life of an illustrator who hates perspectives ✎ art studio VLOG
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มิ.ย. 2024
- join me for a good ol' art grind
0:00 getting ready
1:01 what are we doing today
5:56 sketching and struggling
7:29 some pep talk before inking
10:22 actually inking
14:42 scanning and discovering photomerge feature on photoshop
17:03 before I leave
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Thank you so so much to super Kevin for writing the spanish subtitles!
All the music comes from Epidemic Sound
Camera: Canon EOS M6 mark II with a 22mm lens
I use DaVinci Resolve for editing!
Things you don't know about this video: this bedroom is based on the bedroom I shared with my sister when I was a teenager. Same with the black cat; she was my first ever cat. I had her from ages 9 until 25!
Imagine yourself in the future when you get to hold Fran's book in your hands and remembering the journey that lead here! The joy of it will be impeccable 💓
aaaah this makes me feel both so nervous AND excited haha
I cannot wait!
I just want to put this out there but Fran’s patreon is well worth the investment. If you have been thinking about supporting her there totally do it.
thank youuuu : .. )
@@FranMeneses Your podcast newsletter brings much value to my life. Thank YOU so much!
same same :’)
I agree ❤
it really is so good! i’ve been subscribed for i think 6 years? and never thought of unsubscribing because fran is such a delight and her podcast newsletter is amazing 💖💖 thank you fran!!
“Art takes time!”. Why is it so hard for us to understand that? Loved this video, Fran! 🤍
When you rotated the image the wrong direction and said "god dammit this always happens to me" I felt that TO MY CORE
A graphic novel can never have too many details! It is just like exploring a new world everytime you read it!
As a reader of graphic novels, I always enjoy seeing the small details and appreciate the time and effort that goes into creating brilliance.
Hi Fran! Longtime follower, first time commenter. First off, thank you so much for sharing your work. I love watching these videos and seeing your process - it’s so generous for you to share the behind-the-scenes. Also, you definitely nailed the perspective in the end! It looks so good! A few tips, as someone who teaches drawing (specifically perspective): when you’re working with 2- or 3-point perspective, I’d recommend sketching on a much larger piece of paper so you can actually place the vanishing points. You can then sketch out the edges of the room and place the furniture, and either transfer or trace to your final sheet (or tape your paper to the larger sheet and just draw on top of it). It’s so hard to draw perspective like this without a specific reference, and having those vanishing points helps a lot! I actually have my students draw a project similar to this as a final assignment: draw a room where you include all four walls on a single sheet of paper. It’s a very challenging assignment and they all hate me until they see the final product. Anyhoo, hope that’s helpful and not too mansplain-y. Can’t wait to see the final book!
omg thank you so much for thiiiis!!!!
i remember when i discovered photomerge
it was a big day
I am salivating over all these details!! 🤤 Thank you for sharing your journey, Fran ❤ I would literally wear a shirt..with just your illustration of the desk 😊..and the wiggly sock 🥹🥹🥹
geez this sound track rules, love your jazz taste
hahaha thank you Marcelaaaa! I get all my tracks from Epidemic Sound
@@FranMeneses me ha sonado pq es la "banda sonora" de un canal de entrevistas sobre gente del cine/teatro en España, se llama "La Script" en YT ;)
Just wanted to say that I have met so many artist over the years but very few of them are so skilled like Fran at traducing situations or even abstract concepts in such masterful way. The focus on the details is so rich that it makes the images flow naturally and is so moving! That's how pure art is supposed to make we feel
i love when you talk about books! I am subscribing to your patreon :)
Im not an artist, but as a consumer i will say, i absolutely love the details. I have a pinterest board full of these types of drawers with lots of tiny details.
Art really does take time. I've let myself just exist with my project. I'm working on a webcomic and writing the script and its taken years but it has no timeline. Its been really fulfilling letting the story take its own organic shape without me constantly telling it what to do.
I also loved how you drew the background and didn't freak out over perspective lines being perfect. That page has so much personality and character to it! I can't wait to buy it when its finished!
