Pretending to like your trash art

[@Eukleides89]

Penwagon's story has some insanely good shot composition, holy moly. The way they use camera movement and center of frame to draw focus... Cinematography on point.

[@RuiRavaela]

Don't forget to mention the characters personality

[@miau5878]

at what part is penwagons??

[@tori4770]

@@miau5878 5:00

[@fallabeaufaebelle]

What I liked in Penwagon's is how it focuses on character. The older character is in an interesting conflict with being the one to assume responsibility for the other which we gather in dialogue, but they feel pressured and like they won't be able to do what they have to do in this harsh environment. The younger character is much more independent and confident and takes on the role of comforting the older one, but also fails to grasp the severity of the world around them. This sets up a good balance between them. One's strength will be the other's weakness, which sets up room for growth. The animation style and shot choices as well makes this come off very clear with things like the hand shaking, the expressions complimenting their personalities, and the final part of the scene being the two fire the gun together showing they work best as a team and will grow from each other i.e. the first gaining confidence and the second character grasping the reality of the situation.

[@alaskabane5340]

and then the horror of all of it being meaningless, because the wolf isn't seem to be affected by bullets

[@chaosmastermind]

@@alaskabane5340 I don't think the gun was even loaded.

[@Rerizz]

@@alaskabane5340 im pretty sure the gun was out of bullets

[@menka3171]

YES, "grasping the reality of the situation". I couldn't agree more. because she acts so casually in this intense environment.

[@justanothercomment]

Plus the character design was so appealing, and the character animation was so emotive! The expressions and the body language were just *chefs kiss.* Really made you feel connected to and invested in the characters.

[@JSS_-iv7gy]

Penwagon won with that FREAKIN' PHENOMENAL Voice acting and those SLICK Sound effects!! (i especially love those pounding werewolf steps and scratches on the countertop)

[@JSS_-iv7gy]

also I was lookin' for snacks, and theeen ... ... I found *THIS Thing!!!* - this quote right here literally does everything. It's comedy, it implies that they're in a gas station / mall with snacks, AND THEN BOOM, SHOTGUN! Where did she get that? BOOM, dead body!

[@Itriedbeingcreativebutfailed]

Finally! An excuse not to sleep

[@jagiarts]

Haha same here xD its 2 am here

[@Noirjk]

3 am and I was almost going to sleep.

[@r4ven_nevermore91]

2 am here too

[@स्कवेश]

Good morning 🇮🇳5:41am here

[@yivo3689]

Haha, glad I'm not alone on the 2am no sleep train

[@adamthorntonillustration9281]

I must say, I've sincerely missed Ethan's abuse. The fellow with the knife and broken cigarette. Is he coming back ever?

[@kevenzepineapple6783]

He made a vid explaining why he stopped but who knows I hope he does tho

[@adamthorntonillustration9281]

@@kevenzepineapple6783 Oh! I didn't know that. I'll go looking for it. Thanks. When you say that you "hope he does", do you mean you hope he does stop?

[@user-of1wz6dc5e]

@@kevenzepineapple6783 do you know which video it was?

[@kevenzepineapple6783]

@@user-of1wz6dc5e no but he was saying that he didn’t wanna play character that makes people not wanna draw because there was some comments like that and he wasn’t happy with that

[@kevenzepineapple6783]

No I miss the the baby crayon😔

[@chaosmastermind]

The death one was GREAT.. it matched what I've always thought about what immortality would be like almost exactly. Gave me chills. Genius.

[@artemisanthaao282]

Ikrrrrrr! Can you tell me where I can find the creator??

[@chaosmastermind]

@@artemisanthaao282 I just watched it like you. Hell if I know.

[@milli5968]

Which one?

[@cavemann_]

@@milli5968 12:25

[@menka3171]

Things i love about Penwagon’s animatic. 1. It shows the character relationship/dynamic. It’s so specific and done with clarity that you can imagine many situations with the duo in it. Also recently i just realized, how much depth character relationships can add to storytelling, by comparing 2 Valorant championship mvs, “Die for you” and “Fire again”. The storytelling in “Die for you” is so much more compelling than in “Fire again” imo. 2. It got clever humor. The way that girl just casually pulled out a shotgun and gestured towards the gory corpse. It’s fun. And I think the usage of camera movement when she said,” that guy.” really shows the casualness at the moment, then it instantly switches to the nervous character’s perspective on this situation, by showing the gory detail of the corpse in the front, and the nervous character’s expression in the back. Boom, Contrast. 3. The characters change in this 1 minute. The nervous one got bolder with encouragement from the girl. The girl comes from “keeps giving the nervous character more things to stress about”, to “provide the nervous one emotional support, and eventually defeating the anxiety”.

[@chaosmastermind]

Okay replacing the wands in Harry Potter with guns was hilarious. It's also a genius social commentary about how guns and wands in the hands of kids are equally dangerous.

[@MaryArts]

7:44 I love their choice of atmospheric music. It would be a total different experience without it

[@soursaoi]

finally, a new ethan art video! i was almost being social again.

