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Hi bidgets.
My name is Frustration right now, clearly. Actually think I need a cool off because it's a little
It's a little hot in here. Don't you think? Oh, what's this you see? Just a little thing
I've been working on for a few months. Yeah, that's right
This is a fan. A Chinese fan. Ventilateur chinois.
You guys know I used to have that big fan that I always bring in that was red and fluffy
Well, I couldn't bring that to college here because... I wanted to keep it at home
Well crowdmade the merch company I'm with, they asked me, like, think of a product that would be new
That would be unique for your channel. And I said, can you make fans?
Is that a thing that YouTubers can do, because I think only Jeffrey Star has made a fan before
because the only merch fan that I've seen was a thorpe fan done by Trixie Mattel, and lo and behold
crowdmade came through and now we have
My eyes on a rainbow fan. You can get them at the link right here and the description below
We only have a limited quantity
So get it while they last and yeah
You can just be sassy whenever you want
and I know Pride Month was over but a lot of people asked me to bring back
that pride merch and I can't actually, but they said I could make this and I thought it'd be nice for you guys to...
you know...
be sassy, anyway just want to thank crowdmade and once again, thank you guys for supporting me. Back to the real video!
I'm in college now, and I have to do projects. If you don't know. I'm at NYU Tana school of engineering
So I'm studying IDM, which is integrated digital media. It sounds confusing. But basically I learned graphic design
I learn how to code and make images and you know draw stuff from code. I learn how to prototype things
I learned the laser-cut printer in the 3d printer. It's a lot of fun stuff also
yes, my room expanded. I could do another room tour cuz there's twice as much stuff already and for my IDU class I had a
study an artist
So I chose Tim Burton because one I love Coraline so much as a kid everyone thought it was weird as scary
I thought it was cute. And I also liked his style of drawing in general
So part one was researching his creative process and how he designs his character, how he comes but these movies.
Part two, was creating my own version you could basically do anything
But you have to follow his creative process and I painted these two things
I recorded the process of me doing it, but it's mainly just a time-lapse
There is no room in this room to do it
Like if you look at this image, I used up a whole lounge and table like I can't fit it here. I'm sorry
I know you guys don't mind voiceover. So this is basically what I'm gonna be doing
So yeah, let me show you how I got to here
So I first started making sketches and I threw the sketches away. Don't kill me
But I did like two or three schedules of each painting to get a feel of what I want the character to look like now
I'm gonna start with this because it seems
More simple and you need to know this character before you get to the actual painting
So if you can't tell this is me in Tim Byrne style
I wanted to imitate his style of art because that was the assignment and I also wanted to
Try to put character assists of myself into this character not just physically but emotionally and personality wise because that's what Tim Burton does
That's his creative process. So
Unfortunately, his name is Cancer, and I can explain! Bare with me here. I'm referencing the horoscope. Not the condition
This guy is really into horoscopes. He has a moon sure which is inspired from that green moon shirt
I always wear doesn't have a lot of friends because they all think he's weird for reading horoscopes
And he's usually tired and up at night constantly studying them which is why he has frizzled hair and like those droopy eyes
And he's always reading more which is why he has a book. Also Tim Burton just draws his characters like long and skinny
So this is you know, my Skinny Legend version
I wish I was this tall but that's not gonna happen ever and trust me this took four if I tries to get it
Right cuz I had a look at Korra lines
Character and I had to look at the characters from the Corpse Bride and number for Christmas cuz I don't draw in this style
I don't know if you could tell but I've never done something like this before now we get on to this painting in short is
Basically cancer on a planet and he's fighting a snake
That is what you get when you first look at it, but this is s'pose- *cough cough*
This is supposed to be the cover art for the movie because Tim Burton makes movies
I didn't do a whole storyboard, but I have like the plot in my head
so in almost every Tim Burton movie he
Transports the character to like a whole new world or is just a fictional world in general and I wanted to do that for this
Cancer lives in nuclear family
Which we don't know what the means just a regular house regular family since he reads a lot
He found this old book about horoscopes and he reads about this 13 horoscope named Ophiuchus
If you don't know that's a new horoscope that no one accepts like not me at all
But I wanted to include that in the plot
So he reads it and then he gets transported
Coraline style to this new planet. Pretend there was a portal in the book and he just sucked into it
This sounds like a stupid fanfiction, I realize and he gets transported on this random planet
I didn't name the planet yet, and it's supposed to be
Like Greek feeling that is why there's columns here
And yes
I know the columns don't really
Show death and I realize that now but I was supposed to make these longer and these ones fatter
But I'm sorry don't kill me. I'm self-taught please. So I wanted the horoscopes to all be their own characters
I didn't want them to just be like
Stars or constellations? They're all based off a creature and I wanted them to look human like I didn't get to design them
But I wanted them to look like gods to have traits of their you know
Animal or creature? Like I'm not gonna have a crab as a character
It's gonna be a guy who maybe has one crab arm
but a reason why I chose a snake for Ophiuchus because Ophiuchus is known as a serpent bearer and I thought in
What world is a guy holding a snake intimidating like you see that on a boardwalk at Jersey Shore every single day?
