I would really love to see you guys try to "traditionally paint", but digitally. So you only have 1 layer, and you can only use different brushes and colours, that's it. No eraser, no undo button, no canvas flip, none of all that.
YES!! it reminds me a ton of the starter box set i had when i was a kid, it had this thick red border and then a badass dragon in the middle on a pile of gold, and nathan's drawing looks so much like it it's incredible! very nostalgic :)
Props to the Drawfee crew for always being pretty transparent about their mental states when they're doing their projects "I was going through a lot so to be honest I did this this morning." "I stood up and said I just don't want to do this right now." Because while these things are true they did find a way to get what they needed to do done in the end, or if not, their coworkers understood and the crew member in question picked the ball back up next time. I think there's this really unhealthy taboo against being open about struggling with your job and I find it really nice that Drawfee crew *does* talk about their struggles and more often than not, they have resources, help networks and flexibility in place that they can get what they need to done. They all know what is expected of them and they challenge themselves to do the best they can but aren't afraid to admit "this isn't my best work but I got it done" or "I just couldn't do it this time but its important to me to try my best next time," and their coworkers trust them to do that. I find that kind of understanding in a workplace really admirable. EDIT: Case in point, near the very end Jacob says "Sometimes you have to [break the rules of the challenge.] I feel like if you're in a bad mental state about it, its better to break the rules than feel like shit." We stan a crew that keeps everyone's mental health first.
Yeah it means a lot to me as someone studying Graphic Design while dealing with a lot of mental stuff. Sometimes (okay most times) you just Can’t and that’s okay. But also sometimes you gotta do something you feel is crap anyway and that’s also okay. (And usually the ‘crap’ is amazing you’re just too deep in a funk to be able to tell) …Anyway yeah this channel means a lot to me
I also approve of people with talent (especially those who have achieved some success) speaking openly about their processes and struggles, both personally and in their field. It really does help people on the outside looking in (whether they are aspiring in similar fields or not) to see that you can struggle with things like this and still have success and pursue your hobbies/passions and even (maybe) make money with them. Not only is it great for those who need to understand that coping with normal life problems, or even mental health things is actually possible, it also tells everyone that just because you chose a profession you love doesn't mean that you won't have days when you're like, "I don't want to do this," and even more importantly than that, that just because you don't want to do something, that doesn't mean you don't have to do it. The Drawfee crew is also a great illustration (no pun intended, but hehehe) of having a supportive group of friends/coworkers and how healthy that can be for a person.
I love Julia leading the charge of the group beating down Nathan with compliments until he concedes and admits he did a really good job on a difficult challenge. I also love Jacob immediately calling out Julia on her doing exactly the same thing about her "soup" drawing.
Nathan: Flexes on us all with his lizard powers. Jacob: Faithful comic adaptation. Karine: Unintentionally cool fan art. Julia: Waiter? There's a masterpiece in my soup.
Yeah. One time a literary got 99 out of 100 for one of the subjects in the uni, and the rest of my group (is that what it's called in English?) got less than 80, and everyone hated me for whining about my grade, but I couldn't help it. I am a perfectionist (and it's unhealthy). Poor Nathan. He's not allowed to be upset about being below his own standards 😅
I am that kid and man, it doesn't always suck to miss one question on an exam; sometimes it's just a really hard question or something I didn't know. But it sucks a WHOLE lot to miss one question and that be for some dumb mistake! Like, forgetting the number 4 exists kind of dumb. Getting the chemical formula for water wrong kind of dumb. That's what usually happens when there is one wrong answer: a mistake that literally no one else could've possibly made.
In my country, there’s a thing called a national test. It’s an adaptive test made for the government and school system to see how kids are doing at school. Anyways, in the national test for english (second language in my country) I was sure I’d made so many mistakes. Every time someone asked me how I did, I said that it wasn’t great. It felt like my skill had devolved. Skip forward some weeks, and I’d gotten… 100%. On an adaptive test… Talk about underselling yourself. Btw, this wasn’t meant as bragging, sorry if it came across that way
I love the energy Julia brought when Nathan was being too critical of himself. Sometimes you just need a friend to say "Shut the FUCK up, this is rad as hell"
IKR!! I draw too and know a lot about color, light and stuff, I tried this before and my brain was hurting and struggling through out the whole process, because we are so used to do things in one way that the struggle becomes real really fast 😂😂😂 that dragon looks sick 😂💕
Right? That was honestly beautiful. You can tell by the adorable humble pride in his voice that everyone's praise really hit him deeply. And maybe this next part is just my assumption, but Julia is so well-respected, and he seems to always admire her work so much, that I can only imagine her particular fervor meant extra-lots to him. Just such an adorable wholesome moment all around. I parasocially love these creators so much XD
We could all use a friend like that to tell us off when we're being way too hard on ourselves. The Drawfee gang might tease and make fun of each other, but when it comes down to it they're all always so supportive and praising each others work and skills. But this time Julia sounded _so_ utterly outraged at Nathan being down on his piece that it was honestly beautiful.
Nathan would make such a wonderful illustrator for children's picture books. Everything he draws is so dynamic and has such movement and fun energy. I wanna see a whole ass book featuring Nathan's cool dragons and animals and creatures. Also, I kind of liked the dull orange and green combination that Jacob's piece ended up with, something about that mix of colors gave me a militant apocalyptic vibe, if that makes any sense at all to anybody but me.
Jacob (RG colorblind): I didn’t want to make this color inversion challenge too challenging, so I used reference. Also Jacob (Still RG colorblind): I chose an all red and green image for reference. Me: Jacob has found his own avalanche.
@@r00b1XCu6E reading this before seeing Julia’s drawing, as someone that has seen every video including the blender one feels like the equivalent of a minor god looking into my soul and saying “be afraid”
Man, the flip in Jacob's drawing blew my mind. The original looked striking, but it's incredible how cohesive the colors and shading turned out in the flip
Jacobs coloring always surprises me but it probably helps that he has the positions of the color wheel for green memorized because hes colorblind for these sort of challenges,
2:00 Nathan "Yeah...this was a challenge" Jacob "...do you wanna talk about it?" I'm just picturing Nathan's thousand-yard stare as he flashes back to his experience.
