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I remember when I started I would copy Dragon Ball Z manga panels, and the jump in quality my drawings had before and after was incredible, though I stopped because I felt ashamed of tracing.
Im no professional artist but my top tip is only draw when u feel like it .. i noticed. Once i drew because i was just bored and didnt know what to do, it turned out bad. But then one day i drew because i felt like it and was putting my heart into it. And guess what! I made one of my greatest drawings :)
That’s what I’m saying!!!! If you draw when you feel like it and have that tiny burst of energy you end up making drawings you like and feel proud off eventually
Depends on what you’re trying to achieve honestly, obviously having fun is top priority as an artist but if you want to improve quicker, you’ll have to be consistent with your practice. I tried relying on motivation alone for a long time and i can end up not drawing for months and felt horrible about it
I dunno, if your goal is to improve then drawing only when you feel like it could end in stagnation. I prefer the “only draw for 5 - 10 minutes” technique. Just tell yourself that it doesn’t have to be good but you just need to get something out. If after the time limit you still aren’t in the mood then you can stop. But a lot of the time you’ll find that you can keep going as you’ll find inspiration as you work.
Pewdiepie went from the first TH-camr to hit 1M subs (before MrBeast surpassed the numbers) who happened to have a beef with Barrels as his arch-nemesis, to a fast learner who improves his artistry each day. Even if the king puts down his crown, he seems happy on what he's enjoying right now.
i "cancelled" pewdiepie for drawing only anime waifu's (cringe) and not both waifu and husbandos, you cancelled pewdiepie for getting better at art, we are not the same
It's because he's straight most likely most hetro guys only draw women. Unless they're into comics and trying to do their own comic then they draw everything
In his very VERY old early TH-cam days he has made a few videos doing photoshop and a tiny bit of digital design. It was known back then with his OG community that he has a nack for art and overall graphic design already l. His prior experience definitely helped with his eye for color and “what looks off” in his drawings. Not that I’m taking away from him, he has significantly shown improvement! But it should be noted that he does have a history for the media.
yeah he even has some of his old photoshop work on deviantart under the user "pewdie" (his art is still there but be aware that the account did get hacked by a kid trying to promote a roblox game)
Never knew that one of the most known gaming TH-camrs could become such a good artist in a short time. Thinking about it, I think everyone has this chance. Go and draw, guys!!
Tracing actually works well for very early studies if you struggle with stiff hand syndrome, ie: your drawings are to stiff. This can also help with understanding how to draw and how artists actually draw. However, it doesnt replace fundamentals, and loose sketching excercises which help loosen your artwork more. Initially it helps your brain develop nueral pathways of learning how to draw, after that youre supposed to switch to copying. So tracing does help, but its an beginner method and not to reproduce art, like you said. Friends please let us not be cringe, dont copy art; Use tracing as a learning tool only.
When I was in middle school, I used to trace drawings from comics and how to draw books, ink over them, then go over it again in pencil to try to trace the basic structural forms they used to build the figure. It helped me a ton! Tracing is definitely helpful when done correctly.
@@triplecatnip7413on paper it's more challenging and I'm down for drawing challenges but I stopped tracing several months ago and I haven't felt the need to trace anymore but tracing will come in handy from time to time
I remember back in high school, i would place a picture in front of me of a game illustration and redo it, on paper. It was fun and motivational when it comes to wanting to recreate the art piece, not to claim it ofc just honing one skill.
I'd do the same with screenshots from movies and tv, especially Dreamworks movies from 2010-14. Its what started my interest in *really studying* art. Ive been drawing my little doodles and imaginary worlda since I was a kid, but never really wanted to "get better" or "study" until I turned 11 and *reeeeeeally* wanted to draw my favourite characters. Copying them from screenshots is what made my brain click and go "oh thats how you figure it out... okay..."
Here's the thing with fundamentals - not everyone can learn them! Everyone thinks they're the ultimate basics but for someone who is colour blind and has serious problems with depth perception they're absolutely the biggest struggle to even get working regardless no matter how many books, tutorials, art & graphic design classes I've done these two things limit my ablity to replicate these 'basic fundamentals'. Has it stopped me doing art though? No. Not in 30 years of doing it. Sometimes you just have to work with what you have and work around the disadvantages your delt with.
I started by drawing horses and one thing i remember from the book was that it started with a lot of the fundamentals. Like it had me do the shapes then added muscles. The design part was for the mane and extra. It was an odd choice but it made it easier to learn how to draw people. I appreciate the tip about drawing other things first.
Weirdly me seeing his art improve wasn’t crazy. I notice a lot of adult who wants to start drawing later in life are like this. Not cause they older but more so they start with thinking how did this person to get to here. And a they actively have better plan for studying unlike many artist who started it when they were young. Kids start with not much of a plan(not all kids). As a kid it harder to think more structural when it comes to studying. So I get how he figure it out. I enjoy seeing that since it cool to see how someone got something you couldn’t previously.
I think my biggest issue is not having a clear goal, not having belief in myself and potential on the future, and trying to do everything at once to compensate for the feeling of fomo. I’d probably do a lot better if I had those things and focused on one thing for as you said 3 weeks to a month/ just finish the art course or art book already. Though its hard to accept where you are at and to go back and relearn something you thought you already had a grasp on. I really don’t wanna go back to relearning the torso and pelvis again, but if its required to draw a good body from different angles then fuck me I guess I have to. But first I gotta finish Bryce Kho’s course and by that means I gotta put away all the pdfs, the morpho and taco secret point character book series, and TomfoxDraws book. HAH I have way too much stimuli for a “lost goal.”
What helped me with this is finding a little portfolio of different art stages i liked and choosing one stage to keep to when drawing. An example? Cute meme doodles. I started replicating the squash and stretch of the doodles without coloring or detailing, and gave me practice at stylization without details (fast practice that is allowed to look messy)
Also disagree that Pew had no artistic experience before, he's literally a massive youtuber, you could argue he was an artist in some way for a long time already, by doing creative works, even videos, still trained his artist eye better than you would think.
