- Today we are drawing characters in our own style
from the wheel. - From the wheel.
- Our iconic styles. - Random characters too.
- You spin a big wheel, see who we get.
- All right, Jackie, give it a spin.
- I will, I will, Kevin.
- This is very stressful.
It's okay, Princess Peach. - It's cute, yeah.
- All right, I can do Princess Peach.
- All right!
- Oh, boy.
- Ah, man! - Ah, no, Princess Peach.
All right. - Princess Peach.
- Ooh, Elsa. - Ooh, Elsa.
- Elsa. - Elsa.
- Mario and you have Peach!
- Oh, yeah! (laughs) - Oh, a cute couple.
- Yes! (Jason laughs)
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 peripherally.
- Are you a "Mario" fan?
- Yes, I love "Mario" games.
I love him, how about you?
- "Mario Kart" all the way.
- Okay, so I'm gonna 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 big.
But I think I'm gonna 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. (laughs)
So I guess I'm just kinda making 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. - You would say
it's anime influence? - Yeah, pretty much.
I love anime, still do.
- Are you gonna redesign Peach's dress in any way?
- Yes.
- Does Princess Peach have a sword or am I making that up?
- It's in your style, Jason.
- I'm gonna... - Do whatever you want.
- Draw her with a sword.
- Eleven. - Eleven 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 onto inking. - Inking?
- I'm 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.
Just color them in. - Is that an animator thing?
- I don't think so, I think that's something
that I learned as a teenager and then I continue to do
because I like the results of them.
- Did you grow up drawing digitally?
- Yes, I sure did. - Really?
- Yeah, 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 don't...
I feel like I don't have much of a style.
Like, I feel like it's definitely 90's cartoon-inspired.
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, - Thank you.
- she has amazing arcs of motion.
You always choose to keep things a bit, not monochromatic,
but within one color. - Limited color palettes.
- Limited, like 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. (laughs)
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.
- (laughs) 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
and 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 sketchbook with you anywhere,
watch YouTube videos.
There's so many available resources to learn.
You can look up anything and super specific,
and just be like, "I wanna learn how to draw this,
"or this style, or draw like this Disney animator,"
and 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, right?
- You know what? - Because my style
is complicated.
- Just like you,
as a person, you know? - Thank you.
- You've got a lot of different feelings,
a lot of different emotions,
your art's gotta reflects who you are.
- She's so cute.
I like her 'cause she's a feminine woman,
but she's not like, "Oh, I'm just gonna sit around
"and wait for Mario to do everything for me,"
it's like, she will take things into her own hands
if she has to.
Like she can fight. - Yeah, that's true.
She's a good role model. - Yeah.
- So what is Princess Peach doing in your drawing?
- She's holding a sword and her hair
is just being really epic right now,
so I'm having a lot of fun with that,
just the lines on the hair.
- I'm having fun beating up my own drawing.
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.
She's just gonna be snow white.
- Done.
- 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,
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.
(fast guitar music)
- You've 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.
I love your, you've got this epic comic book perspective
on all your drawings, like (beep) is coming at me.
Dude, I'm feeling this--
dude, you've 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.
(Brent laughs)
The blood on this is great.
- I think you really did reimagine him.
Like 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 kinda 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
'cause it's like how do you improve upon characters
that are 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.
- And I think that's the most fun part of drawing fan art
is that you can make your own interpretation
on something you love as a little homage.
Hey, what's up, I'm Jackie.
- And I'm Kevin.
- Today we're going to be drawing random characters
in our own style.
- From the wheel. - The wheel.
- That's how drawing works.
Every morning I come to work and I spin this wheel
and that's what I do for the day.
Whoa, it's so not dramatic.
- Shrek! (both laugh)
- Oh, no.
- Wilma Flintstone, okay. - Oh, no, Wilma.
(gasps)
- Hey! - I'm already Tracer!
- Linda? - Linda, ooh, the two...
The two cartoon wives. - Yeah.
- Oh, it's gonna be good 'ol
Velma. - Velma.
Okay, Velma from "Scooby-Doo".
- Finn. - Finn.
- Okay, let's get to it.
- Okay, so I like their car that they drive,
so I'm just have her driving the car.
- I'm gonna do an action shot.
- Mine is gonna be like "Fast and Furious" Wilma.
- So, tell me about Tracer.
- So, Tracer is like the poster girl for "Overwatch".
Her thing is that she's fast, so she's pretty thin,
she's petite, she has spiky, short, black hair.
She has these cute little orange leggings.
- So Velma is a nerd
who solves mysteries.
That's all you need to know about Velma.
- Since Sunday, I was getting all self-conscious,
like what's my style?
How do I draw?
(stuttering)
Why am I here on Earth?
What does this mean to be an artist?
I don't know!
I'm just gonna draw and that's gonna be my style.
- I feel like I'm just gonna make it more like cartoony
and angry, like this drawing is really gonna evoke,
"Get out of my swamp!"
- I loved watching "Bob's Burgers" when I watched it.
I haven't seen it in a while, though.
- Yeah, it's still going, right?
- Yeah, it's a great, great show.
It's so undercover funny.
They set up jokes and you're like uh-oh, you know?
(both laugh)
- I'm gonna sound like such an old man.
But is Tracer your main?
- Whoa! - Huh? I got it!
- That's real! - I said it right, right?
- Anyway, no.
(Jackie laughs)
Love that,
that was such a lovely little surprise from Kevin.
- Right?
What's up, fellow youths?
- So Linda has actually a great sillhoutte.
Her hair has this Mary Tyler Moore thing going on.
I might be getting that wrong.
I guess you can correct, people can correct me.
She has no chin, but I'm gonna draw her with a chin
just 'cause chins make sense to me.
(laughs)
- 3D characters versus 2D, it's interesting.
When you try to draw them exactly how they look in 3D,
sometimes it might not quite look right
'cause it's just, I don't know,
a realistic character like Shrek.
- I'm gonna draw Finn like he's had one too many adventures.
(laughs) The gray reboot.
- All these ladies are so voluptuous
and all the dudes are fat.
I feel like these women could do better.
I'm just gonna say it.
- Weren't the Flintstones just cavemen version
of the Honeymooners, though?
- See, I don't even know what "The Honeymooners" is.
- What? (laughs) - What? Jesus, do you know--
- Man, I didn't even exist when it came out
and I know what "The Honeymooners" is.
- So because we don't have a lot of time,
are you doing anything to simplify or change the character?
No?
- I hope the internet knows that we only have
like twenty minutes to do this.
- Yeah, they don't care.
- Yeah, they want us to suffer.
They're like, "Well, why didn't you draw it like this?"
Well you know what, why don't you come here
and you try to do this.
There's a lot of stress involved.
- I kind of go between 2D and 3D space,
so I'm just adding a little more volume to this character.
- I think I'm going for, I love the comic book style,
I decided this time to go for even more movement,
even though the character is not designed that way.
- We're using this type of device called the Cintiq,
which is a screen that you can draw directly on.
Photoshop is also just a fantastic program
'cause you can do so much in it, they keep optimizing it.
- You know, there's also a free alternative you can use
such a Gimp, which is very similar to Photoshop
and I think it might even work with Cintiq still, too.
- No matter how little of tools you have,
you can be a great artist.
It's just practice.
- What are some tips that you would have
for people if they wanted to learn how to draw faster?
- Just draw faster.
- Okay, that's not a tip.
- The most important thing is to draw from life.
I mean, everybody will tell you this.
That is by far the most important thing to learn.
- Is that good?
Is that good advice?
- No, that was awful advice. - Okay.
Well here's some real advice.
Learn some shorthands for things, you know?
People know what hands look like, right?
You don't have to make it so detailed
for people to know what a hand is, right?
- True. - In animation, you see a lot
of cartoons where they don't even have five fingers.
That doesn't look like a human hand, really,
but you know it's a hand
because you know what hands look like.
Keep it up, kid.
You can do whatever you put your mind to.
- He's grown up.
His clothes don't really fit him as well as they used to,
so his belly's sticking out and--
- So where's Jake?
- I don't know, it's kind of a messy thing.
In their Facebook, it says it's complicated.
- So here's how I shade my drawings.
I just make a new layer on top of the color,
I set the transfer mode to soft light,
and then I use 100% black to paint in the darker colors.
That's a little pro-tip for you there, Jackie.
- Thanks. - You take that home,
you ingest it,
you use it in the future. - Ingest it.
- What I do, is I draw all of my drawing
as line art on one layer and then I drew the painting
as a separate layer underneath.
So kids, layers are your friend.
- I like mine, I think, like I said, it looks very cartoony.
Even moreso than the actual cartoon.
I dig it. - You dig it?
- I dig it. - Nice.
- All right.
- Confidence is key.