For the record - Jacob feeling bad about his fundamentals while he's the one who didn't originally go to school for art and did English instead, so he didn't have the same fundamental bootcamp hell of art school, and yet he's just as talented as everyone on the show! Be kind Jacob
@@ahadmerchant9498 When they did their “redrawing childhood art” episode, wasn’t Nathan’s literally just a bunch of animals? This has always been his wheelhouse.
Speaking of "Jacobifying" your drawings, you guys should totally do a speeddraw to each others' styles. (Though whoever gets stuck matching Julia's style is gonna have a Hard road ahead of them XP) ETA: This might be a good option for the next time someone can't make it to record, actually. You guys all draw to match the style of whoever is absent.
If you haven’t seen them, before Karina joined they did do this! It was very interesting because you think the mimic artist got close and then the actual artist makes it so differently
Everytime Nathan lists millions of things that he doesn't like in his drawings I just want to yell complements at him because FOR GOD'S SAKE IT LOOKS AMAZING
it's like "oh yeah I don't think mine turned out well, there are these minor things that I have problems with" and it's just so incredible and there's so much amazing stuff and it looks really cohesive and wonderful
I feel like this is an oops all bangers episode!!! *Nathan drew a dope dragon with pleasing colours *Jacob pulled off the painterly style he was going for AND went for a pallet that directly goes against his colour blindness *Karinas style shined through with the energetic and daring poses and the colours turned out so pastel and candy-like *Julia had such a specific vibe and atmosphere in mind, and not only did she pull it off SO nicely but in inverted colours??????? tldr; you guys are amazing
How well did Karina nail the skin tones, though? Sure, skin tones fall into a range of normal, but it's not hard to screw that up when you're NOT drawing inverted.
The reveal of Nathan’s piece being so wonderful after he spent all that time talking smack about it is an energy I can relate to, like when you wrote papers or projects for school and thought they were crap and the grade comes back as an A and you’re just like….in disbelief. Love that
I would love to see art of supernatural beings just going about their days like this for a speed draw. I guess it’s the kind of art you might see on r/imaginarysliceoflife, which is probably one of my fave art subreddits. The fantasy slice of art just feels like it highlights something very human even when there’s no humans depicted and I love that.
Oh Julia, don't ever apologize for painting with muted colors! It's a delight to see you paint with those, I leart so much from your process! Thank you for sharing, even your 25% power is amazing.
no fucking shit, Nuno! The only person related to the Drawfee fandom that doesn't consistently stan Nathan is Nathan, himself. but he's coming along. One of us! One of us! One of us!
@@weebjeez definitely a Nathstan then. Love his art, his laugh, the way he supports his friends, and his excellent beard. So much to nathstan, which I’m also now using as a verb. Nathan should join the Nathstans and nathstan Nathan.
In the same vein as this suggestion: Each person pick a color palette and exchange them for a speed draw, BUT there is a grayscale filter over the whole drawing until the end. That way no one knows what colors they are working with, only the values. Love you guys!!
@@Poldovico I've seen a few TikToks that do it. They make a color palette, put it in grayscale, swirl the colors, then make a painting by value and reveal the final color :)
@@Poldovico in the TikTok that actually explained it she claimed she was painting only from the values so she had no idea which of her chosen colors she was using. So it surprised her and the viewers. But idk maybe it was just a filter and a lie 🤷♀️ always possible on the internet
Okay, Jacob's piece in this is GORGEOUS. Like the final result? No one really talked about it in the ep but I'm obsessed with how the face came out. Excellent job!!
I think it was on a livestream where Julia told the story about her being down on herself for something related to drawtectives and then Jacob comes along and is like "You idiot your so smart and talented how can you make something that isn't amazing"
I was getting ready for it to be funny, like it'd be a hilarious mess like the 30second drawings. Then it's just a picture of a dragon. If you showed it anyone, they just wouldn't question it at all.
Yeah Julia’s too though, it gave me the exact feeling she was trying to convey with that specific time that’s just barely morning, everybody killed it!! How Nathan and Julia were so disappointed with their work baffles me (O-O)
I love how nobody gets torn down, everyone on this show is super supportive and kind. I could have used people like that when I was learning art and struggling my way through teaching myself everything. Now I get to learn from these fine folks on the Drawfee
"Ok well I'm gonna yell at all of *you* for being too hard on *your* selves." "Okay, *bitch*! :)" 😂 Lmao I love how aggressively supportive they are of eachother, it always makes me smile! And it's comforting to know they have each others backs when I can't personally pop through the screen at yell at them for being critical of their awesome work 💚
i really loved jacob telling nathan "i dont know why you're criticizing it like you drew it normally and not like you drew it inverted" & nathan immediately being like "oh, yeah, you're right." it kind of sounded like nathan was joking or that even though he knew jacob was right, he was still disappointed. but i loved the way that moment was a perfect "you're too in your own head and you need your friend to explain it from an outside perspective to realize you're being way too hard on yourself" moment, because i think every artist experiences that at some point & its so comforting to watch professional artists have the same experiences that i do
I really like Jacob’s finished drawing! It feels like if the Statue of Liberty cut her hair, changed into modern clothing, and stood in front of a sunset
This episode fills me with a fierce want for T-Shirts that have the inverted image on the front and the flipped one on the back or vice versa. Also, Nathan is officially a colour and hue genius, what the heck!
So fun fact: Colour inversion is simply inverting the 0-255 values for red, green, and blue. This is why it's a little tricky to predict when you're working with hue, saturation, and value like most artists do. The reason the inverted colours instead use the RGB values instead of HSV is because humans see using three cones in our eyes to detect how much red, green, and blue light is around us. It's why when you come inside from a bright day your vision is burnt green; your eyes are oversaturated with yellow and you start seeing the inverted colour when its gone
This whole commentary was inverted, Nathan was full of sad vibes and everyone rescued him with hard core supportive energy, Kabina was *complimenting* Jacob, Jacob was talking about his fundamentals, Julia did a scene she wasn't happy with and everyone loved it. What along way we've come.
Nathan saying "I frickin' nailed it." in a tone as if he didn't expect the crew to back him up after repeatedly complimenting him is incredibly sad and also same.
I'm actually kinda glad this episode was pushed to today, and the timing of the the upload was perfect I really needed a reason to laugh thank you guys so much for being awesome
Can we talk about Karina's drawing for a sec? Because oh man it's so cool!!!! The final version with the pastel colours contrasted by the saturated ass fire is so gorgeous, I love it!!