He love digital graphic design before he went on full time on youtubing. So he had prior knowledge on composition, coloring, and some stuff. That being said, he need to learn the pen drawing basic before he could apply his other knowledge. hence the "jump" in skill
In his very VERY old early TH-cam days he has made a few videos doing photoshop and a tiny bit of digital design. It was known back then with his OG community that he has a nack for art and overall graphic design already l. His prior experience definitely helped with his eye for color and “what looks off” in his drawings. Not that I’m taking away from him, he has significantly shown improvement! But it should be noted that he does have a history for the media.
Nah I disagree on this. Him being a youtuber has nothing to do with this. Design skills and creativity actually arent that important when it comes to just the technicality of drawing. And youre not training your artistic eye unless youre actively looking at your surroundings that way. You can watch 100 movies and learn absolutely nothing about cinematography if you arent looking for that. Ofc youll always pick up some things unconsciously when youre consuming youre favourite media - but its not so impactful to make someone learn drawing from scratch 20 times faster
I realized this about a week ago but I kept stuggling in proportions and they turned out very poorly and never seemed to look right but I soon then realized I went off doing something that I don't have good knowledge of, soo I keep everything simplified and gather the artstyles that I want to incorporate and that made me felt happy and inspired because from my perspective as a 17 year old artist I want to tell a story while making a character not just designing them and make them exist but to their purpose of why did I make them. also very good motivational video 🥰
I’m gonna challenge your tracing remark just a TINY bit. About a year ago I got really stressed out about not improving and starting tracing certain parts of the body as well as objects. Obviously, I wouldn’t trace an ENTIRE image because, yeah, that’s stealing. HOWEVER, I didn’t just trace and call it a day. I would trace the shapes. For example, for fingers, I would make sure to still draw in the separate blocks of the fingers rather than just straight up tracing the whole hands. Same if I was doing a portrait of a friend. I would still draw in the guidelines of the face. Eventually, instead of JUST learning how to trace, I was memorizing where the shapes and guidelines were supposed to go. I also learned how to look at a reference WAY better. Now I NEVER trace and am improving way faster. So you’re right about tracing BUT there’s a way to use it to improve your mental library which most beginners don’t do.
I think partially because Pewdiepie has a hint of natural arty talent within himself too x3 I'm already kinda looking up to him here XD I've been an artist since I was a little kid too. I'll have to get myself a simple little sketch book and do this 100 sketching thing myself and who knows, maybe I'll have my art drive back
Pewdiepie’s progress was very impressive, but it’s also worth acknowledging that he’s at the beginner stage where almost any purposeful studying creates large jumps in skill. I attended a private school where we all had to learn classical drawing (from the statues etc) & music. Pretty much everyone can achieve a basic technical level of craft in art & music. In fact, some kids were very good at it but just had no interest, while others had to work harder but we super interested & traced comics after school & so forth. My point is that ultimately it’s your DETERMINATION that controls how good of an artist you become. Once you get to intermediate level, where you can draw & paint semi-realistically, will you keep pushing yourself? Will you learn color theory, lighting, complex compositions
As an art student. No- tracing is literally the best method to get used to the controls of the pencil and remembering the shapes. It builds up muscle memory, and your fingers are more inclined to draw similarly after that. Students who had no knowledge or skills at drawing. Are more encouraged to trace at the start of the semester to get the full grasp on how to draw. But of course, this leads to side factors as well. Tracing methods are only meant for our own time and practice. And should not be posted or shared as an original piece.
@@emelisa2008 No, when you trace without using your brain, you're just copying the picture and everything goes into short-term memory. But when you understand what you're doing by analyzing and breaking down the structure of the thing you're drawing, all of that will go into long-term memory. "Students who have no knowledge or skills in drawing are more encouraged to trace at the start of the semester." This is incredibly dumb. They should learn how to study, how to do the basic stuff, how to analyze. You can trace hundreds of times, but you can't beat the guy who spends the same amount of time as you but knows what he is doing.
@@emelisa2008 The advice you give makes sense. Why are you still a student? Now, saying that doesn't mean because I have "sensei" in my tag. I'm just telling you facts. Is that your profile picture drawn by you? Do you know you lack anatomy and light shading? Because you don't study the basics first, and that's why you won't get better. Now, hold up, I didn't say my profile picture was good; I still have a lot of things to learn, and I have a long way to go, step by step, from a strong basic knowledge to improve. Learn how to study, man. Take one object, then draw it from different angles and perspectives, you're kil*ing yourself man.
@@emelisa2008 If you want to improve, then you should learn how to study, as I say. Tracing won't make you a better artist. Muscle memory? What's the point of that if the things you're doing are wrong? So you're saying that doing the right study technique won't help you improve your drawing skills? Tracing is only acceptable when you're doing animation because it's part of the job, or if you're not a real artist and you just draw for fun. And this will be the only time I mention your age. I know you're still young, so you should spend some time doing the basic stuff first before you move on. This isn't just my personal advice, as many professional artists give the same advice too. But if you don't agree with my advice, which isn't original, I used to be like you until my early 20s when I learned that everything must follow the basics. Mastering basic shapes and understanding lighting is crucial, isn't it? We all have to follow the rules.
@akirosensei I'm literally in a sec 4 art class. This was one of the methods recommended for newbies. Of course, there were also teachings of analysing stuff
Ok I’m probably going to get flack for this but I consider tracing to be an actually helpful tool, BUT only if you are tracing 3D models/off of images you own (like screenshots of a character in a video game you took) or otherwise have permission for AND properly disclose that you traced I say this because I have actually had improvement in my art from doing this (it actually helped me learn how to draw hands and dynamic poses as well) I’ve also had similar art improvements from using mlp bases back in the day: working with those made it so I was actually able to draw ponies by memory believe it or not The only tracing I do for a full image these days are when I’m trying to draw my FFXIV character due to how complex his horns are (his horns are absolutely annoying) by taking screenshots of him doing different things in game for the past 4 years now - and I have definitely seen my art improve in my non-traced art since then Tracing is not an evil thing - it’s a good learning tool if you do it right It’s only bad if you never draw outside of tracing and never disclose you traced
I’ll actually second this opinion: after all, rotoscoping in animation is basically “tracing a live-action movie frame by frame”, and was used even by Disney in their golden era animations (even though rather for “making the production cheaper and faster” reasons: those dance scenes are tricky both anatomically and perspective wise, after all - so they’ve shot needed footage, printed it out, and then gave it to the animation team)
I remember one time probably earlier on in my drawing interest, i posted something in one of the forums. And I remember in the conversation I asked the person "is it better to just focus on one thing at a time or do it all at once?" And I remember the response being something along the lines of "youll have to learn it all anyway" None of that was exact wording of course, but I do remember it basically implying to work on it all instead of focusing on one thing at a time. In practicing weapons at the dojo, I feel like we never really focus on being good at 1 or 2 weapons. (Unless you work on it my h kore extensovely outside of class time) We use a small variety. And these are one hour classes a week. I still don't think I could do much more of anything effective with them. But i can remember patterns. It just feels like it makes sense to focus on one thing at a time, otherwise it just feels overwhelming, and at least for me I'm not sure that's how I learn best either.
