This is by far the biggest video I've ever made but it was also a community effort so I want to thank everyone who made this happen. Big thanks to Recycled Recitals for being so patient. (We started talking about this collab over a year ago!) Also congrats to you and your husband for getting married! =) Also huge thanks to the support of Angry Mob members who not only kept me accountable to showing up to each interval training session but also for doing this challenge with me. You guys are the best 🐻❤️ Thanks also to all of the subscribers on this channel. We just went over 150k! I celebrated by having a donut which is a bigger deal than it sounds trust me.
@@esmeekmphs honestly I go to sleep early like a grandma and I’ve always woken up early on my own without an alarm clock. The downside is that when I get asked to an event that starts in the evening I’m already sleepy before anything starts 🤷🏻♂️ usually I’m not productive after waking up. My favourite things in life are the mornings when I get up at 5, drink tons of coffee and play something chill at the same time.
@@angrymikko hahaha "like a grandma" 🤣 but that actually sounds nice! Also there's something special about starting the day quietly while the rest of 'the world' is still sleeping, right?
Your art is so inspiring. Seriously! Whenever I don't feel creative, or feel lazy, I just need to watch your video and I feel creative again. Please don't ever stop doing this. Your art is just too gorgeous.
Man, you made a powerful statement in there, "You don't want to associate art with something that is just difficult, unpleasant work all the time." I had this bad feeling, and have been unable to put it into words. These are the words I was looking for. Thanks a lot for this video!
Thank you so much for this video, it was so inspiring and it's always super interesting to hear your (and in this case your collaborators) thoughts about making art!
I’m just happy I didn’t break the video editing file while stacking all these processes together. I want to point out that I don’t regret doing this challenge and there’s definitely more benefits than described in the latter half of the video. Sometimes making content for TH-cam can make one feel like each illustration needs to be somehow “bigger” than the last one. However this challenge definitely helped me reconnect with the beauty of smaller more quiet paintings. I’m especially happy with the 🐝 one. That would be so easy to kill by overworking it. Further polish would destroy the energy it has and having the time limit against me allowed me to let go of it when it was finished.
A great video Mikko! I really love your painting of the boat, and the ghost’s umbrella on the island is an adorable detail. Also, I laughed at the Majora’s Mask references. Making the moon red for the final day was perfect. 😂
I spent an entire evening recreating the “dunDUNN” sound effect from Majora’s Mask but in the end I had to cut it because it just wasn’t fitting the rest of the soundscape 🤷🏻♂️ I’ve actually gotten back to using more of my 3ds recently. Such a great system for the type of gamer I am.
Pixel art is so amazing and fun and beautiful, I wonder how it's made 😍 You made 5 different styles each day it's impressive! Just to have the imagination and motivation to make them is awesome. Thank you 🤗
Glad to hear that you’re inspired. Never too much of that mood in life :) I enjoyed these more bite-sized projects. The only problems arose when I tried to cram in too much for the time allotted for each one. Ambition can be a double edged sword 😅
Hey Mikko, another very inspiring video! I love love love your art! Where do you get your ideas from? All your paintings are so creative, magical but also so different! How do you come up with so many ideas?
Mikko, thank you so much for creating this and doing such a good job for a very difficult challenge. I love everything you said here and the flow of your thought process is amazing. I feel really inspired by you and I really love your art style. It’s magical, sentimental, and hopeful. Art has always been important to me and I completely agree with what you said that we don’t want to associate art with something difficult and unpleasant work. I have always pressured myself to create and it never turns out good. You reminded me to go back to my roots and why I like to create art - having fun is the best thing we can do because art is really an extension of us. 💕
I’ve always found your art to be so mysterious mixed with cutesy elements, it’s so magical!! Also, I’ve been meaning to ask as to what screen protector you’re using for your iPad? or are you not using any at all? Thank you!
