How To Draw Literally Anything 

That’s cool 😊

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awesome

im here after

cool :>

Fr I just tell myself to get good and process the image better

I agree, 100%!

She was right.

I'm really excited to see this video

Unfortunately, my mother was not an artist. Took me 30 years to realize that I needed to learn how to see to be able to draw well. I had that ability at 12 years old but at some point I lost it. I try every to get that ability back.

yeah it's a concept that really deserves more light

I've heard that phrase a thousand times but only NOW i genuinely understand what it means and why. i feel like im slowly opening my third eye the more i realise how my brain actually works. this video helped so much with simply understanding WHY. why draw upside down? why do i keep sucking at foreshortening? now it all makes sense :O

I do try to draw what I see but my hand does not see what I'm drawing

what does that even mean

@@GBArche I can't draw

Your teacher is wrong. Anyone who can mimic what they hear is capable of this.

@@atticusezis1039 the point he was making is that the hands will never ever CREATE the level of artistry that the brain could imagine, mimicry is not creation. Every artist wishes they could be better and can pinpoint the flaws in every piece they create whereas the beholder may see it as perfection.

Be careful because the right brain / left brain specialization stuff has been recently refuted, or shown to be _broadly_ untrue. (I _think_ there is some specialization, like obviously its true both lobes govern one half of the body, and ironically, its the opposite side, and I _think_ syntax is handled by one of the halves of the frontal lobe, and vocabulary the other --- though that in and of itself shows that no, the right side is not broadly uninvolved in language.) Psychology is a constantly evolving field, like any other, and it has its persistant myths and outdated models that bounce around pop media like any other. If most people in the university haven't heard these ideas, they are either very novel, (DEFINITELY not the case, the right brain left brain stuff have been around since I was a kid,) or they're... not well substantiated despite being given time to prove their merits. (Tbf, again, the right brain left brain stuff only recently was definitively shown wrong.)

It would be nice to make a thesis work based on the relation between art production (from the artist's perspective) and psychology

Art was originally a mental and spiritual development and communication medium not just making pretty pictures. It was always connected to how the mind works

Betty Edwards - Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.

My passions were always Art and Psychology. So I became an Art Psychotherapist. It is so fascinating what information comes out in someone’s Art. We’re trained to interpret it and then use that in the process of therapy. There’s also the branch of art therapy that emphasizes how just making art is therapeutic. Regardless, if it’s something you’re interested in doing as a career? It’s A LOT of schooling (Master’s minimum) and training to get the required registration and board certification designations. I don’t know the process outside US). But, if it’s something you’re interested in just reading about I’m happy to recommend some authors. Wishing you the best!

😂😭same same. what i THOUGHT was a body was actually realllly short lmao

Good point

Look up the Loomis method for figure drawing..it will change your world

Well, you convinced this old Nanna to give it a go 👍🇦🇺

I love drawing figure sicks. And circles. U confuse me more. I want to learn but I can't

It's editing

He needs to try and eliminate “right?” After many Of his sentences.

@@user-ci6nr3un8c let people have their quirks

He starts a sentances with "you know what i mean", what part of that is a concise speaker

you joking? his speech is terrible.

Thanks!

I have a question. When it comes to drawing something without reference, would we have to know what we’re drawing with your tip of using reference photos so that we can be able to draw something without reference?

nah doing this in elementary school is wild lmao, your teacher's a legend

a good art teacher will change your entire life

​@@hiilikeyourbeard agreed !!!

same. I didn't understand what the exercise was all about at the time but finally my eyes have been opened. he was good

yess same mine made us practice contour drawing and thanks to this video I finally fully get why

This is quite late. But I know that I have to stress on the shape, and 8 have been doing that but i have a hard time with like what comes first. So like if ur drawing the shoulder from a 3/4 perspective, then like what comes first? Like do you see the chest and some of the shoulder? Or do you just draw the arm/shoulder. I've been trying to train myself to draw from memory but this has been insanely hard for me to understand what comes before the other

