The BEST Art Advice to Change Your Life (NOT Clickbait)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 มิ.ย. 2024
- I taught my daughter to draw and paint from the minute she could hold a pencil. For years, visual art was her passion. I asked her recently what the BEST art tip I ever gave her was... and I'm sharing that with you here today in detail. I hope you find it as helpful as she did!
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:33 BEST Art Advice
01:23 How it Works
02:10 Applying it to Landscape Painting
03:55 Applying it to Portraiture
04:53 Applying it to Figure Drawing
05:33 Applying it to Colour Mixing
06:21 Applying it to EVERYTHING
06:50 Final Thoughts - บันเทิง
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'You're from an advanced planet which supports the arts'😂😂😂
I couldn’t resist 👽
@@genestone4951 First off: Are you suggesting that all art must be public art done in protest? All the artists on TH-cam (and those not on YT) who create art using a variety of mediums should stop sketching and painting and sculpting etc. as a hobby or career and should what?…quit if they aren’t interested in or able to make public protest art? 🤨
As for support leading to all art being controlled, the opposite is true. Those who would seek to control art in the way you mean it are working hard to make sure art isn’t supported.
One of the US’s two major parties has been defunding public schools for decades, with the main goal being an undereducated citizenry easily manipulated by propaganda. That’s how a wealthy man who regularly stiffed the working-class contractors he hired convinced people he was “one of them” or that he cared about them when no one else in government did. These folks have been voting against their own interests for decades, but this is hitting its peak right now.
With public schools struggling with funding, they have to whittle down the curriculum, and the arts were the first classes to go. Who is this most greatly affecting? The marginalized peoples of the US, including the poor and people of color.
And this same party is hostile to the arts - all arts, not just painting. For instance, they don’t like the literary arts either. How do you convince Americans that book banning and even book burning is ok? Devalue education in the eyes of the public. Portray books as tools of liberal propaganda. Discourage children (and adults) from developing a love of reading because reading leads to people learning on their own what has been removed from schools.
What is meant here is living in a *society* that supports the arts, not support from some sort of Big Brother.
Yes we need a planet like that!^ Also, "See like an alien"...not just for painting but for life 😊
This is what separates artists from non-artists.
The Zen people call this "Beginner's Mind." I also know people on the spectrum who are very good at this because they don't acclimate to seeing without seeing. The impressionists were also into this kind of seeing. But knowing structure and doing work like blocking and painting with a large brush first gets you out of the fiddly habits like spaghetti hair. Good video!
So true. 😊
Grand advice. Look at what is there, not what your brain knows to be there and too often fills in what isn't there.
Yes! Exactly. 😊
Okay so thank you for finally breaking down the “draw what you see not what you think you see” concept. This was tremendously helpful. I noticed right away I could start applying this to my practice. ❤
This is excellent advice. We all tend to be too much “in our heads” and get tripped up by our preconceived notions. Thank you for the reminder to keeping trying to see the world through fresh eyes.
We all need that reminder every now and then. 😊
This advice is golden. I think at some point every art teacher said to me, "draw what you see." But never did anyone explain exactly how prejudiced my eye could be made by what my mind thinks I am seeing. A lot of struggle could have been eased by understanding and working with this lesson much earlier on. And now the new challenge is not to try to paint exactly what I am seeing, but to design a composition that best depicts the point of the painting infused with my experience of the scene. I'm afraid one lifetime just won't be enough, but that's what keeps art so fascinating.
I love that there are always new things to learn, and that even if you paint the same scene more than once, you’ll notice different things each time. 😊
Hi. My name is Zork. I just started water coloring. Thanks for helping me. I support Galactic Arts Education!
Nanu nanu......oh wait, thats Mork 🤭
I'm a musician and I'm here because I find each artform can teach you about every other as well. I end up learning a lot about writing, drawing, painting, etc because of that and this advice is a PERFECT example! It's easy to get trapped in formulas and habits, and forgetting what's so amazing about your expression of choice- the thing that you loved in the first place🙌✌️
Great advice! This reminds me of the book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, by Betty Edwards.
