Fr. Idk his Life, maybe he literally spends all day drawing when he does these challenges, but for me who go to university, takes month(sometimes Years, oops)of breaks from drawing, seeing him improving so fast scares me
@@christiangiardina4541 beginner gains when you don’t know much about a subject you intake knowledge incredibly quickly some more than others but it does plateau at a point and the gains aren’t so noticeable it’s why a lot of people quit.
TO EVERYONE WHO FEELS BAD ABOUT THEMSELVES BECAUSE YOU’RE NOT PROGRESSING AS “FAST” OR FEEL LIKE HE’S OUT PACING YOU ITS OKAY. This was an entire compilation of his entire 66 days. His enthusiasm for SHOWING his struggles it what pushes him to continue. We all move at our own pace. He said he spent 5 hours drawing. Some us may only do 10 or 15 minutes. We can only compare ourselves to the people we were yesterday. This video should make you realize, THE EFFORT it takes, and we shouldn’t be jealous. Everything takes time. Thank you for this video. I hope we can all get better together.
Thats actually crazy bro, as an artist myself im really fucking impressed. To gain that anatomy knowledge in 60 days is absolutely crazy. You only need to learn lineart and rendering now and then youre all set. After that its basically just practice and finding your own style. Good luck on your journey man
@@jadeeo5745 you can always try both and see what you prefer. For getting jobs theres more chances going digital, but it does cost generally more than the traditional paper and ink (unless you use paint and canvas). I suggest using traditional to study anatomy and proportions if you don’t have the equipment for digital. It’s just good to have a sketchbook that you can physically flip through and see all your progress and study. Then maybe you can transfer your skills to digital later on. I used ibispaint on a phone that was really small, so I had a hard time with digital. But if you have an iPad or tablet with a pen or something then sure go for it. With digital you can follow what Zuffy did in this video, breaking down real life images and different artists by overlaying the main structures and flow of the images. For beginners I recommend to go for the cheaper options first then upgrade on your equipment once you see where art takes you. Hope this helps on whatever you choose but you can try both at the same time. I’m ranning out of braen juce tipying righht now.
this is legit inspiring. i've been practicing drawing for years but i didn't do focused studies like this for a long time so my art sometimes stayed the same for months without any improvement. i feel like i just watched you level up like 10 times in two months and it's got me fired up
As an artist who is still in learning and has been learning for 5 years, I gotta say that you've done more work than me in like 3 years. You're improving so fast like, you'll be really good at art in like a year, maybe even less time. I'm embarassed myself cuz I have actually never tried learning individual parts of art 💀
👆 watching this made me wanna draw lol even though i’ve already spent 4+ hours today drawing. but yea its super inspiring watching someone who cant draw learning how slowly and getting better like this! i wanna improve even more now
this... makes me realize just how bad I am, personally, at focused concentrated study. it's like.. for me, stuff is intuitive and my goal is to achieve an intuitive understanding but for anatomy, that just... doesn't work. Anatomy requires something concrete something that leaves no room for guessing the construction and doesn't leave room for guessing games once you're done. I genuinely should try the draw 50+ anatomy sketches and study WAY more from reference, but I get so overwhelmed and distracted when looking for stuff to learn from. especially when the study drags out, I feel like stabbing myself with my compass (yes I still have physical art tools, not just my digital drawing tablet!) until the video is over
I can completely relate to what you're saying here. Studying anatomy is very tricky and can easily become very overwhelming with all of the details that go into making it look right. I'm no anatomy expert myself, but something that might help you is not overloading yourself with too much unfamiliar info at once. When you immediately thrust yourself into learning something that's really unfamiliar to you, it can sometimes make you feel completely lost and like all of your previous art knowledge got completely thrown out the window. Something that's helped me improve with this stuff is taking something in art that you already feel pretty comfortable with and adding a bit of something you might be unfamiliar with to it. For example, let's say you really like drawing your OCs, but you're not really that great at drawing hands. Maybe while you're drawing your OC you can find a reference image of a simple, common hand position and incorporate that into the drawing. If you're really struggling with drawing the hand even with the reference, maybe you can find a good tutorial from someone like Marc Brunnet that breaks down the hands into very simple and understandable shapes, or maybe you can try to find out how your favorite artist draws their hands. The main thing you wanna do is not overwhelm yourself when you're trying to learn something new. Simplify the concepts into something you can understand at your current level, practice it, then once you feel yourself getting more comfortable with the concept, try doing something a little harder. The entire process is wayyyy easier said than done, but I believe in you! Even if none of this advice is helpful to you and I'm just rehashing stuff you already know, there is one thing that's more important than anything I've said here, and that's to have fun! Drawing the stuff that makes you happy is just as if not more important than the stuff you draw to improve. It's the reason we started drawing in the first place, after all. I wish you luck on your art journey, and have a good day/night!! :] (Also watch Marc Brunnet's videos if you don't already, they're super helpful! He has some videos about focused studying, anatomy, and other very good info. He's the reason I can write you this entire essay tbh lol ^^;)
@@artpants i..i was going to read that untill the moment i pressed "Read more" so remember kids before reading a comment check of there is " Read more "
As someone who has been drawing for years, I can relate to these struggles lol. A tip is, instead of using boxes, use circles. Circles will help create the curves in torsos. If you ever decide to draw realism, remember don’t use anime face proportions. Also make eyes smaller then you think they should be. From my own personal experience I always used to make eyes bigger than normal because I specialized in anime before trying realism.
I disagree. Sometimes a box is needed first before you draw the circles. A circle doesn't show where the front vs the side of the pelvis is. If the pelvis is facing right and chest is twisting facing left, the box hells understand the sides/front/top/bottom angles better. Then you soften it up when you flesh out the character..
@@zkart8038 I disagree. The pelvis is NOT a box shape. I dont think u should use a box because there are no boxes in out skeleton, its too harsh and will make your drawing look pointy and abnormal and as u saw it made the proportions off. Just look at the pelvis, how is that a box? Its way more like a triangle and look at the ribcage too, a box is too harsh. By using “simple shapes” that usually doesnt JUST mean boxes, circles, triangles. It means to simplify the shapes of the body Most professional artists Ive seen has suggested not using boxes for that reason. If it works for u, nice, but I would never recommend it to a newbie. I would recommend simplifying the shapes and using those
@@sunflowersuccs did I say the pelvis is a box? I said it helps understand the structure. Where the front and side are. A circle doesn't do that. A box helps understand things when placed in complex perspective. That's why people suck at lighting or perspective because their front and side planes start to mix and they don't know where the light is supposed to hit. Nobody said the box is the final drawing..it's to help understand.
@@sunflowersuccs if anything newbies are worse at understanding structures. Drawing a flat shape versus a form is bad for understanding any structure. A box is a form..a circle is a shape. A form teaches structure, a shape doesn't.
@@zkart8038 and like I said I and other artists dont think using a box its the right way to do it, I’ve given u my reasons and if that isn’t good enough then so be it
coming from an artist, i love seeing your improvement. its really easy for me to point out everything you’re doing wrong, but i wont. because look at how far you’ve come. its wonderful. BUT I HATE, to see you under appreciate your art. I’ll notice one that has good construction and looks beautiful, but you’ll focus on another that doesn’t look as good. I understand being harsh is good for learning, but sometimes its nice to take a step back and appreciate what you’ve done well.
I do agree! for one thing, he actually uses construction, which is already more than most beginners do 😂 He's just gotta work in the construction itself, and he's seen that. Most proportion mistakes come from the sketching. He's doing incredible!
hey man I have a suggestion for helping drastically imporve your speed of improvement, it's called "blind contour drawing" Pretty much what it does it makes your mind/hand connection much more accurate. Pretty much you'll be able to draw what is infront of you more accurately and easily. what my College art teacher did for this lesson was actually really helpful pretty much get a box and a sheet or something that blocks the inside of the box put your hands inside of the box with the sheet of paper and pop some popcorn put three kernels out and draw them will your hands are in the Box so you have to 100% rely on your eyes and hand coordination it's very interesting and drastically improves your ability to draw what's in front of you very fast because of that mind brain connection if that makes sense.
That's very counter productive in learning structure (something he is trying). Blind contour only hell with edges. How is he going to put a figure in crazy perspective or understand lighting if he doesn't keep building on his current approach?
@@zkart8038 what they're suggesting, blind contour, isn't meant to help with learning perspective or lighting, it's purpose is to help with hand eye coordination and understanding general anatomy and dynamic poses. With blind contour your focusing on the model rather than the paper, your paying attention to how everything connects and looks in general than the details and shadows. The whole excercise isn't so you can make an art piece that looks realistic, but rather it is so you can have a better understanding of how anatomy works so when you do draw looking at the paper your able to properly understand what your drawing and get more accurate porportions
@@trashpanda4891 blind contour isn't going to teach you how muscles and bones work and move. You can fight me on that. Understanding how the body structure works in a 3D space will help you more than any of these gimmick exercises. Observing from a structural point of view is key. Which side am I drawing? Is this the front, the side or a transition between the two? Blind contour is flat. And teaches none of that. Only use for it is to help people loosen up. That's it. Observing structurally will ALSO help with perspective and lighting...compared to other techniques which won't.
@@zkart8038 these exercises aren't designed to teach you absolutely every single thing about art, teach you about the underlying parts of anatomy, such as the bones, or be your only method of drawing and learning, they're meant to be quick 30 minute things you do for warm up/practice, work on hand-eye coordination, and to help you learn to pay close attention to how the figure your drawing actually looks, and it's overall structure, rather than stressing on how the drawing itself looks, so that when you DO look at the page while drawing you can more successful create what you intend to. Im not saying it's the ONLY way to learn how to draw, because it's not, and you shouldnt ONLY use this method and rely on it to learn EVERYTHING, because it won't teach you everything. I'm in no way saying you should only use this one method and not use any other methods to learn the different muscles or how lighting work, But it does help with a number of areas and doing it will help the overall quality of your work, your efficiency in making art and your method of creating it.
@@trashpanda4891 blind contour does not teach about bones or muscles or proportion. If you are talking about gestural drawing, then that doesn't but it all boils down to structural observation.
