Saw a 18 yearold russian doomer artist (a year younger than me) on FA with art style similar to mine but LEAGUES better in anatomy and backgrounds, so i said "aw hell naw" put together a bunch of references and grinded for 3 days on anatomy and now i'm much, *much* happier with my level in art. Comparig yourself is good sometimes, competition (even if compleatly one sided) can be very constructve
Absolutely! I feel like “stop comparing yourself” is so dismissive, cuz obviously I have a reason to do it? Some people don’t understand that artists hate sitting still. we don’t want to hang out with unbridled pride and satisfaction, that’s boring! the whole point (at least for me) is consistently being able to improve! I think the best thing to do with more “taboo” emotions is to use them to our advantage. They can really push you to places you never thought possible! human beings aren’t as soft as ppl make us out to be, we can handle a little competition 💕💕
@@wispravine It’s like comparing yourself is something you’ve got to realize too because you can do it wrong. “Comparison is the thief of joy” only if you do it wrong😭 If you feel infinitely jealous, you’re thinking it wrong. If you feel inspired, motivated, you’re doing it right!! Even so, I find myself getting a tad bit jealous sometimes, just don’t let it get to u!!
It's a mindset thing, 100%. For the last decade, I'd say, comparing myself was a recipe for disaster. I was not in a mental state where I could make a healthy comparison with other people, and as the years went by it got worse. A lot has changed though, and over this last year I feel like I could draw comparisons with significantly less negative self-talk! Starting art properly at 26 may not be an ideal time to start, but it's important to compare present to present, not to past or future. Find something you really like and then set that as a goal for yourself, not a reason to give up because "you'll never be that good"
Former art professor here. Here are a few things I've imparted into my students. First, fundamentals are fundamental. All great artists use the fundamentals when tackling difficult works. When starting out, all works are difficult. Learn basic shapes and forms. Then, learn how to modify them with welding, carving, and turning. Learn to focus on the large things first and then go into detail. Second failure is a part of the process. Try to accept the first few trys will not be great. In fact, give yourself limitations on undoing digital art. This will teach you far more than Ctrl+ z. While i teach digital art, i seriously recommend learning a physical medium like acrylics or gouache to learn how to correct mistakes without undo. Third, give yourself 3 goals. A rival (someone who is even level with you), a mentor (someone who is better than you but still comparable in skill that you can learn from), and a master (someone so far above you they are like a star on the horizon). When you beat your rival, get a new rival. When you learn all you can from your mentor, find a new mentor. When you equal your master find a new master.
"if you're practicing consistently without studying, you're not improving. You're mastering your mistakes" i'll quote you from time to time, it's actually very insightful :D
For people like me that just like to draw random shit sometimes, we can’t really feel the time that we invested into art, cause the fact that we basically doing this passively at this point, it’s like walking, no one will remember how many steps you took a day unless you really tried to measure it, that’s why some people think art is easy cause they didn’t realise how much time is invested into art
so how do you ACTUALLY LEARN how to make art? Still my biggest gripe with art. I think the main cause of toiling is that beginners genuinely don't know how to get better, there's no clear cut lesson plan in learning art after the fundamentals. "Ok so I know how to draw shapes now what should I learn next? Anatomy? Perspective? Composition? Color? etc etc" Coming from a STEM background here, even if science is such a complicated subject you can assure you can learn because the lesson plan is tried and tested in the academe for centuries. Art on the other hand is so different to learn for each person. Every art person I met always has a unique story for their art journey meanwhile if I ask my STEM friends how they learned their specialty they just answer with "I went to college lol".
The point you made about the difference between making good art vs being good at making good art resonates a lot with me. It really is possible to create nice art and yet not learn anything useful from it. Focusing on learning useful and reusable patterns/skills is probably much a better use of time than trying to brute force outcomes. That's actually something I have thought about on my own, but that I sometimes end up forgetting about. Thank you for the reminder. I don't even draw actually, but this is very good general advice.
I hate that I know these things and still waste time and get frustrated and practice poorly. Thank you for reminding us that we deserve to allow ourselves grace, which in turn makes the learning fun once more.
I am a slow learner when it comes to art. Art is my stress reliever, I've been following *big art channel* not all of them useful 100% useful. So I created my own strategy in developing my art and it worked. You are the one will create a foundation to develop your art.
@2:42 You jump over this idea really fast, but I think it's the single most important point to make. APPLICATION of what you learn. I've noticed a lot of young artists just think it's about drills or constant copying, without having the intentionality of how to use those things. I for example am terrible at human anatomy drawing, but I also don't enjoy it so I don't do it. People practice what they don't like a lot. Forgetting to enjoy things and just doing what you like is the downfall for many creators.
Ok so. I have to be able to spot my mistakes. Accept them and study the why of the mistake and how i can fix it. To fix it i need to study that exact thing where i made the mistake and learn how to correct it, i need to apply my knowlege and keep going. This is what i usually do studying what i see or feel looks wrong after analyzing the entire thing. So i could pinpoint that thing and improve, this is what they mean by "your mistakes make you stronger" it makes you stronger because only when you recognize it is when you start to look for a way to improve hence you become stronger!
