When I was in art school, one of my best professors had us go outside on campus all the time during class, and they said the only goal was to observe and sketch as many students as possible all around the campus. They pretty much had us do exactly this, sketch as many people as we could, spending no more than the time it took them to disappear from our line of vision. It’s a huge help because it really does make your figure drawing more fluid, but also really helps boost your speed and confidence in general.
I'm a self taught 3D sculptor who uses Blender. Your videos have helped me a lot, getting body and faces to look like, well, bodies and faces. Just thought you would like to know that even those of us who don't draw, still enjoy and learn from your videos. P.S. The sun glasses are from the 1987 movie Mannequin, the friend wears them, and they are a trip.
That's so cool, I used to do 3D sculpting myself (tho it was in zbrush) and I loved it. I'm glad to hear those sunglasses got around, my first time seeing them was when they were a kids meal toy at Pizza Hut. Man they looked cool as heck
Excellent tutorial. One of the things I always struggle with is posing, specially dynamic poses, so this video is a heaven sent lol. Thank you so much Lines!
It makes me unreasonably happy to see my submission in the video haha. Funny enough you can pretty clearly see in my submission how much I struggle with posing, so I'm definitely going to have to practice everything from this video a couple of times! Thanks again for all the great tutorials :)
I'm glad you like the video, and I'm glad you enjoyed having your work featured. I know I enjoyed seeing all the amazing submissions so I'm delighted to be able to share some part of that
Fuck dude, you are such a good teacher. I had a horrible, terrible week and this is without exaggerating contributing to the counterbalance of all the awfulness. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Yesterday I was going to back to revisit some of the older lessons to work on my skills and out of nowhere the teach comes with new content!! Thank you, Lines 🙏❤️
This video is a god send for me I always had issues with poses but things I learnt from this video was something I never would have thought of so THANK YOU SO MUCH LINES
You're the best, that kind of positive feedback is wonderful to hear and it's that excellent support that's really helped me make everything I've done so far, I really do appreciate it honestly
I just want to let you know You literally made me as a beginner artist to overcome my fear of drawing men not only that but now i can draw many head positions and im locked in to study all your videos thank you than you so much i dont know how to repay you for this
I'm so grateful that you uploaded this video - gesture drawing never really made sense to me (I don't know what wasn't clicking) but when you started showing examples of your gesture drawings and leaving them as motion/flow lines alongside what you were explaining, it clicked. I'm just training my mind, it's not about the finished product. Such a good way of putting it - thank you! ( And the end result of your speedpaint was killer, great work! :D )
This couldn't have come at a better time. I'm literally 4 hours into dynamic figure drawing and I'm bashing my head in trying to make them less stiff. Thank you Lines.
soy el único que talvez soy suscriptor del habla hispana pero quiero decirte que eres uno de los mejores expositores de esta área que es tan apasionante ,gracias por los videos y enseñanzas ,seria de muy bueno de tu parte que subas videos mas seguido, saludos cordiales.
thank you for building a community that isnt hosted behind a paywall. youre a saint lol loved seeing someone else break it down to squiggles in gestures
I'm glad people are enjoying it, providing free content is something that's really important to me. I know there's some stuff I'll have to charge for, but where I can I wanna make a place people can get a really strong start for free. Let's see how I go, I might have to start talking about nordvpn at some point lol 😂
Congrats to the winner! This video is a game changer. I just only watched and try to fix one of my drawings and to me looks so much better! Such a good teacher ! Class time!
you are much too kind, and i promise you can too, it can take a little practice but we've got a great community over on discord so pop your attempts in there, everyone's really helpful
Thank you sensei, I'm a big fan. I went and checked up your newgrounds and I must say it's really impressive how you improved so dramatically so quickly, can you make a video on how you achieved such gains next please?
thanks, and i do plan to make a video about ways to improve, and use my own experience as an example of one path to improvement. since its gunna be a while till i get to that one, so just to give you a summary this is how it went for me: 1) due to being time poor, I codified and streamlined my drawing process, which meant less wasted time, and more drawings done. developed/reassessed a short warmup basic exercise to do before my drawing, or that would only take 15 minutes on days i couldn't afford to actually sit down and draw.