My man this is what sheer fooking dedication and love for art is. I consider art as a hobby so i just doodle and not pay attention to anatomy but you really helped me learn some cool stuff now I'll also go raid suisui's art hehe
This video made me reflect on how much I actually need to work on. For the past 3 years, I've definitely improved but I still have a hard time drawing the arms, legs, folds, hands, feet, torso, and poses. The fact that you were able to learn these things within 3 months is honestly a job well done! It took me years to actually make my face drawings look decent. I'm super proud of you, man. Keep up the good work and effort. :) Drawing is a skill that takes time. Not something that comes naturally for others. And you're one of those people that prove that!
Prob won’t see this but one thing I do when I’m sketching is to lower my opacity so I can draw several lines on the same spot then choose the line that I was going for and erase around it. This might help with your undo spamming. Really like seeing you improve and grow as an artist. 🙂
This is a great first step! This is a good method and perhaps even necessary for growing artists. However, I want to mention that it is important for artists to gain confidence in their strokes! It makes the artwork and quality more professional as well as saves a lot of time during the art process Drawing many strokes to achieve one line will help you determine where that single stroke needs to go later down the line in your art journey :P
That's an awesome tip! My second step would be doing ink/pen drawings on paper! You learn to work with what you have and many times it adds to the final image : )
i genuinely love how you're comfortable sharing your experience like this. a lot of people don't understand just how long it takes to figure this out, and seeing you figure it out in real time is inspiring, really! I've been drawing for years and have been accepted to major art fairs in my state but I still struggle with a lot of this stuff. Keep it up dude!
As an artist myself, I was so inspired, I really was. It doesn't matter what skill level you're on, you will ALWAYS have room to improve. I've been trying to figure out ways to improve my anatomy and my art style, and by you doing this opened up my eyes. You've improved so much in so little time and I'm glad you uploaded this, because now I'm determined to do the same thing you have done. You'll become a great artist :)
as an artist, this is truly so interesting to watch, because you point out things that have become so 'normal' for me that i don't even realize it when i draw anymore! you're doing so well dude!!
This is like- How did you learn so much in 60 days about art- I am an artist and its like : ''how'?!?!'' like I hope you keep doing art bc you have improved so much is well I recommend is you want to more like lively or interesting or what ever poses to look into lines of action and yeah plus once you get used to them they are normally fun to draw poses with and your art is really good!
As someone who recently has thought about getting into art, I will give you tremendous thanks. With this I'm seeing mistakes that can happen when learning. You walked so we run. Of course, I'm not expecting to learn nearly as fast as you since I'm gonna be preoccupied with other things and don't really have that insane learning talent, but I appreciate you giving people like me motivation to learn how to draw by showing us that it isn't impossible.
He is quite good ngl and I think he would be really great but shadows and colors would help him spot cause all of his drawings are single color sections instead of multicolor which would help with looks and realism but he should keep at it love the content
i dont even know how i learned so much in art without doing all of this. ig its the child mindset Im inspired by u so ye. Youve made such a big improvement :D
Well, if you've been drawing for a long time than you have done these steps - just not so purposeful and precise as Zuffy. With every piece you draw you improve 👍
I think when you're a child this kind of stuff is more spread out and you naturally build up your skills with practice over time so it doesn't feel like grinding. Also you often don't have expectations for yourself and just enjoy drawing and therefore draw a lot. Having teachers also helps I think
I have been doing art for three years and have been stumped for the past month, this video along with the 30 days one really showed me what I needed to work on!
This is inspiring to someone like me because my dad is like, a really good artist with a whole bunch of like, shading pencils, some pencils that are sorta flat and ones that are half flat half point, and I can't draw like, at all, and I kinda feel intimidated by his drawings so this, this is very inspiring, love you zuffy, (No homo) keep up the good work bro.
Honestly, I am really enjoying this series. I literally got inspired to learn to draw when I saw zuffy's first video on drawing. Tbh, that was the first ever video I watched on this channel.
You should be so proud of yourself omg the amount of hard work you’ve done in this video alone is incredible, with the art itself and the editing, I’ve learned that doing full poses all together helps so much because when you learn each thing separate it can fragment it so you aren’t getting the full effect of everything you’ve learned and how it all connects, it helps a lot with proportions and something that’s helped me a lot is like you said with the hips and legs sometimes the thing that looks wrong only does because of something else in the drawing, I love how you edit your videos and can’t wait to see how your art grows!
Just some general advice I know, though I may be a bit wrong and I encourage people correcting me if I am. You're improvement is really good and you should keep up the good work. General Draw as many things as you possibly can as fast as you can, see how much faster you can draw things as well over time. The more you draw something the better you will get at it, which is honestly the worst kind of advice you can give someone who's just starting, but it is kind of true as well. This draw as much as you can as fast as you can approach can lead to the problem of ingraining your mistakes into your workflow too so always use some sort of reference for what you are drawing even if it's just to the side. A lot of professionals use many references for each piece they do and the artists who usually complain about this being cheating are probably struggling because they are avoiding references. Practice helps but focused practice makes things better faster. Like you did for this video focus on each individual part and work on them improving them individually instead of doing everything at once. It'll take longer to improve something if you're just doing it as a part of a bigger piece each time. Trust me improving on everything slowly over time as I do pieces is kind of how I've been rolling for years at this point and if I wasn't so stubborn not to just sit down and draw hands and feet more often I would actually be getting better at them at a faster rate. You are definitely doing the right thing in this regard and I need to do what you're doing more often. Legs and arms This is more of a keeping the proportions in mind issue than it is getting better at drawing them. One thing I do kind of recommend to help with drawing these is to position your hands and feet first and connect them to the body with the arms and legs, adjust things if they look off though. If you don't set an end point for your arms and legs you will get longer and shorter than proportional arms and legs more often. Now bent arms and legs are more tricky. This is where proportions come in, please correct me if I'm wrong on these because I'm still wonky on them myself. From my understanding so far the elbow is about as long as the shoulder to the bottom of the rib cage and the forearm is from the ribcage to just below the hips. Then hands are from there to about midway down the thigh. Legs are way longer than you think they are too. The femur is the longest bone in the body and its about as long from your the bottom of your hip to about 2/3rds of the way up your chest. The Shin is shorter than that but not by much. Torso Definitely learn how the muscles work and look for this one. A lot of your issues with this come down to you aren't mapping out the muscles and everything looks off as a result. The pecks in general are one of the most important parts of the torso and will determine how the breasts, arm and shoulder muscles will look and move. I'd also recommend drawing poses with the arms up above the head and progressively draw them coming down until they are crossed across the chest to get the maximum range of motion when it comes to the pecks. Abs are important too, but they're easier to ignore since the stomach area can be represented as a flat area of the body with just the belly button showing. If you want more sexy/superhero like work for both men and women though learn how to draw them. Also how you construct the ribcage and hips is affecting how your torsos look big time. You started moving away from drawing boxes and I'd highly recommend you continue doing that because those boxes are flattening out your characters torso and making your butts flat too. When you construct the torso draw a line for the spine first and then draw the rib cage and hips like they actually are. For the rib cage start with an Oval and draw a curved line cutting into it for the bottom of the rib cage. For the Hips imagine the character is wearing speedos, an oval with a triangle below it tangenting the ends of it. If you draw boxes it usually overcomplicates things IMO and can lead to flat surfaces. Also the angle of the shoulders and hips counterbalance each other so if your shoulders are angled one way the hips are angled to the opposite direction. You should end up with angles like this > or this < when it comes to the shoulders and hips most of the time. This is how the body naturally counterbalances itself so you don't fall over in any pose. Head I'd recommend Proko's how to draw a head from any angle videos from a while back and he's had some follow up videos for that series as well you should check out. I highly recommend just learning how to construct the basic structure he shows for the Loomis method hundreds of times and then moving on to the finer details of the face individually. Noses personally are the biggest issue I have and can literally make or break a face. Sometimes simpler is better for noses, but if you're drawing an anthro character with a dog/cat nose that's less of an issue from my experience. Eyes and eyebrows are the most important aspect of the face because your character's expression is like 60% to 70% eyes and eyebrows. Badly drawn mouths can completely destroy the look of a face too, ugly Sonic is a good example of this. I'd definitely recommend avoiding drawing all the teeth individually or if you do it's very subtlety done with shading and not linework. I usually just draw a line for the teeth and draw the canines individually, this really helps with anthro characters. Then again if you want to make a face really creepy for a Halloween piece draw all the teeth individually for that and make them sharp too. Lips are another sticking point for me. The bottom lip not so much but I've been criticized for the top lip looking bad quite a lot. For that I'd say make it fairly thin compared to the bottom lip and the less detail the better most of the time, definitely keep the linework to a minimum. Hair should be treated as clumps instead of individual strands. Only emphasize the highlights and some of the darker shadows when drawing the hair and keep everything else a bit fuzzier. An overabundance of strands can flatten it out and make it look unnatural.
Hands and Feet I'm still not that great at these, but here's a couple things to keep in mind. The knuckles and finger joints of the hands follow arcs, like a fan, and should never be in a straight line to each other. The thumb is a little different. It's bigger, and has one less joint, is further back down the hand and articulates very differently from the other fingers. I honestly would just recommend drawing from different references how the thumb articulates on it's own because I tend to get tripped up by this quite a lot. Feet are deceptively easier. The big toe is huge compared to the other toes, like you can fit 2 to 2 and a half inside the big toe, and you may notice that the big toe is separated in a similar manner to the thumb from the other toes, but it's more subtle and is only really noticeable when you see a character walking barefoot. You see the part of your foot that propels you forward when you walk isn't the ball of your foot it's your big toe, so it articulates differently from your toes like your thumb does from your fingers but it's function is very different and acts different as well. Again look up references to how your foot actually allows you to walk and you'll get a way better understanding of how to make it look naturally in different poses. This is something I need to work on myself so any advice from others would be appreciated. Folds Honestly you gave me more advice on this than I know. I'll definitely look into using triangles more often for these. Other than that just use reference and see how different materials react. Denim acts and looks different than silk for instance when it comes to folds. Other things I highly recommend drawing from nude models, if you're old enough, as clothes can obscure the underlying structures and mess with your proportions if you don't exactly know how the clothes are reacting to the body. Not to mention there are more than just slim body types and knowing how to draw fat and old body types can help you better define characters later on in your progress. Once you got the nude body down going to clothes and finding reference with unique outfits should help you progress more. I personally need to do this because like 90% of my work is still nudes, but I'll see if I can work on that. Also your reliance on the undo button for even small lines is due to your line confidence level. Basically you still don't have good muscle memory and confidence with drawing lines yet and this will improve over time. Don't worry about undoing or drawing low confidence line, ones where you're constantly going over them to try and make them look good, and just make a note of them and try and reduce doing that over time. Even I do this to some extent still, but my higher line confidence allows me to do things a lot faster and be less unsure and as you improve it will too. Also don't just stop and say "Yay I improved" after you did a challenge like this. I remember feeling pretty arrogant after doing something like this many times in the past and then being lazy for a time afterwards. The best thing to do is to continue working on things and not let your accomplishments go to your head. After you're done with this challenge start up another one and work on things you felt you were still lacking in on the previous one. A lot of that frustration, boredom, and annoyance you felt doing this challenge will gradually go away the more you do and to some extent you can probably keep up a consistent schedule for doing your work without burning yourself out. Though I will warn you forcing yourself to do something when you don't want to will cause artblock and burnout. This is dependent on the artist though, I personally rarely get burnt out and I only really get artblock if I take too long of a break from my art and play games like Elden Ring and Xenoblade too much. It takes a bit to rev up my creative engine when I take a long break for things like that. Keep an eye on your mental state and if you're just not in the mood to do art take some time off and think about future ideas you could do when you're back in the mood to do art. Heck sometimes sleeping before you tackle a piece is the best thing you can do as your mind is fresh and you were able to mull the idea over in your head while you slept. Keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing more progress from you.
