Sorry for the Audio Bias to the left ear! I re-tweaked the audio levels in premiere but can't replace the video without totally deleting this one. I will make sure to keep my eyes and ears out going forward so I don't blast your left ear off. Ty all for understanding!
Hi dave great video! if you want to fix your audio when this happens you just need to: right click on the audio > audio channels > check the box of Clip R to the L Media Source Channel!
You can also go on Effects > audio > Fill right with left and drag this effect to the audio, in Premiere to fix it more easily, if it ever happens again. 😊
Personally I don't understand the whole "make videos short" like I get some people have hard time paying attention over a long period of time.. but my personal opinion I like the longer videos. As long as what you are showing or talking about, tutorial or not... I think the time is worth it. I'd rather have a tutorial that is a hour long as long as I learn something. Or I really get to see how the artist finishes something at every step. Personally I'd like to see a video about how some who does freelance like what their day to day, and I mean start to finish on that business. Appreciate and love the video Dave! How is the free lance work going?
i don't think it's so much that people have a problem with longer videos it's more that some videos will take FOREVER to get to what the actual video is about. I have a perfect example of this, i forgot how to do clipping masks so i looked up a video on it and there were a ton of like 10-15 min videos on it with like 5 minute intros talking about nothing and then i found a 49 second video that showed me exactly what i was looking for and nothing more than that. I know like one of the other guys said you can just click through it but still, for me its more of a pet peeve than anything
Yeah I get it’s “to each their own” my thing is just that if I’m looking through a couple tutorials on rendering and shading I go for the shorter ones cuz that’s compressed tips and info so I don’t have to feel like it was wasted time. But if it’s just playing in the background I don’t mind lol
I'm 6 minutes in and I just want to address you talking about the guilt of not constantly creating, which weights heavy on me (especially since I feel this pressure of becoming a professional asap, for various reasons). I'm really glad that you sometimes bring up topics such as this, I'd love to hear you talk more about this and other similar things that a lot of us are probably resonating with and I'd love to know how you personally deal with your artistic struggles, how you cope with them and how you manage to stay sane and not beat yourself up to death. By the way, love the final result, looks awesome! Stay safe and keep it up, Dave!
@@ms10089 wow, its already been that long. Hey, romanian! Thanks for dropping the comment, made my day! I suppose its going in the right direction, but maybe slower than I would've hoped. Then again, patience never was one of my virtues. You'll probably have the chance to find out more about me and my artistic journey sometime in the near future, if you were ever curious enough. I have a youtube channel for art and I will start focusing on it way more. You can find me under RazvArt should you consider joining along on my journey, would be happy to see you there : ) Are you an artist yourself?
6:05 Selecting the ear and creating a new layer 6:40 Merging all the outline layers together (Happens in a split second) 6:50 Coloring process 7:25 Creating a whole load of new colour layers/Color explanation 7:30 STAGE 1 COLOR 8:00 Coloring explanation 8:20 STAGE 2 COLOR 9:00 Putting in eyes as a reference 10:25 Small tweaks and fixes (Blending the colours a bit more and building those colour values) 20:15 Video plug on blending and what tools he uses in Photoshop 21:00 How long the actual piece talk to create
@@sikyu9351 I think you get faster with practice. I always get distracted with things around me so that's why I take Hella long because I'm not always looking and drawing my piece, but I'm also very slow. Lool.
@@unaestrella1876 I say 12−24 hours as in _actual_ time spent on the piece. My program automatically records the amount of time spent, otherwise I'd say I spend weeks on a piece oof. I am hopeful though that with practice I will get faster. Thanks.
I love when people describe drawing as an adventure. It gets me all hyped up to start another piece! Plus makes me not feel so bad when the end result isn't perfect, since it is truly all about the journey.