She’s one of the best. 😊
Great advice. When I was a child I liked to play that game and I remember watching the tv off like I had never seen it before,..it was so funny.After years, I still do it..😊 and it fascinates me!
Great advice! I especially like the idea of drawing what you see not what you think you see. Something I struggle with all the time. Thank you for sharing what you have learned. It truly helps me to be a better artist.
I’m glad it was helpful! This will really make a difference. 🤗
I tried pretending to be an alien, and the little watercolor I did was much better than any of the other ones I did before. Thank you!
Wonderful! That makes me happy. 😊
Great advice. When I was in High School in the 70's. 1974-1977. The first thing my drawing teacher taught me was "to draw what I see.". This advice has never let me down. I am glad that old advice stands the test of time. Thank you for reminding me.
Sounds like you had a great art teacher! It makes such a difference having a good one! 😊
Getting deeper into seeing, It's not the small details that are attracting you to paint. Rather it's the shapes. Start with painting the largest shapes with a toned down version of the color you see. Then the next size smaller shapes within the larger shapes and next smaller and next smaller. Never put in the darkest or brightest values at first. Paint them toned down or you will get lost and confused. Bring it to life gradually. Too much contrast will cause you not to first get your shapes right. The most mundane basic shapes need to stand alone as art before anything else. That is your base for the entire work.
Unless it’s oil painting, where it’s helpful to start with the darker shades first. 😊
😅👏 this is really a funny but fantastic way to explain "how to see" , it took me "blood, sweat and tears" as we say in a matter of speaking during my study at artschool before I really got it but once you know you finally "see" , I really enjoyed this video !
I’m so glad! Yes, a lot of these life sayings that are excellent advice aren’t always easy to understand/implement. This trick helps. 😊
The sad advice that people consider groundbreaking to "draw what you see", not what you think you see. This is a very valuable analogy for life, to live within what is, not assumptions and make beliefs, however, when it comes to drawing, it only perpetuates robotic copying (I wonder where the enthusiasm for hyper realism comes from?)
Don't draw what you see.
That's boring.
Draw your own perception of what you see (in real life or in your mind) because THAT is what drawing is: a Visual Expression of You.
As an artist who is also teaching my own children to draw and paint, I have always told them to look at shapes, but now I will tell them to pretend to be an alien 😊
I hope it helps them as much as it helped my daughter. 😊
Just thinking how lucky is to have a mom artist and art teacher. I keep scavenging books and the internet for art knowledge, art courses are so expensive. I even thought about doing a A level thinking it would be affordable but it isn’t.
A-level won’t teach you to draw or paint, sadly. Neither will most art schools. Ateliers will teach you how to you. Many good local art classes will teach you. Good instructional books/videos will also help.
Very helpful expansion of draw what you see. Hard to shut the brain off. This will help. Thanks!
Why not look into subscribing to skillshare? Isn't an annual membership like $10/month USD?
I did an a level. My teacher kept getting annoyed at me for not paying a fortune on this or that. I was on less than minimum wage. Completely out of touch
Meditation is how I tap in and create as if no one is looking, keep doing that and you will evolve if art is your intention and passion.
Great advice .. my art teacher at school used to say if you can see.. you can draw. I loved art and it was my best subject.. middle aged and still drawing! X
I love this way of looking! This is so helpful, thank you!
Thank you for this advice it has opened things up for me. My personality tends to be quite literal not just with being taught the sky is blue…. This is so relatable. I’ve been a dog groomer for 35 yrs and after attending a seminar many moons ago, I walked away with some simple but incredible advise. Pretend! As a groomer we know the breed style and standards etc. She simply stated pretend the hair is there, pretend the angle exists and keep going. I use this everyday in the salon. Now being an alien sounds like my world will once again look so different. Thank you for all that offer us. Your videos are such a pleasure to watch and learn from!
I think that was great advice- pretending in general opens up a whole world of play for our creativity to go wild. ❤
You are a wonderful person and an excellent teacher! That is what my intuition is telling me! Thank you for your advice! I have always felt like an alien, and when I paint, I often disregard all the dogmas about what I can't do! But I pay attention to my opinion/intuitive feeling of what is aesthetical! ❤🙏
I think a lot of artists feel like aliens. 👽😊
Great advice! The more I practice this the better I get!
