Here is something to try: 1) Draw something 2) Copy it using this contraption 3) Copy the copy using the contraption 4) Repeat 10-20 times, each time using the last copy as the reference... so that the error accumulates with each iteration. 5) Compare the last copy with the original, to see how it degraded.
That’s an awesome idea! But instead of Jazza doing it each time, getting all his staff, friends, family etc to do it... then see what it looks like in the end 😊
Art Tip: Tracing can be a useful tool for watercolor -- you can work on your composition on a separate piece of sketch paper, adjust and erase lines etc, and then transfer your final outline to your watercolor paper via tracing so you're not overworking the surface of the paper. Since watercolor is a transparent medium, any overworking from the sketch might otherwise show through in the finished painting. (Plus, it's nice to be able to quickly recreate a sketch or resize it, and get right to the fun part of painting!) :)
I used to install vinyl professionally, and I have a huge tip for you Jazza! When applying that kind of material, spray a little water mixed with a few drops of dish soap on the surface before applying the sheet. The water helps keep the material from sticking too quickly and it lets you squeegee out the bubbles much easier. If you do get a bubble or two, go back in with an X-acto knife and poke a small hole in the center of the bubble. Then squeegee from the outside in until you get most of it out. Again, with water underneath this works much better. Keep up the great work!
this is how the haunted mansion ballroom scene works at disneyland, by using a slanted giant piece of glass with animatronic ghosts beneath you that are reflected onto it. It is called peppers ghost and has been used as an illusion since shakespere.
Seems like a great thing to turn digital sketches into a finished physical piece when you prefer inking on real paper but you like to do the sketch virtually.
@@neverendar1778 I had the same thought, but unfortunately this method flips the image. So if you have someone looking/walking left in the original, they will be looking/moving right in the copy. Stills could work if you flip it before you trace it, but adding that step between every frame of an animation isn't very practical; there are cheep reliable light table set ups that can do a better job.
Disney actually used tracing quite extensively. They would actually take frames from a video of someone dancing in a dress, and Trace over that so that they can properly replicate the movement and physics onto the cartoon character and it's dress. It is also good for referencing the previous frame if you are hand drawing all the frames of an image.
Tracing is integral to traditional animation because it was otherwise impossible to ensure your figure stayed consistent through the animation. Tracing gained a pretty bad rep in art communities in the early years of the Internet (2000-2006) because there were a lot of kids jumping on art communities claiming that this traced DBZ/Sailor Moon character was done freehand because they're just such amazing and talented artists. This, of course, upset artists who had spent years working on their art skills and developing their own style. Especially since fan art always received more attention than original characters or essentially any other kind of art style. So the whole idea of tracing received a lot of shame-stigma. Today it's generally accepted that, as Jazza said, tracing is useful as an art *tool*, however, most artists always use the caveat that it's not good to rely on tracing or to try to pass traced art off as your own.
@Asmos159 I wouldn’t call it tracing cause the actual term for it is rotoscoping haha. But i think over the years disney’s animators have definitely gotten better with animating complicated movements like dancing, skating, acrobatics, to stay on model with complicated movements doesn’t always have to require rotoscoping, just has to require constant practice.
Jazza: "All three planes have to intersect at the same point" Also Jazza: *Puts thick felt under the stand, offsetting the plane with the drawing paper again...
As someone who went to art uni.. copying is actually rly useful as a learning tool.. you can trace photos or an illustration of an artist you like and look up to.. to understand perspective, anatomy and how shapes and stylization works.. of course it has its limits, you cant copy forever, but is a useful tool. Also as an illustrator we totally trace things(like guns,cars,etc) to speed up the process if your dead line is close..
As someone who has worked with mirrored vinyl a fair bit, some top tips would be to spray the surface with water first and you can spray the adhesive side of the vinyl (a tiny amount of washing up liquid allows for some movement once placed), any bubbles that appear after can be pricked with a scalpel and the push the air through the tiny hole made! Hope this helps anyone 😊
I literally needed something like this yesterday as I was trying to transfer a sketch I was happy with from my sketchbook to proper marker paper to make a final pretty illustration of with copics. I just used the somewhat decent method of taping the sketchbook page to my window and then carefully taping the marker page to it while it was still light out. I know light boxes exist but I don't have one or any place close to me that might sell them. I'm also one of those people that doesn't like removing a page from my sketchbook, it hurt tearing it out... I just basically taped it back in.
They never had a problem with the angle. The question was distance to the reflective material overlaying onto the surface. A high quality one of these would realistically have an adjustable distance to compensate for different materials you are tracing from. A tablet would have the image further forward due to the thickness of the tablet compared to a piece of paper. He had to put the felt down because he probably calculated for a tablet.
Now that you can make reflective, but transparent acrylic surfaces, try making a stand and art for 3D illusions called Peppers Ghost. That would be something amazing to see you create.
This process just shows you have the patience and problem solving for the product development you’ve been talking about doing in the future. All those little tweaks are what make an amazing product instead of another average $10 eBay gadget.
