Artists Draw Fan Art of Their Favorite Niche Media
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ต.ค. 2023
- In today's episode, the gang celebrates their favorite things that few people know about in the only way they know how: drawing fan art!
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I can't believe they recorded this video under the watchful gaze of Nathan's mom standing directly outside the window
Just like the mom character from Legends of Kris standing in the bushes
I don't think they are on a ground floor so that makes standing outside the window even more impressive.
@@InfernusdomniAZshe’s very tall
@@natspiderwe stan Nathan's very tall mom
I can. She's been doing that since it was just Nathan and Caldwell and she had to stand outside of the CH offices
I shudder in fear at the thought of what Karina considers as niche media
Surprisingly mild. She's holding back hard.
Karina’s holding the floodgates closed on the Niche media she knows of
@@Psianth That series is *mild*? Is there a different version of that manga that I didn't read?
@@liger04 Mild in terms of nicheness, methinks.
@@liger04 Like, I've read a number of things that never had and likely never will have an official english release. Things I had to dig hard for. Karina no doubt has mental libraries of that stuff.
Julia will be like "yeah I don't know if I really liked this one all to much" while drawing the sickest shit I've ever seen
and then she somehow makes an even better piece after deleting it
so true
Welcome to an artist mind!
I love how Katrina says, "i'm not feeling good, so i didn't really bring it," and proceeds to create something that could easily be a variant cover for an issue of this series.
That's exactly what I thought.
Julia's drawing feels like she's been dying to tell people about these books for a long time
Tbh I feel those vibes. Shame my tastes are hard to pass on. From the brief window into the series, I kinda wanna know her reading list, it fits what I like quite well.
The curse of loving niche media: The moment you're given an opening you speak for half an hour at ~300 words per minute. Well, I say curse, I actually like listening to people go off about something less known that they're really into (with some crucial exceptions), but having been on the speaker end of this kind of situations it is hard to stop yourself from asking the other person "oh shit am I boring you to tears" every two minutes.
It makes so much sense that she would have read these books! In hindsight you can totally see their influence on the tone of her art
My heart like, jumped at seeing the thumbnail, because those are some of my favorite books of all time. I can barely believe anyone else knows about them!
It's a great book series.
I’m surprised they didn’t do the “IM the big bug man” joke, like the big boss man, cuz Nathan is the big boss man.
Problem is the bug man doesn't wear pants so he can't pull them up to fully embody the bis boss persona
oohhh I was about to post that, I kept waiting for it!
aw shit dude I just posted this comment almost verbatim
I was literally thinking the same thing!!!!!!😂
I WAS THINKING THAT THE WHOLE TIME AFTER HE SAID HE PLAYED A BIG BUG MAN!!!!!!
Can we just appreciate Jacob's incredible colour choices despite being colourblind? And those inks??? Amazing
honestly his style is so cool and I was very surprised when I heard him being colourbling
@@damekkoDarkI love the typo colourbling so much.
holy shit i didn't know he was color blind, i knew something about his coloring was different but i always thought it was stylistic because of how good it looked
WHAT he's fucking colorblind?? That dude is so damn skillful holy shit
I think he said in an episode a while back that he'll sometimes pick colours by numbers or relative position on the colour pie. I don't remember exactly what type of colourblindness it is but boy be working it!
Came for abhorsen fan art, stayed because I was intimidated by the piercing stares of Nathan's mom
give me ranna, mosrael, kibeth, dyrim, belgaer, saraneth, and astarel
@YerpyMoose be careful naming the bells, they hear their names and will respond to the call and ring on their own.
I didn't realize there were more books than the original trilogy! Such an incredible world
The first 3 books of that series are some of the very few YA books I own. This video is the first I've learned that it continues after Abhorsen.
There's a player in my group who drew everyone's character and he felt like he wasn't that good and I'm just like "dude, this guy did not exist in a visual form until you did this. I had an image in my head of how he looked and now that image is this. I am honoured to be even the inspiration of art like this."
