Five years on Youtube

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I can not believe it’s been five years since I made and posted my first video on YouTube. It has been an extraordinary time – as extraordinary as I predicted when I began. I knew the digital revolution had finally arrived and it was time to climb on board. I had an old videocassette camera which I stuck on a tripod, pointed down at my drawing paper. I pressed the record buttin and started drawing!

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I was frustrated by the lack of drawing in schools since the introduction of the National Curriculum – I still am – so I made a simple video about how to use pencils, introducing my character, the Ginger Ninja. You can see it by clicking the picture or this link.

I think I did quite a good job! It took me a year to get a thousand views of that video. My last video reached over a thousand views overnight!

Click to see my NextUp video

I knew very little about making and editing videos then – I know an awful lot more now, mainly thanks to your help and the help of my viewers who voted for me to win the prestigious YouTube NextUp Europe competition. The prize money let me buy new equipment and bought me time to try out new things.

I also had a week at Google headquarters with the other amazing winners, learning how to make videos, edit them and run a successful channel. Click the the picture, or this link, to see the fun video I made during that week.

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My first channel has now received nearly eleven million video views and over 50 thousand subscribers! Not content with that, I began another channel, DrawStuffRealEasy making shorter, easier videos, which now has over 5 million views and over 30 thousand subscribers.

I’m now changing the style of those videos. I’ve gone back to basics. Each new video will be accompanied by a step-by-step downloadable sheet on my website – get the first one here! – which will eventually add up to make my first DrawStuffRealEasy how-to-draw book.

What about the next five years? I honestly don’t know. After five years I feel it’s time to freshen things up. There are many other people doing drawing videos on YouTube now, so I need to make my channel a bit more individual. It will be more about drawing than how to draw this or that. I’ll continue doing that kind of video on Drawstuffrealeasy.

The ShooRaynerDrawing channel will be more about drawing, drawing materials, illustration and story, because that’s what I’m most interested in. It might turn more into a video blog, who knows?

You can see the video that starts the next five years here or by clicking the picture.

Many thanks for all your support in the past and I hope you will stay watching for the next five years – who knows, my videos might be in 3D holographic style!

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Until next time, Keep drawing and reading!

Shoo Rayner

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