Yes, thanks for this lesson Antonio. Still having a slight issue with his choice of referring to 'forms' as 'shapes'. @ 4:15, he is discussing "shape" manipulation, but a cylinder is not a shape, it's a form. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Finally, after a literal life-time of seeking answers. I'm only 7 minutes in and already "better". No one has ever once told me to "play with/manipulate" shapes, it's always "observe and identify the shapes" "just draw" "mileage bro". You deserve many accolades for this lesson. Thank you!
LITERALLY. Drawing 1 is just “okay draw by observation” “dont use lines use values” like holy shit if i could’ve just learned with basic shapes first and how those shapes are adjusted first, if I could’ve learned with mannequins or something first- i would be so much more developed!!!! they just want you to draw fucking still lifes or portraits out of the gate !
@@tyrant351 for me playing with forms in perspective is what did it for me, I finnaly remmember why it was much easier for me to study and retain knowledge of chair that to study computer case, like chair was always changing position and orientation as it was being used so every new study actualy made me engage it with full focus and consideration for all of its elements, while computer case was always in the same position, I started loosing sanity for weeks just repeating that study until my brain gave up and stoped thinking, my arm was just repeating movement with no tought whatsoever, so do yourself a favor and always mix up your study subject a bit every time!
This is the first time I actually understood WHY drawing the foundational shapes is so important/useful. I've never been motivated to practice by drawing boxes and cylinders, and I've heard it a _million times_ - in drawing foundations class, hundreds of art videos, books, etc.-and I *never* took the advice. I just didn't understand it. I'm like, "ok a circle and some shadows... great, did that, let's move on" and when I DID move on, IT NEVER WORKED THE WAY I WANTED IT TO. And now I see that I was missing the whole point. Anyway I'm trying to say: THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR TEACHING ME IN A WAY THAT I CAN FINALLY UNDERSTAND AND UTILIZE IN MY OWN PRACTICE. To ensure your time into this video was well-spent, I will get off UA-cam and practice right now. Again, thank you. You're a really fantastic teacher and I'm grateful to have found this knowledge today. Bye!!
Me too. I could never grasp how we got from the simple shapes to the next step when you have proper shape and contour. Holy sh1t, I think we just leveled up.
becouse whole art is hard to study its more than here, OFC here is good things for beginers, but more u move in to the forest, more trees :DD color theory, composition, story telling, perspective... ETC :D
"If you can't make a simple box interesting, why bother trying make complex shapes interesting?" That is mind blowing as to how simple but power that is.
this simple lesson i learnt early on is a really big one! which is "complexity is system of simplicities", i.e every complex entity has a lot of interconnected systems that are simple in nature!
@@az8039 I’m slightly jealous lol, I wish I had this perspective when I first started out, would’ve made things a LOT simpler for me now. I just found this channel yesterday and it’s already totally reinvented how I approach art
This is, hands down, one of the most helpful art tutorials I've ever seen. If someone asked me for videos on art and I could only recommend one, it would be this one.
I’ve taken art classes before and almost all of them had me drawing cylinders, balls, and boxes but I don’t remember any of te teachers ever taking the time to explain in detail like this guy has.
Antonio: I hope this video was at least a little bit useful- Me, whose whole career will probably be forever impacted by this video: *intense clapping and crying*
@@punkseth1 Me? Eventually. Right now things are rough art-wise, so it's quite difficult. It's really fun though, so I definetely will make more someday!
Very helpful stuff. I've been drawing for over 20 years without much progress. People tell me i'm good because i can copy something pretty well. Now that i'm really learning the basics, my drawings have improved so much. Did a course a while ago about light and shadow because i want to learn digital art and my very first pencil drawing was so much better than ever before, i was really surprised by it. Don't be stubborn, folks. Listen to the teachers. This stuff takes a lot of time and you will be wasting it by taking shortcuts.
We are glad to hear that you're finding the information helpful and that your drawings have improved as a result! It can be frustrating to feel like you're not making progress, but it's important to remember that learning and improving take time and practice. It sounds like you're on the right track by taking courses and focusing on the basics. Remember to be patient with yourself and keep at it - the more you practice, the more you'll improve. And it's great that you're taking the time to learn about light and shadow - these are important concepts in art that can greatly improve the realism and depth of your work. Keep up the good work!
I am the same as you literally, I can copy something pretty well, am too learning the basics and I do to want to lean digital art. My pencils arts have a lil improvement from these vids.
I watched this ~8 months ago and it honestly changed the way i make art, and helped me break past stagnant skill, absolutely incredible video and explained things that I wish I knew years ago
Since I was a kid, I always wanted to good at drawing things, but the result aways make me feel dissapointed and then I gave up on it. But now, I finally have that feeling again, and want to learn how to draw from scratch. Thanks God I found ur videos, it's very useful for me who have zero knowledge and zero experience about drawing.
Antonio is basically summarizing the steps that we go through learning to draw since childhood. We observe shapes, we recognize that shapes can be drawn , slowly refine the base shape, refine the details, then think about colours, lighting . I do believe the best way to love drawing and drawing practice is to become a child.
Hmm, I'm not sure if the intuitive drawing - wich we all primarly do - works that way. I mean, when I draw something as an amateur I don't see this thing as 3D object constructed of 3D basic shapes, I know it is 3D, but as I draw it, I see it as 2D object. And this means that more important than structurization for me is proportionizing as I would call distances between outlines. At least this is how I perceive my intuitive drawing process. And what you say sounds to me more like learnt, "intelectual" understanding of professional drawing.
@@pigun6960 I do believe, our eyes really do see in 2D ( meaning, the image on the retina is 2D - length and breadth) . The depth comes from relative movement of viewer and object, the consequential change in angle of viewing, the inherent difference in the viewing angles of each eye, and ultimately , through processing within our brains. It is difficult as a beginner to draw from our 3D perception unless we learn to re-flatten the 3D perception. This is all unconscious, mind you. As part of drawing, we usually try to 'flatten' things down to their 2D shapes. And then try to draw them. Which is why as beginners, we constantly struggle to get foreshortening right, because with even a slight movement of our eye/s we see a slight different shape of our subject. Your 'distances between outlines' analogy is perfect. That's how our brain tries to simplify a 3D image to get it on paper. I guess that's why shutting one eye to get proportions and distances is recommended. In that sense, I think intuitive drawing can happen us reverse engineer that 3D image in our mind to make it "drawable".
