Brushwork is the area I'm most fascinated by, because when I look at some of my favourite artists' work, I often think, "They must just know exactly which colour, shape, and shade goes where in a single stroke," if that makes sense. My artworks still turn out a little too smooth for my liking, but this video helped me realize that it's probably because I'm still learning colour and light and need to continue focusing there ~
shape design is extremely important as well as edge control. Values aren't just the range of brightness, but it also encompasses the shapes of the cast shadows and its forms. When you know how these things work, it becomes much easier to place the correct strokes. Once you know how it works it becomes more of a question of what type of texture you want for that particular drawing
I tend to make notes on videos such as this, so if anyone wants to steal my notes, here they are; - To be as effective and efficient as possible, studies should have a goal. However, you may improve at other things. For example, someone with the goal of drawing solid backgrounds may improve color intuition and brushstroke fluidity alongside that. - The first exercise is the simple color study. Choose a reference with an interesting light source and try to draw the essence of the light by copying with intention. - Recommended to use references with a variety of subjects, such as people, backgrounds, items, others’ work, etc. - Limitations assist greatly in this first exercise. For example, you want to improve at sight-reading colors, do not color pick from the reference, which will force thinking and learning about the color and light instead of mindless color picking. One strategy to avoid color picking is choosing a color and comparing to the reference without color picking. - You can change these limitations if it serves your improvement better. - For this exercise, try daily studies. These pieces can be quite rough and not very detailed; capturing the essence of what you wish to learn is more important. - The second exercise will test your skill once you have done several of these color and light studies. This exercise consists of getting isolated line art and a separate reference for the lighting, then attempting to apply the lighting to the line art. - Finally, even if you have good light and color knowledge, brushwork is very important to create appealing paintings. Brushwork can make the difference between a good painting and a great one. - ‘Breaking the rules’ of light, once you know them, can create an appealing style. When lighting does not exactly mirror what you’d see in real life, it can create something beautiful. Great video! I think it will really help how I approach light and color going forwards.
BRO YOU LEGIT READ MY MIND I- omg this was so useful. Now I just need to somehow master anatomy ... chocolate fudge brownies dang it. Hella helpful tutorial tho plus the rendering in your art is just *chef's kisses*
I just want to say THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR CREDITING THE ARTISTS!!!! Now I have quite a few new artist to follow! Instant subscribe, you're way too underrated!
Wow Sariyaart, quite an exquisite video in my opinion. I don't know how to explain this but this one really struck an instense emotion deep in my heart. I didn't think it was possible but this, coincidentally, was the exact video I was looking for, which is the exact reason my mom entered my room after hearing me cry. We thank you very much for your wisdom and information Edit: I do have to criticize you for one thing however. As a consequence of your soothing ASMR voice I accidentally fell asleep while watching and had to watch the video twice.
By the lord I am at awe by your splendid words. I am grateful that you, wise brother, have expressed your emotions to such intricate detail, for I am now happy, oh so happy, to have heard your thoughts on the matter!
@@sariyaart How dareth thee assume mine own gender thee inconsiderate buffoon. This mistaketh, which I personally wouldst not alloweth slideth, may, oblivious to thee imbicile, hath brutal outcomes on thy carreer for thee hast strongly mistaken.
One advice. Don't pick the color from picture directly, use your eyes to pick. The most important thing in color practice is not how accurate you pick the "right" color, but how you achieve the overall feeling of the reference photo or painting, and some time even exaggerates it a little bit.
Really nice video! One thing that I would like to point out is that when you were painting the girl sitting looking off into the distance, you broke the values down correctly as the foreground middleground and background with increasing values as you go further. But when you started painting in the shapes your values got really mixed up. The darkest darks in the midground ideally shouldnt be the same as the darkest darks of the foreground. the same with the whites as highlights the lighter values are almost the same value in the fg and the midground. Instead, keeping a value range for each section : 5-25% in fg, 35%-55% in the mg and 70-95% in bg for example will help the readability and distinction between them( not a steadfast rule of course but this helped me a lot)
Props to you, really well structured video nice vibe with good examples and actually helpful, love the red font on the brown tone! From all the subjects, Color and light is the most daunting and most uncomfortable subject for me, this reminded me that there is a long way to go but there is a way to tackle it and break it down! The second exercise where you take a color setting and apply it to another drawing is so clever imma definitly use that. Keep doing your thing, gonna look forward for future videos :)
I didn't know you had a youtube channel! This was literally randomly suggested to me on my front page, that's so funny lol. Proud of you dude, you got great editing skills 💪
Ey glad to see you here hahaha. Yeah I never really advertised the channel much, but it's been doing surprisingly well ever since I started. Thanks for commenting man, always makes me smile when someone I know finds me randomly.
Великолепное видео, дружище, проходил через то же самое в своем творческом пути, а что самое главное до сих пор прохожу и учусь с каждым разом открывая для себя что-то новое изучая работы любимых художников.
