“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.” - Michelangelo Yesss its all about the practice baby!
if you train like him you will never get better he is not even focusing on the drawing and the watercolor painting looks like she had a dirt bath he is not even trying to get the colors right
Agreed, and also this concept of growth can be applied to almost any field of life, but lets stick to the subject of artistry. From painting to composing music, to writing literature, to carpentry, ect, ect.. Any artistic form of creation, that truly stands out, I believe, requires endless hours of studying those before you. Paying homage while "blindly" applying the influence gained towards your own personal understanding and perception.
For watercolor I was taught to work light to dark. It's harder to lighten dark colors after the dry, but easier to apply a darker hue over a lighter hue. Love the videos, I've been watching these while I get back into painting with acrylic paints again.
I love that you always say that you have to put in the time and work. I think that advice has helped me a lot, because you can watch any art video but it depends on you to put in the effort and time to better whatever you’re struggling on. It’s important to fail and that was hard for me to understand. I would get scared and leave drawings halfway done and not finish, because I was scared that it would end up terrible. I’m still working on that. Anyway, thanks Slew :)
Very good video! I am going on 76 and have gotten a stronger interest in drawing and painting recently. Wish I had started this earlier. But, I enjoy what I have done so far and the associated work is satisfying. I am never really satisfied with the outcome, but maybe that is the way all artists are - you and others would have to answer that question. Maybe that is what keeps you trying to improve? Hopefully I will get that one piece of artwork I really love before I'm forced to stop. Enjoy your videos a lot and thanks for sharing!!!
@@gioconda43 The Zorn palette is a palette made famous by artist Anders Zorn. It's a limited palette where you only use 4 colors - yellow ochre, ivory black, cadmium red/vermilion, and titanium white. It's a great way for beginners to practice color mixing and working with few colors to make many more.
That Warli painting moment with your friend was great, could watch a whole video on something like that: three or four of your friends suggesting or sharing what their into at the moment or just found, those talks when you discover something new, exchange ideas, or appreciate someone else's work and what's inspiring about it for you
I am glad you showed us the experience you had with every aspect of the drawing session! I enjoyed the additional addition of the gouache/watercolor too! I hope you do more videos like this one. I understand it started from your Patreon and you need to keep those supporters happy too! Keep working, everyone needs to practice the more you work on your self the better your skills will be!
In addition to putting in the countless hours in practicing the craft, I would suggest it is also very important to put in the hours studying why the drawings and paintings of the true masters are so good: what are their techniques, what do they emphasize and de-emphasize, how are they able to suggest light, form and space, in what ways do they convey their own personal idiosynchrasies and content?
I think you gave great advice in this video! You aren't preaching. I like that you even broke it down to an hour here and there. I am just getting back to art after many, many years and I am doing exactly what you suggest. Small projects allow some success and make me feel pretty great.
Beenf ollowing your videos for almost a year . the amount my drawing has improved just from all your amazing knowledge is unbelievable . thank you so much for such epic content . big love Tayz
Slew te juro que me inpiras,me ayudas a seguir pintando,vos me hiciste a intentar a crear mis personajes y esas cosas,tus videos me ayudan mas,slew sos un capo te deseo lo mejor y ojala algun dia te pudiera conocer,saludos de argentina🇦🇷
Hey Slew! Been watching your vids for awhile and always get excited when you post! Just wanted to say that for watercolors I think you would have an easier time working from light to dark! It's easy to get overwhelmed when you're jumping around the canvas, so focus on one area at a time! 𓆏
I really enjoy watching your content. I love learning but I also love seeing that everything doesn't always come out exactly as you want it to and thats ok. I get stuck on wanting to be perfect too often, and the truth is no matter what scale artist one is; it is impossible to be perfect. We just have to remember that at times. Thanks for the video.🙏
Get yourself a block of Arches 140 lb rough press watercolor paper and you'll enjoy working with watercolor a lot more. It takes pigment a lot more evenly than Strathmore and you can do quite a bit with lifting out highlights. It takes gouache really well, too.
