[Music] Today we're doing something a little bit different than usual,
it's a 2x faster time-lapse, which is a lot slower than what the usual speed is.
Very close to about the actual speed that I actually draw.
It was done in the moment and this is a recording from my phone, on my iphone 6s,
using medibang paint pro so it's a bit unrendered
cuz it was just something made in the moment
for something silly. It was me thinking
"okay what if 1970s Candy Candy was more Horror inspired"
because i was thinking about actual candy and my thoughts went into another direction
and I remembered my mom's favorite anime,
which was Candy Candy, because in Latin America,
Candy Candy was one of those cute shows that got Spanish dubbed in places like Dominican Republic
and a lot of people recognize it and it was very popular
so even though it's not supposed to be horror,
it's just a cute shoujo show that lasted a long time of airing over here.
Just wanted to do something that wasn't expected of the character Candy Candy
making her creepy was something that was against her character
when she's just supposed to be a bubbly adventurous girl
in a historical time period in the 1800s.
So, I was thinking "what makes characters look creepy?".
The teeth when they're bared and have a lot of detail compared to the rest of the style of a simple art,
that can be creepy.
though it wasn't very rendered because it was done in very little time,
this is actually a 16 minute drawing thing
that the reason i was doing it so fast was because i wanted to post it fast
but I ended up taking a while to post because i wanted to put it alongside the recording
but it was a lot more difficult than i thought it would be
and I used something that I don't usually use
which is the default recording for the IPhone 6s that comes with iOS 11
where it records the screen in HD and I had to transfer it into google drive and then download it
and stuff and my rendering program couldn't handle it
because I'm using a computer that's over 5 years old and it was a low-end.
Usually, when I render videos it's stuff that it can handle which is done with like hypercam
or something on the laptop itself, so this is a bit experimental really.
A lot of effort was put into making something that was just supposed to be something simple
that it was just a 16 minute sketch and,
you know how techonology is with making things difficult.
Okay so, back onto a more interesting topic.
A good way to make things only a little bit unsettling but not really into the horror aspect
is using things that can go into the uncanny valley like before, I said that realistic teeth
in a simplistic style becomes creepy and things like that. And how baring teeth,
a smile that bares teeth is something that shows aggression.
Well, yeah, that's a part of the creepy look.
But also, when you have really wide eyed expressions
instead of with the rest of the expression wide eyed...
eyes don't express friendliness at all. So, that ended up being a part of it.
Wide-eyed expressions can usually be used for stuff that in movie posters and whatever else
is like "oh this character is crazy" or whatever.
Also somehow it ended that the eyes were a little bit more of rendering looked more unsettling somehow with the coloring.
I was just trying to make some colorings that were unusual a little bit,
like you don't usually see in natural lighting, eyes with the redness as a shadow
cuz that's not very "healthy" as a sign in color. I'm not sure, but it does go well with the vibe I was going with.
and the sickly greens with the hair, I think it also contributes well with the style.
Though, the overall color was changed a little bit later on with the gradient I used that was green
and that ended up changing it to be a bit more mystery vibe maybe?
Like more in the night than the actual colorings that I did in the beginning.
Yeah, I like how that ended up.
for something that I didn't originally spend a long time doing,
I got very attached to this art. Really. I could come back to a similar concept like this.
maybe try another way of making something like "creepy cute" or something.
OR I could do some other beloved series in an unexpected way that I have an attachment to.
Though not like those videos and article art things that you get kind of sick of that's "ultra-realistic cartoon thing"
or whatever that's kind of overdone I think.
But, Overall, I think, doing something like this when I'm not used to doing creepy things
and instead I'm used to doing "pretty" things was an OK experience.
Yeah and I'm limiting myself to a simplified thing and I'm trying to go as fast as possible for my original intent.
This was enjoyable, yeah. I'd do it again.
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