How to EFFECTIVELY copy study your favorite artist! 

I’m sorry! Here are some things I forgot to mention: - Trying out a new method of drawing is often very challenging and difficult. So it can happen that in your first couple tries it might not go as you expect. But maybe you start liking it as you practice more! It’s never bad to try something new. and remember to have fun! - About “copying” someone else’s art style: nobody wants to be labeled a mere copy-cat or rip off of someone else. You can incorporate a couple aspects you like about it (instead of the whole art style) in your drawing or try adding your own twist into it. But I also advise you to study more than 1 artist and base your own art style on a combination of artists that you like. Instead of just one. - Use copy-study as a way for you to learn something new. Please DO NOT copy-study an illustration and then post it somewhere and claim it as your own. (Also some artists do not appreciate being copy studied at all, so even if you credit them, avoid posting unless you know they’re ok with it) Some things I didn’t mention in the video because I thought I’d be uninteresting to watch. But I should’ve mentioned some of this.😅 Mb You can ask me any other questions regarding this video in the comments!

Tracing art is a great way to learn that fledglings shouldn’t be ashamed of! The only mistake some people make is not making it clearer when they have copied an artist’s work. Either not posting it online, or posting it with the image(s) that you used for reference is the way to go 💛

I really like how the change of technique affected the end result. It’s brighter and vibrant, I love it 💚

2:04 is a major point. i love it when artists share their workflow. i understand no one is obliged to that but feel super grateful when they do. you'll most likely end up with very different art as you experiment more and more, even if you initially copy a bit.

Step 1: become a stalker and observe ur favourite artists every move 👀

"Name a one thing you like about your artist" I like his art style

I’ve been trying to achieve a certain art style for sooo long. This was really helpful, thanks Jyuna!

I'd never thought this could be a legitimate way to study someone else's art in order to improve aspects of your own. Now I can't stop thinking of the artists' works I would like to use this on! Thank you so much!

Since she likes to use a lot of warm colors. I would change black to brown. whenever there is a black color I always pick brown instead and let the rendering do the illusion that the color scheme makes it look like the color black. (color theory lol). I don't use any fancy blending modes either in the process like shading. I'll only use it to make effects like shadow, bright light, and color atmosphere (It's like making a filter to blend and harmonize all the colors of the illustration) I have got rid of my habit using 100+ layers and now I'm just using 10-15 layers (I color and render in 1 layer. Less is more and it is also a bad habit to have a lot of layers or else you'll get confuse and that is how you make things hard for yourself). When coloring skin I would start on pale orange and use orange for shadows or warm orange hue yellow for the skin and use orange again for the shadows. I also realized and learn this myself that it is better to color base everything like some shadows and lighting (don't depend much in blending modes Only use them for overall effects or some effects that needed it but don't use it when you shade. So probably you'll have to train yourself to be good at coloring)

I was bored of my recent art style but this actually helped me change it up and taught me more on how to color drawings better Thx Jyuna 😁 :D

What if they never share the process?

one general rule of thumb i feel like is to identify the focus of an artwork when you are studying other artists. if the colors take all the focus then most likely they didn't spend too much on line art if at all. vice versa.

Your drawing is wayyyyy more vibrant afterwards, good job !! One thing I like to do because I'm easily overwhelmed by studies is taking only a little piece of the illustration I want to study (let's say one eye or one hand, some accessories, idk). It also makes the process easier for me : when I'm looking at the entire piece with the composition, colors and stuff and can't focus on what's important to me, I tend to think I can't do it and start to feel bad. Your video actually helped me feeling a little better, thank you for that !

The artstyle you're to learn looks great and amazing keep it up 🙏🙏🙏💗💗 Here are a few ( sorry if this you already knew it already): Most artist use sketches and then render and some straight using blocks of colors then refine later Usually we do it messy so there will be texture or color variations to make it more unique, we render on top of everything Now about the one with blocks of color, really i mostly do is put colours in and then try to sculpt it as you go. I don't really recommend this technique unless you wish to challenge your self and already learn anatomy and etc etc because doing this process requires you to already know what the piece to look like in the end

I love how you went full CIA in uncovering those Pixiv interviews

I didn’t know you could actually learn so much from studying their process rather than just their finished image, like I really like how Samdoesart simplifies his lineart where it’s just good enough to get things moving. Thanks for making these really helpful videos !!! I’m gonna go stalk my favorite artists portfolios now haha

Woow the editing style for this video is really good! And I also love how easy the video was to follow. I also can’t wait to see the final results!

this actually helps me understand more about what i should change in my art than regular tutorials, thanks for this will try doing this too to see my improvement

Wow! I never thought about following workflows. I love the editing and your explination was so easy to follow!

I’m actually shocked by how clear your microphone settings are. Loved the video thank you for the helpful tips!

Been needing a video like this for soooo long. Surprisingly could t find much like this. Ty!!

I always did these. They actually helped my art soo much. Great tips!

