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good stuff man... thanks

I just draw because i love seeing the final result. I hate the process.

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Thanks Vincent, this was great! Question, have you ever gotten together with people that are part of your community to draw? I have been following for a while, and have been taking similar classes, especially in regards to the figure. I was wondering if you ever get together with people online to draw, or if you even have the interest?

I think that problem you had with the drawing the camera from different angles is Spatial Awareness. I had to study a bunch on spatial awareness for test to get into sheet metal union back in 2010. Didn't cont even though I passed. Learning it help my drawing big time. Understanding how objects come together in a space. HVAC piping layout/design for say building.

What book did the assignments come from?

really helpful video seeing you improving give me push to continue drawing thx man

Can you share the name of the course that you have been referencing in the video please?

Oh boy that i have a long rant on courses coming given my last few courses ive been trying to study First of all, Tom Fox´s course is absolutely phenomenal and its what taught me the most of what i know for art and how to do art, but ive done that course about 3 years ago by now so a lot of that foundation is probably a bit lost right now, i will also mention Sorie Kim´s course also in domestika is equally as phenomenal and both are a must. Just these last few months ive been trying to study from other guys, which i don't really want to name and give them bad reputation, but both courses are for creating compositions in illustrations, with worldbuilding, landscapes and characters. But honestly both teachers were constantly really condescending to the point they would be rude, or they will skip a lot of the processes in their videos to you have to take for granted that you will not see how they do certain things or their thought process on how to shade (so on and so forth), one of them even had a 5 hour video of them unedited where they just draw with no input whatsoever on what he is doing or why is he doing it, and its a 40 hour long course! To the point that ive been bashing my head around them and i started forgetting to have fun or i wouldn't even draw because the things they were doing were off my limits, its been a really frustrating experience and it was a constant reminder of how much in just 2 hours Tom Fox was able to show so much knowledge and being able to actually follow him through the whole course and quite literally have FUN with him compared to a 40 HOUR LONG COURSE where the guy is constantly condescending to the viewer and its a genuine chore to get through the videos. I dont remember the last time i actually felt so depressed about my art before and after years of experience it was baffling to see me struggle so much with this. I think that i really needed your video quite literally RIGHT NOW because of how much these last 2 courses got to me, thank you for reminding me of Tom and to love what im doing.

what a great video i hope you have a wonderful day

Yooooooooooo I can't thank you enough for this detail explanation ❤ OMG

What course is this?

I owe you my first born child, sir. Thank you for giving me hope after years of frustration and hopelessness.

Nice video with good advices I wanted to ask you that I have seen many artist draw the ribcage & pelvis tilted but in your drawing I see it's not tilted can you please explain 😊

This video really spoke to me and is something i needed to hear. I'd consider myself somewhere between the middle and bottom stage but closer to the bottom. I've been drawing consistently for over 11 years but thanks to having a mild form of Spastic Cerebral Palsy my improvement seems to constantly hit a ceiling i cant break through. I've gotten to the point where i can somewhat draw simple cartoony things like Hanna Barbera or Cartoon Network characters i loved as a kid, but i still can't draw anything more complicated like Comic Books Heroes, Anime and Manga characters and anything realistic. Ironically i can do the guidelines for those more complex things just fine, but when it comes to adding the details my hand just won't do the necessary intricate linework needed and it ends up all messy and scribbly. My cartoon drawings also still end up a bit scribbly but still workable.

Domestika breaks my heart anymore. They used to offer great discounts; I could get courses for like 6-8 bucks each at times. I think they've put an end to that completely, and only try to push people into their subscription model. They've probably made more from me than I'd even have paid for a sub, but I refuse to be locked into something like that. I might be done paying them another cent. Instead, I'll keep burning up their servers, working through the backlog of courses I've paid for a la carte. Great video. Really digging your channel.

Hey Vincent moving forward what type of courses or exercises do you have planned for yourself? Im also wondering what your plan is on improving your head construction, will you start filling pages with heads and drawing them bigger so that you cant simplify and have have to draw all of the details of the face or do you plan on going to different art resources,going back to the proko course or isolating different facial features or landmarks? Best of luck

This is really helpful. Great video

Do you have an instagram or patreon or anything of the sort where we can follow your art besides youtube? Id support you for sure! If you did walk throughs of how your process works with drawing from imagination or from reference would also be great and highly educational!

3:01 It's funny that you say you skipped the contour because that was what immediately came to my attention when looking at the clothed people - "oh, he didn't add an actual body contour, that is a cube wearing a shirt". The majority of my study for years has been contour-focused and I've only gotten more into doing form and still life studies in the past few weeks, so it would be expected that I'd be sensitive to that. But I have had the opposite problem - I can get a nice contour, but I don't have the skill with form to keep it from floating around if I try to work from imagination. Just a little bit of work with still life has done a lot to clean it up, though, so maybe I'll get that more settled this year.

Great work! Such an inspiration for me that started drawing at 42 😊 One question, for the mannequins, are you taking the poses from references? Or completely going from imagination. Since you’re in practice mode, understanding the pose itself can be a challenge (overlaps, flow, etc)

whats the name of the sketchbook?

What kind of materials are you using? Line are so clean

Hello, Vincent. Thank you for sharing your skills, observations and thoughts. I would like to ask you how you decided that gestue drawing is enough? Many people talk about this skill, but there is very little information on how to move from this to further techniques.

