Alright, so, my camera’s running, my microphone’s on, and my screen recorder is working.
If either of those three stop working at any point during this recording, I’m--
I pretty much have no way of knowing, so . . .
So this is the “art" that we're going to be working with.
Upon first observation, my first thought is . . .
It's ugly.
But, I think it has really strong shape language.
The black across the bottom is really making a statement.
Um, what it's trying to say, I do not know.
It's saying something.
From just like far away like this, it looks like it's just red and black, two shades.
But if you zoom in, you can see there's all these various other shades.
So I think what I'm going to do is crop this thing really, really small.
Okay.
First I want to get rid of like, the grid that's on the screen . . .
Um . . .
Actually I don't remember how to do that, so, just kidding.
Basically what we're going to do--
This kind of looks like Minecraft.
Actually this looks exactly like Minecraft.
So what we're going to do is take this and turn it into a color table.
So I'm going to go to Image, Mode, Indexed Color, Exact.
And then, Threshold, and we're going to lower the number of colors--
Wait it's not threshold it's posterize--
We are going to lower the number of colors.
Let's stick with 10.
Alright, that's pretty cool.
Now, what we're going to do, is go to Image, Adjustments, no--
Edit . . .
No.
Image, Mode, Color Table.
Ooh!
There we go.
That's what I wanted.
This, right here.
This is actually really pretty.
We're going to save this as . . . "happy accident".
OK.
We'll just color the rest of this with um, one of these.
Okay, cool.
So, now from here, this is what we're going to do.
This is the swatches . . . um . . . panel.
And as you can see, I already have one loaded, I was using these blues and greens, but where
we're going to go is . . . uh . . .
This is literally why I don't make tutorials.
Load swatches.
That's right.
That's exactly what I meant to do.
We're going to go to--
Where did I even save this?
Oh okay, yeah.
I knew that.
Oh oops-- I should have replaced it, not loaded it.
Replace swatches.
Bam.
I don't know why there's like . . . a white-- I don't really think there was any white in
the original.
But yes, these are the colors that we're going to be working with for our illustration.
The funny thing is like, this whole top row, these top two rows, look like the same shade
of red to me.
A lot of these just look like the same color.
Is this like, five colors?
That's okay, I don't care.
So anyway, we've gotten that all taken care of so now it's time to start . . . art . . . ing.
I'm going to switch to a different brush.
This one's called uh, "current three", and then as you can see I have way more than three
brushes in here.
So, that makes sense.
So, we're going to do a new layer.
Why is nothing happening?
Okay,
There's something wrong with my new layer button.
Why can't I make a new layer?
What?
Literally-- why is new layer grayed out?
I've never seen this in my en--
Is it frozen?
There's no way it's frozen.
It's not frozen.
What is happening?
Ohhhhhh.
It's still in indexed color mode.
I knew that.
Um, Okay.
Alright, so new layer.
So we're going to ask ourselves like, what do we actually want to turn this into to.
When I look at these colors, like if you threw these in my face, and I was like, "why did
you just throw my own monitor at me", my second thought would be "sky", "fire", "volcano",
something burning, something dark, warm . . . um . . .
I'm an artist not an author.
I'm going to choose this brown right here.
Oooh, eehh, no we're not.
We are not going to choose that brown right there.
We're going to choose this brown right here.
Oh also, I forgot to mention, I'm giving myself two hours to do this, because I don't feel
like working on it anymore after that.
So I'm going to draw a volcano.
I need references.
You may be wondering why I'm talking so quietly.
Well you see, there's two reasons.
First of all, I wanted to give you a little bit of that ASMR experience.
You know, like with the quiet talking and like the--
And a little bit of a--
Right?
Some digital art ASMR that nobody asked for.
That's reason one.
Reason two is, everyone else in my house at the moment is asleep, and so if I talk any
louder, I'm actually going to be attacked.
Which I don't want?
As much as I do want to get attacked on camera for views, I just don't want that right this
second so . . . ASMR it is.
It's 11:41.
So yeah, it's almost midnight, and I was like, "this is a good time to start a drawing".
Okay cool.
I don't really need that many pictures of the same thing.
So, here are my reference images.
We got this one--
This one--
And then we got this one--
And then we have th--
Woah that's really small.
Okay.
Alright.
I just put some good music on.
You're not going to hear it though because it's copyrighted so, take my word for it.
Alright, the sky is going to be red, so just going to get some reds in there.
Okay, that's . . . better?
It's kind of messy for now, but that's okay.
You can make things less messy, but you can't-- well you can make them more messy too.
Okay, I like this.
This is taking shape.
Even if you can't see it, I can see it, so . . .
Now we have some darker tones.
You know what I think is going to help us?
If we open the original-- I don't know what I just did.
If we open the original one so we can kind of see what we're working off of here.
Okay, so here's this.
See!
It's clearly the same.
Same stuff going on.
But what this has shown me is that I'm going to need to be more aggressive with the black.
Ooh.
Okay, I'm going to have to be really careful with the lava honestly.
Hold on, look at this.
Yo.
Ooh, we could add like some bridges maybe.
Bridges doesn't make any sense I just realized because, why would we be building bridges
across volcanos unless we're like frequently traveling.
There's not enough brightness.
There's like an orange gradient that I'm missing.
But I kind of don't want to use the gradient tool.
Okay, going to add in some black.
Now, I think I am going to go and add clouds, just to kind of break up the sky a little
bit.
These clouds are not the right color though, I'll tell you that right now.
We've got the basic stuff down.
I think what's important now is to nail down these shapes a little.
I just realized, I haven't like, been saying anything this whole time.
Basically, I'm just going to add lava to this and then clean it up a little bit and I'll
be done.
Um, so I'll just come back after that's done.