I just finished a History of Illustration class and jumped down to the comments to correct you. Ha! beat me to it. Great content by the way, I'll be studying and definitely using your videos for reference over the summer.
This is not only useful for painting and drawing. This is how art itself works!! If we read a novel, we don't need to know ALL the life of EVERY single character or what they're doing every second; we just need to know the things that complements the argument of the whole story. Same for the cinema. In music we don't need every single sound to play a melody on their own; even Bach (king of polyphony) guided our focus to a single important theme while the others just completed the MOOD of the piece. And I could continue talking about other disciplines of art, but I think my point has been settled. Thank you Marco!! :D Yours is a really great content youtube channel!!
Marco have a great way to explain things, no ones explain things rhis way. the other guys say what they do, but dont tell us how they do. Marco is amazing.
I just wanted to say, every time I feel a bit rusty in my art journey, I have come back to this series of videos and I am still astounded and extremely grateful that you have provided this content for us. You are truly a master not just artistically but you are an amazing teacher. You speak so clearly and get the point across so well. Thank you thank you thank you.
damn marco, this is probably one of the best formats for art lessons thtat ive seen on youtube, and thats not including the great content as well. looking forward to more!
Indeed. And the funny thing is that you don't see one painting brush but clearly explain everything not just for digital painting but also for brush _ canvas painting. Brilliant!!
Thanks. I'll start with English closed caption today and then continue with the translation. Should take several days. I'm very grateful for your video instructions. Have a great day!
OMG, I'm actually struggling with a painting now and while procrastinating came across this video. This is EXACTLY what I need at this very moment. Thank you so much!
The idea of merging shapes is phenomenal. I had heard of seeing basic shapes within larger forms, but this is next-level thinking. Your demonstration makes it obvious how to create an emotion on the page.
It's 2022 and I just discovered your channel. Best one I've found! This video lesson that's 4 years old is amazing, it's both beginner friendly and suitable for intermediate art appreciators as well!
Mind = Blown! Never thought lost edges could improve pictures so damn much! Less is more apparently! Seriously thanks for this, especially for environment drawing and concept art this is priceless!
Helped me a lot (thinking). I haven't been able to apply yet, I have been drawing with outlines all my life and this is so foreign to me, and very difficult. Your video was very detailed though, not a second wasted on instructing! Thank you!
Great advice! I like what you said about the frustrating beginning of a painting. Deciding on a subject and composition worth spending so much time on always gets me flustered and leads to me giving-up. Once I have the basics established, I'm more content to proceed even if I have to practice a lot in order to get it out.
I've been watching your videos on SVS , i'm addicted to your teaching style and your painting methods. thank you for sharing, your pictures are very unique and exciting !
Brilliant. This brought some relief to my struggle as a painter suffering from vision loss. I don't want to give up painting, but I need to learn to do it differently and more forgivingly. Thank you
I'm sorry to hear that man, how's your painting? Also iirc Van Gogh had some vision oddities, and he has some of the most iconic and recognizable art of all time. I guess I'm trying to say, restrictions breed creativity. I have a neurological problem that makes my hand shake, but my line art gets a lot of compliments because it looks so unique. Forces me to be loose and let shit go.
Woua what a great new format of video ! And in fact it's true, you don't need many explications for this lesson but a lest you explain it ! Every professor tell to simplify but they don't explain and if they show you well it's not easy to understand. And you do both so it's so great ! Thanks !
OMG like, seriously, you blow my mind with every video, in each detail you paint or say. You help me to keep my inner child - my excitement and passion for art - alive and growing. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I really like your tutorials. Coming from a drawing perspective where lines are important, these really help in bridging the gaps to color and color shading and concepts
These are fantastic lessons. Its amazing how much advice you give in 10 minutes that will immediately improve someone's art work. I also love your style. You can feel the abstract or soul but its still figurative.
great insights, i think putting into perspective a set of ideas a lot of us artists inherently feel but havent really encapsulated and explored in the way we should so that we can consciously apply them. i see a lot of people who like comic/anime style drawing feeling really down about their art classes at college/university, the way they feel their teachers constantly making them do abstract work and not letting them draw cartoon schoolgirls with guns. what ur saying about all paintings being abstract is so true, theres things to be learned from abstract that then apply back to all painting, its reducing art down to the foundations of shape, value, composition that underpin every piece and when u get them right its hard to fail, and when u get them wrong it usually dooms the work.
