40) correction PNG only, Jpg LOSES quality with each save, so unless you intententionally wanna make it so the bes tpossible quality comes from you directly use Png
PNG is the best option if art you're creating in 8-bit color depth. If you save anything with higher bit depth as a PNG it will create banding. It happens because PNG doesn't support anything over 8-bit. Everything with 16 or 32 bit you want to save as JPEG. (Edit) Technically PNG supports up to 24-bit depth, however at the time I was using Krita which hasn't been doing good job with compressing 16-bit into png's and was creating banding. Algorithms responsible for that were significantly improved since then and it's no longer the issue. There is also one thing worth noting, a lot of displays simply doesn't generate depth higher that 8-bit in order to speed up processes, fairly common in gaming monitors where delay between player input and screens reaction has to be as short as possible
It also depends where you are posting your art, for example, in Twitter it is way better to use jpg as Twitter doesn't recompress jpg as much as you would get from a png.
All the tips in this video are great, except for this one (2:14). No matter how hard it is to draw the other eye, try to fix it, don't hide it. The same thing happens with hands. No matter how hard it is to draw hands, try to do it. I personally suck at drawing hands, but every day I draw at least 5 hand poses. I know that if I keep doing it, I'll get so much better at drawing hands.
While I agree with the principle to face challenges head on, it really depends on what you are trying to achieve. Are you trying to make an art piece for which you have a couple of days to do? sure, face it, maybe practice a few at the side before doing it in the final piece. Check references, anatomy, perspective, etc. But are you trying to just make a quick drawing for a webtoon frame or have less than a few hours to do the drawing? Might as well take some shortcuts and smartly hide some elements so they blend with other things, you can continue the practice later.
Thank you. If you can’t be bothered to draw the eye, just be creative about it without using bangs every time. You can also copy and paste one eye, invert it, then squish it, you got an eye. Somehow I understood why always hiding it could be a problem in the future when I was 11.
one of the few things i did right when i was younger, instead of hiding hands i would either simplify them or just cope with them looking bad while i tried to study from reference. now at present day hands are hardly a challenge in most pieces
Tips Number 51. Accept criticism! Just because someone criticizes your work doesn't mean they hate it. If you can't handle criticism, then don't post your work.
I generally find that people are too afraid to criticize because they're 'not an artist'. I'm not an architect, but I can still say if a building is ugly, so I've never gotten this argument.
@@CMKpower Applied for some stuff, but then you have stuff like the pain fight from Naruto where people are *too* enthusiastic to share their opinions
I gotta say, at 2:30 it's not actually a bad thing if your lineart ISNT a consistent size. Using line weight can sometimes really improve the look of your work if you do it right c:
I think this tip also contrasts with the line weight tip. Your lines don’t have to be the same size, you just gotta know where to make it thick and where to keep it thin.
Love the video! I'd like to say that tracing another person's artwork (2:48) isn't an ineffective practice. If you're not thrilled about how your art style looks and across the table someone has jaw-dropping work, observing, referencing, and tracing are all good ways to "take notes" per se, and pick up on nuances you otherwise might've missed. (Never claim the traced artwork to be an original piece and avoid posting it at all if the artist hasn't consented.) It's a teaching device :D One that shouldn't be over-relied on nor expected to produce beautiful art. Thank you for all the awesome tips
After not drawing MLP for years (5+) I wanted to redesign my old sona. One of my friends was doing his design of the mane 6 at the time so I asked permission then I traced over its artwork to figure out rough MLP style pony proportions.
^^this i struggle with hands a lot in art so sometimes ill trace over pictures of hands or drawings of hands and i find it helps more than just looking at references. sometimes I'll also do this if I'm struggling making a new pose, hairstyle, etc. look how i want it to. After practicing with tracing, *then* I'll actually draw it out myself and find that the way i draw it has improved!
exactly, tracing is actually really helpful learning technique, just as long as you don't claim it as your own! a lot of people automatically associate tracing as art theft but i don't see anything wrong with it if you don't profit off of it or post it on social media ^^
Agreed. As a kid, with Saturday morning cartoons and video games on the screen and game guides alike, I traced nonstop. I'd take a piece of paper, put it against the glass screen, then trace with pencil. I did it so much, I'd piss off my brother wanting to use the TV lol. Of course as a kid, I claimed them as my own lol. But looking back, it helped so much getting to where I am today. Just like learning calligraphy, what do you do? You trace it first, then practice over and over again until you get better at it. This goes for anything imo.
The only thing I disagree on is the tip about tracing, as long as you don't pass others art off as your own tracing can help with muscle memory. Personally, it's helped me tons.
You can trace over your OWN photos by the way since those are technically your own art. I take photos of my own hands and trace over them as a shortcut when I can’t be bothered.
Same here. It definitely helps with the next phase too, which is using basic shapes, especially on paper. You're gonna want to stay as accurate and flexible as possible, so tracing helps your body refine the movements to improve accuracy.
4:12 this applies to all programs. If the bucket tool doesn't work as intended for you, just disable anti-aliazing and there wouldn't be white lines when using the bucket anymore. This makes your drawing less blurry and if you are working on a low resolution, your drawing might look pixelated, so is up to you disabling it or not.
Tip: Don’t only draw one eye and let the other one covered by hair, it’s so unrealistic and trash and to fix this, draw the eyes at the same time, not drawing them one at a time. if your eyes are dots, or just circle with iris, you can do it one at a time
It really depends if it's a good or a bad idea to turn of anti-aliasing. Anti-aliasing tends to make lines look a lot smoother while no anti-alising sometimes makes the lines look very pixelated.
Kinda hard to do an art tips video because everyone has their own way of doing art, but I like how brief the video was. Few little complaints though: 1. If you can't draw hands, learn to draw hands, don't try to hide them because it will just make things worse (and that goes with anything art wise). 2. If you can't draw 2 eyes, try to simplify them into shapes first. Draw the lines across the face, add the shapes that best represent the eyes you want to draw, and then add the details on top. The shapes almost acts as a guide as you draw the eyes because it allows your brain to focus on the important bits of the eye instead of the whole eye. 3. The thickness of the line-art depends on the style you're going for. Thinner lines does not equal better art Bonus tip: Drawings don't have to follow realism or some kind of norm. Experiment with the medium, try things no one else dares to do, fuck around with lines, shapes, and colours because you might find something really cool in that mess (like coloured line-art). Bonus bonus tip: It's good to copy other artists work (without tracing or stealing of course). Doing so will allow you to learn how an artist created their art, and you can see a bunch of little nuances in their work that you yourself can use to further improve your own art. Plus, you can turn it into some cool fan-art once you're done.
@@4rtemis_Anims That works too, but my technique works for both digital and traditional drawing. For me I don't like using the copy/paste and transform tools when I draw digitally. Something about it doesn't feel "natural" to me, even though it's just a sketch and I'll draw over it anyways. Just a me thing though. I don't care if anyone else does that.
Here some corrections: - ALWAYS try to draw hands and the other eye, if you keep evading them, you wont ever know how to draw them. - drawing with a mouse is NOT wrong It will be way slower but still possible to draw good
Using a mouse to paint digitally is the equivalent of using chopsticks to hold the pencil in traditional art. While yes, you can make good art it's an excrutiating process. Source: I've done it myself. You are way better off getting a cheap tablet with decent size on a sale which can go for like 40-50$ or get small tablets for like $25(?). Not worth sucking the joy out of painting, might as well stick with traditional until you save up.
@@William_Nowin I think it can also have the opposite effect where people have a very hard time in the beggining because of the steep curve of using a mouse and make them think digital art is not for them. I can see it being used for vector art but not for digital painting. If you are really stubborn you can get great results like this friend of mine th-cam.com/video/cv7QXIOiBzU/w-d-xo.html but those are rare occassions and even he uses a lot of lasso tool and takes a more vector art approach.
Finally a bunch of tips in a short video that is straight to the point Tracing CAN be a good way to understand how things work, but it doesn’t work for everyone and it’s easy to be too dependent on tracing. Don’t always hide the eye unless it’s part of the design, but if you REALLY can’t be bothered, just copy and paste the eye on a new layer, invert, then horizontally squish it and tilt it. If it got blurry, just trace over that new eye on a another new layer. I wish I knew about that trick when I was 11, but somehow I knew that always drawing the bangs would be a problem in the future.
It's better to break it down than to trace it ngl, you get a more grounded understanding of it. (Assuming you're tracing for practice, if you're tracking it and making a profit off of it, that's a no-no)
If you plan to copy, paste and mirror an element such as the other eye, it's best to do that during the sketching phase and line each eye separately once you get to the lineart phase. This will make the two elements look slightly different although they come from the same sketch, and it makes them look more natural and less of an obvious mirror work.
3:41 The chicken scratches for sketching can be a style on its own. You don’t necessarily need a clean sketch if you are going to use it to make clean lineart.
I would say it's only good if you know/planned your drawing well enough or you want to practice making smoother strokes. But it wholly unnecessary to make such a clean sketch if you plan on making a lineart is where you will spend a lot of time on.
