at first I didn't really see a future for myself in arch and I was kind of
just doing it as a hobby before T's NHC would leverage his amazing talent as an
artist to a full-blown YouTube career that enabled him to do things like
surprise mr. beast with a custom-made Tesla I bought a Tesla for mr. Dees I'm
gonna customize it and drive it all the way across the country because I live in
California and mr. beast lives in North Carolina I was gonna take a plane but
this exceeded the 50 pound luggage limit it's that heavy no before is that HC
would old a competition to buy his fans anything they were able to draw
themselves imagine that I'd probably draw myself a moose this is to see if he
everyone stories pretty much we're gonna find some random people whatever they
draw will pay for this is one of my fans
and it looks like they said we could film here so hey alright so what are you
planning to draw damn dude before is NHC would have 2.7 million followers on
Instagram 250,000 followers on Twitter and fourteen point four million
subscribers on YouTube at the time of this recording did HD is a youtuber and
artist who has seen his monthly viewer and subscriber counts skyrocket over the
past year now his numbers they really started trending upwards after posting a
video to YouTube that saw him drawing a picture of fellow popular youtuber of
course I'm talking about mr. beast that's an algorithm you'll want to get
snug up against my god both these guys are blowing up we are officially 15
hours in look at those nice textures alright we still have a long ways to go
we have nine hours to finish this up I'm actually getting really hungry since
Ben's NHC he's begun to utilize his amazing artistic talents to create a ton
of philanthropy material that has got the social media world abuzz that's a
big word for me philanthropy well you know I mean right
today we're customizing twenty iPhone eleven's for famous tick talkers and
these two will be a giveaway for you guys that HC is the satisfying stage
name for artist extraordinaire Zack Shea and the success he's found online has
enabled him to launch the art Alliance an online community of like-minded
individuals who are working on becoming the fastest improvement group of artists
in the world now if we could say anything about Zack is that he's
extremely dedicated to his craft and he has been ever since realizing what it is
he wanted to do with his life in reality it's just that you really
have to practice you have to practice all day you just have to keep working at
it for many years I think after I realized this I started practicing
someone like eight to twelve hours a day every single day didn't miss a day for
like three years this self-taught comic book artist
didn't just come out of the womb knowing that he wanted to utilize pencils and
ink he worked his damn ass off to get to where he is today and today we're going
to talk about his incredible journey what's going on guys it's for Michael
cretin back in again with a brand new video this one taking a look at
youtubers NHC prior to fame now I'm Canadian we'll use ed some of you guys
might be using Z forgive me you know I'm the main butcher by now you already know
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boom said HC was born Zack Shay On January 14th 1999 in San Jose California
no not a whole lot of details are available about his parents but Zack has
mentioned that he believes his artistic talents come from his mom's side of the
family because his father's side is much more interested in the scientist I'm
something of a scientist myself know growing up in as a kid he was super shy
and he was quiet and he didn't read many comic books but once he began attending
high school well things changed when he picked up some spider-man comics for the
very first time and I was sudden the little geek inside of him his spider
senses were tingling I mean yeah that was weird
they loved me yeah after giving comic books rishabh well he came to the
realization that he didn't just like them he loved them and that well let him
explain to you why do you like to read comics I don't just like reading comics
I love reading comics and here are three reasons why reason number one there are
so many different colors to choose from reason number two comics are so
lightweight and convenient even read them wherever whatever and the third
reason why comics so much is because you don't need
to read all the words to join a comic book a little despite having somewhat of
a natural talent for illustration in artwork well Zach he wasn't always the
polished artist that he presents himself as today he had to work extremely hard
to become as refined as he is but at first he didn't take it all that
seriously he found art classes in high school to
be boring and he would just end up flipping over his assignments and just
doodling on the back of them no around his sophomore year of high school well
he started dedicating himself more to the craft and at the time his grades
they weren't stellar but once he discovered that he really did have a
passion to become a great artist well he knew he had something to work towards
and all of a sudden his grades like his channel they started to take off to
ensure that he would become the success he knew he could be evil Zach he quit
the swim team which was one of his most beloved pastimes so that he can focus
exclusively on his art now we began drying 8 to 12 hours a day for 3 years
straight by building up that kind of work ethic well it would eventually
enable him to pull marathon sessions like this one here the paper I tested
