Not everyone has a million years to spend drawing everyday. I thought it
would be a fun challenge to sit down and see what I could draw in only one hour
(that's two [fingers]) one, one hour!
let's open my sketchbook and see what happens!!
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I've got
a stopwatch right here I'm gonna hit start and then I have one hour to draw
pretty simple
let's go
and I also have absolutely no idea what-
okay wait it started
so I actually didn't actually stop and think about what I
wanted to draw so I'm just going to loosen up I haven't drawn at all today
let's just kind of just draw really loose and squishy because what I like to do with
the spread (eek, I have no time to talk) what I like to do the spread it's got
sketch ideas here and then draw the final thing there if I'm going to draw
something with a little bit more effort otherwise I just like drawing sketches
everywhere -- I always get lost in the hair I'm like what kind of hair do I give her
I don't know
I'm always playing with my style I think
I'm kind of settling on a very cartoon sort of large ears but with like
normal-sized eyes to a point I mean obviously it's stylized so it's not
going to be realistic proportions here
alright so now I need to kind of make some
decisions if I'm going to just draw a regular old boring character or if I
want to add something a little bit more fantastic
because right now I'm just sort
of like letting my hand draw what it wants it's not being very creative it's
kind of just using that muscle memory and drawing like a mash-up of all of the
things I've drawn or tend to draw
and when it comes to like coming up with new
ideas that's one you have to like really let your brain work a little harder for me at least
yeah not crazy about this but I only spent four minutes on it so
what can you expect?
I think I want to try and like go somewhere completely
different maybe we could work on either like a side profile maybe even pretty
detailed hmm
not sure
everything just feels really boring and maybe that's the
whole 'rushing thing' -- you really shouldn't rush yourself but maybe I'm kind of
tackling this the wrong way instead of like rushing to come up with a good idea
I should be taking my time and just enjoying that
one hour that I have to spend
but at the same time like "I kind of want to draw
something interesting" oh here we go what if someone who has like dark black
fiery hair and like their eyes are dark black too
this is just coming out of
nowhere but I want to see what it looks like I think I have like a black brush pen
here kind of like try and draw some like fiery shapes I like the mix of kind of
like cutesy large ears with the darker hair and by darker I don't mean like
black I mean more sinister
maybe a more dynamic pose kind of like the one hand in front
I'll need a reference for this I kind of want her like head dipping
down a little bit so we can like add some dark shadows underneath the
eyebrows - this is a much more dynamic pose
if the hands like -- the thumb
would be...
like this interesting looking shape
I'm gonna curl the fingers a
little bit more than I physically seem to be able to do myself
I think that'll help exaggerate the claw likeness of the hand
okay that's... I like
the thumb, the thumb worked out
so this is the palm, we use this kind of like a
rectangle you know the thumb is in that section then we kind of fill that in so
there we have the thumb
actually this is more like this shape then the pinky is
actually like right here
I'm looking at it a little bit of a different angle
then you could probably see actually that might be helpful if I look up at
the viewfinder here
draw the like the simple french fries first
try to get
them all in the right shape before you go in and add too many details then we
also need these kind of lines
oh now I'm looking ahead again I
realized that the thumb is in the wrong place let me try and move that up
how's this looking? is it looking like a hand that is doing this?
it's not terrible - I think
we improved from my first attempt Grab that black brush pen again, draw our
little demon -- OooOO! maybe she's-just bring the eyebrows down a little bit more in
the center of the face might make her look a little bit
more angry, I want a keep the kind of ''cutesy'' features definitely want to
practice a little bit more she's gonna need some kind of outfit so I'm gonna
have to move on to this page let's see what about a pose where she's like
looking upwards?
I'm just gonna use like dots and everything for the facial
features try and get a different angle
I don't want her to be that
voluptuous she's kind of-I'm picturing her being very kind of like thin where
you can kind of see the bone structure a little bit and try that I don't know
I've never really drawn anything like that so that'll be interesting
I'm gonna move the mouth up this way
well she shouldn't be that happy -- oOoo! unless we
bring the eyebrows like way down like this
interesting
and these arms are down..