I don't speak russian but I translated the comment, thank you so much for your kind words. Always happy to see people from different countries watch my content ❤️
Anytime I study another artist I ALWAYS put “study of [artist name]” somewhere on my piece unless it’s one that is super well known like old masters. Then I will put it in my post description. It’s a way to keep from getting into trouble if your intentions get lost
I should really try those harder studies more, gotta experiment and find out how different colors will look in different color temperatures. I probably will have to focus on value groups more than anything, but I find the challenge of picking the right colors interesting, and it's always been something that breaks me whenever I try to color... like for example what would yellow look like in a pinkish environment? My brain takes a long time to comprehend what possible color I should choose for that. There was one study I did to improve my color picking where it was a cool blue environment, and there was a cone that was orange, but from theory I knew I shouldn't choose orange, so I decided to pick a greyish pink instead, it was tough to get just the right color from the reference, but after a few tries I got close enough. I still get confused how to deliberately get certain colors in different color temperatures. So let's say if the environment is mostly orange and the more I go to grey without changing the hue, that should look like blue right? But then I think about how to manipulate it so that I can make an object look like it was say... green instead. Still cant figure that out, anyway I keep yapping about this but I bet it's really just a matter of "do more studies until you get it intuitively". Since the thing is, it seems like the theory is just there to give you a suggestion on how it works, but in the end you probably don't want to be thinking when coloring, it's most likely better to just have it as second nature and based on intuition. Because there's so much going on, with objects having different flat colors and such. And I feel like that's gonna be really hard I digress, just wanna say thanks for the useful vid, hopefully I'll get to that level since coloring is still one of my downfalls.
I definitely feel your struggle. I'm also much more of the thinking type, but there's too much theory to handle in 1 drawing, so yeah studies definitely help, especially trying to recolor art. It's just like how you isolate a muscle in the gym to focus on it, this one is like isolating this exact problem to improve. I wish you the best of luck in your studies and thank you for commenting!
Hello! Thanks for creating contents like this, definitely learned a lot of things which i can apply to my study. The only question i want to ask is if you’re using photoshop for the workflow, where can I find the best texture brushes to use for this kind of study? I always find myself getting stuck using only soft and hard round brushes but I want to not limit myself using them to further improve my craft. Looking forward to anyone’s suggestion and thanks in advance!
Sorry for the late reply. I usually use the free brush pack from Yuming Li (it looks like you have to buy them but then just say $0 dollars and it will work), which I assume works for photoshop too. Here's the link, you can try them and see if you like them yumingli.gumroad.com/l/zaxPz?layout=profile
Yeah thinking about brushstrokes is something I never thought about, but once I noticed it it feels like it's everywhere. Might be something I need to start studying
Sorry for the late reply. You need to open the 2 folders you want and then you'll see 2 tabs on the top left below, then simply drag one to make it a new window. I hope this made sense lol, tell me if not ill help you
@@Slaiolk8798 not really, what I do is different, but if that works for you then it's all good. However here are some links to how I do it (roughly): www.clip-studio.com/site/gd_en/csp/userguide/csp_userguide/500_menu/500_menu_window_cambus_new.htm www.clip-studio.com/site/gd_en/csp/userguide/csp_userguide/500_menu/500_menu_window_cambus_narabete.htm
I usually use the free brush pack from Yuming Li (it looks like you have to buy them but then just say $0 dollars and it will work). Here's the link: yumingli.gumroad.com/l/zaxPz?layout=profile
Can someone help me find a good variety of references for these color studies? When I type “color study reference into Pinterest, literally all it gives me are a bunch of portrait shots and occasionally some fruit or something.
They're actually not mine but from Yuming Li. The ones I use are from his free brushpack. I also use some of the brushes that Kuroh Shiro uses, which you can find in the description of her videos. Here are the links: yumingli.gumroad.com/l/zaxPz?layout=profile th-cam.com/video/r9c2O_6UoUg/w-d-xo.html
Any recommendations on where to find still life photos to study from? I struggle to find anything that's a bit closer to that arrangement with a skull in the video
I usually just go on pinterest and look up still life, there's still plently of good stuff there. If you find yourself being too picky then just force yourself to do one. I sometimes say "im gonna close my eys and scroll, the image im on is the one im going to paint", works pretty well. The point of still life at the end of the day is to paint, what you paint is somewhat irrelevant
I'm really happy oyu liked my video, also sorry for the late reply I usually use the free brush pack from Yuming Li (it looks like you have to buy them but then just say $0 dollars and it will work). Here's the link, I hope you like them: yumingli.gumroad.com/l/zaxPz?layout=profile
I usually use the free brush pack from Yuming Li (it looks like you have to buy them but then just say $0 dollars and it will work). Here's the link: yumingli.gumroad.com/l/zaxPz?layout=profile Maybe I'll make a more in depth video about all the brushes I use in the future, but for now I hope this helps
I usually use the free brush pack from Yuming Li (it looks like you have to buy them but then just say $0 dollars and it will work). Here's the link, I hope you like them: yumingli.gumroad.com/l/zaxPz?layout=profile
Glad you liked my video I usually use the free brush pack from Yuming Li (it looks like you have to buy them but then just say $0 dollars and it will work). Here's the link, I hope you like them: yumingli.gumroad.com/l/zaxPz?layout=profile
I've been drawing since I was a child, but I really started taking it seriously around 2 years ago. If you want to see my level at that time you can see it on my Instagram (you don't have to follow me or anything I'm just saying if you're interested) Also thanks for the comment
Its actually a photograph. I originally wanted to do a study of it (you can see me painting it at 3:25) and use that as a thumbnail, but it did really bad and the video wasn't performing well, so I just used the photograph. I'm not exactly proud of this and I want to change it when I have time to but I really don't rn and this video can't afford to not do well. If you wanna have the original let me know.
