I Tried Learning How to Draw In 30 DAYS!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 มี.ค. 2024
- After being inspired by Pewdiepie's Drawing video, I remembered how much I used to love drawing as a kid and decided to pick it back up and challenge myself as well. Try to draw something every day for 30 days.
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I Tried Drawing Every Day for 30 DAYS! - เกม
EDIT: This is starting to get seen by people outside of my community and some people seem to doubt the legitimacy of all of this. I assure you I drew these, and that I haven't drawn since doodling in class. I understand if you don't believe me - but it's important to remember I also tried to mainly just do illustrations these 30 days AND used reference for all of them. None of this is original. I've been continuing my journey and have been trying to be more lose and less perfect and let me tell you a lot of it is a mess. I'm no prodigy and I'm also no charlatan. I think I can just replicate certain references to an okay degree that might make it seem like I'm more advanced than I am but I assure you I'm not. My recent sketchbook is a lot of hot garbage.
Super nervous sharing this but after all the nice comments I had gotten over on Twitter I thought I could share it with you all to see what you think and to hopefully pass on the inspiration to others! If you have any tips or ideas on how to improve in the next 100 days like I mentioned at the end of the video - let me know! Thanks so much for all your support and sorry for the sporadic uploads. Been more depressed than usual but this drawing has really helped me day to day and within the next couple days you'll see my single biggest video project to date. Love you all!
I’ve always been impressed by your drawings!! I’m excited to watch. Keep it up!!
Saw a sneak peak of the drawing on your streams, good work man thats really impressive for just 30 days....keep it up!
You’re an inspiration King don’t worry
Love the video, nice change of pace. Glad to hear drawing has helped. There is just something soothing about drawing pencil to paper. Oh totally understand ADHD brain, got it too my friend. Hope you keep drawing.
put those art on your merchandise tshirt and sell
mr fruit out here like 'yeah so this is literally the worst thing i've ever drawn,' drawing masterpieces, meanwhile me in any drawing game out here drawing a stick figure being like 'oh yeah, this is a banger'
But I bet that stick figure is the Mona Lisa of stick figures
😡 👉 ❤️
As someone who cant draw better then stick figures i feel ya xD
For real 😂
But those stick figures are certainly OPTIMAL.
No lie, this is maybe top 5 Mr Fruit videos of all time. I love the vulnerability and honesty. Christian is so easy to love and this is a perfect example of that.
Christian, I'm old enough to be your father, so I'm just going to throw this out. I'm so proud of you. Keep doing what makes you happy.
Thank you so much 🥲
Even the most seasoned illustrators and animators use references for their work. Heck, references are used constantly in all forms of art at all skill levels. You’re doing great, Fruit! Just keep at it!
I’m an illustration major and I and I gotta say, you do have that dog in you. Even I struggle with proportions, anatomy & perspectives still. Just keep practicing, even doing things the longer way will is never a detriment to your skill.
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like a master.”
-Pablo Picasso
That means a lot, thank you 🙏
@@Mr_Fruit 🙌
Having an illustration major saying you have that dog in you has to be one of the best compliments you can recieve
Just wanted to share that I think your quote at the end from Picasso is really awesome and became one of my new fav quotes ! I think it’s extra cool to interpret it in a modern lens as applying to other arts and media like music, cinematography, photography, cooking, and even coding or game development/design! :) Thanks for sharing!!!
@@patrickt101 we all struggle from time to time, it’s hard to keep going but eventually continuing on will pay off and you will get better. Even I still have room to improve, I remember I could barely draw hands and even though it’s still hard I was able to draw them better than before.
Seen the very first page and i was like, this guy hasn't drawn in years and he can still draw something 10x better than i can
😂 Don’t discredit yourself!
I have been taking long breaks from TH-cam and haven’t watched this channel in ages and Mr. Fruit is the first channel that I genuinely loved from so long ago from back in d1 infection, grenade dodgeball and juggernaut or Overwatch 1 gun game and it’s so refreshing to come back. I love how far Christian has come but like he’s still the same guy. It might be the different new content and style. It’s like one of the most warm feelings I’ve ever had. Love this guy, man 😁
I came here to say exactly what cytro said. Like wow dude you’re friggin good
How good was Mr Fruit before he stopped that's the real question?
i literally took my artist glove off after that first page
Hi Fruit! Freelance artist myself here, very impressed with this!! You've already got a really good handle on values and line weight, it's really well done. And trust me, that's not "just copying from reference", that's a good eye. Also like other people have said, reference is so important, so it's awesome you're using it to practice. Since you asked for recommendations, I might recommend taking a look at Marc Brunet's channel, starting with his "Learn to draw from Lvl 0 to 100" vid from a few weeks ago. His vids helped me out a lot, and he's got a good sort of progression of skills to practice too.
If you see this, hope that helps and thanks for the awesome vid! You've inspired me to pick up the pen and draw some more just for fun today too! Hope you have a great day!
Thanks so much for taking the time to comment, means a lot! Thanks for the feedback and advice, I'll look into it!
Ooh! Yeah I didn't think of how the good eye for it would be that crucial, but I did feel like he has a good view of art. Thanks for the rec too! I wanted to get back into drawing as well.
My dad has a gift when it comes to art. He can sketch your face, draw backgrounds, shade/color all the above. He used to be a tattoo artist, and one of his favorite things to draw were superheroes/villains or anime characters. Seeing you draw Goku reminded me of his art. Thank you for sharing you did an excellent job!
Now we just need an unedited video of Mr. Fruit cosplaying as bob ross and do bob ross things.
I didn't know I needed this until now
This is 112% the best idea.
Ill be honest I would love that! Make it a whole series of Mr Fruit learning and getting better.
I would like but It need to stay at the 112
Mr fruit says he isn't confident in his drawing in the beginning. Flips first page and says that it's his first time pencil to paper in 10 years. I'm expecting a meh drawing but instead a pretty damn good drawing. This man has a better drawing first time in 10 years than I have ever had in 29 years -_- I can't even draw stick people man...
