Hello!! I’ve read some comments saying that the left/right brain theory is just a myth. Im not a psychology expert, and what I’m doing is just summarising what I’ve learnt from the book that has made me a better artist! The main point of the video is to help fellow artists improve, not trying to prove the theory. As my psychology teacher once said, psychology is such a new field, there is still so much uncertainty/unknown areas, and a lot of disagreements between psychologists- so please feel free to do your own research and come up with your own conclusions yourself! Regardless if this is a myth or not, I think the information in the book is still very knowledgable, finding “the zone” and learning how to observe the world around you (Those tips are super effective as proven from my own artwork 😆).
It was weird to listen to you be so excited about how much it helped you when I knew from the start that the theory is wrong. It reminded me of some situations IRL where I thought there was a rule or something, that made me look at things differently and understand things better, and then learning that the rule was incorrect (but not the lessons I got from it).
@@VieneLea left/right isn’t wrong. It’s misunderstood. The brain divides tasks between the hemispheres. This video doesn’t suggest that left/right is a personality (which is certainly a myth), she’s saying we need to use the image processing centers of the brain which is focused on the right hemisphere. Language processing happens on the left. So drawing with the left is like using symbology when trying to make an image. Think of it like the language processing hemisphere knows a stick man is a symbol for a person, whereas the image processing hemisphere knows a stick figure is 4 lines with a circle on top. This is a concept that we do have research on. I recommend Scishow’s video on the topic for a short breakdown and some keywords for finding some excellent research on the topic. This includes MRI data for brain lateralization. Whatever you decide to do is up to you. Either way, I hope you have a good rest of your day.
@@ianhall7513 Laterilisation is quite interesting. Does language processing on the left only apply to right-handed people or left as well? What about the cases where people had parts of their brain removed in one hemisphere but the other hemisphere adopted its functions? Would drawing use both hemispheres since the left is more detail focused? Also I thought she said whether or not it's a myth is up to you?
Fun Fact: Listening to the right type of music can impact your mood and end up bringing out a certain vibe with your drawing because of it. Ex: listening to classical music while trying to draw a calming scene will help the drawing look more satisfying and chances are, the vibe you eventually get from the drawing will be the same vibe you get from the music!
More people should do this! I'm currently working on a badass character and so, I listen to badass music! It definitely helps (but when I get TOO into the music I get distracted lol)
@@theSon_YouAbandoned lol so do I! I don't listen to music that much when i'm drawling. But right now I'm try that out! Right now i'm hearing blackpink thanks for the likes!
My piano teacher told me something similar. When you're sight reading some notes don't think about each note as an individual note, think about the notes as sentences. Just like when you are reading English or any other language you know how to speak, you don't think about each single letter in a word as an individual, you think about the whole word.
I am actually quite slow at reading sheet music if I'm not playing an instrument at the same time. Notes represent movements and the fingerings on my flute so I don't really register them as notes anymore
yeah, I have started playing piano in the past year and that is very helpful. when I'm playing a song I know I tend to think of the words because I know how to play the song and I don't really have to think about it but if I don't know how to play the song I say the notes in my head to the toon of the song maybe this is because I love to sing
My grandfather was a cartoonist and he used to tell me a story about himself in college. He asked his life drawing teacher why he should have to learn to draw realistically when he was only interested in cartoons. Her response was, "How can you learn to exaggerate the form if you don't know how to draw it?" It's always stuck with me.
If anyone calls you a nerd then own the heck out of that crap. Learning, taking interest and doing these kind of activities is awesome, you expand your knowledge and become more aware about certain aspects of the world. Don't let negative people affect what you do (I know this is easier said than done sometimes but hold strong!). Thanks for the video as well, it was interesting 😄
Any recommendations on getting the self-criticism side of the brain to shut up? I know that I need to get better at real-life drawing to get better at drawing in general, and that's going to take lots of practice, but I keep stopping and starting because I can only see what's disproportionate and off, so it's hard to keep continous motivation 😅
Idk it it’ll help, but when I draw from irl I tell myself I am copying another artist. It’s just another really well done drawing. How die they do the lines? Where did they shad and how heavily? That sort of thing. Also, it’s good to use basic shapes to see perspective. And to practice seeing perspective you just kinda have to draw a big circle and a small one and use a ruler to connect them. I mean, that helps me at least….
