This video is brought to you by Squarespace.
The online platform to build a beautiful online presence and run your business.
Hello everybody, and welcome to another episode of:
My god, I need a haircut.
Last year I created a video where I redrew artwork from the second grade and this year we are going to be redrawing artwork from the third grade!
And we just get to start off right away with whatever this cover portfolio decoration is.
So lets get into it!
Today we are redrawing my third grade art.
Okay. Let's just examine the porfolio decoration here.
We have, of course, my name spelt out in front of it and I have decorated the letters to look like characters.
So I don't know. Maybe this is me. It's just a gir with brown hair and shoes.
This character reminds me of someone from a cartoon. I can't quite put my finger on it.
It kind of just looks like the mom from rugrats had a baby with like, I don't know, Krusty the clown.
We've got this round fellow doing some meditation.
A baby.
And then you gotta love this bowler hat with a feather and a lovely black dress.
I mean Kasey was ahead of her time from the third grade.
I think we need to bring back men in fancy dresses and bowler hats.
That's all im saying.
So ignoring the fact that this portfolio is actually upside down,
That's a big woops from third grade me.
Let's take a peek.
So the first thing we have in here are a couple of awards.
We have "Art student of the year, Kasey Golden. For showing unusual creative and determination in the art class."
I wonder what that determination means.
I was determined to do something.
Now I have to add, that is a lovely sap green color that my name was written in.
Love that.
And there is another award here.
We have "Certificate of award Kasey Golden. Most easy going."
I don't think this is art related but, you guys, I was the most easy going.
I mean...
Wow.
Okay. Let's get into some art.
Our first thing here seems to be a collage.
I do love the textures.
I do love the variety of colors and...
I don't know.
Maybe that's something we can turn into something fun in my current style!
Let's move on.
Okay, here's something.
We've got a- a very interesting looking tree.
I wonder what sort of tree has such a big tall... stumpy bit and five branches coming out the top.
Kind of interesting.
Honestly something maybe to play around with
and we've got a little flower character.
Maybe we can play around with that flower character.
And is that a rainbow sun?
Or is that a reverse rainbow?
What is happening up there?
Honestly this is kind of inspiring.
I feel like I could even represent space or something?
Something to keep in mind.
Moving on to this scene of a garden that I'm now seeing that I restarted from the back of this page.
We have some plants and a butterfly and the sun hanging out and having a chat?
The daisy says "Yeah!"
The rose says "Oh great."
The tulip says "Mmmm!"
And the butterfly says "OOOohh flowers!"
Uhh..
I don't even know what to say.
I mean, who knows.
Moving on, we have another interesting styled tree with our reversed rainbow,
But this time we have a bird that is absolutely sky diving for a worm.
And I kind of love that.
It's kind of fun.
It shows maybe there is a story there....
I- I do like how the bird's face is smudged on accident.
It kind of creates this sort of unintentional creepy aspect to this art.
But in general...
I just noticed that the worm is just- looks like a weird limp noodle thing.
That's all I'm saying about that.
Either way it looks like we're going to be creating some sort of a scene with a tree at some point today.
Oh my gosh, okay.
So this is definitely like a coloring page or something.
This is just terrifying.
Is this where my  most creativity award came from?
Because... wow.
Oh-
Oh boy.
You guys we have an update on my self portrait skills
And to be honest I think I prefer my second grade self portrait because oh my gosh.
My eyeballs have moved together.
This is absolutely hilarious and to be honest this is way too accurate for today as well.
Have I changed in the past 20 years?
Oh my word.
Wait!
Why is there another bird diving for a worm?
And the obsession with this strange style of tree!
I would say we do need to recreate this self portrait but we did a self portrait in the last video.
Though...
I didn't really do it in the same style as far as just like our face goes.
And there is that skydiving bird and that weird tree.
Something to consider.
Moving on to some more abstract art which I don't know which way this goes.
Oh my gosh. We have discovered a secret drawing on the back.
Alright. So on the back of this piece we have this terrifying stick figure with long hair and it says 
"I'm stupid. Hee! Hee! Ho! Ho!"