@@lemmetalkaboutthis Water can be moved and then moves the bubble with it, the surface where there isnt any as in the video here with the air however, will just make it stick imediatly, which causes the air to be trapped.
Tracing will absolutely help you draw! It will help with lines and circles and perspective. It wont make you great, but my 4yr old traces letters to learn to write them....works the same. It gives you structure to follow.
@@Thewolfobsessedgamer Not really Unless that product is patented it ain't stealing and simply just further developing basically just a product built using the principles of physics Look, I get what you meant but "stealing" is misused and it is causing huge problems in our modern discourse about ownership and what laws applies to what markets So whilst this is a harmless take on it, the implications are severe and shouldn't be normalised in such a wrong sense so that's why I'm being as blunt in saying "you are wrong" here
As an artist with dyslexia this tool would be very helpful for reducing the eye strain, headache, and confusion that always comes with switching focus between the original and the copy I work on. I'm excited about the big version in particular, it's so practical for me, thanks for making this video!
I can see this being great for tattoos or other art medium realistic portraiture. If you're permanently creating a piece of art (especially on someone's body) this tool could help a lot.
Actually, tracing and copying something can in fact teach you to become better at drawing something, for example, when you copy an element that youre not sure on how to approach it, you can trace off of a reference, once you do and youve done it over and over again, it starts to become natural to you, tracing something is not a bad thing if it helps you learn to become better
Yes and no. You learn how to draw that specific thing well, but at the cost of missing out on learning the art fundamentals. Visualising in 3D, anatomy, gesture, etc etc. Avoid tracing things.
As a kid I was hung up on Garfield. I traced over and over again so when I came to school I cold paint that picture by memory. Then I got bored and started to tweak the pictures I liked, an so the problem-solving and education started. I like the idea of an inspiring foundation to build your knowledge-base around.
tracing is only bad if 1. you're passing it off as yours 2. you're trying to gain clout by tracing over beautiful pictures so people can "compliment you" 3. you're profiting off of it (cofcofbutchhartmancofcof) if you're not doing any of them, tracing can help you learn though I insist it's better to reference rather than to trace, as not everyone learns by tracing (talking from own experience, I didn't get better until I stopped tracing)
This set-up would be INCREDIBLE for me. I sketch digitally then transfer it to paper/canvas to be finished traditionally. A set-up like this would make that process indefinitely easier!
Jazza, when applying window tint you apply a solution of soapy water to the glass you are tinting as well as the sticky side of the tint. Then after you have the tint where you want it you squeegy out the liquid between them & it will stick without having an bubbles if done properly.
Vermeer used a mirror to reflect light for drawing back in the 17th century. It was kind of similar, but without an iPhone (obviously). A movie called "Tim's Vermeer" a few years back talked about it. Pretty interesting stuff!
Tracing has helped me understand proportion and poses when it came to drawing humans and animals. I had always struggled with it growing up and I found that practicing those things with a lightboard helped to teach me those concepts. Now, I don't need it to form an accurate drawing. Could this count as a form of muscle memory?
Dude. Teachers would purchase these in a heartbeat for creating classroom decorations and hallway boards. This would be so much easier to use than those bulky projectors and we wouldn't have to photocopy images onto plastic film! You have no idea what you have created here. My classroom ceiling were made of those large ugly ceiling tiles and I always had my students paint them to look like book covers. These would save so much time!
This shows what a little extra money and time can improve a product. I think this tool is neat if you want to find another way to transfer a sketch to like say from paper to canvas or something like that.
I remember when a 9x11 version of this came out back in the 90s, I wanted one and then my mom taught me how to tape shit to the window and use the sun to trace it like a light table
I came here to say I remembered the 90's version of this concept and really wanting it as a kid. Now I have a drawing tablet that I can use as a light table.
@@howardburns3819 poor too, so poor I didn't want to add medical bills to my list of financial problems, I already had tendinitis at 17 from doing art without tracing
Listening to you explaining all the angles, planes, surfaces, etc etc is making my head spin big time 🤔🥴 BUT!!! It’s also making me watch in absolute awe of you and your team - AS ALWAYS ☺️ You’re all brilliant. I love & appreciate your amazing talent, skills and passion for everything you do. I’m so excited for Jazza Studios to be up and running. You’ve all worked so damn f-ing hard for so long and you deserve all the success in the world 👏🏻❤️
Did anyone else not realize the video didn't start yet after being duped by Jazza's skillshare ad? I still watched it lmfaaaoooo but I thought the video already started when it didn't 😭😂
I would totally buy this! As previous comments have stated, this could help take a sketch and refine it. I can see applications outside of tracing and copying.
