"The darkest light is lighter than the lightest shadow" are so simple words but honestly the most important thing when it comes to values. Truly understanding this concept improves every painting a lot.
I’m just commenting to advocate in favor of marco’s head class. It’s so incredibly worth it, I feel like watching this after having studied his class adds a whole new dimension of appreciation for the subject. Thanks for putting so much incredible knowledge out, Marco, you’re saving the dreams of a lot of artists who won’t have access to formal education
@@marcobucci Hey there, i just got your head class and i agree it was extremely well done, i could already paint faces decently but this really rounded out my knowledge and brought me to that next level of understanding. I was wondering if a similar class for body anatomy was in the works, because it's more of a weak point for me, and i'd love to buy one!
I should add that, while you can approach virtually any painting using these value groups, this is not the only value system out there, nor is it an exhaustive list in and of itself. For instance, highlights are not included in this lesson (I plan to do an entire lesson on them in the future.) ALSO - At 5:16 I began discussing that value group using the term 'Ambient Light.' Then midway through I switched the term to 'Reflected Light'. My bad. To clarify: they are the same thing! Thanks for watching, and happy painting :)
Your videos are all very helpful, I have also purchased your head drawing course and it is awesome. Can you also do a video about how you measure a face and draw an accurate portrait? Thanks😄😄
So glad you touched on this technique! I've used it for quite a while in my portrait work but I don't think I've ever heard it discussed this thoroughly! The closest I've seen someone else come to broaching the subject is when Jeff Watts talks about "Shadow mapping"!
One way that I learned, and that helps keep your light and dark families separate, is 'middle-out' instead of 'outside-in': block in with the lightest dark and darkest light values, and keep them at least 1 or 2 value steps apart. Then work up to the lightest areas and down to the darkest ones, and save those 1 or 2 steps you reserved *just* for those places where you might need to transition the lights into the darks more softly.
I've been a professional illustrator for 8 years now, and I think this is the most clear breakdown and demonstration I have seen of how to practically handle lighting. Thank you, this will definitely make me more considerate of my lighting.
Coming from someone who was always told "wow, youre such a great artist"- I arrogantly always avoided any basic training. Well, I've realized that I can very much learn and develop so much more skill by learning the basics and understanding it. Your videos have been a go-to for me, and I tell you, I've never felt more humbled. Thank you for all your work and videos!
The clear communication, the logical process and the overall quality of these videos are what make you the best painting teacher. RUclips it's full of people explaining values, but the concept never really clicked until I saw your videos. Thanks !
In a almost related topic: I wanted to recommend to all of people struggling with values and colors that Windows 10, let you put the screen in grayscale (Windows+Ctrl+C) This will help you to see the values in your works if this have colors. Thank you very much Mister Marco! I'm practicing this and i'm getting better faster than i tought.
I learned a lot more by watching your videos than I learned in art school in 5 years. Your videos are brilliantly done and your art is gorgeous. As an italian art student, I can say with certainty that we need much more teachers like you in our country, Marco.
All of this! Thanks! - I do this all the time with my paintings and also with my photos. I learned from black and white photography to draw lika a camera. The Tone Curve is my best friend. It helped me a lot!
I just fought for my life at a portrait of the ole lady and this technique made magic happen. First try at this fourth painting this month just got motivated to persue a worthwhile hobby
YES FINALLY SOMEONE EXPLAINS IT IN A WAY I UNDERSTAND, I just watched this and the ambient occlusion series i was getting sick of people explaining like "ahhh its intuitive, i cant really explain it to you". Please, this was beautifully explained right here and know I realize some of the tutorials id been following for light and shade are very one sided, ie, don't really get into the details of causation, and how different hue strengths have different weights and therefore different "mileage" in ambient shadows, absolutely brilliant, I definitely understand them now, brain is lighting up like Jimmy Neutron, thank you for making this
For real, this is more helpful than years of art school. After years of art school no one taught us the principles of values, just to "study some references". As much as I like studying references, it's better to actually understand what your doing and why. But no, instead of that I payed to get insulted by a pretentious artist that work for Disney for 30 years. Guy really told my friend "You think you're an artist but you're not" 👁️👄👁️
Thank you for the new lesson! Both "creativity and the campfire" and "Understanding and painting the head" have been very helpful. Especially "creativity and the campfire". It calms me down everytime I feel lost.
