I've been scratching my head how to do line art as a complete beginner and it didn't even cross my mind I could learn how to paint instead I might as well give that a chance since I'm doing digital art
Sorry guys I got a little side tracked and now I understand basic Mandarin Chinese I have a feeling that maybe art is not for me (jk I'll still draw to express)
Weird that people are telling you this isn’t good advice. I’m not a beginner artist and this helped me a lot, I’m trying to get quicker so I can finish pieces before I get bored of them. You even said that if you’re starting out, you should spend time getting the basics down and enjoy the process first.
Obviously, the best advice is whatever works for you (which, you wouldn't know until trying it). Everyone is different & has different approach to hone their skill. I won't call any art advice useless as it proven to works for some (In fact, I generally dislike any vids that keep treating some advice as "mistake" just because it doesn't work for them).
Yeah i agree, especially because of time management, especially for commissioners, and for me personally it's because i get art block sometimes in the middle part when i take too long 💀
Well, it has been shown again and again, that if you do focus on quantity over quality, your quality will improve. It's probably to do with trying out more different styles/techniques/colours in the same amount of time, resulting in learning more about the process. I think it's good to learn, because drawing/painting/creating more swiftly ultimately results in negating perfectionism and a piece that is done always trumps a piece that got abandoned because one gets lost in details.
it's not. you do thumbnails and blocking on tiny canvas instead of going that photobashing hack she's demonstrating and increase the resolutions to paint the details. it's more time saver than whatever she's telling you.
It's only 4:30 PM, but I've been procrastinating so hard on other things that this burst of motivation feels a little wasted since I won't let myself do art until what I need to do is done...
You do like one color blob for one item, then give it shade and highlight of either black/white or darker lighter same color, or colder/warmer colors. Usually three colors for one color makes it 3D. So shade like under ledges, and highlight upper flat surfaces. Being relaxed and speed running things is my absolute favorite way to do things, the vibe makes me super happy and I can look at it immediately with no feeling of stress or hate because I just did it quick. This leads me to being happy and when people see it they see how much I enjoy it and they follow the good vibe and have nice things to say also. If you want to “like” your painting for a different reason such as making it intensely detailed/“impressive”, layer and layer it with new littler and littler colors to give more and more dimension. You can spend days doing the same chunks of the painting and when you can’t fit anymore new colors you stop. Then you can sit back and be shocked at how dimensional something is. And get lots of compliments if you need that type of emotional energy as well. Putting puzzles together for a few weeks is also a relaxing way to see how random colors fit in a painting.
1:28 This is why when you get more experienced, the same level of quality takes less time. This is a sign of mastering a craft, when you think very little on what you are making technically and focus a lot more on the end result. Your drawing takes 20 hours or months because you're having to think about, correct, think again, correct, it still doesn't look right, think some more. Overthink, over correct, now everything sucks, think, correct, it's looking better, wait, now that's wrong. Rinse and repeat. That takes time to get through and that time is different for everyone. My first initial sketch NEVER looks like my finished piece. This is because I am beginner/intermediate when drawing in general. Much of my time is taking different iterations, adjustments, exactly the process I said over and over again and sometimes coming back to it later to redo entirely. I also have ADHD and get under stimulated real fast and drop things. I have lots of WIP's and very few finished work. I also get a cool technically difficult idea in my head and then get frustrated that I can't make it reality so I'm inconsistent in my work.
I've been drawing for 6 years and this is the advice l got at the start of my journey, it has helped me TREMENDOUSLY. Do not polish turds, it's pointless, if you can't capture the reference properly no amount of polishing will help you
Yes! Please a video on how to experiment! In terms of technique I'd say I'm intermediate, but in terms of process and creativity I'm definitely a beginner, or rather I've stifled that part of my practice by focusing so much in technique. Thanks for the video 😊
for someone who's average time to complete pieces is between 15-20 hours! This gives me hope and insight on how to cut that time in half or even thirds :) BTW, thank you for showing me the statistics section on procreate, I had no idea that even existed and was even wondering about it myself
Cutting out lineart is the best you can do for yourself. You can always do few details that give illusion of lineart once youre done with the piece if you want a more cartoony look
Good coloring can improve a drawing with bad lineart,but I’m not sure if good lineart can improve a drawing with bad coloring.So,I agree with you!Lineart sometimes just stops artists from getting to finish the drawing because most want it to be „perfect“.
Great advise! Letting go of having the 'perfect image' and being messy was the greatest advance in my art. Recently I've been drawing a lot of dragon heads and watching your video made me realise I'm already thinking ahead to the next steps.