Right?? lol when he said that I was expecting like. 5 year old horse. If you know you know lol. But man they were amazing and then the progress by the end. Amazing to see
As a casual (mostly digital) artist who struggles to draw from what I see (not sure why tbh, it’s just a thing with me lmao), I’d say you did very well! I think doodling without references just to see how it turns out could be a nice thing for you to do, when you start feeling more comfortable of course. Regardless, I wish you luck on your artistic endeavors, whatever you decide to do :)
My favorite part is how he starts off with a casual “yeah this is the first thing I’ve done in 10 years” and I couldn’t even as much get close to what he’s putting on the paper. Impressive good sir
he's using references
@@neolordiewho doesn’t use a reference
@@keento8911 nah I mean, it's copying
@@neolordie unless he’s just tracing then i don’t see how using a reference invalidates it
No such thing as an imposter in traditional art. Referencing things around you is just how you learn. Man now I want to this too
Fruit: *does something impeccable*
Also Fruit: “yea this is a little meh”
You’re one talented dude, Mr.Fruit! I’d love to see another video of your 3 month, 6 month, and even year progress on your drawing
Yeah I know right. The guy's mad talented 🔥
“We are our own worst critic”
Your art is amazing and it doesn’t matter that you are looking at references. This video has inspired me to try something like this as I have some down time and I used to draw a lot when I was younger.
What a fantastic and inspiring video! Showing real progress is so important. With social media we so often see the fantastic days but rarely if ever see the hard days. Sharing your great days and tough days makes it seem so much more real and helps remind viewers to persevere.
Major props - I really enjoy your art. Looking forward to your Bob Ross arc!
I like how you break down your thought processes!
I tried to cut some out because I went on a bit long on each piece and wasn’t sure what/if people would be interested so that’s great to hear!
@@Mr_Fruitidk what all you cut out, but what you left in certainly was interesting ❤
@@Mr_Fruit I'd be so down for that!
got me wanting to do this now - much love mr fruit keep up the grind and have a good day
This was so good from the first page onward, very impressive stuff! Especially with the foreshortening and drawing hands/hair, which I've always struggled with aaalot. Don't have any pointers but looking forward to seeing more of your drawings, if you decide to share them. Felt inspired to dust off an old sketchbook and started drawing myself.
Much love Mr. Fruit
Fruit, these are great! I don't think I could freehand a trace that well in that amount of time, let alone a unique image from references. I haven't really touched my digital art pen in almost a month and have been regretting it. After watching this though, I think I know what I'm doing today!
For your next 100 days, draw what you want to draw! Don't feel bad about copying something, it's a great way to learn. Maybe try taking two reference images and mixing them. Create a fusion, or just use one character's pose on another. And even when you try an original piece, use references! I've been at this for a few months and I couldn't do anything of value without references.
Love it, keep it coming mr fruit.
Hey, Fruit! Been following you since the Hawkmoon car commercial video long ago, I knew you were pretty good at art from your own efforts you've shown before (Draw My Life, Jackbox, etc.) and from the Dream Team mentioning it. I went to college specifically for Art and I gotta say your 30 days of drawing is incredibly impressive!
The progress definitely shows and it's absolutely normal to have off days or some drawings where it just isn't working out. (I have a friend from college who has kept a piece of my work that I have deemed as my absolute worst, he's keeping it as a way to remind me that even at my worst, it was still something good and uses it to poke fun at me from time to time). It's as you said, "I didn't like it, but at least I did something that day." And that goes a long way towards the craft. I enjoyed your commentary about it and had a good laugh about how you discovered the sketchbook was too small as you continued to progres... it's the thing all artists come to realize: I need more paper space! I need a bigger desk! I need better supplies! :P Once you get into it, the tiny sketchbook just doesn't work as you've noted. When I started, my own Art professor snatched the mechanical pencil out of my hand and put a Woodless 2B in its place for me to draw with. I was too scared of the different kinds of pencils so I never moved away from the mechanical pencil... but the moment she changed it out for the Woodless 2B, it opened up a whole new world of what I could do with graphite and now I can't ever draw with a mechanical pencil again! Your commentary about not having the proper pencil types to get a dark enough value for shadows reminds me of that (A Woodless 6B would definitely help! Get the full spectrum: HB, B, 2B, 4B, 6B, 8B, etc.). Your commentary about how you're noting you don't feel like you've made much progress and already having feelings of imposter syndrome... is perfectly normal, actually! We see our own time, effort, and mistakes we put into the work so a sense of progress gets lost because we can note all the similarities between each work. On that particular note, however, I did learn from my Art professor that Anime is a great art form, but it can be difficult to make progress in it since the style is so very concrete and "same-y" across all the types. That isn't a negative on Anime, just an observation. I started by drawing Anime myself! I have since worked on realism, as I greatly enjoy drawing the vast array of unique faces humanity has to offer, including all the asymmetrical features and odd elements that make a face unique to that person!
I'm in an over-extended art block where I haven't been able to progress at all and I've felt really crummy about it, even questioning if I wanted to keep going. I heard you mention about the 30 day drawing challenge on the Nuzlock video and I was instantly curious, so I'm glad to see the video here! It's got me motivated somewhat to just pick up pencil and paper (I have... SO MANY sketchbooks!) and draw, not caring about getting it right. It's my biggest hurdle, since I've studied Art and want to make it into something... so my mind is constantly swarmed with, "No, that is the wrong proportions. No, that doesn't work. No, you gotta make sure you're maintaining proper hand technique and posture. No, that's not logically possible in realism work. No, this isn't impressive/good enough to show, so why bother?" ... Those nagging thoughts are just the inner critique trying to stop me before I begin. It has succeeded, but I can change that. This video helped me realize that, so thanks!
