making more mini masterpieces ( art cards )

Added: 2026-05-04

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[00:01:12]Just get myself Oh.

[00:01:17]Let me think.

[00:01:18]I think we need my good glasses.

[00:01:26]We'll upgrade my glasses.

[00:01:37]Think we're going to do a Peter Venkman consume Peter Venkman.

[00:01:43]Here's my good glasses.

[00:01:46]>> [sighs and panting] >> And check this out, too. I'll show you.

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[00:01:57]These glasses are very The prescription is very intense.

[00:02:02]>> [snorts] >> Pretty stoked. You guys will be the first ones to see this thing here.

[00:02:13]Got these [snorts] Oh.

[00:02:17]Look at that.

[00:02:22]Look at that little case.

[00:02:24]>> [snorts] >> Okay.

[00:02:27]Now, we migrate over to the brushes. We're going to go Yeah, we're going to make Peter Venkman.

[00:02:42]Peter Venkman consume.

[00:02:51]As in They Live.

[00:02:54]This pretty stoked on that. I think that'll be cool.

[00:03:07]I'm going to go a little harder outside here.

[00:03:13]Pretty big eyes.

[00:03:15]Bigger the better.

[00:03:23]Peter Venkman.

[00:03:27]That'd be a good like pseudonym.

[00:03:30]Peter Peter Venkman.

[00:03:51]I've painted Bill Murray quite a few times. It's time to I've painted him even with his Ziggy Stardust.

[00:04:01]Like a David Bowie um What do you call it?

[00:04:09]Lightning bolt.

[00:04:11]I remember that was a long time ago.

[00:04:14]Now, we're going to go All right. So, I'm still a couple days later. Actually went away for a couple days.

[00:04:27]I aged as well by a year.

[00:04:31]And I had some time to think and go over my thoughts and figure out what's happening with this direction because I've kind of diving pretty hard into these cards.

[00:04:48]At the same time, they just they bring a lot of um They make me feel young. It's actually not the right way to describe it. I just feel And it's not excitement.

[00:05:07]Although excitement is there, it's um I just think they're really fun. It's almost like it's a it's like a novelty that I'm willing to kind of like back and put some energy behind. Usually like a novelty just ends up being one painting.

[00:05:27]When I have like a novel idea that's just silly and fun and whatever and you paint it and let it go.

[00:05:34]With these like art cards, there's there's kind of more to it.

[00:05:41]There's more to it.

[00:05:45]And I was thinking about it quite a lot.

[00:05:47]It's like I just really like to paint small.

[00:05:50]And so, if there's like some sort of energy and like kind of push behind it.

[00:05:55]I just saw another artist. Can't remember artist that, you know, pretty big fish starting to do them.

[00:06:04]They were indicating that they're only doing so many, whereas for me I was like, "Oh, I'll do as many as humanly possible till the steam runs out."

[00:06:13]Let's go here.

[00:06:20]Till the engine stops.

[00:06:23]Let's go here.

[00:06:37]Peter consume Peter Venkman.

[00:06:41]Let's get that blue going right now.

[00:06:46]Let's go darker first and then brighten it up as you go along.

[00:07:07]Oh, it looks like his ears are blue, too.

[00:07:12]I got like a standard reference Google search image of um John Whenever they refer to it, they refer to it as aliens.

[00:07:22]Which I guess it's kind of accurate, but feel like they, you know, they they reflect like zombies more, but they're not zombies.

[00:07:34]But aliens doesn't really do it justice.

[00:07:41]But I guess that's what they are.

[00:07:50]Peter Venkman, it took me Groundhog Day. Yes, witness protection.

[00:07:56]What's going on?

[00:07:59]Yeah, painted him a lot and I've even painted him like um I painted him respectfully even cuz I like Bill Murray a lot.

[00:08:12]But I usually I've painted him quite a few times over the years.

[00:08:16]He just has a face and kind of grew up with him.

[00:08:21]Peter Venkman. [music] Groundhog Days.

[00:08:29]What like an incredible movie.

[00:08:32]Phil Phil Collins.

[00:08:43]It's so good like you remember names.

[00:08:46]Although I don't know his name in the movie.

[00:08:54]Chevy Chase won Dungeons & Dragons?

[00:08:57]I'm not aware of that.

[00:08:59]I don't even know what Dungeons & Dragons is.

[00:09:03]It's a card game, right?

[00:09:09]I never had any sort of experience with it on any level. Like the magic stuff, the cards.

[00:09:18]Even Pokémon. That was a It just kind of came out a little later than my when I grew up. We had hockey cards and baseball cards.

[00:09:31]That's my like affinity for these little cards and I just think that original art or cards created by artists that just really like makes my wheels spin.

[00:09:46]It makes me really excited.

[00:09:50]Especially if we as a collective if people that have appreciation for art can get some movement behind this where artists are able to create their own their own cards, their art cards and then it picks up traction where they they become so somewhat in demand or like like a collectible.

[00:10:17]And the more artists that we get on board, you know, especially the big fish, if we can kind of convince them to do some.

[00:10:25]Cuz I really think even if they they price theirs higher or whatever they're they'll still be accessible in relation to what they typically sell their art for.

