Why are you trying to draw quickly?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 มิ.ย. 2024
- One thing I've noticed is that everyone always wants to do art fast. They want to learn art faster, they want to draw faster. But in my personal experience, this kind of mindset hurt me a lot more than it helped!
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1:27 - Illusion of speed
2:58 - The optimal way to learn
4:08 - It's not that simple
5:51 - Why do you want to draw fast?
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ive been drawinf and crying all day about my lack of progress and decided to eat and watch a video when you just uploaded ... thank you
Aww its alright, everyone has different speeds when it comes to progressing and improving. May i ask what you are trying to improve with your art? I want to try to give some tips if i have knowledge about it.
@@doggoo69 Although it wasn't addressed to me, I think your act is very sweet
I promise you, you are making progress. You might not see it right now but as long as you keep going, you'll see it in the long run. This applies to life in general, not just drawing.
Keep going 💕
badass, what did ya eat?
Hopefully you enjoyed whatever you ate alongside this video mate!
Bro thinking that time lapses were real speed💀
A little bit of magic dust and they could be
(Results may vary)
I've been thinking the same as well idk why.
Sameee
It's one thing to consciously know it's not real speed, it's another thing to get your lizard brain subconsciousness not to absorb it as real speed. Watching time lapses messes with you on a fundamental level. I know from experience, it took a long time to unlearn a lot of bad habits.
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I feel the social media reasoning. Seeing other artists pump out art so fast makes me feel rushed. Nowadays I take more of my time and feel less pressure.
Especially true if you read the kinds of webcomics that release huge chapters on a weekly basis
Absolutely gotta keep in mind that they have whole teams working on those
@@404findnotnamed And years of practice.
It's not like they just spawned with ability to draw, sure there are people like that but it's very few.
Even my cousin before she started drawing good she actually did a lot of drawing as little kid and never stopped she still draws to this day.
Which helps realize that no one is born with 100% of knowledge.
@@404findnotnamedthe thing that gets me is when something releases (webtoon chapter or anime episode etc.) and tons of fully finished fan art is posted a few hours later i just don’t understand how people can do that lmao
@@ricenmeat2424 oh yeah, absolutely unfathomable! Fanart takes so much more time and effort than the regular stuff, and, even if it didn't, it also takes me months or years to become a fan of something and to get to the point that I want to make art of it, so it's unimaginable that anyone could get there within mere hours of release.
My Drawing Fundamentals 1 Prof always told us to "draw without worrying about the end result", "you draw like how you drive a race car, shifting gears and speed when needed!" and "don't go standing there wondering about the answer, just draw!!"
Honestly art is all about patience and love-- while it's great to find a good workflow or even try to be super fast, you gotta take your time. 👍 Definitely something I'm trying to come to terms with myself, but it's the best advice I got.
Yeah, but when you've done the same track pver and over again all you're focused on is the final time. The motions are just there as a thing to perfect to get the time as low as possible.
Some artists definitely draw faster than others. They can even be artist who are way less skilled than you. For a long time I wracked my brain about that; how can someone who is not nearly as proficient in art be drawing so much faster than me and still having it usually like pretty nice? If I tried to draw the way they do, it would be way slower and come out looking worse, so what gives?!
Then I saw one of those faster artists try to draw something very challenging for them, and they took forever. The amount of time it took them to do a pic outside their comfort zone was immense. I think that's the real 'secret'; speed isn't a product of skill, its a product of comfort. If you are comfortable with how you are drawing, then you will be able to draw very fast. Most people can't draw 'fast' because we are operating outside our comfort zones to various degrees. We're pushing ourselves to learn and improve with our art. This is good, but it means that what you're doing is just gonna take longer compared to someone drawing a picture in a way they've done dozens of times before.
Never thought of it like that huh
thank you for this. i wrote down "speed is not a product of skill, it's a product of comfort" for myself to remember
Personally one aspect, that applies to just about most skills in life is that as someone who’s a part of the newer generation (gen Z, am 23) I feel like there’s this pressure to maximize results as much as possible while we’re still young and succeed sooner to enjoy life sooner. Especially as you progress through your 20’s. There’s this clock that keeps ticking and nagging at you to hurry up and make something happen already the more you age. As our peers on social media already succeeded in their lives far sooner than us. This feeling bleeds into things we want to pursue. Well it feels like it to me anyway. I’m trying to ensure to not think about it so much and just progress. It’s been less stressful that way. It’s like a mantra to consistently recite when I start over thinking and hyper focusing too much.