TL;DR: Coming from an Art major myself, it's truly impressive work, Mr. Fruit! It's also helped me realize my inner critique was getting in the way of my own progress, stifling it completely, so I've got a little motivation now to break this stupid art block.
Just hearing how this video might have helped you a little bit made it all the worth it, thanks for all the affirmation and I know you’ll get out of this block
I have been taking long breaks from TH-cam and haven’t watched this channel in ages and Mr. Fruit is the first channel that I genuinely loved from so long ago from back in d1 infection, grenade dodgeball and juggernaut or Overwatch 1 gun game and it’s so refreshing to come back. I love how far Christian has come but like he’s still the same guy. It might be the different new content and style. It’s like one of the most warm feelings I’ve ever had. Love this guy, man 😁
Never seen your vids/channel before, happy for you!
There are a couple of base stats aka talent that some people have when it comes to visual arts. Clearly you have one for being able to output form from reference pretty well. This is nice to have and don’t let it bring you down! More importantly you’re having fun with this!
the day one drawings really surprised me a lot! I didn't expect them to be that good. fairplay man.
Please make a 100 day video, your improvement is absolutely amazing! I am bewildered to see how good you are as you said you hadn’t drawn since 6th grade and I’d love to follow you through your journey. I am also an artist and take great inspiration from your drawings. Your work is just so amazing and puts a genuine smile on my face! Keep up the great work bro! 😁
This is really inspirational to watch. I'm starting to dabble a little more into inking & watercolor, and seeing the vulnerability and honesty and pride when you show your work really inspires me to put more effort into my own art and to be proud of it. And your illustrations really are good! I know it'd take me more than 30 days to draw a hand as well as you do or draw weighted lines and shade- you really have a good eye for that. A drawing discord or discord channel sounds awesome and I'm looking forward to a potential 100 day video or even just seeing more of your illustrations!
This is amazing! Part of your old art muscles came back. I have been always told as I am also an artist; "You are your own worst critic". I like to look at it as to improve on the next one. Thank you for sharing your experience. This is so cool. I just love watching people improve or just do it for fun for themselves. Thank you for not scribbling or crossing out any of your amazing work. My heart did not clench in pain haha! Any art is art no matter what it looks like. Big inspiration.
Don't feel bad about using references fruit. It's really good, even with references I cant make lines as straight or clean as what you did. Love to see your progress on this journey and looking forward to seeing how it evolves ❤
Every scribble game or the jackbox videos you and the crew have done you’ve always had great artistic abilities, and I can’t wait to see this progression! After what u showed on the soul-link I think it will be worth the watch ❤
Love to see this. Honestly shocked that this rolled across my feed. I’ve always wished I could draw like this but never been able to progress past stick figures. So incredible to see this level of expertise! Glad you stuck with it!
These are the kind of videos that need to be created and seen more. It was amazing how this video was a form of catharsis for you that you didn't initially plan to share, but I know it inspired me. I keep myself from drawing stuff so often because it "isn't productive" but I sketched through this entire video. Fruit, you inspire and I can't wait to see more of your artistic journey
i’ve been drawing quite a bit over the last two months. i basically only draw from memory, more cartoony style cause i used to draw a lot of comic books with my friends in elementary school. i’d recommend trying to develop your own style, that will help with feeling like your work is your own. maybe try to draw some fantastical beast and use your mistakes as a way to change up the creature, find your flow, your style. good luck with it.
When growing up we tend to put things we enjoy as kids/teenagers away because we think doing and enjoying these things "is childish and we need to grow up". I'm 34 now and just realized this recently myself and picked up drawing again, so if you're young and reading this please keep drawing it'll give you so much more enjoyment and will be a great way of winding down when you're busy with all the seriousness of being a boring adult.
I haven't really used any sources to learn how to draw, like classes or videos, whatever it may be. I've only really just seen or imagined something I wanted to draw, and then figure out how to get there with my pen/pencil. Even so, something I've realized by observing anime or people irl is: sometimes the most natural things are weird, plain and simple. I find myself having to really think outside of the box for some of the shapes involved in drawing people, but in the end, they seem to make the piece feel whole. This was just something I wanted to share. I really love your videos! You're always so real and, honestly, comforting. In this video in particular, I loved seeing the improvement and listening to your thought process through the entire thing. You are, by far, my favorite content creator, so thank you for sharing yourself with the world!
Hey fruit! I love to see that you’re diving into something that I love ad well and I just wanted to give you a heads up, that especially for digital art, some days you will feel like your art is not turning out the way you want it. But if you’re really serious about learning, the best thing to do in these situations is to push through the hardship! Great job fruit!
Ohhh here we go, in for some art practice. As a bit of an artist myself ;) , I'm keen to see how you've done man!
Btw, it is insane (not that insane) to hear that you used to draw in class because it helped you focus. In my early days, that is exactly what I did, and my parents needed to have a talk with my teachers at the beginning of each school year to help them understand that I'm actually paying better attention if they let me draw during teaching.
I'll drop a reply below when I've watched the whole video, I'm at work right now, lol.
You'll have to let me know what you think, thanks for checking it out!
You asked! Apologies for the absolute essay, but man, do I get driven seeing art stuff, and as a professional, I'd love to lend my opinion to you.
-Yes, the smaller sketchbook is probably not as good, but it is less daunting. I see a sort of "perfect or nothing" personality trait (seems familiar, so...lol), so a smaller sketchbook as a start is just fine, as is the case for copying from reference. I see you noticed limitations in the book's size already in the video! As a kid, I had a very similar sketchbook size, and I would copy Star Wars art, screenshots, and eventually I'd draw the action figures in my hands. It was...kind of my thing at the time.
-Great to see you engaging in your first challenge for yourself; going for it with female forms. I too prefer drawing men with hard lines, easy anatomy, as I'm more familiar with a male body. The stuff you've got looks great, your self-critique notes are awesome to see you doing, and are honestly accurate (proportion notes, foreshortening, etc.). Amazing seeing you looking up tutorials on drawing with structure. You'll find structure will help you feel out the 3D form and put what is in your head onto the paper without the features getting jumbled.