I disagree with your first comment. Speed is not a good thing to focus on when you're still learning. Structure is. Speed can only be good for people who can't loosen up or draw an image gesturally as a whole. I would advice to focusing on structure. The boxing method he is using works great because it gives you a solid understanding of planes which also helps with perspective and lighting later on. Shaped will flatten the image more than form. However the box is only there as construction and not the final work.
@@zkart8038 It depends on the artist. Some will do horribly when told to work faster and some will thrive. I personally highly recommend focusing on speed over structure mostly because gesture is one of the most important aspects of establishing the mood and message of a piece. You can completely understand the structure of the body, but still have stiff as a board characters that are very uninteresting to look at. The gesture is what will make them pop, even if the proportions are out of whack, and IMO drawing the gesture as fast as you can is the best way to get the most expressive and interesting gestures. Hesitation also leads to low confidence chicken scratch lines, and turning your brain off and letting the pen speak for itself leads to more confident lines from my experience. Also focusing on speed doesn't mean you aren't learning structure and other important things while you're at it. If anything it'll allow you to learn them faster. Heck I split the canvas into 4 quadrants and work on 4 pieces at once to get more done and learn faster. I should honestly be doing what he did in this video and just draw many poses studies and other things to fill up every inch of a canvas because that would actually be more efficient than the 4 at a time method I'm doing right now. I'm stubborn though and like to make every piece I do a finished product instead of just letting some be studies and practice. As for the box method I think it works for some artists, but others it won't, like I said with focusing on speed. He was really making stiff poses due to it and when he started moving away from it his poses were getting a lot better. There's a difference between using the box method as construction and making an unintentionally stiff and blocky character because of it.
@@zkart8038 Yeah time constraints aren't really good for beginners. It's bad for those who can't keep up and it encourages the faster artists to procrastinate or waste time. I'm not really talking about time constraints though and I'm encouraging artists personally strive to work faster. Let's take what ZUFFY did with this challenge and say they did it again. Would they just to do the same amount of work in the same time or would they want to try and do it faster and learn more in that shorter amount of time? I think the latter is more likely than the former and it's that personal strive to speed up that I'm talking about. For me personally I found many shortcuts and methods to getting more work done in a shorter amount of time as I went. I went from doing a piece in a week after finishing college to splitting a canvas into 4 quarters and finishing 8 to 12 pieces in a week if I'm really feeling it, 7 years later. I even went a bit nuts and split those 4 quarters into 4 quarters themselves and tried to do 16 pieces on one canvas. Suffice to say that didn't work, but I'm not going to just give up on trying to do that because it failed once or twice and I'll try it again at some point in the future. If another artist wants to figure out their own shortcuts and methods to working faster, then I would definitely encourage them to experiment with them and give them my advice on what worked for me. Not everything will work, but if it can speed up their process by that little bit then that's good.
I'm scared that he might become better than me, I've been drawing for as long as I can remember, but I didnt study anything at all 😂 Its really impressive how fast he learns!
Now everything could be found in the internet when it comes to tutorial I remember not being able to find anything before(or just I was so dumb to not find any of them 💀) that's why I was literally doing my best to copy from reality Wich didn't work it's just that some people work smartly I waisted alot of time doing noting and stoped drawing for two years because I was so jalouse and insecure , but the thing is I never stopped watching video of people drawing and weirdly I became so good 🤷🏻♀️ . People just learn differently Wich is fascinating if you find the right way for u to learn it's a life changer fr .
The tenacity to push through the ugly phase, knowing you'll sometimes be good is the key to improvement. And the hours you've put in is the proof. Real nice to see you improve at such a steady pace. You seem to have a good workflow.
Just a recommendation from someone who also used to learn from art to draw, yes it’s easier to draw something when you can clearly see the pose simplified but it’s also important to learn to draw from real anatomy because before you can break the anatomy rules like they do in anime you need to understand the rules you are breaking. This isn’t just a recommendation for you but also any aspiring artist!
Congrats! I've been on a similar journey, taking a very different approach, but man...it's so cool to see other people struggling with the same stuff and then all of a sudden being like "oh, it's because of this...", those moments are awesome. Kudos for putting in the time and effort, and for sharing the early stages of learning to draw. It makes people not feel so alone/bad about their own journey. Keep it up! And I'm really impressed with how you kept finding positive things to say about your work (and focusing on the progress). I tend to spend 98% of my time critiquing and focusing on the negatives of my artwork.
Dude this is amazing. I feel like I'm becoming pretty good at drawing after years (I might also start publishing a webcomic on webtoon next month) but I'm learning so much just by seeing how you're approaching art, and you're improoving SO FAST too! In one year you're gonna be incredibly skilled if you keep this pace. You're awesome dude, please keep drawing
oh dudE- I'd love to see that web comic one day! I bet that sounds kinda weird from a stranger- lol- HDKABJS but I'd love to see what you make some day!! :DD
@@ieatkazoos Thank you I really hope to start publishing something by next month, it's going to be a story about some goblins girls that are part of a group of renouned thieves that goes by the name "Shiny Rock Scoundrels" xD
more than anything your commitment to this is incredible. i think a lot of people want to be good at things whether its art or whatever, but when it gets tough, tedious or monotonous it's easy to give up and say "oh i'm just bad at it i just can't do it". You have put in many hours and it's definitely showing
Dude, you learn incredibly quickly. Great job on understanding priorities on what to learn, and effectively studying. That hard work is payin off dude. The only "mistake" that you made was tryna study from anime faces to understand facial anatomy. You would need to have a well lit character, and probably having it be in motion to better understand the forms of the face. Swapping to SuiSui for face studies was absolutely a great move! SuiSui has the anime style, but with much clearer forms and lighting
A bit of advice is no matter how much practice you get your art will always look better with references even professional artists use references all the time but also your progress looks amazing and the best of luck I know you will get this down in no time 💖💖
has someone that has been drawing for years, more than anything what amazes me in this video serie is your dedication to constantly practice and studying stuff that's usually boring, which is what fucks me up the most in my own journey. So props to you!
From my experience I don’t like using boxes cause there’s no actual body part that’s a box, it fits better to do shapes in my opinion- but if you like using boxes that’s fine!
This is basically what you're lacking at the moment - Gesture (You're just drawing boxes not the actual gesture, gesture is the information of a pose in which you then put in the forms/shapes AFTER placing down the information ) - Form ( Yeah its kind of clear you have no understanding of form, you're mostly drawing using 2 dimensional shapes and not 3 dimensional FORMS. For this start by learning how to draw boxes, cylinders, cones, etc in perspective, look up "Proko 6 steps to drawing anything" and look up draw a box and follow lesson 1 and do the 250 box and cylinder challenge ) - Facial Proportions ( Also knock off drawing everything from an anime-ish style it will completely regress your progress, try your best to make the drawing resemble the original reference and you'd gain much more out of that ) And PLZ take courses dont try to figure out everything on your own, ive only taken one course so far draw a box and its some real good shit. Some other courses i heard were good were new masters academy and proko
A lack of an armature or gesture drawing def made it harder for him. Having some kind of foundation would of made it better to understand the flow and proportions. Dedication is impressive nonetheless.
It's kind of up to person and the Course. but when I take Character Design course, I kind of confused when it's end because the subject that teaching is just something I just watch from RUclips before I taking Course. maybe taking course would make you more understand from the perspective of the Professional. but I only just need more time and more thought to get what I need. so yea... (P.S. For something I want to told. Character Design in that course it's just character pack with element of arts. which is true. but half true, because Character Design is required more than just you art knowledge. but Character Knowledge too.)
Hey this was actually really cool to see someone do- work so hard on specific parts of the body to get better, it really inspired me to revisit some base anatomy~~ If you do this again I’d really recommend venturing into sitting and leaning poses, ones where gravity becomes more prevalent to the body as it causes it to squish and hide certain parts from view (ex: hiding the calves while showing the feet and thighs or torso poses that cause the tummy to squish)
I've been doing art for like 7 years now? Honestly your progress is so incredible!!! Honestly watching your journey is inspiring to me to do some more studies!!! You've been doing amazing!!!!
I think it would be a pretty good idea to simplify your construction lines. They take a lot of time once you actually put a timer on yourself and its harder to envision your final lines while sketching them
A little tip for drawing: when learning do not use ctrl z, think like when you draw with pen and paper this restriction will make you learn better and when learning use EYES NO BRAIN it will just mess everything up by trying to fill the information you didn't register
Great video!! I was feeling so proud of you while watching lol. I’m an artist myself, an animator in fact, and if you want a piece of advice it is that when studying anatomy it is better to do so looking a real life references instead of already stylized drawings when you are a beginner artist since you don’t have a trained eye yet. You need to know the rules in order to break them as an artist. And don’t worry about “finding a style” as some people say. Your style is just the way you usually like to draw something and it evolves ALL the time (as you already experienced in the video when you started to enjoy drawing noses). You cannot find it and stick with it because that is not how it works. My favorite way of improving heads and faces when I was starting was to practice 30 minutes of real life references and then going to study expression sheets of characters. This way you go into the stylized world with your fresh new knowledge to help you understand it better. And remember, a face is nothing without a skull underneath it. Hope this helps!! Good luck with your art journey. And again, great video!!