Seriously, what has changed in the past 20 years?
Nothing.
We've got some more abstract art here.
It looks like we were playing around with patterns.
Moving on to another abstract piece.
I don't know what the assignments were for these pieces of art.
I don't know if I was going through a very experimental phase
or maybe the art teacher herself was giving out weird abstract art assignments. I don't know.
But here is yet another abstract interesting design.
I have to wonder if there is  anything to be found in this piece.
I have no idea.
Okay!
What is this?
I don't know what this is.
We have "Women's 14-k Gold Watch.
"Then $39.95
Now $300.00"
I don't get it.
Okay, creepy.
Next up we have this, what looks like some sort of-
Oh is that my name?
Yep! That's my name.
So it looks like maybe we cut out our names and then had them folded over so you get this thing.
Then you create something out of your name.
So it looks like I created this creepy monster with a mouth and eyes
and I don't know what's happening.
I mean, this thing is just nightmare fuel.
but
that aside, we have that weird looking tree again.
And you know the sun is always happy.
And we just got this creepy monster
that I don't even know if I want to recreate because this video could go in a very weird direction.
It look's like this is our last big piece until we move on to more personal doodles.
This is a bird that has been cut out from what feels like wallpaper, which is very interesting.
So... I created a bird with lot's of wallpaper patterns.
But here's our wallpaper bird.
Just random lines and shading. I don't know what's happening.
What was goinng on in this class?
I don't-
Okay. Alright.
So our last two actual drawings, we have the spice girls.
So this is a drawing of Baby Spice fro the Spice Girls
She was my favorite spice girl, so I can tell that's her because she's got those tall shoes,
little dress,
pigtails.
That is definitely Baby Spice.
And we've also got a drawing of Scary Spice.
So this is Scary Spice being very angry and kicking and...
there's that weird tree again.
So these are our final drawings.
We have some Spice Girls.
But I don't think I want to focus on the Spice Girls in this video.
I wan't to create something definitely with that creepy tree that keeps popping up in a lot of these pieces.
Maybe the diving bird.
Maybe the wallpaper bird.
I'm going to think about it and then we're gonna get to creating.
So let's get into it!
[Music]
So like I mentioned, I had to redraw that weird creepy tree
because for what ever reason I guess I was going through a phase where I was drawing trees in that way.
And for what ever reason it just kind of gives me the creeps.
Something about it being very thick at the bottom but then having these very sad looking branches come off the top of it
just looks kind of creepy to me.
So I knew I had to draw that tree in some form of fashion and because it reappears in so many pieces of work,
it actually made it really easy to combine different pieces.
So I thought this sky diving bird for work, which again, appeared in multiple pieces
worked really well  with the flower that was next to the tree.
So I thought it would be really fun to put these two ideas together where maybe this flower is watching this bird skydive for a worm.
And this flower is actually pals with these worms so she is watching in horror as one o f her friends is about to be eaten
and she is standing next to this tree where I have a bunch of worms
and there is even a worm coming out of the tree because at one point the tree was drawn with a big hole in it
because that - I don't know why but that has become quite a classic way to draw trees.
So overall this one is pretty simple but I had to think about the layout of this illustration
because as a kid all of my illustrations are just straight on characters at the very bottom of the page
a line of grass and just everything's very flat.
And although my art style right now  isn't the most 3D  and background driven,
I did want to make sure that I did incorporate some sort of background-ish element.
But also include that weird negative space I like to play around with.
So we have the foreground where our main characters are,
the midground has no background, just holes and a worm and a bird.
Which I thought was kind of cool because it really drives your eye to that focal point.
And then to repeat the element of this grassy hill in the foreground, I stuck another one in the background where I was going to put the rainbow
but I completely forgot about the rainbow until the very very absolute end when I thought I was finished.
So I just kind of threw a normal rainbow in.
I was really hoping to do something a little bit more creative and interesting with the rainbow
because it was just kind of odd looking the way it's so circular in the corner,
but in the end I just kind of threw it in.
