5 fundamental lessons for beginner artists (WHAT I WISH I KNEW) 

I'm curious how do you do this exactly, like looking and trying to repeat?

Yo same, I love those guys, the way they simplify their process is fascinating

How’s the progress so far. I just started

@@arson4426 What i have found over my past few years of stubbornly (perhaps foolishly) pursuing my creative passion is this: Progress is immeasurably slow. Then, all at once, you experience something of a leap forward. It's never a "huge" leap forward, or it's never been for me, but its an incredible sensation nonetheless. Ive never woken up and thought "oh ive suddenly mastered environment design and have an effective creative workflow", but the realization of something like "im a lot more comfortable constructing volumes in 3D space and have a decent grasp on perspective now" is an immensely rewarding feeling. I try to think about learning art and design in the same way I think about building a pyramid. I imagine getting that first layer of those heavy stones down feels hopelessly fruitless. The base is so much wider than the rest of the structure and it hardly represents what the end product will look like. I imagine the rest of the structure is still a lot of work, but the stages go by much faster, assuming youve properly laid the foundation that is. I dont consider myself "naturally gifted" in regards to art. Perhaps, "naturally interested and passionate" but i cant express how clumsy i originally felt with a pencil in my hand. Even though I still dont have much to show for it, I know Ive come a long way. And, while I still have a VERY long way to go, if I can do it so can anybody.

@@ipsey4794 thank you so much for writing this. Ill continue on my art journey and I hope you do the same

something I recently learned was that once I understand why a certain shape looks good I can draw them with confidence even when they get really abstract.

@@awesomeonejess exactly!! There’s some crazy magical stuff happening when you give it that extra umph of confidence! Something I guess you can only unlock if you do it often or if you really believe in it haha! That’s super cool though! Keep on drawin!🤘

I covered this a lot in the last video but basically the first step is to copy really simple references or scenes from life. Then over time gradually increase the difficulty of them. But the order to which practice is drawing> value painting then full color

Thanks yeah they take me many nights/ weeks to put together.

Thanks for your positivity Iris

You got this!

Thank you 🙏

Basically draw first. Learn to draw things from observation in perspective. I wouldn’t worry quite yet about getting into advanced theory or anything but just get some experience rendering our basic objects in spaces. Then try to shade them adding in values

@@TylerEdlin84 Great advice, thank you!

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Yeah played a lot of fire emblem last month. Those images not specifically but there’s a bunch of freebies for signing up for the newsletter on my site

@@TylerEdlin84 Fire Emblem is always a great time, my favorite franchise, very inspiring for art too! And thanks for the reply, I can't seem to find the newsletter on your website though, only the specific contact form.

I’m very much a big fan

1) there is no fast way to drawing better 2) better drawing tablet won’t make you a better artist 3) references are good

@@TylerEdlin84 Thanks for your answer. My point is, that my current tablet has poor pen pressure detection so drawing stuff like hair is really complicated and time consuming. The reason I typed "i want to become good fast" was mostly about improving. I am studying anatomy on almost daily basis. Doing mastet studies or studies of art I find myself interesting and trying to adapt the techniques used. About the references. Is it necessary a bad thing if you are using posing dummy, trace the pose and then manually update the trace with anything I like? Instead of not-tracing it and doing it the traditonal way of only observing the pose and drawing everything by hand only?

@@jaystergg dude, do it the way you like it, enjoy the process! I personally love photobashing and painting over stuff, its different medium but its really enjoyable.

@@Heisenburg17 I wouldn't really say "photosbashing", but since I don't really understand that much of the basic fundamentals, the main concern about this is, if I can do this at the beginning and leave this controversial technique with time

@@jaystergg Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo used the camera obscura, Norman Rockwell used a projector and so on. I see a lot of modern artists who use projectors in the traditional media.

No just Warcraft illustrations

because they're experienced & high skilled enough that they can juggle with many factors at once. as well as enough planning/experience to paint what they desire. think traditional painting.

Haha yep 👍

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