- Yeah, all right, you ready to swap?
- Let's swap. - Swap-a-roo.
(fast violin music)
- Oh, dang! - Oh, dope!
- Dude, what a dynamic pose.
- Yeah, I mean same for you, man.
I like the car looks like a part of her outfit.
- Oh my God! - Oh!
- He's so defeated. (laughs)
- "What you doin' in my swamp?"
- Oh my God. - This is great.
- Yours is fantastic. - Oh, thank you.
- Oh my God, he's like hit puberty.
Oh, I love the bags under his eyes.
- He's definitely, he's like, "Too much adventures,
"too much!" - "Too much adventures."
- Would you look at that! - Wow.
Wow, this is really cool.
- Thanks!
- Jackie, this is amazing.
- Aw!
- I like this because it's different than your normal style,
like I feel like your style is usually very chibi
and very cute.
This has still got that cute appeal to it
but it's way more realistic.
- I like yours, yours is more than cute.
I think it's more of a comic version.
- Right. - If there was a comic strip
a more comedy-based "Scooby-Doo" comic strip,
this would be her. - Okay.
- Dude, yours and mine are both,
they're clashing, they're coming at each other.
- They are coming at each other actually, yeah.
I like the changes you made.
She looks more mad, like mad hat.
Not like angry.
- Besides the obvious improvements we've made to them,
I think we've taken these characters to the next level.
- I think it was a lot of fun, you know?
Getting to really take characters that you know and love
and draw it in your own style.
I think that's why so many people do so much fan art
of stuff 'cause it is fun to take these characters
and do your own take on them.
- This, you know, this was fun.
I wish I had more time but I think I did what I could
and I wish, you know, Tracer was wearing one shirt.
(Kevin laughs)
But, it be like that sometimes.
- Hey, Jackie. - Hey, Kevin.
- What are we doing today?
- Well today we're spinning a wheel
and then we're gonna draw what's on the wheel.
- I pray that I get someone that I really, really like.
- Okay, I get to spin first.
- Wait...
- Oh, no, no, no! - Oh, it's the minion!
Yes!
- What?
- Yes!
- Sonic!
Topical. - Very topical.
- Yes! 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,
- I think his shirts coming off.
- That's the iconic He-Man look.
- So, I don't draw any anime style at all.
I can't do it.
So, I'm not even gonna try.
I'm going to draw a Americanized version of Sailor Moon.
- That's a good plan.
I think people have done that before.
- Right.
So I'm not alone. - You're not alone.
You're not alone. - But also,
people love their Sailor Moon and--
- Yeah, oh, people love their Sailor Moon.
If you mess up even once,
it's gonna really ruin everything.
Everyone's gonna notice.
- When you 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 cartoony.
But yeah, I think I'll add, you know,
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, you know?
He's not cartoony,
well obviously it's a 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 friar boy hair,
it's kind of what you get with He-Man.
- Here's what I know about Sailor Moon.
She changes into Sailor Moon,
kind of like how Diana Prince changes into Wonder Woman.
Right?
They spin around and there's magic,
and then she becomes Sailor Moon.
And I know she's part of a girl force
of five or six other fighters.
Are they all also nautical-based?
- Nautical-based?
- Yeah, 'cause she's a sailor.
- Oh, I...
I don't know. - She's not actually a sailor?
- No.
- Internet, I am so sorry.
- Goofy is very lanky, really real tall guy,
but he's got a nice elasticity to him,
'cause he's a comical character, you know?
I think I really wanna keep that intact.
Might just add a little bit of geometry
to his back and 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. - Yeah.
- So do you think you're gonna,
you're gonna watch "Sonic the Movie", though?
- We'll see honestly.
I'm interested to see how they alter it,
'cause they are gonna change his character design.
- Brent, did you watch "He-Man" growing up?
- Absolutely not. (Jason laughs)
I don't think they were even doing re-runs
in the 90s/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.
I guess that's, they were being inspired
by that stuff a lot.
- 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 like--
- 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'm 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 the bar.
- Yeah, well, yeah.
And they cut together 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 feelin'?
- Feeling good, feeling ready.
Are you ready?
- I'm getting close.
- I think this is the best I can do, you know?
- 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 Spiderman and when I think of characters,
they all have 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.
(fast forward screech)
- Oh! - Wow!
- Oh my God, Jason.
I think the minion brought out some of the best in you.
- Oh! - Oh my God!
- It's so joyful.
- I didn't know what I was expecting. (laughs)
- Yeah! - Yeah.
- All right!
It really isn't anime.
Fun, 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.
He looks impossibly muscular.
- You made him a lot cuter,
there's a lot more appeal to him.
His original character is 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
on the show? - No, he's very goofy.
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 be like an anime/manga adaptation
of "Despicable Me".
- I think you could try to emulate a particular style
and you could learn a lot from doing that.
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 you know,
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.
- All right, Kevin. - Hey, Jackie.
- We're doing something a little different today, guys.
- Today we are drawing character mash-up from the wheel.
- So we're gonna spin the wheel twice
and whatever two characters we get, we gotta mash them up.
- Oh, God, I'm scared.
- Oh, boy.
Oh, Sonic. - Sonic.
- Sonic, that's a solid, solid character.
- And Mario!
- I just have to technically take one of these characters
and make a fan hedgehog.
Who are you gonna get? - I don't know.
- Who's Kevin gonna get?
- No Face from "Spirited Away".
All right, No Face, and... - And...
right in the middle! - Right on the edge.
- I'm gonna make you do Kermit.
Kermit/No Face sounds horrifying.
- Oh, no.
- Johnny Bravo! - I'm cool with Johnny Bravo.
Kermit. - Kermit and Johnny Bravo.
Oh my God. - I'm down with that, dude.
Oh.
- Woody, oh, dang, I thought it was gonna be Sailor Moon.
Woody and...
- This is great.
- Johnny Bravo. (laughs)
- We're gonna be...
Oh, oh, God, no.
(laughs)
And...
Yes!
Oh, Shrek-laf.
- Jerry from "Tom and Jerry". - Jerry.
Okay, you got a mouse.
Garfield! - Jerry and Garfield.
Okay, okay.
- Let's get started. - Let's do it.
(fast orchestral music)
- I'm gonna mash the hell out of these characters.
- That's weird, don't do that.
- I don't think I need to use reference
because Kermit's literally just like...
You know?
Just like a green frog. - Do you remember
what Kermit looked like?
- I kind do, yeah.
- A Shrek snowman or ogre Olaf?
- I don't, I think ogre Olaf.
- Is this gonna be a grotesque one for you?
- You know what, it might be, 'cause I'm afraid,
'cause this is just a cat and a mouse.
- Should I draw Kermit drinking the tea?
- Oh, yes. - Yeah, all right.
I'll do that. - Of course.
Why did you even ask when it's obviously a yes.
- You gotta do the meme.
- What did you decide to go with?
- A Shrek snowman.
- A Shrek snowman. - I think is kinda the vibe
I wanna go for.
Did you like "Frozen", Jason?
How do you feel about "Frozen"?
- I did not like "Frozen",
but I also have a one-and-a-half year old
and it's like, maybe I will start to like "Frozen". (laughs)
- I know, you gotta be ready for that.
"Frozen 2" is coming.
- So which do you prefer?
"Sonic" or "Mario"?
- I think "Mario".
I've played more "Mario" games.
This is going weird.
- It's supposed to go weird.
- It's strange.
I don't really know if what we're doing is moral.
- It is absolutely not.
- My process, as most people are probably noticing,
is a little bit different than I think
a lot of what other people have done.
I use a lot of shapes, I use a lot of forms,
I work from values a lot.
I like to work from values because it gets me there
a little bit faster, but it is very hard.
I'm not gonna make it sound like,
"Hey, I just painted value, you guys will be all right."
It takes a lot of work.
It takes a lot of effort to get good at it.
I spent years getting good at it.
What process do you prefer?
- I think for this one I mainly am starting from sketching.
I'm just like, okay, I'm trying to feel the gesture
and I'm trying to feel how the pose is gonna be.
- Okay, this is going to be a very simple drawing.
- Is it?
- Yeah, because No Face's body is just black.
- Why do you love Shrek so much, Brent?
You actually talk about him a lot.
- I do talk about Shrek a lot, there's just something,
it's half ironic, half genuine love for this character.
I just love the artistic direction
Dreamworks decided to take with these characters.
Like they weren't really sure how to do CGI back in the
early 2000s and all these creepily realistic faces.
- I love Kermit the Frog.
- Do you love Kermit the Frog?
- I do. - What do you love most
about Kermit the Frog?
- He's just so good-natured and he's--
- I thought you were gonna say he's so good-looking.
- He's just a handsome young man.
- He's just the most handsome frog I know.
