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alias_sqbrI've been really enjoying the Youtube channel Drawfee lately, after spending a couple of years seeing it around and being confused about what it actually is or where to start watching.
So! Drawfee is a group of four artists (plus occasional guests) who draw pictures based on prompts. Sometimes they draw the art live and discuss it as it happens, and sometimes they draw the art in advance and then talk over the sped up recording (a "speed draw"). In either case, they're very cheerful, creative, and funny, and encouraging of each other's art. The vibe is cheerfully bisexual, as is most of the team. There are also extra channels and spinoffs, but I haven't watched much of those.
You can theoretically start anywhere, but some of the videos have a lot of in-jokes and references to previous videos which can be confusing, or are more about the artists as people which can be kinda boring if you don't know them enough to care. I tried starting from the beginning, but while the initial videos aren't bad they aren't as good as the later ones. And there are over a THOUSAND videos.
So in the end I just watched whatever was popular or showed up in my feed and figured out the in-jokes over time.
But if you want somewhere specific to start that's fun and low on in-jokes:
4 Artists Design Characters from the Same Description: Everyone designs a character from the same character prompt. The results show everyone's style and personality pretty well. One of the characters ends up being non-binary and everyone rolls with that.
I tried to find one of the funnier videos to link as well but those are usually full of in-jokes. So instead here's The Origins Of Our Favorite Drawfee Bits which gives the context for a bunch of running jokes.
Drawfee started ten years ago as a series of off-the-cuff Facebook videos made by Nathan and Caldwell, two illustrators who worked for College Humour (which is now named Dropout), based on prompts from commenters. From the couple of early videos I tried, they were good natured but kind of bro-ish, as fit the culture of College Humour of the time. Eventually Caldwell left and they added Julia, Nathan, and Karina. They also split from College Humour to make their own site. You can still see the Caldwell and Nathan spinoff Cartoon Hell on Dropout, which is a little more scripted and didn't really click for me.
The current Drawfee team:
Every episode starts with them introducing themselves via avatars they drew of themselves, but I kept forgetting who was who during the episodes.
A lot of their videos have clickbaity titles like "Professional Artists Redraw Their Old Art" which confused me into thinking it was different random artists each time. But asides from the occasional guest it's basically always the same people.
Their art tends towards a cartoony/anime-ish mix of humour and speculative fiction that is the sort of thing I aspire to draw myself, which definitely adds to my personal enjoyment, but afaict plenty of non-artists enjoy the show as well.
So! Drawfee is a group of four artists (plus occasional guests) who draw pictures based on prompts. Sometimes they draw the art live and discuss it as it happens, and sometimes they draw the art in advance and then talk over the sped up recording (a "speed draw"). In either case, they're very cheerful, creative, and funny, and encouraging of each other's art. The vibe is cheerfully bisexual, as is most of the team. There are also extra channels and spinoffs, but I haven't watched much of those.
You can theoretically start anywhere, but some of the videos have a lot of in-jokes and references to previous videos which can be confusing, or are more about the artists as people which can be kinda boring if you don't know them enough to care. I tried starting from the beginning, but while the initial videos aren't bad they aren't as good as the later ones. And there are over a THOUSAND videos.
So in the end I just watched whatever was popular or showed up in my feed and figured out the in-jokes over time.
But if you want somewhere specific to start that's fun and low on in-jokes:
4 Artists Design Characters from the Same Description: Everyone designs a character from the same character prompt. The results show everyone's style and personality pretty well. One of the characters ends up being non-binary and everyone rolls with that.
I tried to find one of the funnier videos to link as well but those are usually full of in-jokes. So instead here's The Origins Of Our Favorite Drawfee Bits which gives the context for a bunch of running jokes.
Drawfee started ten years ago as a series of off-the-cuff Facebook videos made by Nathan and Caldwell, two illustrators who worked for College Humour (which is now named Dropout), based on prompts from commenters. From the couple of early videos I tried, they were good natured but kind of bro-ish, as fit the culture of College Humour of the time. Eventually Caldwell left and they added Julia, Nathan, and Karina. They also split from College Humour to make their own site. You can still see the Caldwell and Nathan spinoff Cartoon Hell on Dropout, which is a little more scripted and didn't really click for me.
The current Drawfee team:
- Nathan: Soft spoken bearded guy.
- Jacob: Guy with short floppy hair and earrings.
- Julia: Woman with long blonde-brown hair.
- Karina: Woman with medium length dark hair and glasses.
Every episode starts with them introducing themselves via avatars they drew of themselves, but I kept forgetting who was who during the episodes.
A lot of their videos have clickbaity titles like "Professional Artists Redraw Their Old Art" which confused me into thinking it was different random artists each time. But asides from the occasional guest it's basically always the same people.
Their art tends towards a cartoony/anime-ish mix of humour and speculative fiction that is the sort of thing I aspire to draw myself, which definitely adds to my personal enjoyment, but afaict plenty of non-artists enjoy the show as well.
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Date: 2024-01-19 10:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-01-20 03:00 pm (UTC)Excellent!