Redrawing Famous Surrealist Art Using Only a Description

[@leopoldbloom4296]

Host: Julia. Topic: Surrealism. Method: Descriptions. You couldn't make a more perfect setup in a lab.

[@DoveJS]

Yup!

[@GIOtotheVANNI]

Right??? Julia was in her element as host for this challenge. Her power was raw.

[@mndjoy]

Julia: *sighs* HERE'S THE THING....

[@PankoBreadcrumbs]

This is specifically for David for that spinning rhinoceros in front of Katy Perry in the intro, thank you so much

[@grammar_ash]

yes yes yes!!!

[@Vee_of_the_Weald]

David doesn’t do the editing any longer. He’s just had a baby and is on paternity leave

[@seriesx13]

​@@Vee_of_the_Weald They've been back for a week or two now

[@rogercameron6912]

I'VE GOT THE EYE OF THE RHINO 🎵

[@nokitadokuhebi8991]

gotta... make it.... 5 in the comments too...

[@Ffurea]

They let Julia cook with this one

[@iamnoone21]

We're eating good today

[@sleepytimetaquito]

As we have learned from yam stew we should never let Julia cook

[@Dr.Deagle.]

No eggs tho

[@EJ_2091]

I'm so glad she's in this episode. It's perfect for her 😂😂😂

[@Lokear]

​@@EJ_2091 I mean, it was her idea, and she picked them... so yeah, I sure hope she's in it lol

[@brittanyrainbow1976]

"I'm a little confused but Imma let you cook" is the exact energy I desperately want to find in a partner

[@Chet_Thornbushel]

With most KZbin videos I try to avoid the comment section until after I’ve watched to avoid spoilers. But I have found with Drawfee that it literally doesn’t matter, there is no level of comment-reading that can even come close to encapsulating what I might see.

[@itsDaedrin]

A person named @theslimjames commented "It's crazy how Nathan kept asking if the rhino was big, then Jacob asked if the horn scale was standard.". It's explicitly descriptive to what had happened but somehow it didn't spoil a damned thing.

[@Nortarachanges]

Drawfee operates at a reliable level of uncontextable at all times. It’s comforting ^_^

[@weirdroadkill]

Nathan’s incredible comeback from “is the nose big” with all the helpful questions today

[@HelloThere-cz9ti]

Yeah, I was impressed by his development. He went through a villain ark in the episode of drawing faces

[@Obsessor23]

Suggestion; Take Drawfee characters ( i.e. Stein, Dahlia, Piss Boy, Jacobhorse etc.) and draw them as if you used a Neopets paintbrush on them

[@avatarjk137]

Oh yeah! Like a Spooky Todd From Mario, a Festive Merobiba, or a Mutant Jacob Horse!

[@cassielynn7074]

Ooh what a good idea!

[@uuh4yj43]

dooo thissss

[@Pebble-With-a-Pen]

PLEASE YES

[@rileyledyard4350]

You have my vote, and comment for engagement and metrics.

[@chriswest6988]

In describing the second scene Julia repeatedly says he's coming around the "outside corner" of the building, and even responds to "he's coming around the corner?" by specifying "yeah, the outside corner." Trying to imagine someone coming around a non-outside corner of a building messed up my brain more than any of the images.

[@maddieb.4282]

Hallway

[@HazeEmry]

​@@maddieb.4282double corners damns

[@thebadpoet]

I think she meant the corner farthest from the viewer. Inside- closer, outside- farther away.

[@recurvestickerdragon]

imagine it's an L-shaped hallway if the second fella was teetering so much he skidded and crashed bodily into the far corner before turning and setting off once more. he came around the outside corner, the far walls.

[@scorpinope]

artworks referenced in this ep: *The Spirit of Geometry* by René Magritte page from *Oedipus (Oedipe), Volume IV* by Max Ernst *Untitled* by Leonora Carrington (easier to find if you search for her name + sketch/ink/pen) artworks shown but not redrawn: *The art of living* by René Magritte (big ol' ball head) *Todd from Mario* by Julia Lepetit (todd from mario) *Portrait of Max Ernst* by Leonora Carrington (guy in a thneed holding a horse spirit)

[@maddieb.4282]

Thank you!! I needed this in the description

[@clararose1795]

“Guy in a thneed holding a horse spirit” is such a wild sentence.