[@tradesmanjaegs4992]

The steamy innuendo is only grows in temperature with each video. He is becoming stronger…

[@EbbtideCheque]

These are so awesome to watch. So much creativity. 🤩

[@shinkamui]

13:25 oh my god, that was great. My only critique is to have her twirl her finger skate after dodging the bus to wordlessly show us she had beaten death. The narration saying ''lexi won'' is just a bit underwhelming and even uneeded. But damn, loved the concept of taking the victory and twisting it into a loop. Brilliant idea

[@cavemann_]

12:26 simple but effective, love it!

[@teahclaireyt]

i love how all art youtubers find a way to trash on kooleen

[@killingjoke6728]

i think penwagon won because the last scene that scene was PHENOMENAL how he did that camera work omg it was sooo beautiful and the way you don't know how to feel do you feel horrified or kinda happy or WTF IS GOIIN ON that type of stuff + the slick composition of every key frame

[@maurits_valk]

Thanks for the roast, Ethan! Great job to everyone who submitted last month :D

[@akmalrafi8576]

My next achievement: got my art loved by Ethan

[@mismiserables]

Ethan's scream is something I never knew I needed to hear

[@Bell_420]

the story with the death guy and how it all looped was badass would love to see a show or book based on that idea. I've had ideas kinda like that in the past but that was a much better version, super cool.

[@mafiaishere4371]

Passive aggressiveness is strong with this one

[@alaskabane5340]

You're so cold blooded for being able to watch the FMAB scene, without choking, holy hell!

[@slowrest6041]

That was my first animatic, so im really glad i make it to this video

[@chaos.possum]

4:12 Simba moment

[@1vyKh4n]

ive been working so hard on my art bc of you

[@megamaggotman7025]

Ive given up art because of you

[@1vyKh4n]

@@megamaggotman7025 k lol

[@megamaggotman7025]

@@1vyKh4n how can you be so cold :(

[@1vyKh4n]

@@megamaggotman7025 i live in Antarctica/j

[@megamaggotman7025]

@@1vyKh4n at least ypu aren't french.

[@btjhlp]

My cat is currently drooling on me as I watch this. 😀👍

[@watLegends]

Penwagon's composition was great, but on top of that, I could really feel like the characters were alive and going through a traumatic moment, that little girl has guts 😂

[@mk-aka-morgan8386]

Everyone’s so talented omg 🥺 someday I’ll have the money to join classes 😫

[@vixxarri]

You see this...THIS is the content I subscribed for No regrets 😌👌

[@HatsuneMiku.]

Thank u for ur videos Ethan my art has literally gotten so good

[@thehiphoperazed2864]

That Fin GOAT scream was the best oh man goodtimes

[@ro_ro_ro_yourboat313]

I love your videos they’re both helpful and entertaining!!! ^^

[@mariaeduardalana2359]

BRO I READ LELAKENS WEBTOON LIKE 2 DAYS AGO! I was watching and recognized her style from that photo in the plane and the character design

[@imjustasconfusedasyou]

honestly part of me wants to send in some of my art just so i can figure out what’s wrong with it, but the other part doesn’t want to be absolutely roasted lmao

[@C0mmEntre]

7:41 bro just falls down and dies 💀

[@s0me_Weirdo]

THE CAT PLOP LMAO

[@MaximeRoman]

the ending is gold >< somme of those SBs where amazing

[@RahulSingh-bd2tw]

Man each one have done a crazy work

[@rec8080]

@ 16:30 this lotr scene still fucks me up

[@kaizexx]

Another lesson where we get roast to learn art

[@mildlymarvelous]

Radsechrist wins this for me. I thought the tech deck thing was going to be lighthearted, but instead it was a very dark and chilling concept. I’m such a sucker for temporal causality.

[@ic7846]

I friggin loved the last one holy shit!

[@poisonbullet9402]

8:12 absolutely love this animation

[@r4ven_nevermore91]

In the name of everyone - we are thankfull

[@lesliemateus7786]

Loved your advice but damn you really had to bring out the emotional trauma from that one Fullmetal alchemist scene!😭

[@MrInsanepoptart]

My Favorite was "I'm gonna go home now"- Awesome!!

[@BASIL_LEAV]

What a way to celebrate the end of my work shift

[@michaelstaton1999]

9:10 Best explanation of evolution ever

[@SI-Omen]

He's secretly teaching a very useful life skill in this video

[@gxldxn]

Handling rejection

[@SI-Omen]

@@gxldxn I was thinking more so pretending to like something but that works too

[@trisl96]

Spileburg baby! The best artists steal or reference or something like that.

[@animasenpai3039]

11:54 Kyaaa

[@lelakens]

does this count as cyberbullying? 😔 clarity is overrated.🏃‍♂

[@slowrest6041]

your drawings were pretty good

[@ferdinandrouge2839]

Overrated?. I mean, you're trying to tell a story with a defined characteristics not an artistic piece that can be transform into multiple shapes, sounds, length and meaning. Like something experimetal where you don't have a set of rules.

