The reason I watch your videos is BECAUSE they are long and "rambly." It's refreshing to see sketches done in real time. You draw in a graceful, elegant way that is pleasing to watch.
In my opinion, the long-format real-time aspect is what makes your channel so great and special. It's perfect to listen to while drawing along and getting your valuable insight at the same time. People complaining about the length of the videos can go back to Tiktok for their dopamine fix.
agreed. it's not like there aren't enough short videos around, so let's have some long and rambly ones for the artists who wanna learn a thing and be also entertained while drawing (eta: and there's nothing bad abt short videos, but like, why go to a long video and complain. what kinda attitude is that? if it's not the kinda video you want, you just click away and watch sth else, there's plenty for all.)
Yes I have to agree I absolutely love the fact that you give us such long videos with no editing happening never stop doing that that's what makes you stand out. It's very much appreciated.
I like your element of honesty about the art process and the time involved. Traditional art takes time, something the younger ones these days don't seem to understand what with their digital world. Your video has absolutely thrilled me. Thank you!
Right on! I grew up in the digital art revolution and always felt like I was operating at warp speed lol... But now it seems so many people want even faster results.
the main reason i really love your channel and videos are specifically BECAUSE they are long, rambly and most importantly (for me at least) honest and transparent. also, i gotta thank you too because seeing your videos and how genuinely real they are about the process honestly allowed me to enjoy the process and the studying bit of art again, so thank you, genuinely
i justgotta say how much i appreciate your videos; thank you. Your ability to articulate these ideas in such a solid way and present them in such a real super honest way, has got be a modern day super power lol like seriously youre the man thanks dude. I also hate the word Content and im not in any way a "content creator" but ive always loved art and your dialogues have super helped me understand my 30- some odd years relationship with it not to mention trying to relearn drawing and enjoying creating art again.
I love these longer videos. Even the 3 hour. Understanding there is a process has improved my sketches immensely. I am so grateful for these videos.....
I love that Tim seems to be doing well despite not pandering to the algorithm. Ultimately, the algorithm is whimsical and so is the audience that comes with it. More people should stick to producing what they love and being patient with it.
Oh gosh! The first part of this video spoke to me so much. About this time last year I went to an exhibition in Scotland which featured 'Tartan' as the theme. Part of the exhibition included a bunch of fashion designers' sketchbooks, featuring sketches, scribbles, and doodles which were the building blocks for the final designs. Seeing these was like an epiphany in that at ABSOLUTELY NO POINT in learning about art at school did the teachers show the artists' process work, and instead just showed us all the finished pieces. They never showed us behind the curtain - heck, we didn't even know there was a curtain. We all thought that artists were simply naturally gifted and able to create works of art straight off a blank canvas. If only we'd known that as teenagers we were no worse at drawing (from the point of being able to get our ideas down on paper) than the working sketches and ideas found in those books and if we had known that I believe it would have armed us with the confidence and self-belief to know that the only important thing was to start getting our ideas and observations on the page and there was no real right or wrong way to do this. Thanks for your videos, and I aim to become a much more accomplished artist in 2025!
My biggest two inspirations on TH-cam when it comes to drawing lessons: Alfonso Dunn and YOU! Especially thanks for this actual "scribble and mess around" Lessons! This loose type of drawing and enjoying the process is, what gives me the fun on drawing back again. The time you take is exact the type of teaching i need. Thank you verry much!
After hearing you talk for some time about sketching I immediately cracked open my old sketchbook and did a pencil sketch/study. Funnily enough, I felt more inspired and optmistic about art in a way I haven't felt for a long time. As someone trying to build a following online, art became more stressful and I thought nearly everything I drew (which was mostly digital now) should be suitable to put into a video/reel/post. This changed my mind. Thank you :)
I think we’re doing is great, Tim! I suppose the fire hose will be below have a few chunks of discontent and criticism. I understand how challenging it can be to speak and draw at the same time. I’ve tried doing so myself and I just ramble on from subject to subject. I commend you on your focus and service to the community!