[00:10:36]So that's kind of why and then so I just did my and I I personally would definitely collect art cards from other artists. So I want I want people to do it. I want people to create these little cards and see if we can get some traction like see if we can get some steam very similar to what NFTs should have been for artists specifically, not so much the obviously the kind of the a lot of the scam element that came with it. But there was an element for artists with NFT that was really cool and promising and then it just got ripped apart through a number of different reasons.

[00:11:22]But if the if you actually get something this time maybe there can be some sort of movement for just another way for artists to create and find homes for their works.

[00:11:36]Cuz if there's like a there is some sort of not just trend but like demand for original art cards created by hand painted or created by artists. It's so fun. And now I see them more and more so I think it's going in the right direction. How long will it last for? No idea. How much traction they'll get? No idea.

[00:12:00]But for me I like painting small anyway.

[00:12:03]I go through phases every year where I paint little small pieces like even if it it's kind of against my best utter judgment painting small doesn't it's hard to sell them for a lot of money and people kind of don't always want small paintings if anything they probably want bigger.

[00:12:21]But I can't get away from it. I'm always >> [music] >> interested in painting small. So now if there's some hype around painting small man, I'm all about it.

[00:12:34]That's my logic.

[00:12:42]That's [clears throat] my logic.

[00:12:43]>> [snorts] >> Let's go harder in the blues.

[00:13:40]So it's kind of like here's the starting point. You got everything in place now.

[00:13:47]And now it's time to like refine.

[00:13:52]So we kind of know we have like the mouth and eyes in place.

[00:13:56]We can kind of shift them if needed.

[00:14:02]It's kind of good enough for now. I think there's some more depth where the cheekbones and the jawbone meeting so this will be darker.

[00:14:18]Same with around the sides of the face and the ears too.

[00:14:48]Alex Soris, small paintings, yes.

[00:14:54]Small paintings are man, they're just so great for so many I think they're really good for building up ideas and I I can literally talk about them for hours. Right now I think just a heads up the trend that I'm following are these art cards.

[00:15:13]So they're 2 and 1/2 by 3 and [clears throat] 1/2 cent sorry, 2 and 1/2 by 3 and 1/2 inches.

[00:15:20]And so they're the same size as like as a standard trading card a Pokémon hockey card and then they're going to start pushing them as these trade these art original art trading cards.

[00:15:35]And there's a bunch of artists now kind of get jumping on board.

[00:15:39]I'm seeing them more and more pop up.

[00:15:43]And imagine we get a whole bunch of like there's a bunch of collectors out there that start to put want these and they become in demand.

[00:15:55]And sorry to say this again but that was what happened with the NFTs. Like there was a demand for them.

[00:16:02]Now this time the difference is you actually get something. You actually get something.

[00:16:08]So that's what makes me excited and I like to paint small.

[00:16:12]So when there's there's things that are aligning for me personally where I just get it's just fun. It's just like a when you paint small it's really fun I think because you're a here's what I you're in full control.

[00:16:26]Right now I have like all my micro strokes of the brush I'm in control.

[00:16:33]I have it taped off and it's like my I'm in my own little little world that I have complete control over.

[00:16:41]And you can really experiment with it like complete abandon and with with no sort of you lose any sort of pressure.

[00:16:54]Like I can crumple this up right now and start again like you and you know that it feels feels good. It feels very rewarding and I do think it also helps your skills.

[00:17:06]I think painting larger also helps your skills but so does painting small.

[00:17:12]You can get away with more experimenting and and different styles like I got all these different styles that I painted over like so easy to throw them into different cards and see them come back to life like oh I painted this before and then being able to do it again like and one thing is too I do like to paint pretty quickly because my my mind moves on really fast.

[00:17:41]So for me like I if I can finish this today which I will I kind of have my own what do you call it um not rules but just expectations.

[00:17:52]The only way these cards and like this kind of concept works is that you do push really hard and then you just that's it. I'm that's all this this card gets is this.

[00:18:06]So that way I can ready ready to move on to. Witness protection I paint Warhammer figures with the acrylics.

[00:18:15]I could never do a freehand. Finally something told me just to paint right on top of the magic cards to start learning. Yeah, that's cool.

[00:18:27]Yeah and you can start like I'm a huge advocate which you'll get some pushback from other people but like try tracing like trace one of the characters from the magic cards onto a blank blank paper piece of paper sheet or whatever and then fill it in like you trace it then fill it in.

[00:18:51]And I've learned a lot. I used to paint a lot of still do but like the the Transformers helmets and when I first started doing the Transformer helmet it was overwhelming and I traced the first one. And after tracing it the for the first time and I never had to trace it again. Like I learned a lot just from the initial tracing. Another way to paint and feel good about it is gridding.

[00:19:19]Using a grid method. I won't get into it but you can just YouTube it. Using a grid to paint.

[00:19:29]And another way as you're as you're saying already like you're painting small you get you are gifted a lot of liberty and like there's no real like you can just crumple it up and start again. Grab a new sheet of paper or new sheet of a new little canvas or whatever you have.

[00:19:55]>> Okay, so now I'm even further along than I was.

[00:19:59]Let's go harder on the red to lock it in. We'll make We'll do the start with the dark.

[00:20:08]I use liquid with this uh process, so we can help dry.

[00:20:17]Get your brush right.

[00:20:21]Get your brush right.

[00:20:30]It seems like the mouth.

[00:20:36]Like we'll make the jaw red.

[00:20:39]I have to tidy up the jaw, too.

