YMMV / Drawfee

• Angst? What Angst?: Played for laughs: in Cartoon Hell, Nathan and Jacob casually discuss their hellish torments as if they're no more grueling than a normal person's daily routine.
• Awesome Art: As every team member is a professional artist, all of the art they produce is high-quality... even when it veers into the realm of insanity or Stylistic Suck.
• Bizarro Episode: Drawfee Variety Hour tends to be more surreal than the main show in general, but Drawing With the Boys is on another level entirely. It begins with a Cold Open where the hosts are inexplicably transformed into The Theme Park Version of an "old-timey" rural mother and her three children, and goes up to eleven from there. They even describe the experience as akin to coming out of a trance afterwards, and have argued that it's probably set in a full-blown Alternate Universe.
• Crazy Is Cool:
  • The show itself, which essentially runs entirely on Rule of Funny and Rule of Cool, even — no, especially — if none of it makes any sense.
  • Julia has a reputation for going above and beyond in terms of technique and attention to detail. Perhaps the best example is in Artists Draw Themselves Into Their Favorite Anime: In order to keep her drawing as true to her show (Violet Evergarden) as possible, she learned Blender in 8 hours to create a 3D background, painted over it, and then drew her character. In comparison, everyone else opted not to include backgrounds in their drawings at all!
    • If The Mario Movie Was Made By DIFFERENT Animation Studios; where the others picked hand-drawn animation studios like Disney and Studio TRIGGER, Julia picked Aardman Animations as a joke. She then proceeded to spend 18 hours over the course of three days crafting a clay model of Luigi and a backdrop of a haunted house, complete with spooky lighting effects. Compare with Jacob, who completed his drawing in a little over an hour.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Often, the art is designed to be so crazy and/or disturbing that it becomes hilarious.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: The Yule Lads, which have returned and been referenced several times due to popular demand.
  • More recently, Merobiba from Turning Medieval Words Into Art, a derpy Merida from Disney's Brave.
  Julia: I'm Merobiba!
• Fan Nickname:
  • Nathan and Caldwell, the channel founders, are sometimes referred to as "Papa Caldwell" or "Daddy Nathan".
  • Julia has earned the nickname "Mother of Monsters" (no, not that Mother) for her habit of drawing deeply disturbing creatures.
• Growing the Beard:
  • While Drawfee has always been a consistently entertaining show, it really began to hit its stride with the first "Pokémon From Memory" challenge. Featuring the now-classic Caldwell/Nathan/Julia host configuration, more advanced post-production, and Julia's Spheal, it quickly became the channel's most-viewed episode and signaled the coming of more varied content beyond the "adjective-noun" format that earlier episodes almost exclusively used.
  • In terms of production values, the show did this again when the studio set was introduced. Sadly, this seems to have been temporary, as being cut off from CollegeHumor meant the loss of said studio.
  • In July 2020, Drawfee announced that it was 100% financially independent, ushering a new era of content that was stronger than ever before. This move also allowed them to produce in-depth passion projects like Drawtectives on a far more frequent basis.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Quite a few episodes become this in light of the mass-firing at CollegeHumor.
  • Their apologetic catchphrase — "We're sorry" — was just intended as a tounge-in-cheek reference to their drawings. Come January 2020 however, and the Drawfee crew suddenly had a very good reason to be sorry. As pointed out by several viewers, those words sounded more like a Cerebus Callback when they used it in their fateful announcement video.
  • The last video released before the announcement — the Drawga episode Monster Beach — has the hosts saying that this could be their last episode for all they know. While more Drawfee episodes have been made since, the future of the Drawga series specifically was still very much uncertain for a while. It also reeks of Dramatic Irony that the protagonists of that show finally became verified knights just as the actors playing them lost their jobs.
  • In Drawing Our Cyberpunk Future Selves — the last episode recorded before the news broke — they described the new decade as exciting but also intimidating, picturing 2020 as a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Later, they would compare the mass firing at CollegeHumor to an actual "apocalypse." To make matters worse, they later suggested that the technical issues in that video played a part in College Humor dropping the entire show.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • A few days after announcing the CollegeHumor situation, Drawfee uploaded the (not-quite-accurately-titled) beans video Drawfee Gets New Jobs, ensuring everyone that they weren't going anywhere just yet. Even better, they acknowledged that it was the massive amounts of support their fans had given them since the layoffs which enouraged them to keep the show and the channel running.
