But how do I use lines to convey certain emotions? You only touched on this very briefly. I need more examples to get an idea of where to start, please.
Sometimes I stress about not making 'enough' progress, not having started drawing earlier in my life - and I forget that art is fun, but your videos always remind me. Thank you!
The Artist mentioned at 7:25: 1. Heinrich Kley 2. Bernie Wrightson 3. Glen Keane 4. Tim Burton 5. Claire Wendling 6. Egon Shiele 7. Aaron Blaise 8. Eliza Ivanova 9. Kim Jung Gi 10. Charles Schulz 11. George Herriman 12. Bill Watterson 13. Charles Gibson 14. James Montgomery Flagg 15. Karl Kopinski 16. Jeff Watts
Im 30, and i started drawing as soon as i picked up a pencil. I often stagnate and feel like my progress is either lessened or I feel as though i should be better considering when I started drawing. I've always been self taught, learning tracing at first, then free hand copying images, and usually only drawing anime, cartoons, or a fusion of realism and cartoon faces. Your videos just inspired me to learn more realism and practice more often.
Dear Stan. I have been following your progress for ten years now and I am so happy for you that all your efforts have been paid out. It's wonderful to see the lightness and self-confidence you have reached. Furthermore you improved your mastery in explaining you insights in such a compact, well-paced, insightful, esteeming way, it's a pleasure to watch. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. 😘
See now THIS is the foundational information that changes an artist from the inside out. Great show, Stan. The introduction alone about lines "like Whaaat?!" Is super refreshing confirmation.
You're my best instructor, Stan! You have taught me everything I know, and now my drawing is fantastic. I rarely ever make mistakes I need to erase, and I'm able to communicate exactly what I want the viewer to see. Thank you!!
an invaluable resource, I've been trying to put together a concrete plan to overcome some obstacles and start my own stories and studio, I cant thank you, your team and the wonderful guesting and things you've introduced me to on my art journey I cant even fathom how artist above me feel... yet
You are my star Stan. Thank you for another insightful and informative video! I will try my best to draw longer everyday and use the information you taught me here and in your other incredible videos to my benefit. Thank you so much once again, its people like you that give artists a beacon to strive towards in a world where art is being challenged even more.
So glad to see you back making these classic Proko videos. Digestible, super helpful, and silly lol. I started watching way back in 2016 when I wanted to get back to drawing/painting after a long break. Amazing to see how much your platform has grown!
im sorry proko but I think I missed something cause I only could catch 10 types of lines: 1. symbolic lines 2:19 2. contour lines 2:44 3. shading lines 3:21 4. cross contour lines 3:26 5: category of lines: construction lines 3:52 6. measuring lines 3:58 7. perspective lines 4:04 8. category of lines: gesture lines 4:14 9. line of action 4:28 10. rhythm lines 4:35 the three that are missed are the three components of the line? (shape, edge, value) or are in the section of line and emotion?
I have made two drawings so far I like. One looks like I would have made it in elementary school, the other looks like I made it in high school. My next thanks to your channel will look like I made it in college. Slowly down and using rythem was a nice way to help a lot.
I’m so confused help pls.. Are these videos in order? I draw a pear before practicing line work? Do I start with art fundamentals playlist or basics playlist?
Hay Proko, I was wondering if you can do a video on drawing and sketching in a sketchbook with out a desk or a table? aka How to hold a sketch book and draw in it with out a surfice to rest it on? especially for small or extra large books. Thanks.
I think sketchy and uncertain lines tend to stem from some level of aphantasia (like glen kean). Lots of searching and relying on the lines we put down to find the ones that make sense as opposed to the ones that sometimes we're expected to already see in our heads. I'm pretty sure I have some level of it and, as a result, I do a lot of searching to find my lines. It does get easier with practice thanks to muscle memory and breaking complex objects into their basic shapes. It just means I'm slower than I want to be.
Bruce Timm, Frank Frazetta, Alex Ross, Kazuki Takahashi, Oda Eiichiro, Mashima Hiro, Tabata Yuki, Horikoshi Kohei, Stepehn Silver, Steve Huston, Lane Brown, Chris Legaspi-- I'll stop there.
I've been looking through the portraiture course and I was wondering is the course on facial anatomy/expression still an Idea you'd consider? On another note, the way you teach is so simple yet so packed full of information, I just finished the anatomy course and I can't thank you enough for your structured lessons on the human form - I don't think I'd be at where I am with my technical ability, artistically without your guidance and assignments. You da best Stan. -Samuel
I'm going to have an in-depth course on the face but I'm not sure exactly when that will happen. Right now, most of my education energies are going into the ongoing Drawing Basics course. But I appreciate you being interested in that and will share here on TH-cam when that course is coming out!
