FIXING Moderndayjames' TRASH ART 

whom should I DESTROY next? Was I unfair to JamesyBoy?

Despite the fact that my self esteem and revenue have been destroyed, I loved the video! I definitely agree about these points, focusing on the smaller details rather than shape has been a big shortcoming. But I do apologize about insulting your dog

I love how he uses negative click bait titles to bring in attention but then just compliments them throughout the video lol

"Entertainment matters more than the truth." you just summarized not only art but like the past 5 years of our lives, my dude

He took off his glasses and I could no longer hear what he was saying.

Please hold my little baby hand and lead me to success

Ethan: "this never helped me don't use it, forget it" me in medical school and also hobby artist: *confused screaming*

"I see that happening on a character and then I touch myself..." -Ethan Becker

*looks at friend* "TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES SO I CAN DRAW RIGHT"

explaining how to draw a cube tutorial : learn to draw straight lines with free hand and practice drawing cubes ,when lines go further from you they get closer moderndayjames : now this is straight narrow edge in 0 degress now continue each 4 point from superior anterior position to posterior position from a 90 degree angle from each point while thinking about 0 degree straight edges moving away from you posteriorly at 90 - 10 = 5 % wr024204...

“I’m gonna spit a little secret on yay!” He’s like a weird Bob Ross

I hadn’t heard of Moderndayjames, thank you for helping me find more art RU-vidrs

god (blessed yt algorithms) put you on my path. i've been struggling so much with my art lately, it's stiff and unnatural and i don't like looking at it. your videos have helped me so much to gain a fresh and new perspective on how to approach developing and growing my art. i've just started following your study techniques, and they are so much more intuitive and FUN. i feel like this is exactly what i needed to start stepping away from "anatomically correct" to more dynamic and interesting work. thank you SO SO MUCH for these videos, i'm looking forward to more!!!

6:46 *So typically when I see that happen on a character I touch myself--*

I wanna point out to everyone. Ethan isnt actually shitting on anyone, he's just giving critique. Theres a lot of solid advice in all these videos. Plus Ethan is using a character (almost similar to old school wrestler personas) and with that persona giving great art advice and helping young artists and older artists avoid mistakes that people tend to make. I love these videos Ethan never stop making them.

"After that you can breakdown and do whatever you want" ... I never want to breakdown but I always do

This channel has influenced my art and art workflow so much. Thank you for making art seems fun again. I think I've had a bit to many years of working the wrong way, looking to perfect the small details rather than working on the bigger picture. Thank you.

"Entertainment matters more than the truth"

In short: Don't draw anatomy, draw shApEs

No One: Absolutely No One: Ethan: You walk in here, you insult me, you insult my dog, you insult my jacket...

So funny dude, more people need to watch you!!

"Enternainment is more important than Reality" Finally, someone who thinks like me. Subscribed, rang the bell, and reported this video as offensive. Keep up the vids good sir!

"I see that happening on a character, and I touch myself" -Ethan Becker

mom: what the hell are you doing? me, slapping and staring at my thighs: art.

Ethan Becker - I'm not Proko (Moderndayjames diss)

I love Vivziepop's art, but I'm really interested in what you think about this very "cartoony" style.

This man just can not find a place to put his microphone.

"Entertainment matters more than the truth" Thank you man! That's what I've always thought but didn't explicitly know.

In my Psychology class this last term I was reading about how it's much easier for us to determine someone's emotion by mirroring their expression, and I've implemented that in my drawing. So when I want to make a character express a certain emotion I try to make the face that makes me feel like that. When it comes out good, I can look at the face I drew and it makes me feel that way, especially the happy ones. Also, with poses I try to make the pose or, like you said, touch myself. This really helps with drawing a realistic pose, but I definitely need to work on making my poses more dynamic and interesting.

