1000 pages will IMPROVE your ART?
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- Are you practicing wrong?! Mikey tells us the secret to getting better at drawing!
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★MIKEY (Tatsuyuki Maeda)
Mikey has worked in the manga industry for more than 10 years,
and also one of the creating members of comical works inspired by the movie "Beauty and the Beast" currently sold in U.S.
He has worked as an assistant with some of the top 15 manga
cartoonist in Japan as well as teaching at famous colleges.
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My best practice advice: just draw it, even if it looks bad at first. Persistency will bring improvement. Specifically with making manga, even just reading manga and thinking how they put together the page will help with many things, from story to screentone techniques :)
REVULSION sound True, true. Doing a rough version with a blue draft pencil is helpful for guiding the refinement of the final drawing, I guess a literal “blueprint,” as you said ^__^
REVULSION sound How can you take off blue pencil when scanning? :0 I'm interested in trying it out
Kyla Puyat if you draw with a blue pencil, it won’t appear when scanned. It won’t appear when copying a sheet of paper drawn in blue either, if you draw relatively light. Light blue automatically just doesn’t show up so it’s very convenient :)
Ocarina Gamer4 Wow, that's very helpful to know! :0 I'm planning out my very first comic and I'm such a newbie. I'm trying to gather as much info as I can hehe
Kyla Puyat Good luck to you! >v< If you haven’t checked out Mark Crilley’s channel, I’d recommend it! He’s given me lots of tips for comics 👍
1000 page in a year? challenges accepted
Ikr
I wasted about more than 2000+ of paper per year
3 pages a day.... jesus
Wait included both faces?
@@zombrexgame6670 3 pages a day is actually kind of low if you think about it. He said "sketches and studies not just inking" and if you are putting in four hours a day I hope you are filling up more than three pages.
But no, he means one side. The drawings will smear and bleed through if you draw on both sides.
"if you feel that you are not good enough, it means you will improve"
"if you feel that you are good enough, it's over"
damn, that's the best advice ever
Right I was mind blown like woah😧
brain goes b o o m
Gonna try that
it's obvious
My brother ask me, why did u buy so many paper?
me: It's a secret technique.
The greatest and satisfying feeling i ever felt is when i look back at my old sketch books and realises that my drawing skills improved.
I come backed here after 2 years, now I'm 100 times better than my 18 years old me, this is not a joke I did actually improved A LOT mi mans XD aight guess another 2 years then come back here with 420 times better than my current skill level? YES! for the sake of my passion and dream! and also be happy :)
Now are you can draw from imagination? Like the the basic shape of anatomy
how?
you should post a video of the progress
How's it going?
Gotta love Mikey, dude's always got great tips!
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Pivot Boom crap
Well well you know you are getting serious at full body when you see your boy psycho commenting here 🤔
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somehow i ended up in this video again xDDD
I love the analogy at 9:20 hands are level 5 and eyes are level 10 so you think you're bad. One of the sad things about leveling up is that I see flaws in the art I used to like, pieces that inspired me 2 years ago just look like a collection of flaws now. But, this is why I've focused my time on art, there doesn't seem to be a ceiling--the art can always be better.
If you can't appreciate a thing with it's flaws, you're going to be miserable the rest of your life.
Yes, there is no ceiling, which is wonderful, because you can always keep learning and practicing... if that's your thing, otherwise, you won't make it.
@@seigeengine That may be true, but I think it's a bit different with art... also because you usually learn from the art which inspires you and you can't do that if it's heavilly flawed.
You wouldn't learn a language from a person who speaks it incorrectly, would you? Or would you rather be 'enjoying it's flaws'?
Mikey got a vibe of a great respectable teacher 😁
I honestly feel better after listening to him talking about all that stuff. Really helped me mentally
Sometimes hearing someone who's extremely good say "yeah, it's normal to suck and feel like you suck too" really helps put things in perspective.
