You nailed it Lisa! Great tips. One of the biggest problems with cartoony looks I encounter is how often beginners paint from their head. The human brain tends to think iconically with outlines, flat values, incorrect scale and perspective, yada, yada. Beginners just don't have enough visual vocabulary. Draw from life (photos too) when possible and reference everything in the beginning especially. You'll improve your perception of correct scale, values, perspective, etc.
Even in your early painting your talent is evident. It actually has a lot of charm and whimsy. Reminds me of Japanese art where everything is flat and yet it has its own appeal. But of course your current work is phenomenal! Thank you for always sharing so much info, unlike some artists who just show off at breakneck speed and give no help whatsoever!
Caught this older one in my feed. Lots of helpful pointers and emphasizing values. I liked hearing you compare your current methods to your older ones.
I just started with oil painting, I did my first portrait painting and it looks like a cartoon, kind of discouraged me a bit but I'm going to keep trying
Well Lisa. These are some of the best tips anyone would get when creating realistic arts. I have actually followed some of these steps (such as outline and slowing down) when I was creating realistic art, before I even watched the following video, but this helps me become better at creating deeper and more realistic art. Definitely going to create more realistic art with these tips 1. Focus on one thing at a time and don’t paint 80 different things in one painting 2. Slow down 3. Focus on the right value 4. No outline for realistic pictures.
It's interesting listening to these videos. So much of art isn't learning to paint or draw, but learning to SEE. Our brains want to create abstractions and boil things down to their basic components, but realistic art is about not doing that -- not painting what your brain thinks a flower is, but what a flower actually is.
Thank you Lisa! I needed that great advice. I struggle sometimes in making my art more realistic. I started off drawing Barbie and Wonder Woman when I was a little girl. I catch myself starting to go back into that cartoonish look when doing portraits.
I love your videos . It makes me want to make more art tutorials and try my best to be a full time artist for the art community like how you impacted others
I love that you essentially critiqued one of your own pieces, to give better tips for realistic drawing. I hear all the time what a person can do but when your like me and do better learning by seeing it really makes a difference. My husband and I shoot guns recreationally only. And wanted to try a shooting match for long distance, well he handed me a book. And then there was math that I had no idea was even needed. Anyway what it came down to was I chose not to do the match and instead watched others at the match to get a better feel. Now I know I don't want to do it, because yeah math and I don't get along.
I’m really struggling with the “not outlining” - I find that elements of my painting get lost if I don’t do some outlining, but most of the time it ends up looking cartoony. I’m really at a loss of how to break the habit.
What about just highlighting an edge? Dee Gillett does an incredible online tutorial where she gives an artist ideas on how to move his forest painting from pretty to absolutely lovely, using Photoshop to try out different colours & add elements. One of the best things she did was just add a hint of light to the edges of the trees in the mid & foreground. Made a huge difference. This is the video ruclips.net/video/eOq3Ybu5SKg/видео.html
Hot tip: If you want to force yourself to remember your values, consider doing a few paintings all in one color (monochromatic). Do that a few times and you'll always remember values when making your multi colored wonders we all seem to think are so necessary......Far from being dull....Monochrome paintings are also surprisingly beautiful.
Thank you so much for your advice. But I've got a question about the shadows. Sometimes when I add them on my painting it looks worse. Does that mean that I don't know how to add the shadows ? How do I get the right color for these shadows and also for the others values ? Thanks again 😃
Maria Cursaru try complementry colors if you have a pink flamingo, mix pink with green, it will give u a pinkish grey, hope that helps sorry for my English
Another thing with that particular painting is that the colors are really bright and saturated. I do a lot of digital art, and I have this rule where I never touch the ends of the little color square (still don't know what it's called) because in real life things are never straight black or straight white, things are never completely gray, and on the flip side things are never as bright as you can get. (If anyone doesn't know what I'm talking about, there's a color wheel you use to determine the hue and a square in the middle that determines value and saturation. So the upper right is the brightest the color can get, upper left is pure white, middle left is gray, and bottom is black.)
Ironically acrylics is how I started to learn more realistic styles because it taught me OMG you can layer! *mind blown. I dont often try realistic styles though :C I think I should.