[00:20:43]I think we'll leave him Should we paint this blue? I'm not sure.

[00:20:48]Go around the eyes, too.

[00:21:02]Since we have the red, let's put something here.

[00:21:20]Don't really like this jaw.

[00:21:23]Looks funny.

[00:21:28]I guess I'll say this till the day I die, but the whole process is Right now you're stealing You're seeing me deal with something I don't like. I don't like the jaw. I don't like how it looks.

[00:21:41]But you So you paint. So I'm putting some paint literally on the paper.

[00:21:50]And now you fix it.

[00:21:53]Or instead of adding more we're going to take away. So let's clean it up.

[00:22:02]We pull away. And that doesn't even necessarily mean just cuz you pull it away doesn't mean you're making it better.

[00:22:08]But you're going to get closer to get it landing to where it needs to be. And I cuz I actually don't know what the problem is yet. I'm not sure what the problem is.

[00:22:20]But I think it's like putting in the one of the best things I can offer to somebody watching is when I run into a problem, how do I fix it? Cuz I think that's what painting is. You just It's a series of problem solving.

[00:22:35]This is way more enjoyable than you than you're typically used to.

[00:22:41]Cuz if you progress, it's very rewarding.

[00:22:45]But it's all series of problem solving.

[00:22:47]Problems and then solutions.

[00:22:52]And you get better, too, as you go along. Like the more you paint, the better you get. So the whole thing is super gratifying.

[00:22:59]Super satisfying.

[00:23:02]So if I can offer when I'm running into problems and then literally show you the solutions it's kind of a really at the end of the day only thing I can really offer that's of value other than my ramblings.

[00:23:21]Okay.

[00:23:26]The ramblings of a madman.

[00:23:32]When your brush is right, you can do some really good make some really good progress.

[00:23:41]So I think we are going to make his neck blue just to for good measure.

[00:23:50]Because that way I can I can start cutting into the jaw that I don't like.

[00:24:08]It's just too square. I might even have to go back to my Bill Murray photo to see what his jaw is doing.

[00:24:25]Eloquent mess.

[00:24:26]What's going on?

[00:24:28]Madmen, madwomen.

[00:24:34]I think that's true. I think we're also really sensitive.

[00:24:39]And I think there's also not a lot of words to really describe it accurately.

[00:24:44]Sometimes just saying you're an artist sums it up.

[00:24:49]And artists come in come in different packages, too. Like I've met some really squirrely ones and really grounded ones.

[00:24:59]And they come in all kinds of different shapes and you know, I've met some that are like basically mentally handicapped, but they produce.

[00:25:12]Sounds like I'm kind of joking or being rude, but they almost have like a disability.

[00:25:19]But they're like incredible musicians and so they come in all kinds of different flavors.

[00:25:27]And I think there's so many of us out there.

[00:25:31]And that ties back in with these these cards. Like Like imagine like Okay, let's imagine they range anywhere from 25 bucks to 500 bucks. Not just mine, but like from artists even some of the big fish to some of the people that just painting just to play around.

[00:25:48]And then imagine that there like as much as the demand for these art cards as there is for like Pokémon cards and people make games out of them and there could be all kinds of stuff.

[00:26:01]So I might be thinking too far ahead or just getting too ahead of myself.

[00:26:05]But that's what I want for it. I want people to like really want art as much as like they want their other cards.

[00:26:21]And for me personally, I like little things on my wall. I just I'm a weirdo like that. So that's why I've always been painting like these small things for years.

[00:26:31]But now with this resurgence or this energy around art cards Sorry, I can't stop talking about it.

[00:26:40]It's exciting.

[00:26:44]So you can see I've been fixing up my jaw, which is the main problem. At least it's somewhat sym- symmetrical.

[00:26:51]Give myself that. We'll make the whole bay.

[00:26:58]Um It's kind of yellowy. I guess we got to add some yellow.

[00:27:13]Yellowy brown is good. So it's not too harsh or too saturated.

[00:27:23]Go on the darker side for now.

[00:27:26]And then we'll brighten it up. But let's lock it in.

[00:27:30]You can see it's like a tan cream.

[00:27:34]It also looks like he has like a Superman that goose ass kind of chin.

[00:28:10]Let's figure out the teeth.

[00:28:14]So you first you figure out the basic shape.

[00:28:19]I don't even care about the color at the moment. This looks too gray.

[00:28:30]I'm just trying to figure out the shape here.

[00:28:39]And there is some darkness in there, actually.

[00:28:42]Do that.

[00:28:44]There's like darkness underneath.

[00:28:48]Between like the bottom teeth and then the chin.

[00:28:53]Some darkness there.

[00:28:58]Kind of where the teeth meet the gums.

[00:29:07]I think there's also red in the neck based on this reference I got. This reference I'm using is looks like a mask like a Halloween mask or something.

[00:29:15]So I don't think it's like the same exact as the movie.

[00:29:21]Mr. G360, appreciate you.

[00:29:26]Let's go here.

[00:29:29]And maybe we'll we'll do some recess it here and here, but keep like the bottom going out.

[00:29:38]Like the Try to make the jaw symmetrical.

[00:29:42]Doesn't have to be mirror, but just like organically correct.

[00:29:49]Doesn't have to look It doesn't have to be correct. It just has to look good.

[00:29:53]Standard.

[00:29:56]Doesn't have to be correct. This needs to be good look good.

