I help artists achieve their goals. On this channel I focus on analyzing how other artists do things and share my own experiences as an artist. I'm a freelance illustrator who likes to draw expansive worlds for different characters that focuses on story-telling.
This is not good advice. Do NOT fall into your comfortzones. The entire purpose of your sketches is to explore ideas, your first idea is never your best idea. Your comfortzone is literally where your creative process goes to die. Better to have 10 messy drawings than 1 refined drawing at your disposal. In order to speed up your drawing skills you need to stay loose. Focus on big shapes, silhouettes and postures rather than anatomy, design and details. No one can perfectly visualize an image in their head, that's what your sketches and thumbnails are for. Think as an animator, they are the experts and drawing quickly. Break down your characters into simple, easily adjustable shapes, use layers if possible and make sure you have model sheets and references nearby to speed up the cleanup process. Another efficient way of improving your speed is to regularly draw croquis starting with 20 minutes sessions then 10 then 5 then 1 and finally down to 30 second sessions. What you will notice is that you will have a much easier time keeping up if you first started with the 20 minutes sessions than if you jumped straight into the 30 second sessions. The reason for this is because you will force yourself into focusing on the gesture rather than the anatomy, filtering away all the unnecessary information. Good luck with your practice and have fun!
Thanks for sharing this info and introducing me to TenTen. perhaps a review or study of Taco (Korean artist) Taco [LEHZIN] is another that has published a couple of reference books (one in Korean only, another in Korean with English translation) Like TenTen , they are very detailed with anatomical breakdowns that even the non-english are easy to follow along.
funny thing is to draw those diagrams, blocking etc that tenten does - you need to be very good at drawing/painting in the first place - in other words it's pointless
I got his enormous book, it's fantastic but also in Chinese. I hit him up on twitter and asked for an English copy. He could make a ton of money with an English conversion. Awesome video, I enjoyed it a lot.
Where do you get these cool-looking reference photos? I have a few Japanese photo reference books (with semi-nude models), but aside from that, I can never find good photos online that show the figure well.
I usually didn't pay much attention to the technique, if I like it, I like it. So it's nice to see a study like this. And I myself is so mid, I didn't know what I'm doing half of the time, but these artists are so good, they know what they want and how to achieve that ❤❤❤
Es un completo error conceptual y un insulto al método; porque el dibujo tal como se enseña en las academias está basado en el método científico, entonces, el hecho de tratar de introducir elementos tridimensionales en un espacio bidimensional es una incoherencia, matemáticamente es imposible. En consecuencia lo qué explicas es simplemente una perdida de tiempo.
I really struggle with foreshortening. It not only depends on angles but also the distance of the object to the viewer. But the worst part is: how do I practice drawing it more or less accurately? How do I know the foreshortening of a cube doesn't actually make it much longer/shorter along the z axis?
Those exercises are pretty much what I do as a warmup everyday. I also try to do a flip animation to help me learn about movement and flow in 3D space. I dont know who Omao is but I'm glad to have stumble upon their work in this video. I love the dynamic depth of field.
I studied all these little systems in college, and they can help a little, but the only thing that really works is actually learning anatomy. You need to really know what the bones look like and how the muscles attach, and the shape of cartilage. And you need to see actual people in actual poses to bring it all together. Everything else is just a gimmick.
@@kimochiwarui8264 nope it's more like self observation study just looking on tenten art and breaking everything out also he has a study too where you can see how he do some of his studies