Some of these things were normal nice tips but some were um.. strange. Tracing isn’t bad and can help improve! As long as you don’t try and convince others that it’s yours it can be really helpful to trace when you’re a beginner artist! Also what do you mean by “if you want more dynamic poses use foreshorting” ah yes let me just casually use some foreshorting, y’know.. that very easy thing to draw. Also if you can draw the other eye or draw hands don’t hide them! This isn’t going to help you at all, just try and practice and then they’ll be no need to hide it! Also one last thing… did my man really just say to do skinny lineart instead of l thick lineart because is “looks better”???? It’s a artstyle choice, this is not a tip and is just limiting freedom, also I would beg to disagree because as someone who has a thick lineart style I actually get a lot of compliments on it for looking cute and unique. Sorry for the rant lmao 💀💀💀 Edit: did not expect my little ramble to get much attention haha ( but thanks for the likes tho :D ), but I do understand that sometimes thick lineart can look worse and make things too muddy but the guy didnt really explain why thin lineart tends to look better. I just don’t really like tutorials that tell you to do something because it looks better and then don’t explain why lol
i think when the too thick lineart is applicable is if ur lineart drowns out detail!! like its so thick that u cant really tell what is going on or what some things look like because there is so much lineart
Why do artists treat all forms of tracing as an unforgivable sin? I’m an artist myself, and I also think that tracing is a good learning method, if you’re not being malicious. Those people that go “hUr DuR tRaCiNg BaD!!1!” are just a smidge insufferable.
@@ablancer3582 i think typically when theyre thinking of tracing theyre thinking of people who trace other's art n then tries to pass it off as their own?? :O
I want to add that tip 31 (2:33) is a very easy way to get stuck with stiff designs. You want the silhouette to work WITH the anatomy, and spending too much time on what is essentially a base can take away from that. It can be a good starting point for beginners, but after an understanding of anatomy is reached, silhouettes are the way to go when sketching.
I agree with you, after I learned anatomy my designs felt kinda dead but after implementing a silhouette and simplifying the design it finally made sense.
-Not everyone has the money to buy a tablet, I've been using a mouse for years and I think my art looks good, it all depends on the artist -Use colors for shadows instead of black, especially if you use a specific color palette -Always save as .PNG, never .JPG or other similar formats -Tracing can help you improve, especially to notice some details and understand more some artistic techniques, as long as you keep it for yourself, just DO NOT trace and make it pass off as yours
Buy a stylus for a phone or a tablet, you can grab one for cheap. Mouse isnt bad ofc but you're making it way harder for yourself that way. Png over Jpeg is just a an art meme, Jpeg has its uses and has moments where you would use Jpeg over png, vice versa
@@masterowl123 I quite agree with them kinda? I've been using a mouse but my hands tend to get tired quicker, it's also harder to do certain strokes and requires a lot of undo's. (planning to buy a tablet tho!)
Be shameless and ask a dollar from 50 random people (or something like that, whatever you can think of) and you can get a decent one. That's kinda what I did and I've been rocking this deco 01 v2 for almost a year now and it still works great.
there are lots of cheaper options, like huion, XpPen, gaomon, veikk, Vinsa etc. a tablet will greatly improve the quality of your work. a friend of mine gifted me one last week!
I think a Stylus goes for $15 also there are those things with the touch screen tips I forgot what they are called but I gotta ton of them… I looked them up and Ig they’re called mini stylus, but trust me when I say they’re pretty cheap.
Sky did you know that a youtuber 18x bigger than you,copied your video and now it's being canceled in my country(brazil)his name is torajo you need to do somenthing Sky!
I think tracing for PRACTICE is fine, it can help with figuring out shapes and even help with lineart. But do NOT claim it as yours, if anything I'd recommend keeping it to yourself. I used to trace (my own gacha characters, mind you) and it was like using training wheels because A) I didn't have to worry about starting from scratch B) could practice straight into lineart/coloring+shading Though I haven't done that in years (I stopped since I wanted to make my own art, plus it wasn't that fun anymore)
Aight, there's a lot to unpack here. This isn't necessarily _bad,_ but it does give some counterproductive or subjective tips so, I'll add on to these for beginners. Get ready for a lot of reading. 0:00 while i do agree that using black on a lower opacity is much less realistic, blending modes aren't the _only_ way to shade (although they certainly are a valid one, do what you want :) especially, for digital painting, if you want to use normal layers and figure out the shading color for yourself, a good way is to (using HSV) lower the value, then use the color of the light source as reference for where to go next. if your light source is more yellow for example, shift the hue farther from yellow and closer to purple (the opposite of yellow), if it's magenta, shift it closer to green. do the same with the saturation; if the light source is more saturated, progressively turn the saturation down the darker the shadows get, and vice versa if it's less saturated. 0:11 actually that's separate from the midtone, it's the terminator. iirc it's a subtle transition from the midtone to the shadows. 1:01 this is just a stylistic choice. oversaturated just makes it less realistic, which isn't a bad thing. if you're going for something vibrant and cartoony, more saturated colors can actually support that. 1:16 it all depends on how close the light source is. in this case, the light source is so close that it's hitting a lot less area, hence the darker shadows. 1:26 not... necessarily. this may be better for details but it's actually _not_ the best idea to lean to much on your sketch, as that tends to result in flat lineart. instead it's better to have the sketch at a very low opacity, and keep it zoomed out (not as much) while you do lineart which will not only let you make sure everything looks ok, but will also allow you to make more fluid strokes from your elbow/shoulder which will make lineart a lot easier. it doesn't have to be precise. 1:31 yeah this is very subjective. tablets can make your job a lot easier but it really isn't a necessity at all. you can use anything that can physically draw to draw. 1:47 using pure white for highlights is a lot like using pure black for shading. it can work, but if you're going for more realistic shading colors, it's best to just use the color of the light source (which _usually_ will not be 100 value and saturation but knock yourself out 🤷🏾♂️). you also do not always have to add it. if you want a darker feel to the expression or the light would not logically make a highlight on the iris, you can leave it out. again, as with everything else, do whatever you want. 1:53 no criticism here, this is a really great tip. add even more if you want, and also try to think about what could be in the environment that could give off light, like the sky or a fire. 1:56 once again, blending modes are a valid option but if you're not using them, just shift the color of the light you're adding closer to the light source's hue, value (by which i mean don't go past it, really pay attention to how intense your light source is), and saturation. 2:14 yeah this is not the best way to tackle this. drawing them at the same time instead of one by one is easier. if you keep avoiding it, you will _never_ learn how to draw the other eye. that ability doesn't come from nowhere. 2:23 this is a color theory thing. you know what im going to say by now. this method is fine, but if you don't want to use blending modes, block out the background first, even if it's just a flat color, and choose your colors based around that color. for example, against a blue background, a red or even a purple can look orange or yellow depending on the value and saturation. an actual (saturated) orange or yellow would just look out of place. 2:49 this will actually help you improve, especially if you do it a certain way as practice. most experienced artists have done this at some point. just don't go around sharing it and claiming it's yours and you're good. 2:55 since foreshortening is a very difficult technique for beginners, before you get the hang of it, there are easier ways to make a pose dynamic, such as asymmetry, twisting the figure, or making the shoulders and hips not parallel (which is just natural posing in general). 2:59 stylistic choice. the thinner the lineart, the closer to realism, since there are no lines in real life. the thicker, the more cartoonish. 3:03 similarly, to the eyes, just learn them. there are tons of great resources out there, and having them look off in your art until you get the hang of it is better than never tackling the problem and never getting the hang of it. you can do it :) 3:12 refer to the first tip. the hue of the shadows mostly depends on the light source. they also are often tinted with reflective light from the environment. in this case, the shadows are likely blue because of the contrasting yellow of the sun and the blue of the sky. if your character is outside in the sunlight against a bright pink wall, your shadows should actually mostly look pinker in the end, as well as your midtones. but there should still be a hint of the original shadow color in there, as it's best to shade before considering reflective/environmental light. 3:16 this isn't inherently incorrect (again, there's no such thing in art) but it can make your expressions less dynamic. asymmetry in expressions is cool, hell, even facial *features* don't have to be symmetrical in art, as they never are in real life. 3:29 everyone else has alright said this but yeah png is objectively higher quality for art 3:46 instead of airbrush, it's better to think of this in terms of hard and soft edges. soft edges are for, well, softer transitions, and hard edges are for more sudden transitions like the middle part of a crease, or anywhere else it would make sense to draw a line. it's a good idea to have a mix of both. airbrushes or soft brushes in general can be used to make a soft edge, but you can also use a hard brush then blend or blur it. 4:17 i don't know about photoshop, but this is called antialiasing and most programs have a setting to tweak this beforehand. 4:26 clip studio paint pro (the less expensive one time purchase as opposed to ex) is about 50 dollars when not on sale. the only way to legally use it for free is the 1 month free trial.
For the saturation of color pallette part, there's actually people who CAN get ACTUAL eyestrain just seeing how oversaturated the colors are, BUT it can easily be solved by using a b i t of white and black(using one is optional, it wouldn't hurt people's eyes for this don't worry)
Just found a great trick for shading. Use the base color on multiply mode. And for lighter segments, use the base color on overlay mode. For objects that emmit light, duplicate the base color layer twice, with the first one, just blur it, with the second one turn layer to "add" mode and blur that way. IMO it's much easier and more effective, thand finding the colors yourself.