[00:30:14]You get to apply a lot too, which is fun.

[00:30:25]Let's hit the blue again hard.

[00:30:29]Maybe more pigment less liquid. [snorts] So, it's more It's going to cover more easier. A little brighter, but not too bright. We want this to be like in the middle somewhere.

[00:30:43]The middle value of the blue of the face, everything.

[00:30:47]And we'll just hit it, so it doesn't have any liquid or less, rather.

[00:30:55]My brush is right.

[00:30:57]And I'm applying it on thick.

[00:31:07]And the reason is because I want to fix this neck, too.

[00:31:18]We'll just pick where the highlights are.

[00:31:28]And we can sculpt the chin.

[00:31:35]Highlights are around the the eye sockets. Remember the T region that you learned in high school.

[00:31:46]The T is like here and here where all the highest You're just doing like guesswork where it should be brighter.

[00:31:58]I think the jaw might might help me if I come down a little bit here.

[00:32:09]Keep patting it on. I'm not like You see, I'm like applying it by like almost clumpy.

[00:32:27]And then we can tighten up with these red marks, too.

[00:32:30]Once and for all.

[00:32:34]But the clumpy texture, too, I'm going to get a lot out of that.

[00:32:37]It's kind of like impasto-y, micro impasto.

[00:32:42]The nose around the nose is a little brighter. But you know, this isn't the brightest. This is the mid value. So, it does cover a lot of the face.

[00:33:07]And at this point, now that you have your own little painting, you can kind of even migrate away. You can start distancing yourself from trying to really capture that reference photo you've got and just work with what you have what you've created and make yours make sense. Because you're dealing with something that's very abstract in nature.

[00:33:27]What I mean by that I'm not like abstract art, but like the reference image it like painting a zombie, an alien skull face, Peter Bank is your own creation. So, at some point you can depart.

[00:33:41]The reference only has so much power when you're creating something that's this abstract.

[00:33:50]And when you kind of get lost in then you go back to it. See if you But at this point, I think we can just go from whatever it's going to look the best moving forward.

[00:34:02]That's always a nice feeling. That's why it's worth mentioning. Like I I like when it's like, "Okay, here we got something."

[00:34:09]You know, let's take it wherever it needs to go.

[00:35:11]Ashan Dare, what's up? The second.

[00:35:15]Ashan Dare the second.

[00:35:18]What's going on?

[00:35:25]So, he's got these high cheekbones.

[00:35:28]Remember about 20 minutes ago I was telling you about how the It's all problem-solving. So, I'm starting to go, "Okay, we're getting closer to being at least okay with this jaw."

[00:35:50]Here's another thing I'll do that will help everything is we'll make First, we'll do the lines.

[00:35:58]This will help This will be a good tip.

[00:36:02]So, we're going to do the teeth.

[00:36:08]Oh, more paint.

[00:36:14]This is pretty I don't even know if you guys will see this.

[00:36:17]Just putting the lines in there pretty loosely. There's no like There's some defining marks.

[00:36:31]But my point is that I'm putting in the dark like the lines in between the teeth first.

[00:36:37]And then we'll go back over it with a brighter like pearl white for those teeth.

[00:36:47]Let's play around with the eye sockets again.

[00:36:57]You do want some symmetry. So, let's get that symmetry in there now.

[00:37:01]We do want like the skull socket look.

[00:37:04]So, let's get that in there.

[00:37:09]Remember, we're diverting at this point from the reference. So, we're just doing whatever we want at this point. Whatever looks good.

[00:37:24]Sometimes with small paintings, it's you can you might need to exaggerate some things. Otherwise, it's really not visible.

[00:37:39]>> [snorts] >> You can either exaggerate through the drawing or like how dark certain values are and stuff like that, too.

[00:37:53]Cuz when people are looking at it, they're not really holding it up close to the face. They are still looking at it like, you know, from from afar typically.

[00:38:03]With these though, they might put them in their hand and look at it closely, but your first first introduction to them will probably be from afar.

[00:38:15]Especially if they end up on a wall. So, you want to exaggerate.

[00:38:18]You want [music] things to jump.

[00:38:21]It's in your best interest.

[00:38:28]Let's bring like a hair line like a a sideburns.

[00:38:32]Kind of looks now he's turning into like some sort of punk rocker.

[00:38:36]Maybe.

[00:38:38]Maybe.

[00:38:46]Pull the nose up.

[00:38:55]Let's hit the red again. I need a different red, though. Let's get my cherry dark cherry red.

[00:39:03]Maybe just cherry red, not dark cherry.

[00:39:09]This is a thicker pigment either the heavier pigment, so it should be able to We're going to put it on the same way we put on that blue, which is like blotting it on.

[00:39:24]Kind of it it really works with this pattern cuz it's very abstract. Like an abstract painting, really.

[00:39:36]These blues and reds.

[00:39:42]Remember, we've abandoned we've departed from the reference photo a little while ago.

[00:39:47]So we're just making what we have here make sense. It doesn't It's your own creation at this point.

[00:40:32]So now we're going to pick like an area.

[00:40:36]We'll just make it up but we'll like imagine like a bit of the lighting so not not the entire scars or these marks but like let's go from the right to left so the lights maybe coming from here so from top to top down maybe left to right.

[00:41:02]Just implying some depth.

[00:41:05]Ooh.

