You're going to get a ton of views with that video, it's the first thing begineers look up online usually, and it's understandable why. The first thing I drew were eyes, then faces, then heads, then bodies, and now full scenes.
I'm simplifying a bit. Do not feel like you have to master one theme before moving on. You can see my month to month progession on my blog if you want to :p : lothianalimantado.tumblr.com/ . too many faces, not enough bodies.
***** For hair, simplify it to a basic shape, and think in volumes. Study peaple around you, and think "how can I turn this mess into ONE single volume?" Focus on the shadow this volume creates, and remember, hair is shiny, so a lot of contrast is good.
SYCRA YOUR VIDEOS NEEDS TO BE LONGER OMFG, 1:30:25 ISNT MUCH YET !! I DRAW 500-800 GESTURES THAT'S JUST NOT ENOUGH FOR THIS 1 HOUR and 30 MINUTES!!!! I NEED MORE FROM YOU, I NEED MOOOOORE !!
Sycra, I've been watching you for over a year now, and I don't know how to thank you enough. I watch your vids almost every morning, and have honestly learnt more from you than my classes in University (in Computation Arts). I owe you, big time, more than this silly video comment suggests. Cheers mate x
I really hope that video will be a huge success. I will rewatch it many times in between practises. The point that in normal illustrations we don't draw huge detailed eyes and it's important to learn to simplify eyes, not only learn how to photo realistic detailing and shading was absolutely pure gold! Thank you Scyra for kindness of your heart expressed in this video.
This is nice. I know you said (on stream I think) that you don't like these tutorials because they teach you one thing or something like that, but this goes into detail on why things look a certain way, which is nice. Also, if anyone else needs further tips on drawing eyes, one thing I don't think Sycra mentioned is that there are millions if not billions of pictures of eyes on the internet. Reference is really good.
This is the best tutorial of eyes i've ever seen, I mean, it's exactly what i've learned through all this years of watching and remembering all that little details in a human face.. This video is just perfect
Sycra, you always have such a great way of explaining stuff, what seems so simple and obvious never really is and you can pin point exactly why simple things are never simple. You also bring up things that we take for granted and find so obvious that we actually forget about them, and you bring that to light and this creates a whole new way of looking at reality. If that makes sense.. really enjoy your videos, as always! Keep up the amazing work!!!
Man i've seen lot of Artists and teachers. In Fine arts Digital arts some of them are good at technical or some of them are good at realism or some of them good at painting. But for me i think you are the most Artistic and Realistic Artist i ever saw.
The video opened my eyes! frankly speaking, it was sooooo good... i wish i could show you how good my eye drawings became just after seeing this video.... THANK YOU SYCRA
I've seen many video about drawing art ut yours is one of the most original and informative, you are a really great teacher please do more teaching videos like this one soon if you could.
Wow I was not expecting an hour and a half tutorial on eyes. This is officially the best eye tutorial on youtube. I think you covered pretty much everything XD
I learned so much just by watching this one video than i've learned after punch of other tutorials. Thank you so much! Maybe one day eyes won't give me so much trouble :) But art is always a work in progress so I don't stress too much.
very veryuseful sycra.. me and my younger brother watch your videos everyday, i often divide it to different parts because of the length and i am always watching it repeatedly,it really helps so much... thanks for the free tutorials.. if i may suggest if you have nothing else to think of for your next videos , you can do a tutorial about the female torso, including the crotch part, and also different head angles and how to place eyes on them. more power from a fan :)
This technique is brilliant. I've always had trouble with drawing both eyes. I would draw one eye and get overwhelmed because i had no idea where to put everything else on the face. Now that I know to draw the head shape first, it's MUCH easier. Thank you, I've been struggling with that for as long as I can remember and I don't think I would've tried anything different.
Awesome as usual, but would you mind using a thicker brush in future tutorials? It was difficult to see where you were drawing until the lines had built up a bit.
