How to See Values. Don't Believe What You See! Cesar Santos vlog 077

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I read an article that changed my perception of values forever. Here is what I learned from it! How to see values is the first step to become a classically train artist.
Article: "Value: When Seeing Isn't Necessary Believing" by Lindesay Harkness
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@mizostrengthsports7391 5 лет назад

there's a lot to learn just from your Shirt alone

@katnazms8 5 лет назад

I can’t see the link below that he mentions. I want to get the shirt. Help !!!

@Piratequeen010156 3 года назад

me in public: *squinting, widening my eyes and staring off into space to see through my peripheral* people around me: 👁👄👁💧

@kevinhawley403 3 года назад

"Are you ok, sir?!" lol

@ethans6694 5 лет назад

Cesar, you are an inspiration my man. Your enthusiasm for learning and creating art is contagious.

@jeduardolopezo 5 лет назад

Hey Cesar! would you consider live streaming some of your painting sessions on youtube? I´m sure a lot of us would love to see! (plus, you create more content! ) :D

@rmxrealmofbeauty 5 лет назад

👏👏👏

@masterpainters1706 5 лет назад

I really want his dvds. When I can afford them. Seem really worth the money though.

@stefandimitrov4816 2 года назад

This was the signal most useful values tip ive ever heard.. literally helped me understand whats missing in my work

@jaydentownsend5402 5 лет назад

Value stuffed me over for so long. And still does! It's good to hear you talking about it.

@robinhere4230 5 лет назад

Cesar:I just met you through Liron!! Loved that conversation. It gave me insights into things like short-term goal setting; finding your community of people (being at the bar); developing a daily practice of writing down your thoughts, among other things. I am particularly interested in learning to see values. I just read a great biography of Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson, and he talked a little about some of the things you mentioned, like how to see and paint edges, and how to teach the eye to see differences in values. Thanks, so much.

@matiasgoinheix366 5 лет назад

It's an awesome moment when something changes your perception.

@zacharyhorvath3615 4 года назад

Awesome video- I still struggle with this but it used to be really bad. I would shade my drawings until they were basically black. I was lucky enough to go to Italy in 2018 and I forgot to bring my contact lenses, which was initially a bummer, but ended up being a blessing as I realized that every painting or drawing I saw was broken down into basically 3 values, which formed the composition. I still have a tendency to go too dark or scatter too many nuanced values, but at least I'm aware of it. Stepping away from a drawing or looking at it through a mirror is also a really helpful tip as I have an urge to push my face closer and closer to the paper while drawing because I get distracted by detail and overly immersed in the whole process. I believe the path to improving as an artist is to learn how to see. I think our brains try to trick us with preconceived iconographic ideas of what something should look like which can deter us from portraying the subject accurately, and you hit upon those points very eloquently in your video. Much respect

@tbluemel 8 месяцев назад

Brilliant presentation of seeing and interpreting values. I guess success all depends on the pupil.

@juli82E 5 лет назад

I finally had to go get glasses and I swear they've helped me soften my edges, they look totally different! Glasses are game changers!LOL...

@masterpainters1706 5 лет назад

Lovely to hear from you again as always.

@susanwong6471 3 года назад

Love your fire enthusiasm and how your hands speak! Indeed value mastery is the key to realism ❤️

@marcelinogauguin 5 лет назад

This is your best video to date, Cesar. Thank you very much for expanding on this issue.

@vlado3005 5 лет назад

From my persona experience this is the most important lesson in Art and must be learned by any artist first, well before any other exercises commence. I would couple this with 60 degrees cone of vison, as both these rules work together either we want it or not.

@Lisapizza789 5 лет назад

Thank you Cesar. I remember this from school. This is a great refresher.

@hellobaby133 5 лет назад

This is the most difficult aspect to grasp when first learning to paint realistically. Thanks for the lesson, I want one of those shirts. Do you ship to Ireland?

@AndresdeSot0 5 лет назад

donde puedo encontrar el articulo para leerlo? Where can I find the article to read it?

@emmalouie1663 3 года назад

Thanks! Yes getting value right is difficult especially when one is trying to do a real fast but finished painting like in acrylics...

@nikibeam. 4 месяца назад

It was a lil difficult to understand but that was such an important point I was missing thus was struggling identifying values. My eyes would focus on one thing and rest adjusted according to that💗

@LosoIAm 2 года назад

You have confirmed it: for those with glasses, taking them off once in a while might help. I stopped painting for over 20 years (due to failing eye-sight) and have just re-kindled with this passion recently. Thank you!

@riteasrain 5 лет назад

Stan Miller on youtube still imo has the best video on values. I'll never forget when the penny dropped for me watching them.