I like to listen to TH-cam artists talk while I paint. This one is a very excellent video. Especially for people in academia, who have gotten their master’s degrees in fine arts (a lot of my mutual friends). It’s easy to romanticize the act of suffering while making artwork. Saying things like “I was in the art studio for ten hours straight” is seen as a badge of honor, and it should not be. Thank you for shedding light on that toxic ideology. You are really thinking outside the box .
Great video and great timing for me. I’m 40 and have been drawing for years and feel like I’m still bad at it and not improving despite making a huge effort. I feel like giving up. Or… like I’ve been doing it wrong. And this really touches on how to correct that.
as noob artist of like 5-6 months the best thing that i learned is efficiency tbh (ofc i still have a longg way to go) but like the more times u draw something the better u will get at it sure i could take 5 hours on an unfinished uncolored piece and get decent proportions decent anatomy decent line art or i could get a bunch of somewhat worse drawings while taking notes on what im doing wrong and learn so much more from those than just the one piece i drew i think that comes from peoples insecurity while drawing the best mindset tip is to think of urself as an art baby children do not care if they are bad they just keep doing it and get better because of that
The fact that one of the main points of the videos is not worrying to much on getting the minimum details right and trying hundreads of times until you get it right, and instead learn how to do them to do it right first time, while the whole video is a part from a speed paint which you did nothing but try to make this little thing from the clothes perfectly even tho is not even a big part of the drawing
Thank you, really needed to hear this. I started learning to draw later in life and it makes me feel like I am on a time limit to get good or trying to play catch up all the time so hearing this has helped me slow down
I have no words to say how much this video is insightful and reassuring to me. (I mean, I have but it might sound inadequate, and it's a Brazilian meme---) So I'm gonna be light and just share your words of preach whenever I can 👏✨️✨️✨️ WHERE WAS THIS VIDEO WHEN I WAS A WEE BEGINNER????
I'm a pianist by trade, been playing and writing music my whole life, my professor was a world class pianist trained by Mieczysław Horszowski and she always drilled in "I can ask you for 30 minutes a day of practice or 3 hours a day. Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect. You do not practice blindly, you practice a plan. Is measure 45 to difficult? Drill it. Are certain techniques holding you back? You study the technique then drill it. This will make perfect pieces. Perfect practice."
Really liked this video. The part about art taking to long is definitely something i relate to but have never thought of in the way you expressed. Really good advice.
Incidentally, I neither want to be good at drawing nor want to draw good art, I just wanna be good enough to draw sketchy character designs and maybe mediocre scenes. Also, here is how you draw hands: grab a camera or phone, take a picture of your own hand in the angle and pose you want to draw, then draw it from reference. Adjust slightly as needed to suit the character if you wanna get fancy.
one thing that artist also do is study, but then get afraid of applying what they learn in the drawings and kept doing things the same way they been doing it before. stop being afraid and just try new things, see what works better for you and what makes your art process more comfortable, dont be a coward and try them!!! if it doesn't work the first time try again! second time try again! dont be afraid of drawing. The same way that you dont over extend things you also dont need to rush em, it's not a race, surely being fast is good but that doesn't mean you need to throw things you're not comfortable with in a draw just to not spend more time on it, if something doesn't feel right to you, take your time to fix it, dont be afraid of erasing things and remaking them. it's part of the process and it'll help a lot too in the learning.
As an artist of 35 years, here is my advice: 1: Try not to compare your art and skills to other artists. Instead look at other artists as just another source of inspiration to help you create your own works, improve your skills, develop your own style, etc. 2: Imitating other artists' artstyles is good for improving your skills, but it should never become your primary focus as an artist. Remember, you are own artist, not an imitation of an existing one. 3: There is no need to rush. You have all the time in the world to improve your skills and develop your own style as an artist. 4: Anyone can learn how to draw. It's how you go about it that will determine whether you will improve or not. 5: Learn to recognise constructive feedback from negative criticism, and try not get defensive. If someone is giving you constructive feedback, hear what they have to say. Remember, you are the one who decides whether to take their feedback to heart or not. If someone is criticizing your art or is trying to push their artistic preferences over your own, ignore them and draw what you want to draw instead. 6: Always aim to be polite and respectful towards others, and try to maintain your composure. There will be many people who will actively try to bring you down, so the best defence is to ignore what they say. Respond to posts that show support you and ignore the ones that don't. And last but not least: Art is subjective and open to interpretation.