If he's not already mentioned: The artist Kentaro Miura. His work is an excellent example of how to use linework to express not only detail - grotesque, beautiful, and everything in between - but also MOTION, which very, very few can match. He's also an example of artistic growth, as in the beginning he was detailed and ambitious, but while certainly competent, hardly all that remarkable in pure skill, but by the end of his life he had become so good that each panel, no matter how small, was a shockingly detailed and vibrant masterpiece.
People say that when you draw you need to think big and relax and be loose with your lines. I just cant seem to relax because of you stan! 😠 It feels like every line is super important and you cant screw upp once because if you do its a failure. I cant stop using the Writing grip and i'm super tence. 😢 Overhand and all the others dont exist when i draw. I am so neevous and tense that i cant relax.
Don't make it so big in your head/focus on an end result. I literally just grab an A4 piece of paper, and draw lines! Mess up? No biggie, draw a better line elsewhere on the page. A4 is plenty of space to mess up and improve. Place lines into practice with ovals, spheres and boxes. Not being afraid of messing up/looseness will open you up to relax, and translate that skill to your sketches 👍🏼
I’d like to follow along to the basics course , but I’m in the middle of the figure drawing course . I mean maybe I could do both. Like do some of the basic projects on weekends or something. Thoughts ?
That's totally okay! The Basics course is set up to be useful for absolute beginners and intermediate students trying to brush up on their fundamentals. If you have the time where you'd be able to do both, you certainly can. Just make sure one doesn't suffer for you to participate in the other.
The one thing I don't understand about any of your videos: whenever you're traditionally drawing a figure, you use diffrent geometric shapes for the body, and the slowly transition thoes into the actual body. You draw these construction lines with very clear and hard lines (like in 3:45 for example), so how do you get them to disappear after wards from the paper without ripping it or leaving a stain?
That's an age old question and has a few different ways to do it! You can draw more lightly so you can erase the sketch under your ink lines. Some people use very soft graphite in mechanical pencils so that the lines erase more easily. Some, like I do in this video, use a lighter colored pencil that won't pop out so much behind my darker final drawing. Hope that helps!
Thanks for the great video, Proko. But I still got confused with lines. I can use contour lines and construction lines to draw a cube, without any shading, but I can't just use these two kinds of lines to draw a litlle bump on a skull, as well as any other organic volumn. I come up with the conclusion that without setting a light source or using cross contour lines, we can't express organic volumn. Please correct me if I'm wrong. 😵💫
Needed to know the lines cause i cant get the ones that helps my drawing look good, i just went with the solid lines before and later needed to know how to properly make strokes
I like to argue about how 'lines' are actually really narrow shapes. Idea is touched on in vid by calling shape a property of line. Its a bit funny though since shapes have more dimensions than lines. Would it be better to conceptualize shape design to include these very narrow shapes?, or are these narrow shapes so distinct from the not-so-narrow-shapes that it really is better to think of them as something other than shapes?
Outside of extremely constrained media types like pixel art or tiny thumbnails, I'd say that [thinking of line as a (painted shape) rather than a (drawn approximation of a infinitely precise vector)] is part of how to get from 'correct' to 'clean'. By which I mean it's a marginal payoff until you're already reliable with more basic things (big shapes and proportions). I'd say it's actually a definite problem to think that way routinely, if it's too early in your development, because it makes things more technical than you have developed the ability to deal constructively with. Proko's "lines express ideas" is a good framing because it pushes you away from narrow focus on technique.
There's a premium paid version of the course that goes in depth, has assignments and feedback, as well as a few more lessons over at proko.com/drawing But you can follow along with a bunch of free lessons from it here on TH-cam: th-cam.com/play/PLtG4P3lq8RHHMNwxuVk0IcGRtPGHi4vN9.html&si=XqrsUGewinG9ASZz
Well, don't do that haha. You need sleep. Take breaks and do other things. Drawing often can help build up your skill at it. But you need to mix things up and have other hobbies so you have visual inspiration of what to draw too!
Your project is to draw every day for 2 weeks! I’ll drawing along with you and posting at proko.com/lines
Aye Aye O Captain! My Captain!
Stan, I think someone is using your logo to scam people on this very thread, I had a message offering a giveaway.
