Top 7 Digital Painting Mistakes 

Are you a sinner? Which of these mistakes do you make? What mistakes did we miss?

Oh man... This video can lead to some missinterpretation. 1- You don't need to get into oil watercolor or acrilics to start and develop a strong style in digital. 2- You can do an entire semi finished artwork with 2 or 3 brushes. Usually you start playing around with them at the final steps when 95% of the piece is done to add texture and variations.

One artist will follow these tips and have great success. Another artist will follow these tips and ruin his art.

I fundamentally disagree with the notion that you have to be a good painter to be a good digital painter. That's like saying "Okay, but they haven't really experienced true ink unless they've made a wood print”. People absolutely, 100% can become an excellent digital painter without any prior experience with painting, and saying otherwise is demonstrably incorrect, and harmful for artists who want to get into digital painting.

I have to admit that this is probably the first Proko video that I actually didn't like. As I admire undeniable skill and experience of the artist, the tips themselves feel very subjective and focused on minor flaws. It feels like you need to use wacom, photoshop and lots of different brushes and stuff to create, which don't feel right. As traditional media can have great impact on skills and teach a lot, it's still quite ok for me to do them separately. Lots of beginners get distracted with a ton of brushes thinking it can make a change, while you can get everything with any single brush if you know the fundamentals. Instead of avoiding monotony in something as minor as brush choice maybe one should try other things and topics to draw, different approaches. Adding light and shadow with pure black and white, or trying to color without understanding values feels quite more important than doing most of these sins. This video just seems to force one way of drawing, slightly depreciating others. It's probably just my personal feeling about it, but I still think Proko can be better than that... Agree with the airbrush thing though.

Using small brushes for everything is another big one I see a lot.

Sin -> Zooming in and working on details before the piece is fleshed out!

There are way too many exceptions to these rules, and I fear new artists will take them as gospel. For instance, colour picking can be really helpful in figuring out what is happening with light.

I would add three other pieces of advice for relatively new digital artists: 1. Don't zoom in too close to your painting until the whole canvas is covered in colour. Even towards the end as you start to zoom in more, keep zooming out to check the whole image is still cohesive. Far too often beginner artsts create too much contrast in small details and spoil the effect of the whole. 2. Use the biggest brush you can to do the job. This is a tip stolen from traditional painting, but it applies to digital too. Often in the pursuit of precision, artists will use a very small brush to try to cover a large area. This creates a scratchy, rough, and distinctly ameteur look. 3. Don't paint your shadows black and your highlights white, or use the burn/dodge tool for shading. This comes down to learning a bit about colour theory and what is called hue shifting. Essentially, your shadows and highlights should differ not just in value, but in hue too, or else your whole painting will look lifeless. For example, with a warm source of light the highlights may lean more towards yellow, while the shadows are more blue-ish.

Completely disagree with #5. It's COMPLETELY FINE to start digitally. It's cheaper (free/low cost programms can be as good as "professional" ones and there are decent tablets even under 200$, to paint traditionally you need to spend A LOT of money to buy decent art supplies) and cleaner. There is no difference in developing your style digitally or traditionally. It is easier to go from traditional to digital, but if a person want to draw only digitally there aren't any drawbacks. There even benefits: not wasting time adapting to digital, not feeling frustration from seeing how half of the skills are useless now and you have to learn painting basicly from the square one. Also, about #6. Depends on the style. Default brushes are VERY useful for the begginers. They might be not as fancy as custom ones, but they get the job done.

The point about traditional media is just wrong. You say that when people paint on canvas they develop taste and style but the same happens when you paint digitally. Digital, traditional... these are just media. A good artist can make a good drawing with a stick on sand beacause they mastered fundamendals that are aplicable to any medium. Sure, you have to learn how to use your tools, things will be different when you use watercolours, or pencils, or an ipad but the same fundamentals of colour, light, value, anatomy etc. apply. Please, don't join this ridiculous discussion on which medium is more superior. You can develop your style and sensibility drawing digitally and your digital art is not good because it looks like traditional art. I liked the points about carelessness, soft brushes or backgrounds. These were simple and practical tips on really common problems. Experimenting with brushes is also good but it can be overwhelming to beginners who often think that a good brush will make their art look good. This is why it is often recommended to use those default basic brushes before jumping to the more fancy ones. Th colour picker tool is just a tool, the trick is to learn how to use it properly.

