- Hi, I'm Stephanie.
- Hey, I'm Kyra.
- Today, we are drawing characters
that we have never seen before.
- Based on each other's descriptions.
- Hmmm. - Hmmm.
Do I trust you?
- I don't trust me trusting you not trusting me.
- I chose something incredibly obscure, but also simple.
- Okay, I feel like mine is simple in construction,
and what's gonna be interesting is how the details come in.
- But first, be sure to stick around till the end
of the video to find out how you can enter
for a chance to win this Wacom Intuos tablet
for all of your digital drawing needs,
courtesy of our good friends at Wacom.
- Did you know that your hair and nails continue to grow
after you die?
- How is that relevant?
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All right, so what character am I drawing today?
- All right, so for you I chose Junkrat from Overwatch.
- No idea who that is.
- Yeah, he's a junkie boy.
What are you making me draw?
I'm making you draw a comic book character from my era.
- The 1700s?
- Stop it.
- Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh.
By the name of Spawn.
- Oh, so Stephanie, what have you chosen for me to draw?
- You are going to be drawing Raz,
Razputin from Psychonauts.
So what am I going to be drawing?
- So I chose the most obscure thing ever.
I chose Rue from Peropero Sparkles.
- That means nothing to me. (chuckles)
- You are drawing Shin-Chan.
- Shin-Chan. - Shin-Chan.
Classic Shin-Chan.
My boy Shin-Chan.(laughs)
Who the hell is Shin-Chan? - Who am I drawing today?
- I have a very special Pokemon for you today, Cody.
His name is Garbodor, the garbage Pokemon. (laughs)
Garbage in concept and design.
- So give me an overall description of Junkrat.
So he's like a human?
- Yeah, he's an Australian dude.
He's just like laugh-y and giggly.
He loves destruction.
- Okay, so he's chaotic evil.
- He's chaotic, he's not evil.
He's like chaotic neutral.
- Give me like an overall description of clothing.
- So he's shirtless, he's got some pants on.
- He's like the Joker.
- Well, but he's not clean like the Joker.
- Oh, okay, Junkrat is like --
- He's wacky. - Is he wild and wacky?
- He's wild and wacky with Overwatch.
Junkrat uses grenades and stuff.
It's like a grenade launcher.
His ultimate move is that he has this tire.
It rolls around and it explodes.
- Okay.
- Oh, two more thing, 'cause I feel like I have to tell you.
His hair is on fire.
- Seriously?
- Kind of, and he is missing two limbs.
- Let me give you an overall description of Spawn,
so you can start drawing.
- Okay, so we're gonna be drawing at the same time.
- Yep, it's gonna break your brain.
- Oh, my brain is already not really fully completed.
- Okay, so give me a general description of Razputin.
- Yeah, so he's human.
His overall construction, big head, small body, long limbs,
very angular in his design.
In the game, he's what they call a psychonauts,
so he's going to summer camp to learn how to be a psychonaut
and basically infiltrate people's minds.
- All right, give me somewhere to start with the character.
- Okay, well first of all, just so you know,
he's like two heads tall.
- So he's a very small person.
- Yeah, he's squat.
It's a child, and his head is like, oh man,
it's kind of like a bee.
I'm sure somebody, there's hardcore Shin-Chan fans out there
screaming like, "His head's the classic bee shape!"
or something, you know, whatever they --
- A bee (muffled)
- Oh, you know it's that like being,
like Cartoon Network character head
that Clarence and everybody has, but like --
- Oh, oh, I know what you're talking about!
Yes, the Cartoon Network face.
- What does Rue look like?
- Okay, so you're gonna think of,
it's like an alien teddy bear,
and the one thing that I will give you
is the eyes look like they have the entire universe in them.
It's like a galaxy eye.
Colorful, Care Bear-y, really cute,
kind of like Pokemon anime-ish.
- Spawn is if Venom and Superman went to like a goth party.
- This is getting more confusing for me,
'cause I'm imagining a buff goth kid.
- I mean, if you want to go into a story, he's undead
and he gets his powers from a deal
that he made with the devil.
- Oh my God!
Why'd he do that? Did he die at one point?
- He did. - And he went to hell?
- Yep, he used to be mercenary who killed people for money,
and so he went to hell and he made a deal with the devil
'cause he wanted to see his wife one more time.
The devil being the devil gave him like demonic superpowers,
put him back on earth, but then wiped his memory
so he didn't know who his wife was.
- Oh, so that sucks.
- Yeah. - So here's Garbodor for you.
He's an amorphous blob Pokemon. (chuckles)
- Great.
