That this level of instruction is made available at no cost in the You Tubes is completely mind bending and lends proof to the assertion that there is indeed a multiverse. This particular reality is the one in which the craftsmasters are generous and believe that the noobs should have access to the valuable and hidden secrets of the western arts without it being necessary to trade something dear. David Finch, thank you sir for this channel. I can already feel the power coursing through me...Yes, yes I am a nerd!
Imagine how many peoples,including myself,will take those tutorials and later will be able to work on the illustration industry because of David ? Thank you !
Literally >1% of everyone watching these tutorials will ever come remotely close to getting their toe in the door of the illustration industry. Guys from Blizzard have said there are only about 1000 total studio jobs in the entire world and almost all of them are given to people who've already done 15+ years in the industry. If you, whoever's reading this, think you stand a chance of getting a good job in illustration for concept art or game development and you're not spending 9 hours a day every day for a decade practicing form, shape, silhouette, light, composition, anatomy, materials, landscape, geometry, geography, flora and fauna, then you're deluding yourself. The only way you'll get a job in illustrating of VisDev is by being better than the guys who've been doing it since the 80s. If you're not better than David Finch, you wont get a job like David Finch's.
@@MoonshineSazerac so let me get straight,according to some guys on blizzard as you say,anyone doesn't stand a chance unless that they make the batman journey,of working non stop for a decade or even more,so they can be able to work on art in any shape or form ? This is so wrong in so many ways,specially on today world,i'm not saying that is going to be easy or you won't face any kind of grinding,but don't try to put on a so high standard that looks nearly impossible isn't true.As you pointed out one example of gaming studio,i'll point out another one : a Brazillian artist was able to get into naughty dog in one year with the right scheduling,his name is Glauco he talked about in a live on Rafael Grassetti's channel,you can check it by yourself,another example could be Gabriel Picolo,that he pretty much came from the fan art background,launched his crowdfunding,got one of the highest numbers in terms of funding now he's on DC. Of course it's some examples,it maybe not apply to everyone,but at least people can still put they effort and try to break into the industry that they want to be in,it won't be in a snap,but they can forge their own way to accomplish their goals. It's not going to be easy,but it's not impossible.
@@MoonshineSazerac You can build a portfolio and if you're dedicated for 3 years you could be in the industry. Happens if you're lucky. Ye it's not ez but anyone can build an audience. Look at someone like lavandertown and tell me she's not successful. Clearly she hasn't made art a full time job for 15 years but she still has a career involving illustration. But ye consistency is the most important if you want to make it.
@@MoonshineSazerac there's no strict criteria of what you have to learn and how long for. You're sucking the fun out of art. Some people have careers literally because they are so good at drawing the same thing over and over. I want to learn everything like you mention but it's asinine to say it's necessary in order to be successful.
Thank you for sharing your time and experience with the comic/fan art community. You’ve made us all better artists as a result of it. I get excited every Monday for MND.
I want to say thank you for these videos, I been getting getting back into art, sketch, comic art after the better part of a decade, and there are so many great things that you show that I just find so valuable. I'm back to drawing everyday, and I think it is in part thanks to you
I'm glad! He's basically a collection of lots of different elements that I knew I could texture in different ways. Not much of a cohesive character, but that wasn't the point.
Thank you so much for these texture videos sir! That is literally two days in a row u have helped me with texture shadowing. Yesterday I drew a character with a trench coat but need help while folding shadowing and was absolutely what i need to hear and see to understand and be able to do it myself and be confident and at the same time honest and very satisfied with the outcome. Today drawing a robot and something tells me u might know how to draw so I think I'll watch lol
Awesome video, I’m glad someone mentioned this in the livestream. These techniques work better than I imagined. Thank you very much David. Thank you so much for breaking it down like this, makes me confident I could achieve this look as well 🤙
This was extremely helpful specially that things you did to make the armor look like it's been used for along time my English is not good but the other things you did to the character knees was amazing thank you for sharing your knowledge of the comicbook drawing art .