In the hobbyist community, there's definitely a taboo to copy others. Cause there have been cases off blatantly stealing pictures of others and lying, that it's ther own. That's what wrong, not for studying. But when looking at professional artist, you regularly see post of master studies, where they intentionally study a painting, as an example delacroix. But it's really important that you remind yourself, to try to get into the thinking of that master you're studying. So that's more similar in the west and east
Basically when studying you're aiming to understand the piece instead of copying. If you can do fine by observation, it's obviously better than tracing, since by tracing you focus too much into the detail instead of the whole. But if you can't even draw the lines correctly then tracing will help you. My 2 cents.
I guess it depends on the culture. I know in classical Arabic the main high art if you like was poetry. A common saying there to paraphrase is,something empty or filled with bad things will produce it's own likeness.
So the classical Arab poets would learn the masters and imitate them; see if you can imitate someone great at something then that means you've understood their ways. Meaning now you can create your own originals with the great art as your reference and not mediocrity.
I would say that people really should take up copying not just for understanding but it helps with skill. I remember tracing a character a bunch of times as a kid, until I could draw it on from memory. Then I decided to create my own character one day, and use the character I had memorised as reference only to discover that while my angles weren’t right, since I hadn’t studied that yet, I was able to draw from imagination decently despite that. It really helped me improve in my work. From there I think it’s good to delve into thinking and then go off on your own. But I like the step by step of develop the skill a bit, then understand the theory, then do my own thing.
I'm currently practicing 1000 pages of drawings for this year. It's working! I feel like a master now 😳
Gabriel Swanson do you have an Instagram with your art posted I would like to see
@@Grimfed uh yeah, it's @gabe23dart
@@gabrielswanson3740 I tried to search it you may have changed your user so may I ask what it is thank you,your instagram
@@stewjelly my b. I started a new art account with better drawings lol it @largebubb
how'd it go??
This video inspired me a LOT !!!
I started my manga this year - february. Till now (november) I made 900 sketches + 900 finished pages. Thank you senseis ! I really became better 🙏🏻
That’s great news! Keep it up!
oh i didnt know there is a method like this. someone just told me to use a cheap paper and pencil for sketching. i used like 500 sheets of paper in last 9 months...it took me around 600h so its like 2h per day. looks like i need to practice more ^^
If you do quick sketches, like maybe 15 seconds to 3 minutes, you will be using a lot more paper. Like for example check out the Croquis Cafe videos (by *onairvideo* here on youtube). They have different nude models posing usually for 5 x 1 minutes, 4 x 2 minutes and 1 x 5 minute poses. 1 Croquis Cafe video takes about 20 minutes, and usually i end up filling up 3 to 4 pages with the drawings.
Still, the more you draw the better (withing reason of course)
Mursku Xenos
oh well your right. i was not doing any fast gesture sketches until now. i am slowly reading an anatomy book and just starting to drawing gesture sketches so :P
ipad + apple pencil... whiteboard with erasable markers... you dont need thousands of sheets of paper to practice speed sketching
damn what a crazy bunch of guys
love you hahaha
Thanks a ton for bringing him to the show. His advice is beastly. Just started drawing 10 pages a day towards 1000 pages challenge :)
best of luck!
At first I was like “Wow 1000 pages a year would be hard.” But if I were to do 3 pages a day, first one is line art practice and that would fill up a page in like 10 minutes, anatomy practice would take around 35 minutes, then I could do whatever on the last page.
In Japan they have a style called “deformed” and is not the big head and small body we recall in the west, is just a deformation of how a real human is. Japanese people and artist have a special sense and ability for that. Common people can remember one or two character pattern (that character, from that angle) and draw them perfectly, much close to a pro. So remember a pattern from an artist they like and draw it is also similar to draw kanjis to me. Japanese people can draw kanji, wich means remember strokes order, balance and thickness of lines of a very complex ideograms. In the west, artist watch more reality, and need to understand more that in order to accomplish and achieve a reasonable rapresentation of a good scene or a good illustration. So copying another artist is just a copy of the copy (out from another copy etc.), wich means lose the point and the quality.so that’s why i think we have different approach to drawing. Animators are the most complete for me, just because they need to imagine that deformed character not only in 360 degrees, but also how to move it as smooth as possible. Same for figure modeller, called “zoukeshi”, they need to understand parts of the body of that deformed character, put the correct bones, muscles and move them in a real way, without change too much the character style. Look at one piece figure is the perfect example.