- He's just trying the best he can and everyone around him
is an idiot or a weirdo.
Don't you watch "The Muppets"?
He's the straight man.
He's the one who's holding it together.
- Wait, did he have a short-sleeve shirt?
Johnny Bravo?
What does your reference tell me?
I'm using you. - He has a black,
masculine shirt, that's super muscle-tight.
- Like a clubber shirt, right?
Like he's going to the club?
- Yeah. (laughs)
- He definitely skipped leg day, though.
That was a thing, right?
- Yeah, that's true. - He definitely
skipped leg day.
- Dang it, I wish I did better.
(both laugh)
- You feel self-conscious again?
No, don't let the art demons
get to you. - I'm not,
I will try my best until zero seconds.
- Jason, you gotta level with me here
are you gonna be ruining some childhoods with this one?
- Oh, yes.
It's not even a question.
- I'm gonna try to bring in some of that Dreamworks detail
because the difference between Dreamworks
and Disney is a pretty stark divide
between their approaches to character design.
I think the key here is to just lean into
what an abomination the concept of these mash-ups is.
Like get a Cronenburg monster out of this thing.
- Oh my God, that's like my dream.
- This is weird, I don't like this.
- Get weird with it, Jackie.
- I don't know what to do with his other hand.
- (laughs) What are you doing?
- I'm trying to figure out-- - Are you modeling?
Do you want me to model it so you can see?
- No, I don't need your pity.
No!
Boo!
- It's me!
Sonic!
- I went to AI.
We had a teacher who once told a student,
just looked at her in the face,
was like, "You'll never make it in this industry ever."
- Really? Oh my gosh. - "Quit now."
I'm not even sugar-coating, I'm telling you.
He just straight up told her like don't chase your dreams,
quit life and get out of my room
and I was like, "Whoa!"
The reality is the industry's not like that.
People don't talk to you that way.
They will hire you if they feel like you're qualified
and if you're not, you just gotta work towards that.
It's really that simple.
Stay positive, guys!
Keep drawing.
Draw everyday.
- How are you doing with yours?
- I feel like it's coming together.
It's the creepier, the better, you know?
- Yeah, I went too ambitious, but I really like it.
So, I'm gonna go with it.
- Well, this is weird.
This is a very strange thing I'm drawing.
- Is it? - Yup.
- How so?
- It just looks like Kermit
wearing a black robe sipping tea.
- There is a meme like that, isn't there?
Like Kermit talking to himself
with the black robe on? - And sipping tea?
Oh, yeah. (gasps) - That's what you're drawing!
- I didn't even think about that.
Ooh!
Should I do a double, a triple mash-up?
- A triple mash-up.
- Two Kermit memes and a "Spirited Away" character?
- Why not?
It's not like we're running out of time at all?
- Okay, you know, you're right.
- Got him.
But can you do it?
- I'm gonna try. - Okay, come on, hurry, hurry.
- [Cameraman] Five minutes.
- Uh-oh. - Just five minutes, wow.
- Time to get onto some color.
Moment of truth, Jason.
Green snow or just gross brown snow?
- I want green snow.
- Green show, all right, we're doing it.
Ah, yeah, he wants you out of his swamp
because he is the swamp. (both laugh)
"I am the swamp."
My Shrek, he's a tragic character, you know?
He's not long for this world.
- What does Woody say?
"Stone to the sky," no, that's Buzz Lightyear, right?
Wait, like, "Reach for the sky," right?
"Reach for the sky!"
Wait, is that Woody?
- Yeah, that is.
I love "Toy Story".
Like so much.
Wasn't that great, though?
In that movie where Woody turns his head 360,
in that moment where Sid was gonna set them on fire.
I love that moment.
I remember watching that as kid and you're like,
"Oh, dude, dope!"
- 30 seconds, Jackie. - 30 seconds.
- I believe in you. - All right.
- Home stretch, fast like Sonic.
- Excuse me, I need to focus and you are not helping at all.
- All right, Olaf.
Olaf-Shrek, there you go.
- All right, I'm as done as I'll ever be for now.
- All right. - Okay.
(groaning)
- I think I'm good with this.
Yeah. (both laugh)
- How'd you think you did, Brent?
- Well, I think I really captured the spirit
of what it means to mash-up two characters
into an ugly abomination.
- It just looks like I neither know
what Sonic or Mario looks like. (Kevin laughs)
- I'm feeling good about mine,
but I think I could've pushed it more.
- Mine looks like I took a Kermit
and repainted him and put him in a giant black sock.
(Jackie snickers)
(fast forward screech)
- Huh. - Wow.
(crickets chirping)
- Oh, God, what! - Wow!
- What! Jason!
- Oh, this is so good! - Yours is super dope.
- Oh, I hate you, this is so good.
(groans) I'm gonna quit art. - This is incredible.
- Oh my God, this is incre--
I think you destroyed more childhoods than I did.
- I don't know if that's true.
- Looks like Kermit died, he became the new Grim Reaper,
and this is him after a lovely day of taking people's souls.
- He's like, "You may be going to Heaven,
"you may be goin to Hell, that's not my concern."
- That's what this is, it's very spooky.
- This is actually what I should have done.
More of like a... - No, your--
narrative is spot on.
It has so much good character in it.
- Nah, I think your is... - No.
- You're just too nice, dude.
- It looks like he's
eaten multiple Jerry's. - There are multiple Jerry's
in there. - What the...
Jesus. - If I had more time,
there'd be vomit.
Jason, you're the childhood slayer.
(Jason laughs) I'm gonna say that.
- Yours is really imaginative.
- Is it?
- You know what, yours is a great mash-up.
So here's the thing, don't be so hard on yourself.
- Aw.
- This mash-up is incredible.
I think yours was very successful.
- Okay, well I appreciate it.
- I think yours was very successful.
- Mashing up characters on the spot is very hard.
- Yeah, you gotta think of a lot of things
and you gotta design it very quickly.
- Mash-ups is a genuine strategy for design.
- Yeah. - I think people
don't realize it, but a lot of your favorite TV shows,
movies, video games, are a mash-up of some sort.
- I agree, I think mashing up stuff is also a great way
to get out of your bubble so I think it's a great thing
for people to try.
- Get out of here, Kevin.
I don't wanna see you anymore.
- See you tomorrow. - Oh, God.
- Be sure to stick around to the end of the video,
to find out how you can enter for a chance to win
this Wacom Intuos tablet,
courtesy of our good friends at Wacom.
- There are two free creative programs that come with this.
Wow! - Right?
- You don't even have to spend
three million dollars on Adobe Photoshop.
- 'Cause let's face it, software is expensive.
- Software is expensive!
And you know what else is expensive?
- What? - Hot dogs.
- All right.
- Are hot dogs expensive?
- Yeah, sure.
Hey, I'm Kevin. - Hey, I'm Jackie.
- And today we're gonna mess up characters--
- From the wheel.
- What's it gonna be, Jackie? - Oh, who knows?
Could it be...
- Daffy Duck and.. - Daffy Duck, okay.
Skeletor.
- That's so odd.
- Dora the Explorer. (laughs)
Let's see who Dora's gonna be matched up with.
(laughs) Rocko.
- It looks like you'll be drawing Docko the Explorer.
- I'm scared.
- Porky Pig and... - Porky Pig and...
- Daffy Duck, okay.
Porky Pig and Duffy Duck, okay.
- Whoa, that's gonna be so fun.
You have to go again.
(laughs) Okay. - Garfield?
- I got Garfield and...
Woody. - Woody, wow.
- Garfield and Woody.
- That's kinda cute. - Yeah, okay.
- Betty Boop. - Betty Boop.
- Second spin.
Marge. - Marge.
That's actually so cute.
- Here we go.
Wonder Woman, okay. - Wonder Woman,
respectable choice. - And...
Spongebob. - Spongebob,
that's gonna look great!
- (groans) Okay, all right.
- Do you believe in yourself?
- I do believe in myself.
Do you believe in me?
And why did you have to pause?
Okay.
(fast orchestral music)
- I have a vision.
- He has no pants, I'm remembering this.
Porky has no pants.
- They're both not wearing pants.
- So, here's my question.
Do I do Spongebob cosplaying as Wonder Woman
or do I do Wonder Woman spongy?
- Don't do Wonder Woman spongy.
I don't wanna see that. - You don't wanna see that?
- So which character are you concentrating on more?
- I think I'm gonna give it like Rocko's wallaby body,
but Dora's hairstyle. (laughs)
- You know, I'll credit "Garfield", "Calvin and Hobbs",
and "The Far Side" for teaching me how to read English.
- Aw, that's cute. - Like I learned a lot
of things reading comics, my parents bought me
a lot of educational comics, even when I was in Korea.
There's a whole comic series just about different cultures.