You're not alone in thinking like that. It happens to me, too. But that pressure came from my parents, though.
its partly true its easier to learn when your young while i say don't rush but also don't go slow either
As someone who's been there, this killed my passion for art. I ended up never producing a piece for a year and a half. I don't know how to word my feelings, but don't fall into this trap. Your time will come. Whether its big or small just give yourself time.
i'm 22 and i feel exactly the same. i keep being told i need to be patient with myself, and i agree, but it's just difficult to not feel like i'm "behind."
Yep this is super accurate. I'm better able to deal with it now, but this thinking took a major toll on my mental heath back when I was 17-18, when I was super into music production and saw people who were 15, 16 so much better than I felt I ever could be. Now I'm able to step back I can see that that's insane! I was only 17! But in the moment it's hard. I just try to remind myself now that everyone goes at their own pace and their own time.
One might laugh at the person who thought timelapses where real time drawing speed, but I remember as a kid 100% thinking all mangakas drew all those photorealistic backgrounds manually all by themselves.
Wait... The dont?
@@ivanlugo8474 They may use 3D models, photo-bashing or simply straight up use real-life photos of a location for those kind of backgrounds. This of course takes a different kind of skill in digital art, though.
Also mangaka sometimes have assistants that help put out work at the speed they release pages (at least for big manga, this obviously varies)
@@ivanlugo8474 Actually it depends, you can say is a mix
Thank you all for your helpful answers, now i know better xd
I think it also doesn't help that the art industry requires their artists to be fast (e.g. animation, webtoon, etc) so people can't help but aim for that speed. Like yeah, it would be amazing if we could work within our passion and pay the bills with it. But I definitely agree that for the long term, it's a way healthier method to actually slowly and carefully build the solid foundation that will support your growth, for as long as you work on them.
As an older artist, your videos and sound advice have always give me an ease of mind❤
"Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast."
This was one of the best pieces of advice someone has given me for not just art but life in general. You're not going fast. You're just going smooth, which is taking your time and not rushing things. But because you are learning and fixing your mistakes as you go, it gives off the appearance that you're going fast.
Because I have adhd and getting serotonin slowly is not in my résumé
I was about to type this until i saw your comment
One of my artist friends said, "yeah, you're like the/a printer for/of your brain"(translating her exact words is hard lol), and, it clicked in my brain so much…
Like, yes, i cannot make art slow for the pleasure of doing it, to me, the longer it takes, the more like a torture it becomes.
I like being fast, listening to music and being possesed by my own brain's capability of feeling like I AM, that oc, that image, that character, that I AM inside my own world, feeling the texture of my oc's hair, or the bricks on the wall i'm scribbling with a messy squiggly line like i'm fkng demented yet it's so styled i feel like a comic artists with years of exp under my belt,
¡¡AND I DO IT OUT OF THE STRONG COMPULSION OF GETTING THAT PERFECT IMAGE OUT OF MY HEAD!!
I DON'T KNOW how to take my time and enjoy anything else than sketching my bs like an unhinged ghost using my body to communicate, driven by pure adrenaline on my body, okay?! 😭😭😭
I really try, but i just get ANNOYED and incredibly stressed out and ANGRY, then it's just art block for a few weeks or months out of spite, bc my brain didn't liked for it to take so long, even if i'm very patient and calm in my everyday life, it just doesn't work for me 😭😭😭
@@kyupiangel90 YES OH MY GOD??? I feel so seen reading this out; this is exactly how it is for me. Which is probably why I feel the most joy drawing when I do quick doodles and sketches of my current fixations. Full drawings MUST be completed in one feral sitting for me to be happy with it usually
imagine making "I can't do X" your identity, closing yourself to half the world in the process
@user-cg6ve8wg4g imagine saying that having a permanant disorder is "making an entire identity" like bro are you fr? 💀💀💀💀💀
Take the time you need to learn is better to rush into something, i trying on something new which is manga style, but i'm used to do cartoons. But i rather take my time to learn the progress than to hurry myself up. 🤔🥰
Same. I made my last drawing in chibi style and ngl it was really interesting. I haven't felt such enthusiasm for drawing for a long time :,)
Something I've learned recently, after years of trying to make art "fast", you can learn a lot from spending a lot of time on 1 big piece as opposed to a lot of smaller pieces, depending on what you're trying to learn ofc.
