Anyone watching this in 2021?? I mean since this video came out there have been so many videos describing the method but I always come back to this. It's just great👍 Thanks a ton.
Watching this video makes me feel like we're witnessing the cracking of the matrix. So many solutions to SO many mass problems are solved here. This method should be the one to be teached, instead of simple porportions. Thsnk you so so so so so much, will implement this in my drawings!
thats EXACTLY how i feel, like this makes me think theres a universal design template for everything, and watching this vid has helped me understand there's a relationship between all areas of the face
RUclips, where were you forty years ago when I was trying to learn to draw people? I'm thankful that you exist for this generation of would be artists.
Now I know where I was always stuck with Loomis method. This one (Reilly's) is far way detailed and more logical! 'm so happy to finally have seen it! ☺☺☺☺
I have been trying the Loomis method so far, but I feel like it's kinda giving you a sort of dummy head, and it's not precise enough for me. But this seems to make much more sense. And your explanation is quite easy to follow. Gonna give this a go now. Though I suppose there's always something to learn from different approaches. Thanks for posting this 👍
Extremely helpful and I greatly appreciate that I can hear you LOUD AND CLEAR! In so many videos I've watched the person speaks very softly and/or mumbles and sometimes it's like they're talking to themselves and they forget that they're filming and we need to hear them! Men with deeper voices especially need to be conscious of this. Thank you so much for an awesome video!
@shelly49 thank you so much for your kind words! I'm happy that you found it helpful. And yeah, I fully agree... it can be really frustrating when you watch a GOOD tutorial but can't hear the details on what's being done.
Thanks for making this. I watched once and then went back and watched, with pause button at the ready, with a sketchbook in my hand. I drew something resembling a head. I'll keep coming back to this and, maybe, do 10 more until it starts to sink in. You explain everything so clearly. Thanks again.
Although Reilly's method is longer, I personally find it much simpler and more intuitive than Loomis' or Bridgman's. Beginning artists are not yet experienced with references or deductions, so their face drawings may be disproportionate or flattened. But the Reilly method approaches face's planes, features, volumes and measurements in a simple way (a lot of the time you're just splitting things into two or three or connecting points) but also in a mathematical and specific way (which helps when placing the face at more extreme angles and foreshortening).
Woow this definitely improved my drawing, specifically with proportions. Making it look more 3d rather than just a flat picture that looks more kinda like a potato than an actual person. I used to follow the loomis method but find it kinda hard to visualize the reference whenever doing freehand cos I never really understood the anatomy, but this method makes if easier for me to see where muscles and bone structures should be. Thank you so much for this ❤️
I love this Reilly Method. I was able to get a pretty good result after the first time, but I have to repeat it several times so I can do it without having to refer to the video.
You have helped me to understand the potential practical application when you showed us that the whole can be distorted to suit the person maintaining the proportions.thank you xxxx
Thanks for these two Reilly Tutorials. I never leave comments but really had to this time. I have used and seen this method explained by many many many people. Yours was the first tutorial I have seen that gave the details behind the abstraction lines! You also gave excellent tips like rounding the line at the top of the square to create a more natural curve to the side of the head. I also appreciated how you intuitively modified the order of the abstractions making it all easier to recall and so much more logical. You have a gift for teaching. Thanks so much for sharing your process. Looking forward to seeing how you establish the width of the mouth and how you would personally use this method to create a likeness from a photo. Really really FANTASTIC 👍🏼
@@ArtbyGalen yes truly! Most vídeos dont teach nothing at all, they just ramble! Makes it seem artist dont wanna share their secrets, thank you very much!!!
as soon as you mentioned the light source, it was like a switch went on in my brain. i was using the loomis method before (and it was really great!), but i feel like i can actually visualise how light and shadows work with the face now? this was super helpful, thanks for the video
Thank you. My face drawing always looked flat, this method helps resolve that, makes the face more 3 dimensional, and helps correctly shade the face. Look forward to more such tips. Satish - Chennai city - India
I’m only 5 minutes in but this looks like a good diagram for sculpting with clay, what a savior you are. So much detail and explanation and I’m not even half way through. Great video.
SUPER helpful description! Thank you for actually describing what you are doing while you are doing it- many videos they just are drawing and expect you to magically understand exactly what is happening!