I don’t think that critical voice is inherently bad but it’s very important to identify things you did well in your drawing and things you like about it as well as things you don’t like or didn’t do well so you don’t get down on yourself
get a timer, set it to twenty minutes. dedicate those 20 minutes to just drawing. save all the criticisms you have for it at the end of the 20 min session. the truth is you can't grow if you can't put something down on paper in the first place. drawing is hard. there've been multiple times this year where i thought i was putting down my pencil for the last time, but i'm still going bc deep down i love drawing and seeing my progress over the months. the fact that you can see what's off about your drawing is already a sign of growth. it means your eye has experience that allows it to see disproportion, it's just that you need to give your hand the chance to catch up and fix those proportions. in the moment, it's hard to see your own growth but i assure you if you're looking at the mistakes in your art and you analyze how you got there and how you can make things right the next time you draw something similar, you are growing. p.s. you don't need to replicate real life drawings exactly in order to get good at drawings. it's definitely one way to approach drawing, but it's more important that you understand how to break down your reference than it is that you drew it looking exactly how it appears. what's more useful? being able to draw a person's face exactly as it looks from a pic, or understanding the basic shapes and proportions of their face and from that knowledge being able to draw their face from any angle you want? maybe i'm biased because i'm into cartoons, but to me i feel like the latter is more fun extra p.s. be sure to draw what YOU enjoy, even if you think you lack the experience to draw it. don't just grind art studies bc you want to improve at art faster. it could lead to burn out. you might forget why you're doing art in the first place if you're only doing studies that demotivate you. remember to do things purely for fun. good luck
I'm glad that you encourage people to draw realism. As an animation student myself, life drawing is very calming and provides a good training. Even for those who wants stylized drawings, you can only actually do so when you can depict the reality of the dimension correctly or else it'll just get awkward like medieval arts. It doesn't have to be perfect, but its better to know it if you don't want your drawings to be flat and even more important if you don't want your animation to be sloppy. Btw, good luck for college/university :)
5:53 My dad told me this and ever since my drawing improved so much, it’s really good advice for beginners and now because of that advice I rarely scetch I go straight to the fine line, because I don’t think to hard about it :3 And this video is so helpful! I’m subbing
I’m an art major at a community college rn. Your advice is what I wished I had done sooner when I was young. But honestly draw something from life every day. We have gotta ask ourselves do we know what a kettle or basic kitchen really looks like on the top of our head. If not we gotta draw it! The more you draw from life, the better you get simplifying objects into basic shapes. My sketching professor would pound on my head when I draw people, it’s not about people. If we draw buildings, it’s not about buildings. It's mostly seeing shapes and that usually helps with stylization and design. I wish the best for people's art journey. Art is a constant learning curve for me. I suddenly got back into art seriously when it was time for college applications. I was undergoing inner turmoil and art was the answer all along. I'm honestly very happy with what I'm learning.
a good tip for drawing, which was kind of mentioned in the video, is to not think too hard. making mistakes in a quick sketch is good, because then you see what is wrong and have the ability to change them. ive noticed that when i draw, letting the pen flow is easier than trying to get every detail right the first try.
Dude this is so frigging true, I think as I’ve gotten older it’s become harder not to overthink my art. Especially with portfolios, you kind of overthink everything Bc you know this is the real deal and my art has been not looking right lately. My brain needs a reset LMAO (sorry for the rant)
Yeah, I try to solve this with using a pen instead of a pencil while doing traditional art. It's funny how most of my pen drawings are better than my pencil ones. I am forced to think outside of my critique bubble and try to solve the mistakes without erasing and it helped a lot
I’m 13, been doing art since kindergarten and even I have much room for improvement! Keep working hard, learning new things, and remember: it is okay to use references!
