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  • - Today we are drawing characters in our own style

  • from the wheel. - From the wheel.

  • - Our iconic styles. - Random characters too.

  • - You spin a big wheel, see who we get.

  • - All right, Jackie, give it a spin.

  • - I will, I will, Kevin.

  • - This is very stressful.

  • It's okay, Princess Peach. - It's cute, yeah.

  • - All right, I can do Princess Peach.

  • - All right!

  • - Oh, boy.

  • - Ah, man! - Ah, no, Princess Peach.

  • All right. - Princess Peach.

  • - Ooh, Elsa. - Ooh, Elsa.

  • - Elsa. - Elsa.

  • - Mario and you have Peach!

  • - Oh, yeah! (laughs) - Oh, a cute couple.

  • - Yes! (Jason laughs)

  • Okay.

  • - Do you watch "One-Punch Man"?

  • - I do.

  • - I've never seen "Frozen".

  • - Just trust your gut and let it go.

  • - Okay, let's do it.

  • - I have not seen a lot of "Simpsons".

  • I feel like I watched "Simpsons", but peripherally.

  • - Are you a "Mario" fan?

  • - Yes, I love "Mario" games.

  • I love him, how about you?

  • - "Mario Kart" all the way.

  • - Okay, so I'm gonna actually try

  • not looking at the reference because I want this to be

  • a Brent original drawing.

  • - I definitely want her to have a giant head.

  • I wouldn't say that she didn't have a giant head,

  • but I'm going big.

  • But I think I'm gonna keep all her coloring the same.

  • - She's got cute, big, blue hair.

  • She looks like she's having a really good time,

  • just being a mom.

  • What does she do?

  • Does she have a job? - She's a mom.

  • - She's a stay-at-home mom?

  • That's her thing? - Yeah.

  • - Love that.

  • Chase your bliss, Marge.

  • - When I was a kid, I was addicted to the 90's era

  • of comic books where everyone had unrealistic proportions.

  • - As a cartoonist, I would say my style is pretty cartoony

  • but based on solid illustrative construction,

  • so I'm not doing a whole lot of exaggeration

  • in terms of the proportions.

  • - He is so iconic and perfect.

  • He's a good blend of simple but incredibly memorable.

  • He's got his red, white, and blue colors,

  • his overalls, his adorable mustache, big nose, hat.

  • His shapes are so good. (laughs)

  • So I guess I'm just kinda making him a little cartoonier,

  • like cuter, cartoonier.

  • - How did I develop my style?

  • I watched a lot of anime. - Really?

  • - Just so much of it. - You would say

  • it's anime influence? - Yeah, pretty much.

  • I love anime, still do.

  • - Are you gonna redesign Peach's dress in any way?

  • - Yes.

  • - Does Princess Peach have a sword or am I making that up?

  • - It's in your style, Jason.

  • - I'm gonna... - Do whatever you want.

  • - Draw her with a sword.

  • - Eleven. - Eleven minutes, okay.

  • - That's quite not a lot of time, I feel like.

  • But you know what?

  • I believe in us. - I do believe in us.

  • I'm moving onto inking. - Inking?

  • - I'm inking. - Already?

  • - Jackie, I notice when you ink, you use colored lines.

  • - I do, that's one of my favorite things to do with lines.

  • Just color them in. - Is that an animator thing?

  • - I don't think so, I think that's something

  • that I learned as a teenager and then I continue to do

  • because I like the results of them.

  • - Did you grow up drawing digitally?

  • - Yes, I sure did. - Really?

  • - Yeah, I'm not that great with traditional art.

  • - Really? - Yeah, but I mean,

  • I can do it, but not as good as I can do things digitally.

  • - I rarely color my lines, because again,

  • I come from the world of print.

  • And so I'm always thinking about what is going to make

  • the cleanest black line.

  • - Yes, I respect that.

  • I respect your artistic upbringing.

  • I respect your need for speed.

  • - Man, I don't...

  • I feel like I don't have much of a style.

  • Like, I feel like it's definitely 90's cartoon-inspired.

  • They have a lot of construction in terms of shapes and form.

  • But then I also like to throw in weird perspective things

  • that don't make sense.

  • - I can describe Kyra's style very well.

  • It is very clean,

  • it's amazing, - Thank you.

  • - she has amazing arcs of motion.

  • You always choose to keep things a bit, not monochromatic,

  • but within one color. - Limited color palettes.

  • - Limited, like a limited color palette, yeah.

  • That's-- - The animation way.

  • Zee's style, I am just getting familiar with today,

  • even though I've known you for a while. (laughs)

  • Because you never draw, but your style is adorable.

  • It completely has that mascot appeal,

  • like that adorable Japanese mascot appeal.

  • - Who should he be punching?

  • Maybe he's punching my Bugs Bunny.

  • - (laughs) I was just about to say that

  • and I'm happy you brought it up.

  • - For people that have followed this series,

  • they will know what I'm drawing

  • and it's my disgusting attempt at a Bugs Bunny.

  • - I would say if you really want to get into animation,

  • just draw all the time.

  • Just bring a sketchbook with you anywhere,

  • watch YouTube videos.

  • There's so many available resources to learn.

  • You can look up anything and super specific,

  • and just be like, "I wanna learn how to draw this,

  • "or this style, or draw like this Disney animator,"

  • and you can just go find

  • and they probably have classes online or their own website

  • or blog or whatever that you can go look at.

  • That's pretty amazing.

  • - I should have done a lot simpler of a design, right?

  • - You know what? - Because my style

  • is complicated.

  • - Just like you,

  • as a person, you know? - Thank you.

  • - You've got a lot of different feelings,

  • a lot of different emotions,

  • your art's gotta reflects who you are.

  • - She's so cute.

  • I like her 'cause she's a feminine woman,

  • but she's not like, "Oh, I'm just gonna sit around

  • "and wait for Mario to do everything for me,"

  • it's like, she will take things into her own hands

  • if she has to.

  • Like she can fight. - Yeah, that's true.

  • She's a good role model. - Yeah.

  • - So what is Princess Peach doing in your drawing?

  • - She's holding a sword and her hair

  • is just being really epic right now,

  • so I'm having a lot of fun with that,

  • just the lines on the hair.

  • - I'm having fun beating up my own drawing.

  • That's probably my favorite part of this.

  • - Two more minutes? - Okay, well,

  • I just feel like that's quite rude.

  • - I forgot her crown.

  • This is a travesty. - She's a princess.

  • - All right.

  • I'm satisfied.

  • - I didn't give her any skin color.

  • She's just gonna be snow white.

  • - Done.

  • - I think I did pretty darn good.

  • Working off of a reference picture sure makes it

  • a lot easier to concentrate on the drawing itself.

  • - I think I did okay.

  • I think she looks like She-Ra meets Princess Peach

  • is what I drew.

  • - It's a little wonky,

  • but I think the energy of it is cute.

  • - I think mine has Elsa vibes.

  • I'm not totally happy with the pose.

  • I would say I can do better.

  • (fast guitar music)

  • - You've got it, come on. - This is great.

  • I love this.

  • - I love this.

  • - Here's what I love about yours.

  • She's got a nice line of action.

  • I love her smile.

  • - Dude, this is wild.

  • I love your, you've got this epic comic book perspective

  • on all your drawings, like (beep) is coming at me.

  • Dude, I'm feeling this--

  • dude, you've got her hair,

  • which is sort of mimicking the motion of the flames.

  • I feel her vengeance, you know?

  • - I like that he's punching out your Bugs Bunny's tooth.

  • (Brent laughs)

  • The blood on this is great.

  • - I think you really did reimagine him.

  • Like it's clearly him, but then it's like...

  • This is cool, I can see the Kyra in it with the clean lines

  • but actually this is kinda different, I think, for you.

  • I love it. - Thank you so much.

  • - You did such a good job.

  • - Yours is so adorable, I love the flow of her shape

  • and I love that she's tiny.

  • She's so cute, I think the colors stand out super well.

  • - You got her smirk, you got her ice magic.

  • Very pretty.

  • You got her cute little cape, you got her cute little dress.

  • Yeah, you did a good job.

  • - This exercise was really hard

  • 'cause it's like how do you improve upon characters

  • that are the embodiment of perfection.

  • Their designs are so iconic and so ingrained in our culture

  • that it's really hard to try to come up

  • with a different appealing interpretation of them.

  • - And I think that's the most fun part of drawing fan art

  • is that you can make your own interpretation

  • on something you love as a little homage.

  • Hey, what's up, I'm Jackie.

  • - And I'm Kevin.

  • - Today we're going to 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.

  • Whoa, it's so not dramatic.

  • - Shrek! (both laugh)

  • - Oh, no.

  • - Wilma Flintstone, okay. - Oh, no, Wilma.

  • (gasps)

  • - Hey! - I'm already Tracer!

  • - Linda? - Linda, ooh, the two...

  • The two cartoon wives. - Yeah.

  • - Oh, it's gonna be good 'ol

  • Velma. - Velma.

  • Okay, Velma from "Scooby-Doo".

  • - Finn. - Finn.

  • - Okay, let's get to it.

  • - Okay, so I like their car that they drive,

  • so I'm just have her driving the car.

  • - I'm gonna do an action shot.

  • - Mine is gonna be like "Fast and 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 pretty thin,

  • she's petite, she has spiky, short, black hair.

  • She has these cute little orange leggings.

  • - So Velma is a nerd

  • who solves mysteries.

  • That's all you need to know about Velma.

  • - Since Sunday, I was getting all self-conscious,

  • like what's my style?

  • How do I draw?

  • (stuttering)

  • 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 my style.

  • - I feel like I'm just gonna make it more like 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 a while, though.

  • - Yeah, it's still going, right?

  • - Yeah, it's a great, great show.

  • It's so undercover funny.

  • They set up jokes and you're like uh-oh, you know?

  • (both laugh)

  • - I'm gonna sound like such an old man.

  • But is Tracer your main?

  • - Whoa! - Huh? I got it!

  • - That's real! - I said it right, right?

  • - Anyway, no.

  • (Jackie laughs)

  • Love that,

  • that was such a lovely little surprise from Kevin.

  • - Right?

  • What's up, fellow youths?

  • - So Linda has actually a great sillhoutte.

  • Her hair has this Mary Tyler Moore thing going on.

  • I might be getting that wrong.

  • I guess you can correct, people can correct me.

  • 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 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,

  • a realistic character like Shrek.

  • - I'm gonna draw Finn like he's had one too many adventures.

  • (laughs) The gray 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) - What? Jesus, do you know--

  • - 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 twenty 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 a little more volume to this character.

  • - I think I'm going for, I love the comic book style,

  • I decided 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 the Cintiq,

  • which is a screen that you can draw directly on.

  • Photoshop is also 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 a 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. - Okay.

  • 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?

  • - True. - 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's sticking out and--

  • - So where's Jake?

  • - I don't know, it's kind of a messy thing.

  • In their Facebook, it says it's complicated.

  • - So here's 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% black to paint in the darker colors.

  • That's a little pro-tip for you 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 drew 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 moreso than the actual cartoon.

  • I dig it. - You dig it?

  • - I dig it. - Nice.

  • - All right.

  • - Confidence is key.

  • - Yeah, all right, you ready to swap?

  • - Let's swap. - Swap-a-roo.

  • (fast violin music)

  • - Oh, dang! - Oh, dope!

  • - Dude, what a dynamic pose.

  • - Yeah, I mean same for you, man.

  • I like the car looks like a part of her outfit.

  • - Oh my God! - Oh!

  • - He's so defeated. (laughs)

  • - "What you 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 the bags under his eyes.

  • - He's definitely, he's like, "Too much adventures,

  • "too much!" - "Too much adventures."

