Dawn of A New Era

Everyone has watched youtube at some point in their life but not many know about Speedpainting. Speedpainting is a recording, either on the computer or on a camera, of an artist drawing either a character they’ve made up on their own or a drawing of other nature and speeding it up almost like you would for a timelaps video. These videos then go onto various websites, youtube mostly, for people to see and even learn. Vivziepop and Kiwa are some of the artist that have caught the eyes of many so let’s introduce you to them shall we?

Vivziepop, formally known as Vivienne Medrano, is an independent animator who graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, New York. With the release of her thesis short entitled “Timber” the young artists youtube channel started gaining popularity, with the short film now at over 2 million views. With popularity on the rise and, having just reached 200 thousand subscribers on youtube not long ago, the animator has begun making a web comic entitled Zoophobia about a bunch of characters she has created over the past few years who all attend a school in a place you can never leave. The comic itself get’s uploaded once a week with each page gaining more and more readers.  Recently she was commissioned to work on an animated music video for a song written and performed by the youtubers for a channel called Good Mythical Morning. Personally I find Vivienne to be a very fantastic artists as well as animator and I always look forward to when she uploads either another speedpainting video or page for Zoophobia, i actually have the webcomic saved to my favorites bar so i can read it whenever i have the time.

Moving away from the cartoon section and more towards the realistic aspect of art we are kindly greeted by a person know as Kiwa. Kiwa is actually a few years older on youtube than Vivziepop, having joing back in 2009. Her channel has over 1 million views and currently she has 23 thousand subscribers. The artist draws a variety of different subjects but seems to stick to well known Youtubers and video games, but is not shy to take commissions from others. Most, if not all, of her speedpainting videos are set to music and they actually fit very well with who and what the drawing is about, be it a video game or a bunch of people jumping onto a moving train. Her art is very well done and she seems to have some fun with whatever she is drawing that day.

Youtube is a collective where people can go and post videos about what they are passionate about and even what they do for a job. There is no limit to the minds of these people and the mind of an artist is never quite calmed, no matter how much posting is done. This is a place where artists can really make a name for themselves and even become the next big artist or animator.