But also the edition of "Garfield" that I had,
came with a little flip book as part of the book,
so when you flipped, you could see Garfield moving,
and on the other side was "Odie".
That was another way to get me excited about animation.
- So, Jackie, what is your strategy here?
- Should I make Daffy Duck buff?
- Or you could do Daffy Duck with a skeleton face.
- No. - Why not?
- No, that's just a terrible idea.
What makes you think Skeletor is a skeleton?
- Because he has a skeleton face.
- No. - Are you not familiar
with who Skeletor is?
- He doesn't have a skeleton face.
- He literally does, that's why he's called Skeletor.
- No, his name is called Skeletor because--
- You're doing it again, you're drawing me in, Jackie.
- Of course, in a game of random chance with a wheel,
you happen to get a "Simpsons" character.
- Obviously, I'm not gonna draw Marge
the way she actually looks.
I wanna go for the Betty Boop pose.
- Skeletor's pretty cool though,
I like the minimal amount of clothes he's wearing.
He knows what he's about.
- He's super buff.
- Yeah, I mean, if I was this buff,
I would also avoid wearing as much clothes as possible
because who wouldn't wanna see sexy, blue biceps.
- Right? - Yeah.
I mean, I'd be really self-conscious
that I don't have skin on my face.
- Well, I think he's compensating.
- I'm literally going for monstrosity.
- I'm actually having a lot of fun drawing this.
- Cowboy Garfield. - Cowboy Garfield,
that's essentially what I'm drawing.
- So when was Daffy Duck invented?
- Invented?
Created? - Yeah.
When did Thomas Edison sit down and invent Daffy Duck?
- I'm going to say in...
the 1930s.
- The 1930s?
I was alive then. - No you weren't.
- I'm trying to imagine what the voice of fusion
of Daffy Duck and Porky Pig is like.
(laughs) I can't.
(stuttering)
- It's like lisping also.
(laughs)
- If anybody out there has the vocal talent
to fuse the voices of Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, please--
- Please do it. - Please respond.
- What I will say, though, is Rocko and Dora have similar,
they're both pretty small, stout characters, so--
- Similar proportions? - Similar proportions.
- Well, Betty Boop has a little more anatomy than Marge.
So just trying to find a happy medium.
- I love Skeletor's cute nails.
Yeah. - He does have
nice little nails.
- He has cute nails on, its like--
- A man-pedi type situation. - Yeah, it's very cute.
He takes care of his nails
and he paints them black.
He's really compensating for that no face thing.
- He really is.
- I'm taking Porky's nose, I'm taking Daffy's beak,
throwing in a little bit Hae-Joon in there.
- Me? - Yeah.
Sorry you had to find out like that.
- Is Skeletor really evil or is he cartoon evil?
- Is he just misunderstood?
He's definitely bumbling, I'll give you that.
- He's a dumb-dumb?
- He's not the greatest villain.
His schemes always backfire,
but it's mostly due to his incompetent henchmen.
- At a certain point, it's like why are you getting
the worst henchman to do that job?
- You know, times are tough. - Times are tough.
- Good help is hard to find.
- Not a lot of henchmen around these days.
Especially henchmen with henchmen degrees.
- Yup, the henchman degree does not pay what it used to.
- Have you actually ever met Matt Groening?
- I've met him a couple times.
- How was he?
- He's super friendly, always willing to talk.
An all around nice guy.
- That must be so surreal to be him.
- All right. - Boom.
- Done. - How'd you do?
- I think I did a good job. - Yeah?
- I think it looks like a Grim Reaper
undead, buff Daffy Duck.
This is the thing you see when you die.
(Kevin laughs)
- Is he cute? - He's cute, yeah.
I would swipe right on him on Tinder.
- So how do you think you did?
- I think I did pretty good.
It's just Rocko in Dora's clothes.
How about you?
How do you think you did? - I mean, that's how I feel.
It's like Betty Boop trying to be Marge.
But I mean, I did the best that I could and I accept that.
- I think this is pretty close to what I have in my head.
- Cute.
- Switch-a-roo. - Wait.
You gonna ask how I did on mine?
- No. - Okay, let's switch.
(fast orchestral m1usic)
- Oh, man. (laughs) - Yours is so cute!
- Oh, dude, I love this.
- Oh my gosh, she's adorable.
Ooh, I love her garter, or whatever it's called.
- This is totally Rocko in a Halloween costume.
- It is!
(both laugh)
- Oh, it's so cute. - Whoa!
I want this monster to be in real life.
And I'm combing from it's womb! (Jonni laughs)
- Oh. - Wow.
- Oh!
Why did you draw it at an up angle, Kevin?
- Power, power stance.
- It looks more like a BDSM thing.
- Fun fact, Wonder Woman was actually created
as a BDSM character.
The creator of Wonder Woman,
I wanna say his name is William Martson something,
he was actually a BDSM cartoonist.
- This is not a fun fact.
This is more of a disturbing fact.
- I think you primarily used Betty Boop's body
and then flourishes of Marge within the colors,
the accessories, I think the eyes.
You had a nice mix of Betty Boop and Marge in the eyes.
- I don't think there's a part that she didn't use.
All parts of the creatures are represented in this drawing
plus extra, there is a dash of Shrek.
- So, yours is a delight. - It's delight?
- Yes. - Aw.
- I think it's a great combination of the two characters.
I like how you kept Skeletor's buff body,
but gave him a duck face.
One suggestion I would've given you is for his staff,
you should've put a fossilized duck head.
- Well, I made a bird skull.
- It's a bird, but, you know what I mean?
The head of his enemies.
- Oh, like Bugs Bunny?
- Ooh! - Ooh, Bugs Bunny's head
on a stake.
That's what Daffy Duck,
that's what Daffy-tor would want.
Duck-a-tor, Skel-a-Duck would want.
- I really love what Hae-Joon has done here.
I know my Garf, I know my Garf, Hae-Joon,
and let me tell you, you got him, you got him good.
- I think this is actually a really good exercise
for if you have art block or something,
you could just take two cartoon characters
and mash them together and see what you get.
- And sometimes you can even get something
completely different and a whole new character
out of those things.
- I thoroughly enjoyed this.
This is what art is about.
You take old ideas, you make them new.
- You know what, I will continue to mash up characters
because I think it's a fun way to stretch your character
design muscles, like the muscles on your Duck-a-tor.
- On my Duck-a-tor.
- Daf-a-tor. - Daf-a-tor.
- Skel-a-duck. - Skel-a-duck.
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- No, it is, first of all,
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It is Wacom. - Thank you Dollar Shave Club
for the Wacom tablets. - That's enough.
That is quite enough.
- Hi, I'm Stephanie. - Hey, I'm Kyra.
- And today, we're drawing characters
that we have never seen before.
- Based on each other's descriptions.
- Hmm. - Hmm.
- 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 to the end of the video
to find out how you can enter for a chance to win
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for all of your digital drawing needs,
courtesy to our good friends at Wacom.
- Did you know that your hair and nails continue to grow
after you die?
- How is that relevant?
(fast orchestral music)
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 junky boy.
What are you making me draw?
- I'm making you draw a comic book character from my era.
- The 1700s? - Stop it.
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.
- You are drawing Shin-Chan. - Shin-Chan.
- Shin-Chan, Shin-Chan. - Classic Shin-Chan.
My boy Shin-Chan.
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 laughy and giggly, he loves destruction.
- Okay, so he's chaotic evil. - He's chaot--
He's not evil, he's chaotic/neutral.
- Give me 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.
Two more things, '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?
- Yup, it's gonna break your brain.
- 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 psychonaut,
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 this character.
- Okay, well first of all, just so you know,
he's like two heads tall.
- So he's a very small person.
- Yeah, you squat.
It's a child and his head is like, oh man,
it's kind of like a "B".
I'm sure somebody, there's hardcore Shin-Chan fans out there
screaming, "His head's the classic 'B' shape,"
or something, whatever they think.
- A "B"? - Oh, you know,
it's that bean Cartoon Network character head
that Clarence and everybody has.
- Oh, I know what you're taking 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, carebear-y, really cute,
kind of like Pokemon, anime-ish.
- A Spawn is if Venom and Superman
went to a goth party.
- This is getting more confusing for me
'cause I'm imagining a buff goth kid.
- I mean, if you wanna go into a story he is 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?
- Yup, he used to be a mercenary, killed people for money,
and so he went to Hell and he made a deal with The Devil
because he wanted to see his wife one more time.
The Devil being The Devil gave him demonic superpowers,
put him back on the Earth, but then wiped his memory,
so he didn't know who his wife was.
- Oh, so that sucks.
- So here's Garbodor for you.
He's an amorphous blob Pokemon.
- 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 bust open from the bottom,
like it got too fat with stuff.