I couldn’t take part in the challenge week as I had a really busy week and have been trying not to overwork myself! 😅 But my eldest now has “the illness” again so we’re in isolation- the perfect time to get lots of painting practice done! These are so gorgeous! Favourite has to be the ghost island though, definitely relate to that one 😅
The week is available as a playlist for you members. If you want to do those sessions then I would recommend using your own consideration if you want to finish a painting on the same day or not. “JUST” doing the session every morning is more than enough and you will see the benefits if you do it on consecutive days. Rather than forcing yourself to finish a painting every day I would recommend picking a sketch you like and then work on it as long as that painting needs you. Hope your son feels better soon. Take care of yourself too. 🐻
Sometimes I need to work on client projects and then I can't be working on everything at the same time. I've also been working on a whole ton of membership content during the past month so that also takes a lot of time to edit together. I'm doing a new tutorial series there too and I'm recording a new part for it today =)
After the morning session that started at 8 I would have a break to walk Vivi and eat some breakfast. Then I worked until 12 and again from 12:40ish until 17:00. Depending on which interval the sketch was done in I got a lot or almost no work done already. The 20minute paintings (like “Happy Together”) were quite far along already but others such as the final one only had 5 minutes of scribbles on it before I started my work day.
Hey Mikko, I have a question. I bought your Procreate brush pack and have been messing around with the brushes. Is there a single brush from your pack (or maybe up to 2-3), which you would recommend to complete beginners? Maybe one, which has easy to control brush strokes / smudging / erasing.
All of the brushes are designed so that an entire painting can be done with just one of those brushes. Some beginner friendly brushes depending on what you have access to: -Mikko Rull in Brushes for Painters -Blueberry from that same set^ -Precise Watercolour in Watercolours for Bears -Round Plus in membership downloads this month (April 2022) Not recommended for beginners: -Pastel on Wood (it’s great for layering and creating simultaneous colour contrast but it will always be like riding a bull in a china shop especially if you have perfectionist traits) -Cloud Weaver Brush (this is a super easy brush for clouds but I wouldn’t recommend making a whole painting with just this one tool) Let me know if you have any more questions and I’ll try my best to help :)
Hey Mikko! The 60 minutes times you are talking about, can you tell us how much long is every section is, is it like 20,15,10,5,4,3,2,1 minutes? or is there a better way than these timings
There’s nothing magical about the exact times. There’s a timer video I made that has sound cues for the remaining time in the same playlist as the livestreams. I don’t recommend watching a clock while doing this. I’ll check that video to see the times we used. Just a second… Ok it’s 18, 15, 12, 10 and 5 minutes I set a sound cue for 3 minutes 1 minute and the last ten or so seconds. That way I was always able to tell the group how long there was to go without taking my eyes off the canvas.
Some tabata training apps let you set your own intervals so that could also be one way to keep your focus on the painting. Or just have someone yell at you to switch to a new layer 😅
I painted from 11 to 17: 00 each day with about one hour lunch break. Tuesday was different because of Vivi’s daycare trip. Morning livestreams were all one hour but only a small portion of that was for the day’s painting depending on which interval it appeared in.
A great video Mikko! I really love your painting of the boat, and the ghost’s umbrella on the island is an adorable detail. Also, I laughed at the Majora’s Mask references. Making the moon red for the final day was perfect. 😂
There was definitely a pressure on most days. Not quite the world ending but missing a deadline would have destroyed the entire video concept so that would have been a lot of wasted energy. Next video: “7 pixel art illustrations in 7 days” (jk I’m not that big of a glutton for punishment!)
![Procreate Illustration for BEGINNERS all my brushes, tools and techniques [+ FREE BRUSH]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/RtPs0QgP078/mqdefault.jpg)
This is by far the biggest video I've ever made but it was also a community effort so I want to thank everyone who made this happen. Big thanks to Recycled Recitals for being so patient. (We started talking about this collab over a year ago!) Also congrats to you and your husband for getting married! =) Also huge thanks to the support of Angry Mob members who not only kept me accountable to showing up to each interval training session but also for doing this challenge with me. You guys are the best 🐻❤️
Thanks also to all of the subscribers on this channel. We just went over 150k! I celebrated by having a donut which is a bigger deal than it sounds trust me.
Wow! you got up every morning at 5 😳 respect! 🙏
@@esmeekmphs honestly I go to sleep early like a grandma and I’ve always woken up early on my own without an alarm clock. The downside is that when I get asked to an event that starts in the evening I’m already sleepy before anything starts 🤷🏻♂️ usually I’m not productive after waking up. My favourite things in life are the mornings when I get up at 5, drink tons of coffee and play something chill at the same time.
@@angrymikko hahaha "like a grandma" 🤣 but that actually sounds nice! Also there's something special about starting the day quietly while the rest of 'the world' is still sleeping, right?