For me, what helps me stay creative when I’m in a rut, or a mood, whatever you would like to call it, I google random things. Last time was mushrooms, not the psychedelic kind, just normal mushrooms. I ended up fascinated by “ink caps,” or “ inky caps,” depending on which part of the region/globe you’re in. So I ended drawing those and jotting down various things about them as I went along. That took up about 6 hours of research and drawing. It was kind of fun, and I even ended up buying a book about various other mushrooms in my part of the hemisphere. So, I just look up different things til something interests me.
I like these from 0 to 100 videos. Where you start with a completely untouched canvas and go all the way, then I can see your entire process which is very soothing to watch, destressing a lot. I like having these on in the background when drawing or doing other stuff. Thanks for the videos! :)
This had so many great messages… Thank you so much for sharing not only your creation but your insight to help all of us in getting some perspective over our anxiety.
I saw his tutorial in March, when I start to draw, and now, 8 months later, I realized that I've learned Nothing back then. My perspective change, and this tutorial was so worth it to see again with this new perspective. I learnd much more now, thank you.
I started drawing digitally 1 year ago thanks to you and your video of how to paint skin i learn so much thanks to your videos and help me improve so much i can't say how thankfull i am towards you, thanks like videos like this i learn things that i can implement in my drawings and keep evolving , thanks so much for everything Dave
I'm really passionate in drawing and dream if becoming a concept artist for adventure or action games but I just can't get it right since I've only recently moved to digital and was was so lost. so I kept looking for tutorials and always felt too overwhelmed and defeated when I understood nothing. But after watching this while drawing I calmed down and actually managed to get somewhere for once! Your voice is so soothing and calm and it made me at ease so thank you thank you so much
After a really difficult year and losing my visual voice and goals- this video and your process single-handedly reignited my process and actually helped me answer digitally why I am having a hard time finishing digital images. Thank you immensely.
I watched this last year and watch it again today, I began to understand now what's he doing instead of just following the steps. I'm thankful for this video, now I can also do something like this maybe not in 2 hours but in couple days. It's like watching a master paint something and you learn a lot for free! I just want to drop by and want to say thank you!
this is what I'm always looking for. . . I'm a kind of learner who needs to properly see the whole process instead of someone just explaining it. please post more video like this!! this really helpssss!!!
This was very refreshing and the speed was perfect. Watching fast timelapses dont give me enough time to get whats going on. The voiceover explaining what was on your mind while painting also makes me feel like im not the only one who loses momentum and gets annoyed at cleaning up lines. Thanks!
26:19 and even a bit before is so pretty, it nearly splits it down the middle in terms of rendering and the background sketch gives so much character to the painting just 😙👌
I love these longer videos with added commentary. You get to know what the artist thinks and how he makes decisions while actually doing the things he thinks. That's what is so valuable about these videos. I totally advocate for more of these videos. Thanks for this. It helped me a lot. Stay strong and healthy.
I really like how you completed the art and the commentary separately. I personally don't like when the art is disrupted for the sake of focusing on the commentary or vice versa. It seems like a very fluid and enjoyable presentation when they are completed individually, avoiding any interruptions or pauses in either. Thank you for sharing the creation of this beautiful piece!
This has been helping me alot. I felt stuck with my painting for a long time and now this is helping me out alot to just expand on techniques and goals to do on every painting
This was honestly good to listen to/watch while playing an mmo because it honestly helps me focus on both. I also find the fast and messy sketching helpful because adhd makes object permanency not great and having the shapes on the canvas, even if they're not perfect, helps me get past that initial hurdle of actually starting a piece.
I personally love this approach to both your piece (especially the loose sketch and primary use of overpainting!) and your tutorial format, it is more informative and insightful compared to quick, often surface level videos so I really enjoyed this and am looking forward to more like this - thank you so much for your generosity and tips Dave!
Dave thank you so much for existing, everytime I find myself frustrated after attempting something, one of your videos pops up and just fills me with inspiration like, "hey, I can do that!" so I go ahead start creating again. Just wanted to let you know!
I love long commentary of art pieces, especially talking about what you were thinking when u decided to do X or Y. It helps me to understand ur process and see if it can help with my own creative process as well! Great work!
