Greetings!
Today I thought we could do the 10 minute, 1 minute, 10 second challenge.
I designed this character based off of a candy cane, named her Cece
and she's been living in my brain ever since
and when I say that, I mean specifically this drawing here.
It pops up in my head at the most random times.
I'm like I really want to draw her again
so I thought today would be a good opportunity to do that
but we're going to draw her three times,
once with 10 minutes, which I'm usually pretty good at.
I feel like I'm kind of a quick drawer but then we get into like the 1 minute
and, and then the 10 second, I don't even know who made this challenge
and what the 10 second one is even for
but it always brings me joy so that's probably why,
so I'm really excited,
thinking I'm gonna tape these guys down and then we'll get started.
Should probably use some pretty washi tape.
There's a hair on it. Eurgh.
We've got 10 minutes, 1 minute and then we got 10 seconds.
All right, I didn't line those up quite as well.
All right, here we got it so I got to grab a timer.
Oh and I need markers.
I think I know which colors I used like I did write down the colors
but also I didn't write down the specific colors that I used
and while December may have felt short, it's still been long enough for me to forget
but I think, I think, I used Lipstick Red.
I think I used Garnet for shading.
I used Light Suntan definitely for the hair.
I think I used Pink Barrel for the dress as like the white
and I used Prawn as the candy cane stripes
and then I think I used Pale Cherry Pink for the skin
and Pink for the blush approximately.
I feel like it'll be close enough.
This is a lot of markers to have in a 10 minute, 10 second,
10 minute, 1 minute, 10 second challenge
so I'm already biting off way more than I can chew
and if you pay attention, there's a frick ton I believe is the technical term of details
so I'm really excited to see what happens,
it'll be a beautiful, beautiful disaster and if not, that's okay too.
Oh I also need line art.
I'm gonna use this size 10 Pigma Micron
and then I also have the white gel pen if there's time for the embroidery.
I feel like I'll have time on this one.
I need a pencil though.
We gotta start by drawing, that's like the first step I think.
I guess I'll also need an eraser handy so luckily we have the 10 minute first,
that way, I can kind of establish a pose to recreate.
Oh and if you are interested in seeing how I developed this character
and my thought process and all that jazz,
I will have the video linked, you can go check that out.
Let me grab a timer, tilting it up a little.
All right, now we're ready finally, let's start.
I'm not adding the extra five seconds because I just used them
and then I cheated so we will uh, go ahead and just use it
and we can do one of these.
All right I have no idea for the pose full body or no full body.
That's the last decision I need to make before I start.
The problem is, if I don't do a full body,
you're not going to see a whole lot of stripes
but that will also save me time
but I want to be able to draw these little booties
so I think we're going to do a full body.
I don't know, this could be a disaster or it might not.
I just want to find out so I'm just going to start it.
Ready, on our mark-sies, get spaghetti, go.
I go quiet.
Oh shoot, I think I drew the head too big,
maybe this will be kind of chibi, chibi sounds good,
chibi sounds great, that's a beautiful idea.
I forget this is 10 minutes and it's a little longer than you usually think it is
but there'll be bows on the ends of the boots.
I also need her dress, it's kind of shorter, ends right above the boots.
I guess we're kind of simplifying it. I'm not sure.
There's also a bow right here, under her chin, really big and it's got little floofs.
She's got a belt on her coat and the coat kind of goes over her shoulders a little
and creates these kind of cape sleeves I guess I'd call them
then it kind of gets cinched in which creates a little apron sort of vibe.
What I'm not sure is like how these pieces connect
but now is not the time to even worry about that.
Give her a face, there we go.
Cheek.
I'm just realizing how difficult line art is going to be
without being able to move the paper
because like I already wanted to like move it to do the eyes.
Oh they're not great are they? Not really capturing the character.
Oh I'm stressing out just a smidge, it's okay, it's okay.
Bangs, oh she has some earmuffs and then she has kind of hair that looks like this.
I would like to redo the eyes though.
All right, I'd like to have the sketch done by 8 minutes
which gives me like a minute for line art.
What if we just do dots for eyes, that might be helpful
when we move on to the even shorter ones.
Maybe simplify the eyebrows even too.
Earmuffs, little nose.
All right we're getting down to 7 minutes here.
I just would really like the 10 minute one to be cute
because it's gonna be my best, you know?
Little bows on the boot, just move the bow down a little bit.
All right, I think I'm ready for some line art.
I didn't give her any hands.
Oh shoot, that would have been earlier uh, if I just give her one arm,
just you see the sleeves, something like that.
There's some wrinkles here.
Okay, all righty, that's gonna have to do it.
I'm like halfway through my time, I haven't even started the color.
I will just lightly erase this though, this is just too much pink.
That didn't take too long anyway.
Oh but now there's garbage all over me.
Okay, eyeball, eyeball.
Oh this is a very thick line art, I'm not sure this is what I used.
I mean I don't hate it, just not what I was expecting
and she has bangs, well this is really thick line art.
Shoot, no, I don't like it, oh no, I lost so much detail with this chunky boy.