I've been stuck in that mindset of "I gotta whip out a masterpiece as fast as possible" over the years I haven't been learning as much as I could have.
Ironically, recenetly I've found out that I actually am a faster artist by slowing down!
When I'm trying to rush I am all over the place, I don't focus on what I'm drawing and I'm making a lot more mistakes. By slowing down I give myself time to lay down the foundations and if I do make mistakes I'm less stressed about it and it's easier to fix them. And the most important thing; art is way more fun if I don't have to stress about it.
You reminded me of something I haven't told myself in years: The fastest way to get something done is to do it right.
Moral : learn to walk before you learn to run
thank you for this video. i really needed it at this point in my journey... learning to slow down has been a contany battle, especially in the age of social media
also, fun fact. i took one of KJG's classes and he actually explains that every line he drew, was actually a guideline for the next line. the first few lines dictate the perspective, and so on. he makes mistakes and just rolls with it. i dont think ppl notice that, even with other artists who draw straight in. they think it's magic when its just... a different way of drawing haha since i am also an impatient person who started drawing again in their mid 20s and actually enjoy drawing with pens, i figured out how to draw straight like that (with references ofc) pretty quick but now, when i try to casually draw from imagination or actually do my guidelines/construction, i have a hard time placing things and having the patience to follow through. so yea that way of drawing works for some people but it call also mess you tf up in the long term 😅 i"ve been at it for 4yrs now and i still feel like i have 0 clue what i'm doing...
I also have the habit of going straight in and then struggling with constructing too. I figured out that I can usually fix things by using a thin paper and flipping the paper to the back side and tracing a bit but also adding in ruler lines or stencils to clean it up. If polishing it that way doesn't work it probably means I have something I need to reference. If I want to really finish it I take it to the light pad and draft the final that way, it helps me never feel like I might "waste" the nice art supplies, because I'm just finishing something that was already good.
Learning art is like a thousand back to back marathons, not a five meter sprint
I’ve been so discouraged about my art that I’ve gotten genuinely anxious about it, afraid of drawing. Thank you for reminding me that it’s okay for learning to be hard and take time.
I mean yeah, ur right. When I started out drawing, I kinda wanted to zoom past learning and I only got better when I slowed down.
I like watching Pikat, Lavendertowne, and other artists who give drawing and/or painting advice like this, not only because it’s awesome but also because I’m a writer and I like getting art advice from outside my field. “Learn to (art) slow before you can (art) fast.” Is just NOT the type of advice writers tend to give- thanks Pikat! ✨
here's what i've learned on this topic: its worth learning old-man style every single time. patience & tediousness is what gets the knowledge in your brain... BUT! i find the best results come from somewhere in the middle. I've done this process with music, with art, with lots of different hobbies. You should learn the basics, the fundamentals, until they are plastered over every inch of your brain. Then, get to the point where the "crappy sketch" takes you 15 seconds (not literally), so you can get the idea out of your brain faster. THEN turn 90 years old & meticulously refine that sketch over the course of 4 months. The more you do everything, the faster you'll get at it, but always remember the purpose of art is not to go fast, its to enjoy yourself. I personally like to treat art as almost a meditative practice. The time & patience is part of the enjoyment.
Ah, patience, the thing i lack most of.
If my goal is transferring my ideas from my head to paper, how can i be enjoying a tedious long process?
Of course nobody is saying a fast drawing also has to be great if the purpose is just to put ideas on paper -something actually necessary for i.e. character design work-, but to get there without wanting to rip apart your own fingers from the frustration of the slow process of the actual drawingm? Eh...
