Top 5 Tips for Painting Portraits
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
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Continuing NIMAVERSE month is my top tips on painting portraits!! Drawing this took a bit of time but overall, I'm happy with the lighting, color and impact of the piece. Here are some of my favorite techniques that i've learned from over the years! Hope you enjoy them and learn some tips on how to touch up your portraits :)
00:00 - Intro
00:38 - Group Your Shapes
02:04 - Find Your Light
03:17 - Blush
03:56 - Exaggerate Edges
04:38 - Instant Gratification Highlights
05:15 - Deep Shadows
05:30 - Review
05:52 - Final Piece
05:58 - Outro
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Hope everyone is keeping safe and healthy! Let’s keep doing art and being creative. Next week is the finale of Nimaverse month! I’m bringing in a special guest and we’ll be drawing character expressions! Hang tight 🥰
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Ross Draws your videos are like... MADE for adhd people like me lol 😂
hope you are staying safe too:)
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Your my favorite artist make sure you and all your loved ones stay safe and healthy also!
My favorite art tip is “push through the ugliness of the drawing, don’t stop just because it looks ugly at the beginning”. Best advice I’ve ever received
Love this tip!
Or alternatively: Get really good at drawing ugly stuff, and use this to accumulate skills to finally draw something pretty in the end...
...This is kind of a joke, but i like the thought!
Otherwise known as: Trust the process! It'll get there eventually!
Yes this is great advice! I mean I trust the process, but people (aka my fam and friends) sometimes look at me while I’m drawing and just cringe and I can tell they think it’ll turn out bad, so there’s always that little twinge of annoyance when I tell them to trust the process lol
Now that I think about it, I don't think I have ever finished a drawing for myself. For a project, yes but never just for my own pleasure. Heh. Definitely using that tip.
Good luck you guys, work hard :)
A tip that really brought some life into my paintings is:
The Contrast Colour.
It basically means that you choose one thing that is suppossed to stand out.
For example:
Your Charakter has a warm skintone, soft brown hair and has generally very warm colours.
And then you give them piercing cold blue eyes.
Great tip!!
Bruh! Me too!
Character*
Thanks for the tips! 😁
i really like this one. are you in art school? i wish i took classes
-- MY ART TIP-- : Once you decide where the light source is and you want to shade your object don't just shade the object with different shades of the same colour.Instead take note of the colour of the light, if the light is yellow for instance, highlight the rim where light touches the object with a sharp yellow and then fade it to orange and then to the original colour. It's a very basic tip but starting out I never really took notice of it.This has helped me a lot with creating a more realistic atmosphere in my paintings :)
it helped, thanks😁
@@biscuitandbread I am glad :)
Thanks for the helpful tip! :D
You can call this bounce light btw
Thanks for your tip! :D
"I'll be right back with the final painting"
>Perfect portrait appears
I'm happy you put "7 hours" because I always feel like a bad artist for taking that long...
I usually feel like a really good artist when I work on something for a long time😂 makes me feel like I didn't half-ass it
usually i take long time just in trying to find out what look better for my draw
@Debora Getahun lol that's too real
@@0312sams samee
@Debora Getahun The grind is real
“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
- Picasso.
No that doesn’t mean claiming someone else’s art as your own. Being an artist means learning from those who came before you. Very few things in the art world is original now. Artists are always pulling inspiration from each other, just like how Ross has a mood board! Lot’s of artists we like used other artists’ techniques while they were learning. But do we just use it once and not use it again (borrowing) or do we keep at it (steal)? Hope this makes sense.
Anglo Saxon
I think what copy and steal means is that, if you copy, you do it the exact same way with no modification, whereas if you steal, you make it your own.
In my opinion, if you copy another artist’s techniques or style, you do it exactly the same but it’s still someone else’s. If you steal it, you make it your own and maybe make modifications or apply it into your own style, which makes it your own technique or style and not directly mimicking someone else.
I hope what i said makes sense!
Good luck to all the artists or aspiring artists out there!
Reiko uwu that is also a good interpretation of the quote. 😎
We steal so much that nobody can tell
My favourite art tip is: never give up even when you're struggling. It's my favourite because there was a time I wanted to stop drawing because I haven't been doing any progress but then I watched video that helped me realize that progress isn't straight line up... instead it's a line that goes up then it stops and after some time of studying and practicing it goes again up. Then it repeats and repeats and repeats...