Congratulations on 150k! Feels like just yesterday you were at 100k. I’m happy for you that your hard work and dedication is paying off.
Your art is so inspiring. Seriously! Whenever I don't feel creative, or feel lazy, I just need to watch your video and I feel creative again. Please don't ever stop doing this. Your art is just too gorgeous.
Thank you so much. I'm still learning how to make videos so it's still just as exciting as anything creative for me.
The MUSIC!! ❤❤❤❤ (of course the illustrations, as always, but the music 🥰)
Man, you made a powerful statement in there, "You don't want to associate art with something that is just difficult, unpleasant work all the time." I had this bad feeling, and have been unable to put it into words. These are the words I was looking for. Thanks a lot for this video!
Thank you so much for this video, it was so inspiring and it's always super interesting to hear your (and in this case your collaborators) thoughts about making art!
I’m just happy I didn’t break the video editing file while stacking all these processes together. I want to point out that I don’t regret doing this challenge and there’s definitely more benefits than described in the latter half of the video. Sometimes making content for TH-cam can make one feel like each illustration needs to be somehow “bigger” than the last one.
However this challenge definitely helped me reconnect with the beauty of smaller more quiet paintings. I’m especially happy with the 🐝 one. That would be so easy to kill by overworking it. Further polish would destroy the energy it has and having the time limit against me allowed me to let go of it when it was finished.
This makes me so happy! Amazing vid. Stay safe!👍👍👍
I watched every piece in admiration. All parts of music delightful. I could listen and see for hours. Thank you for this video! :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is so cool. I love how you manage to bring that mysterious quality to all your pieces.
A great video Mikko! I really love your painting of the boat, and the ghost’s umbrella on the island is an adorable detail. Also, I laughed at the Majora’s Mask references. Making the moon red for the final day was perfect. 😂
I spent an entire evening recreating the “dunDUNN” sound effect from Majora’s Mask but in the end I had to cut it because it just wasn’t fitting the rest of the soundscape 🤷🏻♂️ I’ve actually gotten back to using more of my 3ds recently. Such a great system for the type of gamer I am.
Pixel art is so amazing and fun and beautiful, I wonder how it's made 😍 You made 5 different styles each day it's impressive! Just to have the imagination and motivation to make them is awesome. Thank you 🤗
All you need is a one pixel brush and a tiny canvas. You can do it in any application where that’s possible (procreate, pixaki, ps and so on)
Another amazing video! I'm always in awe and inspired by your work!
Glad to hear that you’re inspired. Never too much of that mood in life :) I enjoyed these more bite-sized projects. The only problems arose when I tried to cram in too much for the time allotted for each one. Ambition can be a double edged sword 😅
@@angrymikko I fully get what you mean 😅 But it's always a great challange to yourself and to your art!
Wow 🤩 now I feel motivated too 💪🏼
Stunning artworks Mikko! 😊
Go for it!
i feel like im getting better at making decisions. the hard part is living with them LOL. great exercise Mikko. its been helping me!
Hey Mikko, another very inspiring video! I love love love your art! Where do you get your ideas from? All your paintings are so creative, magical but also so different! How do you come up with so many ideas?
Mikko, thank you so much for creating this and doing such a good job for a very difficult challenge. I love everything you said here and the flow of your thought process is amazing. I feel really inspired by you and I really love your art style. It’s magical, sentimental, and hopeful. Art has always been important to me and I completely agree with what you said that we don’t want to associate art with something difficult and unpleasant work. I have always pressured myself to create and it never turns out good. You reminded me to go back to my roots and why I like to create art - having fun is the best thing we can do because art is really an extension of us. 💕
Really nice result ;) thanks for sharing!
I’ve always found your art to be so mysterious mixed with cutesy elements, it’s so magical!! Also, I’ve been meaning to ask as to what screen protector you’re using for your iPad? or are you not using any at all? Thank you!
They’re terrible for painting. Maybe better for those who only draw on their ipad but for painting I don’t recommend wasting money on one.
I couldn’t take part in the challenge week as I had a really busy week and have been trying not to overwork myself! 😅
But my eldest now has “the illness” again so we’re in isolation- the perfect time to get lots of painting practice done!