This is the first time I can SEE how structuring pieces of a cilinder can give me a horn or a dragons neck. It was hearing it from someone that really does it daily that made it click for me (and the awesome art examples on the video when talking about structure) thanks a lot I’m totally going to put it into practice
I’ve been drawing for 3 weeks and felt like I was having minimal improvements. I then stumbled across a ted talk that said it only takes 20 hours of focused learning to learn a skill (watch the ted talk it’s amazing) it said that for the 20 hours to count I must strip off the big skill and break it down. This video is a game changer in doing just that! Thanks a bunch :)
I just started trying this like a week ago and it feels amazing to be able to construct what I want to see rather then trying to copy what I think things should be, very amazing and halpful video, I've been drawing for so many years and it's so irritating to myself to realize that I've have never been very space aware, and I would rely on only references to understand how a pose would look in a 2d image and ever understand why. A lot of my art has been so inconsistent and counterproductive until I started realizing this more and trying to use it, potentially saving my art lol
okay so I've just tried this method to draw people from photos and the improvement I made in like. no time... I'm actually speechless, like I've been struggling with figure drawing for so long and thanks to this video I started looking at models from a totally different perspective, trying to find the foundational shapes.... thank you for this video!!! i feel so motivated to continue practicing now because I actually know where to go with my excercises and what to practice!! hahaha
Antonio, this is probably one of the most useful videos I have ever encountered. For years I have been drawing from observing the things around me, photocopying concepts of interest yet never understanding why the studies never translated into a solid foundation of skills that would allow me to let my imagination run away on the page. I wanted to thank you for putting the steps together in order to build on my understanding and finally reach this goal. Thank You!
Fantastic! Drawing the simple shapes I’ve heard over and over, but MANIPULATING the simple shapes? This was a first and the best direction I have heard in a long time. Thank you!
i was drawing along as i listened to this video, and something about it just clicked with me in the sketches I was making, it made so much sense. not just drawing simple forms, but WHY i should know how to draw simple forms. Shape manipulation and everything that come with it is one of the most valuable tools I think i've gotten in a while. thank you
A little bit useful? You’re too modest. It is a revelation! No one has approached the complexity of drawing lesson like you did and I looked, watched, studied other artists, mentors and art instructors for 4 years. I too am standing up, applauding with tears rolling down my eyes. I love you, man!
I'm only halfway into this and I can say that it's the best 'lecture' on art I heard in a long time. It really hits home for me and I think I'm at the right stage in development to take it in properly. Thank's a lot for this
Man, this video is exactly what I needed right now. I’m trying to commit to drawing and I find myself trying to rush past the basics and end up frustrated with the results. Im going to slow down and hammer the basics. This video is priceless
@jescolio Fundamentals make or break the professional. Stan Prokopenko, and Brent Eviston, Udemy -- both of whom are anatomy fiends and portrait artists; and are great teachers -- stress fundamentals. So does the illustrator, Andrew Loomis whose republished book, Fun With Pencils, has gotten me going doing a 1,000 of each level of the shapes and forms that are part of everything in. Nature and the world around us. It's a daily exercise of 15-30 minutes in a scratch book for me. And, I'm seeing development in my art.
dude, the contour thing is amazing. in all of the hundreds of tutorials I've seen, I've never seen someone suggest manipulating the shape and building prisms from manipulated shapes.
I've been involved in several comic art classes from various artists and none of them has ever gone over the idea of making simple boxes interesting. They all covered simple shapes, sure, but then went straight to making a complex drawing out of them. I wasn't as good at complexity as I would like and couldn't figure out why. I drew along with what you were presenting and found it very challenging to replicate some of your simple box manipulations, which tells me I need more practice with simple shapes before moving on to bigger things. Thanks for the great insights!
This was amazing to watch. After a lifetime of “doodling” I’m trying to teach myself to draw and discovered learning how to really seeing things is a task in itself. I also tend to have a logical mindset and want to understand the process behind creating objects and a rationale rather than simply follow a tutorial or technique. Thank you.
Honestly thank you, for this video in general. I just realised how stupid I was and where I’m going wrong in trying to practice. Going straight Into complex anatomy and feeling like I’m not getting any better. Because I never studied simple shapes/perspective and manipulation. From now on I’m going to have to do an embarrassing deep dive into the basics but I’m sure it’ll help. Considering the fact I’ve been a self taught artist for three years and never even thought to try this, I wish I’d found this video sooner.
Preach sir. preach. Showing this to my students as so many of them need this and continue to ignore it in my classes! These steps are so empowering for visual creators/communicators.
this concept right here is exactly why i tell ppl i can draw but i can’t actually draw fr i can draw anything by looking at it, but the foundations for drawing from imagination… i skipped those cause i thought it was boring now i’ll go through the boredom so i can actually transfer my imagination to the page without wanting to fight the end result
Started drawing again a couple of days ago. Couldn't understand why nothing is going how i expected and i was searching for tutorials to learn how to draw. This is the most mind opening video i found so far and now i actually know what i have to lern and do. Thank you so much.
As a student that wanted to learn art, this video gives me the right path that I should take in becoming an artist. Drawing shapes and manipulating it in my own advantage is so new to me yet so important. I never knew that basic shapes in 3d form can be a life saver for me as a young artist. Also, I already learned anatomy even though I don’t know how to draw the simple 3d shapes yet. So my drawings look so disproportional and distorted. Now, I already knew that I am becoming a successful artist because of this video. Thank u so much for doing such an informative video for free!