And so now the top of his mound
is a bag that's been split open.
- So he's like a pyramid shape?
- Blobby pyramid.
- What is Sparkle Sparkle Pera Pera woohoo?
Whatever it is.
- So PeroPero Sparkles,
it's made by this indie artist in Japan
and it's used for lot of fashion and comics, merchandise,
it's just kind of like a mascot character sort of thing.
- I feel like it's one of those things
that I've seen a dozen times
but I've never actually put a face or name to.
Is it like in the Sanrio
realm of character? - 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 but like--
- 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.
(Kevin 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 an aviator helmet with some goggles.
- I remember that, okay. - Okay.
I mean his basic outfit is a sweater, a jacket, and pants.
He has gloves too.
Does this character wear anything, or is she just--
- Nope, naked. - Okay.
- 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 really thin wrists.
Same thing with the legs, they just taper to 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 boots?
- Oh, you know what?
One of his legs is a peg leg.
- Okay, peg leg it is.
Is that one of his missing limbs?
- The one of his missing legs 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 on 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 wheelhouse?
- Definitely.
We've got Fozzie Bear on that show, Baby Fozzie,
and he's super, there's anime, chibi proportions.
Same with all the other characters.
They're all very 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 kind of coming out of 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 boggs--
- They're kind of loopy. - Does he have Bohanna hands?
Or Bowie hands? - It's Bowie.
Boggs is an account, The Land of Boggs,
that I work on at Buzzfeed.
- One of them has these great arms 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, actually we use Cintiq at work and then I have
a Cintiq at home that I freelance animation on.
So I've been using Wacom since I was maybe 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 a Intuos or something.
And as soon as I went onto Cintiq,
I was like I can't ever go back. (laughs)
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, are you ready?
- I'm ready.
- Spikes. - Spikes?
- Mm-hmm. - 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.
- Oh, boy.
- They're just gonna
be there now. - And the thing about drawing
digitally is there's no way to erase.
- No, there's no way.
I've never-- - There's 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.
Now I think it's coming to me.
- So if you ever get amnesia and we need to revive
your 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,
oh no! - (laughs) A poof tail.
- Oh, you know what, he has very, very stubby feet
at the bottom that are just made of the garbage.
They're like that purple-- - So he'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!
- Aw, he's so filthy. - I know.
- He probably looks like a gentleman.
- Yeah.
- How 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.
- The 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 a 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 this is what I snapped to
so, I think it's as close as I could get it without seeing.
(fast orchestral music)
- Oh, no, you kind of did it.
You did!
Oh my gosh.
- He's passable Shin fan art.
- The disgusting blob Pokemon.
It turns out he can be described effectively.
- Huh? - Okay.
(both laugh)
This is not Spawn, but I can see how you got here
from my description.
- This looks like Aquaman cosplaying Junkrat.
Why'd you give him an earring?
- 'Cause he's like a crazy guy.
- Are crazy dudes
wearing earrings? He's like, - Yeah, he's got earrings.
- "Ah, I'm so wacky, oh, whoa, watch this.
"whoa!" - Yeah.
- Ooh! - Oh, I love him!
- Yours is so cute. - Thank you.
- No, you definitely channeled it.
- Really? - Yeah.
- That's good to hear. - This is ridiculously cute.
Like, I love him. - Yours is very cute.
You definitely made him a much more optimistic character
than anything he does look. - Is he a sad boy?
- He's just a kind of angsty boy, you know,
he's a bit aggressive.
- Okay, let's switch back. - Okay.
(fast orchestral music)
- Oh.
(both laugh)
You didn't mention the 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.
This is just confusing looking.
- You know, I did well, Jackie.
- Yeah, okay. - No, I did.
I did. - You did, okay, Kevin.
You got much closer than I did.
It looks, you know, 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 some stuff right.
The hair, I just made that up,
I'm amazed that I kinda got the color.
He has a striped shirt, which I sort of predicted.
(Stephanie laughs)
Mine is definitely baby version.
- I feel like my version is 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 and he--
- "Aw, 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!"
- 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 shorthhand that we can draw on.
I think referencing other characters is very important.
- It was kind of cool to interpret what I was told
and not just try to fill in the blanks yourself.
There was a nice creative flow that came from that.
- This was really fun.
I really like doing it.
- So the fact that I got closer than I thought that I did,
I will say 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, if you want to enter for a chance
to win this Wacom Intuos S tablet, all you have to do
is go to Buzzfeed Comics' Instagram,
that's @Comics on Instagram, find this post,
and follow the instructions in the description.
Best of luck to you.
- Can I get some pogs in the comment for this giveaway?
Pigs. - Is it from "Star Wars"?
- From "Star Wars".
Yup, completely. - I don't know.
- Hi, I'm Cody. - Hi, I'm Hae-Joon.
- Today, we're gonna be drawing--
- Whatever the internet wants us to.
- Yeah, and I'll add horns and appendages to all of it.
- I'm scared.
(fast orchestral music)
- This is a replay of a livestream,
so if you hear a disembodied phantom voice,
it's our moderator.
- Matt is our ghost moderator.
- He floats and it's very impressive.
- [Matt] Let's start with a UFO piloted by a cow.
- I'm guessing people are still
feeling the storming Area 51 memes.
- [Matt] Stella James suggests a young child
who is rocking a dragon costume.
- That's nice. - Young child.
- [Matt] I like one suggestion that was just,
Pizza Man, Pizza Man.
- I think we gotta do Pizza Man.
What else are we gonna do?
- I'm feeling the dragon kid, though.
- [Matt] Ooh, I would personally like to see
a cat doing pottery. - Okay.
- You wanna do that? - And it's for a unicorn
playing the piano.
- Unicorn!
I wanna draw a unicorn, let's do unicorn.
- What about a cat doing pottery with a unicorn.
Like in that scene
from "Ghost". - Like "Ghost"!
- Yeah. (laughs) - That's what I'm trying to
think, like "Ghost", just like--
"Ooh!" - Oh, yeah, that's it.
Shout out to Louise Kiwi for the Pizza Man suggestion.
- Shout out to Louise.
- What is your plan for Pizza Man, Brent?
- Jason, all will be revealed.
(Jason laughs) No, I'm kidding.
- It's been a while since you've been on "Draw Off", Nick.
- It has been a while. - How does it feel?
- It feels like I never left.
- [Matt] I just wanna give a quick shout-out to Crazy Doc.
Thank you for the suggestion of the cat doing pottery.
- Unicorns and cats are very popular.
- I mean, why not, you know?
- I forgot what cows look like,
so I'm gonna draw a "Far Side" cow.
If anybody knows that comic reference, kudos to you.
- But, I have a 19-month-old little child and he is awesome.
Maybe I'll buy him a dragon costume,
maybe I'll make him a dragon costume.
- [Matt] We already have our first edition.
The cow is joined by Peppa Pig.
- Is that a specific pig?
- It's a beloved children's pig.
- [Crew Member] Guys, since Peppa Pig is copyrighted,
we can't do it. - We can't do it?
- Okay. - So, should we do Salt Pig?
- Mustard Pig. - Oh yeah, okay.
We're drawing Mustard Pig.
- Unicorn's gotta be majestic.
And by majestic, I mean--
(laughs) I don't know how to draw a horse.
I'm just kind of roughing out rough placement.
Helps me to kind of see what's sort of,
'cause in my head right now,
it's like I sort of have a fuzzy idea
of what I wanna draw, it's not really clear enough.
Some people, they are just like boom,
they know exactly what they wanna draw,
and they're just like (buzzes).
But for me, it's sort of like an exploration.
- Honestly, that's it forever,
even when you become a professional artist,
you're always just gonna be like,
"I have no idea what I'm doing."
- Yeah, pretty much. - You never will.
- Hae-Joon, did you grow up wanting to be an animator?
- I did, actually.
Somewhere in my parents' apartment in Korea
are dusty old Post-It Notes full of animator stick-figures
doing violent things because that's apparently
what you animate when you first animate things.
- [Matt] The overall consensus in the chat,
not to give anything away for Jason, is the Pizza Man's legs
are making them feel some type of way.
(both laugh)
- Pizza Man is available for bachelorette parties.
(Jason laughs)
You can book now.
- Oh my God, I gotta give this a beautiful mane of hair.
I love that my unicorn looks more like a cow,
I think, I don't even know. - That's so cute!
I love chubby unicorns. - He needs ears,
he needs ears.
- [Matt] Quick suggestion, take it or leave it, Maria D.,
- Maria D. - has been trying
to get a mullet on everything today and thinks that
Pizza Man might be-- - Pizza Man's
gonna have a mullet.
Okay, you've got your mullet.
Here we go, 'cause that's what we do
here at "Draw-Off Live", we make dreams come true.
