I Forced Artists To Follow A Bob Ross Tutorial 

To be fair, these are physical techniques, trying to follow them digitally is just really inconvenient

@@georgiykireev9678 True tho

And Bob Ross would also do each painting three times, so you might be seeing his third take after he's got it down.

It would be possible to make a painting that resembles Bob's style on a digital medium just as fast, if not *faster.* *BUT...* and that's a big but, I cannot lie, it would require an _entirely_ different set of techniques to pull it off. You wouldn't try to copy Bob's technique, because those were developed to take advantage of the physical properties of wet and semi-wet paint on a canvas. Rather, you'd need to put together techniques that take advantage of the digital tools available in the program you use. Things like exploiting the properties of blending, stretching and distortion, and various effects that can take advantage of the nature of how pictures are displayed on a monitor using really only three colors.

personally i think its easier to do traditional because you dont have all those settings for the brushes and all, just a swipe of a brush and u alr have a mixed colour (but there are cons and pros for both )

Abso-freakin'-lutely

Fact

It would've been such a thrill to see Bob with all these Art RU-vidrs these days. It would have been delightful TV.

Bob didn't want people to become painters, or sell our paintings, or show them somewhere, or be good, or even do better. He just wanted us painting. So yes, he's proud.

100% wouldve made him the happiest dude in the world

Yeah, Bob was a master of his style before he ever got his show, and even then he repeated paintings multiple times before his filmed take. I would also say he has a innate talent in understanding 3d space. that's what your struggling against if you try to follow him with traditional methods, with his medium and colors. Digital it really is a whole different ball game. I do watercolors and digital but I cant do both on the same day or my head starts to ache because they are just so different.

To be fair, the method itself is also super fast. It's not really analogous to normal drawing/painting. You can learn how to paint like Bob Ross a lot more easily than more traditional methods.

It also depends on the medium of paint and canvas. For example, I've used mediums like watercolor, acrylic, and egg tempra. Sll of which have different properties and techniques. Apparently Bob Ross uses oil paint, a medium I don't have experience in.

he's not working fast so the audience can follow, but physical painting is way faster then digital cause you can easily create multiple complex lines/textures by using different stroke techniques, how much paint you use, blending, amount of paint, using something else then a brush (like a sponge)

It's cuz he paints it 4 times before he goes live to ensure he can do it in the TV time slot. This is time number 5 in a row of doing the painting for Bob Ross.

I mean I tried following him once using traditional methods (paint on canvas) and there was no way I could keep up even though I set up all the colors and tools before hand. The man wasn't JUST efficient, he was genuinely a master of his craft.

@@Rathdrgnknight Yes, I shouldn't have used the qualifier "only", he's clearly skilled and wasn't intended to imply he wasn't.

I think the slowest thing he did was mixing the paint, everything else was extreme speed with no quality lost.

It's almost always faster to do your own stuff if you know what you want the final product to look like than it is to copy someone else.

He was a military drill sgt, so that explains why.

They all were draw8ng with a mouse

@@eri-chanteenau18 oh- no way.. that's sick and made it even more impressive.. . Either way I meant the one who drew lines looking like a glitch at first

@@itzmehDevi Microsoft paint?

@@filipinosonicfan yeah that one

@@eri-chanteenau18 There were some with a tablet and a cellphone

my mom says things like that when i draw i’ll circle things to explain the piece or try doing effects while she watches i draw digitally so i just press undo or draw on a different layer but it stresses her out no matter how many times i explain

Your mom is twitch chat. The amount of times I've seen "RUINED!" and "saved" 😂

then he turns that splodge of paint into something Amazing, it's why I love watching him, no mistakes just happy little accidents, you can splash random paint on his canvas and he'll turn it into something. Making it look like it's meant to be there.

I hate that kinda line of thought

​@@Hype_Incarnate Its because those people have not reached the enlightenment levels where they understand that the only mistake in life, is when one gives up or learns nothing from it. What's sad is some never realize they are questioning a painter as if he did something wrong, a painter I might add, that literally teaches the very concept of embracing perceived mistakes and turning them into something better. This is why you ignore hypocrites or people who have no idea what they are talking about, and who don't listen to experts. An expert is an expert for a reason and if you tell them they made a mistake only to be proven wrong later, it is because you aren't the expert and don't know as much about it as you believe yourself to know, or simply never explored the idea. When that happens, that's when its best to speak less and listen more. You might be good at something, but apparently, there's room for you to grow if you can't recover from a perceived mistake or make it in to something even better.