I discovered your channel by accident today. I am so grateful. Seriously this format is brilliant and interesting and works. And it always seems to have the info everyone seems to forget to teach you
Just want to say thank you for your tutorials. Ive been painting for 30 years and understood the painting concepts you discuss with great clarity. You're a great educator, thanks.
Thank you so much for creating all this great content. I bought one of your classes years ago from School of visual story telling and I loved it. Recently I came across your youtube channel and I'm learning so much from your tutorials. Every single one of your videos are like gold!! Thank you!!
it's been years since i came across this video and going back again and still squeezed tons of informations, marco is simply one of the best art teachers out there!
This is an aspect of digital painting especially where I really struggle and now I have a name for it and an idea of how to improve. Thank you very much!
Thank you. Now I understand the value of a) squinting, and b) simplicity in design in order to communicate more to the viewer. This is the heart of Impressionism and abstraction.
I've watched tons of tutorials talking about techniques and all, but you talk about principles instead. It feels like you're unlocking things in my brain. You're such an awesome teacher! \[T]/
This series of videos has been one of the biggest contributors to my success as an artist. I listen to it on repeat as I paint and would recommend it to anyone. Thank you Marco! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I'm so thrilled that I've found these videos! I don't go to art school, but I'm really passionate about art and it makes my day when I find gemstones like your videos here on youtube! Thank you so much!!
Closing thought at the end of the video says it all..... Man big fan of yours after watching just two of ur vids... u r an expert of making complicated things ridiculously simple...may God give u strength to make such more videos... Such an inspiration u are..ur vids are gems n masterpieces especially these lesson vids
I learned basic drawing to get admission in design school, improved in school and became obsessive about it after graduation and asked so many ppl to teach me, even youtube but after eight years, last two days of my life are the best as I am getting some advance knowledge through your channel. thanks marco.
Hello! time passing by seems to be unable to erase the quality of theses videos. I feel grateful for having found this literal gem. Massive impact on my skills. Massive thanks.
You are the boss Marco. My painting has improved immensely from watching these vids. I now take great pleasure and serenity when I make oil paintings. I used to stress when building and now I relax. Thank you.
Thank you for this fantastic series. You have a gift for teaching complex ideas while distilling them down for neophytes the easily grasp and understand. Also, you make it engaging so I find myself wanting to learn more!
This is great content. It builds well on some of your previous videos, in particular the one on staging. This seems to be a popular approach with those who've learned to leaverage the advantages offered by thumbnailing. That idea of starting simple and strong making sure the image reads well first and foremost before moving on to detailing the most important areas.
i find myself coming over and over to these videos, this one in particular, as you express so much and talk about such a core AND difficult concept in a simple and clear way. Thanks Marco
Dude, I'm gonna lie, i absolutely love these, straight to the point, and it actually covers some of the principle that i often struggle with. Great stuff man.
Your explanation on those concepts are amazing. Even though I'm not an artist, I starting to appreciate other people's artwork more, because now I can understand them.
Honestly, I have never clicked "subscribe" to a channel this quickly. This is absolutely wonderful information that will help me level up my art quickly (with dedicated effort towards incorporating these pieces of advice in my painting, of course)
Excellent video! While watching I thought to myself that when you're walking down a street you don't really see every detail and overlapping shape all the time, but rather a cropped and compressed state of the scene in front of you, depending where your eyes look at. One of the best ways I was taught to simplify thinngs was to squint my eyes. It actually opens up a two-tone world that I can translate into a design if I just move the shapes around.
This series is phenomenal. I found you through your video on ambient occlusion, realised you recommended watching the earlier relevant videos, and now I'm watching this series through. I've learnt SO MUCH it's insane! Thank you so much 💖
Great job with this series, Marco. It isn't often that you come across somebody as talented who's equally gifted in the art of explanation. Thanks for taking the time.