No I'm not, oh no, I'm just not happy, this is not what I had in mind for this,
shoot, I wanna restart, what do I do?
I'm just gonna carry through and just see if I really, really hate it
even when it's done, we will redo the 10 minute I'm thinking
although it's a challenge but I set myself up with the wrong art supplies.
Okay here we go, that's my line art, let's just throw in the colors.
4 minutes and that's probably plenty of time to add color.
Also, this line art is probably going to be a little uh aggravating.
I don't think it's gonna dry quite as well as it needs to
so I'm gonna have to be careful about touching any of that, skin.
Face, oh I don't worry about eyes, that's kind of nice, blush.
This was the this stuff and I think it goes, what is this?
Nope that's the wrong one, wrong one.
Woo! Make it a candy cane.
Go back to Lipstick red.
Color in these bows and these little guys and this whole cape.
2 minutes 38 seconds, not bad, not bad.
I think the worst part about this drawing was my complaining. [Chuckles]
Gotta blob that in.
And then we have this for shading.
And then the hair was this color, something like this
and that gives us time for a little bit of uh,
that was not the color, that was not it, that was not it.
Lightened it up but we do have time to use my white gel pen
and add in some of these details.
I'm going to try and simplify it a little bit.
I simplified it too much!
That is, I just don't like it, I feel like it's missing something.
I have 38 seconds to figure it out.
A little shading, a little shading down here.
Oh shadow, all right, three, two, one.
[Timer music]
Okay let me assess my situation.
There are things I like about it.
I like the character design, I love her, she's beautiful.
I freaked out I think too much with the chunky line art.
I think if I just remained calm, it would have turned out a lot better
but I like started rushing because I was freaking out like,
oh no what am I doing, you know but I think the colors all work right together.
I think what I missed was a shading for the hair but it's fine,
I think what I'm not loving is the like Charlie Brown vibe, you know
but what I think I'm going to do is move on to this one,
then this one and then we can redo this one with maybe unlimited time
just so that I can feel some relief.
This tension that's building within me, you know.
All right, next up we need 1 minute.
Wrong way, what is even?
Okay so I obviously have to start with the line art
and then I think what I did last time
was I actually took all the caps off the markers prematurely
so that I wouldn't have to worry about that task
so I guess we could do that again,
this one's not quite as important, let's get the basics.
I will be very happy if I just get to all markers.
I feel like that's a good goal here.
Lipstick Red, Prawn for the stripes
although if we just use one red, I think that's fine too,
we have the skin tone.
Baby Blush we'll keep this one over here
This one's for shading, again this is like a bonus,
so we'll put that one over there,
white gel pen I don't think I'll even be able to get ink to come out
in that amount of time but we will see
and then hair color is important so let's put that one up here,
got a strategy, all right start with the line art.
1 minute starting now, go.
Oh my goodness, what is this?
Bow, bow, okay we're running out of time.
Oh she looks like a fairy godmother a little bit.
You need a bow, bow, oh crap we're running out of time, some hair.
Okay let's do the hair, bangs, hair down here, hair down here.
Skin, skin, did I get skin? Yes, I did, it's right here.
Skin, skin, skin, skin, that's not supposed to be skin,
let's do Prawn, that's this thing, look at this, this is her outfit,
her outfit, her outfit, her outfit, I just say it over and over and over again
and I hope it like speeds me up, I don't know.
I can add some little blush, what's left?
Uh this thing, oh my camera turned off, oh my,
luckily I had the second guy going, welcome back overhead glory and all that.
The only color I didn't get to was shading for the red.
Look at this foot, I'd say it looks like the same character.
I even got to the embroidery.
I think that's amazing, I somehow reversed the stripe order or angle.
I've always drawn it this way, interesting.
All right, let's get into the 10 second one for the giggles.
Everyone knows not gonna accomplish.
I'm gonna have to add an extra second on that to get my hand over here.
I think we're going line art free for this one.
My plan is I'm going to order these out,
I'm going to use the skin tone to do the face,
then I'm going to want to grab hair.
You're not going to be able to see her ear muffs
unless I get to the line art, let me make sure the line arts around to draw a face
and then I think we'll just do one Red, do Lipstick Red.
All right I think I'm ready.
10 seconds starting, wait, use the right hand.
Okay, no, oh I already spent, wait, oh shoot, I, I'm not saying anything.
[Timer music]
Yeah I get it, we get it, we get it.
Didn't get around to the face.
I got the little bows on her boots, I got the cape,
didn't get the bow on the cape, didn't get no earmuffs,
this one's looking mighty good now.
Put these markers back together so they don't keep drawing on my chest.
All over me shirt, you know,
I mean it takes longer to put these caps back on than I did to draw this.
All right so here's my attempt at the 10 minute, 1 minute, 10 second challenge.
I really wouldn't mind giving the 10 minute one more go,
just for my own satisfaction.
All right, got a new piece of paper.
I wanna just try out the 10 minute one once more, like I just said.
We're using this tape, I'm also, actually I don't want to tape it down,
I want to have more freedom to move it around
but we can lift these guys up.