Would you believe me if I told you that video was the starting line of my art parkour? This man got me starting art with just a single video where he only breaks down art into simpler concepts and I've never stopped since. Been only drawing for 30 mins/1h a day usually but it's starting to look like something
every once in a while I come back to this video just to internalize this stuff again. I think this is one of those vids every new artist should watch - its super well structured and gives you all the important tools you need to really elevate your shape design. One of the best art tutorials out there imo
I learned the basics and immediately jumped to an anatomy book without ever mastering figure drawing and fundamentals. I don't regret it since in a sense I've been able to train my eye to easily identify and correlate the negative and positive spaces of a drawing. But I love the idea that to be a better artist after practicing for about 4 years straight every day I have to go back to the basics... 😁
11:25 what he said right there is so true.... I'm constantly surprising myself with how much I can draw just because I have some basic understanding of these simple forms, so I can choose what forms to simplify with. When I first started drawing I would have no idea how to even begin tackling a reference. This 6 point system is making a lot of sense to me... I'd love to enrol to his course if I wasn't unemployed 😭👍 Edit: just as I was thinking of KJG, he mentions him 😂 I'm of a similar mind that KJG is more of a master at manipulating forms than technical anatomy. Having said that, he knows a LOT of real anatomy 😂 I watch pretty much all of his streams and he likes to give short lectures at the end.
Best art video ever , As a beginner i always use to jump to make complex drawings and got demotivated when i couldn't make them but i now i will focus more on shapes and manuplation so i can make better drawings
Very good explanation for a realistic view of art. If you can't do the basics...thats where you start! So many tutorials out there that get you thinking that's it's so easy to draw anything. Yes some start you that way but your patient time to explain why is so important! Thank you!
Excellent lesson! One of the best I've seen. Other lessons I've seen on the subject have been too complicated or too saturated with information that I go away feeling uninspired and overwhelmed. Antonio's steps and to-the-point setup are just what I needed. Thank you!
I'm in that weird stage of going from basics to something much more complex and I always mess this step up. This helped a lot honestly. There's just so much information out there, I never really know what to follow. This broke it down in steps I could understand. I'm really grateful, thank you for this lesson!
@@thenaysays It is not really imitating, there is nothing wrong with having an influence in your art, that is how your "art style" will begin to appear. Studying from other artist's arts can be good but it does not actually completely mean "imitating" them, it is just "studying". And plus I doubt that any aspiring artist here would completely want to imitate them anyways, that is not a true "artist", being an artist is not imitating something, it is more creating than imitating. But, if there is actually an artist here whose goal is to completely imitate someone else then yes that is certainly not a good idea, I recommend you to stop.
I was searching for a video like this for sooo long !!!! I trained myself about simple shapes and volumes and i wasn't able to draw more complexe shapes. I realised too that studying the work of artists i like, and understanding why i love their work help me to know what i want to draw, and indirectly what "artstyle" i want. thank you Proko for sharing us great videos like this, and thank you Antonio for this amazing masterclass!!!
This video is amazing and exactly what I was looking for! I have always had a hard time drawing ANYTHING and I was looking for a video that would help me identify and conceptualize what the BRAIN process was that allows you to draw and manipulate shapes. This has given me a glimmer of hope that I can still perhaps learn to draw!
Me after watching this video: I wanna draw boxes! It sounds so simple to draw boxes but it is where we master simple/small things into complex/big things that is not imaginable 🙏 thankyou Proko!
THANK YOU!!! I was in the process of making that mistake (jumped from simple perspective straight to figures). Was about to give up on drwaing. This feels much more achievable from my current standpoint.
i like this because a lot of artists say not to use boxes when drawing the human figure, but when first starting out it can help a lot like he's mentioning in the video. understanding simple shapes and manipulating them in order to do that with more complex figures in the future. it can help visualize overlapping as well (with limbs or buildings) and help understanding volume and volume in a particular space. i'd say when really trying to understand complex shapes, such as in the education step, is when you should wean off using the box so that the figure is not so rigid and more gestural. but like he said at the end, you should be able to make these simple shapes interesting before making complex shapes interesting. one step at a time. i think it could also come in handy when learning light values and shading and such. learning it on a basic surface, like where the light hits, the shadow falls, ambient lighting, etc. before applying that to complex figures. that and there is no right way to do it. if boxes aren't it for people than don't but i dont think shouldn't NOT be used. if that makes sense
this is better then just doing what is told. this is understanding the concept. and so many ppl out there cant do the simplest things without understanding the concept. u made me understand what i wanted to understand!
"not to copy what you see, try to understand what you see" This will be my motto for drawing, thank you for sharing so much useful konwledge, I use dictionary to finish this video and I still feel learned a lot from it, thank you again!
24:54 are you kidding me...this video was extremely helpful...each things you said made complete sense and I'm definitely practicing in that way from today
This is the most useful art advice I’ve gotten honestly. Many videos talk of the different types of pencils, and others speak of practicing shapes and different types of lines and strokes to repeat. This is the first video I’ve seen to go so in depth as to why the basics are important and how to manipulate them.
Now I truly understand the quote 'Knowledge is power' This really helped me feel more confident about my journey as an artist. This video is a blessing!
20 years after getting my degree in art, I feel like I finally got the piece of the puzzle that lets me break out of the limitations I have been hitting against. I got comfortable using the mannequin for human figures and could use it to get the shape for drawing something I was looking at, but never mm ade the connection of how to understand how shapes could be manipulated to draw something from my imagination. Anything drawn from imagination always fell short. I'm so excited to start working on this!
Wow, "6 Steps to Draw Anything" sounds like a super useful and inspiring video title! Drawing can be such a rewarding skill, and breaking it down into manageable steps is a great approach for both beginners and experienced artists. The idea that you can draw anything with just six steps is empowering and really encourages creativity. It's amazing how learning to draw can also help improve observation skills and attention to detail. Happy drawing to everyone who's giving it a try! 🎨✨
I feel like i just found the holy grail or something like that, this is literally a summarized version of what i've been trying to practice and understand for a long time now, i'm going to use this as reference every time i am Lost from now on, thank you very much for such an amazing colab and mini class
Saving this one. Well thank you for plainly explaining what I was missing in my studies. Cause you're right, I was going straight from simple shapes to only manipulating a bean to complex figures. Thank you!
For the first time in my life, this video is only thing that explains me clearly: why learning basic fundamental structure is so tremendously important than learning to any advanced technique but lack of fundamental. Thank you for your insight. This means a lot to me.