Thank you. These series are the best! Very important fundamentals and easy to understand. Its been like 2 years since the first time watched this video and i came back to watch it again. Because i thought i knew this concept, but i was merely thinking that i 'knew it' and i wasnt able to incorporate this concept into my personal works. So thank you
I loved your painting with the boats when you were at the first merging of shapes - the figurative idea was visible but in a mood of stillness, softness and maybe a kind of friendly mystery - to me it looked phantastic and it also was a clear showing of how figurative and abstract is totally intertwined
Another fantastic video and thank you!!! I'm so glad TH-cam has made it possible for us to learn from master painters like Marco, despite living on the other side of the world!
I feel that you putted in words something that I've been struggling with but I couldn't define. Now that I now my enemy I can make the adjustments. Thanks I'm going to make progress with this mindset of simplification!
I was just learning about gestalt in school, and this definitely helped me understand it and think about how I could use it in an illustrative sense, rather than a graphic one as it was being used in the class. Thanks for the wonderful video!
I've watch these videos a few times and it's like under-cooked spaghetti, not sticking. So I decided to treat these like courses and take notes. As simple as that sounds it helped a lot! So if your reading in the comments and having trouble understanding some of these concepts don't fret you aren't alone.
Lol!!! memorable ending 🤣 If I’d even had ONE class in art school that had been this clear... Very valuable instruction! It amazes me that you did the boat scene from imagination.
This concept is so rarely (or poorly) taught, I'd love to see you do other instructional videos that analyze merged shapes in master artworks. Great video!
What a wonderfully clear and thoughtful way of representing this idea of blending shapes. The end result was beautiful too, thank you for sharing! Subscribed!
Thank for providing these free lessons for the art community, you are awesome! Watching this video I also thought about the subject exposure, exposing for the light side or the shadow side, that is an interesting topic too :)
I gotta say I am disappointed that this series is so new. So much thought has been put into conveyance that I just want to go through all of them right now. Other instructors can learn a thing or two from you in that regard. We need less rambly unedited videos of someone talking while they draw on youtube.
Finally, at least one of the thousands of teachers on TH-cam spoke in such detail about such a simple but at the same time fundamentally important principle in painting, finally I found a like-minded person, thanks)
This is educational on a completely different level! Really inspiring! You could infer a lot of additional information from this, such as why specific brushes aren't as important as the shape language - at least that's one thing that clicked (a bit) for me. I'll watch all of these episodes! Also subscribed!
im am so happy to find this video! i have been searching ways to improve my artwork and all of them tell me to do the same thing and i never actually learn from them! i actually learned new information! i really appreciate that! thank you
I wished I could have done what ya did in the ending with my family reunion a few weeks ago. Not. But it probably explains why I got so overwhlemed with over fifty people in one space. The lesson alone is worth gold to me. I will go and try it out on my worse subject, landscapes!
I have been binging these videos like there's no tomorrow and tbh not even in art school I learned this much! I may even get one of your workshops later on ♥
Another way to consider this is a way to create "focus", in the camera sense. Of course a camera has to do it, because of how light and lenses work. But humans do it too with our eyes, when we look at something, the rest of the world becomes very simple. To my right at the moment is my PC, but all I really see is a blob of black, with a slightly lighter black towards the front (where light is hitting it). Once I look at the PC case, the monitor becomes less defined, the red line on the youtube video really standing out, and the rest being just some grays and a mush of the "what to view next" images after the video. The monitor itself merges with the black desk and other dark objects on it. Above it there is some contrast between the wall and some pictures on the wall, but I cant make out the separate picture frames, just the general shapes of what's on them.
Correction: Painting at 2:16 is by Mead Schaeffer, not Dean Cornwell. D'oh!
I just finished a History of Illustration class and jumped down to the comments to correct you. Ha! beat me to it. Great content by the way, I'll be studying and definitely using your videos for reference over the summer.
VERY EDUCATING and Funny :)
3:16 What kind of filter do you apply to simplify the picture ?
He said he uses a posterized filter
omg I was looking all over for it x'D ouch~ BUT I did discover Dean Cornwell this way, soo... all works out in the end heheh
This is brilliant. I'm definitely gonna follow this advice. I'm gonna get rid of my 4th kid.
Not a good idea but the concept is correct. The less kids the more you can give to the rest.
@@hmax1591 that's how we get only children...
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@@hmax1591 that's my name don't wear it out.