Long videos are great - feel free to post both maybe. The sped up commentary and then full length video. As other artist below have said I love long art videos and streams because I draw along while I watch/listen - it's inspiring and keeps me company.
tbh I love long video. I think this is not super complicating or too much detail, basically you just try to show us the very basic but not extremely basic like understand the tools, etc. A newbie like me need it so much. And the speed is enough for me to understand what are you doing. Thank you. =]]]]
This is absolutely awesome, thank you so much for sharing! I learn so much from artists when they post real-time or close to real-time videos of their process, and especially when they talk it through. Everyone works so differently; there are always little nuggets of value to be picked up through their process.
Feels good to come back to drawing after a break. For me it was to loosen up and just start drawing again. It is fun again to look for inspiration, like this video, and start creating. Stay well and keep creating!
I work in video production and have recently been getting into digital artistry. I wasn't too interested in the sketching style of digital art but as soon as colour, shading, lighting ratios etc. start being added and that 3D-ness begins to show, I get into digital art 110%. I'm a cinematographer so going from video production to digital art feels like more of an extension of what I already do and I'm so excited to learn this amazing craft you and others have incredible talent in. I'm going to watch this full video, but I quickly jumped to the end from the beginning sketches to see your final result and I am in disbelief. I can't fathom how long it must take you to get to such a skill level where you can create something like that. Amazing!
This is a great combination of enjoying your streaming conversation and your painting process in a easy to view UA-cam format. I love this. Would definitely appreciate more of this. Thanks again for sharing. Great piece too!!
First video of yours I've seen. Exactly what I was looking for: being able to see and hear process and ideas. More please. I will watch every minute of every one.
Very interesting. Some most people do highly constructive and additive workflows in these types of tutorials, but this quite intuitive and 'sculptive' for lack of a better word, and I find this type of shape finding via refining over more and more specific sketching. Very nice tutorial.
I have been looking for a long time to find a style of art that resonates with me, and that I can try to draw inspiration from. Dave's art is just the perfect style for me, and I hope I can be as good as him one day.
I'm happy you talked about artists and their relationship with guilt, I feel like it can't be expressed enough. It was something that took me a long time to figure out, "Hey I can't use guilt as a motivator anymore. It's only tearing me down."
I’m so blessed to find your channel. I love the way you explain things and the way you paint. It’s relaxing to watch and listen but still very entertaining and helps me learn, I appreciate your content so keep on doing what you’re doing! ❤️
About what you sled: YES I loved this painting and the whole process. I watched the entire video and I didn’t mind at all it was “long”. I’m actually planning on watching it again and try to copy the painting as you go. I’m sure it’ll take me more than 2 hours though! So thank you very much for such a video. I loved every bit of it: the process, you talking “behind the scenes”and explaining each step and the “why”s of it. Thank you.
Amazing workflow. I relate so much with what you are saying. For the first few weeks I didn't really feel like painting anything, feeling guilty for playing and not creating stuff. But after a practice piece I am feeling again that wonderful passion for painting personal stuff. So nice to hear other artists talking about it!
I really liked being able to see the process from start to finish here! Watching the way you paint and render was inspirational and taught me many things! Digital art is loaded with tools I’m still learning to master, and videos like these are always so helpful
This was amazing to watch transform. I decided to see how people find a starting point in their work and you sharing your thought process really has helped with that.
Yes, please! More of this, Dave. I'm sure I'm one of many who plays long chill educational videos like this one in one monitor while working in the other. Thanks for sharing!
Love this tutorial. I really enjoy both watching these ones, and the longer ones where its not sped up. Beautiful art! Thank you so much for sharing your process with us. Its very interesting to watch.
When he said "on the right side... sketchy... that's not done" Me: But I like those sketchy lines... mixed with some rendered. It looks like it has sort of emotional-feel-ish. But, that just me.
I really like this format for videos, the length is good enough as well because if you speed it too much, its hard to follow your process. I learned a lot , thx for the tutorial Dave.