  • - Would you look at that! - Wow.

  • Wow, this is really cool.

  • - Thanks!

  • - Jackie, this is amazing.

  • - Aw!

  • - I like this because it's different than your normal style,

  • like I feel like your style is usually very chibi

  • and very cute.

  • This has still got that cute appeal to it

  • but it's way more realistic.

  • - I like yours, yours is more than cute.

  • I think it's more of a comic version.

  • - Right. - 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,

  • they're clashing, they're coming at each other.

  • - They are coming at each other actually, yeah.

  • 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?

  • Getting to really take characters that you know and love

  • and draw it in your own style.

  • 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.

  • - This, you know, this was fun.

  • I wish I had more time but I think I did what I could

  • and I wish, you know, Tracer was wearing one shirt.

  • (Kevin laughs)

  • But, it be like that sometimes.

  • - Hey, Jackie. - Hey, Kevin.

  • - What are we doing today?

  • - Well today we're spinning a wheel

  • and then we're gonna draw what's on the wheel.

  • - I pray that I get someone that I really, really like.

  • - Okay, I get to spin first.

  • - Wait...

  • - Oh, no, no, no! - Oh, it's the minion!

  • Yes!

  • - What?

  • - Yes!

  • - Sonic!

  • Topical. - Very topical.

  • - Yes! He-man! - He-man!

  • - Goofy. - Goofy!

  • I'm so glad, I love Goofy.

  • - Sailor Moon.

  • - Anime episode, baby!

  • - I don't know anything about Sailor Moon.

  • - She transforms and fights crime.

  • - Okay.

  • - Cries a lot, eats a lot, just like me.

  • - Which minion are you choosing, Jason?

  • - I'm choosing to draw the one with the one eye.

  • - Are you excited to draw Sailor Moon?

  • - Can I be honest with you?

  • I'm very nervous because the internet loves their anime

  • and if you screw anything up when it comes to anime,

  • they will let you know.

  • - So you got Sonic, which is a hot button issue right now.

  • - Very hot button issue.

  • I want to watch the movie because it feels like

  • a embodiment of a car crash in slow motion.

  • - Should I draw a He-Man with his pink vest

  • or him with his shirt off when he's got all the power?

  • - His shirt's gotta be off, man.

  • - Yeah,

  • - I think his shirts coming off.

  • - That's the iconic He-Man look.

  • - So, I don't draw any anime style at all.

  • I can't do it.

  • So, I'm not even gonna try.

  • I'm going to draw a Americanized version of Sailor Moon.

  • - That's a good plan.

  • I think people have done that before.

  • - Right.

  • So I'm not alone. - You're not alone.

  • You're not alone. - But also,

  • people love their Sailor Moon and--

  • - Yeah, oh, people love their Sailor Moon.

  • If you mess up even once,

  • it's gonna really ruin everything.

  • Everyone's gonna notice.

  • - When you watched the trailer for the first time,

  • what was your initial reaction?

  • - Okay, so there's a lot of things about the design

  • that I feel like could look more appealing

  • if it looked less realistic.

  • Like the lips were a little off-putting.

  • - Feeling good about Naruto, I grew up reading "Naruto",

  • I love that guy.

  • I'm gonna be drawing OG Naruto, the young guy.

  • - 'Cause he grows up during the course of the series,

  • right? - Yeah.

  • - I'm gonna draw the minions the way I think

  • a deformed creature made by a super villain should look.

  • - I'm gonna draw a very buff,

  • the buffest He-Man the world has ever seen.

  • - I'm sticking relatively close to the original

  • 'cause I do naturally draw stuff pretty cartoony.

  • But yeah, I think I'll add, you know,

  • make his eyes a little bigger, make him a little cuter.

  • - So the real minion just looks like a pill.

  • A pill with an eye wearing trousers.

  • So I'm gonna do a monstrosity version of that.

  • - Naruto is constructed like a real boy, you know?

  • He's not cartoony,

  • well obviously it's a cartoon, it's anime.

  • - I'm gonna go for a more exaggerated He-Man look.

  • His original construction, I don't know, man.

  • If you go to a life drawing class and just give the dude

  • some blonde friar boy hair,

  • it's kind of what you get with He-Man.

  • - Here's what I know about Sailor Moon.

  • She changes into Sailor Moon,

  • kind of like how Diana Prince changes into Wonder Woman.

  • Right?

  • They spin around and there's magic,

  • and then she becomes Sailor Moon.

  • And I know she's part of a girl force

  • of five or six other fighters.

  • Are they all also nautical-based?

  • - Nautical-based?

  • - Yeah, 'cause she's a sailor.

  • - Oh, I...

  • I don't know. - She's not actually a sailor?

  • - No.

  • - Internet, I am so sorry.

  • - Goofy is very lanky, really real tall guy,

  • but he's got a nice elasticity to him,

  • 'cause he's a comical character, you know?

  • I think I really wanna keep that intact.

  • Might just add a little bit of geometry

  • to his back and body and stuff.

  • - Here's a little tip for you, kids.

  • If you are drawing a face and you want to know

  • if your proportions are correct,

  • I highly recommend taking your drawing

  • and flipping it horizontally, as I just did

  • and now I can see that, boy,

  • her eye is in the wrong place. - Yeah.

  • - So do you think you're gonna,

  • you're gonna watch "Sonic the Movie", though?

  • - We'll see honestly.

  • I'm interested to see how they alter it,

  • 'cause they are gonna change his character design.

  • - Brent, did you watch "He-Man" growing up?

  • - Absolutely not. (Jason laughs)

  • I don't think they were even doing re-runs

  • in the 90s/2000s.

  • - My Naruto is definitely a fan art Naruto.

  • I'm just drawing him

  • as I would draw anybody else in my style.

  • - Oh, he has Conan the Barbarian boots.

  • - He's basically Conan the Barbarian for kids.

  • - Oh, yeah, I guess so.

  • I guess that's, they were being inspired

  • by that stuff a lot.

  • - Yeah, inspired with quotes.

  • - I think one of my favorite parts of "Sailor Moon"

  • is that it's got lots of fun expressions.

  • - Oh, yeah? - Yeah, I don't know

  • if you've seen any of them ever.

  • But, it's not that it goes off-model,

  • but you know how in anime they often do like--

  • - Oh, right, like when they get really excited,

  • they suddenly turn into chibi characters

  • and stuff like that. - Yeah, stuff like that.

  • I think Sailor Moon does it best.

  • - I don't know if this even has the essence of Sonic.

  • It's Sonic adjacent.

  • - Okay, so I just noticed that she has a forehead band

  • that I did not put in my drawing and so,

  • the internet would be very upset if I didn't,

  • so I gotta put it in real quick.

  • - You almost died.

  • - So this is the best part about He-Man.

  • The way I'm most familiar with him

  • is that 4 Non-Blondes meme.

  • Jason, do you know what I'm talking about?

  • - I don't remember that, I don't know the meme.

  • - Do you know-- - Oh, no, I do,

  • when they're dancing in the bar.

  • - Yeah, well, yeah.

  • And they cut together a couple of frames of He-Man

  • doing a little twist and it looks like he's dancing.

  • That's about as good as the internet got.

  • - All right, home stretch, Jackie.

  • How you feelin'?

  • - Feeling good, feeling ready.

  • Are you ready?

  • - I'm getting close.

  • - I think this is the best I can do, you know?

  • - I'm done.

  • This is Sonic.

  • - I'm so excited to see.

  • - You done? - Done.

  • - Done.

  • - I think my minion's done. - All right.

  • - I do not know what I was thinking

  • with the pose in this one.

  • It's a little weird.

  • - I think my drawings are really reminiscent

  • of what I grew up drawing.

  • I drew a lot of Spiderman and when I think of characters,

  • they all have gangly moving limbs.

  • - I think I did good, I think he looks cool.

  • - I took a different approach and sort of emphasized

  • the muscular aspect of the character.

  • - I think I am very successful at making people upset.

  • I'm sorry, everybody.

  • - I think I did okay.

  • It is not anime at all.

  • - Nothing wrong with that. - Nothing wrong with that.

  • - It's fan art.

  • - And for what it is, I think I'm pretty proud of it.

  • - You know what, that's all that matters.

  • (fast forward screech)

  • - Oh! - Wow!

  • - Oh my God, Jason.

  • I think the minion brought out some of the best in you.

  • - Oh! - Oh my God!

  • - It's so joyful.

  • - I didn't know what I was expecting. (laughs)

  • - Yeah! - Yeah.

  • - All right!

  • It really isn't anime.

  • Fun, it really is Kevin's drawing.

  • - Thank you. - I like it.

  • - Thank you.

  • - If "Sailor Moon" was on ice in New York,

  • this is the girl that would play her.

  • - What Kyra did is to make him much more fun and bouncy.

  • You can almost see what dance he's gonna do next.

  • - He-Man is so ridiculous.

  • I love that his drawing embraces that.

  • He looks impossibly muscular.

  • - You made him a lot cuter,

  • there's a lot more appeal to him.

  • His original character is very realistic.

  • I feel like this Naruto has a lot more fun.

  • - The reference image you have right now,

  • that's an angry Naruto.

  • - Is he angry most of the time

  • on the show? - No, he's very goofy.

  • Naruto's a goofy guy. - Okay.

  • - I think you really captured the essence

  • of how radical he is.

  • The hair, got it, it's iconic.

  • - We did some creepy science experiment to this minion

  • and created a monster.

  • Although, he's still got some of that minion appeal.

  • This would be be like an anime/manga adaptation

  • of "Despicable Me".

  • - I think you could try to emulate a particular style

  • and you could learn a lot from doing that.

  • But at the end of the day,

  • when you draw something in your own style,

  • that translation of it is something that's totally valuable.

  • - Yeah, that's totally you.

  • Having your own style and you know,

  • as you draw and as you learn, that style will come to you.

  • That's for all you young artists out there

  • trying to find yourself.

  • I believe in you.

  • Draw more Naruto, he's a cool guy.

  • - What Jackie said.

  • - All right, Kevin. - Hey, Jackie.

  • - We're doing something a little different today, guys.

  • - Today we are drawing character mash-up from the wheel.

  • - So we're gonna spin the wheel twice

  • and whatever two characters we get, we gotta mash them up.

  • - Oh, God, I'm scared.

  • - Oh, boy.

  • Oh, Sonic. - Sonic.

  • - Sonic, that's a solid, solid character.

  • - And Mario!

  • - I just have to technically take one of these characters

  • and make a fan hedgehog.

  • Who are you gonna get? - I don't know.

  • - Who's Kevin gonna get?

  • - No Face from "Spirited Away".

  • All right, No Face, and... - And...

  • right in the middle! - Right on the edge.

  • - I'm gonna make you do Kermit.

  • Kermit/No Face sounds horrifying.

  • - Oh, no.

  • - Johnny Bravo! - I'm cool with Johnny Bravo.

  • Kermit. - Kermit and Johnny Bravo.

  • Oh my God. - I'm down with that, dude.

  • Oh.

  • - Woody, oh, dang, I thought it was gonna be Sailor Moon.

  • Woody and...

  • - This is great.

  • - Johnny Bravo. (laughs)

  • - We're gonna be...

  • Oh, oh, God, no.

  • (laughs)

  • And...

  • Yes!

  • Oh, Shrek-laf.

  • - Jerry from "Tom and Jerry". - Jerry.

  • Okay, you got a mouse.

  • Garfield! - Jerry and Garfield.

  • Okay, okay.

  • - Let's get started. - Let's do it.

  • (fast orchestral music)

  • - I'm gonna mash the hell out of these characters.

  • - That's weird, don't do that.

  • - I don't think I need to use reference

  • because Kermit's literally just like...

  • You know?