I'm so sorry for the late reply I usually use the free brush pack from Yuming Li (it looks like you have to buy them but then just say $0 dollars and it will work). Here's the link, I hope you like them: yumingli.gumroad.com/l/zaxPz?layout=profile
I'd say at least until the object of the study is recognisable when zoomed out, but that's subjective, so if that doesn't work for you then just do a 1h study regardless of how much you get done, you will definitely get better with time. I hope this helps, feel free to ask anything else if you have any questions
I usually use the free brush pack from Yuming Li (it looks like you have to buy them but then just say $0 dollars and it will work). Here's the link, I hope you like them: yumingli.gumroad.com/l/zaxPz?layout=profile
I usually use the free brush pack from Yuming Li (it looks like you have to buy them but then just say $0 dollars and it will work). Here's the link, I hope you like them: yumingli.gumroad.com/l/zaxPz?layout=profile
Trust me there's no such thing as being ready for it. When are you ready? When you're already good? But then that's the whole point of practicing no? Just be ok with "failing", tho I hate to call it that. Don't let your ego and fear stop you from improving. Good luck in whatever you do
I think the idea of posting a drawing you did the someone else's drawing being 'unethical' is crazy. That sort of idea isn't applyed to anything else, and people don't do this for dead artists, only living ones, or ones just 'online' which is crazy. Art if it's good is supposed to spread.
I guess copyright was never invented? Posting a complete redraw of someone else's work without crediting them is basically stealing another person's artwork. You spend 14 hours on this art piece on a skeleton skull, it's colorful, it looks really realistic and detailed, and you're proud of it, poured your heart into it. You post it, and not only an hour later you see a sloppy redraw of that same piece but it's not credited by you. It has all the same colors, proportions, lighting, everything, but it just looks a little more messier. This is what he means when he said "unethical".
You really should stop copying and go do a plein air or paint some girls. You won't believe how much more value you get from live studies. It's not a flex, I'm serious, one session gives you like 30-40 copies worth of new things. And it doesn't mess with your style, it lets it grow naturally, helps you understand yourself better. Like, now your studies are very inconsistent - 85 looks close to genius, everything else amateurish and own stuff beginnerish. And you probably don't see it or understand why. Also, and please don't take this the wrong way, I think it is too early for you to teach. I know that teaching elevates learning experience but today it's very easy to mistake basic clout chasing for sharing useful knowledge or learning together with community. If I were you, and I was you like 10-15 years ago, I would focus on 1 - speed. when you can finish a study in under an hour your output grows exponentially. you can learn all that you learned in a year in one week. 2 - compositional thumbnails. when you work on a small scale with pen and paper you can make a 100 in one day. abstract shape arrangement is the foundation of all Art. this is the most useful exercise you can possibly imagine. 3 - Never trace, Never pick colors from source image, try to copy from reality as much as you can, doesn't matter what. If you can't go outside, paint what's on your desk. It is like drugs, any shortcut or cheat to get good results now cripples your progress making you slow and weak in the end. 4 - Try to break the image down to simplest components and learn them separately. If you are working with colour - take a bunch of film screenshots and try to replicate them in 5 strokes, working with perspective - draw a spherical panorama. Working with shape and anatomy - go sculpt with clay etc. 5 - Stop copying. Your personal stuff is a bunch of frieren fan art. Life is short, really, really short. If you get caught up in fanboying and replication and learning for the sake of learning, you won't find what you really like to paint, what you love in the world and how you see it. It gets increasingly harder as the years go by. Copying is not the finest form of flattery. Understanding the idea and taking it further with care and respect is. I hope this is useful and I hope you take this seriously, not brush it off like an angry internet comment of some weird old dude. If I had some of these things pointed out to me 10 years ago my journey would be easier.
Craig Mullins said you shouldn't even have reference on screen. it's bad practice, it creates bad habits and leaves you vulnerable when you don't have a good reference. applying colours from Kan Liu to Frieren screenshot does nothing for you. Instead you look at it once, memorize it and fail miserably at replicating from memory. That way when you look at it again you'll remember much more. Makes your gears turn a lot faster. and as a side product you'll have your own piece of art as an output, with no ethical nuances. That way you work on your observational skills and visual library. Finally, about Yuming Li's colour and Dino's brushwork. You won't get these skills by studying these artists. You can get better skills in these areas by studying yourself. You get good brushwork by 1. working really really fast and reviewing results, seeing what shapes work and add dynamic effect. 2. working with real materials really really fast and trying to replicate the effect digitally. 3. messing around with brushes, making your own, understanding how they work, using mixerbrush, trying Krita etc. there's no magic tool, there's only a tool that works for you. You get these types of colour by 1. Painting from life. Saying this colour scheme is beyond life is blasphemous. There's all kinds of colour variations in nature, you just never pay attention. You have to notice it, know how to replicate it and then you will know what to amplify. copying photos is not the same as copying reality. That's why classical painting is Art and photorealism is not. your eyes are better than any camera. by the way you can pick up photography and colorcorrection on the spot to see what I mean. 2. Looking at traditional impressionists a lot. Not copying, not watching youtube explanation of their style and how it works, just looking. You are the filter. 3. to make absolute madness with colour look good you gotta keep the good values. Good image looks good in black and white. To understand what colours to apply to the image learn them separately. If 3-5 different colour strokes look good on a canvas they will look good on any image with correct realistic values. 4. Understand the colour spectre. Which way the colour usually moves through hues. This is only from life. Notice the edges around light sources, learn what terminator means, learn the physics of the light wave and never buy into the colour wheel opposite cold warm bullshit. It is all just another way to limit your mind. Colour is not a circle, it's a spectrum. Complementary palettes is just one of many tools for expression. Learn everything and forget it. Trust yourself. Have fun.