I strongly recommend using shapes to plan out your faces. It will speed up the process. Also, try light to dark. Stop trying to use too many colors. Keep a nice contrast between your colors. If you are digitally working, try to resist the temptation to zoom in. These are techniques I have found to make my drawing in a likeness almost every time.
Hey, I watch yer videos quite regularly to help a layman, like myself, to create and I want to say that this reference of the human form is a wonderful idea, as well as yer quick practice sketching exercises. I use National Geographics magazines for reference material as well. Currently, I am drawing my annual March drawing of dolphins, I just started my reference drawing, which comes from my creative memory (for lack of a better term). My usual reference is a live study of places I go to that I find interesting. I do use a camera to "reference" my focus pictures. The problem is those special moments of candid events, very rarely are possible to capture on camera. For example, this year we traveled to 4-corners and the Grand Canyon, where we saw some incredible wildlife shots that were too late for the camera while driving across this beautiful region of America. My point is that with an artist license, I can take a picture of an animal to place in my closest reference shots to create a wonderful picture of a memory I saw with my eyes - creative memory. Very helpful video. Thanks!
Dude...she's mine. The last picture was drool making🤤. Great portrait by the way. Sometimes as visionaries we tend to over think and drift away from what we want to captivate or in your case, reproduce. Peace!
Yoyoyo, this was cool! All the stuff you say resonates so hard. I swear after every one of your video I go pick up my pencil. But arghh it’s still so hard to stick to it 🤪 see ya
As someone who has spent a lot of time, perfecting the art of drawing, I prefer the experimental process best. That's where you explore the medium and subject, through imperfection. Emphasising strong lines and delicate textures, as what they come across as - rather than focusing on the exact likeness. These create the most expressive drawings, bearing some likeness to the reference image, but says more about the process of drawing.
SLEW!!!! I found your channel about a month ago and I have binged most of your vids HOWEVER I am literally just seeing your competition which closes today. I missed it. So gutted. I've just done my 3rd ever oil painting. PLEASE do another after. I want to get into the community and partake in something like this, just need that push. Thank you. Anyways, great vids. So fun to watch your portraits, particularly oils.
With watercolor, it's usually best to go from light to dark. Also, try having two cups of water, one to clean the brush and one to re-wet it. Maybe that'll help? Idk haha
Use more water in your watercolors, build it gently not like oils or acrylics. Blot don’t swipe when you use paper towels to remove paint or moisture. But again, use more water
Slew thank you so much for your inspiration. Youve taught me alot and i appreciate how u push yourself in all mediums. Thanks to you when im in the "muddy" stage of a painting now i know it and i push through. Also i love the "put in an hr". That really makes it sound like its just going to be an hr! Lol but usually lasts a few. Since watching you i now have my own studio and during covid i made a video. Uh..dont know if i did it to well but its kinda funny. Pls watch it if u have time bro id really appreciate it! Take care homie keep up the good work!
Dude this video was amazing! It's taken me a long time to develop my attitude towards painting and drawing. I used to be so disheartened when the result wasn't what I liked. It's funny though, I think you totally hit the nail on the head, if you just keep moving on to the next one it becomes much easier to focus on the process and just embrace the mistakes as important tactile experience. Anyway I love your videos man, your studies are really beautiful 🥰
you need to water down your water colors a bit maybe and have two cups of water by you cause your gonna be using alot more then with acrylics or oil. usually wanna be swishing your brush in the first cup to clean after changing colors and using the second to get your brush wet again. also takes more patience as youll wanna do the colors in their own separate layers and starting much lighter then you did wait 10 min to dry go back in on places you wanna be bit darker wait 10 exc. you have to wait for the paper to dry before adding another color to avoid muddy colors and accidental blending. Thiers also techniques you can learn like wet on wet, wet on dry, using salt and other things to create cool blending or other effects you may need. works great as a multi media tho and defiently can go back in with acrylics or gauche or colored pencils to add highlights or darks if you want a more "rendered" look, as water colors are naturally more opaque but thats also what gives them their own aesthetic you could say thats better too in some cases. great video tho bro.