Thanks for all the likes and please excuse my English... Now that I read my post again a can see that it isn't the best. I'm not a native speaker and sometimes I have problems. Thanks for understanding.
*1 minute posted*
Me: Howdy, my school can wait
You still have school??
What country are you in where the schools aren’t closed??
my school shut down....
I think he means online school lol
@@ieena9466 mines closed 😂
The last time I was this early, corona was still a drink
Fifty shades freed..lol
-Oof-
Why would you do that XD
That was wayyy to good of a joke. I applaud your sense of humour. XD
🤣🤣🤣
"Horizontal Canvas Flip" saved me.
Absolutely.
My art tips is: when drawing, never rush to the end result(like details for example), and take your time! Also always use reference! Were not built to always know what things look like! But when using reference, don't just copy what you see, but understand the concepts and material, but If you're struggling on the material, then study it... really get to know the subject. Trust me, knowing the parts of the human anatomy than just drawing shapes of it, really help "sculpt" out your drawings of human anatomy!
"Never rush" was a great tip actually. I try to finish a drawing in 3h and then wonder why it doesn't look like the ceiling of Sistine Chapel
That is a much more genuine tip. Than some douche artists who save everything for their patreons
@@arindommazumdar371 Uhm u get that he needs money right? This is FREE for you, its FREE my guy. Do not call him out for making a living out of it. You are consuming valuable lessons for FREE. You should be thankfull. And the people who are paying for patreon, are the ones who are "paying you" this free stuff. If it wouldn't be for them, you couldn't see this video...
Ugh the rushing part is my problem for the longest time. It's just my urge to finish a painting/drawing in a day and the urge to see the end result. But that just makes my drawing so undetailed and rushed (obviously) Aaaaa I'll try to do this tomorrow I hope I don't rush it LOL
@@woozihae Yes! Good Luck, Slow and steady wins the race!
Fun Fact: Riot Splash artist for League of Legends, take weeks or even a month (depending on how much time they have) to finish a art piece. Your art is your art, make the most out of it, there is no such thing as bad art.
*Ross:* "Hey guy-"
* Video stops bcz the WiFi is bad *
*My brain:* "-s welcome to another EPisOde of RoSs Draws"
Damn that happens to me all the time!
now why did i just read that as bob ross
xD
Why are armys everywhere??😂
@@Zainab-cz1do we dominate the world
My favorite tip: Becoming the character you're making. I find this to really improve character design because it makes you think deeper about what that character's personality would be, and thus, what they look like. The clothes and pose come with personality which you can channel better if you become the character in your head.
The tip that change everything was: Draw what you actually see, not what you think you are seing.
My favorite art tip is to make sure you're drawing in 3D. I always used to try to cut corners in my art and find shortcuts to mimic a three-dimensional look, and my art always turned out pretty flat looking. But now that I've been making an effort to actually think in three dimensions, My anatomy, faces, and poses have drastically improved.
Ross: "Oh i'm just gonna clean this up real quick"
Bottom left corner: *7 hours*
Every time Ross says "Ooooh!" when he thinks something is cool, I just have to smile :D
Please don't just "finish" a drawing SHOW US HOW TO "FINISH" THE DRAWING
Ps. I love your art
he saves all that for his patreon mate
Become a patreon then! 😄😃😄
It's a bunch of rendering, you can learn it from many books
damn it i dont have any credit card
😂😂 Haha I can understand that
Art tip: Not so much a tip, but more of a reassurance. And the tip is: Never stop making art, because you can only improve
"ok lets finish it" *recreates the painting of the last supper*
My favorite tip is ADDING HIGHLIGHTS - I always can't wait to do that! I understand that when i started to use white fineliner to make highlights on my promarker works. It really help them to look very cool!
The most important thing I learned in art school is to HAVE FUN with what you make an not be a bot respecting all the directives: this way I got more creative and learned faster because there was nothing holding me back (since I had so much fun!)
My favorite art tip which actually helped me to get really far comes from a twitter post:
The art teacher walks into class and screams: "Andrew Loomis and Bridgeman!", following up with "end of class, good luck and see you next year".
It made me start to do some research on the masters of the craft who explains the fundamentals necessary for any artist. It helped me improve all my work (which still is 80% portraits). What I learned from this helped me to help beginner artists with their journey, which I really like to do :)
Love the new videos, especially in these times it helps motivate people to use their time for drawing.