“Fanart of the interior” When Karina’s talking about being great at art from birth, it such a gem throwaway line
17:15
AFSDSDFS
Throwaway line? They literally all acknowledged it and laughed
@@manashieldmedia a throwaway line can be acknowledged and appreciated tho? it just was not really the main punch line/utterance of that bit, it was said in passing kinda
@@Lettersforhartigan It was centered and laughed at by the entire cast.
the cardinal fear that shot up my body when julia paused explaining this books story, the absolutely radical amazing drawing she mades opacity gets lowered and she says “in the first piece-“
it's so insane that jacob got a marker texture on point and made a whimsical, energetic drawing with a genuine vibe, and he still hated it
Welcome to art...
That's art baby! Seriously though I loved his piece so much, I hope sometime in the future he looks back on it with a fresh perspective and sees how good it is!
Nathan being a minmaxer will always amuse me. "How can I break this game?" _is_ a valid approach to ttrpgs!
I'm not even a proper min maxer - I'm more of a lore/RP focused player - and I low-key broke a game with my Warlock Naaril the Kobald. Since her backstory features her essentially martyring herself for the sake of the rest of her tribe, I figured she'd need a high constitution and HP to justify her surviving it, and that she'd probably focus on learning spells to increase them since she fully intends to keep throwing herself in harms way to protect others. These features, and personality traits combined with a low dexterity score meant that she kept setting off pretty much every trap the DM threw at us either on purpose to prevent the squishier party members like our Ranger and Rogue from triggering it, or as a result of clumsiness, and either passed her saving rolls so well that she was totally fine or only took a little damage. She also completely tanked a hit in a boss fight that nearly insta-killed two other party members the time we accidentally went in the dungeon backwards, which the DM used to justify making the boss monster run away instead of killing the rest of the party - it hit this tiny cute looking dragon thing with its strongest attack, and barely did any damage, so it just assumed it couldn't win and thus ran. Even though Naaril was terrible at combat...
Basically, I accidentally made the spellcaster version of Darkness from Konosuba, but without the madichism...
It's min/maxing, but with obvious restrictions (no armor) and.. well, honestly I don't really see how you can break a game that way. Well done, you gave up offensive and utility options to be as tough as a person in good armor while technically naked!
Sorry, just min/max is a term thrown around as a negative to anything even moderately optimised to be a good adventurer and it gets to me.
@@Snickersnek this might not be a good example of it, but I was just saying in general and as a neutral statement. If you watched drawga you'd see him taking advantage of game mechanics in ways that were definitely not intended by Caldwell and the fans who came up with the items they were using.
I honestly don't know how one can read negativity into my comment. It's just a fact and I said it's valid? Nathan _is_ a minmaxer and I think that's funny. (Also I thought the derogatory term for it was Power Player(tm) but I could be wrong)
I think the important distinction between positive and toxic min-maxing is in how the game ends up broken as a result. If you build a character so over powered that no one else at the table is even necessary to complete a fight/challenge, then you’ve created something that detracts from everyone else’s fun. However, if you make a character that can do exactly one thing super well (bonus points if that one thing is more of a support role) then you’ve created a character that’s extremely consistent while allowing everyone else space to shine.
Like yes, you can make a Hexblade Coffeelock who casts Darkness on the field and smites with reckless abandon and never needs to take a long rest, but that character isn’t fun for everyone else to play around. Meanwhile, a character built to be a great wall and nothing else provides the party with room for dps or ranged support to shine as well.
Tdlr min-maxing is fun just make sure to ask if what you’re building will actually be fun for everyone else.
@@SnickersnekI think you're projecting. I rarely hear people use min/max negatively, and this person absolutely isn't either
Drawfee suggestion: drawing each other as muppets. You can draw yourself, or have someone else draw what they THINK your muppet form would be
Sounds like an great excuse to bring back Elyse Willems.
muppet-sonas!!
yes yes yes yes yes
make it so!