Wow, that was… alot. That really made me realize that you actually need to work SO HARD just to learn, how to learn better. I was always jealous of my cousin, because her drawings are absolutely awesome. But i never realized how much it takes just to have a start. Respect dude
I've been an artist for several years now, and I think I'm at a semi professional level. The thing that impresses me about this is your determination to get better and keep going. It may sound cliche but its true; its taken me so many years to get to my level simply because I don't have the focus you do. Just that alone tells me that if you stick with it, you'll make it. That being said, if you wanna make your own webtoon make sure you spend just as much time improving your writing skills; its something people ALWAYS underestimate and overlook.
This takes me back quite a bit, kinda makes me wanna try hard to learn like I used back in the day. Thank you for this, your resolve to get better is impressive!
Dudeeeeeee I just want to say, *How did you do all of that and kept up with it for 60 fricken days straight I just want to say how- your remind me of like one of the main characters in a anime show that never give up and keep going* 🤯 Bro you are something else you are just doing a Phenomenal job how did you do this?! I sure couldn’t! You are so determined it’s crazy. I love your work ethic!!!!
i did a figure drawing study senior year of HS, and one thing i learned to make the more dynamic is do one connected line for the spine(overall direction of the body) instead of segments connected together. it’s easier to divide into the chest, torso and waist areas as you follow the shape of the line to keep the dynamic-ness. i also recommend using more “s” and “c” curved lines to help with few to none straight line to have more dynamic posing. your torso’s are still pretty good and it’s impressive how fast you’re learning!!
@@geoguessrplayer1 Yes I did watch the video, I realise that the way I’ve phrased that sounds condescending, but I meant it as a positive suggestion for him to improve faster. Gesture drawing is something that you have to get through quickly (I think he struggles with that) so you learn how to be more efficient with your strokes and understand references quicker. Also generally helps with anatomy because of drawing so many different poses and a lot of them. It’s just based of what I think has worked best for me when learning this stuff.
@@geoguessrplayer1 Sorry, yeah I have only watched his video, my bad for assuming he hadn’t tried it (but I do stand by thinking it would be helpful for him now).
I’m an artist and this video is really inspiring! You really improved from the beginning. I will say that saying if you can’t draw something without a reference then you can’t do it isn’t true at all! As you practice you will memorize the patterns and shapes in things like folds and the human body, but even professionals use references to make sure that things are polished (ESPECIALLY with clothes). There’s no shame in needing reference for complicated elements of your artwork 👍
All of these videos of yours are incredibly inspiring, mind you I’ve been a digital artist for years. I definitely recommend working on painting/blending and colors. Use more textured brushes and it’ll help you SO SO much! Find some cool brushes and believe it or not you’ll improve so much faster with them and it’ll even help shape your artstyle.
Man! This is very good a and eye opening, for I and many that I know off have been through the exact same struggle, I'm happy you decided to make this video, truly inspiring.
Man, this is so inspiringly relatable. You gotta see how long you've went to after learning how to draw in a very long while, shiz' you'd be reminiscing of the old times and just laugh at how horrible you are at first.
this was INSANE to watch. been drawing for 6+ years and watching you study and learn art in two months worth of footage was awesome. keep on learning, you're getting there!
Your get really good and improving quick! You probably won't see this but if you do here's a tip that helped me. instead of thinking about the body in geometric shapes, think of it in more organic shapes cause there's a lot more curves and stuff that make up the body then just straight lines!
As a artist myself, this is a entertaining series your doing! I’m at the beginning of the video and something I noticed is your drawing the pelvis in a box shape. It’s better to draw it more of a bowl shape. Otherwise your poses might look stiff and hard to draw the hips over it Edit: The end drawings looked amazing! You improved so much of those days. Some tips about the body, our bodies don’t have completely square shapes. They are usually more rounded. It’s good to start with a boxes but having things like the hands and hips being being that shape makes it hard to pose, which could make it stiff.
It's really cool to have the learning process documented like this. I also like the structure you used to learn the anatomy. When I was studying it I went about it in a really haphazard manner and it took a while. I would draw an entire reference and when I saw something that looked wrong, I would study that part more and try to improve drawing it.
I got here via practicing skin shading and my own breakthrough, and this is hecking inspiring. Good work man, keep it up! Now you can work on a new 5 hour drawing with that new knowledge and really do some damage to 7 year olds calling you out...
Tbh you are really good at art. I just recommend you try to find an easier/ faster way to draw the poses. Its not necessary but sometimes drawing poses gets frustrating when you take to long. Source- i sketch a lot K I watched the video a bit more. And I saw the boxes… theres nothing wrong with using boxes for posing sketches its just I would kill myself if I had to do that. It seems really difficult lol.
bro I respect and appreciate your work and motivation you had to do it. You didn't give up and proceeded to continue learning art. You're a great example of an awesome person and you inspire me
As a professional artist, I actually found this inspiring. It's been awhile since I've looked back on the basics of anatomy and I feel that doing this challenge could help me too. Thank you for showing your learning process and I can't wait to see where you go.
As an artist it’s honestly nice to see you improve in such a short time. I’ve basically been drawing since childhood and it took me way longer to learn these things. But I also think that using boxes and so many lines in the background prevents you from drawing poses that are flowing and not stiff it also probably takes up most time. And btw Wish you luck trying to figure out how to shade.
Doing such a good job! But there is another thing wanna say, Y O U D O N T N E E D T O R U S H! If you like to take your time do it 100%. Art is for fun and if rushing makes you feel like your doing work don’t rush! You can take all the time in the world, some people learn slower others learn faster. Anyways have a nice day! :))
The dedication is real, can't wait to see how your art develops! As an artist, something that really helped was studying the skeleton and keeping mental notes on proportions as these apply to any body type, for example the hand rests just above mid thigh
bro I’ve been a artist for a long time and he is catching up to me from his improvements and self motivation the whole point of him and the practice and overall of zuffy’s art is nice and more simple but more graphic at the same time NICE ART
i watched your first drawing video when it came out and totally forgot about you but now i feel weirdly proud? like i have no idea who you are, but you improved so much so quickly and i can't help but be extremely happy for you :') also!! anatomy can be scary, but as long as you keep at it you'll get better and better with every drawing, good luck on your journey!
as someone whos already an artist im so proud of you i barely remember how i started out at all, youre gonna be so glad in a few years that you recorded these
Weird to me that so many people wish to get better faster. I just started to do digital art and I've basically become addicted to it. I started doing traditional drawing over a week ago and wanted to try digital. I enjoy the slow process of getting better, it feels much more rewarding when you look back at old drawings to your current ones. I've put a genuine smile on my face for what I have been able to do both digitally and traditionally. I've been drawing every day for almost 2 weeks straight and have been having a ton of fun. I've completely dropped video games and other interests to fully commit to drawing in my free time.
I’m an artist and have been for 7 years and you improved a lot. You went from drawing things I would think are bad to drawing things I’m impressed with
Yo!! Your studying is getting better doing breakdowns like your doing is important. And it’s so good that you don’t only trace it, but you draw it again and try to understand what your drawing. Learning shapes and forms like that is super useful. One exercise I like to do in longer quick poses times, 5 min/ pose is to change the perspective/angle of the reference image. Challenging my knowledge of anatomy.
The video got sniped but we should be good now :D
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As someone who wants to be an artist , this is very inspiring but also extremely terrifying because he's improving incredibly quickly
You should go for It!!
dude i knoww
Its easy to improve when you know nothing what takes more time is mastering
Fr. Idk his Life, maybe he literally spends all day drawing when he does these challenges, but for me who go to university, takes month(sometimes Years, oops)of breaks from drawing, seeing him improving so fast scares me
@@christiangiardina4541 beginner gains when you don’t know much about a subject you intake knowledge incredibly quickly some more than others but it does plateau at a point and the gains aren’t so noticeable it’s why a lot of people quit.
TO EVERYONE WHO FEELS BAD ABOUT THEMSELVES BECAUSE YOU’RE NOT PROGRESSING AS “FAST” OR FEEL LIKE HE’S OUT PACING YOU ITS OKAY.
This was an entire compilation of his entire 66 days. His enthusiasm for SHOWING his struggles it what pushes him to continue. We all move at our own pace. He said he spent 5 hours drawing. Some us may only do 10 or 15 minutes. We can only compare ourselves to the people we were yesterday.
This video should make you realize, THE EFFORT it takes, and we shouldn’t be jealous. Everything takes time. Thank you for this video. I hope we can all get better together.
Why did this make me emotional
Ngl that’s common sense
its been 2 years....
Most facts I've heard in a WHILE
thanks i needed that
Thats actually crazy bro, as an artist myself im really fucking impressed. To gain that anatomy knowledge in 60 days is absolutely crazy. You only need to learn lineart and rendering now and then youre all set. After that its basically just practice and finding your own style. Good luck on your journey man
i agree its impressive... im trying to do the same thing, but I'm not sure whether to draw digitally or on paper. what program does he use?
Bro i over here stuggling
I started anotomy like 5 days ago
@@jadeeo5745 you can always try both and see what you prefer. For getting jobs theres more chances going digital, but it does cost generally more than the traditional paper and ink (unless you use paint and canvas). I suggest using traditional to study anatomy and proportions if you don’t have the equipment for digital. It’s just good to have a sketchbook that you can physically flip through and see all your progress and study. Then maybe you can transfer your skills to digital later on. I used ibispaint on a phone that was really small, so I had a hard time with digital. But if you have an iPad or tablet with a pen or something then sure go for it. With digital you can follow what Zuffy did in this video, breaking down real life images and different artists by overlaying the main structures and flow of the images. For beginners I recommend to go for the cheaper options first then upgrade on your equipment once you see where art takes you. Hope this helps on whatever you choose but you can try both at the same time. I’m ranning out of braen juce tipying righht now.
yep that's the path I'm taking right now :) Glad you enjoyed the video
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Please continue this series, as an artist who gave up on art, this is making me think on picking up on it again.
Do continue art, even if it’s bad in the beginning, you can improve :)
same here
Zuffy's is actually getting good at his drawings
Work harder and improvements might happened.
He should make his own anime
@@jusycbuecyjsygceuwhquehc definitely.