If you go to BAM's recent vid at they end they say they want you to be bad art machines. That being people who give yourself room to make mistakes so that you can improve from them.
after i started using refrences and actually pushing my boundaries my art became noticeably better, for example when i tried rendering. It actually turned out realy fun and i was so proud of the outcome ^^
This is good advice and i low key needed it. I’m such a perfectionist and always expected better results if I just kept drawing. But I never really studied and thanks this video I can finally start doing that.😭
I mean, i leave a lot of my art unfinished, but not because it's wrong, it just looks boring. I don't see anatomical, or other issues, but i feel... Nothing about it. It's just boring and plain. People tell me it's good, pretty and so on, but i know at face value it does not statisfy me. That's how i work, behind my new art every 3-7 days there is like 10 unfinished pieces that made me feel nothing about them, that after line art, or even sketch i was like "THIS FUCKS"
Its take me a solid 4 month from nothing, to have something decent, that at least i can show it to my parents and i proud of it, all its take is lots of youtube tutorial, comparison to other, and wonder every night when i can draw on the same level as those artist every time i'm about to sleep.
Finally someone else says it! Just in a remarkably hilarious fashion. I was fortunate enough to have an art rival for a year so I made a habit to fix any issues with my art. Get yourself an art buddy it'll help a lot
Yeah. I feel like it's better to just be like "good enough at my level" and keep improving drawing by drawing. Indecisiveness is how one can indeed spend over 240 hours a single drawing if they keep redrawing details over and over instead of accepting it as presentable and learning from it. It's like a RPG stat or leveling up in JRPG but your level presents your art skill and it gets better as you do it.
Hmm, I study, went over foundation and still go through them, give myself patience, have some fun, enjoy drawing, use references and challenge myself. Can't say I quite came to the conclusion that art is easy, but I think drawing is fun and I can express myself to certain degree lol.
You are not really wrong. Technically speaking, speech and even more impressively, writing, are, on a "if you really think about it" level, much much more difficult than let's say, perspective rules for drawing. And perspective is considered one of the more challenging pieces of draftsmanship.
I feel like when studying, practicing and making things from imagination all feel equally painful I should go see a therapist. Why is my worth as a human automatically linked to the art I make? When did this happen? It wasn't social media cause I don't use that so what was it?
there’s sets of rules/instructions to learning art, regardless of if you’re in pain or not, if you aren’t abiding with what you’re supposed to be doing, you won’t make any progress. IF you’re in pain, you’re most likely doing something that is slowing down your progress, pain serves to tell you something is WRONGGG😭
The fucking ai jumpscare at @5:24 (along with the accurate commentary) literally solved my issue with drawing. It's so true tho. Do I wanna get good at art? (yes!) Or do I wanna make pReTtY pIcTuReS.
basically, this is how my 'easy' route went, so the main thing you need in art is inspiration and that starts off with you learning some basics by yourself and then getting a mentor, why would you want a mentor? because they can help you feel better, they can either give you some pep talk, or just straight up say "Cool" and you'd be fine with it, having people to guide you is..good..but you could just pick the "holy shit...its..been...20 hours...oh..booyyooyboy ....please..please..please..give..me..a..new...piece..please GRAAAH WHY IS MY DIGITAL ART SO AFHJGDSNHJS IM GONNA RIP THIS TABLET APART" yea I did that too anyway, the main thing I did in 1 year of my art history was study artist..study shapes..study anatomy. and that was only to get my artstyle..different artstyles different training, lets take Katsuya Terada? for example amazing artist I like to study, indications of realism are on point but a mix of that feel....but yet again people have different taste, different taste= different art styles = different training= different life styles, even in 1 year of art I've noticed a lot of things, its simple...its 'easy' but that's only when you have the motivation, that's only when you push yourself...but hey that's just another ART THEORY!? Anyway enough yap, art is simple but you must push yourself, even when the times are getting rough, and never compare yourself to other people..i did, once, but I had to stop and think to myself My friend (mentor) once said (Hito) asian..female artist: "you're in the thick of it, everybody knows." it pissed me off cause she somehow made a pun about ksi's song..but, its true. once you get courage and motivation from people, you feed off of it and you push yourself Thats it though heh. always make sure to have a beverage on the side when your doing art..and god...please DO NOT over render like imagine rendering a cloth, and then saying "yeah, you know what..tsk..i can make this better" nobody gonna tell the difference from rendered clothing and over rendered clothing..when the main piece that the eyes usually land on is the head.
Scuse' me! i am a beginner and i have a habit of using references and trying to understand anatomy in rough sketches to prepare myself for when i do get better at art! so is this habit of practicing ok? since i note down my mistakes and proceed to try overcome them
the better i get the less fun i have... idk if thats just me or but like it is fun to make your own charcaters it's just the drawing prosess is boring and makes my neck hurt and my back bc i stay in one position for too long etc. also now i want to draw better... but i dont do it anymore just to draw but to achieve something...wich is frustrating if u dont i just want to draw again just to draw and have fun doing it an not tryhard so much... like make drawings that are 5min and not 5 hours
This comes across incredible arrogant from someone who produces work of this quality. These are the kind of takes you should only throw out once you have the skill and experience to back it up.
From what i understand when i finished watching the video will ny 1 ADHD braincell that you should accept the mistakes you make, because that's how you are going to improve i guess?
