sorry about this and that was a few seconds too early that's going live by accident we started accidentally and while we still set up let us go live on tiktok as well hello Ravenclaw good to see you I was going to set up the camera oh hi oh hi oh hi I was going to set up the camera and then I pressed the going live button accidentally and everyone is in the live fantastic this is a great opening I just found this piece I will not be working on this piece today I would but I will not let us set up the final camera here and let us go live on tiktok as well we saw you 10 hours ago on tiktok we said we coming excellent excellent fantastic good to see so many people in the YouTube live we're going to set up the tiktok live as well and the tiktok live is starting as well looks cool thank you thank you so this is the most chaotic beginning to a free art show that I've had in a while you don't know half of how chaotic it's been hello bun bun hello everyone hello to everyone on tiktok and hello to everyone on YouTube do you give free art yes I do not give original art pieces away I do sell them but all my art is available for free you so that means you can download them you can copy them you can print them you can give them to your mother you can give them to your brother you can give them to your aunt you can change them you can tattoo them and you can even you can even sell them as long as you credit me now we're going to do a few more fixes here a little bit of a fix here so that the YouTube audience can see this is good view for the YouTube audience and then a tiny little fix more for the so I can record I'm going to do a triple setup with the camera today so that I can record the important stuff for for time lapses for tiktok and YouTube shorts later so one seconds while it is like this going live too early is slightly embarrassing but worse has happened okay now all three cameras are ready that means we can start the free art show episode season 2 episode 5 I think we are where is it one two three four oh this is beautiful thank you we are everywhere hey oh la it's on time now excellent excellent so let us start I think we are going to start by doing a simple ink lot because that's always a good warm up and you can decide what type of ink plot we're doing shall we drip or and blow or shall we dab or shall we do a color do you want a color let's see what the chat decides the first time making it to your live starting early off me here excellent dab dab dab okay we're going to do black and dabbing so oh color we can do color and dabbing let's do color and dabbing I'm going to choose orange because that was the first color I picked up let us do orange and dab it and while you get a few minutes to see what you can see in the dab I will explain what this whole thing is hello and welcome to the free art show my name is Kim Diaz Holm I'm also called an Unge Had Holm I'm an artist from Bergen Norway making art for free use that means all the art I make you can use for absolutely free as you want and today we're going to be making a lot of requests from you guys in the chat and from the comments and first we're going to start by doing an ink monster and what I want you to do is to watch this little dab and see what do you see a skull with a W world war one helmet a skull with a world war one helmet I can see that I can see that it is a follow along it is a follow along if you want you can follow along let me just I know that I had a green color just a few hours ago here okay so we have that orange and we have we're going to go with some green okay like this loads of green and then we're starting to paint so I don't know if it will be with a world war one helmet this is looks more like like a Vietnam helmet right now I used way too much ink terracotta warrior oh that's a good suggestion it's too late now because we went with skull with a we're dabbing this as well skull and a and a helmet Elmo in Vietnam it is Elmo in Vietnam it is Elmo in Vietnam exactly right spotted wow let us first do the shadow here I need to remember to breathe it's been a very hectic start so remember to breathe you're good now you're started the show is started you're drawing then serenity the signal here is a bit slow I hope the signal is okay on the YouTube if you can't watch on the TikTok then head on over to the YouTube that's the best view of the art anyhow but there's going to be a lot of chat happening in the in the TikTok because that's a more active community thus far the YouTube is slowly growing as well let's have a contest we had this contest on the last live who gets more likes so I don't can't see how many likes YouTube has given but TikTok has given 5,000 likes so I hope that YouTube can at least do that do you think your enhanced pareidolia has anything to do with your artistic skills I do not have any enhanced pareidolia so pareidola is the ability to see faces and as familiar things in in random shapes and I don't have any enhanced version of that I have just practiced I have practiced a lot I'm not better than anyone at finding faces in in ink blots or in random patterns I'm more practiced YouTube has seven likes YouTube at 13 likes while TikTok has 6,600 so I can say that YouTube is lagging slightly behind can we say slightly slightly how goes the sales of the RPG I don't know I haven't checked in a while earlier today it was almost at 200% of the funding goal and that was two days in we're talking about the outcast Silver Raiders RPG that just launched on Kickstarter and it had such a flying start and I'm so proud and I'm so happy that it went so well but if anyone from the chat can go over to outcast Silver Raiders on Kickstarter and look how it's going then then please please do that I can make a I'm right now I'm envisioning I can make a YouTube shorts video or a TikTok video with this and Metallica's one playing under and I'm hearing the riff the guitar plonking in my head so just and the guitar solo actually okay so now probably everyone has Metallica on their head so everyone join in singing did you write the RPG as well as the art no outcast Silver Raiders is written by Isaac Van Dyn he is a person in that he's the person that hired me he is my boss he paid me to do the artwork I'm one of two artists there's also Lex Rocket who does the maps for the game let's give him like this so I have nothing to do with writing but I have had some a lot of creative liberty in how I approach the project and it's been a dream project really to work on Kickstarter is at 30,500 that is amazing so it that's not quite at double yet but it's going to be at doubles thank you all for checking out I love to to do I watch to to do to to do my neighbor to do is one of the greatest movies of all time not exactly a war movie a war of small stakes so but this is definitely war what is it good for a lot of potential in this but you know it's not really a monster yet because right now he is actually just a soldier but if he is walking around that you see on the shape of his collar and neck then he becomes a monster can I use that for my clothing line yes all the art I produce here is available for is available for free use so I will scan this piece and upload it to my gallery in the free art show gallery and it will be made available and you know that's the whole point of the free art show is to create art that people are going to use so I want people to use the art so if you have a project that you need art for if it is a clothing line if it's activism if it's your album cover or your book cover or illustrations for your poetry collection then that will get priority in being created on the free art show because that's what it's for it's for I'm liking how the black blends into the green here the art is made to be used how long do you expect the Kickstarter open for so the Kickstarter is going to open in for 33 days more so hopefully we can get quite much more funding because you know it is a small scale indie RPG we need we've worked our asses off on it and it would be so good to be rewarded for it the project officially ends December 6th yeah hinting at an arm here and maybe hinting at carrying a sort of a rifle I'm not good at drawing rifles so I will just do very loose hint and then we have to figure out a name for this bloke and we also have to figure out what we're going to be drawing next so what shall what shall this dude be called dude to that probably dude I still need a hugin raven for my left arm you have moon in I do have a lot of ravens I have a lot of versions of hugin and moon in as well so go to my gallery and either search for raven a few of them are tagged so you can actually find them or you can go in them and mythology and folklore gallery all the links you find bio and through my beacons page there you find the links to my patreon you find the links to my YouTube you find the links to my all my social medias yeah well agent orange yes that is good or agent orange isn't good agent orange is awful but as the inspiration for a name that that's perfect we will call him first I have to see which number we're on I was going to be well prepared for this oh but I'm so sorely underprepared let us see here I'm