@@lochrowley9997 well why dont you write something that makes sense
This is not only useful for painting and drawing. This is how art itself works!! If we read a novel, we don't need to know ALL the life of EVERY single character or what they're doing every second; we just need to know the things that complements the argument of the whole story. Same for the cinema. In music we don't need every single sound to play a melody on their own; even Bach (king of polyphony) guided our focus to a single important theme while the others just completed the MOOD of the piece. And I could continue talking about other disciplines of art, but I think my point has been settled. Thank you Marco!! :D Yours is a really great content youtube channel!!
Agreed! Thanks for the comment :)
I absolutely love this! Didn't know about this rule - everyone says "simplify", but no-one tells how. Now I know. You are amazing! (:
Klaudia Manteufel agreed
Marco have a great way to explain things, no ones explain things rhis way. the other guys say what they do, but dont tell us how they do. Marco is amazing.
Its not a rule
Agreed!
I just wanted to say, every time I feel a bit rusty in my art journey, I have come back to this series of videos and I am still astounded and extremely grateful that you have provided this content for us. You are truly a master not just artistically but you are an amazing teacher. You speak so clearly and get the point across so well. Thank you thank you thank you.
So well explained. My whole painting semester in 10 minutes.
but the "now go pratice" part... that takes a lifetime 🤓
damn marco, this is probably one of the best formats for art lessons thtat ive seen on youtube, and thats not including the great content as well. looking forward to more!
Indeed. And the funny thing is that you don't see one painting brush but clearly explain everything not just for digital painting but also for brush _ canvas painting. Brilliant!!
Thanks for watching, guys! Episode 2 will be out in roughly a month from now.
Oh i wish it was sooner. ;-;
Dear Sir, could you please allow viewers to add subtitles? I would like to add Vietnamese subtitle to this lesson. Thank you!
Quang Nguyen I'd be honoured if you did! I've enabled community contributions, so you should be able to do it now. Thank you!
Thanks. I'll start with English closed caption today and then continue with the translation. Should take several days. I'm very grateful for your video instructions. Have a great day!
Dear Sir, could you please approve the Vietnamese subtitle as well as the English close caption I made a couple of days ago? Thank you!
These are really good videos it's like mini,mini painting classes the bullet points you really need to know.
Thanks! Yup that's exactly the intention for these 10-min lessons. Working on episode 4 right now :)
OMG, I'm actually struggling with a painting now and while procrastinating came across this video. This is EXACTLY what I need at this very moment. Thank you so much!
Hans Krill awesome!
The idea of merging shapes is phenomenal. I had heard of seeing basic shapes within larger forms, but this is next-level thinking. Your demonstration makes it obvious how to create an emotion on the page.
I run a daycare and will use this advice. Thank you!
It's 2022 and I just discovered your channel. Best one I've found! This video lesson that's 4 years old is amazing, it's both beginner friendly and suitable for intermediate art appreciators as well!
Glad you enjoyed it! Hope you'll check out the rest of the series :)
Mind = Blown!
Never thought lost edges could improve pictures so damn much! Less is more apparently! Seriously thanks for this, especially for environment drawing and concept art this is priceless!
One of the most helpful videos I´ve seen in a long time. Simple but effective
this video is mind-blowing, omg, every artist should listen to it .
Helped me a lot (thinking). I haven't been able to apply yet, I have been drawing with outlines all my life and this is so foreign to me, and very difficult. Your video was very detailed though, not a second wasted on instructing! Thank you!
Roger Tang thanks! Yeah, this is one of those concepts that’s firmly rooted in the world of painting, rather than linear drawing. Good luck!
Same
Great advice! I like what you said about the frustrating beginning of a painting. Deciding on a subject and composition worth spending so much time on always gets me flustered and leads to me giving-up. Once I have the basics established, I'm more content to proceed even if I have to practice a lot in order to get it out.
I love these videos. Im a 3d game artist but these are so valuable to me. Thank you so much.
That's awesome to hear - thanks!
I'm a 2D game artist and this stuff is also very valuable to me :)
I'm a 1D game artist and this is quite valuable to me
I am an artist and this is very valuable for me
I used to be an artist but this is very valuable to me
I've been watching your videos on SVS , i'm addicted to your teaching style and your painting methods. thank you for sharing, your pictures are very unique and exciting !
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the SVS videos.