I been drawing on and off most my life, somewhere along the line I was told don't copy so I basically used imagination forever lol. This stuff is a huge help! Thanks so much for putting it together ❤️
Wow, that contour advice was something I never heard of, until now. Amazing how one simple tip can help greatly in improving your shapes. Excited to test it later when I draw! Don't mind me, here's just some open notes I'm typing while listening to this: (Advice that really struck me): -Don't just copy the subject, and understand what primitive shape (basic triangle, squares) circles is being manipulated. -Contours can help massively in shaping the form of the object you wanna draw. Even if it's the same base shape, different contours can affect the structure you are drawing. -It's okay if you don't know intrinsically the anatomy of something like humans or animals. But learning to break those complex forms down into simple shapes and have good spatial reasoning from knowing basic shapes is enough to help you draw them. -Education is when we finally dedicate ourselves to something we want to draw, after we have a visual library from doing basic shape manipulation and deconstruction. We can know understand why those various shapes that are manipulated is, from learning their anatomy. Like fine tuning our prior knowledge.
You just opened my mind about how to draw work, how some artists make some structural i never seen before. Even though I looked at the tutorial on how to make it, they only tell you to make a shape like they do, but never explain why we make a shape like that. This is what I'm looking for to improve my skills. Thank you very much. I hope good fortune is always upon you.
This is a priceless video, many thanks to Proko Team and Antonio. One thing I like about this channel that I got to know so many amazing artists, like Antonio. Simplifying things can be a challenge, often u king of dragged to the details. Steve Huston talking a lot about simplicity of the shapes. When I just have started drawing, it was difficult for me to manikinize human figure, and I think still it s a challenge for me. Especially with imagining box structers
extremely, extremely insightful. i've been drawing my entire life and have struggled to figure out how to progress with 'the basics' when i seemingly already have a grasp on a lot of it, most tutorials are either way too remedial or assume way too much about certain fundamentals which i do not know because i can't seem to find proper insight into them. this is exactly the jumping off point i've been looking for.
THIS! Exactly what is not being explained in every other tutorial! Thank you so much for giving such a good road map for sequential steps in the learning process!!!
I love drawing and would have called myself a self taught intermediate but when I see what others can do, that definitely falls back to amateur. I have always used the line method and draw what I see. My drawings are decent but theres always something "not quite right" and I have reached a frustrating plateau. This really demonstrates how and why my work lacks a certain depth. It demonstrates the techniques needed to make stuff really feel 3d and pop off the page. Thank you very much. Im looking forward to going back to basics and trying again!
Thank you so much for this video! I've always struggled with figures, I can decently replicate most things put in front of me but drawing from imagination is where I struggle and also most want to improve on, and this made everything click into place like I was missing a puzzle piece before. All the art classes I've ever been in and not once has anyone every broken down manipulating your basic shapes like this
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Yes, thanks for this lesson Antonio. Still having a slight issue with his choice of referring to 'forms' as 'shapes'. @ 4:15, he is discussing "shape" manipulation, but a cylinder is not a shape, it's a form. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Love this video
Brilliant insights, thanks Proko and Antonio
@Mekhi Tyler hi, I’m not familiar with flixzone. Is this a feature on an app? 😊 thanks
"I hope this is a little bit useful"
Dude this is one of the best videos I've ever seen.
same
Same
yes
can completely agree. it 100% changed the way that i think about drawing.
I know right it's so much better 🦊💕 It's changed my life 🐼
Finally, after a literal life-time of seeking answers. I'm only 7 minutes in and already "better". No one has ever once told me to "play with/manipulate" shapes, it's always "observe and identify the shapes" "just draw" "mileage bro". You deserve many accolades for this lesson. Thank you!
Yo! Same. I get the shape manipulation advice kinda rarely, and the most notable place I can remember hearing it from is this channel.
Facts
LITERALLY. Drawing 1 is just “okay draw by observation”
“dont use lines use values”
like holy shit if i could’ve just learned with basic shapes first and how those shapes are adjusted first, if I could’ve learned with mannequins or something first- i would be so much more developed!!!! they just want you to draw fucking still lifes or portraits out of the gate !
@@tyrant351 for me playing with forms in perspective is what did it for me, I finnaly remmember why it was much easier for me to study and retain knowledge of chair that to study computer case, like chair was always changing position and orientation as it was being used so every new study actualy made me engage it with full focus and consideration for all of its elements, while computer case was always in the same position, I started loosing sanity for weeks just repeating that study until my brain gave up and stoped thinking, my arm was just repeating movement with no tought whatsoever, so do yourself a favor and always mix up your study subject a bit every time!
I’m
This is the first time I actually understood WHY drawing the foundational shapes is so important/useful. I've never been motivated to practice by drawing boxes and cylinders, and I've heard it a _million times_ - in drawing foundations class, hundreds of art videos, books, etc.-and I *never* took the advice.
I just didn't understand it. I'm like, "ok a circle and some shadows... great, did that, let's move on" and when I DID move on, IT NEVER WORKED THE WAY I WANTED IT TO. And now I see that I was missing the whole point.
Anyway I'm trying to say: THANK YOU.
THANK YOU FOR TEACHING ME IN A WAY THAT I CAN FINALLY UNDERSTAND AND UTILIZE IN MY OWN PRACTICE.
To ensure your time into this video was well-spent, I will get off UA-cam and practice right now.
Again, thank you. You're a really fantastic teacher and I'm grateful to have found this knowledge today. Bye!!
So well put. It has frustrated me forever, being told to do these exercises, but not why. This video is a massive light bulb!
Well said, he really made it so easy to understand and still got the point across!
Me too. I could never grasp how we got from the simple shapes to the next step when you have proper shape and contour. Holy sh1t, I think we just leveled up.
How did the practice go? Curious if it helped a lot, I assume it did
Same! I can't do anything if I don't know why i'm doing that, so I've always avoided drawing foundational shapes.
Honestly, why is art at school not taught this way?! This was an unbelievable tutorial / discussion / lesson! Thank you Antonio!
becouse whole art is hard to study its more than here, OFC here is good things for beginers, but more u move in to the forest, more trees :DD color theory, composition, story telling, perspective... ETC :D
"If you can't make a simple box interesting, why bother trying make complex shapes interesting?" That is mind blowing as to how simple but power that is.
right?
Right?! 🤯
this simple lesson i learnt early on is a really big one!
which is "complexity is system of simplicities", i.e every complex entity has a lot of interconnected systems that are simple in nature!