I watch a lot of videos on self-improvement and stuff and no one has ever mentioned that thinking you're good is really bad. I totally agree and I really appreciate this video! Hey Nihongo Gamer it's awesome hearing you converse in Japanese!
I've heard that said a lot. I also disagree. The issue isn't thinking you're good, it's thinking you're good enough that you don't need to keep improving.
Something I have noticed about manga artists, specifically, is that most start out very creative, pushing the format with unique kinds of transitions and effects, but as they go forward the work usually becomes more orthodox, or standard. Maybe this is because it's a job with deadlines and the infatuation with it wears off, or maybe editors just tamp down that kind of experimentation.
In any case, I like to hunt down the earliest published work of artists I like because it is so often full of interesting things like that.
Manga artists live in a field of mass production rather than creativity. They need to produce content quickly and efficiently, therefore many will drop most of their time consuming or more interesting ideas as time goes.
I think it's kind of like Hollywood, lots of people make artistic films, but Hollywood knows how to work a genre to make money. Manga and anime are like that too. There are people who are making art, but most people in the industry are business people cranking out generic shonen
Being innovative takes a lot of time. It's not something you can force by grinding more... and most innovations aren't good enough to keep being used.
The more you have to grind, the more you're worried about getting the work done than how to do it in a new way.
filling 500 a4 pages with drawings, used to take me a few years. But recently, as i have started to draw and sketch more, drawing a 1000 pages a year should be easy.
So do you use reference or just imagination? and if reference, please tell where i can find some example. i really really want to improve. im stuck w/ portraiture. i also want to be good in manga
Same. New sketchbooks use to be daunting because it seems like so much art to do, but if you genuinely enjoy drawing and especially learning and experimenting, the pages start to fly by fast. At first, I didn't know what I was doing, but the more I learned, the more I saw what exactly I needed to be practicing and what I would like to experiment with. Starting out, even just a drawing a day gets the ball rolling.
@cody, do you use reference manga art page or you just create your own?
i don't know how to start. i've got my story in mu head that i want to draw. but my skills arent good enough fore to start.
I almost always use references. I stray pretty far from them, but they always help, if not at least for inspiration. When I started, I had these huge stories and ideas, but I failed with all of them because I rushed it. I think its better to start with a small reachable idea. something to work on while you better your skills. Wait until your skills match the greatness of your big idea. Maybe start with a 4 panel comic. Do one a day, and by the end of the year, you'll see how much better your art and writing has gotten. 4 Panel comics are way more flexible than manga. If the art style changes or grows over time, its okay. If you experiment with the art style for a day, its okay. If you change the tone of the writing for a day, its okay. You have a lot of wiggle room with 4 panel comics. And if you make one that just sucks, you only used up 1 day instead of months to years on a manga.
That is an excellent way to practice. When I looked at the syllabus of BFA courses, it said 1000 sketches per year as assignment! It is the same. Great inspiration guys, thanks. Have a great day!
I really like this one, it's much more funny and interesting!
I love the eye level and the hand level. I usually have a great eye level but most of my drawings looks like it was kid who made it. Keep going guys. This was really helpfull.
I'm on stage where my eyes have higher level then my hand but it actually kills my mood to draw
This video is amazing. Its like Goku, Krillin and Roshi or any other 2 energetic anime chars and a kinda annoyed but nice sensei they wanna learn from, nice mix of education and enternainment!
The5GIO5 So Naruto?
Guys when mikey said practice 1,000 paper in year. Its very very effective. Because me i started draw 4months right now EVERYDAY. When i see all my draws its slowly improved and now i can finally draw a anatomy and like a anime.
you should post a video showing the progress!
how you lvl up after 1000 pages and see better artists is so true ! :D
ah man, thats some solid advice, and you can tell he really loves drawing.