Thanks for your advice, I’ve never thought about that so you’re helping me a lot 👏
I’m so glad. 😊
What an interesting way to think about it; I’m anxious to give this a try!
I am so glad you spoke on this subject today. I've been thinking recently about the way small children draw with an open creative mind, a freedom most of us lose when we get a little older and the world tells us what's what. That person is still in us, if we could tap into that again as grown-up think, how awesome would that be? There's a term in Zen Buddhism: "The Beginners Mind". The teaching is that Knowledge and understating are two different things. Knowledge without understanding can be a block to learning. The trick is to move away from the preconceived views and notions we have about the world and approach everything with a beginner's mind. Think like an alien! 😊🙏
Yes! I love trying to tap into the Beginner’s Mind. As a lifelong teacher it’s one of the best ways to be able to explain concepts, but also as an artist it’s infinitely useful. 😊
I think I might teach on the beginners' minds in a Buddhism class I'm teaching in July. Can I use your phrase, "think like an alien" ?
That would be awesome. 😊
This was joyful to learn from you. Betty Edwards book was the best advice I learned when my drawing really started to change for the better. I will try to draw and paint with fresh eyes. Like I've never seen it before. Thank you. Sincerely.
This really nicely articulates something I've always done, but could never put into words! I love the idea and am definitely going to pretend to be an alien next time I paint!
That is why drawing upside down works too.
Fantastic! Thank you for the great advice. It will changed how I look at things when I create my art.😎
Great lesson Leslie. Thanks.
Thank you! Succinct and profoundly useful.
I've probably said this a couple of times before but you really do upload videos of topics I'm currently thinking about 😅 I'm making very rigid sketches and paintings with fixed colours when I know I need to be just looking at the reference and drawing instead of letting my brain dictate. Going to try your tip this week.
That’s great! Yes, just saying “draw what you see” isn’t always enough to silence our rational brains. We have to get them out of the situation altogether. 😊
Think like an alien 👽!! That is wonderful advice for me & will definitely be using that for my artistic mantra from now on. Thanks for the advice 💕🎨
It’s a fun mantra. 👽
Absolutely the Best Advice for Artist and the most important Advice for new Artist. Thank you for sharing 🤗
You’re welcome! 😊
Great idea, will give it a try, thanks!
Unique advice and well explained. Going to try this mindset. You’re an excellent instructor 👏‼️
Thanks so much!! 😊
Thank you. This is best advice ever! 👍👍👍
This is such good advice, it is so easy to get caught on whatcha know about the scene like loads of leaves and hairs and not look at it as the shadows and lights as a whole this is somthing i struggle with and trying to change to be more looser with my painting. And get more accurate results without trying to paint how i think things should be since my brain knows what individual things look or 'should look like' lol
Yes, it’s a helpful way to notice shapes, shadows, and highlights. 😊
Brilliant!!!!
Maam it really made my day. I just love you and your tips.
That sounds like brilliant advice for the "draw what you see, not what you know" school. I just wonder: If that's the way to go, why do artists learn about things like anatomy or perspective?
Greatest advice!
Wow, that actually was an awesome tip! Thank you 🙏💖
That was so helpful. Thank you.
Always incredible cogent content. You always make it "just make sense".
I’m glad 😊
Thank you so much for this! I am a stickler for details which was helpful in my career but not so much when trying to learn to paint. I have always heard "just paint what you see" but likening it to "paint like you're an alien" really resonated with me. Thanks again!
Yes, “draw and paint what you see” can be really tricky to implement without tools to trick your brain into staying out of the way. 😊
That’s brilliant advice! Looking at the world with child like wonder, a little alien child ❤
I love that. The alien within. 👽❤️
Very helpful!!!!thank you!
What an inspiring video. Thank you, once again.
My pleasure! 😊
Love this. Thank you! 👽😃👍
Hi! Glad I found you! I’ve just started sketching and watercolor again, and your advice is excellent. 😅
Thank you! 😊
Thank you!
Great way to explain the “draw what you see” concept!
