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Great stuff man. Art psychology. I love it. It reminds me of learning to drive a car. At first you are thinking about every little thing just to maneuver a vehicle down the street. But eventually, it becomes second nature. You’re cruising the city. Singing to the radio. Texting friends. Getting dui’s. That’s how drawing should be. Except, you won’t get arrested for drinking and drawing.
If you can draw you can paint. Painting is drawing with color translated into value. I spent a decade taking a break from oils and solely focused on drawing during that time and when I came back to painting I found the learning curve much shorter. Drawing teaches you structure
@@-kurow-7113 yes. If you understand structure you can paint. If you don’t understand shapes and how they relate to each other then painting is very difficult. There are other things related to controlling values based on working whatever medium you are using to create transitions between shape edges that are endemic to learning how to blend and render, but rendering doesn’t matter if you don’t understand shale language and how shapes fit together or 2 point perspective. Learning the fundamentals is the toughest part and it takes most people a few years to start to get comfortable with things like shape language, structure, anatomy, perspective etc. most adults don’t really know the fundamentals which is why art is so competitive. So while the jump from drawing to painting is a shorter learning curve the learning curve is still steep in general bc it takes most people years of practices to get good enough at drawing to get work
Thank you for this. i was in the process of just going back to my ungga bungga days of drawing (just having fun again drawing from imagination) and just unconsciously improve along the way. thank you! the concept art climb has really taken a toll on me. now, im just doing art-therapy. Being critical of myself and my work, doubts, anxieties, are slowly going away. i am having fun again. THANK YOU!
apart from the art aspect sitting on the balcony, gazing the sky and listening this when I'm struggling with some personal problems in my life is actually very soothing thank you
Dude. I get so excited when I see a new upload from you. I'm reminded every time I watch your content, why I love the practice, the struggle and art in general. My favorite art content on the tube. Thanks Steven!
Thanks for helping ease that's impatience and frustration we often feel on this art journey, I believe once we develope the necessary skills we let our mystical, divine part of ourselves do the rest, once again, we appreciate much what you do to help others,blessings.
Man, that was one of the most beautiful motivational messages towards learning a skill I've ever stumbled upon. I absolutely agree with your whole vision towards art and the cosmic mystery it envolves. Letting knowledge sink to the subterranean landscapes of our loving, creative minds is an astounding way to put the whole thing. Beautiful, beautiful, I'm so glad to have found your channel!
Yeah, I have struggled with anatomy for so long. I remember when I was eleven this sophomore at my school gave me a copy of Bridgeman’s constructive anatomy- which I still have to this day at the age of 32. I have never read the book, (lol) but I’ve copied the drawings plenty of times. I actually think that having that book at that age was profoundly helpful in that it made me view drawing like sculpting on a piece of paper. In the last year I started approaching my drawings using that idea mixed with the influence of Michelangelo’s prisoners in stone as a means to kickstart inspiration by finding the hint of a form in a frenzy of marks, slowly pulling it out and refining it. It’s wild how all the practice that I thought was lost, starts to reveal itself years later. I have a ton to learn, but I don’t get as bogged down by technical difficulties as much anymore-and it IS incredibly freeing. Over my lifetime I’ve seen a huge change in the art ‘world’-I left high school feeling defeated by the importance placed on concept rather than skill, and a decade later, it feels as if it’s been completely reversed and there’s an almost unhealthy emphasis on realism/technicality, at the expense of expression. Art is scientific for sure, but I don’t believe anyone can rely on a formula for making consistent captivating imagery...well I’m rambling..love the video!
My philosophy is that skill is simply a tool to aid in your storytelling, it's undeniably helpful but not absolutely necessary to create great work (I think that thought is what helps us young artists keep pushing on). But with that said, I always enjoy a piece that knows what it's doing and I never will never stop learning. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
I totally agree with you about learning the parts of art you need to make the art you want to make. I think that mindset would honestly help a lot of new artists trying to find their niche. I feel like so many people get discouraged from making art because there's this idea that you need to know 100% all of these technical skills first...