Brilliant. This brought some relief to my struggle as a painter suffering from vision loss. I don't want to give up painting, but I need to learn to do it differently and more forgivingly. Thank you
I'm sorry to hear that man, how's your painting?
Also iirc Van Gogh had some vision oddities, and he has some of the most iconic and recognizable art of all time.
I guess I'm trying to say, restrictions breed creativity. I have a neurological problem that makes my hand shake, but my line art gets a lot of compliments because it looks so unique. Forces me to be loose and let shit go.
You are an EXCELLENT teacher. Thank you for sharing your knowledge in such an accessible manner.
Thanks a lot, and my pleasure :)
Woua what a great new format of video ! And in fact it's true, you don't need many explications for this lesson but a lest you explain it ! Every professor tell to simplify but they don't explain and if they show you well it's not easy to understand. And you do both so it's so great ! Thanks !
OMG like, seriously, you blow my mind with every video, in each detail you paint or say. You help me to keep my inner child - my excitement and passion for art - alive and growing. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I really like your tutorials. Coming from a drawing perspective where lines are important, these really help in bridging the gaps to color and color shading and concepts
These are fantastic lessons. Its amazing how much advice you give in 10 minutes that will immediately improve someone's art work. I also love your style. You can feel the abstract or soul but its still figurative.
SGL thanks a lot!
great insights, i think putting into perspective a set of ideas a lot of us artists inherently feel but havent really encapsulated and explored in the way we should so that we can consciously apply them. i see a lot of people who like comic/anime style drawing feeling really down about their art classes at college/university, the way they feel their teachers constantly making them do abstract work and not letting them draw cartoon schoolgirls with guns. what ur saying about all paintings being abstract is so true, theres things to be learned from abstract that then apply back to all painting, its reducing art down to the foundations of shape, value, composition that underpin every piece and when u get them right its hard to fail, and when u get them wrong it usually dooms the work.
man, you explain all so clearly. I just discovered you channel now, and i'm in love with the videos
Your art is supernatural. You're such and amazing artist and teacher!! Thank you very much for this.
I discovered your channel by accident today. I am so grateful. Seriously this format is brilliant and interesting and works. And it always seems to have the info everyone seems to forget to teach you
Thanks a lot! Glad you stumbled over the channel. New videos coming every 4-6 weeks.
I love how you could demonstrate that simplifying makes things more epic and that how painting calls the viewer to fill in the details!
Just want to say thank you for your tutorials. Ive been painting for 30 years and understood the painting concepts you discuss with great clarity. You're a great educator, thanks.
it took you 1.5hr to make that masterpiece ?! it is so far beyond my own capabilities that I cannot even see it :)
one of the best art lesson videos on youtube. straight to the point and brilliantly explained. keep up the good work.
thanks!
Thank you so much for creating all this great content. I bought one of your classes years ago from School of visual story telling and I loved it. Recently I came across your youtube channel and I'm learning so much from your tutorials. Every single one of your videos are like gold!! Thank you!!
You put so much thought and effort into this. Perfectly done! Thank you very much
just want to say thank for all the videos u share - they are absolutely amazing and helpful!! look forward to seeing new ones!
it's been years since i came across this video and going back again and still squeezed tons of informations, marco is simply one of the best art teachers out there!
This is an aspect of digital painting especially where I really struggle and now I have a name for it and an idea of how to improve. Thank you very much!
For some reason, the blew my mind. Thanks for sharing it in a digestible way.
This is just mindblowing. Each of this eppisodes has more valuable information than i have ever seen in art class
Thank you. Now I understand the value of a) squinting, and b) simplicity in design in order to communicate more to the viewer. This is the heart of Impressionism and abstraction.
I dont know how I can be learning for years and I watch you and it's amazing I feel that I dont know anything again. I get so excited
Line, form, shape & color... Rules of design that I go by. You explain focal point perfectly
I've watched tons of tutorials talking about techniques and all, but you talk about principles instead. It feels like you're unlocking things in my brain. You're such an awesome teacher! \[T]/
Droopy Doodler Thanks a lot! And I hope you enjoy the longer SVS material.
Thanks! This is very good! I have been a detail person, and I like concept art- and this idea of merging shapes.