Sticking to my process always helps me work faster, and I recently discovered that in my process, I prefer to erase/draw over something instead of undoing. It allows me to keep moving instead of fixating on redoing something, and an important part of my process is now drawing over and erasing the corners of lines. I treat it like a pencil.
This actually explains so much! I used to be much faster at drawing digitally but then in recently years I became much slower. I thought maybe I just became more picky but now I realize it's because I used to have the same process for every painting, but then I got bored of that process and haven't settled in something since then so each painting I've done differently. Yet when drawing traditionally I'm still fast because may process there hasn't changed in years. So this video was quite helpful thank you
I get stuck so often on one line or area and spend hours redoing it 😅- the advice that it’s okay to be messy and keep going, practicing with future artwork is so true. I’ve seen the greatest growth when I just keep moving! Thanks for this great video ❤
To me in art it's mostly important about keeping motivation. Some art pieces can take hours whike some shorter. But unless there is a time limit/commission or something else involved, taking that extra time to draw/research being slow has been the best learning journey for me, then I could go in with my muscle memory as well in future works, making it easier, it slowly builds up
This is great advice. A beginner artist I am not- however, I *am* a beginner to digital art. Before watching your video perhaps I wouldn’t have classified myself that way- but realizing that I don’t really even know what “rendering” is made me realize I take so long on my art because I am still learning how to use a new tool set! At this stage, there is no getting faster. But it is so wonderful to see where I could end up in the future once I get more of a hang of it! Thank you for the video and I adore your art.
Thank you so much. I went from spending a month on an artwork to 2 weeks (except for short, personal works), but I'm well aware that still isn't fast enough as an artist that lives off of money from doing commissions. I'll keep this video in mind whenever I start working, thank you!
Im a traditional artist and my drawings which are most of the time portraits, usually take a month to finish and i wish i could finish them earlier so i wanted to how on which specific tips u used to reduce ur time spent on ur drawings, it would really help me a lot too
been painting traditionally longer than digitally at the point of giving up digitally, because the art at the end doesn't feel "right" compared to my traditional pieces. Your advice of skipping lineart gives me some hope. Usually in traditionally painting you don't do linework as well, so it felt weird doing this on the computer (+it looks weird, if you do everything in a painterly style and not just use one-colored surfaces, like in cell-shading). The video gave me new hope that it's not too late to pick digital art back up and improve :) Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge
When I first started out on digital art, I'd always outline first then color, it took me HOURS on end, like my first one took 14 hours to finish because I was so focused on details. Now I always go in with a huge color brush, build up the shape, shade it a bit, then add fun sketchy linework, it takes little to no time and it's so fun
oh wow, the idea of looking at something and imagining how i would paint it feels like a real game-changer! I've never thought of trying to figure that sort of thing out when not already in the middle of painting.
Just came here to say that I love 'brain as a supercomputer' description. A lot of processes are happening subconsciously as any given moment so helping the brain not get stuck on issues is a cool and interesting advice
A really solid advice! I’m going to try to do this cause I get so finicky with line work and small details, it’s been awhile since I’ve completed a piece 🙃
thank you for this!! im actually an experienced artist but i've found myself getting lost with my process & slowing down recently, this was a good refresher! its very easy to forget all this stuff & get stuck in that perfectionist loop, losing track of what your goal even was to begin with & then things start unravelling from there - like your drawing process routine, etc. this was grounding & helped me take a step back :)
oh!! I'm surprised that your advice was so in depth (I haven't seen a lot of new art youtubers who were articulate with tips as you are) I've come to the realization that to progress from decent to good I need to experiment more and get looser. A video about how to experiment would be great!
Your works are so pretty! I've been making art for years, I've been doing it as a hobby and stress reliever throughout school. I've never really found my style until years later (recently). I used to draw cartoony/chibi/cute styled artworks, now I draw (and sometimes color/paint) things in a more realistic or "creepy" style. My default work has gone to that style and I can't change it now. 😂 I don't do artwork as much anymore because I've never found the time to just sit down, and let my imagination run wild on the pages. Hopefully I can find some more time in the future because this video has definitely inspired me!
