We Tried Making Art in Mediums We've NEVER Used Before... 

And in Julia’s honor, Nathan worked really hard on a part and then covered it up XD

Nathan.... Is that... BLENDER!?!?

On the one hand, Jacob spending 11 hours on his speed draw is wild. On the other hand, the fact that he made a WHOLE-ASS GAME in only 11 hours is WILD. It is so incredibly good, I want to see a million more pixel arts and games from him

I’m so happy for Jacob that he got his ‘Popped off’ moment! He does it more than he may realize so it’s awesome for him to outwardly feel that way about this!

“I’ve already made the sprites how hard could it be to make a quick lil game to go with em?” Is written in the tombstone of every indie game dev who ever existed. ONE OF US. ONE OF US. ONE OF US

I genuinely love that you guys weren't ashamed to show how you struggled to work with these new media. It's honest and shows people that you do mess up and maybe make something you don't like or that doesn't turn out how you want your first time doing something.

The arms on Nathan's dinosaur is "my leg fell asleep" mixed with "oww my funny bone" visualized perfectly

ok as someone who took a university course on using blender, nathan's dinosaur surprised me, for multiple reasons, mostly because when I first started the course, they basically said two things. A) Don't do organic things, those are hard to model, we will not be doing any organics until the second year of this class because they are so hard to model. B) Don't colour things using UV maps, colour them using the texture tool, using UV maps is hard and we won't be doing that until the second year of the class because its so hard. Anyways Nathan, congrats on designing an organic creature coloured with UV maps on your first time using blender.

Okay but like I just wanna genuinely thank Jacob with all of my heart! I have been wanting to make a game for for a long time, but every time I would do research into how to do it I would get so overwhelmed that I would give up on anything beyond making up characters and stories for it in my head. And like, I know it sounds kinda silly, but seeing Jacob just *make a thing* - like nbd just one little scene - just like… idk just made something click in my brain that I could, like… do that??? That this challenge is totally beatable actually??? I don’t know how seeing Jacob make the neatest drawtectives fanart ever happened to be the perfect antidote to my paralyzing fear and overwhelm, but it absolutely was! Now I’m hype and ready to go dump out all those ideas and characters in my head and put them into the thing they were made for - I’ve already started! - and I’ve never been more excited in my whole life! Thank you very much for that! 💜💜💜

The fact that Jacob learned Godot just for a Drawfee video and here I am still working on the art for my game after a year, having barely touched Godot at all... I am shook, upset, offended, and now surprisingly much more inspired to start making this thing. Thanks Jacob.

Jacob literally begging for a decent intro with defeat in his voice: "Can we just have, like, a good one?" 😂

OMG. I'm a sculptor, and Julia got SO much better of a result than I was expecting. Honestly! Not because I don't think Julia isn't capable, but because I know how many pitfalls come with that specific type of project. Moving Dioramas are SOOOOOooooooo much more than people think they'll be, just logistically WAY more complicated. And if you don't have any experience navigating those pitfalls it's really hard to get anything workable the first few tries. I know the scale was off and the movement was a little clunky, but still, FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC job!!!

Jacob paid Julia the greatest tribute, making a while ass scene when he didn't need to. And on top of it all it's Jancy's office. That's love.

We went from "Julia, is this Blender?" to: Nathan, is this BLENDER AND A LIMERICK? Jacob, is this A GAME? Karina, is this BLOCK PRINTING? and Julia, is this A FREAKING WOODEN ANIMATRONIC? I knew the new schedule would allow for more ambitious videos, but honestly, I think this just became my new favorite drawfee episode

I literally cannot express how many times I was like hyper excitedly exclaiming “no WAYYY” during this video it’s truly incredible (Jacob lowkey should develop an RPG it’s such a good combo of his creative skills and interests)

ACTUALLY foaming at the MOUTH like a RABID DOG at Jacob's speed draw. To say he popped off is an understatement! Where is my jaw, you ask? On. The. FLOOR!