[00:41:16]Just applying some depth here.

[00:41:22]If you hit everything that's ideal but but if those eye sockets look a little too big we can tighten put and kind of calm them down with a little bit of red around there.

[00:42:12]Yeah, like I said making exaggerating things is only going to help a small painting.

[00:42:18]So if the eyes are extra big that's fine. Which I think they're big in general.

[00:42:53]Some parts might be too wet to really hit it hard.

[00:43:09]And I think that's the case.

[00:43:16]Some parts like I can push myself but I'm just kind of thinking out loud. What do I really need to do here?

[00:43:23]So what we if we are going to hit this in a different session which I think is going to happen let me get the darkest of darks in there then.

[00:43:36]So I can let them dry and then hit them hard later.

[00:43:43]The darkest of darks.

[00:44:36]And again same logic if I'm if I'm hit hitting this painting again later today which I will be let's get some like some texture by I'm like applying it by blotting it.

[00:44:53]Very small strokes so get a lot of paint on there.

[00:44:57]With the intention of like coming back on this later.

[00:45:01]Think his eyes are silver so we might want to do like a silvery gray.

[00:45:12]Let's even to wrap this up bring this together a little bit too.

[00:45:18]We're going mid to high value.

[00:45:23]So not the brightest but in between them the the mid value blue and the brightest value but you'll start to see some life some depth when you start breaking in the values.

[00:45:39]Breaking into the value game.

[00:45:44]So there's like five things I'll show you right here.

[00:45:52]This will be interesting. It's pretty this is not this is not uh super deep but I think it's just for me I just find it to be really how I think about things so so let's let's just talk about the blues.

[00:46:15]Here's the darkest.

[00:46:20]When it's I'm when I'm just talking about the face.

[00:46:24]There might be some black in there but I that's even like going another level so let's let's do that. No, I'm going to keep it simple first.

[00:46:32]Let me try to articulate this.

[00:46:36]Then you have my my main blue that I I did for the face in the beginning which is in the middle.

[00:46:42]So it's not dark not light it's the middle value of the face.

[00:46:52]So just we're only talking about this face here it's right here.

[00:47:08]Okay, that's the middle value.

[00:47:10]Then you have just what I just added to start this conversation this brighter value of the white I'm sorry of the face.

[00:47:18]Right here.

[00:47:30]So where all the the lights hitting mostly the the highest parts of the terrain.

[00:47:38]Okay, so you have one two three. The darkest part of the face the main part of the face like the main middle value and then the highlight.

[00:47:58]I know we're not I know I'm not telling you anything really I just find it to be super super helpful for depth and realism.

[00:48:09]Now what you want to do is somewhere in the middle so now you got one two three we're going to make it five.

[00:48:15]And this is why I thought it was worth mentioning. So let's go somewhere in the middle.

[00:48:22]>> [snorts] >> So it's not the darkest blue and it's not the mid value it's the middle. It's the middle of these two.

[00:48:50]Same thing applies for the the other side let's go to the middle bright.

[00:49:09]And then let's go to the brightest bright almost white if not white.

[00:49:23]Be selective.

[00:49:26]Always leave yourself some room too.

[00:49:30]Tone it down in some areas brighten it up in some areas.

[00:49:35]But look at that depth look how it all of a sudden playing in this color in this wheel and then you can go like this. So, that's my whole point. Then go Let's hit Let's hit like blue and black which equals basically black.

[00:49:52]So, you have some like real maybe some shadow from the hair.

[00:49:59]Clean up those eye sockets.

[00:50:02]Clean up the mouth.

[00:50:04]So, the line underneath the the jaw.

[00:50:19]The more values that the more depth you have. You can get carried away, but I think if you break it down into thinking of it like this.

[00:50:31]It's not that complicated cuz if you start worrying about it then just go scratch everything and just stick to three.

[00:50:38]Stick to dark, middle, light.

[00:50:42]If it starts to be like, "Oh, I got to do these state." No, you don't. It's not It's not like don't make it too mathematical or too intense. It should just become like try to find a place where it comes really organically.

[00:50:56]So, I just took again I took blue right out of the tube to kind of start fresh like to show you how like I just went through all that, but here's here's blue out of the tube.

[00:51:09]This is just blue out of the tube.

[00:51:14]Going to use some of it now that I have it out. So, I got blue out of the tube.

[00:51:28]Pick your spots where it needs it.

[00:51:32]Kind of inside the ear a little bit.

[00:51:36]Some of the ridges around the outside of the the face.

[00:51:44]Now I'm going to decide to Okay, let's add a little bit of white.

[00:51:52]So, let's go to the brighter side.

[00:51:59]Right, blue out of the tube a little white with it.

[00:52:09]Calm down some of that highlight.

[00:52:11]It's just too much.

[00:52:13]We're not there yet.

[00:52:17]I think cuz the reason why I'm going through It's It's not supposed to be like this intense stretch. It should be really organic with what you're doing where you're not You don't have to think about it. You're not think You're just painting.

[00:52:33]Okay, now let's go darker.

[00:52:37]Not too dark. Not the blackest but dark.

[00:52:40]Dark So, you're adding some In this case a little red and a little black and a little blue out of the tube.

[00:52:53]Okay.

[00:52:54]We're just going back around.

[00:53:10]Still carving up that jaw.

[00:53:14]Anywhere it needs fixing.