I think if the brush was any thicker, the drawing would've been very stroky and confusing, which would make the drawings look unprofessional. However, thats just my opinion and is probably incorrect :)
of course what he draws will be better and he will get there faster. He has invested hours in practising to become that good. I am sure Sycra too used to be in a state where drawing something other than random shapes must have taken him minutes to hours. We all are or were there. But if you keep practising you may be becoming faster and better. ;)
the "painting" part helped me a lot. I'm always scared of using too bright colors or too desaturated colors, but now I think painting skin and eyes will be a little bit easier for me :3
oh god! this video was very interesting and helpful!!! thanks! make more videos like this please! *o* this is what i was searching!. if you can, make more tutorials of how to paint like in this video please!
I was worried I wasn't going to understand any of the painterly stuff. That sort of rendering never made any sense to me, but I was gladly surprised I understood it in this video. I can't wait to apply all of this to my drawing.
Aight that's really helpful Does he have a video specificaly on eyelashes? Because i like drawing hairy eyelashes and it often comes out looking ugly for some reason
So, you were wondering why some parts that were supposed to be in shadows were lighter at some point. I think I may know why. I believe it is very dependent on the environment the object is in as well as its texture, be it mat or glossy. Say, with a day in the open, with blue skies, you've probably noticed that the shadows on snow appeared to be blue for some reason. Well, that reason's fairly simple, it's the light that radiates from the sky. Now, considering this, there are also other factors, which you have talked about before, such as the reflection of light in shadows. I'm not sure exactly what you looked at in that instance, but I would definitely look up ray tracing. It's a rendering technique that imitates the way light is reflected onto things by way of rays hitting an object and bouncing back with the same degree as the original ray. What the second part of the ray hits is what is reflected onto the surface that is hit by the first part of it. This explains for example the deforming mirrors you see at amusement parks. Say, one of them bulges out, your reflection is thinner, because there is more distance between things hit by the ray, and that is also the reason one that bulges inward horizontally appears to be in three dimensions, due to our stereoscopy. Mind you, most of the time, if something that is in shadows is part of a reflection, that part of the reflection is not there in the first place, only its surrounding light. Can probably look at the stand of a glossy flat screen for reference. Another thing I've noticed is that if you have an object of a certain color, and what is reflected on it is the same color, that reflection will tend to be a more saturated version of said color. I hope this helps you as much as you helped me.
This video helped me out so much, I have a lot of practicing to do before it starts to even look human, though. Haha. I was wondering, are there any videos/tips anyone would recommend me checking out as a beginner?
Thanks sir, I'm currently on the way on further enhancing fundamentals. Random question though, what was that on 55:44 haha, screensaver or something? :))
What size of canvas did you use for this video? I only have a cheap paint program that I had bought for my old I-Phone 3. I have a I-phone 5s now but I haven't seen any good paint apps at the I store I could buy until I can get a new computer.
Super video...Been drawing for close to 45 years and knew these things but never put any of it into words before..such as the light that shines through the eye...You called it the Jewel effect...Thats perfect! Thats my favorite part of the eye when drawing or painting... One question...Whats with the line of people making...signs? The sign of the cross maybe??? at 55:45? That 's a bit freaky especially cuz you moan(yawn) right after it...Its scary dude!!! LOL
Hey Sycra, great video! I was wondering if you can maybe make/remake a video on female face proportions. I always find myself struggling when drawing a female face :/
Great stuff, but a point I find myself making more & more often: The highlight in an eye is caused by light reflecting back from the retina, and so appears on the *opposite* side from the light source.
Sycra, you have some wind sounds in the background, presumably from a ventilator or simply the computer fan. Getting a noise profile in your editing program will remove this. It's not the biggest of problems, but it's just a bit distracting. I like your work and I hope you'll continue.
If you wanna jump ahead in terms of tones and values skip to 58:41it will progress to coloring. I do suggest if you're starting out, please WATCH THE WHOLE VIDEO.
Thank gosh I'm not painting yet. Colours don't make much of a sense. I have pencil and that does the job for me. In the future, painting would be nice, I guess but I'm way more interested in inking. Pen and ink methods looks really impressive and it's not like I wouldn't understand how they do it, it's more accessable to my understanding than painting is. And it looks cooler, imo.
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You're going to get a ton of views with that video, it's the first thing begineers look up online usually, and it's understandable why. The first thing I drew were eyes, then faces, then heads, then bodies, and now full scenes.