Also yeah learning fast is a myth, tho failing faster can make you learn faster, and to fail fastrr you can draw faster... Well sketch faster, as seen with figure drawings.
@@iota-09 transferring the idea from head to paper, in my opinion, should be quick & as simple as possible. its deliberately kind of bad & the reason the fundamentals help with this is because once you've essentially memorized them, drawing things like a circle or a rough box in decent perspective should be very quick and simple.
basically what im saying is that the trick of all this is to do the extremely basic part fast (so you dont lose the idea), and then to slow down & enjoy refining that basic stuff into something more realized.
@@ceciliagently sounds reasonable (sorry for the short response but it's short cause it's right😅)
You can't stop me.
My speed? Lightning Mcqueen.
My skills? Over the top.
My whole life i've drawn for the whole purpose of drawing whatever's in my head before it fade away to crumble in the abyss. And i've been improving nonstop my evolution knows no bound. I AM THE INFINITE! And i just can't get enough.
(The self-loathing grows stronger too)
Just what I needed, the timing is crazy, appreciate it though, love your videos keep it up !! ❤️❤️❤️
Ohhhh yes ! Amazing video, I love your art style so much. Your advices are very helpful !
"Drawing fast" and "Getting good fast", are two different things, and one of them is more mandatory than the other for getting a job in industry.
I've definitely fallen into this bad "Draw Faster" mentality when doing animation because I wanted to do a whole animated series.
There's other methods to animate more quickly but forcing yourself to draw faster is not one of them! It makes your work sloppy.
For animation, I think its better to find ways to draw *less* than it is to find ways to draw faster.
Drawing less also kind of forces you to make sure the drawings you *do* make actually contribute to the final result.
I'll admit it, I'm one of the people who thought I should be as fast as those timelapses. I thought it was all about speed and I rushed myself think it would improve my drawing.
My dumb ass brain unconsciously thought that I should draw as fast as timelapses because anxiety!!
Thanks for this Pikat, this vid came just in time im currently working on digital piece at the moment and the more I take my time the more it comes naturally to me.
this was most needed to hear rn , thank you 😊
definetely take your time! this was a good reminder to me, and i hope its a good reminder to others as well ❤
Firstly, let me thank you, Pikat for your excellent youtube content that has done a great job of getting me out of my... Thinking too much, only think I will fail mindset. Not fully gone but I'm drawing again which is worthy of endless thanks.
Regarding speed, I think I only became really focused on speed after I felt plateaued for a long time, like 4 or 5 years of just drawing things with no real study focus and I was seeing minimal improvements. I also played a lot of games like gartic phone where you're limited in time and guidelines just make things messy so that actually really brought me down as well. I think ultimately I am taught by videos and images for the most part and everything else has been just me trying things. It has been an incredibly slow improvement but it has been there.
Thanks.
Popped up in my feed right when I needed it.
absolutely love your videos they have helped me keep practicing thank you for your videos!
Thanks Pikat. I needed to hear this.
Tbh... I'm not comparing myself to other artist and I'm not trying to be super fast at drawing because others are so fast. I'm just impatient and want the end result of my art. It's obvious that I need to stop that and enjoy the process but if the process is only struggling and hating yourself and your artwork, then enjoying the process is quite difficult.
This , yeah
It's very hard to get out of the mindset that "damn everything sucks and i suck and I'll never be good" when you only see the process as pain and suffering
Even if the end product is decent , you feel like it wasn't worth it because "the time taken was too much , the value has decreased"
Thanks for the perspective!
There is something to be said about the opposite side of the spectrum, where you might spend too much time planning and erasing the piece until it comes out just how you want it. Not against slow drawing, but if you have the perfectionist mindset preventing you from just making stuff, doing it faster might help
I know the problems I have when drawing but it's really good to have people like you talk about them, it helps me stop the problems that when I'm tired I accidentally think about it and overdo it.
When i look at my art it looks like ive made no progress but this is where your old art comes in handy cause then by looking at your old art and comparing it with your new art you can see how much youve improved and it feels good
thank you so much for this video 🙏
the timing couldn’t be more perfect, because i’m working on a couple of drawings that i want to finish RIGHT NOW ASAP, but i can’t, and that drives me mad.
i guess it’s really easy to get caught up in your own toxic thoughts, especially when you are bombarded by content on social media. it feels like everyone is posting and drawing at lighting speed, while you are dragging behind them, struggling to draw even a freaking hand.