Sometimes RUclips videos teaches us more stuff then a real teacher do. Respect from one artist to another!!!
For me i would the art tip that's helped me the most is clipping mask it really saves so much time during the coloring stage
favorite art tip: Using an angled paint brush to blend graphite!! This tip has been SO helpful with pushing my artwork and giving them a realistic feel. For the longest time I didn't know you can use a paint brush on dry media artwork- it works wonders!! P.S your work is incredible and I look forward to every Friday when you release a new drawing/video!!
Ever since I found out about your channel a couple years ago and learning new tips which have greatly helped me improve on my art, I really liked your tip about contrast. Through contrast, it can create a whole new meaning to the art piece and I really like the idea. Art is expression and I think contrast holds great meaning in it. Keep it up Ross! You rock! You have inspired me to draw again after a while of not drawing or taking any art classes. Thank you! ❤️
Ahhhh she is so pretty omg!
My favorite tip for art is to take a step back and look at your work in a different light. Sometimes that can make all the difference in a piece and help when you get bored or frustrated with how something is turning out. Just breathe~
i can do everything up until "lets finish it" and then it becomes god tier impossible.
Ikr
woah im early! was just binge watching a bunch of your videos and saw this one uploaded just now :D thanks ross for the inspiration and advice, ive implemented so much that youve taught into my everyday work!
This is the type of stuff that Inspires me to keep on practicing visual art. All your vids are very informational and fun to watch, I love the color dodge tip as it not only makes my drawings and paintings pop, it also gives me a good practice of proper lighting. i hope you inspire more people, just as you inspired me.
Been binging the channel for the past week so something new is always better!😁😁
My favorite tip is the "edges tip" i rly struggle with edges, when i started out, i blurred EVERYTHING making everything look like satin or something x:
My favorite art tip definitely is to really exaggerate something with your portrait. I always tended to draw portraits that were quite plain, and while they may have shown technical skill, they never really popped. But just choosing to exaggerate something, like pose, lighting, expression, or viewing angle, my pieces be came so much more dynamic.
An art tip that has helped me progress my painting skills is layering! It's so important to be patient and build those special layers of detail to your paintings. It really makes a world of difference for me 😊
i think a tip that really stood out to me and has helped me is shows and lighting
like always placing a light down first making the shadows to go with that then highlighting that is one of my favorite steps and has been really helpful to me
The 5 tips in the video:
1) Group your shapes. 0:37
2) Find your light. 2:04
3) Blush. 3:17
4) Exaggerate edges. 3:57
5) Instant gratification highlights. 4:37
(Me in self quarantine) Yeah, imma watch and study Ross.
I'd say favourite tip would be to understand planes on the face and how it can make lighting and shadows easier. Keep it up dude 💯
A tip that has really helped me is commit to finish my work. I'm just getting started in digital art but I have created several pieces that I'm proud of though they are not the best, it was easy for me just to get frustrated and give up on the project but I realized I hadn't achieved anything yet, so I started commiting to the work and finish every artwork. So commitment it is
These tips helped sooo much!!! Thank you and I can’t wait to keep improving my art!!
Saw your warmup on your Instagram. It was absolutely stunning!! :D
Personally my favorite art tip is make contrast between light and shadow, I feel like I don’t have enough of that a lot of the time, but I do that now, and my art is much better. I think that it’s good to try as much contrast as you can and then maybe tone it down a little.
Thanks for the portrait tips Ross! Always loved Jake Parker’s saying of having a ‘Finished, not perfect’ piece of work! Helped me push through to complete a lot of drawings
I use warm light and cool shadows all the time!! Absolutely my favorite tip and it makes my art pop so much more!
my art tip: always look for FLOW in your shape design, avoiding incongruent and jagged edges that cut off the circulation and consistency of the drawing
What does this mean exactly?
pls put it in more simplified words for a numb like me
@@fruitnure I think he means smooth lines idk
@@meaux7409 pretty sure they mean something like keeping the flow correct. like if the hairs blowing in the wind to the left make sure everything else follows that flow
@@billaniii yh your much better at explaining
God I love this videos, but You know that meme that's like: "how to draw an owl" "Step 1: draw two circles" "Step 2: draw the damn owl", well that's kinda what I feel when he says "I'm going to finish this and I'll check back soon", like bruh-, that's like Magic to me😂😂😂😂 Like seriously, how? Everything looks so clean 😱, No matter what I do, mine's always look "blurry" in a way, this is so sharp like how?????