Lothian Alimantado what about hands and feet? xD
You're right :p place it after face and before body
I'm in the face stage xDD I do a shit as hair and it messes up all the drawing... T.T Practice, I supose xDD
I'm simplifying a bit. Do not feel like you have to master one theme before moving on. You can see my month to month progession on my blog if you want to :p : lothianalimantado.tumblr.com/ . too many faces, not enough bodies.
***** For hair, simplify it to a basic shape, and think in volumes. Study peaple around you, and think "how can I turn this mess into ONE single volume?" Focus on the shadow this volume creates, and remember, hair is shiny, so a lot of contrast is good.
SYCRA YOUR VIDEOS NEEDS TO BE LONGER OMFG, 1:30:25 ISNT MUCH YET !! I DRAW 500-800 GESTURES THAT'S JUST NOT ENOUGH FOR THIS 1 HOUR and 30 MINUTES!!!! I NEED MORE FROM YOU, I NEED MOOOOORE !!
I LOVE THESE TUTORIALS. I learn so much from them. You rock Sycra!
Sycra, I've been watching you for over a year now, and I don't know how to thank you enough. I watch your vids almost every morning, and have honestly learnt more from you than my classes in University (in Computation Arts). I owe you, big time, more than this silly video comment suggests. Cheers mate x
I really hope that video will be a huge success. I will rewatch it many times in between practises.
The point that in normal illustrations we don't draw huge detailed eyes and it's important to learn to simplify eyes, not only learn how to photo realistic detailing and shading was absolutely pure gold!
Thank you Scyra for kindness of your heart expressed in this video.
This is nice. I know you said (on stream I think) that you don't like these tutorials because they teach you one thing or something like that, but this goes into detail on why things look a certain way, which is nice.
Also, if anyone else needs further tips on drawing eyes, one thing I don't think Sycra mentioned is that there are millions if not billions of pictures of eyes on the internet. Reference is really good.
Appreciate the time and effort to update your videos with more in-depth detail.
Great work!
This is the best tutorial of eyes i've ever seen, I mean, it's exactly what i've learned through all this years of watching and remembering all that little details in a human face.. This video is just perfect
Sycra, you always have such a great way of explaining stuff, what seems so simple and obvious never really is and you can pin point exactly why simple things are never simple. You also bring up things that we take for granted and find so obvious that we actually forget about them, and you bring that to light and this creates a whole new way of looking at reality. If that makes sense.. really enjoy your videos, as always! Keep up the amazing work!!!
omfg 1 hour and 30 minutes, yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy i need longer videos like this
Man i've seen lot of Artists and teachers. In Fine arts Digital arts some of them are good at technical or some of them are good at realism or some of them good at painting. But for me i think you are the most Artistic and Realistic Artist i ever saw.
As someone who has not gotten into value yet it is so cool to see how much of a difference it makes! Sycra you're amazing!
The video opened my eyes! frankly speaking, it was sooooo good... i wish i could show you how good my eye drawings became just after seeing this video.... THANK YOU SYCRA
im just gettin out of a finger infection and i can now watch a video of yours thanks sycra for your work!!
I just love the passion eminating from you while explaing to us all those things
I've seen many video about drawing art ut yours is one of the most original and informative, you are a really great teacher please do more teaching videos like this one soon if you could.
You are awesomely and truly good at keeping every aspect of keeping Balance. Maximum Respect man
Thank you so much for explaining how light reflects through the lens!
Wow I was not expecting an hour and a half tutorial on eyes. This is officially the best eye tutorial on youtube. I think you covered pretty much everything XD
Brilliant and extremely useful! One of the best tutorials I've seen on youtube!
I learned so much just by watching this one video than i've learned after punch of other tutorials. Thank you so much! Maybe one day eyes won't give me so much trouble :) But art is always a work in progress so I don't stress too much.
These longer videos are so helpful, thanks!
very veryuseful sycra.. me and my younger brother watch your videos everyday, i often divide it to different parts because of the length and i am always watching it repeatedly,it really helps so much... thanks for the free tutorials.. if i may suggest if you have nothing else to think of for your next videos , you can do a tutorial about the female torso, including the crotch part, and also different head angles and how to place eyes on them. more power from a fan :)
I am having amazing results thanks to this tutorial!