at number 1155 that's 1155 ink monsters may and his name is private orange because he is not a major or admiral clearly not so we have our first drawing for today who that was a hectic start that was a hectic start I still need to catch my breath but it was fun it was fun so 12,000 likes on my tiktok and how many likes on my YouTube I can't see there let's see who's leading now 17 so slight advantage of some 12,000 towards tiktok but you're doing good YouTube you're doing good you can do it believe in yourself yeah so private orange is done and to relax I think what I'm going to do to be fair we can't spam like like on tiktok yeah the fight is rigged but believe in yourself that's that's society for you the fight is rigged but if you just believe in yourself you can do it okay this stream is a metaphor for society definitely okay so let's let's take the tempo down a little bit and let's do a request that I got on my YouTube earlier today and we'll see if the one who will see if the one who requested it is in the chat or not if not they then too bad for them because you're here and you can also guess what it is first I'll be wetting the paper with just plain old water you can see is some slight traces of ink in the water because the brush isn't quite the brush isn't quite clean never gets clean I can't I can't wash ink off my hands now you can start I love this part of it absolutely love seeing the art the arches come to life like that now let's see if we have managed to create the shape that I wanted to make hello friend gotta get it back to work but just wanted to say you're great thank you such a nice comment hedging the bets yeah you spelled winning wrong I'm trying to it's a cat yes it is and you know there are some sort of evergreen requests that I simply never quite tired of wolves I draw a lot of wolves crows and ravens I draw a lot of them Cthulhu's and dragons oh my I draw a lot of a lot of them but I should definitely be drawing more cats trolls I draw a lot of trolls not internet trolls I don't draw internet trolls could you draw a soul I don't know how would you draw a soul my humble suggestion a great whole men enjoying strong drink and female companionship like Val hall the the problem with a request like drawing Val Hall is that such a drawing will often take hours and hours to complete and what we're doing here is creating a lot of smaller drawings most of the time and then you know hopefully some of them can be cool but but you know I'm willing to do a free art show at some point where I for instance try to draw something like Val Hall and a question do you like behemoth the band or black metal in general yes I love black metal in general and I enjoy some behemoth I am partial to newer behemoth I like they write just plain catchy songs and I do enjoy some catchy black metal and also you can go to my YouTube and see my video on behemoth Bahamut and buffamette I don't really go into the band at all but I do have fun with some brief images of the band that is fun this is a slightly wonky cat but that's okay my style is slightly wonky it's wonky because it's on a roof of some sort the cat isn't wonky it's okay for me I can call my cat wonky it's like your own children you're allowed to call your own children ugly right or am I just a bad parent I'm kidding I would never do that cats occurring naturally are pretty wonky yes they are I do like the idea that cats are in fact not are in fact something that can be measured as if it was a fluid give this cat some slight background fill this in so it doesn't need too much background you weigh your cats in millimeters yes you do weigh your cats in millimeters that is perfect cats in general are wonky they are no but they cats are they are wonky they are sort of this fantastic combination of so elegant and so wonky at the same time we have a cat on a we should have done a tree it would have been so much easier to draw a tree but I did get some requests for drawing a city so because we have this cat here cats are the combination of elegance and potato that's a perfect comment you win the comment section today definitely let's let's all play your crop comment hooray for the winner of today's comment field you win honor alas roof alas yes hinting at roof hinting at some ears a little bit that was wrong that was a little bit too much yeah starting to come together actually I think one of the areas that is a problem is here here here and we're just going to delete delete delete and suddenly it fixed a lot of our problems the cat is sort of just now appearing out of the shadow that works better I think cats are made of oo black yes they are that is science you can't argue with science just some small hints of city in the background can you do your best Bob Ross impersonation this my friend is my best Bob Ross impersonation the whole free art show is my best me doing my best Bob Ross but unlike Bob Ross's TV shows it's not pre-recorded it's not pre-painted it's not rehearsed and I don't have his amazing hair or the incredibly fluid way of speaking he was really good at what he did I have seen probably more Bob Ross than most people and I've learned quite a lot about both art and about about how to present something can I please to say you're a beautiful person who does beautiful art please don't forget that thank you so much thank you so much that is so good to hear so we are at 15,000 likes over at tiktok how are we doing over on YouTube got your own incredible hair yeah that's I do I do have here it's true it's true 22 likes on YouTube so we're still YouTube is still lagging slightly behind like this then we are going to I'm proud of you YouTube don't give up don't give up do like this that is a moon we're almost there you can do it just believe in yourself you can pull yourself up by the bootstraps it's possible the moon the moon is out I've heard you say you struggle with your mind but you're so talented well you know that has nothing to do with nothing it has something to do with something I think a lot of people who are very talented do struggle with their mind and I think it is something we should be aware of that we have in a very real way created a society that makes some of our most talented people sick and I'm not saying that I'm the most talented I'm saying that in general we have created a society that punishes some of our very very brightest that is a thing to think about so you know the phrase pull yourself up by the bootstrap is supposed to mean an impossible action yes that's why I kept referring it to it in the case of YouTube where you can only press like once and where 12 people are watching and tiktok where you can press like as many times as they want and 99 people are watching that's I was referring to that as you know a task where you could pull yourself up by the boobs and it's kind of like society we're doing a best so if we have 99 people over at tiktok if all 99 people went over to YouTube and pressed like then they then YouTube would have 120 likes and tiktok would still have 17,000 so yes pull yourself up by the bootstrap you can do it believe in yourself that's all you need to do exactly like in society I believe I can I'm not going to sing I believe I can fly that's that's too much okay now we know we're not done I've signed it but we're not done because I notice the lack of furry feeling here just tiny bit of her there and tiny bit of her that way tiny bit of there there we are done there is a button in the bio that takes you directly to the YouTube can we get to a hundred likes on the YouTube I don't know I don't know that was drawing number two for today a black cat I really like that one I really like that one now let us get a request from the audience let us get a request from the audience let's hear if YouTube has any requests the ghost of a crow leaving the body behind is a request from my tiktok do me do me I can't do you a flower for Kaylee please a flower what type of flower hmm is there any way to purchase your work yes I right now you can purchase my work you can purchase prints through my gallery you find the link in the bio where all the artists also available for free use and you can contact Galadith Yala in Bergen where they have a small selection of my work and soon there will be news can you make a dinosaur please please shall we make a dinosaur anything for those in Iran so we can show support I should do that as well I have a couple of videos about Iran I want to do more but right now I got an image in my head and let's combine two of my favorite things so you wanted a dinosaur right so we're going to have a visit from a dinosaur I happen to have one of my kids dinosaur toys around so we have a reference but I'm not just going to draw a dinosaur I'm not because earlier today I got a request on YouTube so we'll start this one let us start with some dabs even though we're even though we know what we're drawing let's start with some random ink this makes it a lot harder a lot harder I'd love to see your interpretation of a warlock if you back the outcast silver raiders RPG you will indeed see warlocks but I will not be drawing a warlock right now because because because because because