I'm gonna make the arms like really skinny kind of like pronounce the bone structure
darken up under her eyebrow there I could go ahead and just make her
full-on skeleton - I'm just trying to really like cut in anywhere
that it would be fleshy and just remove it
this really isn't the direction I
want to go, I'm losing that cutesy that I liked the contrast between the cutesy
and like the dark hair so I don't think I want to go this route but it was an
interesting thing to experiment with
lets try again (woop, gotta hold onto the pencil)
I'm almost halfway through the time and by 30 minutes I kind of want to have my
idea down at least
let's give her a big round eyes deep black we could give her
like a little bit of a zombie nose here with their big ears and turn the body this way
looks like a Captain Marvel pose
there are all these extra legs down here
don't think she needs more than one [pair] -I mean could give her more than one
leg, be kind of interesting: what if she had like a section back here
extra legssss
its ant-like almost -- this is so weird and unlike what I usually draw I don't know if it's
the time limit that's like freaking me out and making me draw weird things or
I'm just in a weird mood right now
and then for clothes, we can give her something
that's like kind of zombie-deteriorating
this one can end around the knee and
then this leg maybe right at the ankle, a nice fashionable length
very very interesting
page limitations here and then try and keep a sketch inside here and
see if I can kind of come up with an interesting pose if I want to like do a
final illustration
angry eyebrows
give her a little bit of a slouch see how
that looks cuz right now, i've only drawn her pretty confident so I want to try
something else
The hair is kind of not coming upwards as much and it kind of loses
that smokiness
we could go back to that sort of idea
Hey
so then we have all this extra space for that dark hair and it can kind of like
almost engulf behind the hand
[thinking tongue clicks]
this is fun cuz I don't usually do
foreshortening and it could be really fun to practice
that oOooo what if the clothes are kind of like giving off bits too [smacks paper with pencil]
kind of like
she just came out of a fire and her clothes are all singed and like blowing
away into dust[/ashes]
yeah I think this one will be a lot of fun it's kind of like
going off that first idea but if I hadn't done these few ideas I wouldn't
know what the outfit would look like so kind of happy with that I'm gonna just
grab nice A5 sheet of paper, look we're right at the halfway part
this is perfect
actually let me do this so I can see better so we can see the
thumbnails that I want
alright so I got an A5 sheet of paper and I'm gonna start
sketching out that idea I kind of think I wanna-- do I want to like turn the page?
here a little like this? it's kind of interesting so then she's got standing
diagonally it'll make it a little bit more dynamic
so her head would be like here and that hand would be right here the fingers
the fingers.
aright that hand definitely looks a little bit more [growls]
this one's kind of just
like hey [waves]
and that's not what I'm looking for
although we can kind of leave that there so I know where everything's gonna be
actually I don't want to erase that yet, let me make sure we have room for everything
kind of like put in the body here, lay down that ugly groundwork -should try
to make sure everything is where it needs to be before I start adding in the details
hmm something's different here
i'm missing the thumbnail ...well I think
the hands farther away from the face which makes it look a little bit less in your face
so if we move the hand over to the left a little like here maybe
now it's too low... gosh darn it
okay I have to really pay attention to that
thumbnail because it looks pretty good there and I want it to be spot-on here
let's see
like here?
in the distance just draw really light in case I have to
erase it again
there's my very simplified hand it's really big I don't know if I maybe went
overboard but I'll take it
I'll go back to that powerful stance I somehow lost
the diagonal-ness that I wanted
got a lot of space over here I don't know if I
should fill it in with a lot of like the wispies..?
ooOoo like smoke? wait-a-minute!