Good stuff. Thanks for posting. Basic, but valuable information for newbies like myself just getting into digital painting.
This is incredible. I sketched multiple pairs of eyes today and I just started learning a few days ago, HYPE!
It may sound offensive but it really is a compliment, but one of the things I love the most in your videos is to listen how you talk
That's awesome! Thank you so much for making those vids. Exactly what I was looking for. You are the best Sycra.
Very informative video Sycra, thank you for your help!
This technique is brilliant. I've always had trouble with drawing both eyes. I would draw one eye and get overwhelmed because i had no idea where to put everything else on the face. Now that I know to draw the head shape first, it's MUCH easier. Thank you, I've been struggling with that for as long as I can remember and I don't think I would've tried anything different.
You have no idea how much this helped me
Awesome as usual, but would you mind using a thicker brush in future tutorials? It was difficult to see where you were drawing until the lines had built up a bit.
I think if the brush was any thicker, the drawing would've been very stroky and confusing, which would make the drawings look unprofessional. However, thats just my opinion and is probably incorrect :)
Me: *Watches this entire video*
Me: *Slowly shuts laptop*
Me: *Lays down on the ground and takes a deep breath*
Me: AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+RedGuru Entertainment both
What he draws in 5 minutes is better than anything I have drawn in my entire life combined...
of course what he draws will be better and he will get there faster. He has invested hours in practising to become that good. I am sure Sycra too used to be in a state where drawing something other than random shapes must have taken him minutes to hours. We all are or were there. But if you keep practising you may be becoming faster and better. ;)
Asteria true
Shelby Head: pracrice makes perfect :3
Really informative helped me a lot to nail my own shortcomings.
You are like a god when it comes to painting!
Another brilliant tutorial! Thanks Sycra, keep up the good work :)
I have all these art anatomy books but they never help enough and I always find myself coming back to Sycra.
It would be great if you rework more older videos.
You are amazing and no one can deny it.
the "painting" part helped me a lot. I'm always scared of using too bright colors or too desaturated colors, but now I think painting skin and eyes will be a little bit easier for me :3
I love you so much dude you are a life saver every single damn video you make is premium course quality
Love this! Thank you Sycra!
really nice Sycra!
updated tutorials? SWEET! :)
Super useful, thanks for doing this!
oh god! this video was very interesting and helpful!!! thanks! make more videos like this please! *o* this is what i was searching!. if you can, make more tutorials of how to paint like in this video please!
older video remakes awesome thank you
I was worried I wasn't going to understand any of the painterly stuff. That sort of rendering never made any sense to me, but I was gladly surprised I understood it in this video. I can't wait to apply all of this to my drawing.
Sycra is an optimist!
SENSEI! Thank you so much ;-; I've learned a lot! Trying to get the hang of Graphic design more as to it's my chosen course LOL
thank you , your instruction helped me soooo much.
Thank you so much for this. I like watching your older videos but I don't like how silent it is after hearing you talk in them.
Hey Sycra! This video was very helpful, do you plan on doing one for noses and how to paint them? Thanks for making this video!
Thank you this was great. I know the perspective rules but don't know how to practice it.could you make a vid on this?
Very informative and helpful, thank you for making this :D
Watched the whole video and it was totally worth :)
Very impressive !
+Sebastien i think yeah xD
Aight that's really helpful
Does he have a video specificaly on eyelashes? Because i like drawing hairy eyelashes and it often comes out looking ugly for some reason
Awesome video thanks!
i just discovered your channel omg! thank you so much
thanks for your time
I will watch half an hour a day
warden006 amazing stuff thanks for sharing
Great video!
Yes finally a tutorial.
Hi! I was wondering where did you got that brush ?
Wonderful!
So, you were wondering why some parts that were supposed to be in shadows were lighter at some point.
I think I may know why.
I believe it is very dependent on the environment the object is in as well as its texture, be it mat or glossy.
Say, with a day in the open, with blue skies, you've probably noticed that the shadows on snow appeared to be blue for some reason.
Well, that reason's fairly simple, it's the light that radiates from the sky.