Yes! It’s the manual for “draw what you see.” 😊
I love your art studio ❤️
Thank you! I have a tour video. 😊
Great advice Leslie. I teach art too and this is similar to what I tell my kids about Seeing VS Naming. We see the world by the things we can name- branches, leaves, bird etc and this is how beginners draw... they draw the branch, then a leaf, then another. They have to learn to break down what they can name into what it is- shapes and lines- 3 vertical lines, 2 wavy diagonals. It takes a lot of practice.
Perfect advice. Your students are lucky to have you. 😊
wow, thanks for the advice. wow. it means lots of worlds to me now.
Hooray! 🤗
Yes!
Good advice, probably won’t change my life, but has a good chance of improving my art practice
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Great!
Excellent video🎉😎🎉❤️
Excellent advice, I must admit learning to really see and switch my brain off has taken me a very long time. I realised looking at clouds recently that I may have managed it when I was registering colours and shapes rather than thinking that’s a cloud 😂. Thinking like an alien would have saved a lot of time. Thank you for all you share with us x
You’re so welcome. And yes, it’s much easier said than done! 😊
this was amazing advice!! glad i clicked on your video!
Me too! 😊
Brilliant and fun. I use the alien idea when teaching people how to work with their dreams and describe elements in them. Fresh mind, fresh eyes. :)
Wonderful! ☺️
this is really interesting 🥰
Hello from Fra😅nce.You make perfect sense. I was also taught to block preconceived ideas and trust my eyes. Good luck with your channel I look forward to following you.
Merci mille fois! 😊
So true! Many years ago, I worked my way through Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards. The single greatest benefit of this book was developing the ability to really see the world around me … a literal eye opening revelation. Suddenly I found myself seeing the everyday world around me in a whole new way and observing so much more information! So definitely, learning to draw is a useful endeavour for any creative person whether they be painters, poets or filmmakers. These days I draw less and photograph more but seeing is everything! Thanks for this excellent video and here’s to hoping that more people (not just the aliens) begin to truly appreciate the wonder that is planet earth.
Betty Edwards is one of the best art educators of our generation. It applies to photography too. 😊
Ohh that’s such a good advice. This could become a series! ‘Best art advice I have received’ if you still have students around :) ❤ Thank you 🙏
Thanks! I teach online on Patreon these days, but my Patrons definitely have questions! 😊
Funny me, my first thought was - yeah, that's great! Thinking of myself as an alien is supporting the joyful embrace of uniqueness, and observing the surrounding humans that I am so different from is a curious and friendly act. Leaving social standards and expectations behind is another great aspect of that (trained mindsets). Very helpful, especially as an artist as you're on the edge of new creations.
Then you spoke about seeing your motive without the trained mindsets in terms of eye-brain-knowledge-drawing-painting :-) and in a way that is the same, just a different layer. Thank you, great advice!!
Happy to help! 😊
cool conceptl
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Wow that is such a beautiful way to put that. Thank you. I’ve been stuck and not painting for a couple weeks. Just down right blocked. I’m going to try some alien paintings.
I hope it helps unblock you. 😊
thanks for the Zen
Thank you
Salamat po. I am happy and joyful artist here in the Philippines.
Hello ! True I've tried drawing what I was really seeing instead of what I've thought because of you on a old video and it's way better ! I've noticed it too in the drawings of my 7 yo boy no interpretations just straight to the point 😳😁 and it's truly more easy.Simple and better 👍 Nice sunny sunday, bises 😘
Yes, I thought this topic needed the type of elaboration I would have given it in a classroom. How lovely to draw your son. 😊
@@LeslieStroz thank you for all these awsome tips 😁😉🙏🏼
Yes it's a bliss 🥰😁
Thank you.
Great way to trick us into hearing then trick us into seeing! Lol
I see like alien when I’m on shroom , every thing looks new and interesting like my brain see it for the first time 😅
The ultimate alien is a camera! It records what it sees.
Oh but it doesn’t. It alters colours and flattens depth perception.
😊
Yes, great tip. Keep your eye to the horizon. It's why travel is so appealing giving us fresh views on fresh new places.
Definitely. And why drawing and painting outside is so helpful. 😊
It was a very interesting talk. I'm a beginner and haven't been able to achieve the results I wanted, but I'm going to practice becoming an alien.