7:23 but what happens when you study andd study and study and its still torture? What happens when drawing is painful but so is studying? Especially for how little you gain from it? Only for what? To get a fraction better and the next drawing to be painful? What am i to do? All stranded as an artist trying to teach myself, yet not matter the studying the pain never goes away? This is the fundamental flaw of this video. You tell us to do something, that its absolutely necessary. But you don't tell us HOW to do it. How do YOU study? Specifically?
Idk why it feels like this, even after studing much my makimg art still feels bad and dissapoining. I have no idea is it problem with how i study or something else
That’s just not true it’s different for different people your just talking about yours I’ve done art sense I was little and I’m still not very good at it it’s just some people take longer either there disability’s or mental illness or just they take longer hope this helps
2 you should take a break not keep going if your having to much trouble it just makes things worse and for some people shading is hard either eye. Problems or something else ofc you should work to make it better but only if you take a brake so you can actually focus so it stays fun❤
well not really😭 yes, it might be different for other people, but it is only because of the mindset that they carry about art. If you aren’t taking the time to study art, and you’re impatient with yourself for not knowing something (that you never studied to place in your head in the first place), you’ll be stuck in a constant loop, and you won’t improve. Your frustration and suffering won’t bring you anything, they serve to tell you you’re doing something wrong. We’re humans, and if we don’t give ourself the right ways to learn, we will become frustrated, and upset. The better way would be to use your creativity, draw what you want, and once that creativity runs out like it does, you go study art again. Shapes, anatomy, colors, gestures, poses, study it. Your creativity isn’t back yet? Then rest, you’ve done enough. As humans, we have tanks that fill up with inspiration, and run out when we use it. To recharge it we must regain inspiration. Watch a movie, walk outside, play a game, listen to music, etc.
@@emistarxx It can also be the approach that is problem, they might be avoiding the use of reference whether it be pretty art or real life, just trying to draw from imagination, never putting appealing and new information into the brain. Even when using reference it's pretty important to get it as close to the original, note the mistakes, fix them, try again. Drawing from memory something you've drawn from reference is an amazing skill check and an easy way to find shortcomings and where to improve. It's also called active recall, best technique for memorizing things - guidelines for one.
@@emistarxx Tell that to artists with ADHD who literally try to make lots of different art pieces at once and can never get one fully finished (I would know I am one)
Personally I think this video is awful. No practical advice and a lot of pretentious confusion. I don't think you could be more wrong about frustration. I'm working on something now and it's incredibly frustrating, but from what I can see taking shape it's also going to be the best thing I've ever done. The frustration for me, comes from knowing when something is wrong, knowing why it's wrong, and just repeatedly trying to get it right. The getting it right part, unfortunately, takes practice. You really do have to do it over and over and over. Terrible video don't listen to this advice.
Sounds like you got your ego bruised from watching this video and needed to lash out lol. Frustration can come from many things, least of which being when you bang your head into a wall over and over trying to make something work but it just doesn't. That's what she is keying up on. Her advice isn't bad, it just doesn't apply to your current situation.
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Saw a 18 yearold russian doomer artist (a year younger than me) on FA with art style similar to mine but LEAGUES better in anatomy and backgrounds, so i said "aw hell naw" put together a bunch of references and grinded for 3 days on anatomy and now i'm much, *much* happier with my level in art.
Comparig yourself is good sometimes, competition (even if compleatly one sided) can be very constructve
Absolutely! I feel like “stop comparing yourself” is so dismissive, cuz obviously I have a reason to do it? Some people don’t understand that artists hate sitting still. we don’t want to hang out with unbridled pride and satisfaction, that’s boring! the whole point (at least for me) is consistently being able to improve! I think the best thing to do with more “taboo” emotions is to use them to our advantage. They can really push you to places you never thought possible! human beings aren’t as soft as ppl make us out to be, we can handle a little competition 💕💕
@@wispravine It’s like comparing yourself is something you’ve got to realize too because you can do it wrong. “Comparison is the thief of joy” only if you do it wrong😭 If you feel infinitely jealous, you’re thinking it wrong. If you feel inspired, motivated, you’re doing it right!! Even so, I find myself getting a tad bit jealous sometimes, just don’t let it get to u!!
It's a mindset thing, 100%. For the last decade, I'd say, comparing myself was a recipe for disaster. I was not in a mental state where I could make a healthy comparison with other people, and as the years went by it got worse. A lot has changed though, and over this last year I feel like I could draw comparisons with significantly less negative self-talk! Starting art properly at 26 may not be an ideal time to start, but it's important to compare present to present, not to past or future. Find something you really like and then set that as a goal for yourself, not a reason to give up because "you'll never be that good"
how was your anatomy research, and what are tips you could share?
"Overrendering is even worse" spends the whole video rerendering one minor detail
For real😂
I love the topic being about not glorifying suffering and the drawing is Sayaka 😭
"You're mastering your mistakes" hits hard.
Former art professor here.
Here are a few things I've imparted into my students.
First, fundamentals are fundamental. All great artists use the fundamentals when tackling difficult works. When starting out, all works are difficult. Learn basic shapes and forms. Then, learn how to modify them with welding, carving, and turning. Learn to focus on the large things first and then go into detail.
