Yeah lmao, but I think it did help for some with different styles. For example, I usually zoom in when I draw the face which makes the composition look smaller when I zoom out, so I edit it afterwards. I guess it's expected for some that they tend to limit the space within the screen when they zoom in, overall he managed to deliver the idea the best he could and that's great
@@isthisloss9777 yeah, its the same for me too. But it isn't too much of a problem if you know when to zoom in and zoom out. I keep my sketch phase mostly zoomed out, and my backgrounds too. I only zoom in when I do lineart and even then not up to full zoom because its not necessary.
About fliping the canvas, if you are watching the video and thinking: "I don't see any difference" Don't worry, you are not supose to. The flipping works only for the artist making the piece, not for you The reason is that as you work on a drawing, your brain gets used to see it, and things that should register as errors will not. thats where you flip, it makes you brain reinterpret the drawing, now it will see all the mistakes, as if you were seeing the drawing for the first time.
If you don't see any mistakes on an unflipped image and you are not the artist, then there isn't even any point to doing it. As the observer, you already have fresh eyes. If you don't see any mistakes, there aren't any. If you see "mistakes" in the flipped image with already fresh eyes, they aren't really mistakes, and by changing things and then flipping it back you're probably just removing character from the drawing. The point of flipping is to get fresh eyes on the subject, not to "balance" something that doesn't necessarily need to be balanced since the unflipped image is ostensibly its true orientation. By the way if you want to draw a perfectly symmetrical image, use symmetry mode... or don't, because it looks awful and unnatural.
@@SHRIIMPSUCKS what about fingers on Mobile, you literally have to see the pixels all the time and the proportion gets fucked like a normal face with a giants body with short limbs (I can't afford even a PC, so don't judge atleast, my parents are not that much capable, so try to understand)
@@zeeshanhazari I think thats just a you problem(not saying this in a rude way) I draw on mobile now since my pc is currently broken but I don't usually have these problems I think its more of where you are with your art id recommend sketching it traditionally and then doing the line art and colouring digitally or you can learn to fix these problems on your own digitally
Not a beginning digital artist, but I'm in a hugeass art block. I think I'm lacking something, and this vid helps find some of those. Thanks some normal artist that I'm obviously subscribed to!
If y’all are lacking inspiration, then I usually have a gallery of some other people’s artworks to reference later on when I need inspiration. If you lack motivation though, then I’d just recommend taking a break or just doing some quick studies.
Canvas can also be rotated to check for imbalances. That is especially important when drawing on real paper, where the only mirror is the real mirror and it's hard to make fixes with it. Flipping the drawing upside down heavily eliminates symbolic vision, which helps a lot when checking for objective mistakes.
Also, another issue with the zooming in thing is that you forget the proper size things should be in, and when you zoom out it’s gonna be very tiny or the sized will be in proper
Using one brush for everything is fine! But for sketch you can use a pencil brush since that's what I use if you have it in the art program you're using ofc and lines I use a simple pen brush and colors that's for you to decided cause there's many ways to color
The sharp pen brush, regular pen brush, and the Air brush are my 3 go to brushes for everything. Since i used the paint bucket to color, then just tidy my drawing up with those 3 brush lol
in my opinion this guy is one of the better art channels who gives art tips to beginers the most art channels who do these kinds of stuff usually just say do this without showing what to do or just shows you without telling you the importents of it. i am not saying there are no other who do this but it's not many towards the others who just tells or who just shows
@@asniehusnie4791 it’s only been a almost a year for me, how I did it is just look at many different videos and tutorials and then you will remember and see how they do it and use it to yours, I’m not good at explaining anything so I”m sorry. What I”m trying to say is that you”ll get there some day
If I saw what I think I saw, I'm gonna call Bad Advice on the section about starting with clean single-stroke lines and calling it a "sketch." Sketching has more than one phase. What you suggested is literally the opposite of what should be done when gesture sketching. Any figure drawing book will tell you that blocking in forms is about putting down your vague, blurry and detail-free mental image on a page or canvas in a way that captures the essence/macro-scale proportions of the subject you're sketching. And that involves drawing in a quick (and sometimes messy) way. What I got out of this as your suggestion is basically skipping this step altogether and just going straight to the cleanup detail sketch phase, which is how you get proportion errors.
