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I'm Steve Backshall, and this is Deadly Art. | 0:00:02 | 0:00:05 | |
I'm lucky enough to travel the world tracking deadly animals. | 0:00:07 | 0:00:11 | |
But in this show, my team of artists take my killer moment... | 0:00:13 | 0:00:17 | |
..and turn it into art. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:22 | |
Today, we're looking back at the time when the team created | 0:00:22 | 0:00:25 | |
polar bear artwork for the Children In Need Christmas card. | 0:00:25 | 0:00:28 | |
Along the way, you can pick up some tips and trick and techniques | 0:00:28 | 0:00:32 | |
so you can make some art yourself. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:35 | |
This is no ordinary art show. This is Deadly Art! | 0:00:35 | 0:00:40 | |
Coming up on Deadly Art... | 0:00:42 | 0:00:45 | |
I'll show you another exciting Deadly 60 trip when I travelled | 0:00:45 | 0:00:48 | |
8,000 km to encounter the beautiful but lethal polar bear. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:53 | |
What a magnificent creature. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:55 | |
The Deadly Art team gets to grips with another amazing art creation. | 0:00:55 | 0:01:00 | |
Hello, everyone. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:01 | |
And I'll be visiting the Deadly Art studio too, | 0:01:01 | 0:01:04 | |
even drawing a deadly doodle. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:06 | |
-A wry smile. -I'm not sure that polar bears smile! -It's a doodle! | 0:01:06 | 0:01:10 | |
Fair enough! | 0:01:10 | 0:01:12 | |
Despite being one of the largest predators, | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
these magnificent creatures are adored the world over. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:20 | |
It's the polar bear. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:22 | |
They're the world's largest bear, and can weigh 1,000 kilograms. | 0:01:22 | 0:01:26 | |
That's as much as a small car. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:28 | |
Their huge feet can be 30 centimetres across. | 0:01:28 | 0:01:31 | |
That's about the same size as a large pizza. | 0:01:31 | 0:01:35 | |
And true to their reputation, polar bears love to have fun, | 0:01:35 | 0:01:39 | |
and they get involved in play fighting at any age. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:42 | |
So using this play fighting as their inspiration, let's meet our artists. | 0:01:42 | 0:01:46 | |
As ever, they're ready and waiting in the Deadly Art studio. | 0:01:46 | 0:01:50 | |
I'm Michelle, and I just love working with different materials. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:54 | |
I'm all about getting stuck in! | 0:01:54 | 0:01:57 | |
Hey, I'm Mike. I'm a cartoon artist, and I'm up for today's Deadly Art! | 0:01:58 | 0:02:02 | |
I'm Jo, I'm a painter... ..Sculptor and a general mess maker! | 0:02:02 | 0:02:08 | |
Michelle, Mike and Jo will be representing the Deadly Art team, | 0:02:08 | 0:02:12 | |
who are always up for a challenge. | 0:02:12 | 0:02:14 | |
Polar bears are amazing! Let's focus on their play fighting. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:19 | |
We don't want to make our Christmas card too fierce. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:21 | |
-It has to be popular. -Yeah, we want it to stand out. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:24 | |
But guys, this is Deadly Art! | 0:02:24 | 0:02:26 | |
You've got to see some teeth and show some claws. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:28 | |
I'm thinking a huge canvas with a 3D element, | 0:02:28 | 0:02:31 | |
-and I know just the thing, all right? -OK. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:34 | |
-I'm going to start drawing the bears. -Cool! | 0:02:34 | 0:02:36 | |
Mike's using his cartoon drawing skills, and gets to work. | 0:02:36 | 0:02:40 | |
-Legs, and we want big feet! -OK, yeah. | 0:02:40 | 0:02:43 | |
This is a block of polystyrene, | 0:02:43 | 0:02:46 | |
I'm going to use it to carve out the 3D polar bear. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:51 | |
Now I'm going to take Mike's drawing of a polar bear | 0:02:51 | 0:02:54 | |
and trace it onto this acetate sheet. | 0:02:54 | 0:02:56 | |
I love how fast Mike, Michelle and Jo are working. | 0:02:57 | 0:03:00 | |