Now, considering this, there are also other factors, which you have talked about before, such as the reflection of light in shadows. I'm not sure exactly what you looked at in that instance, but I would definitely look up ray tracing.
It's a rendering technique that imitates the way light is reflected onto things by way of rays hitting an object and bouncing back with the same degree as the original ray.
What the second part of the ray hits is what is reflected onto the surface that is hit by the first part of it.
This explains for example the deforming mirrors you see at amusement parks. Say, one of them bulges out, your reflection is thinner, because there is more distance between things hit by the ray, and that is also the reason one that bulges inward horizontally appears to be in three dimensions, due to our stereoscopy.
Mind you, most of the time, if something that is in shadows is part of a reflection, that part of the reflection is not there in the first place, only its surrounding light.
Can probably look at the stand of a glossy flat screen for reference.
Another thing I've noticed is that if you have an object of a certain color, and what is reflected on it is the same color, that reflection will tend to be a more saturated version of said color.
I hope this helps you as much as you helped me.
thank you Sycra!
Amazing!
awesome! what brand of colored pencil do you use?
This video helped me out so much, I have a lot of practicing to do before it starts to even look human, though. Haha.
I was wondering, are there any videos/tips anyone would recommend me checking out as a beginner?
You should put time tags in the description of long videos like this. Divide it up so that people coming to look for a certain tip can find it easily.
Man that bit at 5:15 looks a lot like my mistakes. Great advice!
The way he says 'sparkly' is so cute.
How? Can you read my mind? Ive been recently struggling with eyes HARD, thanks.
For more artists looking for advice on drawing eyes, go watch Istebraks eyes and anatomy videos. She's incredible
Thank you so much for all the vedios 😄
Thanks sir, I'm currently on the way on further enhancing fundamentals. Random question though, what was that on 55:44 haha, screensaver or something? :))
so good
Ugh, these tutorials are too short... Kidding. Thanks Sycra!
Awesome! Still trying to get my eyes down! =)
What size of canvas did you use for this video? I only have a cheap paint program that I had bought for my old I-Phone 3. I have a I-phone 5s now but I haven't seen any good paint apps at the I store I could buy until I can get a new computer.
Will you be doing updated videos on all your previous 'how-to' videos with updated information? I'd really like to see that happen.
THAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANKS!!!!! great Video!
I learned so much! :)
Super video...Been drawing for close to 45 years and knew these things but never put any of it into words before..such as the light that shines through the eye...You called it the Jewel effect...Thats perfect! Thats my favorite part of the eye when drawing or painting...
One question...Whats with the line of people making...signs? The sign of the cross maybe??? at 55:45? That 's a bit freaky especially cuz you moan(yawn) right after it...Its scary dude!!! LOL
Wow!
How do you put the skin tone color on the whole canvas in procreate? If some people use procreate here. Thanks
Hey Sycra, great video! I was wondering if you can maybe make/remake a video on female face proportions. I always find myself struggling when drawing a female face :/
you are awesome man
Great stuff, but a point I find myself making more & more often:
The highlight in an eye is caused by light reflecting back from the retina, and so appears on the *opposite* side from the light source.
Do you have a detailed video like this on how to draw mouths and lips?
what brush and opacity and flow you used at the last paint in the video
Sycra, you have some wind sounds in the background, presumably from a ventilator or simply the computer fan. Getting a noise profile in your editing program will remove this. It's not the biggest of problems, but it's just a bit distracting.
I like your work and I hope you'll continue.
If you wanna jump ahead in terms of tones and values skip to 58:41it will progress to coloring. I do suggest if you're starting out, please WATCH THE WHOLE VIDEO.
how can i determine proportions of eyeris and eyeball ??
do you do classes??Do you have skype,awesome video!
Thank gosh I'm not painting yet. Colours don't make much of a sense. I have pencil and that does the job for me. In the future, painting would be nice, I guess but I'm way more interested in inking. Pen and ink methods looks really impressive and it's not like I wouldn't understand how they do it, it's more accessable to my understanding than painting is. And it looks cooler, imo.
Hrnek Bezucha You can always paint in black and white
So niiiiiceeee
Is there a program I can use besides Adobe photoshop that doesn't require a monthly fee?
You should do that with many other videos.