You've completely changed my point of view on painting. I always knew there was something fishy going on, like the moment you look closely the illusion falls apart. But you've explained it all clearly.
@@ddelapaix2640 well now I'm interested. Why don't you follow that thought through for a minute? I'd like to hear what you have to say about this odd connection between this art concept and quantum mechanics. Like, no joke, I'm not hassling you, I'm genuinely interested
@@keenandlittle5889As a physicist maybe he is talking about how on a quantum level particles behave as “abstractions” of their typical state that we’ve observed for centuries. For instance, we know that an antineutrino is released in beta- decay but we have no possible way of actually observing it.
@@coleboechler5129 hah! Like maybe the rules of the universe are a sham, and there's some kind of sloppy hack going on under the surface, instead of the elegant holistic system we might have assumed?
You're the only one I've ever seen that's been able to explain art to me. I feel like it makes sense now instead of being witchcraft lol thanks man keep going!
When I was going to school for art; a technique that helps me with this is slightly crossing my eyes to blur the image that I’m trying to recreate. Personally it has helped me a ton with this kind of stuff like shading and how light is hitting the object I’m trying to recreate
But how do you "see" the light? (That sounds way to dramatic, but you know what I mean) And how do you make your hand move correctly to reproduce what you "see" in your mind? Those are the parts I don't get.
Really well spoken and impressive understanding of perspective. I draw and paint for realism with an OCD you would only imagine from an engineer wanting to depict reality as accurately as possible. You're the only artist I've subscribed to because you both teach art and tell me something about how my own mind works in every video.
It's in the name. OCD is a DISORDER for a reason, and it makes many lifes more complicated, it's not about being organized or cleaning or any other shit i've heard. We really should stop using it so casually.
I do get what you're saying, and I appreciate your attention to details... but yes, as someone with OCD, it's not just a perfection thing. If only it was, lol OCD, or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, is hard to explain... but I'll try my best. Most would assume it's something like, you see a painting that's crooked, and you MUST fix it. Partially true. How to make it accurate would be, say, EVERY painting you see SEEMS crooked, so you must fix it, even if it's fine, otherwise the painting will come to life and kill you. Sounds stupid, right? That's basically what OCD is in my experience. It's something that takes what you love, and like any anxiety, makes us worry over it. It too takes your fears and traumas, and amplifies them by making you think about it if you don't do something. And worst of all, sometimes, you can't do anything about it. You can't fix a tilted frame, you can't flick lights, nothing. It's just there, and you can't do anything to get rid of it. That's what OCD feels like. You obsess over scary thoughts and you can't get rid of them. And rarely can you satisfy them... and even then, giving into it only makes it worse. I hope whoever reads this understands more of what this mental health problem is like, as opposed to the typical stereotypes. Regardless, I understand the above comment and take no offense. Just want to spread the knowledge of mental health :]
@infebris The "it's my style argument" is the flimsiest and most annoying excuse that people use to ignore practice and actual learning.Yeah, people have styles, but we still need to understand fundamentals. Excercises like these are great for practice.
@@infebrisYour style will develop naturally as you build on fundamentals. The way you break something down is quite literally what makes your style, but you have to be able to see reality first.
I don’t draw but your shorts are so captivating unlike any other artist media I’ve seen. One clip and all you have is blobs of colors and the next I can literally see the picture you’re copying come to life. It’s absolutely amazing to watch and from what I understand you talk about it coming down to lighting a lot and painting the natural shadowed and light areas. That’s all you do and the picture paints itself. So amazing.
What I love too, is that the order to abstract the piece reminds me of the way that eyes themselves biologically evolved, it started out as light detection, forms, colour, shapes, then things like depth
“These guys have spent their lives in search of truth” Dude what an epic and respectful way to describe an artists career, many times while learning about art history I thought about how artists are closer to inventors and philosophers and this line encapsulates that perfect.
This blew my mind honestly..and kinda gave me some insight on some things I'm currently dealing with. Which inreally wasn't expecting from a RU-vid short but thanks so much. You never know what is guna make a difference in your life or when. It's always good to have an open mind
If you use photoshop and stylize into art filter and / or make it into fewer colors, you can literally see a photo break down in its essential parts. And if you use pixel style and or lower the resolution, you get an other kind of breakdown, but digital. This is obvious bu still pretty cool
Since I started painting and sketching with lights and shadows instead of lines, my work became a thousand times better. I learned this with a professor in college who worked illustrating comics, it truly opened my eyes to see references the proper way. That and breaking down general shapes. Now I’m beginning to study perspective, I’m excited to see how I’ll improve with that haha
I have never once in my entire life understood so little yet learned so much. My passion for my hot trash "art" that i gave up on has been reinvigorated and whenever i feel like quitting again ill come back to this, i dont know why but this hit the right spot for me
This is why it took me an entire semester in art class to finish one pencil drawing. I drew every little detail. But it’s my favorite thing I ever drew.
I have autism and this genuinely and unironically helped for once, the important thing is you explain WHY we do what we do which is super important so thank you so much for that! 💜
I do truly enjoy the fact that it wasn't achieved in 30 brush strokes. The video was about trying, not succeeding, and it was still a great display, just didn't quite reach the end goal in mind
I’m consistently blown away by working and learning by simplification and across how many disciplines these same rules seem to apply. As a musician who went to art school for visual art to then return back to production it’s hard not to see all the similarities
VERY cool reaction to the finale! i didnt watch most of yallss readthrough but its rly cool to see here how much you guys care... seriously! very enjoyable!
im no artist, i dont draw and neither do I watch artists draw, but this man screams immense knowledge, i don't understand what he's doing but I know he's doing something insane, subscribed
I kind of do something similar when I'm trying to do shading on skin, I take each color tone and then run lines across the roundness of an object and then blend those colors together using blur and smudge
You just opened my brain up and poured in the key Jesus dude “Stroke as if you’re pulling clay” is a game changer I can suddenly see the geometry in my head. I’m also going to try the thirty brush stroke method. I’m a sucker for simplicity to learn and have been doing gesture drawings and timed drawings to further myself.
This is surprisingly easy, i just did it and it turned out pretty well and ive never done that style before! It doesn't look nearly as good as yours but it's a really good trick if you're trying to learn to paint
You can reduce your strokes by varieing brush size for features so you can carry one color to more places in the face as well as working from the top of the face gradually down instead of starting with darkest shades you want to start closer to the base most common color
I wish i had you as a teacher. Can you please make a full video one day doing a lesson like this? With paint and brush or even just how you do it in this short but longer, please kind sir! And thank you for these shorts they are helpful and your way of explaining and demonstration is fantastic, you really have a unique mind .
I hated art for the exact reason that nobody told me it was so simple to figure out. I had always struggled to see how people knew how to draw the shades and colors all perfectly it made me angry every-time I saw a good artist in my middle school class. You explained it so well. My inner child is curious now.
This was cool! I think I never had this epiphany because watercolor works the other way and that's all I learned. But pretty sure I can apply this in some way. Super cool! :))
You can do this too. The biggest thing is to look at your reference, squint your eyes and pick only the basic color blobs you see. Once the foundation of tone is laid generally for each area, you can focus on the details
Ugh I've always wanted to do that, knowing where it starts and ends in the detail spectrum. I always try too hard explaining to myself that I need those little details and never can grasp just big blobs as they are
