So this is me drawing hydrogoleptonics, the leopard seal, aka angry sock puppet of the ocean. Look at this guy, they have these weird sock puppet mouths with teeth. What you see me doing right here in 16 times speed is me just flesh out the sketch of the body and head. I'm just drawing it, look at that, look at that, all these patterns. This is what I normally do first. I go through first I plan out to sketch out all the main contours of the creature and then I go through and add the actual lines. Bam, look at that, this is using the pen tool, previous to this, I was using the blob brush tool. I usually draw on a surface pro and with a stylus or my finger or the awkward mouse pad. So yeah, I just draw lines like this, notice that some of the lines I just follow right through. Look at those tiny little teeth, hard to draw the little things, but sometimes important. So usually what I do when I'm drawing is I'm looking at several different pictures at once for reference. You can't see me checking it out, but that's what I do. Look at this, now it's green. So I change the leopard seal green because green is not really a color found in mammals and it just makes it a little easier for me to see what the different shapes are and what I'm going through and doing right now is merging each of the shapes. And trying to get rid of all of the little hidden lines that happen when you divide all these lines. You get weird little things just showing up so here I realized hey, maybe this wasn't super accurate way to draw the tail. Let's change it. So I changed it. Added another line, did some dividing, did some re-merging. And after that I start changing the colors. You can't see the color box, mostly as a consequence of me using Xbox Live to record in Adobe Illustrator, which is not a game. But there you go. Again, I look at several reference photos at once for this kind of stuff and I read the descriptions for the animal kind of refresh myself on, you know, their ecology and also get an idea of what is the, I guess you could say standard appearance for an animal, like what is considered the norm. I try not to draw the outliers too much or ever, I guess, technically. And, you know, I go back and I change a lot of things. In fact, here in a second, once I get this mouth parts straightened out, you'll see me change all of the colors at once sort of. Now, my two rules when I'm picking colors is that I don't use straight white and I don't use straight black on anything besides nostrils and eyes. I mean, I don't use white for anything, but I shine. But eyes and nostrils occasionally lips. If the animal has lips or has lips that seem integral to the design, I do skip over a lot of things. Like I try to be a little economical with the details if I can. So, stuff like feet, noses, I try not to spend a whole lot of time on that unless it's just really significant to the animals appearance. Like an elephant, yes, I would spend time on that nose, definitely. Like wolverines known for the claws. So I put claws on them feet. So here I am drawing spots in super fast speeds. Usually with an animal that's got a complex pattern like spots, I will go ahead and treat the spots as a different layer. Most of the artwork I do is in a single layer. Even this isn't technically a different layer, but I, you do have two objects over each other at this point. That's not usually the norm for me. But it will be the norm for me once I get into the cat type animals because all those darned filiforms have all these spots and stripes. It's crazy. But again, I don't do this for every animal because some animals just their pattern doesn't necessitate this kind of technique per se. So here I am adding more spots. What you didn't see in the middle of this or what you might only have seen for a moment is that my computer crashed and had to draw some of the spots again. So what I'm doing now is I'm going to create a mask for these spots because I don't want the spots on every single part of the body. Also, I decided to fix this because I felt like it needed to be fixed. I didn't pay enough attention to it the first time. And so I fixed it. This animal actually took me longer than usual. That was my fault. Also spots, which is a big sort of, you could say it's a common element in seals. You know, the foxes had the eyeliner. The seals have spots. So here I am resizing it to fit into my normal display thing. And here I am about to be super lazy. And instead of actually making the color box. Like I should. I'm just going to open an older file that has all of the colors. Here I open the Mastella. And I'm just going to copy base a box like why do the extra work, right. I do occasionally do the extra work and go into my sketchbook and find the codes for this nine colors that I use. I think it's nine. But sometimes I don't. So here's here it is leopard seal. Furious sock puppet of danger. All right. So thank you so much for watching to help support me in my quest to draw is so many animals species head on over to patreon.com slash the final frontier. And if you want to keep seeing me draw animals, hit that beautiful subscribe button. And if you want to see more of my artwork, head over to the final frontier.com. Thank you. Have a good day.