@@jusycbuecyjsygceuwhquehc you need an entire production team voice actors and more
@@Xanaxly probably can use his family or friends or just call a professional
this is legit inspiring. i've been practicing drawing for years but i didn't do focused studies like this for a long time so my art sometimes stayed the same for months without any improvement. i feel like i just watched you level up like 10 times in two months and it's got me fired up
Feels so weird knowing this was my skill level back then, his learning speed is definitely faster than mines.
Hey just find some tutorial bc they not just teach you how to draw they explain the anatomy
References and tutorials are a huge help
its probably because he put a crap ton of effort in it
Probably because you have school and homework to do
are you cracked at art now
As an artist who is still in learning and has been learning for 5 years, I gotta say that you've done more work than me in like 3 years. You're improving so fast like, you'll be really good at art in like a year, maybe even less time. I'm embarassed myself cuz I have actually never tried learning individual parts of art 💀
Not gonna lie. This video kinda makes me wanna do this.
You should, I use this video to motivate myself to actually spend more time on my art
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watching this made me wanna draw lol even though i’ve already spent 4+ hours today drawing. but yea its super inspiring watching someone who cant draw learning how slowly and getting better like this! i wanna improve even more now
Yeah, I've decided I'm going to do this. I just hope I don't get bored and give up :(
i would do it….
if i didn’t spend the last 2 years drawing non stop
Im so glad im not the only one
man really improved faster than me in 2 years 💀
Bro improved faster than me in 5 years
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Bro improved faster then me in 8 years 💀💀
Maybe you didn’t do what he does? Like drawing these anatomies. You can actually improve faster if you train harder
Expecting to see your art in a museum soon.
Indeed zuffy can be artist.
Same
this... makes me realize just how bad I am, personally, at focused concentrated study. it's like.. for me, stuff is intuitive and my goal is to achieve an intuitive understanding but for anatomy, that just... doesn't work. Anatomy requires something concrete something that leaves no room for guessing the construction and doesn't leave room for guessing games once you're done. I genuinely should try the draw 50+ anatomy sketches and study WAY more from reference, but I get so overwhelmed and distracted when looking for stuff to learn from. especially when the study drags out, I feel like stabbing myself with my compass (yes I still have physical art tools, not just my digital drawing tablet!) until the video is over
I can completely relate to what you're saying here. Studying anatomy is very tricky and can easily become very overwhelming with all of the details that go into making it look right. I'm no anatomy expert myself, but something that might help you is not overloading yourself with too much unfamiliar info at once. When you immediately thrust yourself into learning something that's really unfamiliar to you, it can sometimes make you feel completely lost and like all of your previous art knowledge got completely thrown out the window. Something that's helped me improve with this stuff is taking something in art that you already feel pretty comfortable with and adding a bit of something you might be unfamiliar with to it. For example, let's say you really like drawing your OCs, but you're not really that great at drawing hands. Maybe while you're drawing your OC you can find a reference image of a simple, common hand position and incorporate that into the drawing. If you're really struggling with drawing the hand even with the reference, maybe you can find a good tutorial from someone like Marc Brunnet that breaks down the hands into very simple and understandable shapes, or maybe you can try to find out how your favorite artist draws their hands. The main thing you wanna do is not overwhelm yourself when you're trying to learn something new. Simplify the concepts into something you can understand at your current level, practice it, then once you feel yourself getting more comfortable with the concept, try doing something a little harder.
The entire process is wayyyy easier said than done, but I believe in you! Even if none of this advice is helpful to you and I'm just rehashing stuff you already know, there is one thing that's more important than anything I've said here, and that's to have fun! Drawing the stuff that makes you happy is just as if not more important than the stuff you draw to improve. It's the reason we started drawing in the first place, after all. I wish you luck on your art journey, and have a good day/night!! :] (Also watch Marc Brunnet's videos if you don't already, they're super helpful! He has some videos about focused studying, anatomy, and other very good info. He's the reason I can write you this entire essay tbh lol ^^;)
@@artpants i..i was going to read that untill the moment i pressed "Read more"
so remember kids before reading a comment check of there is " Read more "
You need some tips...I recommend Marc brunet cuz he good teacher and artist.
@@lelakikelawar5940 my mans, I'm already part of his art school since the start of the year ;)
ADHD.
As someone who has been drawing for years, I can relate to these struggles lol. A tip is, instead of using boxes, use circles. Circles will help create the curves in torsos. If you ever decide to draw realism, remember don’t use anime face proportions. Also make eyes smaller then you think they should be. From my own personal experience I always used to make eyes bigger than normal because I specialized in anime before trying realism.
I disagree. Sometimes a box is needed first before you draw the circles. A circle doesn't show where the front vs the side of the pelvis is. If the pelvis is facing right and chest is twisting facing left, the box hells understand the sides/front/top/bottom angles better. Then you soften it up when you flesh out the character..
@@zkart8038 I disagree. The pelvis is NOT a box shape. I dont think u should use a box because there are no boxes in out skeleton, its too harsh and will make your drawing look pointy and abnormal and as u saw it made the proportions off. Just look at the pelvis, how is that a box? Its way more like a triangle and look at the ribcage too, a box is too harsh. By using “simple shapes” that usually doesnt JUST mean boxes, circles, triangles. It means to simplify the shapes of the body
Most professional artists Ive seen has suggested not using boxes for that reason. If it works for u, nice, but I would never recommend it to a newbie. I would recommend simplifying the shapes and using those
@@sunflowersuccs did I say the pelvis is a box? I said it helps understand the structure. Where the front and side are. A circle doesn't do that. A box helps understand things when placed in complex perspective.
That's why people suck at lighting or perspective because their front and side planes start to mix and they don't know where the light is supposed to hit. Nobody said the box is the final drawing..it's to help understand.
@@sunflowersuccs if anything newbies are worse at understanding structures.
Drawing a flat shape versus a form is bad for understanding any structure. A box is a form..a circle is a shape. A form teaches structure, a shape doesn't.
@@zkart8038 and like I said I and other artists dont think using a box its the right way to do it, I’ve given u my reasons and if that isn’t good enough then so be it
I love you for this video because it shows aspiring artists that practice is the main hurdle. If you draw every day then you WILL improve quickly
coming from an artist, i love seeing your improvement. its really easy for me to point out everything you’re doing wrong, but i wont. because look at how far you’ve come. its wonderful. BUT I HATE, to see you under appreciate your art. I’ll notice one that has good construction and looks beautiful, but you’ll focus on another that doesn’t look as good. I understand being harsh is good for learning, but sometimes its nice to take a step back and appreciate what you’ve done well.
YES! I LOVE HOW YOU ARE USING PINTEREST!
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I do agree! for one thing, he actually uses construction, which is already more than most beginners do 😂
He's just gotta work in the construction itself, and he's seen that. Most proportion mistakes come from the sketching. He's doing incredible!
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Where can we see your art?
hey man I have a suggestion for helping drastically imporve your speed of improvement, it's called "blind contour drawing" Pretty much what it does it makes your mind/hand connection much more accurate. Pretty much you'll be able to draw what is infront of you more accurately and easily. what my College art teacher did for this lesson was actually really helpful pretty much get a box and a sheet or something that blocks the inside of the box put your hands inside of the box with the sheet of paper and pop some popcorn put three kernels out and draw them will your hands are in the Box so you have to 100% rely on your eyes and hand coordination it's very interesting and drastically improves your ability to draw what's in front of you very fast because of that mind brain connection if that makes sense.
That's very counter productive in learning structure (something he is trying). Blind contour only hell with edges. How is he going to put a figure in crazy perspective or understand lighting if he doesn't keep building on his current approach?
@@zkart8038 what they're suggesting, blind contour, isn't meant to help with learning perspective or lighting, it's purpose is to help with hand eye coordination and understanding general anatomy and dynamic poses. With blind contour your focusing on the model rather than the paper, your paying attention to how everything connects and looks in general than the details and shadows. The whole excercise isn't so you can make an art piece that looks realistic, but rather it is so you can have a better understanding of how anatomy works so when you do draw looking at the paper your able to properly understand what your drawing and get more accurate porportions
@@trashpanda4891 blind contour isn't going to teach you how muscles and bones work and move. You can fight me on that.
Understanding how the body structure works in a 3D space will help you more than any of these gimmick exercises. Observing from a structural point of view is key. Which side am I drawing? Is this the front, the side or a transition between the two? Blind contour is flat. And teaches none of that. Only use for it is to help people loosen up. That's it.
Observing structurally will ALSO help with perspective and lighting...compared to other techniques which won't.
@@zkart8038 these exercises aren't designed to teach you absolutely every single thing about art, teach you about the underlying parts of anatomy, such as the bones, or be your only method of drawing and learning, they're meant to be quick 30 minute things you do for warm up/practice, work on hand-eye coordination, and to help you learn to pay close attention to how the figure your drawing actually looks, and it's overall structure, rather than stressing on how the drawing itself looks, so that when you DO look at the page while drawing you can more successful create what you intend to. Im not saying it's the ONLY way to learn how to draw, because it's not, and you shouldnt ONLY use this method and rely on it to learn EVERYTHING, because it won't teach you everything. I'm in no way saying you should only use this one method and not use any other methods to learn the different muscles or how lighting work, But it does help with a number of areas and doing it will help the overall quality of your work, your efficiency in making art and your method of creating it.
@@trashpanda4891 blind contour does not teach about bones or muscles or proportion. If you are talking about gestural drawing, then that doesn't but it all boils down to structural observation.
Keep going I really like to see how you’re improving, but also don’t over do it, I don’t want you to have a burnout.
My man this is what sheer fooking dedication and love for art is.
I consider art as a hobby so i just doodle and not pay attention to anatomy but you really helped me learn some cool stuff now I'll also go raid suisui's art hehe
This video made me reflect on how much I actually need to work on. For the past 3 years, I've definitely improved but I still have a hard time drawing the arms, legs, folds, hands, feet, torso, and poses. The fact that you were able to learn these things within 3 months is honestly a job well done! It took me years to actually make my face drawings look decent. I'm super proud of you, man. Keep up the good work and effort. :)
Drawing is a skill that takes time. Not something that comes naturally for others. And you're one of those people that prove that!