I agree. And life becomes bleak when it's all about optimization anyway.
Just what I needed, Thanks!
I knew this, yet i needed someone to hold my hand and say it out loud to prove that this is true..
I somehow feel relieved, and actually..
I found myself drawing way past the video was over so, good job you. Subscribing to fill my feed with more of this.
such a great video and good points! This just made me realize I may have started to really put pressure on myself to speed through my art to get it done. Another thing is I feel like I get pressured by social media to work faster. It feels like you NEED to finish artworks faster so you have something to post.
Personally because I believe every artist out there posting their work can draw much, much faster than I. Even for quick sketches, it always feels like it takes me way longer than others. Social media's fault.
man, you really do make videos that i desperately need, pinpoint. ive been struggling to draw for the past couple of years because of this pressure to draw quickly and efficiently and i think watching timelapse videos definitely influenced me to think "i must draw fast to be efficient" "i must know what im doing when im drawing or im incompetent". it made me become more and more frustrated to draw and now i cant draw at all. when i do draw, i cannot render or add tiny details because i become super impatient and feel not confident with figuring it out. its a lot of pressure on myself that i cant break out of and has ruined me. too much need for good results and not enjoying the process and hardwork. thanks for making this video that i need to hear!
Just yesterday, I was upset, because a simple, at first glance for me, silly drawing took an obscene amount of time for me. Although I was happy with how things turned out pretty well, there was a part of me that regretted the time wasted. But now I feel better because of your words. Thanks for the reminder, Pikat
This is one of the realest, down to east and practical videos I've ever seen about art! Like, obviously, drawing quick and being good will raise your productivity. It's a reasonable goal. People don't realize using what someone else does as a measuring stick disrupts the path to finding what you can do best. If everyone needed to be as good as Kim Jung Gi (RIP), there would be a lot less artists in the world. He could only express his art the way he saw it. And each of us do it the same way. Eventually, I think we all find that pathway to when we can do things with what SEEMS like little effort once we know what to expect out of our methods.
Who even KNOWS how many times that man had to start these pieces over and over. Some people are savant like and phenomenal and they are the exception. We should not equivocate our skill based on the unique perspective of another. Provoking content. Keep doing rad shit! 🤟
i'm glad you talked about this. art and drawing is another hobby, of course it'll take time
something that my singing teacher told me that stuck to my mind was how a person's environment such as social media affects their perspective of that skill where only 'fast' 'accomplished' artists are shown and the process and dedication to getting that place is belittled, made fun of or just simply not shown. for singing this is celebrities like divas, for artists these are those people you admire on pinterest, X or insta
but through joining a community of aspiring artists or even accomplished ones, you can see how they aren't as fast as speed runs, that they'll flip their canvas 50000 times, redraw that line in their lineart for an hour straight or spend weeks on a project worrying about a singular pixel.
it's just that the 'progress' part of going into a hobby isn't normalised, or it's glamourised into some 'one year art progress compliation' that already shows when they're accomplished
To be honest, trying to be fast at drawing can get really demoralizing for me. Like, all I'm stuck with is feeling like "Aw man, I can't finish this full colour, full-body portrait as well as the background in under 2 hours. Why do I even try?". It takes away the initial fun of drawing which is that I can draw whatever I like, however I like and whenever I want. The drawing fast mindset ultimately just discourages me from drawing altogether. So I would always advise people who want to draw to just have fun with it, don't think of it as a race but more so an exciting road trip.
This channel is really great
I used to draw all the time through elementary but when I got to middle school I complete forgot how to draw. It was hard but when I got farther than my original drawings because I took the time to learn and fill into what I was missing before. I really enjoyed this because it’s true and you just put it out there, man. You’re really cool :D
This is something I wish someone made clear to me when I was younger and learning to draw.
I used to really enjoy watching time-lapses to try and learn from them, but never realized or understood that it's impossible for anyone to draw that quickly, let alone approve just as fast.
A fundamental lesson for all aspiring artists.
