Same lol, I love the anime art you make tho, and the advice was so useful it boosted up my confidence in art so I’d like to thank you for that ❤ Btw what’s your fav anime or anime character?
Im a beginner and this literally cured my art block i was crying Cause i couldnt draw humans backgrounds and etc but now i realized That i draw other things better and Thats just What i Need for now tysm
THANK YOU SO MUCH it helps a lot 😭 I get frustrated all the time bcs I'm not yet experienced in digital art and I feel like I don't know how to paint and I compare myself a lot with my fave artists But I keep telling myself that it takes time to learn that skill And having someone tell me their experience with that just helped me a lot, thank you❤
6. Study basic shapes and draw them in different perspectives. 7. U S E References.. people often think using references to draw is like cheating but I tell them how can you draw a car if you've never seen a car before? How can you know a circle is a circle if you've never seen a circle before... 8. Don't get hyper fixated on artists more skilled than you, they're likely got way more experience than you and trying to be like them is one thing but beating yourself up because you are not close will only further hinder your progress.
As for the coloring, you're absolutely right. I'm not saying that I didn't understand it back in the days, but sometimes it really takes a toll, especially now, when I got a little more confident with my lines and anatomy and I think that I'm capable of coloring it properly. Well, NO!
Line art is all I know. I'm self-taught. I wish I could do that whole body thing. Also, I use paper. A digital drawing thing looks cool. Maybe I can afford one someday. Hehe Great advice. ✌🏽🖖🏽
I've only started digitally drawing around three days ago.I've become obsessed and finished 4 good pictures. The thing is, i spend alot of focus on the people and then the background is just blurry and i barely try on it - but somehow it works and gives it a camera effect soooo
I've been drawing for a bit over 3 years now and didn't even realize it, now I improved my coloring very well but my drawings, anatomy, and line art have been left to rot in 2021. (Total opposite of this vid btw).
It takes me a while to improve on things, I have been drawing and singing for 13 years I think and I still can’t draw eyes good or hands even though I only draw full body, and I can barely keep up the high notes in the song This Girl Is On Fire
As a digital artist, I can truly agree that coloring is the most difficult thing to do whenever you're illustrating something. AND YET COMES RENDERING-
@@hotsouse5569 Oh, well, rendering is like shading! [ i suppose-] Edit: My mistake, rendering is actually a part of coloring. Rendering gives life to your drawings!
I don't know, I'm a complete beginner and I can't seem to wrap my head around drawing. I swear it feels like there's a mental wall that is blocking me from understanding. And the learning process is boring for drawing, I can't keep being consistent. Coloring however, is more fun to learn and practice and it's easy for my poopoo brain.
As someone who’s completely used to traditional art, trying digital was hell😭. It’s as if i was learning to draw all over again. Seeing improvement in my digital drawings was awesome though! Still a long way to go, but i’m getting it where i want it to be:D
Ikr like omg it’s like 6 years of my life basically just gone when it comes to digital art (I am pretty good at like drawing but rendering and lineart all that is just ieiehduegwudhsiw)
@@starcrumblez They are pretty expensive though, well some are. You can search up videos on how to make on but I made mine by getting a thin marker and taking out the tip, cutting down the top until the opening on big enough. Then I get a Q-tip and cut it into less than half and put water on the top of the Q-tip and squeeze it out the insert the other side (not the fluffy part) into the thin marker.
Broke my Apple Pencil and had to save up money to buy another one and now I’m trying to relearn an art style that I haven’t drawn in for four months 😭😭😭
Just draw what you like, finding an 'art style" should be natural and not something your forcing yourself to have. It's unique because it's what you enjoy (and it's supposed to change )
For anyone who is frustrated about not feeling like you’re improving: I’ve been drawing for 8 years. I learn very slowly and have trouble moving out of my comfort zone, but am trying very hard, so I ended up not understanding a lot of fundamentals until now. I was mostly a sketch artist until now. am still after 8 years, learning coloring, lighting, shading, rendering, line weight, posing, positioning, fluidity, and much more. You can do this. Don’t be hard on yourself. Don’t worry about it looking horrible in your own eyes, just draw. Draw anything. Some things that helped me are -draw on top of something, then draw it on your own, then draw it next to the reference. - try to draw something tiny every day but don’t push yourself. Only draw when YOU want to! - don’t be afraid of color messing up a good sketch. Just because it’s hard to master, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try it! -don’t take any ONE art help video as a lifeline! Use many and find what helps you understand a skill best! There is no one way to learn a skill, and if you can’t understand something, try a different approach! And most importantly -take a BREAK from your art for a bit after drawing, and then come back to it!!! It REALLY HELPS!! You’ll immediately see your mistakes and try to correct them!
first step of learning how to draw is drawing. dont worry yourself too much on fundamentals or any of that stuff, draw until you are comfortable to take your time and then learn how to draw. The order should be like this: open/get a canvas draw and then you learn. Not learning and then drawing
So actually the 4th tip about not being good overnight is actually really useful for me. I was one of those gifted burnout kids so if something doesn’t come naturally to me I sorta just give up. But I’m really set on being an at least decent artist so just the reminder that it’s GONNA TAKE TIME and I can’t just be good at it immediately is good for me. Thank you❤❤❤ also your art is stunning and I wish I had gotten a better look at the Tanjiro one
I am an Ibis Paint X artist. For no. 5 I gotta say 1,000 x 1,000 doesn't look pixelated at all, in my art app at least. (I'm close-sighted and have to wear glasses that just makes things a bit bigger, However I can live without them as itc's not blurry at all.) Plus on another one of my art sites (pixilart where the max is 700 x 700) I use 500 x 500 and there are some tricks to make the art seem less pixelated there, which is using a bigger canvas (I think the magic starts around 300 x 300) and thinner lines. Edit: Autocorrect pixilart as pixel art so I had to fix it.