This video feels more like someone trying to impose personal tastes on other people than helpful advices for newbies.

#7 - I'm in a bunch of places full of hundreds of beginners and/or self-taught people and I've never seen anyone do that. Seems like an awfully specific and arbitrary mistake for being in a top 7 listing. #6 - OH GODS NO... Probably the #1 biggest delusion in digital art is that brushes are the key to good art - and you are just reinforcing this horrible, horrible delusion. WHY... #5 - I partly agree. I think that it is beneficial to learn some traditional stuff first, it gives you a feel that will help you in digital. So I absolutely recommend everyone to try trad. But it is not by any means a prerequisite for getting good and absolutely not a prerequisite of developing a unique style! Sorry, but I feel you gave the good advice here but with the wrong reasoning and in the wrong tone. #4 - Once again, pretty arbitrary. Yes, that's something beginners tend to do but to be named a number 4 biggest mistake is weird, to say the least. There are several way bigger mistakes, that you don't even mention at all. #3 - Yes, delusion is a common mistake but... how the hell did you manage to simply it all down to just soft brushes?! I don't see the connection or logic here. As for soft brushes, yes it's a common mistake, maybe I would even say it fits for a #3 on a top list if you just left the entire "delusion" narrative out, but I feel your explanation of why using only soft brush is bad is lacking to say the least, and you should have pointed out that soft brushes are not inherently evil and can used in a right way too. #2 - That is a personal opinion framed as some universal truth. And it isn't. It is a matter of style and technique, some people can create nice and organic looking rendering using a single brush, others find the multiple brush workflow better for them personally. It's a choice. Just because you are the type of artist for whom varying brushes works better doesn't make it a universal truth. #1 - ...Seriously? From all the actually serious, big, common mistakes you chose brainless color picking as your #1? Yes it is an issue, but your choice is arbitrary, and your reasoning just sounds all wrong. To be honest for every beginner who does this I see 20 others who are just trying to come up with colors from scratch without ever looking at a reference or having the slightest clue about color theory, and that is way bigger of an issue than brainless color picking IMHO. And what about not using reference? Trying to sketch with 2D shapes instead of thinking in 3D volumes? Mistaking lack of understanding how something works with style choice? Not checking relative proportions? Stiffness in gesture? Over-detailing? Bad composition? Using same values for everything? Painting highlights and shadows with pure white and black? Pillow shading? Inconsistent light directions? Forgetting perspective? Making up excuses when receiving criticism, or not asking for criticism? Lack of color harmony? I could go on... and on... and on... There are so many common big mistakes you could and should have picked instead. I'm sorry Court, I like you and Proko but this is gonna be the first ever Proko video that I'm giving a thumbs down.

Completely disagree with calling it impatience to go to digital media quicker or before traditional media. Paint supplies are hella expensive, but digital can work out relatively much cheaper considering most people already own a computer for other purposes.

For many of these you could find a top artist who does it, and has great success with it. I would take this advice with a pinch of salt.