Oh my gosh, this makes so much sense for Jacob! He made comics, he games, he makes music. Like…this feels like such a great avenue for him. I'm so delighted!

As a printmaker, you did super good with your first try, Karina! The softer the lino / rubber the easier it is to just tear or accidentally cut. Easier on the hand and to cut, but you don't get as many prints and it might break ;-; So don't feel bad for your tiny tiger having issues because he looks super cute and literally everyone who does block printing has made the same mistake (I have glued bits back to my block for quick fix a TON lmao). You all did fantastic!!

I've been so excited for the Jacob pop-off, but boy was I not ready for him to MAKE A FREAKING GAME?! I'm so proud of him, good job Jacob!

I'd give anything to see Drawfee doing weird performance art. Nathan standing around painted like one of those human statues. Julia flopping on the ground in a fish costume. Edit: Karina emerging from a cave with an anime body pillow. Jacob going through escalatingly strange therapy sessions after every intro bit

I ABSOLUTELY SCREAMED AND STARTED RUNNING CIRCLES AROUND MY HOUSE OUT OF JOY WHEN JACOB'S PROJECT WAS REVEALED EVERYONE did amazing seriously this video is so good and funny. This video is AWESOME! You guys are so skilled and hardworking. Happy to have been a fan for many years, I love this channel so much Edit now that I've finished the video: NATHAN, IS THAT BLENDER?!?! I thought Nathan's dinosaur was so cool! I hope he does more Blender stuff in the future, if he enjoys it. It can be a suuuper useful and fun program and his fun concepts could come to life really well in it!! Karina's print was genuinely sick as hell it'd make an awesome mural. And the fluorescent effect was SO COOL. It seemed like a lot of fun, and now I kind of also want to do stuff like that. I really liked the vibes/message as well Julia's model was really cute!! Her project this episode was really ambitious and I liked it a lot. I'm gonna be so hyped if she makes more minis in the future!

The dichotomy between Nathan's "I really struggled on this" and Jacob's "I popped off" is great.

This video is a proof of concept for a show I'd love to see the Drawfee gang do that I call Drawfee Multimedia, where a guest artist comes in and teaches the gang how to use a medium they've never used before and they have to complete little challenges with it

This might be my favorite Drawfee video. Just the fact that all four of you tried something new and made it work, even if it wasn't always what you wanted it to be.

As a long time Limerick fan, I'm ecstatic to hear that Nathan Wrote us a rhyme In his own free time. Thank you, I say, Mr. Man!

At the beginning I was like “There is no way Julia can out do herself again” and then she straight up manufactures a mechanism and does woodwork.

Shoutout to Nathan for getting this prompt and deciding to take on one of the most complex art mediums possible. Love this attack Dino and his glitch arms so much 🦖

I love Jacob whenever Julia let's the hyper fixation win of "REMINDER THIS WAS CHOSEN AND VOLUNTARY, COULDVE DONE ANYTHING ELSE" Iits so precious

Ok I seriously hope Jacob’s pixel art drawtectives get used for an actual little game at some point, they’re so adorable!

This is instantly one of my favourite episodes. Like I definitely want you all not to overdo it, and to have a good work-life balance, but when you go high-concept high-effort like this, it is *such* a treat. All four of these projects were an utter joy to watch. Almost all of them are media I have pipe dreams of properly learning, and I am in danger of being inspired to actually try getting back into one or more of them.

I would love to see the 3 minute timelapse of Nathan smoking a cigarette and throwing away pieces of paper from his typewriter as he composes poetry

i'm so charmed by the pictures of julia carving wooden parts on her kitchen table while watching football. it's a delightfully dadlike moment, especially with her brother also involved in creating something for a long time that in the end may not even work good but they sure did it together.

