I think all the early renaissance artists like Michelangelo and Da Vinci were fan artists as well. I mean, they drew characters from the Bible and stuff.
I really appreciate the fact that you've been pushing the idea of having fun and doing what you enjoy lately.There is no textbook on how to create art. I see a lot of newer artists that are following all of these fundamental guides and just SLAVING over artwork and it almost makes me mad because they're not even enjoying themselves anymore. Not only do I improve the most when I'm having fun, but I also tend to make better work when I'm following my intuition and being myself.
Hey Ahmed, would you ever consider doing a video/ podcast about how you deal with difficult customers? I've only recently started commissions, but I've already had two extremely difficult and demanding customers. How do you deal with them, or at least make the whole process less stressful? I want to pursue a career as a designer, but I'm having a hard time keeping motivated.
First you need to give a rule to them. Like three times big revision max or you will charge more. Also I think you should create sketch and concept as clear as possible since beginning, create some alternative sketch and provide a good visual for them. Because some people are not have good imagination and could illustrate thing like you so a good sketch is the key. If it's just some minor change or request, i think you should just deal with it
Ahmed, I know I chime in on Facebook here and there, but there is so much value in watching and listening to you work. Your premise of working from traditional has had an incredible influence helping my studies. I was having major issues coloring grayscale and just ended up emulating oils as best as I can digitally. So many things happen when you minimize brushes and just go for it with colors traditionally (well, traditional/digital;p) and learn how colors interact with one another.
Ahmed I'm always amazed at how you can get your words and concepts across so effortlessly, clearly, and easily to understand. Did you have to work at speaking, and do you ever have to rehearse what you say beforehand? I mean, you don't even stutter and your voice is amazing!! XD
+Kay Aykay Eesh! Thank you. Interesting that you asked about this - I used to be awful at talking, public speaking, getting my thoughts across... but at school there was a dude who was really impressive at presentations. Steven is crazy good at weaving lines of beautiful rhetoric on the spot while also being captivatingly entertaining. Needless to say, we became good friends and did a skills trade, I taught art and he taught me what he knows about speaking. He had a lot of exposure to stage performance - which explained a lot. It took me about 2 years of being around him before transitioning from a mumbling idiot with incoherent sentences to what I am today. I don't rehearse anything for RUclips. Sometimes I talk to myself in the shower or in the car...but it's just talking aloud. Anyway, if you're interested here's what I'd recommend; -Read a lot. People have already mastered the art of putting words together, it's not a sin to piggy back off of what already exists in terms of literature. -Do impressions of existing performers, whether it's comedians, actors, public speakers - whatever. They're like master studies of paintings, but instead it's about speaking. I like the entertainment stuff. -Be around people who speak with an educated vernacular - challenging each other to out-do one another in terms of speaking. -Always keep it short. Always get to the point. My biggest hurdles were getting all the nonsense out of the way, realizing that a lot of my words were just fillers that represented my insecurities about speaking. -Fail a lot. Acknowledge that it takes time to get good at something. For one of my classes, we had to pick an existing game and design a theme park based on it. I picked the Legend of Zelda. When it came time for presentation, I literally dressed up as Link and put on a show as if I was someone working at the theme park (while everyone else just talked about their artwork etc...). It was horrible, it was my first attempt, but I had to do it to get the bad stuff out of the way. I have footage of this haha...oh boy. Still though, everyone loved it. -Be vulnerable. Allow yourself to be judged, and don't take it personally - use those criticisms to actually adjust your skills (whether it's talking about something on RUclips or a full-on stage performance) -Don't fake it - at first when I started recording RUclips videos, it was very inauthentic because I thought I had to put on some show, or to pretend to be knowledgable or whatever - it comes across as fake and forced. Loosen up and be yourself etc. Thanks for asking!
I've seen your video on Art School, but i decided to apply anyway. But from watching your videos and applying your techniques to my art, i've been accepted to all the Art schools i've applied to so far, so i thank you!