Same here when im going through an art block or having bad time im college i listen to the book just to help! If you really liked marco's booki suggest watching Steven Zapata on RUclips! He's really calming makes the audience focus in the moment of drawing!
I'm thankful for lessons speaking about Values! It feels rare to find the workflow or methods others have used to do value studies or come to understand them
drawing the head was a struggle for me, and it wasn't sketching a hundred loomis heads that got me over that hump, but Marco Bucci's planes of the head course. something about knowing each plane and which planes should be foreshortened or hidden, really turned the head into a 3D object that I could visualize in my mind.
Thanks Marco, you may have just saved me a year worth of experience to understand this concept. I never really understood value painting and how professional artists have a way to interpret tones in simple black and white alone.
You are such an incredible teacher. I am a hobbyist artist trying to improve my composition and painting and your tutorials and lessons have done wonders for me! Thank you so much for these videos!
I know ambient occlusion for more than a decade - 3D software stuf. Yet I saw one designer talking about a fast rendering approach taking into acount just AOC - But just today it rings the bell. I think I´ve never used it in my charcoal pencil drawings. I´ll keep an eye on it. Thanks bro!
i have always struggled to understand lighting, but your explanations always just click somehow. thank you so much for providing these videos for free!
i purchased this course a while ago and i am currently doing the 100 heads drawing challenge. after every head I try to find my mistakes or see what I am struggling with the most. Then I go back to watch your course. I already improved a lot just by doing this! Thank you for this amazing course!
I always felt like my studies got a bit mushy when I added half-tones but what you said about keeping them in their respective families makes a lot of sense. Thanks!
thank you Marco!I think that you're might be the best teacher on the internet,I have all your skillshare videos and I watched all your RUclips videos through and through,and i can safely say that there is really no one teacher like you in the world!i wanted to tell you that for a long time drawing felt stale to me but you brought back the joy I had in it as a kid(my eyes are actually welling as I write this)keep it up man,you're amazing!
Marco, you have been delivery great art videos for years. Easy to follow, easy to understand which leads to applying much faster to personal work we do. I am going to give the Video head lesson a try. Edit: Purchased. I will support you. Thank you.
This video is so VALUEable~ 😮💨 but for real, one of the first videos who actually explains while are being applied in a painting, and everything so well explained! 🥹✨
Your videos are an absolute godsend, this is exactly what I needed. I’m able to replicate photos pretty well but don’t have a good understanding of values or forms or anything it’s only something I’m starting to learn and your videos are simple enough to be able to apply to my work but include a lot of valuable information, thank you!!
Hey, thank you so much! I've been working on studying this sort of lighting lessons but this video summed it all up so nicely for me! I've got to watch this again!
I hate this kind of comment, but this really was just what I needed to see. I have a hard time keeping my lights and shadows separate. Going to give this technique a go.
Can't believe this, just when I was looking for more content on values and thought I've seen it all - seems like the Universe is on my side for once, in the endless struggle for improvement :D Thank you for the great content Marco.
Assuming you are an Italian, your english is wonderful. It's a pleasure to listen to you. For me, a german, it seems to be finest oxford english. Of course, subscribed.
I followed this video step by step trying to replicate that portrait - it's a far cry from your work, but I learned a lot! I love the structured approach :)
That was, THE THING I needed, I´m still trugling a little bit with applying color values to the pice, but thats a matter of pratice, Thanks a lot Marco!
My art and design classes on my game design course at college were very much focused on tones and shapes. Before i noticed that i started to create every portrait using additive method of tonal drawings. Ofc, traditionally. It became so natural that i draw this way, and because i do it was also so much easier to just speed up my process because all important shapes and details were shown in tones or in light, like your brain was literally telling you 'hey look, a human portrait!' Even though i don't do outlines, contours, it's just plain tone and light.
Besides Marco Bucci artistic skill, its his capability to explain things that make me come back. If there is any possibilty to request Videos, it would be this technic (Drawing with values but get into more detail on how to setup .e.g. Photoshop) Thanks Marco!