@@umatveg Yes, that happended to me as well. I thought it was proko but it's someone just using the name
But how do I use lines to convey certain emotions? You only touched on this very briefly. I need more examples to get an idea of where to start, please.
Sometimes I stress about not making 'enough' progress, not having started drawing earlier in my life - and I forget that art is fun, but your videos always remind me. Thank you!
Fun-damental :)
@@wennyyo9090 Yes! I really didn't mean "fun" in a kind of superficial way.
Just shut up and draw is my motto
John3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Fun in da mental 😮
The Artist mentioned at 7:25:
1. Heinrich Kley
2. Bernie Wrightson
3. Glen Keane
4. Tim Burton
5. Claire Wendling
6. Egon Shiele
7. Aaron Blaise
8. Eliza Ivanova
9. Kim Jung Gi
10. Charles Schulz
11. George Herriman
12. Bill Watterson
13. Charles Gibson
14. James Montgomery Flagg
15. Karl Kopinski
16. Jeff Watts
Thanks 😊
Thank you!)
Where is Albrecht Dürer 🙃?
Im 30, and i started drawing as soon as i picked up a pencil. I often stagnate and feel like my progress is either lessened or I feel as though i should be better considering when I started drawing. I've always been self taught, learning tracing at first, then free hand copying images, and usually only drawing anime, cartoons, or a fusion of realism and cartoon faces. Your videos just inspired me to learn more realism and practice more often.
Im 32 and just started to study art more seriously too! Goodluck on your journey!!
Dear Stan. I have been following your progress for ten years now and I am so happy for you that all your efforts have been paid out. It's wonderful to see the lightness and self-confidence you have reached. Furthermore you improved your mastery in explaining you insights in such a compact, well-paced, insightful, esteeming way, it's a pleasure to watch. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. 😘
See now THIS is the foundational information that changes an artist from the inside out. Great show, Stan. The introduction alone about lines "like Whaaat?!" Is super refreshing confirmation.
My man proko is pumping out videos this year, love it
Thanks Stan! Your quality and depth of information is amazing!
There is a lot to learn from your channel you inspired me. 😇
Finally a video and not a short. Thank you
This serie is really woaaaaawwww!
Thanks Proko.
You're my best instructor, Stan! You have taught me everything I know, and now my drawing is fantastic. I rarely ever make mistakes I need to erase, and I'm able to communicate exactly what I want the viewer to see. Thank you!!
Thanks for letting us be a part of your art journey!
an invaluable resource, I've been trying to put together a concrete plan to overcome some obstacles and start my own stories and studio, I cant thank you, your team and the wonderful guesting and things you've introduced me to on my art journey I cant even fathom how artist above me feel... yet
You are my star Stan. Thank you for another insightful and informative video! I will try my best to draw longer everyday and use the information you taught me here and in your other incredible videos to my benefit. Thank you so much once again, its people like you that give artists a beacon to strive towards in a world where art is being challenged even more.
Proko - Inspiration!
Proko - Mastermind!
🥰🥰🥰
Proko, you changed my life ! We love you man !
I’ve bin drawing from life and it’s really relaxing
these were so helpful thank you Proko
You forgot my favourite artist!!! Stan Prokopenko!!
So glad to see you back making these classic Proko videos. Digestible, super helpful, and silly lol. I started watching way back in 2016 when I wanted to get back to drawing/painting after a long break. Amazing to see how much your platform has grown!
This guy can teach!
I love the way Viktor Kalvachev is using crosshatching as well
Thanks for doing this series!
Fantastic video, I already draw but this makes me want to join your course. Great job
Masterful timing, I had just decided that now was the time to start studying and learning to really draw. Much appreciated!
im sorry proko but I think I missed something cause I only could catch 10 types of lines:
1. symbolic lines 2:19
2. contour lines 2:44
3. shading lines 3:21
4. cross contour lines 3:26
5: category of lines: construction lines 3:52
6. measuring lines 3:58
7. perspective lines 4:04
8. category of lines: gesture lines 4:14
9. line of action 4:28
10. rhythm lines 4:35
the three that are missed are the three components of the line? (shape, edge, value) or are in the section of line and emotion?
1) John Kricfalusi
2)Vincent Waller
3)Jim Smith
4)Bob Camp
5)Bill Wray
6)And Many, Many, Many More! 8:06
Chuck Jones - The Dot and The Line ❤
What a value episode! Thanks Stan!