was a little big so I bought a small waterproof sketchbook that's scuba
divers use so I can draw underwater for 10 hours the first hour was pretty rough
I wasn't really moving anywhere I was just staying still in place bobbing up
and down the water and my small scrawny body was starting to get really cold
Zach learned early on to take his weaknesses and turn them into strengths
by focusing on those areas of drying that he wasn't necessarily as good at is
that you don't avoid what you're about at drawing so especially for comic
artists that need to draw everything I think for me at the beginning I really
couldn't draw certain parts of the body I couldn't draw buildings environments I
couldn't off fabric females all that and after a while I realized I started
getting good at some stuff but I'm leaving out so much and when I really do
have to draw it I can't draw it anyway as you can see from these pictures
Willy's come in extremely far away in a relatively short span of time now to
push his draftsmanship to the next level well Zach he began studying professional
comic book artists by looking at the work of talented individuals like Brett
booth Jim Lee and in particular David Finch who we'll come back to in a minute
Zach he would imitate their Styles in order to improve his own yeah I started
to focus my practicing around that and I started to have kind of a goal I was
working towards where I wanted to be
around 2017 Zach finally thought that his work was at the level that he could
begin showing it off now at the time he was living in New York City and he was
attending school of visual arts there he created accounts for himself on
Instagram and YouTube and he began uploading content under his moniker of
Zedd HC which stands for Zach shay comic art now he's third off simply enough by
posting his drawings to the gram and how to videos to YouTube we all know that
was just the beginning hey guys it's Zach this is my first
youtube video so thanks for tuning in today I'm gonna be showing you guys how
to draw this spider-man right here so if you guys want to know how to draw it
just keep watching it over the course of the first two years of social media he
grew to 400,000 followers on Instagram and his content it found a loyal
audience thanks in part not only to his obvious talent but his down-to-earth
sense of humor as well do you ever beatbox do I beatbox see so
I guess I beat boxes all the time no matter what zach is drawing in his
videos well his personality and always shines through and he often gives his
fans a window into his personal life whenever he discusses his other
interests no for instance he doesn't watch a whole lot of TV but he does
enjoy South Park and the Big Bang Theory yeah Wow
no surprise there am i right when Zach was first starting off his dream job was
to work as an artist for one of the big two publishers we're talking either DC
or marvel so right now my dream job is to become a comic book artist for Marvel
it hasn't always been but right now it is but at this point in
time in his career I'm pretty sure that Zack has already surpassed the overall
wealth success and notoriety of well your average comic book artists I mean
even the ones working for Marvel or DC for instance let's take a look at the
work of David Finch anyone taking a look at Zacks own art
can immediately spot the similarities in style between these two and Finch is by
far one of the most popular and in-demand artists that works for either
company but despite being as well tenured as he is well there's almost no
way he could possibly afford to say you know gift his friend and comic book
writer Scott Snyder a custom-made Tesla not like Zack n he's just given them
away like candy you know what I mean one two three if you want a more concrete
comparison just take a look at their YouTube accounts no Finch she's been a
professional artist for close to two decades now with high profile work for
both companies and its Youtube subscriber count it still sits at 33,000
compare that to Zen H C's fourteen point four million and the picture becomes
pretty clear a social media man it cannot it can allow your wildest dreams
to come true and then some and hey I'm not the only one who's noticed the
similarity between these two talented artists after a while I think I was just
searching this and I found I found this really amazing piece by David Fincher
and that's when I was inspired to start talking like that I think I saw
the shadows and details and I just wanted my work to
but early 2019 Zaki and amassed more than a million subscribers on YouTube
and once he started expanding his content from tutorials into challenge
orientated and philanthropist videos well as Channel it exploded even further
as his exposure has grown well Zach he's even signed tonight media the creator
management company that counts the likes of mr. beast Preston as he led and
typicalgamer already among their many clients I'm just waiting for them to
call me above give me a shout guys as he's got my number as for the rest of
the story well I think we're gonna wrap this one up here because this of course
is before they're famous but before we head out I'm gonna leave you guys with
one last word of advice this is coming from the words of Zach I think even if
you make mistakes in art you're not really a failure unless you don't pick
yourself back up and improve what you did before so what every day is a chance
to do something new to improve yourself
and just keep practicing getting better no for a young man who's come so far in
his own muscle well that's some great advice now I hope you guys enjoyed this
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