From Thumbnail to Final Drawing: My Planning Process!
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- (EDIT: For the comps I'm using CANSON mix media paper, not Strathmore, oops!) Stay-tuned for Part 2! Though that might be a little while from now... I have a few things to do before I can start actually painting X'D. Thanks for watching!
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You draw in a very classical Disney way. All your sketches look like Golden Age Disney sketches from the 30-50's.
Ikr
More like 80s or 90s like the goofy movie characters
Very impressive! I'm so happy to see so much dedication in your process; seems I've been stuck in a world where the planning is hidden so it's "not as important" so it's rushed and neglected. Also that you're taking the time to do value and color comps traditionally is so refreshing, treating each part of the process with care. Thanks for sharing!
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And then there’s me. Not planning at all.
Same
But that means I can learn
Right!
Team Just Winging It.
I should probably plan more on big pieces...
nothing wrong with that! wish I could jump into my pieces more and be more spontaneous too XD
Chris Hong Art aww that’s funny, I think I need to plan more. It’s probably bc of you personality type. Do you know yours? (The MBTI one I mean ☺️)
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I bet that you can make an art book with the amount of drawings and art comps you do.
Omg I thought the same !! I would Totally buy it
I would buy it too!!
She definitely could
*Abbigail Clark* , and should, it could be printed on demand.
Yes! P l e a s e make an art book 😭✨❤️
I'm always so impressed at your knowledge of lighting and colour theory. That's something I've always lamented not being taught, even in art college. The way the colour of light affects the colour of the surroundings, the way light falls and diffuses... It's such a basic thing that any artist should understand but it still boggles my mind today and I adore watching you be able to paint it out with ease. Backgrounds too! It really motivates me to try and study it all more. Thank you for the inspiration! 8D
thank you so much! for lighting/colour theory, try doing still-life paintings and do master copies of people like John Singer Sargent, or Anders Zorn, it all helped me a lot! :D
@@ChrisHongArt Excellent! Thanks a million!
Art college in America is useless.
@@rm9308 Is it? I always got the impression it was much more in-depth than here (i.e. in Ireland). The courses seem much more focused and well-rounded but maybe I'm wrong. XD
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Most of the four year universities' Colleges of Fine Art are money-making daycare centers that overpay failed artists whose ideology and lack of technical skill make it impossible to find work outside the university cabal. They know how to properly stretch a canvas on a frame and how to mix plaster, but it's all talk from there.
I get bored easily and I also don't have a lot of energy. So if a painting of mine doesn't get done within a few hours or at most, a day then I just move on to something else. So as I would love to plan out my illustrations like you do, because I believe my illustrations would turn out better in the long run, it's too many steps (for me) and I would just get frustrated that I haven't finished a piece within a few hours.
yatta factory I cannot spend more than an hour on planning I start dying
"lazy"
My gosh, then what am I? T_T So many iterations and try-outs - I've never had the patience.
Same... Haha
I guess I'm comparing myself to some other artists who seem to do A LOT more than I do 😂😂 everyone has a different process though, I wish I could plan less and jump straight into it more tbh! I'm way too indecisive for that though :/
You explain it so well.Thanks for sharing your process.I think i'll incorporate your methods in my workflow from now on ,because i never plan before i paint ,i just blindly jump in.Which makes me quit so often.
Its funny how it doesn't hit me when my teachers tell me to plan out sketches before hand, but seeing someone else make so many preparation makes me realize I'm just rushing into my pieces with a general idea and then scratching my head when it doesn't work out! Now I really enjoy exploring different ideas and directions and getting feedback from others during the process.
Thank you for the videos and posts of all this prep work!
You are so insightful but also fun to listen to that this video is educational in the nicest way possible
I was doin' alright and then you got to the value comps and I lost my mind.
Those are some pretty incredible skills.
That is so cool. I realized that I'm such a lazy artist lol. Those were so many steps, I've never done that for anything I've ever drawn... would explain a lot of things 😂
Thanks for the inside look, it was very informative
This was so informative. I actually got really frustrated when I was drawing tonight but seeing this made me feel better in that editing, fine tuning and starting over is just a part of the process. I never do thumbnails, I usually just go right in and draw but in seeing your process I think it's a way better idea to plan things out first. And seeing this picture inspired me to do something similar with having an actual environment for a character to be in. I never done a picture like that so I'm excited to try it and see what happens! :)
I would love to see more videos like this! I'm in a place where I'm drinking in as much artistic information as I can to better my skills and creative process! :D
So much love and unicorn magic!