i listened along as i was drawing, todays been a rough day where everything i draw sucks. i kept pushing,. almost cried, but ended up with one sketch i like. thank you
well... he did have somewhat prior knowledge to art. One of the reasons why he's good at shading in his drawings is because he went to some college, learning how to use photoshop
Also, not to discredit him, but he had A LOT of experience with digital editing prior. A lot of this is from transferrable skills --- which also explains things like why people who are good in one area of STEM tend to pick up the other areas faster than people who focused more on art or music, or why people who learn one instrument tend to learn other instruments much faster. Hobbies and skills aren't just separate boxes, they have similarities and skills you may not even notice which can be carried onto other skills. Though, actually enjoying what you're doing helps a lot. I've had times where I've tried to draw twice --- in school because I thought it would make me cool, and just recently now because I'm learning to embrace my creative side and just have fun instead of just scrolling all day. You can guess when I started to actually see improvement.
I have a very 'everything happens for a reason' mindset. I get art block often but im the kind of person to where the frustration pushes me to be better to a place where im satisfied. Im happy my mind lets me see art block as a bump that pushes me faster and if youre the kind of person that can adapt other handsets, id say this is a pretty good one
I'm glad you include subtitles. if i look away from the screen, I don't understand what you're saying. it sounds like you're trying to talk and chew porridge at the same time
My theory about his improvement is this it’s just that he’s really happy as a person who is not optimistic, proud or even positive I find myself struggling to draw anything I think it’s because I am an unhappy person. That is my belief that since PewDiePie has made it to the top he has a kid he’s rich he’s famous. He’s won the world is full of optimism so when he draws, he succeeds amazingly.
Kind of an odd take, but I think I sort of get where you’re going with this. Rather than saying because he’s happy he can improve and because you’re sad you can’t though, I think it’s more than when you’re in a happy and positive headspace you have more energy to be determined and to keep practicing even when you fail, versus when you’re already depressed you have much less energy and/or determination to follow through with the things you want to do. Happy people can be bad at art and sad people can be good at it, hell most artists are depressed as hell lol, it more so depends on your personal mindset and work ethic; something depressed folks often struggle to find for themselves. That said, it’s also not something you might necessarily be the best at just because you’re happy either, so while I get the correlation, I can’t fully agree that it’s the entire causation or explanation.
Something to that I saw I vid of an underrated artist/youtuber called bredrws and she talked about it to and explained it so well, like you did have a nice day😊
I actually started actively drawing not so long before Pewdiepie did, and was making a lot of progress at the same time. It was honestly really inspiring that so many people were talking about his video, as it subconsciously helped me get motivated and some what proud as well. Just wish I would also start using colours slowly
Tracing's good if you're making a character sheet (such as a turnaround or expression sheet) if you'll be drawing someone else's character. That way the look and movement is consistent.
Ngl i always told myself i was taking art seriously which was maybe actually doing a drawing once and a blue moon. Pewdiepie actually inspired me to get serious about it and also stop my youtube addiction. He's a new dad and while retired still put in time to draw when he could so now i just go on pin and redraw manga panels faces and have seen improvements along with guitar progress which is fun
Thank you for making videos for us artists and others , i love your channel and the videos you make and your art so much ❤ have a nice and amazing day❤❤❤
If anything, I'm left more hopeless about my own drawing abilities that I've been using for few years My motivation has been long tanked too Either I need to find 2nd party to help keep myself motivated or just acknowledge this as gambler's fallacy and stop with art
I've always been horrid at drawing by observing so I very much skipped this step in my art journey. But over the past few months I've been taking steps to actually learn art! Pewds journey is also quite inspiring for me as I'm picking up all the advice ppl r saying based on what he did
13:39 that's such a nice way to say my stickfigures look nice. xD I focused on body language and expressions (comic style) while everything else was suffering. stick figures supreme. xD
i swear some people just dont know what tracing means anymore. tracing is literally taking a piece of paper over an already done art work and drawing the lines, he used references, didnt trace its so dumb XD
I know that in 2021-2022 I found an artist I really liked that drew/ animated mostly warrior cats things. I remember that I used their frames in thier animation as reference and I improved quite a lot when drawing cats! I haven’t drawn a cat ina while now and if I want to continue with that I can just go back. I also looked at the frames that they did to learn how they got the motion off their animations and I still do! It’s hard to do the same with any other artist tho. 😮💨
I'm looking for advice here I lack the basics and the fundamentals but I wanna become a artist because I always wanted to be one but whenever I looked at my drawings it always sucked I didn't focus on improving because I got into wanting to be programmer but things didn't work out, I wanna give myself 3 years to just see how far I get , moving in sets of 2 to 3 months to learn things , I want to be a comic artist , I don't want sympathy I want a opinion on the viability of this that's all
1:00 I think people just kinda trace wrong? It can definitely be a good learning tool, but not if you just copy source line by line. I do tracing a couple of times as an exercise, but instead of just blindly copying the original art, I've tried to break it down and was constantly analyzing it's structure and volume, in a "what I _do not_ do that makes my art style look different from this one?". In the end my traces look more like concepts and blocking shapes you are _starting_ from.