You know, I've gotta say, I don't think I've drawn a mullet
just about ever, but we're gonna make this happen.
It's gonna be a cheesy, cheese mullet.
- Do we have anything else on the cow?
I need to know more about this.
Is he happy driving it?
Is he being held hostage by the pig?
Is the cow taking the pig to the hospital
and the pig's bleeding out from a laser wound?
- Could you come up with a backstory
for my little unicorn I'm drawing?
If that's okay.
- You guys, you've birthed this creature.
I need to know where he comes from.
- [Matt] BBGR suggests that she just broke up with her
boyfriend and is writing a song about it, obviously.
- (laughs) She's pretty happy about it.
- [Matt] I've got a good suggestion from Jason Brown.
The cow has graduated top of his class at MIT.
- So this is the cow's thesis.
- (laughs) Very specific.
- [Matt] Pastel World says Pizza Man was an Olympic
ice skater who turned into a crime-fighting mullet-rocking
vigilante, who destroys enemies with pepperoni,
with a pepperoni Frisbee of destruction.
- I like the idea that he peels off pepperonis
from his body and throws them at his enemies.
- [Matt] Mac Ade suggest that the pig
is the significant other.
- I'm ruminating on this new relationship.
- [Matt] I just wanna shout-out, a lot of these backstories
for the unicorn are so well thought-out
and touching, if I read them I might cry.
- Oh my God. - Aw!
- [Matt] So, Langwar is very insistent on a pink cow.
- A pink cow. - I can make that happen.
- We can make those dreams come true.
- [Matt] I have a question from Marsha.
- Marsha, what's your question?
How do you draw human body parts so well?
- Oh, wow. - Aw, well thanks.
Just hitting your head against the wall for a decade,
I'd say, just trying every freakin' day
to draw feet
and being really bad at it for most of the time.
And then you know, one day you'll wake up
and you'll be like, "Oh, I get it, I get how feet work."
(Jason laughs)
- Drawing things really fast, I've realized, helps.
'Cause you learn to get the way things flow.
- I think this is probably post-graduation celebration.
They are going to party. - They're drunk farm animals.
- I like to think that maybe this cow
is the designated driver.
- And the pig is drunk on mustard?
- When you're laughing at your own drawing,
that's usually good, I think.
Oh my God, I've gotta get to color, though.
I wanna put so much pink on this.
- No, don't make everything pink.
That's not how, that's not how this works.
- That's how it works for me.
- Actually, no.
Pizza Man needs beautiful eyes.
- [Matt] Jessica Jones says,
"I've really been staring at Pizza Man's legs
"for 17 minutes."
(Jason laughs)
- Here, I'll help you out with that, there you go.
Yeah.
- This is about to be real messy, y'all.
This-- - Gotta get some good
legs shots in here.
There we go.
- Hae-Joon, how you feeling about your party animals?
- I'm looking at the colors right now.
It feels like it belongs in the "Rugrats".
- [Matt] Bland Cheese says,
"I wanna see some grease on Pizza Man."
- He's actually, he's sort of done getting greased
and now there's just a pool of grease underneath him
where he's been dripping all day.
- Oh my God, I'm so ashamed in myself.
I drew a drawing recently
and I drew a character's hand backwards. (laughs)
- That's like-- - I'm so dumb.
- People do that all the time, it's okay.
'Cause you get into a drawing and you forget
and you're just like, "Oh, this drawing!"
and then you're like, "Oh, everything about this is wrong."
If I took this drawing and flipped it,
which is by the way, a great thing you can do
when you're drawing is you draw and then flip the drawing,
like if I took this and reversed it,
I probably would be like, "I see all sorts of problems."
- I'm really excited for what you're drawing.
I think I'm the one who
drew something unsatisfying. - This is very strange,
I gotta say, I took this a little far.
(both laugh)
- [Matt] Yeah, you guys are kind of
drawing each other's styles.
- Yeah, we kind of switched places here.
- Yeah.
- What a strange turn of events.
- I've gotta do an other worldly unicorn glow,
'cause unicorn's sort of a ghost, ooh!
(Kyra laughs)
- Unicorns are ghosts? - Unicorn ghost!
- What are you talking about?
It's over,
put your pen down. - Okay, I'm done!
- All right, Pizza Man is done.
This is as gross as he's ever gonna look.
- I could keep going, definitely,
but I think I can stop here as well.
- So, how do you think you did, Cody?
- If I saw this out of context on my Instagram feed,
I wouldn't know what to make of it,
and I would just keep scrolling, I think.
- I also feel those sentiments.
- I drew, now looking at it, what look's like a
cow-horse-unicorn holding a pot with a cat.
I like it!
It's weird.
(fast orchestral music)
- Oh, cute! (Jason laughs)
Oh my God, this is really good.
This is so wholesome.
- Wow. - I love it.
- Yours is amazing! - O-M-G, yours is adorable.
- Thank you! - Kyra is so good
at drawing cute stuff. (groans)
- I like the storytelling involved
with this graduated/married thing.
- He looks like he's really about this job,
he's just like, "Yo, I'm 'bout to do a performance."
- Don't get in the splash zone.
- Yeah. (laughs)
- I really love that Mustard Pig is just a regular pig
but mustard-colored. - Mustard. (laughs)
I love this embrace that your characters are in.
There's probable tension and you hope
that the cow will land the UFO safely.
- You got the majestic feeling - Thank you.
of a unicorn. - But you did too!
Yours is so good, it's hilarious.
- (laughs) We definitely switched places this episode.
- Oh, man, I know.
This is character development, Jason.
- Drawing with the internet suggests is really fun
and I wanna do it more.
- I like this because I don't have to stick to
a character design that I'm trying to remember,
which is the normal format of the show.
- Thanks for sassy farm animals,
thank you. - Yes, thank you very much.
- See everyone, drawing's awesome.
Just, don't stop drawing, okay.
- Hey, I'm Jackie. - Hey, I'm Kevin.
- And today we're gonna be drawing...
- Whatever the internet tells us.
So this is a replay of a previously recorded livestream.
The chat on the livestream will be telling us what to draw
as embodied by the voice of our producer, Matt.
- Matt.
- [Matt] We're gonna start throwing suggestions at you.
- Okay? - Okay!
- If something grav--
If you gravitate towards something...
- If something graveth thy attention.
- Draweth it. - Draweth it at "Draw Off"!
- All right. - I should be a town crier.
- You should.
- [Matt] Lexibora, don't know how to pronounce it,
dinosaurs in burlesque outfits, cat on a board
skateboarding on an alligator, not sure how that one works.
- Okay. - Are we doing one?
- We got a teenager learning to use
an element of your choosing.
- This is just "Avatar".
That's the log line of "Avatar: The Last Airbender"
that they brought in.
- [Matt] Jackie as a cat.
- You take that back whoever said that.
- [Matt] Jackie as a squirrel!
- You take that back!
- [Matt] We've got a reverse centaur.
- A reverse centaur? - Ew!
- So like horse top
and person bottom. - And human body.
- [Matt] A Cthulhu working
his summer job. - That's cute.
- Cthulhu working his summer job?
- I'm gonna look up what Cthulhu looks like.
- You're gonna do that?
- Yeah, I-- - I think you could do that
really cute.
- Cthulhu's kinda scary.
I'm gonna draw this,
I'm gonna draw Cthulhu... - You're gonna draw Cthulhu--
- Cthulhu at his summer job. - Cthulhu working
a summer job, okay.
- What job should Cthulhu have?
I was thinking just a simple cashier.
- [Matt] Oh, Kevin as a squirrel!
- Kevin as a squirrel.
Now that's a suggestion I can get behind.
- All right, I'll do me as a squirrel.
- [Matt] Ooh, a little shade in the chat.
Barbara V. says, "Kevin will do him anyways."
- Oh, wow, Barbara. - Ooh, Barbara.
- Wait a minute, Barbara V., that's my mom.
Mom?
- Is that really your mom? - That's my mom!
Mom, what the hell?
I guarantee you Barbara V. is my mom.
- I love Kevin's mom.
(fast orchestral music)
- [Matt] I got a lot more job suggestions if you need one.
You think you got it?
- Give it to me,
I'm just gonna- - We got lifeguard,
we got swim instructor, we got ice cream parlor.
- Don't ice cream parlor people come with little hats?
- Yup. - Ooh, if you look up
ice cream parlor outfit, you just get a lot of
uncomfortably sexy Halloween costumes.
- Jackie, what do you know about Cthulhu?
- Octopus, baby. - He's an octopus, baby?
- Yeah, octopus, baby!
- Ay! - Ay, I'm walking here.
- Ay, I'm an octopus here. - Ay, hot dog,
get your hot dogs.