Kai
I love you pencil I wish that with the lead type was in your description!
This leave no one in doubt of your professional attitude to creating beautiful illustrations. The walk through was eye opening for a lot of people who perhaps imagined you did just one take and that was that. It certainly gives your customers a window into how hard you work to present them with amazing products.
Thank you for sharing.
aw that means a lot to me, thank you so much 😭❤️
23:39 damn this is so small and you can draw so many details in such contrast. I love this 🤭
Hi Chris, great video, I just realised this is what I suck at, I want to draw a few guidelines and jump right into painting...skipping the entire planning phase. I never knew so much planning goes on behind the scenes. Thanks gor sharing!! X
Wow this is amazing. I’ve never seen anyone going through such process, it’s so much dedication and I love it. Only if I put as much effort in my paintings! Also, you explain so well everything, it’s really motivational
This video is one of the most interesting videos about creating art I've seen on youtube! Your skills are amazing and gosh, talk about dedication to make a piece come to life! I really enjoyed going through all the steps, from thumbnailing to the different pose studies and the value comps. Thanks for sharing this with us!
If you did your colour comps on a layer in photoshop you could experiment with your palette more/faster and save a fortune in the drafting paper!
Yeah, but by doing it with Gouache she practices how to do the washes, gradients and other Technics she would use in the final illustration, but yes, the Photoshop trick is really useful, and economic! You should watch Mateusz Urbanowicz's RUclips channel, he paints watercolor landscapes and anime backgrounds, and he does color comps in Photoshop
I find I'm much slower in general when doing anything on photoshop ^^ and like Pablo said, by using gouache I'm basically going through all the motions of doing the final painting so it's like a little practice run, so I find it really helpful ^^
This was incredibly informative! It's the first time I've seen a process that incorporates scanning the thumbnails, cleaning them and then printing them onto paper for value tests and colour comps! It's certainly a really good way to feel things out and reduce the risks of being dissatisfied whilst painting the final piece. It does make for a longer prep phase though. I'll definitely try this out on my own, and see what I can use! Thanks for sharing this video!
The reddish one looks more like a quiet and warm afternoon, it has it's own atmosphere but not the one you wanted I guess. It was an interesting video ! A lot of steps I don't know if I would be able to still paint my piece if I did as many steps as you, I'm bored very easily and I can get bored of a piece even if it's only the sketch or if I directly begin to paint it. But that's interesting to see how the steps and how the idea move, what path it follows, how it follows some technical and visual rules but still how you try to make it concords with what you have in your mind !
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It's amazing to understand the amount of planning that goes in to each painting! Thank you!
Yes!!! Thank you so much for showing your process with such detail! Excited for part 2!
The value and color comp are something that I must do from now on.
That's so smart and time saving to do before painting, I love it!
WHy are you holding pen like that? Nice work but seriously, why?
This would take me 80 hours lol. You do this every time?!?!??
lol not EVERY painting I do, but if it's something I really want to do a good job with, and get it as close to as how I envisioned it, then yes 😂 it is time consuming for sure!
I kinda loved when you were switching out the character poses. It just blended a little to feel like she was moving around.
i LOVE how detailed your planning process is and I'm always super inspired by your paintings. I can't wait to work on planning out some new paintings now that i've learned about your planing process.
And I have a question for you: for the lineart for value and color comps, as well as the actual painting, do you print out the image you've cleaned up on photoshop on the paper or do you redo the entire drawing for those?
I think you would benefit on grabbing your pen an easier way😅
It was awesome learning about your process! Thank you for making this video. It was helpful to see how I could learn from your process. I am not sure I even have a process, so this was cool.