@@UzairKhan-qd3xu same. I break down the human body into cylinders and circles now and now I basically graduated anatomy academy level 1
@@az8039 I’m slightly jealous lol, I wish I had this perspective when I first started out, would’ve made things a LOT simpler for me now. I just found this channel yesterday and it’s already totally reinvented how I approach art
Note to self
2:10
2:27 structulisation
4:00 manipulation
5:05 squish stretch
5:34 manipulate contours
8:10 manipulation of edges
10:39 observation
14:15 education
17:00 imitation
18:34 imagination
Thanks for the timetamps 👍
Step 1 - Structuralization --- 2:27
Step 2 - Manipulation -------- 4:05
Step 3 - Observation ---------- 10:39
Step 4 - Education ------------- 14:19
Step 5 - Imitation --------------- 17:01
Step 6 - Imagination -----------18:37
Thanks! Makes a video with a list, but doesn’t include time stamps. What don’t uploaders get about adding such a simple thing to their description?
@@Dark_Mishra because the video wasn’t formatted that way..? You’ll miss a lot of information by skimming.
@@GingeryGinger it helps when you need to go back and look at a specific part after having watched it already.
i don’t support manipulation
jk being sarcastic
This is, hands down, one of the most helpful art tutorials I've ever seen. If someone asked me for videos on art and I could only recommend one, it would be this one.
Thank you :)
I feel like this is what I've been missing in my lessons
I can assure you it's not . You might comment the same thing in the next video
@@earth355 I dunno the fundamentals of structure being simplified like this is something I've been searching for, for a long while.
Same!
Yeah
Yeah me to
I’ve taken art classes before and almost all of them had me drawing cylinders, balls, and boxes but I don’t remember any of te teachers ever taking the time to explain in detail like this guy has.
Antonio: I hope this video was at least a little bit useful-
Me, whose whole career will probably be forever impacted by this video: *intense clapping and crying*
Will you make more drawing videos
@@punkseth1 Me? Eventually. Right now things are rough art-wise, so it's quite difficult. It's really fun though, so I definetely will make more someday!
Just what I thought after watching the video :D
NOSSH!?! :::OOOO
@@PoopManBoxMan Yoooo!!!
Very helpful stuff. I've been drawing for over 20 years without much progress. People tell me i'm good because i can copy something pretty well. Now that i'm really learning the basics, my drawings have improved so much. Did a course a while ago about light and shadow because i want to learn digital art and my very first pencil drawing was so much better than ever before, i was really surprised by it. Don't be stubborn, folks. Listen to the teachers. This stuff takes a lot of time and you will be wasting it by taking shortcuts.
We are glad to hear that you're finding the information helpful and that your drawings have improved as a result! It can be frustrating to feel like you're not making progress, but it's important to remember that learning and improving take time and practice. It sounds like you're on the right track by taking courses and focusing on the basics. Remember to be patient with yourself and keep at it - the more you practice, the more you'll improve. And it's great that you're taking the time to learn about light and shadow - these are important concepts in art that can greatly improve the realism and depth of your work. Keep up the good work!
Jaffa kree!
@@chrisb7398 Kree, jaffa! lol
I am the same as you literally, I can copy something pretty well, am too learning the basics and I do to want to lean digital art. My pencils arts have a lil improvement from these vids.
I'm so stubborn. I love portrait drawing. I have been doing it for fun for 4 years. I just started looking up using shapes to draw portions
I’m old and have been around the shop for yonks. (6 + years art school).This is the best breakdown of form I’ve yet encountered
Same here
I watched this ~8 months ago and it honestly changed the way i make art, and helped me break past stagnant skill, absolutely incredible video and explained things that I wish I knew years ago
Glad it was so useful!
I'm a pro artist. And this is the most useful tutorial i've ever seen. 11/10.
Awesome
for real
Where can I see your art?
Appreciate that!
cooo
Since I was a kid, I always wanted to good at drawing things, but the result aways make me feel dissapointed and then I gave up on it. But now, I finally have that feeling again, and want to learn how to draw from scratch. Thanks God I found ur videos, it's very useful for me who have zero knowledge and zero experience about drawing.
Another gem Antonio - just keep that train running.
Proko - a big thank you for supporting a very important artist
Hi Adam. Love your channel
Is that Adam Duff from fortnite?
yea, amazing analytical mind and an artist combined gives great results :) great guy
Antonio is basically summarizing the steps that we go through learning to draw since childhood. We observe shapes, we recognize that shapes can be drawn , slowly refine the base shape, refine the details, then think about colours, lighting .
I do believe the best way to love drawing and drawing practice is to become a child.
Hmm, I'm not sure if the intuitive drawing - wich we all primarly do - works that way. I mean, when I draw something as an amateur I don't see this thing as 3D object constructed of 3D basic shapes, I know it is 3D, but as I draw it, I see it as 2D object. And this means that more important than structurization for me is proportionizing as I would call distances between outlines. At least this is how I perceive my intuitive drawing process. And what you say sounds to me more like learnt, "intelectual" understanding of professional drawing.
@@pigun6960 I do believe, our eyes really do see in 2D ( meaning, the image on the retina is 2D - length and breadth) . The depth comes from relative movement of viewer and object, the consequential change in angle of viewing, the inherent difference in the viewing angles of each eye, and ultimately , through processing within our brains. It is difficult as a beginner to draw from our 3D perception unless we learn to re-flatten the 3D perception. This is all unconscious, mind you.
As part of drawing, we usually try to 'flatten' things down to their 2D shapes. And then try to draw them. Which is why as beginners, we constantly struggle to get foreshortening right, because with even a slight movement of our eye/s we see a slight different shape of our subject.
Your 'distances between outlines' analogy is perfect. That's how our brain tries to simplify a 3D image to get it on paper. I guess that's why shutting one eye to get proportions and distances is recommended.
In that sense, I think intuitive drawing can happen us reverse engineer that 3D image in our mind to make it "drawable".
Easily one of the best videos. Taking dynamic sketching changed my life as an artist
Ah, Peter Han, the other Kim Jung Gi.
This is the first time I can SEE how structuring pieces of a cilinder can give me a horn or a dragons neck.