@SubNorm4L 5 лет назад

Squint! Set up a bunch of still lifes with different local values and study them! Remember that the cast shadow has a value that changes depending on the surface where it sits. That took me months to notice and wouldn't even noticed it if i wasn't reading about light.

@Codswallop58 5 лет назад

I hate it when people comment without watching the video

@SubNorm4L 5 лет назад

@@Codswallop58 I watched the video. I was commenting about taking it to the actual practice and not just the theory behind it. Obviously, considering it. I've seen a lot of Cesar videos and I am sure he agrees with this thinking. Too much theory with no practice is worthless. For the other comment, I'm not talking about colors. I'm talking about different value steps on a grayscale. That's not basic at all when you have a very complex form casting shadows on different forms with complex local value changes without breaking the shadow/light/chiaroscuro relationship and making it flat. You need to squint because that way you see only the big values without any detail. The rest of the work is pure thinking, not trusting your eyes literally if you want a successful image.

@masterpainters1706 5 лет назад

On this subject I HIGHLY recommend this book: Light for the artist By Ted Seth Jacobs, which is an expansion to full book length of a chapter on light from his earlier book Drawing what the eye sees. Light for the artist is still in my opinion the most comprehensive guide to the subject. It's from a painting in oils perspective and if you need to be sure the guy knows what he's talking about just Google him and look at his body of work. It's a very interesting read and well written too. I highly recommend it. If anyone gets it let me know what you think. X

@dagoelius 5 лет назад

I found Mark Carder's DIY colour checker helped me immensely in isolate the correct value, hue and chroma of a colour.

@barbarajohnson1442 Год назад

That is a GREAT article, read it. So helpful. Thanks for addressing it! Good summary. Black mirror is so helpful.( Like a Claude glass.)

@ekshalibur 4 года назад

what a cool dude! thanks a lot for sharing this, really good and detailed explanation! ill be sure to check out the article

@mbrownie22 2 года назад

Brilliant video, thanks

@Revisionaddaofuk675 2 года назад

Thank you so much sir for this valuable information . You are my inspiration 🙏💓

@criadosartstudio8230 5 лет назад

Very good lesson

@TheComerD 5 лет назад

Cesar, can you please provide a source for the article by Harkness? Amazon has the journal but the price is astronomical! All I want is a pdf of the Harkness article. Thanks much!

@marcofogli9854 5 лет назад

Me2

@nefariousmiss792 3 года назад

Thank you for such unique wisdom! Love it!

@kevinhawley403 3 года назад

great explanation man! short and to the POINT! Thank You!!!

@needlesyndrometattoo Год назад

you added value to my day

@SleepyMagii 3 года назад

That was awesome!! Thank Yo!

@guywithapencil 3 года назад

Thank you, Cesar Santos!

@merobertd 5 лет назад

Its extremely "valuable" :P

@wiserthanwise54 5 лет назад

Love your art ❤

@jimintae3284 3 года назад

Thankyou💖💖

@miguelmelendez3354 5 лет назад

Nene chulo, que Dios te me bendiga 😍😁🇵🇷

@axel9546 5 лет назад

Thanks for sharing master cesar

@WatchJeffArt 5 лет назад

Great analogies and examples on how to see values. Keep up the great videos, Cesar! It continues to inspire me with my own charcoal portraits and videos. - Jeff

@ninolomidze2174 5 лет назад

I WANT this shirt !

@matf1036 4 года назад

Brilliant information to help artists starting out, thank you Cesar. Really enjoyed this video. :-)

@junalmarines9342 5 лет назад

I tried removing my glasses!hahaha i can see the values...thanks!

5 лет назад

Eres grande, César

@brenttaylordotus 5 лет назад

I’m just here for the rap outro :-)

@SlowDaddie 5 лет назад

He's gonna compile all his rap outros into one song in a few years and drop the hottest mix tape

@RobertF- 5 лет назад

Thanks, this was extremely interesting. There are a billion different degrees of tones technically, and the human eye can see a Thousand different ones? Wow. I really understand now why so many painters talk about the importance of tonal values. I need to work more on this. Also, I have recently been experimenting with defocusing my eyes to see things in large, general ways so that was coinciding with what you were saying about that. One thing though, I have always preferred the term Tones or Tonal Values, instead of the word Values when talking about degrees of light and dark. The word values usually refers to moral or ethics, and using that word when talking about light and dark degrees always seemed confusing to me. Tones or Tonal Values just seems to make more sense, and it also aligns more with music which painting is already closely associated with. Just a line of thought I hope you or someone else might find interesting. Incredibly helpful and interesting video though, thanks again.

