My favorite videos of yours to listen to are the Art Talks! Love listening to you sitting down with another industry professional and getting into the nitty gritty of working certain jobs, for certain clients, your mindset on various pieces, etc. I can go to a dozen channels and see their thoughts on brushes and software or giving critiques, but not many people talk about their individual experiences just being a working artist in the trenches. That's what I liked seeing from you.
Ohhhh, that's a rad bit of feedback, thank you! I need to summon some more of my art/industry buddies and maybe we can talk shop more often in 2025! I have a few on the list I can think of right off the bat, as well!
This helps alot im on the virge of giving up on pursuing art as a career and just keeping it as as a hobby. Idk if im just not good enough or if I just haven't been given a chance, either way I'm tired of all these artists and art gurus who are already established for life selling "get into the industry courses" and other hope courses when they dont even work in the industry anymore or make money off selling their actual art. The fact that you only have 10k followers is cause you kept it real and I respect that.
Thank you tons Jerry, that means a lot! Yeah, the struggle can be VERY real, but just know that we're all in this crazy art-space together, and I think the shared knowledge is always going to raise the level of everyone and is WELL worth the time. Happy Holidays, my friend!
I have to be honest. I think that the mindset is the most important thing - If you have your mind fixated on what you just said, then yes, you wont make a career out of it. If your goal is to become good at art and you try becoming a better version of yourself every day, then you will always keep improving. These improvements obviously dont show over 24 hours. If your mind starts to accept that you can grow instead of having yourself fixate on the things that already are in your line of sight, then you WILL get better. If your motivator behind art is to some day gain money from it, then that is in my opinion not the right motivator. The reason these established artists show you how it is done, is because they made it there for a reason. Our minds like telling us that these artists are lucky, or that they just did it at a better time. But they are simply said just harder workers. They are not more talented. They did not get into the industry to make a living off it, they did it because they are passionate about it. ''I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.'' Stephen Leacock In my opinion going to places that support your ego(It wants to avoid failure) and looking for reassurement in places like these, is just a bad thing to do, if you want to achieve making money from things. Sometimes things dont seem fair and you start feeling desperate, but in times like these, it is most important to remind oneself of why you are in that place to begin with. What made you sign up for this. What is it that you love about it. -Sorry for being intrusive, I just get a bit emotional when I see comments like that. If you want to do something and you can support yourself to keep it up, then in my opinion you should.
I think any videos that focus on helping aspiring artists whether they be instructional, guidance, or motivational are what I’m looking for when it comes to art videos. The review videos have been great, but they are kind of one and done for me now that I have everything I need.
Nice one, Wes, and great job with your output (and level of it) this year. I'm quite keen to see some more traditional stuff and I've been thinking about this as the best response to AI, even if only as a private/personal thing to slow down and feel the different media again.
Absolutely, I'm actually pretty excited about the idea of finally knocking out these sketchbooks/canvas sets I've had collecting dust the past few years lol
It's been a blast following your journey this year, brother. As always I'm a fan of the introspective stuff it's what inspired me to pick up the stylus. Your videos have made a huge difference in my fledgling art journey. Looking forward to seeing what 2025 brings. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you sir. Peace!
There was a British female phtographer, Julia Margaret Cameron, (1815-79) who realised the value of soft edges, achieving this through the differences in values, contrast, like you've said Wes.
I dunno if you already do or plan to do later, but what I enjoy the most is channels that do overpaints, I mean your viewers send you their work and you fix issues of different types. Is like a mini mentorship and everybody learns, then if you are very popular you use patreon or something.
I would love comparisons between softwares when you paint variation (so it would not be boring) of the same thing trying to recreate specific medium. Like, there is charcoal in Procreate, Krita and in Photoshop, how do they compare. Or a painting in Rebelle, Corel Painter, Photoshop and Krita (memileo brushes). I would like to advice you my favorite practice that is fast, advances the fundamentals, and fun: do ilustrations of Super Mario and design your own power-ups based on fruits, tools, animals or whatever. Great for experimenting and great for both beginners and advanced artists.
I have always liked your art program comparison videos or art programs reviews/testing out new things. There is a new update in Infinite Painter with a "light orb" panel, and a compare tone option. Would love to hear your opinion on these! Have you ever done pixel art? That would be an interesting thing to see as well. Happy holidays! Very happy to be a member of your community (:
Ohhh that sounds rad, I'll definitely give it a look! And good call on the program reviews/testing, as I have a few ideas for next year that should be pretty fun!
I'd really really love to master traditional art someday, but right now its not really viable financially. So in the meantime perhaps more Rebelle tips & tutorial from you would be much appreciated, i love this software! Keep up the good work Wes!
