[TUTORIAL] 5 Tips I Tell EVERY Beginner Digital Artist
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 มิ.ย. 2024
- These are very common things I get asked.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:17 - Why Your Lineart is Wobbly
3:14 - Why Your Drawings Look Uneven
6:33 - How to Shade Inside Your Lines
8:51 - Zoom Out When You Draw
14:24 - The Brush That Makes Sketching Easier
19:36 - Outro
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It was so hilarious when he realized his zoomed in art turned out ok lmao. Overall, this video really helped!
9:57 xD
12:48
He really flexed on us at that part lmao.
Yeah lmao, but I think it did help for some with different styles. For example, I usually zoom in when I draw the face which makes the composition look smaller when I zoom out, so I edit it afterwards. I guess it's expected for some that they tend to limit the space within the screen when they zoom in, overall he managed to deliver the idea the best he could and that's great
the thing is u cant rly go wrong with anime style so yeah
I find myself zooming in and out all the time while Im sketching. Might be why some of my art doesnt look that good and sometimes it does.
same
It's hard to draw zoomed out when drawing on a phone tho even with a stylus
Saaame
@@isthisloss9777 yeah, its the same for me too. But it isn't too much of a problem if you know when to zoom in and zoom out. I keep my sketch phase mostly zoomed out, and my backgrounds too. I only zoom in when I do lineart and even then not up to full zoom because its not necessary.
@@mcbedo6568 ye same i just zoom in for linearts and sometimes shading for more details and stuff
Don't you love it when your favorite artist just swears
I absolutely love it man
Why
Yes!!
You mean acts "human"? Yea ill vouch for that.
@@sagen06 kinda, i just find it satisfying when he swears
I only zoom in because I use mouse, and drawing zoomed out on mouse turns into legitimate sniper shooter instead of drawing
Same lol
Bro I use my Fingers cause draw on Mobile apps, can't afford Graphic tablets or Pens, tried to make digital pen but it wasn't making smooth lines
exactly lmao its one thing I hated about drawing with mouse
@@SHRIIMPSUCKS what about fingers on Mobile, you literally have to see the pixels all the time and the proportion gets fucked like a normal face with a giants body with short limbs (I can't afford even a PC, so don't judge atleast, my parents are not that much capable, so try to understand)
@@zeeshanhazari I think thats just a you problem(not saying this in a rude way) I draw on mobile now since my pc is currently broken but I don't usually have these problems
I think its more of where you are with your art
id recommend sketching it traditionally and then doing the line art and colouring digitally
or you can learn to fix these problems on your own digitally
That flipping tip is actually really important and so necessary to make high quality smooth pretty art.
I forget to flip all the time.
Me too
Me too! I learned about that tip years ago but I forgot about it lol. I’m going to do it more often now that I had a reminder of it.
Ssssaaaaammmeee
Not sure what to do when you work with traditional media like pencil and paper tho. ;-;
About fliping the canvas, if you are watching the video and thinking: "I don't see any difference"
Don't worry, you are not supose to.
The flipping works only for the artist making the piece, not for you
The reason is that as you work on a drawing, your brain gets used to see it, and things that should register as errors will not.
thats where you flip, it makes you brain reinterpret the drawing, now it will see all the mistakes, as if you were seeing the drawing for the first time.
I'm glad you explained it
Oh nah I saw it the whole way lmao
Funny how I instantly noticed the mistakes when he flipped it over then
@@crysomlm4642 r/whoosh
If you don't see any mistakes on an unflipped image and you are not the artist, then there isn't even any point to doing it. As the observer, you already have fresh eyes. If you don't see any mistakes, there aren't any. If you see "mistakes" in the flipped image with already fresh eyes, they aren't really mistakes, and by changing things and then flipping it back you're probably just removing character from the drawing. The point of flipping is to get fresh eyes on the subject, not to "balance" something that doesn't necessarily need to be balanced since the unflipped image is ostensibly its true orientation.
By the way if you want to draw a perfectly symmetrical image, use symmetry mode... or don't, because it looks awful and unnatural.
I’m glad you talked about zooming out since no one told me about that when I started!!
Yep, that’s what I wanted this video to be about. I wish these were things people told me when I started learning lol
stabilization is everything
*stabilize!*
@@SynoDrawsHOW DID I NOT EXPECT THIS
@@cynical5314 for the CEO of Geo, having a shield to stabilize your art is necessary lmao
@@SynoDraws f
I WILL HAVE O̶R̶D̶E̶R̶ *STABILIZATION* !!