Don't know if you remember me but your tutorials have inspired me to draw and let me just say I'm super impressed with myself and I just came to thank you for inspiring me and your perfect tutorials 🙏❤️
Your original Gnomon videos jumped me back into Art at the ripe old age (in artistic years) of 27 and everytime I've lapsed out due to health issues and susequent times of homelessness/poverty I always revert back to that as my source inspiration for making the effort again and fanning the flame to get as good as possible - and here you are kickin out more awesome Art tips, tricks, techniques and pics. Love your style and your deliverance dude. Apologise if this sounds out of line or I'm behind the curb on what you may have already done/tried but if you haven't you should definintely do a Dave Finch concept art sketchbook kickstarter type effort. Hope all goes well and all the best for the future dude and thanks for giving so much of what you propably don't realise fully that you've given to us wannabes so far. Truly awesome stuff. Ps. you should try hitting up zack (ZHC on youtube, massive following) for some kind of collab cause gaging by his art style he has to have had major influence from you. Laters.
I really appreciate the tutorials you are putting out for free and Im going to take a look in the Skill Share Course. I'd love to see how you would draw the Violator from Spawn.
Right on time! I am doing bio mechanical as a theme for a local art group I'm a member of "The Illustrata", and this helps immensely. Arrigatou, sir! Also, LOVE the Dragonrage cover, Jimmy is OVER THE MOON excited. It's so dope! :D
amazing David. I learned a lot and saw a HUGE mistake and skipped step I was doing in my own work...which was creating that solid (original line drawing) and slowing covering it with the light source. I did something similar but watching you go over it the way I did...I honestly assumed you combined steps (1 meaning drawing it) and creating all that first pass of depth at the same time...so that was REALLY interesting to see and although it looks time consuming really paid off with the final "depth" of the piece...so again amazing tutorial!!!
Hey Rich! I just found breaking it up this way is a good process for me. I like that I can completely work in a figure and make changes before getting things in that are harder to erase if I want to make changes. And I really like having a solid light pattern in before textures, which can kind of obscure it and complicate it.
This is so awesome to see. Your rendering is so unique from other artist, I really dig the detail and hatching or your style. Excited to implement this into my own art
Great tutorial! And hey - I saw your live session, you said you‘ll get a tattoo done by dr.Rocke! You’re up for a treat, he is the best tattoo artist in Austria!
Hey Dave. Awesome and super helpful as always. We've just suffered another tragic loss with Chadwick Boseman. I was thinking, in honor of his amazing portrayal of the character, maybe for the next stream, you can drew Black Panther if you don't have anything else planned?
can't WAIT to watch this! but I unfortunately have an assignment I need to complete first... 5 pages into my horror... and this was something that was troubling me and I haven't found anything conclusive on it YET.
What a fantastic video. I enjoy watching these in real time at 1/4 speed ( I think) but beware, the slowed down voice-overs are hilarious at times. I picked up the pose packet on Gumroad and the line drawing figures are truly amazing. I feel like you really went the extra mile to make these both beautiful and dynamic. Hopefully there will be more. I'm sure there will be if enough people buy them. This would be a start to an amazing book...if so, Bridgman sales are going to take a nose dive. :)
Thanks a lot, Russ! I enjoyed doing the figure pack. And it seems like it's doing well enough to do more. It would be good to put out a book of a bunch of them eventually.
David ur one of my inspirations to start drawing and I thank for that, I pray God will give u more money, more subscribers and ur children will do exceedingly more than u in the future. Amen
I've never clicked so fast! Would you do a video on transparent/translucent objects like gems, glass, or ice? I always have trouble rendering it with lines.
All of the content has been phenomenal, and even that is an understatement, i was wondering for Mondays next stream, i think your interpretation of bellboy would be great, still cant believe they haven't hired you for hellboy work, lol
Hey Dave I was wondering if you’ve ever done warhammer 40k sketches before. I feel like the grim darkness of the universe would be perfect for your art style. Ps love your artwork hope you can also show coloring process later.😁👍
Excellent stuff! I really appreciate you showing the process. Liked and subscribed. A question I have is for something like this, is it open for color down the line or is it set in stone black and white/pencil? How would you go about coloring it if it's still possible? Would you ink it and then redo the shading with color, or would you color over the shading and let the colors adopt the values you've established below?