  • Just like a green frog. - Do you remember

  • what Kermit looked like?

  • - I kind do, yeah.

  • - A Shrek snowman or ogre Olaf?

  • - I don't, I think ogre Olaf.

  • - Is this gonna be a grotesque one for you?

  • - You know what, it might be, 'cause I'm afraid,

  • 'cause this is just a cat and a mouse.

  • - Should I draw Kermit drinking the tea?

  • - Oh, yes. - Yeah, all right.

  • I'll do that. - Of course.

  • Why did you even ask when it's obviously a yes.

  • - You gotta do the meme.

  • - You gotta do the meme.

  • - What did you decide to go with?

  • - A Shrek snowman.

  • - A Shrek snowman. - I think is kinda the vibe

  • I wanna go for.

  • Did you like "Frozen", Jason?

  • How do you feel about "Frozen"?

  • - I did not like "Frozen",

  • but I also have a one-and-a-half year old

  • and it's like, maybe I will start to like "Frozen". (laughs)

  • - I know, you gotta be ready for that.

  • "Frozen 2" is coming.

  • - So which do you prefer?

  • "Sonic" or "Mario"?

  • - I think "Mario".

  • I've played more "Mario" games.

  • This is going weird.

  • - It's supposed to go weird.

  • - It's strange.

  • I don't really know if what we're doing is moral.

  • - It is absolutely not.

  • - My process, as most people are probably noticing,

  • is a little bit different than I think

  • a lot of what other people have done.

  • I use a lot of shapes, I use a lot of forms,

  • I work from values a lot.

  • I like to work from values because it gets me there

  • a little bit faster, but it is very hard.

  • I'm not gonna make it sound like,

  • "Hey, I just painted value, you guys will be all right."

  • It takes a lot of work.

  • It takes a lot of effort to get good at it.

  • I spent years getting good at it.

  • What process do you prefer?

  • - I think for this one I mainly am starting from sketching.

  • I'm just like, okay, I'm trying to feel the gesture

  • and I'm trying to feel how the pose is gonna be.

  • - Okay, this is going to be a very simple drawing.

  • - Is it?

  • - Yeah, because No Face's body is just black.

  • - Why do you love Shrek so much, Brent?

  • You actually talk about him a lot.

  • - I do talk about Shrek a lot, there's just something,

  • it's half ironic, half genuine love for this character.

  • I just love the artistic direction

  • Dreamworks decided to take with these characters.

  • Like they weren't really sure how to do CGI back in the

  • early 2000s and all these creepily realistic faces.

  • - I love Kermit the Frog.

  • - Do you love Kermit the Frog?

  • - I do. - What do you love most

  • about Kermit the Frog?

  • - He's just so good-natured and he's--

  • - I thought you were gonna say he's so good-looking.

  • - He's just a handsome young man.

  • - He's just the most handsome frog I know.

  • - He's just trying the best he can and everyone around him

  • is an idiot or a weirdo.

  • Don't you watch "The Muppets"?

  • He's the straight man.

  • He's the one who's holding it together.

  • - Wait, did he have a short-sleeve shirt?

  • Johnny Bravo?

  • What does your reference tell me?

  • I'm using you. - He has a black,

  • masculine shirt, that's super muscle-tight.

  • - Like a clubber shirt, right?

  • Like he's going to the club?

  • - Yeah. (laughs)

  • - He definitely skipped leg day, though.

  • That was a thing, right?

  • - Yeah, that's true. - He definitely

  • skipped leg day.

  • - Dang it, I wish I did better.

  • (both laugh)

  • - You feel self-conscious again?

  • No, don't let the art demons

  • get to you. - I'm not,

  • I will try my best until zero seconds.

  • - Jason, you gotta level with me here

  • are you gonna be ruining some childhoods with this one?

  • - Oh, yes.

  • It's not even a question.

  • - I'm gonna try to bring in some of that Dreamworks detail

  • because the difference between Dreamworks

  • and Disney is a pretty stark divide

  • between their approaches to character design.

  • I think the key here is to just lean into

  • what an abomination the concept of these mash-ups is.

  • Like get a Cronenburg monster out of this thing.

  • - Oh my God, that's like my dream.

  • - This is weird, I don't like this.

  • - Get weird with it, Jackie.

  • - I don't know what to do with his other hand.

  • - (laughs) What are you doing?

  • - I'm trying to figure out-- - Are you modeling?

  • Do you want me to model it so you can see?

  • - No, I don't need your pity.

  • No!

  • Boo!

  • - It's me!

  • Sonic!

  • - I went to AI.

  • We had a teacher who once told a student,

  • just looked at her in the face,

  • was like, "You'll never make it in this industry ever."

  • - Really? Oh my gosh. - "Quit now."

  • I'm not even sugar-coating, I'm telling you.

  • He just straight up told her like don't chase your dreams,

  • quit life and get out of my room

  • and I was like, "Whoa!"

  • The reality is the industry's not like that.

  • People don't talk to you that way.

  • They will hire you if they feel like you're qualified

  • and if you're not, you just gotta work towards that.

  • It's really that simple.

  • Stay positive, guys!

  • Keep drawing.

  • Draw everyday.

  • - How are you doing with yours?

  • - I feel like it's coming together.

  • It's the creepier, the better, you know?

  • - Yeah, I went too ambitious, but I really like it.

  • So, I'm gonna go with it.

  • - Well, this is weird.

  • This is a very strange thing I'm drawing.

  • - Is it? - Yup.

  • - How so?

  • - It just looks like Kermit

  • wearing a black robe sipping tea.

  • - There is a meme like that, isn't there?

  • Like Kermit talking to himself

  • with the black robe on? - And sipping tea?

  • Oh, yeah. (gasps) - That's what you're drawing!

  • - I didn't even think about that.

  • Ooh!

  • Should I do a double, a triple mash-up?

  • - A triple mash-up.

  • - Two Kermit memes and a "Spirited Away" character?

  • - Why not?

  • It's not like we're running out of time at all?

  • - Okay, you know, you're right.

  • - Got him.

  • But can you do it?

  • - I'm gonna try. - Okay, come on, hurry, hurry.

  • - [Cameraman] Five minutes.

  • - Uh-oh. - Just five minutes, wow.

  • - Time to get onto some color.

  • Moment of truth, Jason.

  • Green snow or just gross brown snow?

  • - I want green snow.

  • - Green show, all right, we're doing it.

  • Ah, yeah, he wants you out of his swamp

  • because he is the swamp. (both laugh)

  • "I am the swamp."

  • My Shrek, he's a tragic character, you know?

  • He's not long for this world.

  • - What does Woody say?

  • "Stone to the sky," no, that's Buzz Lightyear, right?

  • Wait, like, "Reach for the sky," right?

  • "Reach for the sky!"

  • Wait, is that Woody?

  • - Yeah, that is.

  • I love "Toy Story".

  • Like so much.

  • Wasn't that great, though?

  • In that movie where Woody turns his head 360,

  • in that moment where Sid was gonna set them on fire.

  • I love that moment.

  • I remember watching that as kid and you're like,

  • "Oh, dude, dope!"

  • - 30 seconds, Jackie. - 30 seconds.

  • - I believe in you. - All right.

  • - Home stretch, fast like Sonic.

  • - Excuse me, I need to focus and you are not helping at all.

  • - All right, Olaf.

  • Olaf-Shrek, there you go.

  • - All right, I'm as done as I'll ever be for now.

  • - All right. - Okay.

  • (groaning)

  • - I think I'm good with this.

  • Yeah. (both laugh)

  • - How'd you think you did, Brent?

  • - Well, I think I really captured the spirit

  • of what it means to mash-up two characters

  • into an ugly abomination.

  • - It just looks like I neither know

  • what Sonic or Mario looks like. (Kevin laughs)

  • - I'm feeling good about mine,

  • but I think I could've pushed it more.

  • - Mine looks like I took a Kermit

  • and repainted him and put him in a giant black sock.

  • (Jackie snickers)

  • (fast forward screech)

  • - Huh. - Wow.

  • (crickets chirping)

  • - Oh, God, what! - Wow!

  • - What! Jason!

  • - Oh, this is so good! - Yours is super dope.

  • - Oh, I hate you, this is so good.

  • (groans) I'm gonna quit art. - This is incredible.

  • - Oh my God, this is incre--

  • I think you destroyed more childhoods than I did.

  • - I don't know if that's true.

  • - Looks like Kermit died, he became the new Grim Reaper,

  • and this is him after a lovely day of taking people's souls.

  • - He's like, "You may be going to Heaven,

  • "you may be goin to Hell, that's not my concern."

  • - That's what this is, it's very spooky.

  • - This is actually what I should have done.

  • More of like a... - No, your--

  • narrative is spot on.

  • It has so much good character in it.

  • - Nah, I think your is... - No.

  • - You're just too nice, dude.

  • - It looks like he's

  • eaten multiple Jerry's. - There are multiple Jerry's

  • in there. - What the...

  • Jesus. - If I had more time,

  • there'd be vomit.

  • Jason, you're the childhood slayer.

  • (Jason laughs) I'm gonna say that.

  • - Yours is really imaginative.

  • - Is it?

  • - You know what, yours is a great mash-up.

  • So here's the thing, don't be so hard on yourself.

  • - Aw.

  • - This mash-up is incredible.

  • I think yours was very successful.

  • - Okay, well I appreciate it.

  • - I think yours was very successful.

  • - Mashing up characters on the spot is very hard.

  • - Yeah, you gotta think of a lot of things

  • and you gotta design it very quickly.

  • - Mash-ups is a genuine strategy for design.

  • - Yeah. - I think people

  • don't realize it, but a lot of your favorite TV shows,

  • movies, video games, are a mash-up of some sort.

  • - I agree, I think mashing up stuff is also a great way

  • to get out of your bubble so I think it's a great thing

  • for people to try.

  • - Get out of here, Kevin.

  • I don't wanna see you anymore.

  • - See you tomorrow. - Oh, God.

  • - Be sure to stick around to the end of the video,

  • to find out how you can enter for a chance to win

  • this Wacom Intuos tablet,

  • courtesy of our good friends at Wacom.

  • - There are two free creative programs that come with this.

  • Wow! - Right?

  • - You don't even have to spend

  • three million dollars on Adobe Photoshop.

  • - 'Cause let's face it, software is expensive.

  • - Software is expensive!

  • And you know what else is expensive?

  • - What? - Hot dogs.

  • - All right.

  • - Are hot dogs expensive?

  • - Yeah, sure.

  • Hey, I'm Kevin. - Hey, I'm Jackie.

  • - And today we're gonna mess up characters--

  • - From the wheel.

  • - What's it gonna be, Jackie? - Oh, who knows?

  • Could it be...

  • - Daffy Duck and.. - Daffy Duck, okay.

  • Skeletor.

  • - That's so odd.

  • - Dora the Explorer. (laughs)

  • Let's see who Dora's gonna be matched up with.

  • (laughs) Rocko.

  • - It looks like you'll be drawing Docko the Explorer.

  • - I'm scared.

  • - Porky Pig and... - Porky Pig and...

  • - Daffy Duck, okay.

  • Porky Pig and Duffy Duck, okay.

  • - Whoa, that's gonna be so fun.

  • You have to go again.

  • (laughs) Okay. - Garfield?

  • - I got Garfield and...

  • Woody. - Woody, wow.

  • - Garfield and Woody.

  • - That's kinda cute. - Yeah, okay.

  • - Betty Boop. - Betty Boop.

  • - Second spin.

  • Marge. - Marge.

  • That's actually so cute.

  • - Here we go.

  • Wonder Woman, okay. - Wonder Woman,

  • respectable choice. - And...

  • Spongebob. - Spongebob,

  • that's gonna look great!