I am so bad at practicing art, I just paint and expect it to be amazing and then get super frustrated when it doesn’t turn out how I want it to.. I loved your analogy of practicing just to get xp points.. you are so right.. I like that way to look at it and I’m going to try harder! Thank you xx
I drew my profile pic based on the youtube thumbnail for werewolves of london by warren zevon while I was listening to music the other day. I plan to draw my own t-shirt designs for a business I'm starting.
Any advice for non-reference drawing? Like you have a person or animal and you don't have any pictures of what they look like from a certain angle or doing a certain motion
I would try doing small sketches that are rough and possibly use some inspiration of positions from many different photos. For example for a hand position you could use yourself or a pose that you can do and getting it pictured while animals you can try to do small sketches that are rough and are almost the silhouette version of the image that comes to mind than you can try to make it bigger with the details.
Hi! I am a new subscriber. Please is it a good practice to put my sketch book flat on the table to draw? I’m asking because sometimes, after drawing, the art work looks different when raised
Heyo...I have have a question, these one time pellet things you use for painting, that u can ripp off when your done. What are they called? I'm sorry I'm not english and im a little lost and would love to use them.
Being an artist is funny nowadays: It's all about being cool in social media, advertising and selling equipment and commercial products, getting likes from the people never hold a pen, building studios, teaching beginners as a beginner, making "How to paint a watercolor portrait" TH-cam videos beside the fact not knowing how to paint a watercolor portrait etc. Van Gogh would have poked his eyes if alive in this era.
“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.” - Michelangelo Yesss its all about the practice baby!
the lightning of this video is incredible
It's true, to get better at art, you have to grind, learn and put in the hours, repetition for sure. No click bait title, you spoke straight facts! 👊
if you train like him you will never get better he is not even focusing on the drawing and the watercolor painting looks like she had a dirt bath he is not even trying to get the colors right
So much respect for those honest titles... Nowadays, way to many people are trying to just get the views but don’t provide honesty in their videos.
Agreed, and also this concept of growth can be applied to almost any field of life, but lets stick to the subject of artistry. From painting to composing music, to writing literature, to carpentry, ect, ect.. Any artistic form of creation, that truly stands out, I believe, requires endless hours of studying those before you. Paying homage while "blindly" applying the influence gained towards your own personal understanding and perception.
For watercolor I was taught to work light to dark. It's harder to lighten dark colors after the dry, but easier to apply a darker hue over a lighter hue. Love the videos, I've been watching these while I get back into painting with acrylic paints again.
I love that you always say that you have to put in the time and work. I think that advice has helped me a lot, because you can watch any art video but it depends on you to put in the effort and time to better whatever you’re struggling on. It’s important to fail and that was hard for me to understand. I would get scared and leave drawings halfway done and not finish, because I was scared that it would end up terrible. I’m still working on that. Anyway, thanks Slew :)
I always spend so much time looking for references, so this ad was a huge help!
Very good video! I am going on 76 and have gotten a stronger interest in drawing and painting recently. Wish I had started this earlier. But, I enjoy what I have done so far and the associated work is satisfying. I am never really satisfied with the outcome, but maybe that is the way all artists are - you and others would have to answer that question. Maybe that is what keeps you trying to improve? Hopefully I will get that one piece of artwork I really love before I'm forced to stop. Enjoy your videos a lot and thanks for sharing!!!
I'd like to see you do a water color painting with the zorn (spelling?) palette
What do you mean by zorn pallet?
@@gioconda43 I think they meant the colors zorns users
I think James Gurney has a couple on his channel! and he’s so so good at gouache/watercolor
That’s the correct spelling
@@gioconda43 The Zorn palette is a palette made famous by artist Anders Zorn. It's a limited palette where you only use 4 colors - yellow ochre, ivory black, cadmium red/vermilion, and titanium white. It's a great way for beginners to practice color mixing and working with few colors to make many more.
Thank you for sharing your art. I appreciate how you articulate yourself. Blessings.