How can this man be so insanely pretty? He has the face of an elf and the energy of a kind hearted crackhead

I do concur with both of you in some ways. My late professor of drawing taught us about something he called "reduction". He made us push ourselves to the point where our drawings or paintings were somewhat "photorealistic", exhausting ourselves to the maximum. That made us discover (each student for ourselves) new ways to get the same results faster and with less effort "reducing" the path from A to B; drawing without measuring or perspective grids; without focusing on details which in a blink of an eye a normal person wouldn't even notice . He also had his "gods of art" which he constantly made us study: for portraits Hans Holbein Jr.; for lineweight Albrecht Dürer; for figure and gestures Peter Paul Rubens; for lighting Rembrandt; and for color Manet . He taught us to focus on good shapes, but not to forget anatomy and fine art form, comparing art to math saying that with practice we'll find better and easier ways to solve a problem.. Sadly he passed away when I was 2nd year, and our new professor didn't concur with the late one's teachings, neglecting anatomy too much for the sake of expression "and good shapes" and etc. (...as all of the other professors did) despite some of us trying to push the "teachings" forward. So I guess balancing out knowledge and "reduction" is the way to go.

Hi Ethan, I'm an aspiring concept artist and I'm also self-taught. How much anatomy do I need to know to make it look convincing?

BASED, How can PrettyBoyJames even recover after this?

I've watched your stuff for only a week and i'm already improving like crazy, thank god for your channel!!!

Is- is this alllowed...?

Art advertisements: “ in order to draw you must learn the muscles first, right here we have the usdvhsdvihsdhvksdhcjk muscle, if you learn that you can draw anything you want from your head. To do the rest of the course please pay $67,376,372,783,949,872,738,498,120,000,000.5” I mean if your taking an anatomy class it might be helpful.

Bro, perspectives are so underrated.

5:12 "They're not looking at the frickin tobliqus of the dextoid". Lol

Ethan Becker spitting secrets at us like a proper gentleman.

"Touch yourself to learn more"....priceless advice bro XD

Ethan: talking about Moderndayjames' art Me: Vibing with the music

I love how you just have fun with your videos WHILST giving genuinely good advice

'less is more' Sir Isaac Newton A famous alchemist

this guy walks at the fine line between real criticism and sarcasm

I think that is the different between animator and traditional artist. Animator is more focus on movement and flow and traditional is focus on accuracy. In animation accuracy is not as important as the motion.

You have to learn to walk before you can run. Learning anatomy is the first step and then you learn to exaggerate, stylize and focus on creating fluid poses. You can't skip the first step in your rush to reach the second step

"I see his work, and I touch myself, and I reach around..." woah there Ethan.

"Entertainment is more important than the truth." Truer words have never been spoken.

My guy you should be a motivational speaker, this shit inspired me to draw again.

"Study all you can, and do what works for you." That's how i view things. Am i good at art? Somewhat. Am i learning? Yes. I simplify shapes to help build up them to be complex, because that's how i draw currently. I learn best when things are complex, so i can simplify them in my own way, and build up in complexity.

It's funny because I used hate Ethan's quirky ironic humor but now it makes me giggle like a fucking idiot. Love his tips too! :)

This helps me out so much more. I was freaking out so much about how I need to get all the detail of the skeleton and muscles. What I should care about is shape and how the body looks and functions with turns and twists. I would like to become a character designer and dynamic poses are very difficult for me since I’m self taught. A lot of your advice is very helpful. Now I need to fully put this into action with studying.

"Entertainment is more important than the truth" - The truth

I just love how he fades or sometimes even cuts straights his "If you liked this video, subscribe, like, comment and share". Like "Yeah Imma do what the others do, but also, not." He's inting what's he saying but also never really going through it. Didn't know that finding a way to make it original was possible. But then, Ethan appeared.

After 1 week of trying to learn anatomy and then trying to apply it....rigid figures. Thank you so much for this. It’s 2 am and I’m done . Back to drawing like normal artists.

“i gotta tell ya after i saw this shape” proceeds to draw pp

Ethan is like that bully that actually motivates u to be better in a harsh true way😂

This tends to be why i find Game concept art so intimidating. Great video 8/10

The character development in this video is giving me back pain

Ethan, you're my hero! 1:17

You are just saying exactly how I study xD Focusing too much on the details is a mistake we all make as beginners, but don't get confused, it is necessary to go through this, learn the details, because only then will we understand how to simplify later. Another important thing is that if you do not know good anatomy forget about giving good light and shadow in complex drawings, say with a certain level of realism.