Such cute tape, I don't even want to take it off.
Like can it stay there forever, would you like to stay for dinner?
Would you like to stay forever?
All right, guess I won't be moving it around.
All right, are we prepared?
No, are we gonna do it anyway?
Absolutely.
I'm also going to switch to a smaller line art.
Like, I'll try zero five.
Okay, I'm prepared.
All right, I guess I'll use this again.
I also got the eraser, let's just go for it one more time for the fun
in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, go.
Excuse me while I just don't talk for a second when I kind of get this situated.
I guess we'll do chibi again, that worked pretty well
but maybe more eyeballs, I loved the little nose of the first one.
Earmuffs, don't need to bother even drawing ears.
Ooh this one's a little bit more angled.
Got the dress, okay, I forgot to do the arms again
so they're not getting anywhere, sorry, I'm saying sorry to myself, not you.
I don't think you actually care, I mean you could, it's possible.
All right I think that's pretty much it.
I do want to like make the eyes a little bit more friendly.
We're at 8 minutes.
I think I'm still going quicker than last time, is that it?
Forgot the boots and we're ready for the line art.
All right, eyeballs, here we go, try and make them look nice and friendly.
It looks a little clueless, as long as she doesn't look mean,
rather be stupid than mean.
I'm gonna draw the hair first and then the earmuff thingy
and then there's hair.
I'm being much calmer this go around, can you tell?
I want to see how it turns out, if I don't actually rush, you know.
I'm obviously not trying to be slow either,
I'm just trying not to like draw lines that don't make me happy, you know?
One hand, I'm gonna just put a little fist in there.
Oh shoot, what is that, that's okay, we have a skirt.
I think that's, oh sorry, we need to do a boot again, saying sorry to me
and the leg and the end of the boot.
All right, she looks happy, let's add in skin tone maybe.
Hopefully this was the right marker and take a little extra time
because we have to go around the eyeballs,
let's do Lipstick Red, that goes everywhere.
Come on stay up buddy, if I can do this, you can do it.
And then we'll go to Prawn for our stripes.
I feel like I'm doing really well on time.
Two thicks with thins next to them, thin thin ,thick.
Blush.
Still 4 minutes, wow,
how come I feel like I have more time when I don't rush, is that weird?
Hair color, maybe I just spent too long on the sketch the first go.
I'm not sure I have to look back at the footage.
Use this for shading the hair since we got time.
Add a little shading.
That was actually the wrong color,
I was supposed to use this one, that's way over here.
Wow, I've got so much time left, what do I do?
Oh wait, embroidery, I do have things I can do.
Come on work for me, that's the bad thing about using a posca pen,
it doesn't work for timed challenges, it works on its own time frame.
oOooo.
I have our little candy canes.
I don't even know if they look like candy canes but that's what they are.
Oh there's a little bit on the end of these,
she could use a better blush, I might look for another marker.
I have so much time.
Oh that looks better, I think that's what I used before.
She's supposed to look very blushy because like you know, it's a winter character,
it's very cold, very cold.
I'm also gonna grab a purple for shading, wait, you know what I didn't do?
I didn't add any shading to this.
And now I use purple for shading this
just because I feel like it needs a little bit more depth
and we've got a little bit more time.
It's got a lot more to it, I could probably even add a little,
come on, what did I say,
little eye highlight.
Some snowflakes, not that you can see them.
Some glitter.
[Timer music] Hey.
Ah I just ripped the paper again, gotta pull away, away,
how the heck did I do this one faster than this?
Like this one seems so much simpler to me
but this one I was like stressed out the whole time,
there are parts about this that I really like
that I actually like better than how I did it this way
but I also, just, this one feels more alive to me
and this one looks dead inside.
I think that's what it comes down to.
Now we can bring in these guys
and like this one was never alive to begin withn
this one's quite happy, I think this one looks very content with its life.
Is it bad I want to do it again I really like this character,
just kind of detape these.
All right, 10 minutes, 10 minutes, 1 minute, 10 seconds,
which one's your favorite?
I really like this one, I'ma sign this one and seal it with my approval,
favorite drawing of the day, oh 2021,
this is one of the last times I'll be able to look at that
but I'm excited to try 2022, I don't know if anyone else just feels this way
but I have like numbers that just feel right and 2s are one of them
so I'm excited to be writing three 2s, maybe I'm weird
but yeah thanks for watching
and coming along with me as I did a little fun, I don't know, drawing challenge,
if you've got 10 minutes to spare,
well actually you'll need 11 minutes and 10 seconds to spare,
I recommend you try it out yourself, it's quite a bit of fun,
especially if you give yourself prep time before you get here
and it's just something fun to do to kind of like kick start your art
or when you only have a little bit of time
and you're like yeah, it's not even worth trying to draw, maybe it is,
you never know what you'll come up with,
like I said, thank you guys, I hope you're in as good a mood as I am
and I hope you have a very wonderful rest of your December,
oh I can't believe next week is already Christmas,
I hope you take this time to celebrate those around you
and that you love spend time with them and hug 'em, yeah, bye.
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