Second failure is a part of the process. Try to accept the first few trys will not be great. In fact, give yourself limitations on undoing digital art. This will teach you far more than Ctrl+ z. While i teach digital art, i seriously recommend learning a physical medium like acrylics or gouache to learn how to correct mistakes without undo.
Third, give yourself 3 goals. A rival (someone who is even level with you), a mentor (someone who is better than you but still comparable in skill that you can learn from), and a master (someone so far above you they are like a star on the horizon). When you beat your rival, get a new rival. When you learn all you can from your mentor, find a new mentor. When you equal your master find a new master.
The last tip there is pure wisdom & if anything, I’m gonna pass that shit down generations🛕
"if you're practicing consistently without studying, you're not improving. You're mastering your mistakes" i'll quote you from time to time, it's actually very insightful :D
For people like me that just like to draw random shit sometimes, we can’t really feel the time that we invested into art, cause the fact that we basically doing this passively at this point, it’s like walking, no one will remember how many steps you took a day unless you really tried to measure it, that’s why some people think art is easy cause they didn’t realise how much time is invested into art
Omg yeah
Yeah same i draw when that feeling got me, and have fun while it last it still improves your drawing without it being obvious
so how do you ACTUALLY LEARN how to make art? Still my biggest gripe with art. I think the main cause of toiling is that beginners genuinely don't know how to get better, there's no clear cut lesson plan in learning art after the fundamentals. "Ok so I know how to draw shapes now what should I learn next? Anatomy? Perspective? Composition? Color? etc etc" Coming from a STEM background here, even if science is such a complicated subject you can assure you can learn because the lesson plan is tried and tested in the academe for centuries. Art on the other hand is so different to learn for each person. Every art person I met always has a unique story for their art journey meanwhile if I ask my STEM friends how they learned their specialty they just answer with "I went to college lol".
The point you made about the difference between making good art vs being good at making good art resonates a lot with me. It really is possible to create nice art and yet not learn anything useful from it. Focusing on learning useful and reusable patterns/skills is probably much a better use of time than trying to brute force outcomes.
That's actually something I have thought about on my own, but that I sometimes end up forgetting about. Thank you for the reminder. I don't even draw actually, but this is very good general advice.
Everyone has different skill levels, rate and capacity for learning, there's nothing wrong with that.
All levels of art are valid and beautiful:3
I hate that I know these things and still waste time and get frustrated and practice poorly. Thank you for reminding us that we deserve to allow ourselves grace, which in turn makes the learning fun once more.
Sayaka miki looks so good in your art style!💗
thank you!! ^_^
@@wispravine your welcome ^^
I am a slow learner when it comes to art. Art is my stress reliever, I've been following *big art channel* not all of them useful 100% useful. So I created my own strategy in developing my art and it worked. You are the one will create a foundation to develop your art.
oh my god. i spend SO much time on individual pieces and this whole entire video basically described me. i really needed this, thank you
@2:42 You jump over this idea really fast, but I think it's the single most important point to make. APPLICATION of what you learn. I've noticed a lot of young artists just think it's about drills or constant copying, without having the intentionality of how to use those things. I for example am terrible at human anatomy drawing, but I also don't enjoy it so I don't do it. People practice what they don't like a lot. Forgetting to enjoy things and just doing what you like is the downfall for many creators.
"practicing consistently without studying and not improving" hits so hard for me
Ok so.
I have to be able to spot my mistakes. Accept them and study the why of the mistake and how i can fix it. To fix it i need to study that exact thing where i made the mistake and learn how to correct it, i need to apply my knowlege and keep going. This is what i usually do studying what i see or feel looks wrong after analyzing the entire thing. So i could pinpoint that thing and improve, this is what they mean by "your mistakes make you stronger" it makes you stronger because only when you recognize it is when you start to look for a way to improve hence you become stronger!
I like to listen to TH-cam artists talk while I paint. This one is a very excellent video. Especially for people in academia, who have gotten their master’s degrees in fine arts (a lot of my mutual friends). It’s easy to romanticize the act of suffering while making artwork. Saying things like “I was in the art studio for ten hours straight” is seen as a badge of honor, and it should not be. Thank you for shedding light on that toxic ideology. You are really thinking outside the box .
Great video and great timing for me. I’m 40 and have been drawing for years and feel like I’m still bad at it and not improving despite making a huge effort. I feel like giving up. Or… like I’ve been doing it wrong. And this really touches on how to correct that.
as noob artist of like 5-6 months the best thing that i learned is efficiency tbh (ofc i still have a longg way to go) but like the more times u draw something the better u will get at it sure i could take 5 hours on an unfinished uncolored piece and get decent proportions decent anatomy decent line art or i could get a bunch of somewhat worse drawings while taking notes on what im doing wrong and learn so much more from those than just the one piece i drew i think that comes from peoples insecurity while drawing the best mindset tip is to think of urself as an art baby children do not care if they are bad they just keep doing it and get better because of that
The fact that one of the main points of the videos is not worrying to much on getting the minimum details right and trying hundreads of times until you get it right, and instead learn how to do them to do it right first time, while the whole video is a part from a speed paint which you did nothing but try to make this little thing from the clothes perfectly even tho is not even a big part of the drawing
One day I’ll stop drawing circles and boxes on the canvas instead of just drawing the damn anatomy… One day…
Thank you, really needed to hear this. I started learning to draw later in life and it makes me feel like I am on a time limit to get good or trying to play catch up all the time so hearing this has helped me slow down
brain too smooth to understand video :v will watch it on repeat but i will probably still not understand it
I really really loved your Sayaka piece. I would love to have it as a wallpaper in my computer.