My guy just accidentally dabbed 😂
littlemonkey246 "accidentally"
wow, the eye-level thing basically sums up everything I've been feeling. My hand level is 1 but my eye level is 5. But I think I just need a better eye level to get a better hand level. But no amount of knowledge, understanding or tips will tell you how to get hand-eye coordination, nice line quality as just practice. eventually we actually have to produce to improve.
The part about learning by drawing from imagination in the west isnt tru, every teacher in art will always advise you to use reference, wether its for pose, texture, pallet...
It is true that they will have you draw from from reference, but I think it’s often more so photo reference at least in my art class, bowl of fruit, magazine photo, mannequin, etc...
They are talking about copying another artist work and style. If you go before this question, the Sensei mentioned that he too uses references for drawing and recommends it.
I want to improve at drawing but I always
get frustrated at erasing mistakes
Same tbh
Mikey thank you for all your advice! I have a brand new pack of copy paper.... I shall begin my practice! :) feeling encouraged.
I meet him at Anime NYC :) We I got his mini booklet and one of is originally drawn tones. super nice and inspirational.
Very interesting, this defiantly motivates me more
i always thought bout that copying things is like before you wanna make your own song, you usually sing a song from other artist you admire. theres no way such artist can make an original new song from scratch without heard or sing someone songs
23 Now. Ill be taking the 1000 page a year. See you in 5 years
Just keep in mind that you have to draw at least 2-3 pages every day to reach 1,000 pages of drawings in one year.
If you miss one day or two, it will just stack up until eventually, you'll have to draw multiple drawings a day to catch up with the days you missed.
Just wanted to give the comment section a heads up and did not want to discourage anyone.
No, for real, I did not mean to discourage anyone. Have a good day.
I have draw more than 100 page with tear and sweat and belive me is will improve.
Thanks Mikey-sensei!
THIS IS THE BEST CHANNEL IN TH-cam!!!!
HAHA he intro got me so good x) nice video !
Super video guys - you're educational and great fun!!!
Hmm...I never thought about tracing as an option when learning to draw. I'm gonna try that out!
I love your videos! You're also so energetic and passionate it always keeps me smiling
Motivation Power Level Over 9000, Lets GOO!
This is really helpful! Thanks a lot! ^_^
I really dn't like Bleach but Kubo, is my greatest inspiration. I really admire how good he is and how he designs characters in his manga. He is the artist that I am looking up to and to be honest, I copy most of his styles and he is the reason why I can, barely, draw something now.
lol Mikey is actually annoyed by them, i love it xD
There should be about these guys as roomates
stumbled onto this video recommended to me on the front page... glad I watched this, I love this kinda stuff :3 subscribed~
awesome quality content! more of that kind would be super awesome!!!!
I love this man
u guys are so cute in the intro hahaha great vid!
"once making dat money no need for practice"
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copying is exactly how i learned how to draw in the first place. i don't think i could have done it any other way.
Such a great video!!! Thanks! I feel motivated to draw in those 1000 sheets of paper hahah
I love you mikey 😂😂😂😂😂😂👍✌
Very entertaining, helpful and inspiring! Thank you!
Great video. Thank you.
Not copying others for learning is a BS no matter where you live and artists know it. This is how it has been for as long as art exist.
I really love this video, it inspire me a lot thank you :)
DUDES ITS GONNA BE 2019 SOON!!! AND I CANT EVEN COUNT HOW MANY PAGES I'VE BEEN DRAWING THIS 2018 BUT I GUESS I'VE IMPROVED AHAHAHAHAHA THANK YOU MIKEY FOR YOUR ADVICE ❤
Thousand sheets noted
I'm always trying to get better. The 1000 paper idea, on top of my comic that i want to create, seems like a great idea
Although I worry the art in my comic will become inconsistent. gotta be careful not to change the style.
That was me just now when he mentioned 500 sheets of copied paper 8:58! Gonna make a trip to Staples and get myself two batches.
Это было интересно, познавательно и мотивирующе. Спасибо.
I found out this channel just today omg and these advices are actually great! Also, 1000 A4 copy paper in a year? Hmmm challenge accepted 😂
what a great video, keep them coming!
