Rethinking Form (The key to Creative Realism)

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If you've ever struggled with form or with bringing your paintings to life, than this video is for you! In this video we'll talk about how to really wrap your mind around form and how to approach your paintings with a form first mindset.
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0:00 Introduction
0:47 What is Form
3:02 The two sides of Form
9:17 Visual Spatial Exercises
13:05 My Approach to Form
15:47 How Our Eyes see Depth

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5 авг 2024

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@jaqstitch 6 месяцев назад

It isn't often I come across a video on technique that makes me go "wow!" This was excellent. Thank you so much!

@Miriamhoffmann 6 месяцев назад

So glad you enjoyed it! I really appreciate that!

@dc56789 6 месяцев назад

I was having trouble painting eyes. After you said about the eye being round i painted a sphere then "layered" it with eyelids . How you explain things really suits how i learn. Thank you.

@Miriamhoffmann 6 месяцев назад

So glad you found that helpful!!

@guipedraart 6 месяцев назад

Wow. This is honestly one of the best and most comprehensive painting channels out here on YT. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!

@Miriamhoffmann 6 месяцев назад

Wow thank you! That really means a lot to me!

@jimicwhite 6 месяцев назад

This has really helped me understand why I'm so frustrated with my art. Thanks for your videos

@Miriamhoffmann 6 месяцев назад

Glad to hear it helped! Thanks so much for watching!

@donnapeltier9152 6 месяцев назад

My mind is dancing, and in awe! 😮 Self-taught, started at 30, now in my 70s - I knew I lacked the ability to visualize or look at subjects in 3d in my mind. I didn’t know how it might be changed, until now - your video! Thank you. 🎉

@nK80 4 месяца назад

OMG, that's so much me! I also think very abstractly and cannot "see" anything in my mind.... I am so happy to see so well accomplished artist with the same issue.... Thank you from the bottom of my heart and soul for being so open about this...

@richardalonzo2879 3 месяца назад

This was an Excellent video ! I wish this subject was covered in art school !

@Miriamhoffmann 3 месяца назад

Thank you so much!

@yvetteh.520 4 месяца назад

Oh my goodness. I have aphantasia also. I am an artist and struggled as an animator when I had to imagine objects turning in "my minds eye". I see only black even though I can draw anything in front of me. What a great video...full of aha moments. Thank you :)

@Miriamhoffmann 4 месяца назад

So glad you enjoyed it! Aphantasia is such a trip. It still blows my mind to think that people can clearly picture stuff in their minds haha

@tinigart273 5 месяцев назад

Girl you're brilliant at explaining this! This video makes so much sense and is very educating, also your work is amazing. Thank you for doing this!

@benjaminafif7936 6 месяцев назад

You are a champion! BEST TEACHER EVER!

@EricPierce-wapcaplet 6 месяцев назад

7:20 I also feel that I have strong aphantasia, and only realized it within the last year or so after seeing that 1-5 apple chart. My friends say they can picture the perfectly detailed apple in their mind, but the best I can imagine is a fuzzy outline, like a sort of apple-concept-shaped hole, ready to recognize an apple when it sees one, but not itself an image of an apple. Likewise for any scene someone might describe, or even the face of someone I know very well - I just can’t see it unless I draw it!

@Miriamhoffmann 6 месяцев назад

Isn’t is so crazy? My one friend told me that not only can they ‘see’ objects clearly in their mind, but they can manipulate the objects and turn them and zoom in on them however they want. And that it is clear as day. And that when they read books they see a visual in their mind like it’s literally a movie playing. That blows my mind. Haha.

@EricPierce-wapcaplet 6 месяцев назад

Yeah, I am amazed some people have that ability, and I wonder if they can teach us, lol. Curiously, my sense of 3d conceptualization and manipulation feels a lot more real than my sense of seeing in my imagination - maybe because I’ve worked in 3d graphics a lot, and assembled model kits as a kid? Like, I can think about my house, and imagine I’m holding and rotating a model of it, or lifting off the roof and looking inside, but it feels a lot more tactile than visual. I just took an aphantasia quiz and ranked as hypophantasic, since I can sort of fuzzily picture people and places. When it comes to hearing, it’s totally different - I can imagine voices or music almost like really hearing them, and play songs in my head at will, which can be great, but it also means it’s super easy to plant a terrible song in my head.