I thiiink they did this on an Aggie stream? I could be misremembering
I did not know the book Julia based hers on so I ignored the spoiler warning, got heavily spoilered, and now I really really want to read it it sounds incredible
That whole series is really cool!
Garth Nix is just a fantastic YA author.
The charter is a wonderful and complex system of magic
Same, it sounds really interesting
Free magic, the great charters, Wyverly College, The Wall, Mogget, and the Clayr are wonderful nuggets of narrative that I can back as worth your time to read.
spoilers arent inherently bad lol like sometimes being heavily spoiled is the push you need to get into something (i also didnt know about them but they sound super cool and now i want to read them and i am not a reader lol)
Oh my god I felt my body grow cold from Julia explaining her book story while watching BOTH illustrations come together. Like listening to a horrific tale. I LOVE IT.
right? like i went into her spoilers spiel thinking like, whatever Im not gonna read that anyway, and then i was so taken with it that i just ordered the first book
Literally one of Jacob's best pieces, can't even describe how much I love the style omg
For real, that's one of my personal favourite Drawfee pieces of all time. It gels with me to a scary degree. That said, the sheer intensity of the mood in Julia's piece is incredible as well. This was an awesome episode overall.
Love when Drawfee just makes a clear cult episode
and Julia's????? GOOD LORDY
Do you guys happen to know the name of brush he’s using? I love it so much
Edit: lmao I need to shut my mouth and watch the whole video
Yessirrr. Goated piece.
Drawing suggestion: draw each other into an isekai. Example- Nathan is king of dinosaurs in a prehistoric world; Karina uses a Digimon deck in a YuGiOh-esque dimension; Julia is a Drawtective in an isekai full of vampires; and Jacob is the leader of a bunch of little guys rebelling against hot villains.
this, please this
YES!!
Jacob gets isekai’d into “That Time I Was Reincarnated as the Princess of Yogurt(Yogi/Yog-yog)”
@@ddubmomoXD omgosh that would be funny
I'd think Jacob would be isakaid into an Adventure Time esque world where the four elements Jacooob are
Yogurt
Take out Food
Geometrical good shapes
And Horse
I have always admired how open Jacob is with his art struggles. As someone who has never been able to find a consistent art style that feels like it's mine, it's so reassuring to see another artist whose style is so dynamic and constantly evolving.
You can't be mean to me, Nathan's mom will be mad at you again" is an absolutely hilarious vibe
That image of “Nathan’s mom” shook me to my core.
It really shows where Nathan inherited his rage and constant emotional outbursts
These honest fanart episodes mean so much to me. It's so fun to get to learn a little more about what makes them the artists that they are but also the people that they are. It's so genuinely inspiring.
man i really liked julia's first piece but the ENERGY of the second one is so so good. The colors and texture especially, it feels like a storybook and its lovely
At one point during Karina's and Jacob's drawings they talk about art cheats and how they can't always bring 100% and I love that they show and acknowledge the cheats they use. It's so useful and validating for aspiring and newer artists to know that it's ok to use cheats to make great art. You don't need to be at 100 every time and it's ok to cut a few corners to get something done and still be proud of your result!
I choose to believe that Nathan's mom heard Jacob's infamous "Do you know what a rectangle is?" and took him to task. So now every time Jacob says something mean to Julia, they have to clarify it's just a joke.
There was a time when his mom had watched an episode and thought Jacob was rude to Julia but I cannot remember what it was about or when. I want to say before the rectangle incident, in the College Humor days.
@@MadCheshireHat IIRC, Julia was speeding through a background and Jacob made a joke about Julia being terrible at drawing backgrounds and Nathan's mom didn't know that Julia is famous *and* infamous for her backgrounds. If I try to remember the sort of thing he said, I'd probably get auto-modded for bullying, so... XD
For anyone curious the “amateurish background” comment is in the Drawing Fruit Dragons episode, and they talk about Nathan’s mom’s reaction in the Drawing More Cocktail Characters episode during Julia’s section !