This helps a lot i a perfect description. The more you learning the curves, the more you can imagin them while sketching live.Thank you very much from Berlin!
I took a long break from art and almost forgot how to draw faces. I was searching for tutorials, specifically the one that helped me to learn the basics of portrait drawing. All I could remember was a method that was mentioned but I forgot that too! And finally after searching for some time, I've found this! Yes, I was searching for this tutorial exactly. This tutorial is absolutely helpful and well explained ♥️ Thanks for sharing ♥️
I Think this one of the best explanation about this method into RUclips, even that my English is not the best, you really get to the important points in a clearly way. Thanks for sharing and most important: thanks for your time.
This was te best I have seen! What tablet and pen are you using in conjunction with Photoshop? Love it! I learned a lot from this and want to research it more. Thanks for sharing this info!
Effing finally!!! Jesus, why is this method so hard to find... Thank you for not wasting my time completely like every other person that talks about the Reilly Method... This is by far the best video, ANYWHERE, on this technique... Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!! Sorry for yelling... It's not rage, it's passion... 😎
Oh man, I am an absolute beginner who struggles drawing circles. No idea what to start learning first so I did this on a whim when I saw it on my sidebar. I came out with some strange ape-man. Everytime I look at him I crack up laughing. His odd facial expression makes him look...content? At ease? Well, I had fun at least lmao.
After you build up and refine your skills with some months of practice. You...i should then come back and finish your line drawing by making it into some imaginative, content, ape man! Lol
This is so far the best tutorial . I'm a beginner painter, trying to paint the guy on my PP. This step by step explanation is helping me a lot on creating the nearest look I can muster. Thank you so much!!!
Galen, your explanation was very clear, your drawing demonstrated what you explained perfectly and it was all well paced. Thank you. That was a huge help.
You did a great tutorial. Nice And easy gentle. No comedic side comments or dramatic accent. Very nice informative and I enjoyed it. Siskel and Ebert (sic) would give you two thumbs up.
I was familiar with the Loomis method but not this. There are a lot of circles and guides, but they really show how every facial feature both seen and under the skin is related to one another. Great Tutorial! Thanks!
Me: accidentally shaves off too much from the first circle, creates an elongated face Galen: you can purposely distort the face, because all the parts will be relative to each other Me: that's what I meant to do...
This is still one of the best tutorials on the Reilly method, since it answers a lot of questions about the purpose of each of these lines rather than just placing them there.
I've seen so many Reilly method videos, however, your video is the best when it comes to explanation and presentation. Very clear in lines and refences. Very amazing video.
Just an FYI for those interested; the Loomis Method doesn't stop at the base circle, center and jaw lines, but gets into much more detailed feature placements, planes and facial units and measurements for a more structured approach to head drawing.
something is better than a page with a polar bear in a snowstorm (an old joke reference to a blank page) my problems or one of them is I rarely ever really "finish" what I start or when I've gotten stuck with trying to draw something I cannot figure out how to properly fix it.. I love the arts and draftsmanship and other people's work but it is also my achilles heel.
Thank you Galen for making this video. The step by step process and the explanation you provided helped me a lot to understand the head a lot better. I have been researching to draw head for a long time. This video not only helped me to understand but it also helped me to come up with a few new ideas that I can use while drawing the heads. Thanks again for making this video and sharing your knowledge and insight.
Most helpful! I am jumping back in from a long hiatus so for a forward facing portrait it’s very useful. I will look for any videos you may have on side and angle views. Thanks loads!
I really like the way you explained the shadow thing, That was very helpful. I watched some other videos about this method before but your video was the easiest for me to understand
This is extremely helpful! I studied Mr. Loomis' books also, but I like your technique because you lay out all the planes very logically. I learned the hard way that you first need to set down the framework, the ideal, and then work from there. You've given me a good way to lay down that framework. Thanks a lot!
Hey, I wanted to thank you for this great video. I was able to learn the Reilly Method traditionally because of you. Originally, I thought it was a photo reference thing where you traced over pictures of models. But you've allowed me to expand on the idea and explore more depth into the Reilly Method. I am very reluctant I was able to do these exercises traditionally as I'm normally used to. Thank you, as you're greatly appreciated.
Interesting. The best Reilly method demonstration that I have seen. We can use a few steps from this method, but it would be easier to just learn how to draw the face directly from observation.