-I love to see your progress, pushing through things that must have made you some level of uncomfortable; drawing turning shapes, checking up on vids for the fundamentals, portraits, etc.
-Your eye for color is nice, and if I may compare, better than mine, even via reference. I've got none to speak of, really. My eye is for shape, gesture, and motion, so now I'm a professional animator, haha.
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I recall the very first time I broke from drawing from reference. My sister (better artist than me at this time. I always wanted to be as good as her) said to me "you never draw faces, or hands, or from imagination." So essentially, taking it as a dare, I made a portrait from my head, with a hand up in front of the face, with a reflection in the visor. A simple kid-like drawing to be sure, LOTS of mistakes, and obvious lack of techniques that would have totally helped. But! It was my first foray into it, and I ended up getting best in show at the county fair. Feather in the hat for that. From there, I focused on hands and faces in my subjects, and I'm really happy I was pushed to do so. Great to have good people, even better people pushing you to be better. With a similarly "perfect or nothing" tendency, that trait tends to make me slow on change and improvement if I leave it up to myself sometimes. My pursuit of great strides in improvement and change need to be intentional, and work against my own comfort.
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30 days of your journey reintroducing yourself to drawing has been spectacular to see! The progress is amazing, and....yes.... hyperfocus makes ADHD folks capable of intense progress in many things. Ask me how I know ;D. I used to have dreams, and insomnia, related to my mind racing over the next things I would draw. It has actually been a very long time since I've put pencil to paper for a sketch.
Some things, from me to you, in regards to your progress in art:
-Absolutely go for some full body art, no concentration on the faces. I see you love a portrait, which is great, and a focus in itself! I suggest however, try to draw a body, head to feet, specifically choose art with feet drawn on the ground. It can be tempting, and you may not know you're doing it, but it's EASIER to avoid addressing how a character stands on the ground. Even professional comic art, you'll notice from some artists (Examples in some X-Men and superhero comics), avoid drawing them down to the feet. They'll even cover them in low fog sometimes!
-VERY IMPORTANT: Learn the drawing process. This will help you understand how a body is built, proportioned (Eyes go where on the face, a nose goes how far down before the mouth, the body of a tall person is such and such number of heads tall etc), and how it moves and where the bodyparts are going that lead you to a pose. That will help you inform yourself on anything that "looks weird" or "not what I see in this reference, but I don't know why."
1. Gesture: This is line of action; where the weight is going, where the attention, and where the force of your character is going. Are they standing with weight on one foot? Organically, the weight goes to one side more than the other, where is the compression? This process is fast, full of feeling, and not always anatomically accurate. Don't worry, you sort that out with the next step. NOTE: An important term to look into knowing and looking for in art is "contrapposto." Thank me later!
2. Structure: On top of your gesture lines, you build out your generic shapes to build form and volume. Reign in the gesture so you're not "off model." Head, ribcage, hips, shoulders, the volume of the thighs (ayo), legs, down to the feet etc. This is where it's important to draw to the feet, because the gesture and how you reign it in can tell you if your character is off balance.
3. Anatomy: You can put the general shapes of the character on the structure, which will build out their silhouette. Basic musculature, like the pecs, lats, how the core connects the ribcage to the pelvis, how the (anatomical name incoming, but it's my favorite muscle. It's in the neck) sternocleidomastoid informs the direction of the head, and how it connects the head to the chest/shoulders.
4. Details: The character's specific features, facial expression, clothes, armor, shading etc.
When I learned this process, my art skill "under the hood" really exploded, as behind the artwork, I UNDERSTOOD what was happening, even with a copied picture. Being informed on what the body is doing will really help elevate you beyond relying on your eye to see if the art you've made looks like the art you're copying. And your eye is very good!
-Lastly, I suggest you head towards drawing from imagination, and also attempt to break from anime stylization sometimes. I know it's scary! But if you look at yourself in a critiquing way, you may be learning yourself into a box if you stick with only anime and stylization. Being informed of realism can absolutely help you double your art back into anime (we all love anime), and know your forms even better.
Same with copying art. You can start by drawing from life. Go out, do a few quick organic gestures of people walking by, then hold an image of them in your head (because they'll be gone) and try to capture the essence of what you saw with some structure. Just be ready to suck for a bit, haha. I know, this can be intensely daunting. I hate sucking at stuff, especially stuff I've come to think I'm good at. But it's good for learning, exponentially so.
I'll stop the essay here. It's been a great watch, man. And good to see you exploring things that make you happy. Keep at it, you do still have a gift. I'll leave you with a quote my old teacher said to me, and I say it to everyone who tries to tell me this:
"When people say to me, 'I can't draw,' I hear, 'I don't draw.'"
@@MRLuckyE85 That quote at the end is exactly me in a nutshell when it comes to artwork. I can’t draw because I simply don’t. (Yes, I read everything else. You clearly have attention to detail and convey a lot of nuance in how to improve.) It’s that simple.
I even took an art class in high school and never officially looked at the grade I got for my final project. To this day, IDK what I got and I’ll never know, but that’s simply because I didn’t care one damn bit even though I did my best. I just threw it out because I was done with the class despite liking it to a degree and finding the tips useful at the time. (Art isn’t my college major nor a passion, but I do appreciate it regardless.) I knew I finished the class with a B+ or A- or so, but that’s it.
Anyway, the point is I can totally see what your teacher meant.
@@AvatarBowler Certainly. Art is a practice! Like exercise. If you don’t practice, you get outta shape! Also, thank you so much for reading that wild diatribe above, lol.
As a big sketcher through highschool, I got what I considered “pretty good,” and was even voted best artist in my year, tied with a Japanese girl whose talent I admired and honestly was worried I wasn’t competitive with. However, the affirmation sometimes can limit, and coming out of there voted “best artist” wasn’t great for my first semesters in art college, kind of cruising through like I was still in highschool. I remember one of my teachers in drawing for character animation asking me to stay after class to have a talk.