Just watched it for the third time Dave and have to say ! Just Inspirational from a senior man (not old) desperately trying to keep up with technology just bought my first iPad. 😀
I really really enjoyed you explaining the process. I also like how you mentioned the mental state of an artist; how we definitely have ups and downs when doing a piece; it helped me realize I'm not the only one. I learned a lot, thank you! The painting is very well done. I love the color and shapes as well as the movement you gave :)
First of all, thank you. Thank you for your generosity in giving us these helpful videos for free. This is not only a beautiful piece of art but the video and your commentary were incredibly useful. I have about four pages filled with notes on all the things you said and the things I saw. Thank you again and I hope we see more of this type of video. Personally I don't mind the length at all.
Loving this, would definitely watch entire 2 hours of the process. Also your voice is so comforting. And thank you for all the explanations, it does help a lot
I haven't done art nor do I see myself getting good at it but lately, your videos have inspired me to trust the process of channeling my inner creativity into digital art. I look forward to learning more and gradually do better! Really appreciate this vid ❤️
My creative process has been really different during these current times. I used to be much more methodical, almost obsessively so, when it came down to sketching my pieces out, doing research, etc. I spent more time in my sketchbook than I did on canvas/paper, and it showed because I was drawing my ideas while being fearful I wouldn't be able to pull them off. My sketchbook kind of became my safe space. Now, I've been much more spontaneous, I have a more "just go for it" attitude as far as jumping right into an idea and letting it transform over the course of creating it. It feels a lot better, and I feel better creating more "finished" ideas instead of treating each painting like a research project, haha.
You are such a good teacher and artist. I was so depressed, that can't drawing clearly and correct. 1 tutorial and I made what I like. Srsly.... my first portrait in Photoshop was so baaaad. I am redrawing your portrait now with you... and I like it. I am so happy.
This is great Thanks. It would be nice to know what you are doing with the tools opacity, layer, blending modes /options. maybe name the layers if they are multiply or overlay or whatever might help thanks
This video was so great, I'd love more like it. Being walked through the whole process is refreshing, and it feels very motivating to watch the whole pic unfold!
I watched this video on a few stages of my still early art journey and everytime i watch it (or any other video of yours) i learn even more or expand on already learned knowledge, this is such a nice feeling learning so much and then putting it all to the test and expanding the skill part , you are Epic Dave and your arts are very inspiring, stay awsome 💖⚜️
I really like it when I can see the artist's process and not some speedy painting, I also really enjoy your commentary. It add's an extra touch of calmness and it's suprisingly intresting. Keep up the good work!!
I have to agree with you that by going straight to colour this piece definitely felt more expressive with a lot of subtle colour notes. This is definitely one of my favourites of yours and thanks for sharing the process - this content really inspires and helps my development so please keep it up as long as you are also getting something out of it!
This tutorial helped me so much!!! Thank you!!! I was in a bad funk and I thought that everything that I drew sucked but your video helped me through that and gave me a totally new way to color my drawings!!!! I can't say thank you enough!!
Thank you so so much for making this! Its so hard to find some extensive tutorials when you're trying to get into digital art and arent sure of how to even start the process. This really helped me a lot, thank you!
Thank you for your amazing painting and commentary. It helped me understand the process I have to go through to make a complete art work. It was really helpful and entertaining.
This was really interesting to watch, thank you. I prefer longer videos as it's easier to understand the process and learn from them as you have more time to talk about why you are doing things :) I struggle to put pen to paper at the minute as I feel like everything I will create will be rubbish... but watching this has given me a little nudge to tackle a project today :)
Have never seen you before so take my opinion with a grain of salt: I like this long format because you give insight into the mindset. If you were trying to teach a specific skill, I think short and to the point works. But for big picture, sort of top down thought, I like longform.
This is great, I loved seeing the process and hearing your commentary over it. I wouldn't mind a 3 hour painting to be honest. It's great to hear about the type of stuff you're working through in your head when your at each stage.
