Your approach to teaching is sooo good! You cut out the BS, and get to useable and digestible information! Thank you for all you do for aspiring artists. 👍
@@CrabbinFever of course! The great thing about art is that it's so diverse and there are so many different ways to draw, you're bound to find something that fits you :) wishing you a good time in your art journey
and he is still using color to paint instead of greyscale... The very fact he is using a multi-color brush just futher show that color matters, is just how much it matters for your style or not! it's actually better to go for a multi-color brush for what he was doing, since skin have different hue inside it, a multi color brush will blend those different colors better. I agree on his point that the shapes and values are very important, but saying color doesn't matter is like saying a big portrait filled with red doesn't change from a big blue portrait. it will change the feeling, impression, interpretation. a lot of red can actually cause your heart to beat faster. i know someone who was painting a gigantic red canvas with different hue of red, and he had to take breaks often because of the color overstimulation that is red. I'm not a fan of how devaluing the worth of color is his way to go personally. i think just saying you shouldnt focus on color first, or focusing on value first before thinking about colors would have been a better wording, but his way of saying is meaning that color just doesnt matter at all... choosing colors is part of the process, wether you wanna work with them or go the easier way by building your values first instead of in tandem is up to you. art isn't a mono-path, there's endless path. it's a form of expression after all... and in some art, color IS the main thing :)
to be fair, when you zoom those colors out so much, they average into a vague beige-y color that works fine here a brush that draws random vibrant colors for like, a fifth of a second and then switches, would illustrate this much better because the mess of colors would be much more noticeable
I think you're missing the point. If that were to open, the values of the colors would have to massively change. They look subdued because the values are not changing, hence the point that value is extremely important
i was just explaining this into another comment. As a proffessional artist i'm very aware of what he is doing here, a visual mixture were there's so much of everything in very tiny amounts, that it all averages out. it actually conyradicts his own premise.
An amazing way to learn value is to restrict yourself to three values, it's just enough to get a great result that doesn't look like a stupid exercise, but just so little that you have to really make some dramatic creative decisions. It's an amazing leading tool.
@@MFDOOOOM First I only draw. You can call it a value study but what i like doing is doing a finished portrait with only three values, you have to push and pull stuff into and out of the shadows/light and actively think about how to make it work, I've finished a few "pieces" like this and it can look really good. The great thing is it takes some of the burden of perfect realism of you and replaces it with some creative problem solving, which is definitely something I had been missing before...
@@MFDOOOOM btw it can be really really hard to get a actually good looking finished piece but it's worthwhile because you learn A LOT, in writing this because my head almost exploded just now but staying on the the values really is forcing me to stay from the reference and think about how the results can be made to work. It's really hard though...
@@brownfamily1892 could be, but it's up to you, depends on what your drawing, light situation too, figuring it out and deciding is the point. It's a really interesting experience to start designing a little with this, often I feel it makes a drawing better
Not to detract at all from your amazing lesson, but painting by numbers helped me with this when I was a kid. Realizing that I’d just add black or white to a color and then just paining the spot that has that color made a big difference when recognizing value. They still make them too
@@Lylslet someone's obviously never done Acid...the Kaleidoscope thing doesn't really happen except for a few specific types of Acid that aren't really produced anymore
@sidthesloth12 it's different for everyone I do acid or shrooms on a boys trip like twice a year and they'll still appear usually when I look out at stars and even when I close my eyes really hard
This 1 minute short video was better explained than all of the art classes I've ever had. I truly hope this man is an educator of any kind and someday gets to teach big classes. More people need this type of clarity. This has made me unexpectedly very happy. If the creator of the video reads this, your teaching skills are dope and I'm wishing you all the best. ❤
Teaching is a skill that's so undervalued until it's displayed in a way like this. To be able to convey a thought into words, and subsequently into an example that thousands can relate to immediately is a trained skill in itself. Bravo 👏
Teaching is undervalued? First I'm hearinf of it and that's sad to hear. Is it pride and narcissism that shuts young people down from good teachers like him today?