@logan0.o582 5 лет назад

Genius as always but visuals help

@rubberducky6411 5 лет назад

I heard you can keep control of value and color by keeping a little bit of one color in all your colors,like how an egg keeps all the ingredients together when you bake something in the oven.

@dyetaa 5 лет назад

That s how everyone paints basically.In a more simple way of saying,it's like adding a filter. When adding a bit of one color on all colors you re restricting your color wheel,you're making it smaller and related and that makes everything harmonious.You can do that by add ing the said "filter" or you can desaturate some colors to bring them closer. Closer colors on the color wheel are basically more harmonious.

@4legdfishman 3 года назад

Interesting! Thanks for such a great explanation! New subscriber! Looking forward to seeing more.

@Scott.Alston 5 лет назад

Cesar, I can't find the Harkness article on the web...can you point us to it, please? And thanks for what you do.

@santocesart 5 лет назад

I can't find it either, is from 2005, I had notes.

@Vgladstone1 5 лет назад

Yes! Yes! YEs, thanks

@el8638 5 лет назад

Thank you for giving us tips about art Mr. Santos. This video is so helpful. Could you maybe do a video about edges in painting and how to determin them? This would be awsome.

@HopiTrails1 5 лет назад

so helpful,thanks Maestro

@anjelomichelangelo7726 5 лет назад

i have a question. how old masters were managing to "whitebalance" their night scenes? i mean they were painting night scene with candle light and this yellow light affects your eyes. its hard to determine colors properly. how did they manage that?

@10milesfromnowhere 5 лет назад

So instead of what you see, you decide your range of values, and apply them in that way and not as you see them (because they shift as soon as you focus on a part)? Also - is there finally an advantage to having crap vision? I'm going to try taking off my glasses!

@bvstivsd 5 лет назад

hola cesar, Me gustaría bastante ver videos tuyos en español bro, siempre veo tus videos pero me cuesta un poco el ingles para tan valiosa información la cual tú entregas. un gran abrazo desde latinoamerica!

@Lugertho 3 года назад

Thank you, that was helpful!

@justinrobinson9583 3 года назад

While detecting values in say hair/beards and clothes or forest leaves often I find it most difficult what to capture. I will look at it with much focus and find details, then come back and realize i missed the curves or strong details that bring it all together. phew. it's normal that my brain resets.

@david_peter 5 лет назад

Thank you!

@andrewamprako3287 5 лет назад

Really useful video!

@corallall 2 года назад

Ahaha... So funny face and beard...😂😂😂 and accent!!!

@FMKARR 4 года назад

I was telling my girlfriend about this today! I'll send her this video, I'm sure she will understand better.

@TheDreadfulCurtain 2 года назад

It is similar to the dynamic range of a camera

@beardnick1748 5 лет назад

Please make a subtires on Russian.too.

@zimrianispresent8123 5 лет назад

👌👽

@beginnerartvlog8831 5 лет назад

Thank u

@rhpn6134 5 лет назад

Hello Cesar. Could you make a video where you share some tips or advices on how to deal with art commissions, because i know for example what price should i ask for my work but i always feel a bit insecure like there should be some sort of protocol or there's a more professional way to respond to these requests. Also I'd like to ask how you deal with highly unprofessional individuals who are interested in your art. Thank you in advance

@masterexploder83 5 лет назад

Repping that MIA graffiti scene! keep up the amazing work Cesar

@UniverseAnomaly 5 лет назад

Fuck I love this

@gypsysnickerdoodle4354 5 лет назад

starts @3:59

@debbiesunlight7047 4 года назад

Brill 😁👍

@Himurah182 5 лет назад

very interesting m8. keep up :)

@xxVeidxx 5 лет назад

Mano porque tu não coloca legenda em portugues?

@elsagrace3893 5 лет назад

Cesar I love you but I am so annoyed by electric guitar. I am grateful that it is very short.

@samananagendra3618 5 лет назад

please learn me easily

@diaa1319 5 лет назад

Possible to participate in the drawing of the drawing 💚💚💚💚

@fernanddurler4709 3 месяца назад

Thx great tutorial however would be better if you could use an in situ demo painting plain air perhaps …it appears most artists online seem to use modern tech to mix colour/shade/value studies by purely copying or scanning their colours off AI images found online …few artists seem to rely solely on plain air adn spend most time in studio fine tuning from photographs. Its off because a camera perspective is different to the human eye and if one is not well versed in correct lenses then most of the time one would be left with a distorted ‘truth’ of what one is actually seeing in real life compositions. ? It’s all too confusing. Knowing just how successful full time artists create from start to finish …most tutors tend to rely on online tutorials and or teaching at schools for a living so a new artist only sees snippets of the process and not the full uninterrupted final product that actually sells and makes money. Sorry Im rattling on a bit …but most tutors are too academic and not real life artists teaching whilst they are creating their own works ….there is a big difference no or am I misunderstanding a heck of a lot of videos I have watched for years, still battling to ‘apply’ value blocking in and colour selection …

@psychiccrocodile3679 5 лет назад

I understand what you're saying, but at the same time I don't.