We'll have some cracking polar bear artwork in no time! | 0:03:00 | 0:03:03 | |
-All right! -Yes! -Let's get drawing! | 0:03:09 | 0:03:12 | |
Our Deadly Art polar bears are going to be huge! | 0:03:12 | 0:03:15 | |
Now, when I was on a quest to find one... | 0:03:15 | 0:03:17 | |
Polar bear tracks everywhere! | 0:03:17 | 0:03:20 | |
..the Deadly 60 team and I travelled right up into the Arctic Circle. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:24 | |
Look at these! | 0:03:24 | 0:03:25 | |
They're quite small! It looks like a young adult! | 0:03:27 | 0:03:30 | |
It's really something to think that we're sharing the ice | 0:03:30 | 0:03:34 | |
with one of the world's most terrifying predators! | 0:03:34 | 0:03:37 | |
The tracks have led us to the coast, | 0:03:40 | 0:03:41 | |
and now all that lies ahead of us are ever-shifting frozen seas. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:47 | |
It would be extremely dangerous to venture out there. | 0:03:47 | 0:03:50 | |
Looks like this polar bear has given us the slip. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:55 | |
These bones are all that remains of a mighty whale. | 0:03:57 | 0:04:00 | |
Hopefully that will bring the bears in. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:02 | |
It's certainly attracted some other animals. | 0:04:02 | 0:04:05 | |
Just sat, almost totally oblivious, | 0:04:05 | 0:04:08 | |
no more than 10 metres in front of me, is an Arctic fox. | 0:04:08 | 0:04:14 | |
And there must be five or six of them on the bones around us. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:18 | |
These are really important animals for us, | 0:04:18 | 0:04:20 | |
because Arctic foxes around here actually get a good deal of | 0:04:20 | 0:04:23 | |
their diet by following polar bears around and picking off their scraps. | 0:04:23 | 0:04:29 | |
So if there are Arctic foxes around, and they are everywhere, | 0:04:29 | 0:04:33 | |
then we stand a really good chance of finding our polar bears. | 0:04:33 | 0:04:36 | |
We know the bears are out there somewhere, | 0:04:37 | 0:04:40 | |
but seeing them is another matter. | 0:04:40 | 0:04:42 | |
Stick around to see if we manage to find a polar bear, but now, | 0:04:42 | 0:04:46 | |
let's get back to our awesome artwork. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:50 | |
I've marked out the polar bears on our canvas, | 0:04:50 | 0:04:52 | |
and now I'm just finishing off the red sky for the horizon. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:56 | |
We've got a great idea for the rest of the sky, | 0:04:56 | 0:04:59 | |
and you'll see that later. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:01 | |
We'll use a hot wire to burn through the polystyrene | 0:05:01 | 0:05:04 | |
to cut out the initial shape. | 0:05:04 | 0:05:06 | |
This is Deadly, so as you can see, we're all kitted up. | 0:05:06 | 0:05:10 | |
Deadly Art is all about showing you how art is created, | 0:05:10 | 0:05:14 | |
but our team are professionals. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:17 | |
Don't ever attempt anything you see in the big art stages. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:21 | |
This is Deadly Art at its most extreme. | 0:05:21 | 0:05:23 | |
Oh, that is very cool! | 0:05:26 | 0:05:28 | |
Now, let's return to our Arctic trip. | 0:05:31 | 0:05:33 | |
It may have been freezing, | 0:05:33 | 0:05:35 | |
but our search for the polar bear was getting warmer. | 0:05:35 | 0:05:40 | |
It's a bear! No more than 150 metres off from the shore. | 0:05:40 | 0:05:44 | |
So exciting! I can just feel my heart start beating! | 0:05:44 | 0:05:49 | |
Out there, about a mile off in the distance, is our first polar bear. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:54 | |
He's just sort of ambling about at the moment. | 0:05:55 | 0:06:00 | |
But even from this distance, you can see how powerful he is. | 0:06:01 | 0:06:06 | |
It's minus 20. | 0:06:06 | 0:06:08 | |
The crew and I are kitted out in layers and layers of warm clothes. | 0:06:08 | 0:06:11 | |
Even the camera's got a jacket on! And we can just about work, | 0:06:11 | 0:06:15 | |
but this animal is totally at home in this frozen wasteland. | 0:06:15 | 0:06:20 | |
These frozen seas are absolutely essential | 0:06:22 | 0:06:26 | |
to the polar bear's success. | 0:06:26 | 0:06:28 | |