This video was amazing!! I DEFINITELY want to see more of this kind of fun “making and improving” thing. But then I also like the other content with you coming up with ur own ideas to draw and creativity. and I absolutely LOVE ur artstyle! Keep the amazing content up bro! ❤️💪
Tracing is very useful to gain muscle memory... I teach students that occasional tracing/copying can be helpful to see where you’re going wrong! Drawing Venus (coming out of the shell...,) 1) draw what you see 2) trace the image on tracing paper/lightboard etc 3) compare the two drawings 4) draw Venus again yourself and see what you learnt from copying/tracing I think it helps ...🎨💜
I think it’s really cool I’ve never thought that you can use the peppers ghost effect (an old theater trick that thy use in Disney’s haunted mansion) to trace
I had a toy like this when I was 10, I am now 64. It was a colouring book that you transfered images from one page to the next. The reflective piece was light blue , transparent plastic or perspex, and sat in a little T shaped holder so it was perpendicular to the pages of the book. The idea was to work from both sides of the reflector bit and make two slightly different images to colour. I LOVED it
Jazzaa i just wanna say you’re content lately has been amazing. I literally feel like i did 2 years ago about your videos again. Just being so excited to watch them as soon as i see them on my subscribtion feed. Keep up the good work!! Love ya and ur team as well
When I was a kid I'd copy and such from previous works, however it enhanced my ability to use certain shapes, techniques and styles from a young age. Aswell as getting original ideas on paper through the learned skill of works from better artists.
The best use of tracing in art, in my opinion, is as a learning tool. Find art you enjoy, and start tracing--not the overall art itself, but the shapes, the individual elements, use tracing to break it down and learn what you like so much about it and how it all fits together--take that knowledge of how other art you enjoy is constructed and apply it to making your own creations.
One technique I've used to trace is by using my 27 inch display, putting a piece of paper flat against it, and turning out the lights in the room. That method works effectively. I usually use a 6H pencil for light tracing.
13:35 Ive never disagreed with anyone so much. It's bc of tracing and studying my fav artists' work that I've seen growth in me and was able to draw from 0 now to Original illustrations!
Tracing photos is actually very useful to figure out how to draw certain things but just to get a look at how it's should be on paper because the line work for anatomy as well as viewpoints from certain angles can just be extremely hard to picture in the mind
first. Again I bought your ink pen warriors It was worth the money as everything you make And btw I had one of those as a kid but it wasnt a stand for a phone but for a picture. There were some pictures that came with it acctually.
I had a toy like your final product when I was a kid. It had kind of portfolio design where it would open and close. It came with and held a bunch of sheets with images to trace.
When I was a kid I had a "Skippy mirror trace" given to me which was pictures of Skippy and co, a piece of transparent but coloured plastic, blank paper and a little stand for the plastic. It worked really well.
What i find i use tracing with the most is drawing fonts. Often times ill design some text on my iPad and want to trace it onto paper. This would be super useful for that.
Had a version of this sort of thing as a kid, it was called a Digi Draw . Was a compact design, that came in a case, with enough room to store paper and pencils, had the two acrylic pieces in the center.
PLEASE MAKE THIS TO SELL! I can't afford all the amazing tools you have, but I'd love the finished unit. It would be amazing for creating craft pieces!
Practical use scenario.....when I was 10 I had a plastic binder that when you opened it....it had exactly what you built in this video jazza! I wish I remembered what it was called! But it's made exactly for copying a picture from one piece of a4 to another!!!! I had a blast tracing things from magazines and cereal boxes with it!!!
I would say a practical use is to clean a sketch up if its done in pen or something, but still a lightboard might be more useful there. Still a very very cool experiment and interesting episode
one thing that this is usefull for is copying specific desings people want onto sugar cookies for someone who normally makes simpler designs. and they can be simpler to make than Jazza showed aswell. all you really need is a piece of glass or acrilic ,like from an old picture frame, some wire hangar and hotglue. for a small one like he showed originally anyway.
The main draw of this gadget is if you want to trace from a phone or tablet because it saves you the hassle of printing stuff out. If I want to practice painting or graphite/charcoal shading techniques, it's a quick and easy way to get a basic form in place. This helps me a lot because if I spent a long time trying to sketch things out from scratch, I end up being too hesitant with my colors/shading because I'm afraid of making mistakes and having to sketch things out all over again. Tldr; not great for line art but great for form outlines when practicing painting/shading
I'm a drawer already for many years but lately I decided to experiment with different materials, different surfaces and techniques. I was inspired but some drawn portraits I made and wanted to test those different techniques and materials, so even though I can draw every single experiment I find it needlessly time consuming, so I can trace my own drawings many times and add to each of them different colors or aquarelle, or ink or whatever. SO I find that little thing you made, practical although I doubt I'll take the time to make it.
the main thing I would use this for is if I had a sketch or something that I wanted to paint on, to both preserve the original sketch, and to translate it to a better medium for painting.
Let's fo jazza started watching invincible the best show out there!!! Jazza was the one and only man who got me into art, and we share a lot of interest and I think that makes his channel so much better.
Tracing can teach you stuff though. It can help you learn how to draw eyes for example, if you trace eyes a bunch of times you can get a muscle memory of sorts and then your drawings of eyes without tracing improves.