Not a beginning digital artist, but I'm in a hugeass art block. I think I'm lacking something, and this vid helps find some of those. Thanks some normal artist that I'm obviously subscribed to!
just draw studies in the meantime and reproduce others works, if inspiration isn't there don't force it but don't not draw
If y’all are lacking inspiration, then I usually have a gallery of some other people’s artworks to reference later on when I need inspiration. If you lack motivation though, then I’d just recommend taking a break or just doing some quick studies.
Canvas can also be rotated to check for imbalances. That is especially important when drawing on real paper, where the only mirror is the real mirror and it's hard to make fixes with it.
Flipping the drawing upside down heavily eliminates symbolic vision, which helps a lot when checking for objective mistakes.
Also, another issue with the zooming in thing is that you forget the proper size things should be in, and when you zoom out it’s gonna be very tiny or the sized will be in proper
i do this 😭 i draw hands zoomed in because i need to focus and they look like mickeys gloves
@@coffingxrl Fr
Its just the brush that's bothering me lol, idek what to use on sketch- lines- colors- and sometimes i just use one brush for everything lol
Using one brush for everything is fine! But for sketch you can use a pencil brush since that's what I use if you have it in the art program you're using ofc and lines I use a simple pen brush and colors that's for you to decided cause there's many ways to color
Damn, I was gonna make a tip that explains what brushes you should have, but I decided against it. I’ll do a future video on it.
@@SomeNormalArtist will we be able to download your brushes sometime?
The sharp pen brush, regular pen brush, and the Air brush are my 3 go to brushes for everything. Since i used the paint bucket to color, then just tidy my drawing up with those 3 brush lol
I”m late but this was helpful, even tho I”m not a digital beginner anymore.
It's been three years for me and I'm still beginner 😢 nothing improve
@@asniehusnie4791 it’s only been a almost a year for me, how I did it is just look at many different videos and tutorials and then you will remember and see how they do it and use it to yours, I’m not good at explaining anything so I”m sorry. What I”m trying to say is that you”ll get there some day
in my opinion this guy is one of the better art channels who gives art tips to beginers the most art channels who do these kinds of stuff usually just say do this without showing what to do or just shows you without telling you the importents of it. i am not saying there are no other who do this but it's not many towards the others who just tells or who just shows
Me: has been drawing since I was 8.
Me, at 14 ( now ): ah yes, I am a beginner. :)
Yes you are
ayy a bandori-er
rann
who asked?
good for you. I haven't touch a sketch book in 18 years.....
The messy sketch and zoomed part hit me so hard LMAO
16:18 *accidenly deleted layer* lol thank for the tip c:
finally my favorite subscribed to artist is a fulltime youtuber artist... long awaited moment
What I normally do is do the sketch first zoomed out, then once I'm ready to do line art I zoom in for quick easy strokes that look neater. Then I zoom out frequently while doing this to make sure it looks fine, and continue on from there until I am done with the line art. Everything else is done zoomed out :)
This is what I do too, usually doing line art though I zoom in like half way so I have more control but I also usually have the navigation window on the side so I see everything
Yoo thanks for the zoom out tip!
Ngl it punch me in the guts when you told my mistake. Again thanks a lot!
If I saw what I think I saw, I'm gonna call Bad Advice on the section about starting with clean single-stroke lines and calling it a "sketch." Sketching has more than one phase. What you suggested is literally the opposite of what should be done when gesture sketching. Any figure drawing book will tell you that blocking in forms is about putting down your vague, blurry and detail-free mental image on a page or canvas in a way that captures the essence/macro-scale proportions of the subject you're sketching. And that involves drawing in a quick (and sometimes messy) way. What I got out of this as your suggestion is basically skipping this step altogether and just going straight to the cleanup detail sketch phase, which is how you get proportion errors.
As for the zoom in stuff, drawing without zoom in a screen-less tablet is reeeealy hard... What i do is to keep one of the overview tool and zoom out often...
He's still good on zooming in. I'm on a phone it's very hard
That Zoom thing...hit me hard
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH FOR THE STABILIZATION TIP! I didn't know about this before and my lineart ALWAYS looked very bad compared to my sketch because my lines just wouldnt come out the way I wanted them to. This video was so helpful and especially since I saw your other videos with your art progress over the years, it really feels like someone speaking from EXPERIENCE. awesome video!