@@andrew_morev Let me start by saying thank you very much, not many people would go out of their way to write a comprehensive critique. It's hard to hear that your work is beginnerish after 2 years of practicing and that everything you've been doing is not a good way of learning, especially when it was all advice from professionals, but I think I needed to hear that. Of course, I can't know if what you're saying is 100% right either but I would be stupid to not try it out especially after seeing your work. If you don't mind me asking, do you have anywhere I can message you? I have some questions that I'd appreciate if you could answer for me and you just seem like a good person to ask for advice in general. Again of course only if you don't mind, you've already provided me with enough value with this comment alone. Thank you again
I've thought about making one, but I thought it might be too much work for me to keep it alive. I'm very inexperienced with this sort of thing so I was unsure. If you don't mind me asking, why would you be interested in a server?
@@sariyaart makes sense, it's always nice to have a place for art discussion and video-related/channel-related topics, which is why i asked No need to rush anything before you feel prepared to, just asking really
No I really appreciate the fact that you did, it made me realise that some people might actually be interested in a server. I've had some ideas about what I can do in it (start doing more community oriented video like critique etc), but I do need to find out how to maintain a good community inside of it though, otherwise I think it might die really fast. Thank you for letting me know though, definitely helps
@@sariyaart In my experience, whenever people who don't really use discord or know discord that well make a server because their fanbase asks them to, it doesn't really end well. Creator ends up realising it wasn't really what they thought it was or fanbase starts getting out of line with no rules to keep them in check or too many rules, etc. overall, stuff can just get really messy really quickly in discord if it's not a well thought out server with a vision. So i'd suggest if you're thinking about discord, go on there, spend some time on there like a month or two. see if there are any youtuber focused art communities you like and see what they're doing right and then try to replicate it. If you go there and it doesn't really work out, you don't like the vibes, it'll be better to just not bother with a discord. you'll save yourself alot of time, stress and emotional exhauntion.
What are some art things you struggle with that you'd like me to make a video about?
LIDUKE ART SYLE !! SHE USE BLACK COLOR GORGEUSLY FOR SHADING !!
Could you do a video on shading? Tysmm! Also, your art is gorgeous!
Composition and thumb nailing plz!!
Liduke artsyle anlysis her drawing using grey sahading !!
How to be good at making a face 😊
Brushwork is the area I'm most fascinated by, because when I look at some of my favourite artists' work, I often think, "They must just know exactly which colour, shape, and shade goes where in a single stroke," if that makes sense. My artworks still turn out a little too smooth for my liking, but this video helped me realize that it's probably because I'm still learning colour and light and need to continue focusing there ~
shape design is extremely important as well as edge control. Values aren't just the range of brightness, but it also encompasses the shapes of the cast shadows and its forms. When you know how these things work, it becomes much easier to place the correct strokes. Once you know how it works it becomes more of a question of what type of texture you want for that particular drawing
I love that you talk like a peer sharing what he knows instead of a teacher, really warmed my heart
I tend to make notes on videos such as this, so if anyone wants to steal my notes, here they are;
- To be as effective and efficient as possible, studies should have a goal. However, you may improve at other things. For example, someone with the goal of drawing solid backgrounds may improve color intuition and brushstroke fluidity alongside that.
- The first exercise is the simple color study. Choose a reference with an interesting light source and try to draw the essence of the light by copying with intention.
- Recommended to use references with a variety of subjects, such as people, backgrounds, items, others’ work, etc.
- Limitations assist greatly in this first exercise. For example, you want to improve at sight-reading colors, do not color pick from the reference, which will force thinking and learning about the color and light instead of mindless color picking. One strategy to avoid color picking is choosing a color and comparing to the reference without color picking.
- You can change these limitations if it serves your improvement better.
- For this exercise, try daily studies. These pieces can be quite rough and not very detailed; capturing the essence of what you wish to learn is more important.
- The second exercise will test your skill once you have done several of these color and light studies. This exercise consists of getting isolated line art and a separate reference for the lighting, then attempting to apply the lighting to the line art.
- Finally, even if you have good light and color knowledge, brushwork is very important to create appealing paintings. Brushwork can make the difference between a good painting and a great one.
- ‘Breaking the rules’ of light, once you know them, can create an appealing style. When lighting does not exactly mirror what you’d see in real life, it can create something beautiful.
Great video! I think it will really help how I approach light and color going forwards.