As someone going to art school with my major being printmaking… watching one of my favorite artists create a block print makes me smile so much…

I know you all have actual metrics for this, but this episode was a legit banger to me. From concept to execution - this is what I love about Drawfee all put together: cool art, role modeling the learning experience, good goofs, and even better friendship! 1. I was so excited to see Nathan try blender. I know Nathan wasn't happy with the product, but as a first attempt, he did everything he was trying to accomplish and made it work with what his skill level/ time limit was. He made a freaking green dinosaur! 2. Jacob's is so impressive to me because it combined the simple art style he likes with something we haven't really experienced on the channel before. He also made something so complicated feel very approachable in taking that extra step to make a scene. 3. I love seeing how Karina combines mediums, especially as a digital art channel. Bringing in how digital and traditional can work together is so cool and brings something fresh to the Drawfee program. Print block is also something that just generally interests me, and this encouraged me to try myself! 4. I could not wait to see Julia's product, even though I liked seeing the planning and preparation. I think using the dremmel made this feel more approachable for me as a viewer, and yet I am always so impressed with how creatively Julia approaches her art. I know this isn't about the art, but the sibling reveal (my first time anyway) was fun too!

cant wait for jacob to come out with the official drawtectives dating sim

6:00 Karina's overlooked, very sincere, line of "Not because I think that in general." Is so endearing and needs attention

Good stuff. Julia doing architectural engineering, Nathan doing sculpting, Jacob making video games and Karina starting a revolution. That's art baby.

As a professional game programmer, I'm qualified to say: Jacob did an incredible job, full stop. It's not easy getting started, and to get something that well put-together in just 11 hours (including the art!) without a coding background is very, very impressive. Also I took an entire semester of 3D modeling and Nathan's dino lie is so much better than the stuff that I spent that whole class working on...

I appreciate the EFFORT! I know a lot of the drawfee members were not having a good time. Learning a new skill is hard and it’s frustrating when you can’t make it look like how you imagined it when you are used to producing *art.* So thank you for doing something new and letting the internet see. That’s scary and not always fun but this has been one of my favorite episodes.

My video paused because my speaker died at 0:28 right after “Trees have branches, you know” and I waited a full minute thinking it was the silent realization of Julia understanding the joke

This is such an ambitious one, and I just want to point out what achievement each of you guys made: - Nathan went 3D, something I haven't seen since the 3D reference model video. - Jacob made a game. An entire thing, using an actual engine. - Karina used woodworking. I don't think I've seen woodworking from Karina before. - Julia, being JULIA, made an entire diorama from scratch. All of you, good work on this one, seriously.

That wood working is crazy, i love it. It does a really good job of showing how much work it takes to make something with wood - it's really easy to watch all these youtube channels of people literally building a house from scratch and think "how hard can it be", the talent of carpenters is amazing.

For the next new-medium challenge Nathan will flesh out a Nobel-winning novel, Jacob will single-handedly make and release Half-Life 3, Karina will open a small printing press that inadvertently helps spark a revolution for which she'll also design the entire propaganda aesthetic that will go on to define a whole era, and Julia will make an actual, seaworthy boat and build a museum with interactive pieces and animatronics inside of it. Then the world will end!

My favorite thing in these speed-arts is when one of the Drawfs complements a thing that’s being done and then the Drawf whose speed-art is playing just goes, “Yeah, I actually hated it, so it’s gone now.”

Julia's "excuses me?" After Jacob says Drawtectives game incoming, the panic😂

Professional printmaker here! In case anyone is curious about why block softness matters, here’s some insight: block density/ softness is related to how crisp and sharp you can get your edges, how durable (long lasting) your block will be, what sort of equipment you can use to print your block (if it’s softer you need to hand print your blocks but if it’s sturdier you can you use a printing press), and if you choose wood as you carving medium you have an additional element of wood grain to consider. For the average person easy cut blocks work amazing and you probably won’t notice hardly any difference in the finished product! Karina you’re amazing and your blocks came out incredible!!

42:23 lil assistant joy comes to visit the cat circle 43:15 she's gotta go 43:36 wide-eyed joy + she passes by super quickly 44:40 assistant joy appears once again 46:45 inspector joy 47:57 she's still inspecting

The first Drawfee episode I ever watched was Julia using Blender. This episode makes me happy.