WOW feeling super grateful. Thank you for the answer, it's exactly what I needed to hear because I know I was just going down the exact path of, just being the best at copying X,Y and Z. Definitely going to explore more arts and take a bit from everything and grow to be the best artist I can, thanks again.
this was cool and i'm looking forward to the contest :) if you have time i'd be interested to hear your thoughts on being an artist on youtube, the youtube community etc. There are a lot of artists on youtube but I feel like it's a genre that hasn't been as dominated as gaming videos for example, and I was also wondering how it has impacted your career outside of youtube...? anyway yeah only if you feel like answering :3
+pan I think one of the reasons why there are fewer artists on RUclips and how artists are less successful on youtube than gamers is... well anyone can be a gamer. As long as you understand how to play the game, you can record yourself playing, exaggerate some reactions, etc. As for artists, not everyone can produce beautiful art in the way everybody and play a game. There are very few artists who can create top notch art where non artistic people who know nothing about art would watch. I think that's the primary reason why there aren't too many successful art videos; there's not enough creators.
haha, i see the pint that you started to make it warmer too, i was thinking that it went pretty warm as well tbh. thanks for the video, these help keep me going as i draw my comic. sometimes i just want to go to sleep and watching videos like this keep me motivated to keep going. so keep making the videos :D ill support you as far as i can :D
Can you do a video on how to draw different ethnicities? So that if I were to draw a diverse group of people , there is a sense of differences between all of them.
Hi Ahmed, maybe I arrived a little late to the party since I just recently discovered your videos, but I have a question. I'm 21, I graduated from college as an Actor but mainly did that my whole life because that's what my whole family is into, however I recently realized that the only thing that makes me happy is creating characters and stories, I have drawn my whole life but never really put much thought into studying and getting better until recently so honestly my art isn't that great yet… Based on your experience am I still in time to be a Concept Artist? Your answer won't discourage me, but it just might encourage me further so please be honest. Thanks for your videos! Cheers!
Thanks for another inspiring video sir 😆 and also I want to thank you for your tutorials, because it all teach me a lot even I don't realise I'm improving lol 😅 (just realised it when I do random sketch yesterday) also, I'm really excited about the contest! Hope I can join in tho..
Inspiring speech, also in Fan Art, i think people should draw it with passion, characters that you are really a fan, that make you smile, dream, get sad, get happy. And not just googling whats the most famous character at the moment and draw it just to get some likes( i had seen tons of mistakes, for example Characters that cant fly, here you will now the artist didnt watched the show). If you fan art haves passsion people will notice it and the feedback will be greater than drawing a character just because everyone is doing it right now, it may get lost in the tons of images they upload a day.
I just stumbled on your channel and I feel like you're a really funny and interesting person and I like listening to you. I'm not that good at speaking english so I'm sorry if my compliments feel a bit extreme. I guess they actually are. I will definetely take a closer look at your stuff and your videos because I can. Huh... Well... Is there more to say about this? I guess not. Today I tried to draw Daenerys Targaryen and the nose ended up to big so it became a Star Wars + Game of Thrones Mash up with Daenerys and Kylo Ren mixed together and now I got Dylo TargaRen. I didn't upload a video of this. Just felt like i should share this past of mine.
Hi Ahmed. Thanks for the vids! I want to ask if you would ever consider doing a tutorial on photoshop and the elements of the software you think are amazing, and which parts you don't really use? thanks again!! P.S the girls you draw are sooo frigin good!!!! one day i'll catch up to you :P
hey idk if this is a dumb question but how do you come up w good backgrounds?? Usually i onlymake a base color as the background but it makes my drawings look boring do you have any tips to add more flavor to my drawings because atm i feel like it's making my drawing look flat and boring
+Bentacles K Sure! I can say the following; If you're going to add a background to your character (or anything), understand that it's an extension of the character. Meaning, the shapes should sort of "grow" out of your focal point in order to support it. Maybe they are directional lines pointed to it, or diagonal slashes for dynamics, but they will serve as underlays for actual content. For example, if you're drawing a mermaid character, you could put guidelines that support her all around. Using those guidelines (let's say they're diagonals) you can fill it in with themed things like sunken ships, sharks, seaweeds etc - but the key is to establish a shape language that feels like it is part of the character. I suppose I'll have to do a tutorial on this to better explain it.
my favorite painter is salvador dali. I looked at his art a little bit in high school. people who know him say my drawings definitely contains elements of his work. I never meant for it to seem like that. but apparently it happens. lol
when i use the liquefy tool it makes the part i just moved opaque, i've noticed it doesn't happen to you. if you know why, help would be appreciated. thanks
+Sgt. Waffle It's a bug in PS. I use a mac, so I don't know if it works on Windows, but try holding down the alt key when you click liquify (like, go to filters, hold down alt and click liquify). If it works it should solve the problem :)
@ 6:30 It seems like the point you are trying to make is that its possible you wouldn't like that artist work as much if they were doing their own stuff, not just fan art. I'm not against it myself, but as a comic artist that makes my own books, I get a little uppity about all the artist that just do fanart and never draw sequentials. And even in that I'm a bit of a hypocrite, bc I did a twenty page Supernatural fan comic myself. Mostly bc I was in the middle of a massive creative block and needed a project to break me out of it.
yo ahmed!! what country are u originally from? i just noticed that ur logo representes a bird (doori) that mainly is ur last name lol cool... P.S: im arab, well lebanese... sooo... thats why i can relate to ur arab issues 😂 another P.S: i love ur work.
i really dislike when people say other people are talented... it just seems to put down the years and years of super hard work they put in to get there... honestly the only "talent" they have is sheer dedication to their craft (not that i like sakamichan's art that much since it's pretty much the same thing over and over)
I think all the early renaissance artists like Michelangelo and Da Vinci were fan artists as well. I mean, they drew characters from the Bible and stuff.