BRO YOU LEGIT READ MY MIND I- omg this was so useful. Now I just need to somehow master anatomy ... chocolate fudge brownies dang it. Hella helpful tutorial tho plus the rendering in your art is just *chef's kisses*
I just want to say THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR CREDITING THE ARTISTS!!!! Now I have quite a few new artist to follow! Instant subscribe, you're way too underrated!
legit helps ngl
I'm really glad you think that, thank you for commenting!
No go watch istebrak and learn fundamentals. Then color comes naturally
@@mbax-dq2bf I've watched that video but don't be rude
Wow Sariyaart, quite an exquisite video in my opinion. I don't know how to explain this but this one really struck an instense emotion deep in my heart. I didn't think it was possible but this, coincidentally, was the exact video I was looking for, which is the exact reason my mom entered my room after hearing me cry. We thank you very much for your wisdom and information
Edit: I do have to criticize you for one thing however. As a consequence of your soothing ASMR voice I accidentally fell asleep while watching and had to watch the video twice.
By the lord I am at awe by your splendid words. I am grateful that you, wise brother, have expressed your emotions to such intricate detail, for I am now happy, oh so happy, to have heard your thoughts on the matter!
@@sariyaart How dareth thee assume mine own gender thee inconsiderate buffoon. This mistaketh, which I personally wouldst not alloweth slideth, may, oblivious to thee imbicile, hath brutal outcomes on thy carreer for thee hast strongly mistaken.
One advice. Don't pick the color from picture directly, use your eyes to pick. The most important thing in color practice is not how accurate you pick the "right" color, but how you achieve the overall feeling of the reference photo or painting, and some time even exaggerates it a little bit.
Should have said earlier😭 *i already pick them from the pic*
Really nice video! One thing that I would like to point out is that when you were painting the girl sitting looking off into the distance, you broke the values down correctly as the foreground middleground and background with increasing values as you go further. But when you started painting in the shapes your values got really mixed up. The darkest darks in the midground ideally shouldnt be the same as the darkest darks of the foreground. the same with the whites as highlights the lighter values are almost the same value in the fg and the midground. Instead, keeping a value range for each section : 5-25% in fg, 35%-55% in the mg and 70-95% in bg for example will help the readability and distinction between them( not a steadfast rule of course but this helped me a lot)
Props to you, really well structured video nice vibe with good examples and actually helpful, love the red font on the brown tone!
From all the subjects, Color and light is the most daunting and most uncomfortable subject for me, this reminded me that there is a long way to go but there is a way to tackle it and break it down! The second exercise where you take a color setting and apply it to another drawing is so clever imma definitly use that. Keep doing your thing, gonna look forward for future videos :)
this is an incredibly helpful video, i look foreword to watching you grow even more
The biggest thing to me is drawing and painting outside. Go touch grass really does work for a lot of things.
Thank you so much! I've been struggling a lot with colour and light recently, thank you for making this video 💖
your videos are one of the few art videos that are actually helpful and easy to understand thank you so muchhh
Highly functional, practical, no-nonsense advice. Superb video!
It’s awesome to see your practice and It’s super awesome to hear it described instead of just a finished piece of art. Love this
God bless you, thanks for these clear studies process
I didn't know you had a youtube channel! This was literally randomly suggested to me on my front page, that's so funny lol.
Proud of you dude, you got great editing skills 💪
Ey glad to see you here hahaha. Yeah I never really advertised the channel much, but it's been doing surprisingly well ever since I started. Thanks for commenting man, always makes me smile when someone I know finds me randomly.
@@sariyaart Yeah for sure man, Wishing you all the success 🙏
9:09 AVDOLLLLLLLL anyways tysm for this video!! I dont even know how to describe how grateful i am for this video because its exactly what i need!
I just found your channel, and I'm impressed by the quality of your work and how sufficient your painting process is. Also, great advice. Keep it up
Великолепное видео, дружище, проходил через то же самое в своем творческом пути, а что самое главное до сих пор прохожу и учусь с каждым разом открывая для себя что-то новое изучая работы любимых художников.
I don't speak russian but I translated the comment, thank you so much for your kind words. Always happy to see people from different countries watch my content ❤️
This was genuinely such a helpful video, thank you !!
OMG This video couldn't have been better timed to show up on my feed!! I am in a hurdle right now :(
Anytime I study another artist I ALWAYS put “study of [artist name]” somewhere on my piece unless it’s one that is super well known like old masters. Then I will put it in my post description. It’s a way to keep from getting into trouble if your intentions get lost
thank you bro. I usually never comment but this video is great and I really appreciate your honesty.