Tbh I really like this video format, like full commentary (doesn't have to be full all the time if you feel redundant) while a speedpaint of the piece your talking about is played. It's easier for me to learn from videos like this, I'm more focused and I really don't know why haha
No doubt this is a great format for sketching vid's! I love the longer versions with voice over where the artist talks us trough their process. These are the videos I actually can learn from. PLEASE MORE OF THIS!
2 things. I'm glad I'm not the only one that has the almost random, I'll figure it out process. Second your voice is so lovely and ASMR approved. Thank you.
I've been drawing starships for a while, but have very rarely drawn people, and the shading and highlights are something I'm not entirely familiar with, so tutorials like this is a godsend! I'm not quite as good as above yet, but I look forward to future attempts!
Very nice painting and video. I recall how excited I was to discover the undo function and layers are simply the best part of working digitally! I have since almost completely stopped working digitally and gone back to traditional methods and I am enjoying creating art again! Keep going and keep showing your process! Really sweet voiceover!
I love this character and design so much, the way you balanced the different colors is so beautiful. I would love to see you draw her again in the future. You're definitely an inspiration to me on how to digitally paint. Thank you so much for sharing your art with us.
I love her artist art style I found her about a year ago but I love your style as well I actually really liked the way the sketchy line art was under showing a bit !
Hi Dave, I've had so ma y little questions and obstacles in trying to overcome in my art at the mo and you answered them all with this video. I way prefer this format. You get to see the whole process without it being too long. I learnt so much. Thank you!
Thanks a ton for the video Dave! trust me , the commentary makes it that much better! we get to have an insight as to what you are thinking during your process bro!
Love it man! These times aren’t easy but great to see everyone kind of getting back in the groove. Was a challenge for me as well. Thanks for sharing again great work!
Found your channel yesterday and so happy I did. You'r such an amazing artist and love the videos, I learn so much for you by watching. Stay safe and have a nice weekend.
Sorry for the Audio Bias to the left ear! I re-tweaked the audio levels in premiere but can't replace the video without totally deleting this one. I will make sure to keep my eyes and ears out going forward so I don't blast your left ear off. Ty all for understanding!
My left ear is well-informed. xD
Quick fix: In Windows, you can go to Ease of Access in the Control Panel, then Audio and set the audio to Mono.
Hi dave great video! if you want to fix your audio when this happens you just need to: right click on the audio > audio channels > check the box of Clip R to the L Media Source Channel!
No problem, Dave. It doesn't get in the way. It's still a great demo.
You can also go on Effects > audio > Fill right with left and drag this effect to the audio, in Premiere to fix it more easily, if it ever happens again. 😊
i like longer tutorials more cause i listen to them while drawing so i dont feel alone lol
So i'm not only one who do that huh? XD
Bro literally me
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Wow... I was thinking the same thing.... I'm glad I'm not alone.
@@BustedBattery yea podcasts sure are cool but art videos are better imo
"Stay loose, It'll harden up on its own later" - Dave Greco.
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Personally I don't understand the whole "make videos short" like I get some people have hard time paying attention over a long period of time.. but my personal opinion I like the longer videos. As long as what you are showing or talking about, tutorial or not... I think the time is worth it. I'd rather have a tutorial that is a hour long as long as I learn something. Or I really get to see how the artist finishes something at every step. Personally I'd like to see a video about how some who does freelance like what their day to day, and I mean start to finish on that business.
Appreciate and love the video Dave! How is the free lance work going?
Yeah and if someone wants a shorter amount of video they can just click through the video.