@@SoulDelSol I'm saying teaching in a way that can be understood by thousands is an undervalued skill, not teaching itself. Don't make this a generational thing because it isn't. :)
This is awesome. I was challenged by an art teacher to do an image with 3 colors. I chose pink, blue, and orange, and with the right amount of each i was to create a range of values for a portrait. Still probably one of my favorites, even though my preferred mediums has always been graphite/charcoal.
No fr.. when he said that I thought myself: “Ya he’s definitely tripped on acid before because that’s really what it can look like” people who haven’t tripped usually think it’s some crazy/insane kaleidoscope world (which it can be if you take a massive dose). But a typical, non life altering dose is a lot more like this lol.
but he used colors that when mixed makes a pretty decent skin tone color i want to see it done with colors that don’t already go together if color really doesn’t matter
I dont draw or have much artistic knowledge but Ive been 3atching this shorts more and more. Your style of teaching is very informative and thought out
@@Lisa_is_an_evil_snail no it's not. He is using a visual mixture similar but automated and dumbed down to those of impressionistic paintintings, were color does indeed matter, but you have a tiny chunk of each, to were at a distance it works like a regular mix, but up close you notice the separation. in practice, what he is doing here is achieving some level of neutrality with all the bits of apposing colors, which in of itself disproves his point. doing this, and painting a black and white painting, aren't much different. (but achieving a nice looking neutral in traditional painting by neutralizing of course requires some skill/knowledge)
Yeah for real, color therory matters, A LOT. The fact that this mtf choice very muted and basic skin colour tones to "prove it" it just silly. "Yeah guys colors actually dosent matter let me demonstrate whit my crazy wacky palette🤪 (that's all skintones but let's ignore that and give shit advice)
For real. He basically made a monochromatic picture. Which is fine. It looks good. but actually working in muted tones, know how they play off of each other and effect one another is also very important. I also dislike how he elevates his process, sketch then values then color, as if it is the sole way of doing things, when in reality there is so many other methods that start with blocking in colors or choosing colors.
He didnt tho. Its pretty much transparent greens and reds on top of eachother which make brown/ flesh tones ,depending on the mixture and saturation. its basic color theory. Hes using it and saying it dosent matter at the same time. @Account-fk8cx
The values and brightness and stuff are part of the colors. Draw it with just only full dark or full empty, you will see it’s not possible to make the same style. This post made me realize color is EVEN MORE important than I thought before.
the only other short i’ve seen from this channel was about how color is pretty much everything and you don’t need to waste time drawing or draw well as long as you pick the right tones at different lines they will create angles and distance and such,,, so now im confused
And your comment made me suddenly remember an old digital art program I used to use as a kid! I totally forgot about it all this time (over a decade), but now I have one particular brush in mind and I can hear the sound effect that played while I was using it 🥹🥹🥹
did you also have to draw optical illusion striped tubes?? im convinced every schools art class did that (but other than that it also reminds me of kidpix lol)
I love this. When i saw Van Gogh's art in person i saw the imperfection up close and the beauty when i stepped back. It really helped me let go of perfection.
You’re a really really good teacher bro. I can’t usually take instruction from anyone else. It hurts my autism but fuck man you got away of just explaining things so concisely. Well done. Makes me want to draw again🥹🙏🏽
...this doesn't show what you purport it to show. This demonstrates that a bunch of little chopped up colors will "blend" to the human eye. It definitely does not show that "color does not matter as much as you think it does." Besides that, values are literally a part of colors. And besides THAT, this style of painting is going to involve a ton of dry-brushing if you're doing it traditionally, or transparency if digitally. So it's not going to help people doing cel shading and trying to figure out what that should be, for example. Fundamentals are indeed very important, but color control/color theory is a completely valid concern that shouldn't be dismissed.