I should really try those harder studies more, gotta experiment and find out how different colors will look in different color temperatures. I probably will have to focus on value groups more than anything, but I find the challenge of picking the right colors interesting, and it's always been something that breaks me whenever I try to color... like for example what would yellow look like in a pinkish environment? My brain takes a long time to comprehend what possible color I should choose for that. There was one study I did to improve my color picking where it was a cool blue environment, and there was a cone that was orange, but from theory I knew I shouldn't choose orange, so I decided to pick a greyish pink instead, it was tough to get just the right color from the reference, but after a few tries I got close enough. I still get confused how to deliberately get certain colors in different color temperatures. So let's say if the environment is mostly orange and the more I go to grey without changing the hue, that should look like blue right? But then I think about how to manipulate it so that I can make an object look like it was say... green instead. Still cant figure that out, anyway I keep yapping about this but I bet it's really just a matter of "do more studies until you get it intuitively". Since the thing is, it seems like the theory is just there to give you a suggestion on how it works, but in the end you probably don't want to be thinking when coloring, it's most likely better to just have it as second nature and based on intuition. Because there's so much going on, with objects having different flat colors and such. And I feel like that's gonna be really hard
I digress, just wanna say thanks for the useful vid, hopefully I'll get to that level since coloring is still one of my downfalls.
I definitely feel your struggle. I'm also much more of the thinking type, but there's too much theory to handle in 1 drawing, so yeah studies definitely help, especially trying to recolor art. It's just like how you isolate a muscle in the gym to focus on it, this one is like isolating this exact problem to improve. I wish you the best of luck in your studies and thank you for commenting!
pretty helpful!
Great video, everyone can learn something, both beginners and artists who have been creating for some time :)
Great video! I hope you can release a video dedicate to rendering skin in the future, cause the skin you drew is very pretty🥰
Hello! Thanks for creating contents like this, definitely learned a lot of things which i can apply to my study.
The only question i want to ask is if you’re using photoshop for the workflow, where can I find the best texture brushes to use for this kind of study? I always find myself getting stuck using only soft and hard round brushes but I want to not limit myself using them to further improve my craft. Looking forward to anyone’s suggestion and thanks in advance!
Sorry for the late reply. I usually use the free brush pack from Yuming Li (it looks like you have to buy them but then just say $0 dollars and it will work), which I assume works for photoshop too. Here's the link, you can try them and see if you like them
yumingli.gumroad.com/l/zaxPz?layout=profile
woah i lowkey forgot about timed stuff n how important brushstrokes are, thanks
Yeah thinking about brushstrokes is something I never thought about, but once I noticed it it feels like it's everywhere. Might be something I need to start studying
@@sariyaart definitely, I should look into it too
Very helpful video! Would you mind sharing where did you get those textured brushes?
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Thank you for this video, it was very useful!
5:52 how can u make 2 window like that in csp? btw thanks for the video , its help a lot
Sorry for the late reply. You need to open the 2 folders you want and then you'll see 2 tabs on the top left below, then simply drag one to make it a new window. I hope this made sense lol, tell me if not ill help you
@@sariyaart its like sub view right?
@@Slaiolk8798 not really, what I do is different, but if that works for you then it's all good. However here are some links to how I do it (roughly):
www.clip-studio.com/site/gd_en/csp/userguide/csp_userguide/500_menu/500_menu_window_cambus_new.htm
www.clip-studio.com/site/gd_en/csp/userguide/csp_userguide/500_menu/500_menu_window_cambus_narabete.htm
@@sariyaart thanks , that help a lot
Hello!!! Can you please share the brushes you use on CSP?
I love your video!! Amazing tips and insights! Can I ask what are the brushes you use for your study? Appreciate it!
I usually use the free brush pack from Yuming Li (it looks like you have to buy them but then just say $0 dollars and it will work). Here's the link:
yumingli.gumroad.com/l/zaxPz?layout=profile
hii very cool vid!! would you happen to have a pinterest board of the images you used for your color studies?
Amazing video, incredibly underrated
Super helpful, thank you!!
i really like art conten like this i wait for more video....
I can’t draw but I’d love to learn acrylic painting like this
Can someone help me find a good variety of references for these color studies? When I type “color study reference into Pinterest, literally all it gives me are a bunch of portrait shots and occasionally some fruit or something.
Im struggling to Locked tf in
I casted a locking in spell on you, now you have to go draw
Gimme your Clip Studio Paint Brushes. GRUUUUUUUARRGGGGH, GIMME GIMME GIMME!!!
They're actually not mine but from Yuming Li. The ones I use are from his free brushpack. I also use some of the brushes that Kuroh Shiro uses, which you can find in the description of her videos. Here are the links:
yumingli.gumroad.com/l/zaxPz?layout=profile
th-cam.com/video/r9c2O_6UoUg/w-d-xo.html
@@sariyaart Wofooo, thank you so much! I'll download them immediately and give them a spin.
Any recommendations on where to find still life photos to study from? I struggle to find anything that's a bit closer to that arrangement with a skull in the video
I usually just go on pinterest and look up still life, there's still plently of good stuff there. If you find yourself being too picky then just force yourself to do one. I sometimes say "im gonna close my eys and scroll, the image im on is the one im going to paint", works pretty well. The point of still life at the end of the day is to paint, what you paint is somewhat irrelevant
What brush did you used in that fruit sketch!? Also, thenkyou so much for this video❤️ really helpful✨
I'm really happy oyu liked my video, also sorry for the late reply
I usually use the free brush pack from Yuming Li (it looks like you have to buy them but then just say $0 dollars and it will work). Here's the link, I hope you like them:
yumingli.gumroad.com/l/zaxPz?layout=profile
@@sariyaart Thenkyou so much for the reply!🥹🫶
Good video great job
A walk-trough of your brushes would be appreciated.