because because the wonderful wizard of Oz because we are doing a T-rex he's already made a lot of paintings for for Iran last month look as it is videos yes but I need to do more I have some ideas for more videos and art about Iran and I have a lot of research I've done on Iranian mythology and I want to do more it just life got away with me if you like dinosaurs you will might like Sean Keenan stuff I do not know Sean Keenan we have a few books by what's the dynotopia guy called I should remember his name because he is fantastic I've learned a lot from his books let's not make this T-rex too large but we actually I need to remember T-rex's had feathers so let's some kind let's give him some plumage some T-rex plumage okay I'm reading on tiktok that that Sherwin Haji poor who wrote the song that has gone absolutely viral about the situation in Iran is a fantastic song is arrested again so yeah I definitely need to do more videos about Iran and try to raise more awareness there I have one of my videos about Iran are permanently pinned on my tiktok but you know we all need to do more because there's more to be done but I yeah is the name of the song yes Sherwin Haji poor and thank you to those of you on tiktok who are sending gifts if you want to support free art with money then go to my patreon and support there if we got a couple of new patrons during the live stream that would be totally amazing that would be beyond all all expectations that would be very cool I do appreciate the gift I can't do I can't do tiktok youtube super comments super chats sort of stuff like that yet because I'm not I'm not popular enough on youtube yet but we're working on it we're working on it definitely and thank you for sharing the live whether you are on youtube or tiktok sharing the live helps a lot and booping the like button helps a lot we're at 21 000 likes on tiktok and how many likes for team youtube let us see so there was a comment that the t-rex was actually a dragon but that's we're going to disprove that here link to the patron is in the beacons link in his bio if you want to support with one dollar a month yes thank you for for saying what I should say myself thank you for reminding me I love your work thank you so much so with this drawing we will be disproving and the idea that the t-rex was a was a dragon how will we disproving we be disproving it well you did see me make two sets of random inklots in the beginning why did I make two you can ask yourself who knows I know do you know no you don't what's just a good plan probably not will this be complicated yes do you know what's going to happen maybe if you're paying attention 22 000 likes on tiktok versus 26 not thousand likes on youtube it's almost didn't you it's getting there I don't know how you aren't wildly famous you're the best artist I've ever seen thank you so much you guys are helping me get more wildly famous definitely and you know is I'm at a good level of fame now I think I feel very comfortable I get stopped in town once in a while and everyone who stops me on the street are lovely people and I'm sorry that I'm awkward when you stop me on the street but that's just how I am I am slightly awkward right right the boop is the best yes boop the like button as many times you can and the sharing button that is so good so we're going to do the ah yeah the the t-rex with chicken legs because that is funny is it chicken t-rex because they were that's what they were you are fantastic exactly the way you are and we love you for being you thank you so much thank you so much I see that the tiktok connection is sometimes it is falling waste at some points if you want to the best image quality and the best stream then the youtube looks very stable and has also the best image quality but you know it has 24 000 less likes so you can also help with that so our t-rex our feathered t-rex is progressing let's maybe the feathered t-rex had some sort of pattern some slightly darker feathers on the back I think so people are discussing t-rex theories I do not know enough about t-rex theories I doubt that this is a scientifically accurate t-rex but I like they likely had older and head feathers and dorsal feathers yeah what would hunt a t-rex that's what we're going to discover we are going to discover what's hunting t-rex I love all your drawings they're beautiful thank you thank you so much for the kind words your t-rex is the ultimate t-rex yes but what can hunt the ultimate t-rex amazing work thank you thank you so much now we're at the point where I'm starting to feel the pressure because this t-rex is going reasonably well and there is so much room to mess it up there is so much room to mess it up do you draw with ink yes this is directly with ink and brush that's the fun I had to fight a t-rex two days ago it was brutal still can't figure out why it had a bucket of candy though I hope you beat that t-rex our streets are not safe when t-rex is Rome collecting candy t-rex is the the candy thieves of the Cretaceous period do you draw with ink yes I replied to that I do draw with ink the camo is is to scare the crap out of its prey camo t-rex okay let's see okay let's move up here and see what can fight a t-rex what do you think oh that posture yeah I'm pretty satisfied with that posture pretty satisfied I think it's pretty cool make it look like it's looking at a dragon in the sky that's exactly the plan okay so we're going to play connect the dots this needs to be a rubber duck it's not going to be a rubber duck oh my god a dragon hell yes yes that's what I'm going to be attempting will I manage it that is this is the point where it will be so easy to mess up the drawing oh so easy to mess up the drawing now I'm silent because I am in concentration mode and I am starting to have to think about the art I mean all of these pieces are they are difficult pieces I'm not going to say that it's easy to draw like this but at some point it becomes harder some point it becomes really hard hey I'm getting I am getting some assistance in the shape of an added dragon so that I can find reference for what dragons look like dragon dragon so it's good to have assistance from that dragon darby the dino I don't know what the darby the dino comment was supposed to be about sometimes I just read comments and I forget that they might have a context or I might have lost the the the context of it and I'm seeing we're losing some connection on the on the tiktok stream I don't know why that is happening it is maybe a bit hard to do two streams at once do check out the youtube stream hopefully that is stable because that's the one that's going to be recorded for posterity so let us see here this also means that you youtube watchers have a golden opportunity to gain some likes on the tiktok audience because they're only at 26 000 so if you just boop the like button enough times you can catch up I tried you can face here and work we're going to turn and slightly around like that the I'm very sorry to the tiktok audience because the stream there is very laggy I'm noticing hopefully it's okay are you getting a good enough image there's enough of a hint of a face here I don't know how the tiktok stream is going I hope people come over to the youtube where it does seem like it's streaming better youtube for the win excellent 27 likes tiktok only have 26 000 likes I was frozen for about a minute it's okay now okay great to hear great to hear you say that it's not easy but you always make it look easy yeah but that's kind of the magic you have to make it look easy because that's part of mastering something is managing to do it effortlessly in some sense and I'm do I am making an extreme amount of effort here but it is sort of in an effortless way but I'm you know after a stream such at this I you know my brain is a bit knackered because I'm using so much focus on the art and trying to run the comments and trying to keep an entertaining chat it takes a lot of work to make something look easy yes it is a lot of work and it's very taxing on the braid because the level of focus I have in order to not ruin this art hopefully knock on wood is that is kind of it's a lot it is a lot and we've made two pieces earlier today on the stream made two pieces earlier today on another stream I appreciate the effort and the energy you put in to run these shows for us thank you so much and I hope that people are catching on and that you know people are enjoying it spreading the word and you know that it's entertaining will you make a live with Isaac on the weekend yes we so Isaac Vandien who wrote the outcast silver raiders rpg and hired me to to draw for it is coming to bergen this weekend so we have to be we have to make a stream uh somehow whether that be on tiktok or youtube or both I don't know we haven't planned anything we have said that we're we have to do it but but we haven't quite found out how we're going to do it or where not yet now the problem is that that dragon actually looks smaller than the t-rex is there any way to is there any way to make it look bigger I don't I think we just have to hope that people notice the distance another fan from Canada here yeah let's do a headcount