If I'm not mistaken, the problem you guys were having with saturation is because invert is based on strict rgb, and saturation has a weird relationship with rgb.
The saturation actually doesn't change at all when inverting colors. Only the hue and brightness get inverted, or in rgb terms its 255-(the original color value) for the 3 color channels.
To riff on this challenge I think it'd be fun for you guys to pick color pallets then invert them and send them to each other to use then at the end invert them back and see what it looks like.
julia’s turned out with the exact cozy and peaceful morning vibes that she described. i can practically hear morning birds and smell fresh bread when looking at it
I think this is a prime example of someone looking at their creation for too long and noticing nothing but the flaws, instead of recognizing just how good the final version actually is to anyone not directly privy to the process... Really fun episode, wouldn't mind seeing more like this :)
I think it’s also a great example for having an ending image in mind and having the final product not matching the expected image and feeling bad about that, but everyone else coming in with no expectations loving it.
i absolutely love how supportive the crew is when one of them is unhappy with a piece-especially the more challenging ones like this one. nathan is often times pretty harsh on his own drawings, and it's nice to see everyone adamantly complimenting his work and absolutely _not_ having it with his criticisms.
GOD KARINA'S MESSY ENERGETIC FREE LINES WITH THE MORE PASTEL PALETTE IS SO GOOD. HOLY CRAP. I LOVE IT. i aspire to draw like karina. i love crazy dynamic poses and foreshortening, i'm just not the best at them yet.
Dude my mouth was agape for moments on end when Nathan's dragon was inverted!! Daaaaaang :0 Okay also, Karina's comment was amazing, "I liked mine from the beginning. I think I'm good at art." Love that!! So true about her (and the Drawfee team:), and also just a healthy way to enjoy your skill with CONFIDENCE. 😁
I actually learned a lot in this one, mainly about values. Even if the process is pretty unconventional and not really applicable to the way I work, it's still pretty cool to see it and keep it in mind while analysing the end result! Thanks crew~
I love this challenge, as a kid I remember color inverting things cause I thought it looked cool. And the thought of making something that looks normal inverted and inverted normally is a great idea. Thanks to everyone who suggested and to y’all at drawfee for accepting this challenge.
Suggestion: please draw film noir birds! You guys would be so good at coming up with bird puns and omg, the aesthetic! Rain, shadows, dark alleys, the cynical ducktective, a seductive henne fatale...
Or like a grizzled eagle detective with two cool tomahawks who's estranged from his wife and kids and prowling around a mage-filled flying city and he's called Cerrit Agrupnin and he's in ExU: Calamity the Critical Role show by Brennan Lee Mulligan. Hypothetically
@@swiftlymurmurs And he’s got two really adorable kids and is arguably the best part of the entire show that is itself one of the greatest dnd campaigns of all time Hypothetically
this is one of the challenges that make it clear that drawfee prompts are just suggestions and the main point is to have fun and flex those art muscles
i feel like karina just cant razz jacob on speeddraw episodes specifically for some reason, idk why but their entire dynamic flips and they just become each other's biggest fans
I’ve been watching Drawfee for years and always love what y’all do, but this might genuinely might be one of my all-time fave episodes. Thanks for this gift y’all.
What about reversing roles in stories? Noble dragon saves a pretty knight from fearsome princess, a horror monster saves a child, mastermind villain take heroes in hand to hand combat, while his henchmen watch it via cameras and laugh over a world map.
What about that one challenge where you choose a color palette, then make your screen greyscale and draw using the values only? So when you switch it back it looks rad as hell.
I love how you all uplift each other. Even when you tease and make fun. Its never mean spirited. Ive been watching you guys since the days of making knock off characters based on popular cartoons episodes. It feels like being apart of your freind group and just lisioning to you all be supportive and vibing. Its wholesome
The way they aggressively compliment each other and are so supportively dragging anyone who isn't being fair to themselves is one of my fave things about this group. All the art turned out great!
As a writer and not an artist, I can sympathize with the whole "this work is soup" feeling, but there's always beauty in simplicity, and soup can be simple. Julia's is my favourite because of that - it brings about nostalgia for a time long past.
Julia always says stuff like "I was so drained when I made this, so here's like 25% of my energy" and then draws one of the most amazing pieces you've ever seen
Nathan's looks so cool both ways, I love it. Jacob's invert (that is, the green and orange) looks like a poster or something for a series about a female detective in the 1920's or so. The duller colours really add to that idea to me. I can't stop looking at Gallo's back leg in Karina's lmao. his pants are unsettlingly fleshy coloured so he just looks super obese on that one leg, and the green shadows look like underwear. Julia's is so soft, like it's part of a children's book.
@@justanotherloreaddict Don't be embarrassed, that's exactly the kind of flub that leads to some of Drawfee's best bits! I can just imagine one of them saying "Strampunk" by accident or reading it as a typo in a stream chat, and then everyone building deep lore about what strampunk is and drawing their stramsonas... Now I think I've talked myself into wanting that even though it's nothing.
@@HeavyMetalMal42 stram of all things makes me think of Bram Stoker. What if steampunk vampire sonas? Think I’ll draw a steampunk vampire sona of myself now lol
@@genericname8727 Well now I just want to see Julia’s new steampunk character, “Airship Full of Vampires.” And I do think “Stram Boker” is likely the Drawtectives-universe version of Bram Stoker.
Out of respect for Jacob, I won't pause this video because I got an alert that Deep Blue Ink just released a new drawfee video, check out their video, and then come back to finish this one.
I really like how in this episode, everyone got something different out of the challenge. Like, Nathan focused a lot on picking the right inverted colors to get the final product he wanted, but in the end, he got something bolder and more striking than he would've made otherwise. Jacob did a great job finding cohesive colors that were close to his reference, but he also managed to make a piece that looked really cool and complete in its inverted form. Karina took it so chill, and it's like she used the inverted color picking to make a piece with semi-randomized colors, which was a super cool effect. And even though they say that Julia kind of missed the point of the challenge, it was really interesting to watch in a different way because the more frequent inversions personally showed me more about how the inversion affected the colors and the nature of that relationship. Great episode guys!