I never this detail when I made a drawing but I always enjoyed your process. Somehow you always succeed in making all your drawings come to live, that's what I enjoyed the most. Even your rough sketches with pencils, it all looked so alive as if you put souls in your character as you draw. My character is just a 2d drawing while yours, it's a 3d and alive. How to do that? I'm a fan
thank you so much! I think it's helped by years and years of life-drawing (nude figure drawing), as well a big hobby of mine was to go cafe-sketching (drawing people out and about), and so I'm familiar with the natural gesture and expressions people make :) and it prob comes from my animation background, which its' purpose is to "capture life" ^^
Wow the amount of time and care you put in every step of the process is impressive! Definitely inspires me be more dedicated to the process as well as you make it seem as important as the final!
I am glad you filmed this - it is very helpful. I admire how thoughtful you are about your paintings, I never spent so much time planning. Now I am convinced and inspired I need to spend much more time on explorations, it seems to be worth it.
I tried doing this and is so time consuming. Also I'm sure of what I wanna do most of the time.
All this Process is incredible. I really would like to do that imagination and your ability to put in the drawing all those tiny details. Awesome, it feels easy to do it. I really enjoyed watching all the process.
Great Video! Loved it. Learning Question- Did you just draw with your mouse on photoshop?
Thanks heaps, Love your work :)
Wow... I discovered your art on Instagram, and I love it!, You're amazing!... It was a great inspiration for me!
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I keep coming back and rewatching this video! So helpful and motivating. Thank you for sharing your process
I'm a begginer on this, so I make a few not detailed sketchesmof composition and characters. And with the color I only paint with them to see if it works, and then I ruin the drawing xD it's because I'm lazy, but I started to make more tests.
Wow.... wish I had this kind of patience and perseverance. I guess that’s why I am where I am, nowhere 🤷♀️ and you are where you are. This is amazing. I really need to knuckle down and take more time planning.
I always stare at my painting surface then my drawing and then get so intimidated not knowing what direction to go with my colors. Maybe I should try color comps. What does “comps” mean anyway? Compositions?
All the "complete process" videos on RUclips seem to start from the point where idea, composition and even values have already been figured out, which leaves out some of the most challenging, interesting parts! So I'm super grateful for this video. Beautiful!
i find it hard to make thumbnails. most of the times, the image itself stretches in an unlikely way everytime i try to repeat it, maybe because I haven't seen much things in the world to add up interesting stuff in my piece that it became too boring and limited. I've learned a lot in this video! I will definitely try this after my artblock stage (it sucks!)
Do you time yourself when you make thumbnails? I have trouble trying to gage if I'm spending too much or too little time on one thumbnail. Often times I can't make more than 3 good thumbnails and the rest just don't end up being good at all.
Thumbnails are one of my favorite things to look at
Thanks so much for sharing. I was wondering if you’re using a drawing tablet and if so, what kind?
I actually love this process but sometimes I would find something that I think I like but then when I get started on it I realize it's not looking good. How do you really know that the thumbnail you latch onto is really the thumbnail you need to latch on to? Have you ever tried to start something from a thumbnail only to realize that's not going to work and then you have to thumbnail all over again?
I would buy her testers
I am too lazy. Usually i just go with first sketch and dont think toomutch on sketching colors 😔
You know how you printed the lineart on mixed memdia paper? How come the ink didnt smudge when you started painting over it?
this was a really fun watch. I feel like I learned a lot about the way you think- I think I need to start doing value studies as well as colour comps because I need to get better at values. Wonderful video.
Your process is so refined! I usually just draw an idea 1-3 times. I like how you worked out the focal point and really thought it through. It shows in the final piece. Lovely!
I love this!!! Can you do more video like this please? And yes,I would buy a book with your illustrations too, your process is amazing!!! 😍😍😍
No one on RUclips makes a better video then you Chris! Your explanations are just incredible.
So inspiring, watching this just makes me want to make art right away.....
Where can I find part 2? This was so fun and informative to watch!
It's obvious you are able to see flaws in your work than no one but you can see. Your work looks like perfection in cartoon art.
The amount of detail in the commentary was really useful! It made me think about how rushed my own process is and how I could definitely afford to slow down and think more about composition and lighting. Thanks :)
What mechanical pencil are you using for sketching the thumbnails in the beginning?
plz i need to ask u.. doesnt the printers ink ruin the paintings?! or do u use special inks.. and can the printer print on a300 grams paper?!