Most of what you say is very subjective but you talk as if it's "Gospel" with an air of "arrogance" I'm sorry to say. Aaron Blaise is an amazing artist and animator and there are plenty of his youtube videos where he uses the brushes that come with Photoshop. He even has some videos where he exclusively uses the airbrush to paint, granted for conceptual stuff. Still maybe an airbrush look and style is what the artist is going for, ever consider that? Also I, myself coming from a traditional oil, acrylic, gouache, watercolor background, don't agree at all that one should or even "needs" to learn to paint using these mediums before going digital. Oil, acrylics, watercolors are merely "mediums" no different than the "medium" of digital art. So long as the artist understands the principles of value, edges and color harmony that's all they need to understand and apply digitally. I had to learn that the "medium" of oil requires a very different approach than the "medium" of watercolor and even "gouache" and "acrylics". Digital painting requires a different approach as well. Personally I find digital painting a little more complicated since the colors don't naturally blend or mix as easily digitally. You have to futz with the blending or edges (almost a little like acrylics) and even the control one has with values traditionally seem more difficult to achieve digitally. In any case I don't see the relevancy. You also refer to the use of the color picker as "cheating" but I have to ask, as opposed to what? What's "not" cheating? I realize "why" you "feel" that it's "cheating" when an artist merely and exclusively uses the color picker and not exercising observation and some "skill" in color mixing but I can't go so far as to "criticize" the practice. I think you're just using your personal prejudice and I get it, especially when you're an artist that has worked so hard on learning through practice and effort in achieving a certain mastery in using these skills, seeing someone simply "color picking" can be cause for irritation. Nevertheless calling the use of this tool a "sin" or "wrong" or "cheating" is simply a prejudiced opinion I feel. An oil painter who I consider a master by the name of Richard Schmid can be found many times, after mixing his colors, comparing the color on his palette knife against the still life he's painting. He'll take the knife with color on it and place it right next to a flower to be sure the color or color temperature is "correct", is that "cheating" even if he's till mixing the colors before hand? While that's not technically using the "color picker" it's in essence what he's doing. (If you've ever seen his work you can't tell me he's not a master in his craft). There's nothing inherently wrong with using the color picker to at least help the artist determine the temperature of certain colors or even help the artist determine the general color harmony of the piece they're painting. For instance, determining just how "white" the highlights are on a piece for example. A beginning artist can learn a lot from this technique when they're surprised to learn that the highlight on that nose is actually a magenta violet color and not white or even a light gray. In any case it's the artist's choice and if it helps them achieve what they're trying for then good for them. Norman Rockwell most times used a Balopticon to do his canvas drawings and did amazing work. Some may "argue" he was "cheating" too but that implies that ANYONE can do great works of art simply by "tracing" or "color picking" etc. That's not really true. There still needs to be some skill to make those "conveniences" work for you. In general I think a video like this needs to have more of an "encouraging" or "suggestive" tone verses a tone that serves more to discourage artists especially beginning artist. Nothing wrong making them "aware" of certain things they may want to "watch" for but using terms like Laziness, Delusional, Cheating etc. may not be the best choice of words if you're trying to "help" one wanting to improve as an artist, is all I'm saying.

I'm pretty disappointed with this video tbh. I started with traditional mediums and moved to digital, and it felt like having to learn how to do things from the ground up all over again--digital just *is not* the same medium as traditional mediums. And I think that's why this rubs me the wrong way so much. Digital is just one medium for making art among many, and being good at digital won't magically make you good at, say, oil painting--but oil painting wouldn't make you good at digital, *either*. Instead, the fundamentals of shapes and good lines *transfers*, while everything unique about the medium has to be learned. Not to mention the rest of the tips were super duper subjective? The bit about don't leave white spaces sounds stupid--that is an absolutely valid stylistic choice a person can make, and just because Jones doesn't see the point doesn't mean there isn't one. Honestly, I"m really disappointed with this video, and I hope the channel goes back to making more that I subbed for--things that inspire, fundamentals that actually help, and not these shallow don't do these super subjective things and "o only start with trad then move to digital even though whatever traditional medium you picked won't be at like digital!!!!" sort of things.

Caricatures are the worst sin, by far.

Sorry Court, I've missed the ending, so some of the comments should be taken more as opinion pieces rather than minor critiques. Some comments on the sins: 7. Carelessness: In most cases correct. 6. Settling: There is a video by Sinix that explains how default brushes (round brush?) can be very useful in learning to paint when someone is a beginner. First learn to use default brushes and when you feel comfortable with them switch to a broader pallete. If from the beginning you start using fancy brushes you will just go the route of asking what brush a particular artist is using (Hello, Ahmed!). 5.Impatience: I do not understand how style is particularly translatable from real to digital but not the reverse? Or are you implying in the comment about doing both digital and real at the same time that the reverse (digital to real) is possible? I do not see why it should be onesided. You can do pretty much anything in digital that painting in reality can do, and even more. Arguments like you can not erase in reality, or you can not transition from digital to painting in reality, seem rather silly arguments that people mention a lot of times. Anyhow, I do not have to mention that there are great artists with great styles that only work in digital. Oh, also I just noticed that you mentioned in 2. about style in digital painting so I am now even more puzzled about the end all be all message of this section. 4. Laziness: Some of the flat color backgrounds can be used to great effect depending on the situation but in general an abstract background can add a lot to a painting. For example you mentioned that white is a good choice for a flat background which reminded me how Leyendecker used simple white as an abstract background. 3.Self-delusion Mostly true but you can still archive good results with only an air brush. Ross Draws used it on one of his paintings which, as he mentioned, was harder to use but ended with the same product as usual. 2. Monotony: Do not indulge in this one too much but with time, as Court mentiones, you will get to a style. The reason why you should not mingle with too many brushes at the same time is because you have to find your own limitations. In this manner you inflict a restriction that leads to creativ usages that you could not archive with limitless means. Think of Zorn and his limited pallete that gave a wide breath of expression to his pictures. 1. Sample: Use it to check on your hue, saturation, etc in contrast to your own choices, or use the picked colors to study more deliberately. For example pick the whole specturm of colors that a picture has and study it on the color wheel and sliders. With that you will be able to transition from one situation to another by using similar values, colors, etc...