[00:53:17]Okay, so you have these three values.

[00:53:19]The horror gamer, what's going on?

[00:53:26]Do this I did the same thing with the red earlier. Now let's go brighter.

[00:53:31]Add some white to to this one. Add some white to this one.

[00:53:54]Another little pro tip is like maybe every time you like kind of work on the painting you just make a new series of colors and make them all work together.

[00:54:01]You don't use the same colors over and over again.

[00:54:06]You mix it up. And that that also gives more realism when you have like these nuanced in cut the nuances in cut the colors. So, you're in the same You're in the same universe, but you you're you're just playing with all these different variations.

[00:54:26]Okay, now just to close this loop.

[00:54:30]Let's add a little darkness to this. So, brown, black, red. Let's go harder. See how your dark.

[00:54:38]Here's the dark here. That's the same color I was just using.

[00:54:41]Let's go harder.

[00:54:47]That's quite That's quite black, but that's a multiple multiple colors. As long as it's darker than this one you're good.

[00:54:53]So, now you got back to the five.

[00:54:59]And the whole point of that is that you're just going to get this depth.

[00:55:06]And I think the more you play in here if you had 10 you're going to get It's going to look great. It's a really great technique to get some depth happening.

[00:55:18]I like this kind of like shadow under the ear here.

[00:55:44]Let's give him more zombie eyes.

[00:55:47]Dawn of the Dead eyes.

[00:55:50]Woah.

[00:55:54]I'm bored.

[00:55:56]And I'm create kind of our own thing here.

[00:55:59]Let's hit some darkness in some of these reds.

[00:56:21]Maybe even some of the reds are almost like bluey black.

[00:56:36]What's happening here? Let's go higher.

[00:56:40]That skull really cleaned up.

[00:56:44]Let's add some depth here. So, It's all kind of always the same kind of principle to be honest. Just you have your mid color, your main color of the face.

[00:56:57]Then you go dark, then you go light.

[00:56:59]Just like start with three.

[00:57:03]Maybe it's a just kind of like slightly different way of how you typically think of it or maybe it's exactly how you think of it.

[00:57:10]Regardless, I wanted to I just think it's the best way to get the depth that you're hoping or looking for.

[00:57:23]And I clearly acknowledge that we're not talking rocket science here.

[00:57:35]I just think sometimes painting people find like the the overwhelming and I just think you can break it down into like these really simplistic ways that become really organic for you.

[00:57:46]So, it's not overwhelming.

[00:58:06]The more texture now the better it will be later for my painting.

[00:58:12]So, if I get these clumps here coming back to these clumps will be helpful.

[00:58:20]Meaning more paint on it.

[00:58:25]Same with the hair. Let's do the hair then before I I'll do it very illustration style meaning I won't even look at the reference.

[00:58:35]Let's just pick the hair direction. It might might be too bright, but let's try.

[00:58:43]This is these like standard like cartoonish markings is what we're going to go for and then we'll change the direction.

[00:58:51]But with smaller pieces it really works well. So, just keep changing the direction of the hair.

[00:58:57]Probably too bright, but let's call that the the main value and then we'll go darker and lighter.

[00:59:04]They might end up being more darker than lighter, but that's fine. So, let's go back.

[00:59:15]Different color, but darker value.

[00:59:26]They're very cartoonish markings, but they're they're setting the direction of the the hair.

[00:59:36]And again, this will be a nice place for me to pick up when I finish the piece later today.

[00:59:45]Anything in the suit, I might have to go back to Bill Murray's reference for that. Let me 1 second.

[01:00:42]I need to tidy up. I say almost like the hair, like the the direction. You're making these marks to set the direction.

[01:00:52]That's the clothes, how they're folding, how they're lying.

[01:01:03]Sometimes less is more. I feel like I'm getting too deep into the weeds on the details here, but whatever.

[01:01:16]Like it might even be better to do change my brush even because I kind of want the clothes to be Let's see.

[01:01:41]Not so One I'm looking for ease here.

[01:01:48]I don't mind putting in the details on the face.

[01:01:51]But the clothes I want it to I want it to look good as easy as possible.

[01:01:57]So, work with those lines I got by adding I don't think this is the right brush for fabric.

[01:02:14]You can still add shadows and stuff.

[01:02:17]Let's just take the brush.

[01:02:27]And I am back to looking at my Peter Venkman reference.

[01:02:35]Where are the folds?

[01:02:38]Where is the darkest shadows? Let's get the darkest in there.

[01:02:53]I did her and where the fold are. This is bothering me.

[01:03:26]I can even use this brush for the hair if I don't, but I am going to be playing the Yeah, it's totally totally your bang on.

[01:03:43]Ashan.

[01:03:45]It's Mr. Bill Murray from Ghostbusters combined with They Live the John Carpenter.

[01:03:56]I think no, I wouldn't call it underrated, but it used to be underrated for a long time, flew under the radar.

[01:04:01]But it in today's pop culture, it's back with a vengeance, most likely cuz of uh Mr. Shepard Fairey.

[01:04:13]But I do think it's even taken on its own, like it's it's come a long way.

[01:05:51]Sometimes things just need attention.

[01:05:54]And then you can get lucky with just giving things attention.

[01:05:59]Sometimes sometimes things need strategy and then strategy and attention.

[01:06:06]Sometimes things just come really easy.