Becca Rose well at least we can try!I mean my acrylic art is ok when doing cartoony or not that realistic and I am currently trying to work on painting waves as there r some fantastic tutorials on RUclips. I hope it turns out ok but I have to keep blending colours and they can sometimes look to bright. I don't know if I am using the right paint... but hopefully we learn to paint really good!
that's what I am trying to do. I want to learn to draw a face. just a whimsical face. I am not an artist. I just want to be able to draw in my Rte journal for me. but I decided to focus on just one thing at a time. so for weeks now I am just learning and practicing how to draw an eye. and brow. then I will move to the nose then the lips. :)
Hi, Lachri! I have a question. It's not necessarily related to this video, however I'm a little bit stumped. I've recently gotten into oil painting, and I've been painting using acrylics for a bit longer before, and I'm confused as to how to properly dispose of the paint water left after using acrylics, and also the leftover solvent after using mineral spirits/turpentine when oil painting. I can't find anything with clear instructions, so I'm hoping to find something here. If anybody in the comment section has an answer, that'd be great, too. Thank you!!
I was a professional wood finisher for 17 yrs using water-based & oil based products, generating waste that u speak of. The acrylic water is easy.....poor it over ur trash & dispose of normally (dumpster, neighborhood pick up, etc) The mineral spirits/solvent based waste-not so easy.....technically it is considerded toxic waste & would need proper labeling & removal per OSHA. I assume most home-based artists do not follow these standards. For basic safety i can offer this: the most dangerous moment r the wet rags laying around. Do not pile them up. The can combust from heavy fumes collecting with-in the pile & the addition of oxygen. This will start a fire.....Put them in a plastic trash bag & soak entire amount with water, than seal bags shut. U can keep metal cans (home depot, etc) full of saw dust or other organic waste such as pencil shavings, etc....and pour ur liquid waste into that. Once full, seal lid & dispose of as trash. The turps & spirits r only regulated as toxic waste in the wet form. Once they r turned solid (in organic waste such as saw dust) they r no longer regulated or dangerous to the garbage truck drivers. Best of luck!!!
Great video Lisa! 😁 I think adding your old work while explaining the concepts was spot one. I have a feeling that some light bulbs are going to pop on for some people. TFS 😃
Hi! I love your videos and tutorials 😁 Can you make a video how to use pastel pencils? My dad bought me a 36 pcs of it but I don't know how to use 'em.. thank you very much
hey I work with the guy who you used as reference for that painting! He's been teaching me for a loooong time now and I'm still not even close to his level of talent with paint
ah yes eye-ger-tie. I have reading issue where I swap letters and read words backward sometime. It is amazing with some of the words that I come up with. On the note of putting in the shadow on a big painting (not in size but complicated composition). I find it difficult, take your painting in the video for example, there are so many things going on, how does the light react with each of the objects in the painting and how each of the objects affects the other. I lose track of that all the time.
Side note - you can study any copyrighted work and create a copy, as long as you keep it in your closet. Since you used the piece with the tiger for teaching, exhibiting it in this video is most likely still considered fair use. So no, you didn't violate copyright laws regardless to your source material. Copyrights deal with exhibition and publishing rights, which is showing and selling. :)
how can i find a nice way of painting that is in between realistic and cartoony look, I dont want super realistic but I dont want realistic. I also dont want people to think I wanted to paint realistic but it didnt end up good
Adriaan van Pijkeren I'd look into Impressionism and styles like it. There are many loose painterly styles with low detail in realism that still has a completed look while being far from high realism
how about "semi-realism" ? that tends to be the style i go for most of the time, that is definitely cartoon but doesn't look too cartoony. you can just google semi realism and you'll see some examples
BrendaFOBRocks So from what I see in that, it's cartoon character like style but with the depth of shading, color, and light. The best way I feel to "master" this over time would be to practice your desired style while studying/recreating real scenes and images to learn the complexities of light and shadow and how that interacts with objects. You can't learn depth and lighting properly without practicing realism and you can't move past plain cartoonism without that skill. So in short, simultaneously practice your favorite character styles and realism at the same time, and eventually you can combine the two skillfully, intentionally, and at any degree you want.
Yup...Slow down...I mean, in a way I am quicker than I was (it took me some hours to do garbage), BUT as soon as I became more realistic, my art takes much longer. Though, if I were to draw how I did in my teenage years, I can get it done in a couple hours or less.