- So really no, not too much defining,
he's sort of just a mound.
So his pre-evolved form is a garbage bag,
and as he evolved, it looks like the bag
just kind of busted open from the bottom,
like it got too fat with stuff.
And so now the top of his mound is like a bag
that's been split open.
- So he's like a pyramid shape.
- Blobby pyramid.
- What is Sparkle Sparkle Pera Pera woohoo (laughs)
whatever it is?
- So Perapera Sparkles, it's made by this indie artist
in Japan and it's used of a lot of fashion
and comics, merchandise.
It's just kind of like a mascot character sort of thing.
- I feel like it's probably one of those things
that I've seen like a dozen times,
but have never actually put a face or name to.
Is it like in the kind of Sanrio realm of characters?
- Yes, for sure, very Sanrio.
- Does he have any motifs, this guy?
- What do you mean?
- You know how the motif of Spiderman is a spider,
and Superman is an S?
- He doesn't really.
On his chest, he has a swath of a different color cloth.
- It's like a logo, or is it,
you know what?
Don't tell me.
- Make a choice.
- I will draw what I think Spawn's logo would be.
- Follow your heart.
- And it's a skull, 'cause goths love human anatomy!
(laughs)
- I don't know what he wears,
but I'm gonna try my best.
- I can give you some basic description.
So he has like an aviator helmet with some goggles.
- I remembered that.
- Okay. - Okay.
I mean, his basic outfit is like a sweater,
a jacket, and pants.
He has gloves, too.
Does this character wear anything or is she just --
- Nope, naked.
- Naked.
- Okay, I still don't have much to work with with your guy.
- He's a pretty simple character.
- Describe as much as you can, as quickly as possible.
- He's got a red sweater,
his arms taper to like really thin wrists.
Same thing with the legs is like just taper
to like tiny little pointy feet,
and he's got yellow shorts, white socks on.
- Does Junkrat, is he wearing shoes?
- Yes, he's wearing shoes.
- Is he wearing like boots?
- Oh, you know what?
One of his legs is like a peg leg.
- Okay, peg leg it is. Is that one of his missing limbs?
- One of his missing limbs is one of his legs is a peg leg.
But they're not gone gone.
He's replaced them.
This is the future.
- Right.
- So your storyboard revision is some Muppet babies,
which is adorable. - Thank you.
So do you feel like the character
that I've given you to draw is kind of in the wheel house?
- Definitely.
Like we've got Fozzy Bear on that show, baby Fozzy,
and he's super, those kind of anime,
it should be proportions.
Same with all the other characters.
They're all very like two to three heads tall!
And big limbs and everything like that.
So I've probably been drawing a character like this
in some regard for the last nine months
that I've been there.
- So once you've got his body down, I'll go into describing
his horrendous looking hands.
- Oh, he has hands.
- So one of them is kinda coming out
of like the bottom of his body, his right hand.
And then his other one, it's just like the same thing
but it's near where his shoulder
you would imagine it would be.
- In terms of bogs --
- They're kind of loopy, it's Bowie.
- Bowie hands?
- Bogs is an account, the Land of Bogs,
that I work on at BuzzFeed.
- One of them has these great arm for squeezing things.
- So we're trying to reference things
that we're more familiar with.
- So since we both work in animation,
do you use a Wacom tablet?
- I do, yeah, actually we use Cintiqs at work,
and then I have a Cintiq at home
that I'm really into animation on.
So I've been using, yeah, like Wacom
since I was maybe like 11 or 12.
My dad wanted to get me
in the digital art game pretty early.
- Yeah, I also have a Cintiq here at work and at home.
And yeah, I started really young
with like an Intuos or something.
And as soon as I went onto Cintiq I was like,
"I can't ever go back!"
It feels so good to just draw on the screen.
- Can I give you just one word?
And you interpret it however you want?
- I mean, I've already committed to this goth kid look,
but maybe. - Okay.
- You ready?
- I'm ready.
- Spikes.
- Spikes?!
- Mm-hm. - Does he have spiky knuckles?
- You interpret that however you want.
- Okay.
- Think spikes, Jackie.
- I'm gonna give him spikes on his head.
Oh, you said there's nothing on his head.
- There's nothing on his head.
- I've already drawn them.
They're just gonna be there.
- And the thing about drawing digitally
is there's no way to erase.
- No, there's no way.
I've never --
- No way.
- If there is a way, can someone please let me know?
- Let us know in the comments.
- Oh, no, I'm gonna tell you something.
- About Garbodor?
- No, about the character I'm drawing.
- About Shin?
- As you gave me the head details,
I think I might know this character.
I think it's coming to me.