Thank you for these long videos. It’s so easy to get down on your own skills while watching 2X speed drawing videos where everything is flawless. I love the space you create. That’s me stippling away at my barn swallow prompt for Birdtober. So relaxing to listen to you talk about process while I’m in my process!
One of the thing I like the most of your videos and your artwork is that first you dont hold off on your thoughts, but also I am also so surprise to see how slow you draw but yet the drawing feel so dynamics like you did them with a speed drawing approach which tells me I should slow down on my own work (I guess I am always in that deadline mindset). I can hardly describe it but I wonder if its because its personnal work and not commercial but your drawings really feel fun even thought they are rough when you look at it as a artist you get that urge to draw or sculpt which quite amazing I am a senior sculptor and I do watch a lot of artist and their process but you do definitly stand appart! great stuff!
The risk of skipping these steps is that you may think that what you drew is actually the best you could....but if you keep doodling around, sooner or later a much better idea/thumbnail/result will pop up in front of you
I actually subbed to your channel because of how long and ramble it was. It’s like a stream of consciousness book, and the value is in seeing the artists perspective and thinking pattern. I have plenty of options for quick demos or lessons. However, few are able to make compelling videos that just demonstrates the art process.
I think you're doing a wonderful job with your content I don't think I ever left you a comment and I'm sorry about that. But I've been enjoying your videos even if some of it maybe out of my skillset because I am a beginner I still enjoy the fact that you talk about things that I can work on going forward from thumbnailing to just concept on creating characters and the world because I want to be a comic book artist and a concept artist and you've done a good job when your videos I like the fact that your videos are long and I could just put you on and just listen while I'm either drawing or I'm doing some house work or something and if I have to pause it I know I can always come back so for those who are complaining about your videos being too long I'm going to be honest forget them they're not here to learn you don't complain when you go to school classes are very long especially when you get into college so I look at your videos as class time is 2 hours on their great I take 2 hours out of my day to watch it it's 3 hours on their cool I'm going to take 3 hours out of my day to watch it need to take a break yeah I can do that and that's what I liked about your content so please don't stop making your videos and sharing your knowledge with us the way you want to I truly appreciate it.
don't change anything. The interest is in the reflection, the process and everything that goes with it. People that want shorter or silent version are juste interested in the "result", the product, the intertainant impression that if they wanted they could do it... and internet is allready filled with that. The point is in the journey, not the destination :)
I quite enjoy these videos. It's very soothing to have them in the background as I work, compared to all the doomer bullshit out there, art or otherwise. I'm also an illustrator trying to get into comics, working on my first graphic novel project with an author friend, so the comic angle you take is also appreciated.
I wonder if I'm a bit weird (yeah I'm definitely weird xD) but for me I don't see rough sketches as bad. I mean, I can see the increase of impressiveness a truly polished piece can have over a rough sketch any day, but I just feel like a drawing either has a certain something, or it doesn't and that's usually apparent whether in sketch form of finished. Rough as your sketches were, Tim, I felt their charm and solidity, and I love your style, both current and the older stuff you've shown.
I still prefer to sketch on paper, ball point pen light lines then tighten it up or markers. use a 10% gray lay in your rough and o a tighter line drawing in prismacolor. Though because its hard to find black prismacolor and indigo blue nowadays I'm back to graphite. my commercial work is done in photoshop, procreate etc, but taking the time to sketch in my sketch book, do gesture drawings on newsprint or loose paper allows me to rest my eyes from the screen while keeping my traditional skills. Plus no undo makes for a more decisive approach to sketching or cleaning up. another great video, your videos are great company while I'm sketching.
People criticising the length of your videos are probably the same kind of person that think "it is just a doodle" when they request us a job.....I mean....come one!! Doing things properly takes us F@£$@£@W$£@ng Hours!
Tim, I agree with you regarding the word "content." To me it's just a dirty word that describes shoveling social media crap out to the masses as much as possible in order to go viral.