Honestly I never really thought of a lot of these tips, thanks for bringing them to light my friend ✨👏👏

OH MY GOD this video is so awesome and straight-to-the point i loveeee it, instant like and subscription

This is a very informative and high quality video! 👍Copying is a valuable but difficult learning method. I copy a lot, although usually not the fully rendered pieces, as that's a ton of work. 😅 I find it much easier to keep the painting together if I draw the lineart, but it's like you said: cleaned up lineart takes a lot of time and correcting mistakes requires a lot of effort once you're well into shading (the more layers you have, the worse it is naturally). I also think it's very difficult to notice mistakes at sketch/lineart phase, which makes this technique all the more interesting to try.

thank you for this tutorial, i've watched many art studies trying to replicate ask's artstyle but this one made the most sense to me especially when it comes to her line art. this is also a new experience for me cause i usually do line art first before color and shading but this taught me how to have a more painter-ish style and have more freedom in forms. great work!

Congrats on 1k subscribers!! Also this video was super informative and entertaining, I love how you explain things 🛐

2:36 I just watched that specific speedpaint and honestly same 😂😂 those moments where the blobs of paint suddenly make sense, like, HOW???

Thank you for this i love your channel literally i hope you get more famous like other art youtubers im so sure u will get famous ur the best

but what if they dont have any available speedpaints or videos of them working?

This is such a well made video!! Love the editing, you're amazing at drawing, and the way you study is really analytical 😁 I learned a good bunch of stuff here, thank you for making this video, and really nice channel!

i’ve been having a really hard time lately studying my favorite artist. her name is matcha (she draws a lot of vocaloid) she has this grainy-like style that also has a lot of texture to it, which can be VERY confusing at times! and she’s kind of a hidden artist, like she doesn’t have any speedpaints or much to work with except her finished pieces (which are super super detailed) this tutorial was really helpful to me, so thank you!

I have been searching for hours on RU-vid to figure out if I am creating my new characters in the wrong way and I don't think a video on the topic that I am looking for exists, so I'll just leave this here because I would really love some feedback. I am working on this project that I am very passionate about and I have just begun to start drafting the characters I have created. Two of these characters are heavily inspired by Under Night In Birth when it comes to it's art style. I just think the artwork is phenomenal and it has been the main inspiration with not only my drawings, but also the stories I have been writing as well. Here lies the problem that I can't seem to find a good answer to online. My main character's design was inspired by Hyde in that game. His clothing is different, the story centered around him is different which I am completely in love with...but then when I start working on the hair, I get panic attacks. This probably sounds super dumb, but I want my character to be blonde and my fear is that I could get in trouble because his hair looks too similar to Hydes, but at the same time. How many ways can you really draw spikey, blond hair? You know what I mean? To change his blonde hair to something else would mean I would have to rework the whole design. I guess I'm trying to figure out where that line is. Like, if using a color/hair style can be seen as plagiarism which is not what I want. So yeah, that's my dilemma, any advice would be extremely helpful because there seems to be no videos on the topic. Thank you! :)

Oh my god thank you so much, this is super useful , I've been trying to achieve a very specific art style for a while now! If I remember to, I'll update you, again thank you so much for the tips, I subscribed :)

Tysmmm 🥺 I wanna study Mika pikazo's art , her works are just so vibrant and the way they pop I really like a lot

I'm interesting to study mihoyo art style. But.. their first illustrator are so mysterious. Even don't have social network, except Weibo & pixiv. What just i knew is the name "CiCi". 😅

THE QUEEN HAS POSTED AND I AM LATE!🥲

I have been very dissatisfied with my art lately. This is the best advice I’ve had! Thank you! :)

Thank you imma try this today as my heads and bodies never match up with my study

THIS IS SO COOL WHAT???? IM SO GLAD I FOUND THIS CHANNEL I'm totally gonna try this myself thank you!! :D

This was honestly pretty helpful. Im glad this randomly got recommended to me 😂

Thank you for the tutorial, it was hella informative and enlightening. On another note, when I was watching the video. 0:00 / 0:06 "Oh she sounds pretty calm, I think" 2:49 *woof* "Huh? Down bad for Makima? That can't be, I must be seeing things." 5:56 *straight out berates own art mercilessly* "But... That's your own creation...." 8:34 *sound is peaking with ear shattering insults* "Okay, she is not calm."

"that shit look like a giraffe" got me, luv the video

i may be wrong but i think that ask, like any other famous illustrators does lineart. the thing that I see from most artists are they do lineart but the color matches the surrounding colors. if the hair is orange then they will lineart the hair with that same color. that's also why in some areas there are darker clean lines because they don't use black colors for lineart

the editing in this vid is amazing! i love how u explained everything, & ur art looks amazing

Idk why but recently all of this art study on RU-vid just amazing at editing ...

And then there is me who is learning Kyoani artstyle

Ooooh I'm totally gonna steal that copy-study apporach! Thanks for the video, I learned so much from this ngl

Highly underrated! This helped so much!

You’ve convinced me, I’m dropping lineart, I always hated doing it anyways 😭😭😭

im so glad i found this video aha ! You made it exactly on the artists i wanted to study. So thank you !