I love how freaking good Nathan is at drawing animals and stuff, like Boom! - dragon. Or Boom, perfect horse without looking at any reference. Brilliant.
I love podcasts with artists because they are all way too hard on themselves and aggressively complimentary of others. It's like a game of tennis but instead of a ball it's praise and appreciation.
Am I the only one who loves the images while they’re still inverted? It’s always been something I find interesting Edit: no I should have waited before commenting 😂
I would really love to see you guys try to "traditionally paint", but digitally. So you only have 1 layer, and you can only use different brushes and colours, that's it. No eraser, no undo button, no canvas flip, none of all that.
Manifesting this one
TO THE TOP WITH THIS BRILLIANT IDEA
Want to see it too
canvas flip is a mirror ;D works wonders
Please!
you guys should draw with a random color palette BUT in grayscale so you don't know what monstrosity you've made
This x1000%
Read this and audibly gasped
I want this so bad lmfaoo
i tried bc i saw some ig reels about it and it was a fun way of learning values 😌
thatd be cool
Bump!!!
Nathan’s final piece looks like the cover of a dnd handbook for kids & I’m LOVING it
TOTALLY
Came here to say this! Strong board game box vibes.
I had the exact same impression!
I was thinking classic early Disney. Love it!
YES!! it reminds me a ton of the starter box set i had when i was a kid, it had this thick red border and then a badass dragon in the middle on a pile of gold, and nathan's drawing looks so much like it it's incredible! very nostalgic :)
Props to the Drawfee crew for always being pretty transparent about their mental states when they're doing their projects "I was going through a lot so to be honest I did this this morning." "I stood up and said I just don't want to do this right now." Because while these things are true they did find a way to get what they needed to do done in the end, or if not, their coworkers understood and the crew member in question picked the ball back up next time. I think there's this really unhealthy taboo against being open about struggling with your job and I find it really nice that Drawfee crew *does* talk about their struggles and more often than not, they have resources, help networks and flexibility in place that they can get what they need to done. They all know what is expected of them and they challenge themselves to do the best they can but aren't afraid to admit "this isn't my best work but I got it done" or "I just couldn't do it this time but its important to me to try my best next time," and their coworkers trust them to do that. I find that kind of understanding in a workplace really admirable.
EDIT: Case in point, near the very end Jacob says "Sometimes you have to [break the rules of the challenge.] I feel like if you're in a bad mental state about it, its better to break the rules than feel like shit." We stan a crew that keeps everyone's mental health first.
Yeah it means a lot to me as someone studying Graphic Design while dealing with a lot of mental stuff. Sometimes (okay most times) you just Can’t and that’s okay. But also sometimes you gotta do something you feel is crap anyway and that’s also okay. (And usually the ‘crap’ is amazing you’re just too deep in a funk to be able to tell)
…Anyway yeah this channel means a lot to me
I also approve of people with talent (especially those who have achieved some success) speaking openly about their processes and struggles, both personally and in their field. It really does help people on the outside looking in (whether they are aspiring in similar fields or not) to see that you can struggle with things like this and still have success and pursue your hobbies/passions and even (maybe) make money with them. Not only is it great for those who need to understand that coping with normal life problems, or even mental health things is actually possible, it also tells everyone that just because you chose a profession you love doesn't mean that you won't have days when you're like, "I don't want to do this," and even more importantly than that, that just because you don't want to do something, that doesn't mean you don't have to do it. The Drawfee crew is also a great illustration (no pun intended, but hehehe) of having a supportive group of friends/coworkers and how healthy that can be for a person.
I love Julia leading the charge of the group beating down Nathan with compliments until he concedes and admits he did a really good job on a difficult challenge. I also love Jacob immediately calling out Julia on her doing exactly the same thing about her "soup" drawing.
These guys are such good models of a wholesome mutually supportive friend group. The world all needs more friends like these
Artists tend to do that for some reason haha
The weirdness that I read this at the exact moment Jacob called Julia out….
Everyone aggressively complimenting Nathan's drawing is both hilarious and wholesome
I’m giggling to myself it’s so funny haha
Don't think I've EVER heard Julia this angry/frustrated or LOUD even!!
@@albertvisagie1760 she said I’m gonna DRAG YOU 😭😂😂😂😂
@@albertvisagie1760 "Mine looks like SOUP!!!!"
The funniest part to me is that they're usually savagely roasting Nathan and he just takes it all the same
I cannot imagine how difficult this challenge must be for Jacob, who is famously COLORBLIND 😂
I already can’t imagine how difficult it is to be an artist in general while also being colorblind.
That should be the next challenge idea: everyone except Jacob draws with a colorblind filter!
@@MiCKi914 that is genius
@@MiCKi914 please put this in a separate comment we love to see it
@@emily_232 lol I did actually!
Nathan dragging his own incredible dragon art: idk it’s just not that good
Julia: first of all how dare you
The whole drawfandom: exCUSE ME!!!?
Julia is right, Nathan nailed it
Julia and the others being so supportive was so wholesome ╰(*´︶`*)╯♡
First, he nailed this drawing, then he nailed the Vicar of Dibley joke.
Nathan: [isn't too proud of his own work]
the rest of the Drawfee Crew: "so i took that personally"
Nathan: Flexes on us all with his lizard powers.
Jacob: Faithful comic adaptation.
Karine: Unintentionally cool fan art.
Julia: Waiter? There's a masterpiece in my soup.
silly question: does anyone know what show Karina was making fan art of, im really curious.
@@lulabooks5954 Promare (2019)
@@lulabooks5954 she said promare or sumn like that
Nathan has achieved Lizard Calm?? daang
Edit: also, I am ENDLESSLY impressed with the way Julia got that subtle pink in the sky. like hello???????
Heck yea!
Nathan had an energy of that kid who nailed the exam and got out saying how they missed something
I am like this and I wish to overcome it, but is probably too late
Yeah. One time a literary got 99 out of 100 for one of the subjects in the uni, and the rest of my group (is that what it's called in English?) got less than 80, and everyone hated me for whining about my grade, but I couldn't help it. I am a perfectionist (and it's unhealthy).
Poor Nathan. He's not allowed to be upset about being below his own standards 😅
I am that kid and man, it doesn't always suck to miss one question on an exam; sometimes it's just a really hard question or something I didn't know.