Hey ! I have to say - your channel is amazing and as a beginner artist many of your videos helped me understand basics of art ! I'm considering signing up for Lines and Colors Academy and I want to ask - how does feedback work during the course ? Will there be some kind of mentorship/drawing sessions (as right now that's what I think I really need) or they're saved videos I can download and learn from on my own ? Thank you in advance !
The thing with Kim Jun Gi is that we need to understand his way as a RESULT of many years of drawing and memorising things, but many students pretend that to be theirs BEGINNING
I think that if you want a short version of a video full of information it means that you are not really in to it and just looking for a short and easy answer. Well there is no easy answer to learn drawing, so... Tiktok is just a click from here.
fact is art is just a long process, all my classes in College were 3 plus hours, I spent weeks working on still life in high school. for design thesis our class was 6 hrs twice a week. it takes time to research experiment and create. Though I do understand that people have short attention spans and when creating for audience entertainment is going to be very different. My first art job in college was actually drawing caricatures of the guest parties, those required me to sketch large and fast for entertainment purposes. That was performance art and shouldn't be confused with what you need to do when developing ideas for products/illustration.
Tim, I know it's not your specialty but maybe you can still provide some insight or advice. I've been trying to get into art for quite a while now and I really struggle finding the fun in sketching with lines the way you do it. The construction you do with all the lines which make it look hollow / 3-dimensional. I feel like I'd much rather try to block in big shapes and build off from that. Have you ever tried that approach? Do you think one can master art and create the stuff you create with blocking in shapes instead of sketching and lineart? I think they call the process I'm talking about painting like a sculptor?
Remindet me a bit about a conversation i had yesterday with another semi beginner artist. How important it is, to toy around and let loose, to get actual ideas/ concepts. Thats what scetchbooks really are for, are they not? We are overwhelmed with artists showing us all those awsome drawings in their ones. And we as more or less beginners start to think: na, i cant just doodle around in this. Others make all those awsome drawings in them :( I came to the conclusion, how wrong this is. The ones they show us are more art- than scetch books. Now i try to overcome this toxic mindset that every doodle has to be a museum worthy master piece.
Right on. That's another great topic for a video one day. I think sketchbooks are definitely viewed as an art unto themselves now. And it scares a lot of people off using them as actual sketchbooks.
@@TheDrawingCodex Exactly. Especialy for late boomers/ self educational artists, as myself. You see all those things and of course, because No one tells you otherwise, you think things HAVE TO BE this and that way. And on one point you think: i have now all this knowledge. Why does every second step feel still like one back? I wish more artists would be so open, to show their "ugly" work. The steps they had to make for all those awesome pictures. It would help A LOT. Guess most of em se themselfes more as content creators and not aware of the fact, that there are actually people seeing them as some kind of mentors.
@@Achilles_777 Oh right, Yeah I try to use the same paper for most of this sketching, it's strathmore 400 series recycled Drawing Paper. I have it as a hardbound sketchbook, and as these spiral bound pads. Look for something like "Strathmore 400 Series Drawing Pad, 14"x17" Wire Bound, 24 Sheets" It's listed as medium surface 130 gsm Let me know if that helps
we dont want to just survive . its important to survive in style. in order to survive in style you have to go below the survival level. the immediate apparent survival level. we dont create to make money. we create to grow. a farmer sells food because he is good at growing his own food.
There's way too much 10 min art videos that are like 'abs in 5 min' content, also some artists started to act like clowns in their videos to keep people locked in. Audience capture essentially. Love your longer stuff, thanks!
Tim: "Remember guys, messy scribbly sketches are very important!"
Also Tim: **makes the cleanest looking sketch you've ever seen**
The reason I watch your videos is BECAUSE they are long and "rambly." It's refreshing to see sketches done in real time. You draw in a graceful, elegant way that is pleasing to watch.
In my opinion, the long-format real-time aspect is what makes your channel so great and special. It's perfect to listen to while drawing along and getting your valuable insight at the same time.
