this is basically the lorax but 1000x more epic (lol thank you for watching!)

@pinkinkNZ

3 ай бұрын

omg what XD

@happenedbychance3392

3 ай бұрын

Oh noo that means you're the onceler 😭😭😂

@jabiiis

3 ай бұрын

Reverse Lorax the green guy is good now

the medieval sponsorship was so silly 😭😭 great video !

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

heheh I had a lot of fun recording it!! thank you for watching!

@sambees7981

3 ай бұрын

@@sketchesofshay of course !!

CHARACTER DESIGN VIDEO WITH ANIMATIC INCLUDED??? Shay you're INSANE. This video must have taken a lot of work, I especially love the plant knight!

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

it did take a little more work than usual but it was so much fun and so creatively fulfilling! would love to do more vids like this.

@CactusRadish

3 ай бұрын

@@sketchesofshay Yes!!! Please! I've been loving your channel lately and the care and thought you put into everything really shows up! I personally don't mind waiting a little longer for this quality (as long as you don't burn yourself out, please take care). PSA: I'm fascinated plants also so I loved the plant biology lesson lol

no bc this video is so good,,,composition in the final illustration,,,the character designs,,,stevens plant lesson,,,the animatic,,,THE SPONSORSHIP. EXQUISITE VIDEO SHAY

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

THANK YOU!! ;-; that means so much to hear!!

The platycerium reminds me so much of "delicious dungeon" The moving armor

Already off the bat the illustrations and the artistry is all amazing

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

thank you so much!!

hearing 'Platycerium' on this channel felt like my worlds collided. i've only ever heard it come out of anotther youtuber, benjiplant's mouth, so i thought i was watching him for a split second

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

Steven and I watch a lot of benjiplant together!! would definitely love to include more planty inspired work on my channel 💖

as someone who loves greek mythology (and percy jackson), plants, and your art, this was the BEST!! i love the way you paint scenes with so much detail and beautiful colouring and it always inspires me to draw more!!

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

so happy you liked it!

WE NEED MORE STEVEN!!! I’ve known him for only one video but i already adore him- he is perfect non-human “human”

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

HE IS THE BEST we are already planning a follow up video once we work on more of the story hehe

The fact im at my greek myth era now Like im reading All the percy jackson books, song of Achillies, circe, anything from stephen fry, the odyssey and the Illiad I love your art and character design BTW💖

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

awesome! greek mythology is super interesting, happy you liked the video!

the lore was so enthralling! im so into how lively your sketches are. they're never static, every singe body looks as if it's in motion and it's so cool. professor steven's segment was much appreciated and genuinely impressive. i'm so into this lore, it's a bit ridiculous. not to mention, the prince's design is amazing

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

So happy you enjoyed the video critique!! 💖💖💖

god, i love how evident it is how much fun you had making this. that ad break was freaking hilarious

mini in the back with her sickles out, like she finna do some garden work on the prince 👊👊👊👊

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

LOLLL love that

Having a single prompt turn into a world full of lore is such a mood… the way your art and storytelling combines is really satisfying And congrats on 100k!! 🎉🎉🎉

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

thank you so so much!!

Your boyfriend info dumping about his favorite plant was so fun! This whole video is so inspiring and encouraging me to draw myself in fun situations more! I think a lot of us grew up during that time online where sonas and self-inserts were mocked, so I instinctively shy away from that. But you make it look so much fun, so it makes me want to re-embrace sonas. You are awesome!!

will you ever consider doing a in-depth video about your painting process? i'm looking into something that feels more tardiotional-esque for digital painting and i really love and enjoy watching your process! also now i really want make a knight chara as my next college assignment hahaha

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

Yes! I am currently working on a digital painting tutorial for the beginning of April! it has been a highly requested video for a while, can't wait to share it with you guys hehe

@luxie7772

3 ай бұрын

wow that's great!! can't wait to watch and (hopefully) learn how to enjoy digital painting as much as traditional

You and your boyfriend are the cutest things in recent times. Wonderful paintings throughout, Shay - a lot of work into this and we can tell.

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

kjhdlkfgjh thank you so much!! and thank you for noticing the work, I really want to make more vids like this but i definitely have to pace myself lol

I'm loving the storytelling on this video! The more story focused direction you mentioned wanting to take in your art really makes sense, since it fits you like a glove💜💜

This is my absolute favorite kind of content. Getting to see the process, hear a tantalizing story, and see some beautiful finished work to illustrate that narrative all in one video. Amazing work, keep it up this is so inspiring.