It was hearing it from someone that really does it daily that made it click for me (and the awesome art examples on the video when talking about structure) thanks a lot I’m totally going to put it into practice
Yessss just seeing that alone blew my mind, I think just from that it made me a better artist
I have heard the importance of simple shapes for years. The Rams horn really... illustrated the point.
@@TheFredmac wdym
This is one of the rare times that I can understand how to practice drawing
Yes good lesson this one.
same here
I’ve been drawing for 3 weeks and felt like I was having minimal improvements. I then stumbled across a ted talk that said it only takes 20 hours of focused learning to learn a skill (watch the ted talk it’s amazing) it said that for the 20 hours to count I must strip off the big skill and break it down. This video is a game changer in doing just that! Thanks a bunch :)
What is the Ted talk called?
@@idisliketomatoes its called first 20 hours to learn anything
@@RobloxianReviews571 thanks for the vid.
I just started trying this like a week ago and it feels amazing to be able to construct what I want to see rather then trying to copy what I think things should be, very amazing and halpful video, I've been drawing for so many years and it's so irritating to myself to realize that I've have never been very space aware, and I would rely on only references to understand how a pose would look in a 2d image and ever understand why. A lot of my art has been so inconsistent and counterproductive until I started realizing this more and trying to use it, potentially saving my art lol
hallo frend, are you still drawing? how much have you improved?
okay so I've just tried this method to draw people from photos and the improvement I made in like. no time... I'm actually speechless, like I've been struggling with figure drawing for so long and thanks to this video I started looking at models from a totally different perspective, trying to find the foundational shapes.... thank you for this video!!! i feel so motivated to continue practicing now because I actually know where to go with my excercises and what to practice!! hahaha
"I hope this was at least a bit useful" He is very humble for saying that after this masterclass of a video
Antonio, this is probably one of the most useful videos I have ever encountered. For years I have been drawing from observing the things around me, photocopying concepts of interest yet never understanding why the studies never translated into a solid foundation of skills that would allow me to let my imagination run away on the page. I wanted to thank you for putting the steps together in order to build on my understanding and finally reach this goal. Thank You!
Fantastic! Drawing the simple shapes I’ve heard over and over, but MANIPULATING the simple shapes? This was a first and the best direction I have heard in a long time. Thank you!
i was drawing along as i listened to this video, and something about it just clicked with me in the sketches I was making, it made so much sense. not just drawing simple forms, but WHY i should know how to draw simple forms. Shape manipulation and everything that come with it is one of the most valuable tools I think i've gotten in a while. thank you
as someone who has always wanted to learn art and struggled transitioning this really open my mind love proko videos the features are very refreshing
Narutard is a garbage hxh ripoff 😂
@@yokokurama5174 what does this Have to with Naruto and Hxh This vid is about Learning art anyways
@@yokokurama5174 yes they are very obvious but I wouldn’t totally call it a rip-off. I think sir kishi would have been sued
A little bit useful? You’re too modest. It is a revelation! No one has approached the complexity of drawing lesson like you did and I looked, watched, studied other artists, mentors and art instructors for 4 years. I too am standing up, applauding with tears rolling down my eyes. I love you, man!
drawabox has a similar approach
I'm only halfway into this and I can say that it's the best 'lecture' on art I heard in a long time. It really hits home for me and I think I'm at the right stage in development to take it in properly. Thank's a lot for this
Man, this video is exactly what I needed right now. I’m trying to commit to drawing and I find myself trying to rush past the basics and end up frustrated with the results. Im going to slow down and hammer the basics. This video is priceless
@jescolio Fundamentals make or break the professional. Stan Prokopenko, and Brent Eviston, Udemy -- both of whom are anatomy fiends and portrait artists; and are great teachers -- stress fundamentals. So does the illustrator, Andrew Loomis whose republished book, Fun With Pencils, has gotten me going doing a 1,000 of each level of the shapes and forms that are part of everything in. Nature and the world around us. It's a daily exercise of 15-30 minutes in a scratch book for me. And, I'm seeing development in my art.
This video is genuinely life changing for beginner artists. Thank you so much for sharing this content for free.
dude, the contour thing is amazing. in all of the hundreds of tutorials I've seen, I've never seen someone suggest manipulating the shape and building prisms from manipulated shapes.
Thanks! Glad it's so useful for many people :)
I've been involved in several comic art classes from various artists and none of them has ever gone over the idea of making simple boxes interesting. They all covered simple shapes, sure, but then went straight to making a complex drawing out of them. I wasn't as good at complexity as I would like and couldn't figure out why. I drew along with what you were presenting and found it very challenging to replicate some of your simple box manipulations, which tells me I need more practice with simple shapes before moving on to bigger things. Thanks for the great insights!
This was amazing to watch. After a lifetime of “doodling” I’m trying to teach myself to draw and discovered learning how to really seeing things is a task in itself. I also tend to have a logical mindset and want to understand the process behind creating objects and a rationale rather than simply follow a tutorial or technique. Thank you.
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see this stuff is what i wanted to learn in art school, its concise, understandable regardless of skill level, and applicable in almost every project
Honestly thank you, for this video in general. I just realised how stupid I was and where I’m going wrong in trying to practice. Going straight Into complex anatomy and feeling like I’m not getting any better. Because I never studied simple shapes/perspective and manipulation. From now on I’m going to have to do an embarrassing deep dive into the basics but I’m sure it’ll help. Considering the fact I’ve been a self taught artist for three years and never even thought to try this, I wish I’d found this video sooner.
Preach sir. preach. Showing this to my students as so many of them need this and continue to ignore it in my classes! These steps are so empowering for visual creators/communicators.
this concept right here is exactly why i tell ppl i can draw but i can’t actually draw fr
i can draw anything by looking at it, but the foundations for drawing from imagination… i skipped those cause i thought it was boring
now i’ll go through the boredom so i can actually transfer my imagination to the page without wanting to fight the end result
this is so goldddddddddddd! As a beginner that is so lost and overwhelmed at fundamentals, this helps me alot! Thanks! :))
Started drawing again a couple of days ago. Couldn't understand why nothing is going how i expected and i was searching for tutorials to learn how to draw. This is the most mind opening video i found so far and now i actually know what i have to lern and do. Thank you so much.