@@ivannnyy Hi! No worries, so sorry for my late reply, I just saw this now!! I think whichever shape u see first is the first one u draw, and then whatever u see next, u draw next. So on and so forth till you’re satisfied with the level of detail! I don’t think there’s any wrong or right order, tho I do think generally going from bigger shapes to smaller shapes can be helpful (tho not always necessary). When doing studies, I jump around a lot. What I draw first depends on what about the subject catches my eye first, cuz most likely, that is what’ll catch others ppls eyes as well! Or if not, I then get to bring ppls attention to what I notice and think is important. When doing an original piece, I try to rough out what I consider are more major important shapes then fill in the details later, u get to decide what’s more important and what’s minor! And don’t feel locked down, u can always jump back and forth between major and minor (theres always erasers, white paint, and techniques to replace sections of paper lolol) When it comes to drawing from memory, at least for me, it’s not rly a matter of what order I take, but more like TONS of practice, observation, and repetition until it becomes muscle memory. U naturally build an image library in ur head over time. Soon it’ll sorta become like handwriting, how u just /know/ to write the letters in ur own way cuz you’ve done it so much, if that makes sense! Best of luck

@@art_krisis lmao, no worries but thank you so much! I've kinda been putting off doing so much studies so I'd be able to draw from memory because I like to keep art something I'm really passionate about and I would hate for it to feel like a chore. You are right though, the things that catch my eye first are usually the biggest shapes or the most important so I'll definitely try to portrait that more into my studies. Thank youu :))

@@ivannnyy if it helps, ik lots of ppl who also dislike studies and will add in other things like decorations, fantasy elements, whatever they like to make it more fun! but overall i think observation solves lots of problems when learning to draw and studies is just one way of learning to observe. but it can be done just going about ur day, noticing the lines, curves, colors, and nuances of around u! np

​@@art_krisishy idk what you mean by negative space,iam begginer and non native english,may you explain more?

75?? I hope I have your enthusiasm and curiosty when I get to your age. I wish you the best dude

lol

That one blind person 🧍. Oh

Okay but what about when you draw from your brain?????????

the way people draw from their brains is like having a library. when you want to reference a particular fact, you find the book you have closet to the topic. drawing is just like this, the hours of real life practice can be thought of as book-collecting. more hours = more books to obtain and go back to. so when you free hand draw, you go to the books in your mind and cross-reference between to the get the best answer (the best way to draw what want you want).@@Tahtea333

@@Tahtea333 from what I learned/figured out from my Art mentor, as I‘m still an Art Baby, you never actualy draw from your brain/imagination. You always draw from reference but as somepoint your inner image library gets so huge that you need less references while having fun drawing. So you still draw from references but those are deeply remembered and even them who went professional which only means they get paid: they still use reference for their paid comissions etc. Depending on the scenes/character etc they‘re supposed to draw.

Speed sketching with a pen too is really good for practice :3 in places where you’re almost constantly moving- and sketching with a pen to improve line confidence!

Thank you for this ❤

nice, thanks for the list

Neuroplasticity. Isn't the brain amazing. If you haven't yet, you may like to read Jill Bolte Taylor's book "My Stroke of Insight." She was a neuroanatomist who studied how the brain worked, and she had a stroke. So while she was in this situation she was also able to observe, from her knowledge and perspective of her brain research, her own brain and behaviour post-stroke. As a nurse you may have already read it, but it's also good info for people in general. How this all works is just amazing.

happy belated birthday!

I do want to caution, the concept of the right brain being creative and the left brain being logical has been broadly rebutted recently. There's _some_ specializing, (like, yes, the right brain does control a lot of the left side of the body, snd the left brain does control a lot of the right side, and as the split brain patient shows, vocabulary is done mostly by one side of the brain --- though ironically, _syntax_ is handled by the other, iirc, showing that no, language is not handled by just one side of the brain,) but its not nearly that deep or straightforward. Happy birthday, by the way! Edit: it is true enough that there isn't always a singular strategy the brain might have for a given task, and drawing demonstrates that. The functions responsible for stickfigures are a different set of functions than we engage when drawing less idealized, more accurate art. So the myth is just accurate enough that us artists have gotten something from it, even if its technically wrong.