Drawing challenge, huh? Gonna try, gonna fail but hey hope you like doggies xD cuz I didn't specialise on people.

Every video can be summarized with one phrase "Touch yourself"

"Entertainment matters more than the truth." Oh lawd! My stress lvl is so high watching your vids! I think within the two I watched you gave me kidney stones...

I've been watching sinix and maybe im blind but he always talked about appealing shape design but doesnt have a video about it. CAN YOU MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT APPEALING SHAPE DESIGN?

I’m convinced Ethan got a dog just so other artists can come in and insult him

"Gonna spit some secrets on you" -Ethan Becker, 2019

5:24,...i hear "voltron" And now I'm crying

I clicked on this video furious and finished the video enlightened. Thank you, Ethan.

You want the truth about anatomy YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH

1:55 That right there isnt anatomically correct ethan you end up with a stif drawing because the the the anatomy underneath is wrong gesture is just there to help you understand how the human body isn't full of perpendiculars and parallel and also understand balancing

"DON'T LISTEN TO ME" Stop man, I can only sub once!

There’s certain poses that are just to complex to even describe on Google, let a lone taking the picture yourself. What do you do when that happens? Where do you get a lot of your online pose references?

“u doesn’t even know how art 🔪” will be my algorithm boost for all his videos, now that I subscribed to him.

Everything you're saying is correct i think even realist artists pay too much attention to the structure and the details. Like getting a likeness for a portrait is important, but when you can't make what you're drawing or painting feel natural its going to suffer no matter how much it looks like the person. Artists run to learn anatomy because something feels off in their drawings and think the obvious answer is to study bodies to learn to draw them, but dont take the time to learn how each of the parts of the body flow in relation to each other. Doing quick life drawing poses can teach so much about gesture and the flow of the body, and in a minute you dont have the time to worry about those anatomical details. I think a lot of teachers and students over look the importance of gesture practice, even more so when the end goal is not a perfectly rendered human, and thats when the gesture and flow of poses is way more important because there is no obvious anatomy to hide the bits that are lacking in flow and shape design. PRACTICE GESTURE EVEN IF IT ISNT ACCURATE IT'LL FEEL BETTER THAN THE MUSCLES YOU THOUGHT WERE THERE

Damn who else recognized the models from line of action lmao

Each of these episodes reads like a 90s rom-com

At first i saw this man nothing more than a toxic guy for criticizing one's art using the word "Trash" but thats only in the thumbnail. After actually watching the video i start to realize, its really not that bad in fact he put some pretty good points. Most artists that do tutorials on the internet makes it harder for new and aspiring beginner, artists to do and learn art because of all of this mumbo jumbo you need to learn this and learn that, is just too much for an beginner artists to take in rather than using simple words and easy method to actually learn anatomy. I also get modernjames points on learning realism but you cant expect everyone to understand realism in same way.

That's why i love studying bridgman. He has all the anatomy nailed down, but his focus was on interesting shapes and dynamism

First of all I need to see this video, It says so much. When is started studying the boring anatomy books my art start to get stiff less appealing. I grow to admire artists that simplifies the shape too look interesting, that's what I want to learn.

"To-bleaklus of the deltouy"... Love it!

I have different books and some talk bout shape some about anatomy being important. Depends your art style. I think shapes get you there faster but the anatomy courses do help identifying important landmarks in my opinion. That's the conclusion I've gotten to. One can be stuck a year practicing anatomy and still not draw something showing progress. Animation books focus on shape a lot and some pin up books recommend learning animation and some type of anatomy to show action in your drawings. But shapes learning shapes and perspective to me is more important satisfying and fun. I am subbed to James.

This video is so chaotic like I - it's hard to see what you're trying to prove

7:46 ma boy

God dam I wish you were my pre visual development teacher at uni, woulda made my life so much easier.

im an artist and i can say that this guy, this creative smart guy must be known from every artist in this world. best art tutorials ever. if someone wants to improve in art. must listen this guy 100%

I think you may just be my favorite artwork content creator. keep doing what your doing.