Nice vid. This is so different from how I usually paint (starting with mapping the volumes, shade the ambient occlusion & then add the light source depending on other aspects of the scene to complete composition). One thing that's similar though, is I'm also obsessed with Asaro head. Sometimes I start the day by drawing it from various angles. I recently sculpted a female Asaro head too. I suggest everyone make or buy one. It's totally worth it
You have no idea the perfect moment in my learning journey that this video arrives. You are the best Marco. Your amazing clarity of ideas and unpaired teaching skills make it a pleasure to learn from your videos. Is it possible to purchase the video lessons from your website for someone else? I am in Argentina and economically things are in a bit of a stir. Conversion of foreign currency is being limited and taxed so I would lose a hefty percent in the exchange. If one of my freelance clients in the US could purchase it for me, it would be really helpful.
After every video of this guy i'm feel like i get better at painting even without painting to test the new knowledge i got. Sorry for the english, i'm from Brazil
Amazing video bro and i picked up drawing after like 25 years and learning a lot from video's like this so big thumbs up and hope to see more video's about value.
I know I'm 2 years late, but I always have to comment on the outstanding quality of Marco's tutorials. So clear and logical! Plus, this demo's head looks just wonderful, even before it's finished. Just curious: Do you have a specific video or lesson on how to make good 3-value sketches of a reference? I'm struggling a bit with those, specially when it comes to picking the values for elements that in the reference have gradients (like a mountain fading into the sky, for example).
mr bucci, your vidos are so informative, yet so simple, and your way of clarifying the picture is sublime. you have my upmost respect dear sir :p i really beleive your channel will keep growing and growing because it is what you deserve. keep up the beatiful work👌
"The darkest light is lighter than the lightest shadow" are so simple words but honestly the most important thing when it comes to values. Truly understanding this concept improves every painting a lot.
why do i feel like this is a riddle
@@rainyowlstar i feel like it needs to be translated to english
About specifically WHY does halftones always lies closer to light than shadows(I always thought it will be exactly halfway between)
*Lightest dark darker than darkest light
What the hell does that even mean
I’m just commenting to advocate in favor of marco’s head class. It’s so incredibly worth it, I feel like watching this after having studied his class adds a whole new dimension of appreciation for the subject. Thanks for putting so much incredible knowledge out, Marco, you’re saving the dreams of a lot of artists who won’t have access to formal education
Thank you, Drids!
nice
@@marcobucci Hey there, i just got your head class and i agree it was extremely well done, i could already paint faces decently but this really rounded out my knowledge and brought me to that next level of understanding.
I was wondering if a similar class for body anatomy was in the works, because it's more of a weak point for me, and i'd love to buy one!
I should add that, while you can approach virtually any painting using these value groups, this is not the only value system out there, nor is it an exhaustive list in and of itself. For instance, highlights are not included in this lesson (I plan to do an entire lesson on them in the future.)
ALSO - At 5:16 I began discussing that value group using the term 'Ambient Light.' Then midway through I switched the term to 'Reflected Light'. My bad. To clarify: they are the same thing!
Thanks for watching, and happy painting :)
Thanks 😇 it was helpful 👍
Your videos are all very helpful, I have also purchased your head drawing course and it is awesome. Can you also do a video about how you measure a face and draw an accurate portrait? Thanks😄😄
I love these videos, they are so helpful!
So glad you touched on this technique! I've used it for quite a while in my portrait work but I don't think I've ever heard it discussed this thoroughly! The closest I've seen someone else come to broaching the subject is when Jeff Watts talks about "Shadow mapping"!
One way that I learned, and that helps keep your light and dark families separate, is 'middle-out' instead of 'outside-in': block in with the lightest dark and darkest light values, and keep them at least 1 or 2 value steps apart. Then work up to the lightest areas and down to the darkest ones, and save those 1 or 2 steps you reserved *just* for those places where you might need to transition the lights into the darks more softly.
I've been a professional illustrator for 8 years now, and I think this is the most clear breakdown and demonstration I have seen of how to practically handle lighting.
Thank you, this will definitely make me more considerate of my lighting.
Coming from someone who was always told "wow, youre such a great artist"- I arrogantly always avoided any basic training. Well, I've realized that I can very much learn and develop so much more skill by learning the basics and understanding it. Your videos have been a go-to for me, and I tell you, I've never felt more humbled. Thank you for all your work and videos!