Hi, i would like to ask you about pencil that you use. I mean it's 2mm input i think, but with hardness? HB? Ps. sorry about my English, if someting wrong.
I think its just overall studying tbh, alot of artists study anatomy first and then go and stylize it while also looking based and grounded. But hey that's what I think, could be wrong.
Shading is all the way dark, cross hatching is mostly dark, and hatching is a lighter shade. So three tones. I generally use black shapes for shadows, but sometimes I'll use cross hatching if I want shadow, but I don't want it to completely disappear.
I asked for it on stream, and Dave actually made a whole tutorial. Thank you so much, Dave. You are awesome.
Will... thank you for asking him 🙂 this video was very helpful.
Thanks for the suggestion Sombernaut! It was a lot of fun to do the video.
That this level of instruction is made available at no cost in the You Tubes is completely mind bending and lends proof to the assertion that there is indeed a multiverse. This particular reality is the one in which the craftsmasters are generous and believe that the noobs should have access to the valuable and hidden secrets of the western arts without it being necessary to trade something dear. David Finch, thank you sir for this channel. I can already feel the power coursing through me...Yes, yes I am a nerd!
20 years of secrets in 2 minutes... lovely stuff sir!!
Imagine how many peoples,including myself,will take those tutorials and later will be able to work on the illustration industry because of David ? Thank you !
that and 6-8 hours of practice daily for 5-10 years, yeah.
Literally >1% of everyone watching these tutorials will ever come remotely close to getting their toe in the door of the illustration industry. Guys from Blizzard have said there are only about 1000 total studio jobs in the entire world and almost all of them are given to people who've already done 15+ years in the industry.
If you, whoever's reading this, think you stand a chance of getting a good job in illustration for concept art or game development and you're not spending 9 hours a day every day for a decade practicing form, shape, silhouette, light, composition, anatomy, materials, landscape, geometry, geography, flora and fauna, then you're deluding yourself. The only way you'll get a job in illustrating of VisDev is by being better than the guys who've been doing it since the 80s. If you're not better than David Finch, you wont get a job like David Finch's.
@@MoonshineSazerac so let me get straight,according to some guys on blizzard as you say,anyone doesn't stand a chance unless that they make the batman journey,of working non stop for a decade or even more,so they can be able to work on art in any shape or form ? This is so wrong in so many ways,specially on today world,i'm not saying that is going to be easy or you won't face any kind of grinding,but don't try to put on a so high standard that looks nearly impossible isn't true.As you pointed out one example of gaming studio,i'll point out another one : a Brazillian artist was able to get into naughty dog in one year with the right scheduling,his name is Glauco he talked about in a live on Rafael Grassetti's channel,you can check it by yourself,another example could be Gabriel Picolo,that he pretty much came from the fan art background,launched his crowdfunding,got one of the highest numbers in terms of funding now he's on DC. Of course it's some examples,it maybe not apply to everyone,but at least people can still put they effort and try to break into the industry that they want to be in,it won't be in a snap,but they can forge their own way to accomplish their goals. It's not going to be easy,but it's not impossible.
@@MoonshineSazerac
You can build a portfolio and if you're dedicated for 3 years you could be in the industry. Happens if you're lucky. Ye it's not ez but anyone can build an audience. Look at someone like lavandertown and tell me she's not successful. Clearly she hasn't made art a full time job for 15 years but she still has a career involving illustration. But ye consistency is the most important if you want to make it.
@@MoonshineSazerac there's no strict criteria of what you have to learn and how long for. You're sucking the fun out of art. Some people have careers literally because they are so good at drawing the same thing over and over. I want to learn everything like you mention but it's asinine to say it's necessary in order to be successful.
Before this get full of comments. Thanks! This info, your work on this channel is priceless. Thanks a lot. :)
Thanks a lot!
Thank you for sharing your time and experience with the comic/fan art community. You’ve made us all better artists as a result of it. I get excited every Monday for MND.