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

thank you so much! I'm so happy you enjoyed it!

I wanna LARP knights… This is so cool!!! I’m obsessed with character designs and yours look so realistic and soft yet powerful at the same time!! Also the animatic shots in between?? Love that! This story is so interesting as someone also slightly obsessed with Greek mythology (due to my two over obsessed friends) and this concept is awesome!! I recently made a knight character for a dnd campaign, their whole premise is that they were a fire elemental trapped in a suit of armor, and they’re now blindly serving the order of knights they came across (hence inhabiting the armor) when they escapes from the wizard school they were summoned in. And it’s become a joke that my character is a nightlight, because the fire shines through their armor. I also happened to acquire two items that made me glow… and became glow cubed.. it was really funny, I only got to keep one of the items so I’m glow squared, and the best knightlight around :D (I can never be stealthy though, ever.)

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

that sounds like such a fun idea!! love the nightlight idea hehe

I love this idea so much and I hope you’ll do more stuff like this and with your characters! Seeing other artists create worlds/ characters or personas really makes me want to expand on my own story! I love your knight design it’s super awesome and the story behind it is just *chefs kiss

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

heheh thank you so much! these style of videos defintely take a little more planning and work than my usual style but I really love doing them! more to come soon

THIS WAS SO COOL!! i love the reference to the green knight and to mirkwood, the platycerium and the whole idea of a guardian of the forest reminds me of thranduil and now i wanna draw him AHAHA

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

LOVE thranduil! one of my most favorite middle earth characters

I'm loving this new style of video ❤

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

heheh yay! I really enjoyed making this style of video :3

it's always so impressive to see how thorough you go with character design! 😮

you dont know how much i love you, your art and your videos!!

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

kjdbfgkjsdfg ;-;

o mighty ox lady and cabbage lord!!! fr tho it's so cool that I found this channel just as I'm getting into building my own world and creating my self insert knight in it. VERY COOL! loved this video!

i absolutely LOVED this video omg the lore, the designs, plant class, the colors, the animation, the poses....EVERYTHING. and as a beginner artist, this is really inspiring! (brazilian artist heeree)

Thank you so much for sharing all your process for creating characters and their world! The story and the knights look amazing hope you share more of them in the future😊

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

planning a follow up video now! should be coming out sometime this summer hehe

@princelujan

3 ай бұрын

@@sketchesofshay oh those are awesome news!!! Thank you so much for all the awesome content that you share with us

Amazing video! Its awesome to see more of your thoughts and the story telling behind your character designs, which are amazing as always! I am more of a sci-fi guy but this is totally making want to make a knightsona haha! Also always love when you and steven collab! Staghorn ferns are my FAVE plants and I am trying my best not to fill an entire wall with them haha. Was totally geeking along with him hehe

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

so happy you enjoyed the video caelan! and good to know I have fellow plant enjoyers in our community ! platyceriums ftw

You always make me so inspired to make art ! :D

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

that makes me so happy ! glad my videos inspire you

i love tuning off and listening to your videos, they're my music 💯

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

aww I am honored to be your podcast!

I’ve recently been on an extreme Star Wars and lotr kick, they were my favourite franchises as a child and even now, you’ve inspired me to possibly look into making some new character designs, your character designs are always so beautiful and interesting

So excited for it to come out

I love the intricate details that went into the designs, the lore, and the story.

Can i ask what themes you usually draw? I like character design but some times i lack ideas when i want to relax drawing on my sketchbook

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

i mostly do a lot of fantasy character art, specifically digital and traditional painting.

It's so gorgeous! I'm 100 percent gonna draw both the minnotaur knight and the platycerium prince!

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

DUDE SOFIE if you do that i will scream edit: so happy you like their designs!

OMG CONGRATS FOR 100K !! i just saw it im saur happy for you

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

thank you so much!! I really appreciate it!!

I LOVE THE STORY!! your drawings, videos and characters inspire me so much, thank you for share your beautifull art!! 🥺💕💖💕💖💕

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

thank you so much for watching! I am so happy you liked it :)

Your videos are so amazing and have been such a big inspiration in my recent goal to get back into drawing and improve on my skills. Absolutely love the idea of a knight-sona and now will have to make one for myself lol

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

YAY have fun making your own knightsona!