I'm in 10th grade rn and I haven't drawn anything for months.I have a very busy schedule due to online classes like from morning 7.30am to 6 pm. I rarely have time to draw but still I scribble on the backpage of my notebooks. Ahh typical kid But still I've gotten more lazy and I've to start drawing again. Your drawings are so cute! uwu
I love realism and surrealism because what I love about art the most is colour, and the use of colour- that being said the medium i am most intimidated by is paint and mixing paint
the whole "right vs left side of brain" is not accurate. both sides work simultaneously, we use both at the same time, as a 'whole', it's just that there are parts of brain responsible for specific functions so maybe the myth comes from that. it's a very complex subject but kinda cool I guess
O h my g o d I wanted to scream this entire time and could hardly get through the video without being like "AAAA THIS IS ALL OUTDATED INFORMATIONAAAAA"
What ur talking about is kinda different from the video. What ur talking about is the “logic is on the left side, creativity is in the right” thing and yes that got disproven. What she’s talking about is about visual and verbal sides, which there is a difference. They did a bunch of tests with people that had split brains (this corpus callosum is severed so the left and right hemisphere can’t talk to each other). They showed different things to the different eyes, and for the right side, they showed the left eye an image, but when asked the people could not verbalize what they saw even though their brain registered it. They could however answer the emotions it gave them and other more subjective questions and such.
one of my art profs always said "draw what you see, not what you think you see" and it's still such a good reminder whenever I'm doing studies, drawing from reference, etc
tho, it's not practical and I definitely wouldn't recommend it if you can get the book you could download the book online or maybe check your local library?
This is true. Especially when you're using a reference its better to detach yourself from the thing you're drawing and look at it only as shapes. If you think too much about what you're drawing you're more likely to stylize instead of replicate the image.
The left and right side of the brain was debunked years ago. Altho the book is good for its exercises, I would suggest to take the 'right vs left brain' as a grain of salt.
another comment said this but the idea one side of your brain is creative and one side is logic is wrong yes. but the video is talking about verbal and nonverbal sides. which is true, the right side of the brain is verbal. while the other side is non-verbal
When I draw while listening to music my art improves much better😊 Maybe cuz I focus more on the music than on the perfection of the lines Sry for my poor grammar English isn’t my first language 😅
I think the best thing you can do to better your art is learning the importance of observation. The more you pay attention to the constant references around you and how they look, you can begin to understand how to put those on paper in your own creative way
Hello sakuraopal ! I am minty blue and to be honest I just wanted to tell you how much you have inspired me. So I just started taking art a little seriously a few moths ago and ever since I had found you channel I have been looking up to you and following your advices and I could really see a LOT of improvement. I just wanted to let you know that your videos were a lot of help to me and maybe to many others too. Im a year younger than you.❤️
i feel bad being THAT person but, do you think you're open to the idea of making a video detailing the process of getting accepted into a college with an art/animation major? im currently 13, yet im still very scared about getting accepted into a college. i really want to go to one, and my parents say i absolutely HAVE to get into college, but im still terrified of not being enough for my dream colleges to accept me. not only that, but im also worried about how and when to start making a portfolio. any advice helps! hope you have a lovely day ^^
I’m thinking about getting ready for college too at a young age. In my opinion, I think you should look at the colleges you want to go to and check out their portfolio requirements. In my sister’s experience, she had to start making her portfolio in highschool. A lot of school counselors talk with you about getting ready for college in high school, so no need to be worried!