Informative video with great tips! Thanks a lot DokiDoki
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Copying isn’t practice? That’s how the masters studied... that’s how you learn and break down what people at higher levels do.
Saying that isn’t practice isn’t correct in my opinion. Your style is a combination of your personal experience with drawing and the art/people that inspire you.
depends on what the word copy means to you. I think copy means you draw it without understanding it. so the fact you say you learn and break down what people at higher levels do is more analyzing, understanding and deconstructing than copying. Thus, from my own perspective, copying is mindless and doesn't help you improve if you don't put thought into what you see.
Hii, I'm a new subscriber! Just met your channel! I'm a subcelebrity illustrator in Brazil xD hahaha! I loved your content, and you look very good and healthy!
Time to draw 1000 pages
Can a foreigner become a mangaka
ofc, it doesn't really require a specific race or nationality.
Good news is yes you can, bad news is it's gonna be almost impossible. In the history we only knew some foreigner who successful entered this industry. And yet they just end up with making VN, LN, illustration, and assistant manga. But making their own manga? I never hear one
3D Existence if there's a chance I'll take it
Very rarely but yes you can, from what I remember the artist for Dr.Stone is from South Korea and the original creator of no game,no life was from Brazil?? So follow your dream.
Shonen jump does monthly contest open to anyone www.shonenjump.com/e/manga-shou/ only catch is everything has to be written in Japanese.
Hope that's helpful.
PunPun thank you man you just made my day
1 year of practice passed few days ago and im at 800 sheets of paper....mhm
I just bought 100 pages and was thinking it will take almost an year to fill and then I saw this video...
thanks so much for the tips its very helpful :)
Copying styles practices figures and all is fine, as long has you develop a sense for the form. Like Mikey said you can't learn from nothing you have to have some sort of refreances and of course you shouldn't copy and say it's all your own style. ^^'
I get it! That thing about the the eyes and hand being at different levels. That totally describes why I’m so frustrated with my art. Personally my eyes are like lvl 60 but my hand is at like lvl 12. Life is torture right now haha.
..Haha... 😫😫🚮
So useful!! Thank you!
Since a long time I really wish I was friend with a pro manga artist
i love this channel
Thanks for the uploading
And Mike is a boss in drawing
I need more practice to reach
That point . ( 😘 ありがとう 😘)
loved it!! thanks a lot!!!
Thanks for the great advice! :)
Do a video where you time lapse drawing the same thing 1000 different drawings! I want to see your art evolve off this idea.
a way to get good at manga is to learn anatomy, draw realistically and you can bend it any way you want. And that is how your favorite mangaka are made Naruto one piece not sure what you like but it's all in learning.
Para los que estudian y son novatos, pueden usar las hojas del cuaderno que no usaron mucho, así ahorrarán y no gastarán tantas hojas blancas y de paso terminarán de usar el cuaderno. Así hice yo :)
When he said ginyu force i was like your now my new best friend
Rip Mikey, he is quiet and serious about this topic the other two 😲😂😪😳
But i think drawing on your mind by focusing and spacing out until you become depressed is good practice when your on free time..i use this technique.it works
Waoow great advice!❤
人気の成人漫画家の新堂エルはニューヨーク生まれニューヨーク育ちの日系アメリカ人です。彼はアメリカにいる間に絵の練習をしました。彼が来日したのは24歳になってからでした。
welp looks like 2021 for is going to be a busy year
Tony acts like the white guy that tries to blend in at Thanksgiving with a black family
the Rude Mechanicals What lol? At least he can speak Japanese.
I kinda felt bad for him
what a stupid thing to say
This the first time I heard nihongo speak in Japanese
Actually, copying the work of others as a form of practice is encouraged over here in the West too, especially in formal art classes where master studies are common place. The only people here who say it isn't practice are generally those who aren't artists themselves, or those who think it's someone else stealing their art.
Feng Zhu encourages to draw from life and never from other artists' works since you'll end up copying their style that they've developed through years.
well as much as I respect him, I think taking stuff from multiple artists is what keeps me going.