2) recognised I was hitting a skill wall, so i'd do as many tutorials as I could find, on as many topics as I could find 3) sought feedback on about a dozen discords on my work, and set the expectation of what a good critique looks like by doing literally hundreds (maybe thousands) of them. 4) through doing heaps of critiques I developed my analytical eye, which I then applied to my own work. 5) did an absolute mountain of master studies, to see how artists I aspired to approached things, and made sure i applied those methods to my own work transformatively and immediately so that i was learning those techniques within the context of my own creative process. and regularly looped back to step 1) all the while remembering to be wary of and avoid perfectionism, perfectionism is a progress dead end. the improvement you get from drawing one thing *perfectly* is worthless compared to the improvement you get from just getting 10 imperfect things DONE. drawing improvement is a pure numbers game, anything that slows your progress, kills your progress. also i made sure to avoid burnout, from either drawing too too much, or going to hard on study that i didn't enjoy. if drawing self indulgent anime tiddies makes you draw more, then it will help you improve more than serious training, if serious training is tedious, because burnout makes you draw less, and again, drawing improvement is a numbers game, so keep it fun to keep up that output volume I know i keep coming back to it but if i had to distil it i'd say "Quality Follows Quantity" hmm.... i basically just made a video outline for myself lol, maybe i SHOUD make this video sooner than i'd planned. thanks for the opportunity to really pen this idea down, that really was an excellent question. i really appreciate it
Super awesome video! Huge thanks for all the helpful tutorials you've been making, they really help a ton! :D Something that I think would really helpful is if for the speedpaint section, you slowed down when you reach the section the video is covering, in this case the pose. Within the first 10-20 seconds of the speedpaint the pose for the person is essentially finished, but I would love if there was more time to really digest how you constructed the pose or maybe hear more of your thought process behind it. I hope this doesn't come off as ungrateful D: . Your tutorials are like a gift from above for aspiring artists, so huge kudos and thanks once again! :D
Thank you, and yes that's very good feedback. I was thinking with this one in particular that the sketch was very much over too soon. I'm getting better with the re-timing controls so I think that's something I would be able to do moving forward ( video editing is still a space where I have a lot to learn rn)
Yes, that one will be next all the one after it. I want to make as easy to understand and as accessible a video on starting perspective, so now I'm just trying to break down the concept and break down the steps into something that's more palatable than the usual process of rulers and buildings and big boxes
5:00 omg finally, Someone who doesn't make super well made drawings with the gesture, really that gave me a bad direction, thank you very much for teaching me how I should do it, I had problems with that and I think now I can improve :')
now THIS is something I really struggle with, applying this and perspective/foreshortening is an absolute nightmare for me. My poses are lacking in action. Thank you Lines for being an absolute hero 😭😭😭
You're welcome, and once I get a good bead on how to make perspective approachable I'll put that video out ASAP. (just trying to figure a more accessible approach for it at the moment)
Great video as always! I'd love to see a video deep dive on line rhythms. You have gone over it in a few videos, but I still really struggle to make my lines aesthetically pleasing, especially when drawing hair--I don't know where to break it up and where not to. I end up with something really messy.
Thank you, and that's great feedback. A few other people have asked for a little bit more detail on how to approach producing more organic rhythms so the next time it comes up in a video I'll flesh it out a bit more there. Or maybe make a short. ....Or I could make it in a full video, and pop out small bits like that into shorts..... .....Yyyyeah. You've given me a great Idea, thank you 😊
I love the retro/80s style! Would you ever consider explaining how they designed hair? I love project A-ko and Dirty Pair and can’t find any tutorials about the artistic approach to designing and drawing their hair. Thanks!
The rain looks a little more like sweat, I think I you put more splattering droplets on top of her figure the rain aspect would be more convincing. Or at least if you put some on her jacket. Now that I think about it, it’s a liiiitle sus that the water only runs down her exposed skin and skin-tight suit… (I get it tho lol) Nitpicking aside, these pose finding methods are really cool and useful, thank you!
20:44 the Alain Mikli Picasso sunglasses? I went down a rabbit hole looking them up, cuz I remember seeing an ad for them as a kid in the early 90s. At least in America that's where I've seen them!
They're, at least for me, a classic pizza hut kids meal toy from the 80s. Thinking about it they're probably more significant for me than they are for the world at large, I just thought they were really cool so they stuck with me
Wake up babe new Lines Sensei video dropped Also me: Grabs pillow and blankets and moves it to wife I ain't letting them go without watching a video of this we both benefit
Lines! You’ve actually helped me a lot when it comes to shading and construction of the body only problem I’m having is hands so I really have to watch your hand tutorial I always skip it 😂
I'm really happy to hear it's been helpful, and yes please watch the hands tutorial. If not for me then for the reputation of RUclips viewers. My view numbers make it look like all anyone cares about is boobies videos. That can't be true.... Right?
Would love to see how you approach silhouette sketching, i primarily sketch via off black silhouette then refine and add details using negative space via eraser, sometimes i might mix in paint sketching and add details via different shades, would love to see how you approach this process
So that is something I'll do when I'm thumbnailing a more painterly piece, The reason I don't really do it for these videos is that while the actual thumbnail is simple to do, a lot of more advanced stuff goes into making thumbnails that work. So I am planning to go into it, but a bit further down the line
I've never seen the pose thing before, I've heard the squiggly called "spider-men" but I like the idea of getting them from just random pictures to help practice shape brake down.
All good my guy, I need all of you to prioritize your sleep hygiene keep yourself healthy and happy the videos can wait until you're ready, there's no rush
Thank you for the explanation on dynamic posing, I really appreciate these educational videos and it was also interesting to watch the speedpaint! I was wondering when is the "right time" to watch videos on dynamic posing since I'm not yet caught up with everything (for example I watched some full body tutorial videos but I haven't gotten around to practice the full body structure yet, let alone posing), nevertheless it was still very useful, so thank you! ☺
That is an excellent question, I'd say anytime can be the right time to do gesture drawing. You're only really going to need to know anatomy and construction when you want to take those gestures and make them into fully realised detailed illustrations. Hope that makes sense, cheers
Alright noted, a lot of other people have expressed interest so I'll get to that probably fairly soon. With all the retro shows like Ranma getting a new season it's probably a good time to explore that retro aesthetic
I've been drawing every day for over a year now but I felt like i was going through motions and just doing it as a chore, setting a target of minimum 30mins ended up being precisely 30 minutes for almost all of the drawing sessions. Your tutorial video on drawing hair appeared on my youtube frontpage while I was trying to figure out how I feel about art and it inspired me to actually put more time into art without restricting myself to specific timeframes and put serious effort into improvement. So far it was going great past few days since I "restarted" my art journey. Thanks so much for the series of amazing tutorials. I have one question, I started with female body part 1 and 2, done the homework exercise a few times and about to finish a draw along of the speedpaint drawing. Is the order of videos in the playlist a recommended one or I can jump between topics freely. Also I don't know if it was stated in any of the videos, didn't catch that in the 2 videos I've studied but is it a good idea to try and draw along the speedpaint demonstration portion of the lesson? Thanks for making art fun for me once again!