Let me fix that If you're drawing with a mouse, keep doing it! Change if you want to. You don't have to draw in a specific way, just draw how you want!
Art tip for any beginners: If you don't know how to draw, and you don't have your own style yet, _Copy!!_ It is not bad to just copy others art when you just start, that's how I learned. As long as you don't post it online and claim it as your own, it's perfectly fine. When I was starting, I had problems with proportions and sketching. I started copying a TH-camr called DrawingWiffWaffles and I got much better at sketching. Those parts in your style will be buried the longer you draw. I copied UnknownSpy's style of drawing hands [specifically Sploot] and now I can draw hands better. Most of my arts style, and many others art styles, are not original to them. Your art forms after you, so don't try and restrict how you draw too much, just draw how it however comes naturally to you.
I say, just learn the basic fundamentals, you're style can come later. I feel like if you're just copying or tracing another person's work without understanding why and how to break it down, nothing's going to come out of it. It's still a great way to learn tho
Copy, but with variety. My style is a blend of two different official artstyles and one creators I looked up to as a role model, and I just kept my favorite attributes of the three, then bam Finding the second artstyle TO blend with is important, id say
There's an dutch saying called "Goed gejat is beter dan slecht bedacht", which directly translates to "well stolen (or in this copying) is better than badly imagined". Keyword being "well", you copy, but you shift it to your own thing. Its a helpful thing to keep in mind whenever you're learning something, or heck even if you're a vet. Its not a bad thing to take inspiration or elements of things that already exist.
13. I think you may need like an extra bad example of oversaturation in colors. Cuz the example you got going on is still pretty heckin great coloring imo lol. 20. Also some of my cool art friends use a mouse. It is definitely recommended to use a tablet, BUT Definitely not necessary. Good tips otherwise!
Ok, but don't your art friends realize drawing with mouse sucks? It's a pain to draw and your hand would keep getting tired every 10 minutes I tried using paint and mouse and oh boy was my drawing more terrible than my other drawings. Tbh, for me an S Pen makes drawing easy and a phone is better than mouse
@@Zextranet why can’t you let people draw the way they wanna draw? It won’t kill you to be respectful towards other people’s methods. Some people just like doing it, what’s wrong with it? Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean everyone doesn’t like it.
@@onyxtheowl24 Tbh, I'm more of shocked than frustrated about having to draw in paint. I have no problem, but I'm impressed that someone draws in mouse and does the job well
there's some good advices here, I'd like to add some thoughts: 2:27 I prefer using overlay instead of multiply, so things dont necessarily have to get darker 2:32 I wouldn't make the lineart too consistent, it can make drawings look dull very fast imo. Some anime studios use that consistent lineart style but it's mostly for productivitys sake. A good balance of line weight depends on the lighting or the thickness of an object. google "lineart line thickness", there's quite a couple of tutorials on that topic 2:45 I would even go so far to constantly save between two separate photoshop files. I once had the "honor" for a ps file to become corrupt and lost quite some progress thanks to it 2:52 instead of tracing, I would recommend trying to redraw someone's art instead. This way you find out a lot of small things that you wouldn't learn by just looking at it 3:10 don't hide things that are hard to draw, be it hands, eyes, etc. You'll have to learn it anyways sooner or later, new artists regulary draw their characters with their hands behind the back, avoid that! 3:16 in general use mildly colored shadows in multiply mode, avoid black/grey shadows, shadows are never truly colorless 4:22 I prefer to put expand onto a ps action so I only have to press one button for that. To contract the selection, I simply invert the selection with ctrl+shift+i and use expand again nice video!
- Tell me you haven’t met a good mouse artists without telling me you haven’t met a good mouse artist: - Tracing is good for beginners, just don’t claim it as yours!! - Varying lineart size can be used to make some amazing art, consistent vs inconsistent lineart is a stylistic choice.
1:31 you can draw with a mouse and do art. if your software has a stabilizer tool .that will help you make the lines less jagged and be able to draw nicer . its a little slower but not by much and you can always zoom in to be more precise . i still do recomend getting a tablet but drawing with a mouse is quite pog
I needed that slideshow. Any embarrassment you felt showing that is going to pay dividends for your viewers. Your old art will do more good than it could ever do bad
Loved your tips, they are wonderful! My tip for you, as someone who deals with audio levels and such, please lower the bell sound level and raise your voice output level because that bell sound was absolutely piercing. When I lowered my volume to avoid the sharpness of the bell I barely could hear your voice. I’m sure others may have experienced this as well. Hope you have a wonderful day!
As someone who wants to learn how to draw and on a digital medium I am so appreciative that this video exists. It looks like a very daunting skill to learn but this makes it a little easier to start off on.
Holy shishkabobs, you do not realize how much this made me realize how much i've overcomplicated things. thank you so much for having it so much simpler!
Tracing absolutely does help you learn exponentially!! Just do it respectfully and don't post it anywhere where people can see. I got good at art this way by putting my paper over a book with different animals and my brain remembers the proportions. Only do this for practice though and never say it's yours. I literally learned off this method the most and nobody can prove me wrong
I traced someone else’s art once. It helped so much! I traced a keychain I found on Etsy, and it taught me the proportions if that character for when I draw them next time.
ive used mouse for doing art before and ive improved a whole lot with it faster than when i got my tablet, NEVER get discouraged from doing digital art because you dont have a tablet, my friends use mouse to draw or even their finger!, you can use mouse with the right settings and a program that supports high stabilization like firealpaca or stuff like ibis paint is used by plenty of finger users in mobile.
Really good video! However I do have to say that tip 35 (make lineart smaller) can very depend on the artstyle of the work! Like for example, my art has bolder lines used for my artstyle because using thinner lines would make it feel off and uncomforting. I would also like to add that it's very smart to use a mix of both! For my artstyle I use bolder lines for characters and thinner ones for backgrounds and details
I would just say for a bonus tip: Not everything is perfect. Each piece you draw makes you better at drawing and should be an example of what you are doing wrong or on what to focus more. Art is subjective and even bad art is good art for some people
Man, I was JUST asking my self about my drawing: how can I make this character look like it’s IN the scene with the background, and not just drawn on top of the background scene? That multiply layer really helped. thanks!
Tracing does have _some_ use (mostly for beginners) as it can be of some help for muscle memory. The issue with tracing is when the artist uploads the traced work as their own. That's art theft. Otherwise, tracing is a valid learning tool, so long as it is used as such and the traced piece never sees the light of day on public access. I never traced anything myself, but as personal training for anatomy of some things, I sometimes do copy existing works (like when I was teaching myself and practicing dragon wings and teeth anatomy) by looking at an original piece by someone else and then trying to draw it myself as close to the original as possible. Those practice pics I made only exist in my files and have never been and never will be uploaded. Helped a lot when I tried to learn how to draw dragon wings and teeth and now I can make those on my own with my own style. But that's it about tracing (and copying, since I brought it up): NEVER upload the traced/copied work and especially, never claim it as your own. It's not yours. Not really. Use it to learn and practice and develop your own style and techniques, but never take what others made and call it your own.
1:32 you lost me here, i feel offended, dont know if it was supposed to be a joke, but thats not a tip, thats obvious, obvious that drawning with a tablet would be better, but i CANT buy one right now, so it just looked like you were rubbing on my face and that ones that cant buy one , that you need one , maybe its just me but like, ''good'' for reminding me that i dont have one ;-;
Get VEIKK A30, 10 inch tablet pen at a whopping $40, wider screen area gives you more room to draw long lines and allow you to draw by using your ankles as pivot instead of your wrist
My art simply…just comes out better when I use a mouse. Although I do have a drawing tablet, its only useful for me when I do sketches. But my style of art is lineless, so all i really need is a smoothing option and a mouse
I have a drawing tablet but unfortunately my computer is very bad (the program that i need to use the tablet don't work in my computer) and i never actually use
I really appreciate the tips given in this video, but I feel there’s a lot of dismissal. For example, drawing the other eye is dismissed, which I feel is lazy, at most, and performed out of fear of “messing up,” at the least. The only way you’ll ever get better is by simply doing so, just like how drawing hands is the only way you’ll ever get better at drawing hands. Second, tracing another person’s style CAN be helpful. The only difference is that this person’s material is their own and they may not want people tracing. Otherwise, there’d be little difference in breaking down/tracing over a reference image and breaking/down tracing over an artistic reference image. The key, of course, is to use both to learn but not be reliant upon them to create. Last, some of the greatest artists I’ve met use a mouse, so don’t overlook it entirely. They’re great for pixel art. :P
I only just started wanting to do digital art I've been doing on paper but mostly 2d landscapes but I won't get a tablet BC I might not want to do digital and stuff
but it’s not good for beginners it’s true we can draw with mouse but as the beginner it’s not what you should choose for practicing drawing art Like you’re the beginner but instead of use your pencil and paper too draw it but you choose to use your finger to draw in your phone and that’s not how it’s work . But instead If you’re not beginner and wanna challenge tho
3:04 I personally think that if you dont know how to draw hands, instead of hiding them you should learn how to draw them so you wont have to draw them in pockets
You've just inspired me to try to pick up the pen again and try to get back into digital art I.... Fell off after my brothers death and me always working 2 jobs to support my family and it doesn't help that my PS4 has it's claws into me during my short free time.
