- Hey Jackie. - Hey Kevin
- What are we doing today?
- Today we're spinning a wheel,
then we're gonna draw what's on the wheel.
- I pray that I get someone that I really, really like.
- Okay, let's spin first.
- Wait. - Oh no.
- Oh it's a Minion, yes.
- What? - Yes.
- Sonic.
- Topical. - Very topical.
- Yeah, He-Man. - He-Man.
- Goofy. - Goofy.
- I'm so glad, I love Goofy.
- Sailor Moon.
- Anime episode baby.
- I don't know anything about Sailor Moon.
- She transforms and fights crime.
- Okay. - Cries a lot, eats a lot.
Just like me.
- Which Minion are you choosing Jason?
- I'm choosing to draw the one with the one eye.
- Are you excited to draw Sailor Moon?
- Can I be honest with you?
I'm very nervous because the internet loves their anime
and if you screw anything up when it comes to anime,
they will let you know.
- So you got Sonic, which is a hot button issue right now.
- Very hot button issue.
I want to watch the movie because it feels like
a embodiment of a car crash in slow motion.
- Should I draw a He-Man with his pink vest
or him with his shirt off when he's got all the power.
- His shirt's gotta be off man.
- Yeah that's the iconic He-Man look.
- So I don't draw any anime style, at all.
I can't do it. - Nope, nope.
- So I'm not even gonna try.
I am going to draw a Americanized version of Sailor Moon.
- That's a good plan.
I think people have done that before.
- So I'm not alone. - You're not alone.
You're not alone. - But also,
people love their Sailor Moon.
- Oh people love their Sailor Moon.
If you mess up even once, it's gonna really ruin everything,
everyone's gonna notice.
- When you've watched the trailer for the first time,
what was your initial reaction?
- Okay, so there's a lot of things about the design
that I feel like could look more appealing
if it looked less realistic.
Like the lips were a little off-putting.
- Feeling good about Naruto, I grew up reading Naruto.
I love that guy.
I'm gonna be drawing OG Naruto, the young guy.
- 'Cause he grows up during the course of the series, right?
- Yeah.
- I'm gonna draw the minions
the way I think a deformed creature
made by a super-villain should look.
- I'm gonna draw a very buff,
the buffest He-Man the world has ever seen.
- I'm sticking relatively close to the original
'cause I do naturally draw stuff pretty cartooney.
But yeah, I think I'll make his eyes a little bigger,
make him a little cuter.
- So the real Minion just looks like a pill,
a pill with an eye wearing trousers.
So I'm gonna do a monstrosity version of that.
- Naruto is constructed like a real boy.
He's not cartooney.
Well obviously it's like cartoon, it's anime.
- I'm gonna go for a more exaggerated He-Man look.
His original construction, I don't know man,
if you go to a life drawing class,
and just give the dude some blonde, fryer boy hair.
It's kinda what you get with He-Man.
- Here's what I know about Sailor Moon.
She changes into Sailor Moon,
kinda like how Anna Prince changes into Wonder Woman, right?
They spin around and there's magic
and then she becomes Sailor Moon.
And I know that she's part of a girl force.
- Yes
- Of like five or six other fighters.
Are they all also nautical based?
- Nautical based?
- Yeah, 'cause she's a sailor.
- Oh, I don't know.
- So she's not actually a sailor.
- No. - Internet I am so sorry.
- Goofy is very lanky, really a real tall guy.
But he's got kind of a nice elasticity to him
'cause he's a comical character.
I think I really wanna keep that intact.
I might just add a little bit of geometry
to his back and his body and stuff.
- Here's a little tip for you kids.
If you are drawing a face and you want to know
if your proportions are correct,
I highly recommend taking your drawing
and flipping it horizontally, as I just did.
And now I can see that boy, her eye is in the wrong place.
- So do you think you're gonna want Sonic the movie then?
- We'll see, honestly.
I'm interested to see how they alter it
'cause they are gonna change his character design.
- Did you watch He-Man growing up?