These are so gorgeous! Favourite has to be the ghost island though, definitely relate to that one 😅
The week is available as a playlist for you members. If you want to do those sessions then I would recommend using your own consideration if you want to finish a painting on the same day or not. “JUST” doing the session every morning is more than enough and you will see the benefits if you do it on consecutive days. Rather than forcing yourself to finish a painting every day I would recommend picking a sketch you like and then work on it as long as that painting needs you. Hope your son feels better soon. Take care of yourself too. 🐻
S T U P E N D O 🌺
This video is so good 🥺🥺🥺🥺 it inspired me a lot to drawing more
Sounds like something great came out of this video then. I’m glad you feel that way :)
So happy to watch your video. I wander how you not update your channel few days ago .
Sometimes I need to work on client projects and then I can't be working on everything at the same time. I've also been working on a whole ton of membership content during the past month so that also takes a lot of time to edit together. I'm doing a new tutorial series there too and I'm recording a new part for it today =)
cool video! However it does disturb me how tight your charging cord is pulled 😆
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Miikko, what interpretation do u use when turn smth on an art
Beautiful drawings and lovely music. How long did you spend on each drawing Mikko?
After the morning session that started at 8 I would have a break to walk Vivi and eat some breakfast. Then I worked until 12 and again from 12:40ish until 17:00.
Depending on which interval the sketch was done in I got a lot or almost no work done already. The 20minute paintings (like “Happy Together”) were quite far along already but others such as the final one only had 5 minutes of scribbles on it before I started my work day.
@@angrymikko Thankyou for your reply.
Hey Mikko, I have a question. I bought your Procreate brush pack and have been messing around with the brushes. Is there a single brush from your pack (or maybe up to 2-3), which you would recommend to complete beginners? Maybe one, which has easy to control brush strokes / smudging / erasing.
All of the brushes are designed so that an entire painting can be done with just one of those brushes.
Some beginner friendly brushes depending on what you have access to:
-Mikko Rull in Brushes for Painters
-Blueberry from that same set^
-Precise Watercolour in Watercolours for Bears
-Round Plus in membership downloads this month (April 2022)
Not recommended for beginners:
-Pastel on Wood (it’s great for layering and creating simultaneous colour contrast but it will always be like riding a bull in a china shop especially if you have perfectionist traits)
-Cloud Weaver Brush (this is a super easy brush for clouds but I wouldn’t recommend making a whole painting with just this one tool)
Let me know if you have any more questions and I’ll try my best to help :)
I find you twitter. Happy. 😆
😊👍🤗
It takes me 5 days to draw a circle
Use a quickshape for that because I can’t do it either 🤷🏻♂️
Hey Mikko! The 60 minutes times you are talking about, can you tell us how much long is every section is, is it like 20,15,10,5,4,3,2,1 minutes? or is there a better way than these timings
There’s nothing magical about the exact times. There’s a timer video I made that has sound cues for the remaining time in the same playlist as the livestreams. I don’t recommend watching a clock while doing this. I’ll check that video to see the times we used. Just a second…
Ok it’s 18, 15, 12, 10 and 5 minutes I set a sound cue for 3 minutes 1 minute and the last ten or so seconds. That way I was always able to tell the group how long there was to go without taking my eyes off the canvas.
Some tabata training apps let you set your own intervals so that could also be one way to keep your focus on the painting. Or just have someone yell at you to switch to a new layer 😅
@@angrymikko thank you for replying!
How long does it take you to paint each painting?
I painted from 11 to 17: 00 each day with about one hour lunch break. Tuesday was different because of Vivi’s daycare trip. Morning livestreams were all one hour but only a small portion of that was for the day’s painting depending on which interval it appeared in.
Tablet model?
It's the first M1 pro model bigger screen.
Its probably been answered before but what Tablet is it you use?
It’s a 1tb M1 ipadpro
@@angrymikko Year?
@@cesarromero5332 There's only one year possible for this.
A great video Mikko! I really love your painting of the boat, and the ghost’s umbrella on the island is an adorable detail. Also, I laughed at the Majora’s Mask references. Making the moon red for the final day was perfect. 😂
There was definitely a pressure on most days. Not quite the world ending but missing a deadline would have destroyed the entire video concept so that would have been a lot of wasted energy. Next video: “7 pixel art illustrations in 7 days” (jk I’m not that big of a glutton for punishment!)