Prob won’t see this but one thing I do when I’m sketching is to lower my opacity so I can draw several lines on the same spot then choose the line that I was going for and erase around it. This might help with your undo spamming. Really like seeing you improve and grow as an artist. 🙂
This is a great first step! This is a good method and perhaps even necessary for growing artists. However, I want to mention that it is important for artists to gain confidence in their strokes! It makes the artwork and quality more professional as well as saves a lot of time during the art process
Drawing many strokes to achieve one line will help you determine where that single stroke needs to go later down the line in your art journey :P
That's an awesome tip! My second step would be doing ink/pen drawings on paper! You learn to work with what you have and many times it adds to the final image : )
i genuinely love how you're comfortable sharing your experience like this. a lot of people don't understand just how long it takes to figure this out, and seeing you figure it out in real time is inspiring, really! I've been drawing for years and have been accepted to major art fairs in my state but I still struggle with a lot of this stuff. Keep it up dude!
this is actually very inspiring, seeing the actual learning process distilled
As an artist myself, I was so inspired, I really was. It doesn't matter what skill level you're on, you will ALWAYS have room to improve. I've been trying to figure out ways to improve my anatomy and my art style, and by you doing this opened up my eyes. You've improved so much in so little time and I'm glad you uploaded this, because now I'm determined to do the same thing you have done. You'll become a great artist :)
Tiny tip: you should use an array of shapes than always using a box. A box is very limited with its stuff eventually lol
as an artist, this is truly so interesting to watch, because you point out things that have become so 'normal' for me that i don't even realize it when i draw anymore!
you're doing so well dude!!
This is like- How did you learn so much in 60 days about art- I am an artist and its like : ''how'?!?!'' like I hope you keep doing art bc you have improved so much is well I recommend is you want to more like lively or interesting or what ever poses to look into lines of action and yeah plus once you get used to them they are normally fun to draw poses with and your art is really good!
That look surpise but i didn't learn how to draw like this anyway
As someone who recently has thought about getting into art, I will give you tremendous thanks. With this I'm seeing mistakes that can happen when learning. You walked so we run. Of course, I'm not expecting to learn nearly as fast as you since I'm gonna be preoccupied with other things and don't really have that insane learning talent, but I appreciate you giving people like me motivation to learn how to draw by showing us that it isn't impossible.
He is quite good ngl and I think he would be really great but shadows and colors would help him spot cause all of his drawings are single color sections instead of multicolor which would help with looks and realism but he should keep at it love the content
I would recommend using a sketch brush. It makes your drawing look better/less stiff and it allows you to draw more freely
i dont even know how i learned so much in art without doing all of this. ig its the child mindset
Im inspired by u so ye. Youve made such a big improvement :D
Well, if you've been drawing for a long time than you have done these steps - just not so purposeful and precise as Zuffy. With every piece you draw you improve 👍
I never spent many line on head like that before too
I think when you're a child this kind of stuff is more spread out and you naturally build up your skills with practice over time so it doesn't feel like grinding. Also you often don't have expectations for yourself and just enjoy drawing and therefore draw a lot. Having teachers also helps I think
@@Belle-zq3xc good point
@@Belle-zq3xc yeah that's why i regret not drawing as a child
I have been doing art for three years and have been stumped for the past month, this video along with the 30 days one really showed me what I needed to work on!
This is inspiring to someone like me because my dad is like, a really good artist with a whole bunch of like, shading pencils, some pencils that are sorta flat and ones that are half flat half point, and I can't draw like, at all, and I kinda feel intimidated by his drawings so this, this is very inspiring, love you zuffy, (No homo) keep up the good work bro.
the fact that you can make a passion into an entertaining challenge while also improving your skills is fricking crazy. respect
Honestly, I am really enjoying this series. I literally got inspired to learn to draw when I saw zuffy's first video on drawing. Tbh, that was the first ever video I watched on this channel.
You should be so proud of yourself omg the amount of hard work you’ve done in this video alone is incredible, with the art itself and the editing, I’ve learned that doing full poses all together helps so much because when you learn each thing separate it can fragment it so you aren’t getting the full effect of everything you’ve learned and how it all connects, it helps a lot with proportions and something that’s helped me a lot is like you said with the hips and legs sometimes the thing that looks wrong only does because of something else in the drawing, I love how you edit your videos and can’t wait to see how your art grows!
Just some general advice I know, though I may be a bit wrong and I encourage people correcting me if I am. You're improvement is really good and you should keep up the good work.
General
Draw as many things as you possibly can as fast as you can, see how much faster you can draw things as well over time. The more you draw something the better you will get at it, which is honestly the worst kind of advice you can give someone who's just starting, but it is kind of true as well. This draw as much as you can as fast as you can approach can lead to the problem of ingraining your mistakes into your workflow too so always use some sort of reference for what you are drawing even if it's just to the side. A lot of professionals use many references for each piece they do and the artists who usually complain about this being cheating are probably struggling because they are avoiding references.
Practice helps but focused practice makes things better faster. Like you did for this video focus on each individual part and work on them improving them individually instead of doing everything at once. It'll take longer to improve something if you're just doing it as a part of a bigger piece each time. Trust me improving on everything slowly over time as I do pieces is kind of how I've been rolling for years at this point and if I wasn't so stubborn not to just sit down and draw hands and feet more often I would actually be getting better at them at a faster rate. You are definitely doing the right thing in this regard and I need to do what you're doing more often.
Legs and arms
This is more of a keeping the proportions in mind issue than it is getting better at drawing them. One thing I do kind of recommend to help with drawing these is to position your hands and feet first and connect them to the body with the arms and legs, adjust things if they look off though. If you don't set an end point for your arms and legs you will get longer and shorter than proportional arms and legs more often. Now bent arms and legs are more tricky.
This is where proportions come in, please correct me if I'm wrong on these because I'm still wonky on them myself. From my understanding so far the elbow is about as long as the shoulder to the bottom of the rib cage and the forearm is from the ribcage to just below the hips. Then hands are from there to about midway down the thigh. Legs are way longer than you think they are too. The femur is the longest bone in the body and its about as long from your the bottom of your hip to about 2/3rds of the way up your chest. The Shin is shorter than that but not by much.
Torso
Definitely learn how the muscles work and look for this one. A lot of your issues with this come down to you aren't mapping out the muscles and everything looks off as a result. The pecks in general are one of the most important parts of the torso and will determine how the breasts, arm and shoulder muscles will look and move. I'd also recommend drawing poses with the arms up above the head and progressively draw them coming down until they are crossed across the chest to get the maximum range of motion when it comes to the pecks. Abs are important too, but they're easier to ignore since the stomach area can be represented as a flat area of the body with just the belly button showing. If you want more sexy/superhero like work for both men and women though learn how to draw them.
Also how you construct the ribcage and hips is affecting how your torsos look big time. You started moving away from drawing boxes and I'd highly recommend you continue doing that because those boxes are flattening out your characters torso and making your butts flat too. When you construct the torso draw a line for the spine first and then draw the rib cage and hips like they actually are. For the rib cage start with an Oval and draw a curved line cutting into it for the bottom of the rib cage. For the Hips imagine the character is wearing speedos, an oval with a triangle below it tangenting the ends of it. If you draw boxes it usually overcomplicates things IMO and can lead to flat surfaces. Also the angle of the shoulders and hips counterbalance each other so if your shoulders are angled one way the hips are angled to the opposite direction. You should end up with angles like this > or this < when it comes to the shoulders and hips most of the time. This is how the body naturally counterbalances itself so you don't fall over in any pose.
Head
I'd recommend Proko's how to draw a head from any angle videos from a while back and he's had some follow up videos for that series as well you should check out. I highly recommend just learning how to construct the basic structure he shows for the Loomis method hundreds of times and then moving on to the finer details of the face individually. Noses personally are the biggest issue I have and can literally make or break a face. Sometimes simpler is better for noses, but if you're drawing an anthro character with a dog/cat nose that's less of an issue from my experience.
Eyes and eyebrows are the most important aspect of the face because your character's expression is like 60% to 70% eyes and eyebrows. Badly drawn mouths can completely destroy the look of a face too, ugly Sonic is a good example of this. I'd definitely recommend avoiding drawing all the teeth individually or if you do it's very subtlety done with shading and not linework. I usually just draw a line for the teeth and draw the canines individually, this really helps with anthro characters. Then again if you want to make a face really creepy for a Halloween piece draw all the teeth individually for that and make them sharp too. Lips are another sticking point for me. The bottom lip not so much but I've been criticized for the top lip looking bad quite a lot. For that I'd say make it fairly thin compared to the bottom lip and the less detail the better most of the time, definitely keep the linework to a minimum.
Hair should be treated as clumps instead of individual strands. Only emphasize the highlights and some of the darker shadows when drawing the hair and keep everything else a bit fuzzier. An overabundance of strands can flatten it out and make it look unnatural.
Hands and Feet
I'm still not that great at these, but here's a couple things to keep in mind. The knuckles and finger joints of the hands follow arcs, like a fan, and should never be in a straight line to each other. The thumb is a little different. It's bigger, and has one less joint, is further back down the hand and articulates very differently from the other fingers. I honestly would just recommend drawing from different references how the thumb articulates on it's own because I tend to get tripped up by this quite a lot.
Feet are deceptively easier. The big toe is huge compared to the other toes, like you can fit 2 to 2 and a half inside the big toe, and you may notice that the big toe is separated in a similar manner to the thumb from the other toes, but it's more subtle and is only really noticeable when you see a character walking barefoot. You see the part of your foot that propels you forward when you walk isn't the ball of your foot it's your big toe, so it articulates differently from your toes like your thumb does from your fingers but it's function is very different and acts different as well. Again look up references to how your foot actually allows you to walk and you'll get a way better understanding of how to make it look naturally in different poses. This is something I need to work on myself so any advice from others would be appreciated.
Folds
Honestly you gave me more advice on this than I know. I'll definitely look into using triangles more often for these. Other than that just use reference and see how different materials react. Denim acts and looks different than silk for instance when it comes to folds.
Other things
I highly recommend drawing from nude models, if you're old enough, as clothes can obscure the underlying structures and mess with your proportions if you don't exactly know how the clothes are reacting to the body. Not to mention there are more than just slim body types and knowing how to draw fat and old body types can help you better define characters later on in your progress. Once you got the nude body down going to clothes and finding reference with unique outfits should help you progress more. I personally need to do this because like 90% of my work is still nudes, but I'll see if I can work on that.
Also your reliance on the undo button for even small lines is due to your line confidence level. Basically you still don't have good muscle memory and confidence with drawing lines yet and this will improve over time. Don't worry about undoing or drawing low confidence line, ones where you're constantly going over them to try and make them look good, and just make a note of them and try and reduce doing that over time. Even I do this to some extent still, but my higher line confidence allows me to do things a lot faster and be less unsure and as you improve it will too.