Honestly every time I've said "Fuck anatomy" out of rage is when I drew masterpieces
I like your pfp 🤤
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Clicked on this very fast
Same
What you said is true.
I've been guilty of most, if not all the mistakes you mention in this video.
I have no words to say how much this video is insightful and reassuring to me.
(I mean, I have but it might sound inadequate, and it's a Brazilian meme---)
So I'm gonna be light and just share your words of preach whenever I can 👏✨️✨️✨️ WHERE WAS THIS VIDEO WHEN I WAS A WEE BEGINNER????
Rarely have I clicked on something this fast
I’ll only spend 12 hours max on a drawing any longer and I’ll go crazy😭
Me be like: Circle as a head, rectangle with the top part slightly taper.
You got yourself a cute template buddy.
I'm a pianist by trade, been playing and writing music my whole life, my professor was a world class pianist trained by Mieczysław Horszowski and she always drilled in "I can ask you for 30 minutes a day of practice or 3 hours a day. Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect. You do not practice blindly, you practice a plan. Is measure 45 to difficult? Drill it. Are certain techniques holding you back? You study the technique then drill it. This will make perfect pieces.
Perfect practice."
Really liked this video. The part about art taking to long is definitely something i relate to but have never thought of in the way you expressed. Really good advice.
You've made very good points, great video!
Incidentally, I neither want to be good at drawing nor want to draw good art, I just wanna be good enough to draw sketchy character designs and maybe mediocre scenes.
Also, here is how you draw hands: grab a camera or phone, take a picture of your own hand in the angle and pose you want to draw, then draw it from reference. Adjust slightly as needed to suit the character if you wanna get fancy.
one thing that artist also do is study, but then get afraid of applying what they learn in the drawings and kept doing things the same way they been doing it before. stop being afraid and just try new things, see what works better for you and what makes your art process more comfortable, dont be a coward and try them!!! if it doesn't work the first time try again! second time try again! dont be afraid of drawing. The same way that you dont over extend things you also dont need to rush em, it's not a race, surely being fast is good but that doesn't mean you need to throw things you're not comfortable with in a draw just to not spend more time on it, if something doesn't feel right to you, take your time to fix it, dont be afraid of erasing things and remaking them. it's part of the process and it'll help a lot too in the learning.
As an artist of 35 years, here is my advice:
1: Try not to compare your art and skills to other artists. Instead look at other artists as just another source of inspiration to help you create your own works, improve your skills, develop your own style, etc.
2: Imitating other artists' artstyles is good for improving your skills, but it should never become your primary focus as an artist. Remember, you are own artist, not an imitation of an existing one.
3: There is no need to rush. You have all the time in the world to improve your skills and develop your own style as an artist.
4: Anyone can learn how to draw. It's how you go about it that will determine whether you will improve or not.
5: Learn to recognise constructive feedback from negative criticism, and try not get defensive. If someone is giving you constructive feedback, hear what they have to say. Remember, you are the one who decides whether to take their feedback to heart or not. If someone is criticizing your art or is trying to push their artistic preferences over your own, ignore them and draw what you want to draw instead.
6: Always aim to be polite and respectful towards others, and try to maintain your composure. There will be many people who will actively try to bring you down, so the best defence is to ignore what they say. Respond to posts that show support you and ignore the ones that don't.
And last but not least: Art is subjective and open to interpretation.
if you never compare your skill level to other artists, the market will happily do that for you
If you go to BAM's recent vid at they end they say they want you to be bad art machines. That being people who give yourself room to make mistakes so that you can improve from them.
Anything = get in the bin... unfortunately yes ..
awesome video and top tier wisdom gg :)
after i started using refrences and actually pushing my boundaries my art became noticeably better, for example when i tried rendering. It actually turned out realy fun and i was so proud of the outcome ^^
This is good advice and i low key needed it. I’m such a perfectionist and always expected better results if I just kept drawing. But I never really studied and thanks this video I can finally start doing that.😭
I mean, i leave a lot of my art unfinished, but not because it's wrong, it just looks boring. I don't see anatomical, or other issues, but i feel... Nothing about it. It's just boring and plain. People tell me it's good, pretty and so on, but i know at face value it does not statisfy me. That's how i work, behind my new art every 3-7 days there is like 10 unfinished pieces that made me feel nothing about them, that after line art, or even sketch i was like "THIS FUCKS"
Its take me a solid 4 month from nothing, to have something decent, that at least i can show it to my parents and i proud of it, all its take is lots of youtube tutorial, comparison to other, and wonder every night when i can draw on the same level as those artist every time i'm about to sleep.