  • - (groans) Okay, all right.

  • - Do you believe in yourself?

  • - I do believe in myself.

  • Do you believe in me?

  • And why did you have to pause?

  • Okay.

  • (fast orchestral music)

  • - I have a vision.

  • - He has no pants, I'm remembering this.

  • Porky has no pants.

  • - They're both not wearing pants.

  • - So, here's my question.

  • Do I do Spongebob cosplaying as Wonder Woman

  • or do I do Wonder Woman spongy?

  • - Don't do Wonder Woman spongy.

  • I don't wanna see that. - You don't wanna see that?

  • - So which character are you concentrating on more?

  • - I think I'm gonna give it like Rocko's wallaby body,

  • but Dora's hairstyle. (laughs)

  • - You know, I'll credit "Garfield", "Calvin and Hobbs",

  • and "The Far Side" for teaching me how to read English.

  • - Aw, that's cute. - Like I learned a lot

  • of things reading comics, my parents bought me

  • a lot of educational comics, even when I was in Korea.

  • There's a whole comic series just about different cultures.

  • But also the edition of "Garfield" that I had,

  • came with a little flip book as part of the book,

  • so when you flipped, you could see Garfield moving,

  • and on the other side was "Odie".

  • That was another way to get me excited about animation.

  • - So, Jackie, what is your strategy here?

  • - Should I make Daffy Duck buff?

  • - Or you could do Daffy Duck with a skeleton face.

  • - No. - Why not?

  • - No, that's just a terrible idea.

  • What makes you think Skeletor is a skeleton?

  • - Because he has a skeleton face.

  • - No. - Are you not familiar

  • with who Skeletor is?

  • - He doesn't have a skeleton face.

  • - He literally does, that's why he's called Skeletor.

  • - No, his name is called Skeletor because--

  • - You're doing it again, you're drawing me in, Jackie.

  • - Of course, in a game of random chance with a wheel,

  • you happen to get a "Simpsons" character.

  • - Obviously, I'm not gonna draw Marge

  • the way she actually looks.

  • I wanna go for the Betty Boop pose.

  • - Skeletor's pretty cool though,

  • I like the minimal amount of clothes he's wearing.

  • He knows what he's about.

  • - He's super buff.

  • - Yeah, I mean, if I was this buff,

  • I would also avoid wearing as much clothes as possible

  • because who wouldn't wanna see sexy, blue biceps.

  • - Right? - Yeah.

  • I mean, I'd be really self-conscious

  • that I don't have skin on my face.

  • - Well, I think he's compensating.

  • - I'm literally going for monstrosity.

  • - I'm actually having a lot of fun drawing this.

  • - Cowboy Garfield. - Cowboy Garfield,

  • that's essentially what I'm drawing.

  • - So when was Daffy Duck invented?

  • - Invented?

  • Created? - Yeah.

  • When did Thomas Edison sit down and invent Daffy Duck?

  • - I'm going to say in...

  • the 1930s.

  • - The 1930s?

  • I was alive then. - No you weren't.

  • - I'm trying to imagine what the voice of fusion

  • of Daffy Duck and Porky Pig is like.

  • (laughs) I can't.

  • (stuttering)

  • - It's like lisping also.

  • (laughs)

  • - If anybody out there has the vocal talent

  • to fuse the voices of Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, please--

  • - Please do it. - Please respond.

  • - What I will say, though, is Rocko and Dora have similar,

  • they're both pretty small, stout characters, so--

  • - Similar proportions? - Similar proportions.

  • - Well, Betty Boop has a little more anatomy than Marge.

  • So just trying to find a happy medium.

  • - I love Skeletor's cute nails.

  • Yeah. - He does have

  • nice little nails.

  • - He has cute nails on, its like--

  • - A man-pedi type situation. - Yeah, it's very cute.

  • He takes care of his nails

  • and he paints them black.

  • He's really compensating for that no face thing.

  • - He really is.

  • - I'm taking Porky's nose, I'm taking Daffy's beak,

  • throwing in a little bit Hae-Joon in there.

  • - Me? - Yeah.

  • Sorry you had to find out like that.

  • - Is Skeletor really evil or is he cartoon evil?

  • - Is he just misunderstood?

  • He's definitely bumbling, I'll give you that.

  • - He's a dumb-dumb?

  • - He's not the greatest villain.

  • His schemes always backfire,

  • but it's mostly due to his incompetent henchmen.

  • - At a certain point, it's like why are you getting

  • the worst henchman to do that job?

  • - You know, times are tough. - Times are tough.

  • - Good help is hard to find.

  • - Not a lot of henchmen around these days.

  • Especially henchmen with henchmen degrees.

  • - Yup, the henchman degree does not pay what it used to.

  • - Have you actually ever met Matt Groening?

  • - I've met him a couple times.

  • - How was he?

  • - He's super friendly, always willing to talk.

  • An all around nice guy.

  • - That must be so surreal to be him.

  • - All right. - Boom.

  • - Done. - How'd you do?

  • - I think I did a good job. - Yeah?

  • - I think it looks like a Grim Reaper

  • undead, buff Daffy Duck.

  • This is the thing you see when you die.

  • (Kevin laughs)

  • - Is he cute? - He's cute, yeah.

  • I would swipe right on him on Tinder.

  • - So how do you think you did?

  • - I think I did pretty good.

  • It's just Rocko in Dora's clothes.

  • How about you?

  • How do you think you did? - I mean, that's how I feel.

  • It's like Betty Boop trying to be Marge.

  • But I mean, I did the best that I could and I accept that.

  • - I think this is pretty close to what I have in my head.

  • - Cute.

  • - Switch-a-roo. - Wait.

  • You gonna ask how I did on mine?

  • - No. - Okay, let's switch.

  • (fast orchestral m1usic)

  • - Oh, man. (laughs) - Yours is so cute!

  • - Oh, dude, I love this.

  • - Oh my gosh, she's adorable.

  • Ooh, I love her garter, or whatever it's called.

  • - This is totally Rocko in a Halloween costume.

  • - It is!

  • (both laugh)

  • - Oh, it's so cute. - Whoa!

  • I want this monster to be in real life.

  • And I'm combing from it's womb! (Jonni laughs)

  • - Oh. - Wow.

  • - Oh!

  • Why did you draw it at an up angle, Kevin?

  • - Power, power stance.

  • - It looks more like a BDSM thing.

  • - Fun fact, Wonder Woman was actually created

  • as a BDSM character.

  • The creator of Wonder Woman,

  • I wanna say his name is William Martson something,

  • he was actually a BDSM cartoonist.

  • - This is not a fun fact.

  • This is more of a disturbing fact.

  • - I think you primarily used Betty Boop's body

  • and then flourishes of Marge within the colors,

  • the accessories, I think the eyes.

  • You had a nice mix of Betty Boop and Marge in the eyes.

  • - I don't think there's a part that she didn't use.

  • All parts of the creatures are represented in this drawing

  • plus extra, there is a dash of Shrek.

  • - So, yours is a delight. - It's delight?

  • - Yes. - Aw.

  • - I think it's a great combination of the two characters.

  • I like how you kept Skeletor's buff body,

  • but gave him a duck face.

  • One suggestion I would've given you is for his staff,

  • you should've put a fossilized duck head.

  • - Well, I made a bird skull.

  • - It's a bird, but, you know what I mean?

  • The head of his enemies.

  • - Oh, like Bugs Bunny?

  • - Ooh! - Ooh, Bugs Bunny's head

  • on a stake.

  • That's what Daffy Duck,

  • that's what Daffy-tor would want.

  • Duck-a-tor, Skel-a-Duck would want.

  • - I really love what Hae-Joon has done here.

  • I know my Garf, I know my Garf, Hae-Joon,

  • and let me tell you, you got him, you got him good.

  • - I think this is actually a really good exercise

  • for if you have art block or something,

  • you could just take two cartoon characters

  • and mash them together and see what you get.

  • - And sometimes you can even get something

  • completely different and a whole new character

  • out of those things.

  • - I thoroughly enjoyed this.

  • This is what art is about.

  • You take old ideas, you make them new.

  • - You know what, I will continue to mash up characters

  • because I think it's a fun way to stretch your character

  • design muscles, like the muscles on your Duck-a-tor.

  • - On my Duck-a-tor.

  • - Daf-a-tor. - Daf-a-tor.

  • - Skel-a-duck. - Skel-a-duck.

  • - So, if you want to enter for a chance to win

  • this Wacom Intuos tablet, all you have to do

  • is go to Buzzfeed Comics' Instagram,

  • that's @comics on Instagram, find this post,

  • and follow the instructions in the description.

  • Best of luck to you!

  • - Thank you Blue Apron for the pistachio Wacom tablets.

  • - No, it is, first of all,

  • it is not Blue Apron that's sponsoring this.

  • It is Wacom. - Thank you Dollar Shave Club

  • for the Wacom tablets. - That's enough.

  • That is quite enough.

  • - Hi, I'm Stephanie. - Hey, I'm Kyra.

  • - And today, we're drawing characters

  • that we have never seen before.

  • - Based on each other's descriptions.

  • - Hmm. - Hmm.

  • - Do I trust you?

  • - I don't trust me, trusting you not trusting me.

  • - I chose something incredibly obscure, but also simple.

  • - Okay, I feel like mine is simple in construction

  • and what's gonna be interesting is how the details come in.

  • - But first, be sure to stick around to the end of the video

  • to find out how you can enter for a chance to win

  • this Wacom Intuos tablet

  • for all of your digital drawing needs,

  • courtesy to our good friends at Wacom.

  • - Did you know that your hair and nails continue to grow

  • after you die?

  • - How is that relevant?

  • (fast orchestral music)

  • All right, so what character am I drawing today?

  • - All right, so for you I chose Junkrat from "Overwatch".

  • - No idea who that is.

  • - Yeah, he's a junky boy.

  • What are you making me draw?

  • - I'm making you draw a comic book character from my era.

  • - The 1700s? - Stop it.

  • By the name of Spawn.

  • - Oh, so Stephanie, what have you chosen for me to draw?

  • - You are going to be drawing Raz,

  • Razputin from "Psychonauts".

  • - So what am I going to be drawing?

  • - So I chose the most obscure thing ever.

  • I chose Rue from "Peropero Sparkles".

  • - That means nothing to me.

  • - You are drawing Shin-Chan. - Shin-Chan.

  • - Shin-Chan, Shin-Chan. - Classic Shin-Chan.

  • My boy Shin-Chan.

  • Who the hell is Shin-Chan?

  • - Who am I drawing today?

  • - I have a very special Pokemon for you today, Cody.

  • His name is Garbodor, the garbage Pokemon. (laughs)

  • Garbage in concept and design.

  • - So give me an overall description of Junkrat.

  • So he's like a human?

  • - Yeah, he's an Australian dude.

  • He's just laughy and giggly, he loves destruction.

  • - Okay, so he's chaotic evil. - He's chaot--

  • He's not evil, he's chaotic/neutral.

  • - Give me an overall description

  • of clothing. - So he's shirtless.

  • He's got some pants on.

  • - He's like the Joker.

  • - Well, but he's not clean like the Joker.

  • - Oh, okay, Junkrat is like-- - He's wacky.

  • - Is he wild and wacky?

  • - He's wild and wacky with Overwatch.

  • Junkrat uses grenades and stuff,

  • it's like a grenade launcher.

  • His ultimate move is that he has this tire,

  • it rolls around and it explodes.

  • Two more things, 'cause I feel like I have to tell you.

  • His hair is on fire.

  • - Seriously? - Kind of

  • and he is missing two limbs.

  • - Let me give you an overall description of Spawn

  • so you can start drawing.

  • - Okay ,so we're gonna be drawing at the same time?

  • - Yup, it's gonna break your brain.