That Warli painting moment with your friend was great, could watch a whole video on something like that: three or four of your friends suggesting or sharing what their into at the moment or just found, those talks when you discover something new, exchange ideas, or appreciate someone else's work and what's inspiring about it for you
Sometimes it doesnt matter whether ur output is ur best. What matters is you showing up to do the task because improvement follows along with that.
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I am glad you showed us the experience you had with every aspect of the drawing session! I enjoyed the additional addition of the gouache/watercolor too! I hope you do more videos like this one. I understand it started from your Patreon and you need to keep those supporters happy too! Keep working, everyone needs to practice the more you work on your self the better your skills will be!
In addition to putting in the countless hours in practicing the craft, I would suggest it is also very important to put in the hours studying why the drawings and paintings of the true masters are so good: what are their techniques, what do they emphasize and de-emphasize, how are they able to suggest light, form and space, in what ways do they convey their own personal idiosynchrasies and content?
I think you gave great advice in this video! You aren't preaching. I like that you even broke it down to an hour here and there. I am just getting back to art after many, many years and I am doing exactly what you suggest. Small projects allow some success and make me feel pretty great.
Beenf ollowing your videos for almost a year . the amount my drawing has improved just from all your amazing knowledge is unbelievable . thank you so much for such epic content . big love Tayz
Slew te juro que me inpiras,me ayudas a seguir pintando,vos me hiciste a intentar a crear mis personajes y esas cosas,tus videos me ayudan mas,slew sos un capo te deseo lo mejor y ojala algun dia te pudiera conocer,saludos de argentina🇦🇷
I can see how your skulls help with anatomy. You are very bold with the watercolor. I love everything about Daenarys too especially her hair styles.
Hey Slew! Been watching your vids for awhile and always get excited when you post! Just wanted to say that for watercolors I think you would have an easier time working from light to dark! It's easy to get overwhelmed when you're jumping around the canvas, so focus on one area at a time! 𓆏
Exactly what I needed to hear today so back at it. Thank You!
I really enjoy watching your content. I love learning but I also love seeing that everything doesn't always come out exactly as you want it to and thats ok. I get stuck on wanting to be perfect too often, and the truth is no matter what scale artist one is; it is impossible to be perfect. We just have to remember that at times. Thanks for the video.🙏
Love all your art work
Get yourself a block of Arches 140 lb rough press watercolor paper and you'll enjoy working with watercolor a lot more. It takes pigment a lot more evenly than Strathmore and you can do quite a bit with lifting out highlights. It takes gouache really well, too.
That lighting bro, got that double angle warm light and the blue , ooooooooooooo yes so good
I strongly recommend using shapes to plan out your faces. It will speed up the process.
Also, try light to dark.
Stop trying to use too many colors.
Keep a nice contrast between your colors.
If you are digitally working, try to resist the temptation to zoom in.
These are techniques I have found to make my drawing in a likeness almost every time.
I am here for your articulated drawing desk. First time I have noticed it. Would help me in my drawing process videos. 🖍🖍🖍
Hey, I watch yer videos quite regularly to help a layman, like myself, to create and I want to say that this reference of the human form is a wonderful idea, as well as yer quick practice sketching exercises. I use National Geographics magazines for reference material as well.
Currently, I am drawing my annual March drawing of dolphins, I just started my reference drawing, which comes from my creative memory (for lack of a better term). My usual reference is a live study of places I go to that I find interesting. I do use a camera to "reference" my focus pictures.
The problem is those special moments of candid events, very rarely are possible to capture on camera. For example, this year we traveled to 4-corners and the Grand Canyon, where we saw some incredible wildlife shots that were too late for the camera while driving across this beautiful region of America.
My point is that with an artist license, I can take a picture of an animal to place in my closest reference shots to create a wonderful picture of a memory I saw with my eyes - creative memory.
Very helpful video. Thanks!
Great perspective on references. I create mine too for my drawing and painting videos. 🖍
i love the whole vibe of your videos dude! appreciate the low lighting too, hella sick!!!!