This series of videos has been one of the biggest contributors to my success as an artist. I listen to it on repeat as I paint and would recommend it to anyone. Thank you Marco! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Oh I love these series!!! You are so to the point in 10 minutes and I learn so much! Keep doing this!!
"it looks computer generated and boring" hits different in 2023
Best lesson I've ever taken. Most courses I *bought* don't even mention these concepts.
I get something new from these videos every time I watch them. Thank you!
I'm so thrilled that I've found these videos! I don't go to art school, but I'm really passionate about art and it makes my day when I find gemstones like your videos here on youtube! Thank you so much!!
The key to mastery is how we can breakdown complicated thing to simple one. Thanks sir I learn a lot from you
Closing thought at the end of the video says it all.....
Man big fan of yours after watching just two of ur vids...
u r an expert of making complicated things ridiculously simple...may God give u strength to make such more videos...
Such an inspiration u are..ur vids are gems n masterpieces especially these lesson vids
Saw this posted in an art group and honestly so glad I saw it lmao.
I learned basic drawing to get admission in design school, improved in school and became obsessive about it after graduation and asked so many ppl to teach me, even youtube but after eight years, last two days of my life are the best as I am getting some advance knowledge through your channel. thanks marco.
Hello! time passing by seems to be unable to erase the quality of theses videos.
I feel grateful for having found this literal gem.
Massive impact on my skills. Massive thanks.
You are the boss Marco. My painting has improved immensely from watching these vids. I now take great pleasure and serenity when I make oil paintings. I used to stress when building and now I relax. Thank you.
That's great!
Thank you for this fantastic series. You have a gift for teaching complex ideas while distilling them down for neophytes the easily grasp and understand. Also, you make it engaging so I find myself wanting to learn more!
Thanks a lot!
This is great content. It builds well on some of your previous videos, in particular the one on staging. This seems to be a popular approach with those who've learned to leaverage the advantages offered by thumbnailing. That idea of starting simple and strong making sure the image reads well first and foremost before moving on to detailing the most important areas.
i find myself coming over and over to these videos, this one in particular, as you express so much and talk about such a core AND difficult concept in a simple and clear way. Thanks Marco
Dude, I'm gonna lie, i absolutely love these, straight to the point, and it actually covers some of the principle that i often struggle with. Great stuff man.
You're a great teacher, Marco! I've learned more from you in 3 hours than I did in 5 years of high school art classes...
Very few teachers can explain art clearly as you do. I'm glad I came across ur videos. God bless
Your explanation on those concepts are amazing. Even though I'm not an artist, I starting to appreciate other people's artwork more, because now I can understand them.
Honestly, I have never clicked "subscribe" to a channel this quickly. This is absolutely wonderful information that will help me level up my art quickly (with dedicated effort towards incorporating these pieces of advice in my painting, of course)
Thanks!
Excellent video! While watching I thought to myself that when you're walking down a street you don't really see every detail and overlapping shape all the time, but rather a cropped and compressed state of the scene in front of you, depending where your eyes look at. One of the best ways I was taught to simplify thinngs was to squint my eyes. It actually opens up a two-tone world that I can translate into a design if I just move the shapes around.
This series is phenomenal. I found you through your video on ambient occlusion, realised you recommended watching the earlier relevant videos, and now I'm watching this series through. I've learnt SO MUCH it's insane!
Thank you so much 💖
Great job with this series, Marco. It isn't often that you come across somebody as talented who's equally gifted in the art of explanation. Thanks for taking the time.
Thanks! After 10 years of teaching, I've learned through trial and error how to cut to the chase :)
I know I'm commenting on the first video, but this series as a whole is outstanding. Thanks so much for this content, Marco.
you saved so much time! I feel like this gets people to listen and try it out instead of watching a 3 hour lesson and being unmotivated
Thank you. These series are the best! Very important fundamentals and easy to understand. Its been like 2 years since the first time watched this video and i came back to watch it again. Because i thought i knew this concept, but i was merely thinking that i 'knew it' and i wasnt able to incorporate this concept into my personal works. So thank you
Woooow... You simplified that real quick. Youre now my main mentor. Keep up your lessons. I'm your new subscriber! Much love and prosperity to you
how have i not seen this in this manner before. Marco you are an absolute lifesaver. Great video!