[@sydneymitrecic]

You are a hero of the people my friend

[@UekawaOhira]

THanks for the Todd From Mario credit!

[@lark7655]

the one thats untitled really does sell it for me that it was not intended to be a full piece but was just a "imma draw some little freaks, oh this head is cool i need to finish that later"

[@finneganfahey7931]

Wow I cant believe that Magritte painted Bobby Hill first

[@llewellynting4001]

Jacob's piece vibes like a gooseberry fool that was translated into a new human body

[@LockheedLazar]

i still think about the gooseberry fool several times a week

[@shylleth]

Gooseberry fool... but long?

[@DoveJS]

That was my first thought too lol I'm so glad though it turned out great!

[@maggien8430]

Not a gooseberry fool, but a gooseberry sage

[@Sayne7]

So we know Karina isn't an AI, but Julia refusing to elaborate further on "a human amount of fingers" worries me lmao

[@mjamin9124]

looking at people i've actually met- so anything from 0 to fuckton yeah sure that narrows it down

[@Sayne7]

@@mjamin9124 I was thinking 5 or less on each hand but yeah that's true, there are some people with extra digits, albeit rare

[@mononoke_hime_ham]

This is too real lololol

[@les_larmes_d_un_hibou]

​​@@mjamin9124you've met people with absolutely no fingers? (forgot the english word for them feet fingers is TOES. oh god)

[@mjamin9124]

@@les_larmes_d_un_hibou to be fair he didn't have two full arms either

[@juliacalhoun9491]

Gotta say, Karina's muttered "Furby furry?" took years off my life and I am now haunted.

[@jedisalamander2457]

It's a real thing

[@hel117]

furby fursuits exist

[@apofid]

@@hel117 that's terrifying

[@twigs_and_branches]

furbsuit

[@ThornShadowWolf]

I know some furby furries (for the record, I am also a furry, and on some of the stranger or more niche sides of furrydom (such as sparkledog and weirdfur), so by no means are my acquaintances representative of proportionally how many furby furries there are)

[@kristenthacker5762]

the combination of Julia being the one to describe the paintings, and the paintings themselves being surreal is such a good combo. Like I looked up the spirit of geometry and Yeah I can see what she meant by rose shaped sleeves but that is definitly NOT how I would describe it. Should be fun to see how it intensifies as the surrealness increasses :)

[@thebadpoet]

It’s 100% a black rose which unspools into the rest of the top. Rose sleeve is exactly how I would describe it!

[@tortillachips3911]

​@@thebadpoet and you would def be correct, but I would never describe it that way either lol 😅

[@metal-fletch6186]

Her noodle is so twisted up, not even the surrealist input is safe. It's like the thoughts themselves are on acid, each having a different trip yet trying to help each other complete a sentence.

[@javagirl98]

Concept: an episode where Nathan is forced to draw high-fashion outfits based on description.

[@andreas_iced8297]

He’s a Jobro, he could do it

[@javanmonroe6064]

Can you do a “Reinterpreting classical art pieces” like Karina did in the episode where y’all redrew “Dante and Virgil”

[@TofuDinoNugs]

Did you see the speed draw of them doing that? It was really good!

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

Karina would turn dante into a femboy

[@reyrex4938]

Sometimes I forget Drawfee is it’s own language but then Julia gives a description and it’s jarringly apparent

[@CatbaronAle]

I would love a tape of Julia describing surrealist paintings. Gentle nightmare fuel to help you sleep. Her descriptions are so soothing despite the horrors within.

[@tairneanaich]

I’m an archaeologist and a lot of field work is you sitting and digging, so I listen to a lot of music/podcasts/audiobooks, and I did also think that Julia just goin on about surealism would make an excelent way to pass the time lol

[@CatbaronAle]

@@tairneanaich that’s so badass and cool!!!

