Mic Check - My Very First Drawing On DLive!!

This is crazy, really, this time last year the only pencil I was familiar with was a yellow No.2. This recording process though, my goodness gracious! I’m only a few weeks in and all I can say is.... I’m only a few weeks in!! The employees at the local electronics store used to be real friendly and greet me when I entered: “Hi, can I help you find something?” Not anymore. I can’t seem to find anyone who works there now and the times I do they say “I’m sorry, this isn’t my department.”

My good friend @theruggle and I are working together on these DLive drawings. I say good friend but we all have those, right? He’s a little bit more than that, his parents are my ‘good friends.’ I’ve known him 17 of his 25 years. He was just a little kid the first time they brought him to my place to see if he was interested in the turntables. I worked with him as often as I could, whenever his parents had the opportunity to bring him to my place, we’d get in some practice time. Then they relocated to the other side of the country. He’s been on the music gas pedal ever since. I helped his parents once when they got him a surprise gift - His first set of turntables. Now he’s surrounded by keys, synthesizers, all kinds of drum pads, computers, those old turntables and whatever else you can think of to produce music. He took music to places I never considered thinking about. That goes for fatherhood, too, actually. Hey @theruggle: Congratulations my friend, he’s perfect! All you have to do is what our donors did not. 👍🏿

I spent three hours drawing this microphone. I would record, send the data across the country, remove that data from the SD Card, repeat. Once the data was sent, @theruggle crunched three hours into three minutes. Don’t ask me how! I just do The ArtSworK

We spent quite a few hours bouncing files back and forth figuring out the process, surely we’ll get better. I messed up during the last 30 minutes of the drawing, danget!! I’m still pretty pissed about that one. Just before I started drawing the handle, I used a white gel pen to do some highlights on the left side of the microphone. I stopped the recording when I switched to that pen specifically to show ya’all the gel pen trick. When I started recording again, I guess I clicked ‘Loop’ instead of ‘Video’ on the camera. Danget - Fool me once, shame on me! (If anyone knows the purpose of a Loop option on a GoPro, please tell me in the comment section, thank you.) You’ll see the skip at the last 10 seconds of the video, sorry about that! The music is original, too - Original music produced by @theruggle. You read that correctly, my video guy is also my sound guy. I mean my sound guy is also my video guy. This is our very first take though, no do overs, we went with attempt number one - I think that’s worth noting.

One of these days my wife and I are hoping to locate a desk for me. Right now I’m using a TV tray for these drawings. One of those unfold, eat a sandwich on it, fold it back up tray’s. Stability is at an all-time low! ⭕️ I’m not complaining though, check out all these gadgets we have now!

And a light - I don’t have to stop drawing when the sun goes down anymore.

This conversation is being recorded for quality training purposes only.

Thank you for being exactly where you are right now, we're building this Steemit community together, so far so great! On that note, push play and turn it up. Happy Monday ya'all!

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