I find this advice really valuable... as you stated it's not so much for beginner artists still experimenting and learning the basics but more for people who are past that (for now). I have a lot of paintings that are stuck in various WIP stages since I don't know how to continue with them and the motivation sort of fizzled, and for several I think it's a gap in the process. Like sketching with line in mind, then trying to go to a lineless paint: they just don't mesh. And I really like some of those WIPs, they have good ideas, colour keys, sketches etc that are just waiting to be worked on. So I think I might try something like you said, practice being consistent with a process, maybe on looser paintings less dear to me, and eventually revisit those big projects once I'm more confident. Thank you for this advice! It really got me thinking.
I think, when it's my carreer I can call myself a professional. So I am a professional, but I am always in search for faster and better. And these tips are GOLD! Obvious, but GOLD. I really really often improve on the things that are obvious, that are pointed out and suddenly it clicks. Thanks so much for this
Great tips! Back when I started drawing I learned how to do realistic graphite portraits and now it's sooo hard for me to know when to stop with details when I want a different style, but I'm getting there :)
Right now, I'm in the process of switching art programs, and it is hard. It has me going slow again, I'm not really in a rush to go much faster as I'm giving myself the chance to experiment with my tools again, but this advice is still wonderful. It took me a long time to learn these things, and I'm still trying to improve, but I'm glad you're out here giving this advice. I'm sure many people will be able to take it to heart. Oh, and your art is lovely :]
this may be weird, but maybe it make sense: art challenges improove me seriously, you don't know how much you get from an challenge, like making something for 30 days(this is the time for me to discover something new on drawings) next, i will do an only aquarella challenge, cause i wanna know how to mix collors, painting and do light and shadow in tradictional art
Actually, that's absolutely valid! By challenging yourself, you're forcing your brain to think and come up with new solutions, instead of sticking to a routine. The more often you do it, your likelihood of improvement is higher. I believe many people feel like their improvement stops at some point and it's a result of getting too comfortable in a little bubble they created. But what's really important with challenges is to maintain a healthy balance, because if each and every artwork you make requires a lot of research and thinking you may lose the love for art purely from getting too tired. That's what once happened to me. Now I realize that it's not the end of the world if I make something without much new obstacles in the way because having fun is important as well. However, for every easy artwork I also make one that requires more of my brain juices next.
This advice is exactly what I need! I'm an animator so it does takes time to animate and obviously it will have lineart since painting style animation will take a very very long time 😅 but it always takes me about a week or two just to get a 15 to 30 second animation out.. I know I can definitely go faster since my animations are very simple but I'm always so slow and I didn't know why 😅 so thanks for all the tips! I need to stop being a perfectionist in the lineart 😅 I would literally make and undo like.. 10 times if it doesn't look how I wanted but there was a time where I was so hyperfocus and quick that I didn't need to undo so much and got things quicker! 😄 Thanks again!
I will say, on the mess step specifically, high resolution is kind of a must depending on how much detail you want (to imply) in your painting. Making mess look good is way harder at lower resolutions.
Its actually kind of funny because i recently started working on learning art and i was using a mouse and GIMP and I was doing a lot of the line tricks you talked about specifically because I didnt have the tools to make better lines
I was drawing for like 6 years, I got better yes, but - I ultimately hate the always I draw, I am a "reference artist" Or " An adopter" And I literally can not do anything else, until recently anyway I just almost gave up line art and I feel so much less pressure when I draw, I allowed myself to trace off photos when I just can not get this hand/paw/ eye to look right, and it led me to actually finishing pieces instead of them being a dead weight on my soul I moved from my 50+ brushes to 4 main ones, I still have 38 brushes but they are here because I like the fact that I have and don't need them, instead of switching between brushes every second I am still horrible with backgrounds, and instead of never ever touching them again I allow myself to use references and special brushes to ease my consciousness, to actually draw, instead of staring at a white canvas Long story short - just do it, if you want to you can do anything, use any /legal, do not trace art work without permission/ material, just have fun
at a perfectionist it's hard for me to let a line be "messy" unless i specifically make it part of the drawing otherwise i get too held up on perfection
1 hour is actually really fast to me. My art pieces take up to 4 hours total, sketching takes me 1 hour or 30 mins. I've been an artist for more than four years
yall, if you don’t wanna learn how to paint faster, then don’t. people really need to get used to the idea that not everything in existence is made specifically for them. if this video doesn’t resonate with you, great! don’t use the advice then that’s perfectly fine. let it help those that is DOES resonate with
I'm working on an independently made animated film. All alone, just me. This might be a game changer! Many have told me that my goal is impossible, but the key is patience. Maybe in a few years, or decades, who knows? The world will see the story and adventure I have in mind.