As a student that wanted to learn art, this video gives me the right path that I should take in becoming an artist. Drawing shapes and manipulating it in my own advantage is so new to me yet so important. I never knew that basic shapes in 3d form can be a life saver for me as a young artist. Also, I already learned anatomy even though I don’t know how to draw the simple 3d shapes yet. So my drawings look so disproportional and distorted. Now, I already knew that I am becoming a successful artist because of this video. Thank u so much for doing such an informative video for free!
Would you believe me if I told you that video was the starting line of my art parkour? This man got me starting art with just a single video where he only breaks down art into simpler concepts and I've never stopped since. Been only drawing for 30 mins/1h a day usually but it's starting to look like something
Way to go!
every once in a while I come back to this video just to internalize this stuff again. I think this is one of those vids every new artist should watch - its super well structured and gives you all the important tools you need to really elevate your shape design. One of the best art tutorials out there imo
I learned the basics and immediately jumped to an anatomy book without ever mastering figure drawing and fundamentals. I don't regret it since in a sense I've been able to train my eye to easily identify and correlate the negative and positive spaces of a drawing. But I love the idea that to be a better artist after practicing for about 4 years straight every day I have to go back to the basics... 😁
11:25 what he said right there is so true.... I'm constantly surprising myself with how much I can draw just because I have some basic understanding of these simple forms, so I can choose what forms to simplify with. When I first started drawing I would have no idea how to even begin tackling a reference.
This 6 point system is making a lot of sense to me... I'd love to enrol to his course if I wasn't unemployed 😭👍
Edit: just as I was thinking of KJG, he mentions him 😂 I'm of a similar mind that KJG is more of a master at manipulating forms than technical anatomy. Having said that, he knows a LOT of real anatomy 😂 I watch pretty much all of his streams and he likes to give short lectures at the end.
Who is KJG? can you please mention his full name or channel name 🤔
@@ishaartworks 12:42 he mentions Kim Jung Gi
Best art video ever , As a beginner i always use to jump to make complex drawings and got demotivated when i couldn't make them but i now i will focus more on shapes and manuplation so i can make better drawings
Very good explanation for a realistic view of art. If you can't do the basics...thats where you start! So many tutorials out there that get you thinking that's it's so easy to draw anything. Yes some start you that way but your patient time to explain why is so important! Thank you!
Excellent lesson! One of the best I've seen. Other lessons I've seen on the subject have been too complicated or too saturated with information that I go away feeling uninspired and overwhelmed. Antonio's steps and to-the-point setup are just what I needed. Thank you!
I'm in that weird stage of going from basics to something much more complex and I always mess this step up. This helped a lot honestly. There's just so much information out there, I never really know what to follow. This broke it down in steps I could understand. I'm really grateful, thank you for this lesson!
Days since Kim Jung Gi was last mentioned in a Proko video: 0
Honey it's time for your daily reminder that you got into art because of Kim Jung GI and you'll never reach his level
@@sergnb0 And that is fine cause while I love Kim's stuff, he is not the be all end all artist.
Well, they allways reference him because he is pretty much a thr modern reference when it comes to creative draftsmanship I guess
@@sergnb0 If your long-term goal is to imitate someone else, you will never be yourself, and you will never be happy.
@@thenaysays It is not really imitating, there is nothing wrong with having an influence in your art, that is how your "art style" will begin to appear.
Studying from other artist's arts can be good but it does not actually completely mean "imitating" them, it is just "studying".
And plus I doubt that any aspiring artist here would completely want to imitate them anyways, that is not a true "artist", being an artist is not imitating something, it is more creating than imitating.
But, if there is actually an artist here whose goal is to completely imitate someone else then yes that is certainly not a good idea, I recommend you to stop.
I learn more from short UA-cam videos than I ever learned in months of traditional schooling. Thanks for the great video! :)
This one video is basically the Illustration I class I never got to take in college
College is a joke
@@469travel if you want to get consistent commissions and a non freelance job, you need it. Yeah I hate this.
I was searching for a video like this for sooo long !!!! I trained myself about simple shapes and volumes and i wasn't able to draw more complexe shapes. I realised too that studying the work of artists i like, and understanding why i love their work help me to know what i want to draw, and indirectly what "artstyle" i want. thank you Proko for sharing us great videos like this, and thank you Antonio for this amazing masterclass!!!
Been trying to get back into art, and was watching a lot of "how to draw" videos. This is the first one that I feel has actually taught me something
This video is amazing and exactly what I was looking for! I have always had a hard time drawing ANYTHING and I was looking for a video that would help me identify and conceptualize what the BRAIN process was that allows you to draw and manipulate shapes. This has given me a glimmer of hope that I can still perhaps learn to draw!
Me after watching this video: I wanna draw boxes!
It sounds so simple to draw boxes but it is where we master simple/small things into complex/big things that is not imaginable 🙏 thankyou Proko!
THANK YOU!!! I was in the process of making that mistake (jumped from simple perspective straight to figures). Was about to give up on drwaing. This feels much more achievable from my current standpoint.
one of the most clear and concise instructional videos ever
Useful? You mean this blew my mind and helped me immensely? Why yes, it is useful!
i like this because a lot of artists say not to use boxes when drawing the human figure, but when first starting out it can help a lot like he's mentioning in the video. understanding simple shapes and manipulating them in order to do that with more complex figures in the future. it can help visualize overlapping as well (with limbs or buildings) and help understanding volume and volume in a particular space. i'd say when really trying to understand complex shapes, such as in the education step, is when you should wean off using the box so that the figure is not so rigid and more gestural. but like he said at the end, you should be able to make these simple shapes interesting before making complex shapes interesting. one step at a time.
i think it could also come in handy when learning light values and shading and such. learning it on a basic surface, like where the light hits, the shadow falls, ambient lighting, etc. before applying that to complex figures.
that and there is no right way to do it. if boxes aren't it for people than don't but i dont think shouldn't NOT be used. if that makes sense
This was brilliant! I'm a high school art teach and got SO many teaching ideas from this and so much advice and wisdom to give my students. Thank you!
this is better then just doing what is told. this is understanding the concept. and so many ppl out there cant do the simplest things without understanding the concept.
u made me understand what i wanted to understand!