Just wanted to say your purple hair is looking absolutely amazing! 💖
Supporting Fran on Patreon is so worth it!! Her podcast Truly feels like chatting with a friend and I listen to both English and Spanish. Also the photo dumps are so fun and inspiring to romanticize your own life. Fran thanks for all you do!! Your art in all forms helps this depressed being see the beauty in my own life
Fran, thank you very much for your videos! I've been watching your channel for a while; sometimes I didn't watch a video as soon as it is available, but when I come back, I always feel really inspired by you! Thank you very much!
Loving the Graphic Novel content! Super cool to see the process, and those details.. worth it! Looking so good 👏👏
I’m really bad at perspectives and try to avoid them at all cost 😅😂 love watching your vlog! Really inspiring 😊
Love your vids, as per usual! Can't wait to see your finished book!
always a fan, glad to see you at it again!
Fran these vlogs are just so nice to work along to! Thank you for making them 💗💗💗
I love your vlogs, Fran ❤
Love you, Fran ❤😭 don’t you ever stop making these videos!
I'm loving seeing all your drawings 🥰
Siempre es un gusto verte dibujar Fran❤, gracias por hacernos parte, no puedo esperar para ver tu novela terminada ✨
I loooove the details of the stuff in the person's room! I'm glad you talked about it.
Me encantó el proceso Fran 😍 siempre que te veo me dan ganas de dibujar
Fran tus vídeos me dan aire, un respiro, empuje, mucha fuerza y seguir adelante!
Eres una persona que admiro mucho desde hace tiempo, un gran ejemplo y referente de lo que me gustaría ser... Y mostrar tu día tal cual, sin "romántisar" la vida profesional, mostrando los miedos y que no siempre todo sale como lo pensabas... Eso me hace "normalizar" mis días malos. Que es valido tener miedo y no siempre tendrás las respuestas o conocimientos para resolverlo y está bien... Te mando un fuerte abrazo Frann
Fran it's so good to see u again! :-)
Don't worry about us, we love to see you growing and love to see how you go with graphic novel. It always makes my day to see you sketching and inking for your novel, it inspires me to keep doing my job as an illustrator, I hope one day I become as good as you ♡♡♡
Xoxo from Mexico :*
Fran first i love your purple hair and seeing you work in your studio,we are all cheering you on!!!💖💞🙏🫂Sending you warm hugs☕🫖🍵🥧🕯📓🖋I love my bookshelves and my books and i so look forward to having a physical copy of your graphic novel in the future,aaaah lovely!!!
why don't you do it in 3d and play around with the camera to force the perspective? Then print out a few options to do sketches over top.
I adore your videos and watch them often while drawing at my studio. 💖
16:20 😂i feel you
really enjoyed the making of this page and voiceover reflections
you’re doing great!
clockwise or counter clockwise
JAJAJAJ me odio siempre que me sucede eso y nunca puedo hacerlo bien a la primera
thanks for the insights, fran! and the photoshop tip! I was already thinking about a new scanner, but thanks to the photoshop tool I don't need one after all, thank you very much!
Me encanto el video y gracias por el tip con Photoshop!
Hiiii fellow artist here! If you're able to take a break from the novel, do that and take some classes in perspective. Once you understand it, you will not be as stressed about it anymore. Try taking classes from the online animation schools. My favorites have been Brainstorm school, Concept Design Academy and Project City.
I used to be in animation storyboarding and those schools helped me get over my perspective hump too! I still struggle but not as hard!
These are the videos I missed and why I followed you all those years ago. Just you, drawing and talking about your process is my favorite.
Fran, qué bueno que descubriste photomerge, me siento identificada con todo este nuevo video, gracias por inspirarnos.
I forgot how much I enjoyed your art vlogs. Thanks so much for this. Art does take time, and this has reminded me to take it slow and enjoy the process and the "mess ups"
I love this type of pages in graphic novels/mangas 💕 All the details tell you so much about the characters and finding little references or easter eggs is really fun! Thanks for sharing this process Fran. Siento que esto tengo que decirlo en español jj tus videos me hacen bien
Can relate to the struggle. Perspective feels like I did a very hard math calc in my head, which makes my brain go blank for hours without a rest.
Venía entretenida con el video en general y con lo del photomerge me quedé :O . Vine buscando oro y encontré más oro todavía. Gracias Fran!!
Fran te sigo hace años y me encanta como eres
omg facing resistance when ur doing something challenging or that u don’t want to already 😩 so real and so good to see the process!