- So if you ever get amnesia,
and you need to revive you memory,
we just make you draw and you'll remember things
that you've seen before.
- Yeah.
- Is there anything
that this little character's supposed to ...
- I will say they have a tail
that's got a big poof ball at the end.
- I didn't plan for a tail.
(laughing)
Oh, no!
- Oh, you know what?
He has very, very stubby feet at the bottom
that are just made of the garbage.
Are they like that purple ...?
- She's a Grimace, yeah.
- He's basically a garbage Grimace.
- So I think I just drew Venom in goth clothes.
- You're not far off.
- I don't like Spawn.
- Listen, if you were a dude like me in the 90s,
you were all about Spawn.
- It's a good thing I'm a woman like me in the 2010s,
and I love instead dirty pyromaniacs.
- Oh, I didn't make him dirty.
- Come on!
- I didn't have time to make him dirty.
- Oh, he's so filthy.
- I know.
- He probably looks like a gentleman.
- Yeah.
- How do you think you did, Cody?
- This is one of the most disgusting things I've drawn
in a long time.
- Yeah, probably the grosser the better.
This character's very cute.
I think, from what I'm remembering vaguely in my head
of this character, if I do know it, I think this is accurate
but it was only because you gave me such good description.
- How do you think you did?
- I think I did okay. (laughs).
He looks like a little Animal Crossing character,
but I don't know, he's cute.
How do you think you did?
- I mean, I heard teddy bear and I just,
this is what I snapped to.
So I think it's as close as I could get it without seeing.
(dramatic music)
- Oh, no, you kind of did it!
You did!
Oh my gosh.
- This is passable Shin-fan art.
- The disgusting blob Pokemon.
It turns out he can be described effectively.
- Huh.
- Okay. (laughs)
This is not Spawn, but I can see how you got here
from my description.
- This looks like Aquaman cos playing Junkrat.
Why'd you give him like an earring?
- 'Cause he's like, he's like a crazy guy!
- Are crazy dudes wearing earrings?
- Yeah, he's got earrings!
- Oh, I'm so wacky, oh, whoa, watch this.
Ah! - Yeah.
- Oooh!
- Oh, I love him!
- Yours is so cute! (laughter)
- Thank you.
- No, like you definitely channeled it.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- That's good to hear.
- This is ridiculously cute.
Like I love him. - Yours is very cute, too.
You definitely made him a much more optimistic character
than I think he ...
- Is he a sad boy?
- He's just kind of angsty boy, you know?
He's a bit, he's a bit aggressive.
- Okay, let's switch back.
- Okay.
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- Oh! (laughing)
Oh, you didn't mention the like blob of stuff on her head.
That's so cute.
- Oh, okay, I get it.
He's more shaped.
He's like a Picasso painting.
- It's funny that you even knew to describe this
as garbage, because without knowing his name,
I didn't even read that as a trash bag, really. (laughs)
This is just confusing looking.
- You know, I did well, Jackie.
- No, okay.
- No, I did. (laughter)
I did! - You did.
- Okay, Kevin, you got much closer than I did.
It looks, again, if you squint, it's Junkrat.
And you were kind enough to give him a bag
for all his stuff.
You know, the original designers didn't do that.
- Oh, man, okay yeah.
I got like some stuff right, like the hair.
I just made that up.
I'm amazed that I like kind of got the color.
He has a striped shirt, which I sort of predicted.
(laughter)
Mine is definitely like baby version.
- I feel like my version is like if you took the design
and made it western.
- Yeah, this guy looks way more angry.
This guy just kind of looks like his mom told him
he couldn't go to the concert alone.
(laughter)
- Oh, come on, mom. - Mom!
- Mom, everybody else is going.
I'm the only one who can't go.
- But I'm Spawn, mom.
But mom, I'm Spawn, I have demonic powers.
I can and will send you to hell!
(laughter)
- If I had to pick a person to describe things to me,
we work together so much
that I think you're probably the right person to describe
a cartoon I've never heard of to me,
so it was pretty easy.
- I guess we have more of a shorthand
that we can sort of draw on.
Like I think referencing other characters is very important.
- It was kind of cool to interpret what I was told,
not just like, just try to fill in the blanks yourself.
There's a nice creative flow that came from that.
- This is really fun.
I really liked doing it.
- So the fact that I got closer than I thought that I did,
I will say that is a compliment
to your descriptive abilities.
- And you know what?
Me getting really far off is an insult to you.
- Okay, give away time.
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- Can I get some pogs in the comment for this give away?
- From Star Wars?
- From Star Wars, yep, completely.
- I don't know.
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