to see where people are located both on tiktok and on youtube where are everyone located do we have all the continents represented it looks like it's coming from way high up the perspective makes sense yeah hopefully hopefully South Africa and Finland we have on on youtube we have michigan sweden we have uk noriga uh ireland england that is this south africa we're missing asia on both we're missing south africa and we're missing australia so you know south america I mean we're missing of course no don't call me right now I should have put my phone in sleep mode or in don't disturb mode but the start of this show was hella hectic michigan wisconsin indiana have you made a drawing of gidora what is gidora I'm blanking on whatever gidora is these trees or tree-like shapes in a circular pattern I mean they sort of help build the illusion of size slightly the man is creating a battle of the era they can't be interrupting this canada on is here oh from Godzilla of care of course of course I can't do anything from gods the sila movies because it's all copyrighted I make art for free use uh and if it's copyrighted I can't put it out for free use that would be illegal but if you know of things that have fallen out of free use now out of copyright and into the public domain then please please do inform me about that have something on the ground being defended your carcass or nest that yeah that I saw the idea and was looking for well actually there is a room that's so one good one good trick to see how a position is working is to imagine a triangle in the composition and right now there was this weird triangle maybe here or maybe here and the whole composition seems a little bit off but by hopefully by putting some eggs in a nest over here hopefully we can create a better looking triangle the work is amazing I was wondering how long did it take to get this good I've been drawing all my life and I've been working a lot directly with ink on and off since 1998 so so it takes a lot of time it takes a lot of time it does it does Catalonia we have in on youtube no pee pee I don't know I don't know about dinosaur peepees or dragon peepees these are all unexplored territories for me strange but true extend the shadow a little bit here and now now that we created this triangle I think that's a more compelling composition now let's just sign it and we've only been going slightly over an hour so I think I have one drawing left in me if you guys want to see one more drawing oh what I forgot to say is that you know one of you in the chat requested me drawing a dinosaur and that's why I drew the dinosaur but someone on youtube earlier today requested a dinosaur uh no a lizard and a dragon and dinosaurs even if they're feathered they have to count as lizard as well as bird thunder lizard will you draw a jabberwocky uh I have some drawings of the jabberwocky up in the gallery for free use fish monster maybe maybe do we have some non monstrous suggestions which is now we've been doing a black cat today we also did the cat so we haven't only been doing monsters we're both anubis I have a drawing of anubis up in the gallery for free use ride of the valkyries the valkyrie is also difficult yeah semi-monster's mermaid skeleton knight bunny bava jaga vesen let us I'm going to print the potato cat the moment it's on your website cool excellent okay now let's spread a lot of ink okay we spread the ink fog horn leg horn I can't draw that I think beautiful thus far flowing flowing it shouldn't flow too long and you guys can start guessing which suggestion I'm drawing because it was one of your suggestions which is it that's the key whoa cow it's not a cow I can see where it looks like a cow I can't see where it looks like maybe it's a cow is this babayaga no I don't think it's babayaga like a horse no it's not that there might be horses involved a croc it's not a croc it's not a load of croc but it's going to be difficult rorschach well it's not as rorschach as you'd think I'm drawing something more concrete than you or concrete is the wrong word I think this is more sort of gash gaseous than concrete I get why you have two for the sake of the stream not waiting for 20 minutes to see it dry but it's sad to see it obliterated yeah but the reason why I obliterated it is not just to save time but also because I wanted that effect okay so it's not just for time it's also for the effect is that a hint to what it is I don't know kind of looks like to two bears high fiving it's not two bears high fiving valkyrie yes ding ding ding we have a winner it is the valkyries coming out of the storm we have a winner so hope I have drawn valkyries quite a few times it's beginning to be a while since last time and I got an idea for how I could make it slightly different one of the riders of the apocalypse thunder horse yes and to be honest even though I said it is the valkyries and I will be drawing the valkyries at this point one of the exciting things is that at this point it could still change it's just everything here is so generic that it could change in a thousand ways I don't think it's going to change but it could it could there's one valkyrie one little two little three little valkyries I think that's how the song goes funny comment it looks like my father's approval no your art is flowing you simply put color to it that's sort of yeah that's sort of one of the ideas is to make it flow definitely that definitely make it flow cool twosentuck twosentuck this is the third drawing for no the fourth drawing for this free art show probably the last it's like watching a dream at first it just blots and shadows but then bam valkyrie on a horse yeah that's sort of that is sort of the idea one of my favorite things about the success I've had on tiktok is that it made me focus on the process of making the art in a way that's been really rewarding because before I started doing the art of tiktok I didn't you was just an artist I didn't really care about how the art appeared when I was making it it was just you know the process was not a part of the the result was everything the process was not a part of it and now because of tiktok and because of doing all the timeless videos and art videos and stuff like that suddenly the process is a part of it and and doing art in a way where it reveals itself in a magical way that is it's not only exciting for those of you who are watching hopefully exciting but it's also exciting for me while drawing it the art is revealing itself to me too we need more likes on youtube yes go over to youtube and see if you can beat the tiktok likes it's only 30 000 likes on tiktok so if you boop the screen very hard on youtube I think you have a shot I think you can do it I believe in you we're enjoying both the journey and the destination yes and as an artist it is really hard to enjoy the destination because when I'm done with the work I'm always off to the next work you know that that's that's the nature of it I'm always thinking about the next work I it's very hard for me to enjoy my own work but enjoying the process that's something I absolutely can do so learning how to make the process more fun has been very rewarding for me as an artist definitely youtube will eventually win because we can only like on tiktok while live is on and on youtube is permanent yes so go like I don't think the live likes count towards I don't know if the live likes count towards the the the archived video likes do they I don't know are you the one promoting team youtube on tiktok yeah who is promoting team youtube on tiktok do go over and promote team youtube on tiktok because tiktok will be getting some things that youtube will never get because on tiktok I will be doing some casual lives where it's just me hanging out and drawing and and not worrying about what I say or worrying about and being entertaining or anything like that which is me and you hanging out and that's not something I'm going to do on on oh that is a magnificent accident can you see that it created an eye perfect I'm not going to do casual streams like that on youtube because that's not the format for it and tiktok will get that community but I will however be doing a lot more things on youtube because tiktok is such a disposable format that I need to find a way to monetize and get youtube to work for me so that I can actually use the time and effort to create longer storytelling works because that is where everything has been leading me team youtube for life thank you interesting I like bread I like bread as well excellent so now I think the cloud portion is mostly done but you can't do an image with just clouds or you can of course you can there's a lot of good art that's just clouds but I don't want to do just clouds this is not cloud art this isn't cloud compute no wait it is in the cloud probably youtube seems to have a much nicer video quality you should go look at it yes youtube has nicer image quality on the stream is there going to be a battlefield yes at first we are going to do ravens just hints at ravens circus fly by it's not going to be a circus there so very loose very simple ravens I thought circus battlefield makes more sense might make more sense