So while you can use smaller canvases (and indeed, some art styles are best viewed on smaller canvases, and it sounds like you're in the art-niche where small canvases make the difference as Pixel Art styles are the only thing that come to mind for 'small canvas is best choice') the general rule is go large. Typically digital art turns out better when you start large and shrink. It's the equivalent of painting a life size portrait in oil paints. You're up close absolutely loading this space with details then you step back (zoom out or shrink your image in digital art) and it all comes together with nothing getting 'lost' in the distance. You can fit 'more' into a larger canvas than a small one. From more details outright to more implied details to more characters, etc. If you've found a way to make small canvases work for you, that's great. But it's really, REALLY important advice to share that "large canvases are better" because a lot of digital artists don't learn this until much, much later in their experiences and they miss out on a lot of growth opportunity early on. I, for one, favored smaller canvases because I could 'finish' the piece quicker. Which is true. But couldn't fit the details I wanted to into the art. When I finally started pursuing fine detail work I was forced to move to larger canvases where I discovered not all of my skills translate well. I developed very bad art habits to make small canvases work for me and I'm having to unlearn these habits in order to start learning new things. It's taken me 2 years of forcing myself to work larger for me to see improvement. But the improvement was absolutely worth it. I can cram details into my more elaborate images with less effort now. I can imply the details instead of going in and refining every single pearl in a necklace just for those details to become a muddy, blurry or pixelated mess, for example. What you can spend 10 hours doing in a tiny spot on a small canvas you can probably slap out in 2 hours with implied detail that get the job done. Most of the popular or 'top' artists we see today don't refine every single detail, they imply things with shapes and dots of light and color and then refine the most important parts of the image (such as the character or the face of the character) WLOP is a great example of implied details instead of highly-refined hyper-realistic details.
@@HuTao_BestPyroMain not sure which program you use, but let's say it's procreate - make life easier with layers. Have your line art on one layer, and when you're satisfied, set it as your reference layer. Open another layer beneath this one to colour on, and you can drag and drop colours to fill the large spaces neatly within the bounds of your line art. After you set your base colours like this, you have the option to add further depth to the colour layer: - unselect the line art layer as a reference layer - add a layer above the colour layer and set it to clipping - add your variations of colour - they will stay within the bounds of the colour layer.
I would also recommend having messy shading. I used to do very solid blocks of shading and it was boring for me and didn't look very good anyway, but I switched the brush option to an oil paint style and made my shading messier and it looked better, was much easier to do, and I had more fun drawing that way. This isn't really a rule just a tip for anyone who also struggles with shading and dislikes it like I did. This is how I do it, but every artist works differently and that's perfectly okay. So I guess my real advice is to not be afraid of trying something new and using new techniques in you art! You might discover a way of doing things you like way better
yeah, tha's what i noticed abt my self doing art at first. I studied multimedia arts n animation and most of my classmates and ofc my proffesor do that thing like putting a solid color of grey for value (from lighter to dark or vice versa) but for me tbh, i tried to explore because for me it doesn't fit on my logic so what i found that perfectly convince and made me happier is the exact thing that you said, "The Messy Way of blending thru strokes) I don't do the grayscale instead i on the spot choosing color that im seeing in my head that would fit the blending and using smudging, blur, and those paint that have pure dots for helping me the next step for coloring the texture and the texture itself (don't know if you get it 😅). So yeah m more satisfied and confused why Im like this and not like them, questioning if im doing it in the wrong path.
very objective just because you were bad at solid shading does not make it bad at all, you just werent good enough to see it for what its worth but there are examples of artists who excel at it you can check out where they show work that is as good as non solid shading
@@mosart7068 I know its objective? I wasn't saying its a bad way to do shading, just that I found a different way to do it that worked better for me. I shared my personal method here in case someone had the same struggles I did or just wanted to experiment with something new in their art.
something that is very important that I heard was "don't compare yourself to other artists, compare yourself to yourself a year ago." and that "taste" or your eye for art will develop quicker than your skill. (you get better quicker in seeing why something looks off but it takes time until you understand how to correct it as well)
I have a tip myself: if you find that drawing certain things works better for you on paper but you want the ease and comfort of digital art, then simply take a picture of the art done on paper and use the line extraction feature. My friend pointed it out to as I was importing a paper drawing into Ibis Paint and I wish I had known it's existence sooner. Just keep in mind that you'll likely be doing some fix up work on it depending on how much is already drawn.
The "you just need to practice" is unfortunately not obvious to everyone... At least to me it wasn't 😅 I am a traditional media artist myself, very good with pencil and (for some reason) oil pastels. And I just thought this would be just like that. I can't be THAT BAD if I know how to colour, shadow whatever and I know my way around illustration programmes... Well that was a fuckin delusion. And going from 100 to zero "overnight" is something that I can't get over and I can't make myself try again. So I am just watching videos like yours 😂
This is funny to me because its the opposite for me. Coloring feels borderline effortless to do and learn more about while Line Art feels like such a monumental challenge.
I agree, though the lady in the video makes it sound like she learned to color AFTER she learned to draw. Whereas I learned to draw and color, TRADITIONALLY, at the same time. It took me much longer to fill in all that space, and it was stressful knowing that if I made a mistake with shading I wouldn't be able to cover it with a gel pen. Only over the past year have I learned to draw and color digitally, and now coloring feels effortless compared to before thanks to the paint bucket and the ability to undo. So, coloring is harder in traditional drawing, but easier in digital, at least for me.