[@Notbatman374]

You awake speaking in dead languages

[@retro2damax]

​@@tairneanaich 😂😢😢😢❤😂😅🎉😊😢🎉😅😅❤❤😅

[@retro2damax]

​@@tairneanaich 😂😢❤😅

[@VegasValentineMusic]

When I met the Drawfee gang at Mocca art fest, I told them all how their attitude towards deleting/starting over was really refreshing to experience as a viewer and as a fellow artist. Karina replied with "are we an art movemennnnnnt?" Thus draw-draw-ism was founded

[@thesuccessfulone]

I attribute Drawfee's success to their welcoming introduction, and a hearty apology outroduction.

[@saamyohalder]

The word outroduction just doesn't sit right with me

[@Vee_of_the_Weald]

I think the exit bit is called an “Altro” but don’t quite me on this

[@NamelessShade]

@@Vee_of_the_Wealdisn‘t it outro? (English is not my first language so I could be way off)

[@porguinturtle3854]

@@Vee_of_the_Weald isn’t that a musical instrument?

[@thesuccessfulone]

@@saamyohalder Snilk

[@BlockDefender]

the actual fact that karina's was so accurate is insane

[@killermenpl9619]

You know the episode will be a banger when it's almost an hour long

[@clemclemclem-1]

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[@swag_tortoise]

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[@wellox8856]

%

[@lav-kitty]

I was missing one of those

[@swag_tortoise]

i was kinda hoping that everyone would reply with different math symbols but in retrospect that was kind of an outlandish expectation edit: thanks for playing along everyone

[@eric1393]

Jacob going "HOW ARE YOU FEELING TODAY?" very direct and deadpan in the intro instead of letting Nathan launch off into a bit is very funny to me. Big "we can't go off the rails this early gang" energy.

[@caesarsalad77]

That fact that everyone ignored Jacob's "I'd ride that...if you catch my drift..." in response to the concept of a Pingu Chocobo is baffling to me.

[@DotknacCieXx]

'we're all just trying to make the best of the situation, so... Coochie coo' - Savage Nathan, a.d. 2023 🤣❤️

[@mab06f]

SUGGESTION: Try recreating old wild political cartoons (Think a walrus dancing on clowns holding bags of money stuff) based on Julia's descriptions and cant say any animal names.

[@DullPoints]

That's a very clever idea!

[@pippinforrest66]

PLEASE DEAR GOD YES

[@freyjablue.]

BOOST

[@aceofspades3923]

yes

[@mab06f]

@@DullPoints get active copy and paste and spam till they see!

[@massminer2343]

Now I'm thinking of what would happen if y'all have each other cropped classical paintings and they had to finish them

[@nyxnotnicks]

as a-bug so below. I love these drawings so much! Nathan's perfect baby face, Jacob's excellent running birds, and Karina's relly good bird with tongue will live on in my heart

[@mindofanidiot1]

I cannot be convinced that the first drawing is not a symbolism for death

[@grammar_ash]

That's so deep....like, symbolism for growing old and helpless while your children and grandchildren blunder around trying to take care of you?

[@Cheezbuckets]

The spirit of geometry is death? Sounds legit! 😂

[@shortinsomniac76]

I was thinking of god and humanity becouse its clearlly a dicotomy, and god depends on humans but is frustrated with what we do with our free will edit: also the reference to statues of mary with baby jesus

[@mindofanidiot1]

@@grammar_ash it’s like sooooo deeep man, I thought more of like the baby head is the representation of death and the flowers on the outfit is like how we make death out to be fun and silly so we don’t fear it and the man being held is a man dying and being grasped by the cold, fat baby hands of death and the curtain is the entrance to the realm of death

[@dado__]

From reading the original title was "Maternity" so I'm on the side of it being that but I can definitely see that being a life/death cycle thing.

[@joshaconnor]

favorite line: (monotone voice) "we're all just trying to make the best of the situation, so ... coochie coo."

[@isa_bean]

well drawfee is pretty much just auditory surrealism so this fits perfectly

[@danielled8665]

I would argue that their jacobhorse is in fact some surreal merch.

[@iamnoone21]

Just wanna comment on how good those hand shapes are on Jacob's birdmen

[@connorletkeman3539]

Complete with a human amount of fingers

[@llewellynting4001]

They should use a random action generator and draw Joy and/or Olive doing it. Personification thingy.

