- And there are new episodes of "Draw Off "on the way,

but today we're gonna try something

a little bit different.

- We're gonna draw the same thing three times

in two hours, 20 minutes, and two minutes.

- This is a challenge you've seen all over YouTube,

but today we're gonna do it a little bit different.

I'm gonna be drawing digitally--

- And I'll be drawing traditionally,

the old fashioned way.

- The way our forefathers-- (Sarah laughing)

(orchestral music)

And what we're gonna draw

is a scene from J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit".

It's a scene in which Bilbo steals a golden cup

from the dragon Smaug.

Sarah, you ready?

- Uh, you know,

uh, it's a lot of pressure.

Um, I'm gonna try my best.

- All right, here we go.

Two hours. Ready?

- Okay, yeah. - And go.

- So what are you drawing with?

- They're Prismacolor and they're soft.

They blend nicely.

- Cool, I am drawing digitally on a Wacom Cintiq

and I'm drawing in Adobe Photoshop.

So Sarah, you don't draw digitally much, do you?

- No, I pretty much never draw digitally,

just cause I look at a screen all day for work

and then when I come home it's like,

I like to not look at a screen,

and also, for me, drawing,

a lot of it is about being tactile and feeling things

and carving things out with my utensils.

So I don't really get the same sensation

from digital drawing.

But I think it's cool.

I'm not good at it.

So people who are good at it I'm very impressed by.

I'm just not one of them.

I think I've worked out a nice composition here.

- Sarah we are at the halfway point.

How are you doing?

- I'm okay.

It's just really difficult because

I do usually spend hours and hours and hours on my drawings.

So it's really, really hard

to achieve something I'm happy with

in just two hours.

- Sure, yeah. - How about you?

- I'm definitely there too.

I took way too much time sketching

and figuring out my composition,

and now I feel like I'm behind.

And so now I'm kind of rushing to catch up.

- I got my, my Bilbo's pretty much good.

I'm not super happy with him but Bilbo's done.

- I just finished inking my Bilbo

and now I'm moving on to inking my Smaug.

And the nice thing about working with Photoshop

is that I can separate everything onto layers.

So when I want to work on my Smaug

I can literally turn off my Bilbo and just focus on Smaug.

- Well, must be nice.

I'm not feeling amazing about this.

- Why not?

- I don't know, I'm just, you know,

I have a high standard for myself.

- And there's nothing wrong with having a high standard,

so you keep having that high standard and you keep working.

- Thanks, Kev, thanks! - Your welcome.

- All right, Sarah, home stretch here.

How you doing?

- I'm ready for a nap --.

I'm actually pretty chill with it,

I'm actually pretty pleased honestly.

I also gave mine eyelashes so it might be a lady Smaug.

I feel like dragons are always beautiful

and have lovely eyelashes.

- Yeah, dragons are the prettiest

of all of the huge beasts I would say.

You know what, I'm not gonna say that

because now I gonna get in trouble on the internet.

People already think I'm a furry.

- Why do they think you're a furry?

- In the "Lion King" episode I said that Nala had nice eyes.

- She does-- (Shane laughing)

(giggling) Shane just laughed really loud.

- I'm not wrong, Shane.

- [Shane] You're right!

- And that is time.

How do you think he did?

- I think for the time allowed

and the complexity of this scene I did okay.

- All right, well end them to each other

so we can see what the other person did.

- Okay.

Wow!

- Wow.

- Wow, this is really impressive, Kevin.

- Oh, I love yours too, this is great.

- Well, yeah, it's really interesting because

our styles are so different too,

that I feel mine's very

wistful and like,

you know, cute,

and then yours is like very dynamic.

- Yeah, yours could be an illustration in the actual book.

- That's kind of, yeah.

- All right, so are you ready to do this two more times?

- I guess so. - Oh, come on.

- Yeah, I mean this will be a lot quicker, so yeah.

- 20 minutes on the clock and go.

So I suddenly feel like I have zero time.

The nice thing is that we've worked out the composition

and we've worked out all that kind of stuff already.

So it's just almost kind of muscle memory at this point.

- It is but my drawing is already, it doesn't look good.

- Oh yeah, mine is already a piece of crap.

I can't even draw a circle.

I'm like, "I have no time."

- Can't you just fake,

can't you just make a circle in Photoshop?

- Okay, all right, enough of your digital bashing.

- Okay, so I've got a Bilbo,

he looks very little like my other one.

- Well, that's good.

I mean, saying he doesn't look like him at all.

- Oh, that's bad.

- Yeah. (laughing)

- I'm shaking Cintiq I'm working so fast.

(Sarah making weird noises)

- I'm having fun.

- Are you?

- -- , whatever.

(Sarah and Kevin laughing)

- Oh, I can't even stay in the lines as I'm coloring.

My kindergarten teacher would be very upset with me.

Sorry, Mrs. Goldblatt.

Oh no!

- You've got to leave whatever,

you got to leave your cards on the table.

- Yep, well that is time.

(Kevin sighs) - Perfect.

- Well, I'm glad you're happy.

(Sarah laughing)

- Wow!

- Hey!

- That's not too dissimilar.

- But it's pretty crappy.

- I don't know.

- And I think yours is good too.

It's just a simplified version of your first one.

- Yeah, I mean, I figured that was the move,

it was like it's gonna be

pretty difficult to do exactly but--

- Okay, so Sarah, two minutes.

What's your strategy?

- Go real fast. (Kevin chuckling)

Are you just gonna do a one color thing?

- I'm just gonna do line art.

All right, here we go.

Two minutes on the clock.

And go.

(polka music)

I like how neither of us are talking during this

'cause there's no time.

Sarah, this is awful.

- (laughing) Shut up, Kevin.

- This is literally awful.

Alright, Bilbo is done.

One minute.

- Okay, well, see, I think what you're trying to do

is do a good job and I'm not.

- 10 Seconds.

- 10 seconds? - Yup.

(Kevin groaning)

(whistle blowing) - It's time.

Mine's a scribble.

It's literally just a scribble.

- Mine's quite scribbly as well.

- Okay, all right.

At least we both know what we're in for.

(Kevin and Sarah laughing)

- Well, yours is certainly

closer to a thing than mine I think.

- I disagree, I disagree.

The fact that you used different colors

makes yours way above mine. (Sarah laughing)

Okay, so let's line them all up here,

and what do you think

when you see them all next to each other?

- [Sarah] Even though I did the most complex one first,

I feel like it does look like the evolution of an idea.

- Well, thanks for drawing with me, Sarah.

- It was fun. I had a good time.

- Me too.

For a better look at these drawings

and more drawings from the "Draw Off" crew,

be sure to follow us

on Instagram and Twitter at @drawoffshow.

And we'll see you next time.

- [Sarah] I hope we don't get haunted by

the ghost of J.R.R. Tolkien.

- [Kevin] Oh, geez.

You know I feel like he's got

other people to haunt before us, but yeah.

- [Sarah] Yeah, he's like

"Peter Jackson, it was way too many movies!"

(Kevin laughing)