I'll subscribe to your channel and watch other videos. Thank you.
(I'm using Google Translate)
Best of luck on your art journey! 😊
Excellent ❤ Be an Alien-definitely going to be an alien from now…..Thanks
Nice! I’m a retired commercial artist that enjoys doing art for myself now. I can honestly say, I know how to see shapes, perspective, values, and all that basic stuff. But your advice takes it to another level. It’s definitely going to help me improve!
I’m so glad! 😊
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Interestingly, I had this idea when I was little. But then I used it only for fun.... Not for art.
You sound like you were a fun child. 😊
interesting.. i get your points.. sounds like there's going to be a 'but'.. but there's not :) .. thanks for the video👍
Brilliant,Not easy to implement
It helps to pretend. 😊
I love the idea of pretending you’re an alien sent here to draw and paint the new world you find yourself observing… I was taught in art school to draw what I see, not to draw what I think it’s supposed to look like. When my niece was around 4 years old, I had shared this knowledge with her to see if it helped her artwork change… and it did! I said, “look at the shapes of things instead of looking at the object that has a name. Look at the negative space too, and draw it the way you see it.” I then used a coffee mug to describe the negative space by pointing out the shape of space between the mug and the handle and asked her if she could see the shape looked like a capital D and she said yes… So then she started looking for things to draw that had space built in like that… and I said “You can look for negative spaces between different objects/shapes like when they are sat next to one another” and she understood it. It is excellent advice and your alien idea is a great way to explain it, especially since it begins the imagination and playful processes. Thank you for sharing!! ❤
Your niece is lucky to have you as her art teacher. 😊
I think in terms of 'pixel' colours.
Excellent!
I'm a newbie self-taught artist. And..I really really wanna do plein art. I only do pencil drawings and.. I wanna try using watercolor but it scares me as how hard it is to use. I wanna do gouache but it's too expensive and has downsides in using on plein art.
I want to travel and do art. Any tips?
I've been really stuck in either using watercolor or gouache..
It’s great that you’re drawing, since that’s the foundation for painting. Watercolour can be tricky, yes, but if you start slowly and use it to supplement your drawings you will soon learn the nuances. Maybe try ink drawing with it. And make sure you use watercolour paper! Good luck! 😊
Helpful... MayB removing my glasses for the sake of not clearly focusing on subjects' shapes, shadows, and shades. Ann,
Yes. Being nearsighted is a super power for visual artists. 😊
5:21 You’ve opened a Pandora’s box of questions! I mean if an alien doesn’t care about legs, how does it move around 😂? Does it actually move around, or are is it very, very sedentary? If it does move around, how does it do so? Is it a blob that rolls around? If so, then how does it take in information about the world around it if its movement involves constant rolling? If said alien doesn’t care about legs, it’s safe to assume that it doesn’t care about arms either, which begs the question: how does it draw?
And there is a whole other cohort of questions just dawdling about in my brain, such as: can I refer to the alien as “it” 😂? Is that considered inappropriate? If it is then how should I refer to that person? Does the alien race have our understanding of the notion of a person? If not then how do they see themselves? I mean the philosophical implications here are huge!
Good God! I can go on and on and on and on 😂😂.
Thanks for the video, though 😊.
Aliens are beyond our comprehension. 😅 They might have 8 tentacles! 🐙
@@LeslieStroz What is it with aliens and tentacles. Who came up with that idea anyway? 😂
You are right-- pretend you’re an alien makes so much sense!!! I think we should do this as human beings. The world would be a kinder place once the alien understood good and evil. Our brains no longer make practical sense….sadly
Completely. 😊
Forgive me this comment… could your analogy of “an Alien doesn’t know…” be a good reason why AI generated art is as good as it is? What are your thoughts about AI generated art?
That’s a tricky subject. I’m not sure this concept relates to AI art, which sadly just alters art and photography in the database that has been created by artists.
@@LeslieStroz thank you for your reply
stop telling children face is an oval first
Well, it is clickbait, given that no matter how you look at it, no matter the quality of the advice, there is no such thing as an objectively "BEST art advice".