Ive been in this mindset for like 1 year after like, 4 years of drawing on an ipad... thanks for bringing me to light
It's something I still struggle with today. I think it came for me trying to taking notes down in class really fast. And got carried over into how I draw
What a good time to get this in my feed lol.
As if the Algo is reading my mind , or my discord rants lol
Something about this video was super humbling. I've been trying to practice bodies and I wonder how artists I look up to can make new pieces so quickly. I looked at some of the first pieces that these artists made. It felt reliving in a sense. These people have years upon years of experience. Here I am, who only began to take art seriously over a year ago as somebody who hated drawing, trying to shorten months of work into a few weekends. So, thank you for making me realize that it's okay to take my time. Thank you for giving me a reality check.
im rlly struggling with this problem rn so thank you for this!😭
This is def something I logically know, but is really helpful to hear again. I constantly find myself trying to draw faster and end up very frustrated for really no reason. Thanks for this video!
What I try to remember is back in the day artists started young. Like the minute they could hold a pencil young. Then they spent years and years learning, and when they finally did start pulling out masterpieces, those took YEARS. We are actually doing it fast in comparison with the help of all the tools we have now.
Thanks for this, I’ve always been worried that I draw to slow and that I won’t be able to get a job with my speed of drawing but this helped me feel better about my process of drawing:)
I swear love how your 3D pixel art avatar looks!!
Speaking of time lapses, part of the problem is that our brains subconsciously don't *really* understand the concept if we see one.
Shure, you know better - the video is sped up. But only thing your brain sees is a sequence of very fast movements that results in a bunch of cute eggbuns.
So you *feel* that you can (learn to) draw this fast.
Even if you *know* you can't
At least we can be aware of this and try to tone down our expectations.
Aww, I love the little egg bun buns your drawing during this 🥰
I remember scrolling online somewhere and saw this amazing piece thinking wow this artist is so patient with themselves and really know how to draw! But then the artist (I forgot who it was it was so long ago lmao) commented on the art and showed the speedpaint and something they said made me rethink which was smt along the lines of
"I actually lost motivation and really hated this piece at one point but I'm so glad I pushed through and finished it"
and that made me rethink how a lot of artists portray their art. It humanised the artist for me, because I also tend to just give up when the piece is getting tedious. Not a lot of artists online share their struggles or periods of time where their art isn't up to standard, but the truth is no one is perfect and we should stop comparing ourselves with others because we don't know the whole picture!
The reason why I want to learn how to draw fast is because I want to make a comic, and I want to draw things fast enough that I can set a regular schedule, but slow enough that the art isn't rushed and is high quality. But maybe to learn how to do that, I have to keep taking it slow. Maybe I could make the schedule longer than "a new page every week." A new page every other week? A new page every month? Or something like that.
Either way, tysm for all the tips!
Also cute egg creature, very silly B)
I remember thinking that people who make all the art we liked never making mistakes or have perfect lines everywhere and it felt discouraging at first until I watched a video of Hirohiko Araki drawing a page for part 8 or JoJo. He wasnt super fast and he didnt always draw everything perfect at first and each iteration of his panels you could see the details start to come in and it made me feel better knowing even amazing artists slowdown and arent always perfect.
Thank you Pikat for letting the world know how you expressed yourself on how you see how much time and energy you put in your drawing.
IMO, it’s always more of a “there’s so much I want to draw that if it takes me 50 hours spread out across the next month to finish the current thing I’m excited to draw, then I have to wait a WHOLE MONTH before I get to start the next one
Exact numbers vary, but the principle of wanting to do more now translates
Patience is a tough skill to learn if you don’t have it. Wish I had tips for how to get more patient for y’all
I did this a lot... especially when I had limit3d time to draw, so intried to speak out as many new sketches as I could with my limited time, or else it felt like a waste... now im working hard to really take my time and actually think trough at every line and brushstroke, and I feel like I actually improve significantly since then
Yooo that fire looks awesome
4 years ago, I feeling slow. And I always thinking, how do people do it fast? After 2 years feeling like this, I actually find out that I have improved faster than my friends. After that, I got motivation to continue drawing and improving
I had to learn this lesson the hard way thank you.
pikat you make me wanna draw more ily
Very sobering. Thanks
thank you
as a first year college student, i feel this video really told me somethin important, and at the same time, it makes me kinda realize how much i've negatively changed since the beginning of the year because of how much i have to deal with deadlines and the rush to be as good as possible to pass. i've always been rushed to be as good as possible within a short period of time - and even my parents berated me for taking things so slow. still, i think this is important advice, and thanks for your kind words.