I had something like this as a kid and never really used it. But now since I do mostly traditional drawings and forget to take pictures to flip them (as we do in digital with just a click).... I can use this!! Use the reflection at any time to see if it looks good! Btw mine's flat with ajusting the panel angle from left to right.
Here is something to try:
1) Draw something
2) Copy it using this contraption
3) Copy the copy using the contraption
4) Repeat 10-20 times, each time using the last copy as the reference... so that the error accumulates with each iteration.
5) Compare the last copy with the original, to see how it degraded.
Art game of telephone basically 🤣
Yesss!
TELEPHONE ART, great title too
Hi i just started a drawing channel
I wouldn't mind your support☺😂
That’s an awesome idea! But instead of Jazza doing it each time, getting all his staff, friends, family etc to do it... then see what it looks like in the end 😊
You should make this a series where you buy cheap art gadgets and see if you can make it better
yes!
this!!
Yep
Definitely!
I was thinking that too
Art Tip: Tracing can be a useful tool for watercolor -- you can work on your composition on a separate piece of sketch paper, adjust and erase lines etc, and then transfer your final outline to your watercolor paper via tracing so you're not overworking the surface of the paper. Since watercolor is a transparent medium, any overworking from the sketch might otherwise show through in the finished painting. (Plus, it's nice to be able to quickly recreate a sketch or resize it, and get right to the fun part of painting!) :)
That's a good tip!
yeah i was thinking exactly this! i'd love it for watercolor painting . sometimes i just wanna have my sketch clean and just get straight to painting
THANK YOU that's actually a brilliant tip and one I've been looking for for a long time!!!
Good for getting a sketch onto a canvas too 🎨
Ah, I just made a similar comment before seeing yours. Another great point: this little contraption is much cheaper than a light box!
I used to install vinyl professionally, and I have a huge tip for you Jazza! When applying that kind of material, spray a little water mixed with a few drops of dish soap on the surface before applying the sheet. The water helps keep the material from sticking too quickly and it lets you squeegee out the bubbles much easier. If you do get a bubble or two, go back in with an X-acto knife and poke a small hole in the center of the bubble. Then squeegee from the outside in until you get most of it out. Again, with water underneath this works much better. Keep up the great work!
practical use case scenario - you made a sketch, you wanna refine it, you using this tool to trace and then make clear lines
I think it would be a nice use when you do digital drawing and want to transfer it on canvas or paper, without ruining paper with eraser!
lightbox is much easier
@@ahmedshaikh7662 if you have printer.
And it's more wasteful with printer.
still..it's mirrored... so youre not gonna get the original sketch
@@Agent.J Digital... You can mirror a sketch in software... That's one of the advantages of working digital...
this is how the haunted mansion ballroom scene works at disneyland, by using a slanted giant piece of glass with animatronic ghosts beneath you that are reflected onto it. It is called peppers ghost and has been used as an illusion since shakespere.
Seems like a great thing to turn digital sketches into a finished physical piece when you prefer inking on real paper but you like to do the sketch virtually.
Or use the projection for the keyframes of an animation.
@@neverendar1778 I had the same thought, but unfortunately this method flips the image.
So if you have someone looking/walking left in the original, they will be looking/moving right in the copy. Stills could work if you flip it before you trace it, but adding that step between every frame of an animation isn't very practical; there are cheep reliable light table set ups that can do a better job.
Like a face/eyes
Disney actually used tracing quite extensively. They would actually take frames from a video of someone dancing in a dress, and Trace over that so that they can properly replicate the movement and physics onto the cartoon character and it's dress. It is also good for referencing the previous frame if you are hand drawing all the frames of an image.
Tracing is integral to traditional animation because it was otherwise impossible to ensure your figure stayed consistent through the animation.
Tracing gained a pretty bad rep in art communities in the early years of the Internet (2000-2006) because there were a lot of kids jumping on art communities claiming that this traced DBZ/Sailor Moon character was done freehand because they're just such amazing and talented artists.
This, of course, upset artists who had spent years working on their art skills and developing their own style. Especially since fan art always received more attention than original characters or essentially any other kind of art style. So the whole idea of tracing received a lot of shame-stigma.
Today it's generally accepted that, as Jazza said, tracing is useful as an art *tool*, however, most artists always use the caveat that it's not good to rely on tracing or to try to pass traced art off as your own.
@Asmos159 I wouldn’t call it tracing cause the actual term for it is rotoscoping haha. But i think over the years disney’s animators have definitely gotten better with animating complicated movements like dancing, skating, acrobatics, to stay on model with complicated movements doesn’t always have to require rotoscoping, just has to require constant practice.
@@sarahcoleman5269 yeah its sad how fanart gets more attention than the originals sometimes.
@@fawnclaudia despite it being called rotoscoping it *is* tracing. Rotoscoping is just a subcategory of tracing lmao
@@fawnclaudia it's a basic matter of what is iconic and famous or well known. It's like Mickey mouse as just 3 dots will identify him easily
Without knowing it, you just set up the coolest physics II light refractive index lab exercise.
What is this thing you just said
@@ranikamat3107 Jazza made a science experiment.