[@ready2cry]

oh this would be an AMAZING prompt for the twitch streams!!! i would love to see it.

[@2D_Specs]

Jacob's drawing of the birds is so funny, it makes me want to animate some running loops of these doofus birds

[@Vee_of_the_Weald]

Let’s hope Deepblue Ink will

[@2D_Specs]

@Vee of the Weald yeah, and if he doesn't get to it I'll do it if I have time

[@thebadpoet]

Please do!

[@desi_the_duck]

If you do you need to reply to this with the link.

[@DoveJS]

Yesss and then share it even if DeepBlueInk does this ahhhh

[@theslimjames]

It's crazy how Nathan kept asking if the rhino was big, then Jacob asked if the horn scale was standard.

[@the_yoloers3330]

Watching this half asleep really adds to the confusion, I woke up at the end of Karina's piece and all concept of everything just didn't exist 10/10 would experience again

[@emma96100able]

Jacob's birdman drawing is now officially one of my all time favourite drawfee pieces.. (right up there with Julia's Wallace/Linda Belcher "Lovers" tarot card)

[@ervinpepper]

"The Elbow To Wall Tangent" is my favorite math rock band

[@0mnicorn]

There is an equal amount of excitement when a guest in introduced or when every says "I'm (blank)" and the whole OG team is together to draw. I'm just pleasantly surprised every episode

[@BriarShinn]

*Drawing Suggestion:* The Celebrity sketch artist Challenge: Eldritch horror Edition!!! Each artist picks an "indescribable" horror to "describe" to the other and can only do so with yes or no answers/questions Q: "Is it big" A: "Yes.... but also No"

[@_alyadadumb_175]

OOOO I LIKE THIS ONE

[@mindofanidiot1]

Julia was just like “Ok so listen to this one, aneurysm eldrich horror art?”

[@SeJoHu]

Jacob made the evolved form of the Gooseberry Fool: Gooseberry Dandy.

[@Primaeros]

Fun fact: Loplop, Father Superior of the Birds was Max Ernst's birdfursona

[@lillianb8762]

The very quiet "...makes the girls go whoo hoo" in the background sends me every time

[@Dr.Deagle.]

The idea of your OCs in famous art/scenes sounds great for a stream or ep

[@TheLiar88]

A good stream prompt along these lines could be something like the painting of Napoleon on his horse but Grendan on a Jacob Horse!

[@restingunderthejunipertree]

This prompt was kinda already done in the "re imagining famous paintings" or whatever it was named, that being said I wouldn't mind more genuine oc fanart plus famous art

[@DerpingtonJr]

SPEED DRAWING SUGGESTION: advertisement posters for a nonsense product, like a yell-powered bicycle or a handheld toaster, idk but I know y'all would have fun, and Nathan would riff SO hard.

[@Aloddff]

Ooh +

[@eerielakeerie]

your dedication to this premise is inspiring lol. also i really hope they do this one day!

[@transfem_goodbye]

I can't wait for this prompt to inevitably be done.

[@amyadams2253]

I enjoyed this a lot. Renee Magritte is one of my favourite artists, and I love that Julia picked some really obscure pieces. This was a treat!

[@EmilySmirleGURPS]

I love Surrealism and Dadaist works. This is a delight :)

[@Nightswarmer]

34:56 I can already tell, this is gonna be one those "tag yourself" thingies, where you see who you are in a friendgroup and I'm ready to send it to all my two friends..

[@markrs25]

Drawing suggestion: draw each other into an isekai. Example- Nathan is king of dinosaurs in a prehistoric world; Karina uses a Digimon deck in a YuGiOh-esque dimension; Julia is a Drawtective in an isekai full of vampires; and Jacob is the leader of a bunch of little guys rebelling against hot villains.

[@clemclemclem-1]

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[@Aloddff]

Neat

[@salmasabhira]

this is amazing!!