I usually use the free brush pack from Yuming Li (it looks like you have to buy them but then just say $0 dollars and it will work). Here's the link:
yumingli.gumroad.com/l/zaxPz?layout=profile
Maybe I'll make a more in depth video about all the brushes I use in the future, but for now I hope this helps
@@sariyaart thx buddy
which brush did you used, the pack one of the oil brushes, pls i'm in love w them
I usually use the free brush pack from Yuming Li (it looks like you have to buy them but then just say $0 dollars and it will work). Here's the link, I hope you like them:
yumingli.gumroad.com/l/zaxPz?layout=profile
Hey where can I get your brushes ? The video is well very much informative.
Glad you liked my video
I usually use the free brush pack from Yuming Li (it looks like you have to buy them but then just say $0 dollars and it will work). Here's the link, I hope you like them:
yumingli.gumroad.com/l/zaxPz?layout=profile
Thank you very much
again nice content, i have q sariya for how long you learning art?
I've been drawing since I was a child, but I really started taking it seriously around 2 years ago. If you want to see my level at that time you can see it on my Instagram (you don't have to follow me or anything I'm just saying if you're interested)
Also thanks for the comment
@@sariyaart thx , i will follow
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great
who’s the artist of the thumbnail?
Its actually a photograph. I originally wanted to do a study of it (you can see me painting it at 3:25) and use that as a thumbnail, but it did really bad and the video wasn't performing well, so I just used the photograph. I'm not exactly proud of this and I want to change it when I have time to but I really don't rn and this video can't afford to not do well. If you wanna have the original let me know.
Nice
yo I know this guy
sum tells me this man pretty af
May I ask what brush are you using?
I'm so sorry for the late reply
I usually use the free brush pack from Yuming Li (it looks like you have to buy them but then just say $0 dollars and it will work). Here's the link, I hope you like them:
yumingli.gumroad.com/l/zaxPz?layout=profile
@@sariyaart thank you so much!!
brush?
also what brushes are you using?
How much details should we put into our study pieces?
I'd say at least until the object of the study is recognisable when zoomed out, but that's subjective, so if that doesn't work for you then just do a 1h study regardless of how much you get done, you will definitely get better with time. I hope this helps, feel free to ask anything else if you have any questions
@@sariyaart ohh icic alr i got it :>
What brushes do you use? I only use the texture brush but it doesnt blend so Im struggling to blend it
I usually use the free brush pack from Yuming Li (it looks like you have to buy them but then just say $0 dollars and it will work). Here's the link, I hope you like them:
yumingli.gumroad.com/l/zaxPz?layout=profile
@@sariyaart thank you so much! Ill use these ^^
can you tell the Brush pack name you use for the oul effect? please
I usually use the free brush pack from Yuming Li (it looks like you have to buy them but then just say $0 dollars and it will work). Here's the link, I hope you like them:
yumingli.gumroad.com/l/zaxPz?layout=profile
@@sariyaart thanks!!!!!
w video
real psychedelic_ow?
im clearly not at the point where im ready for this :( meh, bookmarked and hopefully when i am ready for this, i'll remember it lol
Don’t be discouraged my friend. Failure is part of the process. So get out here and try a few studies
Trust me there's no such thing as being ready for it. When are you ready? When you're already good? But then that's the whole point of practicing no? Just be ok with "failing", tho I hate to call it that. Don't let your ego and fear stop you from improving. Good luck in whatever you do
My drawings are incredible but my painting is a disaster
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I feel misled by the thumbnail not being your art
its fine to study other artists just say that its a study and not your creation
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Quais cores parecem certas
I think the idea of posting a drawing you did the someone else's drawing being 'unethical' is crazy. That sort of idea isn't applyed to anything else, and people don't do this for dead artists, only living ones, or ones just 'online' which is crazy. Art if it's good is supposed to spread.
I guess copyright was never invented? Posting a complete redraw of someone else's work without crediting them is basically stealing another person's artwork.
You spend 14 hours on this art piece on a skeleton skull, it's colorful, it looks really realistic and detailed, and you're proud of it, poured your heart into it. You post it, and not only an hour later you see a sloppy redraw of that same piece but it's not credited by you. It has all the same colors, proportions, lighting, everything, but it just looks a little more messier. This is what he means when he said "unethical".
You really should stop copying and go do a plein air or paint some girls. You won't believe how much more value you get from live studies. It's not a flex, I'm serious, one session gives you like 30-40 copies worth of new things. And it doesn't mess with your style, it lets it grow naturally, helps you understand yourself better. Like, now your studies are very inconsistent - 85 looks close to genius, everything else amateurish and own stuff beginnerish. And you probably don't see it or understand why. Also, and please don't take this the wrong way, I think it is too early for you to teach. I know that teaching elevates learning experience but today it's very easy to mistake basic clout chasing for sharing useful knowledge or learning together with community.
If I were you, and I was you like 10-15 years ago, I would focus on
1 - speed. when you can finish a study in under an hour your output grows exponentially. you can learn all that you learned in a year in one week.
2 - compositional thumbnails. when you work on a small scale with pen and paper you can make a 100 in one day. abstract shape arrangement is the foundation of all Art. this is the most useful exercise you can possibly imagine.