Imo one of biggest mistakes, most newbie artists do- coloring shades and lights with a same color and just different tones, instead picking different colors. It makes picture dirty and unrealistic

this seemed more like an ad with the video as an afterthought. most of the sins were rather subjective in my opinion.

"You can't develop your style without starting with traditional media" That's like saying you can't learn to ride a motorcycle unless you start on a 50cc scooter...

It's interesting. I had a rough base of doing physical art and painting, but I wasn't very good. Then I had a 4 or 5 month amount of time of basically only doing digital art. When I came back to doing physical artwork, I found that things felt much more intuitive. I was able to understand the processes that I needed to go through to get the results I wanted.

Dont present what works for you as a general rule that should apply to everyone. Most of these come down to personal preference.

I was feeling some of the points in the beginning but later on it just got ridiculous. Most of these just seem like mistakes that you subjectively believe rather than in general. I mean come on the notion that someone who's never picked up a brush or acrylic paint going into digital art will never develop there own style is completely asinine. There are people who are amazing at digital art without ever using paint It just a matter how you apply the basic rules and technique of art in general and not the medium exactly.

i'm actually not a sinner, just a beginner, but i had a lot of great teachers and advice these past few years. Never eyedropped off a reference, it just felt like it'd hurt me more than help me grow. Proko, you're awesome, I super appreciate all your videos and your advice you give us for free, you don't have to and it's a huge help. I've learned so much from you and other artists who are willing to teach this generation of budding artists, keep up the good work!

Usually, the advices on this channel tend to be really good, but this time, they weren't. (at the exception of the bit on the airbrush) 1: There is absolutely NO reason painting traditionnally would be necessary before going digital, painting traditionnally is really *expensive* when you're just trying to learn, there's less room for trial and error, each mistake a beginner will make will cost them bucks, as opposed to digital media, which litteraly has a tendency to give beginners motivation and courage to actually experiment with techniques and trainings. On top of that, there are insane amounts of students going pro-level in digital painting without ever having touched traditionnal *All the time*, I'm just really confused why would someone think that traditionnal paint has somewhat of a higher learning value (or value at all...) 2: there are pros everywhere telling us that the default round brush is enough in itself and that relying on custom brushes to give a good look to your paintings is absolutely harmful to your learning process, skill doesn't stop in one certain program with one certain brush, if it does, it's not a skill and is in itself *self-delusion*. This advice you gave is, on top of all of that, in direct contradition to a previous video on the channel showing anthony jones using exclusively the default round brush to make amazing concept art in 5min. 3: The eyedropper is a powerful tool for anyone knowing how to *properly* use a reference. Sure, relying on it is bad, but it's reaaaally useful to use it to try and understand how light and colors behave, and become aware of all of those subtle nuances that make big differences while being the complete opposite of obvious.

Something you didn't mention that I noticed with new artists is a tendency to pick a pure black and set opacity to 10-15% to create shadows. Or pure white and low opacity to create highlights. I think point 5 would address this but thought it was worth pointing out. It tends to create very washed out paintings. A personal bad habit of mine that I'm trying to correct is an over dependence on painting in grey-scale first to get values right and adding colour after. Not a terrible habit but I find I get better results the sooner I introduce colour to a piece. So it's something I'm working on.

I feel personally attacked by this whole video

Lots of really bad advice in this video, kinda surprised this was approved by Proko, usually content on this channel is high quality.