I've been struggling with the connection between upperbody and lower body. It seemed so off and wrong when I drew it, but there were thoes times I figured it out and forgot it the next day😢
Hands are where I draw the line (haha, pun intended). They're the one thing I have to use reference for 100% of the time. I've taken a lot of pictures of my hands in weird poses. 😅
I struggle so much with my art cause I keep going from a reference but it’s like I’m not really getting that reference like I feel I’m just staring at something and trying to draw from memory but I can’t draw from what’s in front of me
We can scoff at beginner artists just copying drawings from comics and cartoons and not making anything original, but that naive instinct to copy is actually extremely powerful. Don Bluth got a job at Disney because he spent all of his free time after working long hours on his family’s farm just copying Disney comic books. That was the thing that made life bearable for him, and it paid off IMMENSELY.
He's not a beginner. He went to art school here in Sweden so he already hade drawing fundamentals down before he started doing this. 😅 And what if you "not me" want to do manga or atleast get good at drawing cool characters. Then your forced to do all of it. No shortcuts.
The actual secret is 'the Chommang method' Day 7 and I drew better than I ever did better than my groups 'lead artist' and and now practicing w/ them. Teaching a friend how to draw in the process. I wouldn't say I'm as good as PewDiePie but I definitely got decent at the method. Every detail mattered in this method I used to draw wide eyed monkeys at day 2 when I geared PewDiePie mention at day 4 I figured out my mistakes and drew decent (front face of any person). Today day7 I mixed this method w/ another more popular method by dlas w/ the shape of the face & hair w/ his method and the actual face w/ Chommang I now had the ability to create any face shape I wanted (front face). Up next is side profile aka today
I may be wrong about the method is the one making me better I don't practice that much a day only for around an hour a day at night w/ reference from Pinterest or whatever
I have drawn a series of the ruin characters (the security breach DLC) That I copied. I had ruined freddy, ruined monty, ruined roxanne, ruined chica, Cassie, and I think I drew Gregory but I can't quite remember. Maybe I should do the normal glamrocks. Oh yeah, I also did springtrap and I wanted to show it to my mom but my friend also wanted the picture so I traced the drawing so I could give it to both of them lol
don't tell me how to became a better artist! I'll do it whatever way i want to! even if i have to turn the art world upside down! Heck even destroy it.....
100 days is plenty of time to improve in something, especially if you already have the fundamentals. I learned animation very quickly by just being able to have a clear goal and finding tutorials for specific things I struggled with. A lot of social media artists have all these badly explained rules they follow and get in their own way. And, tbh, a lot of complaints I've seen about Pewdiepie reek of jealousy. That's another problem. The obsession with other artists' growth, instead of working on their own art.
I'm having fun with it, like almost no tutorials, I was just tracing and finding the most ass backwards ways to do things an artist could've showed to do in one go lmao.
В смысле быстро?! Он вообще-то 100 дней занимался, день изо дня. 100 дней это не мало, 100 дней это очень, ОЧЕНЬ много. Конечно, если ты рисуешь не каждый день, да и рисуешь просто для души, а не улучшения навыка, то результат будет не особо большим, но если ты всерьёз взялся за дело, то 100 дней достаточно, чтобы стать в рисовании мидлом, конечно для такого придётся пожертвовать практически всем в своей жизни и уделять рисованию по 8-10 часов глубокого изучения, но факт остаётся фактом, за 100 дней можно стать мидлом. И да, становление профессионалом за год это ни какая-то шутка, это реально возможная цель человека на Новый Год)
Yeah I am pretty sure that he has drawn stuff before but probably stopped for a long time before picking it back up again so I am doubtful that he is a total noob. This is not to downplay his progress at all because it is his proper approach to drawing that allowed him to progress this quickly. Although I think in his place, I would approach studying perspective and doing studies from real life reference material instead of any artist before I draw anime characters to build a solid foundation. Occasionally though , it is good looking at artist for inspiration or to take or should I say steal* their techniques to improve my painting skills.
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Why are you praising this racist a*h0le? Only increases the toxic algorithm cycle
Funny story… we did this unconsciously in primary school. We’d recreate comic panels n splash pages. Who knew.
Yes literally same! I did it a lot and like now that I think about it…it kind makes sense why other kids thought I could draw hahah
I remember when I started I would copy Dragon Ball Z manga panels, and the jump in quality my drawings had before and after was incredible, though I stopped because I felt ashamed of tracing.
I used to redraw warrior cats fanart I liked.
In case you were wondering no, it did not make me better.
Im no professional artist but my top tip is only draw when u feel like it .. i noticed. Once i drew because i was just bored and didnt know what to do, it turned out bad. But then one day i drew because i felt like it and was putting my heart into it. And guess what! I made one of my greatest drawings :)
That’s what I’m saying!!!! If you draw when you feel like it and have that tiny burst of energy you end up making drawings you like and feel proud off eventually
Depends on what you’re trying to achieve honestly, obviously having fun is top priority as an artist but if you want to improve quicker, you’ll have to be consistent with your practice.
I tried relying on motivation alone for a long time and i can end up not drawing for months and felt horrible about it
I dunno, if your goal is to improve then drawing only when you feel like it could end in stagnation.
I prefer the “only draw for 5 - 10 minutes” technique. Just tell yourself that it doesn’t have to be good but you just need to get something out. If after the time limit you still aren’t in the mood then you can stop. But a lot of the time you’ll find that you can keep going as you’ll find inspiration as you work.
@MohammedAgbadi then you never gain the discipline from drawing everyday.
You clearly have never heard of drawing in math class then/lh UwU
Pewdiepie went from the first TH-camr to hit 1M subs (before MrBeast surpassed the numbers) who happened to have a beef with Barrels as his arch-nemesis, to a fast learner who improves his artistry each day. Even if the king puts down his crown, he seems happy on what he's enjoying right now.
Bro is literally accomplishing side quests at this point
@@MohammedAgbadi what else is there to do? He has completed the main questline
fred was the first. he even got his own show
I think he meant 100M subs @@thrift272
i thought fred was the first to hit 1M
i "cancelled" pewdiepie for drawing only anime waifu's (cringe) and not both waifu and husbandos, you cancelled pewdiepie for getting better at art, we are not the same
Lmfaoooo🤣🤣
Preach my brother, we're here for hot people of all kinds and genders
yew guys i think hes trolling (idk) 😭
It's because he's straight most likely most hetro guys only draw women. Unless they're into comics and trying to do their own comic then they draw everything
@@williammclean6594what…?