Wow, that's a real journey. I'm so happy to hear that my videos have been a part of that. As for your questions, so the videos can be done in whatever order you like, if I ever talk about something that it's best you understand first I'll typically mention or link to it. But even then it's up to you to decide what you feel.yiure ready for . As far as drawing along with the speedpaint, you absolutely can if you want, or you can fold washing. Just make sure you're enjoying what you do. It's so important to progression that you're in a happy place when studying, or you can find it hard to keep studying. Keep up the good work, and let me know how you go
Would be super useful to have a new video showing all the steps you applied on this video, but on a much simpler drawing. For example, with just a drawing of a hand (or something simple) we could see the video at normal speed instead of x300 speedpainting. It would take less time for you to finish each step on something small, and the only thing that we should do is apply those steps on a bigger project/drawing of a full body. I believe it would make it less dizzy to follow along. I understand that there are things that should come with practice, like anatomy and perspective, but there are methods applied in this video I would love to see at a normal speed, like how you use the Lasso tool to shade (I don't have stabilization on my Lasso tool don't know if it's a difference betweeen CSP pro and Ex), how to use layers properly, tools for post processing, etc. Always nice to see new videos anyways : )
That's a really good idea, a nice small scale illustration to cover the steps off of a digital process good actually work quite well. (you do have stabilization on the lasso tool it's just the setting isn't visible by default so go into to the sub tool settings to change it and also check the box to make it visible)
Once agan another banger!! I was hooing ti suiten ny comment from before to see how i coukd word rhis correctly. I was hoping st some point you coukd make a tutorial on how to sketch diffent cartoon characters (not all of course just some iconic ones) because im not sure how to sketch most of them yet😅. And maybe some basic poses! Thanks again! Needed that tutorial too!
That's a really good idea, maybe some RUclips shorts covering the basics on how to draw a particularly iconic or currently famous characters would be a good idea,
Great tutorial! One thing I’ve been having trouble with is getting my blur to work on gradient selections. The whole selection ends up being the same level of blur
I am gunna start doing streams in future once I've got the classes running on the regular and the vtuber model ready. It's a ways off but I promise it's on the horizon
11:50 instructions unclear, I drew the dad from Uzumaki jokes aside, this is super helpful!! I've come to realise that the poses of the figures I draw (if you can call a bust-up a "figure" lol) have become a lot more stiff and "tame" (not to mention lazy lmao). Not sure if it's because of the hasty mindset I developed since I started posting on social media, but now I think I'll try experimenting more with gesture studies (on top of filling in the gaps in my anatomy knowledge) to help bring out more of that character appeal :> (It'll probably make up for my barren, nonexistent backgrounds lol)
Awesome, it sounds like you have a really clear direction and next steps for your drawing development. If you ever feel like showing it off we have a discord server, and I know I'd love to see it
That's really lovely of you to say, and if you do ever decide to get started we've got a great community on discord and we'd all love to see, and help with your progress. So keep us in mind
Thank you so much you're such a godsend! I was wondering, if we could get a lineart tutorial? I noticed the way you do lineart and I have started to do it in my work but I'd like to learn how to properly do it! 💜💜
Thank you, and thank you for the excellent feedback on the thumbnail as well I don't think I would have gotten it nearly as nice in the version 2 without your feedback, I really do appreciate it
Ohhhhh those are both great . A few other people have asked for the 80s tutorial, and using very few layers is a good idea as well to help focus on a simple process, that's actually really great idea and it's going straight on the whiteboard now before I forget Thank you, that's excellent
Thank you, I thought there would be more than one selection available at a time, but since I don't use procreate very much I'm not sure how you would do that with touch controls
Just finished the homework 😊 also there might be a misprint on it. It says #Clothing at the bottom of the homework page. it should probably say #Dynamic Posing, or something similar, right?
@@LinesSensei I mean If the tutorial is about the shoes' angles, the different forms and types of shoes and its basic shapes would be nice to be honest. Whatever you do, I'm pretty sure it's gonna be useful and again, keep up the good effort Lines.
Nice!!! Not related to his video i think. But which exercise do you recommend to draw mannequins faster? I notice i expend a lot of time on my drawings overall.