  • - My brain is already not really fully completed.

  • - Okay, so give me a general description of Razputin.

  • - Yeah, so he's human, his overall construction,

  • big head, small body, long limbs,

  • very angular in his design.

  • In the game, he's what they call a psychonaut,

  • so he's going to summer camp to learn how to be a psychonaut

  • and basically infiltrate people's minds.

  • - All right, give me somewhere to start with this character.

  • - Okay, well first of all, just so you know,

  • he's like two heads tall.

  • - So he's a very small person.

  • - Yeah, you squat.

  • It's a child and his head is like, oh man,

  • it's kind of like a "B".

  • I'm sure somebody, there's hardcore Shin-Chan fans out there

  • screaming, "His head's the classic 'B' shape,"

  • or something, whatever they think.

  • - A "B"? - Oh, you know,

  • it's that bean Cartoon Network character head

  • that Clarence and everybody has.

  • - Oh, I know what you're taking about.

  • Yes, the cartoon network face.

  • - What does Rue look like?

  • - Okay, so you're gonna think of,

  • it's like an alien teddy bear and the one thing

  • that I will give you is the eyes look like they have

  • the entire universe in them it's like a galaxy eye.

  • Colorful, carebear-y, really cute,

  • kind of like Pokemon, anime-ish.

  • - A Spawn is if Venom and Superman

  • went to a goth party.

  • - This is getting more confusing for me

  • 'cause I'm imagining a buff goth kid.

  • - I mean, if you wanna go into a story he is undead

  • and he gets his powers from a deal

  • that he made with The Devil.

  • - Oh my God, why'd he do that?

  • Did he die at one point?

  • - He did. - And he went to Hell?

  • - Yup, he used to be a mercenary, killed people for money,

  • and so he went to Hell and he made a deal with The Devil

  • because he wanted to see his wife one more time.

  • The Devil being The Devil gave him demonic superpowers,

  • put him back on the Earth, but then wiped his memory,

  • so he didn't know who his wife was.

  • - Oh, so that sucks.

  • - So here's Garbodor for you.

  • He's an amorphous blob Pokemon.

  • - Great. - So really no,

  • not too much defining, he's sort of just a mound.

  • So his pre-evolved form is a garbage bag

  • and as he evolved, it looks like the bag

  • just kind of bust open from the bottom,

  • like it got too fat with stuff.

  • And so now the top of his mound

  • is a bag that's been split open.

  • - So he's like a pyramid shape?

  • - Blobby pyramid.

  • - What is Sparkle Sparkle Pera Pera woohoo?

  • Whatever it is.

  • - So PeroPero Sparkles,

  • it's made by this indie artist in Japan

  • and it's used for lot of fashion and comics, merchandise,

  • it's just kind of like a mascot character sort of thing.

  • - I feel like it's one of those things

  • that I've seen a dozen times

  • but I've never actually put a face or name to.

  • Is it like in the Sanrio

  • realm of character? - Yes.

  • For sure very Sanrio.

  • - Does he have any motifs, this guy?

  • - What do you mean?

  • - You know how the motif of Spiderman is a spider

  • and Superman is an "S".

  • - He doesn't really.

  • On his chest he has a swath of a different color but like--

  • - It's like a logo or is it--

  • You know what, don't tell me. - Make a choice.

  • - I will draw what I think Spawn's logo would be.

  • - Follow your heart. - And it's a skull

  • 'cause goths love human anatomy.

  • (Kevin laughs)

  • - I don't know what he wears but I'm gonna try my best.

  • - I can give you some basic description.

  • - So he has an aviator helmet with some goggles.

  • - I remember that, okay. - Okay.

  • I mean his basic outfit is a sweater, a jacket, and pants.

  • He has gloves too.

  • Does this character wear anything, or is she just--

  • - Nope, naked. - Okay.

  • - Okay, I still don't have much to work with with your guy.

  • - He's a pretty simple character.

  • - Describe as much as you can as quickly as possible.

  • - He's got a red sweater.

  • His arms taper to really thin wrists.

  • Same thing with the legs, they just taper to tiny, little,

  • pointy feet and he's got yellow shorts, white socks on.

  • - Does Junkrat, is he wearing shoes?

  • - Yes, he's wearing shoes.

  • - Is he wearing boots?

  • - Oh, you know what?

  • One of his legs is a peg leg.

  • - Okay, peg leg it is.

  • Is that one of his missing limbs?

  • - The one of his missing legs is one of his legs

  • is a peg leg but they're not gone gone, he's replaced them.

  • This is the future. - Right.

  • - So your storyboard revision is on Muppet babies,

  • which is adorable.

  • - Thank you. - So do you feel like

  • the character that I've given you to draw

  • is kind of in the wheelhouse?

  • - Definitely.

  • We've got Fozzie Bear on that show, Baby Fozzie,

  • and he's super, there's anime, chibi proportions.

  • Same with all the other characters.

  • They're all very two to three heads tall and big limbs

  • and everything like that, so I've probably been

  • drawing a character like this in some regard

  • for the last nine months that I've been there.

  • - So once you've got his body down,

  • I'll go into describing his horrendous-looking hands.

  • - Oh, he has hands?

  • - So one of them is kind of coming out of the bottom

  • of his body, his right hand.

  • And then his other one, it's just like the same thing

  • but it's near where his shoulder,

  • you would imagine it would be.

  • - In terms of boggs--

  • - They're kind of loopy. - Does he have Bohanna hands?

  • Or Bowie hands? - It's Bowie.

  • Boggs is an account, The Land of Boggs,

  • that I work on at Buzzfeed.

  • - One of them has these great arms for squeezing things.

  • - So we're trying to reference things

  • that we're more familiar with.

  • - So since we both work in animation,

  • do you use a Wacom tablet?

  • - I do, actually we use Cintiq at work and then I have

  • a Cintiq at home that I freelance animation on.

  • So I've been using Wacom since I was maybe 11 or 12.

  • My dad wanted to get me

  • in the digital art game pretty early.

  • - Yeah, I also have a Cintiq here at work and at home

  • and yeah, I started really young with a Intuos or something.

  • And as soon as I went onto Cintiq,

  • I was like I can't ever go back. (laughs)

  • It feels so good to just draw on the screen.

  • - Can I give you just one word

  • and you interpret it however you want?

  • - I mean, I've already committed to this goth kid look

  • but maybe. - Okay, are you ready?

  • - I'm ready.

  • - Spikes. - Spikes?

  • - Mm-hmm. - Does he have spiky knuckles?

  • - You interpret that however you want.

  • - Okay.

  • - Think spikes, Jackie.

  • - I'm gonna give him spikes on his head.

  • Oh, you said there's nothing on his head.

  • - There's nothing on his head.

  • - I've already drawn them.

  • - Oh, boy.

  • - They're just gonna

  • be there now. - And the thing about drawing

  • digitally is there's no way to erase.

  • - No, there's no way.

  • I've never-- - There's no way.

  • - If there is a way, can someone please let me know.

  • - Let us know in the comments.

  • - Oh, no, I'm gonna tell you something.

  • - About Garbodor?

  • - No, about the character I'm drawing.

  • - About Shin? - As you gave me

  • the head details, I think I might know this character.

  • Now I think it's coming to me.

  • - So if you ever get amnesia and we need to revive

  • your memory, we just make you draw

  • and you'll remember things that you've seen before?

  • - Yeah.

  • - Is there anything that this little character's

  • supposed to-- - I will say they have a tail

  • that's got a big poof ball at the end.

  • - I didn't plan for a tail,

  • oh no! - (laughs) A poof tail.

  • - Oh, you know what, he has very, very stubby feet

  • at the bottom that are just made of the garbage.

  • They're like that purple-- - So he's a grimace, yeah.

  • - He's basically a garbage grimace.

  • - So, I think I just drew Venom in goth clothes.

  • - You're not far off.

  • - I don't like Spawn.

  • - Listen, if you were a dude like me in the 90s,

  • you were all about Spawn.

  • - It's a good thing I'm a woman like me in the 2010s

  • and I love, instead, dirty pyromaniacs.

  • - Oh, I didn't make him dirty. - Come on!

  • - I didn't have time to make him dirty!

  • - Aw, he's so filthy. - I know.

  • - He probably looks like a gentleman.

  • - Yeah.

  • - How you think you did, Cody?

  • - This is one of the most disgusting things

  • I've drawn in a long time.

  • - Yeah, probably the grosser the better.

  • - The character's very cute.

  • I think, from what I'm remembering vaguely in my head

  • of this character, if I do know it,

  • I think this is accurate.

  • But it was only because you gave me such a good description.

  • - How do you think you did?

  • - I think I did okay. (laughs)

  • He looks like a little Animal Crossing character,

  • but I don't know, he's cute.

  • How do you think you did?

  • - I mean, I heard teddy bear and this is what I snapped to

  • so, I think it's as close as I could get it without seeing.

  • (fast orchestral music)

  • - Oh, no, you kind of did it.

  • You did!

  • Oh my gosh.

  • - He's passable Shin fan art.

  • - The disgusting blob Pokemon.

  • It turns out he can be described effectively.

  • - Huh? - Okay.

  • (both laugh)

  • This is not Spawn, but I can see how you got here

  • from my description.

  • - This looks like Aquaman cosplaying Junkrat.

  • Why'd you give him an earring?

  • - 'Cause he's like a crazy guy.

  • - Are crazy dudes

  • wearing earrings? He's like, - Yeah, he's got earrings.

  • - "Ah, I'm so wacky, oh, whoa, watch this.

  • "whoa!" - Yeah.

  • - Ooh! - Oh, I love him!

  • - Yours is so cute. - Thank you.

  • - No, you definitely channeled it.

  • - Really? - Yeah.

  • - That's good to hear. - This is ridiculously cute.

  • Like, I love him. - Yours is very cute.

  • You definitely made him a much more optimistic character

  • than anything he does look. - Is he a sad boy?

  • - He's just a kind of angsty boy, you know,

  • he's a bit aggressive.

  • - Okay, let's switch back. - Okay.

  • (fast orchestral music)

  • - Oh.

  • (both laugh)

  • You didn't mention the blob of stuff on her head.

  • That's so cute.

  • - Oh!

  • Okay, I get it, he's more shaped.

  • He's like a Picasso painting.

  • - It's funny that you even knew to describe this as garbage

  • because without knowing his name,

  • I didn't even read that as a trash bag, really.

  • This is just confusing looking.

  • - You know, I did well, Jackie.

  • - Yeah, okay. - No, I did.

  • I did. - You did, okay, Kevin.

  • You got much closer than I did.

  • It looks, you know, again, if you squint, it's Junkrat.

  • And you were kind enough

  • to give him a bag for all his stuff.

  • You know, the original designers didn't do that.

  • - Oh, man, okay, yeah.

  • I got some stuff right.

  • The hair, I just made that up,

  • I'm amazed that I kinda got the color.

  • He has a striped shirt, which I sort of predicted.

  • (Stephanie laughs)

  • Mine is definitely baby version.

  • - I feel like my version is if you took the design

  • and made it Western.

  • - Yeah, this guy looks way more angry.

  • This guy just kind of looks like his mom told him

  • he couldn't go to the concert alone and he--

  • - "Aw, come on! Mom!" - "Mom! Mom, everybody else

  • "is going, I'm the only one who can't go."

  • - "But I'm Spawn, Mom." - " But Mom, I'm Spawn,

  • "I have demonic powers.

  • "I can and will send you to Hell!"

  • - If I had to pick a person to describe things to me,

  • we work together so much that I think you're probably

  • the right person to describe a cartoon

  • I've never heard of to me.

  • So, it was pretty easy.

  • - I guess we have more of a shorthhand that we can draw on.

