I don’t really do more than the other. What I’ve been doing is breaking down drawings into animation forms. So I would break down the drawings to the basics. I would do basic form shapes. To make to when you animate it. It’s easier to keep the form. Than I would sketch out the drawing over the shape breakdown. After that I would clean it up trying to match the drawing but also keeping it animatable. This is a part I really need to work on cause I’m color blind. I’m high contrast. To explain it more is that I have a hard time seeing gradient on things and certain colors are all the same to me. For example if you put a highly saturated yellow on white, just one mark, it would be difficult for me to see it. I also caught tell the difference between reddish-orange and red type stuff. I see one color not the other. Let me get back on topic. Before I use color picker I try to get it as far as I can to the original. I actually take it a step further where I would use AI art and try to fix them. I would fix the anatomy, I would try to fix if they have too less or too less details, and if it’s of a specific character I try to fix it to look more like the original character. Like this one I did of Luffy where the hair was way too spiky. It was at Goku lvls. I toned it down but also fixing the hat a little with the perspective cause from the way he was facing you wouldn’t see the top of the hat. Well that’s all I do
Yeah the shape method is also really effective with learning the anatomy! I try to incorporate that after I have the gesture of the pose right. But then using basic shapes to build on top of that is usually what I do! Thanks for sharing your process!😃🤙🏽
As a self taught artist I used to just draw from memory back then as I had this mindset where it was the only way. I struggled and lacked much understanding. Later on I learned that using references and studying the fundementals along with gesture amd undertanding negative spaces and perspective helped me out greatly. I recommend instructors like Michael S. Hampton, Glenn Viluppu, Karl Gnass, Steve Houston and Mike Mattesi for starters (Anatomy and gesture). For perspective and Technical drawings I recommend Scott Robertson/Thomas Bertling, Marcos Mateu Maestre. For animation, Glen Keane and Aaron Blaise. For color and light studyJames gurney.
This is very real. I was just talking with someone who asked for art advice the other day, and I told them not to do what I did, which was float and guess my way through 90% of the time, which takes longer. You'll always improve faster with concentrated focus and studying ❤️
And guessing isn't always bad either, I know you make comics so a certain tradeoff for quality, u make up for with speed and story. Ultimately I do think you're right about long-term growth tho, pinpointing an area of weakness and studying to get better at it has to play in eventually(at least imo). Thanks for watching man✊🏽💙
im learning art from 0. genuinely just starting, and so far this channel looks like an absolute goldmine. glad i found you, i hope one day i understand literally anything you said in this video 😂😂 what should someone who literally has no idea how to draw without a reference first try to work on? anatomy?
Lol, thanks for watching!! That's hard to answer but id say it depends on your goals. As a complete beginner, learning art can sometimes be frustrating so I'd say if you have absolutely no idea of how you want to grow, you should draw things for the sake of enjoyment, rather than improvement. Once you get a better grasp of the subject matter you want to draw, it's a little easier to figure out a plan of improvement😭 The fundamentals of art can be applied to many things outside of anatomy so I'd do a little bit of research into that as well. But keep everything light and fun for now 😃hopefully this helps!
thanks a lot for the response!! i do like to doodle for fun on homework but my goal is to draw semi realism like the vagabond manga, but i also like a style like yours a lot do you know where i should start for either of those?@@ChrisMason_01
I've been doing art for 3 years and some change now, and it's been kind of interesting to hear your idea on this. I've "floated" around a lot in my practice, mostly because I've been poor at self-regulating, but also because experimentation is a part of learning any skill. Recently I've settled on sticking to a focused daily practice, and the results have blown out all my previous gains attempting other sorts of study. I bring this up because I feel like wasting time is part of the artistic process. The real fast and personal methods of progressing are only revealed after a lot of trial and error. I was probably told that "focused" practice was the way to go when I was earlier on in my artistic journey, but it didn't click until recently. I had to mess around with other stuff first to gain the experience to know it didn't work. I dunno, I feel it's easy for me to wish I had done things different, but it seems that we all waste a little time in the beginning figuring these things out. I'm sure I'll feel similarly in another 3 years when I discover something even better. Thanks for the video.