Lately I saw something that said when you’re feeling resistance, try nodding your head yes to give your body the cue that you *can* do something, and it’s been helping me a lot :)
Hi Fran! Loved the Stolen Moments reference at the beginning :) best of luck with your work, been admiring it for so long
one of my faaaav youtuber
Fran tus videos son muy relajantes y me encantan! Abrazos desde Uruguay!
Given that you’re an artist, you’ve probably heard of this, but on the off chance that you haven’t, I just wanted to tell you about a special pencil that doesn’t show up on scans. I pulled mine out and it just says “Non photo blue pencil”. I don’t know if it would help, but you could always try drawing perspective lines with that and drawing your illustrations over the top (not having to worry about erasing the blue ones). I’m guessing you already know about this but wanted to share just in case🙂
I didn't know about that! Thanks a lot for sharing! ❤
@@mika.mirjana No problem! You’re so welcome!😀
Fraaaan muchísimas gracias por tus videos, tus consejos, y por enseñarnos el proceso de tu novela, y por supuesto por tus ilustraciones y tu buena vibra.
The illustration looks awesome.❤
Wow that photomerge
Fran, I’ve been following you since I was in middle school, you inspired me to study design and become an illustrator, I now have my college degree and am starting my career, tackling my own graphic novel and I can’t describe how much you sharing these parts of your life and work mean to me. Thanks for always teaching us, sharing with us and inspire us with your work! Greetings from México ✨🍊
Hi Fran! I love the inking part of your videos, I'd easily watch 30 min of you just inking hehe, i find it very relaxing and satisfying at the same time (even tho is not your fav part) i enjoy watching it. Hope you're enjoying the good weather as well❤ Where i live we're going through multiple heat waves but the ac is my savior 😅
te amo fraaaaan!
Love the purple! It suits you so much
I can't relate to this more. I have this big 11x14 painting in gouache planned and I only got as far as the sketch 90% done because even though my perspective is good, there's this part of it that suddenly gets more difficult and I got so discouraged because I thought I planned the drawing out enough.
I really appreciate spending so much time on your graphic novel with you
loved it so much
The graphic novel is coming out great. Cannot wait to have it in my hands. Great job!
The "fresh eyes" feeling is UGH. So relatable.
Quedó increíble la página 😊
Love that you show this process!!! I am in the midst of painting out my own book,, so i do understand where you are coming from. Basically we do live inside our books for a while:) I do feel your pain, struggeling with your pages. Just keep on going! Good Luck!
Descubrí tu canal y me estoy jalando tus videos. Estoy ansiosa por ver el resultado de tu novela, me encantaría ver un video hablando de todos los materiales que usaste para toooodo el proceso, estoy fascinada y me inspiras mucho, un abrazo
GRAN dato el de photomerge, ya mismo estoy por probarlo 💟 me encantan tus videos Fran! me inspiras un montón, saludos desde Argentina (:
Oh the struggle😅, so relatable.. love the video❤
omg so proud of you. i know it’s so hard for you to draw under pressure of the camera. loved the vid!
Me and my friends have recently come together to start a silly little comic to pursue our passions in art and storytelling and (tbh) to just spend time together when so often we just don’t hv the time or energy, so it’s so fun and motivating to see someone else working on their own graphic story. Anyway, have a lovely day folks!
quedo bella la pagina!!!
Madre mía me acabas de regalar horas de vida con ese truco de photoshop!!!
Fran esa página se ve increible!
Fran llevaba un rato de no ver tus videos, pero esta fue una semana ruda, así que cuando tu video apareció en mi feed decidí echarle un vistazo. Estoy tan agradecida con tus videos. Nada más con la intro ya me sentí de vuelta en casa. Buena suerte con la novela gráfica, la página se ve increíble!! 🫶
ay gracias : .. ) ojala que tu semana mejore, te mando un abrazote
In case you’re interested, a book I’ve found useful is “Space Drawing Perspective” by Dongho Kim! It’s super clear and simple plus the drawings are so much fun to look at
you’re beautiful, Fran 💓
The tip with photoshop is gold, how the hell I didn't knot that to this point?? I'm scanning my watercolors for like 4 years, and including uni for like 10 yearsor more? ..omg 🙈🤦♀🤦♀ I'll try right away, thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your hair! 😍 that purple is just popping.
for a second I read purple is pooping haha thanks for the compliment!