@michaeljohnangel6359 6 месяцев назад

A brilliant exposition, Miriam. Thanks!!! I'm passing this on to our students at the Angel Academy of Art, Florence.

@e.alanis 6 месяцев назад

6:37 Ok so I think this is kinda my problem, I have always have this difficulty's while creating, good to know that it is something real and I'm not the only one who have trouble with this.

@Miriamhoffmann 6 месяцев назад

Yes definitely real! And you’re definitely not alone!

@ScotCampbellwindowpainter 5 месяцев назад

Straight forward clear.

@Supergigalove 6 месяцев назад

Thanks you! This is precious ❤

@crisalidathomassie1811 6 месяцев назад

Thanks so much for this great video in depth info and an honest personal view in art. I just found your channel and I’m subscribing. Excellent channel. I wish you all the best and more for 2024. All the great and good you share with us be returned to you a thousand times and more. Blessings and take care. ❤❤❤

@Miriamhoffmann 6 месяцев назад

Hey thank you so much! I truly appreciate that!

@davidvl3533 4 месяца назад

These videos are amazing! You are a great teacher!

@Miriamhoffmann 4 месяца назад

Thank you! I really appreciate that!

@dilbertschittsplums 6 месяцев назад

I’m glad I found your channel. You definitely help me better understand proko and Stephen bauman. Very thankful for your content.

@marcelhoermann8213 6 месяцев назад

Very informative! I really loved the part about sculpting a painting.

@Miriamhoffmann 6 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it!! Thanks for watching!

@FlashAnimator 6 месяцев назад

You are great at communicating complex ideas! So much here, it was difficult to absorb it all I mean that in the best way, as I'm about to watch it again). Was glad to hear you also cannot "picture items in your mind's eye!" I cannot either - and if I sometimes get a brief glimpse of an image (When my eyes are closed, I mean) I certainly am not the one controlling what I see. And what I find interesting also is that I can't even see things I know well. I can't picture my own car or my own dog or my childhood home in my mind's eye - I know what they look like but when I think of them, I'm just thinking of the word, I guess (the name I've given these objects) not seeing the objects themselves. Oddly I can draw pretty well, most people think. I just can't see anything unless my eyes are open...

@andrewtrumbley5462 5 месяцев назад

I love your art, so glad to be able to see your process and learn from you.

@Ari-gy5hi 4 месяца назад

Thank you so much for this video! I also have spatial visualization difficulties and aphantasia (though it would be a 3 or 4 on a good day on that chart). Really thank you, I always felt as a fraud of an artist because I have so much difficulty with it.

@Miriamhoffmann 4 месяца назад

You’re so welcome and I totally get it!

@nesrinamin8579 6 месяцев назад

I love your honest and relatable way of explaining things. You answer questions I didn't know I had :) Heading over to Patreon now

@Miriamhoffmann 6 месяцев назад

That makes me so happy to hear! Thank you!

@barbaraobrai381 4 месяца назад

I love your work. It really appeals to me. I am also aphantasic.

@myartprocess6003 5 месяцев назад

Thank you Miriam. I am so glad I found your channel. You are amazing!

@FMTCdeLorimier 6 месяцев назад

THANK YOU Miriam!

@michaelopie4052 5 месяцев назад

Amazing video, thank you!!!!

@kashiomi_art 6 месяцев назад

Woah. This video really gave a name to a lot of my struggles with vizualisation and imagining perspective. I knew I had light version of afantasia already, but didn't connect it with my struggle to rotate objects in my mind. Very helpful advice! How I tried to cope with it as a digital artist: I started learning 3d modeling. It helped me so much, bc now I don't have to rotate an object in my mind, I can literally build and rotate it in a program. It provided me with such great understanding of form that I would've never gotten with tutorials that focus solely on the output.

@Miriamhoffmann 6 месяцев назад

Oh yes!!! I started learning blender and it totally changed the way I saw things! 3D modeling is so cool

@Agnieszka_Again 6 месяцев назад

Great! I really like your videos! Thanks

@Basiieee_Artist 6 месяцев назад

Informational guide and gives heads up to understand basic form in the use of balance, contrast in the use of dark and light that enhances the sense of depth

@chompers11 6 месяцев назад

Thats a heck of a title Im in

@MsCristina38 2 месяца назад

Kim Jung Gi actually had a photographic memory which really helped him draw.

