merry christmas unless you're watching later in which case you're late it's fine it's fine
i wanted to try something a little different this holiday season
a lot of people make gingerbread houses and we all know how that always goes it's
always a disaster no matter how hard you try to avoid catastrophe i've decided not
to make a gingerbread house instead today i'll be painting on this nutcracker hey everybody
something wrong here he's wearing a crown so i'm assuming he's some sort of king it
is i king edward the why a king would be playing the drums i have no idea must be a british thing
something tells me that he wouldn't be able to crack a nut if i tried which i didn't he's
borrowing the tutu witch's nose though clearly he forgot the wart shame on you i plan on making end
evil nutcracker no sparkle butt stuff here today or any day except for some days when
i run out of ideas hello there it is oi king edward i know i've already had a king edward
in a previous video but that's kind of how royalty is they all just kind of have the
same name king edward king edward king edward is looking rather plain and simple definitely not
regal as king edward should look no worries though that's where my expertise comes in
his arms are very stiff they're not very posable in fact none of him is very posable he's got a
good sturdy nose though so that's something to be proud of i'm kind of jealous actually i want it
king edward started crying so i had to wipe his tears
there that'll shut him up shut up he's a little rough around the edges especially his crown it
wasn't perfectly smooth it's still not perfectly smooth but i'm trying he also had a whole bush of
armpit hair that i had to trim down for him oh boy kinda hard to do because it's in a little crevice
but nerdy crafter's sanding stick really came in handy for this one so really we should thank nerdy
crafter for shaving king edward's armpits thank you jackie you've always got my back we're best
friends we're best friends we're best friends yes yes we're best friends now things are about to get
a little intense i worked really hard on this nutcracker i had a vision in mind that requires
a lot of stuff things additions you get the idea we can all move on i could have just
painted the nutcracker and that's cool i think it would have turned out cool either way but
i really had this evil character in mind that i wanted to bring to life and he requires some work
i'm going to be adding things to him using epoxy to really pull together a more villainous look
i feel like there's a spectrum of evil at the bottom of the barrel there's sparkle butts
i know you're out there they're the cutie pazuti type all things cute and fluffy and glittery
there's a couple other tears in there different levels of dark side apprecia
appreciation thank you thank you and then at the very top the most evilest of evil the
darkest of darkness the scariest of scaredy cats that's the level i belong on obviously
this nutcracker is also going to be top tier evil material as evil as they come that's what
i do so i figured there should probably be blood everywhere that's what all these little worms are
just dripping down everywhere i wanted his crown to look extra you know extravagant
i got rid of the big wooden ball that was on top it wasn't extravagant enough for my taste that's
fancy i'm just replacing it with some more blood for now it doesn't look like blood yet
more like some sort of messed up flower but it'll get there in time patience and then i
added a new giant ball fit for a king he's eating a blood soup flavored with eyeballs
sick freak the drumsticks are actually going to be like little skewers that he's using to stab into
the eyeballs kind of like chopsticks or a fork same concept i just hot glued pieces of bamboo
skewers to pull off the look now bloody eyeballs isn't really a common delicacy but you might
remember the eyeball eating rats from before they kind of show up randomly
sprinkled here and there throughout my videos they're basically these escaped prison convict
rats that eat blue eyes and green eyes not brown eyes though of course not never brown eyes
sometimes they even eat their own eyeballs when they're feeling ambitious and by now you might
have guessed king edward is no ordinary king he is the leader of all the eyeball eating rats the rat
king in fact the massive eyeball on top of his crown is a giant eyeball whose origins remain a
mystery i added a lot of stuff to him tried to do him justice but the face just turned out so ugly
giant elephant ears and why did i give him a floppy mustache questions so many questions i'm
pretty happy with how the rest of them is looking but those crimes against humanity have got to go
sorry your majesty my apologies oh wait you can't hear me i added a very tutu-witch-esque
nose to him i tried blending it in make the nose job look a bit more natural