In his very VERY old early TH-cam days he has made a few videos doing photoshop and a tiny bit of digital design. It was known back then with his OG community that he has a nack for art and overall graphic design already l. His prior experience definitely helped with his eye for color and “what looks off” in his drawings. Not that I’m taking away from him, he has significantly shown improvement! But it should be noted that he does have a history for the media.
yeah he even has some of his old photoshop work on deviantart under the user "pewdie" (his art is still there but be aware that the account did get hacked by a kid trying to promote a roblox game)
Never knew that one of the most known gaming TH-camrs could become such a good artist in a short time. Thinking about it, I think everyone has this chance. Go and draw, guys!!
Makes me want to become an astronaut in 100 days!
thank you cyrus pokemon, very cool
@@michiko_nox yes
@@MohammedAgbadihell yea
omw to become a drawer
Pewdiepie's drawing experience has been fun to see. Going from drawing stick figures to full out colored works is awesome
Tracing actually works well for very early studies if you struggle with stiff hand syndrome, ie: your drawings are to stiff. This can also help with understanding how to draw and how artists actually draw. However, it doesnt replace fundamentals, and loose sketching excercises which help loosen your artwork more. Initially it helps your brain develop nueral pathways of learning how to draw, after that youre supposed to switch to copying. So tracing does help, but its an beginner method and not to reproduce art, like you said. Friends please let us not be cringe, dont copy art; Use tracing as a learning tool only.
When I was in middle school, I used to trace drawings from comics and how to draw books, ink over them, then go over it again in pencil to try to trace the basic structural forms they used to build the figure. It helped me a ton! Tracing is definitely helpful when done correctly.
Does tracing mean literally tracing or eyeballing it while trying to replicate the drawing? Cause the latter is really hard, especially on paper
@@triplecatnip7413on paper it's more challenging and I'm down for drawing challenges but I stopped tracing several months ago and I haven't felt the need to trace anymore but tracing will come in handy from time to time
@@triplecatnip7413tracing can include tracing over the original drawing and making a few adjustments to it.
"I do not fear the artist who has drawn a thousand noses one time. I fear the artist who has drawn one nose a thousand times." --Bruce Lee maybe idk
I remember back in high school, i would place a picture in front of me of a game illustration and redo it, on paper. It was fun and motivational when it comes to wanting to recreate the art piece, not to claim it ofc just honing one skill.
I’m doing that right now lol
I'd do the same with screenshots from movies and tv, especially Dreamworks movies from 2010-14. Its what started my interest in *really studying* art. Ive been drawing my little doodles and imaginary worlda since I was a kid, but never really wanted to "get better" or "study" until I turned 11 and *reeeeeeally* wanted to draw my favourite characters. Copying them from screenshots is what made my brain click and go "oh thats how you figure it out... okay..."
Here's the thing with fundamentals - not everyone can learn them! Everyone thinks they're the ultimate basics but for someone who is colour blind and has serious problems with depth perception they're absolutely the biggest struggle to even get working regardless no matter how many books, tutorials, art & graphic design classes I've done these two things limit my ablity to replicate these 'basic fundamentals'. Has it stopped me doing art though? No. Not in 30 years of doing it. Sometimes you just have to work with what you have and work around the disadvantages your delt with.
I started by drawing horses and one thing i remember from the book was that it started with a lot of the fundamentals. Like it had me do the shapes then added muscles. The design part was for the mane and extra. It was an odd choice but it made it easier to learn how to draw people. I appreciate the tip about drawing other things first.
Weirdly me seeing his art improve wasn’t crazy. I notice a lot of adult who wants to start drawing later in life are like this. Not cause they older but more so they start with thinking how did this person to get to here. And a they actively have better plan for studying unlike many artist who started it when they were young. Kids start with not much of a plan(not all kids). As a kid it harder to think more structural when it comes to studying. So I get how he figure it out. I enjoy seeing that since it cool to see how someone got something you couldn’t previously.
I think my biggest issue is not having a clear goal, not having belief in myself and potential on the future, and trying to do everything at once to compensate for the feeling of fomo. I’d probably do a lot better if I had those things and focused on one thing for as you said 3 weeks to a month/ just finish the art course or art book already. Though its hard to accept where you are at and to go back and relearn something you thought you already had a grasp on.
I really don’t wanna go back to relearning the torso and pelvis again, but if its required to draw a good body from different angles then fuck me I guess I have to. But first I gotta finish Bryce Kho’s course and by that means I gotta put away all the pdfs, the morpho and taco secret point character book series, and TomfoxDraws book. HAH I have way too much stimuli for a “lost goal.”
What helped me with this is finding a little portfolio of different art stages i liked and choosing one stage to keep to when drawing.
An example? Cute meme doodles. I started replicating the squash and stretch of the doodles without coloring or detailing, and gave me practice at stylization without details (fast practice that is allowed to look messy)
Also disagree that Pew had no artistic experience before, he's literally a massive youtuber, you could argue he was an artist in some way for a long time already, by doing creative works, even videos, still trained his artist eye better than you would think.
He love digital graphic design before he went on full time on youtubing.
So he had prior knowledge on composition, coloring, and some stuff.
That being said, he need to learn the pen drawing basic before he could apply his other knowledge. hence the "jump" in skill
In his very VERY old early TH-cam days he has made a few videos doing photoshop and a tiny bit of digital design. It was known back then with his OG community that he has a nack for art and overall graphic design already l. His prior experience definitely helped with his eye for color and “what looks off” in his drawings. Not that I’m taking away from him, he has significantly shown improvement! But it should be noted that he does have a history for the media.
Ah yes! The art of playing a game for 2 hours, editing out the bits where you say racial slurs in anger and upload. Truly a lost art form
Nah I disagree on this. Him being a youtuber has nothing to do with this. Design skills and creativity actually arent that important when it comes to just the technicality of drawing. And youre not training your artistic eye unless youre actively looking at your surroundings that way. You can watch 100 movies and learn absolutely nothing about cinematography if you arent looking for that. Ofc youll always pick up some things unconsciously when youre consuming youre favourite media - but its not so impactful to make someone learn drawing from scratch 20 times faster
Some of y'all really coping hard about the progress he's made. 💀
1:56 god damn...