The artist who's style I aspire to do has nothing 😭 not brushes, time-lapses, just their work

I love both artworks its amazing and nice tips

You can send a mensage for your favorite artist, and with lucky we respond you.

bro my fave artist and the style i desperately am trying to achieve like.. does not exist on the internet (at least not english bc they are chinese) because they illustrate a bl novel and cant give away information lest they be arrested in china for the well.. gay themes 😭 EDIT: OMG WAIT THEY HAVE AN ART STATION ACC YIPPEEE

thank you so much for this video, there was so much important information in just 9 minutes. you are so good at explaining and painting!

I have a really long way to learn my line art is wobbly and idk how to draw much of the human body😅 but I'll keep going I will not give up like I did with my other projects

Shes so pretty 😍 I love the colors, lineart, and pose (do artists call pose, pose i dunnu🥺. So cool 😎

Love the video! I've been trying to do more studies recently but I'm struggling to actually translate their image onto the paper, and I'm feeling kinda stuck drawing pictionary quality trash a lot of the time, as well as with the whole digital workflow as well 😅

Very nice video. Very informative. I hope you get more recognition

Great editing and video, you've achieved a new subscriber! Also nice drawings, they're so cool! I've got a question: I've already tried to do a copy study but copying a digital artwork on paper is actually harder then I expected (probably because I'm still new to drawing). Have you got some tips for turning them better? I'm sorry if there are some grammatical error but I'm italian!

Oh yeah guys remember to look away when you feel like you have been looking into your reference or your art for too long because a visual effect will happen and you will find situations like “coming back from a milk break and see your masterpiece became a piece of trash”

Creating an illustration without lineart seems super foreign to me! Maybe i'll try it to challenge myself. Thank you for the video!

Hi I love your videos I’m your new subscriber your voice is so beautiful and cute,keep up the good work!

Details. Insane details.

LIFE SAVER.

This is super useful tutorial thank you so much!!!

Also, this video is probably exactly what i needed

i smell underrated

does anyone know what you could do if the artist you wish to copy-study is digital but you draw traditionally? i cant do digital as i have no such resources but im afraid a copy-study wont work with two different mediums.

omg i love u ur a genius !

I’m curious how you think about copying a certain artists style. Should you credit them? Or let them know first? I love certain drawing styles but every time I copy them it feels like I’m plagiarizing 😭

Great video! Although I still have hard time painting/blending bc I use ibisPaint and it’s brushes don’t help really in blending things well

But all artist dont have process though and have custom tools that nobody have access to so how would you go about those artists

Naurrr I wanted Jake to meet his Aussie sunbaenim 😭

Great video! really helpful

Bro what is this ASK artist?? Is she even human? how can she make something that beautiful 😭😭

love ur vids

Thanks for the tipsss

This is really useful! 😄

+1 sub i like how you do your videos / your art styleee, btw i didnt understand, wich brushs do you use and can we have theme please ?

Thankssss

I’m trying to study gege akutami’s style but mine is literally so much softer and nothing like his so it’s a REAL challenge 😭 thanks for the tipsosososs

I just watch people draw, like.. in live streams from tiktok, and when i like their art style, i pay attention to their process and try copying it and when i learn how to do it, i try doing it again but without looking at how they do it?? Idk

She went full on Akane

I would do anything to draw like that👊🏻

i like this editing

how to coloring purple hair? I'm noob when i coloring purple hair on my oc.

Great video :D

Very cute voice :3

I also loves how ask colours the hair of each characters QAQ however I would say ask seems to be first using a soft air brush to paint the whole area of the shadow part and refine them bit by bit. U can see for the edges of the shadow they r soft, how ever hard brushes r also used for some areas such as the shadows in the shadow, also usually ask wun use a very highly saturated colour for the lighting(itz more “white”) and even if it has to be saturated it should be standing out from the base colour and either blend it completely (like not u can see itz a stroke) or use a hard brush (as I observed on other artists too:;;) (I’m not a great artist or sth but ya here r my humble opinion I like dis vid tbh cuz I’m also trying to learn how to colour the hair like ask xd But I’d say some theory of lightings and colouring r needed or else u wun understand why ask’s hair is so shiny (basically the reflections))

In summary all I got is ask is just really good and I semi give up on colouring

Awesome vid

yo wtf happens when i cannot find their art process/a speedpaint of theirs anywhere 😭😭😭/genq (context, I'm trying to.. kinda replicate Seiichi Yoshihara (the dude who makes art for under night in-birth)'s artstyle because I think its really cool, but i just cannot find his processes :'3)

Any tips when you cant find workflow?

Tysm I want to copy study whygenas art style cause I like his art style it’s a really cute art style I don’t know if he likes being copy studied but I will try to find a way to ask him also I don’t think he has made a time lapse of him drawing a character so what do I do about that? But other then that amazing video!

I’ve scavenged the internet for anything of an asuka timelaspe

how do you edit your vids??? it's so cool, makes the whole experience much more fun!

I need help drawing like eiichiro oda

4:50 brushes