so you probably have come across some
satisfying videos about lettering
calligraphy
on your instagram feed or perhaps even
watch some compilation on youtube
my producer nat has picked out some
beautiful videos for me to watch and to
react to but there's a twist
what's up legends my name is steven
quinn i'm a lettering artist from zurich
and i love creating my own satisfying
videos
just like this one
so in this video my producer nat has
selected some of the best
satisfying videos for us to watch and to
react to but here's a twist
one of these videos i have to recreate
the challenge will be to recreate this
video in less than an hour so i have one
hour to practice to
find out and figure out how they did it
and hopefully
master this myself this puts me in an
uncomfortable position
because if i do not make this challenge
you guys get to choose
what punishment i have to do and you can
put that in the comment below
and the comment with the most likes will
get chosen and will be put
in one of our next videos so if you're
cool with this put a thumbs up on the
video alright
let's get started video number one
ah this is already i can see the
thumbnail of the video
i don't want to start and i don't know
how good i am at reacting
i can already see a lot of sevilla pens
and masking tape
video number one masking tape on he puts
it all on the sides what
is he doing with a sponge why is he
putting all these colors in the sponge
is he doing oh he's doing a
different color scheme piece that's cool
background that's a really cool
background actually
uh let's see now he's riding inside of
it that's beautiful
portuguese um and he's doing like a fake
lettering so just adding the weight
afterwards was perfect using it what
looks like a ball pen
it's beautiful simple background easy
all right this i can totally see me
doing this so i'm not
definitely not scared actually it's
really cool achilles well done
it's a cool trick it's a cool technique
with a sponge and i
really love it oh so my bad kali's is
actually a woman
uh rebecca just checked her out her
profile sorry for thinking instantly
that you're a man
my bad all right video number two
there's one thing that i really hate and
it's using paint brushes
and i feel like this person is using oh
science oh gosh please no
mattia bonara is that a guy
video number two matia and i already see
the sign painting so let's see
what they do so right so that's one line
two lines that's
that's all right he kind of like fills
it out from those different pieces oh he
starts using different colors
that's a little gradient that's really
nice
and now he fills in the full letter oh
there's color dripping
i really hate using brushes this would
not be so easy
but look at how satisfying this is like
pulling
all these long strokes it's just
absolutely beautiful
and what is he oh he's adding the
shadows and or
even a drop shadow on the letter of
the letter itself it looks really good
well done
there's just too many things that i have
no clue about that i've never done
i don't even know what the words are for
that and then what does he do he goes
back
he starts off with the whites so light
color first and then goes into the
darker colors that shadow
absolutely amazing well done i'm not
sure if i can do this so i
now i hope that you didn't pick this one
if i have just an hour like just to
complete the whole thing
it takes me a lot longer than just an
hour video number three
again a paint brush this is the letter
salon
big brush some glittery color effect
let's see what this is all about so many
colors uh look at all these colors
beautifully like still super wet
and and dripping and just like a glitter
effect
just so beautiful to watch you could
watch this all day really
imagine like using all different colors
so i actually don't know what type of
color you'd use for this here
but see how this comes all together it's
absolutely stunning and it still
shines still has that low effect on
these different colors like from
and it even changes color when you look
at it differently wow
all right this is beautiful the close-up
details like this is what makes this
video so special is it's being so close
you see all the details you see the
color the sparkle inside the
the paint that just still moves around
even though it's
already on the piece of paper absolutely
stunning the leather salon
great job on this one it's getting it's
getting tough video number four let's
see what
nat has for me here oh no
he really wants me to fail this is
salvati
fidai and you guys just gonna see what
he's doing
so again super close up some super small
pieces he uses a cutting knife
and then creates how like
i actually at the beginning thought that
those were two pencils that he put
together but actually no it's just like
a pencil
cut in half with this tiny little knife
look at how this is super fast
but it's absolutely mind-blowing because
it's so
miniature detail oriented like you could
break it any time
it looks just stunning incredible okay
that's definitely the one that i
definitely do not want to try out i
rather do the sign painting than this
one
so please video number five brush pen
this is snooze one oh i know snooze one
he actually does amazing appropriate
brushes
all right snooze one
how does he do these color effects
this is beautiful so okay so
very expressive type i know that from
him that he does these type of things
but look at
like it's all one go and he still
creates like a beautiful composition
adding now like a couple of steps this
