This magic number makes art 3x easier (NOT fibonacci)
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This principles, explained to me by Charlie Pickard, make the process of learning art skills a lot easier. Instead of having to juggle a huge array of lines or nuanced spectrums of value, we can usually boil each fundamental skill into managing 3 things. Suddenly, it all becomes a lot less overwhelming.
Let me know what other art skills can be simplified down to 3 things in the comments below :)
Simplify, simplify, simplify. I love how your main message always comes back to simplification! Thank you for your commitment to always teaching and reinforcing the basics in such various and engaging ways, Kenzo! Keep up the great work! I’ve learned so much from you over the years!
Hey Joel hope you’ve been well and great to hear you’re still drawing!
@@lovelifedrawing thanks, Kenzo! I’ve been great. Definitely still drawing! I’ve gotten into watercolor and oil painting over the past year as well and it seems to be affecting my drawing in a wonderful way. Great to hear from you! Hope all is well with you and your family as well.
Some more great examples from the comments below: 3 paint consistencies for watercolour (tea, milk, honey), 3 primary colours, rule of thirds for composition. Keep them coming!
In watercolour you should also avoid mixing more than three colours, because more than that it just starts to get muddy. :)
Three primaries spring to mind: red, yellow, and blue. However, I’ve recently experimented with a palette of three secondaries: orange, purple, and green, and finding that it’s faster to mix colors this way since any two secondaries mixed together will contain all three primaries. And if it needs to be a bit more yellow or blue I can still add those.
That’s a great one!
This is so true, to make my life easier I started using the same number in different aspects of art and also in real life as it’s a very elegant number (3 objects on display on a shelf it’s much better than 2 or 4). Odd numbers in general are more pleasing to the eye (I sketch 3 heads on a sketchbook page instead of 4 etc). I use 3 for my paint thickness when I paint traditionally too (I start with ‘tea’ consistency, then go ‘cream’ and finally ‘butter’ if it makes sense 😅)
This was one of those "aha" moments -- great advice!
super interesting one ! working in cg animation we usually go for a 30 fps rate, disecting the seconds into thirds is really handy to proportion our keyframes correctly, but I never thought about it that way. Definietly going to check your stuff bro keep going 🐟
Interesting. 3 is the simplest unit of complexity .
Its actually 2. Two states is the minimum required to have some amount of complexity. In fact this is closely related to entropy, which is a measure of the amount of information (or complexity, if we define it that way) a system has.
The general formula for entropy is S = c * ln (M), where c is a constant and M is the number of microstates given a macrostate. Something important to note is that ln(1) = 0 and ln(2) > 0 .That means that if we only have one possible state then we have no information, but as we add more possible states, the entropy (or information) begins to grow.
Going back to the topic of art, you can think of it as choosing colors. One solid color is obviously not enough to paint a picture, you need at least two different solid colors to make anything meaningful (i.e black & white).
Thank you Kenzo. 🙏🏼
Danke, das hilft mir gerade sehr❣
Excellent!
Thank you so much 🙏
Yep, artiste, paintings, viewer.
A lot of things that appear only as 2 distinct groups are in reality only 2/3 of the concept. The group that isn't "mentioned" often has such a strong default position, that we only mention the deviation from default.
Things like up and down or left and right. With up and down the middle group can be eye level, ground level, horizon etc. With left and right in the context of turning or looking we only mention the deviation from default position.
To a degree the middle is the smallest group in size, but it often holds the most importance to us and also often just overrides the other 2 groups after stabilization. If you turn left, once you're done you're no longer going left, now you're going straight ahead and we have a new default.
Aller guten Dinge sind drei!🇩🇪
All good things are three, its a german saying
03:27 i strongly disagree with this statement “3 sides is where shapes begin”. 2 examples;
1st Yoji shinkawa using just 2 values achieves a dynamic and 3d feeling in his brushwork with his genius use of texture erasing harsh graphic shapes
2nd Graphic designer G.O.A.T Armin Hofmann, strictly limited himself working with just 2 values for most of the work in his carrer.
P.s: its just my impression that this video is just very biased to try and make some logical sense of something that is much more complex… it’s also just 10 minutes long 👀
He just meant 3 sides = triangle, so that’s the number of sides where shapes begin. Also agree much can be done w 2 values, and that’s how we teach ppl to start in values. But 2 is even simpler to juggle than 3, so that’s great!
so this number will set you free
I'm not gonna hide it, the number is three
Didn't mean for that to rhyme sorry.
O my god this is turning into poetry.
This beggining amused me.
And i would continue, but i need to pee.
😂
All jokes aside how is Miles head in any way a triangle?! lol
I love the small CSI analysis you do in the start of the video. Is there a possibility of you making longer "CSI analysis" videos in the study group?
yeah great idea :)
Love it - so helpful! Simplification is what I need to keep remembering to do, as I have a tendency to get lost in the complexity.. .so this is a great reminder to pause, reset, simplify and DRAW, rather than get overwhelmed with all the detail and mot even start as a result!
Simplifying is 90% of the battle!
There are 3 key elements to create a good portrait: proportions, likeness & expression. Proportions being the most important - once accurately established, it makes the remaining elements much easier to achieve.
3 6 9 Tesla Model so he wasn’t wrong - 3 it is…..I will be looking at my own paintings to see if subconsciously I have used this principle, in some I do think I have and they are my good work , so the principle of 3 -6 - 9 is not ever present in some form or other.
Great video and really helpful to remember thinking this way - the value of 3 in art. I think this will make me more conscious of the choices I make in future, whether its CSI or light, dark, shade etc. Thanks Kenzo.
Glad it was helpful! Just something to make it feel manageable
This is so true, to make my life easier I started using the same number in different aspects of art and also in real life as it’s a very elegant number (3 objects on display on a shelf it’s much better than 2 or 4). Odd numbers in general are more pleasing to the eye (I sketch 3 heads on a sketchbook page instead of 4 etc). I use 3 for my paint thickness when I paint traditionally too (I start with ‘tea’ consistency, then go ‘cream’ and finally ‘butter’ if it makes sense 😅)
Oh yeah the 3 consistencies that’s a great one!
This was posted 3 hours ago
Who gonna comment at 3 days?
3 yrs?
You missed the 3 min comment - need to get in quicker next time ;)
Fibonacci isn't invited here. Poor guy 😢 😂😂
I mean his number was cool and everything but …
A penny has dropped for me...and that's huge!
Thanks, man! 👍🏻
Glad to help!
Such a great video, we already have so much complexity why add more
So true!
Rule of thirds, hear no evil etc, father son Holy Ghost, beginning middle end, 3 graces
X,y and z coordinates
3 dimensions - of course!
I myself just posted in Study Group that more information we learn, less work we need to put down on paper. Simplification is so powerful! Have learned tremendously from Kenzo. Salute!
This is a bit more paradoxical than you might imagine IMO. The more knowledge you have… the slower you read(if u know u know)
Where can i find the study group please?
www.lovelifedrawing.com/study... It's right under the video with all the information.