Great info/motivation for me as I'm just starting to excavate and explore my art capacity. Thank you!
This guy’s passion... I need that.
The site for reference photos is awesome! Thanks so much.
On to the next one!!!! Yas🎉
imagine down voting such a man. Thank you SLEW. You’ve got a fan for life.
Thank yo uso much for expose your practice, it pushes me to try more things out and get out of my confort zone more
Dude...she's mine. The last picture was drool making🤤. Great portrait by the way. Sometimes as visionaries we tend to over think and drift away from what we want to captivate or in your case, reproduce. Peace!
Yoyoyo, this was cool! All the stuff you say resonates so hard. I swear after every one of your video I go pick up my pencil. But arghh it’s still so hard to stick to it 🤪 see ya
Yo yo yo
As someone who has spent a lot of time, perfecting the art of drawing, I prefer the experimental process best. That's where you explore the medium and subject, through imperfection. Emphasising strong lines and delicate textures, as what they come across as - rather than focusing on the exact likeness. These create the most expressive drawings, bearing some likeness to the reference image, but says more about the process of drawing.
SLEW!!!! I found your channel about a month ago and I have binged most of your vids HOWEVER I am literally just seeing your competition which closes today. I missed it. So gutted. I've just done my 3rd ever oil painting. PLEASE do another after. I want to get into the community and partake in something like this, just need that push. Thank you.
Anyways, great vids. So fun to watch your portraits, particularly oils.
You should just # it anyway. At least your work will be looked at and you'll get some love from the community 🙌🙌
I always like your videos. I used your discount too, 'cause my eyes popped out when I that skull reference pack! Thanks.
With watercolor, it's usually best to go from light to dark. Also, try having two cups of water, one to clean the brush and one to re-wet it. Maybe that'll help? Idk haha
BEAUTIFUL cinematography.... a lot of growth! Good job man!!!! 👍🏻
Use more water in your watercolors, build it gently not like oils or acrylics. Blot don’t swipe when you use paper towels to remove paint or moisture. But again, use more water
Slew thank you so much for your inspiration. Youve taught me alot and i appreciate how u push yourself in all mediums. Thanks to you when im in the "muddy" stage of a painting now i know it and i push through. Also i love the "put in an hr". That really makes it sound like its just going to be an hr! Lol but usually lasts a few. Since watching you i now have my own studio and during covid i made a video. Uh..dont know if i did it to well but its kinda funny. Pls watch it if u have time bro id really appreciate it! Take care homie keep up the good work!
Do you have zoom live stream teaching lessons, and mentorship? You sound like a really great art teacher.
love what youve been doing with the lighting lately!!
Nice video Slew! Really appreciate you sharing your problem solving process as you go along, its awesome💀
I love you slew from Philippines You inspired Me Do Enjoy making Art More Bro 🇵🇭❤️
Hello from a London artist
Dude this video was amazing! It's taken me a long time to develop my attitude towards painting and drawing. I used to be so disheartened when the result wasn't what I liked. It's funny though, I think you totally hit the nail on the head, if you just keep moving on to the next one it becomes much easier to focus on the process and just embrace the mistakes as important tactile experience.
Anyway I love your videos man, your studies are really beautiful 🥰
Amazing, I like ur works. When I drawing pic I watch ur live Patreon streams.
My dude hitting the watercolor again! ive been waiting for this!
You are such a GOOD TEACHER 💜
Hi Slew congratulations on your new studio, I love your content. You must spend houurrs editing 🤙you're awesome
you need to water down your water colors a bit maybe and have two cups of water by you cause your gonna be using alot more then with acrylics or oil. usually wanna be swishing your brush in the first cup to clean after changing colors and using the second to get your brush wet again. also takes more patience as youll wanna do the colors in their own separate layers and starting much lighter then you did wait 10 min to dry go back in on places you wanna be bit darker wait 10 exc. you have to wait for the paper to dry before adding another color to avoid muddy colors and accidental blending. Thiers also techniques you can learn like wet on wet, wet on dry, using salt and other things to create cool blending or other effects you may need. works great as a multi media tho and defiently can go back in with acrylics or gauche or colored pencils to add highlights or darks if you want a more "rendered" look, as water colors are naturally more opaque but thats also what gives them their own aesthetic you could say thats better too in some cases. great video tho bro.
