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From YouTube: Drawing The Amabie NWAC

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Hey everybody, mr brad, here I am trapped in my house self-quarantining because of the coronavirus. I bet you are too and I bet that is making you a little bit mad. Maybe you feel like you want to scream.

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And it's really starting to bug you. I know I know super corny, but we're all bored and we need something to do and it's a good time to exercise your creative muscles and work on a drawing or a painting or a sculpture of some sort. So today uh I am going to run you through the ah ba challenge, um creating a creature from your imagination based on a very short description, and I will just show you my process.

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You can follow along and make one that fits what you think it should be.

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The legend of the alma ba, according to legend, a glowing object had been spotted in the sea near japan, almost on a nightly basis. A local official went to the coast to investigate and witnessed the ama ba.

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According to the sketch made by this official, it had long hair a mouth like a bird's bill or beak was covered in scales from the neck down and three-legged.

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Addressing the official it identified itself as an ama ba and told him that it lived in the open sea it went on to deliver a prophecy. Good harvest will continue for six years from the current year. If disease spreads show a picture of me to those who fall ill and they will be cured.

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Afterward it returned to the sea. The story was printed in the news where its portrait was printed, and this is how the story spread in japan, the amma ba became a symbol of good fortune a prophet of the future and is credited with the ability to repel illness.

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People draw the amma va to send healing to the sick.

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During the covid19 epidemic, the amma ba became a popular topic on twitter in japan. Manga artists publish their cartoon versions of the ama ba on social networks.

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There is a drawing of this, uh I'm a ba um drawn by the only person who ever saw it, uh and so I'll show that on the screen now.

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Kind of a cartoon version kind of a little pencil drawing version. Your version could be more elaborate or simple, like this totally fine.

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So I'm gonna take you through my process of how I might imagine how this thing might look. There are infinite versions that are possible here and you just need to figure out what you want to say with yours is yours benevolent? Is it a little bit scary.

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So the rules of this are it needs to be a sea creature. It needs to have three legs. It has a beak of some kind. It has long flowing, hair and scales. If it has those things, I'm going to call it a ama ba so check your drawing for that plan. For those elements, there's all kinds of beaks, there's all kinds of flowing hair. There's all kinds of scales: three legs: let's get.

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