With digital art it's very easy to zoom in and get lost in the minutia, then of course when you zoom out all that detail gets lost in the bigger picture. Some programs have a setting that lets you see the whole piece even while you're zoomed in, but personally I've just gotten into the habit of zooming all the way out every once in a while just to see what details matter and what details are going to get lost.
What is the tablet you use for digital painting? Looks nice. Oh and id love to see a video on how to experiment with painting, you mentioned the possibility of doing a video on it right? That would be awesome
Of course! Thank you for watching! It's the brush I'm using, it's specifically the "Jitter fluffy brush" in my 10 most used set, I modified the colour dynamics settings to change slightly to get more colour depth :)
This is what I do. I cannot for the life of me complete lineart. Im not bad at it its just that it would take me FOREVER to finish bc i just stare do one line and give up. Now I just go straight to colouring/rendering it has done me wonders and i can actually finish things😭😭😭
Love Your art and LOVE dragons ❤️ this video was just in need for me since i realized how slow I really am ...mostly because im a stubborn perfectionist (even thought I'm still far from "perfect"). Also can you please tell me what ipad do you use ? I'm thinking about ipad pro 12,9 but since I have no experience with ipads (and draw only on my huion or traditionally) I'm not sure if I should go straight ahead to buy one of the expensive but still best ones out there 😅
I wish I could be more decisive, I am always stuck in an experiment circle because each time I achieve my process I am bored of it and need to change it xD
I only paint a detailed scene like once every few months cause it's so draining for me, I really need to just suck it up and start doing some more studies, cause I know I would love it if I just got better at it
I aint slow I just draw then i want or in life case then i can cause having a job is hobbykiller Also 12k resolution and no typos cause drawing in hyper absurd resolution takes trillion details to do Thats the point of that is very simple I draw in extreme details cause theres either no god out there to stop me or they approve it Besides in ultra outcome it doesnt even matter cause ghost artist dont get views so skill and talent is beyond irrelevant Luck usually is but i learned the hard way that i dont want popularity or to get noticed Sounds like more trouble then its worth so i only draw for myself out of boredom I think i know how saitama from one punch man feels
It looks like some of your strokes change hue each time you put the stylus down but it doesn't seem like you're manually changing the color. How do you do that? I really like the variation but I hate having to go back to the color picker.
She's changing the pressure. Some digital art programs have settings where you can change hue by changing pressure, but you'd have to check your preferred program's settings for that.
Hue jitter - a stroke is just a lot of single brush shape pngs next to each other, very simpoly said, there are settings that allow each one to be in a different color - callerd hue jitter offset. She uses this setting to have some color variety. Can be bound to pressure aswell, but in the beginning when she laid down the main shapes, its hue jitter.
procreate has a reference tool in the canvas actions menu (the spanner icon), where you can either see your canvas in miniature, or import a different picture.
The advice isn't bad, but the premise is very much so. Telling beginner artists they're not fast enough really isn't a good thing. They need confidence, not speed. Speed comes on its own with confidence
Thank you, I agree completely!! Unfortunately I can't decide who this video gets shown to, it was not made to be aimed at beginners and confidence is one the biggest tips I can give, sadly just telling people to be more confident doesn't make for good advice even though it's the key to everything. I appreciate your insight! :)
I disagree. To some extent. I'd rather not have my teacher try to baby me. I want to know where I am, where the ends goal is, and decide where I go with that information. Instead of trying to censor themselves for their audience, teachers should incorporate the information appropriately by telling where the focus should be, why, and how that relates to the path forward. I can't learn if you don't teach for fear of 'hurting my gentle feelings'
@@Rin-qj7zt It's not about taking care of their feelings, it's about aiming for speed will cause them to develop bad practices if they see that as the ultimate goal and stunt their growth.
Can confirm, as a kid I internalized the need for speed in art (without anything else supporting that properly) and now while I can sketch out a character in like 20 seconds, I don't have the endurance nor the patience to see a piece to its end (tho currently trying to find ways to balance those out)
This deserves to be pinned. Young artists and people with ADHD and other similar issues suffer more from this sort of thing, and just beat themselves up when the final product isn't like other types of art that took more time and sketching.
I love your advices but the fake it till you make it but Im pretty sure I have obsessive-compulsive disorder nit only in art but irl is a huge problem😅
I feel like alot of this is said and done easier by someone who is working with a large tablet and stylus, not a phone or small tablet and a finger/low end stylus. AND in procreate? This on ibis paint with finger and on a small screen and it may be harder /nm