I really needed to hear this from an experienced artist, because I want to get good! and I want to get there already and im forgetting about enjoying the moment getting there. Yes, i do see great artists on IG and im like damn! I want to be like that! They make it seem like they did it first try lmao! Another reason for rushing is cause im excited to see how its gonna look! anyways thank you for your advice :) Have a great day!
I like drawing fast with doodles to help me get an understanding what the hell want to slower product to look. Get all the struggles out of the way quick before switching gears so the final drawing isn't a pain in the neck
I'm very much the same as you in that I want instant results and it's something I've been working on stopping recently. In fact, one of my worst habits has been doing everything in one sitting rather than giving myself breaks. So I often have to remind myself when it's time to stop and allow myself some time to rest. That reset time often brings me back to the piece more refreshed and capable of tackling the things I want to do better.
Like, it's interesting to see how fast you can finish something some times, but it's good to take your time as well. You gotta remember, art is supposed to be enjoyable. Relax, take your time, and have fun with it.
Am I being watched? 😭 This came after 2 weeks of searching how to speed up my workflow. Great video 👍
I draw quickly to practice memorizing relevant details. It also helps me understand what to leave out in a picture as i simplify it if i constrain my time
One thing I appreciate about your videos is the thumbnails don't seem to be as clickbaity as other creator's who make educational art content. Things you out in your thumbnails at least actually happened/talked about in the vids
I know that those thumbnails work and to be able deliver the infomation to more people is good(and those creators deserve the views) but it'll make me recoil from some videos sometimes because I was afraid it'll be full of misinfomations.
"Slow is Smooth and Smooth is Fast"
someone wise.
take your time, people
Sis thanks for this vid, it helped me a lot. I wanna tell my story now, sorry for poor English.
A year and a half ago I started a piece which I was drawing for a HALF OF A YEAR. The piece contained 3 full body artworks, I was learning anatomy working on this. I drew all the bones and the muscles underneath the skin using a crazy amount of references, and only then I drew the actual guy. You still might ask HALF OF A YEAR? (and it's not finished still, I dropped it. Even though it was the only artwork I worked on that time). Yes, and there were reasons for drawing this slowly: exams, prom, school in general, so much stress, and even though I drew almost every day, it took an insane amount of time. But the main reason for this piece to be so time consuming is IT WAS NEW FOR ME. I was studying to draw a really hard subject - anatomy. I never ever learned anatomy this accurately and this carefully, so of course it took half of a year!
Around a year ago I started another art piece. For this time, it was 9 full height artworks of different characters. And this artwork also took a half of a year, but this time I finished 9 characters artworks, including their clothing, hair, and i even finished flat coloring and shading. And this is why you shouldn't be afraid of drawing slowly. You will get quicker with time. You don't need to be in rush, take your time to learn things you want to be able to draw and learn it properly. It will get easier eventually
I don't think I've ever heard an artist or TH-cam tutor say this before. It's kind of unspoken, like it's a secret. I appreciate your direct approach to art. Your videos are great!
i really needed this, bc i was frustrated with myself for how long it takes for me to finish even simple stuff 💀 but apparently it's normal, LOL
People truly lack discipline; the old masters always had spent their lives striving into learning their skills. Plus they were still open to learning more even in their old age. As a perfectionist I struggle with this but I have found ways to help myself. Great video!
I like your animated avatar. I'd also like to add that it's more than milage. It's focused and deliberate practice over a long time combined with quality resources. The problem is, that to become good at anything you need to learn a set of implicit skills, that are hard to teach. E.g. the habit of investing time regularily is one critical component. Another one is to learn how to effectively learn from your mistakes. Also to develop grit and focus.