_"I started with MS Paint with a trackball mouse and spent more than two decades till I arrived in Photoshop stage with a tablet, whippersnapper nowadays just go straight to Photoshop... preposterous!"_

I disagree about the airbrush. Many famous digital artist such as Ross draws and wlop use the airbrush extensively. Depends how you use it

on impatience: overall, digital painting is much cheaper than traditional. i'm not saying that artists shouldn't at least try to do things traditionally, by all means, if you have the money to do it then do it! but calling it a "sin" or "impatience" to go straight to digital instead of trying out traditional isn't fair. with digital art, you usually make a one-time investment in a drawing tablet, paying as much as 100-200$ or 3,000$ upfront if you really want to go all out. then you have a wide selection of drawing programs -- a lot of which are free and can accomplish as much as photoshop! after this, you don't have to worry about buying paints or buying new canvas. you don't have to worry about saving your nice sketchbook pages for when you really want to draw something nice. if you want to doodle something and erase it from existence, digital art will let you do this at no extra cost! but like i said, traditional art is *expensive*. you have to re-buy materials and will eventually end up spending much more money over a long period of time than you would have spent just getting a tablet. again, learning traditional skills is important and i'm not saying you shouldnt, but for a lot of artists who don't make a lot of money or just aren't in a financial position to afford the cost for traditional art supplies, digital is a much better option.

Although I don't digitally paint this seemed helpful.

Thank you. Your comment on not getting stuck using one brush, what I have been doing, totally helped me. Amazing what a little advice can do. Thanks again.

I’ve honestly done most of my digital paintings using the eye dropper tool very heavily to pick colours from reference pictures and over time i noticed that my paintings just looked...dull...and that’s why I watched many colour theory videos and tutorials to understand colour and experimented with colour and that actually helped my paintings look alive!

I would add needless over-saturation to this list. A lot of beginners, myself included, use hugely over-saturated colors as a crutch to make our paintings "pretty." Now there is nothing wrong with using vibrant colors, incredible artists like Aaron Blaise use them to great affect, but they have a specific place and look often fake when used over-much.

Ohhh boiii that good ol airbrush 😔

As a person who struggles with color, I feel it a great way to understand color is to use the eyedropper tool to steal from an image and create a color pallette based on the colors you find. It's best to do it before you start working as you don't rely on the image more so than your own mind when it comes down to it.

This was enlightening. I’ve color picked before, mainly as practice, never displayed as original artwork. This was really great insight.

Will Ferrell is back!

Impatience got me good when I started out, I rushed to digital and thought it would be a smooth ride... oh boy was I in for a surprise the following 3 weeks were torture but I persevered nonetheless 👏🏼 and have yet much to learn.

Really insightful, I’ve been guilty of using the eye dropper tool so this is very helpful so I can learn to choose my colors more wisely

That "being impatient" one is deadly accurate for me. I've realized the mistake and hope to take a hand full of art classes this spring semester

By the way do you think that watching too mutch tutorials, instead developing your own approach to art is sin too ?

I have never tried digital art. I’ve been only practicing traditional as a beginner. Should I try digital? Love your drawing tutorials!

I JUST found your channel and the video I was watching was for 2012, came here to check if you still post and this video is for 10 minutes ago Best thing ever :))

deep from my heart, i say big thanks, for revealing most bad habits of digital painting. this video is a new revelation to me, and make me realize what mistakes i have been doing for these years of doing digital painting. Best regards to you, and God bless u abundantly.. Greetings from indonesia.

As many others, I disagree with the general tone of the video, and is one of the RARE Proko videos that I did not like. Not because of the content itself, but rather because one artist's opinion is being presented as fact/Word of God (I mean look at that thumbnail, even if it's tongue-in-cheek). There's nothing wrong with him personally seeing these as "sins," but I believe the tone should have been more along the lines of "Here is what I believe holds people back in digital painting." It is also interesting to, on the one hand, promote and encourage the use of various brushes and experimentation, frowning on the use of the same brush too long, and on the other say that learning to paint traditionally, i.e. with a very limited set of brushes typically, is essential to become a proficient artist.

Disagree with 6. If you're good enough you can paint very good atmospheric paintings with the round circle brush. Skill over tricks, which is ironic given how the number 1 sin talks about using shortcuts.

One of the best tips I have for people learning digital painting, is to always look at the hsv of the colours when studying and painting. Those characteristics are very important to learning theory.

The biggest mistake in digital painting is to pay too much attention to criticism. You do you and let the art flow, as long as you're not actually tracing over the top of your reference I think colour picking is perfectly fine.