Proko, thank you for these neverending free stuff 🙇🏽♀️
You are always the best. You are simple your explanations
Insane video quality 🔥
10:35 🤣 Thank you for this. 👌
seriously very good video It helped me a lot to control this issue of making lines thank you
The Art Journey Of A Thousand Drawings *Begins With One Line*
:asiman the wise
Thanks for your advice, I'm still finding my own draw style
I have made two drawings so far I like. One looks like I would have made it in elementary school, the other looks like I made it in high school. My next thanks to your channel will look like I made it in college. Slowly down and using rythem was a nice way to help a lot.
Great insightful perspective...
Thanks for sharing the Knowledge
God Bless
Ur channel is best for me to learn new things with exiting
Really thoughtful tips👌
I’m so confused help pls.. Are these videos in order? I draw a pear before practicing line work? Do I start with art fundamentals playlist or basics playlist?
Same question.... If anyone knows the answer please guide.
Pretty fun video❤❤
Really it's very impressive to me! Thanks a lot!❤❤
Hay Proko, I was wondering if you can do a video on drawing and sketching in a sketchbook with out a desk or a table?
aka How to hold a sketch book and draw in it with out a surfice to rest it on?
especially for small or extra large books. Thanks.
I think sketchy and uncertain lines tend to stem from some level of aphantasia (like glen kean). Lots of searching and relying on the lines we put down to find the ones that make sense as opposed to the ones that sometimes we're expected to already see in our heads. I'm pretty sure I have some level of it and, as a result, I do a lot of searching to find my lines. It does get easier with practice thanks to muscle memory and breaking complex objects into their basic shapes. It just means I'm slower than I want to be.
Bruce Timm, Frank Frazetta, Alex Ross, Kazuki Takahashi, Oda Eiichiro, Mashima Hiro, Tabata Yuki, Horikoshi Kohei, Stepehn Silver, Steve Huston, Lane Brown, Chris Legaspi-- I'll stop there.
Gerald Scarfe and Al Hirschfeld are also good examples.
You are a great artist
7:27 And last, But not least, My instructor Stan Prokopenko 🙃
Loved it🤌🏻🔥
Variety of lines is the most difficult thing for students to understand. But one day, something clicked and eyes are opened !!
Excelente .gratoo..
I've been looking through the portraiture course and I was wondering is the course on facial anatomy/expression still an Idea you'd consider? On another note, the way you teach is so simple yet so packed full of information, I just finished the anatomy course and I can't thank you enough for your structured lessons on the human form - I don't think I'd be at where I am with my technical ability, artistically without your guidance and assignments. You da best Stan. -Samuel
I'm going to have an in-depth course on the face but I'm not sure exactly when that will happen. Right now, most of my education energies are going into the ongoing Drawing Basics course.
But I appreciate you being interested in that and will share here on TH-cam when that course is coming out!
Thank you Proko
If he's not already mentioned: The artist Kentaro Miura.
His work is an excellent example of how to use linework to express not only detail - grotesque, beautiful, and everything in between - but also MOTION, which very, very few can match. He's also an example of artistic growth, as in the beginning he was detailed and ambitious, but while certainly competent, hardly all that remarkable in pure skill, but by the end of his life he had become so good that each panel, no matter how small, was a shockingly detailed and vibrant masterpiece.
Very helpful video ❤❤❤🔥🔥🔥
Alex Maleev, his Daredevil work is one of my personal favourites 🤘🏼
Learning more here than I have in 3 years of college, like how to use cross contour lines to make form.
Excelent Proko
Thank you for helping
hal foster my favorite line artist
Good explain sir 🙂
Salamat proko!
Peter haan ❤️❤️
You're the best man
Free lessons on TH-cam. Great.
I DON'T actually have money to take the proko drawing basics course. Is it possible to sefl-learn all these?
The Goya drawing at 6:50 is amazing!! What's it called?
"Dancing Giant"
@@ProkoTV Aaaah, thanks, man!!!
People say that when you draw you need to think big and relax and be loose with your lines. I just cant seem to relax because of you stan! 😠 It feels like every line is super important and you cant screw upp once because if you do its a failure. I cant stop using the Writing grip and i'm super tence. 😢 Overhand and all the others dont exist when i draw. I am so neevous and tense that i cant relax.
Don't make it so big in your head/focus on an end result. I literally just grab an A4 piece of paper, and draw lines! Mess up? No biggie, draw a better line elsewhere on the page. A4 is plenty of space to mess up and improve. Place lines into practice with ovals, spheres and boxes. Not being afraid of messing up/looseness will open you up to relax, and translate that skill to your sketches 👍🏼
Franklin Booth is my personal favourite
The caricature at tye end was hilarious 😂
Moebius and Edward Gorey! :D
Awesome
Came here from Instagram 🥰💕
@7:48 KOPINSKI!