So that makes a lot of sense, if you're finding yourself spending a lot of time on your sketch to get it right, often that can be a sign of either an uncertain process of delivering your idea. That can be things like not having a solidified understanding of body construction etc. Or it can be a sign that you're having to think on the fly and you might be better off doing a bit more planning for what your image is supposed to be before you get to the steps of making it into whatever that vision is. There are of course other possible reasons but those are two of the more common
@@LinesSensei For example on my last drawing i had to correct my character arms position because compared to the reference it looked less dynamic, hair too i changed it a lot until i found the one i like, the face etc... All of this after waking up next day and opening Clip Studio. So before lineart it took me like 3 sketches... 😅
Well sometimes sketches take time. The only thing of concern there is don't be so focused on getting something perfect that you end up getting less drawings done. Improvement is a numbers game, you'll learn more from getting 10 done than 1 perfect
When I was in art school, one of my best professors had us go outside on campus all the time during class, and they said the only goal was to observe and sketch as many students as possible all around the campus. They pretty much had us do exactly this, sketch as many people as we could, spending no more than the time it took them to disappear from our line of vision. It’s a huge help because it really does make your figure drawing more fluid, but also really helps boost your speed and confidence in general.
Oh that's a great exercise, and on live subjects would be even better
Beats the paid courses here that sit you infront of fruit or a still life model with no anatomy breakdowns. lol
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I'm a self taught 3D sculptor who uses Blender. Your videos have helped me a lot, getting body and faces to look like, well, bodies and faces. Just thought you would like to know that even those of us who don't draw, still enjoy and learn from your videos. P.S. The sun glasses are from the 1987 movie Mannequin, the friend wears them, and they are a trip.
That's so cool, I used to do 3D sculpting myself (tho it was in zbrush) and I loved it.
I'm glad to hear those sunglasses got around, my first time seeing them was when they were a kids meal toy at Pizza Hut. Man they looked cool as heck
Excellent tutorial. One of the things I always struggle with is posing, specially dynamic poses, so this video is a heaven sent lol. Thank you so much Lines!
I'm really glad you like it, and let me know how you go
It makes me unreasonably happy to see my submission in the video haha. Funny enough you can pretty clearly see in my submission how much I struggle with posing, so I'm definitely going to have to practice everything from this video a couple of times! Thanks again for all the great tutorials :)
I'm glad you like the video, and I'm glad you enjoyed having your work featured.
I know I enjoyed seeing all the amazing submissions so I'm delighted to be able to share some part of that
THE GOAT RETURNS
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this just takes the gesture exercises to a whole other level
fantastic
Aww thank you
Fuck dude, you are such a good teacher. I had a horrible, terrible week and this is without exaggerating contributing to the counterbalance of all the awfulness. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Thank you, I'm glad this helped your week along and I hope things go up and up from here.
Yesterday I was going to back to revisit some of the older lessons to work on my skills and out of nowhere the teach comes with new content!!
Thank you, Lines 🙏❤️
You're welcome, and I hope you like the old lessons too.
let me know how you go
This video is a god send for me I always had issues with poses but things I learnt from this video was something I never would have thought of so THANK YOU SO MUCH LINES
Awesome, I'm glad it helped.
Let me know how you go
Never clicked so fast in my life for another video! Thanks Lines!!
💀 i wonder why
You're the best, that kind of positive feedback is wonderful to hear and it's that excellent support that's really helped me make everything I've done so far, I really do appreciate it honestly
@@Nathan-yn7fv Because I suck at dynamism and I want to learn, If you thought because of the thumbnail you are a sick f..k
I just want to let you know
You literally made me as a beginner artist to overcome my fear of drawing men not only that but now i can draw many head positions and im locked in to study all your videos thank you than you so much i dont know how to repay you for this
It's wonderful to hear, I'm really grateful it's been useful to a decent number of people.
Thank you for letting me know
I'm so grateful that you uploaded this video - gesture drawing never really made sense to me (I don't know what wasn't clicking) but when you started showing examples of your gesture drawings and leaving them as motion/flow lines alongside what you were explaining, it clicked. I'm just training my mind, it's not about the finished product. Such a good way of putting it - thank you! ( And the end result of your speedpaint was killer, great work! :D )
Thank you so much, and I'm glad it clicked for you, that's a wonderful feeling
0:58 OMG the art down in the middle is mine 🤩 I'm so glad it was featured, this first server event was pretty cool🔥🔥🔥
I'm glad you liked it, and thank you for submitting such awesome work
This couldn't have come at a better time. I'm literally 4 hours into dynamic figure drawing and I'm bashing my head in trying to make them less stiff. Thank you Lines.
That's wonderful to hear, I hope it helps let me know how you go
soy el único que talvez soy suscriptor del habla hispana pero quiero decirte que eres uno de los mejores expositores de esta área que es tan apasionante ,gracias por los videos y enseñanzas ,seria de muy bueno de tu parte que subas videos mas seguido, saludos cordiales.
No, no lo eres 😄
Thank you, I appreciate it I'll do my best to keep up the schedule
I am AWFULLY IMPRESSED. This video helped me so much i cannot conceive words to express just how grateful I am that your channel exists holy shit😭🙏💗
That's really nice of you to say, and I'm really glad to hear that the content I'm making is helping
thank you for building a community that isnt hosted behind a paywall. youre a saint lol loved seeing someone else break it down to squiggles in gestures
I'm glad people are enjoying it, providing free content is something that's really important to me.
I know there's some stuff I'll have to charge for, but where I can I wanna make a place people can get a really strong start for free.