As an engineer, Julia has some of the biggest engineering energy I've seen, including actual coworkers and old classmates of mine. So cool to see

Now I understand what Jacob meant in the sss stream that Karina and him popped off and Julia and Nathan suffered

There are several drawfee videos that make it into my rewatch rotation and this one is my latest addition!! You all did so well, I loved seeing you all do something new and creative!!

Already know this one will be a banger. Love Drawfee in their mixed-media era.

This episode floored me. I realized how much ive been putting off my creative interests but seeing the drawfee crew explore new creative expressions broke the dam for me and actually got me making art again. Thank you drawfee pals!

This is absolutely the Jacob pop off episode, everyone did great but Jacob went crazy. Great job guys!

my heart is SO full looking at Jacob's game it's both so cute and so impressive, clearly so much thought and logistics went into it and it looks so good!!! Just busting out idle animations and multiple profiles and walk cycles like it's no issue, coding in multiple systems, writing dialogue for his friends' characters... a pop off moment for sure

I've recently been taking up embroidery and i spent this whole episode thinking about what i'd say about my project if i was presenting it speed draw style, and it weirdly made me more proud of my work, so thanks Me to myself in my room: "yeah so at this point i was struggling a lot with the, ya know getting the eye shape right, n i kept going back over n it just kept getting bulkier and bulkier.." Nathan tulpa in my mind: "it's cuteeee, i like it" Karina tulpa: "you did a great. job." Julia tulpa: "hey, ya know what, you tried something new, n you're making it work, n you're doing such a good jawwwwwbbb at it" Jacob tulpa: "yeah this is sick"

Julia is calling her piece a disaster but she’s so smart and capable it turned out amazing! I would never be able to do something like that. And it was her first time, with a really ambitious idea. She’s definitely going to grow and learn. I cant wait to see more miniatures! 💕

0:32 Watching Julia's Baffle-Inator Ray increase in strength from Karina's "Like onions 😌" to Nathan's "L- like onions? 😅" to Jacob's "What the hell?! No! 😡"

Nathan pulling a Julia and completely covering the dinosaur's legs in the final pose is so on point for the theme of this episode

This video has been such a balm to my aching mind that I fell asleep to this on loop last night, woke up with it still playing, and watched it one more time while starting my day. I'm currently making a shirt that has been a brain worm for the last few months, and every point where I get unsure of myself or my skill, and I think back to this video and hear Karina's voice saying, "✨learning experience✨". 🖤 I love all your videos, but something about this one coming when I needed it has made this one my favorite so far. 🥺🖤✨

24:02 Absolutely incredible Jacob!!!

After Julia did that first Blender piece, I decided to try Blender, too. I thought "everyone probably says it's hard because it's time-consuming or monotonous, but I'm fine with that!" And then I tried to make a donut following BlenderGuru's tutorial and holy crap, Blender is hard because it's HARD. Things kept happening and I had no idea why. I'd try to attach one thing to another and suddenly the inside was on the outside. I'd move one thing and then something else would move and I wouldn't be able to figure out how they were attached. It was a nightmare lol Huge props to Nathan for his dino, I totally understand the prefacing of thinking you did a bad job but you did great and got a lot farther than most people would've!

Genuinely, Nathan has made me feel so valid. Because I look up to him as an artist that can do anything, any style, always knocking it out of the park... and he struggled with Blender as much as I did. I even had the same issues with coloring. I've never felt so capable. Because if Nathan, the chameleon that can do anything in any style, struggled... then it's okay to struggle.

I've been a 3D artist for 8 years and Nathan managing to get that out of blender after a couple days is well deserving of accomplishment and praise. It's never the art part that's hard, it's always the fiddly 3D software weirdness in trying to wrangle the mesh and tools at hand. Great work!