People complaining about the length of the videos can go back to Tiktok for their dopamine fix.
agreed. it's not like there aren't enough short videos around, so let's have some long and rambly ones for the artists who wanna learn a thing and be also entertained while drawing (eta: and there's nothing bad abt short videos, but like, why go to a long video and complain. what kinda attitude is that? if it's not the kinda video you want, you just click away and watch sth else, there's plenty for all.)
Yes I have to agree I absolutely love the fact that you give us such long videos with no editing happening never stop doing that that's what makes you stand out. It's very much appreciated.
I like your element of honesty about the art process and the time involved. Traditional art takes time, something the younger ones these days don't seem to understand what with their digital world. Your video has absolutely thrilled me. Thank you!
Right on! I grew up in the digital art revolution and always felt like I was operating at warp speed lol... But now it seems so many people want even faster results.
the main reason i really love your channel and videos are specifically BECAUSE they are long, rambly and most importantly (for me at least) honest and transparent.
also, i gotta thank you too because seeing your videos and how genuinely real they are about the process honestly allowed me to enjoy the process and the studying bit of art again, so thank you, genuinely
i justgotta say how much i appreciate your videos; thank you.
Your ability to articulate these ideas in such a solid way and present them in such a real super honest way, has got be a modern day super power lol like seriously youre the man thanks dude.
I also hate the word Content and im not in any way a "content creator" but ive always loved art and your dialogues have super helped me understand my 30- some odd years relationship with it not to mention trying to relearn drawing and enjoying creating art again.
I love these longer videos. Even the 3 hour. Understanding there is a process has improved my sketches immensely. I am so grateful for these videos.....
Dude, never stop with the Art Ritual videos, they are the best :D
Seeing tim rise to this level is inspiring
I love that Tim seems to be doing well despite not pandering to the algorithm. Ultimately, the algorithm is whimsical and so is the audience that comes with it. More people should stick to producing what they love and being patient with it.
Thanks Tim for your transparency. It's inspirational.
Oh gosh! The first part of this video spoke to me so much. About this time last year I went to an exhibition in Scotland which featured 'Tartan' as the theme. Part of the exhibition included a bunch of fashion designers' sketchbooks, featuring sketches, scribbles, and doodles which were the building blocks for the final designs. Seeing these was like an epiphany in that at ABSOLUTELY NO POINT in learning about art at school did the teachers show the artists' process work, and instead just showed us all the finished pieces. They never showed us behind the curtain - heck, we didn't even know there was a curtain. We all thought that artists were simply naturally gifted and able to create works of art straight off a blank canvas. If only we'd known that as teenagers we were no worse at drawing (from the point of being able to get our ideas down on paper) than the working sketches and ideas found in those books and if we had known that I believe it would have armed us with the confidence and self-belief to know that the only important thing was to start getting our ideas and observations on the page and there was no real right or wrong way to do this. Thanks for your videos, and I aim to become a much more accomplished artist in 2025!
My biggest two inspirations on TH-cam when it comes to drawing lessons: Alfonso Dunn and YOU! Especially thanks for this actual "scribble and mess around" Lessons! This loose type of drawing and enjoying the process is, what gives me the fun on drawing back again.
The time you take is exact the type of teaching i need. Thank you verry much!
After hearing you talk for some time about sketching I immediately cracked open my old sketchbook and did a pencil sketch/study. Funnily enough, I felt more inspired and optmistic about art in a way I haven't felt for a long time. As someone trying to build a following online, art became more stressful and I thought nearly everything I drew (which was mostly digital now) should be suitable to put into a video/reel/post. This changed my mind. Thank you :)
That's awesome to hear grey!!
I think we’re doing is great, Tim! I suppose the fire hose will be below have a few chunks of discontent and criticism. I understand how challenging it can be to speak and draw at the same time. I’ve tried doing so myself and I just ramble on from subject to subject. I commend you on your focus and service to the community!
Thank you for these long videos. It’s so easy to get down on your own skills while watching 2X speed drawing videos where everything is flawless. I love the space you create. That’s me stippling away at my barn swallow prompt for Birdtober. So relaxing to listen to you talk about process while I’m in my process!