I came here for the drawing tips, stayed for the amazing Sigma painting, CAN WE TALK HOW BEAUTIFUL IT IS????? Also the tips really helpful! ty so much for this!!!! cant wait for future videos!! 😄
Tysm! About lineart..I could somewhat relate to you. As someone who has really shaky hands I spent way more time than necessary just on trying to perfect my lines which was pretty useless at the end since I just went with drawing messy lines instead
I'm like the exact opposite. I find drawing to be a million times harder than coloring. I'm legally blind and was never able to find a method of practice that worked for me. So I ended up with really imbalanced skills. Coloring came more naturally because I wasn't afraid of making mistakes. People don't judge coloring as harshly. So the fear of failure wasn't as overwhelming for me as it is with every other aspect of art.
Okay, but when I was young I thought I needed to use as big of a canvas as possible (like 16000x16000 kind of big) and then realized that a lot of details get lost and you need a huge brush size to really make a difference when it comes to pen pressure. So, there is not only just "too small of a canvas", there is also "too big of a canvas". ....Also your PC will die. Don't do it.
Okay hi! I’m a new fan and I learned about you like a week ago and honestly in that week I became addicted to your art. Your a amazing artist and I wish I could draw like you and because of your art and this video I think I’m inspired to draw digitally again. Tysm and again, I love your art.
Hi!! omg truly this made my entire week, thank you so so much! I wish I could frame this and look at it when i'm sad :'D You're so sweet and I'm so glad that is inspired you draw digitally again! If you ever post your art I'd love to see it :)) Thank you so much again!
Coloring and rendering is the most fun for me because I get to experiment on it every art I do. Right now, shadows are what I'm improving the most. Lineart however, is where I usually take days to finish and is a pain in the ass
lowkey needed to hear this, "lineart can be messy", i'll spend most of my art time cleaning up my lineart so it looks nice, and by the end of it i'll drop the piece and end up not finishing it because i hate, and i mean HATE doing lineart and lines in general, so ty very much :D
This was really helpful for me. I have been a fan of a anime "Dragon Ball Z" since i was young and i started drawing the character's from it from time to time and i can say without a shadow of a doubt that i have improved in drawing in that anime style quite a bit since my first time but since i couldn't still draw a regular anime style male / female i felt like I'm not a good artist yet but this actually boosted me. Im slowly developing and practising other styles and basic autonomy and I'm confident now i will improve even more with practice ! Thanks and Keep up the great work ! 🙌
Your pieces aren't pixelated because of small canvases. your pieces are pixelated because of low DPI. (or PPI (pixels per inch) dots per inch) Upping the DPI in your canvas settings will automatically increase the size of your canvas because of the increase of information that is contained per inch. You also need to work in high DPI because web DPI is automatically set at 72 and when you upload your pieces to the internet, the web will automatically compress your pieces down to that ratio. FB has it's own internal compression program so it will compress your files AGAIN when you upload art to it (and low dpi at start = extra blurry (it does this with photos too)) So generally for clean line art / smooth looking pieces a DPI of 300 will work just fine.
I really dislike guides that tell you how to do this because it's simply not true... well, it MAY be for some, but not for all, and this is why I have a grudge against all art youtubers who make guides telling what to do, or what not to do, because it simply doesn't work that way, there is no right or wrong way of doing things, there is no better or worse way, it's all down to the learning individual, it's literally a personal matter for each and every single artist. All guides should be on how you CAN do something, it's only one of MANY ways to tackle the issue, not "dis good, dis bad", it's a horrible take, what works for you won't necessary work for other people, and if something worked for them doesn't mean it will work for you. The right mindset to have is to watch as many guides/tutorials as you can to see how other people approach the same thing from different angles, and then pick what suits you personally. THAT is the ring way to do whatever- the way that suits your workflow. I found myself struggling more with art by watching guides and getting overwhelmed by them; do this, do that, don't do it this way- and as a result I liked drawing, obviously, that's why we all do it, but I hated the process, until one day I sat down with a piece of paper and started writing down what I like in art, what are my favorite artists, what I like about them, what I like in my art, what I would like to change and what I really hate about it, and the process of drawing was the main problem. Bottom line is don't just blindly listen to other artists, they will explain to you how they do things, and what works for them, you need to find your own way, just keep what they told you in mind, some of that knowledge may still come useful, maybe you'll mix and merge few infos from guides byt hem into your own technique.
What a wonderful human being, your energy is appreciated, even though this video is 2 years old now, as someone that's just walked into art for a few weeks, your energy has quelled my feelings of giving up, thank you for existing ☺
Thank you for this! It’s so true! Me in high school had no problem drawing manga style characters and shading with pencil. But me at the moment who did not draw for 10+ years and just started to do digital art, felt so highly that coloring/rendering is wayyyy more difficult than drawing.
Another thing I will add to this, don’t be afraid to use reference pictures! I’ve been doing art for almost a year now (mainly traditional, but also I make little MCYT animatics in flipaclip from time to time) and I still use reference pictures for my character designs, dynamic poses, and etc. I also kind of disagree with the part about coloring. While it can be much harder than the drawing itself, I personally LOVE the process of adding color to my works! It brings that extra bit of life to them and just ties everything together impo
THIS using references is so, so, SO important and can drastically improve art. and i can't tell you how much my dumb, lazy ass forgets or don't feel like looking for refs. but the difference between my art where i used reference compared to my art i used without is very clear. not only irl refs but if you can't think of anything to draw, looking at other people's art can inspire ideas! ideas don't just come out of nowhere, it always comes from something. and nobody should feel bad if they can't think of ideas on the fly
Dip me in chocolate and call me impressive but coloring is like the most fun part about drawing for me. Shadowing ect are pain, but thinking about which colours to use according to the vibe you wanna give ect is soooo much fun. Also, for the majority of my life I thought lineart is the GOAT. 100% mandatory, holds 95% of the drawings value. That is not true like lineart is important and it can give your drawing a sharp edge, but you don't need to hyperfixate on it. What is a good artist tho? When I was in school, my art teachers used to tell me that anime art is no art at all and that only hyper realism matters. Up until 11th grade, I believed that. And then I got a new art teacher (one who was disliked a lot because she could be strict but a very lovely person if you were interested in art) and she 1000% supported any type, kind or form of art and it was really valuable to have her teach me. I'm by no means good at drawing, but I still try because it's fun. And you know, one day I might suck a bit less and that would be kinda cool.