(both laugh)
- Matt, are there any questions in the chat for us?
- Ask me a question.
I probably won't answer it, but maybe I will.
- [Matt] Black Sheep Ink suggests,
"What are your guys favorite cartoons?"
- You go first, I have to think about it.
- My current favorite cartoon is "Bob's Burgers".
- "Bob's Burgers" is amazing. - Yes,
but I would say that my favorite cartoon
of all time would probably be "Freakazoid".
Do you remember "Freakazoid"?
- I mean, I know... - From the 90s?
- I know "Freakazoid" but, - You know him?
- I do know Freakazoid, yes! - Personally?
- Yes, I went to high school
with that guy. - Get out!
- Yeah!
- Is he cool?
- No.
- That's a bummer. - That's a bummer,
you know, don't meet your heroes.
- What's your favorite cartoon?
- I don't know if this one's my favorite,
but I think when I was a kid, the most I've ever watched
of a cartoon was probably "Powerpuff Girls".
- I was gonna guess it was some type of anime,
like "Sailor Moon"
or "Naruto". - Oh, I guess if,
oh, if we're talking anime as well,
it was "Sailor Moon". - "Sailor Moon" over "Naruto"?
- Yeah, 'cause "Naruto" came kind of later.
- [Matt] Tiny Timelord asks,
"If you were a superhero, what would your superpower be?
- Wow. - Okay,
what would be your superpower?
- Yours would be being a squirrel.
- Apparently.
- What do you think I would have, Kevin?
- Ooh, are we gonna do it for each other?
- Let's do it for each other.
I think it would get more interesting results.
Otherwise, I'm gonna say something stupid, like,
"I was I could teleport so I don't have to walk anymore."
- Well, actually, that was kind of what
I was gonna say for you.
- Next question.
- How do you feel about super speed?
- That's pretty cool.
I think I would love to just flex on people
for being really fast.
- So that's what I would choose for you.
What would you choose for me?
- Mayhaps the power to change someone's mind.
- Like "Inception"?
- No, just like a yes or no decision.
Like, do you want to go get ice cream?
- Wait, wait, let's try it out.
Do you want to go get ice cream?
- Yes.
(dramatic evil music)
I don't even like ice cream.
- You don't like ice cream?
- No.
(Kevin groans)
Yeah, I hate all things that are fun.
- How's your drawing coming?
- It's going pretty good, I'm lining.
Having a good time.
- I'm lining as well.
- [Matt] I got a great question from Ruby Artwork.
- Love you, Ruby Artwork.
- [Matt] How do you color faster?
Are there any tips and tricks that you have to color
a drawing faster?
- I'll take this one.
One thing that I've started to do here on "Draw Off",
learning from Jackie, is to simply duplicate my line art
layer and use the paint bucket tool in order to fill it in.
Now, in my world of print media, that is not a good way
to do it because you want to do what's called trapping,
and I'm not gonna bore you with what trapping is,
but for screen art, it's perfectly acceptable
and it's a much quicker way to color.
- Asamijuzowa-- - Love you, Asami.
- [Matt] asks if you could've contributed to any cartoon
or anime, I'm assuming in history, what would it be?
- That's pretty good. - Wow,
that is a great question.
- "Spirited Away".
I wish I made that single-handedly.
- Just by yourself? - By myself.
I wish I worked on it,
but I definitely was born the year it came out.
- I'm gonna go with "Freakazoid" again.
- "Freakazoid"? - Yeah, I just--
- You love that guy! - It really informed
my sense of humor.
- What color is Cthulhu?
What does the chat think?
What color should Cthulhu be?
- [Matt] I'll tell you in a minute.
- What flavor of ice cream should this be?
- Ooh, yeah, very important.
(both oohing)
- And should it have toppings?
If so, what kind? - I mean, sprinkles.
Rainbow sprinkles. - I mean, he's like a
horrifying demon, what if he wants blood on it.
- No, rainbow sprinkles.
- I mean, blood just hits the spot
in a different kind of way.
- [Matt] Hot pink seems to be on the top of the list.
And mint chocolate chip is the most popular flavor here.
- Hmm, you guys are weird.
- Jackie, do you like drawing live on the internet?
- It has no positive or negative effects.
- You are completely neutral about it, huh?
- There's just no emotion attached.
- There's no emotions attached
to a lot of things you do, huh?
- Yeah, I think so.
- Are you dead inside, Jackie?
- A little bit. - Aw.
- If you look into my eyes, if you look closely,
if you,
if you look...
Took off my shoes. - Oh, geez, okay.
- If you look closely into my eyes,
you can see that there's no more happiness or joy.
Only suffering.
- Okay, Jackie, you're making the internet
feel really uncomfortable.
- (whispers) Hello.
- [Matt] I love this question from Andrew Blacet.
- Andrew Blacet, hit us with it.
- [Matt] Who was your first cartoon crush?
- Ooh. - Oh my God!
- Jackie, who was your first
cartoon crush? - Yugi from "Yu-Gi-Oh"!
- Seriously? - Yes.
- Oh boy. - Not Yugi,
but when Yugi becomes cool
because he's using the pyramid whatever.
I don't really remember the details,
but I was like, "Wow! What a guy, that Yugi!"
I also, sorry everybody, I really liked Gary from "Pokemon".
Gary is like Ash's enemy. - Who's Gary?
Oh, really? - Yeah.
- Oh, you liked the bad boys.
- Yeah, I liked the bad ones.
But Yugi's not bad, he's a good guy.
- Yeah? - Yeah, but he's cool
like a bad guy. - Nice.
I'm gonna give a really lame answer
and a very white boy answer.
- Jessica Rabbit. - Yup.
- Oh, God.
I hate this. - I'm sorry.
I am done. - I am also done,
I have finished.
- How you think you did?
- I think I did wonderfully.
- Do you think you did the internet proud?
- Do you guys like my drawing?
- [Matt] A lot of no's. (laughs)
I'm just kidding.
- My career is over.
YouTube said I can't draw.
- [Matt] That was just a joke.
- Oh, see, Matt hesitated. - Oh, boy.
- Matt doesn't like my drawing.
- [Matt] I think it's great.
- He says with no emotion
or positivity. - I do!
- How do you think you did, Kevin?
- Well it definitely looks like me as a squirrel.
You know what, Jackie, they say draw what you know
and I know me. - And you know you.
- And I know squirrels. - And you know squirrels.
- I don't know squirrels. - I actually have not seen
many squirrels in California.
- I had to pull up a reference for squirrels because I don't
know what squirrels look like off the top of my head.
- That is really, really funny.
Why?
- Draw a squirrel from memory right now.
You've got 30 seconds.
- Okay, drawing a squirrel now.
(muttering)
Acorn.
(muttering)
Done! - Okay.
Well, we'll see.
- Yeah, we'll see, I put a--
He's the one getting the ice cream.
(fast orchestral music)
- Ah! - Ah!
- Ah!
- Wait, what is that noise?
- (groaning) I'm uncomfortable.
It's good, it's just scary.
- I like making you uncomfortable with my drawings.
Yours is adorable, - Thanks.
it's, you know what, when the internet suggested it,
I had a mental image in my head and this is pretty much
what I saw.
- I drew the squirrel, do you like the squirrel?
- Yeah, your squirrel is better than mine
and you did it in 30 seconds, congratulations.
Is that what you wanna hear?
- Yeah, I just wanted to hear that I'm better than you
in every way and that I am a perfect
and flawless human being and I can draw literally anything
and everything without looking up reference.
- Was this fun?
Would you have done this again?
- Oh yeah, that was really fun, let's do that again.
I liked a lot of the suggestions but the fact
that I could only pick one made me picky.
- We'll have to do it again, right?
- Yeah if you guys want more livestreams,
let's just some "Ah's" in the chat.
Everyone just start screaming.
- Let's get some screams
in the chat. - Can we get some screams?
Can we get some blood-curdling screams
like murderous screams in the chat like you are dying
of murder in the chat, in the chat please?
- Why you always gotta make it weird at the end?
- Hey, I'm Kyra. - Hey, I'm Stephanie.
- I'm Brent. - My name is Jason.
- What are we doing today?
I have no idea.
- Well, today we are doing something that you
in the comments have been asking for for a while--
- End the show?
- Today, we are going to be drawing each other.
(gasps)
- Wow!
- I was wondering
if this would happen. - Oh my gosh.
- Oh! (laughs) - No!
(fast orchestral music)
- All right, Kevin. - All right, Jackie.
Should I draw you cute or should I draw you old?
- You draw me however you want to draw me, okay?
- How should I draw you?
- Draw me in your style.
- My style is just me.
- Okay, draw me in your style but improve upon it
so it doesn't look like you. - So it doesn't look like me.
That's a tall order, Jackie, but I will try my best.