Just laughed when I clicked that
NAH
NAH THEY DID MY BOY LEON DIRTY
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Thankyou so much!!
I realized this about a week ago but I kept stuggling in proportions and they turned out very poorly and never seemed to look right but I soon then realized I went off doing something that I don't have good knowledge of, soo I keep everything simplified and gather the artstyles that I want to incorporate and that made me felt happy and inspired because from my perspective as a 17 year old artist I want to tell a story while making a character not just designing them and make them exist but to their purpose of why did I make them. also very good motivational video 🥰
detail detail detail, I love it
And that’s on …wait hollup
1:56 I- I was not expecting to see leon in that clothing caught me off guard lmao.
I’m gonna challenge your tracing remark just a TINY bit. About a year ago I got really stressed out about not improving and starting tracing certain parts of the body as well as objects. Obviously, I wouldn’t trace an ENTIRE image because, yeah, that’s stealing.
HOWEVER, I didn’t just trace and call it a day. I would trace the shapes. For example, for fingers, I would make sure to still draw in the separate blocks of the fingers rather than just straight up tracing the whole hands. Same if I was doing a portrait of a friend. I would still draw in the guidelines of the face. Eventually, instead of JUST learning how to trace, I was memorizing where the shapes and guidelines were supposed to go. I also learned how to look at a reference WAY better. Now I NEVER trace and am improving way faster.
So you’re right about tracing BUT there’s a way to use it to improve your mental library which most beginners don’t do.
I think partially because Pewdiepie has a hint of natural arty talent within himself too x3 I'm already kinda looking up to him here XD I've been an artist since I was a little kid too. I'll have to get myself a simple little sketch book and do this 100 sketching thing myself and who knows, maybe I'll have my art drive back
Pewdiepie’s progress was very impressive, but it’s also worth acknowledging that he’s at the beginner stage where almost any purposeful studying creates large jumps in skill. I attended a private school where we all had to learn classical drawing (from the statues etc) & music. Pretty much everyone can achieve a basic technical level of craft in art & music. In fact, some kids were very good at it but just had no interest, while others had to work harder but we super interested & traced comics after school & so forth.
My point is that ultimately it’s your DETERMINATION that controls how good of an artist you become. Once you get to intermediate level, where you can draw & paint semi-realistically, will you keep pushing yourself? Will you learn color theory, lighting, complex compositions
A hundred days is a very long time, why is everyone so surprised about this? As long as you learn forms first youll get a headstart.
Studying (break down, analysis and reference) vs Tracing are 2 difference thing.
As an art student. No- tracing is literally the best method to get used to the controls of the pencil and remembering the shapes. It builds up muscle memory, and your fingers are more inclined to draw similarly after that.
Students who had no knowledge or skills at drawing. Are more encouraged to trace at the start of the semester to get the full grasp on how to draw.
But of course, this leads to side factors as well. Tracing methods are only meant for our own time and practice. And should not be posted or shared as an original piece.
@@emelisa2008 No, when you trace without using your brain, you're just copying the picture and everything goes into short-term memory. But when you understand what you're doing by analyzing and breaking down the structure of the thing you're drawing, all of that will go into long-term memory.
"Students who have no knowledge or skills in drawing are more encouraged to trace at the start of the semester." This is incredibly dumb. They should learn how to study, how to do the basic stuff, how to analyze.
You can trace hundreds of times, but you can't beat the guy who spends the same amount of time as you but knows what he is doing.
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The advice you give makes sense. Why are you still a student? Now, saying that doesn't mean because I have "sensei" in my tag. I'm just telling you facts.
Is that your profile picture drawn by you? Do you know you lack anatomy and light shading? Because you don't study the basics first, and that's why you won't get better. Now, hold up, I didn't say my profile picture was good; I still have a lot of things to learn, and I have a long way to go, step by step, from a strong basic knowledge to improve.
Learn how to study, man. Take one object, then draw it from different angles and perspectives, you're kil*ing yourself man.
@@emelisa2008 If you want to improve, then you should learn how to study, as I say. Tracing won't make you a better artist. Muscle memory? What's the point of that if the things you're doing are wrong? So you're saying that doing the right study technique won't help you improve your drawing skills?
Tracing is only acceptable when you're doing animation because it's part of the job, or if you're not a real artist and you just draw for fun.
And this will be the only time I mention your age. I know you're still young, so you should spend some time doing the basic stuff first before you move on.
This isn't just my personal advice, as many professional artists give the same advice too.
But if you don't agree with my advice, which isn't original, I used to be like you until my early 20s when I learned that everything must follow the basics. Mastering basic shapes and understanding lighting is crucial, isn't it? We all have to follow the rules.
@akirosensei I'm literally in a sec 4 art class. This was one of the methods recommended for newbies. Of course, there were also teachings of analysing stuff
1:53 *you lost me at this*
(Yall be sayin im down bad, ITS BC IT LOOKS LIKE LEON)
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I learned Perspective from CAD, and was able to just kinda brush up on that step as it relates to the human form specifically.
Ok I’m probably going to get flack for this but I consider tracing to be an actually helpful tool, BUT only if you are tracing 3D models/off of images you own (like screenshots of a character in a video game you took) or otherwise have permission for AND properly disclose that you traced
I say this because I have actually had improvement in my art from doing this (it actually helped me learn how to draw hands and dynamic poses as well) I’ve also had similar art improvements from using mlp bases back in the day: working with those made it so I was actually able to draw ponies by memory believe it or not
The only tracing I do for a full image these days are when I’m trying to draw my FFXIV character due to how complex his horns are (his horns are absolutely annoying) by taking screenshots of him doing different things in game for the past 4 years now - and I have definitely seen my art improve in my non-traced art since then
Tracing is not an evil thing - it’s a good learning tool if you do it right
It’s only bad if you never draw outside of tracing and never disclose you traced
I’ll actually second this opinion: after all, rotoscoping in animation is basically “tracing a live-action movie frame by frame”, and was used even by Disney in their golden era animations (even though rather for “making the production cheaper and faster” reasons: those dance scenes are tricky both anatomically and perspective wise, after all - so they’ve shot needed footage, printed it out, and then gave it to the animation team)
I remember one time probably earlier on in my drawing interest, i posted something in one of the forums. And I remember in the conversation I asked the person "is it better to just focus on one thing at a time or do it all at once?" And I remember the response being something along the lines of "youll have to learn it all anyway"
None of that was exact wording of course, but I do remember it basically implying to work on it all instead of focusing on one thing at a time.