4 years ago I tried oil painting for the first time. 2 years ago I started painting d&d minis a year ago I started making m own clay minis Now I'm giving away paintings and multi-medium sculptures as holiday and wedding gifts, doing commission models for friend's games, and working on a new type of art project requested by family. Try everything!

Nothing has made me want to try new art more than this video, it is genuinely an inspiration to see people attempting to make and then kind of failing but making something anyway

As a serial hobbiest myself this episode is both my favorite thing you’ve ever done and also SO DANGEROUS because now I want to do all of those things

18:00 is just further proving my long held belief that 'Waiting for Godot' jokes are always funny. Julia knows what's up.

i usually space out my viewing of drawfee episodes for my lunch breaks for a few days, but i just HAD to watch this one in full because i was in awe

Jacob rlly popped off on this one, all the pixel art looks so professional! Full drawtectives rpg when?? /j

Just hit play and I can only assume that Julia had to try glassblowing because she's just already done so many things. She's carved marble before! Actually I wouldn't be surprised if she has worked with glass before... EDIT: I am genuinely surprised Julia hadn't done woodworking before. As a fellow cat employee, I am very familiar with the supervisor interruptions.

I LOVE Jacobs pop-off moment!!! Making an actually functional game is so freaking impressive

i have never been so excited for an episode

love the concept of this video. And I have to say ever since yall took a step back and went to 1 episode a week the quality has gone up so much. Banger episode after banger episode

JACOB... THIS IS TOO GOOD. I absolutely love that you made a working game scene. You should absolutely do a DRAWCLASS on what you did so we can make a lil game scene! I know youre not a game dev expert but you did the thing, it looks awesome and sometimes learning from someone who just did the thing is more relatable and easy to follow than an expert tutorial. ❤

JACOB!!!!!!!!! broster casually made a whole video game scene........... so cool man what the hell

I like that the sprites' idle animations in Jacob's game bounce at slightly different rates, it helps give personality to the characters :)

how do you just casually make a segment of a game?? also, I wanted to thank yall for making this content for so many years I don't think I would have ever allowed myself to peruse art as a career path if I never found yall, it helps find people similar to you in the field art at times feels too serious and yall bring a middle ground that makes me feel like maybe there is a place for me and my work in the field so ty again! hopefully one day I can look back at all my story boarding and illustrations and get the full scale of how much this content helped me :)♥ YIPPIE

I don't know what i was expecting when he said he popped off, but jacob pulling up with a WALKING SEQUENCE, IN MULTIPLE DIRECTIONS for the little intern was NOT it Update: HE USED GODOT??? I USE GODOT FOR UNI WORK SDKJNSKVJ. this is so cool my little game dev heart is so happy rn :DDDD Edit 2: JACOBBBBBBBBBB (hes making multiple portraits for dialog rn,,,,) (also accidentally enabling physics on something is such a mood jsjsjsj) --The dialog portraits look amazing in use, it looks like an actual game i'd play :DD Final comment: jacob the game is fucking adorable and so well excecuted!!! you should be so, so proud of it. ^^

As a big fan of dioramas and role-playing terrain building, I thoroughly endorse Julia's descent into the terrain-o-sphere. Seriously, watching stuff like Boylei Hobbytime, Bill Making Stuff, Eric's Hobby Workshop, Black Magic Craft etc... is just so calming and meditative for me.

Jacob inspiring me to finally learn coding and make a little game of my own! Nathan, I downloaded blender and can't wait to try it. Karina... yeah just bought a stamp carving kit it looks so zen and your design was soo tattoo coded. Beautiful. Julia, I can't even begin to fathom how you thought up the logistics of moving parts and animationics and everything. Absolutely blown away, please if you want to, do more of this sort of thing. Fantastic job everyone! Proud of you! Would love to see you all try your hand at all these different mediums.