One of the art self critiques I found with my art, is the zoom problem. I tend to zoom in so much I can see the pixels because I want it to be perfect. However, on the full picture you can't see the different because it was such a small problem that only I, the artist, would know is there.
Do I still do it? Yes, because its a bad habit, but I'm working on it by making a challenge drawing where I can't zoom at all.
Thanks for the video, the tips are really a great help.
I haven’t done much yet on the art end of things, but I’d say that’s either a bad (or good depending on perspective) habit that I personally learned when editing photos. Normally for me that means it’s something I tend to do when making memes by hobbling two photos together, I usually use zoomed editing to ensure the image overlay/masking is pixel perfect so that nothing looks off when zoomed out and the image is smooth as can be since a lot of the times when using pics from the net off games, movies, and other things it’s commonly saved as jpgs so you need to edit out the white space if you want to overlay it onto another image such as meme templates.
I've always seen alpha lock and clipping, but never knew what it did, so it's good to finally know
The sketch advice just made the process so much simpler, thank you so much. I still struggle with the second sketch tho but make simpler lines just to get the general idea and proportions allows me to have a starting point directly with my tablet (I don't have to make the sketch on paper and scan it and all that jazz). It saves me a lot of time really
Well I learn THICC for years and now I know a bit
I just recently got into digital drawing and I have to tell you this video has helped me out so much! Especially the stabilizing level of the brush and the layer clipping. Thanks :D
Just wanna say you're my favorite artist that I'm obviously subscribed to.
You explain more like that one anime character who is really OP but while teaching his disciple Just go "hmmpppp and then suhhhhhh baam and the zoom zoom" lol loved the video I learned a lot thanks i am still on traditional side
WHY IS THIS SO ACCURATE? Seriously, I understand him better than other artists and he also explains it such a fast and easy way. This man is too op.
if I remember correctly the wobbliness in linework is tied to your heartbeat. When your heart beats your arm reacts a little with results in a slight hitch in your line. Some people can control it with a lot of practice but you can also draw lines in one quick motion, the longer you draw your line the more heartbeat affects your linework. Basically what I'm trying to say is that the best line artists are probably vampires.
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Congrats on 250k subs!!
bro. your art is making NNN 10 times harder for me, thats amazing.
I found this video soon after it was posted and I had just started digital art, the tips really helped. I didn't look at any of your other videos at the time and them your videos were in my recommended section. I started to watch all of the tutorials and then I got to this one and was like: this is familiar... Now you are one of my favourite creators!!
I love the "flip the canvas" tip. Hearing it made me flip the canvas more, and now I flip the canvas loads not just to check if it looks alright, but also just to draw some lines easier. I find it easier to draw lines going to the right usually - so if a line is going to the left and my hand just won't do it well then I flip to draw that line and while it's flipped I check :)
Just joined the Patreon and I'm glad to have my wooden armor. Now, I'm ready to earn my wooden sword! :)
Your videos are always so helpful, always teaches about how i can improve!!
As a beginner digital artist (or have at least allocated a total of 24+ hours of drawing time since I got my first drawing tablet a month ago), the reason why I zoom in often is because I don't have a keen eye or have a good sense of connecting line 'hitboxes' when it comes to drawing circular shapes or lines. It's really difficult to do when I zoom out from my canvas, especially when using small brush sizes. Sometimes, I'd resort to increasing brush sizes to an abysmal amount so I could accommodate such or... zoom in.
But hearing what is said on the video, I understand why this is a bad thing and I am working on that aspect. Most likely the reason I could find on myself about how this often happens is probably how I zoom out or possibly haven't found a suitable and comfortable zoom level for myself.
Stabilization helped me A LOT. THANKS.
Thank you SO DAMN MUCH for showing us all!
I love his mess ups, they were hilarious
Wow it's actually amazing how much information i was looking for was in this video. Whenever I thought of another question it seems like you read my mind and added onto your statements lol.
"Now ima turn stabilization off and see how my lines are"
*proceeds to draw lines that are smoother then anything ive ever made with stabilization on
Well, this is kind of his job. Don't think about it too much
@@jooot_6850 well ye, it's just practice but still
Hey if you can do that, thats great. Just a lot of people often cant and I think the goal IS to get to a place where you can draw smooth lines but also make them look good in your art
Well, line confidence is something that comes with time. A LOT of time and practice.