- What does Brent look like? - Oh, Jason.
What does Jason look like?
- I think I'm just gonna draw you looking down
'cause that's how I remember you from working on this show.
- You've got a big smile.
Actually, you've got more features that I do, I feel like.
- Have you done caricatures or portraits before?
- I always have a hard time with it 'cause people are like,
"Make me look real, don't be afraid to make me look ugly."
And I'm like "Stop, what if you get upset,
"what if I don't do you justice."
- This is not-- - This is hard.
- This is hard. - Yeah.
- Yeah, I feel like I should go with the cute route.
I don't think I should try to draw you realistically.
- Yeah.
- Wait, smile, Jason.
(Jason laughs) There you go!
Yeah, that's the Jason smile I know.
- I think it's really hard to draw people that you know
because you don't wanna offend them, 'cause you're like,
even if you're like no, this actually looks good
or accurate, you're worried that they might be like,
"Is that really what you think I look like?" (laughs)
(sighs)
- I'm struggling.
Was this a bad idea? - It was a bad idea I think.
- Oh, boy. - But we've already committed.
- We're doin' it. - We can't stop.
- We're doin' it.
- Do you have chest hair?
- I do not.
- I think I need to see.
I think you need to take off your shirt.
- I need to take off my shirt?
- There's no other way I'm gonna know.
- This will feed into the other comments
that think we're in a relationship.
- What?
People think that? - I've seen... (laughs)
I've seen a few of them. - You know, I ship it.
- And I showed my wife, I'm like, "Look at this!"
and she's like, "Tell the comment section you are married."
- You are married, you are a married man.
- Kevin. - Jackie.
- Not a lot of hair.
- That was mean.
Why would you say that?
- You do, just not from the front.
I've seen you
in a bright light. - I know, look I know,
I know I have a huge forehead,
so have fun with it, - Is that why?
- have fun with it.
- I have a friend that recently got married
and I've been trying to draw a portrait of him and his wife
and I've got every, I've got the bodies figured out,
I've got everything figured out except for the faces.
I've just not been able to get the faces down at all.
- I know, I always just end up making people cartoons.
I'm just like, you're just, this is your new face.
- This is actually kind of in my nightmare
because-- - Okay.
- I am not good at likenesses.
Here's how bad at caricatures I am,
I actually have a site, Badcaricatures.com,
where people can go and pay me five dollars
to draw a terrible caricature of them, I will send them
the terrible caricature and a written apology.
- You know what, Kevin, there's nothing wrong with that.
You know what you're good at.
- I know what I'm not good at, which is caricatures.
- Did you have that middle school sketch book
that's just full of beautifully rendered eyes?
- (laughs) I did a lot of hands when I was a kid.
I did a lot of epic poses with people with fists.
You know what I mean?
- But that's a fun way to learn figure drawing,
is to do comic characters.
- Yeah, so I drew, this funny
'cause my friends would be like,
"Jason can draw anything with muscles."
So... - Two boys
and their muscle drawings.
- Yeah, so everyone would be ripped.
- The big tip that kind of changed the way that I drew
as a kid
was draw what you see,
don't rely on symbols
and your assumption of what something looks like.
Actually take time to look at your subject,
at the face, at the features.
Process them as if you've never seen it before.
- I'm gonna draw you holding a pen
'cause it will signal that you are an artist
and this is a portrait of an artist.
- The whole thing that I've always heard
is learn the fundamentals before you break them.
Because I feel like, yeah a lot of people are like,
"Oh, well you're just drawing super cartoony
"so you could probably just not need to learn
"how to draw realistically."
- It's like, no, you should because even within
the most simple cartoons, there's intelligent
decision-making and correct anatomy and proportions.
You know, even if it looks really obscure, it's still
you can tell that the person who drew it knows how to draw.
(Kevin laughs)
- We just look up at each other
and we're just looking at each other.
- We're like, what are you? - We're just like,
what do you look like? - What do you look like?
- What do you look like? - I look at you every time
we do this and I still don't know.
- What do you look like, Jackie?
- If you had to assign a celebrity to me,
what celebrity would I be?
I always struggle with this.
- What's the guy from "500 Days of Summer"?
Joseph Gordon-Levitt. - Joseph Gordon-Levitt?
- I assign him. - He's got kind of
a very specific face, I feel like.
- What celebrity would you assign me?
- Idris Elba. - Idris Elba, ooh!
Wow, dang it! - No, I'm just kidding.
- Don't take it back! - Don't take it back. (laughs)
- I wanted that!
- No. - What?
- What am I doing to you?
You look so weird.
I'm gonna draw your head a little more bulbous.
- Yeah, I do have a bolbous head.
- He's got a lot of veins.
- I do have a lot of veins.
- (sighs) Sorry, this is just, doesn't look like you.
- This doesn't look like you either.
What do we do?
- We continue.
- We keep going.
- You know what this is probably gonna lead to?
- What? - A lot of messages
in my inbox being like, "Hey, can you draw me for free?"
- Oh, no! (Stephanie laughs)
- Do you do a lot of caricature?
- So, I've been practicing by drawing friends on my Insta
here and there and it's been really good for capturing
the essence of somebody. - Of somebody?
- And that's been really awesome to work on.
- I'm drawing you like a Bratz doll.
This is not good.
- Okay, I'm gonna keep this drawing on the side
so you can see what I started with.
But I'm going to go back, I'm gonna go cute.
- I'm gonna try again and I think I'm gonna go full chibi.
- Full chibi? - Yeah, which again
is not my style,
but I think I may be able to do something more.
- I kind of made you sort of look like Belle
from "Beauty and the Beast".
- Ooh!
I do like that.
- You have weird eyebrows.
- Thanks, Jackie.
- Not weird like physically, just weird to draw,
They're an interesting shape, if you will.
You know what they call your eyes, Kevin?
- What? - Deep-set.
- Really?
I've been told they bug out. - Deep-set.
- (laughs) That is not a thing.
- I don't wanna toot my own horn,
I think I might've nailed you.
I think I got it. - Oh, okay.
- If you're 95% smile, I think you're pretty much there
drawing Jason.
- I think I nailed you as male model Brent.
- Whoa, wait, so just normal Brent?
So that makes sense. - Normal, yeah,
I just drew you as your normal self.
- Thanks for clarifying.
- How you doin', Jackie?
- I mean, I'm done, - I know you are.
- but I'm trying to make this other one
I made of you even scarier.
- How do you think you did?
- I think I made you look cute.
- Oh, good! - Like you're still really,
yeah, you're like a Disney character honestly.
- Oh, I'm so excited to see it.
- It's very cute.
How about with me?
- I really enjoyed doing this,
I haven't done a portrait in this style in a while
and it's really nice,
it's kind of like the anime that's trying to be realistic.
Like "Whisper of the Heart" kind of style.
- You seem stressed, Kevin, you seem stressed.
- This was a lot harder than I thought it was gonna be.
- Yeah, you came in thinking
it was gonna be easy peasy lemon squeezy.
When it was actually harty warty Kevin farty.
- Right, well, can I be real for a second?
It's because I respect you as an artist
and I don't want to disappoint you.
- I'm gonna cry. - Stop it.
- I mean from disappointment. (Kevin groans)
Got him! - You got me.
- He thought I was mushy. - You got me.
(fast orchestral music)
(gasps) - Oh my God!
That's so cute!
- You made me so cute. (laughs)
(gasps) - Wow!
- Wow!
You really got it.
- Wow, this is me, I love this.
- Aw, thanks, man, I love this too.
- Aw!
Kevin!
This is really good.
- Stop it. - Kevin.
- You're just being nice. - Your anime
is getting great-ime.
- It's so cool, that's such a cool style.
- Thank you, I love your style too,
it's super expressive and-- - Thank you.
- This looks like TV father Jason.
- TV father Jason. (laughs) - Yeah, if I had a TV show
and I was the dad everyone loves.
- These are great, I am flattered by both of them.
I will say the one of the left, though,
is frightening as hell.
- It's scary, right? - It's very scary. (laughs)
- I'm very sorry.
- This is a really smart exercise, I feel like.
Especially if you can't do life drawing classes or anything,
you can just grab your friend and be like,
"Sit down, I'm gonna draw you."
- Yeah or have a fun drawing session like this,
I love when you can just invite people over
and everybody can just do art together.
- I think this looks like me.
- You did a good job, Kevin. - Thank you.
- I love it, and you know what?
Get rid of your website,
'cause you have drawn a good caricature.
- Thanks, friend.
- I wanna give you a hug. - Oh, thank you.
Let's take the hug? - Let's hug it out.
- Let's hug it out. - No, just come here.
- Thank you, man. - Come here, man.
- Thank you.
- I love you, man.
(fast violin music)