Let's see how I go, I might have to start talking about nordvpn at some point lol 😂
I continue to be amazed by how incredibly high quality your videos are. Thank you again, sensei!
You are far too nice and thank you
Congrats to the winner! This video is a game changer. I just only watched and try to fix one of my drawings and to me looks so much better! Such a good teacher ! Class time!
Oh thank you, I'm really happy to hear it's made a difference for you.
I really appreciate you taking the time to share that
Sensei gave me the wet tutorial that i was looking for day's without me even asking for it, dude is my hero without cape 😭
Well it's a pretty simple effect so I figured I'd shoehorn it in sense yourself and a few other people have asked for it
Thank you Hoenheim Sensei 🙏
So long as I get some likes I'm happy to call that "equivalent exchange"
Thank you, Sensei ❤
Anytime brah
Great video as always, LinesSensei never disappoints. Thanks once again ❤🔥💪🏽
I really appreciate that thank you
YES! more input for my mechanics squatting under cars VN! - Thanks!
Oh, that's a deep reference, very nice
@@LinesSensei you got to go deep. deep under those cars..
Thank you so nuch! You're helping struggling artists like myself with this and we appreciate you!
Thank you, and I really appreciate you too.
the support means a lot
@@LinesSensei i appreciate all the time you put into these vids!
that plate analogy was beautiful😭
Excellent, I was worried that it wasn't and I was just hungry
I was literally trying to do some gesture drawing yesterday and now you dropped this.
Awesome I'd love to see how you went
He says the form drawing aren't worth saving, but I'd genuinely love to be able to form things like this: 8:48
you are much too kind, and i promise you can too, it can take a little practice but we've got a great community over on discord so pop your attempts in there, everyone's really helpful
Thank you sensei, I'm a big fan. I went and checked up your newgrounds and I must say it's really impressive how you improved so dramatically so quickly, can you make a video on how you achieved such gains next please?
thanks, and i do plan to make a video about ways to improve, and use my own experience as an example of one path to improvement.
since its gunna be a while till i get to that one, so just to give you a summary this is how it went for me:
1) due to being time poor, I codified and streamlined my drawing process, which meant less wasted time, and more drawings done. developed/reassessed a short warmup basic exercise to do before my drawing, or that would only take 15 minutes on days i couldn't afford to actually sit down and draw.
2) recognised I was hitting a skill wall, so i'd do as many tutorials as I could find, on as many topics as I could find
3) sought feedback on about a dozen discords on my work, and set the expectation of what a good critique looks like by doing literally hundreds (maybe thousands) of them.
4) through doing heaps of critiques I developed my analytical eye, which I then applied to my own work.
5) did an absolute mountain of master studies, to see how artists I aspired to approached things, and made sure i applied those methods to my own work transformatively and immediately so that i was learning those techniques within the context of my own creative process.
and regularly looped back to step 1)
all the while remembering to be wary of and avoid perfectionism, perfectionism is a progress dead end.
the improvement you get from drawing one thing *perfectly* is worthless compared to the improvement you get from just getting 10 imperfect things DONE.
drawing improvement is a pure numbers game, anything that slows your progress, kills your progress.
also i made sure to avoid burnout, from either drawing too too much, or going to hard on study that i didn't enjoy. if drawing self indulgent anime tiddies makes you draw more, then it will help you improve more than serious training, if serious training is tedious, because burnout makes you draw less, and again, drawing improvement is a numbers game, so keep it fun to keep up that output volume
I know i keep coming back to it but if i had to distil it i'd say "Quality Follows Quantity"
hmm.... i basically just made a video outline for myself lol, maybe i SHOUD make this video sooner than i'd planned.
thanks for the opportunity to really pen this idea down, that really was an excellent question.
i really appreciate it
@@LinesSensei Bless you sir, I'll take this advice to heart ^w^ ♥
Super awesome video! Huge thanks for all the helpful tutorials you've been making, they really help a ton! :D
Something that I think would really helpful is if for the speedpaint section, you slowed down when you reach the section the video is covering, in this case the pose. Within the first 10-20 seconds of the speedpaint the pose for the person is essentially finished, but I would love if there was more time to really digest how you constructed the pose or maybe hear more of your thought process behind it.
I hope this doesn't come off as ungrateful D: . Your tutorials are like a gift from above for aspiring artists, so huge kudos and thanks once again! :D
Thank you, and yes that's very good feedback.
I was thinking with this one in particular that the sketch was very much over too soon.
I'm getting better with the re-timing controls so I think that's something I would be able to do moving forward ( video editing is still a space where I have a lot to learn rn)
5:31 ancient writing be like
Yeah that's why you need to do them in lines, if you do them in a circle you summon demons that will steal your art supplies
A video on perspective and foreshortening would be great. These are issues that still cost many of us a lot.
Yes, that one will be next all the one after it. I want to make as easy to understand and as accessible a video on starting perspective, so now I'm just trying to break down the concept and break down the steps into something that's more palatable than the usual process of rulers and buildings and big boxes
5:00 omg finally, Someone who doesn't make super well made drawings with the gesture, really that gave me a bad direction, thank you very much for teaching me how I should do it, I had problems with that and I think now I can improve :')
That's awesome, I'm stoked to hear it's helping
Thanks, Ive always been hard on myself if I did a drawing and it wasn't dynamic. This will aid me significantly.