But it sucks a WHOLE lot to miss one question and that be for some dumb mistake! Like, forgetting the number 4 exists kind of dumb. Getting the chemical formula for water wrong kind of dumb. That's what usually happens when there is one wrong answer: a mistake that literally no one else could've possibly made.
Kid who nailed everything but missed the extra credit question
In my country, there’s a thing called a national test. It’s an adaptive test made for the government and school system to see how kids are doing at school. Anyways, in the national test for english (second language in my country) I was sure I’d made so many mistakes. Every time someone asked me how I did, I said that it wasn’t great. It felt like my skill had devolved. Skip forward some weeks, and I’d gotten… 100%. On an adaptive test… Talk about underselling yourself.
Btw, this wasn’t meant as bragging, sorry if it came across that way
I love the energy Julia brought when Nathan was being too critical of himself. Sometimes you just need a friend to say "Shut the FUCK up, this is rad as hell"
I love how positive this show is in general
Nathan criticizing his piece is hilarious, it just looked like an amazing drawing of a dragon
It's absolutely phenomenal
With actually correct colors at the end!
IKR!! I draw too and know a lot about color, light and stuff, I tried this before and my brain was hurting and struggling through out the whole process, because we are so used to do things in one way that the struggle becomes real really fast 😂😂😂 that dragon looks sick 😂💕
It certainly cracked me up :')
Yeah, like this could be the cover of a DnD campaign.
Okay but Nathan naming his file "MadeYouLook.psd" is amazing. Absolutely killing it with these file names lately
I saw that and thought wow, I just got totally owned by Nathan.
Nathan being like "it's alright, it _kinda_ works" while everyone else is outraged at his humility is the exact opposite of "is the nose big."
"Is the nose ✨ standard? ✨"
The outrage Julia had over Nathan's disgust with his piece was so great. She was ready to throw hands.
Right? That was honestly beautiful. You can tell by the adorable humble pride in his voice that everyone's praise really hit him deeply. And maybe this next part is just my assumption, but Julia is so well-respected, and he seems to always admire her work so much, that I can only imagine her particular fervor meant extra-lots to him. Just such an adorable wholesome moment all around. I parasocially love these creators so much XD
We could all use a friend like that to tell us off when we're being way too hard on ourselves. The Drawfee gang might tease and make fun of each other, but when it comes down to it they're all always so supportive and praising each others work and skills. But this time Julia sounded _so_ utterly outraged at Nathan being down on his piece that it was honestly beautiful.
Nathan would make such a wonderful illustrator for children's picture books. Everything he draws is so dynamic and has such movement and fun energy. I wanna see a whole ass book featuring Nathan's cool dragons and animals and creatures. Also, I kind of liked the dull orange and green combination that Jacob's piece ended up with, something about that mix of colors gave me a militant apocalyptic vibe, if that makes any sense at all to anybody but me.
No I totally got those vibes too
nathan's kids book of dinosaur truths
I was getting those vibes too
Jacob (RG colorblind): I didn’t want to make this color inversion challenge too challenging, so I used reference.
Also Jacob (Still RG colorblind): I chose an all red and green image for reference.
Me: Jacob has found his own avalanche.
*yelling at my phone* "YOUR COLOR BLIND!!" when he was talking about saturation being off
not the avalanche 😭😭
I feel like there could be a meme somewhere with this
Jacob, why are you doing this
He did a really good job though! He just needed to mix a little cyan (inverted red) into the edges of the sun.
Everyone bullying Nathan into admitting his dragon was cool as hell is hilarious
Julia unintentionally going full Frieza and literally saying “you’ve only seen me at 50% of my power” really got me
the facade is cracking
Yes, unintentionally...
Same. I just watched the blender speed draw and was like.... that wasn't full steam?!
@@r00b1XCu6E reading this before seeing Julia’s drawing, as someone that has seen every video including the blender one feels like the equivalent of a minor god looking into my soul and saying “be afraid”
Or taking it the other direction and reinterpreting anime fights as "I'm really just not feeling it today"
Challenge idea: I think everyone except Jacob should do a challenge where they put a "colorblind filter" on their computer and then draw something!
Absolutely adore this idea
Why everyone except jacob?
@@ms10089 Because he's already colorblind! He's mentioned it in a few previous episodes.
@@MiCKi914 wait he's FUCKING WHAT?????
No way. I respect him 200% now. I can barely deal with colors and I have normal vision. My god....
Man, the flip in Jacob's drawing blew my mind. The original looked striking, but it's incredible how cohesive the colors and shading turned out in the flip
Jacobs coloring always surprises me but it probably helps that he has the positions of the color wheel for green memorized because hes colorblind for these sort of challenges,
ikr. Thought the piece was moving for a sec. that shit literally came to life. So mesmerizing.
@@elisestaudter7508 He's colourblind?! Damn, I never knew.
@@Arya-we7vf red/green color blind, yep!
Right? The way he did the shadows looks so effortless it looks like it was never an uninverted version
Hearing Nathan's "I friggin' nailed it" made it ALL WORTH IT
2:00 Nathan "Yeah...this was a challenge" Jacob "...do you wanna talk about it?" I'm just picturing Nathan's thousand-yard stare as he flashes back to his experience.
Yeah now that I've seen the full episode I understand better the pause lol. The final drawing looks so good!
As an above commenter already stated this episode feels like a therapy session
For the record - Jacob feeling bad about his fundamentals while he's the one who didn't originally go to school for art and did English instead, so he didn't have the same fundamental bootcamp hell of art school, and yet he's just as talented as everyone on the show! Be kind Jacob
NATHAN YOU NEED TO SHOW YOURSELF AS MUCH LOVE AS YOU CONSTANTLY SHOW YOUR FRIENDS
^ this is a rly important thing to learn for everyone btw
Inverted Nathan is a just Spencer lol 😉
huge fan of karina's file name just being "gaypeople" lmaooo that's the type of shit i name my files
everyone did so well!!!
I liked Nathan's very wholesome "made you look"
"Drawing a dragon, that'll be easy" - a thought no artist has had bar Nathan Yaffe, and I'm phenomenally impressed
He’s absurdly good at animals which I find such an oddly specific speciality,
honestly i’m that way too. i’m better at animals and monsters than any other subject
@@ahadmerchant9498 When they did their “redrawing childhood art” episode, wasn’t Nathan’s literally just a bunch of animals? This has always been his wheelhouse.