who knows the valkyries could be coming to to carry off the honorable clowns to Valhalla my art level stuff's just short of stickman you know you can you can make great art with stickman it is really important to to to underline that you know don't you don't have to be good to make art you just have to have fun and have something to express and some of the greatest artists in the world are not great draftsmen but they are great artists you don't need to be great draftsmen sometimes being great draftsmen can even hinder the art in ways because your some artists get too focused on the technique and forget that the point of art is communication uh when I use your free content what name should I credit you kim de ason yes that is exactly correct cyanide and happiness is all stickman and it's great yes cyanide and happiness is great you stickmen are seriously cool if you spend the hours you need to practice your stickman then you can create great art with it do I so talent for two snaggletuck two snaggletuck okay so now we're going to do the battlefield we're going to do have a few sort of a few shapes that are east more easily identifiable the man punching over he is in fact dead you can see that by the spear going out and then there is a man lying here we'll do something like here just hints of the battlefield one of your favorite artists so also all of my favorite artists are comic book artists more or less it's people like frank miller um some Keith john bishima robert crumb uh hilo kasumura uh yeah all all my inspirations are comic book artists senkiewicz bill senkiewicz is definitely a inspiration you can see a lot of senkiewicz in my work definitely we're going to hint at water viking ship that has is sunken in some land on the other side why do we do these things well mostly so that we can make the composition better oh hi fosalia hi it is vadia i'm going to work on where land hits water here try to make that part tight too tight okay very soon yeah we're we're in the send part now when i do my art videos i always have to speed up the ending part of the drawing more than the beginning because in the beginning a lot of exciting things are happening and things are changing rapidly but by the end things are more or less staying the same and going very slight changes very send and it's hard to keep a send kind of mindset while also keeping the chat going and trying to focus on the result but i think we're getting there i think we are getting there i think we're getting there indeed let's find a piece of paper just need one piece of paper like this oh just a very slight like that like that perfect yeah i think we have our ride of the valkyries let's sign this one this one very very fun if you're not too busy if you are not too busy could you explain why you want to abolish copyright yes that should be a good place to start because today we have we've created a lot of different art let's look at some of the art we've made today we've made private orange we have made a black cat we have made a dragon fighting at herex and finally the ride of the valkyrie and the point of making all this art the point of making all this art including the potato cat is that it will be made available for free use that is the point that is the function and the reason for this is that the nature of art is free art is a form of communication it is a form of speech by law it is in fact protected as speech and when we put limits on freedom of speech we have to be very careful and what we're doing by saying that if you make piece of art then you're allowed to stop other people from using that art it is that you're killing the natural evolution of art artists stand on the shoulders of the giants that came before us and that process has been made illegal with copyright now we're instead of standing on the shoulders of giants we are either working toiling for giant corporations who didn't create anything but still owns the works of giants or we are creating work in a deceptive way because you know if i feel like doing a work inspired by a copyrighted work then i have to change that work in order to do it properly i have to change my process i have to do a dishonest version of it and we can see this you know when there's a hit movie there comes all these copycat movies when there's a hit superhero there comes all these copycat superheroes when there's a hit song there comes all these copycats and they're all created because we're not allowed to stand on the shoulders of giants because we're not allowed to be free with our with our inspirations and and that's just the parts of copyright that comes to art when you look at copyright in other fields you see copyright creating an artificial barrier for education in the third world people are getting a worse education because copyright keeps them from getting the books and the software that should educate them um hospital journals uh or not hospital journals hospital um um yeah it's called journals in english the the magazine the the medical research magazines are the traditional model was to keep them under copyright and to have the hospital libraries pay a lease to release them to their doctors which would mean and did mean that copyright was directly responsible for killing people by not letting doctors access the latest research even though they had it at their hospitals copyright is um killing or not killing it's slowing the development of technology because everyone is all the technology companies are using open source but they're making their own software proprietary and a lot of the problems with internet security today with uh software malfunctioning today is because they have to make it proprietary and have to you know pretend to make it hard to access for so-called pirates so that leads to a worse result a worse product copyright is all in all it's just a very shitty system and it doesn't pay artists in a proper way copyright is designed to take value from artists and allow corporations to control that we need a system that actually if we're going to monetize art it needs to put the value into the artist not take value away from the artist so i'm all for abolishing copyright to build a new and better system a better system that would not infringe freedom of speech and that would allow artists to actually gain value from their art so uh i guess that's all i have time for an energy for today we've been going one hour and 45 minutes my brain is a little bit fried and uh let's just end by showing you again the art we made and by saying that if you like the idea of art for free use of or if you like my art then go to my gallery and use it download it um all my art is available for free use so use it you can support me by using it if you however want to support with money i have a patreon account and that's the absolutely best place to support you can also support by you don't buying prints or you're buying originals from the gallery if you download it and from other places you can um support me uh by subscribing to my youtube and my tiktok and all of the stuff but uh if you have money to spare what then one dollar a month on patreon helps more than you can ever know this has been the free art show season two episode five is it four or is it five i think it's i should research this i should look it up before i before i do these lives but i don't do that it's episode four thank you helmut thank you so much for reminding me it is episode four and episode four is over i've been kim dias holm also called an ungehard holm and if you look at the link in my bio or in the description of the video on youtube then you can find where all my art is available for free use i said five earlier i know but you should never trust any number that comes out of my mouth because i'm a artist not a numerologist dammit dammit jim i'm an artist not a numerologist goodbye for now


Okay, so let's try this experiment. We got it in the hood right now, and hopefully you can see we've got a 50 mil beaker half full of water, and we're going to put a couple drops of phenylphthalein in there, and mix it up. And then we have a piece of sodium here, and we've got the spatula that I've used. So, the sodium you can see is in this mineral oil. It's a sodium metal here. Then let's just put it in there. And you can see that the phenylphthalein went from clear to pink quite quickly. You can see the reactivity of the sodium metal as well. Remember that sodium is, it's got a valence electron on it, right? And it doesn't like to have that because it wants to be a full octet, you know? So it's going back down to the neon electron configuration. So what's happening here is, right, you hear all that bubbling and see the bubbling. What's happening is, does anybody know what's happening? What are we making? What gas? Hydrogen gas, right? And so it's making hydrogen gas. And why did it become basic? What would be the other thing that was left in it? Sodium hydroxide. Sodium hydroxide because we're removing the proton from the water, okay? So if you look at the color change of phenylphthalein, right, it went over the basic portion. So you can see that it's pink. Okay. Are there any questions about that? Okay, cool.