Glad it was helpful! And if you want you can share the results on the discord we'd all love to see it
now THIS is something I really struggle with, applying this and perspective/foreshortening is an absolute nightmare for me. My poses are lacking in action. Thank you Lines for being an absolute hero 😭😭😭
You're welcome, and once I get a good bead on how to make perspective approachable I'll put that video out ASAP.
(just trying to figure a more accessible approach for it at the moment)
@@LinesSensei you always make things much more easy to understand! I look forward to seeing it but also take it easy 💚✨
7:10 what an out-of-pocket analogy!
It's a long bow, I'll admit it 😂
@@LinesSensei but one I'll remember!
Great video as always! I'd love to see a video deep dive on line rhythms.
You have gone over it in a few videos, but I still really struggle to make my lines aesthetically pleasing, especially when drawing hair--I don't know where to break it up and where not to. I end up with something really messy.
Thank you, and that's great feedback.
A few other people have asked for a little bit more detail on how to approach producing more organic rhythms so the next time it comes up in a video I'll flesh it out a bit more there. Or maybe make a short.
....Or I could make it in a full video, and pop out small bits like that into shorts..... .....Yyyyeah.
You've given me a great Idea, thank you 😊
I love the retro/80s style! Would you ever consider explaining how they designed hair? I love project A-ko and Dirty Pair and can’t find any tutorials about the artistic approach to designing and drawing their hair. Thanks!
That, is a really good idea for a video. I'm absolutely putting that on the to-do list, thank you for the excellent suggestion
0:11 THIS FANART IS CRAAAAZY 🤩🤩🤩
Oh man you're not wrong, it was all incredible, and this month is shaping up even better.
Hope there would be a chapter to talk about arms & legs and how to connect to torso & pelvis with different angles and poses.
I have one on basic limb shaping, but i do have an in depth arms and legs video in the pipeline too, so stay tuned
It almost feels illegal to be watching this for free
If it makes you feel any better you can imagine me talking about nordvpn for 60 seconds
Sorry to hear about the cobblestone generators! Hope you're feeling better. Excellent video as always
Thanks, and yes everything passes in time, like sands through an hourglass except it wasn't an hourglass... but it really did feel like sand
The rain looks a little more like sweat, I think I you put more splattering droplets on top of her figure the rain aspect would be more convincing. Or at least if you put some on her jacket. Now that I think about it, it’s a liiiitle sus that the water only runs down her exposed skin and skin-tight suit… (I get it tho lol)
Nitpicking aside, these pose finding methods are really cool and useful, thank you!
thankyou, and yes, guilty as charged, i'll always place the water drops where interest, not realism demands
@@LinesSensei that’s fair, I figured
GREAT WORK!! thanks for the video, i was having difficulties with posing. Thank Super much❤❤❤🎉
You're welcome, I hope it helps
20:44 the Alain Mikli Picasso sunglasses? I went down a rabbit hole looking them up, cuz I remember seeing an ad for them as a kid in the early 90s. At least in America that's where I've seen them!
They're, at least for me, a classic pizza hut kids meal toy from the 80s.
Thinking about it they're probably more significant for me than they are for the world at large, I just thought they were really cool so they stuck with me
right on, cheers
Right back at you
Wake up babe new Lines Sensei video dropped
Also me: Grabs pillow and blankets and moves it to wife
I ain't letting them go without watching a video of this we both benefit
Oh man that's so sweet, I'm delighted to hear you both like it. thank you 😊
You can multi select lasso tool in procreate too
When you use the lasso tool make your first selection, then press select “ADD” in the bottom menu
Thanks, and yeah I thought there'd be a way to do it, procreate is very full featured so it felt like a bit of a blind spot for it not to have that
@@LinesSensei I’m new to procreate too, still learning the app, great video again SENSEI!
That thumbnail is glorious ❤
I do my best, thank you
Lines! You’ve actually helped me a lot when it comes to shading and construction of the body only problem I’m having is hands so I really have to watch your hand tutorial I always skip it 😂
I'm really happy to hear it's been helpful, and yes please watch the hands tutorial.
If not for me then for the reputation of RUclips viewers.
My view numbers make it look like all anyone cares about is boobies videos.
That can't be true.... Right?
and just like that I have less problem to worry about in life, thnx line sensei, also hope you are doing well owob
Thank you, you too!
Would love to see how you approach silhouette sketching, i primarily sketch via off black silhouette then refine and add details using negative space via eraser, sometimes i might mix in paint sketching and add details via different shades, would love to see how you approach this process
So that is something I'll do when I'm thumbnailing a more painterly piece,
The reason I don't really do it for these videos is that while the actual thumbnail is simple to do, a lot of more advanced stuff goes into making thumbnails that work.
So I am planning to go into it, but a bit further down the line
I've never seen the pose thing before, I've heard the squiggly called "spider-men" but I like the idea of getting them from just random pictures to help practice shape brake down.
It really does help, we used to do exercises on it back at uni and it really helped break down the motion in static shapes
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Man, I didn’t think the gestures would be easy, but there ya go. Nice
Awesome, I'm glad it worked for you
Fantastic
Thanks, I really appreciate it
yet another great video!