i'm happy with how the base is looking what a beauty i'm leaving his ear
i'm leaving his ears off for now i'll have to add those back on when i whip up something better
finally it's time to add some color the rat king is gray like his henchman i'm using a tiny paint
brush mostly because there's a lot of little crevices everywhere i don't want puddles of
paint building up in the crevices he's not gonna be all grey he's wearing clothes so that's nice
all the eyeball eating rats wear prison uniforms they've got a past i won't get into it too much
but you can probably guess how they ended up in such a situation a lot of the balls are meant to
be eyeballs a bit confusing since his hands are also ball shaped but whatever it looks like the
skewers are stabbed through his hands which they might be i wouldn't be surprised these
snowballs are actually eyeballs he's eating in his delectable blood soup which is starting to
look bloody now that i'm adding a pop of red he's mostly neutral tones but that red is what really
makes a statement and if that doesn't make enough of a statement for you perhaps the giant 2000
pound wrecking ball that he drags around his feet does he has a very specific look that he tries to
go for he's going for intimidating and cowhide it's an aesthetic that he created this whole
nutcracker idea was a pain there's so many little nooks and crannies to paint not only that but i
was just so into the rat king i kept thinking of more cool things to add to him might have
gone a little overboard with this guy and all his accessories i think i've outdone myself with the
evilness on this one i had to force myself to stop at some point but for now more blood to go around
the eyeballs have these little like veins running around them they're freshly harvested organic
eyeballs he has accumulated a lot of eyeballs over time he didn't harvest all of them himself a lot
of them are taxes owed to him from other eyeball eating rats if you want to live in the rat king's
sewer kingdom you have to pay him taxes in the form of juicy eyeballs i did make some replacement
ears for the rat king they come with pre-poked earring holes wow wow he's royalty so he's adorned
with a lot of accessories one of his ears has been nibbled on it's fine it's fine that's okay
eyeball eating rats get into tussles all the time it's kind of a free-for-all in the rat sewers i
honestly don't think they feel much physical pain the only pain they feel is heartbreak
there's a whole very sad heartbreak story behind that but we won't get into that today
maybe another time i'm really into stripes i love stripes i love painting stripes
mostly i've been painting black and white stripes but honestly i love all stripes of all
shapes and colors there's just something slightly evil about them that i love
so much painting these stripes was actually pretty hard i would paint a line and then it
wouldn't be a perfect line so i'd make it a little thicker but obviously that didn't help me achieve
perfection either the lines also don't connect around his body which is frustrating he just has
so many crevices i'm just trying to do my best and fix him as i go this is part of his whole cowhide
aesthetic he doesn't wear any cowhide just a lot of black and white which makes me think of cavs
he doesn't wear cowhide but he does wear a hide rat hide remember when i said the eyeball eating
rats get into little tussles sometimes this rat hide is what's left of the last rat who
tried to overthrow the mighty king edward if you don't want to get into a tussle with the rat king
you should probably subscribe right now anyway a finishing touch to his tutu witch-esque nose
surprisingly his dental care plan is slightly better than the other eyeball eating rats
that's what these are they're his teeth little nibblers to chomp down some eyeballs i then
started sketching out his face it's all about intimidation with this guy so yeah he's wearing
an eye patch did he eat one of his own eyes maybe i just i don't know or maybe it's just painted on
there a facade of sorts no one dares get close enough to find out except for that one rat who
ended up being skinned alive let's not dwell on that though i cut out some facial hair for king
edward he has a scruffy ruffian look about him i glued on the hairy patches and gave him a little
trim one accessory that i really wanted to add to him were some shackles big chains kind of
dangling around him so one of the chains is going around his wrists not your typical handcuffs but
same idea the other chain is going to attach his wrecking ball to his legs a few finishing touches
a little bit of varnish here and there and there he is in all his regal beauty i love love love
how the rat king turned out it was a journey to get here but i'm happy i suffered through it
our majesty the rat king demands your tribute
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