Ngl tracing has helped me a lot. I don't claim it's my art but sometimes I'll scan images I like from a manga and use it to help me figure out how to draw things I find hard or stuff like line weight/hatching.
Amazing video and surely helpful! HOWEVER, you need to learn to draw the other eye and hands if you want to get better. Avoiding your weaknesses is a good way to improve very slowly or not at all. If your doing art for fun though and don't care about improving so much, go ahead no harm done. Also I find zooming out during line art helps keep line art consistent and lets you see how the whole image is looking. The advice on colour, saturation and layer types to make an image fit are amazing and super useful. All round great video :D
Some of these sound like troll tips honestly, I'm not even sure I'm watching a serious video. Hide what you can't draw ? Works if your drawing allows it, but on long term you'll just be harming your art skills.
If you don't want to draw the other eye, try copying, pasting, and flipping the eye that has already been drawn. There are no need to hide the other eye and change your character's design just to avoid drawing the other eye, it can become a bad habit. Try to use references for hands as well, even if it's "ugly". Drawing hands is still important. Although putting your character's hand in their pockets/behind their backs can work for personality or body language.
I like how youtube just decided "yeah this guy should totally become an artist " like art stuff started popping outta nowhere lol, great video though keep it up
Came to this in 2023 and just to boost because this stands out, tip 50 (4:26) Clip Studio Paint is not free, but it does offer two options of free 30 days or free 3 months but it is a paid application.
Really good video. Right to the point, and I got some really good pointers out of it. I agree mostly with the bonus point. So many artists try to "do it right" from the beginning, since other artists seem to only have amazing pieces in their portfolios. The thing is, we all start somewhere and get better as time goes. Some faster, so slower, but there is simply no substitute to experience and practice as you continue learning.
I agree to most of these and some where very helpful! Some I can’t really agree since it depends on style or other factors Tip #30 & #35 Thin Lineart doesn’t necessarily look better than thick Lineart, it all depends on the person’s art style like comic book, or cartoons. Also, it defeats tip #12 as it essentially eliminates line weight that gives depth. Tip #33 Tracing isn’t bad if you are learning to see shapes and how it was made. Everyone learns differently and tracing can help you learn depending on the person, but doing it as practice instead. HOWEVER, tracing and claiming it as your own is a big no. Tip #39 Don’t use pixels, use inches. It’s confusing and not used in school, nor work. Art teachers, professors and even employers prefer inches. (Anyone can use pixels, and are entitled to use their prefer method but just wanted to give my two cents on it) Tip #47 YES, THE BUCKET TOOL! Life and time saver on big projects. Finally, I really enjoyed the video and found many helpful tips I really can recommend to others. It was fun and entertaining. Keep up the awesome work!
Another tip is you don't need a desktop and a expensive tablet you could also do what I see a lot of beginner artists do and save up for a Apple Tablet any size or even draw on your phone with your finger on Ibispaint X I've come to realize you dont need expensive art supplies, your the artist, the skill comes from you not the other way around
And also STOP COMPARING yourself to other artists you'll never improve and most likely stop drawing all together,when you see amazing art stop comparing it with yours see it as inspiration a reason to improve
Some of these are extremely harmful tips, and many pros warn against these kind of "common" tips such as hiding eyes or hands. Doing that means your not learning how to draw them and learning to be lazy about your art. The hands will NEVER get better unless you draw them
While I will say that doing black shading with lowered opacity is a good way to learn how shading works, using multiply layers with different colors will always look way better. Another thing I like to do with my shading layers is add a little bit of a gaussian blur after drawing it in (with the shading layer clipped to the color layer, of course) to give the edges a slightly softer look.
Based on the comments, it really seems to prove that a lot of art is subjective and there are no hard rules! This video has some great general guidelines but do whatever works for you, and as long as you practice eventually you will improve.
1:04 in my opinion,it’s okay to use saturated colours and vice versa. This just depends on how to use them well. Also a bunch of artists I see use saturated colours, and well! remember to use colour theory :D
Btw mouse will do just dandy if you want it to. In art, really, everything can be used to make anything if you brute force it hard enough. And if you have a tablet, it might be fun to try drawing something with a mouse. Giving yourself little challenges like that can be pretty fun.
as someone with a severely short attention span who doesn't do well paying attention long term, this has really been a pleasure of a video, easy to keep up with and entertaining to keep my silly mind attracted.
2:21 the problem its that they only study human anatomy but when you want to draw a furry or something it’s bad because you don’t know,I also reccomend at least studying mammalian and bird anatomy if you also want to draw animals
If you want to draw atleast anthropomorphic characters, stick to human anatomy. If you want to draw legit animals, that's an entirely different study. Way harder and you probably need a lot of references with it. I sometimes draw Prehistoric animals and I depend a lot on photos of fossils, 3d models, living relatives, etc. How you approach it is very different compared to how you approach humans
@@isthatbraised well, furries are a mix of humans and other animals so you still need to learn animal anatomy to draw them. but you have a lot more room to mix and match and break the rules.
I’d honestly say though that tracing is a really good practise to help you get better at doing a certain style of art or character. Of course you should try to break it down first.
40) correction PNG only, Jpg LOSES quality with each save, so unless you intententionally wanna make it so the bes tpossible quality comes from you directly use Png
PNG is the best option if art you're creating in 8-bit color depth. If you save anything with higher bit depth as a PNG it will create banding. It happens because PNG doesn't support anything over 8-bit. Everything with 16 or 32 bit you want to save as JPEG.
(Edit) Technically PNG supports up to 24-bit depth, however at the time I was using Krita which hasn't been doing good job with compressing 16-bit into png's and was creating banding. Algorithms responsible for that were significantly improved since then and it's no longer the issue. There is also one thing worth noting, a lot of displays simply doesn't generate depth higher that 8-bit in order to speed up processes, fairly common in gaming monitors where delay between player input and screens reaction has to be as short as possible
It also depends where you are posting your art, for example, in Twitter it is way better to use jpg as Twitter doesn't recompress jpg as much as you would get from a png.
I love having my art with intentionally low image quality
@@kasloth994 exr?
@@Beryesa. I've never used this format, but I don't think internet browsers support it.
All the tips in this video are great, except for this one (2:14). No matter how hard it is to draw the other eye, try to fix it, don't hide it. The same thing happens with hands. No matter how hard it is to draw hands, try to do it. I personally suck at drawing hands, but every day I draw at least 5 hand poses. I know that if I keep doing it, I'll get so much better at drawing hands.
While I agree with the principle to face challenges head on, it really depends on what you are trying to achieve. Are you trying to make an art piece for which you have a couple of days to do? sure, face it, maybe practice a few at the side before doing it in the final piece. Check references, anatomy, perspective, etc. But are you trying to just make a quick drawing for a webtoon frame or have less than a few hours to do the drawing? Might as well take some shortcuts and smartly hide some elements so they blend with other things, you can continue the practice later.
Thank you. If you can’t be bothered to draw the eye, just be creative about it without using bangs every time. You can also copy and paste one eye, invert it, then squish it, you got an eye. Somehow I understood why always hiding it could be a problem in the future when I was 11.
Ok ok I get it it makes sense, but that was meant as ajoke 👁👄👁
one of the few things i did right when i was younger, instead of hiding hands i would either simplify them or just cope with them looking bad while i tried to study from reference. now at present day hands are hardly a challenge in most pieces
This
Tips Number 51.
Accept criticism! Just because someone criticizes your work doesn't mean they hate it. If you can't handle criticism, then don't post your work.
Ah yes, I should accept the random moron on Instagram that called my drawings "down syndrome" as valid criticism
I generally find that people are too afraid to criticize because they're 'not an artist'. I'm not an architect, but I can still say if a building is ugly, so I've never gotten this argument.
@@CMKpower Applied for some stuff, but then you have stuff like the pain fight from Naruto where people are *too* enthusiastic to share their opinions
I gotta say, at 2:30 it's not actually a bad thing if your lineart ISNT a consistent size. Using line weight can sometimes really improve the look of your work if you do it right c:
I was thinking the same thing. I noticed Demon Slayer doing a similar thing and it looks really good
I think this tip also contrasts with the line weight tip. Your lines don’t have to be the same size, you just gotta know where to make it thick and where to keep it thin.
Love the video! I'd like to say that tracing another person's artwork (2:48) isn't an ineffective practice. If you're not thrilled about how your art style looks and across the table someone has jaw-dropping work, observing, referencing, and tracing are all good ways to "take notes" per se, and pick up on nuances you otherwise might've missed. (Never claim the traced artwork to be an original piece and avoid posting it at all if the artist hasn't consented.)
It's a teaching device :D One that shouldn't be over-relied on nor expected to produce beautiful art.