So I wanted to do something more intimidating. That's like a basilisk or just a big anaconda. So I chose this
Yeah, it looks less you like because that's the point
It is a villain and it's supposed to be a god too. And because none of the 12 horoscopes want a 13th one
This is considered the villain because they want to be accepted in aspects of the whole plot
So now I'm going to talk about how I painted this thing
So I first started off by sketching every single thing
Which I have learned is a waste of time some please tell me the way they paint like if you are a natural painter
Please let me know because I find that every time I sketch it out
I just end up painting over it and I can't see my pencil marks
I already have sketches before so I didn't take that long. But I found that making the snake look like it was
Protruding and like going towards cancer was very hard
So I just trying to make the snake get smaller and smaller and like disappear almost back
I think I got the point across after sketching I started off with the galaxy background and I've done
Galaxy colors before but I wanted to mute the colors a little more because that's what Tim Burton does
He doesn't use bright colors
usually he tries to mute them down and make them more earthy and like dull but he also adds a pop of color
like with Coraline's jacket. I don't- It's confusing
It was a lot to research but if you look at it from far away
It kind of all blends in which is the point. I took a blue, purple, red and a magenta.
And yes, I know magenta and blue make purple now. Thank you for the 5,000 comments
I just placed them around and splotches and added black to like make it more dull and dark
That wasn't hard to do except I got upset because I realized it was painting over my sketches
And I was just wasting my time
And I don't like that. I had a guideline
Wassup, you're in the video now
*incoherent words* --first impression
Can everyone stop coughing? For one second? *coughing gets louder*
After letting that dry, I wanted to outline the snake in black
So I took a little bit of pencil to guide myself and then just cover this all in black and then I realized you couldn't
See the snake at all
it looked like a black cloud at this point because I made the background too dark and I
regard that a little bit so I thought why not just outline it because I
Know how to outline that's something I can do at least but I had to let the black dry
So then I started doing the constellations and I wanted to do real horoscopes obviously because it's about horoscopes
So I chose cancer. I think this is Libra
Let me know if you know these two I forgot and I just did it by taking the end of a paintbrush and like dotting
it around and at some point I closed my eyes because psychologically
Your mind is inclined to make them look like they belong there but stars are random
So I force myself to do it as random as possible
And the best way to do that is to not see and then a mess up here because I made a dot way too big
So I had to improvise just do Libra there
*starts singing Hoedown Throwdown* -pop it
-lock it
-polka-dot it
-countrify, then
-hip hop it
*continuous WHEEZING*
Say it, say it
*starts sing Hoedown Throwdown again*
*WHEEZING again*
That I did the planet part and I wanted to do a spotlight on cancer
So you could like tell this is the main character. And since Tim Burton does like
this sounds bad, but
Messy painting sometimes that sounds like it's a bad thing
But I'm trying to say like he doesn't make every line crisp
Sometimes it's a little bit like this. So it looks more "scary looking" it's a good style and I wanted to do this
So I just started off by painting the edges first with black and then as my paint dry
I would just scrape it up towards the center
also
If you look closely you'll see that he still has like some pencil marks because I just literally painted
Through the sketches with white and I realized that the white blending with the pencil graphite. That's sucked
But I now know, not to do that
And the reason why I don't really record me painting stuff is because it takes literally forever
I think this took four hours and I don't really talk during it because if I talk I can't concentrate
so outlining was just an hour of the me just
like this the whole time but my trick is to outline it a little bit farther than what you would like so that if you
Make a line too thick you just cover it with black paint and this could work with any background like if you chose to do
a blue snake and you wanted to outline it with white we'll just cover the white with blue if you get too much and make
the line as thin as possible and look even cuz you are lying to yourself if you think I have a hand steady enough to