@sunnyboy4553 5 лет назад

Turn your painting upside down, so your brain just registers shapes, colors and values, and doesn't identify objects. Also take many tea or coffee (or whatnot) breaks, place your painting on a chair or someplace about 10 feet away from you anmd just glance at it every now and then, study it at odd moments throughout your day or evening. Eventually it will come to you what to change. Don't just look at it for a few seconds while painting.

@dyetaa 5 лет назад

This has nothing to do with perceived values lol.I agree that drawing upside down will help draw more exact shapes but it won't help you perceive better values.

@KuroganeXIII 5 лет назад

That skeleton is taking the advantage that you turn your back to show you the finger, how disrespectful!

@miguelangelart1667 5 лет назад

Subtitula o haz videos en español los latinos tambien te seguimos

@erick7940 5 лет назад

Por su acento latino es más fácil entender lo que dice, ya que articula y separa muy bien sus palabras. Cuando otros hablan el inglés usan un acento difícil de entender para los principiantes, pues no hacen espacios en lo que dicen.

@supa_cold_ninja 5 лет назад

Skeleton flipping off viewers

@tunkom8479 3 года назад

Wow.

@Revisionaddaofuk675 2 года назад

Thank you so much sir for this valuable information . You are my inspiration 🙏💓

@neilcramond3084 5 лет назад

Good to see you are putting some of the topics you talk about in your secrets of portrait painting. That dvd was easily the most valuable thing in my art collection. Buying twenty hours of one to one tuition from Cesar Santos has raised my painting to a much higher level. Keep spreading your knowledge Cesar!! Many thanks, just ordered a flesh palette t-shirt to arrive in Scotland.👍🏻👨🏻‍🎨🎨

@TartantazCreates 5 лет назад

Interesting, I never thought to take off my glasses. I’ve tried the other things you suggested. I will definitely try taking off my glasses once and a while to help with tonal values, thanks T x

@sketchartist1964 3 года назад

If you don't know how to throw your vision out of focus, you can look through glasses that aren't yours. Everything will look blurry.

@brianpite0893 5 лет назад

Very en- Lighting, thank you Cesar you are the Master!

@sith8500 5 лет назад

Damn Cesar I love your videos and your views on how u look and perceive art and art making. I barely discovered u about two weeks ago and u inspire me. I’m 40 and have always loved making art yet never had the opportunity to get trained but I’m learning a lot from u. Please keep up the good work and maybe some day I can send a piece so u could critique it.

@danielcanabal5092 5 лет назад

Hello cesar we apresiate all of your videos but I think that you should do the same videos but in Spanish I speak English I am cuban and speak Spanish too like you. but I think that a lot people will love to see yours videos in Spanish because they doesn't speak English. And that will be even better to you youtube channel. Is just an opinion. Thank you for all your hard work!

@markcaselius5993 5 лет назад

Knowing the difference between looking and seeing can take a long time to comprehend. This helps.

@Songfugel 4 года назад

Ok, I finally understand why I notice myself squinting all the time when drawing... btw, mind-blown

@alphinart 5 лет назад

Very interesting! Great video! 👍🏻👍🏼👍🏽👍🏾👍🏿

@ratindramahajan2192 5 лет назад

Thank you Cesar for this very informative video!!!

@higordospassosandrade 5 лет назад

Thank you Cesar! Important topic, great video!

@patrickwelch3274 4 года назад

Great information. Question and something I’d like you to try once- I lost an eye in an accident. My dominant eye. I only see out of my right eye. I then started painting. Put a piece of tape over an eye and paint a portrait. I no longer need to squint. My vision in my only eye is 20-10. I have some peripheral issues and no depth perception. I personally think I see values easier. I took a lot of classes, painted hundreds of live models. Not once was one able to understand what my set of rose colored glasses were seeing. You are a great heart. I give this gift to you , maybe you’ll paint a masterpiece. Cezar, if and I say if you can get past the initial shock Of having a change in your vision ( going to one eye) I used to shoot skeet. ( when had two eyes) With two eyes I missed frequent as vision moving changed from eye to eye it causes missing. I then put a piece of tape over my non dominant eye and I rarely shot behind the target. Try it , you’ll need to be patient and let one eye adjust but I think you are a guy that just might be open to new things.

@laragutierrez8033 4 года назад

Master Cesar, your videos are amazing. I should really be more attentive to edges and learn how to show in my drawing how soft or hard they are using values.