I really like these videos. I have getting into the traditional stuff lately too. I have been using ink. It's been really fun. I am working on my comic script (super hard BTW but found a book which helped) and have this crazy notion might ink it traditionally. 😜 Anyway will see! Merry Christmas and happy new year 😊
Hi Wes , I found your channel because I was looking how to paint with Krita like traditionally not that fill the flat colorus, then shade with a brush or airbrush and then add highlights....those tutorials are dime a dozen! But as someone who has not ever painted with traditional means like gouache, watercolor, acrylics or paints, figuring out how these work in digital is really really frustrating. Also as another commenter said these techniques where the color on canvas affects the color of the brush, I believe it is said wet on wet? Anyways we self taught people do not know how to do these things in digital. And that is why I purchased your Krita course and I am very excited to start it! So maybe this is an untapped market because not everyone wants to pay Adobe for photoshop and then another 300 usd course to learn on photoshop ;). The same applies on CSP, everyone is looking for the photoshop alternative, but no-one is teaching how to paint with oils in CSP. Like make a traditional like painting. I don't know if I am wrong and there is an abundance of digital oil painting tutorials out there, but I am happy that I found your channel ;). Cheers and a happy new year!
I would like to see more content from artists working "wet" in digital equivalent of oils. How much paint loading yields what effects with what tools. Or even just how to think about approaching this for someone whose been trained to output mostly digital art looking stuff (e.g., soft blend, semi-realism, layer blend modes). Increasingly I find the traditional digital (haha) approach and result tedious, but am unclear on how digital artists with a traditional background approach getting a more traditional look. The insight I'm looking for can't be found in: "Use Rebelle or Corel Painter or "
Ohhhhh, a true "deep-dive" into alla prima techniques and impasto control sounds AWESOME. There's definitely a method to the madness, so I think digging into the nitty gritty (even going so far as the setting up multiple canvas layers at different parts of the painting) with some tips-and-tricks could be a great way to go. Thank you for the fantastic recommendation!
tools like the mixer brush in photoshop go a long way. same with a brush that's soft on one side and hard on the other side with pressure sensitivity. underpaintings help.
My favorite videos of yours to listen to are the Art Talks! Love listening to you sitting down with another industry professional and getting into the nitty gritty of working certain jobs, for certain clients, your mindset on various pieces, etc.
I can go to a dozen channels and see their thoughts on brushes and software or giving critiques, but not many people talk about their individual experiences just being a working artist in the trenches. That's what I liked seeing from you.
Ohhhh, that's a rad bit of feedback, thank you! I need to summon some more of my art/industry buddies and maybe we can talk shop more often in 2025! I have a few on the list I can think of right off the bat, as well!
This helps alot im on the virge of giving up on pursuing art as a career and just keeping it as as a hobby. Idk if im just not good enough or if I just haven't been given a chance, either way I'm tired of all these artists and art gurus who are already established for life selling "get into the industry courses" and other hope courses when they dont even work in the industry anymore or make money off selling their actual art. The fact that you only have 10k followers is cause you kept it real and I respect that.
Thank you tons Jerry, that means a lot! Yeah, the struggle can be VERY real, but just know that we're all in this crazy art-space together, and I think the shared knowledge is always going to raise the level of everyone and is WELL worth the time. Happy Holidays, my friend!
I have to be honest. I think that the mindset is the most important thing - If you have your mind fixated on what you just said, then yes, you wont make a career out of it.
If your goal is to become good at art and you try becoming a better version of yourself every day, then you will always keep improving. These improvements obviously dont show over 24 hours. If your mind starts to accept that you can grow instead of having yourself fixate on the things that already are in your line of sight, then you WILL get better. If your motivator behind art is to some day gain money from it, then that is in my opinion not the right motivator.
The reason these established artists show you how it is done, is because they made it there for a reason. Our minds like telling us that these artists are lucky, or that they just did it at a better time. But they are simply said just harder workers. They are not more talented. They did not get into the industry to make a living off it, they did it because they are passionate about it.
''I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.'' Stephen Leacock
In my opinion going to places that support your ego(It wants to avoid failure) and looking for reassurement in places like these, is just a bad thing to do, if you want to achieve making money from things.
Sometimes things dont seem fair and you start feeling desperate, but in times like these, it is most important to remind oneself of why you are in that place to begin with. What made you sign up for this. What is it that you love about it.
-Sorry for being intrusive, I just get a bit emotional when I see comments like that. If you want to do something and you can support yourself to keep it up, then in my opinion you should.
@@Jasuchino I think you misread my comment
@@ArtOfWesGardner yeah I'll never stop doing art and getting better at it that's for sure. It's still the best time to learn.
I think any videos that focus on helping aspiring artists whether they be instructional, guidance, or motivational are what I’m looking for when it comes to art videos. The review videos have been great, but they are kind of one and done for me now that I have everything I need.