@@snermitthefrog Thank you for finding this for us!
@@snermitthefrogthey joked about it on stream but a References Playlist really would be great with so many inside jokes at this point. The first should obviously be the banana hammerhead that started the "Sorry!"😂
i will be forever envious of the drawfee crew being able to just push through a bad art day and commit to finishing a piece. I cannot even begin to count how many pieces i start and then abandon
idk if it's helpful for you, but something that has helped me:
you decide which of your art is pieces and which is sketches. I'll keep considering something a sketch even when I start painting it, and it only becomes a piece for me as I finish it up. Keeps it looser and less anxiety-inducing for me to do art, doesn't feel like I'm performing as much. :>
@@MrValravnen THIS IS GREAT ADVICE!! i used to pressure myself into turning all of my decent-looking sketches into full-blown pieces. and i would always get so disappointed when i didn't have the energy to finish it. there's nothing wrong with a sketch staying as just a sketch!!! not every drawing has to be your best masterpiece! that sounds obvious but it took me a really long time to actually realize the truth in it. nowadays i have SO many unfinished pieces and sketches but, even if i never finish them, that's ok. in a couple years' time i'll look back on them and see exactly what was missing, and i'll probably redo it from the beginning. and that's art babey! as long as it makes you happy at the end of the day!
As others have said. It is normal to have more sketches than finished pieces as an artist. Most of our work is sketches improving on our skills in some way. It keeps more consistent, just saying I am going to sketch today. Rather than the pressure to make a piece everyday
I think it also helps that they have a deadline to meet. If they don't make something, then they aren't doing their job. So don't put that kind of pressure on yourself if you don't have to.
It also helped me a ton to remember "finished not perfect" learning to finish a piece is honestly one of the most important skills to have. 😊
Instead of Delete Your Art, Julia went Complete Your Art and reinterpret it
whenever they say they've been in a bad art headspace you just know the drawing is gonna be rad as all heck
"Un-thumbnail-able" ha! Dude, I saw Clariel in the TH-cam notification and IMMEDIATELY started watching. The Old Kingdom is such a rich world and I love it SO MUCH. Tim Curry narrates the audiobooks!
SAME!
Mogget is my spirit animal
Episode idea: drawing even more fanart for Nathan's playgroup because he won't.
Nathan has a playground?
Oh My God i cannot express how much i love julia’s more illustrative work. she uses so much black but still keeps the forms clear and the emotion. The Emotion. perfectly displays that absolutely batshit feral quality RAGGSHSH i love it so much
i aspire to be able to make art like this
brings a gd tear to my eye :’)
As a professional wedding photographer, I can't even imagine the stress of being an artist the way y'all are. To just "come up with a thing and then do it and make it look amazing" is insane to me. I can only do what I do because the material is all in front of me. I sympathize so much with artists who feel an art block, and I loved this drawing Jacob!
Nathans fanart was incredible!!! It looked like it was from some type of graphic novel
Someone else in the comments mentioned that it looked like Mike Mignola (Hellboy) art, and I can't unsee it.
Of course Julia reads the Abhorsen series. To be fair, they rock.
Second I mean talking snarky cat, necromancy and even a dash of Edwardianesque setting that's cool.
I’m reading through them right now, and it’s such a good series! I just finished Clariel about a week ago, and I’m excited to see what Julia makes.
The Abhorsen series is rad, I am so glad Julia also reads the series
I saw the thumbnail and flipped out. I love the Abhorsen series and I have read every book like 5 times over
@@computerbrosgaming2382 sameeeee
I really like Nathan's piece. He's doing real Mike Mignola vibes, especially the colouring.
I was gonna say his shading felt very Mike Mignola too!!
Jacob's right about how cool it is to be in a ttrpg group with an artist, and the only thing cooler is when there's Multiple artists so you get Many fan arts. The group I'm currently in also has a musician who legit wrote theme songs for all of our characters which is just. Mindblowingly awesome
SPEED DRAWING SUGGESTION: advertisement posters for a nonsense product, like a yell-powered bicycle or a handheld toaster, idk but I know y'all would have fun, and Nathan would riff SO hard.