Great video, and great philosophical speech/stream of thoughts, whatever. To me at least, learning anatomy (or anything) doesn't have that point at which it becomes automatic, but rather it's always me who chooses to either think about it or not, and even when I'm not thinking about it, what I've learned so far stays somewhere and is obvious to draw. Those anatomy studies may seem useless, but trust me, they stick around, your brain slowly develops an idea of how it works
why do some people see things symbolically out of shadows and patterns in life, in clothes, in street traffic, among people, in carpet on the wall, or other places, like eyes among laundry that just happen to be visible as a pattern if looked at the pile of laundry from a certain perspective while other people cannot see anything and make no symbolic drawings or stories out of anything while others can see the most horrible demons in a pile of laundry and realise is a visual trick of the eye to combine lines of clothing, light and shadows in the moment from a certain perspective... and how can one improve this ability to discover small patterns in life like this, it can be a shadow on the street, or sun rays on the water, or depth of field in the hallways where on guy can look like a giant and another like a small mouse and one begin to draw out of this inspiration in the present... Maybe I am crazy, but when I take a phot of it and then draw on it for those that cannot see anything but a pile of laundry they suddenly get it when I draw on the photo of them what lines need to be focused in on to see it.... I am not sure if I should learn to draw for real.. there is one really ice teacher in painting here in my city that start a half time course in a week.. I been thinking of it... but am also wondering how I can use the skill of learning to draw and paint later on... there is something about drawing that brings me into a different time zone... is different from singing alone or riding a fixed gear bike for experience of being alive, or listening to nature in a forrest to feel the space of life.. but drawing does something different with me that is bringing out fears, horror stories, symbolic and phenomena meaning to life in a different way I cannot see other types of art do... what can this possibly be about? sorry to sound crazy, I am not but sometimes I feel is hard to find people to talk with as too many are just into crappy social media and fast chewing foods and media all of the time ... I like to slow down and find a different meaning in the mystery of my mind... but how shall I start?
for what little value it has, creativity seems to be fundamental to cognitive evolution. Almost every species we consider intelligent shows signs of creativity in problem solving. That same creative source is what drives artistic problem solving.
My Taekwondo teacher used to speak about learning all the moves so that one day you could forget them all. I never progressed beyond the yellow belt though!
I can't even imagine anatomy ever becoming automatic for me 😂 But thanks for reminding us it's not impossible.
_The struggle toward the hights itself is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy._
I can’t even begin to fathom the expanses of your knowledge and thought process. It’s truly amazing help and motivation. You are a master teacher.
Great stuff man. Art psychology. I love it. It reminds me of learning to drive a car. At first you are thinking about every little thing just to maneuver a vehicle down the street. But eventually, it becomes second nature. You’re cruising the city. Singing to the radio. Texting friends. Getting dui’s. That’s how drawing should be. Except, you won’t get arrested for drinking and drawing.
If you can draw you can paint. Painting is drawing with color translated into value. I spent a decade taking a break from oils and solely focused on drawing during that time and when I came back to painting I found the learning curve much shorter. Drawing teaches you structure
Is the learning curve that shortened?
@@-kurow-7113 yes. If you understand structure you can paint. If you don’t understand shapes and how they relate to each other then painting is very difficult. There are other things related to controlling values based on working whatever medium you are using to create transitions between shape edges that are endemic to learning how to blend and render, but rendering doesn’t matter if you don’t understand shale language and how shapes fit together or 2 point perspective. Learning the fundamentals is the toughest part and it takes most people a few years to start to get comfortable with things like shape language, structure, anatomy, perspective etc. most adults don’t really know the fundamentals which is why art is so competitive. So while the jump from drawing to painting is a shorter learning curve the learning curve is still steep in general bc it takes most people years of practices to get good enough at drawing to get work
Thank you for this. i was in the process of just going back to my ungga bungga days of drawing (just having fun again drawing from imagination) and just unconsciously improve along the way.
thank you! the concept art climb has really taken a toll on me. now, im just doing art-therapy. Being critical of myself and my work, doubts, anxieties, are slowly going away.
i am having fun again. THANK YOU!
Your videos are single handily getting me through this year they always ring so true to me.
apart from the art aspect sitting on the balcony, gazing the sky and listening this when I'm struggling with some personal problems in my life is actually very soothing thank you
Dude. I get so excited when I see a new upload from you. I'm reminded every time I watch your content, why I love the practice, the struggle and art in general. My favorite art content on the tube. Thanks Steven!
Thanks for helping ease that's impatience and frustration we often feel on this art journey, I believe once we develope the necessary skills we let our mystical, divine part of ourselves do the rest, once again, we appreciate much what you do to help others,blessings.
I love ur videos. Alot😅🙏. Ty kind sir.
At last, someone who really gets what Watts talked about. Found so much solace in him, approaching art too.
Your stuff is great!
A very good in depth of your perspective in looking at getting good in art😀 and focusing on " WHY" and not " WHAT" you need to do
You have incredible intuitive and mystical sense. 🙏
Man, that was one of the most beautiful motivational messages towards learning a skill I've ever stumbled upon. I absolutely agree with your whole vision towards art and the cosmic mystery it envolves. Letting knowledge sink to the subterranean landscapes of our loving, creative minds is an astounding way to put the whole thing. Beautiful, beautiful, I'm so glad to have found your channel!