Coloring is so darksided. I genuinely think the best thing for someone to do when starting drawing (digital or traditional) is to start in grayscale. If you learn values first (meaning using shades of gray to make highlights and shadows), coloring will come easier. There’s a reason traditional art classes start you out in grayscale. It removes the behemoth of coloring from the process.
I MADE THIS 2 YEARS AGO WHY ARE PEOPLE FINDING THIS😭(i should make an updated version...)
i got recommended this rn 😭😭 AND I’D LOVE AN UPDATED VERSION !!!! :3
Yes please!!
Totes!!
Same lol, I love the anime art you make tho, and the advice was so useful it boosted up my confidence in art so I’d like to thank you for that ❤
Btw what’s your fav anime or anime character?
It was recommended to me
Im a beginner and this literally cured my art block i was crying Cause i couldnt draw humans backgrounds and etc but now i realized That i draw other things better and Thats just What i Need for now tysm
The moment I saw scara...i was sold
0:54 aye why he kinda looking like Xiao from genshin inpact- *KHUGH* ITS THE FACE AND HAIR😭😭
1:45 SCARA
lmaoaoaoaoaooao we love anemo boys
I dont even know how to draw a male body,male eyes,male hair-
AND I CANT EVEN DRAW A CARTOON-LIKE STYLE-
THANK YOU SO MUCH it helps a lot 😭 I get frustrated all the time bcs I'm not yet experienced in digital art and I feel like I don't know how to paint and I compare myself a lot with my fave artists
But I keep telling myself that it takes time to learn that skill
And having someone tell me their experience with that just helped me a lot, thank you❤
6. Study basic shapes and draw them in different perspectives.
7. U S E References.. people often think using references to draw is like cheating but I tell them how can you draw a car if you've never seen a car before? How can you know a circle is a circle if you've never seen a circle before...
8. Don't get hyper fixated on artists more skilled than you, they're likely got way more experience than you and trying to be like them is one thing but beating yourself up because you are not close will only further hinder your progress.
When i saw the tanjiro art i was “OMG ITS TANJIRO!!” Girl ily sm
As for the coloring, you're absolutely right. I'm not saying that I didn't understand it back in the days, but sometimes it really takes a toll, especially now, when I got a little more confident with my lines and anatomy and I think that I'm capable of coloring it properly. Well, NO!
I create art in Shapes rather than Lines. So I use Adobe Illustrator a lot for my art, then pop it into adobe photoshop to give it the 'fancy touch'.
Aight that was all I needed, time to make master piece in one night and procrastinate for 2 days
Line art is all I know. I'm self-taught. I wish I could do that whole body thing. Also, I use paper. A digital drawing thing looks cool. Maybe I can afford one someday. Hehe
Great advice. ✌🏽🖖🏽
Okay but EXCUSE MEE?? SEVERELY UNDERRATED VIDEO?? HELLO??
I SAW ILLUMI AND KILLUA AND I LOVE IT
I've only started digitally drawing around three days ago.I've become obsessed and finished 4 good pictures. The thing is, i spend alot of focus on the people and then the background is just blurry and i barely try on it - but somehow it works and gives it a camera effect soooo
I've been drawing for a bit over 3 years now and didn't even realize it, now I improved my coloring very well but my drawings, anatomy, and line art have been left to rot in 2021. (Total opposite of this vid btw).
*sees Shoto*
*clicking speed intensifies*
omg
Thanks sis for ur advice (practice 🤠)
I thought coloring was easy… never knew it was actually this difficult 😭
FR
BSD METIONED
It takes me a while to improve on things, I have been drawing and singing for 13 years I think and I still can’t draw eyes good or hands even though I only draw full body, and I can barely keep up the high notes in the song This Girl Is On Fire
I skipped the entire thing and learned how to color as a kid then completely forgot because it's different digitally 😅
Hiii love ur art and also what is the square brush you use called?
Wait so I don't have to stress over line art!? Thanks!!!!
Who just saw the short that said coloring doesnt matter before watching this 😭
Btw love your drawings😭💗
I use concepts app for infinite canvas
I finally found someone else who spells “colour” with a U
This is so cursed but I make linear by using a normal pen (rounded) and the manually sharpen the ends
I've been tryna do messy lineart nowadays
Let's be honest here, you either clicked this because you actually wanna learn how to draw digital art or you saw Todoroki 😭🎀
no i clicked bc "dont do line art" on the thunbnail
Why is this on my recommendations now 😭
I love all this hxh, bsd, and genshin I saw in this video 🥹
As a digital artist, I can truly agree that coloring is the most difficult thing to do whenever you're illustrating something.
AND YET COMES RENDERING-
Beleive me i dont even understand what is rendering till this day
@@hotsouse5569 Oh, well, rendering is like shading! [ i suppose-]
Edit: My mistake, rendering is actually a part of coloring. Rendering gives life to your drawings!
I don't know, I'm a complete beginner and I can't seem to wrap my head around drawing. I swear it feels like there's a mental wall that is blocking me from understanding. And the learning process is boring for drawing, I can't keep being consistent. Coloring however, is more fun to learn and practice and it's easy for my poopoo brain.