in watercolour we work from light to dark in layers, so you can build up your values gradually
Great advice. Thanks 👍
I am so bad at practicing art, I just paint and expect it to be amazing and then get super frustrated when it doesn’t turn out how I want it to.. I loved your analogy of practicing just to get xp points.. you are so right.. I like that way to look at it and I’m going to try harder! Thank you xx
Next time with watercolors, try use two cups of water, one for clean the brush n one for mix color.
Good tip. Thanks.
thanks for the upload, this vid couldnt have come at a better time for me!
Slew keeping it real.....really enjoyed the video as always dude!
Game of thrones would of ended a lot better if it just finished as your video did.....with you doing a Daenerys painting tutorial .
Truly Masterclass!!
u deserve millions of subscribers
Studio looking cute af
Very nice friend❤️great paint💕
this video is so my life right now
I drew my profile pic based on the youtube thumbnail for werewolves of london by warren zevon while I was listening to music the other day. I plan to draw my own t-shirt designs for a business I'm starting.
I have never been clickbaited so hard! But I still really enjoyed this video😂🤝
Great advice
I love these sketches :)
Fact. Classical music will level you up.
Loved this video ❤️ What is that elevated desk called?
Love ur video slew
Thanks for teaching me this ❤
In watercolour is better to work light to dark . In oil dark to light..... 12:40
Just fucking love your videography!!
Its on your playlist tho, we can see it this way :) thanks for the video anyway!
I need to do this more, get too overwhelmed trying to do major works, instead of actually doing art
Any advice for non-reference drawing? Like you have a person or animal and you don't have any pictures of what they look like from a certain angle or doing a certain motion
I would try doing small sketches that are rough and possibly use some inspiration of positions from many different photos. For example for a hand position you could use yourself or a pose that you can do and getting it pictured while animals you can try to do small sketches that are rough and are almost the silhouette version of the image that comes to mind than you can try to make it bigger with the details.
Thank You
I like scratching things
Thank you for the advice.
I get stuck on "I have to make a masterpiece" everytime I draw
I really like your videos! I have a question: What is the tripod you use to mount your camera? I'm looking for one. ♥️
I have just purchased Neewer heavy duty light stand. See in my latest drawing video the results. Hope it helps.
Bão demais!
Hi! I am a new subscriber. Please is it a good practice to put my sketch book flat on the table to draw? I’m asking because sometimes, after drawing, the art work looks different when raised
Heyo...I have have a question, these one time pellet things you use for painting, that u can ripp off when your done. What are they called? I'm sorry I'm not english and im a little lost and would love to use them.
Do you also sell painting on paper directly ?
he slew what charcoal brand do u recommend??
You're listening to Bloodbath!! so cool
Haven't clicked this fast in a while.
Also, PRODUCTION QUALITY!
Facts
@@sleekline2241 Steven slewberg
Are you going to do another video with Jess carp or Happy D?
Bro what’s the background piano music ?
Did you kmown about the Game Magic the garhering.
Soooo does anyone know the name of the song in the beginning of the video 😩
what's the music?
You should try spit blending with ink. 👍
Or maybe cyanotype. Love your work. Keep inspiring.
What a nice sponsorship
yew slew
Yioo bruh some color water painting will be cool if you try it#🇬🇭
when he said 'alright handsome' OMFG CUTE BROMANCE
Being an artist is funny nowadays: It's all about being cool in social media, advertising and selling equipment and commercial products, getting likes from the people never hold a pen, building studios, teaching beginners as a beginner, making "How to paint a watercolor portrait" TH-cam videos beside the fact not knowing how to paint a watercolor portrait etc. Van Gogh would have poked his eyes if alive in this era.
does anybody know what pencils he has
I think they are just charcoal based
Practice is the secret , saved you a watch