One of the thing I like the most of your videos and your artwork is that first you dont hold off on your thoughts, but also I am also so surprise to see how slow you draw but yet the drawing feel so dynamics like you did them with a speed drawing approach which tells me I should slow down on my own work (I guess I am always in that deadline mindset). I can hardly describe it but I wonder if its because its personnal work and not commercial but your drawings really feel fun even thought they are rough when you look at it as a artist you get that urge to draw or sculpt which quite amazing I am a senior sculptor and I do watch a lot of artist and their process but you do definitly stand appart! great stuff!
The risk of skipping these steps is that you may think that what you drew is actually the best you could....but if you keep doodling around, sooner or later a much better idea/thumbnail/result will pop up in front of you
I actually subbed to your channel because of how long and ramble it was. It’s like a stream of consciousness book, and the value is in seeing the artists perspective and thinking pattern. I have plenty of options for quick demos or lessons. However, few are able to make compelling videos that just demonstrates the art process.
We love u and love your incredible work
I think you're doing a wonderful job with your content I don't think I ever left you a comment and I'm sorry about that.
But I've been enjoying your videos even if some of it maybe out of my skillset because I am a beginner I still enjoy the fact that you talk about things that I can work on going forward from thumbnailing to just concept on creating characters and the world because I want to be a comic book artist and a concept artist and you've done a good job when your videos I like the fact that your videos are long and I could just put you on and just listen while I'm either drawing or I'm doing some house work or something and if I have to pause it I know I can always come back so for those who are complaining about your videos being too long I'm going to be honest forget them they're not here to learn you don't complain when you go to school classes are very long especially when you get into college so I look at your videos as class time is 2 hours on their great I take 2 hours out of my day to watch it it's 3 hours on their cool I'm going to take 3 hours out of my day to watch it need to take a break yeah I can do that and that's what I liked about your content so please don't stop making your videos and sharing your knowledge with us the way you want to I truly appreciate it.
don't change anything. The interest is in the reflection, the process and everything that goes with it. People that want shorter or silent version are juste interested in the "result", the product, the intertainant impression that if they wanted they could do it... and internet is allready filled with that. The point is in the journey, not the destination :)
I quite enjoy these videos. It's very soothing to have them in the background as I work, compared to all the doomer bullshit out there, art or otherwise. I'm also an illustrator trying to get into comics, working on my first graphic novel project with an author friend, so the comic angle you take is also appreciated.
I wonder if I'm a bit weird (yeah I'm definitely weird xD) but for me I don't see rough sketches as bad. I mean, I can see the increase of impressiveness a truly polished piece can have over a rough sketch any day, but I just feel like a drawing either has a certain something, or it doesn't and that's usually apparent whether in sketch form of finished.
Rough as your sketches were, Tim, I felt their charm and solidity, and I love your style, both current and the older stuff you've shown.
I still prefer to sketch on paper, ball point pen light lines then tighten it up or markers. use a 10% gray lay in your rough and o a tighter line drawing in prismacolor. Though because its hard to find black prismacolor and indigo blue nowadays I'm back to graphite. my commercial work is done in photoshop, procreate etc, but taking the time to sketch in my sketch book, do gesture drawings on newsprint or loose paper allows me to rest my eyes from the screen while keeping my traditional skills. Plus no undo makes for a more decisive approach to sketching or cleaning up. another great video, your videos are great company while I'm sketching.
negative comments are from people too worried and not drawing alongside you in your videos :D
great videos! I'm watching them when I'm not watching the ones from your course (I'm in the lion's rider chapter, after "the betrayal")
I LOVE these videos! Are you going to do any other Street Fighter Characters? Would love to see another character.
People criticising the length of your videos are probably the same kind of person that think "it is just a doodle" when they request us a job.....I mean....come one!! Doing things properly takes us F@£$@£@W$£@ng Hours!
Tim, I agree with you regarding the word "content." To me it's just a dirty word that describes shoveling social media crap out to the masses as much as possible in order to go viral.
Hey ! I have to say - your channel is amazing and as a beginner artist many of your videos helped me understand basics of art !