@CelesteVZ I too had fun with coloring when I was a beginner like you!
@@hotsouse5569 rendering is kinda like shading but makes it more realistic andd more smoother ig
As someone who’s completely used to traditional art, trying digital was hell😭. It’s as if i was learning to draw all over again. Seeing improvement in my digital drawings was awesome though! Still a long way to go, but i’m getting it where i want it to be:D
I just ordered a pen tablet to start My journey
Ikr like omg it’s like 6 years of my life basically just gone when it comes to digital art (I am pretty good at like drawing but rendering and lineart all that is just ieiehduegwudhsiw)
Pens really help. I actually made one cause DAMN THOSE THINGS ARE EXPENSIVE! The one I made actually works pretty well too.
@@RebiiM rlly? I should prob get a pen, bc I’m just drawing with my finger on my phone on ibispaint bc I’m poor
@@starcrumblez They are pretty expensive though, well some are. You can search up videos on how to make on but I made mine by getting a thin marker and taking out the tip, cutting down the top until the opening on big enough. Then I get a Q-tip and cut it into less than half and put water on the top of the Q-tip and squeeze it out the insert the other side (not the fluffy part) into the thin marker.
lesson learned, just dont color your drawings! :) LINE ART FOREVERRR.
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Anotha edit :D : ooo 627 likes noice
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Fr fr 🗣️🗣️🔥
But then messy line art 😭
Sketches forever
you would be amazed to know that greyscale colouring is way harder than normal colouring
i'd learn how to draw and colour in like a month then spend the rest of the year trying to find my artstyle lmfao💀💀
Real like I took 3 years 😭😭
Broke my Apple Pencil and had to save up money to buy another one and now I’m trying to relearn an art style that I haven’t drawn in for four months 😭😭😭
I've been drawing for a decade and still don't have a unique art style
Just draw what you like, finding an 'art style" should be natural and not something your forcing yourself to have. It's unique because it's what you enjoy (and it's supposed to change )
Fr i would just copy paste the art 😅
okay but can we talk about her immaculate taste in anime/genshin characters?!?
Yes, yes we can.
Fr!
IKRR I WAS LIKE "WOAAHAHAAA". LIKE SUCH GOOD ART TOO
Fr, the Scaramouche and dazai ones
Ya! Dazai, Sigma, Xiao, Hu Tao, Tanjiro, Scara, and many more!
For anyone who is frustrated about not feeling like you’re improving:
I’ve been drawing for 8 years.
I learn very slowly and have trouble moving out of my comfort zone, but am trying very hard, so I ended up not understanding a lot of fundamentals until now.
I was mostly a sketch artist until now.
am still after 8 years, learning coloring, lighting, shading, rendering, line weight, posing, positioning, fluidity, and much more.
You can do this. Don’t be hard on yourself. Don’t worry about it looking horrible in your own eyes, just draw. Draw anything.
Some things that helped me are
-draw on top of something, then draw it on your own, then draw it next to the reference.
- try to draw something tiny every day but don’t push yourself. Only draw when YOU want to!
- don’t be afraid of color messing up a good sketch. Just because it’s hard to master, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try it!
-don’t take any ONE art help video as a lifeline! Use many and find what helps you understand a skill best! There is no one way to learn a skill, and if you can’t understand something, try a different approach!
And most importantly
-take a BREAK from your art for a bit after drawing, and then come back to it!!! It REALLY HELPS!! You’ll immediately see your mistakes and try to correct them!
first step of learning how to draw is drawing.
dont worry yourself too much on fundamentals or any of that stuff, draw until you are comfortable to take your time and then learn how to draw.
The order should be like this:
open/get a canvas
draw
and then you learn. Not learning and then drawing
N O 👹👹👹I’ll never stop spending 5 hours on lineart bcz I like it
"You don't have to be good at everything to be a good artist"
True, that's why I'm a bad artist, I'm terrible at everything.
You got it man, you'll get there one day.
Just keep drawing i guess lololololololol
Im dieing ive gone through 2 sketch books already and have almost no improvement whatsoever 🤣😅😔
Same
Same
Yeah u r
So actually the 4th tip about not being good overnight is actually really useful for me. I was one of those gifted burnout kids so if something doesn’t come naturally to me I sorta just give up. But I’m really set on being an at least decent artist so just the reminder that it’s GONNA TAKE TIME and I can’t just be good at it immediately is good for me. Thank you❤❤❤ also your art is stunning and I wish I had gotten a better look at the Tanjiro one
Omg me tooo! It keeps me from starting things when I know it won’t turn out like I expect it!
lol I was the same, I've been drawing for 5 years and I'm kinda decent, but it'll take a lot of effort fren
1:38 I didn’t expect to see Dazai
love this video
SAMEE
me too!!
and sigma as well!
RIGHT?? BSD FANART IS NOWHERE ON YT
FR ??? AND SIGMA AND LANGA TOO
LOVE THE COLUMBINA, TANJIRO, DAMIAN, SHOTO, ANYA AND SCARAMOUCHE ARTTTT btw so goodddd how didnt this get at least 1k likes???????
Real😢
AND XIAO
Poor xiao getting leftout
The columbina jumpscared me in a good way 😭😭😭
And Jaeha! 😆
I am an Ibis Paint X artist.
For no. 5 I gotta say 1,000 x 1,000 doesn't look pixelated at all, in my art app at least. (I'm close-sighted and have to wear glasses that just makes things a bit bigger, However I can live without them as itc's not blurry at all.)
Plus on another one of my art sites (pixilart where the max is 700 x 700) I use 500 x 500 and there are some tricks to make the art seem less pixelated there, which is using a bigger canvas (I think the magic starts around 300 x 300) and thinner lines.