He doesn't fuck around, he took the challenge

I kinda agree with them about it two. I mean it’s Ugly as sin, but in a weirdly interesting way that almost makes it beautiful.

That's when you know he's the real deal

@@sycho-tech5104it started out genuinely as squiggles but the longer it went on the more i began seeing the vision

@@Hana-gd1vr right, your first reaction to it is just’that’s horribly ugly’ but if you keep looking at it…

It's a big single colored blob at 1st. You blink and that blob is now 3 detailed mountains and a goat.

a good way to get this fast is to time yourself, give yourself like 5-20 minutes per drawing or painting. i think a lot of digital artists focus too much about things being perfect, when the best pieces of art have many flaws, they just work with it

Exactly how Bob would have liked it!

Artist locked in

Bro was locked in 😂

Yeah if they just shut the fuck up. They could have done a better job. Being loud = views in their dumbass minds.

Fr, the entire time I was wondering if they/he would speak lol

swishes again "And now we have a mountain range"

swishes again "and there's our ocean"

swishes again "And now our sky"

swishes again "There's a cozy cottage"

*swishes again* "And now we have our happy little painting"

In fact, he would praise you if it didn't look the same as his, since that was one of his big points he liked to talk about on his show! Each episode is there to give you an idea of what to do and how to do it, and you're supposed to use that to create whatever you want to make, regardless of how close it is to his example!

Did you know he was once a drill sergeant?

I remember reading a comment years ago that he paints 3 works per episode. 1 for planning, 1 for the display, and 1 for when he's recording. Im too lazy to do research but its not unbelievable given of how fast he works.

Now I just want a speedrunner but they guide you through the whole thing like Bob Ross

Bob "There is no mistakes, just happy little accidents" Ross.

I got the shovels

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I got the water

I got the scissors

I want his art skills and personality

wet on wet is the only way he is so fast and good at what he paints

@glenmartin7978 no but we TRIED THAT and still couldn't keep up.

It's called talent and practice. You were slow because you tried it once and completely lacked the learned skills. He had decades of experience under his belt.

The more canvass he makes, the faster he gets. Plus him being focused calm and happy painting He's a speedster for sure. If he was able to get his hands on those digital ones I know he be smoking everyone going 10x than his normal 4x hand painting.

Yeah he had two other paintings, a development one and a display one that he would apparently paint up for each episode as well.. this is him on the recording painting where he is going slow. I don’t want to know how fast he can paint when he isn’t slowing down.

Exactly, the advantages of digital art is extra detail and precision, not speed.

@@robbieaulia6462 You can get speed from digital art too, just depends on what you're trying to accomplish

@@robbieaulia6462 And ctrl+z

Even commenters using canvas still can't follow that speed. Dude was just a master

Not so much. Not a whole lot of people using oil paints who are unfamiliar with the technique that Bob Ross used are able to keep up with him. That specific style of wet on wet needed the canvas to be primed in a liquid coat of white paint and a unique style of palette knife, that he learned from (and dedicated his first two seasons to) his mentor. He had a _lot_ of practice using that specific technique.

You are sort of correct, he would do one as practice then he'd do the second one for the video, but then after that he would do a third one, simply to give away.

You can find all the info in a RU-vid video published by The New York Times called "Where Are All the Bob Ross Paintings? We Found Them." Great video, definitely recommend the watch.

But he also did tons of paintings of swamps, beaches, oceans, and plains? How do those factor into a collage of following a river around a mountain? That sounds like a case of cherry-picking paintings to make a nice themed set.

​@@IceMaverick13 Super Environment created by aleins

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it was stressful

Fr

Four commenters tried to do it on canvas and also failed. It was Bob's skill, not just the medium

ancient arts@@gabrote42

Yeah, bob ross is about leaning into any imperfections to make something in one go. Digital struggles with that, your tools don’t offer the same level of granular control, but as you said, give infinite ability to correct mistakes.

😔I feel bad for the hairless artists, how will they ever experience the power of bob

Your painting was sick! 💪💪🔥🤔

Yeah it takes a lot more effort to replicate than to o your own thing but in an attempt to make similar

i love how most of them are using a decent digital drawing app, while someone else is using Ms Paint

Idk man, I think that's just bob ross maxing out his conventional painting skill