Thank you so much 😀
I want to say thank you for these videos, I been getting getting back into art, sketch, comic art after the better part of a decade, and there are so many great things that you show that I just find so valuable. I'm back to drawing everyday, and I think it is in part thanks to you
Wow, I was just wishing for a video on this! Glad I'm not the only one drawing armored toons. Thank you Mr.Finch!
I swear I can feel my artistic brain growing every time I watch your tutorials!! 🧠 And awesome drawing!!
P.s. Is that General Grievous’ brother? 🤣
I'm glad! He's basically a collection of lots of different elements that I knew I could texture in different ways. Not much of a cohesive character, but that wasn't the point.
Oh Man, this was great! Again, nice to hear why you choose certain patterns for different textures. Thanks again Dave for these!
Thanks Lance!
Man! I'm just... speechless! So much talent! Keep those tutorials comin', David! So fun to watch them!
I keep marveling over the pencil work, just amazing
This was so helpful Dave!!!!! The detail is unreal 💖💖💖
Thanks Kenny!
This was amazing, Dave! I like how it lookfs so realistic. Love the textures!
David "Beast mode" Finch!!! The best in the biz!!
Thank you so much for these texture videos sir! That is literally two days in a row u have helped me with texture shadowing. Yesterday I drew a character with a trench coat but need help while folding shadowing and was absolutely what i need to hear and see to understand and be able to do it myself and be confident and at the same time honest and very satisfied with the outcome. Today drawing a robot and something tells me u might know how to draw so I think I'll watch lol
David finch...you are really a great artist...your art inspire me a lot.
Nice to see this channel continuing to grow. Aspiring artists shouldn't miss a single video.🙂
That’s for sure!! I always drop everything and closely watch Mr Finch’s tutorials whenever he uploads! ✏️
Thank you so much 😀
This drawing is crazy! There's so much detail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome video, I’m glad someone mentioned this in the livestream. These techniques work better than I imagined. Thank you very much David. Thank you so much for breaking it down like this, makes me confident I could achieve this look as well 🤙
I'm glad, Jordon! Thanks! They really are very simple when you break them down.
Sr. Finch llevo tiempo observando sus vídeos y e aprendido mucho de usted, es usted todo un artista mis congratulaciones, saludos desde Venezuela.
This was extremely helpful specially that things you did to make the armor look like it's been used for along time my English is not good but the other things you did to the character knees was amazing thank you for sharing your knowledge of the comicbook drawing art .
حمو کوجر Your English is great
@@ddsoco1
thank you I've been practicing .
Thanks a lot!
@@DavidFinchartist
❤☀️💚 can't wait to see the next live strem.
Again thank you and Good luck .
First....thank you so much for the video it helped me shade my iron man piece
You my favourite comix artist now! Thanx!
Excellent cast shadow technique, this'll be helpful! The character looks amazing too!
Ps. Nightbot beat me up pretty bad in the livestream! 😂
Thanks! Yeah....sorry about that! No nightbot on the next one, so you're good.
Wow, that detail is incredible, and the process is so easy to follow thanks to the video, excellent job.
Don't know if you remember me but your tutorials have inspired me to draw and let me just say I'm super impressed with myself and I just came to thank you for inspiring me and your perfect tutorials 🙏❤️
Outstanding! Great variety, explanation and techniques! Thanks Dave!
all these little shadows and squiggles that he considers "very little work at all" would drive me nuts as an inker. but it looks so awesome.
Your original Gnomon videos jumped me back into Art at the ripe old age (in artistic years) of 27 and everytime I've lapsed out due to health issues and susequent times of homelessness/poverty I always revert back to that as my source inspiration for making the effort again and fanning the flame to get as good as possible - and here you are kickin out more awesome Art tips, tricks, techniques and pics.
Love your style and your deliverance dude. Apologise if this sounds out of line or I'm behind the curb on what you may have already done/tried but if you haven't you should definintely do a Dave Finch concept art sketchbook kickstarter type effort. Hope all goes well and all the best for the future dude and thanks for giving so much of what you propably don't realise fully that you've given to us wannabes so far. Truly awesome stuff.