Use lasso tool then shade.
I know right he just recreates the whole dam painting its like magic
Warm light and cool shadows is one of my favorites too!!!!! It just makes such a difference!
The tip that like the most and i use lately a lot is inverting my sketches. It helps catching mistakes when i'm working on faces, especially eyes in 3/4 positions
I think my favorite art tip isn't one that actually directly affects your art itself:
"Keep your old works."
This doesn't just apply to drawings, obviously, *but* it is extremely helpful to keep at least a handful of what you've produced over time. And then, after a few months, years or just generally a bigger period of time, you can compare your current work to that old stuff and see the progress you've made.
Improvement in most to all forms of art is nearly invisible, you truly do not and cannot feel it, but through this comparison, it becomes tangible, and at least for me, that is what has kept me motivated to keep going and draw further. As I've seen, not seeing progress can easily be demoralizing, so yeah.
Keep your old works, it's worth far more than you might first realize.
sigh, I wish I can see the rendering tips. I mean I LOVE these tips but I always want to see how it looks so crisp and detailed :(.
Actually one of my favorite tips was from your landscape video recently where you explained the rule of thirds. I've been procrastinating on practicing landscape scenes because I don't know where to start but that inspired me to do it!
the exaggerated edges bit has left me beyond shook.I love it so much !!
My tip: Study and implement ambient occlusion into your art, it makes the character look more dimensional
Me: Ok time to sleep!
Phone:* Notification*
My Brain: *Watch His Video*
Me: Ok Sleep Can Wait
Sleep: *Am I A Joke To You?*
Love your videos Ross. 💞 My favorite art tip is to think of value as a number line from 0-100% ! It sounds so simple but helps me a ton!!
The most useful and my personal favorite art tip I have received is before focusing on detail look at the shapes that create the photo and then move on to detail.
Me: Trying to make my own oc
Also me: Needs to be better at drawing first :(
Expectation: "that's actually pretty simple"
Reality: "how did he paint that"
I love flashy colors ! Especially YELLOW AND PINK they catch so much the eye 😍
i've been learning a tons of stuff lately , like literally ty a lot and keep the good work
Lately I been felling low on my art, feels like in no good enough...):
good enough for what? everyone is good enough for learning. if you like drawing, draw
Personal Account your right I will draw till I DIE!!
Dude same!
Don't worry... Its just a phase... The trick here is to keep going anyway. If you have Instagram say it. I am curious to see your art. I bet it looks dope!
I feel you. Art is a struggle, but looking at my old art tends to cheer me up when I think what I'm drawing looks bad. Then I get to see how far I've come 😁
I know that struggle and here's something that helped me a lot: Imagine a party and a boy, let's call him Steve, is bringing a cake. He put a lot of effort into his cake and is very proud of it. But then someone else with an even bigger and better decorated cake comes to the party so Steven feels really bad about his cake. Then a guest sees both cakes and says "wow! Two cakes!"
Moral of the story: every piece of artwork is amazing on its own. Don't compare yourself. The beauty lies in all the different types of artwork and that they even exist :) hope that helps!
*When you think you’re early*
your art is just so inspiring and natural amd well, honestly, gorgeous.❤
Contrasting color. I'm color blind so really studying the color wheel and how you described it throughout your videos has really changed my art for the better. Thank you for making videos and giving knowledge to those who cant be a patron yet
I just drew a portrait and liked it a lot, now because of this video I want to redraw the whole thing dammit.
My favorite art tip;
Don’t be afraid to *go darker-*
My middle school art teacher always told me this because I refused to press the ebony pencils into the paper to make really dark spots, but once a I got used to it the contrast in some of my art was more noticeable because the shades c:
I like that you add the time next to the finished portrait, it gives me a more realistic expectation on how long fully rendered out paintings can take. I'm slowly realizing I need to put in more time to really bring out my artwork.
Favorite Tip! Using sky or background color on portrait skin to ground it more! ever since doing that I've definitely notices it improves my art.
"I've identified my light source, and this is just like a math problem."
*so is that why im so bad at digital painting*
Warm light and cool shadows is the best advice I've received, it helped my painting in so many points ! ♥ Take care Ross !
So excited for NIMA
Awesome work as always!