Thank you, I'm really glad you like it and I hope I can keep up the standard, I'll do my best
amazin video as always, now its time to post ya homework bois
Yeah man, I can't wait to see it
Let's goooooooo, a new tutorial!!!!!
I love the energy, thank you
20:34 Not sure about sunglasses, but they kinda look like the eyes on David Kane's armor from Aquaman
They do too hey.
So they from a pizza hut kids meal back in the 80s , thinking about it it might be a bit obscure
i was just gonna go to bed but lines drop a vid i gotta watch
All good my guy, I need all of you to prioritize your sleep hygiene keep yourself healthy and happy the videos can wait until you're ready, there's no rush
@@LinesSensei its good i do get good sleep i just need to focus i am currently on work experience so i have to sleep alot.
I love this channel, thx u 😸
Glad you enjoy it! And I really appreciate the positive feedback it helps a lot
Thanks for the video :)
My pleasure! I'm stoked you like it
YES ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO!!!
I'm so glad you think so
@@LinesSensei It would be amazing if you could publish your own how to draw book whether PDF or Physical
Quite a few people have asked for that, so it's absolutely on the horizon but probably a little ways off.
Thank you for the explanation on dynamic posing, I really appreciate these educational videos and it was also interesting to watch the speedpaint! I was wondering when is the "right time" to watch videos on dynamic posing since I'm not yet caught up with everything (for example I watched some full body tutorial videos but I haven't gotten around to practice the full body structure yet, let alone posing), nevertheless it was still very useful, so thank you! ☺
That is an excellent question, I'd say anytime can be the right time to do gesture drawing. You're only really going to need to know anatomy and construction when you want to take those gestures and make them into fully realised detailed illustrations.
Hope that makes sense, cheers
32:30 i'd be VERY interested in this!!
Alright noted, a lot of other people have expressed interest so I'll get to that probably fairly soon.
With all the retro shows like Ranma getting a new season it's probably a good time to explore that retro aesthetic
I've been drawing every day for over a year now but I felt like i was going through motions and just doing it as a chore, setting a target of minimum 30mins ended up being precisely 30 minutes for almost all of the drawing sessions. Your tutorial video on drawing hair appeared on my youtube frontpage while I was trying to figure out how I feel about art and it inspired me to actually put more time into art without restricting myself to specific timeframes and put serious effort into improvement. So far it was going great past few days since I "restarted" my art journey. Thanks so much for the series of amazing tutorials.
I have one question, I started with female body part 1 and 2, done the homework exercise a few times and about to finish a draw along of the speedpaint drawing. Is the order of videos in the playlist a recommended one or I can jump between topics freely. Also I don't know if it was stated in any of the videos, didn't catch that in the 2 videos I've studied but is it a good idea to try and draw along the speedpaint demonstration portion of the lesson?
Thanks for making art fun for me once again!
Wow, that's a real journey.
I'm so happy to hear that my videos have been a part of that.
As for your questions, so the videos can be done in whatever order you like, if I ever talk about something that it's best you understand first I'll typically mention or link to it. But even then it's up to you to decide what you feel.yiure ready for .
As far as drawing along with the speedpaint, you absolutely can if you want, or you can fold washing.
Just make sure you're enjoying what you do.
It's so important to progression that you're in a happy place when studying, or you can find it hard to keep studying.
Keep up the good work, and let me know how you go
Would be super useful to have a new video showing all the steps you applied on this video, but on a much simpler drawing. For example, with just a drawing of a hand (or something simple) we could see the video at normal speed instead of x300 speedpainting. It would take less time for you to finish each step on something small, and the only thing that we should do is apply those steps on a bigger project/drawing of a full body. I believe it would make it less dizzy to follow along.
I understand that there are things that should come with practice, like anatomy and perspective, but there are methods applied in this video I would love to see at a normal speed, like how you use the Lasso tool to shade (I don't have stabilization on my Lasso tool don't know if it's a difference betweeen CSP pro and Ex), how to use layers properly, tools for post processing, etc.
Always nice to see new videos anyways : )
That's a really good idea, a nice small scale illustration to cover the steps off of a digital process good actually work quite well.
(you do have stabilization on the lasso tool it's just the setting isn't visible by default so go into to the sub tool settings to change it and also check the box to make it visible)
Did use the infinite cobblestone generator joke form the discord call lmao, and amazing vid
Thanks, and yes it absolutely was
Once agan another banger!! I was hooing ti suiten ny comment from before to see how i coukd word rhis correctly. I was hoping st some point you coukd make a tutorial on how to sketch diffent cartoon characters (not all of course just some iconic ones) because im not sure how to sketch most of them yet😅. And maybe some basic poses! Thanks again! Needed that tutorial too!
That's a really good idea, maybe some RUclips shorts covering the basics on how to draw a particularly iconic or currently famous characters would be a good idea,
@@LinesSensei thanks so much! Wait so does that mean you'll do it? 😅
Great tutorial! One thing I’ve been having trouble with is getting my blur to work on gradient selections. The whole selection ends up being the same level of blur
I am gunna start doing streams in future once I've got the classes running on the regular and the vtuber model ready.
It's a ways off but I promise it's on the horizon
New Lines video? LET'S FUCKIN GOOOO!
As always my guy, your support is sincerely appreciated
No problem bro, I love your art and tips!