Edit: Autocorrect pixilart as pixel art so I had to fix it.
Ok but I use the exact same apps... IBIS for my usual art and I've been getting into pixel art using Pixilart for potential game sprites :3
So while you can use smaller canvases (and indeed, some art styles are best viewed on smaller canvases, and it sounds like you're in the art-niche where small canvases make the difference as Pixel Art styles are the only thing that come to mind for 'small canvas is best choice') the general rule is go large. Typically digital art turns out better when you start large and shrink. It's the equivalent of painting a life size portrait in oil paints. You're up close absolutely loading this space with details then you step back (zoom out or shrink your image in digital art) and it all comes together with nothing getting 'lost' in the distance.
You can fit 'more' into a larger canvas than a small one. From more details outright to more implied details to more characters, etc. If you've found a way to make small canvases work for you, that's great. But it's really, REALLY important advice to share that "large canvases are better" because a lot of digital artists don't learn this until much, much later in their experiences and they miss out on a lot of growth opportunity early on. I, for one, favored smaller canvases because I could 'finish' the piece quicker. Which is true. But couldn't fit the details I wanted to into the art. When I finally started pursuing fine detail work I was forced to move to larger canvases where I discovered not all of my skills translate well. I developed very bad art habits to make small canvases work for me and I'm having to unlearn these habits in order to start learning new things. It's taken me 2 years of forcing myself to work larger for me to see improvement. But the improvement was absolutely worth it. I can cram details into my more elaborate images with less effort now. I can imply the details instead of going in and refining every single pearl in a necklace just for those details to become a muddy, blurry or pixelated mess, for example.
What you can spend 10 hours doing in a tiny spot on a small canvas you can probably slap out in 2 hours with implied detail that get the job done. Most of the popular or 'top' artists we see today don't refine every single detail, they imply things with shapes and dots of light and color and then refine the most important parts of the image (such as the character or the face of the character) WLOP is a great example of implied details instead of highly-refined hyper-realistic details.
Ma'am sir WHY HAVENT YOU BLOWN UP ??! IS THE TH-cam ALGORITHM A BIT BONKERS NOT TO BLOW THIS UP btw love the tanjiro art ✨🖤
AHHA THANK YOU
@@viyaurait happened lol
@@Yescuzynot a year late lol
@@gingerrr_ it still happened 🤷♀️
My drawings usually take 5-30 minutes then the colouring takes like 60 minutes
real
I only sketch messily and consider it done (definitely NOT done… but… yeah! 😅) so it takes me like 10 minutes
what are you drawing that takes you only an hour to do
@@2amCryptid the colouring takes an hour because like I have to get it perfectly in the lines
@@HuTao_BestPyroMain not sure which program you use, but let's say it's procreate - make life easier with layers.
Have your line art on one layer, and when you're satisfied, set it as your reference layer. Open another layer beneath this one to colour on, and you can drag and drop colours to fill the large spaces neatly within the bounds of your line art.
After you set your base colours like this, you have the option to add further depth to the colour layer:
- unselect the line art layer as a reference layer
- add a layer above the colour layer and set it to clipping
- add your variations of colour - they will stay within the bounds of the colour layer.
I would also recommend having messy shading. I used to do very solid blocks of shading and it was boring for me and didn't look very good anyway, but I switched the brush option to an oil paint style and made my shading messier and it looked better, was much easier to do, and I had more fun drawing that way.
This isn't really a rule just a tip for anyone who also struggles with shading and dislikes it like I did. This is how I do it, but every artist works differently and that's perfectly okay. So I guess my real advice is to not be afraid of trying something new and using new techniques in you art! You might discover a way of doing things you like way better
yeah, tha's what i noticed abt my self doing art at first. I studied multimedia arts n animation and most of my classmates and ofc my proffesor do that thing like putting a solid color of grey for value (from lighter to dark or vice versa) but for me tbh, i tried to explore because for me it doesn't fit on my logic so what i found that perfectly convince and made me happier is the exact thing that you said, "The Messy Way of blending thru strokes) I don't do the grayscale instead i on the spot choosing color that im seeing in my head that would fit the blending and using smudging, blur, and those paint that have pure dots for helping me the next step for coloring the texture and the texture itself (don't know if you get it 😅). So yeah m more satisfied and confused why Im like this and not like them, questioning if im doing it in the wrong path.
very objective just because you were bad at solid shading does not make it bad at all, you just werent good enough to see it for what its worth but there are examples of artists who excel at it you can check out where they show work that is as good as non solid shading
@@mosart7068 I know its objective? I wasn't saying its a bad way to do shading, just that I found a different way to do it that worked better for me. I shared my personal method here in case someone had the same struggles I did or just wanted to experiment with something new in their art.
In general messy colouring helps figuring out the shapes and colours
0:22 lmao rendering shading and coloring has always been easier, drawing itself is way harder for me😭😭😭
Colouring is about lighting not colouring by numbers. You are so right about pixelation. Procreates biggest weakness in my opinion.
Being a bsd fan(bungou stray dogs),I was genuinely suprised seeing dazai and sigma😊.that aside love ur taste in characters
YES YES YES I SAW DAZAİ AND ITS ALREADY DONE FOR ME I'M FOLLOWİNG HER WAAA
When I saw dazai I was like HM OHMAHGAWD IS THAT DAZAI🤩🤩
Same 😭 I was like wait, dazai!?!...omg sigma!?!
same ong 😭😭😭
something that is very important that I heard was "don't compare yourself to other artists, compare yourself to yourself a year ago." and that "taste" or your eye for art will develop quicker than your skill. (you get better quicker in seeing why something looks off but it takes time until you understand how to correct it as well)
I have a tip myself: if you find that drawing certain things works better for you on paper but you want the ease and comfort of digital art, then simply take a picture of the art done on paper and use the line extraction feature. My friend pointed it out to as I was importing a paper drawing into Ibis Paint and I wish I had known it's existence sooner. Just keep in mind that you'll likely be doing some fix up work on it depending on how much is already drawn.
ok but yk u got it bad when yk every anime character she shows..