I clicked, heard his voice And became very happy
why is so
Holy shit yooo it’s SauceBucket here lmao just starting digital and need to binge these
Hi coen
The clear communication, the logical process and the overall quality of these videos are what make you the best painting teacher. RUclips it's full of people explaining values, but the concept never really clicked until I saw your videos. Thanks !
That's great encouragement, thank you!
0:15 seconds in and I’m already mad at how good he is
Ur so real 😭😭😭
In a almost related topic: I wanted to recommend to all of people struggling with values and colors that Windows 10, let you put the screen in grayscale (Windows+Ctrl+C) This will help you to see the values in your works if this have colors.
Thank you very much Mister Marco! I'm practicing this and i'm getting better faster than i tought.
I learned a lot more by watching your videos than I learned in art school in 5 years. Your videos are brilliantly done and your art is gorgeous. As an italian art student, I can say with certainty that we need much more teachers like you in our country, Marco.
This is one of those things on the internet that one truly feels lucky to have run across in a sea of things. 🙏🏼
All of this! Thanks! - I do this all the time with my paintings and also with my photos. I learned from black and white photography to draw lika a camera. The Tone Curve is my best friend. It helped me a lot!
nice to see u here!!
Du hier? :D
I just fought for my life at a portrait of the ole lady and this technique made magic happen. First try at this fourth painting this month just got motivated to persue a worthwhile hobby
Many viewers wrote this, but you are definitely the best teacher of this field on youtube. My honest congratulations ! And thank you.
YES FINALLY SOMEONE EXPLAINS IT IN A WAY I UNDERSTAND, I just watched this and the ambient occlusion series
i was getting sick of people explaining like "ahhh its intuitive, i cant really explain it to you". Please, this was beautifully explained right here and know I realize some of the tutorials id been following for light and shade are very one sided, ie, don't really get into the details of causation, and how different hue strengths have different weights and therefore different "mileage" in ambient shadows, absolutely brilliant, I definitely understand them now, brain is lighting up like Jimmy Neutron, thank you for making this
For real, this is more helpful than years of art school. After years of art school no one taught us the principles of values, just to "study some references". As much as I like studying references, it's better to actually understand what your doing and why. But no, instead of that I payed to get insulted by a pretentious artist that work for Disney for 30 years. Guy really told my friend "You think you're an artist but you're not" 👁️👄👁️
Thank you for the new lesson!
Both "creativity and the campfire" and "Understanding and painting the head" have been very helpful.
Especially "creativity and the campfire". It calms me down everytime I feel lost.
True. Creativity and the Camfire needs more recognition.
Same here when im going through an art block or having bad time im college i listen to the book just to help! If you really liked marco's booki suggest watching Steven Zapata on RUclips! He's really calming makes the audience focus in the moment of drawing!
Currently struggling with values. This helped a lot.
I'm thankful for lessons speaking about Values! It feels rare to find the workflow or methods others have used to do value studies or come to understand them
Marco, you are the best!!! Thank you for breaking the value structure down to manageable steps.
drawing the head was a struggle for me, and it wasn't sketching a hundred loomis heads that got me over that hump, but Marco Bucci's planes of the head course. something about knowing each plane and which planes should be foreshortened or hidden, really turned the head into a 3D object that I could visualize in my mind.
Thank you for breaking down value into such clear and digestible parts. Been working on a portrait that needs exactly this adjustment.
I paint alot lately and this kind of breakdown really help me alot ,Thanks Marco.
Thanks Marco, you may have just saved me a year worth of experience to understand this concept. I never really understood value painting and how professional artists have a way to interpret tones in simple black and white alone.
Best explanation on how to approach definition of form. Great work.
Honestly, you're probably the biggest reason why I've stuck with art.
You are such an incredible teacher. I am a hobbyist artist trying to improve my composition and painting and your tutorials and lessons have done wonders for me! Thank you so much for these videos!
I know ambient occlusion for more than a decade - 3D software stuf. Yet I saw one designer talking about a fast rendering approach taking into acount just AOC - But just today it rings the bell. I think I´ve never used it in my charcoal pencil drawings. I´ll keep an eye on it.
Thanks bro!
i have always struggled to understand lighting, but your explanations always just click somehow. thank you so much for providing these videos for free!