I'm considering signing up for Lines and Colors Academy and I want to ask - how does feedback work during the course ? Will there be some kind of mentorship/drawing sessions (as right now that's what I think I really need) or they're saved videos I can download and learn from on my own ?
Thank you in advance !
The thing with Kim Jun Gi is that we need to understand his way as a RESULT of many years of drawing and memorising things, but many students pretend that to be theirs BEGINNING
I think that if you want a short version of a video full of information it means that you are not really in to it and just looking for a short and easy answer. Well there is no easy answer to learn drawing, so... Tiktok is just a click from here.
fact is art is just a long process, all my classes in College were 3 plus hours, I spent weeks working on still life in high school. for design thesis our class was 6 hrs twice a week. it takes time to research experiment and create. Though I do understand that people have short attention spans and when creating for audience entertainment is going to be very different. My first art job in college was actually drawing caricatures of the guest parties, those required me to sketch large and fast for entertainment purposes. That was performance art and shouldn't be confused with what you need to do when developing ideas for products/illustration.
Tim, I know it's not your specialty but maybe you can still provide some insight or advice. I've been trying to get into art for quite a while now and I really struggle finding the fun in sketching with lines the way you do it. The construction you do with all the lines which make it look hollow / 3-dimensional. I feel like I'd much rather try to block in big shapes and build off from that. Have you ever tried that approach? Do you think one can master art and create the stuff you create with blocking in shapes instead of sketching and lineart? I think they call the process I'm talking about painting like a sculptor?
Hello, can someone tell me what kind of wacom cintiq this is, the one used in the video? Interested in buying one
Remindet me a bit about a conversation i had yesterday with another semi beginner artist. How important it is, to toy around and let loose, to get actual ideas/ concepts. Thats what scetchbooks really are for, are they not? We are overwhelmed with artists showing us all those awsome drawings in their ones. And we as more or less beginners start to think: na, i cant just doodle around in this. Others make all those awsome drawings in them :(
I came to the conclusion, how wrong this is. The ones they show us are more art- than scetch books. Now i try to overcome this toxic mindset that every doodle has to be a museum worthy master piece.
Right on. That's another great topic for a video one day. I think sketchbooks are definitely viewed as an art unto themselves now. And it scares a lot of people off using them as actual sketchbooks.
@@TheDrawingCodex Exactly. Especialy for late boomers/ self educational artists, as myself. You see all those things and of course, because No one tells you otherwise, you think things HAVE TO BE this and that way. And on one point you think: i have now all this knowledge. Why does every second step feel still like one back?
I wish more artists would be so open, to show their "ugly" work. The steps they had to make for all those awesome pictures. It would help A LOT.
Guess most of em se themselfes more as content creators and not aware of the fact, that there are actually people seeing them as some kind of mentors.
Could I please ask what sketchbook this is? I really like it
The book I showed? It's Andrew Loomis, I'd love to Draw
@@TheDrawingCodex I’m sorry I mean the sketchbook you’re drawing in.
@@Achilles_777 Oh right, Yeah I try to use the same paper for most of this sketching, it's strathmore 400 series recycled Drawing Paper. I have it as a hardbound sketchbook, and as these spiral bound pads.
Look for something like "Strathmore 400 Series Drawing Pad, 14"x17" Wire Bound, 24 Sheets"
It's listed as medium surface 130 gsm
Let me know if that helps
If you are bored with the length of video then stop watching tik tok/shorts/reels and have some patience. You will be grateful to yourself, really
Hear hear!
In this videoRRR
we dont want to just survive . its important to survive in style. in order to survive in style you have to go below the survival level. the immediate apparent survival level. we dont create to make money. we create to grow. a farmer sells food because he is good at growing his own food.
never take your foot off the first step of the ladder. when you move away from fundamentals you get lost in process
about "hiding my failures" I gave up on pretending I like to draw mechas.....
There's way too much 10 min art videos that are like 'abs in 5 min' content, also some artists started to act like clowns in their videos to keep people locked in. Audience capture essentially.
Love your longer stuff, thanks!