It's out there that it finds the majority of its prey. | 0:06:28 | 0:06:31 | |
Particularly in the winter, when all this is frozen over. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:34 | |
The seals that it feeds on go through a large amount | 0:06:34 | 0:06:36 | |
of their life cycle out here. They have their pups out here, | 0:06:36 | 0:06:39 | |
and that's where the polar bear is at its lethal best. | 0:06:39 | 0:06:42 | |
What a magnificent creature. | 0:06:42 | 0:06:45 | |
And back to our magnificent artwork! | 0:06:45 | 0:06:48 | |
-All right! -That's great. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:50 | |
-This bear is completely made from polystyrene. -But for this bear, | 0:06:50 | 0:06:54 | |
the head is cut out of polystyrene, and the body | 0:06:54 | 0:06:57 | |
is painted on the canvas, which makes it look further away. | 0:06:57 | 0:07:00 | |
Ur-rgh! Ra-a-ar! BEARS ROAR | 0:07:00 | 0:07:03 | |
I'm just drawing out our glacier. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:05 | |
We're going to position our polar bears so it looks like | 0:07:05 | 0:07:08 | |
-they're standing on the edge of the ice. -And on this canvas, | 0:07:08 | 0:07:11 | |
we'll use perspective to draw the rest of the glacier, | 0:07:11 | 0:07:14 | |
so when you view the bears from here, it looks like there's | 0:07:14 | 0:07:17 | |
a great, big hole in the floor, with a drop...down into the depths. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:20 | |
I'm going to carve into these, to give them more shape and detail. | 0:07:20 | 0:07:25 | |
Now this is really deadly! | 0:07:25 | 0:07:27 | |
It looks fun, but don't try this at home! | 0:07:28 | 0:07:31 | |
This is our vanishing point. It's the secret of perspective. | 0:07:31 | 0:07:35 | |
And by drawing lines going away from it, we can make it | 0:07:35 | 0:07:38 | |
look like there's a crack in the ice with a huge drop below! | 0:07:38 | 0:07:42 | |
Cool. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:44 | |
Mike and Michelle are using a special device | 0:07:44 | 0:07:47 | |
that snaps out their perspective lines with chalk. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:50 | |
This glacier, drawn on the floor, will really | 0:07:50 | 0:07:54 | |
show off the polar bears to a much greater effect | 0:07:54 | 0:07:58 | |
when we reveal the final artwork later in the studio. | 0:07:58 | 0:08:01 | |
And now it's time for you to get involved! | 0:08:01 | 0:08:03 | |
Here's Jo with a Deadly Doodle. | 0:08:03 | 0:08:05 | |
As always, starting off with some simple shapes, | 0:08:05 | 0:08:09 | |
The first one...is a large oval in the middle of the page. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:13 | |
Then another oval that overlaps that. This will be his body. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:18 | |
A circle for his head, and a smaller circle which will be his nose. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:24 | |
Now, we'll put them all together and start giving it some shape. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:28 | |
Starting off with the nose and working backwards, along it, | 0:08:29 | 0:08:33 | |
and then backwards down for the mouth. | 0:08:33 | 0:08:36 | |
And bringing this line up, over to where his ears come out. | 0:08:37 | 0:08:42 | |
Over the top and then there's his other ear. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:46 | |
And this line, jagged down to his first leg. | 0:08:47 | 0:08:52 | |
Now coming out from where his eyebrow is, I'm going to | 0:08:52 | 0:08:56 | |
put in his back, which comes down to his back leg and his back paw. | 0:08:56 | 0:09:02 | |
And then we can bring his legs in. | 0:09:04 | 0:09:06 | |
And then his first paw is down here. | 0:09:08 | 0:09:11 | |
And all the time going over those simple shapes | 0:09:11 | 0:09:15 | |
that we already created. | 0:09:15 | 0:09:16 | |
Now for the details. I'm going to give him an eye up here. | 0:09:16 | 0:09:21 | |
And his other eye goes along the top of that circle. | 0:09:21 | 0:09:26 | |
Some shading in his ears. | 0:09:26 | 0:09:29 | |
Lastly, those deadly claws! | 0:09:30 | 0:09:32 | |
Now just like on our big art, | 0:09:35 | 0:09:37 | |
I'm going to have my polar bear stood on the edge of a high glacier. | 0:09:37 | 0:09:41 | |
Which is just a curvy line going off into the distance. | 0:09:41 | 0:09:46 | |