Well hello and welcome to this video where I'm talking all about how to get started with Facebook live video. This is something I'm so excited to be sharing and I can't believe it's taken me such a long time to do this video. I'll be talking about why doing video and specifically going live despite that fear. It's really going to help you grow your art business much faster. So stay right to the end because I'm going to share some useful top tips to help you get started straight away. Maybe even straight off to watching this video. Now if you're new to this channel my name is Sophie Mejia and I help female artists to make a living from their art or creativity by building a stable profitable business doing what they love. Now if that sounds like you and you'd like some more tips on growing your art business then you're in the right place. Don't forget to subscribe to my channel and hit that bell to get notified every time I post a new video. Which by the way is every week on a Wednesday. Alright let's start talking about Facebook live videos. Now specifically what I'm talking about is face-to-camera videos. You know not the type where you take your phone and you just pan it around your studio live. That's not what we're talking about. We're talking about you actually on the camera in specifically your studio or out and about or wherever. Okay so here are some common questions I get asked all the time. Number one where should I go live and the answer that question is your business page. Now listen you can go live of course on your profile this will be go out and be seen by your friends but if you're talking about your business and perhaps about artwork or workshops or courses or products or services you're technically talking about your business and Facebook's not going to love you for that.  Unless you're doing a chitty-chatty more personal type of video in which case that of course can go on your profile.  Now if you're not sure if having a Facebook group is for you check out this video where I talk all about how to get started with a Facebook group whether it's right for you and if it is some top tips to get going straight away.  Now of course don't expect thousands of people to watch straight away you've got to build it it's you know it's how it works it works all over these platforms and Facebook's no different. So if you'd like some more top tips on building a Facebook page check out this video and if you want to know any other Facebook related videos I will of course link to them in the description below this one. So question number two that I get asked all the time and that is what equipment do I need how do I go live what is the best way. Well as we know there's really a couple of ways you're likely going to do that one is you're going to be using your smartphone and you're going to go live via your phone perhaps on a tripod which is how I've got it actually set up just recording this video or you're going to go live on your computer or laptop using the Facebook app or using a third-party piece of streaming software. Now I'm not about to dive into all of that but if you've got questions about that shoot your question below this video we're really happy to ask answer them. So what about other equipment to go with either your laptop or your phone well listen good lighting is essential nobody wants to watch a dark live where they're peering in to try and see you so make sure you are next to a window and you've got some natural lighting or you've got a ring light or a simple light you can rig up that's super easy but to be honest with you for a live video mostly the natural light is good and what if you're using a phone you might need a tripod these are really easy things to pick up either second hand or buy off a platform like Amazon something again is going to hold your phone now if you're using your laptop and you want to get it in a good position you might do what I do highly technical are you ready for this come closer I pile the laptop on two cardboard boxes oh yes hi-tech but that way it gets the right level that in order that you know it's I'm not looking up I'm not looking I've got a chin thing going on I've got it all lined up correctly it's a stack of boxes nothing more complicated than that now you'll probably see that I've got a little lapel mic here so sometimes if you know you're going to be in a room that's maybe got some noise or you're in a noisy a place you're going to need a microphone but at the beginning when you're first starting out it's possible to do this without any extras I don't want you to think or I can't go live because I don't have a microphone just go live anyway and then you can improve things as you go down the track I started out just with the phone as I'm pretty sure everyone else did and now sure I've got a microphone for for doing recording like this I've got a more solid microphone if I'm using my computer but I've built that up over time alright so question number three I get asked the time how long should my live be alright so there's a variety of different lengths according to what you're actually going to be doing Facebook says that optimal live length is around three minutes at time of watching but it needs to be long enough that people can get the notification and actually get onto your live and it can take about a minute for the thing to get pushed out in the algorithm anyway so if you're doing a super short video people might arrive on it and you're just finishing so I tend to find that I'm like my audience like you guys tend to like something a little bit longer and I've done a 5 to 10 minute video and found that's not as successful as if I were to do a 20 to 25 minute video because I'm teaching and sharing something so if you run workshops and courses and you're going to teach some top tips you want to maybe have something around the 10 15 20 minute mark so that someone can really get stuck in and learn something but if you're going doing something that's in situ or you're sharing some inspiration or lesson learn or something funny that happened in the studio or you're doing a live because you're out and about at a venue and you want to report back in as what's going on make it around the three minute mark because then people can get in get involved get the information get entertained and leave again so if you are in the in the teaching or demonstrating world then you could even dependent on your audience you could even set up something even longer you let them know in advance I'm going to be teaching the following things on this particular date you know make sure you you put the date in the diary that you really drum up some excitement and you could teach something for maybe an hour or more and then of course offer people the next step on that live training it's very often what a lot of us will do on what we call a webinar that you can do it on a Facebook live as well and don't forget there's lots of things that you could do with your Facebook live afterwards so hang on to the end question number four what am I going to talk about this is probably the question I get asked the most right once we've got past the the length where to go the equipment all of this is like well okay Sophie what am I going to talk about you've talked about in the studio or if you're teaching what if I'm not teaching anything what if I'm just making something what an earth am I going to share on a live so here's just a few suggestions you could talk about the materials that you use now don't forget this might not be super exciting for you it might be really interesting for your ideal audience you could also talk about what inspires you and if what inspires you is out and about then maybe go to a place that inspires you and do a short video there letting people know why this place is a special interest and what it specifically inspires you in terms of your artwork and your creativity you know what people like a lot of why not share a mistake something has gone horribly wrong a big mess you know a studio disaster basically people love a lot and even if it's oh my god I've just built something everywhere or this is what went wrong today this is all a bit of a disaster you know it's funny it's entertaining it's good content and unfortunately you'll probably find you get more views and shares on that then you will on your serious video so make sure to mix it all in with what you're doing anyway your story now I know that we don't want to share our entire personal journey here but your story as a creative in little bits in dispersed again with other things can be really interesting for your audience so maybe each week you share a little thing that somebody didn't know about you on your journey towards building your art business studio progress now this becomes what what by default a lot of artists are doing it's like oh I need to do a live I'll just get my camera and I might say you know this is what I'm doing and you just pan around I would prefer if you just planned it a little bit you know think about why is your audience why should they watch what's interesting if it's studio progress what was before what's the end result and what have you done in order to get there what if you learnt on the way what if you changed not just this is where we started on this is what I've done today is put some you know blue on here it's not very interesting for people you need to think about why they're going to watch and what they can learn or glean from it it could be how you've solved something so you go on a live and you say and you can even do one at the beginning of the day this is my studio working day here's three pieces I'm working on here's where I'm stuck with all of them and I'll report back at the end of the day as to how I got on video to this is how I solve that problem on painting number two remember I told you I was stuck with this that and the other well I've done this and this is the result so that can be quite nice as well because if people watch the part one then they're pulled into part two obviously