@e.alanis 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for the video🖤

@Miriamhoffmann 6 месяцев назад

You’re welcome 😊 thanks for watching!!

@lisafred1362 4 месяца назад

Second video I am watching. My brain is exploding. Hope you show how you paint terminator area. I undertand what you are saying somewhat but need to see it. Love your style of work!

@cathysheffield4346 3 месяца назад

Thank you!

@msgra55 6 месяцев назад

Thank you. Very helpful!

@Miriamhoffmann 6 месяцев назад

So glad you found it helpful! Thank YOU for watching!

@ScotCampbellwindowpainter 5 месяцев назад

I've arrived....this was the next phase of my journey

@jemskid7 6 месяцев назад

Are you feeling the form, Mr. Krabs? But seriously, excellent video! Thanks for sharing your tips. I'll be sure to practice them!

@Miriamhoffmann 6 месяцев назад

Haha thank you!

@bethhamersley526 6 месяцев назад

Could you please do more on this topic? It would be helpful to see more examples. Thank you

@Miriamhoffmann 6 месяцев назад

For sure!

@elenalien 6 месяцев назад

I believe this spatial imagination develops through years of academically drawing practice, then this ‘sphere first’ approach works…

@bigburple6269 6 месяцев назад

I came across your video and as I'm in the middle of watching it, I think I realized that for me, I can visualize but I feel like I can't fully focus on it. Does this seem relatable? Or could this be an entirely different issue because I don't think I can find anything on this kind of feeling. I can vividly visualize but I can't keep that up and my brain starts to go nuts with a lot of random stuff. At times it can be a slideshow, or just nothing at all. I was just wondering if you or anyone could relate. Either way, I'm gonna keep this video in mind I think this is very useful for me. :)

@chongillespie 6 месяцев назад

A little tangential, but I'm curious about what it means to have aphantasia. When Miriam mentions Kim Jung Gi for example, (or any other artistic concept, I suppose) how does she know how to describe his work without remembering what it looks like? Do you remember the description you gave it when you saw it? Forgive me if this is a common question

@Miriamhoffmann 6 месяцев назад

Hi! Yes - kind of- I remember the ‘concept’ of it. That’s the best way I can describe it. Like I remember the details of it as if I were describing the attributes of it but I don’t actually see any pictures of it in my mind. It’s kind of a weird topic. I remember not truly believing that people could ‘see’ stuff in their mind when I first found out haha.

@chongillespie 6 месяцев назад

@@Miriamhoffmann it is very weird! I also find it hard to get my head around the idea you can know what, perhaps something as simple as a line is, without remembering having seen it. Especially things which I can only conceptualise visually, like colour, as opposed to something more complex and tangible where you could associate its feel or sounds. 😵

@mohammedk7538 2 месяца назад

Hello, I am also an artist with aphantasia and i was wondering how you approach adding non reference stylistic elements that are often present in your works. I often think of such things conceptionally and than try to render them logically based on my understanding how sight works. A bit like the concept of shaping a 3D form. How do you get inspiration for non reference parts of you portrait if you cant imagine them visually. Greetings from Vienna

@e.alanis 6 месяцев назад

🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

@user-om1rq3uc3z 6 месяцев назад

I was wondering if you do 3d art? Or digital? I think I saw one of your works that was in 3d.

@Miriamhoffmann 6 месяцев назад

Yep! I haven’t in a very long time but used to do a lot more digital 🥰

@cloudymc4296 6 месяцев назад

Love this except the lint on your top it’s bothering me. :D

@BorsheimArts 6 месяцев назад

This is a fabulous video! I had no idea that my lack of being able to turn things around or even see volume had a name or even was a thing. I just thought the one person I heard explain how he sees things from any angle he wants in his head was gifted. Thank you so much! I love understanding more about how the brain works and learns. And your work is beautiful, as you are. Thanks again! Happy to have found your channel!

@Miriamhoffmann 6 месяцев назад

Thank you so much and I’m so glad you connected with it!

@michaeljohnangel6359 6 месяцев назад

A brilliant exposition, Miriam. Thanks!!! I'm passing this on to our students at the Angel Academy of Art, Florence.

@Miriamhoffmann 6 месяцев назад

Thank you!! I appreciate that! 🥰🤘🏼

@michaeljohnangel6359 6 месяцев назад

@@Miriamhoffmann You're the best! You're the bee's knees!! I wish you could come and teach at our school in Florence.