And then some lines coming off it to give it some perspective. | 0:09:46 | 0:09:50 | |
And now we need to get rid of those guidelines. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:54 | |
I'm just going to rub them out. | 0:09:54 | 0:09:57 | |
So, there's our polar bear! | 0:10:00 | 0:10:03 | |
Looking good, Jo! I'll be giving it a go myself in a bit. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:07 | |
Well, polar bear art work is really coming on! | 0:10:07 | 0:10:11 | |
So both our polar bears are in position. | 0:10:11 | 0:10:13 | |
Now, for the tricky bit. | 0:10:13 | 0:10:14 | |
Adding in all those fine details with the paint. | 0:10:14 | 0:10:17 | |
I've been painting in our perspective lines to create | 0:10:19 | 0:10:22 | |
the edges of the cracks in the ice. | 0:10:22 | 0:10:24 | |
It looks weird from where I am, but from the vanishing point... | 0:10:24 | 0:10:27 | |
it looks like I'm on the edge of a massive abyss! | 0:10:27 | 0:10:30 | |
Oh, wow! That really works! | 0:10:30 | 0:10:32 | |
The fine detail on the polystyrene polar bears makes them realistic, | 0:10:34 | 0:10:38 | |
but as it's a special Deadly Art, I just have to get involved. | 0:10:38 | 0:10:42 | |
-Hello, everyone! -Hey! | 0:10:42 | 0:10:44 | |
It's Deadly Doodle time. Backshall style. | 0:10:44 | 0:10:47 | |
Grab your pencil if you want to try it again with me! | 0:10:47 | 0:10:51 | |
So, here's my polar bear that I did earlier. Now it's your turn, Steve. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:57 | |
Well, I really can't draw, so if I can do it, ANYONE can. | 0:10:57 | 0:11:00 | |
OK, we'll start off with some basic shapes. | 0:11:00 | 0:11:03 | |
-The first one is an oval. -OK. | 0:11:03 | 0:11:05 | |
Then a slightly smaller oval coming out of that. | 0:11:05 | 0:11:08 | |
And then a circle at the top here for its head. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:12 | |
And a smaller circle for its nose. | 0:11:12 | 0:11:14 | |
Now we're going to turn it into a bear. | 0:11:16 | 0:11:19 | |
A wry smile. | 0:11:19 | 0:11:20 | |
-I'm not sure that polar bears actually smile. -It's a doodle. | 0:11:20 | 0:11:24 | |
-Fair enough. -The chin. | 0:11:24 | 0:11:25 | |
You're going to draw in the line into the paw. | 0:11:29 | 0:11:32 | |
The paws are absolutely enormous! | 0:11:32 | 0:11:35 | |
Huge, like the size of a dinner plate. | 0:11:35 | 0:11:38 | |
Now it's time to colour in the polar bear, | 0:11:40 | 0:11:42 | |
and you can do yours at home, too. | 0:11:42 | 0:11:45 | |
Shading in is the best bit. | 0:11:45 | 0:11:47 | |
Nearly finished. All it needs is the Steve snake signature. | 0:11:53 | 0:11:57 | |
There you go. That's my Deadly Doodle | 0:11:57 | 0:11:59 | |
-for the back of the Christmas card. -Nice one. | 0:11:59 | 0:12:02 | |
We're making a Christmas card, so we've got to add some sparkle. | 0:12:05 | 0:12:09 | |
In Alaska, where the polar bears live | 0:12:09 | 0:12:11 | |
is a phenomenon called the Northern Lights. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:13 | |
That's right. It lights up the whole of the sky, like this. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:16 | |
So, we're going to use the spots from Pudsey's bandana | 0:12:16 | 0:12:19 | |
as our Northern Lights, to add some more colour. | 0:12:19 | 0:12:22 | |
-Let's do it. -Yep! | 0:12:22 | 0:12:23 | |
I'm really enjoying my visit to the Deadly Art studio. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:31 | |
I get to do a bit of spray painting, too! | 0:12:31 | 0:12:33 | |
The Deadly Art team were given the challenge to create an amazing | 0:12:42 | 0:12:45 | |
work of art based on these great shots of the polar bear. | 0:12:45 | 0:12:49 | |
So, are you ready? | 0:12:49 | 0:12:51 | |
Let's see the finished work of art. | 0:12:51 | 0:12:53 | |
Oh, that is SO impressive! | 0:12:55 | 0:12:58 | |
Using a painted canvas, with 3D polar bears placed on top, | 0:12:58 | 0:13:02 | |
gives it an extra depth. | 0:13:02 | 0:13:03 | |
They captured the two adults play fighting really well. | 0:13:03 | 0:13:07 | |
And the 3D ice glacier on the floor has made the canvas even more | 0:13:07 | 0:13:12 | |
Nice work, guys! I think it's beautiful! | 0:13:20 | 0:13:23 | |
We'll see you soon for more Deadly Art! | 0:13:23 | 0:13:26 | |
Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd | 0:13:34 | 0:13:38 |