Your funny Fran 😂the details made it extra 👏🏽
The classic mirror shot is back 👏
Que hermoso video Fran, vale totalmente la pena tu contenido, eres inspiración pura ❤, gracias por hacer cosas tan bonitas.... Saludos desde la Ciudad de México 🥰
gracias Itzeeeeeeel
recomiendo que sean Patreons porque comparte mucho de su proceso. Y el podcast es excelente tambien.
This looks great! ❤️ Love watching your videos, very inspiring and calming... Greetings from a fellow illustrator from Croatia! 😊
Hi,Fran.Following you for a while time. Just want to say I love your work ! Best wishes from Taiwan❤
siempre me cuesta horrores la perspectiva, me da pánico jaja nunca me sentí tan representada con alguien. Vas muy bien Fran! me encanta como te vas superando con tu novela, es muy inspirador. Saludos desde Argentina!
I have thought in the past about how graphic novels seem so intensive, but seeing you go through this process really makes you appreciate even more.. thanks for sharing ...^_^...
Fran! Eres una chingona! A total badass! Love all the way from Los Angeles
The only way to grasp prespective is by doing it. It takes some time, but with your talent it will look great no matter what!😊
holis!! wow! lo de la función del photochop para unir los archivos es tremendaaaaaaaa! suponia que existia un programa para hacer eso, pero no sabia que el photochop lo tenia, genial!
por otro lado me encanta como están quedando las hojas, me encanta que compartas el proceso con nosotres en chutu
Hi Fran, it is such a delightful experience to see how the graphic novel is coming along! Thank you for taking us with you on the journey :) i cant wait to be able to look at in a few months and see the progress!
p.s. kind of unrelated but im happy to see how the auto-merge function in PS is a time saver! i will be starting a PhD project soon on automating biological research. My motivation is exactly what the auto-merge function does for you: saving time on technical stuff so that you can focus on creating art!! (or in my case: discovering fun new biological things :) )
Que bello quedó tu cabello Fraaan 💜 y me impresiona la cantidad de detalles que puedes hacer en una página, pero al menos para mí es divertido apreciarlos cuando leo una novela. Un abrazo! 🦦
Nooo, Fran en el otro vídeo pensé, pero con Photomerge no necesita escáner grande, pero asumí era por tiempo que consume escanear doble. No recuerdo bien si es con acciones que puedes “grabar” el proceso y dejarlo en automático, o era en el propio Photomerge, pero puedes decirle a Photoshop que te haga tandas grandes y luego es revisar que lo hizo bien. Espero ayude. Mil gracias por compartir tus procesos e ideas y descubrimientos
Hej Fran. I just love all this content of you working on your graphic novel. I’m sitting at one myself and this is such a nice company 🧡
I completely understand your struggle with perspective. Maybe it would help, if you set up the camera ankle and scene digitally first with a CAD-program, like SketchUp, to build the perspective, use this as an underlying and then move on to pen and paper.
Again looking forward to all the process. xxx
Adoro tu cabello morado ❤❤❤❤ te ves espectacular y tu trabajo genial 🎉🎉🎉🎉
I started putting your videos in the background while I'm drawing. (hello there, dear fellow artist!) Your videos inspire me to do more "analog" art, with no undo button and sometimes a bit souless feel in it all.
This is exactly why i do my perspective sketches on procreate now with drawing assist perspective on I don't have the patience LOL.
I’ve been working on the same painting, the first in an idea, I think for, five years now. Keep trying to document stuff too, there’s other stuff that gets finished. It’s slow, I’m slow, slow is fine, I’m fine. I just picture that little dog in a fire but instead sitting surrounded by unfinished art work, lol.
2:38 ooooo that's a cool page
16:00 watching whilst doing my account, and I have some fucking long-ass receipts and you may have just saved me from self-erasure. Thank you Fran for sharing your newly acquired wisdom
woah I didn't realize this could be another use of photo-merge!
@@FranMeneses it's working! Gotta check to make sure nothing gets covered up but, man - thanks for posting when you did!
PS you're awesome 😎
To help you check if the perspective works, you can turn the paper upside down. It forces you to see differently