You're the best on RUclips right now, thank you for your lessons. I've been watching for a few years now and it's always teaching me new things! ❤️
i purchased this course a while ago and i am currently doing the 100 heads drawing challenge. after every head I try to find my mistakes or see what I am struggling with the most. Then I go back to watch your course. I already improved a lot just by doing this! Thank you for this amazing course!
I always felt like my studies got a bit mushy when I added half-tones but what you said about keeping them in their respective families makes a lot of sense. Thanks!
I’m so freaking glad I found your channel. Your teaching r so clear!!!!
I've heard these terms before so many times, but they're finally starting to click. You're an excellent teacher. Thank you for this video.
thank you Marco!I think that you're might be the best teacher on the internet,I have all your skillshare videos and I watched all your RUclips videos through and through,and i can safely say that there is really no one teacher like you in the world!i wanted to tell you that for a long time drawing felt stale to me but you brought back the joy I had in it as a kid(my eyes are actually welling as I write this)keep it up man,you're amazing!
Marco, you have been delivery great art videos for years. Easy to follow, easy to understand which leads to applying much faster to personal work we do.
I am going to give the Video head lesson a try.
Edit: Purchased. I will support you. Thank you.
This video is so VALUEable~ 😮💨 but for real, one of the first videos who actually explains while are being applied in a painting, and everything so well explained! 🥹✨
Thank you Marco Bucci for making such wonderful videos ! Your time and effort is highly appreciated !
Your videos are an absolute godsend, this is exactly what I needed. I’m able to replicate photos pretty well but don’t have a good understanding of values or forms or anything it’s only something I’m starting to learn and your videos are simple enough to be able to apply to my work but include a lot of valuable information, thank you!!
Great video! And I loved the fact that you used a 3D program to interactively demonstrate the concept of half-tones.
Yeah, Marco's Asaro Head class is mindbogglingly helpful
here's a hint: Skillshare trial month. your very welcome.
Best art teacher ever! Thank you for saving my life
Hey, thank you so much! I've been working on studying this sort of lighting lessons but this video summed it all up so nicely for me! I've got to watch this again!
I hate this kind of comment, but this really was just what I needed to see. I have a hard time keeping my lights and shadows separate. Going to give this technique a go.
Can't believe this, just when I was looking for more content on values and thought I've seen it all - seems like the Universe is on my side for once, in the endless struggle for improvement :D Thank you for the great content Marco.
Assuming you are an Italian, your english is wonderful. It's a pleasure to listen to you. For me, a german,
it seems to be finest oxford english. Of course, subscribed.
this is so helpful! I feel like I learned more from this video than from years studying at art college
Amazing video as always! Small nitpick: the work at 1:24 is actually N.C. Wyeth's work for Treasure Island.
You're my hero! You have just saved me hours of searching for the right artist, so I thank you for your "small nitpick"!
I followed this video step by step trying to replicate that portrait - it's a far cry from your work, but I learned a lot! I love the structured approach :)
That was, THE THING I needed, I´m still trugling a little bit with applying color values to the pice, but thats a matter of pratice, Thanks a lot Marco!
My art and design classes on my game design course at college were very much focused on tones and shapes. Before i noticed that i started to create every portrait using additive method of tonal drawings. Ofc, traditionally. It became so natural that i draw this way, and because i do it was also so much easier to just speed up my process because all important shapes and details were shown in tones or in light, like your brain was literally telling you 'hey look, a human portrait!' Even though i don't do outlines, contours, it's just plain tone and light.
Super informative! Love this breakdown as it simplifies the thought process and makes it less daunting.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us ♡ you are one of my favorites RUclips art teachers.
Well if Marco gives this information for FREE in a video I can't imagine how good the lessons in his website can be. I'm taking them for sure 💸💸💸
Thank you Marco! it's a pleasure!
that was the must compreensive art class i had in my life
Besides Marco Bucci artistic skill, its his capability to explain things that make me come back. If there is any possibilty to request Videos, it would be this technic (Drawing with values but get into more detail on how to setup .e.g. Photoshop) Thanks Marco!
nearly a year later, this video finally makes sense to me
Thank youuu! I seriously love your content. I've been improving faster than my usual pace since I started getting into your channel.
Very good study of fundamentals! I took my notes and I'm going to put it into practice
These videos inspire me to be a better artist,thank you so much .