What I normally do is do the sketch first zoomed out, then once I'm ready to do line art I zoom in for quick easy strokes that look neater. Then I zoom out frequently while doing this to make sure it looks fine, and continue on from there until I am done with the line art. Everything else is done zoomed out :)
This is what I do too, usually doing line art though I zoom in like half way so I have more control but I also usually have the navigation window on the side so I see everything
One of the art self critiques I found with my art, is the zoom problem. I tend to zoom in so much I can see the pixels because I want it to be perfect. However, on the full picture you can't see the different because it was such a small problem that only I, the artist, would know is there. Do I still do it? Yes, because its a bad habit, but I'm working on it by making a challenge drawing where I can't zoom at all. Thanks for the video, the tips are really a great help.
I haven’t done much yet on the art end of things, but I’d say that’s either a bad (or good depending on perspective) habit that I personally learned when editing photos. Normally for me that means it’s something I tend to do when making memes by hobbling two photos together, I usually use zoomed editing to ensure the image overlay/masking is pixel perfect so that nothing looks off when zoomed out and the image is smooth as can be since a lot of the times when using pics from the net off games, movies, and other things it’s commonly saved as jpgs so you need to edit out the white space if you want to overlay it onto another image such as meme templates.
As for the zoom in stuff, drawing without zoom in a screen-less tablet is reeeealy hard... What i do is to keep one of the overview tool and zoom out often...
if I remember correctly the wobbliness in linework is tied to your heartbeat. When your heart beats your arm reacts a little with results in a slight hitch in your line. Some people can control it with a lot of practice but you can also draw lines in one quick motion, the longer you draw your line the more heartbeat affects your linework. Basically what I'm trying to say is that the best line artists are probably vampires.
As a beginner digital artist (or have at least allocated a total of 24+ hours of drawing time since I got my first drawing tablet a month ago), the reason why I zoom in often is because I don't have a keen eye or have a good sense of connecting line 'hitboxes' when it comes to drawing circular shapes or lines. It's really difficult to do when I zoom out from my canvas, especially when using small brush sizes. Sometimes, I'd resort to increasing brush sizes to an abysmal amount so I could accommodate such or... zoom in. But hearing what is said on the video, I understand why this is a bad thing and I am working on that aspect. Most likely the reason I could find on myself about how this often happens is probably how I zoom out or possibly haven't found a suitable and comfortable zoom level for myself.
You explain more like that one anime character who is really OP but while teaching his disciple Just go "hmmpppp and then suhhhhhh baam and the zoom zoom" lol loved the video I learned a lot thanks i am still on traditional side
For anyone using the IRL operating system: the zoom out/flip image hotkey is called painting with a mirror behind you. It's a great tip which artists have been using it for hundreds of years. For people making digital artwork, opening a new view and moving it to a second monitor is also a solid solution.
i draw zoomed in all the time because im on a phone and its nearly impossible to draw on such a tiny screen, but i zoom out often. thats a good tip for every artist. like traditional artists do it as well to see the big picture of a painting
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH FOR THE STABILIZATION TIP! I didn't know about this before and my lineart ALWAYS looked very bad compared to my sketch because my lines just wouldnt come out the way I wanted them to. This video was so helpful and especially since I saw your other videos with your art progress over the years, it really feels like someone speaking from EXPERIENCE. awesome video!
I’ve been doing art for my entire life. Literally since I was 3. I’ve done digital art for almost 3 years now. Yes, I do still consider myself a beginner.
I love the "flip the canvas" tip. Hearing it made me flip the canvas more, and now I flip the canvas loads not just to check if it looks alright, but also just to draw some lines easier. I find it easier to draw lines going to the right usually - so if a line is going to the left and my hand just won't do it well then I flip to draw that line and while it's flipped I check :)
for the zooming out thing; I always noticed, with traditional drawings of mine, that my proportions were a lot better when I were drawing smaller. I think it's a similiar thing here
Hey if you can do that, thats great. Just a lot of people often cant and I think the goal IS to get to a place where you can draw smooth lines but also make them look good in your art
Horizontal shortcut Fill bucket Clipping mask Stabilization Lasoo tools/select area and transform tool (?) Select the part you draw Hide previous layer to improve another sketch in next layer
12:48 nice flex. I've zoomed in a bit but never to that extend but most Art programs allows you to move that overview window anywhere you want so that might help a bit to with this.