top tips you know it's a given if you teach or you run any time of art service that you've always got something to share so a simple tip three ways to do something five tips to doing something all the sort of things I'm sharing on this channel you can apply to what you're doing as well so don't forget to share in the comments below this video what you would talk about what you do talk about if you already go live on your Facebook page because we would love love love to hear and if you're brave enough share a link to your video so we can have a look as well question number five how do I get past that fear of going live on camera oh my goodness me that's a whopper isn't it now thank goodness I've got another video coming up on how to build confidence on camera but for the moment let's just take a look at few things that you could do to get past this fear to the number one thing you can do is plan out what you're going to be talking about now I don't about you but just switching on live and not really having a plan is of course going to send you into fear well my god what am I talking about where am I what am I doing you need to plan what you're doing so that you've got an element of confidence when you go onto the camera number two set a date and commit all right sometimes we have this all I'll do live tomorrow but unless you're telling anybody you can always bump that on to next week next week next week so you need to just set a date and commit to it and that's just going to help you how you just got to show up and sometimes feeling the fear and doing it anyway is the best way to get past that and move forwards number three is you just need to show up and go live you know just kind of think to yourself what's the worst that can happen you know sometimes the internet goes down or maybe your electric goes down and the light goes off I've been there done that multiple times you have a brain fog you can't remember who you are or what you're doing this stuff happens and you just need to show up and do it and by showing up and doing it it's like you're going to do it you're going to practice over and over and you're going to feel better with the next one you also just want to get the mistakes out of the way alright and feel okay with it it's just a live video alright it's not the end of the world if it's a bit of a disaster you get that one out of the way and you just go again the more times you do it the better you're going to feel so like I say get them get them out of the way I actually did when I first started out back in the day I think I started with a 30-day challenge for myself really I thought I planned out what I talk about and every day I went live for 30 days I've done it with a blogging challenge I've done it with a variety of other challenges but sometimes it's the best way just get on video just get in there do it by the end of 30 days you'll feel like a pro you'll be like oh I found a great place to put my camera I found out you know the best time of day to do it the best lighting maybe I've picked up a microphone I sound better now I've I've you know made a few mistakes I've seen what's popular what's not popular and that's how it goes right I promised you if you stayed at the end there's some useful tips to get going straight away so I've got five more tips for you are you ready all right tip number one practice on your phone video first before you go live all right so you're gonna no matter whether you're using a laptop to go live or your phone just grab your phone put it in video mode and practice pretending you're live tip number two find great light and sound this is really gonna help you so just grab your phone your laptop and move it around the space that you're in until you've got the best position to give you the best light and then ideally the best room if you're using a room inside carpet padding will absorb any sound shut the door put a note on it saying I'm doing a live video please keep quiet whatever you need to do tip number three just start confidently no urs and ums don't wait for people to come on get stuck straight in a lot of people watch the replay and they're not gonna watch it if you start with oh it maybe it's live I'll wait another couple of minutes forget it get straight in hello my name is welcome today I'm talking about tip number four ask for engagement Facebook wants engagement you want people to comment below the video so ask for it tip number five you want to promote your video and other platforms right don't forget you can download it and upload it on to YouTube you can take a little snippet out of it and put it on a story on Instagram or on your Facebook you can let people know if you're building an email list which we hope you are because you're following my channel right and if you want to know about how to build an email list check out this video and check out other videos in the description below this one assuming you're building your mailing list you can send an email out with hey I just went live or I'm going to go live and you drive more people to watch that more people watching it Facebook happier and next time you go live they'll push you out to more people and remember it's okay if the first time you go live you only got one viewer or the viewer is your mother it's okay because you start small right then you go live again you tell some more people about it the next time you get 10 people then 20 people then 50 people then you start to get some conversations going and Facebook says oh okay people like this content I'm going to push it out we know that this video is vital on social media I'm going live you're going to get the most points and also by the way it's a lot easier because there's no hefty editing and uploading at the end either much much easier alright I hope you've enjoyed this video I hope you're going to go and get stuck in on going live look out for the next video all on confidence and I'll see you again on another one very soon


One of the important things that we do need to briefly touch on is an idea around fragmentation Because sometimes with particularly long molecules when they're undergoing this process in order to have their mass measured Parts of them can break off. So if we look at probably one of the simplest examples of this Say we were trying to Find the mass spectra for ethane It would be really nice if we could charge up this little ethane molecule so that it was then accelerated Put through a magnetic field which would bend its path and then we could identify it and we would say okay. There's 12 twos as there's two carbons and there's six ones Which is hydrogen so we would expect to have a mass of around about 30 Atomic mass units as this comes scooting through And that would to give us the data assuming there were no isotopes of hydrogen other than hydrogen one No isotopes of carbon other than carbon 12 and also at no the electron That's creating the charge is not contributed to the mass in any way and also that the frag that the whole of the Molecule remained intact all the way along. So what we'd see is just one beautiful nice peak at 30 and nothing else In reality, this does not happen It doesn't happen for several reasons one because isotopes do exist and therefore there may well be a Little mini peak on 31 for example where a carbon 13 may be present or even a hydrogen 2 But the other thing that can happen is that this molecule can fragment and if it fragments that means it basically snaps somewhere And the simplest place for it to snap is right down the center And if it snapped right in the center then we now have two fragments both of which have one carbon With a mass of 12 and three hydrogens with a mass of one so 12 plus three ones is 15 so that would mean instead of having a peak at 30 we would have a Lower peak at 30 and another peak here at 15 Where some of the molecules have traveled through the mass spec intact and to come out the other end with their full 30 atomic mass units intact Whereas others would have been split in half and so you'd only have Little of fragments which would be deflected more because that experienced greater acceleration and therefore We'd have a peak at 15 as well So this is one of the reasons when we're looking at the output data from mass spectroscopy We we notice that there is going to be a maximum value that maximum value is going to tell us the molar mass of the molecule If there are no isotopes it will tell you exactly what the identity is perhaps But again, you still need other data to look at that Because this is just giving you information about masses What's nice is if we get fragment data as well and we start to know that for example a CH3 group has a mass of 15 then either we can look for peaks at 15 or we can even look at Fragments that are 15 less than the total mass of the Molecule intact molecule to know that a CH3 group has been cracked off at at some point


It's like, you know, I have a Sonos Dolby Atmos setup in my living room. Can I play Apple music with Atmos there? And the answer is yes, but not the way that you would think. Because I thought if I just played an Atmos capable track on my Sonos arc in the living room that it would do Atmos. Nope, doesn't do that. However, if I play that through the music app on my Apple TV, then it will play the Atmos through my speakers. So thinking about it in abstract terms, the music quote unquote app for Sonos, the inbuilt integration, does not yet yet, and I say yet with hope, not with any knowledge, but does not currently support Atmos. However, the Apple TV music app does currently support Atmos. And so if you are playing it out to a speaker or set of headphones that supports Atmos, you will get Atmos sound from the music app on your Apple TV. And it makes a huge difference with some tracks. It's pretty cool. One song I highly recommend listening to in Atmos is The Door's Riders on the Storm. You will hear, just as the song's starting out, you'll hear Jim behind you whispering things. It's weird. It's a little bit creepy and really cool.