He said to me I have talent, he can see I’m good. But if I don’t show I’m putting in effort, he will fail me. I’d never had that talk before, especially in the field of art. I credit this person as the one who got me serious, and changed how I approach learning. By the end of my time in college, he said to me I am one of his students who has improved the most.
He is, and always has been, one of my few most cherished and favorite teachers.
@@MRLuckyE85 Good story. It’s always a powerful feeling when someone tells you to abandon your ego and you choose to do so because it’s about something you love or cherish near and dear to your heart, but that abandonment leads to something much better and deeper. (e.g. Lightning McQueen from ‘Cars’ after meeting Doc Hudson)
Let’s go Fruit art!🍉💙
Well done Mr. Fruit. I think you’ve done really well here especially for just drawing what you want with minimal courses.
I’d love to see your process as you learn more. So I’m all in for a discord channel. I feel inspired to do something similar now… wrote this before I heard you mention wanting to inspire others but you definitely did
hey Mr. Fruit! love the variety lately. One thing I haven't seen people mention is the time aspect. As an artist myself, I used to have a how to draw book that claimed with practice you could draw anything in a few hours or even a few seconds, and I used to think that was impossible. Lo and behold, after years of practice I found the author was right! You already started to see that in your 30 days, I imagine even the "bad" sketches you did at day 30 took way less time than they would have at day 1. So good job! Keep drawing what you like to draw! Though I challenge you to combine the skills you've been using to break down the references into shapes like the ones you've been drawing, that skill helped me a lot when trying to think of my own poses and such. Can't wait to see any further updates, good luck!
Fruit speedrunning breaking every initial rule he made for himself and managing to do far better than I ever could is honestly inspiring.
I can't draw to save my life, so it's always awesome to see what others can do! Looks great!
Dude! You’re drawing is amazing! You have done so awesome in your drawings! I’m glad you’re taking time for yourself. I’ve seen you since you were a small TH-camr with uploading many times a day. I was glad to see your content everyday. I looked forward to it! However, I’m glad your taking time to yourself to do things that you want to do. As I’ve grown older, I see that taking time for yourself as a necessity to reset and to do things you want to do. It necessarily what the algorithm wants. I hope you continue to do things that you want to do and to look after yourself. As your community, we’re not going anywhere and will enjoy anything you put out! God bless ya fruit!
Love this. As someone who’s always loved art but haven’t done the best and going to school for graphic design it definitely inspires me to try doing faces as I’ve done more creatures and knights as my drawings but watching this makes me want to do what you’ve done and try a new style and improve in anyway I can! Love the work and love the progress you’ve had Mr. Fruit!!!❤️❤️🎉🎉🎉
Very good work !!
Wowow Mr. Fruit. A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one
I was totally blown away by the drawings, dont be so hard on yourself they are fantastic. I would love an updated video in a couple of months to see your progress
This is so inspiring, I’ve been looking for ways to express my artistic side outside of music, as a soon to be music therapist I’m always hyper focusing my art to perfection. And as someone who struggles with focus and setting time aside something like this seems very approachable and your art is fantastic and I love seeing the good days and bad days and the journey along the way. Thank you King and I hope you are well
I love this idea
Love the caaahhhhhhntent!
I dont have any tutorials or anything but i wanna share the tip that has helped me most recently! Keep making what you enjoy! I got really washed down by chasing fundamentals and anatomy studies, which is all good and helpful, but i completely lost the art and enjoyment of it. without passion there is no art. some people recommend a sort of 50/50 study versus fun. You are already doing so great and im excited to see more! and as everyone has said reference is normal and is just how art gets made, you are still learning the patterns and improving your ability to understand the shapes themselves, from here just keep doing your thing and as you wanna explore new things begin essentially mentally combining references, taking the pose and face from one thing and adding the hair and outfit from something else, sort of deal.
FRUIT!!!! I see now why you’re so good at drawing games, these are amazing!! Even day 1 I was like damn this guy is good! You should be so proud of yourself both for doing a good job and also just for sticking with it even through the frustrating days. This honestly makes me wanna do a challenge like this. I’ve been trying to get back into my hobbies and stop scrolling so much and this would be a great way to do so (might even apply this to writing as well!). Thank you so much for sharing this journey with us, and if you end up doing 100 days or honestly any amount of days I’d love to see more of this
wtf is this day 1? Are you sure you aren't lying lol ?
I used to draw all the time as well. Life kinda beat it out of me. I draw mostly anime girls (I mean who doesn't love anime tiddies, amirite?). I still do occasionally when the itch comes and goes. I have OCs that I MISS drawing. I want to draw my characters again, but that motivation to pick up the tablet pen is almost never there. And, like you, I don't draw dudes. To me, it's a little less fun drawing a dude.
Ramblings aside, you are doing GREAT my guy. Please keep at it! Especially if you are having fun with it!
EDIT: Watching further; there is NOTHING wrong with using references. That's how you learn anatomy, poses, perspective/foreshortening, etc
I started drawing in middle school and I would draw stills from Dragonball Z, as I got older, I started doing my own things! We all start somewhere :)
Dude you’re doing amaaaaazzing. Don’t feel bad at all, that’s the perfectionist in you (and most of us) that feels like everything has to be dope on day one- and honestly you were doing great, on day one already. But you’ve got a great attitude, preserving both flaws and strengths in your notebook. And just think about how much progress you’ll make day after day, week after week. You’re encouraging me to get busy arting again too. I’m an artist/writer but a lot of life stuff has just been getting in the way lately- but hey, like you said, just start putting that pen to some paper 🙏
You should be so proud of this Fruit. The drawings are incredible. Such a nice passion project. Clear improvements throughout.
I loved the inking ones most. And the fact that the Toriyama passing led to a day drawing DB was just the icing on the cake.