You nailed it Lisa! Great tips. One of the biggest problems with cartoony looks I encounter is how often beginners paint from their head. The human brain tends to think iconically with outlines, flat values, incorrect scale and perspective, yada, yada. Beginners just don't have enough visual vocabulary. Draw from life (photos too) when possible and reference everything in the beginning especially. You'll improve your perception of correct scale, values, perspective, etc.
Even in your early painting your talent is evident. It actually has a lot of charm and whimsy. Reminds me of Japanese art where everything is flat and yet it has its own appeal. But of course your current work is phenomenal! Thank you for always sharing so much info, unlike some artists who just show off at breakneck speed and give no help whatsoever!
I would love it if you tried to recreate your older work.
Oh yeah I should try that
Great information and advice here, Lisa! Breaking subjects down into smaller parts definitely helped me achieve more realistic paintings.
Caught this older one in my feed. Lots of helpful pointers and emphasizing values. I liked hearing you compare your current methods to your older ones.
I just started with oil painting, I did my first portrait painting and it looks like a cartoon, kind of discouraged me a bit but I'm going to keep trying
And at the 3 year mark, how is it going?
Well Lisa. These are some of the best tips anyone would get when creating realistic arts. I have actually followed some of these steps (such as outline and slowing down) when I was creating realistic art, before I even watched the following video, but this helps me become better at creating deeper and more realistic art. Definitely going to create more realistic art with these tips
1. Focus on one thing at a time and don’t paint 80 different things in one painting
2. Slow down
3. Focus on the right value
4. No outline for realistic pictures.
Awesome help for people trying to improve. Thanks for sharing. I am finally moving from flat and cartoony to more realistic work. Hugs, girlie!
It's interesting listening to these videos. So much of art isn't learning to paint or draw, but learning to SEE. Our brains want to create abstractions and boil things down to their basic components, but realistic art is about not doing that -- not painting what your brain thinks a flower is, but what a flower actually is.
Thank you Lisa! I needed that great advice. I struggle sometimes in making my art more realistic. I started off drawing Barbie and Wonder Woman when I was a little girl. I catch myself starting to go back into that cartoonish look when doing portraits.
I love your videos . It makes me want to make more art tutorials and try my best to be a full time artist for the art community like how you impacted others
Even that painting is colorful and beautiful. It has a fantasy look to it.
I love that you essentially critiqued one of your own pieces, to give better tips for realistic drawing. I hear all the time what a person can do but when your like me and do better learning by seeing it really makes a difference. My husband and I shoot guns recreationally only. And wanted to try a shooting match for long distance, well he handed me a book. And then there was math that I had no idea was even needed. Anyway what it came down to was I chose not to do the match and instead watched others at the match to get a better feel. Now I know I don't want to do it, because yeah math and I don't get along.
This was very helpful, thank you
I’m really struggling with the “not outlining” - I find that elements of my painting get lost if I don’t do some outlining, but most of the time it ends up looking cartoony. I’m really at a loss of how to break the habit.
What about just highlighting an edge? Dee Gillett does an incredible online tutorial where she gives an artist ideas on how to move his forest painting from pretty to absolutely lovely, using Photoshop to try out different colours & add elements. One of the best things she did was just add a hint of light to the edges of the trees in the mid & foreground. Made a huge difference. This is the video ruclips.net/video/eOq3Ybu5SKg/видео.html
Loved this video, spending more time on a piece definitely gives much better results!!
excellent explanation and examples. Thanks.
hi Lisa ! its amazing the way u guide and teach every bit of painting tips and tricks.. really appreciate your work!
I absolutely agree with you..lights n DARKS highlights shadows
Thankyou so much
I'm subscribing 👌
I actually really liked your cartoony style on the dolphins XD
Lisa, I would love to see the before and after photos of that mural you fixed by airbrushing in the shadows! Are they available?
I really value your tips. I want to learn to draw realistically, and your videos are really helpful.
Oh my goodness. Thank you!!
your tips are really helpful, even though i don't paint, this helps me out with my graphite drawings..
Thank you so much for this, I can't tell you how helpful this has been for me :)
Hot tip: If you want to force yourself to remember your values, consider doing a few paintings all in one color (monochromatic). Do that a few times and you'll always remember values when making your multi colored wonders we all seem to think are so necessary......Far from being dull....Monochrome paintings are also surprisingly beautiful.