3 - Never trace, Never pick colors from source image, try to copy from reality as much as you can, doesn't matter what. If you can't go outside, paint what's on your desk. It is like drugs, any shortcut or cheat to get good results now cripples your progress making you slow and weak in the end.
4 - Try to break the image down to simplest components and learn them separately. If you are working with colour - take a bunch of film screenshots and try to replicate them in 5 strokes, working with perspective - draw a spherical panorama. Working with shape and anatomy - go sculpt with clay etc.
5 - Stop copying. Your personal stuff is a bunch of frieren fan art. Life is short, really, really short. If you get caught up in fanboying and replication and learning for the sake of learning, you won't find what you really like to paint, what you love in the world and how you see it. It gets increasingly harder as the years go by. Copying is not the finest form of flattery. Understanding the idea and taking it further with care and respect is.
I hope this is useful and I hope you take this seriously, not brush it off like an angry internet comment of some weird old dude. If I had some of these things pointed out to me 10 years ago my journey would be easier.
Craig Mullins said you shouldn't even have reference on screen. it's bad practice, it creates bad habits and leaves you vulnerable when you don't have a good reference. applying colours from Kan Liu to Frieren screenshot does nothing for you. Instead you look at it once, memorize it and fail miserably at replicating from memory. That way when you look at it again you'll remember much more. Makes your gears turn a lot faster. and as a side product you'll have your own piece of art as an output, with no ethical nuances. That way you work on your observational skills and visual library.
Finally, about Yuming Li's colour and Dino's brushwork. You won't get these skills by studying these artists. You can get better skills in these areas by studying yourself.
You get good brushwork by
1. working really really fast and reviewing results, seeing what shapes work and add dynamic effect.
2. working with real materials really really fast and trying to replicate the effect digitally.
3. messing around with brushes, making your own, understanding how they work, using mixerbrush, trying Krita etc. there's no magic tool, there's only a tool that works for you.
You get these types of colour by
1. Painting from life. Saying this colour scheme is beyond life is blasphemous. There's all kinds of colour variations in nature, you just never pay attention. You have to notice it, know how to replicate it and then you will know what to amplify.
copying photos is not the same as copying reality. That's why classical painting is Art and photorealism is not. your eyes are better than any camera.
by the way you can pick up photography and colorcorrection on the spot to see what I mean.
2. Looking at traditional impressionists a lot. Not copying, not watching youtube explanation of their style and how it works, just looking. You are the filter.
3. to make absolute madness with colour look good you gotta keep the good values. Good image looks good in black and white. To understand what colours to apply to the image learn them separately. If 3-5 different colour strokes look good on a canvas they will look good on any image with correct realistic values.
4. Understand the colour spectre. Which way the colour usually moves through hues. This is only from life. Notice the edges around light sources, learn what terminator means, learn the physics of the light wave and never buy into the colour wheel opposite cold warm bullshit. It is all just another way to limit your mind. Colour is not a circle, it's a spectrum. Complementary palettes is just one of many tools for expression.
Learn everything and forget it. Trust yourself. Have fun.
@@andrew_morev Let me start by saying thank you very much, not many people would go out of their way to write a comprehensive critique.
It's hard to hear that your work is beginnerish after 2 years of practicing and that everything you've been doing is not a good way of learning, especially when it was all advice from professionals, but I think I needed to hear that. Of course, I can't know if what you're saying is 100% right either but I would be stupid to not try it out especially after seeing your work.
If you don't mind me asking, do you have anywhere I can message you? I have some questions that I'd appreciate if you could answer for me and you just seem like a good person to ask for advice in general. Again of course only if you don't mind, you've already provided me with enough value with this comment alone.
Thank you again
I don't disagree with your text, but maybe Craig is wrong regarding using references. @@andrew_morev
Sometimes the words you speak are a bit mumbly and hard to make out, really good advice though.
Edit - just saw you have subs so nvm
hey sariya, you got a discord server?
I've thought about making one, but I thought it might be too much work for me to keep it alive. I'm very inexperienced with this sort of thing so I was unsure.
If you don't mind me asking, why would you be interested in a server?
@@sariyaart makes sense, it's always nice to have a place for art discussion and video-related/channel-related topics, which is why i asked
No need to rush anything before you feel prepared to, just asking really
No I really appreciate the fact that you did, it made me realise that some people might actually be interested in a server. I've had some ideas about what I can do in it (start doing more community oriented video like critique etc), but I do need to find out how to maintain a good community inside of it though, otherwise I think it might die really fast. Thank you for letting me know though, definitely helps
@@sariyaart In my experience, whenever people who don't really use discord or know discord that well make a server because their fanbase asks them to, it doesn't really end well. Creator ends up realising it wasn't really what they thought it was or fanbase starts getting out of line with no rules to keep them in check or too many rules, etc. overall, stuff can just get really messy really quickly in discord if it's not a well thought out server with a vision. So i'd suggest if you're thinking about discord, go on there, spend some time on there like a month or two. see if there are any youtuber focused art communities you like and see what they're doing right and then try to replicate it. If you go there and it doesn't really work out, you don't like the vibes, it'll be better to just not bother with a discord. you'll save yourself alot of time, stress and emotional exhauntion.
@@naz_nxt ^^ This, 100% agree
brush?