I mean, I draw dragons pretty easily...
Considering how broad "dragon" is, mythologically speaking, you could literally just draw a big snake. That's easy enough
Speaking of "Jacobifying" your drawings, you guys should totally do a speeddraw to each others' styles. (Though whoever gets stuck matching Julia's style is gonna have a Hard road ahead of them XP)
ETA: This might be a good option for the next time someone can't make it to record, actually. You guys all draw to match the style of whoever is absent.
Why can I see them spending the whole intro/episode insisting they're "the real person-who-is-missing" until one of them messes up the bit
If you haven’t seen them, before Karina joined they did do this! It was very interesting because you think the mimic artist got close and then the actual artist makes it so differently
"Nathan is this Blender!?"
@@kaitlynvera8706 oohhh which episode is that?
@@chibinecco1981 it’s a series of 3 videos in a round Robin but iirc the first one is “We draw Nintendo Characters in Each Others Styles”
Everytime Nathan lists millions of things that he doesn't like in his drawings I just want to yell complements at him because FOR GOD'S SAKE IT LOOKS AMAZING
He's so down on himself, for no reason at all.
Right? He did such a phenomenal job with both the drawing and the coloring!
it's like "oh yeah I don't think mine turned out well, there are these minor things that I have problems with" and it's just so incredible and there's so much amazing stuff and it looks really cohesive and wonderful
Funny how an artist can just be wrong about their work haha.
8:28 I love how Karina blasted him for trying to deflect that compliment. It was so sweet, in a very Karina kind of way.
I feel like this is an oops all bangers episode!!!
*Nathan drew a dope dragon with pleasing colours
*Jacob pulled off the painterly style he was going for AND went for a pallet that directly goes against his colour blindness
*Karinas style shined through with the energetic and daring poses and the colours turned out so pastel and candy-like
*Julia had such a specific vibe and atmosphere in mind, and not only did she pull it off SO nicely but in inverted colours???????
tldr; you guys are amazing
I'm glad they bullied Nathan into accepting his art, it's amazing!
How well did Karina nail the skin tones, though? Sure, skin tones fall into a range of normal, but it's not hard to screw that up when you're NOT drawing inverted.
WOAH. NATHAN TOTALLY NAILED HIS DRAGON! He undersold the shit out of it and i audibly gasped at his re-invert
Same, I was thinking “well photonegatives look weird so the colours probably won’t be quite right” and then they ALL WORK
SAME!!
same!
Yea I was totally doubting his colours too lol
The reveal of Nathan’s piece being so wonderful after he spent all that time talking smack about it is an energy I can relate to, like when you wrote papers or projects for school and thought they were crap and the grade comes back as an A and you’re just like….in disbelief. Love that
Well I'm glad to see Julia's witch character has finally stopped fuming at low-fat cheese long enough to buy baked goods for her family's breakfast.
I would love to see art of supernatural beings just going about their days like this for a speed draw. I guess it’s the kind of art you might see on r/imaginarysliceoflife, which is probably one of my fave art subreddits. The fantasy slice of art just feels like it highlights something very human even when there’s no humans depicted and I love that.
Which (witch) episode is that referencing?
@@lian-colechien5528 "Artists Draw Randomly Generated Characters" from August 2020 ruclips.net/video/mJD8NmTWVMM/видео.html
Oh Julia, don't ever apologize for painting with muted colors! It's a delight to see you paint with those, I leart so much from your process! Thank you for sharing, even your 25% power is amazing.
We've said it before and we'll say it again: Nathan rules.
He killed it in this, and we Stan Nathan
no fucking shit, Nuno!
The only person related to the Drawfee fandom that doesn't consistently stan Nathan is Nathan, himself.
but he's coming along.
One of us!
One of us!
One of us!
@@weebjeez Nathstan. Is that anything?
@@genericname8727 ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY!!!
We are now referred to as Nathstans!!
@@weebjeez definitely a Nathstan then. Love his art, his laugh, the way he supports his friends, and his excellent beard. So much to nathstan, which I’m also now using as a verb. Nathan should join the Nathstans and nathstan Nathan.
In the same vein as this suggestion: Each person pick a color palette and exchange them for a speed draw, BUT there is a grayscale filter over the whole drawing until the end. That way no one knows what colors they are working with, only the values.
Love you guys!!
Is that even possible, technology-wise?
@@Poldovico I've seen a few TikToks that do it. They make a color palette, put it in grayscale, swirl the colors, then make a painting by value and reveal the final color :)
@@BerryCuddles But is that grayscale just to surprise the viewer, or did they actually see what they were doing in greyscale when making it?
@@Poldovico in the TikTok that actually explained it she claimed she was painting only from the values so she had no idea which of her chosen colors she was using. So it surprised her and the viewers. But idk maybe it was just a filter and a lie 🤷♀️ always possible on the internet
@@BerryCuddles I'd believe that. It's more that I didn't know if it was easily done than anything like a tiktok conspiracy theory :P
Okay, Jacob's piece in this is GORGEOUS. Like the final result? No one really talked about it in the ep but I'm obsessed with how the face came out. Excellent job!!
I know we were supposed to focus on the colors, and I do like the palette in his piece, but the art itself was so great! She looks so cute!
And he's color blind!
@@samhaspowers jacob is colorblind?
@@samhaspowers I always forget that 😅 I definitely never noticed anything off about his coloring
@@pepispepsi3785 yup, red green colorblind.
I feel like Nathan needs a hug and some help to realize he's actually pretty talented
I love how violently encouraging this episode gets, real "you fucking idiot, stop being mean to you" energy
I think it was on a livestream where Julia told the story about her being down on herself for something related to drawtectives and then Jacob comes along and is like "You idiot your so smart and talented how can you make something that isn't amazing"
i love how a lot of these challenges are everyone just aggressively complimenting each other, it's so hilariously wholesome
Nathan was wayyyyy too hard on himself, the way he was talking about it made me feel like it was gonna be awful, and it’s lowkey really good
I was getting ready for it to be funny, like it'd be a hilarious mess like the 30second drawings. Then it's just a picture of a dragon. If you showed it anyone, they just wouldn't question it at all.