You should have given the number of days or months you spent on each section :)

great to see..so many tutorials and I get overwhelmed and tried to do it all at once so I got nowhere. Will try this too:)

isaw one of your other videos and noticed this method bc I just took this course recently on domestika, I need to get the hang of drawing boxes. with time it'll get better. thanks for the video!

for me, I want to master my craft. that takes time, dedication, discipline, and patience. this is not something that happens overnight. this is a lifestyle, this is something that consumes me. there is so much to learn ( and I still know next to nothing - even when I'd get to a AAA quality level I'd probably still feel the same way I do right now ). anatomy, perspective, color & light, etc. are all things to master. but I do one thing at a time. I have my vision, and I break that down into tangible steps I can devote time and energy into every single day. I want to truly understand the fundamentals. for anatomy, I break it down into the head, the torso, the arms, and the legs. but I don't just do studies of photos. no. I want to understand the skeletal structure first and foremost. what veins does that area have? where do they connect? what muscles are in the area? where do they connect, and how do the move / flex? what are the proportions of these forms? then at the end I can do some studies of faces for example. but at that point I'm not learning at the surface, I am practicing rendering these forms after hours and hours and hours of learning and studying their foundations. if I just tried to do studies of faces, then I'd be great at drawing faces in a few months. but do I actually understand the inner workings of the face? probably not. and that is the level of knowledge and mastery I am aiming for. that takes a lifetime to accomplish. since there is much to learn, I pick ONE thing to learn and do one thing at a time. for now, it's anatomy with the head first. next year I may learn creature anatomy ( since it's similar to human anatomy, but human anatomy is much more important to learn first ), and lastly, this is my own path. I am figuring all of this out on my own. at the end of the day it is up to me to get to work and learn what works for me and what I want to focus on. so learn what works for you, decide what you want to work on first, hold your vision, and get after it

Hi, When you say you have finished Tom Fox's book, do you mean that you have reproduced all the drawings from his book? What does finishing a book mean to you? And did you try to memorize all the muscles by heart, or did you let the process come naturally into your memory?

I'm struggling with this now. When I add detail, it's ugly. =)

this is me with shapes, i’ve been trying to study and practice shapes before moving to forms and even though it can get monotonous at times i know these fundamentals are worth it. but does anyone have any good exercises for shapes?

Thank you 🔥🔥

Me starting the video: this guy can't really be this giddy about this rotation trick. Me immediately after you demonstrate the first rotation: I am ALSO this giddy about this rotation trick.

I´m speechlees with the fact of, how many sketchbooks have you complited?, Consistency is the key to improving and that feeling of happiness when you finaly draw something you wanted and worked for, is something I want to maintain throughout my life, your channel found me at the time I needed it most, your words really got to me, new suscriber!!

you save my life

Lol 11 in four years. Try 20 in one year. I still suck btw 😅

thanks

woah

Hey Vincent, would you be willing to be an art mentor? Let me know, I would like someone to review my art with etc.

So what do you do? YOU DRAW MORE OF THEM😂

It’s truly inspiring to see how much you’ve improved over time! It would be incredibly helpful if you could create a video that outlines a step-by-step plan for people to follow. This way, they won’t feel lost and can navigate their journeys more easily. I believe it would be a valuable resource for many! =D

It took you 2 years and 10 months to master this subject?

what course are you taking? Unfortunately the only course im taking rn is for my degree and the instructor doesnt really draw much and just gives us assignments

how much did the course cost? is like to take an anatomy study course, as thinking about joining Skillshare but don't have enough to pay over $100 for a year

I’m actually grateful for this video. The Tom fox course was only 1£ and it’s the 1st course I’ve paid for learning art. Your added examples for the mannequin has really helped also. Thank you.

Thank you for sharing this method. It certainly helps to create these rotations in your mind.

Well spoken, but I think it would be even more helpful if you were explicit on why some people struggle with appreciating their own art: perfectionism. I am not a psychologist, so I may very well be wrong, but it is my understanding that perfectionism has underlying psychological reasons such as, wittingly or unwittingly, wanting acceptance or to be seen. Unless one recognize that perfectionism, i.e. a possible unanswered need to feel acceptance, hinders you to feel joy or happiness, it really doesn't matter how good, famous and rich these personality type become, they will always feel empty, like a fake or failure, inside.

What we need to learn depends only on what we wants to achieve. Not taking this into account is why most drawing advice does not work. I.e. you may be practising, but are you practising the right things to help you develop? Also, is it the process of drawing we enjoy or the end result? I.e. do we care if we develop or not, or do we just draw because we like to draw? Perfectionist are personality types that cares for the end result. This is their strength AND weakness. The need for perfection drives them to go the miles and becomes masters. However, at the same time they hate their own work, no matter how skilful they become. A perfectionist will always feel they lack something. This is a bit sad, because perfectionist may become excellent at what they do, praised by everyone, but on the inside, they feel empty, unable to find their own inner peace. There is always that new hill to climb, or so their inner voice keeps telling them....

Thanks <3

Beginner here. Wondering if, prior to this course, are there other Proko courses that I should take? Is there a progression that one should follow such as starting with drawing basics/perspective/etc? Thanks.