outline like this. Also this little symbol right here. That is Ophiuchus' symbol
It's like a "u" that has a squiggly line going through it
And I wanted that to be the pop of color and then I added it to his eyes too which the eyes weren't supposed to
Have pupils at first, but I realized that if I didn't give him pupils you couldn't tell it was looking at cancer
So I'm glad my friend Caroline told me to do that and then I spent 84 years putting stars on this freaking snake
I realized I didn't put any stars on the chin, which makes me mad now
HIGHlarious island the snake teeth with black to make it sharp as possible after that
I added columns because I wanted the
Person watching this movie to realize that this is another planet like you don't see columns like these on earth every single day
This is almost supposed to be like an arena that the gods meet and I have only one reference and it's from Maplestory
I will show the image here
But if you know pink beam final boss, I like that arena and I wanted to look like this
That's the gamer coming out of me. Anyways, I paint in white instead of like traditional tan
Column color tan doesn't isn't fit with the color scheme
I use and then one of these to be like angle because if they're just straight you don't seek death
Which just made me so mad because I realized it after I painted white, but I just added some random black strokes
I literally took a paintbrush and like dipped it in black then took some black off and then
Also, fun fact if you get those calligraphy pens that I talked about a long time ago on Amazon
I'll link them down below you can outline this and it'll dry like paint which is so cool to me granted
Please spray this with acrylic sealer just in case also link the paint I used and by the way
This was also drawn with the calligraphy pen
And after that I just drew in cancer and the whole time I was debating
Do I want to give cancer like color don't want to make him have a skin tone
Do I want to make him have his green shirt? And I thought no because I would take it away from the focus
So I just did him in black and white and I think it turns out fine most Tim Burton characters are very pale anyways
And I drew him messy on purpose because I didn't want it to be like sleek
Most of his characters look a little disheveled anyways, and that's what I want Cancer because I'm well
I was very disheveled at this point because it was like 1:00 a.m. And I forgot the shading technique, but I think it's crosshatch
I just did it on this side to give him some more dimension
I gave him little pointy elf boots, and that is the whole painting actually
I need to fix my hair.
I think the last time I painted before that was a month ago
So it was a nice return to what I like doing in my free time
Except I had to do it for grade and it was the day before. Yeah, that was my whole project
I hope you guys liked it. I'll let you know my grade
Hopefully it's good. If you want to see more of the work, I'm doing in college
Just follow my tumblr right here. Our first assignment was to make a website
I just have been having a nice time overall in college like I get to animate now
Which I'm so excited to do
I just want to get to the point where I can animate my face and then I'll make animation videos for you guys
I'll definitely be recording more of my projects because a lot of my major is design orientated and I get to
make stuff which is what I do on YouTube and that's why I love this major so much if you have any
Interesting video ideas. Let me know I'm always open to them
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Like I always do it's been way too long since I've done this as always to keep them anonymous
but these are just meant for you to help you come out and inspire you to do your own unique way of coming out as
A child growing up. I like both girls and boys and I was like, okay, I like boys. So there's no possible way
I'm dating I grew up not knowing that by panas cetera was the thing that so junior high so through middle school when I finally
Came to terms with the fact that I'm bi I felt almost shameful
I only came out on the denial stage, but I still felt this shame this guilt that part of me was wrong or something
I still haven't fully come to terms with it
But when I watch your videos, I feel like I'm coming to peace with myself bit by bit
So, I mean you might think well, that's not really coming on story. It still is the coming. I started doesn't mean you have to
Share with the public like you don't have to announce it to the world
Like I did on YouTube the whole point of coming out is for you to come to terms with
Yourself and this person did that and I'm proud of it. And of course that's like why I love doing this
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