And that is our strange tree with worms and bird diving illustration.
[Music]
So even though I did redraw the self portait fro the previous video where I redrew my second grade art,
I thought I would actually tackle this illustration a little bit more true to the redraw.
I added a lot of extras in the last video,
So in this one I want to stick to that classic format of a portrait where it is just the shoulders up.
Just me, my face, no birds diving in the background.
No creepy trees.
And this time I wanted to actually use Posca Pens.
In these redraws I've mainly been focusing with watercolor because that is my main, I guess, medium to work with.
But I have never used Posca pens in these videos and I thought it would be really fun to see  how I work in comparison.
Especially because with my third grade art version I think I was using some sort of thicker paint substance
So posca pens are definitely a lot closer in medium when it comes to that paint.
So I really wanted to see what this looked like with posca pens.
I haven't drawn myself in a while so I thought I'd get a little self absorbed. Why not?
So obviously my style has changed quite a bit since the third grade.
And even if you go through some of my past videos where I've drawn my self portraits,
the way that I draw not only myself but humans in general has changed over time.
That happens with art.
My current obsession is putting both eyeballs on the same side of the face.
And it seems like every time I do this they drift farther and farther to the side of the head.
Which honestly, I think it is a really cute look. I really enjoy it.
And hey.  Did you see those eyes in the self portrait my third grade self did?
Those eyes were very close together as well.
So it's kind of suiting that they kind of fit in that way.
Also my goodness I need a haircut.
My hair is too long.
Maybe one day.
For now it's just a funny detail that just makes my current self and illustration look that much closer to my third grade version.
Anyways. Here is our self portrait using posca pens.
[Music]
For our third and final redraw I wanted to tackle  that weird bird that was, I can only assume created with pieces of wallpaper
that our art teacher cut out herself and then we assembled.
I can only assume that is what happened here.
I also just think it's very strange that we used wallpaper
but I thought this would actually be a really good opportunity to use washi tape!
If you are familiar with my videos you already know that I actually create art using washi tape from time to time.
I don't know why.
It's just kind of different and interesting and  fun to work with.
Yes, I could have used scrap book paper to recreate this bird that was definitely an option
but I have a lot more variety when it comes to patterns and textures and fun things with washi tape.
And washi tape is just something that is really me these days.
So I thought this was definitely more suiting than using paper.
Funny enough I actually had some textures of washi tape that was really similar to the original bird
so for the body I used that overlapping circular pattern but I kind of changed the direction it was going.
In the original I have the circles facing upwards, but to more represent feathers I have the circles going downwards
which I think really helps to give this bird a more feathery look.
And when it came to the patterns of the rest of the bird, I guess just the tail and the head
I just kind of grabbed what I had.
This bird was very strange to recreate.
And I did want to stick a little bit to the original design but also kind of give my spin that I would, you know,
create it how I would these days.
Did that sentence make sense?
Especially when it came to the stylization of birds, because I really stylize birds
and especially when it came to the eye of the bird I was originally going to make it a circle
but then I thought I would make it a little bit more slanty to, I guess, better represent the original almond eye-ish bird look.
Either way this was a very strange one but I still had a lot of fun.
It is our washi tape bird!
[Music]
And what better place to show my improvement over the past 20 years than my own website using, of course,
Squarespace!
Now obviously I would display this on my own portfolio using one of their designs which are very sleek and wonderful.
You know, with that automatic image scaling.
You know, using that easy importing from Twitter or Instagram.
Now if you haven't noticed, I've actually revamped my own website and moving my shop
and I didn't even have to use the 24/7 email support.
Which I'm sure is very useful.
Head to Squarespace.com for a free trial and when you are ready to launch
go to Squarespace.com/Kaseygolden to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain.
Thank you so much to Squarespace for sponsoring this video!
And that is it for redrawing my third grade art!
I hope you guys had fun flipping through this weird art phase of mine I guess.
And of course redrawing the art.
I had a lot of fun with that.
So thank you guys so much for watching and I will see you in the next video!
Stay Golden! Bye!
[Music]