[@adoragrayskull]

Please

[@andeverytimewekiss]

this would be the best episode

[@DullPoints]

I know everyone's sick and tired of how good Nathan's gotten over that last 3 years. You don't have to say it. However, the effortless baby face and redrawing is very validating to me. Sometimes I nail something, others, I tear my paper because I erased too much. He even approximated a rose really well. ... Drawing is hard sometimes and these people make it look easy.

[@TheRealGSmith]

That is an amazing baby face and now I want Nathan to draw baby versions of everything.

[@leugimuxu]

Drawfee has always been the Surrealism of the Internet era.

[@freyabees]

The balls it would take to paint the first picture and call it "The Spirit of Geometry..." I love it. That's an artist i could vibe with.

[@frankiegigs3030]

It was cool to see Jacob draw the middle frame of a gooseberry fool animorph

[@ianking7511]

I like to think the original artists had basically this same conversation at some point during the commission of each piece.

[@Jusbamaan]

Can't believe Nathan asked "do both birds have the same sized beak" and not "is the beak size... standard"

[@RadishTheFool]

Nathan would never. He's a regular big-nose Joe. It was that fancy pants Jacob who done did it.

[@uuh4yj43]

vaguely

[@sylviej.9469]

this is one of my new favorite episodes, im truly obsesssed with all of the pieces and i need this to be done again

[@isiopod1939]

You should draw new characters in the silhouettes of old Drawfee Characters!

[@panda_jewels]

I literally just finished watching a drawfee and saw this one posted. Feels surreal

[@mamazeta906]

This was amazing, please do this again! There are so many off the wall surreal paintings out there that fit the Drawfee vibe.

[@GhostBirds]

omg i love surreal art and i LOVE these interpretations of these arts so much!!! theyre all so lovely and fun! I'd love to see yall do this again some day!!

[@freddogrosso9835]

I love Julia's avatar. She looks so pretty and wise. Like the author of a book about "cosmic math" or something like that.

[@23Scadu]

I love Leonora Carrington's art, but this piece looks a lot more unpleasant than most of her work. Her friend Remedios Varo was also amazing, definitely my two favorite surrealist painters.

[@Romanticoutlaw]

recreating art based on descriptions might be the single best prompt, it always leads to funny and terrifying places

[@SparkHaley]

Y'all are pre-eminent in the "internet entertainment" art movement 😂 I would 100% go to a museum full of your fun ass art

[@RCZeta919]

I'm here for every single Drawfee Art History episode, this was incredible and I loved every moment

[@thebadpoet]

I pickled my brain in Dadaism and expressionism for the most recent show I costumed, I am SO EXCITED for this!

[@Esplodeyoface]

Julia started describing the bird people and i KNEW it was going to be a max ernst piece. thank you art history

[@yugiohsc]

“A man is not a cat!!” Says KARINA

[@EbbermanEmily]

The description of the baby as looking like a balding KZbinr was honestly scarily accurate bc as soon as Karina started saying it looked like something my mind thought of that but couldn't quite place it or how to describe it but she got it perfectly

[@michaeltonus3888]

Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst were partners actually. They were the Julia and Jacob of their day. (Having made that joke I hope there isn't something horrible about their relationship floating around out there)

[@ajkreuzkamp7704]

Drawfee Drawing Suggestion: redraw your favorite drawfee art pieces, replacing any humans with Joy and/or Olive

[@ready2cry]

love the purrducers so much

[@cassandragidney7682]

Im watching this only 5 hours after it came out and it is already on the Drawfee Mentions Cats 2019 playlist.

[@DangerPinsX]

They should make a game about a baby that puts everything in its mouth, but the baby gets bigger the more it noms. It can be whatever genre Katamari is.

[@omgeodude]

“Feed the Nine-Mouthed Baby” captured the concept but the energy was nightmarish. I like your idea WAY better!

[@clararose1795]

I almost forgot about Katamari…that game lived rent free in my head for like 10 years as a child. I played it once at an extended family members house and couldn’t remember the name or the console or anything except the insane king character and how fun it was to roll around destroying everything. It took me so long to find it, back in the days of dial up and no cell phones…I need to get a switch so I can play the new version lol.