In practicing weapons at the dojo, I feel like we never really focus on being good at 1 or 2 weapons. (Unless you work on it my h kore extensovely outside of class time) We use a small variety. And these are one hour classes a week. I still don't think I could do much more of anything effective with them. But i can remember patterns.
It just feels like it makes sense to focus on one thing at a time, otherwise it just feels overwhelming, and at least for me I'm not sure that's how I learn best either.
Tracing is great for learning a character's design and specific style quirks
i listened along as i was drawing, todays been a rough day where everything i draw sucks. i kept pushing,. almost cried, but ended up with one sketch i like. thank you
i did not expect that leon art oml
i feel like the work Agbadi puts into the composition, colors and filmic effect goes underappreciated in his talking head shots
well... he did have somewhat prior knowledge to art. One of the reasons why he's good at shading in his drawings is because he went to some college, learning how to use photoshop
Also, not to discredit him, but he had A LOT of experience with digital editing prior.
A lot of this is from transferrable skills --- which also explains things like why people who are good in one area of STEM tend to pick up the other areas faster than people who focused more on art or music, or why people who learn one instrument tend to learn other instruments much faster. Hobbies and skills aren't just separate boxes, they have similarities and skills you may not even notice which can be carried onto other skills.
Though, actually enjoying what you're doing helps a lot. I've had times where I've tried to draw twice --- in school because I thought it would make me cool, and just recently now because I'm learning to embrace my creative side and just have fun instead of just scrolling all day. You can guess when I started to actually see improvement.
I have a very 'everything happens for a reason' mindset. I get art block often but im the kind of person to where the frustration pushes me to be better to a place where im satisfied. Im happy my mind lets me see art block as a bump that pushes me faster and if youre the kind of person that can adapt other handsets, id say this is a pretty good one
I'm glad you include subtitles. if i look away from the screen, I don't understand what you're saying. it sounds like you're trying to talk and chew porridge at the same time
Tracing trains your hand to draw good shapes. You still need to know the basics of construction to do it on your own though.
My theory about his improvement is this it’s just that he’s really happy as a person who is not optimistic, proud or even positive I find myself struggling to draw anything I think it’s because I am an unhappy person. That is my belief that since PewDiePie has made it to the top he has a kid he’s rich he’s famous. He’s won the world is full of optimism so when he draws, he succeeds amazingly.
Kind of an odd take, but I think I sort of get where you’re going with this. Rather than saying because he’s happy he can improve and because you’re sad you can’t though, I think it’s more than when you’re in a happy and positive headspace you have more energy to be determined and to keep practicing even when you fail, versus when you’re already depressed you have much less energy and/or determination to follow through with the things you want to do. Happy people can be bad at art and sad people can be good at it, hell most artists are depressed as hell lol, it more so depends on your personal mindset and work ethic; something depressed folks often struggle to find for themselves. That said, it’s also not something you might necessarily be the best at just because you’re happy either, so while I get the correlation, I can’t fully agree that it’s the entire causation or explanation.
Something to that I saw I vid of an underrated artist/youtuber called bredrws and she talked about it to and explained it so well, like you did have a nice day😊
Thank you for this!
Update: I'm taking notes. On paper!
I actually started actively drawing not so long before Pewdiepie did, and was making a lot of progress at the same time. It was honestly really inspiring that so many people were talking about his video, as it subconsciously helped me get motivated and some what proud as well. Just wish I would also start using colours slowly
The thing is, he DID have at least some prior knowledge because he was a graphic designer. Lol
Tracing's good if you're making a character sheet (such as a turnaround or expression sheet) if you'll be drawing someone else's character. That way the look and movement is consistent.
Ngl i always told myself i was taking art seriously which was maybe actually doing a drawing once and a blue moon. Pewdiepie actually inspired me to get serious about it and also stop my youtube addiction. He's a new dad and while retired still put in time to draw when he could so now i just go on pin and redraw manga panels faces and have seen improvements along with guitar progress which is fun
Thank you for making videos for us artists and others , i love your channel and the videos you make and your art so much ❤ have a nice and amazing day❤❤❤
If anything, I'm left more hopeless about my own drawing abilities that I've been using for few years
My motivation has been long tanked too
Either I need to find 2nd party to help keep myself motivated or just acknowledge this as gambler's fallacy and stop with art
I've always been horrid at drawing by observing so I very much skipped this step in my art journey. But over the past few months I've been taking steps to actually learn art! Pewds journey is also quite inspiring for me as I'm picking up all the advice ppl r saying based on what he did
13:39 that's such a nice way to say my stickfigures look nice. xD I focused on body language and expressions (comic style) while everything else was suffering. stick figures supreme. xD
i swear some people just dont know what tracing means anymore. tracing is literally taking a piece of paper over an already done art work and drawing the lines, he used references, didnt trace its so dumb XD
I know that in 2021-2022 I found an artist I really liked that drew/ animated mostly warrior cats things. I remember that I used their frames in thier animation as reference and I improved quite a lot when drawing cats! I haven’t drawn a cat ina while now and if I want to continue with that I can just go back. I also looked at the frames that they did to learn how they got the motion off their animations and I still do! It’s hard to do the same with any other artist tho. 😮💨
12:40 different set of fundamentals for beginner artists
Dang, I forgot that process🤣 I'm thankful you remind me that
I'm looking for advice here I lack the basics and the fundamentals but I wanna become a artist because I always wanted to be one but whenever I looked at my drawings it always sucked I didn't focus on improving because I got into wanting to be programmer but things didn't work out, I wanna give myself 3 years to just see how far I get , moving in sets of 2 to 3 months to learn things , I want to be a comic artist , I don't want sympathy I want a opinion on the viability of this that's all
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I think people just kinda trace wrong? It can definitely be a good learning tool, but not if you just copy source line by line.