You should explore what subjects you are good at or what you enjoy but saying this is ironic, knowing I'm not ready for college too and I'm almost 16 years old :,
As an 18 yr old who's college plans kept getting whacked around by circumstance and preference, I'll say this: Explore more of your skillset while developing your current skills further. Do research around what colleges have your desired AND backup courses, because you really don't wanna be dropkicked by fate if worst case happens. Follow advice from other sketchbook/portfolio-submitted videos on what they were and were not accepted for. Most importantly, don't dive in headfirst into an art school-it's infamously known to be its own circle of hell for dreamy kids.
Wow, on rare occasions I see an RU-vidr give people's work a shoutout but never really how you showcase multiple people's work. That's awesome! More people should do that!
This was a wonderful watch, and I actually felt myself getting excited. I felt like I was in a art class with a teacher explaining why we go into certain modes, and I could feel that shift happening as you were explaining things. I am 28, been drawing all my life. I too, hated the cursed real life drawing but.. This changed my mind on that. If you want to do more, please! I would love to hear more!!!
I’m SOOO HAPPY that u featured my fanart :D U are an amazing artist and I was actually inspired by u to draw this with ur fav character killua :D U LITERALLY JUST MADE MY DAY Thank u soo much :)
I never really knew about this and I'm pretty happy I clicked on this. It was really helpful and hopefully, I can improve and become better. I never really liked realism since it was really hard and I gave it up pretty easy but I realized only by learning realism you'll be able to link things together. Thanks!
Great explanation. I also recommend Lynda Barry’s ‘making Comics’ and other works as supplementary to Right side of the brain. She explores how to become a kid again.
Thank you so so much for this video, thanks to it i learned that i been using the wrong side of my brain all along and i am doing so much better now. I really enjoyed this video, the best for you.
9:36 This is Dino of the group SEVENTEEN if anyone wondered! I was drawing with this video playing in half-screen on my laptop and listened very attentively, so a bit startled when I saw a face I know lol. I just need to leave the timestamp here. Thank you for sharing these tips and information!
This is the first video i saw from your channel, youtube sugested to me, once i saw the seventeen logo in the first drawing i knew i would like you and this video sfjshdkhkfg I'm actually an audiovisual student but i always loved drawing. I stop drawing when i went to high school 3/4 years ago to study languages and humanities because i wasnt satisfied with my drawings just like you said in the video fkjshdkjf I started painting 1 year ago, never painted in my life. I just find it very therapeutic and wanted to try something different. While watching this video i understood that in the beginning i was using the left side of my brain while painting and my first attempts to paint a sunset, for example, werent very satisfing to me a lot of the times. I compared myself a lot to very talented people i saw on internet and that made me unmotivated but once i started to accept that these talented people i saw also practised a lot to be where they are right now and probably when they began they were just like me or maybe worse than me, i started to apreciate my failed attempts and be more relaxed while painting without thinking of the "final product". I usually paint while listenning to music or while i listen/watch a random video on youtube or a serie (it works for me doing 2 things at the same time, if i'm watching a video i pay more atention to that instead of what i'm paiting so what I'm painting turns out to be more of my instinct and it works pretty well). I have been liking my paintings (i'm not professional obviously dhfsdjsjs but i'm doing way better than when i started) and i'm happy that with this video i discovered that on my own i started to use a lot of my right side not only while painting but also in college projects. My favorite video and photography works from college are the ones i didn't think a lot about, i just did by intuition. (sorry if i wrote something wrong, english is not my native language fdkjkdf )
it's funny and cool, I turned on this video while drawing because I've always found it easier to draw while listening to things. actually this video makes a lot of sense and is very informative. Definitely want to check out that book. thank you for you're video!
I'm in my first year of highschool and recently discovered I am very good at fairly realistic pencil sketched animals and finally I am getting anatomy.
i find drawing skulls really helpful! not only are you teaching yourself important anatomy but we don’t usually see skulls in everyday life, thus making it harder to break it down with the left brain. this allows you to use your right brain to see the spaces between shadows and highlights rather than focusing on “eyes” “nose” “mouth”.