Me freaking out every time there was a new anime character and recognizing them all
Illumi!? Killua!? Tanjiro!? Todoroik!?
Edit: 5:24 killua and gon there are so cute🙂
3:12 CANT DRAW THE SECOND EYE ARTIST SPOTTED
draw both eyes at the same time
@@steal. ik
@@the.winged.devil. idk how to draw eyes tho
OKAY IM AMAZED THAT YOU CAN DRAW ANY MEN, I CAN ONLY DRAW WOMEN😭😭
The "you just need to practice" is unfortunately not obvious to everyone... At least to me it wasn't 😅 I am a traditional media artist myself, very good with pencil and (for some reason) oil pastels. And I just thought this would be just like that. I can't be THAT BAD if I know how to colour, shadow whatever and I know my way around illustration programmes... Well that was a fuckin delusion. And going from 100 to zero "overnight" is something that I can't get over and I can't make myself try again. So I am just watching videos like yours 😂
1:47 if they’re calling that messy lineart, then my art is literally scribbles made by a kindergartener
Same!
This is funny to me because its the opposite for me. Coloring feels borderline effortless to do and learn more about while Line Art feels like such a monumental challenge.
I'll do your lineart if you do my coloring 🤣💀
@@dragonofspades2837 lmao! Why does everyone hate coloring its easy!
I have the same problem, so I just start colouring right on sketch x))
@@thememeilator2633naw you have to tell us your ways
I agree, though the lady in the video makes it sound like she learned to color AFTER she learned to draw. Whereas I learned to draw and color, TRADITIONALLY, at the same time. It took me much longer to fill in all that space, and it was stressful knowing that if I made a mistake with shading I wouldn't be able to cover it with a gel pen. Only over the past year have I learned to draw and color digitally, and now coloring feels effortless compared to before thanks to the paint bucket and the ability to undo.
So, coloring is harder in traditional drawing, but easier in digital, at least for me.
I came here for the drawing tips, stayed for the amazing Sigma painting, CAN WE TALK HOW BEAUTIFUL IT IS?????
Also the tips really helpful! ty so much for this!!!! cant wait for future videos!! 😄
AHH THANK YOU! that was one of my favs
YESSS AND THE DAZAI DRAWING TOOO
Honestly, rendering might actually be the most fun part about drawing, at least for me, especially drawing the lighting
3:26 OMG IT'S SHINOBAE
1:30 DAZAIIIII
WHEN I SAW THE GENSHIN CHARACTERS I STARTED CRYING IM IN TEARS IN A CORNER😭😭😭😭😭😭💀💀💀💀
Personally, figuring out the colors to use is the easiest part, but figuring out how to use those colors is a different question 😅
Tysm! About lineart..I could somewhat relate to you. As someone who has really shaky hands I spent way more time than necessary just on trying to perfect my lines which was pretty useless at the end since I just went with drawing messy lines instead
same!! messy lines is my favourite approach now ^^
The fact that you can actually draw men to begin with 😭
Thank you I have been out here buying brushes for procreate expecting them to instantly fix my coloring😂
I'm like the exact opposite. I find drawing to be a million times harder than coloring. I'm legally blind and was never able to find a method of practice that worked for me. So I ended up with really imbalanced skills. Coloring came more naturally because I wasn't afraid of making mistakes. People don't judge coloring as harshly. So the fear of failure wasn't as overwhelming for me as it is with every other aspect of art.
Okay, but when I was young I thought I needed to use as big of a canvas as possible (like 16000x16000 kind of big) and then realized that a lot of details get lost and you need a huge brush size to really make a difference when it comes to pen pressure. So, there is not only just "too small of a canvas", there is also "too big of a canvas".
....Also your PC will die.
Don't do it.
2:57 the motivational music got me😭😭😭😭
FR, #MOTOVATIONALMUSIC!
0:50 OML IS THAT XIAO
the way u draw sm of my favs😭
I think u meant that ure just a weeb and simp
Okay hi! I’m a new fan and I learned about you like a week ago and honestly in that week I became addicted to your art. Your a amazing artist and I wish I could draw like you and because of your art and this video I think I’m inspired to draw digitally again. Tysm and again, I love your art.
Hi!! omg truly this made my entire week, thank you so so much! I wish I could frame this and look at it when i'm sad :'D You're so sweet and I'm so glad that is inspired you draw digitally again! If you ever post your art I'd love to see it :)) Thank you so much again!
@@viyaura❤❤❤❤
Me with traditional art: drawing is harder than coloring
Me with digital art: coloring is harder than drawing... But i can't draw!!!
I actually found that my line art relies on COLORED LINE ART
And then I color on top of my line art on a different layer
DAZAI AND SIGMA JUMPZCARE
Idc bout dazai
But sigma lookz zo hot in your ztyle 🥰
Coloring and rendering is the most fun for me because I get to experiment on it every art I do. Right now, shadows are what I'm improving the most. Lineart however, is where I usually take days to finish and is a pain in the ass
lowkey needed to hear this, "lineart can be messy", i'll spend most of my art time cleaning up my lineart so it looks nice, and by the end of it i'll drop the piece and end up not finishing it because i hate, and i mean HATE doing lineart and lines in general, so ty very much :D
2:51 is that Tanjiro Kamado?