Yeah Julia’s too though, it gave me the exact feeling she was trying to convey with that specific time that’s just barely morning, everybody killed it!! How Nathan and Julia were so disappointed with their work baffles me
(O-O)
he always is tho. Wish he didn't doubt himself so much
I love how nobody gets torn down, everyone on this show is super supportive and kind. I could have used people like that when I was learning art and struggling my way through teaching myself everything. Now I get to learn from these fine folks on the Drawfee
"Ok well I'm gonna yell at all of *you* for being too hard on *your* selves."
"Okay, *bitch*! :)"
😂 Lmao I love how aggressively supportive they are of eachother, it always makes me smile! And it's comforting to know they have each others backs when I can't personally pop through the screen at yell at them for being critical of their awesome work 💚
i really loved jacob telling nathan "i dont know why you're criticizing it like you drew it normally and not like you drew it inverted" & nathan immediately being like "oh, yeah, you're right." it kind of sounded like nathan was joking or that even though he knew jacob was right, he was still disappointed. but i loved the way that moment was a perfect "you're too in your own head and you need your friend to explain it from an outside perspective to realize you're being way too hard on yourself" moment, because i think every artist experiences that at some point & its so comforting to watch professional artists have the same experiences that i do
I really like Jacob’s finished drawing! It feels like if the Statue of Liberty cut her hair, changed into modern clothing, and stood in front of a sunset
Oooh nice concept! I like that idea! 👌
jus say green person
@@arge3176 Mate, it's such a spot-on oxidized-copper color that it made me immediately think of the statue as well. No need for negativity.
Millennial Statue of Liberty
@@aquafyre99 🖕sayin mate is insanely cringey and embarrassing
YET ANOTHER BANGIN' ADDITION TO THE "HELL YEAH NATHAN'S ART IS SO GOOD" COLLECTION 🥳🥳
Karina flexing that super dynamic pose skill of hers again. Such an interesting pose!
"This was a quick messy one for me. Like 2 hours."
Meanwhile it would take me a week to pull something like that off.
This episode fills me with a fierce want for T-Shirts that have the inverted image on the front and the flipped one on the back or vice versa. Also, Nathan is officially a colour and hue genius, what the heck!
"Guess out some different" has the same energy as "Can you believe to learn?"
Every time I hear “not enough folds in the face” I consider a future Jacob arc of drawing epic old people 👀
So fun fact: Colour inversion is simply inverting the 0-255 values for red, green, and blue. This is why it's a little tricky to predict when you're working with hue, saturation, and value like most artists do. The reason the inverted colours instead use the RGB values instead of HSV is because humans see using three cones in our eyes to detect how much red, green, and blue light is around us. It's why when you come inside from a bright day your vision is burnt green; your eyes are oversaturated with yellow and you start seeing the inverted colour when its gone
This whole commentary was inverted, Nathan was full of sad vibes and everyone rescued him with hard core supportive energy, Kabina was *complimenting* Jacob, Jacob was talking about his fundamentals, Julia did a scene she wasn't happy with and everyone loved it. What along way we've come.
Nathan saying "I frickin' nailed it." in a tone as if he didn't expect the crew to back him up after repeatedly complimenting him is incredibly sad and also same.
Thank you guys for pushing back on Nathan's self-deprecation. He's so hard on himself sometimes and he always comes in with really good art.
I'm actually kinda glad this episode was pushed to today, and the timing of the the upload was perfect I really needed a reason to laugh thank you guys so much for being awesome
Feeling the same. Need something to chill with for a while
Oh cool, so this was for you!
I super agree. Was nice to have this today!
Can we talk about Karina's drawing for a sec? Because oh man it's so cool!!!! The final version with the pastel colours contrasted by the saturated ass fire is so gorgeous, I love it!!
If I'm not mistaken, the problem you guys were having with saturation is because invert is based on strict rgb, and saturation has a weird relationship with rgb.
The saturation actually doesn't change at all when inverting colors. Only the hue and brightness get inverted, or in rgb terms its 255-(the original color value) for the 3 color channels.
@@dermathze700 this is cool to know! So if you pick a saturated blue, you'll get a saturated orange?
can we take a moment to remember that Jacob is red-green color blind??? absolutely slayed
To riff on this challenge I think it'd be fun for you guys to pick color pallets then invert them and send them to each other to use then at the end invert them back and see what it looks like.
this would be so cool aaaa
julia’s turned out with the exact cozy and peaceful morning vibes that she described. i can practically hear morning birds and smell fresh bread when looking at it
I think this is a prime example of someone looking at their creation for too long and noticing nothing but the flaws, instead of recognizing just how good the final version actually is to anyone not directly privy to the process... Really fun episode, wouldn't mind seeing more like this :)
I think it’s also a great example for having an ending image in mind and having the final product not matching the expected image and feeling bad about that, but everyone else coming in with no expectations loving it.
i absolutely love how supportive the crew is when one of them is unhappy with a piece-especially the more challenging ones like this one. nathan is often times pretty harsh on his own drawings, and it's nice to see everyone adamantly complimenting his work and absolutely _not_ having it with his criticisms.
Karina: Jacob working on the things about his art that bug him, so cool, can't relate.
ALSO Karina: Yeah I've been working on my foreshortening. :)
About halfway through Jacob's speed draw I remembered he's colour blind and everything he did just became 10x more impressive.
GOD KARINA'S MESSY ENERGETIC FREE LINES WITH THE MORE PASTEL PALETTE IS SO GOOD. HOLY CRAP. I LOVE IT. i aspire to draw like karina. i love crazy dynamic poses and foreshortening, i'm just not the best at them yet.
Dude my mouth was agape for moments on end when Nathan's dragon was inverted!! Daaaaaang :0
Okay also, Karina's comment was amazing, "I liked mine from the beginning. I think I'm good at art." Love that!! So true about her (and the Drawfee team:), and also just a healthy way to enjoy your skill with CONFIDENCE. 😁
I actually learned a lot in this one, mainly about values. Even if the process is pretty unconventional and not really applicable to the way I work, it's still pretty cool to see it and keep it in mind while analysing the end result! Thanks crew~
I love this challenge, as a kid I remember color inverting things cause I thought it looked cool. And the thought of making something that looks normal inverted and inverted normally is a great idea. Thanks to everyone who suggested and to y’all at drawfee for accepting this challenge.