It is true about what Betty Edwards teaches about the brain, at least it works for me. There is a certain ‘mode’ for lack of a better word, that your brain goes into when you do things like draw, play music, run, and others. I can tell when I’m in a tight brain state. It’s very relaxing, your not stressing about what you’re doing. You look at shapes and don’t name them. Naming is from the left brain. It does take practice, but any one can learn it.
Because of my very short attention span and my habit to give up on... Learning videos?? Or even books I never watch them/read them because doing all the mental process that some kind of videos/books suggest seems so difficult, I never understand what I have to do to start to change something... I feel lost, I give up and I cry (lmao). This may be one of the only ones I watched. At the start I basically forced myself to keep me focused on the video without changing windows, doing something else... But I'll just say that after that initial stage of struggle, I kept watching without any problem... And English isn't even my first language! The video was pleasing in terms of structure, really clear in its concepts, not too long and not boring. I hope I actually learned something, because I also struggle really much with "drawing from the right side of the brain", so my art always looks so boring and uninteresting. Thanks a bunch Sakura. I'm from the algorithm gang but you got a new sub :) edit: typo
this just makes me realize the right side of my brain is smooth as fuck. no matter how much I learn anatomy and muscles and perspective, I cant draw anything 'cute', 'pretty' or 'exaggerated', heck even stick figures for posing look like spilled toothpicks and not a simplified human, its like I have face blindness in my hands. its hopeless.
Great vid! Its so amazing to see most of our masterpieces happened when we’re not consciously trying instead just having fun and go with the flow. I find so many times my left brain stopped me from doing anything as anything below perfect seems not worth it.
I like practicing or listening to a song I'm trying to memorize while drawing and singing in the process then just drawing I look at the reference and that's it. People who look at a blank page with a pen at hand not doing anything are likely thinking about drawing my tip is to do the aphantasia method of thinking of an idea with infinite freedom (draw anything don't be afraid we can burn it later) then draw a line on the page representative of the whole drawing if I'm drawing humans I draw the dynamic line or the shape of the hips first depending on whether I want to draw bean or no bean or what I'm drawing.
It was so funny when you started to talking about listening to sth when you draw because I clicked on this video exactly to have some bacground noise while I'm drawing
Yo you should do the next part, this actually helps me a lot and it was really fun to see how my brain works. it was a huge shock seeing the difference.
I'm working on a portfolio to start commissions in the future, and this is such helpful advice!! I love everything about this video, the animations are so cute and your voice is so soothing
this is extremely interesting, thank you! i often will have RU-vid videos or music playing in the background as i draw, and i notice that when i do that my drawings come a lot easier and are much more satisfying to me than if i wasn't listening to anything!
That book was curriculum when I went to study 3D animation :)) It really helped me a LOT with life drawing class and that class made my skills improve more than any other time in my life
IM EARLY OMGGGGGGGG- 1 view but 8 comments what the heck- youtube is drunk again- anyways- ur my idol :D u rly inspired me to draw more and now I rly enjoy it!!! soz thanks and I hope u inspire mor ppl :)))))
wow I never knew this, this is really interesting and I realized after watching this that I could've been slightly using the right side of my brain when I draw or do other activities without knowing I was. This was good information to hear!
Your videos really help me! Thank you!!❤️when I draw I always watch or listen to something while I draw, if it’s a movie, listening to a doja cat playlist 😂, and more, I just listen to something!