Ngl tho, your fade abrupt cuts ALWAYS get me in your vids LOL

bruh knowing anatomy is still essential,even more if you are designing a whole new creature. for instance knowing function allows you to know which shapes you can safely exaggerate,or how something should behave or move,it's not about being able to accurately apply anatomy into every single figure but it's about being able to synthesize them into your drawings,and makes the construction way firmer and reduces the guess work. and i sincerely don't know how you can think about shading without thinking about tri-dimensional shapes,and i don't know how you can properly shade them if you don't even know them. the whole deal about knowing the names is so it becomes easier to recognize and learn,thus making anatomy less of just the abstraction you have from it which is an spaghetti of striated lines on a frame,there is no reason why a dynamic drawing should be anatomically precise,but there is no reason not to have a good grasp on it. ironically you need to have a massive understanding of anatomy to be able to simplify it,like some artists and masters are able to do,like: bridgeman,michael hampton,valerie winslow,frank frazetta(his drawings illustrate my point pretty well),michael mantler,alphoso mucha,and the list goes,not knowing anatomy,slows your construction down and makes you over reliant on reference,the next level is to be able to have a reasonably accurate figure moving in space fabricated from your imagination. using today's outcome-based art industry as a justification is fair from a productive standpoint,where you are looking at how you spend your time learning skills that can bring you new opportunities in the future,but looking at art as a whole this video is almost pointless.and there is no way in hell that this video could be more disorganized,dear god.

Omg this video is amazing! I was really stressed about learning anatomy and a professional saying I don’t need to study all those muscles really took a lot of weight off my shoulders. But could you give an in-depth tutorial on breaking down the torso and hips and stuff? I’m still a little lost🙂

this is just the best

always hated art tutorials that would tell me to identify muscle groups

“Entertainment matters more than the truth”- summarized the whole video

I should watch your videos everyday. It's vital

It's amazing how this guy can explain something so hard but yet make it seem so simple at the same time 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯😂😅😅😅😅

Dr.Disrespect of Animation and Draftsmanship! YES!!

My understanding of the names of muscles consist of "Bolgy wolgy arm muscle" "THIGH THICCNESS" "bone snake" "neck bowels" "tiddybones" etc

gets to the point of "depends on the idea/goal of art" well after intro. 1/5 would not smash again lol love what you are preaching man

I don't think anyone will read or respond to this, since the video is old and I'm just an ordinary man, but anyway... I think the main take from this video is that you should study more how to make the shapes fit together than knowing all the anatomy when drawing poses. However, sorry Ethan, I do think that knowing anatomy is mandatory if you do want to create poses from both reference and from imagination, specially for animators and comic book artists. And it's strange to talk about that because you even studied under Kevin Chen, which is, from his Demos (way back in ConceptArt forums), is one of the best figure drawing and anatomy teachers I've seen. Steve Ahn also studied anatomy a lot before learning how to simplify those shapes. Yes, these kind of shapes at 7:22 do matter man. If you know anatomy, you'll know that when a leg have balance and force applied to it, the shapes at the hip area will change and make it look more wide, the glutes contract and the hip extends outward. Knowing how these joints and muscles work will make you know if a pose is wrong or not, how to bend to character to make him look like a person, and not just a bunch of triangles or something like that. But, instead of drawing of drawing anatomy with all their intricate details, you can simplify those into simple shapes and build structure on top of that. See a deltoid ? Simplify it like a delta, and draw it in perspective. See the skull? Simplify it with a box. See a triceps? Draw a triangle, and then add some minor details later. That's the way you understand how the body works while also keeping it simple to memorize this information latter on. Don't take my wrong though, I do think the content of this video is very valuable and I know where are you coming from. There's too much anatomy videos here in RU-vid and not enough videos talking about shapes, which is unironically one of the most important fundamentals for any artist.

If Norman Reedus was an artist, he's this guy 😂 (just with the glasses tho)