@@ranikamat3107 google it
I am so glad some one else had that thought, and that Jazza et al. eventually got to the core of the physics through trial and error.
well he didn't lie when he said he was a kinesthetic learner
“That was BAAAD!” Literally every artist to ever grace the face of this earth
Except all the old masters like Vermeer who used the camera lucida extensively
Jazza: "All three planes have to intersect at the same point"
Also Jazza: *Puts thick felt under the stand, offsetting the plane with the drawing paper again...
69 likes btw
Was just about to make this comment
sigh
That's what I was thinking! Maybe thought about that first and took that thickness out of the bass
Perhaps the intersection line is not physical, but an imaginary extension of the paper/ planes to meet at this intersection
As someone who went to art uni.. copying is actually rly useful as a learning tool.. you can trace photos or an illustration of an artist you like and look up to.. to understand perspective, anatomy and how shapes and stylization works.. of course it has its limits, you cant copy forever, but is a useful tool. Also as an illustrator we totally trace things(like guns,cars,etc) to speed up the process if your dead line is close..
As someone who has worked with mirrored vinyl a fair bit, some top tips would be to spray the surface with water first and you can spray the adhesive side of the vinyl (a tiny amount of washing up liquid allows for some movement once placed), any bubbles that appear after can be pricked with a scalpel and the push the air through the tiny hole made! Hope this helps anyone 😊
I literally needed something like this yesterday as I was trying to transfer a sketch I was happy with from my sketchbook to proper marker paper to make a final pretty illustration of with copics. I just used the somewhat decent method of taping the sketchbook page to my window and then carefully taping the marker page to it while it was still light out. I know light boxes exist but I don't have one or any place close to me that might sell them. I'm also one of those people that doesn't like removing a page from my sketchbook, it hurt tearing it out... I just basically taped it back in.
This kids is why you need to pay attention in school.
Entry angle = exit angle
could have saved a lot of work on Jazzas part
You mean "angle of incidence to be equal to angle of reflection" 😆
@@ayushijha5958 I think they're German and just translated it literally. It's "Einfallswinkel = Ausfallswinkel" which just honestly sounds better haha
@@ayushijha5958 well, I haven't learned physics in English, so probably yeah.
Einfallswinkel = Austrittswinkel wont be understood by many
They never had a problem with the angle. The question was distance to the reflective material overlaying onto the surface. A high quality one of these would realistically have an adjustable distance to compensate for different materials you are tracing from. A tablet would have the image further forward due to the thickness of the tablet compared to a piece of paper. He had to put the felt down because he probably calculated for a tablet.
Kinesthetic learning!
Claps for Jeremy! That dude is wonderful!
Now that you can make reflective, but transparent acrylic surfaces, try making a stand and art for 3D illusions called Peppers Ghost. That would be something amazing to see you create.
It'd be awesome if you released the cut files or plans so we could make this for ourselves. :D
I feel like the version you made can maybe help for traditional animators like using it as an onion layer
Or for flip book artists
This is similar to tools old school animators would use before computers. It’s a useful tool, but has specific uses.
This process just shows you have the patience and problem solving for the product development you’ve been talking about doing in the future. All those little tweaks are what make an amazing product instead of another average $10 eBay gadget.
Pro tip: If you want to get rid of the bubbles, first spray the acrylic with water and then apply the mirrior finish.
and add a drop of liquid soap to the water.
Wait, I'm confused, wouldn't that just trap moisture under the foil?
@@lemmetalkaboutthis Water can be moved and then moves the bubble with it, the surface where there isnt any as in the video here with the air however, will just make it stick imediatly, which causes the air to be trapped.
This was probably written on the box
Tracing will absolutely help you draw! It will help with lines and circles and perspective. It wont make you great, but my 4yr old traces letters to learn to write them....works the same. It gives you structure to follow.
I have two things to say one being your a bloody genius and two being you should totally sell these things
@Withro Anime Edits i mean he knew what was wrong right away i was like 😶
but he says that it wont make you a better artist. selling this would go against his principles so he probably wont
Also he'd be stealing somebody else's product as his own, which is *wrong*
@@Thewolfobsessedgamer
Not really
Unless that product is patented it ain't stealing and simply just further developing basically just a product built using the principles of physics
Look, I get what you meant but "stealing" is misused and it is causing huge problems in our modern discourse about ownership and what laws applies to what markets
So whilst this is a harmless take on it, the implications are severe and shouldn't be normalised in such a wrong sense so that's why I'm being as blunt in saying "you are wrong" here
Yeah, I believe Rainbow Art sold these in the early 2000s. I had one that looks pretty close to his thumbnail. It has been done already.
As an artist with dyslexia this tool would be very helpful for reducing the eye strain, headache, and confusion that always comes with switching focus between the original and the copy I work on. I'm excited about the big version in particular, it's so practical for me, thanks for making this video!