I second this
Those in favor?
HELL yes
Now you can have breakfast wherever you go! Even in the bathroom!
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That clariel fanart was so good, it made me want to reread the whole series. The Tim Curry audiobooks are so good.
When I found out the first three audiobooks were narrated by Tim Curry, I about SCREAMED in excitement. He did SUCH a good job. ❤
@@ThumbWar2012 Now I have no excuse.
chlorrrrrrrrr
@@freddogrosso9835 You won't regret it...! ☺️
Had to make sure there was a comment mentioning those audiobooks. I relisten to them every couple of years. Tim Curry is remarkably good at portraying a naive and pompous teenage girl.
5:37 How Nathan did NOT go "I'm the big BUG man!" in his big boss man voice is beyond me
DRAW MORE THINGS YOU LOVE ON THE REGULAR! it's so cool to see you guys working on things you're passionate about!!
I'm always a huge fan of this style of episode where you guys get to draw more "freely" whatever you want. Always so inspiring when you try more experimental things or play with the rendering or composition or coloring
Aww look at Jacob, being so sweet and kind to Julia! Marriage is a magical thing.
I was OBSESSED with that series. And the fact that the characters played bells and I played hand bells really resonated (heh) with me.
The abhorsen is the master of death. The bandolier is an iconic emblem of the wonder that is the old kingdom series.🎉
love the littlest bell, ranna
Yeah I’m one of three artists in my current dnd campaigns (and two of us consistently get brain rot about the characters) and the ammount of free and amazing art is so good to get and I love how much the art I make is also appreciated. It makes us feel like an ecosystem in a weird way :)
I love watching Nathan speed draw, and I love watching Drawee talk about things that make them happy.
I DESPERATELY need that ultimate scrungle brush...
Edit: THANK YOU JACOB I've been hunting for that brush ever since I first saw it on a stream ages ago
Holy shit, just Julia describing the book made me tear up!! That’s wild!
Trust this random internet stranger, the Old Kingdom Series is worth it.
@@YerpyMooseso is The Keys to the Kingdom series!!
@@flfb I always refer to that series as the days of the week series
I love it when Drawfee are sincerely complimenting and supporting each other, it's wonderful ❤ On top of that, everyone delivered a GREAT piece for something they enjoy and the vibes came through loud and clear. This is the kind of stuff that inspires me
YES Clariel (and all the Old Kingdom books) is so good!!
Orannis says hello
Three cheers for all the artists in our RPG groups! The artists in my group are always making the most fantastic things
It is wild how unbelievably goated their taste is, and how good their art pops when they get to gush about their niche faves.
Genuinely one of the best episodes I've seen in a while.
This is my favourite kind of Drawfee video.
Everyone just complimenting, and loving each other and their art
So many good vibes
please look up random characters from the warriors series, preferably without knowing even what the series is or about, and draw them, incorporating something from their silly silly names into their appearance (like Spiderleg). This could be ideal for a guest star who knows a lot about warriors
love this idea!!
I clicked this video because I read Sabriel as a little lad and didn't know how to get my hands on any other books so I wanted Julia to finally tell me what happens after 20 years
Gotta say every single one of these was a winner. So stylish, so experimental in their own ways!
Julia just helped me find the book I have been searching for since I read it at the library as a child! I am so excited!!
As a child? There’s no ways it’s that o-
Oh.
It is that old…
‼️‼️FRANKENFRAN MENTIONED‼️‼️
Excellent episode! Everyone's pieces were so sincere. Julia doing a piece based on one of Garth Nix's work really awoke my inner child reading the Seventh Tower series. I'll have to read this series!
The seventh tower, the days of the week, the Old Kingdom. Of these, The Old Kingdom is Mr. Nix's opus.
The Old Kingdom, what a wonderful world.