Thank you so much for these tips
You got this! Thank you so much for the nice comment :)
@@viyaura no problem! and thank youuu as well :)
0:42 THAT AINT ILLUMI NO MORE
This was really helpful for me. I have been a fan of a anime "Dragon Ball Z" since i was young and i started drawing the character's from it from time to time and i can say without a shadow of a doubt that i have improved in drawing in that anime style quite a bit since my first time but since i couldn't still draw a regular anime style male / female i felt like I'm not a good artist yet but this actually boosted me. Im slowly developing and practising other styles and basic autonomy and I'm confident now i will improve even more with practice ! Thanks and Keep up the great work ! 🙌
thank you! keep going :)
Todorkiiii❤❤
Your pieces aren't pixelated because of small canvases. your pieces are pixelated because of low DPI. (or PPI (pixels per inch) dots per inch) Upping the DPI in your canvas settings will automatically increase the size of your canvas because of the increase of information that is contained per inch. You also need to work in high DPI because web DPI is automatically set at 72 and when you upload your pieces to the internet, the web will automatically compress your pieces down to that ratio. FB has it's own internal compression program so it will compress your files AGAIN when you upload art to it (and low dpi at start = extra blurry (it does this with photos too)) So generally for clean line art / smooth looking pieces a DPI of 300 will work just fine.
2:15 Picasso draws cats like a master even tho he doesn’t
I way i SCREAMED Dazais name when i saw him😂 but on a different note, your drawings are amazing!
Viyaura's voice is sooo.....
Relaxing 😎😌
I really dislike guides that tell you how to do this because it's simply not true... well, it MAY be for some, but not for all, and this is why I have a grudge against all art youtubers who make guides telling what to do, or what not to do, because it simply doesn't work that way, there is no right or wrong way of doing things, there is no better or worse way, it's all down to the learning individual, it's literally a personal matter for each and every single artist.
All guides should be on how you CAN do something, it's only one of MANY ways to tackle the issue, not "dis good, dis bad", it's a horrible take, what works for you won't necessary work for other people, and if something worked for them doesn't mean it will work for you.
The right mindset to have is to watch as many guides/tutorials as you can to see how other people approach the same thing from different angles, and then pick what suits you personally. THAT is the ring way to do whatever- the way that suits your workflow.
I found myself struggling more with art by watching guides and getting overwhelmed by them; do this, do that, don't do it this way- and as a result I liked drawing, obviously, that's why we all do it, but I hated the process, until one day I sat down with a piece of paper and started writing down what I like in art, what are my favorite artists, what I like about them, what I like in my art, what I would like to change and what I really hate about it, and the process of drawing was the main problem.
Bottom line is don't just blindly listen to other artists, they will explain to you how they do things, and what works for them, you need to find your own way, just keep what they told you in mind, some of that knowledge may still come useful, maybe you'll mix and merge few infos from guides byt hem into your own technique.
3:37 OMG SIGMA??
gen
STUPID ALPHA
What a wonderful human being, your energy is appreciated, even though this video is 2 years old now, as someone that's just walked into art for a few weeks, your energy has quelled my feelings of giving up, thank you for existing ☺
Thank you for this! It’s so true!
Me in high school had no problem drawing manga style characters and shading with pencil. But me at the moment who did not draw for 10+ years and just started to do digital art, felt so highly that coloring/rendering is wayyyy more difficult than drawing.
depends on your style, my style relies HEAVILY on lineart, but ill admit, sometimes im too perfectionist about it 😭
Another thing I will add to this, don’t be afraid to use reference pictures! I’ve been doing art for almost a year now (mainly traditional, but also I make little MCYT animatics in flipaclip from time to time) and I still use reference pictures for my character designs, dynamic poses, and etc. I also kind of disagree with the part about coloring. While it can be much harder than the drawing itself, I personally LOVE the process of adding color to my works! It brings that extra bit of life to them and just ties everything together impo
THIS using references is so, so, SO important and can drastically improve art. and i can't tell you how much my dumb, lazy ass forgets or don't feel like looking for refs. but the difference between my art where i used reference compared to my art i used without is very clear. not only irl refs but if you can't think of anything to draw, looking at other people's art can inspire ideas! ideas don't just come out of nowhere, it always comes from something. and nobody should feel bad if they can't think of ideas on the fly
Dip me in chocolate and call me impressive but coloring is like the most fun part about drawing for me. Shadowing ect are pain, but thinking about which colours to use according to the vibe you wanna give ect is soooo much fun. Also, for the majority of my life I thought lineart is the GOAT. 100% mandatory, holds 95% of the drawings value. That is not true like lineart is important and it can give your drawing a sharp edge, but you don't need to hyperfixate on it.
What is a good artist tho? When I was in school, my art teachers used to tell me that anime art is no art at all and that only hyper realism matters. Up until 11th grade, I believed that. And then I got a new art teacher (one who was disliked a lot because she could be strict but a very lovely person if you were interested in art) and she 1000% supported any type, kind or form of art and it was really valuable to have her teach me. I'm by no means good at drawing, but I still try because it's fun. And you know, one day I might suck a bit less and that would be kinda cool.
THE SCARAMOUCHE AND COLUMBINA?? GOD DAMN
thank you sadness from inside out 2, for teaching me how to draw digitally
….I don’t have money…(aka the saddest thing XD) but I can draw on paper, and when I draw digital art…my drawing is weird after I flip the canvas…
3:33 THE SIGMA ART IS AMAZING
Coloring is so darksided. I genuinely think the best thing for someone to do when starting drawing (digital or traditional) is to start in grayscale. If you learn values first (meaning using shades of gray to make highlights and shadows), coloring will come easier. There’s a reason traditional art classes start you out in grayscale. It removes the behemoth of coloring from the process.
1:55 franky 😭