"It's not gonna make you a better drawer" 13:19, ikea agents flipping out probably somewhere
lmfao
@@humanfromearth6222 it was a joke
@@humanfromearth6222 *squeak*
@@humanfromearth6222 Ye I just pointed that out, cause it's a pretty common mistake
@@humanfromearth6222 it’s amazing how many times I e been asked if I was a drawer...”no ma’am I’m an artist..a drawer is for my socks”
I can see this being great for tattoos or other art medium realistic portraiture. If you're permanently creating a piece of art (especially on someone's body) this tool could help a lot.
Actually, tracing and copying something can in fact teach you to become better at drawing something, for example, when you copy an element that youre not sure on how to approach it, you can trace off of a reference, once you do and youve done it over and over again, it starts to become natural to you, tracing something is not a bad thing if it helps you learn to become better
Yes and no. You learn how to draw that specific thing well, but at the cost of missing out on learning the art fundamentals. Visualising in 3D, anatomy, gesture, etc etc. Avoid tracing things.
As a kid I was hung up on Garfield. I traced over and over again so when I came to school I cold paint that picture by memory. Then I got bored and started to tweak the pictures I liked, an so the problem-solving and education started. I like the idea of an inspiring foundation to build your knowledge-base around.
I heard somewhere that your brain remember hand movements better, something like that.
@@BaverIy like muscle memory
tracing is only bad if
1. you're passing it off as yours
2. you're trying to gain clout by tracing over beautiful pictures so people can "compliment you"
3. you're profiting off of it (cofcofbutchhartmancofcof)
if you're not doing any of them, tracing can help you learn
though I insist it's better to reference rather than to trace, as not everyone learns by tracing (talking from own experience, I didn't get better until I stopped tracing)
This set-up would be INCREDIBLE for me. I sketch digitally then transfer it to paper/canvas to be finished traditionally. A set-up like this would make that process indefinitely easier!
I'm only 3 minutes through and I am already absolutely loving it, just like every Jazza video!
Jazza, when applying window tint you apply a solution of soapy water to the glass you are tinting as well as the sticky side of the tint. Then after you have the tint where you want it you squeegy out the liquid between them & it will stick without having an bubbles if done properly.
if jazza had a podcast i would listen to it 24/7, something abt your voice is so soothing and calming to me😂love your videos man
He does have a podcast on his other channel Tabletop Time
Vermeer used a mirror to reflect light for drawing back in the 17th century. It was kind of similar, but without an iPhone (obviously). A movie called "Tim's Vermeer" a few years back talked about it. Pretty interesting stuff!
Tracing has helped me understand proportion and poses when it came to drawing humans and animals. I had always struggled with it growing up and I found that practicing those things with a lightboard helped to teach me those concepts. Now, I don't need it to form an accurate drawing. Could this count as a form of muscle memory?
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Anybody remember this coloring books that had tracing paper on each page? I do.
@@CooperGal24 ...I faintly do. Though, I can't remember what it was.
@@andrewbeeco967 I think it was the company with a rainbow as their logo. Honestly, I haven't seen that brand in a long time.
Dude. Teachers would purchase these in a heartbeat for creating classroom decorations and hallway boards. This would be so much easier to use than those bulky projectors and we wouldn't have to photocopy images onto plastic film! You have no idea what you have created here. My classroom ceiling were made of those large ugly ceiling tiles and I always had my students paint them to look like book covers. These would save so much time!
When your subscribed already but you still feel like you want to subscribe ٠-٠ idk how to explain it
Time to make another RUclips account!
You just feel that this RUclipsr deserves a subscriber but then You had already subscribed.
I have subscribed to him through both of my profiles, and my TV.
Same feeling❤️
you're
This shows what a little extra money and time can improve a product. I think this tool is neat if you want to find another way to transfer a sketch to like say from paper to canvas or something like that.
I remember when a 9x11 version of this came out back in the 90s, I wanted one and then my mom taught me how to tape shit to the window and use the sun to trace it like a light table
I've done that but the upright angle was straining to me
I came here to say I remembered the 90's version of this concept and really wanting it as a kid. Now I have a drawing tablet that I can use as a light table.
@@kraemerashley88 🤣 I was too poor to say things like "its too straining"
@@howardburns3819 poor too, so poor I didn't want to add medical bills to my list of financial problems, I already had tendinitis at 17 from doing art without tracing
I also used to use the window. It's was tiring but it helped me figure out proportions and layers
Listening to you explaining all the angles, planes, surfaces, etc etc is making my head spin big time 🤔🥴 BUT!!! It’s also making me watch in absolute awe of you and your team - AS ALWAYS ☺️ You’re all brilliant. I love & appreciate your amazing talent, skills and passion for everything you do. I’m so excited for Jazza Studios to be up and running. You’ve all worked so damn f-ing hard for so long and you deserve all the success in the world 👏🏻❤️
I love when Jazza takes these interesting but limited things and upgrades them to be way better! From a fellow artist this is truly amazing!
My dude you just re-invented the Digi Draw, aka the best infomercial toy from my early childhood! I think I still have mine somewhere :D
came to the comments just for this!!!! i felt crazy the whole time like "he knows this exists right..?"