is beautiful and like these
there's some splashes and some elements
dang that reveal is just
absolutely crazy that's see this is
beautiful about this like
you see everything really close up so
you do not get the full
sense of the whole image all these
elements and beautiful composition
adding some touches with a black pen he
does it so well
and his style and that reveal like damn
man the style of lettering is really
strong i love the reveal i love
that he still has all these paint
brushes around i definitely know that i
have this brush
could recreate his piece but could i
recreate another piece like this
i'm not sure which video do you guys
would not pick out for me to redo so if
you had to choose a video for me to redo
which one would it be let me know in the
comments below
now that you know that i kind of don't
want to do the star wars
one the sign painting one and this one
the last one
tough but it's good i i feel like that
would be a good challenge
man i'm gonna be struggling so this next
hour it's gonna be tough
not oh he picked out brand new things
there's a present
what is this it's gonna tell me see this
actually
feels like christmas now it's not my
birthday but
it definitely feels like birthday so
thanks that
wait which piece use these
oh gosh now i know which one no
you guys were probably quicker at
figuring out which one i have to do
i'm just going to reveal you which one
i'm going to be using here
i get one hour you're going to see me
suffer for the next hour
yeah comment below what i should do if i
do not make it so
right now i just have to make all right
create something today even if it does
first up i need a black background and i
need something
to put behind so let me see probably
have to
fix this pence it wouldn't move
all right so i'm gonna start the clock
that looks perfect all right
okay i've never actually used these
tools before that much
good okay um 57 minutes
so this should be half of it
and i'm scared i'm scared that i'm gonna
cut myself
okay that's not too bad i'm just trying
to
carve out all the wood around the pencil
five minutes gone and i
haven't started carving out anything so
all right so now i'm just going to try
to see
hard to get a straight line
so what does he do uh he carves at a
long
straight surface so i kind of need to do
that
this is just satisfying all right 50
minutes 10 minutes gone
i can see that i'm writing star wars
right now but
like it doesn't feel like you guys can
see
or be able to read star wars right now
at all
25 of my time is already gone
i feel like i want to have a second
attempt
to all of this here because i've already
learned
that you need a good surface and
everything you
chip away that will be gone forever
i kind of want to turn this around
are you gonna clean up now if i make it
you have to clean it
i'm kind of impressed at actually how
far i've already gotten like i
never would have thought in a million
years
that i could have gotten this far but
his level of precision it looks so clean
and mine definitely doesn't look clean i
think the carving out part like the very
first part that would have been a lot
easier
with a really good knife these knives
are not made for that
i feel like i can barely see what i'm
doing and what i'm touching and what i'm
picking up so it really depends on the
light that you have
so right now it's the moment of no
return like either i'm trying out
a second one doing a second attempt
i won't have time to really do the
second attempt okay
this is fun for the very first bit this
looks terrible
but let's see all right so this is
attempt number two
where i'm actually trying
to be a little bit smarter so now i'm
just trying to get the most
flat surface possible
can actually try not oh i can use a
pencil
did you break it i broke up yes yeah
that sucks all right it's back to the
first one which is still better than the
other one
that just broke okay i've never been
challenged this way
in a better long time and i love
challenges i just really don't want to
break off this
seriously it's not that bad
all right i think this one is as far as
i can get it
let's what's another pin
okay
all right so three attempts
i feel like you could actually tell that
it says star wars
and uh i definitely feel that you should
be able to read that
but it's definitely not at that point
where the video is
and uh but let's see kind of like
where it going look at this mess that
i've created here
that just gives me a lot more respect
for what he's doing
salvation is an absolutely
genius in what he's doing trying out
three times what i've learned
is again the first attempt was the best
one the second one
looked to be better the space i got to
write on
was just a lot thicker here so i had a
lot more room to play around
the the parts are really hard to make is
really those small
tiny gaps and tiny holes the tools make
such a difference i'm not sure that
i got the right tools for that but man
this is fun this is really fun
i might do it again i still have so many
pencils left
to try out who knows maybe on instagram
you'll see me do another one
so let me know in the comments below if
you thought that i actually
nailed it please do if the video has
more thumbs down than ups
i will do a punishment and you guys get
to decide in the comments below so the
comment which has the most thumbs ups
the most likes
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we get a lot more challenges of these
coming up so
stay tuned i'm excited to see in the
next video alright bye guys
you