The Bible fandom was pretty toxic I would say myself. Burning people just because they were from the science fandom.
@@echu.6929 huh??
I really appreciate the fact that you've been pushing the idea of having fun and doing what you enjoy lately.There is no textbook on how to create art. I see a lot of newer artists that are following all of these fundamental guides and just SLAVING over artwork and it almost makes me mad because they're not even enjoying themselves anymore. Not only do I improve the most when I'm having fun, but I also tend to make better work when I'm following my intuition and being myself.
Hey Ahmed, would you ever consider doing a video/ podcast about how you deal with difficult customers? I've only recently started commissions, but I've already had two extremely difficult and demanding customers. How do you deal with them, or at least make the whole process less stressful? I want to pursue a career as a designer, but I'm having a hard time keeping motivated.
+JesusLikeBread im wondering how you even get started and get clients to do commissions for
First you need to give a rule to them. Like three times big revision max or you will charge more. Also I think you should create sketch and concept as clear as possible since beginning, create some alternative sketch and provide a good visual for them. Because some people are not have good imagination and could illustrate thing like you so a good sketch is the key. If it's just some minor change or request, i think you should just deal with it
Ahmed,
I know I chime in on Facebook here and there, but there is so much value in watching and listening to you work. Your premise of working from traditional has had an incredible influence helping my studies. I was having major issues coloring grayscale and just ended up emulating oils as best as I can digitally. So many things happen when you minimize brushes and just go for it with colors traditionally (well, traditional/digital;p) and learn how colors interact with one another.
oh my goodness. I'm just learning how to draw and paint (currently doing figure studies) and this is my new favorite channel.
Ahmed I'm always amazed at how you can get your words and concepts across so effortlessly, clearly, and easily to understand. Did you have to work at speaking, and do you ever have to rehearse what you say beforehand? I mean, you don't even stutter and your voice is amazing!! XD
+Kay Aykay Eesh! Thank you. Interesting that you asked about this - I used to be awful at talking, public speaking, getting my thoughts across... but at school there was a dude who was really impressive at presentations. Steven is crazy good at weaving lines of beautiful rhetoric on the spot while also being captivatingly entertaining. Needless to say, we became good friends and did a skills trade, I taught art and he taught me what he knows about speaking. He had a lot of exposure to stage performance - which explained a lot.
It took me about 2 years of being around him before transitioning from a mumbling idiot with incoherent sentences to what I am today. I don't rehearse anything for RUclips. Sometimes I talk to myself in the shower or in the car...but it's just talking aloud. Anyway, if you're interested here's what I'd recommend;
-Read a lot. People have already mastered the art of putting words together, it's not a sin to piggy back off of what already exists in terms of literature.
-Do impressions of existing performers, whether it's comedians, actors, public speakers - whatever. They're like master studies of paintings, but instead it's about speaking. I like the entertainment stuff.
-Be around people who speak with an educated vernacular - challenging each other to out-do one another in terms of speaking.
-Always keep it short. Always get to the point. My biggest hurdles were getting all the nonsense out of the way, realizing that a lot of my words were just fillers that represented my insecurities about speaking.
-Fail a lot. Acknowledge that it takes time to get good at something. For one of my classes, we had to pick an existing game and design a theme park based on it. I picked the Legend of Zelda. When it came time for presentation, I literally dressed up as Link and put on a show as if I was someone working at the theme park (while everyone else just talked about their artwork etc...). It was horrible, it was my first attempt, but I had to do it to get the bad stuff out of the way. I have footage of this haha...oh boy. Still though, everyone loved it.
-Be vulnerable. Allow yourself to be judged, and don't take it personally - use those criticisms to actually adjust your skills (whether it's talking about something on RUclips or a full-on stage performance)
-Don't fake it - at first when I started recording RUclips videos, it was very inauthentic because I thought I had to put on some show, or to pretend to be knowledgable or whatever - it comes across as fake and forced. Loosen up and be yourself etc.