Happy belated Birthday! I hope you find happiness in your art!

​@@peppermintgal4302Im super curious about what you mentioned here and would love to know the references you read?

that’s very insightful and helpful thank you

Shape language. I love that concept!

Do you have socials? Id love to see ur art :)

i went to a figure drawing class and was able to practice this really well, but i also noticed that if I only focused on one part of a drawing at a time, and didn’t take a look at the whole form of the model and of my art often enough, and/or if I worked on one part of a body for 5 minutes and then another part of the body for 5 minutes instead of just following where my hand went as I drew, the figure would come out with the wrong proportions and an off pose, so i learned that it’s very important to be able to look over the whole figure fairly often, and it’s important to follow the steps of drawing: sketch figure, block figure with simple lines and shapes, THEN details, THEN shading, and not skip any on any part of the drawing, in addition to also looking at the shapes and contours of every part of your reference

Im actually only good at art bc of my detail 😂😂 just look like odd shapes otherwise

100% agree that technical skills need to be worked on in order to improve overall. the whole concept in this video is not to replace technical practice, but to supplement it and make it more effective, that's kinda my angle with this whole thing. thanks for your comment, i really like what you had to say.

Good point on technical skills, I remember pushing myself, staying up late into the night painting, and at the very beginning getting headaches, from being in the art zone for hours. Many years later it takes an entire day to feel a little like that. I learned to work on technical left brain functions of art at the very start of the project, because when I get in what I call the "zone," I forget to take it into consideration. Like borders, thinking about the focus of the painting, where the horizon line will be, or perspectives. Things I might want to leave out, or move around in the painting. How many eyes wide the face is, how many noses long the face is, and how many heads tall the body is.

You’re a legend 😂

Dannnnngggg you an og

@@Mrdoodleflops Old Grandpa 🤪

What a beautiful gift he left for you.

@@ritatownsend7408 It really was an amazing moment. He was a great artist, so it was humbling to know what he thought of my abilities. He was complimentary when he was alive, but I always thought it was just parental pride and wasn’t really sure he thought I was that good.

I'm not crying.. you're crying! 😭

Thank you for sharing. Beautiful passage.

keep going bro

the idea of being having a left or right brained personality has indeed been disproven, but the concept of brain lateralization is factual, unless im tripping. this is clear in people who suffer brain damage, bc depending on the side of the brain that's damage, they tend to struggle with the functions that were performed by that hemisphere. of course, there isn't a task that's 100% done by the left or right side, they communicate through the corpus callosum and work together in that sense, but there's functions that are typically performed more by one side of the brain over the other. take a look at videos on split brain patients. ofc i tried to simplify the whole thing in this video and tie it back to art to try and make it understandable

idk lmao. may the algo bless this vid 😔 🙏🏽

the goveremmt doesnt want us to be art godddssss

Cause you can not like it twice 😅

Another thing you can do, is hold it in front of a mirror, which flips the image, but helps you to see where you have it right, and where you need to make corrections.

You can also draw the regular way up, but turn your reference photo upside down.

Ah yeah, I’ll try that way too. Depending on if its an image or real life😉@@beccagee5905

is that an AI profile picture? that'e the worst way to fix art block or do anything as an artist

i'm happy to see you liked it bro, thanks

I relate to this, but with life photos T_T whenever I feel like that, I remember some of my favorite artists draw almost only from reference, and some of the most iconic paintings, are from reference. I think of realism and the amazing artists who have a hard time visualizing without photos. It helps remind me that photos are a tool like anything else.

thanks man, you're an og fr

yeah this whole thing is so easy to notice if you're trying to teach someone how to draw, hopefully this video will help your mom out lmao

@@goblishsenseihaha thanks! Remind me to let you know how it's going next year

idk i think if you can get good at music, you can also get good at art. you got this

yeah, using reference is super important

i'm glad it helped you