[01:06:09]Like, "Oh, that's good."

[01:06:11]I'm happy with that.

[01:06:14]There's a bunch of different things that happen in the painting.

[01:06:19]Like sometimes you really do just get lucky with putting some paint on the canvas.

[01:06:24]Like, "Oh, like I you it just starts to look good."

[01:06:30]And then some things need need to be re-worked, re-worked, re- re-painted.

[01:06:39]And new reference, like I'm just not landing it.

[01:06:44]But to bring things full circle, that's kind of the fun part with these like little mini paintings.

[01:06:51]I kind of don't give a [ __ ] I want it to look good, but there's like this detachment.

[01:07:00]Where I go, "Eh, I'm happy with that."

[01:07:03]I I say that a lot easier than when I'm working on something a little larger.

[01:07:10]I don't let myself get away with it as much.

[01:07:17]So, sometimes giving myself that that kind of freedom ends up helping my work and my progress and all kinds of stuff, so let's bring in everything to the first circle. Oh, sorry, full circle from what I first was talking about on this video.

[01:07:49]Sometimes not giving a [ __ ] will help.

[01:07:51]Sometimes it will destroy it.

[01:08:04]I think what we'll do now is we'll give him, just for good measure, let's go let's do a glow.

[01:08:15]I'm feeling a glow.

[01:08:19]So, I got my liquid in orange, kind of like a bright bright orange.

[01:08:28]And let's just go for it. Don't think.

[01:08:31]Just do it.

[01:08:38]Just do it.

[01:08:41]There you go.

[01:08:44]That's nice.

[01:08:46]Yeah, why not?

[01:08:52]Let's go all the way around.

[01:08:55]Huh, we can go into the shadow. Why not?

[01:08:59]There you go.

[01:09:01]Now, let's fix that up.

[01:09:04]Grab a dry brush.

[01:09:14]Let's feather that out a little bit.

[01:09:31]>> One thing too is with like a piece that's like this like 30 by 40 inch centimeters, which I typically work on like a panel.

[01:09:41]To accomplish this silly little like glow effect. Oops.

[01:09:46]>> [snorts] >> Oops.

[01:09:51]Oops.

[01:09:55]To accomplish like this glow effect is you know significant in comparison to the small this small mini piece.

[01:10:03]You it's like a different amount of work.

[01:10:07]So sometimes I really like like I said like when you work on the small scales you can make these massive crazy adjustments.

[01:10:15]With a few brush strokes in there comparison to like a commitment and not that not that like this panel's big or anything far from it but compared to this it's a monstrous.

[01:10:28]So adding like this glow it's just like a few brush strokes. Now you you know.

[01:10:41]And I like that like I love being able to transform something.

[01:10:50]In in seconds.

[01:10:55]And we even want to calm this down because it I'll make it very like luminescent or luminescent.

[01:11:01]Like a neon kind of glow.

[01:11:04]So I just clean this brush with even it's probably like 90% dry.

[01:11:11]There's a little mineral spirits on there so I'm just pulling it off a little bit.

[01:11:17]Let's diffuse the edges here.

[01:11:30]You want it to almost like at some point at the very end of the feathering.

[01:11:35]You want it to like blend in with that blue background.

[01:11:42]There. Okay.

[01:11:44]Remember I'm strategizing because the next time we'll go in a little bit harder but a little we'll go in with the orange.

[01:11:53]But not all the way out. We'll go in only to about here. We'll keep it tighter around the head and then we'll add like a light white orange on there so it's like a light bulb like a a big glow.

[01:12:08]We'll clean up the teeth.

[01:12:11]We'll clean up we'll hit the face again and the eyes and maybe the shirt the the the vest.

[01:12:19]I don't have a lot of energy for it.

[01:12:24]Sorry the jacket rather.

[01:12:29]But I think it needs it so we'll keep tidying that up.

[01:12:39]And then I will hang on this this to say.

[01:12:43]It's a reoccurring theme in my life.

[01:12:48]Is put in my paintings quite a few times.

[01:12:55]This.

[01:13:02]Especially my minis.

[01:14:01]Right now this is just about a little extra detail for good measure.

[01:14:13]Borg Borg.

[01:14:16]Great to see you. Eloquent mess he's really glowing now. Yeah I'll come back and hit that again.

[01:14:21]Ashants how do you cop? Yeah that's cool.

[01:14:26]Yeah no your tongue is awesome.

[01:14:29]It's always uh a awesome experience in my over the years.

[01:14:36]Uh Destroyer 3D the Destroyer here me out have you ever considered making some of your artwork making your work available like trading cards. I mean this is most admirable I can see. Yes that's this whole that's what we're that's this whole kind of push over the last couple weeks.

[01:14:56]Is really diving into the trading cards and seeing what happens.

[01:15:00]Uh I got a lot of ideas around it. I'm trying to pace myself. I'm not trying to I'm trying not to get ahead of myself or get I love to paint small.

[01:15:09]And I like to paint um and I like this idea of there being energy and a lot quite a few other artists diving into these trading cards.

[01:15:20]And a friend put me on to it recently so I'm like okay.

[01:15:24]This is this is looking like uh this is looking good. I just get really um overwhelmed with my my um I get really overwhelmed by a lot of stuff.

[01:15:45]To be honest. But yeah no so I'm this is what these cards are all are and this is this little trading card here the Destroyer.