Absolutely correct! I definitely feel the same way, it is necessary to experiment to find what you want to focus on for sure! Thanks for commenting!!🙌🏽
First thing I learned was to draw in 3D, then draw construction better, then surface anatomy. Once 3 years passed getting a project drawing consistent characters, learn to use better colors 3 more years passed now it's focusing on an art style, I can draw bodies and clothes better so now it's asking myself the tough question WHY? I want to draw what's behind the character design and why I'm drawing faster. In a few more years it's going to be wild.
I think another thing to do is to take breaks and letting the information you gathered from studying to settle in and also not to let yourself get burnt out
Very true, studying for too long without a break can cause you to not retain the information. stepping away from it now and again is important. Thanks for sharing!
This was something that I personally realized a few months ago, and it’s something I did realized when I looked back on the days when I would work on my anatomy years ago.
Same here, and I definitely love the idea of figuring it out first beforehand. Sometimes you need to come to the realization yourself rather than someone telling it to you. Thanks for the comment🙌🏽
i REALLY don't care about learning anatomy or lighting or composition because my art is a bunch of silly fan art of ROTTMNT or sonic or spiderverse and plus, i have my own type of stylized anatomy
@@AUSWQPCV i said i don't care for learning it, not that i never looked into learning it at all. i did when i was younger when i thought that I HAD TO as an artist but i don't. now, i kinda just draw.
Focus is one part of the equation. You can focus your practice all day, 8 hours a day, and still grow exponentially slower than someone else who not only focuses, but studies efficiently and in way less time than you. Consistency, focus, and efficiency are the key to your studies being applied in your work and not being thrown away in some locked part of your subconscious for random use. Also efficient studies cut your study time in half at least. Study something for 30 minutes, take a 5mim break doing nothing, repeat the study and repeat. Watch how your efficiency in the subject rapidly improves and the time to finish a study lessens. Which leaves you for a better study-work-life balance.
okay, i want to draw my own manga but i be feeling lost, idk what to do next on my journey ik i want to draw manga/comics (they are the same to me sequential art) but idk how to go about it
Hmmm, well id say to the best thing to do if you want to go that route is to try to create 1-5pg self contained story mangas or oneshots to get accustomed to doing them. Try and study some styles and manga you enjoy too! That helps. If you don't have a general idea of what you want to improve upon specifically then sometimes just doing a few small mangas helps with figuring out your direction, I think. I may go more into this subject in a future vid. Hope this helps a little🙌🏽
I wouldn't worry about starting up a Discord, it puts more on your plate and puts things on your to-do list that can take away from what you're trying to accomplish now - unless it's something you see a lot of value or potential in right now (which it kinda sounds like it isn't at the moment), then I'd put that on the back burner. Otherwise I'm totally on board with you for this one dude, I got inspired by a video Marco Bucci put out quite a while ago about what he did to finally start learning to draw people - where he focused almost entirely on gesture drawings for 3 months! I've been doing that for the month of January and I've seen significant progress in just 30 days, I've never been more motivated to be disciplined with my drawing like I have now, and the progress is definitely helping. I'd guess that's my 'focus' as apposed to 'floating' like I have been for the last few years. But I never had a teacher yeno? I have to learn these lessons on my own, so it'll probably take longer to overcome certain hurdles, but I'll get there - and so will you!
@@traceemason37 I'd say to start with a small, uncomplicated goal that's easy to do multiple days a week (give yourself some time to do other things too). Giving yourself some easy wins will make it easier to keep doing it day after day - because that's what's going to decide if you improve, your discipline and consistency along with enjoying the process!
I really like this approach/advice. I agree 100%, looking back on progress really helps too! I've been learning that it helps with keeping my momentum. Thanks for sharing! Keep going with your studies, we'll get there🤙🏽🔥🔥🔥
It happens to the best of us! I've only recently started focusing on specifics so I'm not that much better! Recognizing it is the first step🙌🏽good luck with your studies, I think Pibbmasta shared some good advice!
Hey thanks man! I'm gonna try my best to absorb the information😃and yeah there are so many weak points in my stuff it wasn't even hard🤧gonna try fixing it this year. Thanks for watching!!
I feel like a lot of artist have the pride of telling people and themselves “I’m a self taught artist.” But honestly ever since I got helped I realized how stupid that was. The tremendous amount of knowledge you can attain from a person with decades of experience teaching you, can be way wayyy faster.
I started drawing recently (if I don't count all the time doodling in highschool classes) and went ahead with learning gesture and anatomy alongside of taking time to do more fun stuff and I feel really good about it. I'm following the videos of Michael Hampton's classes as he doesn't get into the nitty gritty details of anatomy which is perfect for my baby artist brain.
