not completely related to the video but I love how the community that watches Chris' videos is so supportive and genuinely interested in art, and not self-deprecating (in the sense of comments like "wow, my art is trash compared to yours" "your sketches are better than my final art", nothing particularly wrong with them but they are really repetitive and don't allow people to have meaningful discussions about drawing), instead are eager to learn. I'm saving money to join your class, can't wait!! 💞
This is actually so interesting bc I’m doing an illustration degree right now and our tutors are really trying to get us to not draw line based figure drawings and focus more on shadows and blocking in shapes! I guess it’s different for animation focused artists!
It is really interesting, I'd never thought about it before but it makes sense that animation would teach differently because animation focuses on movement rather than form, drawing shadows isn't gonna help you draw Adventure Time or Steven Universe but it will make you an awesome illustrator
As an artist, I think we all adore some things in human anatomy. I am always satisfied with the hands and arms, how they move, wrinkle, turn. I get you mate, we get you.
Your methods of blocking out shapes and shadows has worked really well for me for portraits, so I will have to try it for figure drawing! I love these videos where I can draw along with you 😊
there's honestly no one way that is correct for everyone to draw, and i love how your art really shows that :) your art looks amazing and gets the result that you want and i think that's the most important thing in art rather than being limited by what other people tell you you should be doing
Dear Chris! Your drawing technic is absolutely okay, you are just a painter. There are two types of artists: those who perceive objects as forms and lines, and those who perceive objects as mass and stains. You are a painter so your wision is full of colourful stains and that is just your way to understand objects. I hope tnat makes sence to you cause my english is not great 😄 I'm just saying you don't need to change your comfortable way of drawing or feel less profeshional. Your art is really amasing and dynamic i absolutely love them
@@cr33p3rhd6 not sure hypericum knows whats hes talking about. lots of words that say nothing really. them that use a brush and them that dont,? or them that paint and them that sculpt? or stage artists? ptretty sure more than 2
@@chawk4839 More like techniques. There is drawing line to make shapes and there is painting with brush, let blobs of color form shape. I tried both and Those are different skills apparently
There are two kinds of RU-vid commentors. Those that insist that there are two kinds of people, and those who suspect that breaking people into two arbitrary categories is perhaps reductive and over-simple. This model is lovely -- great poses!
I have the same tendencies, as mentioned during the 2nd pose. I jump to rendering very early, even when I try to start off with blocks. Great to know I'm not alone) This video is a great reminder for me, to do more figures
I can see some influence on JC Leyendecker's painterly drawings. love your stuff. learned a lot from watching you paint especially how you use watercolors.
omg this is exactly what i need!! i've been having such a hard time "pinpointing" things when figure drawing and getting pretty overwhelmed. can't wait to watch!!
The kind of shadows I’m going obsessed with learning is that nice smooth cell shading technique. For example, think of how the models in Breath of the Wild are done, they have cell shading and then in game shading and I just love the way it comes off visually
This video made me laugh a lot. I also was in the animation program at Sheridan so I remember the "memorize every bone and muscle" years and I cannot remember any of those names now to save my life, So listening to you try to explain the muscles or the beauty of the muscles/shadow shapes is all too familiar and really funny.
I do 3d modelling and animation and I 100% agree with your checklist of things to look for. Nothing gives a 3d character away like the armpits, knees, toes, and thumbs.
I find it very interesting that you draw your poses with lots of straights. Ive studied in the school of more flowy and connected lines to capture the energy of the pose, but it leaves my drawings too gestural for my taste. Im going to try incorporating more of your style to add some structure to my drawings!
One of the struggles i can have with starting a drawing is how to approach the beggining, if i should do block-outs, do fast strokes, start without a sketch, all of those things, and not having a fixed process to start with can be frustrating. Your videos always give me a north to different ways i can try to improve that, so thank you, really ÷)
I think its best to map out the proportions first if you are a beginner because they really make or brake it. You dont have to be super accurate its just a little guideline. then i would go for "hinting" at angles and general shapes. again they dont have to be accurate, ie just a big oval eventhough the head is small and pointy. Its just to give a direction. then you can start with a bodypart of your choice (because you already noted down the proportions). maybe this works for you.
Wow, those references and that model look like they were made for you! 😂 Fits your style well, with your dynamic bouncy bubbly poses and expressions I always assumed artists who used more of this tiling method had better visual coordination. And perhaps saw things less iconically. I always have to use a more linear method because I don't know where to put the lines until the entire figure's mapped out... not enough context otherwise. But from your explanation, it sounds like your context comes from rendering each piece, which I never realized. I thought everyone who did it this way can just imagine all the lines on the page and therefore need very few guiding lines before rendering. If I try to do this, I'll end up with a huge hand or stiff pose or something Interesting how there are so many different approaches
I also struggle with getting "lost" in the lines when I start with too much "construction" I start to lose sight of the over-all gesture/pose and feeling of the pose as well as my intentions and what inspired me to draw a specific pose in the first place. Your drawings are amazing, don't change
I was so inspired by this video, thank you for sharing. I have purchased this pack from grafit studio. I am planning to purchase more too. I am loving the reference photos so far, so thanks for the coupon code too, much appreciated T x
I absolutely love the confidence in all these sketches. That photo pack is truly some quality gold 😂😂👏. Just great work and your not knowing the exact words for muscles is proof that you don't need all the knowledge about anatomy to practice anatomy is just 👌👌👌👌🤣🔥👀
i feel like your channel has gotten bigger and bigger and i love that! ive been watching for a long time and i am so glad i could see your style change and reflect your thoughts about art. and you were already incredible when i found your channel. no other traditional art channel makes me want to draw as much as this one.
aw hehe thanks for watching this channel grow along with me! :D I wish i could dedicate more time to it.. but it's tough! So many video ideas, so little time!!