I could listen Julia talk about her favorite media for hours :^)
Holy cow all of these designs are amazing! But the fact that you have brought up Mistborn and the Old kingdom in recent episodes has been everything to me. These little fantasy books that I don’t think many other people have encountered that I love so much, and here it is with Drawfee talking about it like everyday things. MOAR… please
WAIT, MISTBORN??? What episode???
Nathan drawing fanart of his friend ttrpg group for the niche media episode is so wholesome
One of my favorite things is always the way people interact with their favorite media that nobody knows- I myself always rope people into conversations against their whim about my favorite manga of all time, and this speeddraw really felt like a loveletter to excitement over obscurity :)
Arg, you got me! What's your favorite all time manga?
@@SuperVoodude It's Black Cat by Kentaro Yabuki- interestingly, it was the first manga I had ever read, and I think it has defined part of how I interact with writing nuanced characters; it's basically the main character trying to run from his past and it catching up to him anyways
Y’all ever look at a piece of art, and you can literally feel it changing how you approach your own artwork? That was me with the texture/how Julia rendered light in her piece. (Also, all the art in the ep today was Very Fun and Good! It’s been so great getting to see them lean into and develop their voices.)
Oh my god Julia’s final piece is the sickest thing I’ve ever seen, incredible
Nathan pulls up his pants and says "I'm the big bug man!"
suggestion: disney characters as d&d pcs, as inspired by abd illustrates! take a character, give them a background, race, and class, and draw em! maybe make it a speed draw?
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The Old Kingdom series is dope as hell. If you can find it, Tim Curry narrates the audiobook of the first book in the series, Sabriel
Sabriel is probably my second favorite, as Lirael is just a wondrous tome.
Tim Curry voices the entire original trilogy, I absolutely adore listening to the audiobooks and his fun voices. Esp Mogget
classic "julia redoes an entire piece and both look sick as always"
also julia has officially convinced me to read that series lmao
It is worth it
"To live alone in the woods where she doesn't have to be around everyone." Julia, I to have that dream.
Same.
I love episodes with the gang’s giggling like Scrat and the Flying Squirrel rolling through the green gas canyon
It's always so fun to see you draw things you love! Maybe if you do this again, draw something you really liked as kids that you haven't thought about in a while? Or perhaps spice it up by asking each other to draw the things you liked as kids and describe them to each other?
Nathan pulls up his pants and proclaims, "I'M THE BIG BUG MAN"
i’m a big ttrpg enjoyer and my main dnd group i play with is all artists and it’s really fun to see everyone’s drawings of sessions and little doodles
13:49 the artist is "mitsuro" - the numbers are a type of japanese slang where you replace words/sounds with numbers, sort of like using a letter or number for a whole word or part of a word in english, like "hope 2 c u l8r"
The way Jacob rendered his piece is so cool! The entire drawing is just awesome.
I read Clariel bc Julia's description was so gnarly. Really enjoyed it
I love how supportive they all are of each other's art. It's the best.
Nathan's piece really reminds me of darkest dungeon art. the heavy shadows and color really sells it. really like that style for horror
As soon as Jacob said "niche PS2 rhythm game" I knew where that was going and let out a reflexive gasp of joy! Absolutely love how the piece came out, I feel like it singlehandedly brought me out of a funk!
I both own the PS2 game and have played it on emulator. I think I've had pretty equal difficulty on each, maybe a few more errors here and there on the emulated version, but I pick it up at least a couple times a year and have fun with it. I would give it a try again!
I love seeing art of people's roleplay characters. It adds a layer of depth to both the art and the game.
Thank you Julia, for reminding me how much I loved this series as a teenager. I never really loved Clariel as much as I did the first three, but now I'm definitely going to go back and binge read all of them with new eyes 😄
Plus, Goldenhand and Terciel&Eleanor are after Clariel
ugh i love when jacob does his scrungly artstyle
sooo glad he didnt redo the inks it's so good
Saw the Abhorsen art but Clariel is the only one I haven't read yet and then Julia's like, "spoilers, tee-hee" and I'm like, "ARGHH." I'll be back one day, Drawfee.