Bro, you literally saved my life with line stabalization. I watched dozens of tutorials and literally NONE of them have mentioned that. Holy crap thank you. Now I can stop doing "Ctrl + Z" after every crappy line I make till the perfect one appears. Saves ALOT of time when you add it up.
I just recently got into digital drawing and I have to tell you this video has helped me out so much! Especially the stabilizing level of the brush and the layer clipping. Thanks :D
The sketch advice just made the process so much simpler, thank you so much. I still struggle with the second sketch tho but make simpler lines just to get the general idea and proportions allows me to have a starting point directly with my tablet (I don't have to make the sketch on paper and scan it and all that jazz). It saves me a lot of time really
This was one of the most helpful videos I ever saw, and I watched a lot of art videos and I follow some great artist here! Well done! Or better say thank you 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I have been working without stabilization with digital art thise whole time.... Literally was the reason why I kept quitting and going back to paper xD. Thanks for the tips!
Wow it's actually amazing how much information i was looking for was in this video. Whenever I thought of another question it seems like you read my mind and added onto your statements lol.
I found this video soon after it was posted and I had just started digital art, the tips really helped. I didn't look at any of your other videos at the time and them your videos were in my recommended section. I started to watch all of the tutorials and then I got to this one and was like: this is familiar... Now you are one of my favourite creators!!
On the sketch part, I’m used to traditional art and how pencil strokes react so I’m used to having more sketchy looking stuff. the simplicity of your lines is super nice tho, might experiment more with that
Wow mane. You kinda covered everything I had an issue with. Although I still am working on my muscle memory for lineart, and shading is just a mystery for me.
This is probably the first time I saw tips from someone where I was actually like "Wow! This might be useful information for me" lol Not that Anyone else had bad info just... it wasn't something I felt like I needed as I don't consider drawing something that should have strict rules unless you're in an industry that requires it. Everyone has a different talent and approach. Though I thought it was funny seeing a zoomed in demonstration that's supposed to lead to a bad picture but then came out good anyway. (To be fair, I think most people would zoom out a bit for the hair as they tend to zoom in and out on different features to whatever level makes them feel most comfortable for that feature. I think there's also ways around losing track of things and still zooming in once in a while.) For the sketches, I kinda rather have the messy abomination. Because the point of sketching (depending on what you're sketching for) is to get an idea of the shape better. The super clean one comes off more like you already know what the shape will be rather than using the scribbles to help find it. Or in other words, I feel like some people would use the messy abomination to help create the Simple And Clean one, which would help do the line art which would help the next step etc. Depends on the artist I guess.
It's funny, the "zooming out" bit is something I automatically started doing eventually. Not only it was a pain to always zoom in, but it just didn't "feel" right. I knew how to shade inside lines through clip layers but I never considered also alpha locking!
i was always ok with how my sketches and lineart themself turned out but had issues with proportioning things and never understood how it was just so easy for everyone, i thought zooming in was helping but turns out that is most likely causing my issue. also while the i never had an issue with brush i used for sketches, the one you recommended still helps in making it a bit cleaner so thanks for the tips! this was genuinely helpful
8:53 yeah sure it does change something but i like to see where my pencil are in the screen, a black dot of 1 pixel on a 31 inch screen is way too small
Depending on how much detail you put into your sketch, I'd recomend that being the point where you flip to fix those details, I know I'm gonna try doing that now
I've been listening to your tutorials for months now.. im no longer a beginner anymore... qwq listening to this video is like a reminder to all that I've learned 🤧🤣✋
I always zoom and zoom out as well. I zoom do one thing then zoom out to see if its good. I don’t know if doing both is bad or if I should just stay zoomed out.
This actually really helped me, especially not zooming in (I have a horrible tendency to do that). Now I don't have to select and move or resize things as much
Haven't see the rest of the video yet (only seen 1 min so far) I think main problems I have is how I'm not sure about how I want to draw, like what kind of brush I want to use how thin or thick I want the lines to be how varied do I want the lines are, how it's shaded etc which is probably why I made plenty of sketches but only finished one drawing thus far this year
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