Suggestion: please draw film noir birds! You guys would be so good at coming up with bird puns and omg, the aesthetic! Rain, shadows, dark alleys, the cynical ducktective, a seductive henne fatale...
Or like a grizzled eagle detective with two cool tomahawks who's estranged from his wife and kids and prowling around a mage-filled flying city and he's called Cerrit Agrupnin
and he's in ExU: Calamity the Critical Role show by Brennan Lee Mulligan.
Hypothetically
Bird tectives
yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
@@swiftlymurmurs And he’s got two really adorable kids and is arguably the best part of the entire show that is itself one of the greatest dnd campaigns of all time
Hypothetically
this is one of the challenges that make it clear that drawfee prompts are just suggestions and the main point is to have fun and flex those art muscles
I love just the white inks on black background cuz it reminds me of those scratch-art things you get and how it slowly reveals the whole picture.
Karina is such a sass master that it’s so much sweeter when she gives Jacob lovely compliments
i feel like karina just cant razz jacob on speeddraw episodes specifically for some reason, idk why but their entire dynamic flips and they just become each other's biggest fans
They have such a sibling energy together
I'd love to see you guys do a 'pick your own challenge' episode!
Each artist picks a challenge to do, it can be previous challenges or something new!
I’ve been watching Drawfee for years and always love what y’all do, but this might genuinely might be one of my all-time fave episodes. Thanks for this gift y’all.
What about reversing roles in stories? Noble dragon saves a pretty knight from fearsome princess, a horror monster saves a child, mastermind villain take heroes in hand to hand combat, while his henchmen watch it via cameras and laugh over a world map.
This episode really feels like a art therapy group, like more than normal.
What about that one challenge where you choose a color palette, then make your screen greyscale and draw using the values only? So when you switch it back it looks rad as hell.
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I love watching those videos!!
I love how you all uplift each other. Even when you tease and make fun. Its never mean spirited. Ive been watching you guys since the days of making knock off characters based on popular cartoons episodes. It feels like being apart of your freind group and just lisioning to you all be supportive and vibing. Its wholesome
Julia's piece is really really good actually, like it feels so soothing. Seems like she was giving herself a hard time
The way they aggressively compliment each other and are so supportively dragging anyone who isn't being fair to themselves is one of my fave things about this group. All the art turned out great!
Okay but Julia's looked good even at the first invert. Honestly all of these were way better than expected, which is amazing
As a writer and not an artist, I can sympathize with the whole "this work is soup" feeling, but there's always beauty in simplicity, and soup can be simple. Julia's is my favourite because of that - it brings about nostalgia for a time long past.
Drawfee: This was cool, but I want you to draw with your non dominant hand, but then render it like you would normally.
Julia always says stuff like "I was so drained when I made this, so here's like 25% of my energy" and then draws one of the most amazing pieces you've ever seen
I love them all but Jacob's makes me want to write a story about her. Definitely getting a noir vibe. Would make a really cool graphic novel.
The final reveal of Nathan's piece was literal magic! My mouth was on the floor at how amazing it turned out!
It’s finally here. The demonic episode we were all waiting for!
RUclips thought they could hold the episode back but they underestimated its power
who needs 'em?
@RedDot I’m glad you’re as excited as us 🤪
All drawfee episodes are demonic, if you know where to look
Nathan's looks so cool both ways, I love it.
Jacob's invert (that is, the green and orange) looks like a poster or something for a series about a female detective in the 1920's or so. The duller colours really add to that idea to me.
I can't stop looking at Gallo's back leg in Karina's lmao. his pants are unsettlingly fleshy coloured so he just looks super obese on that one leg, and the green shadows look like underwear.
Julia's is so soft, like it's part of a children's book.
It'd be really interesting to see you guys draw each other's Steampunk Personas!
Strampunk
@@wolfofsummerbreeze Thanks for pointing that out. That was embarrassing.
@@justanotherloreaddict Don't be embarrassed, that's exactly the kind of flub that leads to some of Drawfee's best bits! I can just imagine one of them saying "Strampunk" by accident or reading it as a typo in a stream chat, and then everyone building deep lore about what strampunk is and drawing their stramsonas... Now I think I've talked myself into wanting that even though it's nothing.
@@HeavyMetalMal42 stram of all things makes me think of Bram Stoker. What if steampunk vampire sonas? Think I’ll draw a steampunk vampire sona of myself now lol
@@genericname8727 Well now I just want to see Julia’s new steampunk character, “Airship Full of Vampires.”
And I do think “Stram Boker” is likely the Drawtectives-universe version of Bram Stoker.
Julia's "Mine looks like soup!" is gonna be on repeat in my head for a while, isn't it?
Out of respect for Jacob, I won't pause this video because I got an alert that Deep Blue Ink just released a new drawfee video, check out their video, and then come back to finish this one.
❤️
oh look another episode of the crew shaking nathan screaming "let me love you·
I really like how in this episode, everyone got something different out of the challenge. Like, Nathan focused a lot on picking the right inverted colors to get the final product he wanted, but in the end, he got something bolder and more striking than he would've made otherwise. Jacob did a great job finding cohesive colors that were close to his reference, but he also managed to make a piece that looked really cool and complete in its inverted form. Karina took it so chill, and it's like she used the inverted color picking to make a piece with semi-randomized colors, which was a super cool effect. And even though they say that Julia kind of missed the point of the challenge, it was really interesting to watch in a different way because the more frequent inversions personally showed me more about how the inversion affected the colors and the nature of that relationship. Great episode guys!
Nathan: A study in red.
Jacob: Two-tone dopeness.
Karina: GIMME ALL THE COLOURS!
Julia: Time for another monochrome masterpiece!
I love how freaking good Nathan is at drawing animals and stuff, like Boom! - dragon. Or Boom, perfect horse without looking at any reference. Brilliant.
I love podcasts with artists because they are all way too hard on themselves and aggressively complimentary of others. It's like a game of tennis but instead of a ball it's praise and appreciation.
The process, the friendships, the wholesomeness, truly we are blessed to have another drawfee
Am I the only one who loves the images while they’re still inverted? It’s always been something I find interesting
Edit: no I should have waited before commenting 😂