Nice vid. This is so different from how I usually paint (starting with mapping the volumes, shade the ambient occlusion & then add the light source depending on other aspects of the scene to complete composition). One thing that's similar though, is I'm also obsessed with Asaro head. Sometimes I start the day by drawing it from various angles. I recently sculpted a female Asaro head too. I suggest everyone make or buy one. It's totally worth it
You have no idea the perfect moment in my learning journey that this video arrives.
You are the best Marco. Your amazing clarity of ideas and unpaired teaching skills make it a pleasure to learn from your videos.
Is it possible to purchase the video lessons from your website for someone else?
I am in Argentina and economically things are in a bit of a stir. Conversion of foreign currency is being limited and taxed so I would lose a hefty percent in the exchange.
If one of my freelance clients in the US could purchase it for me, it would be really helpful.
He can use your account for transition may be
Just exchange the account, i have heard about the horrible taxation in foreign countries.
Lucky me living in Hong Kong :)
Your videos are just always so helpful. You make me want to pick up my stylus and draw everytime you upload.
Had some problems with getting light and shadow properly, this video is very helpful, thanks!
After every video of this guy i'm feel like i get better at painting even without painting to test the new knowledge i got.
Sorry for the english, i'm from Brazil
I am getting that course for sure!!!!!!
I love your tutorials! Thanks for making this!!! Very clear and useful !
Thanks for the demo Marc! Really helpful when it's all put together!
Amazing video bro and i picked up drawing after like 25 years and learning a lot from video's like this so big thumbs up and hope to see more video's about value.
Another super-informative tutorial from an expert instructor🙂
This is JUST the video I needed right now, thanks again Marco! Your content is invaluable
Thanks Marco🙏🏻This was super informative. You made understanding planes and value so easy. Very much appreciated.
Dude your videos have helped me so much
Awesome!
I've been studying the planes of the head while using your value videos but I'm gonna buy the planes of the head vid now.
Thank you so much Marco! You are amazing
This is amazing! I was just looking for something like as a form of practice. Thank you for such a clear and concise explanation.
These videos are the best! Thanks for share your knowledge
I usually don't do digital painting. But anytime I watch one of your videos I have the urge to practise it and create a THING :D
I know I'm 2 years late, but I always have to comment on the outstanding quality of Marco's tutorials. So clear and logical! Plus, this demo's head looks just wonderful, even before it's finished.
Just curious: Do you have a specific video or lesson on how to make good 3-value sketches of a reference? I'm struggling a bit with those, specially when it comes to picking the values for elements that in the reference have gradients (like a mountain fading into the sky, for example).
Sees a Marco Bucci video, clicks a Marco Bucci video.
ah, if only it were that easy for me to make them, too!
@@marcobucci if it helps any, I have watched almost all of your videos multiple times, and some of them are gettting close to a dozen times.
Excellent Marco, these videos just rock!
Great vid
wonderful video. I'm sure that this helped more than just me. Thank you!!
Excellent video! 👍🏽👍🏽😍😍👩🏽🎨 Reaffirmed what I know, while giving me a better grasp of light, dark and halftones. 💜😍👩🏽🎨
Wow this is very thorough I definitely learned a lot
You make it sound so easy! 😊
mr bucci, your vidos are so informative, yet so simple, and your way of clarifying the picture is sublime. you have my upmost respect dear sir :p
i really beleive your channel will keep growing and growing because it is what you deserve. keep up the beatiful work👌
-"Oh cool, a painting of Neytiri!" was my first thought when I saw the thumbnail.
Greetings from Poland
Thanks for the lecture at GIC in Poznań
Hello, Poland! I had a great time at the GIC. Thanks for attending! Hope to see you next year.
@@marcobucci I am waiting for more cool content ;]
- Jacob (that tall guy)
always great teaching and made it simple to understand!!
Thank U, God Bless you, you are one of my fav artist that give tutorials :D
clear and concise. great as usual!
this is so helpful, I thank you so much! So informative and easy to follow :)
3:02 最暗的亮面和暗面依然相差勝遠，所以明暗分組務必確實，亮跟亮自己接近暗跟暗自己接近 5:00 亮部灰調子的處理方法 5:23 ambient light
"there are no rules"
-BucciGang 2019
no
guccigang? more like BUCCIgang
Great stuff Marco
Very helpful video, thanks for sharing the knowledge
Super helpful! Thanks a lot Marco
a great teacher...............