Thank you so much for your advice. But I've got a question about the shadows. Sometimes when I add them on my painting it looks worse. Does that mean that I don't know how to add the shadows ? How do I get the right color for these shadows and also for the others values ? Thanks again 😃
Maria Cursaru try complementry colors if you have a pink flamingo, mix pink with green, it will give u a pinkish grey, hope that helps sorry for my English
Claudia Castrillon Thank you! I'll try using complementary colors. Thanks 😘
Nice show. Watched and Thanks for sharing your wonderful videos
That tiger painting made me feel much better about my work.
Another thing with that particular painting is that the colors are really bright and saturated. I do a lot of digital art, and I have this rule where I never touch the ends of the little color square (still don't know what it's called) because in real life things are never straight black or straight white, things are never completely gray, and on the flip side things are never as bright as you can get. (If anyone doesn't know what I'm talking about, there's a color wheel you use to determine the hue and a square in the middle that determines value and saturation. So the upper right is the brightest the color can get, upper left is pure white, middle left is gray, and bottom is black.)
This was super helpful!
Thank you for the valuable tips! Love your videos! And your beautiful artworks!😍
Thank you!
Awesome video as always. Thanks for sharing.
Fantastic tips...thank you so much!
TBH I love the background in that old painting! I'd cut out haf of it (and the tigers) and would hang that on my wall, it's lovely
Brilliant advice , Thank you !
I like doing realistic art but find it hard for acrylic paints
me too :( I want to love acrylic painting but I'm not experienced enough in that medium to achieve the results I want, and it's discouraging.
Ironically acrylics is how I started to learn more realistic styles because it taught me OMG you can layer! *mind blown.
I dont often try realistic styles though :C I think I should.
Becca Rose well at least we can try!I mean my acrylic art is ok when doing cartoony or not that realistic and I am currently trying to work on painting waves as there r some fantastic tutorials on RUclips. I hope it turns out ok but I have to keep blending colours and they can sometimes look to bright. I don't know if I am using the right paint... but hopefully we learn to paint really good!
that's what I am trying to do. I want to learn to draw a face. just a whimsical face. I am not an artist. I just want to be able to draw in my Rte journal for me. but I decided to focus on just one thing at a time. so for weeks now I am just learning and practicing how to draw an eye. and brow. then I will move to the nose then the lips. :)
(It would also look more realistic if there isnt a tiger next to a killer whale)
Adriaan van Pijkeren lol your comment made my day
😂
Sometimes when you stumble on your words your so funny in a cute way!
oh my God it's like you read my mind !
Thank you so much. I'm a digital artist, but this is just as valuable in every art.
Hi, Lachri! I have a question. It's not necessarily related to this video, however I'm a little bit stumped.
I've recently gotten into oil painting, and I've been painting using acrylics for a bit longer before, and I'm confused as to how to properly dispose of the paint water left after using acrylics, and also the leftover solvent after using mineral spirits/turpentine when oil painting. I can't find anything with clear instructions, so I'm hoping to find something here.
If anybody in the comment section has an answer, that'd be great, too. Thank you!!
I was a professional wood finisher for 17 yrs using water-based & oil based products, generating waste that u speak of. The acrylic water is easy.....poor it over ur trash & dispose of normally (dumpster, neighborhood pick up, etc) The mineral spirits/solvent based waste-not so easy.....technically it is considerded toxic waste & would need proper labeling & removal per OSHA. I assume most home-based artists do not follow these standards. For basic safety i can offer this: the most dangerous moment r the wet rags laying around. Do not pile them up. The can combust from heavy fumes collecting with-in the pile & the addition of oxygen. This will start a fire.....Put them in a plastic trash bag & soak entire amount with water, than seal bags shut. U can keep metal cans (home depot, etc) full of saw dust or other organic waste such as pencil shavings, etc....and pour ur liquid waste into that. Once full, seal lid & dispose of as trash. The turps & spirits r only regulated as toxic waste in the wet form. Once they r turned solid (in organic waste such as saw dust) they r no longer regulated or dangerous to the garbage truck drivers. Best of luck!!!
The cans can b as small as a quart at a time or one gallon....correction from above: not the can combust---its should read they can combust....