I enjoyed the perspective on this subject. Because you asked: If the goal is getting a traditional look for your digital art, in my opinion Photoshop underperforms. There are so many better brush engines out there. It's an unpopular opinion, I know. I get that veteran users are comfortable with Photoshop, but for new digital artists, I think there are much better options. I wouldn't say it's a mistake to use Photoshop, but it's a mistake to avoid other apps because of the perception that Photoshop is the standard.

I love doing traditional art but struggle with digital a lot. I just can't seem to get the painterly look, I dont use Photoshop I use a free drawing program (hecc ya poor boi) but maybe I can still make custom brushes with it and that will help? I also think i use the blending option wayyyy to much. I'm a big fan of oils which blend nicely but not in the way the blending tool does it, it's more like blurring.

When I paint digitally I use the same colour palette I’d use if I was painting with oil paints. I mix it the same way too, by placing dots of each colour and mixing it with a brush to get the colour I want. I feel like it makes colour choices look more consistent.

The George RRM painting is so great, I love it! ♥

Thank you for this video, i really enjoyed it.

And the other mistake is shade with black

Great video! Love to see one about the fundamentals of oil painting.

Every pro I know doesn't care so much about thier brush. Being able to use the basic brushes and still knock out great work is necessary.

My first art mistake was trying to learn anatomy through anime and cartoons... Seriously, I see so many do this these days. And since they work digital, they use the airbrush for shading the wobbly lineart. And I really recommend traditional painting to anyone who wants to learn colors! It really helps you understand how to mix and not always have perfect colors for everything. I also developed my style from it as I like the look of paint strokes made with real brushes, but I don't think everyone will find their style this way.

White gaps is a style, that critique is so stupid. " Make sure to color in the lines boys and ghouls!"

LOL, I am a #1 sinner with the eyedrop tool, although in my defense I wanted to be able to pay more attention to the brushstrokes. Now I get it, thanks for the hints!!!

Loved the video! My biggest sin is relying too much on the "undo" function. I always find myself painting with my other hand literally hovering over the Ctrl and Z keys, ready to press them after any "misplaced" brush stroke. I need to stop doing it so often!

#7 could very well be a style thing. I've seen traditional artists (esp. those who work with watercolor) leave blank spaces inside the sketch (usually carefully planned ofc), and they look amazing.

Greatest sin of digital painting is thinking that photobashing can be replacement of skill...

I like the white spaces, it gives a sense of childhood art for me.

This opened my eyes to a lot of troubles am having. Thanks a lot.

1:35 when you hear somebody talking about you

I'm still learning how to draw smiley faces though...

mistake #8 having a grotesque art style like this guy

True advices here, as always, and cith so much fun !Thank you so much Proko team !

This is amazing, so helpful, great video

Caricatures are for sidewalk artists trying to make a quick buck. These "sins" aren't helpful. I get Wacom is trying to sell their completely overpriced products, but come on. Not using a tinted or colored background isn't lazy. It's not known to many artists. The majority of artists start on lined composition paper. And traditional painting can add up if you want the professional quality. Student grade makes you feel like you're not as talented as you thought because of how diluted the cheap paints are. I bought the very basic oil painting products and 3 tiny tubes of artist grade paint. It all set me back $75. I could've purchased dozens of photoshop brushes with that money. Basic traditional art knowledge is beneficial but not the need to practice with it. I draw 100 times better on my phone than I do on paper.

This guy's explanations are awesome. I really enjoy his teaching.

what's funny is that the last project I did for a client I used a black and white reference and I had to look up other photos of the subject so I was forced to come up with my own color scheme. It turned out pretty nicely and the client was happy. I may want to switch up the brushes a bit more though...

Some more, but these are really basic and only apply to absolute beginners: 8. Stop zooming in. Only do it for really fine detail, if you absolutely have to. 9. Limit your colors. Digital makes it waaay to easy for beginners to lose control over colors, or to never learn how to have any. Lock your gamut. 9.1 Also, avoid pure black. Nothing - not your lines, nor your darkest shadows - should ever be pure black. 10. Don't ever use "grass" or "branch" or "leaf" brushes or anything of the sort.

Only bad digital artists believe there is nothing to learn from traditional. Or that you can get "everything" from digital. Great video. Love the salt from these scrubs.