  • I think referencing other characters is very important.

  • - It was kind of cool to interpret what I was told

  • and not just try to fill in the blanks yourself.

  • There was a nice creative flow that came from that.

  • - This was really fun.

  • I really like doing it.

  • - So the fact that I got closer than I thought that I did,

  • I will say is a compliment to your descriptive abilities.

  • - And you know what, me getting really far off

  • is an insult to you.

  • - Okay, give away time, if you want to enter for a chance

  • to win this Wacom Intuos S tablet, all you have to do

  • is go to Buzzfeed Comics' Instagram,

  • that's @Comics on Instagram, find this post,

  • and follow the instructions in the description.

  • Best of luck to you.

  • - Can I get some pogs in the comment for this giveaway?

  • Pigs. - Is it from "Star Wars"?

  • - From "Star Wars".

  • Yup, completely. - I don't know.

  • - Hi, I'm Cody. - Hi, I'm Hae-Joon.

  • - Today, we're gonna be drawing--

  • - Whatever the internet wants us to.

  • - Yeah, and I'll add horns and appendages to all of it.

  • - I'm scared.

  • (fast orchestral music)

  • - This is a replay of a livestream,

  • so if you hear a disembodied phantom voice,

  • it's our moderator.

  • - Matt is our ghost moderator.

  • - He floats and it's very impressive.

  • - [Matt] Let's start with a UFO piloted by a cow.

  • - I'm guessing people are still

  • feeling the storming Area 51 memes.

  • - [Matt] Stella James suggests a young child

  • who is rocking a dragon costume.

  • - That's nice. - Young child.

  • - [Matt] I like one suggestion that was just,

  • Pizza Man, Pizza Man.

  • - I think we gotta do Pizza Man.

  • What else are we gonna do?

  • - I'm feeling the dragon kid, though.

  • - [Matt] Ooh, I would personally like to see

  • a cat doing pottery. - Okay.

  • - You wanna do that? - And it's for a unicorn

  • playing the piano.

  • - Unicorn!

  • I wanna draw a unicorn, let's do unicorn.

  • - What about a cat doing pottery with a unicorn.

  • Like in that scene

  • from "Ghost". - Like "Ghost"!

  • - Yeah. (laughs) - That's what I'm trying to

  • think, like "Ghost", just like--

  • "Ooh!" - Oh, yeah, that's it.

  • Shout out to Louise Kiwi for the Pizza Man suggestion.

  • - Shout out to Louise.

  • - What is your plan for Pizza Man, Brent?

  • - Jason, all will be revealed.

  • (Jason laughs) No, I'm kidding.

  • - It's been a while since you've been on "Draw Off", Nick.

  • - It has been a while. - How does it feel?

  • - It feels like I never left.

  • - [Matt] I just wanna give a quick shout-out to Crazy Doc.

  • Thank you for the suggestion of the cat doing pottery.

  • - Unicorns and cats are very popular.

  • - I mean, why not, you know?

  • - I forgot what cows look like,

  • so I'm gonna draw a "Far Side" cow.

  • If anybody knows that comic reference, kudos to you.

  • - But, I have a 19-month-old little child and he is awesome.

  • Maybe I'll buy him a dragon costume,

  • maybe I'll make him a dragon costume.

  • - [Matt] We already have our first edition.

  • The cow is joined by Peppa Pig.

  • - Is that a specific pig?

  • - It's a beloved children's pig.

  • - [Crew Member] Guys, since Peppa Pig is copyrighted,

  • we can't do it. - We can't do it?

  • - Okay. - So, should we do Salt Pig?

  • - Mustard Pig. - Oh yeah, okay.

  • We're drawing Mustard Pig.

  • - Unicorn's gotta be majestic.

  • And by majestic, I mean--

  • (laughs) I don't know how to draw a horse.

  • I'm just kind of roughing out rough placement.

  • Helps me to kind of see what's sort of,

  • 'cause in my head right now,

  • it's like I sort of have a fuzzy idea

  • of what I wanna draw, it's not really clear enough.

  • Some people, they are just like boom,

  • they know exactly what they wanna draw,

  • and they're just like (buzzes).

  • But for me, it's sort of like an exploration.

  • - Honestly, that's it forever,

  • even when you become a professional artist,

  • you're always just gonna be like,

  • "I have no idea what I'm doing."

  • - Yeah, pretty much. - You never will.

  • - Hae-Joon, did you grow up wanting to be an animator?

  • - I did, actually.

  • Somewhere in my parents' apartment in Korea

  • are dusty old Post-It Notes full of animator stick-figures

  • doing violent things because that's apparently

  • what you animate when you first animate things.

  • - [Matt] The overall consensus in the chat,

  • not to give anything away for Jason, is the Pizza Man's legs

  • are making them feel some type of way.

  • (both laugh)

  • - Pizza Man is available for bachelorette parties.

  • (Jason laughs)

  • You can book now.

  • - Oh my God, I gotta give this a beautiful mane of hair.

  • I love that my unicorn looks more like a cow,

  • I think, I don't even know. - That's so cute!

  • I love chubby unicorns. - He needs ears,

  • he needs ears.

  • - [Matt] Quick suggestion, take it or leave it, Maria D.,

  • - Maria D. - has been trying

  • to get a mullet on everything today and thinks that

  • Pizza Man might be-- - Pizza Man's

  • gonna have a mullet.

  • Okay, you've got your mullet.

  • Here we go, 'cause that's what we do

  • here at "Draw-Off Live", we make dreams come true.

  • You know, I've gotta say, I don't think I've drawn a mullet

  • just about ever, but we're gonna make this happen.

  • It's gonna be a cheesy, cheese mullet.

  • - Do we have anything else on the cow?

  • I need to know more about this.

  • Is he happy driving it?

  • Is he being held hostage by the pig?

  • Is the cow taking the pig to the hospital

  • and the pig's bleeding out from a laser wound?

  • - Could you come up with a backstory

  • for my little unicorn I'm drawing?

  • If that's okay.

  • - You guys, you've birthed this creature.

  • I need to know where he comes from.

  • - [Matt] BBGR suggests that she just broke up with her

  • boyfriend and is writing a song about it, obviously.

  • - (laughs) She's pretty happy about it.

  • - [Matt] I've got a good suggestion from Jason Brown.

  • The cow has graduated top of his class at MIT.

  • - So this is the cow's thesis.

  • - (laughs) Very specific.

  • - [Matt] Pastel World says Pizza Man was an Olympic

  • ice skater who turned into a crime-fighting mullet-rocking

  • vigilante, who destroys enemies with pepperoni,

  • with a pepperoni Frisbee of destruction.

  • - I like the idea that he peels off pepperonis

  • from his body and throws them at his enemies.

  • - [Matt] Mac Ade suggest that the pig

  • is the significant other.

  • - I'm ruminating on this new relationship.

  • - [Matt] I just wanna shout-out, a lot of these backstories

  • for the unicorn are so well thought-out

  • and touching, if I read them I might cry.

  • - Oh my God. - Aw!

  • - [Matt] So, Langwar is very insistent on a pink cow.

  • - A pink cow. - I can make that happen.

  • - We can make those dreams come true.

  • - [Matt] I have a question from Marsha.

  • - Marsha, what's your question?

  • How do you draw human body parts so well?

  • - Oh, wow. - Aw, well thanks.

  • Just hitting your head against the wall for a decade,

  • I'd say, just trying every freakin' day

  • to draw feet

  • and being really bad at it for most of the time.

  • And then you know, one day you'll wake up

  • and you'll be like, "Oh, I get it, I get how feet work."

  • (Jason laughs)

  • - Drawing things really fast, I've realized, helps.

  • 'Cause you learn to get the way things flow.

  • - I think this is probably post-graduation celebration.

  • They are going to party. - They're drunk farm animals.

  • - I like to think that maybe this cow

  • is the designated driver.

  • - And the pig is drunk on mustard?

  • - When you're laughing at your own drawing,

  • that's usually good, I think.

  • Oh my God, I've gotta get to color, though.

  • I wanna put so much pink on this.

  • - No, don't make everything pink.

  • That's not how, that's not how this works.

  • - That's how it works for me.

  • - Actually, no.

  • Pizza Man needs beautiful eyes.

  • - [Matt] Jessica Jones says,

  • "I've really been staring at Pizza Man's legs

  • "for 17 minutes."

  • (Jason laughs)

  • - Here, I'll help you out with that, there you go.

  • Yeah.

  • - This is about to be real messy, y'all.

  • This-- - Gotta get some good

  • legs shots in here.

  • There we go.

  • - Hae-Joon, how you feeling about your party animals?

  • - I'm looking at the colors right now.

  • It feels like it belongs in the "Rugrats".

  • - [Matt] Bland Cheese says,

  • "I wanna see some grease on Pizza Man."

  • - He's actually, he's sort of done getting greased

  • and now there's just a pool of grease underneath him

  • where he's been dripping all day.

  • - Oh my God, I'm so ashamed in myself.

  • I drew a drawing recently

  • and I drew a character's hand backwards. (laughs)

  • - That's like-- - I'm so dumb.

  • - People do that all the time, it's okay.

  • 'Cause you get into a drawing and you forget

  • and you're just like, "Oh, this drawing!"

  • and then you're like, "Oh, everything about this is wrong."

  • If I took this drawing and flipped it,

  • which is by the way, a great thing you can do

  • when you're drawing is you draw and then flip the drawing,

  • like if I took this and reversed it,

  • I probably would be like, "I see all sorts of problems."

  • - I'm really excited for what you're drawing.

  • I think I'm the one who

  • drew something unsatisfying. - This is very strange,

  • I gotta say, I took this a little far.

  • (both laugh)

  • - [Matt] Yeah, you guys are kind of

  • drawing each other's styles.

  • - Yeah, we kind of switched places here.

  • - Yeah.

  • - What a strange turn of events.

  • - I've gotta do an other worldly unicorn glow,

  • 'cause unicorn's sort of a ghost, ooh!

  • (Kyra laughs)

  • - Unicorns are ghosts? - Unicorn ghost!

  • - What are you talking about?

  • It's over,

  • put your pen down. - Okay, I'm done!

  • - All right, Pizza Man is done.

  • This is as gross as he's ever gonna look.

  • - I could keep going, definitely,

  • but I think I can stop here as well.

  • - So, how do you think you did, Cody?

  • - If I saw this out of context on my Instagram feed,

  • I wouldn't know what to make of it,

  • and I would just keep scrolling, I think.

  • - I also feel those sentiments.

  • - I drew, now looking at it, what look's like a

  • cow-horse-unicorn holding a pot with a cat.

  • I like it!

  • It's weird.

  • (fast orchestral music)

  • - Oh, cute! (Jason laughs)

  • Oh my God, this is really good.

  • This is so wholesome.

  • - Wow. - I love it.

  • - Yours is amazing! - O-M-G, yours is adorable.

  • - Thank you! - Kyra is so good

  • at drawing cute stuff. (groans)

  • - I like the storytelling involved

  • with this graduated/married thing.

  • - He looks like he's really about this job,

  • he's just like, "Yo, I'm 'bout to do a performance."

  • - Don't get in the splash zone.

  • - Yeah. (laughs)

  • - I really love that Mustard Pig is just a regular pig

  • but mustard-colored. - Mustard. (laughs)

  • I love this embrace that your characters are in.

  • There's probable tension and you hope

  • that the cow will land the UFO safely.

  • - You got the majestic feeling - Thank you.

  • of a unicorn. - But you did too!

  • Yours is so good, it's hilarious.

  • - (laughs) We definitely switched places this episode.

  • - Oh, man, I know.

  • This is character development, Jason.

  • - Drawing with the internet suggests is really fun

  • and I wanna do it more.