👇 100 day video
Yeah, something is fishy here.
It definitely smells like fish....
i want to believe him but years of absence from the medium and hes that good its a little fishy
I've always thought you're pretty good at drawing (as shown from Jackbox Party games and other games), and I can totally see your potential, especially with inking & shading!
I can see how well you controlled your line weight, which quite amount of artists still struggled with. (Me included, despite drawing for more than 10 years)
One tip I might suggest to try out is, to draw with reference for 1 day, and try to draw it from memory the next day!
You might actually discover that you start to recall back on what you've learnt from studying the previous drawings you did, so you would fully understand what knowledge you've gain from referencing those drawings.
As an art teacher and long-time viewer of this channel, I'm just very happy to see you learning a skill you enjoyed! And I'm excited to see your future progress for the 100 days video!
Hey Mr Fruit! Thank you for sharing your art stuff, I'm an artist too and its always fun to see someone else's process & thinking. I find it crazy that you (AND Pewdiepie) jump straight into the anime-style drawings! I've always struggled with those proportions and cartoonish features, (I prefer semi-realism) so good on you!! Keep it up
30 days? I can’t believe people who really believe this
Dude, first page and I'm like "Yeah, it's one of those TH-camrs that are afraid to show their actual first 30 days because people are gonna judge."
Do you know Mr. Fruit? He has always had that drive in him to excel. He has always been his own harshest critic. His ambition and attention to detail naturally yields results of this level of excellence. We should all be proud! He believed it was possible; therefore, he did the work and simply DID IT! You should give it a try--never doubt yourself or others!
Here I thought you are a starter... get out!!! You drew before
No listen, he stated at the beginning that he used to doodle as a child. Children who pick up skills early always give themselves an advantage when deciding to refine their skills later in life!
Dude, im about halfway through and this is enthralling. I'm so happy you took a chance with this, I don't watch these kinds of videos but seeing you do it really inspired me man. Being able to inspire someone surely has to feel good 😊
Love that you felt you could share it with us. Saw one of your pictures on your nuzlock video and glad to see the whole thing. Glad you had fun with it and that its helping you. I'm the same way with drawing, good with references not so much my own. Maybe when I'm, not so busy I'll start drawing again for fun :)
The lack of process on this entire video is alarming. Just sketches and commentary.
This is so cool man, I love this sort of variety/IRL content from you. It may not get the most views but I love these kinds of videos because they feel more personal :)
18:40 I highly recommend starting to buy non spiral sketchbooks! They don’t have the metal spiral so that way to can relax the side of your palm on it without worrying about the spiral getting in the way! They often also come with a rubber band to close it tight, it protects your drawings better and feels more secure!💚✨
THIS IS AMAZING! As someone who is in their first year of art school, I have been really struggling to just sketch. I have a lot of the same issue you describe having and therapy has been helping. Watching you sit down and sketch is really inspiring as to what I could do and I'm going to try to commit myself to the same thing! thank you so much for sharing your Sketchbook with us (I in know I would NOT want to share) and thank you for all the great content you make!
YES I LOVE THIS, EVERY PART OF THIS. If you do another drawing video, I wanna see that.
I don’t draw NEARLY as much as I used to. I kind of just accepted that I didn’t really like it and it was just an extension of the things I really like. But seeing your sketches, and seeing all of your potential has activated a part of my brain that hasn’t been used in a long time. I might have to revisit some old drawings that I gave up on and try again.
And I might be projecting when I say this, but I hope you keep drawing!!!
I really loved this video! It’s inspired me to pick up illustrating again, and your commentary was very relatable and human. I’d love for you to do this kind of thing again!
Mr. Fruit! Hamilton said it best. Pride is not the word im looking for. There is so much more inside me now. As someone who does the same as you and loves to draw but from reference. I always got discourgaed with myself and would quit over and over. even made myself buy a digital tablet to do digital art and dropped it. But I believe Im gonna dust off the ol thing and do my own challenge. Been following your content since the ol destiny montage days and well. Its been nice to grow along side you and your content. Battling my own demons and seeing you fighting has helped too. Keep it up! Find the little bit of joy in everything. Your failures are just stepping stones to doing better!
You’ve done an awesome job! Drawing from refrence can be hard since u dont understand why it looks like this and that so u just draw, but seeing u on this journey it’s easy to tell that you’ve started getting a clear understandment! So keep continuing the pens not gonna draw itself!
Hello Mr. Fruit, your reference drawings look awesome! Getting a job is tough right now so I have been learning illustration just like you. However I can see that you've recognized that your reference drawings are pretty good, but consistency is difficult. My eye opening moment is learning anatomy and drawing from reference with intent vs mimicry. I found that the best way is to explore different methods and eventually splice up your own formula that works for you (we both have the same critiques about the loomis method and I personally only use the loose idea of it). I am not great at illustration yet, but my recommendations for artists to learn from are:
hide channel (simplified anime figure drawing, english sub), love life drawing (realistic figure drawings), excal's art tips (quick condensed anatomy explanations along with corrections)
These guys are very low investment but super great resources so hopefully it wont "suck the fun" out of drawing. I want to see your journey more and I wouldnt be opposed to this being a discord update or an occasional video!
Potential content you can explore with higher investment: tppo's "I wanna draw faster, so I tried Umibouzu's techniques"
This is a hard challenge for even experienced artists, but I think you might find it neat and even be potential future content.
As a long time fan, I try not to get too parasocial with it, but I'm super proud of all you did and sharing it with us! You sound super happy and I really love these. Obviously, I like the pieces you're proud of, but it's also super nice to see the pieces from days you struggled. My favorite is probably the elf just because I'm a sucker for 'em, but it'd be real tough to pick the best. I'd use a bunch of them as phone backgrounds for sure.
It all makes me want to do more drawing of my own (I've leaned into writing far more than visual art). My own best pieces are almost all reference-based as well.
I hope you keep sharing with us, Mr. Fruit. I really enjoyed seeing your art!