[@yate0128]

Similar to the 'make a media you like into an anime' *"Design the cover art for a media you like as if it were a book"*

[@nikipound]

I appreciate Karina's pencil style render so much

[@joshuahancock2079]

Wow. Karina nailed it.

[@elizabethpemberton8445]

Oh yeah. I mean art school and all, but this feels like some special study or affection of the genre on her part.

[@Scarybug]

2:27 Big Shoulders Baby's head Rats along his back Boots with the fur (I am commenting this for future people who want to search these important lyrics in case there's a Drawfee compilation for that)

[@yomifishery]

Karina's piece is very unlike her normal style (except that it has a NeoPet (Aisha)) and/but entirely delightful.

[@SuperVoodude]

Despite not drawing Foghorn Leghorn too accurately, Julia's impression is spot on. "I (should) say... I (should) say... I (should) say..."

[@Magenta4ever]

Tried to look up info on Jacob's piece, and it seems like it was actually put together by the artist cutting up pictures from Victorian encyclopedias and novels among other things and using those pictures to form the scene. So it does kind of make sense that they feel like they're teetering, because he only had already drawn bodies to work with.

[@johnnyshortfor]

Got absolutely jumpscared by the portrait with the horse spirit lantern bc that man lives on my kitchen wall. That’s a painting in my house. Had no idea that was Ernst

[@liamsmith3682]

Every time Julia talks it is like she is describing surreal art

[@arthurvinicius2821]

Jacob's piece kinda feels like a Doctor Who episode to me, and I loved it.

[@UekawaOhira]

A Rhino floating in the wind is terrifying, as shown in James & The Giant Peach

[@KidKryptid]

If you guys like the bird men art, you guys would be into the game Avian Attorney! It's basically phoenix wright game that takes place during mid 1800s Paris, but everyone has an animal head and human body. Highly recommend!

[@TheCongressman1]

Really enjoyed this prompt, hope you'll do this again

[@kaitlynnellenberger9201]

Nathan's baby with the adult face looks like an accurate depiction of lord farquad from shrek.

[@VerbalLearning]

The adult face Nathan gave the baby is reminding me of that one episode of Dexter's Lab where Dexter gave himself plastic surgery to make himself "handsome". All it's really missing is the massive chin.

[@clemandrieu6764]

I LOVE that Karina just reference Twilight in this year of our lord 2023. Big tumblerina twilight renaissance energy. I love her

[@s.hiessl149]

drawing suggestion! you did anime in classical paintings, now the reverse: turn classical paintings into anime! like a mona lisa shounen or something of the sort

[@hauthot287]

Fun fact abt the process some surreal artists used: they would sit on a chair or smth, and hold like a spoon and try to fall asleep, so when they would nod off, the spoon would drop and wake them and they’d paint what they saw. Other artists just got high as shit

[@smallpluto]

I know it's late but this seems like a good video to say that there's a game called Aviary Attorney that is essentially a kind of mimic/parody(?) of Phoenix Wright and based on the Max Ernst birdman drawings and it is surprisingly really freaking good. It just seems like such a perfect Drawfee and Fans type of game, I felt the need to mention it lol

[@salamicam12]

I understand and appreciate your reference to the absurdist play Rhinocéros by Eugène Ionesco, Julia.

[@Joebingley15]

I love how quickly Nathan drew a perfect baby face. Also the 'baby' looks like Mick Jagger.

[@TigirlakaLaserwolf6]

Because of drawfee I have mastered the art of laughing with water in my mouth. I no longer fear choking

[@Keithnicity]

When Karina described Nathan’s character as a “balding KZbinr” I immediately thought of Sean Evans from Hot Ones. No?

[@ourDreamcatcher]

yeah, you aren't wrong. I was thinking Hbomberguy.

[@Khrrck]

I was thinking Northernlion with the 5 o'clock shadow.

[@rojopantalones9791]

The baby with the body of an adult in the first original image is just Northernlion without his glasses on.

[@rojopantalones9791]

Additionally, prompt suggestion. Lawfee: Draw scenes representing dumb laws, like "In Arkansas, it's illegal to mispronounce Arkansas," or "In Alabama, it's illegal to walk down the street with an ice cream cone in your back pocket," but the scene is why it's illegal.