You are so amazing! Learn a lot from your video. Thank you so much!
Freaking amazing, and the end result in the next video makes all this preparation worth it
I'm pretty lazy and usually only do colored thumbnails.
I love this! RUclips recommend this to me and i am so happy it did. I love the process you go through and im definitely going to give it a go myself 😍 the final outcome on your other video is honestly spectacular !
Wow..its just your painting are so good..how to paint like you pls..
I would be satisfied to make a drawing like your thumbnail
hey chris
i just have one question
do you trace the photoshop finalized drawing or do you just print it and start painting?
thank you for the video
Hey Wesley, while I'm not Chris I am also an illustrator.
Usually, if you want to trace from photoshop you can use a lightbox. Depending on the type of paper you want to paint on you might need to use a different type of printer.
good question, I will actually cover this in a future video! ;) but I essentially trace it I guess, but not with a light-box :)
Looooove your Videos ♡♡♡ thank you so much for sharing!!
this is the type of art i reallyyy want to do. but alas. i can only draw from an image, not from my head
Thanks for sharing your process, this vid is very complete, informative and inspiring, I'm looking forward to seeing the painting :))
This is easily one of my fave videos. Thank you for this!
thanks for watching! happy to hear that ❤️☺️
Excited for part II. Love your process!
You do so much of planning for your artworks. It's brilliant and beautiful. This video was a real treat. Thanks.
Thank you for sharing loved this awesome
What's the pencil you're using called?
Just found your channel and your art style is a breath of fresh air
Super cute and very informative, thank you
10:45 so trueeee
Wonderful and very helpful explanation!
No one is less lazy then you very helpful video thank you
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Super interesting and informative! :)
So, when you are working in Photoshop, are you using a Wacom pad or something similar?
yes I use a small Wacom intuos pro ^^
Very nice work flow, thanks for sharing !
Hey Chris! Would you ever move over to twitch to livestream?
never say never, but I don't have any plans for now, I've thought of streaming but I don't think it's something I can do on a regular basis unfortunately ^^
Well if the day ever comes I will be so excited! I will keep cherishing your RUclips videos in the meantime ❤️
What lead are you using..? :'D
Which video is pert 2, the painting process?
What kind of ink you used to print out the linework? It seems waterproof!
it's actually not, it's a dye based ink which I believe isn't waterproof.. but I'm not sure lol I printed it on very low opacity so that it wouldn't matter so much, and since I use gouache it would cover everything up anyway :) I don't really mind if the lines bleed a little since they're not gonna be seen!
I love how all the comps look together with the sketches. Makes the process work seem like a story! Thank you for sharing!
it really is a journey, the painting process! XD
Chris! Your videos have helped me in ways i didnt even know could be helped?? You remind me a lot about myself; sometimes overthinking things, sometimes not having enough confidence, sometimes giving up. But seeing you THINK through it and NOT give up inspires me to do the same 💖 so thank you so much for your videos and i wish you the most success!!! 💖💖💖
Love the video! Which sketchbook is that? ^_^
Thanks this was very insightful!
hey I love that you made this video, it really helps show people how much we think about our art, try and try again, and how it's not magical or instant. :)
your thought process and efforts all throughout are so interesting and helpful!!!
How do you print it onto your final canvas? 😓
😍😍😍
I like planning the drawing out in Photoshop for the same reasons. You're so thorough in your process; I do the lazy man's version of most things lol.
What kind of printer/ink do you use that can print on the Strathmore paper?
omg did I say strathmore lol I don't even remember what I said for that part 😂 I actually meant the CANSON mixed media sketchbook paper ^^ I believe the ink is a dye-based ink, not sure that it's actually waterproof but it doesn't matter for me since gouache will cover up everything :D also I printed it out on super low opacity so that prob helped ^^
This was so informative for me! Do you print the final drawing out on the paper as well?
The multiple poses could be such a cool animation!
How long does it take to do your paintings?
Can you do a video on you art journey and your improvement showing us your older drawings? It would be very helpful and motivate a lot of beginners and amateurs (Including me too)😉
Also, your art is AMAZING!❤