As someone who just found your channel and also hasn't drawn anything since 2016, it's been refreshing since Pewdiepie started his journey to see everyone pick the hobby back up. I've done the same so it feels like everyone is in this together. That being said, dont feel any way about using references. Everyone does, no matter what skill level they're at. Sure, it's nice having an image in your head and getting it to paper but that requires a lot of memorization of placements, proportions, perspective mapping, etc. If it helps, just think of drawing from memory as drawing from a mental reference. Sometimes, you'll need an example of an aspect of your drawing to refer to so you can make sure it looks right, whatever right means to you. It's a matter of patience and just simple time-spent experience of committing it to muscle memory. This was amazing to watch and now I have to go get my daily practice in lol
WOAH!! Those are some amazing drawings there Mr. Fruit. I would love to see you continue your journey and upload another video like this again sometime in the future. It's so incredible from where you started with the beginning drawings to those ones you shaded and colored. Have been watching your channel for a long time now and have always been impressed with your drawing with a mouse in some of your other videos too! Excited to see if you make an attempt at computer drawing too.
I took classes and drew for 10+ years growing up. I quit when I was 18 because I could never enjoy sitting down and drawing like this. I struggled a lot and was a perfectionist to a nauseating degree. It sucked all of the fun out of it. What you have is special Mr. Fruit, seriously. When I hear how much you enjoy drawing it inspires me, and the amount of talent and skill you display is absolutely insane. Also-using a reference is very very normal for all levels of art. Even when creating new drawings, artists usually take pictures or even use 3d models to base their drawings off of. All of the classes I have taken used references and models. The ability to replicate and expand upon an image is a hard earned skill and you are doing amazing! Keep it up for your own sake, do what you love and enjoy :)
I’ve watched you for many many years with my brother, never commented before. Everything you create has helped to make our day better. I know fighting the YT algorithm has been a hard and mentally challenging battle, so please remember that your content is worth a lot more than numbers can ever reflect.
No matter where life takes you, I wish you the best! Thank you for always being you
Mr Fruit, I have been watching for years and years- and the more you've opened up recently the more I've admired you so so much. I've struggled with depression my whole life, and one of my main issues I have is I really struggle to find the motivation to actually do the stuff I enjoy. I have loved drawing as long as I can remember - and I haven't drawn in years until 2023, and even then I only did 4 sketches. Even beyond the fact that you are genuinely skilled at art, you have made me really, really want to finally pick up a pencil and actually DO what I enjoy. Thank you, so much, for your videos, for your amazing content, and for being you. Keep drawing - do what you love because it's what you love, and for no other reason. Thank you ❤
You’re an amazing artist. I’ve been doing art all my life, including professionally, and I gotta say, you’re great!
If you want some tips;
Keep practicing
Don’t be nervous to ask for help. The art community is one of the most welcoming out there.
Love the change of pace with this video! Super cool to see all of your art! Also inspired me to pick up some of my old hobbies that fell off because I found it hard to make the time. Thanks for the inspiration!
Love it Fruit! Totally with you regarding the doodles and sketching during class. I just started drawing again too and am having a good time re-learning all the stuff I haven't used in years. Definitely don't feel imposter syndrome, references are great for coming up with your unique sketches.
For reference these are amazing. I've been drawing for 14 years and I can draw anything from reference but the imagination thing is tough. I draw fanart for people online a lot but once i get to draw my original characters idk what pose or composition to do and it's always hard I go back to referencing poses and ideas to get my brain working. References get easier the more you draw. Keep going I wanna see how you do creating things from your brain. You are doing great starting out thank you for making this video and inspiring others to draw!
This video, genuinely, is what I needed. Like you, I haven’t sat down and drawn anything outside of 2 pet commissions for family members in a VERY long time. I’ve been letting the idea of potentially not being satisfied with what I draw keep me from getting back to it.
I’ve been very affected by Toriyama’s passing. Like many, Dragonball and his art style is what REALLY got me interested in the first place. I’ve had an idea in my head brewing for a tribute piece since he passed that Im now going to get started on this weekend. Watching you just go through the process and find sparks of genuine greatness has really woken me up. Please keep continuing with this because I would love to see more.
This was a really cool and fun video. I hope theres a 100 days video in the future. You've got the talent and it's really neat seeing someone share their creative side. Love it Mr. Fruit
Even though I don't have the time anymore to watch every video, the ones like this are still gonna get my view eventually. They feel so warm and heartfelt. Great work, Mr Fruit. One of the better things about yourself is that even after all this years you can still clearly see the person beyond the camera.
Also I’m sure a lot of more experienced folks have some really good advice and thoughts but I wanted to share mine too. Reference is a very normal element for even the most experienced artists I know. From what I can gather, it seems the usage of reference becomes more of a study tool for how the object of focus works but it always remains. Your grasp of proportion and being able to translate what you see on reference to paper is incredibly strong. I’m also blown away by your line quality
For heads I also use the loomis method and I definitely get a lot out of it for eye, nose and mouth position. A good thing to keep in mind is how, especially from a 3/4 to side profile, the head isn’t purely circular as the fade protrudes out from that shape, makes those parts a pain to tackle.
I’d be super interested in a discord to keep up to date on your art stuff and I think you should totally shoot for a 100 day challenge
I definitely want to see the 100 days. I love how you not only showed the drawings you were proud of, but also the drawings/days that were off. A good reminder that no one is perfect and it takes time. I have been reminding myself a lot lately that reference drawing is not cheating, it is practice and a "study".
I have been self taught since i was in 5th grade and started watching Pokemon when it first came out in America. I really wanted to draw all those cute pokemon! Over the years i have drawn off and on for fun. Everytime i came back to it i realized how good it felt and really helped shut my brain off to everything but the drawing. My husband tells me all the time i could sell my work for sure if i just had the confidence to put myself out there. He thinks it could be a really good side hussle (i am a stay at home mom) that would make me happy. I am very inspired to do a daily challenge to further improve and be more confident. I still have a long way to go but i think i can get there and your video has lit a little fire under me to just do it! 😁
Dude this is so cool! I have always wished I was good at drawing. When I was younger got super into it, my aunt was actually an art teacher. This is inspiring me to actually maybe get back into art. Thanks dude!