I’ve only ever learned the Loomis method. I’ve recently begun drawing again, and this method is going to be incredibly helpful in constructing the head now that I’m all rusty and can’t pull detailed proportions from memory. Thanks!!
Good method, I’ve recently started again and rusty also, What I love is, 35 years later, and having these wonderful new tools and explanations and teachers from internet and RUclips.
I love how your tutorial is on point and is actually quite helpful. Throughout the whole tutorial I am like hmmm., hmmm, ,yes like you are actually teaching me individually. Thank you for this😊
what a GREAT video!!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH. Wanted to advance my drawing to intermediate this is showing me how. THANK U THANK U THANK U!!!! I have subscribed to your tube videos. I am now a big fan. So grateful. The speed of video is perfect. U can really see exactly what u r doing before u go on to next step.
I like this method. I have bein studying anatomy for the purpose of fleshing out the face and muscles. For the arms and legs it isn't so bad, but for the face, just wow. I like this way of giving us a quicker way to achieve visualizing each plane of the face.
I follow the AL MEthod, But when i try to generate shadows it becom a little hard, but with this method is so simple! Thanks for sharing DUDE! I subscribe!!!
Thank you very much for the detailed and very well to follow explanation on this method. It helps a lot understanding the planes of the face. Great tutorial!
0:00 The shape
3:15 Nose
5:05 Mouth
6:40 Cheekbone
7:08 Ears
8:20 Temples
9:12 Eyes
9:45 "Eyebrow" endpoints and Eyebrow line
10:56 Other stuff
12:02 Useage
13:38 Lighting
Thanks dude!
Thanks mom
Thank you so much! So helpful.
Thanks.
@@harsimransidhu699 .
Anyone watching this in 2021??
I mean since this video came out there have been so many videos describing the method but I always come back to this.
It's just great👍
Thanks a ton.
Watching this video makes me feel like we're witnessing the cracking of the matrix. So many solutions to SO many mass problems are solved here. This method should be the one to be teached, instead of simple porportions. Thsnk you so so so so so much, will implement this in my drawings!
ThatOnePerson I know what you mean by the cracking of the matrix :D it's true
thats EXACTLY how i feel, like this makes me think theres a universal design template for everything, and watching this vid has helped me understand there's a relationship between all areas of the face
Best Reilly method tutorial here
RUclips, where were you forty years ago when I was trying to learn to draw people? I'm thankful that you exist for this generation of would be artists.
Now I know where I was always stuck with Loomis method.
This one (Reilly's) is far way detailed and more logical! 'm so happy to finally have seen it! ☺☺☺☺
I have been trying the Loomis method so far, but I feel like it's kinda giving you a sort of dummy head, and it's not precise enough for me. But this seems to make much more sense. And your explanation is quite easy to follow. Gonna give this a go now. Though I suppose there's always something to learn from different approaches. Thanks for posting this 👍
Extremely helpful and I greatly appreciate that I can hear you LOUD AND CLEAR! In so many videos I've watched the person speaks very softly and/or mumbles and sometimes it's like they're talking to themselves and they forget that they're filming and we need to hear them! Men with deeper voices especially need to be conscious of this. Thank you so much for an awesome video!
@shelly49 thank you so much for your kind words! I'm happy that you found it helpful. And yeah, I fully agree... it can be really frustrating when you watch a GOOD tutorial but can't hear the details on what's being done.
Thanks for making this. I watched once and then went back and watched, with pause button at the ready, with a sketchbook in my hand. I drew something resembling a head. I'll keep coming back to this and, maybe, do 10 more until it starts to sink in. You explain everything so clearly. Thanks again.
Although Reilly's method is longer, I personally find it much simpler and more intuitive than Loomis' or Bridgman's. Beginning artists are not yet experienced with references or deductions, so their face drawings may be disproportionate or flattened.
But the Reilly method approaches face's planes, features, volumes and measurements in a simple way (a lot of the time you're just splitting things into two or three or connecting points) but also in a mathematical and specific way (which helps when placing the face at more extreme angles and foreshortening).
By far, the best explanation of drawing the head that I've found on RUclips so far!