The journey to become a master at anything will transform you and your life. And it will be worth it as there is little more fullfilling in life. It can be done in 5 years to a decade. It can also be truly enjoyable like almost nothing is in life.
For those that are interested, Robert Greene's Mastery and Peak from Anders Ericsson are excellent (audio) books if this is your goal. There is nothing wrong with pursuing art without that systematic laser focused approach, but if you are frustrated at your progress, these may be for you.
I love when how when she drew the face she explained how she was able to know exactly where to put the lines
Definitely related to the topic of feeling like you need to draw fast, for the long time I refused to draw the back faces on my forms because I thought it was messy and slow. turns out that part of the reason why I struggled with foreshortening and overlaps was *because* I wasn't drawing my forms through, fancy that.
That is the hard thing, I can't keep up with others who post their drawings on the daily. It made me feel like I couldn't amount to much. Stepping away from social media helped me to focus and enjoy the process more.
Gonna rush, gonna end quickly!
I mean your art's journey (motivation) gonna end faster than your skills improvement. I've experienced it a lot of time and when stuffs like this comes... what comes around goes around.
Start it surely, then speed comes after.
Kim Jong Gi explained how he proceed when he made this kind of work. In fact, he truly can draw without guidelines because he can see them without tracing, because he drew thousand times, because he learned everything that can be useful to implement on his own works (even if he's a "genius").
One of my older brother showed me the same process that he (partially) learned from Kim Jong Gi's videos, and in fact that's truly impressive when you don't know how it works. My brother learned how to draw before the eminence of youtube videos and others stuffs. The gap between the old generation and the new generation is relatable. Informations can be accessed easily now, so the "hard worker" methods doesn't really mather for most of people till the bills count.
Currently we don't need to buy art's book, we've have videos that explains and free guides so we get easily more lazy and not focus enough on our own arts study process. An certain "bald" youtuber explain it and I kind of agree. What it takes is diligence.
And me, I learned by reading manga in my childhood, copying art's book in my lastest teenage years and watching videos in my adulthood. I'm still inexperienced but I’ve seen the progress I’ve made... If you believe you can do it, even if it takes you 1 years, 5 years or an eternity to reach your goals, you'll succeed.
You matters, don't give up!
somebody had to say this!
thank you
honestly as some who is always kind of self conscious about be feeling like I'm drawing too slow, this video really help me. I just I always felt like I have so many drawing Ideas I wanna get to but I'm stuck on a drawing that doesn't feel finished to me or is it's missing something. I will say tho I do feel like I have gotten a bit faster, but you know I'm still slow. but maybe that's ok. as you said you need to lean to draw slow before you draw fast.
Im trying to draw fast enough that i finish it before i get bored so i can stop leaving 1000+ unfinished drawings everywhere
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All my friends around me are all god artist, and i always feel left, that's why i always rush when it comes to drawing. All my friends are having fun, drawing each other's oc, doing art trade, and i wanted to join them, but my skill is far compared to them, so i ended up cursing myself why i can't be as good as them. When i could join them to draw together without the need to feel shame about my ugly arts. I keep rushing and rushing, even though i know its wasting my energy to stressing about it. But i can't help it. Sometimes its feel so frustrating 😞 thank you for this video, pikat
I got it. I spent like 3 days to finish my painting, fixing mistakes and timlapse makes it looks like I did it right in one go.
I had an enormous tantrum on Friday about not being able to draw what I want, as well as I want, whenever I want (May 10 "Maid Day" snuck up on me and trying to rush a drawing last minute... didn't go well).
So this video came gunning for me, personally, for eight and a half minutes nonstop, and I kind of have to thank you for it! Because every point is relevant and necessary, from "yes it really does take that long" to "yes you have to learn to use guidelines" to "yes it's not fun to be bad at art, but that is also part of the process".
The optimal way to learn part hit the most, cause For me currently, it feels like less about skipping to be good and more worrying about what im doing is actually *helping* me be good at what I want to do. I dont feel like I mind how long the process takes but U wish I could trust said process, especially being self taught and not having a single bit of income for a real teacher. Feels like everything I look up from small tip to full on tutorials dont “work” for me trying to practice them, and it always dampers my confidence in what im doing is actually working