I do tracing a couple of times as an exercise, but instead of just blindly copying the original art, I've tried to break it down and was constantly analyzing it's structure and volume, in a "what I _do not_ do that makes my art style look different from this one?". In the end my traces look more like concepts and blocking shapes you are _starting_ from.
I've been struggling with the connection between upperbody and lower body. It seemed so off and wrong when I drew it, but there were thoes times I figured it out and forgot it the next day😢
man i was so sure pewds drew Eris, but the reveal that it was Shana was crazy
YOO WHY DID THE SUBCRIBE BUTTON GLOW 2:41
It's a new feature from TH-cam itself, whenever a video mentions the like or subscribe buttons, TH-cam will highlight said button
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Hands are where I draw the line (haha, pun intended). They're the one thing I have to use reference for 100% of the time. I've taken a lot of pictures of my hands in weird poses. 😅
Imagine if pewdiepie mastered anatomy, he will make such a godly illustration art
salam alaik thanks for sharing this video it helps me alot on how to start my journey with drawing ,, cheers'
I struggle so much with my art cause I keep going from a reference but it’s like I’m not really getting that reference like I feel I’m just staring at something and trying to draw from memory but I can’t draw from what’s in front of me
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The most difficult part is to push yourself to keep doing it every day. Once you miss one day it's hard to take it up again.
We can scoff at beginner artists just copying drawings from comics and cartoons and not making anything original, but that naive instinct to copy is actually extremely powerful. Don Bluth got a job at Disney because he spent all of his free time after working long hours on his family’s farm just copying Disney comic books. That was the thing that made life bearable for him, and it paid off IMMENSELY.
Tracing does help improve your art! Leonardo Da Vinci traced drawings it’s a practice that’s been done for hundreds of years
I think he is already a genius I mean know how to learn and stuff
That helps too! He’s amazing!
Oh new vid on this nice
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Well, thank you for the breakdown. I hope someone can list the 'steps'. But great review!
I’d say a lot of us started out in a similar way
So anyway not gonna question how pewd's can fit alot of markers in his mouth?
I’m sorry
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He's not a beginner. He went to art school here in Sweden so he already hade drawing fundamentals down before he started doing this. 😅
And what if you "not me" want to do manga or atleast get good at drawing cool characters. Then your forced to do all of it. No shortcuts.
the key is that practice doesnt make perfect. perfect practice makes perfect
takin notes rn
I think im very rare coz i can draw feet in semi realistic style with nearly no problem😃👍
Man do I suck at drawing hair, like I just started making them BALD
Thanks for motivation :)
Thank you for this ❤
what on allah's beatiful world did i see at 2:00
The actual secret is 'the Chommang method' Day 7 and I drew better than I ever did better than my groups 'lead artist' and and now practicing w/ them. Teaching a friend how to draw in the process. I wouldn't say I'm as good as PewDiePie but I definitely got decent at the method. Every detail mattered in this method I used to draw wide eyed monkeys at day 2 when I geared PewDiePie mention at day 4 I figured out my mistakes and drew decent (front face of any person). Today day7 I mixed this method w/ another more popular method by dlas w/ the shape of the face & hair w/ his method and the actual face w/ Chommang I now had the ability to create any face shape I wanted (front face). Up next is side profile aka today
I may be wrong about the method is the one making me better I don't practice that much a day only for around an hour a day at night w/ reference from Pinterest or whatever
I have drawn a series of the ruin characters (the security breach DLC) That I copied. I had ruined freddy, ruined monty, ruined roxanne, ruined chica, Cassie, and I think I drew Gregory but I can't quite remember. Maybe I should do the normal glamrocks. Oh yeah, I also did springtrap and I wanted to show it to my mom but my friend also wanted the picture so I traced the drawing so I could give it to both of them lol
great video 10/10
Pewdieeeepieeeeeeeeeee is just a goat
Go goated!!!!
unironically not having a soulcrushing 9-6 job probably helps alot to improve your art lol
Dang and I was ashamed of tracing chibi art and pikachu from Google images.
don't tell me how to became a better artist! I'll do it whatever way i want to! even if i have to turn the art world upside down! Heck even destroy it.....
Lmfaooo
Money.
There i said it!
100 days is plenty of time to improve in something, especially if you already have the fundamentals. I learned animation very quickly by just being able to have a clear goal and finding tutorials for specific things I struggled with. A lot of social media artists have all these badly explained rules they follow and get in their own way. And, tbh, a lot of complaints I've seen about Pewdiepie reek of jealousy. That's another problem. The obsession with other artists' growth, instead of working on their own art.
1:54 Ayo😳
i think your microphone has static
I want to do visdev so I can't choose between characters or backgrounds :( sometimes I don't know what to do first lol
I'm having fun with it, like almost no tutorials, I was just tracing and finding the most ass backwards ways to do things an artist could've showed to do in one go lmao.
В смысле быстро?! Он вообще-то 100 дней занимался, день изо дня. 100 дней это не мало, 100 дней это очень, ОЧЕНЬ много. Конечно, если ты рисуешь не каждый день, да и рисуешь просто для души, а не улучшения навыка, то результат будет не особо большим, но если ты всерьёз взялся за дело, то 100 дней достаточно, чтобы стать в рисовании мидлом, конечно для такого придётся пожертвовать практически всем в своей жизни и уделять рисованию по 8-10 часов глубокого изучения, но факт остаётся фактом, за 100 дней можно стать мидлом. И да, становление профессионалом за год это ни какая-то шутка, это реально возможная цель человека на Новый Год)
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Thank youuiu
Yeah I am pretty sure that he has drawn stuff before but probably stopped for a long time before picking it back up again so I am doubtful that he is a total noob. This is not to downplay his progress at all because it is his proper approach to drawing that allowed him to progress this quickly.
Although I think in his place, I would approach studying perspective and doing studies from real life reference material instead of any artist before I draw anime characters to build a solid foundation.
Occasionally though , it is good looking at artist for inspiration or to take or should I say steal* their techniques to improve my painting skills.
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