Wow that's great
from 'the figure drawn when two points are connected' to this entire video. Lines are the same, I have grown up :)
Mr. Incredible while taping on a table : LINE IS LINE!!!!
I’m Ataliah I love your work
I’d like to follow along to the basics course , but I’m in the middle of the figure drawing course . I mean maybe I could do both. Like do some of the basic projects on weekends or something. Thoughts ?
That's totally okay! The Basics course is set up to be useful for absolute beginners and intermediate students trying to brush up on their fundamentals.
If you have the time where you'd be able to do both, you certainly can. Just make sure one doesn't suffer for you to participate in the other.
amazing★
By experimenting with different line techniques, you can add depth, texture, and expressiveness to your artwork
Шикарный видос, Слав!)
Стэн = Станислав, верно же?
“Sometimes, a line is just a line” ~ Sigmund Freud.
thanks for a million kilometeres
The one thing I don't understand about any of your videos: whenever you're traditionally drawing a figure, you use diffrent geometric shapes for the body, and the slowly transition thoes into the actual body. You draw these construction lines with very clear and hard lines (like in 3:45 for example), so how do you get them to disappear after wards from the paper without ripping it or leaving a stain?
That's an age old question and has a few different ways to do it!
You can draw more lightly so you can erase the sketch under your ink lines. Some people use very soft graphite in mechanical pencils so that the lines erase more easily. Some, like I do in this video, use a lighter colored pencil that won't pop out so much behind my darker final drawing.
Hope that helps!
what is this pencil 3:14
Ahh.. chicken-scratch lines r my favourite!! 😌
Same
Thanks for the great video, Proko.
But I still got confused with lines. I can use contour lines and construction lines to draw a cube, without any shading, but I can't just use these two kinds of lines to draw a litlle bump on a skull, as well as any other organic volumn.
I come up with the conclusion that without setting a light source or using cross contour lines, we can't express organic volumn.
Please correct me if I'm wrong. 😵💫
Needed to know the lines cause i cant get the ones that helps my drawing look good, i just went with the solid lines before and later needed to know how to properly make strokes
Sir big fan
What kind of drawing pencil are you using?
Line is the most important. Its the creator of the shape.
Is there a way to do payment plans on your class?
Currently, no. But that's something that we're hoping to have by the end of the year.
@@ProkoTV cool that’ll help a lot of people I bet, including me
Stan what kind of paper did you use to make that graphite behave like charcoal on newsprint?
I like to argue about how 'lines' are actually really narrow shapes. Idea is touched on in vid by calling shape a property of line. Its a bit funny though since shapes have more dimensions than lines. Would it be better to conceptualize shape design to include these very narrow shapes?, or are these narrow shapes so distinct from the not-so-narrow-shapes that it really is better to think of them as something other than shapes?
Outside of extremely constrained media types like pixel art or tiny thumbnails, I'd say that [thinking of line as a (painted shape) rather than a (drawn approximation of a infinitely precise vector)] is part of how to get from 'correct' to 'clean'. By which I mean it's a marginal payoff until you're already reliable with more basic things (big shapes and proportions).
I'd say it's actually a definite problem to think that way routinely, if it's too early in your development, because it makes things more technical than you have developed the ability to deal constructively with. Proko's "lines express ideas" is a good framing because it pushes you away from narrow focus on technique.
I'm sorry I'm confused, wheres the course/start learning to draw lines? I only see the paid option on your website, so theres no free course? XD
There's a premium paid version of the course that goes in depth, has assignments and feedback, as well as a few more lessons over at proko.com/drawing
But you can follow along with a bunch of free lessons from it here on TH-cam:
th-cam.com/play/PLtG4P3lq8RHHMNwxuVk0IcGRtPGHi4vN9.html&si=XqrsUGewinG9ASZz
@@ProkoTV Thanks!!😀
proko i need help what if i draw 14 hours a day from 6 30am to 10pm what should i do next should i break every boundry and go for 24 hours
Well, don't do that haha. You need sleep.
Take breaks and do other things. Drawing often can help build up your skill at it. But you need to mix things up and have other hobbies so you have visual inspiration of what to draw too!
8:00 Me: DAVINCI BRO, DAVINCI !!!
"Remarin" my fev artist with my fev lines