  • - I like this because I don't have to stick to

  • a character design that I'm trying to remember,

  • which is the normal format of the show.

  • - Thanks for sassy farm animals,

  • thank you. - Yes, thank you very much.

  • - See everyone, drawing's awesome.

  • Just, don't stop drawing, okay.

  • - Hey, I'm Jackie. - Hey, I'm Kevin.

  • - And today we're gonna be drawing...

  • - Whatever the internet tells us.

  • So this is a replay of a previously recorded livestream.

  • The chat on the livestream will be telling us what to draw

  • as embodied by the voice of our producer, Matt.

  • - Matt.

  • - [Matt] We're gonna start throwing suggestions at you.

  • - Okay? - Okay!

  • - If something grav--

  • If you gravitate towards something...

  • - If something graveth thy attention.

  • - Draweth it. - Draweth it at "Draw Off"!

  • - All right. - I should be a town crier.

  • - You should.

  • - [Matt] Lexibora, don't know how to pronounce it,

  • dinosaurs in burlesque outfits, cat on a board

  • skateboarding on an alligator, not sure how that one works.

  • - Okay. - Are we doing one?

  • - We got a teenager learning to use

  • an element of your choosing.

  • - This is just "Avatar".

  • That's the log line of "Avatar: The Last Airbender"

  • that they brought in.

  • - [Matt] Jackie as a cat.

  • - You take that back whoever said that.

  • - [Matt] Jackie as a squirrel!

  • - You take that back!

  • - [Matt] We've got a reverse centaur.

  • - A reverse centaur? - Ew!

  • - So like horse top

  • and person bottom. - And human body.

  • - [Matt] A Cthulhu working

  • his summer job. - That's cute.

  • - Cthulhu working his summer job?

  • - I'm gonna look up what Cthulhu looks like.

  • - You're gonna do that?

  • - Yeah, I-- - I think you could do that

  • really cute.

  • - Cthulhu's kinda scary.

  • I'm gonna draw this,

  • I'm gonna draw Cthulhu... - You're gonna draw Cthulhu--

  • - Cthulhu at his summer job. - Cthulhu working

  • a summer job, okay.

  • - What job should Cthulhu have?

  • I was thinking just a simple cashier.

  • - [Matt] Oh, Kevin as a squirrel!

  • - Kevin as a squirrel.

  • Now that's a suggestion I can get behind.

  • - All right, I'll do me as a squirrel.

  • - [Matt] Ooh, a little shade in the chat.

  • Barbara V. says, "Kevin will do him anyways."

  • - Oh, wow, Barbara. - Ooh, Barbara.

  • - Wait a minute, Barbara V., that's my mom.

  • Mom?

  • - Is that really your mom? - That's my mom!

  • Mom, what the hell?

  • I guarantee you Barbara V. is my mom.

  • - I love Kevin's mom.

  • (fast orchestral music)

  • - [Matt] I got a lot more job suggestions if you need one.

  • You think you got it?

  • - Give it to me,

  • I'm just gonna- - We got lifeguard,

  • we got swim instructor, we got ice cream parlor.

  • - Don't ice cream parlor people come with little hats?

  • - Yup. - Ooh, if you look up

  • ice cream parlor outfit, you just get a lot of

  • uncomfortably sexy Halloween costumes.

  • - Jackie, what do you know about Cthulhu?

  • - Octopus, baby. - He's an octopus, baby?

  • - Yeah, octopus, baby!

  • - Ay! - Ay, I'm walking here.

  • - Ay, I'm an octopus here. - Ay, hot dog,

  • get your hot dogs.

  • (both laugh)

  • - Matt, are there any questions in the chat for us?

  • - Ask me a question.

  • I probably won't answer it, but maybe I will.

  • - [Matt] Black Sheep Ink suggests,

  • "What are your guys favorite cartoons?"

  • - You go first, I have to think about it.

  • - My current favorite cartoon is "Bob's Burgers".

  • - "Bob's Burgers" is amazing. - Yes,

  • but I would say that my favorite cartoon

  • of all time would probably be "Freakazoid".

  • Do you remember "Freakazoid"?

  • - I mean, I know... - From the 90s?

  • - I know "Freakazoid" but, - You know him?

  • - I do know Freakazoid, yes! - Personally?

  • - Yes, I went to high school

  • with that guy. - Get out!

  • - Yeah!

  • - Is he cool?

  • - No.

  • - That's a bummer. - That's a bummer,

  • you know, don't meet your heroes.

  • - What's your favorite cartoon?

  • - I don't know if this one's my favorite,

  • but I think when I was a kid, the most I've ever watched

  • of a cartoon was probably "Powerpuff Girls".

  • - I was gonna guess it was some type of anime,

  • like "Sailor Moon"

  • or "Naruto". - Oh, I guess if,

  • oh, if we're talking anime as well,

  • it was "Sailor Moon". - "Sailor Moon" over "Naruto"?

  • - Yeah, 'cause "Naruto" came kind of later.

  • - [Matt] Tiny Timelord asks,

  • "If you were a superhero, what would your superpower be?

  • - Wow. - Okay,

  • what would be your superpower?

  • - Yours would be being a squirrel.

  • - Apparently.

  • - What do you think I would have, Kevin?

  • - Ooh, are we gonna do it for each other?

  • - Let's do it for each other.

  • I think it would get more interesting results.

  • Otherwise, I'm gonna say something stupid, like,

  • "I was I could teleport so I don't have to walk anymore."

  • - Well, actually, that was kind of what

  • I was gonna say for you.

  • - Next question.

  • - How do you feel about super speed?

  • - That's pretty cool.

  • I think I would love to just flex on people

  • for being really fast.

  • - So that's what I would choose for you.

  • What would you choose for me?

  • - Mayhaps the power to change someone's mind.

  • - Like "Inception"?

  • - No, just like a yes or no decision.

  • Like, do you want to go get ice cream?

  • - Wait, wait, let's try it out.

  • Do you want to go get ice cream?

  • - Yes.

  • (dramatic evil music)

  • I don't even like ice cream.

  • - You don't like ice cream?

  • - No.

  • (Kevin groans)

  • Yeah, I hate all things that are fun.

  • - How's your drawing coming?

  • - It's going pretty good, I'm lining.

  • Having a good time.

  • - I'm lining as well.

  • - [Matt] I got a great question from Ruby Artwork.

  • - Love you, Ruby Artwork.

  • - [Matt] How do you color faster?

  • Are there any tips and tricks that you have to color

  • a drawing faster?

  • - I'll take this one.

  • One thing that I've started to do here on "Draw Off",

  • learning from Jackie, is to simply duplicate my line art

  • layer and use the paint bucket tool in order to fill it in.

  • Now, in my world of print media, that is not a good way

  • to do it because you want to do what's called trapping,

  • and I'm not gonna bore you with what trapping is,

  • but for screen art, it's perfectly acceptable

  • and it's a much quicker way to color.

  • - Asamijuzowa-- - Love you, Asami.

  • - [Matt] asks if you could've contributed to any cartoon

  • or anime, I'm assuming in history, what would it be?

  • - That's pretty good. - Wow,

  • that is a great question.

  • - "Spirited Away".

  • I wish I made that single-handedly.

  • - Just by yourself? - By myself.

  • I wish I worked on it,

  • but I definitely was born the year it came out.

  • - I'm gonna go with "Freakazoid" again.

  • - "Freakazoid"? - Yeah, I just--

  • - You love that guy! - It really informed

  • my sense of humor.

  • - What color is Cthulhu?

  • What does the chat think?

  • What color should Cthulhu be?

  • - [Matt] I'll tell you in a minute.

  • - What flavor of ice cream should this be?

  • - Ooh, yeah, very important.

  • (both oohing)

  • - And should it have toppings?

  • If so, what kind? - I mean, sprinkles.

  • Rainbow sprinkles. - I mean, he's like a

  • horrifying demon, what if he wants blood on it.

  • - No, rainbow sprinkles.

  • - I mean, blood just hits the spot

  • in a different kind of way.

  • - [Matt] Hot pink seems to be on the top of the list.

  • And mint chocolate chip is the most popular flavor here.

  • - Hmm, you guys are weird.

  • - Jackie, do you like drawing live on the internet?

  • - It has no positive or negative effects.

  • - You are completely neutral about it, huh?

  • - There's just no emotion attached.

  • - There's no emotions attached

  • to a lot of things you do, huh?

  • - Yeah, I think so.

  • - Are you dead inside, Jackie?

  • - A little bit. - Aw.

  • - If you look into my eyes, if you look closely,

  • if you,

  • if you look...

  • Took off my shoes. - Oh, geez, okay.

  • - If you look closely into my eyes,

  • you can see that there's no more happiness or joy.

  • Only suffering.

  • - Okay, Jackie, you're making the internet

  • feel really uncomfortable.

  • - (whispers) Hello.

  • - [Matt] I love this question from Andrew Blacet.

  • - Andrew Blacet, hit us with it.

  • - [Matt] Who was your first cartoon crush?

  • - Ooh. - Oh my God!

  • - Jackie, who was your first

  • cartoon crush? - Yugi from "Yu-Gi-Oh"!

  • - Seriously? - Yes.

  • - Oh boy. - Not Yugi,

  • but when Yugi becomes cool

  • because he's using the pyramid whatever.

  • I don't really remember the details,

  • but I was like, "Wow! What a guy, that Yugi!"

  • I also, sorry everybody, I really liked Gary from "Pokemon".

  • Gary is like Ash's enemy. - Who's Gary?

  • Oh, really? - Yeah.

  • - Oh, you liked the bad boys.

  • - Yeah, I liked the bad ones.

  • But Yugi's not bad, he's a good guy.

  • - Yeah? - Yeah, but he's cool

  • like a bad guy. - Nice.

  • I'm gonna give a really lame answer

  • and a very white boy answer.

  • - Jessica Rabbit. - Yup.

  • - Oh, God.

  • I hate this. - I'm sorry.

  • I am done. - I am also done,

  • I have finished.

  • - How you think you did?

  • - I think I did wonderfully.

  • - Do you think you did the internet proud?

  • - Do you guys like my drawing?

  • - [Matt] A lot of no's. (laughs)

  • I'm just kidding.

  • - My career is over.

  • YouTube said I can't draw.

  • - [Matt] That was just a joke.

  • - Oh, see, Matt hesitated. - Oh, boy.

  • - Matt doesn't like my drawing.

  • - [Matt] I think it's great.

  • - He says with no emotion

  • or positivity. - I do!

  • - How do you think you did, Kevin?

  • - Well it definitely looks like me as a squirrel.

  • You know what, Jackie, they say draw what you know

  • and I know me. - And you know you.

  • - And I know squirrels. - And you know squirrels.

  • - I don't know squirrels. - I actually have not seen

  • many squirrels in California.

  • - I had to pull up a reference for squirrels because I don't

  • know what squirrels look like off the top of my head.

  • - That is really, really funny.

  • Why?

  • - Draw a squirrel from memory right now.

  • You've got 30 seconds.

  • - Okay, drawing a squirrel now.

  • (muttering)

  • Acorn.

  • (muttering)

  • Done! - Okay.

  • Well, we'll see.

  • - Yeah, we'll see, I put a--

  • He's the one getting the ice cream.

  • (fast orchestral music)

  • - Ah! - Ah!

  • - Ah!

  • - Wait, what is that noise?

  • - (groaning) I'm uncomfortable.

  • It's good, it's just scary.

  • - I like making you uncomfortable with my drawings.

  • Yours is adorable, - Thanks.

  • it's, you know what, when the internet suggested it,

  • I had a mental image in my head and this is pretty much

  • what I saw.

  • - I drew the squirrel, do you like the squirrel?