Thanks for asking!
Not going to be an art contest!? 😭 but that's the only thing I can do! Hahaha
+Ashleigh Fletcher Those were my exact thoughts, haha...
I've seen your video on Art School, but i decided to apply anyway. But from watching your videos and applying your techniques to my art, i've been accepted to all the Art schools i've applied to so far, so i thank you!
WOW feeling super grateful. Thank you for the answer, it's exactly what I needed to hear because I know I was just going down the exact path of, just being the best at copying X,Y and Z. Definitely going to explore more arts and take a bit from everything and grow to be the best artist I can, thanks again.
this was cool and i'm looking forward to the contest :) if you have time i'd be interested to hear your thoughts on being an artist on youtube, the youtube community etc. There are a lot of artists on youtube but I feel like it's a genre that hasn't been as dominated as gaming videos for example, and I was also wondering how it has impacted your career outside of youtube...? anyway yeah only if you feel like answering :3
+pan I think one of the reasons why there are fewer artists on RUclips and how artists are less successful on youtube than gamers is... well anyone can be a gamer. As long as you understand how to play the game, you can record yourself playing, exaggerate some reactions, etc. As for artists, not everyone can produce beautiful art in the way everybody and play a game. There are very few artists who can create top notch art where non artistic people who know nothing about art would watch. I think that's the primary reason why there aren't too many successful art videos; there's not enough creators.
+TheCoffeeMonster that's a really good point!!
+Zjonrum :0 i merely respect ahmed's opinion and i've been thinking about the subject ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
oh god this is so good !! i love your drawing wayyyy more than anything ! please keep posting them :D
Watching your videos is refreshing sometimes. Thanks.
Man I love it finally an Arabic guy is pretty good in art and draws (Fantasy) I'll support you for sure !!
haha, i see the pint that you started to make it warmer too, i was thinking that it went pretty warm as well tbh. thanks for the video, these help keep me going as i draw my comic. sometimes i just want to go to sleep and watching videos like this keep me motivated to keep going. so keep making the videos :D ill support you as far as i can :D
Can you do a video on how to draw different ethnicities? So that if I were to draw a diverse group of people , there is a sense of differences between all of them.
wonderful painting, love the traditional looking painting style~ oh man I'm so excited for that contest now I wonder what it's gonna be ;A;
just looks amazing.love your videos and style !!
very beautiful, and great advice
Awsome painting , your paintings are better than fan art , keep up the good work :D
Hi Ahmed, maybe I arrived a little late to the party since I just recently discovered your videos, but I have a question. I'm 21, I graduated from college as an Actor but mainly did that my whole life because that's what my whole family is into, however I recently realized that the only thing that makes me happy is creating characters and stories, I have drawn my whole life but never really put much thought into studying and getting better until recently so honestly my art isn't that great yet… Based on your experience am I still in time to be a Concept Artist?
Your answer won't discourage me, but it just might encourage me further so please be honest. Thanks for your videos! Cheers!
hello akkkhmed... thanks for your videos, i learn how to practice and i develop my way too... thanks and keep doing your videos
Something diffrent but really magical
I actually love your style so much
You've got us all hooked on a cliff hanger! ;)
you dont know how much i've improved thanks to you. my english sucks but i think you get the idea
Thanks for another inspiring video sir 😆
and also I want to thank you for your tutorials, because it all teach me a lot even I don't realise I'm improving lol 😅 (just realised it when I do random sketch yesterday)
also, I'm really excited about the contest! Hope I can join in tho..
Damn you mention Sakimichan a LOT :D Your videos are very inspiring Ahmed. I'm glad I found you via Sycras Lifestream. :)
How often do you manipulate your flow or opacity om your painting ?
Inspiring speech, also in Fan Art, i think people should draw it with passion, characters that you are really a fan, that make you smile, dream, get sad, get happy. And not just googling whats the most famous character at the moment and draw it just to get some likes( i had seen tons of mistakes, for example Characters that cant fly, here you will now the artist didnt watched the show).
If you fan art haves passsion people will notice it and the feedback will be greater than drawing a character just because everyone is doing it right now, it may get lost in the tons of images they upload a day.
I just stumbled on your channel and I feel like you're a really funny and interesting person and I like listening to you. I'm not that good at speaking english so I'm sorry if my compliments feel a bit extreme. I guess they actually are.
I will definetely take a closer look at your stuff and your videos because I can.
