Hey guys! I am back with a new video and this is going
to be a collaboration with LemiaCrescent or Lemi here on YouTube. She asked me to do a
collaboration with her and I was so shocked when she did because I have been subscribed
to her channel for a while now. I remember when she did Crayola artworks and she really
inspired me to try my hand at Crayola crayons, but it didn’t end so well for me, probably
because I wasn’t used to drawing at a large scale which you kind of have to do with crayons.
But oh well, I’ll have to try again in the future!
Anyway you guys should totally check her out if you haven’t already and subscribe because
her art is amazing and she works with so many art materials or different media I mean, crayons
being one of them. But my favourite has to be the Steadtler coloured pens that she used
for a lineart. That was fantastic, so seriously check her out. I will link her channel and
also her part of this collaboration in the description box below.
For the collaboration, we decided to do a sister piece inspired by the Cinderella movie,
literally drawing the step sisters Anastasia and Drizella. So we both did a lineart and
swapped them for the other to colour. That’s why this collaboration is separated into two
videos for both of us. There’s the lineart, then the colouring video.
For the lineart,
I chose to do Drizella. I don’t really know why, I mean I liked Anastasia better because
she had more of a comedic personality while I found Drizella to be more mature and serious.
But then again, maybe that’s why I chose Drizella, because I wanted to somehow get
to know her character, maybe end up sympathising with her character.
So, I’m just going to briefly explain the reason behind this drawing. Lemi and I both
wanted to do a piece that was somehow elegant with a touch of creepy. And I remember reading
these kind of like dark origins of different children TV shows like Winnie the Pooh or
the Rugrats and I wanted to find out if there were some about Cinderella. There wasn’t
much in terms of any underlying dark themes aside from one of the versions of the story
that had the step sisters cut of their toes to be able to fit into the glass slipper and
the only way the prince found out that none of them was the girl from the ball was because
someone had told him about the blood gushing out of the glass slipper. Pretty smart of
him for not noticing, right? Anyway, we were intrigued with that version
of the story and that’s when we both decided to incorporate that into each of our drawings
to kind of tie both pieces together as a sister piece.
Aside from that I wanted to also incorporate the idea of a string doll into this drawing
and add some interest to my drawing. I mean I was kind of thinking of how Drizella is
very similar to her mother Lady Tremaine which kind of suggests her mother’s control over
her actions and her thoughts. It reminds me of the scene where Lady Tremaine examines
Cinderella’s pink dress and says to Drizella something like “these beads go really well
with the dress, don’t you think so Drizella?” And Drizella just goes all crazy towards Cinderella.
It’s so manipulative and scary thinking about how a mother would have such power over
her daughter’s emotions. So I kind of wanted to put that in there and the best way I could
represent that idea was by making Drizella and Lucifer the cat into puppets with the
strings tied around their necks, her hands and feet.
And yeah, I was pretty happy with the way this turned out. I mean I was really just
expecting that I would just draw a portrait of her and that was it, but I love adding
dimension to these characters and also showing my interpretation of their characters.
So this is my part of the collaboration. Click the link in the description box to see Lemi’s
lineart video and on Friday, our colouring videos will be coming up so be sure to keep
a look out on how Lemi coloured my lineart and how I coloured Lemi’s lineart of Ananstasia
which was so awesome by the way. When I saw it, I was kind of like “oh crap, mine looks
completely naïve next to hers which has a much more developed style and has an amazing
composition”. I started to get worried that Lemi wouldn’t have much to work with, with
my lineart, but she did such a brilliant job. You guys should really check her part of the
collaboration. I was seriously impressed because she added so much more life to my very simple
composition. And hopefully I also did her artwork justice with my colouring. So stay
tuned for the next part of our collaboration.
And that’s about it for this video.
Once again, the link to Lemi’s video is in the description box. I hope you guys enjoyed it!
Please give this video a thumbs up if you liked it and subscribe if you haven’t already.
Thank you so much for watching and I will see you in my next one!