Woow this definitely improved my drawing, specifically with proportions. Making it look more 3d rather than just a flat picture that looks more kinda like a potato than an actual person. I used to follow the loomis method but find it kinda hard to visualize the reference whenever doing freehand cos I never really understood the anatomy, but this method makes if easier for me to see where muscles and bone structures should be. Thank you so much for this ❤️
I love this Reilly Method. I was able to get a pretty good result after the first time, but I have to repeat it several times so I can do it without having to refer to the video.
You have helped me to understand the potential practical application when you showed us that the whole can be distorted to suit the person maintaining the proportions.thank you xxxx
Thanks for these two Reilly Tutorials. I never leave comments but really had to this time. I have used and seen this method explained by many many many people. Yours was the first tutorial I have seen that gave the details behind the abstraction lines! You also gave excellent tips like rounding the line at the top of the square to create a more natural curve to the side of the head. I also appreciated how you intuitively modified the order of the abstractions making it all easier to recall and so much more logical. You have a gift for teaching. Thanks so much for sharing your process. Looking forward to seeing how you establish the width of the mouth and how you would personally use this method to create a likeness from a photo. Really really FANTASTIC 👍🏼
Jade 888 wow talk about a compliment! thank you so much!
@@ArtbyGalen yes truly! Most vídeos dont teach nothing at all, they just ramble! Makes it seem artist dont wanna share their secrets, thank you very much!!!
Omg thanks this Methode is just genius 👍
yo man I was able to follow the steps perfectly on digital and traditional media, thanks for taking the time to teach this
This is the best explanation of the Riley method I came across, straight to the point. Thanks.
as soon as you mentioned the light source, it was like a switch went on in my brain. i was using the loomis method before (and it was really great!), but i feel like i can actually visualise how light and shadows work with the face now? this was super helpful, thanks for the video
Thank you. My face drawing always looked flat, this method helps resolve that, makes the face more 3 dimensional, and helps correctly shade the face. Look forward to more such tips.
Satish - Chennai city - India
Where has this method been all my life? Why have I never been taught this before I got my Art degree? Thank you so much!
I’m only 5 minutes in but this looks like a good diagram for sculpting with clay, what a savior you are. So much detail and explanation and I’m not even half way through. Great video.
SUPER helpful description! Thank you for actually describing what you are doing while you are doing it- many videos they just are drawing and expect you to magically understand exactly what is happening!
My AP art teacher is using this as study material and it’s so crazy how well it works, thank you for this gem of a video
This is the best face construction guidelines I've ever seen. Thank you so much!
Not complicated after you explained, so simple and lucid,thank you so much.
Thank you so much, very rusty, stopped 35 years ago, your method is wonderful, you broke down and simplified the puzzle .
This helps a lot i a perfect description. The more you learning the curves, the more you can imagin them while sketching live.Thank you very much from Berlin!
I took a long break from art and almost forgot how to draw faces. I was searching for tutorials, specifically the one that helped me to learn the basics of portrait drawing. All I could remember was a method that was mentioned but I forgot that too! And finally after searching for some time, I've found this! Yes, I was searching for this tutorial exactly. This tutorial is absolutely helpful and well explained ♥️ Thanks for sharing ♥️
I Think this one of the best explanation about this method into RUclips, even that my English is not the best, you really get to the important points in a clearly way. Thanks for sharing and most important: thanks for your time.
One of the best videos I have watched about drawing faces. Thank you
best description available on the internet. thankyou.
I found this method incredibly helpful. I hope it's helpful for you too!
please, put subtitles in Spanish
:)
Definetely underrated and underused, gives really quick gains.
This was te best I have seen! What tablet and pen are you using in conjunction with Photoshop? Love it! I learned a lot from this and want to research it more. Thanks for sharing this info!
How does this work in 3d space?
I love your video. Thank you so much for it. It is so helpful ❤
Effing finally!!! Jesus, why is this method so hard to find... Thank you for not wasting my time completely like every other person that talks about the Reilly Method... This is by far the best video, ANYWHERE, on this technique... Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!! Sorry for yelling... It's not rage, it's passion... 😎
Agreed! ❤
Very helpful step by step demo of the Reilly rhythms for portraits of the face. Thank you so much, Galen.
Oh man, I am an absolute beginner who struggles drawing circles. No idea what to start learning first so I did this on a whim when I saw it on my sidebar. I came out with some strange ape-man. Everytime I look at him I crack up laughing. His odd facial expression makes him look...content? At ease? Well, I had fun at least lmao.