@@ChrisHongArt ahh thanks for replying! these are a lot of work , its awesome that you kept uploading all this time 💪 i worked on 2 small art videos myself and it really made me think a out how much work these can be, especially with a big painting at their core. i know most people arent super comfortable with being showered with praise, but without your videos i probably would have stayed in the digital art realm and wouldnt have my own traditional art study now ☺️ i get very motivated from your work.
Had to get this pack and another off that site. While I do have access to a figure drawing group every other week that my girlfriend runs, having this kind of stuff at the ready is just as valuable and often the poses are far more dynamic. Thanks for the tip. Great drawings too by the way.
Finding this vid energized me. One of my favorite past times is sketching tonally in colored ballpoint, and I've just gotten back into life drawing so it was amazing to see your approach. I also get what you're saying about your art school training method not working for you. I was taught to use keystones much like you said for the upper and lower torso or using the action line of the form for quick poses. Still working out the method that works for me in terms of construction of the figure. Btw, bic crystal pens, super cheap, lots of colors, a bit gloppy but they're worth giving a try for fun. You can get some fine feathering with a light touch from them. Thank you for sharing your process and thoughts!
Master chris you art it's so unique, i'm totally in love with that style. I wish I had something more constructive to say lmao, but I needed to get out how much your work inspires me
The whole area of human study can sometimes make you want to clear your throat a little, but I look at it like how you would think of drawing an animal or a tree. You don’t bring anything into that, you just study and copy whatever way you can. I think on the other side where there are models and subjects those things should be able to just be. If your anatomical model is a doll, it just is and if it’s human or animal it shouldn’t have to think about it’s being any more than the doll unless they want to. An important part of character studies seems to be getting past awkwardness.
When I also began drawing, learning anatomy was really a chore to me until I’ve also began watching bodybuilding videos, damn their muscles are really well defined!
I have a tip and I’m not sure if it’ll be helpful but I’ll try my best. Ask questions. Draw normally and whenever you have trouble with a part or get confused, ask questions to yourself or perhaps write them down. After drawing the pose, research and find answers to your questions for example looking at that specific anatomy. You don’t necessarily need to remember the exact names, you just need to try and find some understanding of how they interlock. After that, draw the same pose again and compare your drawings to see the progress no matter how small it is. I don’t really know if this is good advice or not but it helped me to I hope it can help someone else :)
Great video, I to have a hard time with construction from time to time. This is what I always have to tell myself, the construction lines are not final they are there to help you place the structure where you want them to be, its like you're making a pizza you have the basic shape a circle then you decide what toppings you want to add and where. Have you tried spheres for the ribcage and pelvis?
i think part of my problem is that I go in too heavy with the construction lines, and when I see lines I start to get really confused/feel constrained by them, so i'll have to be more light-handed about it! :)
I haven't ever had any formal education when it comes to drawing and I feel like I have no idea what I'm doing whenever I draw figures lol I only ever use them as a tool to figure out how to draw the specific body part I'm having trouble with that week and they're never really that detailed
Hi there! Thanks for your advice, seeing your content always motivates me to draw and practice, I find your drawing style lovely :) Saludos desde Chile, Chao y bendiciones!
Yeah I cant’t really learn all the anatomy terminology too, but i also don’t now how to start. Do you think using references and drawing from figures constantly is a good way to get better of is it just a way to start and there is other steps to take for success in understanding anatomy? I’ve been using LineOfAction for my references they aren’t bare they have clothes though, does that make a difference? Thank you for the video today ☺️
I think you can try to breakdown other artist's figure drawings, I learned how to draw legs from that. You can also draw on top of bare models to break down the shapes and muscles and then try to draw a copy of it on the side to see if you got it. I think you should use models in underwear because then you can see the muscles and the form. I'm just an intermediate artist so take my advice carefully, I barely know the full anatomy of a person yet.
I think you can lean the anatomy without getting it too complex imo. For example the torso muscles are large muscle groups and they are really important for shaping the body. You can learn them since there aren't too many, but ofc just learning the names alone wouldn't help, practicing drawing these muscles in different poses is important. But when It comes to details, you don't need to know much, honestly. Like, learning all those tendons and flexors are really hard and wont be even that useful tbh. Focus on bigger shapes and muscle groups, It will definitely help you 👍And the most important thing is structure, trying to break down human body into shapes, It helped me a lot.
I have been drawing for a long time, and I always remember hating my art books insisting I start my figures with those irritating armature, block-tube guys. Never stuck and I also had a negative core belief that I would never reach my full potential as far as anatomy was concerned unless I internalized that method. And that doesn't seem to be the case. I draw figures like you do, and they look great. When I try the other way, they look stilted and overworked. So, yah. You rock, girl. It's not enough to be good, you got to be different.
I think its pretty natural to not have a set in stone approach to these shorter figure studies, starting the same way isn't always the best for the outcome of the drawing
I used to draw like you but then I won't be able to focus on the overall, so I think to a beginner this method is not ideal ahahah btw I look for weird things to stare at too, like folds on a twisting torso
its definetly a more "advanced" technique because you are just estimating the proportions and you need a trained eye for that. I never learned to do it the formal way because i only drew manga before but i figured a line is a line.
Tiling is really a painting method, where you put down one color per plane in its most basic idea; of course how many planes, their shape design and blending edges makes this ultimately limitless. You seem to draw a basic envelope or stick frame then go to 'piece by piece,' but that first part is a block in so you don't really go from one corner then work across, you already have a skeleton worked out. It's all pretty fluid but it's strange how you contradict your words and actions.