Ps. you should try hitting up zack (ZHC on youtube, massive following) for some kind of collab cause gaging by his art style he has to have had major influence from you. Laters.
Holy Top Cow! That is awesome. I have been watching your videos and streams, trying to improve my art. Thank you for the video.
i love these videos, they are soo fast thought, i would happily watch these at 1/2 or even 1/4 the speed
Yeah...I try to cram as much as I can into a very short time. My skillshare stuff is real time, and I can go more in depth with each part.
David finch you are the best
I really appreciate the tutorials you are putting out for free and Im going to take a look in the Skill Share Course.
I'd love to see how you would draw the Violator from Spawn.
Thanks Valem! Violator would be a blast
Grandioso, esto es oro puro para los dibujantes , gracias david
Right on time! I am doing bio mechanical as a theme for a local art group I'm a member of "The Illustrata", and this helps immensely. Arrigatou, sir! Also, LOVE the Dragonrage cover, Jimmy is OVER THE MOON excited. It's so dope! :D
I'm glad, Joe, and thanks!
amazing David. I learned a lot and saw a HUGE mistake and skipped step I was doing in my own work...which was creating that solid (original line drawing) and slowing covering it with the light source. I did something similar but watching you go over it the way I did...I honestly assumed you combined steps (1 meaning drawing it) and creating all that first pass of depth at the same time...so that was REALLY interesting to see and although it looks time consuming really paid off with the final "depth" of the piece...so again amazing tutorial!!!
Hey Rich! I just found breaking it up this way is a good process for me. I like that I can completely work in a figure and make changes before getting things in that are harder to erase if I want to make changes. And I really like having a solid light pattern in before textures, which can kind of obscure it and complicate it.
David you are a Master Monster!
Glad I subscribed!!!
Another footless master piece! 😂💕💕💕
Once you mentioned this in your last stream, I waited to render a helmet I put on a guy just for this video! 🙏 Dave!
I hope it helped!
These tutorials to me have infinite value!!!!
Thanks Dude!
This is so awesome to see. Your rendering is so unique from other artist, I really dig the detail and hatching or your style. Excited to implement this into my own art
hm... looks like default shadows&crosshatching
Thank you so much!
This was phenomenal. Ill be returning to this stream for reference.
Oooh best video I saw for quite a while!! I learned a tone from it.
Great tutorial! And hey - I saw your live session, you said you‘ll get a tattoo done by dr.Rocke! You’re up for a treat, he is the best tattoo artist in Austria!
Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. Not the headache after it gets done though
Hey Dave. Awesome and super helpful as always. We've just suffered another tragic loss with Chadwick Boseman. I was thinking, in honor of his amazing portrayal of the character, maybe for the next stream, you can drew Black Panther if you don't have anything else planned?
Real amazing drawing love the shadows
can't WAIT to watch this! but I unfortunately have an assignment I need to complete first... 5 pages into my horror... and this was something that was troubling me and I haven't found anything conclusive on it YET.
What a fantastic video. I enjoy watching these in real time at 1/4 speed ( I think) but beware, the slowed down voice-overs are hilarious at times. I picked up the pose packet on Gumroad and the line drawing figures are truly amazing. I feel like you really went the extra mile to make these both beautiful and dynamic. Hopefully there will be more. I'm sure there will be if enough people buy them. This would be a start to an amazing book...if so, Bridgman sales are going to take a nose dive. :)
Thanks a lot, Russ! I enjoyed doing the figure pack. And it seems like it's doing well enough to do more. It would be good to put out a book of a bunch of them eventually.
David fantastic art work.
this was amazing this helps me alot thanks dave looking forward to the next turtorials
David ur one of my inspirations to start drawing and I thank for that, I pray God will give u more money, more subscribers and ur children will do exceedingly more than u in the future. Amen
Great tutorial. I'd love to see a tutorial on leathery skin and weapons.
ya that would be great
Leathery skin is a great idea for sure!
This is so cool and helpful!
Amazing tutorial Dave!