I know I'm speaking for someone else other than myself when I say PLEASE POST IT
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It's easier to draw the face, then add all the circles.
After you build up and refine your skills with some months of practice. You...i should then come back and finish your line drawing by making it into some imaginative, content, ape man! Lol
I am reading this one year later. It would be amazing to come back to your first try and do it again to compare
Thank you so much! I was looking for a tutorial on head proportions but all of them are long and not that clear to me. Now I finally understand
This is a great method because it makes shading the planes of the face easier. Thanks for this great tutorial!
This is so far the best tutorial . I'm a beginner painter, trying to paint the guy on my PP. This step by step explanation is helping me a lot on creating the nearest look I can muster. Thank you so much!!!
This is the best breakdown of the Riley rhythm lines that I have found so far! Thanks!
This deserves so much more views and comments this is the best tutorial I have watched ina while I think you’re an awesome teacher thank you so much
Galen, your explanation was very clear, your drawing demonstrated what you explained perfectly and it was all well paced. Thank you. That was a huge help.
Thank you Barb. :) It makes me happy that so many people have found this to be helpful!
This is the only video that’s helped me understand the planes and areas of the face. Thank you so much dude !!
I was struggling on how to shade the face correctly and this is such a big help! Thanks a lot for sharing!
This is better some of the other tutorials and I appreciate you add the facial features and not just the shape of the head
I have never understood how to draw faces before. Your video is awesome! Thank you so much for sharing this!
This makes so much more sense to me than anything else I've seen. THANK YOU!
I agree. The best
I could find on the Internet about the Reilly Method. Thank you so much for your videos!
Thank you! You have explained the face in such as easy way to learn to draw it.
Excellent explanation of the Reilly Method. Thank you.
Alright, i'm done with Loomis. Thanks for this!!
You did a great tutorial. Nice And easy gentle. No comedic side comments or dramatic accent. Very nice informative and I enjoyed it. Siskel and Ebert (sic) would give you two thumbs up.
I was familiar with the Loomis method but not this. There are a lot of circles and guides, but they really show how every facial feature both seen and under the skin is related to one another. Great Tutorial! Thanks!
Me: accidentally shaves off too much from the first circle, creates an elongated face
Galen: you can purposely distort the face, because all the parts will be relative to each other
Me: that's what I meant to do...
SO GREAT ! i needed to understand shapes and volume of the face outside of usual eyes mouth nose sections and this helped so much thanks
This is still one of the best tutorials on the Reilly method, since it answers a lot of questions about the purpose of each of these lines rather than just placing them there.
I've seen so many Reilly method videos, however, your video is the best when it comes to explanation and presentation. Very clear in lines and refences. Very amazing video.
Thank you so much Galen this is the best demo/instruction of the Reilly method I've seen.
Just an FYI for those interested; the Loomis Method doesn't stop at the base circle, center and jaw lines, but gets into much more detailed feature placements, planes and facial units and measurements for a more structured approach to head drawing.
I ended up with something. I dont know what its supposed to be, but its something.
something is better than a page with a polar bear in a snowstorm (an old joke reference to a blank page) my problems or one of them is I rarely ever really "finish" what I start or when I've gotten stuck with trying to draw something I cannot figure out how to properly fix it.. I love the arts and draftsmanship and other people's work but it is also my achilles heel.
Hey there PIP
Lmfaoooo
It's called a start.
Never meant to be the perfect at the beginning, but its a start
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Me: **watching first 4 minutes** okay this is very simple. Nice. I think I'll just skip forward.
Also me: oh god
The explanation is scientific I always thought whenever I draw head& face why it looked unrealistic now I know the answer thankyou so much.
Thank you Galen for making this video. The step by step process and the explanation you provided helped me a lot to understand the head a lot better. I have been researching to draw head for a long time. This video not only helped me to understand but it also helped me to come up with a few new ideas that I can use while drawing the heads.
Thanks again for making this video and sharing your knowledge and insight.
I'm really happy you found it so useful!
those straight lines are unbelievable wow!!!
hold shift while drawing a line in photoshop = perfect straight horizontal or vertical lines :)
@@ArtbyGalen I thought it was free hand hahahaha
I'm mindblown!! And the way you explained is really clear and not confusing at all
Most helpful! I am jumping back in from a long hiatus so for a forward facing portrait it’s very useful. I will look for any videos you may have on side and angle views. Thanks loads!