Thanks for asking! Right now the go-to channel for ALOT of my art inquiries has been Marc Brunet and ProkoTV. For anatomy, I use Pinterest and study this book called dynamic anatomy by Burne Hogarth. Hope this helps!
If you have to float, float with references as opposed to tutorials. At least then you'll use your brain to invent yourself techniques. But whether you're focusing or floating, the goal is to win small battles and eventually become generally adept.
Amazing advice and I agree!! Tutorials can only help you connect the dots so far. It's about learning the best method that works for you that's important. Thanks for commenting🙌🏽
This year the main things I'm working on improving are perspective/enviornments, with color and light being a good secondary This past 6 week have been heavily focused on drawing rocks trees and clouds to start with. I can now much better draw those things even from memory than I could just 6 weeks ago with a reference Always trying tk focus on studies which whatever I'm studying. Just now working on my weak points
This is so true, focused practice is so OP compared to just "floating", this pretty much goes for anything you want to learn including art
Agreed! It takes a lot to get decent at this stuff, but it may take even longer without focusing effectively. Thanks for sharing man🤙🏽💙
I don’t really do more than the other. What I’ve been doing is breaking down drawings into animation forms. So I would break down the drawings to the basics. I would do basic form shapes. To make to when you animate it. It’s easier to keep the form. Than I would sketch out the drawing over the shape breakdown. After that I would clean it up trying to match the drawing but also keeping it animatable.
This is a part I really need to work on cause I’m color blind. I’m high contrast. To explain it more is that I have a hard time seeing gradient on things and certain colors are all the same to me. For example if you put a highly saturated yellow on white, just one mark, it would be difficult for me to see it. I also caught tell the difference between reddish-orange and red type stuff. I see one color not the other.
Let me get back on topic. Before I use color picker I try to get it as far as I can to the original. I actually take it a step further where I would use AI art and try to fix them. I would fix the anatomy, I would try to fix if they have too less or too less details, and if it’s of a specific character I try to fix it to look more like the original character. Like this one I did of Luffy where the hair was way too spiky. It was at Goku lvls. I toned it down but also fixing the hat a little with the perspective cause from the way he was facing you wouldn’t see the top of the hat.
Well that’s all I do
Yeah the shape method is also really effective with learning the anatomy! I try to incorporate that after I have the gesture of the pose right. But then using basic shapes to build on top of that is usually what I do! Thanks for sharing your process!😃🤙🏽
As a self taught artist I used to just draw from memory back then as I had this mindset where it was the only way. I struggled and lacked much understanding.
Later on I learned that using references and studying the fundementals along with gesture amd undertanding negative spaces and perspective helped me out greatly.
I recommend instructors like Michael S. Hampton, Glenn Viluppu, Karl Gnass, Steve Houston and Mike Mattesi for starters (Anatomy and gesture).
For perspective and Technical drawings I recommend Scott Robertson/Thomas Bertling, Marcos Mateu Maestre.
For animation, Glen Keane and Aaron Blaise.
For color and light studyJames gurney.
I can relate to that. I used to not understand the point of studying, but now I'm addicted to it😭thanks for sharing!
This is very real. I was just talking with someone who asked for art advice the other day, and I told them not to do what I did, which was float and guess my way through 90% of the time, which takes longer.
You'll always improve faster with concentrated focus and studying ❤️
And guessing isn't always bad either, I know you make comics so a certain tradeoff for quality, u make up for with speed and story. Ultimately I do think you're right about long-term growth tho, pinpointing an area of weakness and studying to get better at it has to play in eventually(at least imo). Thanks for watching man✊🏽💙
im learning art from 0. genuinely just starting, and so far this channel looks like an absolute goldmine. glad i found you, i hope one day i understand literally anything you said in this video 😂😂
what should someone who literally has no idea how to draw without a reference first try to work on? anatomy?