Please do more of this it is some of the greatest art I’ve seen. Never knew you had such talent. I would love if this became a possible merch option for art for rooms or houses.
This was a great video!
It's awesome to see you getting back into art! Gonna have to try harder to even draw for a few minutes every day. I want to improve, and seeing you do this was nice to remember that learning has its ups and downs. As long as you're passionate and willing to improve, that's all that matters.
Hope to see the 100 Days video!
I'm glad you found an old passion of yours! Finding that zen state, and being able to flow must be really helping your mental state.
I've been wanting to get into digital art myself for quite some time now, but I keep talking myself out of it. Imposter syndrome and depression can really wreck progress and creativity. Thanks for making this video. It has shown me I'm not alone in my struggles. I'm going to try to get back to drawing and learning to translate it into the digital medium. Thanks Fruit for being so open and honest about your struggles, I appreciate it greatly. Good Luck on your drawing endeavors. I look forward to any and all updates. Love ya Fruit!!
I loved watching this video! From start to finish it was so fun to watch the journey and ups and downs. Not really into art or drawing but the thirty day challenge idea is so helpful to make new patterns in life.
I’m 17 and have enjoyed doing art for most of my life. I have in recent years had a really hard time getting myself to sit down and draw as it feels really daunting. This video is definitely some great inspiration Fruit. Great job on your progress dude. Thanks.
Super-happy to see you deciding to knock the art rust off the drawing wheels, Mr. Fruit! I have some quick tips/observations based on your commentary regarding your limitations with the medium of pencil and paper, like when you said you were pressing hard to get darker pencil shading, or erasing until you've erased as much as you could but the line art underneath will remain semi-visible.
There are a selection of pencil leads you can employ, ranging from B leads, aka softer leads, to H leads, aka hard leads. A lot of pencils are straight down the middle HB. If you move into a 2H or 2B, you'll immediately see the difference in the hard vs soft lead capabilities. 4H and 4B are pretty much the extremes of the them. 4B is almost conte/charcoal at that point and can smear like crazy, and 4H is SUPER-hard lead that goes on light, making you want to press into the paper, but then Oops that pencil line is never coming off the page.
Similarly, paper has a tooth to it, aka texture, as I'm sure you're aware. Cold press paper has a lot of tooth and is good for charcoal, softer leads, and tons of tonal shading. Hard press paper is smooth smooth smooth, and if you want to ink stuff and use alcohol markers, you should lean more toward smooth (think of a paper towel vs a sheet of printer paper when it comes to paper tooth One SOAKS up liquid and bleeds acorss the page. The other not so much). I think smooth also is more forgiving with erasing pencil as long as you don't carve your lines into it. If you sketch light with a HB or 2B pencil, smooth will usually alow for those lines to get erased.
So for someone who just wants to not think and draw like you did for this challenge, any port in a storm, I say. You got the materials. You went to work. That's al that mattered. 30 days in, now you're wanting to focus more on your abilities, and maybe don't want to sweat combating your medium so much.
I never conisdered that the wood pencils have different types of lead, although I did notice it growing up. Thanks for the explaination! I'll definitely try useing a 2B from now on.
@@cheyennemoore8380 If you like using wood pencils but want to experiment with different leads, I can't recommend highly enough getting yourself a pencil lead holder as your primary drawing tool.
It is what it sounds like. It's basically an empty pen with a clamp at the tip that you put long cylinders of lead in to use. You can sharpen the lead, etc, without the presence of wood shavings and the unpredictable nature of splintering wood, or the pencil getting shorter and shorter as you sharpen it.
The lead refills are about as thick as the lead in regular pencils, so it's not like mechanical pencils with their easily breakable 0.3 - 0.7mm leads. For all intents and purposes it should just be considered a woodless, refillable pencil.
Once you have the holder, you just buy lead refills, akin to how you buy lead refills for mechanical pencils, which allows you to pick up an assortment of leads of various hardnesses and softnesses for you to experiment with, without ever changing up the feeling of the tool in your hand.
They're also not mechanically complex, so once you get one, you'll have it for YEARS. I've had mine for over 20 (mine is a Staedtler brand lead holder, if anyone cares.)
Really appreciate the insight here, thank you! I've already got a more suited sketchbook that's actually meant to be used with alcohol markers so I'll see how that goes - currently been sketching with ballpoint pen!
@@Mr_Fruit Oh heck yeah! Ballpoint pen sketching is the best
Your art is so good. You can really see how much you improved throught the 30 days. I know when i first did digital art it was very rough and hard for me and i wasnt really happy with it, but about the 4th drawing i started getting better and you could tell a big difference in my art. I would also love to see you make more art to just see how far you can go with it. Keep at it fruit
Absolutely loved this video. I am a recent(ish) visual arts grad and it’s so cool seeing someone’s process at practicing art. You mentioned that some parts and pieces were frustrating but you continued anyways and that is amazing! I would love to see a follow up video to continue to see your progress. It is so inspiring to see someone not only show their good days but also their rough days creating. Keep up the amazing content and I hope you continue to enjoy drawing!
Me as Artists myself, I love seeing theses types of vids.
Gives inspiration and motivation to draw!!
CUBES
draw cubes in different perspectives/angles so you get an idea how forms move in space.
Yo Fruit these are epic!! You’ve got real talent there! Like you, I used to draw/sketch a lot when I was younger, and this inspires me to grab a sketchbook and start messing around with it again! Would love to see a 100 days episode too 👍👍
This is so good! I am curious at how your art will develop and genuienly impressed! References are an artists' bread and butter so using them is perfectly fine and recommended!