Love this, so helpful
Finally someone else says it!
Just in a remarkably hilarious fashion.
I was fortunate enough to have an art rival for a year so I made a habit to fix any issues with my art.
Get yourself an art buddy it'll help a lot
Yeah. I feel like it's better to just be like "good enough at my level" and keep improving drawing by drawing. Indecisiveness is how one can indeed spend over 240 hours a single drawing if they keep redrawing details over and over instead of accepting it as presentable and learning from it. It's like a RPG stat or leveling up in JRPG but your level presents your art skill and it gets better as you do it.
3:23 "do you want to be good at art? or do you want to make pretty pictures?"
Me: BOTH.
I needed this unc, thank youu
Hmm, I study, went over foundation and still go through them, give myself patience, have some fun, enjoy drawing, use references and challenge myself. Can't say I quite came to the conclusion that art is easy, but I think drawing is fun and I can express myself to certain degree lol.
Wow she is preaching real hard boiss
You are not really wrong. Technically speaking, speech and even more impressively, writing, are, on a "if you really think about it" level, much much more difficult than let's say, perspective rules for drawing.
And perspective is considered one of the more challenging pieces of draftsmanship.
first time one of these videos has kinda connected with me
I feel like when studying, practicing and making things from imagination all feel equally painful I should go see a therapist. Why is my worth as a human automatically linked to the art I make? When did this happen? It wasn't social media cause I don't use that so what was it?
I love your rendering/art style ❤😍
I would say something productive but I was mostly distracted by how the edge of her dress look like teeth.
Art is easy man, draw a goddamn stickman everyone can do it a simply smiling stickman is enough to make someone's day better
im having an issue with free drawing at the moment, i cant figure out how to draw without reference but ive only been drawing like 3 months tops
even with references its still bad but i wanna learn to draw tih reference very well before i delve into drawing my own imagination you know?
there’s sets of rules/instructions to learning art, regardless of if you’re in pain or not, if you aren’t abiding with what you’re supposed to be doing, you won’t make any progress. IF you’re in pain, you’re most likely doing something that is slowing down your progress, pain serves to tell you something is WRONGGG😭
WAHH I LOVE UR DRAWINGS TOO MUCH [happykana face] UR VID MADE MY DAY !!
AWEEEE I’m so glad!!! thank you very much >w
@@wispravine OFCC !!
Thanks for your video and nice Sayaka fanart
The fucking ai jumpscare at @5:24 (along with the accurate commentary) literally solved my issue with drawing.
It's so true tho. Do I wanna get good at art? (yes!) Or do I wanna make pReTtY pIcTuReS.
They lied... Creativity Died...
This Sayaka is gorgeous btw
thank uuu!! ^^
as a dumbass at drawing bovines i am indeed unphased
I pray more ppl see this and understand it before they push the brink of insanity
this video pushed me to and over the brink istg😔
basically, this is how my 'easy' route went, so the main thing you need in art is inspiration and that starts off with you learning some basics by yourself and then getting a mentor, why would you want a mentor? because they can help you feel better, they can either give you some pep talk, or just straight up say "Cool" and you'd be fine with it, having people to guide you is..good..but you could just pick the "holy shit...its..been...20 hours...oh..booyyooyboy ....please..please..please..give..me..a..new...piece..please GRAAAH WHY IS MY DIGITAL ART SO AFHJGDSNHJS IM GONNA RIP THIS TABLET APART"
yea I did that too anyway, the main thing I did in 1 year of my art history was study artist..study shapes..study anatomy. and that was only to get my artstyle..different artstyles different training, lets take Katsuya Terada? for example amazing artist I like to study, indications of realism are on point but a mix of that feel....but yet again people have different taste, different taste= different art styles = different training= different life styles, even in 1 year of art I've noticed a lot of things, its simple...its 'easy' but that's only when you have the motivation, that's only when you push yourself...but hey that's just another ART THEORY!?
Anyway enough yap, art is simple but you must push yourself, even when the times are getting rough, and never compare yourself to other people..i did, once, but I had to stop and think to myself
My friend (mentor) once said (Hito) asian..female artist: "you're in the thick of it, everybody knows."
it pissed me off cause she somehow made a pun about ksi's song..but, its true. once you get courage and motivation from people, you feed off of it and you push yourself
Thats it though heh.
always make sure to have a beverage on the side when your doing art..and god...please DO NOT over render like imagine rendering a cloth, and then saying "yeah, you know what..tsk..i can make this better" nobody gonna tell the difference from rendered clothing and over rendered clothing..when the main piece that the eyes usually land on is the head.