Huh... Well... Is there more to say about this? I guess not. Today I tried to draw Daenerys Targaryen and the nose ended up to big so it became a Star Wars + Game of Thrones Mash up with Daenerys and Kylo Ren mixed together and now I got Dylo TargaRen. I didn't upload a video of this. Just felt like i should share this past of mine.
Hi Ahmed. Thanks for the vids! I want to ask if you would ever consider doing a tutorial on photoshop and the elements of the software you think are amazing, and which parts you don't really use? thanks again!!
P.S the girls you draw are sooo frigin good!!!! one day i'll catch up to you :P
Is it a cottonwood sketchbook? But Oh. Snappp. Not an art contest? Out of the comfort zone?? I'm nervous but excited for this contest! :B
so beautiful, i wish i could paint as well as you..... oh wait. you said not to say that, nevermind, i still think its beautiful!
Oh man I can't wait to hear what the contest is, I'm up for the challenge!!
JOHN SINGER SARGENT HELL YEEEAAAH
Brushes are in the description
How do you keep your values in check while painting with color? I can keep values in line when in grayscale, but not in color.
YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yay! contest! contest! what will it be..? :D
hey idk if this is a dumb question but how do you come up w good backgrounds?? Usually i onlymake a base color as the background but it makes my drawings look boring do you have any tips to add more flavor to my drawings because atm i feel like it's making my drawing look flat and boring
+Bentacles K Sure! I can say the following; If you're going to add a background to your character (or anything), understand that it's an extension of the character. Meaning, the shapes should sort of "grow" out of your focal point in order to support it. Maybe they are directional lines pointed to it, or diagonal slashes for dynamics, but they will serve as underlays for actual content.
For example, if you're drawing a mermaid character, you could put guidelines that support her all around. Using those guidelines (let's say they're diagonals) you can fill it in with themed things like sunken ships, sharks, seaweeds etc - but the key is to establish a shape language that feels like it is part of the character.
I suppose I'll have to do a tutorial on this to better explain it.
I have a question I would like to see on a video if you feel like explaining.
How do you come about doing backgrounds for scenes?
Manga Contest? I've recently watched "bakuman
my favorite painter is salvador dali. I looked at his art a little bit in high school. people who know him say my drawings definitely contains elements of his work. I never meant for it to seem like that. but apparently it happens. lol
when i use the liquefy tool it makes the part i just moved opaque, i've noticed it doesn't happen to you. if you know why, help would be appreciated. thanks
+Sgt. Waffle It's a bug in PS. I use a mac, so I don't know if it works on Windows, but try holding down the alt key when you click liquify (like, go to filters, hold down alt and click liquify). If it works it should solve the problem :)
Yeah that obstacle... too real
Amazing!
+Ed Helloooooo
+Ahmed Aldoori Heeyyyyyyy
it kinda sucks to get spoiled in the beggining of the video ._.
+Cowboy Tanaka Noted! Thanks
Can you do a tutorial on how you do the picture over sketch coloring thing
@ 6:30 It seems like the point you are trying to make is that its possible you wouldn't like that artist work as much if they were doing their own stuff, not just fan art. I'm not against it myself, but as a comic artist that makes my own books, I get a little uppity about all the artist that just do fanart and never draw sequentials. And even in that I'm a bit of a hypocrite, bc I did a twenty page Supernatural fan comic myself. Mostly bc I was in the middle of a massive creative block and needed a project to break me out of it.
yo ahmed!! what country are u originally from? i just noticed that ur logo representes a bird (doori) that mainly is ur last name lol cool...
P.S: im arab, well lebanese... sooo... thats why i can relate to ur arab issues 😂
another P.S: i love ur work.
+Patrick Kfoury haha I'm originally from Iraq, and yes! Spot on, you're the first person to tie in my logo to my last name
Clicck!
+// HVBBLEZ // ;)
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amazing painting! i also liked it better in the beginning, but it turned out great nonetheless!
I really struggle with giving a cohesive look to an illustration in photoshop, dunno why.
I can't wait to see the contest XDD
i really dislike when people say other people are talented... it just seems to put down the years and years of super hard work they put in to get there...
honestly the only "talent" they have is sheer dedication to their craft (not that i like sakamichan's art that much since it's pretty much the same thing over and over)
+SweatiestDegree I suppose I should have used the word skilled - it's what I meant at least.
yeah I know you know that, but a lot of people still think talent is the major factor when it comes to decide who can and can't do art :p
ahmad i think you are my cosin some how ! cuz im from aldoor too😀😇
well, if you want to be an animator you should be able to adopt styles pretty fast.
WE WANT MORE STREAMS ACXHMED! (:D)
Pleas do fanart
Be a better version of yourself :)