[01:15:52]Just maybe that's the yes I'm in. I'm all in.

[01:15:57]Being all in for me means I don't know if it's going to last 2 weeks or a month. I'm not sure yet but I'm all in right now. This will be another card.

[01:16:05]Then we got Eloquent mess looking forward to seeing how that glow yes.

[01:16:10]You'll see it eventually I'll probably show the um obviously I'll show you the final product at some point. I don't know if I'll make another video on it.

[01:16:18]3D Destroyer not discussing my year but your social commentary way insightful artistic and thoughtful appreciate you. Excellent news I say yeah I'm I'm really really like I'm here here's the best way to to say it. I'm too excited. And so that kind of doesn't scare me but it's just like okay calm down dude.

[01:16:37]Calm down. That's what I'm trying to I'm trying to balance my excitement while like just you know.

[01:16:44]I'm trying to get ahead of myself but I did order these cases they came in the mail.

[01:16:49]I got little stamps for them.

[01:16:52]You can see they're like like that.

[01:16:57]I also don't expect much for them because I've always painted minis and sometimes they do well sometimes they don't. So I don't have like huge expectations but I do want other artists to paint especially some of the bigger fish and see if we can like make something happen make see if there's some momentum behind the in the art world to make some of these small cards.

[01:17:21]And just build like some excitement around like traditional fine art but in these art core card format.

[01:17:31]Like if you would ask me growing up like art is just boring nonsense and means nothing.

[01:17:37]Compared to where it's like means everything to me today.

[01:17:43]But I when I was that age like cards I loved hockey cards and kids still like love Pokemon but imagine there was like a demand for artists art cards that'd be so rad.

[01:17:58]And I'm sure there's some artists that are doing it now that there is that demand.

[01:18:01]So don't don't get me twit don't get it twisted. I know that there's some artists some big fish too that are doing them already.

[01:18:08]And that's just such a good sign.

[01:18:11]Because if you can kind of get like the general masses not people that are just interested in art they're already in.

[01:18:17]It's kind of the general masses is that and my hope is for like where there becomes like a demand for art cards.

[01:18:27]Then everybody wins.

[01:18:30]All right let's see. I think we need to bring that over here.

[01:18:42]Let's hit this one more time.

[01:19:10]There we go.

[01:19:16]Just doing some nuance stuff here.

[01:19:21]Again cuz I like micro strokes.

[01:19:26]These little micro strokes on little micro paintings.

[01:19:37]Okay. So, I have I right now they're all going to be originals.

[01:19:42]The Destroyer, 3D the Destroyer, talking to you.

[01:19:46]They're all going to be originals. Like, you know, let's imagine I could Let's imagine I get 30. I think I got I can get 30 cuz I think I got about 10.

[01:19:57]So, I got 10 painted. They're 500. Oh, sorry. 500. I just read your thing. So, I got 10 Let's say I get to 30. Maybe if there's some If there's some energy around it and I can move them well and they're fine, like I get to 50.

[01:20:12]Okay, all original paint painted. Then, at that point, if things keep moving and I keep going, then maybe we go to print.

[01:20:25]And then I can like kind of like crank them out and do runs. I'm with you on it. I just think I won't I don't want to get to there yet until I kind of maybe get these moving.

[01:20:36]And kind of really like launch it properly.

[01:20:40]And then yes, maybe we we end up in actual card territory where I do like tens of each, is right? Yes.

[01:20:48]I'm with you.

[01:20:50]I'm with you.

[01:20:55]Yeah, and that And then that also is a very exciting That'd be really fun. I'd love to give a pack of cards to like friends and stuff. That's That would be so fun.

[01:21:12]Cuz even like this one, imagine you end up getting this one.

[01:21:16]3D the Destroyer like like kind of like having cards where you get like, "Aw, you got that."

[01:21:21]I I'm with you, man. I believe me. I'm I'm with you.

[01:21:27]Like you get packs and you get like some rare ones and all that stuff. That could be fun.

[01:21:32]And like I said, I was saying earlier, too. You weren't with me, but it That's what I wanted Like that's That was the promise for NFTs for artists.

[01:21:40]So, you take out the scam element of it, but it was just another exciting way for artists actually to make money. That's why I liked it. That's why I was interested in it.

[01:21:49]If you If you took out the scam part and the fact that they're you're getting You're buying literally like nothing, this time you're actually going to get something.

[01:22:04]You got to start picking some that you're happy with. Let's say two or three a week. Yeah.

[01:22:12]Will do. I keep playing around with these and I just think sometimes it's like I can get too carried away in a direction that's not going to be very in my best interest. Like sometimes when I'm painting small, I'm like, "Dude, you should be painting like It's At the end of the day, it can be almost a bit of a deficit or like a liability.

[01:22:43]But I am excited if there are other artists that are going to try to push.

[01:22:48]Like imagine there's a collector that goes, "Hey, I want to collect from like these artists and their art cards."

[01:22:56]And more collectors start doing that. It could be a really fun thing.

[01:23:03]All right.

[01:23:05]Well, that's I think this does need a little more work.

[01:23:11]But I think I will be I will benefit a lot if I let this sit in front of a fan for a couple hours.

[01:23:26]Thanks for watching, you guys.

[01:23:29]I'm out.

[01:23:31]Tootles.

[01:23:32]>> [sighs and gasps]