Also don't just stop and say "Yay I improved" after you did a challenge like this. I remember feeling pretty arrogant after doing something like this many times in the past and then being lazy for a time afterwards. The best thing to do is to continue working on things and not let your accomplishments go to your head. After you're done with this challenge start up another one and work on things you felt you were still lacking in on the previous one. A lot of that frustration, boredom, and annoyance you felt doing this challenge will gradually go away the more you do and to some extent you can probably keep up a consistent schedule for doing your work without burning yourself out.
Though I will warn you forcing yourself to do something when you don't want to will cause artblock and burnout. This is dependent on the artist though, I personally rarely get burnt out and I only really get artblock if I take too long of a break from my art and play games like Elden Ring and Xenoblade too much. It takes a bit to rev up my creative engine when I take a long break for things like that. Keep an eye on your mental state and if you're just not in the mood to do art take some time off and think about future ideas you could do when you're back in the mood to do art. Heck sometimes sleeping before you tackle a piece is the best thing you can do as your mind is fresh and you were able to mull the idea over in your head while you slept.
Keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing more progress from you.
I disagree with your first comment. Speed is not a good thing to focus on when you're still learning. Structure is.
Speed can only be good for people who can't loosen up or draw an image gesturally as a whole. I would advice to focusing on structure. The boxing method he is using works great because it gives you a solid understanding of planes which also helps with perspective and lighting later on. Shaped will flatten the image more than form. However the box is only there as construction and not the final work.
@@zkart8038 It depends on the artist. Some will do horribly when told to work faster and some will thrive. I personally highly recommend focusing on speed over structure mostly because gesture is one of the most important aspects of establishing the mood and message of a piece. You can completely understand the structure of the body, but still have stiff as a board characters that are very uninteresting to look at. The gesture is what will make them pop, even if the proportions are out of whack, and IMO drawing the gesture as fast as you can is the best way to get the most expressive and interesting gestures. Hesitation also leads to low confidence chicken scratch lines, and turning your brain off and letting the pen speak for itself leads to more confident lines from my experience.
Also focusing on speed doesn't mean you aren't learning structure and other important things while you're at it. If anything it'll allow you to learn them faster. Heck I split the canvas into 4 quadrants and work on 4 pieces at once to get more done and learn faster. I should honestly be doing what he did in this video and just draw many poses studies and other things to fill up every inch of a canvas because that would actually be more efficient than the 4 at a time method I'm doing right now. I'm stubborn though and like to make every piece I do a finished product instead of just letting some be studies and practice.
As for the box method I think it works for some artists, but others it won't, like I said with focusing on speed. He was really making stiff poses due to it and when he started moving away from it his poses were getting a lot better. There's a difference between using the box method as construction and making an unintentionally stiff and blocky character because of it.
@@SacrificAbominat loosening up yes. Giving beginners time constraints no.
@@zkart8038 Yeah time constraints aren't really good for beginners. It's bad for those who can't keep up and it encourages the faster artists to procrastinate or waste time.
I'm not really talking about time constraints though and I'm encouraging artists personally strive to work faster.
Let's take what ZUFFY did with this challenge and say they did it again. Would they just to do the same amount of work in the same time or would they want to try and do it faster and learn more in that shorter amount of time? I think the latter is more likely than the former and it's that personal strive to speed up that I'm talking about.
For me personally I found many shortcuts and methods to getting more work done in a shorter amount of time as I went. I went from doing a piece in a week after finishing college to splitting a canvas into 4 quarters and finishing 8 to 12 pieces in a week if I'm really feeling it, 7 years later. I even went a bit nuts and split those 4 quarters into 4 quarters themselves and tried to do 16 pieces on one canvas. Suffice to say that didn't work, but I'm not going to just give up on trying to do that because it failed once or twice and I'll try it again at some point in the future.
If another artist wants to figure out their own shortcuts and methods to working faster, then I would definitely encourage them to experiment with them and give them my advice on what worked for me. Not everything will work, but if it can speed up their process by that little bit then that's good.
You have just inspired me beyond anyone has ever done to draw again. Seeing your progress is mind boggling. U are a goat
I'm scared that he might become better than me, I've been drawing for as long as I can remember, but I didnt study anything at all 😂 Its really impressive how fast he learns!
Now everything could be found in the internet when it comes to tutorial I remember not being able to find anything before(or just I was so dumb to not find any of them 💀) that's why I was literally doing my best to copy from reality Wich didn't work it's just that some people work smartly I waisted alot of time doing noting and stoped drawing for two years because I was so jalouse and insecure , but the thing is I never stopped watching video of people drawing and weirdly I became so good 🤷🏻♀️ . People just learn differently Wich is fascinating if you find the right way for u to learn it's a life changer fr .
Where can we see your art?
Are you homophobic?
@@Jul._.777 Yup, you too? :D
@@RoadWorkAhead.YeahIHopeItDoes no I'm gay
And you can do nothing about that. :D
The tenacity to push through the ugly phase, knowing you'll sometimes be good is the key to improvement. And the hours you've put in is the proof. Real nice to see you improve at such a steady pace. You seem to have a good workflow.
Just a recommendation from someone who also used to learn from art to draw, yes it’s easier to draw something when you can clearly see the pose simplified but it’s also important to learn to draw from real anatomy because before you can break the anatomy rules like they do in anime you need to understand the rules you are breaking. This isn’t just a recommendation for you but also any aspiring artist!
Congrats! I've been on a similar journey, taking a very different approach, but man...it's so cool to see other people struggling with the same stuff and then all of a sudden being like "oh, it's because of this...", those moments are awesome. Kudos for putting in the time and effort, and for sharing the early stages of learning to draw. It makes people not feel so alone/bad about their own journey. Keep it up! And I'm really impressed with how you kept finding positive things to say about your work (and focusing on the progress). I tend to spend 98% of my time critiquing and focusing on the negatives of my artwork.
Dude this is amazing. I feel like I'm becoming pretty good at drawing after years (I might also start publishing a webcomic on webtoon next month) but I'm learning so much just by seeing how you're approaching art, and you're improoving SO FAST too! In one year you're gonna be incredibly skilled if you keep this pace. You're awesome dude, please keep drawing
oh dudE- I'd love to see that web comic one day! I bet that sounds kinda weird from a stranger- lol-
HDKABJS but I'd love to see what you make some day!! :DD
@@ieatkazoos Thank you I really hope to start publishing something by next month, it's going to be a story about some goblins girls that are part of a group of renouned thieves that goes by the name "Shiny Rock Scoundrels" xD
:OO that sounds so sickk!! Can't wait to see it when you start publishing!! Good luck! :D
@@ieatkazoos Thank you!
Coming from an artist, you are doing great for a beginner! Good job using references and finding the basic shapes in the art.
It’s awesome to see you put so much effort into something like this. Keep going!
more than anything your commitment to this is incredible. i think a lot of people want to be good at things whether its art or whatever, but when it gets tough, tedious or monotonous it's easy to give up and say "oh i'm just bad at it i just can't do it". You have put in many hours and it's definitely showing
I love these videos, the improvement is amazing and your humor is very enjoyable
This guy must be One of the funniest guy on heart: editing, drawing, talkin...i laugh for the whole video
Dude, you learn incredibly quickly. Great job on understanding priorities on what to learn, and effectively studying. That hard work is payin off dude. The only "mistake" that you made was tryna study from anime faces to understand facial anatomy. You would need to have a well lit character, and probably having it be in motion to better understand the forms of the face. Swapping to SuiSui for face studies was absolutely a great move! SuiSui has the anime style, but with much clearer forms and lighting
A bit of advice is no matter how much practice you get your art will always look better with references even professional artists use references all the time but also your progress looks amazing and the best of luck I know you will get this down in no time 💖💖
has someone that has been drawing for years, more than anything what amazes me in this video serie is your dedication to constantly practice and studying stuff that's usually boring, which is what fucks me up the most in my own journey. So props to you!
From my experience I don’t like using boxes cause there’s no actual body part that’s a box, it fits better to do shapes in my opinion- but if you like using boxes that’s fine!
You can really tell how much you’ve improved in such a quick time! This is honestly so impressive and inspiring to newer artists!
This is basically what you're lacking at the moment
- Gesture (You're just drawing boxes not the actual gesture, gesture is the information of a pose in which you then put in the forms/shapes AFTER placing down the information )
- Form ( Yeah its kind of clear you have no understanding of form, you're mostly drawing using 2 dimensional shapes and not 3 dimensional FORMS. For this start by learning how to draw boxes, cylinders, cones, etc in perspective, look up "Proko 6 steps to drawing anything" and look up draw a box and follow lesson 1 and do the 250 box and cylinder challenge )
- Facial Proportions ( Also knock off drawing everything from an anime-ish style it will completely regress your progress, try your best to make the drawing resemble the original reference and you'd gain much more out of that )
And PLZ take courses dont try to figure out everything on your own, ive only taken one course so far draw a box and its some real good shit. Some other courses i heard were good were new masters academy and proko
draw a box is goated
Don't courses cost money? Imo taking a course isn't always possible, and teaching oneself is cheaper than taking a course...
A lack of an armature or gesture drawing def made it harder for him. Having some kind of foundation would of made it better to understand the flow and proportions. Dedication is impressive nonetheless.
courses arent needed. lots of money for things you can teach yourself easily over time.
It's kind of up to person and the Course. but when I take Character Design course, I kind of confused when it's end because the subject that teaching is just something I just watch from RUclips before I taking Course. maybe taking course would make you more understand from the perspective of the Professional. but I only just need more time and more thought to get what I need. so yea...
(P.S. For something I want to told. Character Design in that course it's just character pack with element of arts. which is true. but half true, because Character Design is required more than just you art knowledge. but Character Knowledge too.)
This is seriously inspiring, im actually gonna do something kind of like this sometime soon. Got a bit of a project in the works. Great stuff dude
I’m a artist myself and you’re honestly getting hella good very quickly
Where can we see your art
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@@blackbat908 I’ve never really posted any personal stuff like art or face lol
@@orvngcee ah ok, I was just curious 🙂 have a great day/night
@@blackbat908 if I do tho I’ll tell you if you still know I exist lol
As an artist, your videos inspires me so much, especially now that I have art block, mad respect for you, you are learning really quick!