This is a huge help. Thank you for making this!
cool tips!! thanks this is such great advice
wait at 8:44 it looks like he made jupiter ngl but it's just that the lines are black lol
Yes, I needed this
stuff like these never really help me but this one actually helped
the zooming out tip helped me a lot, thank you!! can’t show my gratitude for this video, really
Bro, you literally saved my life with line stabalization. I watched dozens of tutorials and literally NONE of them have mentioned that. Holy crap thank you. Now I can stop doing "Ctrl + Z" after every crappy line I make till the perfect one appears. Saves ALOT of time when you add it up.
Professional level stuff , it's nice work!
this was a very big help thank you!
Love it! The tutorial is so easy to understand. Arigato to you!
I’ve been doing art for my entire life. Literally since I was 3. I’ve done digital art for almost 3 years now. Yes, I do still consider myself a beginner.
This was one of the most helpful videos I ever saw, and I watched a lot of art videos and I follow some great artist here! Well done! Or better say thank you 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
The last tip helped me alot thanks buddy😁
Thanks for teaching me things that i didn't know, this'll help.
Great video, man. I really like the specifics on how to set up the workspace and a basic, useful brush.
I just switched to digital art today and this helped tons
Lets gooo 💖
Thank you for the Tips! 🍙🌹
Yes nice you learn something
You opened my eyes
the alpha lock tip helped me out a lot, tysm!
Great tips!
Thank you so much I’ve been trying to find a really good brush to use for my basic sketches and this really helps .
The last tip REALLY helped, thank you so much.
great video helped a lot thx!
here is the legendary some normal artist giving us valuable tips for us young artist < 3 thx man u help a lot !
This tips really help me, thanks
This really helps a lot, thank you 💜
Thank you so much for your advice this is so freaking helpful!
This is great! Very helpful and informative! And it's just 20 minutes!
Thank you!
I actually found this to be helpful. highly recommend.
oh my goodness gracious look at all those layers
i just got clip studio paint recently after wanting it for forever and this video really helped xD thanks a bunch!
“Do I have iron deficiency” LMFAO
You are such a good teacher and also a man of culture. I love it. Good taste!
The art on the thumbnail is already good, what-
Thank you for the tips! It's really helpful.
4 and 5 really felt relatable for me x)
For anyone using the IRL operating system: the zoom out/flip image hotkey is called painting with a mirror behind you. It's a great tip which artists have been using it for hundreds of years. For people making digital artwork, opening a new view and moving it to a second monitor is also a solid solution.
Jdjjd i rly needed the last two, ty dude :')
That's great you learn something
These Tips helped me out a little bit.
Thank you, now i know better that i shouldn't zoom all the way in while drawing.
no cause this actually helped a lot I'm trying to get better I tried learning on my own but its hard and this is the first video I saw thank you
Horizontal shortcut
Fill bucket
Clipping mask
Stabilization
Lasoo tools/select area and transform tool (?) Select the part you draw
Hide previous layer to improve another sketch in next layer
Thank you for sharing and telling us this tips. This mean a lot especially for us beginners. Arigathanks sensei~
*Y e s*
Ok that was cringe
@@Karen-hb1kw agreed
@@Karen-hb1kw yeah
@@Karen-hb1kw agreed lol
Im gonna join your patreon now, this is damn nice, LOVE IT!
Thanks somenormal artist
Great video man! just looked this up for the first tip but i mean i left with +20 knowledge so im not complaining
i draw zoomed in all the time because im on a phone and its nearly impossible to draw on such a tiny screen, but i zoom out often. thats a good tip for every artist. like traditional artists do it as well to see the big picture of a painting
Oh god why didn't I find you channel before this was so helpful, I sub👍
12:51 i dunno why but I just love the caption sm!
for the zooming out thing; I always noticed, with traditional drawings of mine, that my proportions were a lot better when I were drawing smaller. I think it's a similiar thing here
thank you so much, youre my inspiration :))
Thanks for the tips!!
This is amazing
Hey! I love your art and the for a beginner like me, that last tip was like *BOOM*!!
My lord this helped me out so much I spent so long fearing drafts now it’s quick and easy the lineart is still long af but it’s manageable but colouring is often fun
I'm wat watching this while drawing and I flipped my drawing....
Then a sigh of relief, it looks good.
Thanks man! I've been thinking about doing digital art and drawing again.