Thank you for all the awesome tips
After not drawing MLP for years (5+) I wanted to redesign my old sona. One of my friends was doing his design of the mane 6 at the time so I asked permission then I traced over its artwork to figure out rough MLP style pony proportions.
^^this
i struggle with hands a lot in art so sometimes ill trace over pictures of hands or drawings of hands and i find it helps more than just looking at references. sometimes I'll also do this if I'm struggling making a new pose, hairstyle, etc. look how i want it to. After practicing with tracing, *then* I'll actually draw it out myself and find that the way i draw it has improved!
exactly, tracing is actually really helpful learning technique, just as long as you don't claim it as your own! a lot of people automatically associate tracing as art theft but i don't see anything wrong with it if you don't profit off of it or post it on social media ^^
Was about to say this myself 👍
Agreed. As a kid, with Saturday morning cartoons and video games on the screen and game guides alike, I traced nonstop. I'd take a piece of paper, put it against the glass screen, then trace with pencil. I did it so much, I'd piss off my brother wanting to use the TV lol. Of course as a kid, I claimed them as my own lol. But looking back, it helped so much getting to where I am today. Just like learning calligraphy, what do you do? You trace it first, then practice over and over again until you get better at it. This goes for anything imo.
The only thing I disagree on is the tip about tracing, as long as you don't pass others art off as your own tracing can help with muscle memory. Personally, it's helped me tons.
You can trace over your OWN photos by the way since those are technically your own art. I take photos of my own hands and trace over them as a shortcut when I can’t be bothered.
Same here. It definitely helps with the next phase too, which is using basic shapes, especially on paper. You're gonna want to stay as accurate and flexible as possible, so tracing helps your body refine the movements to improve accuracy.
Really? Lucky I can't do it I find it easier for me atleast to see muscle anatomy idk why it just makes more sense to me
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Y E S. Thank you, this is exactly what I was thinking about that tip as well
4:12 this applies to all programs. If the bucket tool doesn't work as intended for you, just disable anti-aliazing and there wouldn't be white lines when using the bucket anymore. This makes your drawing less blurry and if you are working on a low resolution, your drawing might look pixelated, so is up to you disabling it or not.
Ibispaint:
Tip: Don’t only draw one eye and let the other one covered by hair, it’s so unrealistic and trash and to fix this, draw the eyes at the same time, not drawing them one at a time. if your eyes are dots, or just circle with iris, you can do it one at a time
@@BintedBogo actually, there is a feature like that on there
I just use Kleku with Grow2
It really depends if it's a good or a bad idea to turn of anti-aliasing. Anti-aliasing tends to make lines look a lot smoother while no anti-alising sometimes makes the lines look very pixelated.
If every tutorial/tips video was this straightforward the world will be a better place
Kinda hard to do an art tips video because everyone has their own way of doing art, but I like how brief the video was. Few little complaints though:
1. If you can't draw hands, learn to draw hands, don't try to hide them because it will just make things worse (and that goes with anything art wise).
2. If you can't draw 2 eyes, try to simplify them into shapes first. Draw the lines across the face, add the shapes that best represent the eyes you want to draw, and then add the details on top. The shapes almost acts as a guide as you draw the eyes because it allows your brain to focus on the important bits of the eye instead of the whole eye.
3. The thickness of the line-art depends on the style you're going for. Thinner lines does not equal better art
Bonus tip: Drawings don't have to follow realism or some kind of norm. Experiment with the medium, try things no one else dares to do, fuck around with lines, shapes, and colours because you might find something really cool in that mess (like coloured line-art).
Bonus bonus tip: It's good to copy other artists work (without tracing or stealing of course). Doing so will allow you to learn how an artist created their art, and you can see a bunch of little nuances in their work that you yourself can use to further improve your own art. Plus, you can turn it into some cool fan-art once you're done.
about the eye thing, you can also copy and paste and adjust the prospective of another eye with the transform tool
@@4rtemis_Anims
That works too, but my technique works for both digital and traditional drawing.
For me I don't like using the copy/paste and transform tools when I draw digitally. Something about it doesn't feel "natural" to me, even though it's just a sketch and I'll draw over it anyways.
Just a me thing though. I don't care if anyone else does that.
Completely agree with the Lineart. Everyone has different styles so line thickness will vary.
Yeah just like what tppo does. (Replying to the last bonus tip)
@@4rtemis_Anims or you can draw both at the same time
Here some corrections:
- ALWAYS try to draw hands and the other eye, if you keep evading them, you wont ever know how to draw them.
- drawing with a mouse is NOT wrong
It will be way slower but still possible to draw good
Using a mouse to paint digitally is the equivalent of using chopsticks to hold the pencil in traditional art. While yes, you can make good art it's an excrutiating process. Source: I've done it myself. You are way better off getting a cheap tablet with decent size on a sale which can go for like 40-50$ or get small tablets for like $25(?). Not worth sucking the joy out of painting, might as well stick with traditional until you save up.
@@BD-xf8ym however it's great for people who are just getting into art but don't want to invest in tools yet
@@William_Nowin I think it can also have the opposite effect where people have a very hard time in the beggining because of the steep curve of using a mouse and make them think digital art is not for them. I can see it being used for vector art but not for digital painting. If you are really stubborn you can get great results like this friend of mine th-cam.com/video/cv7QXIOiBzU/w-d-xo.html but those are rare occassions and even he uses a lot of lasso tool and takes a more vector art approach.
@@BD-xf8ym it's not exactly a steep curve using a mouse tbh, it's a steep curve no matter the tools
@@William_Nowin Buy a cheap stylus or just the good ol pencil to practice.
i painted with mouse for years and still managed to do something better than some people i knew with expensive tablets..
"learn color theory" great tip, man wow
Finally a bunch of tips in a short video that is straight to the point
Tracing CAN be a good way to understand how things work, but it doesn’t work for everyone and it’s easy to be too dependent on tracing.
Don’t always hide the eye unless it’s part of the design, but if you REALLY can’t be bothered, just copy and paste the eye on a new layer, invert, then horizontally squish it and tilt it. If it got blurry, just trace over that new eye on a another new layer. I wish I knew about that trick when I was 11, but somehow I knew that always drawing the bangs would be a problem in the future.
It's better to break it down than to trace it ngl, you get a more grounded understanding of it.
(Assuming you're tracing for practice, if you're tracking it and making a profit off of it, that's a no-no)
If you plan to copy, paste and mirror an element such as the other eye, it's best to do that during the sketching phase and line each eye separately once you get to the lineart phase. This will make the two elements look slightly different although they come from the same sketch, and it makes them look more natural and less of an obvious mirror work.
Tracing = stealing
It won't get blurry when you'll draw your linearts on vector layers
@@naokosaysuki2648 It's ok to do for personal practice
3:41 The chicken scratches for sketching can be a style on its own. You don’t necessarily need a clean sketch if you are going to use it to make clean lineart.
Yeah, but it's very time consuming, and why not go for a single stroke if it is the sketch anyway?
I would say it's only good if you know/planned your drawing well enough or you want to practice making smoother strokes. But it wholly unnecessary to make such a clean sketch if you plan on making a lineart is where you will spend a lot of time on.
@@heronbecker1951 is it really time consuming to take a microsecond longer
chicken scratches used to be my style when i was creating art just for myself, from my memory.
@@heronbecker1951 its way faster to do the scratches.
Honestly I really love the “without reference” horse. With a little cleaning it could look like a really good stylized horse
Bro is explaining each question in less that five seconds and it makes more sense than most tutorials
Some of these things were normal nice tips but some were um.. strange. Tracing isn’t bad and can help improve! As long as you don’t try and convince others that it’s yours it can be really helpful to trace when you’re a beginner artist! Also what do you mean by “if you want more dynamic poses use foreshorting” ah yes let me just casually use some foreshorting, y’know.. that very easy thing to draw. Also if you can draw the other eye or draw hands don’t hide them! This isn’t going to help you at all, just try and practice and then they’ll be no need to hide it! Also one last thing… did my man really just say to do skinny lineart instead of l thick lineart because is “looks better”???? It’s a artstyle choice, this is not a tip and is just limiting freedom, also I would beg to disagree because as someone who has a thick lineart style I actually get a lot of compliments on it for looking cute and unique. Sorry for the rant lmao 💀💀💀
Edit: did not expect my little ramble to get much attention haha ( but thanks for the likes tho :D ), but I do understand that sometimes thick lineart can look worse and make things too muddy but the guy didnt really explain why thin lineart tends to look better. I just don’t really like tutorials that tell you to do something because it looks better and then don’t explain why lol
i think when the too thick lineart is applicable is if ur lineart drowns out detail!! like its so thick that u cant really tell what is going on or what some things look like because there is so much lineart
Chibi artstyle is one example where thick lines is alot more common than thin lines.
Why do artists treat all forms of tracing as an unforgivable sin? I’m an artist myself, and I also think that tracing is a good learning method, if you’re not being malicious. Those people that go “hUr DuR tRaCiNg BaD!!1!” are just a smidge insufferable.