Hey this was actually really cool to see someone do- work so hard on specific parts of the body to get better, it really inspired me to revisit some base anatomy~~
If you do this again I’d really recommend venturing into sitting and leaning poses, ones where gravity becomes more prevalent to the body as it causes it to squish and hide certain parts from view (ex: hiding the calves while showing the feet and thighs or torso poses that cause the tummy to squish)
(Of course I’m a self learned artist too, so take my advise with a tablespoon’s worth of salt…)
I've been doing art for like 7 years now? Honestly your progress is so incredible!!! Honestly watching your journey is inspiring to me to do some more studies!!! You've been doing amazing!!!!
I think it would be a pretty good idea to simplify your construction lines. They take a lot of time once you actually put a timer on yourself and its harder to envision your final lines while sketching them
I love how tenacious this man is, its crazy motivating
A little tip for drawing: when learning do not use ctrl z, think like when you draw with pen and paper this restriction will make you learn better and when learning use EYES NO BRAIN it will just mess everything up by trying to fill the information you didn't register
Nah bro if you aim digital artist the point is work smarter not harder when i practice and learning i press ctrl z for the perfect stroke
im seriously so invested in following your art vids now. i hope youre still having fun learning to draw and i cant wait for more
Great video!! I was feeling so proud of you while watching lol. I’m an artist myself, an animator in fact, and if you want a piece of advice it is that when studying anatomy it is better to do so looking a real life references instead of already stylized drawings when you are a beginner artist since you don’t have a trained eye yet. You need to know the rules in order to break them as an artist. And don’t worry about “finding a style” as some people say. Your style is just the way you usually like to draw something and it evolves ALL the time (as you already experienced in the video when you started to enjoy drawing noses). You cannot find it and stick with it because that is not how it works.
My favorite way of improving heads and faces when I was starting was to practice 30 minutes of real life references and then going to study expression sheets of characters. This way you go into the stylized world with your fresh new knowledge to help you understand it better. And remember, a face is nothing without a skull underneath it.
Hope this helps!! Good luck with your art journey. And again, great video!!
Wow, that was… alot. That really made me realize that you actually need to work SO HARD just to learn, how to learn better. I was always jealous of my cousin, because her drawings are absolutely awesome. But i never realized how much it takes just to have a start. Respect dude
I've been an artist for several years now, and I think I'm at a semi professional level. The thing that impresses me about this is your determination to get better and keep going. It may sound cliche but its true; its taken me so many years to get to my level simply because I don't have the focus you do. Just that alone tells me that if you stick with it, you'll make it. That being said, if you wanna make your own webtoon make sure you spend just as much time improving your writing skills; its something people ALWAYS underestimate and overlook.
This takes me back quite a bit, kinda makes me wanna try hard to learn like I used back in the day. Thank you for this, your resolve to get better is impressive!
Dudeeeeeee I just want to say, *How did you do all of that and kept up with it for 60 fricken days straight I just want to say how- your remind me of like one of the main characters in a anime show that never give up and keep going* 🤯 Bro you are something else you are just doing a Phenomenal job how did you do this?! I sure couldn’t! You are so determined it’s crazy. I love your work ethic!!!!
i did a figure drawing study senior year of HS, and one thing i learned to make the more dynamic is do one connected line for the spine(overall direction of the body) instead of segments connected together.
it’s easier to divide into the chest, torso and waist areas as you follow the shape of the line to keep the dynamic-ness. i also recommend using more “s” and “c” curved lines to help with few to none straight line to have more dynamic posing.
your torso’s are still pretty good and it’s impressive how fast you’re learning!!
LETS GOOOOO!!! DEMOLISH THAT "TALENT" MYTH, HARDWORK FOR LIFE BABYYYYYYYY 💪
Wow, just wow !! How can he improve soo fast!
Hope the improvement keeps up!
I suggest you try gesture drawing. It’ll help the speed of drawing figures and might improve your proportions
did you even watch the video?
@@geoguessrplayer1 Yes I did watch the video, I realise that the way I’ve phrased that sounds condescending, but I meant it as a positive suggestion for him to improve faster. Gesture drawing is something that you have to get through quickly (I think he struggles with that) so you learn how to be more efficient with your strokes and understand references quicker. Also generally helps with anatomy because of drawing so many different poses and a lot of them.
It’s just based of what I think has worked best for me when learning this stuff.
@@serarichu Fair point, but if you actually paid attention to the series, you would've known that Zuf ALREADY used gesture drawing
@@geoguessrplayer1 Sorry, yeah I have only watched his video, my bad for assuming he hadn’t tried it (but I do stand by thinking it would be helpful for him now).
I’m an artist and this video is really inspiring! You really improved from the beginning. I will say that saying if you can’t draw something without a reference then you can’t do it isn’t true at all! As you practice you will memorize the patterns and shapes in things like folds and the human body, but even professionals use references to make sure that things are polished (ESPECIALLY with clothes). There’s no shame in needing reference for complicated elements of your artwork 👍
All of these videos of yours are incredibly inspiring, mind you I’ve been a digital artist for years. I definitely recommend working on painting/blending and colors. Use more textured brushes and it’ll help you SO SO much! Find some cool brushes and believe it or not you’ll improve so much faster with them and it’ll even help shape your artstyle.
Man! This is very good a and eye opening, for I and many that I know off have been through the exact same struggle, I'm happy you decided to make this video, truly inspiring.
Man, this is so inspiringly relatable. You gotta see how long you've went to after learning how to draw in a very long while, shiz' you'd be reminiscing of the old times and just laugh at how horrible you are at first.
this was INSANE to watch. been drawing for 6+ years and watching you study and learn art in two months worth of footage was awesome. keep on learning, you're getting there!
Your get really good and improving quick! You probably won't see this but if you do here's a tip that helped me. instead of thinking about the body in geometric shapes, think of it in more organic shapes cause there's a lot more curves and stuff that make up the body then just straight lines!
jesus christ, the amount of inspiration and motivation oozing off of these videos is incredible
As a artist myself, this is a entertaining series your doing! I’m at the beginning of the video and something I noticed is your drawing the pelvis in a box shape. It’s better to draw it more of a bowl shape. Otherwise your poses might look stiff and hard to draw the hips over it
Edit: The end drawings looked amazing! You improved so much of those days. Some tips about the body, our bodies don’t have completely square shapes. They are usually more rounded. It’s good to start with a boxes but having things like the hands and hips being being that shape makes it hard to pose, which could make it stiff.
It's really cool to have the learning process documented like this. I also like the structure you used to learn the anatomy. When I was studying it I went about it in a really haphazard manner and it took a while. I would draw an entire reference and when I saw something that looked wrong, I would study that part more and try to improve drawing it.
I got here via practicing skin shading and my own breakthrough, and this is hecking inspiring. Good work man, keep it up! Now you can work on a new 5 hour drawing with that new knowledge and really do some damage to 7 year olds calling you out...
As an artist I love the dedication and amount of effort u took to bumping up ur art skills ^^
Tbh you are really good at art. I just recommend you try to find an easier/ faster way to draw the poses. Its not necessary but sometimes drawing poses gets frustrating when you take to long.
Source- i sketch a lot
K I watched the video a bit more. And I saw the boxes… theres nothing wrong with using boxes for posing sketches its just I would kill myself if I had to do that. It seems really difficult lol.
bro I respect and appreciate your work and motivation you had to do it. You didn't give up and proceeded to continue learning art. You're a great example of an awesome person and you inspire me
I wish he live streamed sometimes while doing this so i could draw along with him TwT
As a professional artist, I actually found this inspiring. It's been awhile since I've looked back on the basics of anatomy and I feel that doing this challenge could help me too.
Thank you for showing your learning process and I can't wait to see where you go.
I stopped using boxes and my art improved. Using more "custom" shapes or even just trapezoids/triangles helps a lot for me.
As an artist it’s honestly nice to see you improve in such a short time. I’ve basically been drawing since childhood and it took me way longer to learn these things. But I also think that using boxes and so many lines in the background prevents you from drawing poses that are flowing and not stiff it also probably takes up most time. And btw Wish you luck trying to figure out how to shade.
Doing such a good job! But there is another thing wanna say, Y O U D O N T N E E D T O R U S H! If you like to take your time do it 100%. Art is for fun and if rushing makes you feel like your doing work don’t rush! You can take all the time in the world, some people learn slower others learn faster. Anyways have a nice day! :))
The dedication is real, can't wait to see how your art develops! As an artist, something that really helped was studying the skeleton and keeping mental notes on proportions as these apply to any body type, for example the hand rests just above mid thigh
bro I’ve been a artist for a long time and he is catching up to me from his improvements and self motivation the whole point of him and the practice and overall of zuffy’s art is nice and more simple but more graphic at the same time NICE ART
watching this as an artist with artblock rn is pretty motivating! congrats on the improvement.
i watched your first drawing video when it came out and totally forgot about you but now i feel weirdly proud? like i have no idea who you are, but you improved so much so quickly and i can't help but be extremely happy for you :')
also!! anatomy can be scary, but as long as you keep at it you'll get better and better with every drawing, good luck on your journey!
as someone whos already an artist im so proud of you
i barely remember how i started out at all, youre gonna be so glad in a few years that you recorded these
been doing art for like 9 years and dang if I started challenging myself like you did when I was like 4 years in I don’t know where I would be.
Weird to me that so many people wish to get better faster. I just started to do digital art and I've basically become addicted to it. I started doing traditional drawing over a week ago and wanted to try digital. I enjoy the slow process of getting better, it feels much more rewarding when you look back at old drawings to your current ones. I've put a genuine smile on my face for what I have been able to do both digitally and traditionally. I've been drawing every day for almost 2 weeks straight and have been having a ton of fun. I've completely dropped video games and other interests to fully commit to drawing in my free time.
I’m an artist and have been for 7 years and you improved a lot. You went from drawing things I would think are bad to drawing things I’m impressed with
bruh your ambition to keep going is so impressive good luck on your art Journey bro and you've improved so much it's honestly extremely impressive.
dude you really know how to learn, that's quiiiiick improvement
Yo!! Your studying is getting better doing breakdowns like your doing is important. And it’s so good that you don’t only trace it, but you draw it again and try to understand what your drawing. Learning shapes and forms like that is super useful.
One exercise I like to do in longer quick poses times, 5 min/ pose is to change the perspective/angle of the reference image. Challenging my knowledge of anatomy.