Please do tag-team drawing where someone does the sketch, someone does the lineart, someone does the background, and someone colours it!
I hope this episode blows up, so we get more niche fan art of really cool stuff. These videos are the best.
FINALLY SOME LOVE FOR THE OLD KINGDOM SERIES 😭😭😭
Yeah!!!!!
Thank the Charter
Holy shizz one of my favorite eps!!! 💝 Every one of these is so fricken cool 🥰 Totally empathize w Jacob, but also y’all made some truly dope and unique stuff after feeling the urge to experiment w something new!!
oh the GASP i gasped when i saw the thumbnail for this!! the old kingdom series was such a hugely formative influence for me-so excited to see it pop up on one of my favorite channels!
Holy crap I love the abhorsen series! Don’t know anyone else who had even heard of Clariel!
The tale of the temptation and corruption of power, whether it comes from money or free magic, is evergreen.
Everyone's pieces were really really good, but I'm in awe looking at Julia's. She really knocked it out of the park on this one!
It is just BONKERS to me that people have never heard of The Abhorsen series. I think everyone I knew in 8th grade read it--one person gave a book report on it, and it just spread like wildfire. I personally consider the original trilogy a classic fantasy, and I've lost count of how many times I've read it. Garth Nix writes young women SO WELL, and they're always the most powerful person in the room. Lirael is my favorite protagonist--I was 13 when I first read it, and I saw so much of myself in her: feeling different, being self-conscious, being filled with self-doubt. But she rises above it all, and she does what no one else can. I'm so glad Julia loves the Old Kingdom--it's just the perfect fantasy for her!
Apparently my ADHD was having a MOMENT when I tried to watch this the first time. It reminded me that I never went back and read Across The Wall by Garth Nix after I finished the Abhorsen / Old Kingdom series, I couldn’t remember if I still had the book, so I paused the video and I found it on my shelf and got distracted and read the entire book in one night and never came back to finish this video until 2 months later. Oops
I see Abhorsen, I click. Haven’t even watched it yet but I just saw a charter mark and got stupid excited
Please give the super Crown (Peachette / Bowsette) to video game characters of your choice. We all need to see which Silent Hill character Julia gives it to. Four years, and still asking!
I heard Nathan say “I’m the big bug man” in his “I’m the big boss man “ voice in my head and blacked out for the next 180 seconds
My favorite chapter of Franken Fran is the one where she sews a girl's head onto a hand, and has to scoop out big chunks of brain in order to fit smaller versions of the necessary organs in there, and the boy who liked her starts taking care of his handhead girlfriend sort of like a pet, but then there's a mid-chapter reveal that she still has enough brainpower left to absolutely LOATHE the boy and that she's been plotting to kill him all along.
Such a cool series. Love Fran.
draw suggestion look up animal onomatopoeia in other languages and draw what you think makes that noise
Julia doing Old Kingdom fanart? LETS GO. 🎉♥That's my favorite book series.
Give me the charter and some free magic! Julia is definitely a free magic adept
Drawfee I just want to say that something I adore about your channel, is that throughout it all you have always maintained a level of authenticity about your journey with art. It is truly refreshing and beautiful to watch, because while with practice I have seen HUGE leaps in skills, you also talk about your struggles and remind me that progress is not linear, but it's still progress.
I admire this channel for that and its inspiring for me, being an artist with insane art block 🌼
It is a fine line to walk having your art on display to the world, and finding a way to monetize your passion, but not losing your soul in the process.
I love that you all have your bad days and find ways to overcome them, and that you're all supportive of each other throughout.
I just realised I've been watching this channel for a long time. Thankyou for being a light in a dark place, just by being You 🩵
Just chiming in to reinforce that I love the Abhorsen/Old Kingdom series. Fantastic work, everyone!
Me too!!!!! Kerrigor laments his attempt to overthrow the kingdom!