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH! I love watching your art, inspires me so much! Watching your art also helps me a lot, thank you for that!

Thank you so much for sharing the process of creation, it is really interesting and the video itself is so well made ! (thank you Steven for the botanical part ! ♥)

I am and will always be a greek mythology kid. Legit basing my chosen name off of the story of icarus and the sun (minotaur is in that story as well!) i EAT UP greek legends and myths and cannot get enough. Loved the video and loved your take on the minotaur ‼️‼️ also glad to see another taurus ♉️

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

TAURUS !! lets goooo lol thank you! I find so much inspiration from greek mythology so happy to know you guys feel the same

AUGHH i LOVE this video. I love the world building and character building along with it, it really sets the scene and world. Love these two goobers :333

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

YAY the worldbuilding was SO much fun, I am so happy you liked it too!

WOW, I AM REALLY IMPRESSED . I love your artwork, this is amazing

AAA IM SO EXCITED FOR THIS I LOVE OCS SO MUCH

I love your designing videos! The art you make is compelling to me!

PLATYCERIUM MENTION(peak life form)🙌🙌🎉🎉🎉🙏

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

YEAH BOYYYY

i love you art you posting makes me so happy 😭😭

This is beautiful! I can’t wait to see more!!🎉

THIS IS SO COOL AHHH!!! The visuals along with the story is soooo goood!! Keep it up❤

I’ve been super excited for this video! 💕

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

yay! I am happy it's finally released to the world :)

congrats on 100K! Always happy to draw along with your videos

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

thank you so much!! AND YES working on finding a time to film and fit it into my video schedule. should be coming in May sometime!

LOVEE THE LORE AND WORLDBUILDING (love ur art style :3 )

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

hehe thank you so much! I am so happy you enjoyed it!

This is magical i love this

Oh no Ruby ate my paper on Platycerium, can I get an extension? 🥺 such an awesome video, loved every detail you guys included in these characters! Can’t wait to see more of them!!! Also also congratulations on 100k!!!

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

I guess🙄... LOL so happy you liked the video sara!! and thank you!

This was SUCH a fun video !! 💕

The story seems so interesting and i loved the character designs the medieval ad read was the cherry on top this amazing vid 🌿

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

hehe happy you liked the ad read! trying to keep things fun~

I love how you're getting more comfortable with content creation and making these fun videos

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

I definitely feel like I'm coming out of my shell more and it feels great! and makes video creation a lot more fun hehe

THIS IS SO AWESOME!! The painting is beautiful too 🤩

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

thank you so much!!

what an incredible design!!!!

i might make a knight oc just to practice different elements of clothing and this video is a fun watch for inspo! another great video

This is amazing!!

ahhh this is so sick!!!!! the plant lesson was also my favorite part lol

CANT WAITTT >:D

U truly never stop amazing me 😭

Been watching your videos while sick and all your videos have been so inspiring I have just been BURNING to grab a pen myself!! Loved this video especially, I'm really interested in storytelling through my art and ocs but have been feeling restricted by my skills,, this really inspires me to practise more and more and not give up!! THANK YOU for rekindling my spark for drawing 🌟💐🌿

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

so happy you're feeling inspired! get well soon

SURPER COOL story. I just want more of the story it's amazing. And I got inspired at the beginning of the video to create my own knight sona(I will hopefully post on Instagram and hopefully tag you in it so you can see it) but WOW I love the whole Lore of Minni and the Prince. I love how this was such a unique video compared to how you usually make your videos it was quite fun. But any way I do hope you have a wonderful weekend. It's super sunny today(at least up in NY I don't know how the weather is in Florida) enjoy the nice weather and the closing of winter!❤

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

thank you so much ember for joining the live, it was great chatting! also YES will be planning a follow up video. can't wait to see your own knight!

@speckledblender5495

3 ай бұрын

@sketchesofshay so I found out that if your Instagram account is on private(which mine is) I can't tag people unless they are my followers. I want you to see the knight but I don't want to make you follow me. Just letting you know. Hope you have a wonderful day.