- Absolutely not.
I don't think they were even doing reruns
in the 90s slash 2000s.
My Naruto is definitely a fan art Naruto.
I'm just drawing him
as I would draw anybody else in my style.
- Oh he has Conan the Barbarian boots.
- He's basically Conan the Barbarian for kids.
- Oh yeah, I guess so.
They're being inspired by that stuff.
- Yeah, inspired with quotes.
- I think one of my favorite parts of Sailor Moon
is that it's got lots of fun expressions.
- Oh yeah? - Yeah.
I don't know if you've seen any of them ever.
But, it's not that it goes off-model,
but you know how in anime they often do--
- Oh right, like when they get really excited
they suddenly turn into Chibi, characters
and stuff like that? - Yeah, stuff like that.
I think Sailor Moon does it best.
- I don't know if this even has the essence of Sonic.
It's Sonic adjacent.
- Okay, so I just noticed that she has a forehead band
that I did not put in my drawing
and so the internet would be very upset if I didn't
so I gotta put it in real quick.
- You almost died.
- So this is the best part about He-Man.
The way I am most familiar with him
is that 4 Non Blondes meme.
Jason, do you know what I'm talking about?
- I don't remember that, I don't know the meme.
- Do you know-- - Oh no I do.
When they're dancing in front of the barn?
- Yeah. - Yeah, yeah.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, and they cut together
just a couple of frames of He-Man doing a little twist
and it looks like he's dancing.
That's about as good as the internet got.
- All right, home stretch Jackie, how you feeling?
- Feeling good, feeling ready, are you ready?
- I'm getting close.
- I think this is the best I can do.
- I'm done, this is Sonic.
- I'm so excited to see.
- You done? - Done.
- Done.
- I think my Minion's done.
- All right.
- I do not know what I was thinking
with the pose in this one, it's a little weird.
- I think my drawings are really reminiscent
of what I grew up drawing.
I drew a lot of Spider-Man
and when I think of characters,
they all have like gangly-moving limbs.
- I think I did good, I think he looks cool.
- I took a different approach and sort of emphasized
the muscular aspect of the character.
- I think I am very successful at making people upset.
I'm sorry everybody.
- I think I did okay.
It is not anime at all.
- Nothing wrong with that.
- Nothing wrong with that. - It's fan art.
- And for what it is, I think I'm pretty proud of it.
- You know what, that's all that matters.
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- Oh. - Wow.
- Oh my god, Jason.
I think the Minion brought out some of the best in you.
- Oh my god. - Oh, it's so joyful.
- I didn't know what I was expecting.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- All right, it really isn't anime.
But, it really is Kevin's drawing.
- Thank you.
- I like it. - Thank you.
- If Sailor Moon was on ice in New York,
this is the girl that would play her.
- What Kyra did is to make him much more fun and bouncy.
You can almost see what dance he's gonna do next.
- He-Man is so ridiculous.
I love that his drawing embraces that,
like he looks impossibly muscular.
- You made him a lot cuter.
There's a lot more appeal to him.
His original character, it's very realistic.
I feel like this Naruto has a lot more fun.
- The reference image you have right now,
that's an angry Naruto.
- Is he angry most of the time?
- No, he's very goofy.
- Oh, okay. - Naruto's a goofy guy.
- Okay.
- I think you really captured the essence
of how radical he is.
The hair, got it, it's iconic.
- We did some creepy science experiment to this minion
and created a monster.
Although he's still got some of that minion appeal.
This would be like an anime, like manga adaptation
- Yeah. - of Despicable Me.
- I think you can try to annulate a particular style
and you can learn a lot from doing that.
- Yeah. - But at the end of the day,
when you draw something in your own style,
that translation of it is something that's totally valuable.
- Yeah, that's totally you, having your own style.
And as you draw and as you learn,
that style will come to you.
That's for all you young artists out there
trying to find yourself.
I believe in you.
Draw more Naruto, he's a cool guy.
- What Jackie said.
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