Episode 10 Nine Minute Ninja

Time to get my ninja on...

and my clothes.

An art ninja never cries, no matter what happens.

Hello, baby Vicky. BABY CRIES

Hello, it's Uncle Ricky.

Here's the toy, here's the toy.

Here comes the toy. Yeah.

Where's it gone? Where's it gone? BABY BABBLES

Where HAS it gone?

How about...

..comfort blanket?

-BABY:

-Blanket.

Did she just say blanket?

Here's a quick art tip of how to draw a baby.

So, I'm going to start by giving it a nice big head and large eyes.

Babies always seem to have big eyes.

And some eyelashes. This just makes your baby look really cute.

Next draw a little nose, tiny little ears.

Now I'm going to draw the dummy.

That's just a circle with a kind of horseshoe shape

on top of that.

Have a smile behind it.

Now a little bit of curly hair.

I'll draw the body quite small.

Arms outstretched, maybe for a little hug.

And the bottom part I'm going to do

a big nappy and then I'm going to have

the little legs pointing out with

the feet pointing upwards so it looks

like they're sitting down.

There you go, a quick art tip.

Don't be a baby.

Have a go yourself.

BABY CRIES

Ricky, Ricky, Ricky!

Shh, baby Vicky's asleep.

Ricky, can you make art with a plastic box?

Keep a lid on it, I'm busy.

Aww!

Hi Ricky, it's Shari from Dixi and I was wondering if you can make

-something with this?

-HORN TOOTS

You may be from Dixi, but that's a bit tricksy.

Hey, what's this guy got?

Hey, Ricky, what can you make with a cardboard box?

That's more like it. I pick you.

Yay!

I'm going to use a cardboard box to make a pixelated mask,

like in a computer game. I'll just go grab some things.

Got my box,

got some colouring pencils and, just to lay out my design,

I've got myself some gridded paper

here and I'm going to use it to do my design of a face.

My baby niece Vicky's here right now,

so I think I'm going to do my mask of a baby.

I think eight-by-eight is a good amount,

just enough detail for a video-games character.

So, I'm going to draw off an eight-by-eight grid.

One, two, three, four.

Going to need to have some eyes, so I'm going to pop those in first.

So I'm making my design by just colouring in separate squares.

Just going to add some red for some rosy cheeks and then I'm going

to add a dummy.

It doesn't need to be super neat, because it's just a guide for me

to make my mask.

And now I'm going to colour in the rest of the face.

It's a nice pinky colour.

There we go, I have the design for my mask.

So, now I need to transfer that design onto my box.

And as I've broken this up into an eight-by-eight grid,

I need to do the same thing to the box.

About 40 centimetres in width and it's a square box,

so 40 centimetres in height, so what's 40 divided by eight?

-Five.

-Five, thank you.

OK, now I'm going to copy that eight-by-eight grid,

five centimetres for each block, onto my box.

That's it. And I'm going to do the same along the top.

There you go. Now I'm going to draw lines along.

And lines across.

OK, Joel, I've got my eight-by-eight grid on the box,

so now I need to make the coloured squares so I can transfer my design

onto the box. So, I'm just going to make one for the skin tone here.

So, I'm going to cut this into a strip because then it makes me

easy to cut off loads of separate five-centimetre squares.

OK, so I've got a strip and I'm just going to cut along from where

I put the five-centimetre mark and I've got one of my first squares.

I could sit here and I could cut out all the other squares or I could use

some ninja skills. What do you reckon?

Ninja skills!

Yeah! There we go!

I'm going to poke holes in the box so I can have some eyeholes

to see through.

That's one.

I'm going to cut them out with some scissors.

Now I can start sticking on the separate squares of my design.

I'm going to start with the blonde hair, I think.

It's kind of like painting by numbers.

You just throw on the colours to match the design.

I just quite like the way this reinforces the idea of pixels.

Now I'm going to move on and put some skin colour on it.

Going to add some rosy cheeks as well.

This is the whites of the eyes.

OK, here's the last bit on there.

And now I need to do the other sides.

I'm going to do that with some ninja skills.

Ii-ya!

There we go.

-You ready to see it, Joel?

-Yeah.

Well, the only way to show off a mask is to put it on.

How does it look?

Wow, Ricky, that's amazing!

-Looks good, yeah?

-Yeah.

What would you give it out of ten?

This much squared.

Yeah, that's about ten.

I'll take that. Thanks very much, dude.

It was a great suggestion.

Bye.

HE SNIFFS

You pong!

Better change her...

..with some ninja skills.

-So much poo. BABY:

-Poo.

What did you say?

Must be hearing things.

Anyway, you're all clean, but I'm not.

I must get washed.

Poo.

Hey, you there.

Someone been winding you up?

-Other than you?

-Well,

now you can play practical jokes on your mates with this delightful soap

that looks like poo.

Here's how you make it.

Take a bar of soap and grate it into a bowl.

GRATE!

Done.

Now pop that in the microwave...

MICROWAVE BEEPS

..for ten seconds.

MICROWAVE DINGS

Warm.

Now, take a tablespoon of coffee and add some warm water.

And stir...

..until it's a nice paste.

Add that to your soap.

And mix it with your hands.

Really get in there.

Now mould it into a sausage shape.

Shape it as desired.

Classic.

Fake-poo soap.

Remember, it's not real,

but it's excellent for cleaning you from top to bottom.

To be fair, I do like most of the products he sells.

This isn't my favourite, though.

It's probably my number two.

Now go to the website and get your ninja on.

Art ninja!