Note to self:
2:10
2:27 structuralization
4:00 manipulation
5:05 squish stretch
5:34 manipulate contours
8:10 manipulation of edges
10:39 observation
14:15 education
17:00 imitation
18:34 imagination
"not to copy what you see, try to understand what you see" This will be my motto for drawing, thank you for sharing so much useful konwledge, I use dictionary to finish this video and I still feel learned a lot from it, thank you again!
24:54 are you kidding me...this video was extremely helpful...each things you said made complete sense and I'm definitely practicing in that way from today
I generally don't bother commenting, but you're a really good teacher, really humble as well. Thank you 🙏
Wow. This was a masterclass. Thank you, Proko and thank you, Antonio!
This is the most useful art advice I’ve gotten honestly. Many videos talk of the different types of pencils, and others speak of practicing shapes and different types of lines and strokes to repeat. This is the first video I’ve seen to go so in depth as to why the basics are important and how to manipulate them.
this guys artstyle is incredible.
dude i think i went up like 2 levels in my art skill by watching this video thank u sm
This is honestly the best art advice I’ve ever gotten, for someone who always struggled with structure and complex angles and poses. Thank you!!
Now I truly understand the quote 'Knowledge is power'
This really helped me feel more confident about my journey as an artist. This video is a blessing!
Great watching a tutorial where the concepts are so deeply understood and not limited to a “how to” list. Brilliant presentation, thank you!
20 years after getting my degree in art, I feel like I finally got the piece of the puzzle that lets me break out of the limitations I have been hitting against. I got comfortable using the mannequin for human figures and could use it to get the shape for drawing something I was looking at, but never mm ade the connection of how to understand how shapes could be manipulated to draw something from my imagination. Anything drawn from imagination always fell short. I'm so excited to start working on this!
Wow, "6 Steps to Draw Anything" sounds like a super useful and inspiring video title! Drawing can be such a rewarding skill, and breaking it down into manageable steps is a great approach for both beginners and experienced artists. The idea that you can draw anything with just six steps is empowering and really encourages creativity. It's amazing how learning to draw can also help improve observation skills and attention to detail. Happy drawing to everyone who's giving it a try! 🎨✨
2 years later this is still powerful, and very useful.
I feel like i just found the holy grail or something like that, this is literally a summarized version of what i've been trying to practice and understand for a long time now, i'm going to use this as reference every time i am Lost from now on, thank you very much for such an amazing colab and mini class
He seems like a super expert who knows how to describe things in a way that beginners can understand. This was helpful to me.
Saving this one. Well thank you for plainly explaining what I was missing in my studies. Cause you're right, I was going straight from simple shapes to only manipulating a bean to complex figures. Thank you!
For the first time in my life, this video is only thing that explains me clearly: why learning basic fundamental structure is so tremendously important than learning to any advanced technique but lack of fundamental.
Thank you for your insight. This means a lot to me.
I been drawing on and off most my life, somewhere along the line I was told don't copy so I basically used imagination forever lol. This stuff is a huge help! Thanks so much for putting it together ❤️
Wow, that contour advice was something I never heard of, until now. Amazing how one simple tip can help greatly in improving your shapes. Excited to test it later when I draw!
Don't mind me, here's just some open notes I'm typing while listening to this: (Advice that really struck me):
-Don't just copy the subject, and understand what primitive shape (basic triangle, squares) circles is being manipulated.
-Contours can help massively in shaping the form of the object you wanna draw. Even if it's the same base shape, different contours can affect the structure you are drawing.
-It's okay if you don't know intrinsically the anatomy of something like humans or animals. But learning to break those complex forms down into simple shapes and have good spatial reasoning from knowing basic shapes is enough to help you draw them.
-Education is when we finally dedicate ourselves to something we want to draw, after we have a visual library from doing basic shape manipulation and deconstruction. We can know understand why those various shapes that are manipulated is, from learning their anatomy. Like fine tuning our prior knowledge.
this is one of the best drawing videos i have ever seen, thanks for bringing it to the channel :3
thank you for the video man, you put it in a very succinct way without sounding it overwhelming.
What I learned is simplicity goes a long way to make something look complex. Thanks so much for this video :)
I watched this multiple times to engrave this into my soul
Precisely what I needed to watch during an absolute creative dead end, back to work I go!
You just opened my mind about how to draw work, how some artists make some structural i never seen before. Even though I looked at the tutorial on how to make it, they only tell you to make a shape like they do, but never explain why we make a shape like that. This is what I'm looking for to improve my skills. Thank you very much. I hope good fortune is always upon you.
This is a priceless video, many thanks to Proko Team and Antonio. One thing I like about this channel that I got to know so many amazing artists, like Antonio. Simplifying things can be a challenge, often u king of dragged to the details. Steve Huston talking a lot about simplicity of the shapes. When I just have started drawing, it was difficult for me to manikinize human figure, and I think still it s a challenge for me. Especially with imagining box structers
extremely, extremely insightful. i've been drawing my entire life and have struggled to figure out how to progress with 'the basics' when i seemingly already have a grasp on a lot of it, most tutorials are either way too remedial or assume way too much about certain fundamentals which i do not know because i can't seem to find proper insight into them. this is exactly the jumping off point i've been looking for.
THIS! Exactly what is not being explained in every other tutorial! Thank you so much for giving such a good road map for sequential steps in the learning process!!!
Thank you!
A little bit useful? Man you changed my future with this video. Thank you very very very much!
Wow. A master class compressed to 26 minutes. As a brand new beginner, this was beyond insightful.
I love drawing and would have called myself a self taught intermediate but when I see what others can do, that definitely falls back to amateur. I have always used the line method and draw what I see. My drawings are decent but theres always something "not quite right" and I have reached a frustrating plateau.
This really demonstrates how and why my work lacks a certain depth. It demonstrates the techniques needed to make stuff really feel 3d and pop off the page.
Thank you very much. Im looking forward to going back to basics and trying again!
This is the video I wish I had 2 years ago! awesome stuff!
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This was a great lesson. I feel truly lucky to have seen it so early in my path of learning to draw!
how old r u
Thank you so much for this video! I've always struggled with figures, I can decently replicate most things put in front of me but drawing from imagination is where I struggle and also most want to improve on, and this made everything click into place like I was missing a puzzle piece before. All the art classes I've ever been in and not once has anyone every broken down manipulating your basic shapes like this