- Hey what's up I'm Jackie
- And I'm Kevin.
- Today we're gonna 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.
Wow, it's so not dramatic.
- (laughing) Shrek!
- [Jason] Uh oh.
- Oh no!
- Wilma Flintstone okay!
- What!
- Hey!
- I'm already Tracer!
- Linda!
The two cartoon wives!
- Yeah!
- Oh it's gonna be good ol' Velma.
- Okay Velma from Scooby-Doo.
- [Both] Finn.
- Okay let's get to it. (claps)
- Okay so I like their car that they drive.
So I'm gonna just have her driving a car.
- I'm gonna do an action shot.
- Mine's gonna be like Fast and the 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 like pretty thin, she's petite,
she has spiky short black hair,
she has like these cute little orange leggings.
- So Velma is a nerd (chuckles) who solves mysteries.
- [Jackie] Okay.
- That's all you need to know about Velma.
- Since Sunday I was like getting all self conscious
like what's my style, how do I draw,
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 style.
- I feel like I'm just gonna make him really 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 awhile though.
- Yeah it's still going right?
- Yeah, it's a great great show.
It's so undercover funny like
they set up jokes and you're like uh-oh .
(laughing)
- I'm gonna sound like such an old man
but is Tracer your main.
- Wow!
- Eh, I got it!
- That's real!
- I said it right, right?
- Anyway, no. (laughs)
Love that.
That was such a lovely little surprise from Kevin.
- Right what's up fellow youths.
- So Linda has actually a great silhouette,
her hair has like this kind of Mary Tyler Moore
thing going on I might be getting that wrong,
I guess people can correct me and 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 like 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,
realistic character like Shrek.
- I'm gonna draw Finn like he's had
one too many adventures, the great 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) 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 20 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 I guess
a little more volume to this character.
- I think I'm going for like,
I love the comic books style,
I decided this 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 a Cintiq
which is a screen that you can draw directly on.
Photoshop is also is 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 as 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.
- 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.
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 is sticking out.
- So where's Jake?
- I don't know, it's kind of a messy thing.
In there Facebook it says it's complicated.
- So here is 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 percent black
to paint in the darker colors.
Just a little pro tip for ya 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 do 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 more so then the actual cartoon.
I dig It. - You dig it.
I dig it. - Nice.
- All right
- (claps) Confidence is key.
- All right you ready to swap.
- Let's swap.
- Swap-a-roo.
(whimsical music)
- Oh dang!
- Oh dope!
- Dude, what a dynamic pose.
- Yeah I mean same for you man,
I like the car it looks like a part of her outfit.
- Oh my god!
- Oh!
- He's so defeated!
- "What ya 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 like the bags under his eyes.
- He's definitely its just like too much adventures,
too much - too much adventures.
- Wow!
- Would ya look at that!
- Wow this is really cool.
- Thanks!
- Jackie this is amazing.
- Aww!
- I like this because it's different than your normal style
I feel like your style is usually very Chibi and very cute.
This is still got that like cute appeal to it
but it's way more realistic.
- I like yours, yours is like more than cute,
I think it's more of like a comic version.
- Right.
- Like 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 like
they're clashing they're coming at each other.
- Yeah they are coming at each other actually.
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 like getting to really take characters
that you know and love and draw it in your own style.
I mean 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.
- You know this was fun,
I wish I had more time but I think I did what I could
and you know I wish Tracer was wearing one shirt
(chuckles)
but it be like that sometimes.
(jazz music)