  • - Yeah, your squirrel is better than mine

  • and you did it in 30 seconds, congratulations.

  • Is that what you wanna hear?

  • - Yeah, I just wanted to hear that I'm better than you

  • in every way and that I am a perfect

  • and flawless human being and I can draw literally anything

  • and everything without looking up reference.

  • - Was this fun?

  • Would you have done this again?

  • - Oh yeah, that was really fun, let's do that again.

  • I liked a lot of the suggestions but the fact

  • that I could only pick one made me picky.

  • - We'll have to do it again, right?

  • - Yeah if you guys want more livestreams,

  • let's just some "Ah's" in the chat.

  • Everyone just start screaming.

  • - Let's get some screams

  • in the chat. - Can we get some screams?

  • Can we get some blood-curdling screams

  • like murderous screams in the chat like you are dying

  • of murder in the chat, in the chat please?

  • - Why you always gotta make it weird at the end?

  • - Hey, I'm Kyra. - Hey, I'm Stephanie.

  • - I'm Brent. - My name is Jason.

  • - What are we doing today?

  • I have no idea.

  • - Well, today we are doing something that you

  • in the comments have been asking for for a while--

  • - End the show?

  • - Today, we are going to be drawing each other.

  • (gasps)

  • - Wow!

  • - I was wondering

  • if this would happen. - Oh my gosh.

  • - Oh! (laughs) - No!

  • (fast orchestral music)

  • - All right, Kevin. - All right, Jackie.

  • Should I draw you cute or should I draw you old?

  • - You draw me however you want to draw me, okay?

  • - How should I draw you?

  • - Draw me in your style.

  • - My style is just me.

  • - Okay, draw me in your style but improve upon it

  • so it doesn't look like you. - So it doesn't look like me.

  • That's a tall order, Jackie, but I will try my best.

  • - What does Brent look like? - Oh, Jason.

  • What does Jason look like?

  • - I think I'm just gonna draw you looking down

  • 'cause that's how I remember you from working on this show.

  • - You've got a big smile.

  • Actually, you've got more features that I do, I feel like.

  • - Have you done caricatures or portraits before?

  • - I always have a hard time with it 'cause people are like,

  • "Make me look real, don't be afraid to make me look ugly."

  • And I'm like "Stop, what if you get upset,

  • "what if I don't do you justice."

  • - This is not-- - This is hard.

  • - This is hard. - Yeah.

  • - Yeah, I feel like I should go with the cute route.

  • I don't think I should try to draw you realistically.

  • - Yeah.

  • - Wait, smile, Jason.

  • (Jason laughs) There you go!

  • Yeah, that's the Jason smile I know.

  • - I think it's really hard to draw people that you know

  • because you don't wanna offend them, 'cause you're like,

  • even if you're like no, this actually looks good

  • or accurate, you're worried that they might be like,

  • "Is that really what you think I look like?" (laughs)

  • (sighs)

  • - I'm struggling.

  • Was this a bad idea? - It was a bad idea I think.

  • - Oh, boy. - But we've already committed.

  • - We're doin' it. - We can't stop.

  • - We're doin' it.

  • - Do you have chest hair?

  • - I do not.

  • - I think I need to see.

  • I think you need to take off your shirt.

  • - I need to take off my shirt?

  • - There's no other way I'm gonna know.

  • - This will feed into the other comments

  • that think we're in a relationship.

  • - What?

  • People think that? - I've seen... (laughs)

  • I've seen a few of them. - You know, I ship it.

  • - And I showed my wife, I'm like, "Look at this!"

  • and she's like, "Tell the comment section you are married."

  • - You are married, you are a married man.

  • - Kevin. - Jackie.

  • - Not a lot of hair.

  • - That was mean.

  • Why would you say that?

  • - You do, just not from the front.

  • I've seen you

  • in a bright light. - I know, look I know,

  • I know I have a huge forehead,

  • so have fun with it, - Is that why?

  • - have fun with it.

  • - I have a friend that recently got married

  • and I've been trying to draw a portrait of him and his wife

  • and I've got every, I've got the bodies figured out,

  • I've got everything figured out except for the faces.

  • I've just not been able to get the faces down at all.

  • - I know, I always just end up making people cartoons.

  • I'm just like, you're just, this is your new face.

  • - This is actually kind of in my nightmare

  • because-- - Okay.

  • - I am not good at likenesses.

  • Here's how bad at caricatures I am,

  • I actually have a site, Badcaricatures.com,

  • where people can go and pay me five dollars

  • to draw a terrible caricature of them, I will send them

  • the terrible caricature and a written apology.

  • - You know what, Kevin, there's nothing wrong with that.

  • You know what you're good at.

  • - I know what I'm not good at, which is caricatures.

  • - Did you have that middle school sketch book

  • that's just full of beautifully rendered eyes?

  • - (laughs) I did a lot of hands when I was a kid.

  • I did a lot of epic poses with people with fists.

  • You know what I mean?

  • - But that's a fun way to learn figure drawing,

  • is to do comic characters.

  • - Yeah, so I drew, this funny

  • 'cause my friends would be like,

  • "Jason can draw anything with muscles."

  • So... - Two boys

  • and their muscle drawings.

  • - Yeah, so everyone would be ripped.

  • - The big tip that kind of changed the way that I drew

  • as a kid

  • was draw what you see,

  • don't rely on symbols

  • and your assumption of what something looks like.

  • Actually take time to look at your subject,

  • at the face, at the features.

  • Process them as if you've never seen it before.

  • - I'm gonna draw you holding a pen

  • 'cause it will signal that you are an artist

  • and this is a portrait of an artist.

  • - The whole thing that I've always heard

  • is learn the fundamentals before you break them.

  • Because I feel like, yeah a lot of people are like,

  • "Oh, well you're just drawing super cartoony

  • "so you could probably just not need to learn

  • "how to draw realistically."

  • - It's like, no, you should because even within

  • the most simple cartoons, there's intelligent

  • decision-making and correct anatomy and proportions.

  • You know, even if it looks really obscure, it's still

  • you can tell that the person who drew it knows how to draw.

  • (Kevin laughs)

  • - We just look up at each other

  • and we're just looking at each other.

  • - We're like, what are you? - We're just like,

  • what do you look like? - What do you look like?

  • - What do you look like? - I look at you every time

  • we do this and I still don't know.

  • - What do you look like, Jackie?

  • - If you had to assign a celebrity to me,

  • what celebrity would I be?

  • I always struggle with this.

  • - What's the guy from "500 Days of Summer"?

  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt. - Joseph Gordon-Levitt?

  • - I assign him. - He's got kind of

  • a very specific face, I feel like.

  • - What celebrity would you assign me?

  • - Idris Elba. - Idris Elba, ooh!

  • Wow, dang it! - No, I'm just kidding.

  • - Don't take it back! - Don't take it back. (laughs)

  • - I wanted that!

  • - No. - What?

  • - What am I doing to you?

  • You look so weird.

  • I'm gonna draw your head a little more bulbous.

  • - Yeah, I do have a bolbous head.

  • - He's got a lot of veins.

  • - I do have a lot of veins.

  • - (sighs) Sorry, this is just, doesn't look like you.

  • - This doesn't look like you either.

  • What do we do?

  • - We continue.

  • - We keep going.

  • - You know what this is probably gonna lead to?

  • - What? - A lot of messages

  • in my inbox being like, "Hey, can you draw me for free?"

  • - Oh, no! (Stephanie laughs)

  • - Do you do a lot of caricature?

  • - So, I've been practicing by drawing friends on my Insta

  • here and there and it's been really good for capturing

  • the essence of somebody. - Of somebody?

  • - And that's been really awesome to work on.

  • - I'm drawing you like a Bratz doll.

  • This is not good.

  • - Okay, I'm gonna keep this drawing on the side

  • so you can see what I started with.

  • But I'm going to go back, I'm gonna go cute.

  • - I'm gonna try again and I think I'm gonna go full chibi.

  • - Full chibi? - Yeah, which again

  • is not my style,

  • but I think I may be able to do something more.

  • - I kind of made you sort of look like Belle

  • from "Beauty and the Beast".

  • - Ooh!

  • I do like that.

  • - You have weird eyebrows.

  • - Thanks, Jackie.

  • - Not weird like physically, just weird to draw,

  • They're an interesting shape, if you will.

  • You know what they call your eyes, Kevin?

  • - What? - Deep-set.

  • - Really?

  • I've been told they bug out. - Deep-set.

  • - (laughs) That is not a thing.

  • - I don't wanna toot my own horn,

  • I think I might've nailed you.

  • I think I got it. - Oh, okay.

  • - If you're 95% smile, I think you're pretty much there

  • drawing Jason.

  • - I think I nailed you as male model Brent.

  • - Whoa, wait, so just normal Brent?

  • So that makes sense. - Normal, yeah,

  • I just drew you as your normal self.

  • - Thanks for clarifying.

  • - How you doin', Jackie?

  • - I mean, I'm done, - I know you are.

  • - but I'm trying to make this other one

  • I made of you even scarier.

  • - How do you think you did?

  • - I think I made you look cute.

  • - Oh, good! - Like you're still really,

  • yeah, you're like a Disney character honestly.

  • - Oh, I'm so excited to see it.

  • - It's very cute.

  • How about with me?

  • - I really enjoyed doing this,

  • I haven't done a portrait in this style in a while

  • and it's really nice,

  • it's kind of like the anime that's trying to be realistic.

  • Like "Whisper of the Heart" kind of style.

  • - You seem stressed, Kevin, you seem stressed.

  • - This was a lot harder than I thought it was gonna be.

  • - Yeah, you came in thinking

  • it was gonna be easy peasy lemon squeezy.

  • When it was actually harty warty Kevin farty.

  • - Right, well, can I be real for a second?

  • It's because I respect you as an artist

  • and I don't want to disappoint you.

  • - I'm gonna cry. - Stop it.

  • - I mean from disappointment. (Kevin groans)

  • Got him! - You got me.

  • - He thought I was mushy. - You got me.

  • (fast orchestral music)

  • (gasps) - Oh my God!

  • That's so cute!

  • - You made me so cute. (laughs)

  • (gasps) - Wow!

  • - Wow!

  • You really got it.

  • - Wow, this is me, I love this.

  • - Aw, thanks, man, I love this too.

  • - Aw!

  • Kevin!

  • This is really good.

  • - Stop it. - Kevin.

  • - You're just being nice. - Your anime

  • is getting great-ime.

  • - It's so cool, that's such a cool style.

  • - Thank you, I love your style too,

  • it's super expressive and-- - Thank you.

  • - This looks like TV father Jason.

  • - TV father Jason. (laughs) - Yeah, if I had a TV show

  • and I was the dad everyone loves.

  • - These are great, I am flattered by both of them.

  • I will say the one of the left, though,

  • is frightening as hell.

  • - It's scary, right? - It's very scary. (laughs)

  • - I'm very sorry.

  • - This is a really smart exercise, I feel like.

  • Especially if you can't do life drawing classes or anything,

  • you can just grab your friend and be like,

  • "Sit down, I'm gonna draw you."

  • - Yeah or have a fun drawing session like this,

  • I love when you can just invite people over

  • and everybody can just do art together.

  • - I think this looks like me.

  • - I think this looks like me.

  • - You did a good job, Kevin. - Thank you.

  • - I love it, and you know what?

  • Get rid of your website,

  • 'cause you have drawn a good caricature.

  • - Thanks, friend.

  • - I wanna give you a hug. - Oh, thank you.

  • Let's take the hug? - Let's hug it out.

  • - Let's hug it out. - No, just come here.

  • - Thank you, man. - Come here, man.

  • - Thank you.

  • - I love you, man.

  • (fast violin music)

- Today we are drawing characters in our own style

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