Nice one, Wes, and great job with your output (and level of it) this year.
I'm quite keen to see some more traditional stuff and I've been thinking about this as the best response to AI, even if only as a private/personal thing to slow down and feel the different media again.
Absolutely, I'm actually pretty excited about the idea of finally knocking out these sketchbooks/canvas sets I've had collecting dust the past few years lol
It's been a blast following your journey this year, brother. As always I'm a fan of the introspective stuff it's what inspired me to pick up the stylus. Your videos have made a huge difference in my fledgling art journey. Looking forward to seeing what 2025 brings. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you sir. Peace!
Appreciate you always, Brent! Happy Holidays and safe New Years brother!
There was a British female phtographer, Julia Margaret Cameron, (1815-79) who realised the value of soft edges, achieving this through the differences in values, contrast, like you've said Wes.
I dunno if you already do or plan to do later, but what I enjoy the most is channels that do overpaints, I mean your viewers send you their work and you fix issues of different types. Is like a mini mentorship and everybody learns, then if you are very popular you use patreon or something.
I definitely do some "Patreon Paintover" style videos, I should focus on doing more of them in 2025! Thank you tons for the feedback!
I would love comparisons between softwares when you paint variation (so it would not be boring) of the same thing trying to recreate specific medium. Like, there is charcoal in Procreate, Krita and in Photoshop, how do they compare. Or a painting in Rebelle, Corel Painter, Photoshop and Krita (memileo brushes).
I would like to advice you my favorite practice that is fast, advances the fundamentals, and fun: do ilustrations of Super Mario and design your own power-ups based on fruits, tools, animals or whatever. Great for experimenting and great for both beginners and advanced artists.
I have always liked your art program comparison videos or art programs reviews/testing out new things. There is a new update in Infinite Painter with a "light orb" panel, and a compare tone option. Would love to hear your opinion on these!
Have you ever done pixel art? That would be an interesting thing to see as well.
Happy holidays! Very happy to be a member of your community (:
Ohhh that sounds rad, I'll definitely give it a look! And good call on the program reviews/testing, as I have a few ideas for next year that should be pretty fun!
I'd really really love to master traditional art someday, but right now its not really viable financially.
So in the meantime perhaps more Rebelle tips & tutorial from you would be much appreciated, i love this software! Keep up the good work Wes!
Rebelle ROCKS, I'll be happy to paint/make videos on it for years to come! Happy Holidays, I appreciate you!
I really like these videos. I have getting into the traditional stuff lately too. I have been using ink. It's been really fun. I am working on my comic script (super hard BTW but found a book which helped) and have this crazy notion might ink it traditionally. 😜 Anyway will see!
Merry Christmas and happy new year 😊
Great minds think alike, I JUST bought some black and sienna ink to start practicing some washes! Best of luck on your comic inking, you got this!
@ArtOfWesGardner Cool! That sounds awesome. Thanks, you too!
Hi Wes , I found your channel because I was looking how to paint with Krita like traditionally not that fill the flat colorus, then shade with a brush or airbrush and then add highlights....those tutorials are dime a dozen! But as someone who has not ever painted with traditional means like gouache, watercolor, acrylics or paints, figuring out how these work in digital is really really frustrating. Also as another commenter said these techniques where the color on canvas affects the color of the brush, I believe it is said wet on wet? Anyways we self taught people do not know how to do these things in digital. And that is why I purchased your Krita course and I am very excited to start it!
So maybe this is an untapped market because not everyone wants to pay Adobe for photoshop and then another 300 usd course to learn on photoshop ;).
The same applies on CSP, everyone is looking for the photoshop alternative, but no-one is teaching how to paint with oils in CSP. Like make a traditional like painting.
I don't know if I am wrong and there is an abundance of digital oil painting tutorials out there, but I am happy that I found your channel ;). Cheers and a happy new year!
I would like to see more content from artists working "wet" in digital equivalent of oils. How much paint loading yields what effects with what tools. Or even just how to think about approaching this for someone whose been trained to output mostly digital art looking stuff (e.g., soft blend, semi-realism, layer blend modes). Increasingly I find the traditional digital (haha) approach and result tedious, but am unclear on how digital artists with a traditional background approach getting a more traditional look. The insight I'm looking for can't be found in: "Use Rebelle or Corel Painter or "
Ohhhhh, a true "deep-dive" into alla prima techniques and impasto control sounds AWESOME. There's definitely a method to the madness, so I think digging into the nitty gritty (even going so far as the setting up multiple canvas layers at different parts of the painting) with some tips-and-tricks could be a great way to go. Thank you for the fantastic recommendation!
tools like the mixer brush in photoshop go a long way. same with a brush that's soft on one side and hard on the other side with pressure sensitivity. underpaintings help.
2025, perhaps how to create movement in paintings.