Scuse' me! i am a beginner and i have a habit of using references and trying to understand anatomy in rough sketches to prepare myself for when i do get better at art! so is this habit of practicing ok? since i note down my mistakes and proceed to try overcome them
Commenting to spread the word, it’s nothing I’ve ever heard from other channels
It’s so true art turns out to be easy I’ve been practicing for years and Iam so dumb for not figuring it out or understood sooner 😢😭
the better i get the less fun i have... idk if thats just me or
but like it is fun to make your own charcaters it's just the drawing prosess is boring
and makes my neck hurt and my back bc i stay in one position for too long etc.
also now i want to draw better... but i dont do it anymore just to draw but to achieve something...wich is frustrating if u dont
i just want to draw again just to draw and have fun doing it an not tryhard so much... like make drawings that are 5min and not 5 hours
Art is EASY, im just lazy.
After finishing the video, i can't help but think "Then how the hell do i learn how to draw?"
Study, Practice, take inspiration, draw things you’re interested in, and have fun 👍
(learn art fundamentals it’s really important)
This comes across incredible arrogant from someone who produces work of this quality. These are the kind of takes you should only throw out once you have the skill and experience to back it up.
This can be applied to pretty much anything
From what i understand when i finished watching the video will ny 1 ADHD braincell that you should accept the mistakes you make, because that's how you are going to improve i guess?
Great video
I'm a photographer! What am I doing here?!?!
7:23 but what happens when you study andd study and study and its still torture? What happens when drawing is painful but so is studying? Especially for how little you gain from it? Only for what? To get a fraction better and the next drawing to be painful?
What am i to do? All stranded as an artist trying to teach myself, yet not matter the studying the pain never goes away?
This is the fundamental flaw of this video. You tell us to do something, that its absolutely necessary. But you don't tell us HOW to do it.
How do YOU study? Specifically?
But.. i do give up on finishing artworks out of laziness 😵
Jokes on you i studyd bovine and pony anatomy to much 😂 (former mlp artist)
Idk why it feels like this, even after studing much my makimg art still feels bad and dissapoining. I have no idea is it problem with how i study or something else
You saying drawing without non dominant hand goes bad?
While I only draw with my non dominant hand and my art ends quite decent 🤔
5:44 SLAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
i didnt understand anything, hard
clicked for the sayaka screenshot redraw
Exactly
sayakaaaa
epic vid fun person
Pffft u rite
That’s just not true it’s different for different people your just talking about yours I’ve done art sense I was little and I’m still not very good at it it’s just some people take longer either there disability’s or mental illness or just they take longer hope this helps
2 you should take a break not keep going if your having to much trouble it just makes things worse and for some people shading is hard either eye. Problems or something else ofc you should work to make it better but only if you take a brake so you can actually focus so it stays fun❤
well not really😭 yes, it might be different for other people, but it is only because of the mindset that they carry about art. If you aren’t taking the time to study art, and you’re impatient with yourself for not knowing something (that you never studied to place in your head in the first place), you’ll be stuck in a constant loop, and you won’t improve. Your frustration and suffering won’t bring you anything, they serve to tell you you’re doing something wrong.
We’re humans, and if we don’t give ourself the right ways to learn, we will become frustrated, and upset. The better way would be to use your creativity, draw what you want, and once that creativity runs out like it does, you go study art again. Shapes, anatomy, colors, gestures, poses, study it. Your creativity isn’t back yet? Then rest, you’ve done enough. As humans, we have tanks that fill up with inspiration, and run out when we use it. To recharge it we must regain inspiration. Watch a movie, walk outside, play a game, listen to music, etc.
@@emistarxx It can also be the approach that is problem, they might be avoiding the use of reference whether it be pretty art or real life, just trying to draw from imagination, never putting appealing and new information into the brain.
Even when using reference it's pretty important to get it as close to the original, note the mistakes, fix them, try again.
Drawing from memory something you've drawn from reference is an amazing skill check and an easy way to find shortcomings and where to improve. It's also called active recall, best technique for memorizing things - guidelines for one.
@@emistarxx Tell that to artists with ADHD who literally try to make lots of different art pieces at once and can never get one fully finished (I would know I am one)
I think you should have the right to say that after you ve mastered it so go ahead
I JUST SAW THIS
Go study art; don't do art when not know how to do art.
Personally I think this video is awful. No practical advice and a lot of pretentious confusion. I don't think you could be more wrong about frustration. I'm working on something now and it's incredibly frustrating, but from what I can see taking shape it's also going to be the best thing I've ever done. The frustration for me, comes from knowing when something is wrong, knowing why it's wrong, and just repeatedly trying to get it right. The getting it right part, unfortunately, takes practice. You really do have to do it over and over and over. Terrible video don't listen to this advice.
Sounds like you got your ego bruised from watching this video and needed to lash out lol. Frustration can come from many things, least of which being when you bang your head into a wall over and over trying to make something work but it just doesn't. That's what she is keying up on.
Her advice isn't bad, it just doesn't apply to your current situation.
Hi, 👋 i draw with my hand
Can someone please sumerize the video? (Or at least the most important parts) Because my attention span is worse than that of a rock
woaw im early (´･ω･`)
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