Cool tips✨
Glad you think so, it's great to hear the positive reactions, thank you
Yay new sensei vid!
Thanks, I'm glad you're excited! I hope the video meets expectations
11:50 instructions unclear, I drew the dad from Uzumaki
jokes aside, this is super helpful!! I've come to realise that the poses of the figures I draw (if you can call a bust-up a "figure" lol) have become a lot more stiff and "tame" (not to mention lazy lmao). Not sure if it's because of the hasty mindset I developed since I started posting on social media, but now I think I'll try experimenting more with gesture studies (on top of filling in the gaps in my anatomy knowledge) to help bring out more of that character appeal :> (It'll probably make up for my barren, nonexistent backgrounds lol)
Awesome, it sounds like you have a really clear direction and next steps for your drawing development.
If you ever feel like showing it off we have a discord server, and I know I'd love to see it
All I know about those glasses is they were from a Pizza Hut promo and that Roy Purdy uses them
Eyyyyyy you got it! I was starting to think I imagined it
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thanks
No no, thank you
Still can’t draw anything at all. Still love this channel.
That's really lovely of you to say, and if you do ever decide to get started we've got a great community on discord and we'd all love to see, and help with your progress.
So keep us in mind
I am too scurred. Can’t even draw a circle without a ruler
thanks for this
You're welcome, I hope you like it
DIDNT WATCH BUT I LIKED THE THUMBNAIL
AWOOOOOOGA
Awesome, I'm glad you like it
BABE, PUT YOUR CLOTHES BACK ON - LINES SENSEI DROPPED ANOTHER BANGER🗣 🔥🔥
I'm glad you like it, but I don't want to interrupt anything. You can watch the video later
Thank you so much you're such a godsend! I was wondering, if we could get a lineart tutorial? I noticed the way you do lineart and I have started to do it in my work but I'd like to learn how to properly do it! 💜💜
Absolutely, a line art tutorial is definitely on the horizon and relatively close as well, stay tuned
Instructions unclear, ended up making my own arcane runes outta poses!
Summon anything cool?
I would love a painting tutorial on painting different textures like concrete.
That's a great suggestion, and different material types are definitely on the horizon for a video plan to make don't worry
Thank you father
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برافو 👏👏👏
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love it
Thank you, and thank you for the excellent feedback on the thumbnail as well I don't think I would have gotten it nearly as nice in the version 2 without your feedback, I really do appreciate it
A video about lineart thickness when
Shoooon
Yes to tutorial for 80s style anime drawings qvq
Also maybe tutorial for drawings using lesser layers, cuz procreate is garbo about layers 🥲
Ohhhhh those are both great .
A few other people have asked for the 80s tutorial, and using very few layers is a good idea as well to help focus on a simple process, that's actually really great idea and it's going straight on the whiteboard now before I forget
Thank you, that's excellent
4:06 Vtuber model vs promotional art
That's a really good way of explaining that yeah
Finaly
Your patience has been appreciated
27:24 procreate allows for multiple lasso selections its just not as easy as clip studio paint
Thank you, I thought there would be more than one selection available at a time, but since I don't use procreate very much I'm not sure how you would do that with touch controls
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I saw mine, yippee 😄😆
Awesome!
Just finished the homework 😊 also there might be a misprint on it. It says #Clothing at the bottom of the homework page. it should probably say #Dynamic Posing, or something similar, right?
AHH whoopsie I left that on the template from the last one, dang it
@@LinesSensei haha I figured, oh well Lol
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Hey man love your content! Any chance we could get your sketch brush? i love it 👀
ruclips.net/user/shortswvyKxqYTr64?feature=share
Just as a spoiler tho it's just a hard edged round brush, with pressure for opacity
Nice tutorial indeed.
If you can, would you mind making a z tutorial about shoes ?
Thank you, and that's a really interesting idea, can you tell me more about what you'd want to see in a shoe tutorial?
@@LinesSensei I mean
If the tutorial is about the shoes' angles, the different forms and types of shoes and its basic shapes would be nice to be honest.
Whatever you do, I'm pretty sure it's gonna be useful and again, keep up the good effort Lines.
Nice!!!
Not related to his video i think. But which exercise do you recommend to draw mannequins faster? I notice i expend a lot of time on my drawings overall.
That's an interesting question, what do you mean when you say mannequins exactly?
@@LinesSensei the sketch, i don't know why but i expend some time drawing it.
So that makes a lot of sense, if you're finding yourself spending a lot of time on your sketch to get it right, often that can be a sign of either an uncertain process of delivering your idea.
That can be things like not having a solidified understanding of body construction etc.
Or it can be a sign that you're having to think on the fly and you might be better off doing a bit more planning for what your image is supposed to be before you get to the steps of making it into whatever that vision is.
There are of course other possible reasons but those are two of the more common
@@LinesSensei For example on my last drawing i had to correct my character arms position because compared to the reference it looked less dynamic, hair too i changed it a lot until i found the one i like, the face etc... All of this after waking up next day and opening Clip Studio. So before lineart it took me like 3 sketches... 😅
Well sometimes sketches take time.
The only thing of concern there is don't be so focused on getting something perfect that you end up getting less drawings done.
Improvement is a numbers game, you'll learn more from getting 10 done than 1 perfect