@@ablancer3582 i think typically when theyre thinking of tracing theyre thinking of people who trace other's art n then tries to pass it off as their own?? :O
@@polariize I know, but I’m saying even the tracing that’s not harmful
I want to add that tip 31 (2:33) is a very easy way to get stuck with stiff designs. You want the silhouette to work WITH the anatomy, and spending too much time on what is essentially a base can take away from that. It can be a good starting point for beginners, but after an understanding of anatomy is reached, silhouettes are the way to go when sketching.
I agree with you, after I learned anatomy my designs felt kinda dead but after implementing a silhouette and simplifying the design it finally made sense.
0:32 that felt more like a roast than an art tip 😭
regarding the expensive tablet, my arts improved when i used tablets with display which is more expensive than regular tablet. felt so natural.
-Not everyone has the money to buy a tablet, I've been using a mouse for years and I think my art looks good, it all depends on the artist
-Use colors for shadows instead of black, especially if you use a specific color palette
-Always save as .PNG, never .JPG or other similar formats
-Tracing can help you improve, especially to notice some details and understand more some artistic techniques, as long as you keep it for yourself, just DO NOT trace and make it pass off as yours
I love jpg when intentionally wanting a lower quality image ^^
Buy a stylus for a phone or a tablet, you can grab one for cheap. Mouse isnt bad ofc but you're making it way harder for yourself that way.
Png over Jpeg is just a an art meme, Jpeg has its uses and has moments where you would use Jpeg over png, vice versa
people have done some amazing art with a mouse, don't listen to this guy use what's right for you
@@masterowl123 I quite agree with them kinda? I've been using a mouse but my hands tend to get tired quicker, it's also harder to do certain strokes and requires a lot of undo's. (planning to buy a tablet tho!)
I bought a tablet for $20 and it's pretty good
“If you’re drawing with a mouse, don’t!”
Me, who’s been using a mouse for three years and is too broke to afford a wacom: 👁👄👁
Be shameless and ask a dollar from 50 random people (or something like that, whatever you can think of) and you can get a decent one. That's kinda what I did and I've been rocking this deco 01 v2 for almost a year now and it still works great.
save up a little bit everyday until you have enough saved to buy one
there are lots of cheaper options, like huion, XpPen, gaomon, veikk, Vinsa etc. a tablet will greatly improve the quality of your work. a friend of mine gifted me one last week!
@@OP-pe4yc i got a $20 dollar drawing tablet, its pretty decent.
I think a Stylus goes for $15 also there are those things with the touch screen tips I forgot what they are called but I gotta ton of them… I looked them up and Ig they’re called mini stylus, but trust me when I say they’re pretty cheap.
Sky did you know that a youtuber 18x bigger than you,copied your video and now it's being canceled in my country(brazil)his name is torajo you need to do somenthing Sky!
I think tracing for PRACTICE is fine, it can help with figuring out shapes and even help with lineart. But do NOT claim it as yours, if anything I'd recommend keeping it to yourself.
I used to trace (my own gacha characters, mind you) and it was like using training wheels because
A) I didn't have to worry about starting from scratch
B) could practice straight into lineart/coloring+shading
Though I haven't done that in years (I stopped since I wanted to make my own art, plus it wasn't that fun anymore)
Aight, there's a lot to unpack here. This isn't necessarily _bad,_ but it does give some counterproductive or subjective tips so, I'll add on to these for beginners. Get ready for a lot of reading.
0:00 while i do agree that using black on a lower opacity is much less realistic, blending modes aren't the _only_ way to shade (although they certainly are a valid one, do what you want :) especially, for digital painting, if you want to use normal layers and figure out the shading color for yourself, a good way is to (using HSV) lower the value, then use the color of the light source as reference for where to go next. if your light source is more yellow for example, shift the hue farther from yellow and closer to purple (the opposite of yellow), if it's magenta, shift it closer to green. do the same with the saturation; if the light source is more saturated, progressively turn the saturation down the darker the shadows get, and vice versa if it's less saturated.
0:11 actually that's separate from the midtone, it's the terminator. iirc it's a subtle transition from the midtone to the shadows.
1:01 this is just a stylistic choice. oversaturated just makes it less realistic, which isn't a bad thing. if you're going for something vibrant and cartoony, more saturated colors can actually support that.
1:16 it all depends on how close the light source is. in this case, the light source is so close that it's hitting a lot less area, hence the darker shadows.
1:26 not... necessarily. this may be better for details but it's actually _not_ the best idea to lean to much on your sketch, as that tends to result in flat lineart. instead it's better to have the sketch at a very low opacity, and keep it zoomed out (not as much) while you do lineart which will not only let you make sure everything looks ok, but will also allow you to make more fluid strokes from your elbow/shoulder which will make lineart a lot easier. it doesn't have to be precise.
1:31 yeah this is very subjective. tablets can make your job a lot easier but it really isn't a necessity at all. you can use anything that can physically draw to draw.
1:47 using pure white for highlights is a lot like using pure black for shading. it can work, but if you're going for more realistic shading colors, it's best to just use the color of the light source (which _usually_ will not be 100 value and saturation but knock yourself out 🤷🏾♂️). you also do not always have to add it. if you want a darker feel to the expression or the light would not logically make a highlight on the iris, you can leave it out. again, as with everything else, do whatever you want.
1:53 no criticism here, this is a really great tip. add even more if you want, and also try to think about what could be in the environment that could give off light, like the sky or a fire.
1:56 once again, blending modes are a valid option but if you're not using them, just shift the color of the light you're adding closer to the light source's hue, value (by which i mean don't go past it, really pay attention to how intense your light source is), and saturation.
2:14 yeah this is not the best way to tackle this. drawing them at the same time instead of one by one is easier. if you keep avoiding it, you will _never_ learn how to draw the other eye. that ability doesn't come from nowhere.
2:23 this is a color theory thing. you know what im going to say by now. this method is fine, but if you don't want to use blending modes, block out the background first, even if it's just a flat color, and choose your colors based around that color. for example, against a blue background, a red or even a purple can look orange or yellow depending on the value and saturation. an actual (saturated) orange or yellow would just look out of place.
2:49 this will actually help you improve, especially if you do it a certain way as practice. most experienced artists have done this at some point. just don't go around sharing it and claiming it's yours and you're good.
2:55 since foreshortening is a very difficult technique for beginners, before you get the hang of it, there are easier ways to make a pose dynamic, such as asymmetry, twisting the figure, or making the shoulders and hips not parallel (which is just natural posing in general).
2:59 stylistic choice. the thinner the lineart, the closer to realism, since there are no lines in real life. the thicker, the more cartoonish.
3:03 similarly, to the eyes, just learn them. there are tons of great resources out there, and having them look off in your art until you get the hang of it is better than never tackling the problem and never getting the hang of it. you can do it :)
3:12 refer to the first tip. the hue of the shadows mostly depends on the light source. they also are often tinted with reflective light from the environment. in this case, the shadows are likely blue because of the contrasting yellow of the sun and the blue of the sky. if your character is outside in the sunlight against a bright pink wall, your shadows should actually mostly look pinker in the end, as well as your midtones. but there should still be a hint of the original shadow color in there, as it's best to shade before considering reflective/environmental light.
3:16 this isn't inherently incorrect (again, there's no such thing in art) but it can make your expressions less dynamic. asymmetry in expressions is cool, hell, even facial *features* don't have to be symmetrical in art, as they never are in real life.
3:29 everyone else has alright said this but yeah png is objectively higher quality for art
3:46 instead of airbrush, it's better to think of this in terms of hard and soft edges. soft edges are for, well, softer transitions, and hard edges are for more sudden transitions like the middle part of a crease, or anywhere else it would make sense to draw a line. it's a good idea to have a mix of both. airbrushes or soft brushes in general can be used to make a soft edge, but you can also use a hard brush then blend or blur it.
4:17 i don't know about photoshop, but this is called antialiasing and most programs have a setting to tweak this beforehand.
4:26 clip studio paint pro (the less expensive one time purchase as opposed to ex) is about 50 dollars when not on sale. the only way to legally use it for free is the 1 month free trial.
Thank you for this
For the saturation of color pallette part, there's actually people who CAN get ACTUAL eyestrain just seeing how oversaturated the colors are, BUT it can easily be solved by using a b i t of white and black(using one is optional, it wouldn't hurt people's eyes for this don't worry)
i agree with all of this thanks for this comment some of these tips really frustrated me lol
Just found a great trick for shading. Use the base color on multiply mode. And for lighter segments, use the base color on overlay mode. For objects that emmit light, duplicate the base color layer twice, with the first one, just blur it, with the second one turn layer to "add" mode and blur that way.
IMO it's much easier and more effective, thand finding the colors yourself.
Just…don’t use the tips then? This person spent a bunch of time making a video and you’re just commenting about how bad it is
Like wtf, man
0:04 I actually like the horse on the left a lot more :)
looks so skrunkly
If your drawing with a mouse DONT :D
I have no other option :/
Well, it's time to use my imaginary tablet!
Well maybe I don’t wanna spend $100 on a tablet :(
Let me fix that
If you're drawing with a mouse, keep doing it! Change if you want to. You don't have to draw in a specific way, just draw how you want!