HIGHLIGHTS AND SHADOWN REALLY HELPS ME WHEN IM DOING DIGITAL ART BECAUSE IT MAKES THE ARTS MORE REALISTIC. ❣
Amazing 😍😍😍😍✨🙏these art videos are so playful and fun to learn
Thanks for sharing these tips! It helps a lot.
Hey! Thank you for the tips. They are indeed really helpful.
My art tip(also to myself) is Contrast. I try really hard to persuade my self do you use darker shadows and more light. I was always scared not to overdo it with the black and white on my paintings until the point I figured out that this is exactly what I must do to make it look cooler and not just plain and boring.
Love your videos! Keep up the good work!
Thank you for your video, it's super useful! My favorite art tip is not being afraid to make mistakes and fail! Failure is a great teacher, along with practice and persistence! ❤
WOW IT LOOKS SO BEAUTIFUL AND THESE TIPS ARE AMAZING!
One of the best art tips that I got was to start a piece with the big, compositional shapes in mind, rather than starting on fine details!✨ This really helped speed up my art process!♥️
My favourite tip is blush! Usually I was putting it only on the cheeks and the nose of my characters, but couple weeks ago I started using it on other parts of the face and body and looks amazing! 💗🌸
great work! I''d love to see a longer video with the full process of how you create your paintings!
I really like the sharp edge tip since I have trouble doing shading so see the tip completely solved my problem 😊
source of light and edges... 💕💕💕💕 Thank you for the tips!!!
One of my fav tips is making some elements that stand in front of the drawing! Like lights bubbles leafs... it gives more dynamism!
I'm completely in love with Nima! She's so cute😍
It was so cool !! When I am drawing I do everything randomly, your tips will help me a lot, thank you !
My favorite tip will always be the ability to see simple shapes in complex objects. It really helped me a lot.
Love your art style so much ❤️
My favorite art tip was about how to pose your character. When I first started out I tried to make them do a lot of stance passes but it didn't feel good. Then I received tips on how to position the body and exaggerate the passing a little too bring out a train of the character. I think it's helped to bring them more to life.
Thanks for the video! I've always wanted to try portraits but I didn't really know what to do and got frustrated work the process. But now I know where to start with! Can't wait for the next one and hope you're safe!
My favorite tip is pairing warm colors with a dash of cool colors and vise versa! It just gives that pop of boldness to a piece that I just love!!
They can Say Whatever Of Ross But He's The Only Artist I Have watched That Actually Breaks Things Down In A Simple Understandable Way ,Plus I Feel That He Is Still Humble!.
I Have Watched Milllions Of Videos And Some Professional Artists Have Forgotten They Were Beginners Too,Thanks For This Video I Needed It!.🤧👏🏿🖌
Loved the warm light and cool shadows never thought of digital drawing that way. As well as taking each painting/drawing with shapes 🤙🏽😄
I think the best tip I ever got was from my art teacher in the 5th grade (that was around 15-16 years ago). He thought me about color theory and how placing certain colors one next to each other (for example red and green) will just make them pop so much more!
Your amazing! I feel so inspired by your art! Definitely subscribed.💖
My favorite tip is high lights + deep shadows, it helped me tons and I feel really proud of my art because of all your tips! ❤️❤️
One of my favorite art tips is probably one from my old art teacher. When drawing figures find the most simple shape in them and from there figure out where the body curves and flows. It has helped me a ton!
Blush!! I really need to have your book lol, just wanted to learn more from you! thank you Ross. I hope you would be able to uplift other artist out there like me! I've given up painting so now I am back because of you! Thank you so much!
Goodness this was really very very helpful. Thank you Ross for doing such a detailed tutorial explaining everything in detail that suits beginners, amateurs and professionals. I would use your tips when doing digital. Thank you Ross
the best art tip I heard is "practice makes permanent, purposeful practice makes perfect". It's taught me to actually think about analyze what I'm doing rather than thinking that mindlessly drawing the same thing over and over will help improve my skills when all it does is really cement any mistakes or blindspots. This tip also keeps art exciting because there's always more to learn no matter where you are on your skills journey :)
My favorite tip that I recently learned in an oil painting class was the "cool/warm" game, where you can define values just by playing between cools and warms. You can have a cool color next to a warm color that are the same value, but by putting them together you can define a highlight or shadow.
I think my favorite tip is understanding relationships in art. Something really important as an artist is knowing the composition and where things lay in relevance to each other, it really helps tie your pieces together!