Hello, my name's Jackie, and welcome back to my channel. If you are new here, I'm an aspiring fiction author who does videos on writing and plotting and rambling about writing and plotting, and at some stage I will finally be able to revise something, so if that sounds interesting, please like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell. Today, I wanted to talk about how do you know when you're done, and that might be when you're done with outlining, when you're done with writing your first draft, when you're done with revising your draft, and even done with the editing process in general. And the reason I thought of this was because I was recently plotting my current work in progress, which is reciprocal stalking, and I did three different plotting methods. And if you saw those videos, you'll know that I got to the end of each plotting method, and, like, I finished them, and when I was done, I thought I was done. It might not be complete, but I looked at what I'd written down and thought, you know, I've really achieved something here. I have this list of scenes that I didn't have before. I have a starting point to write my draft. And then I would do the next plotting method and realise, hmm, there are questions that I haven't answered yet, and I'd better answer them. Then this happened again when I got to the third plotting method, and what was a little frustrating was the third plotting method, which was the Story Clock Workbook. In fact, just a minute. So the third plotting method I completed was the Story Clock, and mine looks like this. Basically, this is my overview of scenes I need to cover in my book. And all up, I think it's in the low 30s, which is far more scenes than I've ever had at the beginning of the writing process before. And I looked at this and thought, you know, this page is pretty full. Like, there's quite a bit there, and there are extra notes around the edges. I feel like I've achieved something. I feel like I have a fairly comprehensive outline. And then I transferred it into a spreadsheet when I was putting the work I'd done for all three plotting methods together, and I realised there are some chapters where I don't even know whose point of view it's from. And that was a little bit frustrating because it's like, I thought, you know, I did this activity, I thought I was done. I thought this would be my ultimate guide that I would use to write my book. So that then raises the question of when are you done? When can you move on to the next activity? In this case, without lining, do I need to have every single scene mapped out? Do I need to know the emotional shift that the character undergoes for every single scene? Do I, as is recommended in the snowflake method, need to break all of my scenes down into crisis and reaction, response, dilemma, and so on, which are all of these milestones that the character goes through within a scene? And I can see the same thing coming up when you're writing a draft and when you're revising and editing. In fact, I have seen the same thing come up in my formal life as a nonfiction writer and editor. And I think it's really easy not to let yourself be finished. In fact, I remember when I was writing Powerless, which was my nanoproject last year. And I knew I wanted to get it done by the end of December and I was coming up to the last couple of days at December. And I really wasn't sure. Like I knew there would be an epic battle and I got to the end of the epic battle and I was sort of like, well, what now? And I needed to think of a final scene. And thankfully, I did think of the final scene. But part of me was tempted to leave it unfinished. I thought maybe I should just leave this scene off and then when I go back and revise and I've read the whole thing from beginning to end, then I can write something that's much more satisfying. And I didn't end up doing that because I thought even if I have to completely delete that final scene, which I probably will, I wasn't happy with it. But I thought even if I need to delete that final scene, I wanted to have the experience of finishing a draft because I have so many things that I've started and not finished. Because I ran out of inspiration or ran out of motivation or energy or not time because you can always go back to something. But I ran out of that initial spurt of time and then there never seemed to be there was never I never had the motivation to make more time for it. When it comes to revising and editing, I remember I had clients in my old business where we had this editing schedule. So to give you some context, we worked on nonfiction, how to books written by entrepreneurs and they would tend to be between about 30 and 50,000 words and we would have an initial structural edit, which in most cases involved us basically rewriting the book for them. The reason for that is because they were business people, not writers. So they knew their stuff, but they didn't know how to organise it as well as they could have or how much detail they needed to go into. So we would spend three weeks pulling it apart and putting it back together and then send it back to them. The standard schedule was they would have four weeks to go through it and make any additions that we recommended and they would send it back to us. We would go through it for another week. We'd send it back to them so they could give it a final once over, address any remaining points. And then there'd be a final proofread with another editor. Now, in some cases, that four weeks turned into six months. Or a year, because the author kept wanting to tinker with things and kept wanting to add new content. Or in some cases, their business changed so much in that time that the book wasn't relevant anymore and they needed to start again. So I can understand how the revision and editing process it can be hard to see the end as well. And as someone who's written a book like that, actually. So I wrote a book called Book Blueprint. If you're an entrepreneur looking to write a nonfiction book, check it out. If you're a fiction author, it's probably not going to be relevant to you. So I will put a link in the description that, yeah, if you're a fiction author, you're not the target market, so I wouldn't have high expectations. But anyway, I wrote that book and I got to the end and I saw it as a business tool, so I was happy to sort of close like close the writing and editing process, get it published and put it out into the world. However, the Book Blueprint process that I went through with people in workshops and what I it was always the first step I took my ghostwriting clients through that actually continued to evolve. So when I handed my business over and I was creating all of the processes and documentation for this process, the process that I covered in the documentation is actually a bit different to what's covered in the book now. And what's interesting is seeing that I can see why some authors in the nonfiction space might find it hard to stop working on their book because their process keeps changing. And I can actually see how going back and redoing the book now would make it a better book. But I don't think in this case, I don't think the effort is worth the investment of time and money. Anyway, that was a bit of a tangent. What I'm saying is that. I can see how hard it is to figure out when a process is finished. So my question for you is how do you know when you're done? How do you know when you're done with the prep work? So you're outlining and character profiles and everything that comes before you start writing. How do you know that you're done with your first draft? Or how do you know that you're done with the writing process in general? How do you know that what you've written is ready to go to a beta reader or to go to a to an editor or proofreader? And then in the editing process, I suppose that's a little bit different because you are working with an editor, so you will get feedback from them and they will tell you, yes, it's done. Stop tinkering, like you're 90 percent of the way there and spending an extra three years to get 10 percent better isn't worth it. But in some cases, I see authors. In fact, a fellow author, Rebecca McLaughlin, her first book, Nameless Queen, came out earlier this year. And she mentioned that she got her publishing deal and it was four years before her book got published because the editing process took so long. So in a case like that, how do you know it's done? So please let me know what you think. I'm curious to see if you have any questions you ask yourself or indicators or signs you look for that tell you you're finished and it's time to move on. Of course, the other scenario is you're like me and you're doing it for Camp Nanorimo and Nanorimo and you need to be done with plotting in time for Camp or Nano. So time is a factor as well. But if time is an effect, please let me know how you know you're done. That's all from me for today. So if you like this video, please give me a like and I will see you next time. Bye for now.