I loved your painting with the boats when you were at the first merging of shapes - the figurative idea was visible but in a mood of stillness, softness and maybe a kind of friendly mystery - to me it looked phantastic and it also was a clear showing of how figurative and abstract is totally intertwined
Another fantastic video and thank you!!! I'm so glad TH-cam has made it possible for us to learn from master painters like Marco, despite living on the other side of the world!
I feel that you putted in words something that I've been struggling with but I couldn't define. Now that I now my enemy I can make the adjustments. Thanks I'm going to make progress with this mindset of simplification!
This whole series is so so interesting and inspiring, thank you!
I was just learning about gestalt in school, and this definitely helped me understand it and think about how I could use it in an illustrative sense, rather than a graphic one as it was being used in the class. Thanks for the wonderful video!
literally amazing, best video format in art teaching, genius ! thank you Marco
Your lessons are great, I was trying to understand “this” for quite some time, but couldn’t quite find the right place to even start looking for it.
I can't tell you how useful and unique your videos are- please keep making indefinitely!
Wow !! This video just blew my mind !! Richard Schmid and You are AWESOME ! Thanks a lot !
I've watch these videos a few times and it's like under-cooked spaghetti, not sticking. So I decided to treat these like courses and take notes. As simple as that sounds it helped a lot! So if your reading in the comments and having trouble understanding some of these concepts don't fret you aren't alone.
Lol!!! memorable ending 🤣
If I’d even had ONE class in art school that had been this clear...
Very valuable instruction!
It amazes me that you did the boat scene from imagination.
This concept is so rarely (or poorly) taught, I'd love to see you do other instructional videos that analyze merged shapes in master artworks. Great video!
What a wonderfully clear and thoughtful way of representing this idea of blending shapes. The end result was beautiful too, thank you for sharing! Subscribed!
A great tutorial, thanks very much Marco. You definitely have a point and I wish I could hammer your concepts into my painting.
Thank for providing these free lessons for the art community, you are awesome! Watching this video I also thought about the subject exposure, exposing for the light side or the shadow side, that is an interesting topic too :)
Yup, that's definitely a potential subject for a future video. We'll see!
I gotta say I am disappointed that this series is so new. So much thought has been put into conveyance that I just want to go through all of them right now. Other instructors can learn a thing or two from you in that regard. We need less rambly unedited videos of someone talking while they draw on youtube.
^ this
This is soo helpful and i feel like no one on youtube talked about that before... Thank you so much for this series of videos!
Finally, at least one of the thousands of teachers on TH-cam spoke in such detail about such a simple but at the same time fundamentally important principle in painting, finally I found a like-minded person, thanks)
This is educational on a completely different level! Really inspiring! You could infer a lot of additional information from this, such as why specific brushes aren't as important as the shape language - at least that's one thing that clicked (a bit) for me. I'll watch all of these episodes! Also subscribed!
Thank you! And great observation about the brush thing. That's totally accurate.
Best art teacher in TH-cam.
Thank you.
This is mind blowing! At 1:47 the shapes were combined but ended up looking more 3D! Amazing video lesson!
im am so happy to find this video! i have been searching ways to improve my artwork and all of them tell me to do the same thing and i never actually learn from them! i actually learned new information! i really appreciate that! thank you
You ....are ......a .......GENIUS!!!!!
I wished I could have done what ya did in the ending with my family reunion a few weeks ago. Not. But it probably explains why I got so overwhlemed with over fifty people in one space. The lesson alone is worth gold to me. I will go and try it out on my worse subject, landscapes!
I have been binging these videos like there's no tomorrow and tbh not even in art school I learned this much! I may even get one of your workshops later on ♥
Another way to consider this is a way to create "focus", in the camera sense. Of course a camera has to do it, because of how light and lenses work.
But humans do it too with our eyes, when we look at something, the rest of the world becomes very simple. To my right at the moment is my PC, but all I really see is a blob of black, with a slightly lighter black towards the front (where light is hitting it).
Once I look at the PC case, the monitor becomes less defined, the red line on the youtube video really standing out, and the rest being just some grays and a mush of the "what to view next" images after the video. The monitor itself merges with the black desk and other dark objects on it. Above it there is some contrast between the wall and some pictures on the wall, but I cant make out the separate picture frames, just the general shapes of what's on them.