HI One thing I need to add. Learning from people closer in skill to you can have more value than someone vastly ahead in skill. This is because they are closer to experiencing what they went through to get to where they are. The expert has already passed that and is working on something else.
Absolutely! When I was at Art School we had weekly Crit sessions as well as just generally always bouncing around helping each other. But, this doesn't mean you can't find feedback from others while being self taught! There are also ways to give yourself critique. Active feedback definitely exists! In areas where you can judge objective accuracy - like perspective or proportion, you can always find creative ways to critique yourself.
It depends what you are learning! For books, I recommend: Andrew Loomis How to draw the Head and Hands Andrew Loomis Figure drawing for all its worth James gurney Color and Light As for content like videos here on youtube Proko are amazing. Marco Bucci is excellent too Another free resource that will really help your understanding of 3D space is DrawaBox (google it and you'll see the website! its truly excellent!) Good luck on your Art Journey and lmk if you need more recommendations
I always found it helpful to set the goal for what I'm doing as time oriented, rather than product oriented. If instead of saying "I will finish the eyes today", the goal is "I will spend 1 hour drawing these eyes." Even if I get the eyes to a place I'm happy with, I will continue drawing something else with eyes so I will have always met my goal. It's always nice to leave off of a 100% completed goal with no product, then a 0.06% completed goal with no product.
Don't think you can call yourself self taught when you use youtube online materials. Just because you don't go to art school, doesn't mean you're self taught.
You can use that definition of self taught, but it's your own. Autodidact is just the greek translation of self teaching, it does not mean "to use no outside resources to learn" it means to learn without the guidance of schoolmasters (i.e., teachers, professors, institutions).
@@mykellederickpalad7883 While I can see what you're saying, and you’re right when you say that they're essentially online classes, you have to consider that a course is what we pay for when it comes to art school. And, as you already know, they're made up of more than several classes containing different methods and topics. That's a huge difference in comparison to sitting down at home, opening TH-cam and choosing an erray of videos that might only give you very limited information that allows you to scratch just the surface of, let's say, anatomy. The legs? Arms? Eyes? Muscle placement and bone structure? As a beginner, it's overwhelming and difficult to know where to start and how to conduct the way you study as well as practice, not to mention- effectively. There's only you, the student, and that person's video you're watching that doesn't know who you are and can't exactly push you in the right direction like a teacher and mentor would. So, I mean, in the end, you are self-taught because the free resources you have would still mean nothing if you don't know how to understand any of it. You're teaching your own self how to do that and I think that should be validated (as a self-taught artist). :)
Do you think being self-taught means just magically knowing everything with no resources whatsoever? That's just not realistic for anything. Having to research by yourself, find resources by yourself, make a schedule by yourself, learn how to critique yourself and keep yourself accountable, etc... It _is_ being self-taught. It's _way_ more independent than having a teacher telling you everything you need to do day-by-day.
HI One thing I need to add.
Learning from people closer in skill to you can have more value than someone vastly ahead in skill.
This is because they are closer to experiencing what they went through to get to where they are. The expert has already passed that and is working on something else.
art school has buddies to get active feedback, while self taught has no one
That doesn't mean you can't teach yourself, plenty of professional artists out there that are self taught
Absolutely! When I was at Art School we had weekly Crit sessions as well as just generally always bouncing around helping each other.
But, this doesn't mean you can't find feedback from others while being self taught! There are also ways to give yourself critique. Active feedback definitely exists! In areas where you can judge objective accuracy - like perspective or proportion, you can always find creative ways to critique yourself.
I have learnt the same way books and online tutorials. Though it’s difficult but rewarding!
Which books and online materials? Please share....I am on the same journey
It really is!
It depends what you are learning!
For books, I recommend:
Andrew Loomis How to draw the Head and Hands
Andrew Loomis Figure drawing for all its worth
James gurney Color and Light
As for content like videos here on youtube
Proko are amazing.
Marco Bucci is excellent too
Another free resource that will really help your understanding of 3D space is DrawaBox (google it and you'll see the website! its truly excellent!)
Good luck on your Art Journey and lmk if you need more recommendations
@@NexyiaArt big thanks
I always found it helpful to set the goal for what I'm doing as time oriented, rather than product oriented. If instead of saying "I will finish the eyes today", the goal is "I will spend 1 hour drawing these eyes." Even if I get the eyes to a place I'm happy with, I will continue drawing something else with eyes so I will have always met my goal. It's always nice to leave off of a 100% completed goal with no product, then a 0.06% completed goal with no product.
That's a really good idea! I may try that myself, a good way of tracking time.
Nice video but please remove the background music I cant understand anything you’re saying
Thanks for letting me know! I'll be more aware of it in future. If there's anything you'd like me to go over, let me know!
TURN THE MUSIC DOWN!
Next time :)
Don't think you can call yourself self taught when you use youtube online materials. Just because you don't go to art school, doesn't mean you're self taught.
Why do you think that?
You can use that definition of self taught, but it's your own. Autodidact is just the greek translation of self teaching, it does not mean "to use no outside resources to learn" it means to learn without the guidance of schoolmasters (i.e., teachers, professors, institutions).
@@NexyiaArt TH-cam tutorials are online classes in a way😅
@@mykellederickpalad7883 While I can see what you're saying, and you’re right when you say that they're essentially online classes, you have to consider that a course is what we pay for when it comes to art school. And, as you already know, they're made up of more than several classes containing different methods and topics. That's a huge difference in comparison to sitting down at home, opening TH-cam and choosing an erray of videos that might only give you very limited information that allows you to scratch just the surface of, let's say, anatomy. The legs? Arms? Eyes? Muscle placement and bone structure? As a beginner, it's overwhelming and difficult to know where to start and how to conduct the way you study as well as practice, not to mention- effectively. There's only you, the student, and that person's video you're watching that doesn't know who you are and can't exactly push you in the right direction like a teacher and mentor would. So, I mean, in the end, you are self-taught because the free resources you have would still mean nothing if you don't know how to understand any of it. You're teaching your own self how to do that and I think that should be validated (as a self-taught artist). :)
Do you think being self-taught means just magically knowing everything with no resources whatsoever? That's just not realistic for anything.
Having to research by yourself, find resources by yourself, make a schedule by yourself, learn how to critique yourself and keep yourself accountable, etc... It _is_ being self-taught.
It's _way_ more independent than having a teacher telling you everything you need to do day-by-day.