@@SqaureRat898I bought a drawing tablet for $10 in the tiktok shop and it works great, you don’t need an expensive tablet off the bat
Now this is a tips. No long explanation, straight to the point ☝️ thank you sm
Art tip for any beginners:
If you don't know how to draw, and you don't have your own style yet, _Copy!!_
It is not bad to just copy others art when you just start, that's how I learned. As long as you don't post it online and claim it as your own, it's perfectly fine. When I was starting, I had problems with proportions and sketching. I started copying a TH-camr called DrawingWiffWaffles and I got much better at sketching. Those parts in your style will be buried the longer you draw. I copied UnknownSpy's style of drawing hands [specifically Sploot] and now I can draw hands better. Most of my arts style, and many others art styles, are not original to them. Your art forms after you, so don't try and restrict how you draw too much, just draw how it however comes naturally to you.
I say, just learn the basic fundamentals, you're style can come later.
I feel like if you're just copying or tracing another person's work without understanding why and how to break it down, nothing's going to come out of it.
It's still a great way to learn tho
Copy, but with variety. My style is a blend of two different official artstyles and one creators I looked up to as a role model, and I just kept my favorite attributes of the three, then bam
Finding the second artstyle TO blend with is important, id say
There's an dutch saying called "Goed gejat is beter dan slecht bedacht", which directly translates to "well stolen (or in this copying) is better than badly imagined".
Keyword being "well", you copy, but you shift it to your own thing.
Its a helpful thing to keep in mind whenever you're learning something, or heck even if you're a vet. Its not a bad thing to take inspiration or elements of things that already exist.
13. I think you may need like an extra bad example of oversaturation in colors. Cuz the example you got going on is still pretty heckin great coloring imo lol.
20. Also some of my cool art friends use a mouse. It is definitely recommended to use a tablet, BUT Definitely not necessary.
Good tips otherwise!
Ok, but don't your art friends realize drawing with mouse sucks? It's a pain to draw and your hand would keep getting tired every 10 minutes
I tried using paint and mouse and oh boy was my drawing more terrible than my other drawings. Tbh, for me an S Pen makes drawing easy and a phone is better than mouse
@@Zextranet not everyone wants to use a stylus and tablet, even if they own one, Some people just like drawing in different ways
@@pancake1405 We can agree that it would be painful in the long run, right?
@@Zextranet why can’t you let people draw the way they wanna draw? It won’t kill you to be respectful towards other people’s methods. Some people just like doing it, what’s wrong with it? Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean everyone doesn’t like it.
@@onyxtheowl24 Tbh, I'm more of shocked than frustrated about having to draw in paint. I have no problem, but I'm impressed that someone draws in mouse and does the job well
That was seriously the most helpful and straight to the point video I saw so far✨
there's some good advices here, I'd like to add some thoughts:
2:27 I prefer using overlay instead of multiply, so things dont necessarily have to get darker
2:32 I wouldn't make the lineart too consistent, it can make drawings look dull very fast imo. Some anime studios use that consistent lineart style but it's mostly for productivitys sake. A good balance of line weight depends on the lighting or the thickness of an object. google "lineart line thickness", there's quite a couple of tutorials on that topic
2:45 I would even go so far to constantly save between two separate photoshop files. I once had the "honor" for a ps file to become corrupt and lost quite some progress thanks to it
2:52 instead of tracing, I would recommend trying to redraw someone's art instead. This way you find out a lot of small things that you wouldn't learn by just looking at it
3:10 don't hide things that are hard to draw, be it hands, eyes, etc. You'll have to learn it anyways sooner or later, new artists regulary draw their characters with their hands behind the back, avoid that!
3:16 in general use mildly colored shadows in multiply mode, avoid black/grey shadows, shadows are never truly colorless
4:22 I prefer to put expand onto a ps action so I only have to press one button for that. To contract the selection, I simply invert the selection with ctrl+shift+i and use expand again
nice video!
- Tell me you haven’t met a good mouse artists without telling me you haven’t met a good mouse artist:
- Tracing is good for beginners, just don’t claim it as yours!!
- Varying lineart size can be used to make some amazing art, consistent vs inconsistent lineart is a stylistic choice.
1:31 you can draw with a mouse and do art. if your software has a stabilizer tool .that will help you make the lines less jagged and be able to draw nicer . its a little slower but not by much and you can always zoom in to be more precise . i still do recomend getting a tablet but drawing with a mouse is quite pog
THANK YOUUUUUUUUU
I BEEN LOOKING FOR A VIDEO LIKE THIS FOR EVERRRRRR!!!!!!!
Ahhhhh this is SO HELPFUL
great job
I needed that slideshow. Any embarrassment you felt showing that is going to pay dividends for your viewers. Your old art will do more good than it could ever do bad
3:22
me(who does pixel art): 💀
Loved your tips, they are wonderful! My tip for you, as someone who deals with audio levels and such, please lower the bell sound level and raise your voice output level because that bell sound was absolutely piercing. When I lowered my volume to avoid the sharpness of the bell I barely could hear your voice. I’m sure others may have experienced this as well. Hope you have a wonderful day!
As someone who wants to learn how to draw and on a digital medium I am so appreciative that this video exists. It looks like a very daunting skill to learn but this makes it a little easier to start off on.
Holy shishkabobs, you do not realize how much this made me realize how much i've overcomplicated things. thank you so much for having it so much simpler!
Tracing absolutely does help you learn exponentially!! Just do it respectfully and don't post it anywhere where people can see. I got good at art this way by putting my paper over a book with different animals and my brain remembers the proportions. Only do this for practice though and never say it's yours. I literally learned off this method the most and nobody can prove me wrong
i have an issue with 1:32 you can still make wonderful art with mouse, its literally just skill issue. use whatever u want to do art
I probably wont recommend it though, if you're a beginner, it's better to use a pen
Right? Using a stylus is just a bit more "easier" because it's similar to a pencil, but it doesn't mean it's bad
5:25 damn you were accually pretty close on the sprigatito evolution line
I traced someone else’s art once. It helped so much! I traced a keychain I found on Etsy, and it taught me the proportions if that character for when I draw them next time.
ive used mouse for doing art before and ive improved a whole lot with it faster than when i got my tablet, NEVER get discouraged from doing digital art because you dont have a tablet, my friends use mouse to draw or even their finger!, you can use mouse with the right settings and a program that supports high stabilization like firealpaca or stuff like ibis paint is used by plenty of finger users in mobile.
Really good video! However I do have to say that tip 35 (make lineart smaller) can very depend on the artstyle of the work! Like for example, my art has bolder lines used for my artstyle because using thinner lines would make it feel off and uncomforting. I would also like to add that it's very smart to use a mix of both! For my artstyle I use bolder lines for characters and thinner ones for backgrounds and details
As a person that can't event draw a straight stickman, I needed that motivation at the end
Im 43 years old and just started digital art, I needed to hear the ending, thank you.
I would just say for a bonus tip: Not everything is perfect. Each piece you draw makes you better at drawing and should be an example of what you are doing wrong or on what to focus more.
Art is subjective and even bad art is good art for some people
4:05 so the other light sources said "bye"
I’ll have to watch this again and again to be sure I make amazing art for my games!
I called my layers George, Carl, Juan, And Carlos, thx for the tips!
"If you are drawing with mouse, don't!"
Weak. I've been drawing with mouse for 10 years
Man, I was JUST asking my self about my drawing: how can I make this character look like it’s IN the scene with the background, and not just drawn on top of the background scene? That multiply layer really helped. thanks!
ahh thank you so muchh this has really improved my drawings!
thanks that really helped me i just started digital art a few days ago and i fell like now i know a lot more about it
thanks.
Tracing does have _some_ use (mostly for beginners) as it can be of some help for muscle memory. The issue with tracing is when the artist uploads the traced work as their own. That's art theft. Otherwise, tracing is a valid learning tool, so long as it is used as such and the traced piece never sees the light of day on public access. I never traced anything myself, but as personal training for anatomy of some things, I sometimes do copy existing works (like when I was teaching myself and practicing dragon wings and teeth anatomy) by looking at an original piece by someone else and then trying to draw it myself as close to the original as possible. Those practice pics I made only exist in my files and have never been and never will be uploaded. Helped a lot when I tried to learn how to draw dragon wings and teeth and now I can make those on my own with my own style.
But that's it about tracing (and copying, since I brought it up): NEVER upload the traced/copied work and especially, never claim it as your own. It's not yours. Not really. Use it to learn and practice and develop your own style and techniques, but never take what others made and call it your own.
1:32 you lost me here, i feel offended, dont know if it was supposed to be a joke, but thats not a tip, thats obvious, obvious that drawning with a tablet would be better, but i CANT buy one right now, so it just looked like you were rubbing on my face and that ones that cant buy one , that you need one , maybe its just me but like, ''good'' for reminding me that i dont have one ;-;
Stylus
The cheapest tablet i can find is a parblo one, my old one was $40. Also, oof.