Great video Lisa! 😁 I think adding your old work while explaining the concepts was spot one. I have a feeling that some light bulbs are going to pop on for some people. TFS 😃
Very good advice! Thanks for sharing. What would you say to someone who literally does EVERYTHING fast?
I really love your videos ,very good ideas and very helpful 👍👍👍
You should repaint this now that your better and see what it looks like
Hi! I love your videos and tutorials 😁
Can you make a video how to use pastel pencils? My dad bought me a 36 pcs of it but I don't know how to use 'em.. thank you very much
hey I work with the guy who you used as reference for that painting! He's been teaching me for a loooong time now and I'm still not even close to his level of talent with paint
ah yes eye-ger-tie. I have reading issue where I swap letters and read words backward sometime. It is amazing with some of the words that I come up with.
On the note of putting in the shadow on a big painting (not in size but complicated composition). I find it difficult, take your painting in the video for example, there are so many things going on, how does the light react with each of the objects in the painting and how each of the objects affects the other. I lose track of that all the time.
i need your reflections painting. is it for sale or do you do prints?
Thank you so much!
You are just amazing
I do have the say, the underwater part looks pretty realistic somehow xd I like how they had their dynamics and nice proportions and placement
You do a heck of a job when working with acrylics. Ever time I use acrylics it drys too fast
Lisa, lets see , 20 years ago you did great for 9 years old. Great tips.
Michael Parry isn't she close to her 40s? I think she mentioned that many assume she's much younger.
lmao
love your videos and friendly smile ☺!
Side note - you can study any copyrighted work and create a copy, as long as you keep it in your closet. Since you used the piece with the tiger for teaching, exhibiting it in this video is most likely still considered fair use. So no, you didn't violate copyright laws regardless to your source material. Copyrights deal with exhibition and publishing rights, which is showing and selling. :)
Hi i have an art exam thing and i have to draw the inside of a fig (fruit) please do a tutorisl for beginers
Thanks! I've had a idea in mind about creating a dating simulator animation for a show but my art just looks too cartoony
great video.
Excellent video
A good drawing takes time to finish.
your comments are 1.000.000$ worth of courses, books, magazines in just 8 minutes! Thank you !
you are my teacher!!
nice
how can i find a nice way of painting that is in between realistic and cartoony look, I dont want super realistic but I dont want realistic. I also dont want people to think I wanted to paint realistic but it didnt end up good
Adriaan van Pijkeren I'd look into Impressionism and styles like it. There are many loose painterly styles with low detail in realism that still has a completed look while being far from high realism
how about "semi-realism" ? that tends to be the style i go for most of the time, that is definitely cartoon but doesn't look too cartoony. you can just google semi realism and you'll see some examples
BrendaFOBRocks So from what I see in that, it's cartoon character like style but with the depth of shading, color, and light. The best way I feel to "master" this over time would be to practice your desired style while studying/recreating real scenes and images to learn the complexities of light and shadow and how that interacts with objects. You can't learn depth and lighting properly without practicing realism and you can't move past plain cartoonism without that skill. So in short, simultaneously practice your favorite character styles and realism at the same time, and eventually you can combine the two skillfully, intentionally, and at any degree you want.
yeah thats pretty much what i do :) i practice with realism so that my cartoon drawings look better
Add shades and reflections
I just started painting and I cannot get it look realistic, but it doesn't come out cartoony. I don't know what to do.
Keep practicing. This is totally normal when you start.
I liked the picture, no it was super realistic but it kept me looking for new things
Love u again😇
please do the draw it again challenge
♥️
You're awesome, btw...
0:32 lol what the
You talk so fast. But yet I still understand you. ;)
I catch myself drawing things more realistic than I want.... a.d.d. maybbe, idk
Why am I watching this in math class....
I’m sooo cartoony!!! I don’t want to be!
I short demo would have helped me. A verbal description didn't help me with this concern. Thanks for taking the time, on the other hand.
You are a fast talker xd
did anyone else see her glitch or was that just mean
"Stop trying to paint 80 billion things" .... but whyyyyyy lol
"Over exaggerating" is redundant.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Yup...Slow down...I mean, in a way I am quicker than I was (it took me some hours to do garbage), BUT as soon as I became more realistic, my art takes much longer. Though, if I were to draw how I did in my teenage years, I can get it done in a couple hours or less.