! 8 seconds on the clock. This one's probably my greatest work that I have ever created,
this is my masterpiece everyone.
So every single section that I did had its own challenges and benefits,
so starting off with the 8-hour drawing, the challenge of this one was to push yourself,
draw whatever you don't want to,
push your boundaries, focus on the details that you normally wouldn't focus on, take it slow, do the actual most with this drawing.
And next up is the 80 minute drawing. Focus on the big picture. Don't worry about every little thing that has to be perfect,
just get it done. Focus on the most important things and that's what I learned from this one.
Next up, we have the 8 minute drawing. Now, this one I had to really focus on minimalistic,
I had to focus on color. What I got out of this one was, focus on the bare-bones,
don't worry about every single detail, really work on implying shadow, implying
highlights and really work at covering as much area as possible.
Next up, we have the 80 second one and this one is literally just a gesture drawing.
Gesture drawing is one of the first things you learn in drawing classes. It helps you start that muscle memory for your drawing
so this one was a lot of fun. I haven't gesture drawed in a really long time.
And this brings us to the very last one
which was the 8 second one, and this one screams Leonardo da Vinci, best art work of all time, extreme hyper realism.
That's what this one had taught me.
Thank you so much again for watching!
I had a really wonderful time just being able to sit down and draw for you guys again,
and if you like my drawing challenges, I will leave a bunch in a playlist down below,
and yeah, I hope you guys have a good one, and I will see you guys next video. Bye!
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