Lol, thanks for watching!! That's hard to answer but id say it depends on your goals. As a complete beginner, learning art can sometimes be frustrating so I'd say if you have absolutely no idea of how you want to grow, you should draw things for the sake of enjoyment, rather than improvement. Once you get a better grasp of the subject matter you want to draw, it's a little easier to figure out a plan of improvement😭
The fundamentals of art can be applied to many things outside of anatomy so I'd do a little bit of research into that as well. But keep everything light and fun for now 😃hopefully this helps!
thanks a lot for the response!!
i do like to doodle for fun on homework but my goal is to draw semi realism like the vagabond manga, but i also like a style like yours a lot
do you know where i should start for either of those?@@ChrisMason_01
i like this advice, being intentional is important. great vid fam
It is man, it's been the most effective way I've been learning so far. Thanks for watching brother✊🏽💙
I've been doing art for 3 years and some change now, and it's been kind of interesting to hear your idea on this. I've "floated" around a lot in my practice, mostly because I've been poor at self-regulating, but also because experimentation is a part of learning any skill. Recently I've settled on sticking to a focused daily practice, and the results have blown out all my previous gains attempting other sorts of study.
I bring this up because I feel like wasting time is part of the artistic process. The real fast and personal methods of progressing are only revealed after a lot of trial and error. I was probably told that "focused" practice was the way to go when I was earlier on in my artistic journey, but it didn't click until recently. I had to mess around with other stuff first to gain the experience to know it didn't work. I dunno, I feel it's easy for me to wish I had done things different, but it seems that we all waste a little time in the beginning figuring these things out. I'm sure I'll feel similarly in another 3 years when I discover something even better.
Thanks for the video.
Absolutely correct! I definitely feel the same way, it is necessary to experiment to find what you want to focus on for sure! Thanks for commenting!!🙌🏽
First thing I learned was to draw in 3D, then draw construction better, then surface anatomy. Once 3 years passed getting a project drawing consistent characters, learn to use better colors 3 more years passed now it's focusing on an art style, I can draw bodies and clothes better so now it's asking myself the tough question WHY? I want to draw what's behind the character design and why I'm drawing faster. In a few more years it's going to be wild.
That's a great way to learn! Drawing forms in 3d are super effective for studying purposes. Thanks for sharing😃🤙🏽‼️
you need float weeks to keep you to say sane.
you need crunch weeks for those sane skill ups.
Factsssss🔥grinding 100% can and will lead to burn out. Thanks for the comment🙌🏽
I think another thing to do is to take breaks and letting the information you gathered from studying to settle in and also not to let yourself get burnt out
Very true, studying for too long without a break can cause you to not retain the information. stepping away from it now and again is important. Thanks for sharing!
This was something that I personally realized a few months ago, and it’s something I did realized when I looked back on the days when I would work on my anatomy years ago.
Same here, and I definitely love the idea of figuring it out first beforehand. Sometimes you need to come to the realization yourself rather than someone telling it to you. Thanks for the comment🙌🏽
Im invested! Lets work!!
Let's GOOOO🤙🏽🔥💙
i REALLY don't care about learning anatomy or lighting or composition because my art is a bunch of silly fan art of ROTTMNT or sonic or spiderverse and plus, i have my own type of stylized anatomy
And that's perfectly fine too🤙🏽🔥it's all about having fun at the end of the day!
> "I refused to learn anatomy"
> "I have my own stylized anatomy"
Pick one
@@AUSWQPCV i said i don't care for learning it, not that i never looked into learning it at all. i did when i was younger when i thought that I HAD TO as an artist but i don't. now, i kinda just draw.
Focus is one part of the equation. You can focus your practice all day, 8 hours a day, and still grow exponentially slower than someone else who not only focuses, but studies efficiently and in way less time than you.
Consistency, focus, and efficiency are the key to your studies being applied in your work and not being thrown away in some locked part of your subconscious for random use.
Also efficient studies cut your study time in half at least. Study something for 30 minutes, take a 5mim break doing nothing, repeat the study and repeat. Watch how your efficiency in the subject rapidly improves and the time to finish a study lessens.
Which leaves you for a better study-work-life balance.
This is true. Finding the most efficient studying techniques is something I need to do still
Oh hey that seems like a great idea. Something like a pomodoro session but for a particular study. I'll have to try that out.