I legit was like "okay who remade the digidraw??"
To think they almost called it the Digi Re-Do. (ba dum tss)
Did anyone else not realize the video didn't start yet after being duped by Jazza's skillshare ad? I still watched it lmfaaaoooo but I thought the video already started when it didn't 😭😂
I did.
Me too
I would totally buy this! As previous comments have stated, this could help take a sketch and refine it. I can see applications outside of tracing and copying.
This video was amazing!! I DEFINITELY want to see more of this kind of fun “making and improving” thing. But then I also like the other content with you coming up with ur own ideas to draw and creativity. and I absolutely LOVE ur artstyle! Keep the amazing content up bro! ❤️💪
Tracing is very useful to gain muscle memory... I teach students that occasional tracing/copying can be helpful to see where you’re going wrong!
Drawing Venus (coming out of the shell...,)
1) draw what you see
2) trace the image on tracing paper/lightboard etc
3) compare the two drawings
4) draw Venus again yourself and see what you learnt from copying/tracing
I think it helps ...🎨💜
I think it’s really cool I’ve never thought that you can use the peppers ghost effect (an old theater trick that thy use in Disney’s haunted mansion) to trace
Great job Jazza! Already at 5.5 MILION!!!
Yes! Let’s go! 🔥🔥🔥 what a great way to start the day 😁
OMG! I had one of those in the 70s. It was also good for reflecting lines onto paper for keeping writing even.
Hey you reading this i hope you have a great day ahead!! Best of luck just spreading positivity😚💓💓
One of the better videos in quite a while from Jazza. Great work peeps!!
I love how slowly this channel is turning into art+science stuff xD
He is an artist wha-
Isn't this the whole point Jazza took away the "Draw With" from the channel name?
I had a toy like this when I was 10, I am now 64. It was a colouring book that you transfered images from one page to the next. The reflective piece was light blue , transparent plastic or perspex, and sat in a little T shaped holder so it was perpendicular to the pages of the book. The idea was to work from both sides of the reflector bit and make two slightly different images to colour. I LOVED it
Just as I was about to close youtube to study, Jazza uploaded... bye my passing mark :*)
And it's got 1,182 views in 3 minutes
same here
I was working, saw the video, stopped working. Sad.
U've got an wxam tomorrow.
Goodbye grades.
I was just about to breathe, goodbye life 😔
Jazzaa i just wanna say you’re content lately has been amazing. I literally feel like i did 2 years ago about your videos again. Just being so excited to watch them as soon as i see them on my subscribtion feed.
Keep up the good work!!
Love ya and ur team as well
Dang... This man’s a scientist now!!!
Everytime I watch your videos, they make me want to draw. You keep my inspiration going, thank you 😊 thank you❤️
Finding all the toys whilst you pack the studio? 😝
Pre recorded maybe
Loving the videos that involve construction in varying types. Much fun!
*He has to post when I'm in school* 😭
Lol its night time here :))
@Samuel Sicat Same
It’s morning here
I am gonna to bed when I watched this video .w.
No school gang!!!
When I was a kid I'd copy and such from previous works, however it enhanced my ability to use certain shapes, techniques and styles from a young age. Aswell as getting original ideas on paper through the learned skill of works from better artists.
For me here in germany one of the coolest things is
1. someone can just go to a hardware store
2. without even wearing a mask
Can't wait!
Wait what!!
I live in India it's currently lock down from 12 afternoon till 6am in my state
Whaaaa how? Why?
I know, I'm in America and I was just so shocked that he wasn't using a mask at all....the future's gonna feel weird
There’s been basically no pandemic here in Australia. The rest of the world is such a scary place
The best use of tracing in art, in my opinion, is as a learning tool. Find art you enjoy, and start tracing--not the overall art itself, but the shapes, the individual elements, use tracing to break it down and learn what you like so much about it and how it all fits together--take that knowledge of how other art you enjoy is constructed and apply it to making your own creations.
Tracing Light Boards: exist
Jazza: "Hold my acrylic panels"
Aye another animator!
I think ima sub :D
Dude it's a fully refined art product!!! Put that in your Mega Zazza Art Box!!!
Alternate Title: Get ready to see the newest creation on the Jazza Market.
P.S. I don’t know if he will but I think it would be a good idea
One technique I've used to trace is by using my 27 inch display, putting a piece of paper flat against it, and turning out the lights in the room. That method works effectively. I usually use a 6H pencil for light tracing.
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We had something like that when we were kids over 50 years ago was fun. Love your stuff
13:35 Ive never disagreed with anyone so much. It's bc of tracing and studying my fav artists' work that I've seen growth in me and was able to draw from 0 now to Original illustrations!
Tracing photos is actually very useful to figure out how to draw certain things but just to get a look at how it's should be on paper because the line work for anatomy as well as viewpoints from certain angles can just be extremely hard to picture in the mind
If you think about it, this could be a very useful technique for traditional animation, maybe you could try that next
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A good tip for applying tint film (or window clings) is to spray the surface with glass cleaner first. Makes it much easier to smooth out the bubbles.