0:40 the story of a nation rejecting an infinit resources glitch...(nah seriously our planet needs that)

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

I would like to think that whatever the nation tries to use, it vanishes back to the forest! follows the rules of matter not being able to be created or destroyed

@impracticalstuffk.d9577

3 ай бұрын

@@sketchesofshay that would be better . I actually like your writing skills , it was a pretty good idea to begin with and I would like to see you expand from that . Even if it is a fantasy universe for you and your boyfriend ✨️ (ngl that legit couple goals)

This is an amazing video also I love there designs they look amazing :)

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

thank you so much ! and thank you for watching!

I want more Lore 😭 (love your video💕🍃)

if everyone did their sponsorships like this I would never skip them, ever.

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

I’m hoping to be more creative like this with sponsors in the future! Fun for me and better from a viewer perspective. Sometimes it is difficult because some brands are very strict but the best brands trust their creators to do fun stuff like this hehe

Whenever you make these type of videos it always makes me wanna do similar OCs

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

hehe i defintely recommend making your own knight! it's so much fun!

holy freak you're a master. i've had this frame paused for the last 5 minutes 19:24

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

🥺💖💖💖

these characters are insanely inspiring, i would love to do an illustration of them in battle!

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

djfhgdf that would be so cool! I definitely plan on doing a battle scene myself but I would love to see other people's take!

I love the oc Videos it's so fun! I'm gonna start a weekly illustration series as soon as my finals are over! I REALLY hope i can actually keep it consistent:)

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

YAY weekly illustrations are so much fun! keep it small and build your way up, you got this!

love ur bfs plant rant, very interesting to learn about

Looove your designs and stories, it's so great and inspiring! Also I hope it's an enemies to lovers story🤭❤

Hehehe this video made me laugh so much because of your sponsor section!! :D You also put so much foreshadowing for future videos, anddd I love the design!!

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

yay! I really wanted to get more creative and fun with my sponsors ! and yeah! bunch of fun videos coming up that take a lot of planning, I love sprinkling in teasers hehe

this is baking be want to do a version with my partner and our cat included somewhere 🤔

literally just here to giggle at hannibal amd jeremy allen white mentioned

i love it i need to make a knight sona

The plant knight, for any one who watches adventure time, he kind of reminds me of fern when he becomes a knight if you know what I mean

Babe wake up! Shay just uploaded a new video. Jokes asideeee your vids are my new obsession 😭

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

heheh yay! so happy you like them!

I love your videos :D

Love the videoo ❤❤❤

Had To stop my Cart for the sponsor break😮‍💨 good tales salesman, i shall take your Advertisement scroll with me

What brushes do u use I’ve been trying to find good brushes for more painted styles.

I'm just gonna start scrolling through your veidos since the fix all my problems

Oml how do you draw scenes with the correct perspective?!?!

@sketchesofshay

2 ай бұрын

perspective grids and tools in clip studio paint!! I still struggle a lot with perspective but that's what's been helping me :)

@lightningxwave

2 ай бұрын

TYSM!!! i'll be sure to try it out

I CLICKED SO FAST!! WOOOO KNIGHTS!

Yessssss

amazing amazing video!! i just want to let you know if you arent aware, "Fantasy Forged Creations" whom you linked in the description is actually Ai :( i know you only touched on them briefly, but i just wanted to bring it to your attention :)

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

Just double checked and you are completely right! Omg I thought I caught all the ai art (unfortunately there was so much as I was looking for references) but thank you for pointing that out!! Extremely frustrating, I will be clipping them from the video as well.

WOOOOO

Hannibal video when⁉️⁉️🙏

Ngl nose ring king was kind of a hottie

2:40 yoooo I’m a Taurus too!

Hannibal yas!!! ❤❤❤

so i was supposed to find out we share the fav game (Hades the game my beloved) and you like homestuck too (AND you like my fav beta troll) from a random knightsona video? (i love you)

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

what drawing program do you use??? :000000

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

i used clip studio paint and procreate for this video!

@pokepoke1889

3 ай бұрын

@@sketchesofshay holy molly gotta get my stringy lil' hands on both of those because your art is so good!

HOMESTUCK MENTIONED YIPPEEEEE!!!!

@sketchesofshay

3 ай бұрын

HEHEHE can't wait to work on my upcoming homestuck video hehe

@carcinogeneticicist

3 ай бұрын

@@sketchesofshay I swear I will be there on premiere I'm so excited xoDD!!