something like this, she's standing in that smoke
spent a lot of time
coming up with the idea we'll see if we can get this done
try and get this smokey shape
maybe it'll fit the vibe I'm looking for more if it like kind of like
gets down to nothing really fast like it's very thin see now it's kind of
distracted with the hand so maybe I should try and avoid the hand completely
that's not bad I kind of like that weird shape
a little bit of cute, with a little bit of sinister
not like an out of my comfort zone amount, but like a cutsey amount
just like limited little: "I'm trying something new" amount
kind of digging it there's a lot of white space here I'm thinking it's almost like she's
one with the smoke I'm gonna grab a well.... maybe I want to go a little lighter, I also
have some lighter grays in my Copic markers but I'm gonna start with this
Cool Grey 04 and kind of fill in some of the sections I want to be dark black
see know that it looks pretty dark compared to the white paper, so that's a
good place to start in case we want to like layer the tones, I'm also gonna
fill in the hair too
how much time we got left? we are alright
I'm not doing too bad
not too worried about the graphite only because this is a grey and like getting
grey on your gray graphite isn't gonna make that big of a deal in the long run
but if you don't want those pencil lines to show through because once you color
over them it will be permanent, you won't be able to erase it so erase the ones
that you don't want to show through and you should be good but if you're using like
a color especially yellow make sure the graphite is completely erased
I do want to erase a little bit more here actually I'm probably going to use my heavy duty eraser
really making sure these disappear kind of like it it looks like
a ponytail but also like whimsical
go ahead and use fine liner for the facial features
outline them that way I can erase the graphite - oOoo we only have 15
minutes left I think I need to kick my butt in gear here - let's just outline
everything else
and then this hand oh I never went over it again oh well
we'll just have to take it for what it is
it's not bad because I drew it so many
times but I feel like I could have made it better, ooOoo I'm running out of time
I'm gonna go to the next
darkest color and color in these spots here, I need something behind this
oh we got like 12 minutesleft?
I'm not doing my best job of getting that even but it's
alright not sure didn't really plan this out
what colors are going where
move back to the cool gray 04
these are Ohuhu brush markers by the way
lightly erase this so that the
graphite doesn't smudge
fill this in
putting down so much ink so fast I'm starting to smell the alcohol oOooo
I kind of want to fill in the hands dark - is that kind of weird?
try grabbing this darker color and darkening up the edges of this kind of
trying to hide some of that lineart
switch back to the lighter one
particles everywhere!
[mouth fart every time she touches the marker to the paper]
I like
there to be like a messy amount of just dots I feel like it makes everything
look a little better
we got like eight minutes left here
add some smaller
bits and also darken up the end of the hair
darken up the eyes too
I might actually just grab the black marker and fill in the eyes
that's actually something I did
wanna do I'll grab this one lighter color just color in underneath
I'm also gonna darken up cuz we have another five minutes here the hands kind of like they
were dipped in something
if I had more time I think I'd add a whole nother
layer of smoke behind her
oh I didn't realize I had this lighter gray could
use that for the under the eyebrows bit
well you live and you learn
I try to add some smoke behind here not sure if these are all that visible I
feel like it adds a little bit more atmosphere to the background
hmm we still
have four minutes left - what do I want to do? might darken up the top of the
pants and then have them get lighter as they get closer to the smoke I want this
one and this one
darken up up here grab this guy and blend it out -- I'm also gonna
take the black since I did that dumb lineart thing
just try to hide that even more
blend it out
OHHHSHOOT!!! wrong one no no no no no wait
well it's gonna be a little darker then...
they all look the same it's hard to tell
I wanted this one see how I can blend out even that the mid-tone
whoopsie daisies
I think I'll do the same thing here with the black even though this doesn't have
the line art problem
blend it out
i'll grab this lighter one, blend it out
and voila I might even - we still have two minutes left
grab a darker color for the tips of the fingers
blend those out a bit alright we
have one minute left
is there anything I still want to do to this??
particles
30 seconds left! I don't know I don't think I really want to do anything else. I also
feel like giving up with 20 seconds left is cheating
[getting down to the wire]
3..
2..
1!!!!
woo!! [happy new yearrr!!]
we made it all the way
around 1 hour
stop that guy
okay I gotta go admit I
doubted myself like maybe at the 20 minute mark that this would actually
happened but look at this I grabbed a whole new sheet paper was able to do
like almost like a nice final illustration I'm glad I kept it to
grayscale or I might have gotten a little bogged down with colors but we drew
all of this and this final illustration all in one hour
i'm a little proud of myself. I was definitely rushing myself at the
beginning and I kind of had this memory of when I did the 10 minute 1 minute 10
second challenge and I realized you have a lot more time than you realize just
because there's a timer ticking doesn't mean you need to speed up so just take
your time and you can come up with something that looks respectively good
anyway I thank you guys for watching I hope you all enjoyed or drew along and
it just goes to show you you can draw something with only one hour you don't
have to spend three to eight hours a day drawing to be able to you know find time
to draw (that goes without saying) anyway Thank You Guys for watching, I'll see you
guys all next week and I hope you have a delicious evening full of waffles! bye!
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