Butch Hartman looking at this: 😈😈
I am SO glad this guy showed up in my recommended. He is the cure for my depression and artist's block. Thank you!
"did I make the BEST ART COPYING TOOL??!"
*THINK JAZZA THINK!!*
THE WORLD IS NOT READY FOR THIS!!
_don't unleash this chaos upon us..._
A really cool application for the classic peppers ghost illusion
first.
Again
I bought your ink pen warriors
It was worth the money
as everything you make
And btw I had one of those as a kid but it wasnt a stand for a phone but for a picture. There were some pictures that came with it acctually.
Fun fact: 122 people cant be first and your one of them
@@erykw5445 That is possible because the site only updates every 30 sekonds or so.
@@the_inZANE_pizza yup, i can agree, but the first first one is 2 min earlier than you, but try again to be first :)
@@erykw5445 I have a screenshot where I was first. My RUclips just didnt update. But I was first like 3 times before so I acctually dont really care
I had a toy like your final product when I was a kid. It had kind of portfolio design where it would open and close. It came with and held a bunch of sheets with images to trace.
all these other life hack channels teach people how to cheat on school, now we getting taught how to cheat on drawing.
I love RUclips.
it might not be cheating if u want to animate on paper :)
Ahh yes even cheating on art lolll
When I was a kid I had a "Skippy mirror trace" given to me which was pictures of Skippy and co, a piece of transparent but coloured plastic, blank paper and a little stand for the plastic. It worked really well.
was deciding to make dinner but saw that jazza uploaded....well, no dinner i guess
This video was less than 17 minutes long. Just make it after?
I have a practical use for it - animation 2d. You're not stacking images on themselves but reflect one and change on the other
What i find i use tracing with the most is drawing fonts. Often times ill design some text on my iPad and want to trace it onto paper. This would be super useful for that.
Had a version of this sort of thing as a kid, it was called a Digi Draw . Was a compact design, that came in a case, with enough room to store paper and pencils, had the two acrylic pieces in the center.
I had one of those when I was a kid! It was really fun and I think it's great to teach kids fine motor control
PLEASE MAKE THIS TO SELL! I can't afford all the amazing tools you have, but I'd love the finished unit. It would be amazing for creating craft pieces!
Practical use scenario.....when I was 10 I had a plastic binder that when you opened it....it had exactly what you built in this video jazza! I wish I remembered what it was called! But it's made exactly for copying a picture from one piece of a4 to another!!!! I had a blast tracing things from magazines and cereal boxes with it!!!
Jazza is the only audiobook I need to listen to when I make art
a skillshare ad featuring Jazza on Jazzas channel is definitely something else
I would say a practical use is to clean a sketch up if its done in pen or something, but still a lightboard might be more useful there. Still a very very cool experiment and interesting episode
one thing that this is usefull for is copying specific desings people want onto sugar cookies for someone who normally makes simpler designs. and they can be simpler to make than Jazza showed aswell. all you really need is a piece of glass or acrilic ,like from an old picture frame, some wire hangar and hotglue. for a small one like he showed originally anyway.
The main draw of this gadget is if you want to trace from a phone or tablet because it saves you the hassle of printing stuff out.
If I want to practice painting or graphite/charcoal shading techniques, it's a quick and easy way to get a basic form in place. This helps me a lot because if I spent a long time trying to sketch things out from scratch, I end up being too hesitant with my colors/shading because I'm afraid of making mistakes and having to sketch things out all over again.
Tldr; not great for line art but great for form outlines when practicing painting/shading
I'm a drawer already for many years but lately I decided to experiment with different materials, different surfaces and techniques. I was inspired but some drawn portraits I made and wanted to test those different techniques and materials, so even though I can draw every single experiment I find it needlessly time consuming, so I can trace my own drawings many times and add to each of them different colors or aquarelle, or ink or whatever.
SO I find that little thing you made, practical although I doubt I'll take the time to make it.
the main thing I would use this for is if I had a sketch or something that I wanted to paint on, to both preserve the original sketch, and to translate it to a better medium for painting.
This looks useful for transferring sketches from the iPad to watercolor paper!!
Let's fo jazza started watching invincible the best show out there!!! Jazza was the one and only man who got me into art, and we share a lot of interest and I think that makes his channel so much better.
Tracing can teach you stuff though. It can help you learn how to draw eyes for example, if you trace eyes a bunch of times you can get a muscle memory of sorts and then your drawings of eyes without tracing improves.
As someone who struggles with line work, I tend to scratch, tracing has actually helped me get better at making clean confident lines.
Apparently all the renaissance artists used a technique similar to this with a mirror, candle, and curtain. That would be a cool video to test.
I had something like this as a kid and never really used it.
But now since I do mostly traditional drawings and forget to take pictures to flip them (as we do in digital with just a click).... I can use this!! Use the reflection at any time to see if it looks good!
Btw mine's flat with ajusting the panel angle from left to right.