If you really think about it, Bob Ross and I are very similar.
We’re both known mostly for our voices, we both make videos about us painting, though
while his is The Joy of Painting, mine is moreso The Existential Dread and Never-Ending
Downard Spiral . . . of painting; and the most striking similarity is that we’re both
extremely humble.
Like, the fact that I have any humility at all when I'm this iconic, impresses . . . even
me.
There are other similarities as well.
Bob Ross died from cancer; I’ve been told that I am cancer.
Bob Ross cures people’s depression, I’ve been told that I ha--
--we’re just two peas in a pod.
Two paint swatches in a palette.
He’s Van Dyke Brown, and I'm Titanium White.
Vice versa.
But you know what, if you somehow fail to see all of those similarities, there is one
which I fear you simply cannot disagree with.
We have the hair.
Greetings parasocial parish.
Rejoice, for today father is blessing you with original content.
Following a Bob Ross tutorial for a YouTube video is my original idea that I came up with.
If you search right now “following a bob ross tutorial”, nothing comes up, which
I think says a lot about people’s creativity here on this platform, but . . . that’s
none of my business.
And just so we’re clear, while I do have an appreciation for Bob Ross, I remember watching
him as far back as age four and thinking one day maybe I could paint like that, I’m making
this video for the views.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the Joy Painting, it’s just that I also love the Joy of Paying
. . . my bills.
Speaking of which, that brings me to today’s sponsor.
Alright, so we have all the necessary ingredients.
It’s um, it’s just about two o’clock in the morning.
I have Bob Ross pulled up right here, wehre you can’t see, so I’m not sure why I--
*AC turns on* Can you hear the AC?
Okay, cool, the AC turned off.
I really hope I’m still in position in the camera, because if I’m not, uh I’m not
fixing it.
Let me show you what I got going up here.
Have my standard old pre-stretched canvas up here.
Alright so pre-stretched canvas.
Honestly the only thing I really stretch in Photoshop is my patience, so I would say my
canvas is pretty much fine the way it is right now.
And I’ve taken a foam brush and a little bit of black gesso, and I've just painted
the bottom of this canvas basically.
Okay so he literally used black, quite a bold way of starting off a painting.
I just realized, I don’t even know what brush I’m going to use for this.
Maybe I should just use the hard round brush.
Wouldn’t that be funny?
I followed a Bob Ross tutorial with the hard round brush.
Did I just figure out the clickbait of the entire video?
I think I did.
Alright, that’s what we’re going to do, we’re going to use the hard round brush.
Hard round-- Okay, you know what?
Hard round pressure opacity.
There we go.
That’s somewhat more acceptable.
But honestly not that much more.
What am I doing?
It’s going to look so unfinished since I’m using the hard round brush, so honestly I
might just cheat at the end and bring in a real brush.
Okay low-key, it kind of looks like his.
Like, his is Gucci, mine is Walmart.
And, then a put a mixture of Midnight Black, Phthalo Green and a little bit of Van Dyke
Brown just to dull it down a little bit.
And I’ve covered the entire black area with that.
But, none of this is showing up on the canvas because this is such an old recording, you
know?
The cameras couldn’t really show that.
SO I’m just going to do my best to approximate that, using the handy dandy power of the color
wheel.
So here’s some more green I guess, more brown, and some more blue.
Oh.
Wow, that actually did something.
Wait, low-key, that actually—Okay, if I say low-key one more time, I’m authorizing
you to break into my home and assault me.
Like, you have my permission.
Let’s start out today with a small, small amount of the Indian Yellow.
Alright, Indian Yellow.
Wait, that’s not yellow-- Wait wait wait wait wait--
Ooh that’s so ugly compared to his.
And without cleaning the brush, I’m going to add the least little touch, least little
touch of the bright red, not much.
Bright red, okay.
And we just blend that together.
Oh he’s blending it, okay wait-- Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait
wait-- Oh my goodness, his is so much nicer than
mine.
Very bright, shiny blue.
Woah, that’s a really bright blue.
Okay.
Ooh.
Wow, this actually looks so bad.
But at the same time, it kinda looks like his.
But I’m not saying his looks bad, I’m just saying.
Wow, hye’s blending blue and yellow.
He’s a lot more powerful than I am.
I’m going to show you a nice way to make a little, a little tiny mountain that’s
very simple.
Wait, I’m not ready for the mountain-- Very very simple.
Let’s start-- I am not ready.
Let’s use some Prussian Blue.
He’s moving faster than I can even process.
I haven’t even finished the first thing that he’s already done.
We’re going to put in the shape of a mountain here.
Woah.
That’s cool.
Wait, I can’t tell where on the canvas it is because the camera is zoomed in so far.
Just really, really try to push it right through the fabric.
Am I in the right spot on the canvas?
Leave it to me to get anxiety from a Bob Ross tutorial.
Yikes.
Okay, this is not working.
How is he doing this real-time?
I’m accomplishing nothing in the amount of time that he’s accomplishing the entire
painting.
Oh my goodness, this is not working for me.
This is so ugly.
Actually low-key it kind of looks like his.
Like I’m not really doing that bad of a job.
It will happen automatically.
Just with a tap up and down.
Well, Photoshop is not automatically creating trees for me, sooo--
So you have to make a decision, how much mist do you want in your world?
How much mist do I want in my world?
I think there’s enough.
I like paintings that have depth.
You like paintings that have depth?
Oh my goodness, I’m so glad you can’t see what I’m doing right now.
Wait, he has like, blue in here.
Where is he getting blue from?
Put the indication that you can make out a little green back here.
Green?
Wait, I haven’t even done the blue yet.
It doesn’t look as bad as I think it does honestly.
Wait, he’s adding green?
Wait, where did he get green from?
I lived in Alaska for about a dozen years.
Woah.
And I always believed that God was having a good day when he made Alaska.
God was having a good day when he made Alaska?
Was God having a good day when he made me?
Or was he just like, “hmm . . . I have all these leftover negative traits.
Where am I gonna put them?
Oh!”
The fact that he’s coming up with this composition without having sketched it beforehand, is
kind of insane.
I think Bob Ross is like, underrated.
When I picked it up it was really hot, so I think it overheated.
I love paying money for something that doesn’t do like, really basic tasks.
Is this how my employers feel?
It’s almost 3.
Okay, wait, yeah, I forgot what I was doing.
Hold up.
Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait--
God bless my friend.
I didn’t even get to-- Honestly, I didn’t do a bad job.
Like, this isn’t bad.
So what I’m going to do, because it’s very late, very late, I’m going to wrap
it up, and I’m going to finish painting it tomor—a different day.
And then, um, I’ll make sure I’ll record that.
So this is the final product.
I actually wound up doing the entire thing with the hard round brush as promised, and
I think I wound up spending two more hours on it.
If anything is clear, it’s that mine is a cheap imitation of someone who actually
has decades of experience with painting, but you know what, that’s just where I am right
now, so that’s just what I’m going to do.
Anyway, looks like I’ve gotten ten minutes of content out of this, so leave a like, tell
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Thank you for watching, and a big thank you to my 90,000 subscribers.
Okay bye.
Titanium White.