Get VEIKK A30, 10 inch tablet pen at a whopping $40, wider screen area gives you more room to draw long lines and allow you to draw by using your ankles as pivot instead of your wrist
My art simply…just comes out better when I use a mouse. Although I do have a drawing tablet, its only useful for me when I do sketches. But my style of art is lineless, so all i really need is a smoothing option and a mouse
I have a drawing tablet but unfortunately my computer is very bad (the program that i need to use the tablet don't work in my computer) and i never actually use
Wow! I'm quite surprised how good these tips are. People like you are my favorite.
Gonna support ya with sub, keep going!
Thank you my adhd brain thanks you and I appreciate the encouragement at the end. Needed it 💜
I really appreciate the tips given in this video, but I feel there’s a lot of dismissal.
For example, drawing the other eye is dismissed, which I feel is lazy, at most, and performed out of fear of “messing up,” at the least. The only way you’ll ever get better is by simply doing so, just like how drawing hands is the only way you’ll ever get better at drawing hands.
Second, tracing another person’s style CAN be helpful. The only difference is that this person’s material is their own and they may not want people tracing. Otherwise, there’d be little difference in breaking down/tracing over a reference image and breaking/down tracing over an artistic reference image. The key, of course, is to use both to learn but not be reliant upon them to create.
Last, some of the greatest artists I’ve met use a mouse, so don’t overlook it entirely. They’re great for pixel art. :P
mouse tip is completely incorrect, people who draw with computer mice should be feared especially if its fully shaded stuff
People with mice are on a whole another level
I only just started wanting to do digital art I've been doing on paper but mostly 2d landscapes but I won't get a tablet BC I might not want to do digital and stuff
did edd gould use a mouse? im honestly curious
but it’s not good for beginners it’s true we can draw with mouse but as the beginner it’s not what you should choose for practicing drawing art Like you’re the beginner but instead of use your pencil and paper too draw it but you choose to use your finger to draw in your phone and that’s not how it’s work . But instead If you’re not beginner and wanna challenge tho
Bro using the transformer tool SAVED MY ART CAREER. I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH PEOPLE USE IT ITS SO MUCH EASIER THAN REDRAWING
Alternate tip 44: Use a light blue or grey for your sketch layer instead of low opacity black. It provides better performance that way.
3:04 I personally think that if you dont know how to draw hands, instead of hiding them you should learn how to draw them so you wont have to draw them in pockets
Pockets pls
I find it funny how some of this drawing tips are just "learn how to draw"
You've just inspired me to try to pick up the pen again and try to get back into digital art I.... Fell off after my brothers death and me always working 2 jobs to support my family and it doesn't help that my PS4 has it's claws into me during my short free time.
Ngl tracing has helped me a lot. I don't claim it's my art but sometimes I'll scan images I like from a manga and use it to help me figure out how to draw things I find hard or stuff like line weight/hatching.
you can definitely vary your lineweight in your art btw!!! just make sure it’s consistently varied throughout the piece
Amazing video and surely helpful! HOWEVER, you need to learn to draw the other eye and hands if you want to get better. Avoiding your weaknesses is a good way to improve very slowly or not at all. If your doing art for fun though and don't care about improving so much, go ahead no harm done. Also I find zooming out during line art helps keep line art consistent and lets you see how the whole image is looking.
The advice on colour, saturation and layer types to make an image fit are amazing and super useful.
All round great video :D
Wow this helped so much, the last one was the best
1:39 Bro the drawing tablet you showed is exactly what I got for drawing on my computer. It worked really good. Absolutely recommended.
Some of these sound like troll tips honestly, I'm not even sure I'm watching a serious video. Hide what you can't draw ? Works if your drawing allows it, but on long term you'll just be harming your art skills.
If you don't want to draw the other eye, try copying, pasting, and flipping the eye that has already been drawn. There are no need to hide the other eye and change your character's design just to avoid drawing the other eye, it can become a bad habit. Try to use references for hands as well, even if it's "ugly". Drawing hands is still important. Although putting your character's hand in their pockets/behind their backs can work for personality or body language.
I like how youtube just decided "yeah this guy should totally become an artist " like art stuff started popping outta nowhere lol, great video though keep it up
Came to this in 2023 and just to boost because this stands out, tip 50 (4:26) Clip Studio Paint is not free, but it does offer two options of free 30 days or free 3 months but it is a paid application.
Really good video. Right to the point, and I got some really good pointers out of it.
I agree mostly with the bonus point. So many artists try to "do it right" from the beginning, since other artists seem to only have amazing pieces in their portfolios. The thing is, we all start somewhere and get better as time goes. Some faster, so slower, but there is simply no substitute to experience and practice as you continue learning.
I agree to most of these and some where very helpful! Some I can’t really agree since it depends on style or other factors
Tip #30 & #35 Thin Lineart doesn’t necessarily look better than thick Lineart, it all depends on the person’s art style like comic book, or cartoons. Also, it defeats tip #12 as it essentially eliminates line weight that gives depth.
Tip #33 Tracing isn’t bad if you are learning to see shapes and how it was made. Everyone learns differently and tracing can help you learn depending on the person, but doing it as practice instead. HOWEVER, tracing and claiming it as your own is a big no.
Tip #39 Don’t use pixels, use inches. It’s confusing and not used in school, nor work. Art teachers, professors and even employers prefer inches. (Anyone can use pixels, and are entitled to use their prefer method but just wanted to give my two cents on it)
Tip #47 YES, THE BUCKET TOOL! Life and time saver on big projects.
Finally, I really enjoyed the video and found many helpful tips I really can recommend to others. It was fun and entertaining. Keep up the awesome work!
1:53 Secondary light source to make more dynamic pieces
2:03 GET RID OF TANGENTS
2:07 Create a mood board for your character
This is actually helping no cap
4:45 after hearing this, i made my mind to subscribe you and turn my notification on 😂
Another tip is you don't need a desktop and a expensive tablet you could also do what I see a lot of beginner artists do and save up for a Apple Tablet any size or even draw on your phone with your finger on Ibispaint X
I've come to realize you dont need expensive art supplies, your the artist, the skill comes from you not the other way around
And also STOP COMPARING yourself to other artists you'll never improve and most likely stop drawing all together,when you see amazing art stop comparing it with yours see it as inspiration a reason to improve
Dude you saved my life with these tips!! Your a legend
this was pretty good, i think im rdy to get started. thx for the tips bruv😉👍
aaa i love the video, is so cool, all the tips are really good
If you use a mouse don't
Me who doesn't have money :😥
i use a mouse to draw and so far there hasn't been any errors lol, all i do is put the correction up
Very helpful! I realized that a few of these tips I had already been practicing and using them.
Some of these are extremely harmful tips, and many pros warn against these kind of "common" tips such as hiding eyes or hands. Doing that means your not learning how to draw them and learning to be lazy about your art. The hands will NEVER get better unless you draw them
honestly,the most imprtant tip for me is the bonus tip,thanks man,sometimes support can be of value more than facts somethimes.
While I will say that doing black shading with lowered opacity is a good way to learn how shading works, using multiply layers with different colors will always look way better. Another thing I like to do with my shading layers is add a little bit of a gaussian blur after drawing it in (with the shading layer clipped to the color layer, of course) to give the edges a slightly softer look.
4:30 But you have to pay for CSP ????
I think you get to use it for like 6 months for free
Based on the comments, it really seems to prove that a lot of art is subjective and there are no hard rules! This video has some great general guidelines but do whatever works for you, and as long as you practice eventually you will improve.
the smoothing tip just changed my life (I have shaky hands unfortunately)! thank you!
1:04 in my opinion,it’s okay to use saturated colours and vice versa. This just depends on how to use them well. Also a bunch of artists I see use saturated colours, and well! remember to use colour theory :D
YES SATURATED COLORS ARE VERY MUCH NECESSARY TO EYESTRAIN AESTHETICS WHICH IS WHY I LOVE IT SO MUCH.
Btw mouse will do just dandy if you want it to. In art, really, everything can be used to make anything if you brute force it hard enough. And if you have a tablet, it might be fun to try drawing something with a mouse. Giving yourself little challenges like that can be pretty fun.
as someone with a severely short attention span who doesn't do well paying attention long term, this has really been a pleasure of a video, easy to keep up with and entertaining to keep my silly mind attracted.
Instructions are very clear. Thank you for your advice 👍
weird how you say "just learn color theory" but with hands you say to hide them instead of learn to draw hands
2:21 the problem its that they only study human anatomy but when you want to draw a furry or something it’s bad because you don’t know,I also reccomend at least studying mammalian and bird anatomy if you also want to draw animals
If you want to draw atleast anthropomorphic characters, stick to human anatomy.
If you want to draw legit animals, that's an entirely different study. Way harder and you probably need a lot of references with it.
I sometimes draw Prehistoric animals and I depend a lot on photos of fossils, 3d models, living relatives, etc.
How you approach it is very different compared to how you approach humans
@@isthatbraised well, furries are a mix of humans and other animals so you still need to learn animal anatomy to draw them. but you have a lot more room to mix and match and break the rules.
Just don’t draw furrys. Please.
I’d honestly say though that tracing is a really good practise to help you get better at doing a certain style of art or character. Of course you should try to break it down first.
This is the first video to show me what a tangent is. Now it got me looking at all the artwork I've ever made to see how many time I've done this.