I know she probably won't see this but I just wanted to thank you Julia! For an assignment I had to chose people who have influenced and inspired me and I got to share how much you have helped me! Seeing your art progress, your leading of finance and draw classes, and your political advocation has been a great influence on my life and I hope to carry your positive energy in both my art and my life. So thank you so much Julia and the rest of the Drawfee crew!! pls keep creating such great content and good energy in these times

if y'all keep getting drawfee to do things like this, eventually julia will have to learn blacksmithing

The fact Nathan modelled a whole-ass dinosaur without reference is a feat I mean he might’ve had one on another monitor- but usually you line up a side/front view reference inside the program and work with that

It's such a delight to see Jacob "3.5 hours is a long time to work on a piece" Andrews popping the fuck off on a speed draw!! Bless the new upload schedule for giving the team the space they need to get weird and just go for it

Im completely baffled by Julia's process by the first 5 minutes, but watching her carve the WHOLE thing drained me. The video transitions were hilarious. Still incredibly impressed with Julias contraption. Its such a fascinating idea. The cafe is so CUTE

This is exactly the kind of madness I was hoping for when you folks said you were gonna do fewer but more involved videos. SO FUN.

nathan is officially my favorite character. bringing a poem for backup is the funniest shit ever.

Nathan’s resigned “sure”s throughout Julia’s entire section really adds to the experience 😂😂

7:06 Julia: AFAIK the current consensus on T rex feathers is that adults probably only had a covering on their head and shoulders/upper back, most of which was probably sparse and downy.

Nathan, props to you for choosing to try an organic shape. You could have chickened out and gone with an environment built out of basic geometric shapes, but you tried to learn the sculpting tools and make something hard! Very impressed, and proud of you!

On a Secret Sleepover Society stream from a few weeks ago, Jacob was talking about this speed draw and how he finally had a speed draw where he popped off. Now, seeing what he meant, I think he understated his achievement. He really went above and beyond for this one and it's truly phenomenal!

I went to college for engineering, and one of my classes gave us like 2-3 weeks for something like Julia's project, and even then we were struggling. Julia's automata is absolutely fantastic

For anyone looking to get started in 3D, Blockbench is really cool and fun and way easier to pick up than Blender! It was made originally for minecraft modelling I believe but its a fully featured lowpoly modelling software. Brandon James Greer has a couple good videos on it.

as a 3d artist: 6:34 disappearing body- the boolean modifier just does that sometimes. I don't know either. Fun fact: It is a common misconception that anyone at all understands how blender works, it has a mind of it's own. 8:26 vector painting from what I understand is when you paint textures to make the model look more detailed than it actually is when reacting to light, usually for performance. For painting the model you wanna go to the materials window (it's open by default on the shading tab) and add an "image texture" node instead of "color attribute" then paint on that at the texture paint tab. You can paint both on the model itself or on the image, you can even open the image in an art program and do it there then put it on the model again (also if I remmeber correctly there's an addon that opens krita inside blender) Nathan did extremely well, my first several models were disembodied heads or unfinished characters, it's very impressive that he did a whole ass dinosaur and went all the way to rendering with only one day of practice. I was expecting a donut lol

Julia's experience with the woodworking, and that one picture of her just collapsed at the table surrounded by wood bits has happened to everyone who does little wood models at some point.

OOPS ALL BANGERS im so endlessly endeared by Nathans dino and limerick. he really chose the most difficult shape to make as his first attempt and did such a good job!! Jacob did really pop off, i cant believe how great that looks!? he'll do numbers on pixelart tumblr. Karinas was great, theres something about those lines that really scratches an itch in my brain. always love seeing her do stuff with her hands. and Julia oh my god it was a great first attempt!! 😂 i definitely think you guys should each do your own mini houses, that would be so fun.

38:16 nathan: you're gonna carve this whole thing out of wood? julia: yeah nathan: disappointed sigh

I enjoyed Jacob's genuine enthusiasm and dedication to the fun he unexpectedly found. When Drawfee announced they needed some much needed creative and personal space, I hoped we would still get quality content. Not only did we get quality, we get some better artists overall. Long time listener, first time caller. Thank you for what you do.

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