Values, saturation, and hue are all parts of colour and I feel like separating any part out entirely is pointless, understanding the place all of those have in a piece and how best to use those is important but you should actively be applying that knowledge to your use of colour and colour theory not just focusing on one part over the other
Obv aimed at beginners, defining value and using the everyday meaning of "color". Then talking about ppl coming to him to help with "colors" but most of the time it's an issue with the values. And because it's aimed at beginners that are worried about color, then using a color jitter brush is a very direct and didactic way of getting that overreliance that almost every beginner artist deals with; look at beginner-level tutorials and half of it is how to handle layer modes and color palettes. Meant to show how important values are in a painting to the artists that maybe don't see the point of grayscale yet, or are in the style feedback loop.
How much what matters really depends on the medium for example in very simplified art like 16x16 pixel art color and value matter a lot more than in something like comic art
This is literally the OPPOSITE of the other short you made highlighting the importance of color and value, and that drawing didnt matter. Literally the exact opposite dude I had commented that color focus, was how i was taught to paint with oils.
I think this shows that color does absolutely matter because all of the colors that he put into his custom brush are colors that are found in skin tones. If he had used a bunch of different colors that, when mixed together, weren't reminiscent of natural skintone, were would have a different kind of drawing.
@@Am-fp7pn It is more important than people think. Color is value, hue, and saturation. It's the emotional basis of feeling and more pungent than shape, form, or texture. Color is king.
Interesting related fact: video compression saves space by reducing hue bits and prioritizing brightness information instead. We do something similar for subpixel antialiasing in font rendering (the color fringes you see on windows and some other systems if you take a text screenshot and zoom in a lot). Value is much more important in terms of perception than hue.
lol coming from the most conceited comment in the thread XD literally everyone else is praising how eye opening it is. Nothing about this was that hard to follow man, sorry if that frustrated you so much that you felt the need to try and make him feel lesser.
It's actually more complex with color. Your colors on the picture have balance and rhythm but when working with actually different colors it's much more complex to build a balance.
I am still cracking up from your video from your portraits with your partner. You have some incredible skills. I don't do digital or portraits, though watching you create is so much FUN.
Color is literally the presence and absence of light, value is what determines how much of that light is part of the color. Color is still important, just not the stereotypical colors on a color wheel.
I LOVE how you teach and describe the process!! I’m so excited to introduce your channel to my students this fall … I think you will be a great inspiration for my drawing 1 students !!! Keep up the great content !!! And thank you!
My uni professor made us do gesture drawings in 3 different colors all the time just to warm up before studio class actually began. Then for projects, exams, etc. it was always neutrals or colors within the same family. I really really loved that class.
Instead of creating a brush like that, you could have just used a normal pencil, but this works too, I guess. When explaining value, hue and saturation, it is a good idea to use the HSV color space and actually show the values while you are drawing.
It’s all about contrast to communicate form. What’s fun is when you challenge yourself to draw the same picture using only hue/value/temperature for contrast. Because you can actually make a convincing contrasted portrait with the similar value all over but varying hue or temperature shifts.
Ive been seeing you on youtube shorts alot this past week, and you really inspired me to want to draw especially because your explanations really show how simple it is compared to how complex it looks. Specifically i wanted to learn because i wanted to get a gift for my girlfriend on her birthday and although our relationship has been rocky from the start, i still love her and i hope when she sees the picture i drew of her with the other gifts im going to get her, that she sees how beautiful she is. Thank you for sparking this creation in me.
I saw a video doing the colorblind pallet challenge and I thought that was so dope. Color is irrelevant (almost) 100% . Putting your emotion on the canvas in your style is far more important. (Colorblind pallet is putting everything in grayscale and picking colors at random, then spiral blending them together and picking 8ish colors to paint with, finishing the piece and then turning grayscale off.)
This creator does two things exceptionally well. They're doing a fantastic step by step guide on the 'how' while also dismantling with evidence the excuses that normally hold people back.
I absolutely LOVE this explanation. I make historical/fantasy minecraft skins and I've started to teach others as well. This is exactly how I think when making my art.
