Great video again. Just please stop saying ”sorry if I am rambling”. You are not and even if you were it is great. Be yourself, be free. You are clever and very helpful for us. Don’t minimize yourself please.
That made perfect sense, about personal style! I love that! There is always so much talk about finding your personal style and it is maddening to my adhd brain. This is the first time I’ve ever heard another artist say something like this and it’s wonderful! Thank you!
My medium was color pencil for years, many many years. I often would "paint" with my pencils by using solvents. As you know with color pencils you have to be a bit more thoughtful when planning out your light and dark areas. This could be super frustrating if you got the proportions wrong, and since I was such a purest when it came to proportions I would often end up with false starts. The ah ha moment for me is when I put the pencils down and pick up acrylic paints. and more specifically the you could cover a dark area with lighter value paint. The sensation of "be careful or else" had gone completely away. What I can do now with paints is producing an never stopping series of ah ha moments in my art journey.
I appreciated you leaving in the creating your own universe comparison, rather than “your style”. I didn’t realize it but I had been chastising myself for not being in a “one style box”
Your video’s are so incredibly helpful and inspiring! Thank you for sharing. One of my Aha moments was putting the reference photo upside down and checking my drawing or painting. Works great because you look at the subject as a set of forms and shapes rather than the face your brain dictates you to finish by routine.
Aha 1 sketch with an H pencil to avoid messy erasures . 2 make sure there is enough space on the page to complete drawing - re size appropriately . 3. faces really do break into thirds ( mostly ) 4. if you are bad at drawing hands , hair etc ,watch a bunch of RU-vid tutorials and then do 30 drawings in 30 days and check your progress. You have to convince yourself that you are not stuck at awful . 5. Draw things that you like to look at - I found if I like something I usually draw it well or at least better . 6 .once I have a decent sketch I erase most of it down to a faint line then I imagine an ideal rendering in there then draw it as I want it to look . Sometimes erase many times . Good for hair as it creates depth!
Another great video, Miriam-thanks!! A painter can only work from photos successfully if she/he understands the forms and how light plays on them. The same applies to working from life, it it comes to that: one has to know what to look for and how to look. It's too bad that so many of our contemporary portrait painters haven't been taught this. Another lesson portrait painters should learn is that a portait is a work of fiction, just as a novel is.
Totally made sense. "Style" seen as a universe and me the god that wants to express and bring to life an array of visuals, has helped me understand what I'd like to put out there. You're my all time favorite artist at the moment. Keep up wth the videos thank you.
This video is my favorite of yours yet. “Your art style is a universe” - love that! I would love to hear a more in-depth video about the camera vs the eye (I love anatomy and tech so both are interesting to me) and about the concept of an art style. I’m new to art so I’m navigating trying to find my “style”. Do the differences in the camera vs eye push you to recommend drawing from life rather than a photo? I know people say that, but I don’t have someone to sit still for me to draw from life, lol. I guess myself in a mirror but not ideal
this was so helpful! you're so calm, and you explain things in a way that I can understand (which is hard because the only way i understand things is if i know just about everything about them) thank you! :)
My a-ha moments came when I started using angles instead of relative distances to transfer points from a reference to my canvas. ( intersection of two angles to locate a new feature and a third to check). Also learning the layout of the fatty tissues on the face, and how they change with age, is far more important than focusing on muscles.
What was it about a value map you mentioned? How do you make one? Can you show off your earliest works? I am so curious to see how your work changed from there. My aha moments was that the only way to get better at portraits was to actually paint them lmfao.
Yes! Taking your own reference photos is such a game changer. I do have this video I recently made 😊 Creating your own Reference Photos for Portrait Artists ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PNo6RJhIy0o.html