this is a super cool video! thanks for sharing something so interesting - definitely feeling more motivated to take some courses/watch videos made by pros and draw now
I feel like there's a time for both not thinking when you draw, AND thinking when you draw! It depends on what you're trying to do. If you just wanna make something for fun/stress relief, then zone out+go for it! The process of creation is reward enough~ But if you want to improve in a particular area, but never put /active, conscious effort/ into learning it, it'll be MUCH harder&take much longer to be able to do it well unconsciously (in my experience, anyway). I like to do practice sessions only focusing on a specific thing to get better at, like proportions of the head/body, 3-point perspective, feet, etc---You actively learn the rules/principles/ratios, then practice drawing those specific things by observing photos/life and referencing those (tracing is fine if it helps you realize/internalize things, or "prove" things to your brain), and then try your hand at drawing it from imagination. When you have a solid grasp on how something /works/, at least for me, it's much easier to /then/ go into "autopilot," because your brain understands WHY something is the way it is.. And when you've solidified something into your brain, you don't really have to actively think about it anymore, because you /know it/--just like walking/breathing. When I was in collage for art, they didn't really teach stuff like that, so I didn't really "get it"--they pushed more for "just doing," just "draw what you see instead of what you know" (true to a point--don't rely on symbols for things before you know what they're symbols /for/), or else gave vague critiques that I didn't understand the basis for... Like that stuff worked to a point, but... it didn't feel like it'd have a lasting effect, if you can /only/ draw what you see and not be able to.. internalize it and do it /differently?/ Like I sure as heck feel like I would've gotten more out of figure drawing if I had studied/been taught muscles/proportions already or along-side of it, to connect concepts to reality.. At least for painting still lifes, I was more conscious on studying how surfaces reflected different lights/colors, etc., so when you're painting your own imagined scenes, you can pull from your observations and, again, understand why/how it'd look like ____. Aaaanyway, that's my 2-cents. Maybe it'll help someone else who needs more specifics/understanding like I do, lol~
I really dig this video, although I’ve kinda stumbled upon the whole using your right brain thing already it’s nice to have an explanation for that time you get lost in the sauce Since up till now it’s been more of a hope and prayer sorta deal while working
This video is really nice and super helpful! This may sound weird but I love drawing but am afraid of like trying new things because I fear imperfection? Which is like bruh drawing is not perfectttttt but I just gotta get outta my head and full send ahaaa, but thank you for this! It's made me want to try and just not think when drawing or try to be 100% perfect while drawing :)
Great video! I took a drawing class in college and that book was our textbook. We even did the upsidedown Picasso drawing! It was really cool because my drawing was so much more accurate than it would have been if I'd have drawn it right-side up. Your video is a piece of art and I love the basic but very consistent and clean animation! I also have an interest in animation and one of my challenges is quickly becoming overwhelmed with details and complexity. Your video is a great demonstration that you can keep it simple and it will still be AWESOME! It's very inspiring! Another place I've seen a similar style on is After Skool - a youtube channel that talks about really interesting subjects and the visuals are depicted by a hand drawing the whole scene out on a whiteboard to go along with the narrative. Thanks again for this video and good luck with art school! You're going to be great!
I make music but it's a bit the same thing. What you said about visualizing and seeing the lines is the same for sound but it's about separating each elements of a track (not eyes but ears). The same rules apply there, just in a different domain. Very entertaining video and it felt really great. :3 Have a good time at your College.
music hacks for drawing are best hacks. If you want to draw more organic forms, listen to spoken word, if you want to draw a lot, quickly, listen to drum n bass. lol
The autopilot thing called me out so much. I feel like I’m always using my right side of my brain and can barely acces my left side. I’m on autopilot/drawing mode 24/7. My friends called me out so many times for auto-piloting through life. And I suck at maths btw
First of all i didn't know you were a carat omg . Hehe this is my first time watching something from your channel. Also its funny/interesting how your outro is left and right for video of you explaining left and right brain and art and tysm for the video it was so nice to learn something new
I mainly get all my art ideas from music and then when it comes to drawing it I put on the genre of music to keep up the vibe and my focus, been working for years, though I feel recently its been really working and ive improved alot
this was a lovely video and as i watched it i took out my sketchbook after leaving it on the shelf for several weeks ! (also, yes, the seventeen promo 👍👍👍)