hey guys it's ray what's up how you
doing now if you haven't been on art
youtube in a while this is probably one
of the coolest trends that's going
around right now
it was started by one of my good friends
here on art youtube adc art attack he
actually has a whole series on this i
will
very much link him down below the basis
of the trend is a highly skilled artist
gets a hold of a children's coloring
book
and with all of their talent transforms
that simple line work
into an absolute masterpiece and so
that's exactly what i am going to do
today i ordered a book off amazon
i'm gonna try to the best of my ability
to turn it into
an absolute work of art before we get
into the thick of it if you could please
do the three
holy grails of youtube to appease our
overlords that would be
awesome and let's begin
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i realize this is very much not in
season right now
i mean not even close but that's not the
important thing the important thing is
that it's made
for kids if you look closely all the
drawings look
very very simple very simple line work
nothing too crazy to it
and with all of this extra space all of
these really simplistic lines from an
artist's perspective
is basically free real estate so let's
check out art options
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before we get into it i have this very
strong urge to
because i'm so indecisive there's a huge
probability that i'm going to find
more than one page that i like so as i
find one that i like i'm going to rip it
out
um no no
yes
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yes this one is really cute but
the problem is is that i don't know what
a ghost looks like
so i have nothing to reference
unfortunately
next page oh this one would be awesome
i like this one no
no i like this one but to make it super
realistic that would be
so much work so we're gonna skip it not
a fan of the proportions
not a fan of the nose if i had a lot
more time maybe this one
um maybe
no oh that's terrifying
that is like so unnecessarily scary my
gosh
yeah i wow we're already at the end okay
i honestly thought i was gonna have like
way more options but no surprisingly
it's a tie between
these two right here on one hand we can
do like a badass skeleton with like a
spooky background maybe add in some fog
or something like that
and on the other hand we have this owl
where basically i would test my realism
skills and completely change the
proportions on this animal
while keeping a simple background so as
far as which one i think will be a
better makeover
i'm just gonna have to go with my gut
and say
this one
all right so the second step into making
this a masterpiece
the second step is that i need to
transfer this image onto art paper
because
quite frankly i'm actually very
disappointed with how flimsy this paper
is
there's two reasons why i have to
transfer this to art paper the first one
is the obvious that it's
super flimsy and the second that i put
watercolor paint colored pencil whatever
i choose to draw with it's just gonna
rip right through it it's gonna bleed it
might rip
very easily and in the scenario if that
does happen this leads me to the second
reason why it's a problem
and that's if i mess up on the drawing
there's no comebacks
this one sheet of paper is the only one
that i have and if i mess that up
ts you know
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fly
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boom here they are side by side and if
you take a closer look i made this one
much lighter than the original like i
lightened it up on the computer
and the reason i did that is whenever
i'm adding in the color i won't have
these heavy harsh lines peeking through
the color
and therefore ruining my makeover
process you know what i'm saying
and for the paper it's not technically
art paper it's actually 80 pound card
stock which is a really thick paper
i think this will be an absolutely
perfect canvas and if it does mess up i
can just print out another one
now for the drawing process i thought
long and hard about what medium should i
use
i thought about using acrylic paint but
i think this is way too floppy i need
something sturdy for acrylic
and i even thought about watercolor but
there's a thousand percent chance that
the watercolor will just bleed right
through it
so instead of making my life hard i'm
just gonna make it easy so i've
ultimately decided
to use colored pencils
okay i know i'm like 45 seconds in but
i'm gonna have to reprint it much
lighter because the color pencil
you can see right through it
you're saying baby
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let's find a disco you stuck it on me
it's so lazy
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give me some give me some energy
the t-shirt this area right here i feel
like it's very
warm so i'm gonna redo it add in some
flow make it like a nice little button
up and we'll see how it looks in
comparison
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let's go
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jacket went well now i'm gonna move on
to the hands
and i gotta say that i'm actually
feeling the vibe of the hands it's a
little bit freddy krueger it's a little
bit
lady gaga born this way little monster
era so for the hands i'm gonna try to
match that energy but i'm gonna make it
a little bit more spookier and try to
make it look a little bit more menacing
and realistic
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let yourself
so i just finished up the hands and then
just decided it's ugly now
anyway too late now to go back happy
mistakes now this leads me to what i
think is going to be
by far the biggest part of this whole
entire project and that's
the background basically sorry
the background is by far going to be
like the most intense part of this whole
entire process
because there's just so much free space
we're talking about a full
three-fourths of the paper you know and
as far as like what i'm gonna do and
what my plan is
i have no idea so i'm gonna have to
brainstorm ideas in my head
get the vision of what i can see for the
future of this drawing
so i just finished up with the concepts
for the background and i apologize for
what you're about to see because they
are absolutely
utter chaos there are three different
ideas that i
am going off and they're all generally
kind of the same just a little bit
different
first of all i'm gonna get rid of that
sun and turn it into a moon because it
just makes more sense logistically
once i'm done converting the sun into a
moon i'm then gonna move on to these
bushes
i like the idea of the bushes i like how
they fill in space and add a little bit
of foilage
so i'm gonna keep the foliage there but
instead of bushes i'm going to make
really
long creepy menacing looking trees and
then instead of just having a plain
ground like this i'm going to turn it
into a graveyard
as you can see by this wonderful hyper
realistic drawing of a tombstone
and for the color palette i decided to
go with these colors right here
a lot of work ahead of me let's do this
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thing
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pressure
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do
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okay so that was incredibly stressful
the whole entire time i kept thinking to
myself i've gotten this far
what if i draw something and i'm like
wait wait i'm almost done with the
drawing and it comes out
bad and then i have to start the whole
thing over again it was incredibly
stressful
but alas it came out so nice and now
that i've pretty much got the whole
entire drawing done there's only one
thing left to do and that's to bring out
the guillotine i love this thing so much
it makes me feel like a third grade
keep teacher sleep while driving in the
back seat
what's left of me
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drowning in my face is like an ocean
negativity
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and here's the final results from this
to this
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my dog is drinking the toilet water
again oh i can do that scene from um
princess diaries where they're like
she's the princess
of genovia anyway i am very happy with
the results i think it came out pretty
good
you know i think i did a pretty decent
job as always thank you so much again
for watching i truly truly appreciate it
usually around summer time my channel
slows down
a lot and i don't really get promoted as
usual so i just want to say that it
truly means a lot that you're here
watching
even in my slow times you know so i
really hope
you guys enjoyed this video and if you
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bye