Yeah, I have struggled with anatomy for so long. I remember when I was eleven this sophomore at my school gave me a copy of Bridgeman’s constructive anatomy- which I still have to this day at the age of 32. I have never read the book, (lol) but I’ve copied the drawings plenty of times. I actually think that having that book at that age was profoundly helpful in that it made me view drawing like sculpting on a piece of paper. In the last year I started approaching my drawings using that idea mixed with the influence of Michelangelo’s prisoners in stone as a means to kickstart inspiration by finding the hint of a form in a frenzy of marks, slowly pulling it out and refining it. It’s wild how all the practice that I thought was lost, starts to reveal itself years later. I have a ton to learn, but I don’t get as bogged down by technical difficulties as much anymore-and it IS incredibly freeing. Over my lifetime I’ve seen a huge change in the art ‘world’-I left high school feeling defeated by the importance placed on concept rather than skill, and a decade later, it feels as if it’s been completely reversed and there’s an almost unhealthy emphasis on realism/technicality, at the expense of expression. Art is scientific for sure, but I don’t believe anyone can rely on a formula for making consistent captivating imagery...well I’m rambling..love the video!
My philosophy is that skill is simply a tool to aid in your storytelling, it's undeniably helpful but not absolutely necessary to create great work (I think that thought is what helps us young artists keep pushing on). But with that said, I always enjoy a piece that knows what it's doing and I never will never stop learning. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Steven, you truly have a way with words, thank you for putting our understanding of these subjects in the words that only experience can describe
Git Gud is a good message outside of video games, kinda pisses me off hearing that in multiplayer lol.
thanks for the great video
Hah. Indeed.
please narrate an audiobook. I need hours and hours and hours of this
I totally agree with you about learning the parts of art you need to make the art you want to make. I think that mindset would honestly help a lot of new artists trying to find their niche. I feel like so many people get discouraged from making art because there's this idea that you need to know 100% all of these technical skills first...
You nailed it
I think it’s the 3rd time I’m coming back to this video? Something like that. So mysteriously powerful.
Okay this is low key poetry
If it is, it's certainly the most low key kind. Thanks for the kind words.
fantastic video, and definitely one I needed right now.
Great video, and great philosophical speech/stream of thoughts, whatever. To me at least, learning anatomy (or anything) doesn't have that point at which it becomes automatic, but rather it's always me who chooses to either think about it or not, and even when I'm not thinking about it, what I've learned so far stays somewhere and is obvious to draw. Those anatomy studies may seem useless, but trust me, they stick around, your brain slowly develops an idea of how it works
Thanks for those words; I needed to hear that, I'm on my way to get better in art.
Your art do inspire a lot😉
"make things, do stuff, have fun"
This reminds me of the story of Cook Ding the butcher. Thanks!
thank you
Drawing is the most important thing.
So this is what they mean when I'm playing call of duty and other players say "Git Gud".
why do some people see things symbolically out of shadows and patterns in life, in clothes, in street traffic, among people, in carpet on the wall, or other places, like eyes among laundry that just happen to be visible as a pattern if looked at the pile of laundry from a certain perspective while other people cannot see anything and make no symbolic drawings or stories out of anything while others can see the most horrible demons in a pile of laundry and realise is a visual trick of the eye to combine lines of clothing, light and shadows in the moment from a certain perspective... and how can one improve this ability to discover small patterns in life like this, it can be a shadow on the street, or sun rays on the water, or depth of field in the hallways where on guy can look like a giant and another like a small mouse and one begin to draw out of this inspiration in the present...
Maybe I am crazy, but when I take a phot of it and then draw on it for those that cannot see anything but a pile of laundry they suddenly get it when I draw on the photo of them what lines need to be focused in on to see it....
I am not sure if I should learn to draw for real.. there is one really ice teacher in painting here in my city that start a half time course in a week.. I been thinking of it... but am also wondering how I can use the skill of learning to draw and paint later on...
there is something about drawing that brings me into a different time zone... is different from singing alone or riding a fixed gear bike for experience of being alive, or listening to nature in a forrest to feel the space of life.. but drawing does something different with me that is bringing out fears, horror stories, symbolic and phenomena meaning to life in a different way I cannot see other types of art do...
what can this possibly be about?
sorry to sound crazy, I am not but sometimes I feel is hard to find people to talk with as too many are just into crappy social media and fast chewing foods and media all of the time ...
I like to slow down and find a different meaning in the mystery of my mind... but how shall I start?
for what little value it has, creativity seems to be fundamental to cognitive evolution. Almost every species we consider intelligent shows signs of creativity in problem solving. That same creative source is what drives artistic problem solving.
My Taekwondo teacher used to speak about learning all the moves so that one day you could forget them all. I never progressed beyond the yellow belt though!
tnx
🙌🍃 thanks broo
Do you ever struggle with eyes/nose/mouth more than anatomy of the body?
Very nice
"so you can watch the things you struggled so hard to get good at slip under the filmy surface of conscious awareness and disappear forever"
sounds like drawing is a religion to you
Waiting for the handover...
God dammit thats a scary looking entity
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Yep