I've never clicked so fast! Would you do a video on transparent/translucent objects like gems, glass, or ice? I always have trouble rendering it with lines.
I'll have to do that for sure.
I needed this video. Thank you.
All of the content has been phenomenal, and even that is an understatement, i was wondering for Mondays next stream, i think your interpretation of bellboy would be great, still cant believe they haven't hired you for hellboy work, lol
Hellboy would be lot's of fun. We'll have to talk about it here. Monday is coming fast.
Thank you for sharing, really inspired me, I hope one day I can draw like you 🙏🙏🙏
Keep working at it, one step at a time!
Love your videos Dave! Can you plz do a video on attaching the head to the torso
Awesome! Reminds me of the warforged race from Dungeons and Dragons.
Very nice lesson. Like your style.
Thanks! 😃
Just started an armoured batman so this is gold to me
Hey Dave I was wondering if you’ve ever done warhammer 40k sketches before. I feel like the grim darkness of the universe would be perfect for your art style. Ps love your artwork hope you can also show coloring process later.😁👍
I am trying to make a custom armour i only did half to now but your drawing helped me do a lot of it thanks.
Great technique! 🔥
Sickkkkkk
Man can ink your art plllzzz
Big fan sir..
Very well explained.thank you sir.
You are welcome
very cool
Plz make a tutorial on surface textures
Awesome video! Thanks so much Mr Finch
My pleasure!
Soooo damn cool... You make it look easier than it is
Excellent stuff! I really appreciate you showing the process. Liked and subscribed.
A question I have is for something like this, is it open for color down the line or is it set in stone black and white/pencil? How would you go about coloring it if it's still possible? Would you ink it and then redo the shading with color, or would you color over the shading and let the colors adopt the values you've established below?
This dude can draw.
Thank you very much, very need such content
Hi, i would like to ask you about pencil that you use. I mean it's 2mm input i think, but with hardness? HB?
Ps. sorry about my English, if someting wrong.
Tnx for the tutorial! Dang i wanna send you my drawing though but its really bad lol hahahahahaha
i love your work
This is fantastic work, I will now give up on my crap art.
Was he used for anything? He is pretty cool.
I find that your figure muscle anatomy have a style to it. How did you get that style?
I think its just overall studying tbh, alot of artists study anatomy first and then go and stylize it while also looking based and grounded. But hey that's what I think, could be wrong.
@@david_the_noob_0422 makes sense.
Any more classes coming to Skillshare? If so, when? :'(
🔥💙💙💙🔥
Hello, awesome, I would like to see a forearm tutorial
Arms is coming up next!
Do a full video on drawing on and how to make the overlap..overlap
Mr. Finch, what helps you decide when to use shading, hatching, and cross hatching to create the shaded forms?
Shading is all the way dark, cross hatching is mostly dark, and hatching is a lighter shade. So three tones. I generally use black shapes for shadows, but sometimes I'll use cross hatching if I want shadow, but I don't want it to completely disappear.
Mr. Finch thank you for explaining. Reading your explanation makes great sense.
Where can I find a picture of this drawing?
Wow! Does it get boring just doing the same texture over and over and over again? Also, how long did it actually take you to do this?
Hey David I am the hair tutorial guy remember I woke up late so couldn't watch your live stream yesterday sorry☹
Sometimes sleep is more important. I kind of woke up a bit late today myself.
@@DavidFinchartist could you please give me a link to your discord
Hi can you please make a video on the whiteout that you use
This is a great video. I want to understand it better but I just can’t get my head around shading mine looks crap! Rrr it’s so frustrating!
thank you for this tutorial :)
Wow I love it I hope his next video would be how to draw female bodies
I'm doing arms next, but I think female bodies has to be very soon.
awesome vid he reminds me of cell from dragonball
Hey very diverse super nice
I see that u didn’t go with battle textures but love this name too
waw,,, talent
Hey david, can you suggest a good anatomy book for practicing these dynamic figure and muscles?
George Bridgeman's Guide to Life Drawing
@@DavidFinchartist thankyou so much❤️❤️