I really like the way you explained the shadow thing, That was very helpful. I watched some other videos about this method before but your video was the easiest for me to understand
I love you simple explanation of the Reilly method. Your explanation was compatible with my brain to draw a face.
This is extremely helpful! I studied Mr. Loomis' books also, but I like your technique because you lay out all the planes very logically. I learned the hard way that you first need to set down the framework, the ideal, and then work from there. You've given me a good way to lay down that framework. Thanks a lot!
I meant to say 'systematic' method. *That's* the word I was looking for.
Man, thanks. You really broke it down. Now I can really start applying it to my drawings.
Hey, I wanted to thank you for this great video. I was able to learn the Reilly Method traditionally because of you. Originally, I thought it was a photo reference thing where you traced over pictures of models. But you've allowed me to expand on the idea and explore more depth into the Reilly Method. I am very reluctant I was able to do these exercises traditionally as I'm normally used to. Thank you, as you're greatly appreciated.
Sophistication is the gateway to Knowledge.
Interesting. The best Reilly method demonstration that I have seen. We can use a few steps from this method, but it would be easier to just learn how to draw the face directly from observation.
I’ve only ever learned the Loomis method. I’ve recently begun drawing again, and this method is going to be incredibly helpful in constructing the head now that I’m all rusty and can’t pull detailed proportions from memory. Thanks!!
Good method, I’ve recently started again and rusty also, What I love is, 35 years later, and having these wonderful new tools and explanations and teachers from internet and RUclips.
I love how your tutorial is on point and is actually quite helpful. Throughout the whole tutorial I am like hmmm., hmmm, ,yes like you are actually teaching me individually. Thank you for this😊
Wow! I've been drawing faces since I was a kid. This information is new to me and will really up my game. Thanks a million!
Your tutorial is clear and easy to follow. Thank you.
This is BRILLIANT. Thank you for breaking this down for us!!!
Best method and the best tutorial about it I’ve ever seen. Thank you so much, Galen!!!🙏
Thanks for taking the time to teach this. I learnt tons. 👍
Your "show and tell" was very informative and more clear to me than other videos! Thank you so much. :)
Thank you for taking your time to explain this. I finally understand this now.
Wow...i like this detail explanation, usually i have no idea the shade in the area of the face etc. Two thumbs up bro 👍👍
what a GREAT video!!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH. Wanted to advance my drawing to intermediate this is showing me how. THANK U THANK U THANK U!!!! I have subscribed to your tube videos. I am now a big fan. So grateful. The speed of video is perfect. U can really see exactly what u r doing before u go on to next step.
Really helpful. Clear and effective teaching … I’m an instant subscriber.
This is the best tutorial on facial proportions. Thank you.
The best ever tutorial. Seriously.
I like this method. I have bein studying anatomy for the purpose of fleshing out the face and muscles. For the arms and legs it isn't so bad, but for the face, just wow. I like this way of giving us a quicker way to achieve visualizing each plane of the face.
I follow the AL MEthod, But when i try to generate shadows it becom a little hard, but with this method is so simple!
Thanks for sharing DUDE! I subscribe!!!
Thank you very much for the detailed and very well to follow explanation on this method. It helps a lot understanding the planes of the face. Great tutorial!
wow, this method helps me a lot. In addition, you have a very pleasant voice, a detail that is very important to me. Thank you for your effort!
Thank you for sharing, I am new to drawing and have not been very good at faces,this helped me to see the geometry of the face better.
I'm so glad you found it helpful!
So glad I found this video, thank you so much for explaining the method clearly🥰
Galen, great video. I appreciate very much the absents of music in your presentation. Thank you.
Great idea! I need more practice with this technique.
I liked teaching way , so clear explanation and so helpful for beginners.Thanks
After 8 months of practice finally someone explain this right!!! Thank you so much Galen!!!
you're very welcome!
amazing tutorial! I fell in love with reilly method. Thank you!
Great tutorial. Galen and Proko are the best at these tutorials.
Thank you for that huge compliment!
Absolute beginner here and, even if this is tough, it seems worthwhile mastering. Thank you