okay, i want to draw my own manga but i be feeling lost, idk what to do next on my journey ik i want to draw manga/comics (they are the same to me sequential art) but idk how to go about it
Hmmm, well id say to the best thing to do if you want to go that route is to try to create 1-5pg self contained story mangas or oneshots to get accustomed to doing them. Try and study some styles and manga you enjoy too! That helps. If you don't have a general idea of what you want to improve upon specifically then sometimes just doing a few small mangas helps with figuring out your direction, I think. I may go more into this subject in a future vid. Hope this helps a little🙌🏽
I wouldn't worry about starting up a Discord, it puts more on your plate and puts things on your to-do list that can take away from what you're trying to accomplish now - unless it's something you see a lot of value or potential in right now (which it kinda sounds like it isn't at the moment), then I'd put that on the back burner. Otherwise I'm totally on board with you for this one dude, I got inspired by a video Marco Bucci put out quite a while ago about what he did to finally start learning to draw people - where he focused almost entirely on gesture drawings for 3 months! I've been doing that for the month of January and I've seen significant progress in just 30 days, I've never been more motivated to be disciplined with my drawing like I have now, and the progress is definitely helping. I'd guess that's my 'focus' as apposed to 'floating' like I have been for the last few years. But I never had a teacher yeno? I have to learn these lessons on my own, so it'll probably take longer to overcome certain hurdles, but I'll get there - and so will you!
I have definitely been floating, I need to set a study time and goals.
@@traceemason37 I'd say to start with a small, uncomplicated goal that's easy to do multiple days a week (give yourself some time to do other things too). Giving yourself some easy wins will make it easier to keep doing it day after day - because that's what's going to decide if you improve, your discipline and consistency along with enjoying the process!
I really like this approach/advice. I agree 100%, looking back on progress really helps too! I've been learning that it helps with keeping my momentum. Thanks for sharing! Keep going with your studies, we'll get there🤙🏽🔥🔥🔥
It happens to the best of us! I've only recently started focusing on specifics so I'm not that much better! Recognizing it is the first step🙌🏽good luck with your studies, I think Pibbmasta shared some good advice!
@@Pibbmasta Thank you so much! I will that!
Im super looking forward to what you learn about color in the future! I think its great to be able to realize what your weak points are for this too
Hey thanks man! I'm gonna try my best to absorb the information😃and yeah there are so many weak points in my stuff it wasn't even hard🤧gonna try fixing it this year. Thanks for watching!!
Hell yeah, that's what I said in my latest video! Get great, not just good. Hyper focus and be amazing at what you do.
Yeah man!! Hyper focusing is key😎🙌🏽
I feel like a lot of artist have the pride of telling people and themselves “I’m a self taught artist.”
But honestly ever since I got helped I realized how stupid that was. The tremendous amount of knowledge you can attain from a person with decades of experience teaching you, can be way wayyy faster.
Facts!! I had to snap out of that too! Helped me improve a TON faster as well🔥
I started drawing recently (if I don't count all the time doodling in highschool classes) and went ahead with learning gesture and anatomy alongside of taking time to do more fun stuff and I feel really good about it. I'm following the videos of Michael Hampton's classes as he doesn't get into the nitty gritty details of anatomy which is perfect for my baby artist brain.
I've gotta look into Michael Hampton's stuff, sounds like it covers the essentials well! Thanks for sharing🙌🏽🔥keep up the good work!
Floating is good to find what you want to do but after you find that style or form is when you need to start focusing imo
That actually is very true! Focusing is really only after you have figured that stuff out. Thanks for sharing!
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a minute in and it's exactly my situation rn
It's all about recognizing the situation first, pinpointing an area you want to improve on is the next step I'd say🤙🏽good luck with your art!
i just dont know how to go about it T.T
Hmmm, maybe I should make another video on how to go Abt it👀thanks for commenting!!
i was going to ask, what videos or channels (or anything really) helped you with anatomy and perspective ?
Thanks for asking! Right now the go-to channel for ALOT of my art inquiries has been Marc Brunet and ProkoTV. For anatomy, I use Pinterest and study this book called dynamic anatomy by Burne Hogarth. Hope this helps!
I know
If you have to float, float with references as opposed to tutorials. At least then you'll use your brain to invent yourself techniques.
But whether you're focusing or floating, the goal is to win small battles and eventually become generally adept.
Amazing advice and I agree!! Tutorials can only help you connect the dots so far. It's about learning the best method that works for you that's important. Thanks for commenting🙌🏽
This year the main things I'm working on improving are perspective/enviornments, with color and light being a good secondary
This past 6 week have been heavily focused on drawing rocks trees and clouds to start with. I can now much better draw those things even from memory than I could just 6 weeks ago with a reference
Always trying tk focus on studies which whatever I'm studying. Just now working on my weak points
Thats how you do it!!!🔥🔥🔥yeah getting to the point to where you can freehand study topics is so peak dude😩🙌🏽🔥