I hate when people try to impose their "rules" on the creativity of others

Agreed until you got to colour stealing. I'm colour blind so that eye drop tool helps me a bunch.

One of the biggest sins for the new artist is taking advice from people like this with conditioned techniques from the past. It's why so much art is the same. Ignore 'rules' experiment and discover yourself through your own creativity. Also, this gentleman's 'art' is amazingly bad, even for caricatures. Yet as I've previously stated, art is subjective. Like what you like, don't ask someone else.

I’ve always pronounced it as “way-com” :(

"don't attempt "perfection" in your paintings, strive for uniqueness and character..."those are the words every aspiring artist needs.😎😎😎

The traditional painting advice is correct and I wonder why my digi painting looks flat sometimes. But I have such trouble with paint. Watercolour is my favorite but It's hard to get proper skin tones and shadows, acrylics dry so fast I don't even have time to think. Never tried oils. Great video!

Wacom is over priced af I just clicked the links to their tablets in the description and the reviews are not even that good.

EVERYONE, CALM DOWN: I believe the mistakes that they mention in this video is for those who wish to improve or increase their knowledge. These actions are the ones that prevent you from learning much, saving you time and convenience instead of taking the time to learn it. It’s fine if you are working in a time limit and if you already know the general practice but this is for those who wish to further into their art career.

I think alot of people are showing their disagreement because this is more or less the best art resource channel on RU-vid and that beginners will be very serious is avoiding these "mistakes". But in reality these are not mistakes but rather preferences.

amazing info and really great caricature illustrations :)

Very useful video. I have did most of these sins and have strated correcting one by one myself. If this video came a year back i would have saved few months. One of the worst sin is using smudge.

You forgot to mention SIN number 7,5! Stealing with drawing OVER pictures!!!

I’m certainly not using this as an excuse but about 8 years ago me and my family found out was colourblind(funnily enough in games of uno) at first it wasn’t that serious but when it came to high school I really started struggling confusing paints and references colour schemes and it still pains me to this day. When I started digital painting and found out about the colour picker tool it made painting so much easier and gave me much more confidence there was no longer any concern as to if what I was painting was correct or not. While it can be overused much like any other tool in photoshop(you mentioned the brushes) I do not think it is a cardinal sin considering photoshop is used for more than just painting in fact it’s original purpose was purely photo editing. It’s because it was a useful tool that it has stuck around. It is certainly not a sin!!!

>you should experience traditional painting before moving onto digital me with a pencil: ok...

Titulo en español pero sin subtítulos en español no mames . _ .

I just started digital painting. This is creepy.

One thing that comes off as odd is the dichotomy between learning traditionally and using as many tools as possible digitally. One thing I really like is minimizing the amount of tools, restricting to 1-3 (with different sizes of course) and minimizing layers. For fun and learning of course, if there’s work to be done then you do what you need to. But if you’re studying oils you are not going to be looking to change your medium every 5 minutes, you’re going to focus on what you’re doing with a specific set of tools that do not end up being a plethora of options. It drives creativity and on top of that it’s how many masters that we all look up to worked. I don’t think either way is taboo but the “commandments” here are contradictory. I don’t even have a problem with the “rules and sins of art” videos because I think they can drive people to improve. Just makes sure to clarify if some contradict each other - I’m sure that there was something lost in trying to keep the video time down or something because it is just obvious that these two rules don’t work together even if I’m their own they can be good advice to get people out of the box they are used to.

@1:16 I do a variant on 2. I create a base layer with my core colours using a bucket tool or magic wand. This way any gaps or transparent blending will at least show the core colour instead of white.

-nobody cares if you are first-

I feel bad for your students and what they're possibly being taught, these "sins" you speak of just seem to discourage creativity and come off as extremely elitist, more like personal pet peeves to be quite honest.

I'm mostly doing the #1 since because I have only learned black and white before so I'm not good with colors at all. Even though I love colors, I just can't tell which color I should use especially with skin tone. But I always make sure to blend the colors and reuse them multiple times so as far as I have done it, it looks like how you did it afterwards. After I learn to color properly, I will not use it anymore. But right now, I either use it or have a very bad color and good lineart.

impatience is really a big hurdle to me when i was just starting, not until i heared something from another artist that goes "if you are impatient, your art will probably be a shit" and so every time i do things, i always remind myself of this, and thus made me improve my arts and myself...sorry for the wrong grammar