  • Once Drawfee became an independent channel and announced their Patreon, over 1000 patrons pledged their support within an hour. Saved by the Fans indeed.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Jacob drew a walking bird nest containing numerous chicks for the "Who's That Pokémon?" Challenge. A few weeks after the episode aired, a datamine of the Spaceworld 1997 demo for Pokémon Gold and Silver revealed that a planned pre-evolution of Doduo had a nearly identical design.
• Ho Yay:
  • Inevitably Nathan and Caldwell in the early episodes. Lampshaded when Caldwell announced he was getting married and suggested that the audience may have been expecting the two of them to.
  • In Drawing the Most Handsome Man, Julia and Karina face off to draw the most beautiful men they can. Once Julia finishes and Karina gets started on hers, it takes only minutes for Jacob to start shipping them. The sexual tension between these characters (Schmidt and Nando) grew so intense that Karina created a comic series starring the pair, appropriately titled "Hot Guy P.I.".
• LGBT Fanbase: The show has developed one due to being incredibly wholesome and for featuring a fair amount of characters who are LGBTQ+ and/or have an Ambiguous Gender, without being treated as strange because of it. The artists themselves are also very LGBTQ+ affirming on social media, and have designed official Drawfee pride merchandise for charity.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Spheal^Explantion Julia's bizarre interpretation of Spheal as a Paul Blart-esque mall cop in the channel's first Breakout Hit video very quickly caught on.
  • Room Full of Vampires ^Explanation For a Random Shapes Challenge episode that was ultimately scrapped due to technical issues, Julia transformed her shape into a room full of vampires. When the incident was discussed in "Random Shapes Challenge 2", it became a Noodle Incident of mythical proportions, with fans bombarding the comments to discuss it. "Room Full of Vampires" has since become a way of succinctly describing the show's irreverent humor, spawning fanart, an animatic and an entire Drawfee Beans dedicated to the concept.
  • Todd (From Mario)^Explanation On one of their livestreams, Karina misread a request to draw Toad from Mario as Todd from Mario. Julia drew Todd as a opossum with a Toad hat laying in a sensual pose. Bringing up or drawing Todd quickly became a Running Joke between the hosts (and largely an In-Joke since it happened on stream). Like the Room Full of Vampires, the mystique around Todd propelled him forward in the fanbase.
  • I'm Merobiba!^Explanation In the episode "Turning Medieval Words into Art," Julia latches onto the word "merobiba" and spins an alternate version of Merida from Brave, reimagining her as a toddler-like space case with the Character Catchphrase "I'm Merobiba!", attached at the end of every sentence.
  • Bobby Hill^Explanation Near-ubiquitously agreed to be the highlight of "Guess What Cartoon Character Julia is Drawing, I Dare You", where Julia's attempt at drawing Bobby Hill from memory drives all three of her co-hosts to Laughing Mad confusion over the course of five minutes.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • A lot of the drawings unintentionally end up this. In Julia's case, replace "a lot" with "almost all", and "unintentionally" with "very intentionally and to the utter horror of everyone around her" (at least when she doesn't go in the complete opposite direction and just draw a Sharp-Dressed Man, regardless of the subject's original nature, species or fashion sense.)
  • Julia's status as a Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant was further reinforced in The Fear of Painting, in which she collects souls for Satan.
• Portmanteau Couple Name: In Drawing the Most Handsome Man, Julia draws a man who ends up looking like Schmidt from New Girl, and Karina draws another man whom they end up naming Nando. Jacob subsequently gives them the shipping name Schmando.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: Jacob parodies this with his drawing for the randomly generated video game title Educational Duck Armageddon. It's a game where kids learn math from cartoon ducks... in the middle of an apocalypse while a duck screams at you to solve the equation or else his wife (and everyone else) will die.