- Today we are drawing characters in our own style,
from the wheel.
- From the wheel.
- Our iconic styles.
- Random characters too.
- Spin a big wheel, see who we get.
- All right Jackie, give it a spin.
- I will. I will Kevin!
- This is very stressful!
- That's cute!
- Okay Princess Peach. All right, I can do Princess Peach.
- All right!
- Oh boy!
- Oh!
Oh man! Princess Peach.
- Princess Peach. All right.
- Ooh, Elsa
- Elsa.
- Elsa. Okay.
- Elsa.
- Mario! And you have Peach!
- Oh yeah!
- Oh! A couple.
- Yes!
Okay.
- Do you watch One-Punch Man?
- I do.
- I've never seen Frozen.
- Just trust your gut and let it go.
- Okay let's do it.
- I have not seen a lot of Simpsons.
I feel like I watched Simpsons, but like peripherally.
- Are you a Mario fan?
- Yes. I love Mario games. I love NNID.
How about you?
- Mario Kart all the way.
- I'm going to actually try not looking at the reference
because I want this to be a Brent original drawing.
- I definitely want her to have a giant head.
I wouldn't say that she didn't have a giant head,
but I'm going, going big.
But I think I'm going to keep all her coloring the same.
- She's got cute, big, blue hair.
She looks like she's having a really good time
just being a mom.
What does she do? Does she have a job.
- She's a mom.
- She's a stay at home mom? That's her thing?
- Yeah.
- Love that. Chase your bliss Marge.
- When I was a kid, I was addicted to the
90's era of comic books,
where everyone had unrealistic proportions.
- As a cartoonist, I would say my style is pretty cartoony,
but based on solid illustrative construction.
So I'm not doing a whole lot of exaggeration,
in terms of the proportions.
- He is so iconic and perfect.
He's a good blend of simple, but incredibly memorable.
He's got his red, white and blue colors,
his overalls, his adorable mustache. Big nose. Hat.
His shapes are so good.
So I guess I'll just make him a little cartoonier.
Like cuter, cartoonier?
- How did I develop my style?
I watched a lot of anime.
- Really?
- Just so much of it.
- Would you say it's anime influenced?
- Yeah. Pretty much yeah.
I love anime, still do.
- Are you going to redesign Peach's dress in any way?
- Yeah.
- Does Princess Peach have a sword?
Or am I making that up?
- It's in your style Jason.
Do whatever you want.
- I'm going to draw her with a sword.
- 11 minutes. Okay.
- That's quite, not a lot of time, I feel like.
But you know what? I believe in us.
- I do believe in us.
I'm moving on to inking.
- Inking? Already?
- Jackie I notice when you ink, you use colored lines.
- I do! That's one of my favorite things to do with lines,
is color them in.
- Is that an animator thing?
- I don't think so, I think that's just something I
learned as a teenager.
And then I continued to do because
I like the results of them.
- Did you grow up drawing digitally?
- Yes, I sure did.
- Really?
- I'm not that great with traditional art.
- Really?
- Yeah, but I mean, I can do it
but not as good as I can do things digitally.
- I rarely color my lines because again,
I come from the world of print. And so I'm always thinking
about what is going to make the cleanest, black line.
- Yes, I respect that. I respect your artistic upbringing.
I respect your need for speed.
- Man, I feel like I don't have much of style,
I feel like it's definitely a 90's, cartoon inspired.
Like they have a lot of construction
in terms of shapes and form.
But then I also like to throw in weird perspective things,
that don't make sense.
- I can describe Kyra's style very well.
It is very clean, it's amazing.
She has amazing arcs of motion.
You always choose to keep things
not monochromatic, but within limited color palettes.
- A limited color palette, yeah. That's.
- The animation way.
- Zee's style, I am just getting familiar with today.
Even though I've known you for a while.
Because you never draw, but your style is adorable.
It completely has that mascot appeal,
like that adorable Japanese mascot appeal.
- Who should he be punching?
Maybe he's punching my Bugs Bunny.
- I was just about to say that and I'm happy
you brought it up.
- For people that have followed this series,
they will know what I'm drawing.
It's my disgusting attempt at a Bugs Bunny.
- I would say if you really want to get into animation.
Just draw, all the time.
Just bring a sketch book with you any where,
watch YouTube videos.
There's so many available resources to learn.
- You can look up anything and like super specific.
And just be like I want to learn how to draw this,
or this style, or draw like this Disney animator.
You can just go find, and they probably have classes online,
or their own website or blog or whatever that
you can go look at.
That's pretty amazing.
- I should have done
a lot simpler of a design.
But I didn't.
- You know what?
- Because my style is complicated.
- Just like you, as a person.
- Thank you.
- You've got a lot of different feelings,
a lot of different emotions.
Your art style reflects who you are.
- She's so cute.
I like her because she's like a feminine woman,
but she's not like ah I'm just going to sit around
and wait for Mario to do everything for me.
She will take things in to her own hands if she has to.
She can fight.
- Yeah that's true. She's a good role model.
- So what is Princess Peach doing in your drawing?
- She's holding a sword and her hair is being
really epic right now.
I'm having a lot of fun with the lines on the hair.
- I'm having fun beating up my own drawing.
(Laughs)
That's probably my favorite part of this.
- Two more minutes.
- Okay well, I just feel like that's quite rude.
- I forgot her crown. This is a travesty.
- She's a Princess.
- All right. I'm satisfied.
- I didn't give her any skin color.
- Oh.
- She's just going to be snow white.
- Done!
(Giggles)
- I think I did pretty darn good.
Working off of a reference picture sure makes it a lot
easier to concentrate on the drawing itself.
- I think I did okay.
I think she looks like She-Ra meets Princess Peach
is what I drew.
- It's a little wonky.
- Okay.
- But I think the energy of it is cute.
- I think mine has Elsa vibes.
I'm not totally happy with the pose.
I would say, I can do better.
- You got it! Come on!
- This is great! I love this!
- I love this!
- Here's what I love about yours.
She's got a nice line of action.
I love her smile.
- Dude, this is wild!
You've got this epic comic book perspective on all
of your drawings. Like it's coming at me.
Dude, you got her hair.
Which is sort of mimicking the motion of the flames.
I feel her vengeance, you know?
- I like that he's punching out your Bugs Bunny's tooth.
The blood on this is great!
- I think you really did reimagine him.
It's clearly him but then it's like, this is cool.
I can see the Kyra in it, with the clean lines,
but actually this is kind of different, I think,
for you. I love it.
- Thank you so much.
- You did such a good job.
- Yours is so adorable. I love the flow of her shape.
And I love that she's tiny.
She's so cute.
I think the colors stand out super well.
- You got her smirk, you got her ice magic.
Very pretty.
You got her cute little cape,
you got her cute little dress.
Yeah! You did a good job!
- This exercise was really hard.
How do you improve upon characters that are like the
embodiment of perfection.
Their designs are so iconic and so ingrained in our culture
that it's really hard to try to come up with a
different, appealing interpretation of them.
- I think that's the most fun part of drawing fan art.
You can make your own interpretation on something you love,
as a little homage.
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