[@lelakens]

@@ferdinandrouge2839 guess my joke didn't have enough clarity :( sorry

[@ferdinandrouge2839]

@@lelakens Sorry I'm a bit autistic from time to time.

[@RuviGaPo]

😂😂😂

[@Aeice_art_fish]

I’m thinking that pentagon won because of the ending it leaves it to the viewer to imagine how it ends

[@GlassJoe-fgc]

15:16 FMA 03 Ptsd kicks in.

[@entitymari3329]

ok ok very off topic but this vid just showed up in my reccomended and I was like "why not" and withing the first minute I was just ">:0" while looking at your face because you look so fakely pretty in the best possible way. ok that's it

[@FreggFaerie]

This was my experience when I first stumbled upon Ethan as well 😂

[@zepto5945]

I think Penwagon won because she made every frame very expressive and readable.

[@chaos.possum]

3:22 Yoink the child yo-yo

[@chaddad4574]

Thats actually good

[@goddessdraws]

17:09 I love this

[@dearcrush_XD]

Starting a day with Ethan.

[@dzintisruzaikis8192]

Oh F you for bringing back my surpressed memories of full metal alchemust chimera........

[@stellarcrystal5033]

Ur an inspiration

[@karlmark9967]

I've learned so much from your videos, but that Full Metal Alchemist scene though, is still too soon.

[@DamonAlbarnsStalker]

I love how you look like a glorious hello neighbour king

[@HorseyWorsey]

Lmao the duality of man 4:13 "Yes. Yes. I like this. :)" 4:32 "D:" *ImmaHeadout.exe* also the one with the yellow and pink cat made me laugh so hard.

[@vraz7806]

mother , wake up ethan becker posted wake up

[@Illustration_Ink]

50 mins ago? Awesome, I get to be sad and agree that I’m a little baby with a little baby crayon again-

[@iamlostagain]

YOOO THIS IS ACTUALLY SOME GREAT ANIMATION

[@notaday2033]

12:26 my favorite

[@ninjakiwigames5418]

same, trying to find the original artist of tiktok, but so far no luck

[@arkanimation9833]

So what’s the next contest, these always inspire me and me and my animations would love to juice it up or whatever. The point is I want to put my animations in because these are awesome. I like to be surrounded by folks who live for this shit like me, so what’s the next challenge or did I already ask that?!

[@EriceatssG]

You inspired me to make art lol

[@soysource3218]

That dad looks like Dracula from Castlevania 3:17

[@erixoliver]

well, it was inspired by Dracula XD

[@imlost6050]

Gosh ur so beautiful

[@WeebInvestments69]

15:28 only psychopaths laugh at this scene 🥲🥲

[@arvisworld]

Yes, twinkling dinkles

[@kryyspo6294]

Love u man😔✨✨

[@Meta__]

I have been wishing I could be in ur class. But my mom doesn't wanna. . .

[@Neon_Ghost1]

moral of the story, stay filthy with the tech deck

[@JJ-ig5re]

Yes

[@Why.do.that.mar.]

yes

[@DeadZombieLlama]

Wow.

[@UserOfTheName]

I need to become a professional artist in order to tickle in dinkle, I must begin grinding

[@therealmrsketch]

Good to see you back

[@sanjanart5045]

Hey I'm not sure if anyone is going to answer this comment but I'm currently learning portrait drawing, when will it be a good time to learn animation or at least gesture for animation

[@nickmf8461]

Yall can go watch undisputed 2, 3, 4 if you wanna see the best fight scenes in movie history. Or just study Scott Adkins fights

[@Gyork_]

Penwagon has the most polished storytelling structure and composition but the entire thing is too mainstream Hollywood for my taste even the shots are what you expect them to be.

[@cloudjumpur]

16:24 We both got scared at this part lol

[@RuviGaPo]

Yay clarity :DD Oh man ye that spooped me oh no

[@VioAnimation]

what does it mean to tinkle one's dinkle

[@2teepeepictures382]

Top-tier! this makes me want to animate

[@kira-mf7vq]

Ok so um, you probably won’t see this but I have a friend that loves Kooleen so naturally, I had to force her to watch you. She was complaining about how good your videos were and how it made her want to do art, which I know was your it ultimate goal. Just wanted to tell you 😄😄

[@widdershinnz]

What’s the difference between 70+ vs Project City?

[@MyWeirdFox]

If your anything like me you know good as hell the drawing on the thumbnail is way better then all of your art combined lol

[@trashbug4843]

he he sed half my name uwu

[@andrey-xo1kx]

Hey baby what u think about karl kopinski

[@Deeznuts4]

Why u call him baby

[@andrey-xo1kx]

@@Deeznuts4 dude just wanted to speak like him😎

[@matarel]

lov u

[@icu12]

Hi Ethan how does one find out about animation contests?

[@r4zif_327]

Ethan = cute :0

[@Tenji140]

I'm gonna go home now : )

[@princejuniper]

I have that shirt. I got it at forever 21