I find longer videos super intimidating for some reason lmao.
i don't think it's so much that people have a problem with longer videos it's more that some videos will take FOREVER to get to what the actual video is about. I have a perfect example of this, i forgot how to do clipping masks so i looked up a video on it and there were a ton of like 10-15 min videos on it with like 5 minute intros talking about nothing and then i found a 49 second video that showed me exactly what i was looking for and nothing more than that. I know like one of the other guys said you can just click through it but still, for me its more of a pet peeve than anything
Yeah I get it’s “to each their own” my thing is just that if I’m looking through a couple tutorials on rendering and shading I go for the shorter ones cuz that’s compressed tips and info so I don’t have to feel like it was wasted time. But if it’s just playing in the background I don’t mind lol
I'm 6 minutes in and I just want to address you talking about the guilt of not constantly creating, which weights heavy on me (especially since I feel this pressure of becoming a professional asap, for various reasons). I'm really glad that you sometimes bring up topics such as this, I'd love to hear you talk more about this and other similar things that a lot of us are probably resonating with and I'd love to know how you personally deal with your artistic struggles, how you cope with them and how you manage to stay sane and not beat yourself up to death. By the way, love the final result, looks awesome! Stay safe and keep it up, Dave!
I can't wait to be even more open and just chat while keep making more videos going forward. thanks so much!
two years later now, how's it going man? [edit: hi fellow romanian!]
@@ms10089 wow, its already been that long. Hey, romanian! Thanks for dropping the comment, made my day!
I suppose its going in the right direction, but maybe slower than I would've hoped. Then again, patience never was one of my virtues. You'll probably have the chance to find out more about me and my artistic journey sometime in the near future, if you were ever curious enough. I have a youtube channel for art and I will start focusing on it way more. You can find me under RazvArt should you consider joining along on my journey, would be happy to see you there : )
Are you an artist yourself?
@@AldrinLabs Just checking in and saw the yt focus never happened. Wanted to ask if this was intentional and if not maybe now is the time :)
6:05 Selecting the ear and creating a new layer
6:40 Merging all the outline layers together (Happens in a split second)
6:50 Coloring process
7:25 Creating a whole load of new colour layers/Color explanation
7:30 STAGE 1 COLOR
8:00 Coloring explanation
8:20 STAGE 2 COLOR
9:00 Putting in eyes as a reference
10:25 Small tweaks and fixes (Blending the colours a bit more and building those colour values)
20:15 Video plug on blending and what tools he uses in Photoshop
21:00 How long the actual piece talk to create
when he said it took him about 2 hours... 😭 (i spend over 2 hours just to sketch it just right)
xD same, my art usually takes 6 hours to finish haha
12−24 hours here lol. I'm way too slow.
Same I take FOREVER to get anything done
@@sikyu9351 I think you get faster with practice. I always get distracted with things around me so that's why I take Hella long because I'm not always looking and drawing my piece, but I'm also very slow. Lool.
@@unaestrella1876 I say 12−24 hours as in _actual_ time spent on the piece. My program automatically records the amount of time spent, otherwise I'd say I spend weeks on a piece oof. I am hopeful though that with practice I will get faster. Thanks.
I love when people describe drawing as an adventure. It gets me all hyped up to start another piece! Plus makes me not feel so bad when the end result isn't perfect, since it is truly all about the journey.
This is the perfect format. It's so good to see and get a good explanation on why make those design choices.
For me, what helps me stay creative when I’m in a rut, or a mood, whatever you would like to call it, I google random things. Last time was mushrooms, not the psychedelic kind, just normal mushrooms. I ended up fascinated by “ink caps,” or “ inky caps,” depending on which part of the region/globe you’re in. So I ended drawing those and jotting down various things about them as I went along. That took up about 6 hours of research and drawing. It was kind of fun, and I even ended up buying a book about various other mushrooms in my part of the hemisphere. So, I just look up different things til something interests me.
This kind of piece would take me at least 8 hours. This guy said he took only 2 hours. What a legend
I like these from 0 to 100 videos. Where you start with a completely untouched canvas and go all the way, then I can see your entire process which is very soothing to watch, destressing a lot.
I like having these on in the background when drawing or doing other stuff.
Thanks for the videos! :)
This had so many great messages… Thank you so much for sharing not only your creation but your insight to help all of us in getting some perspective over our anxiety.
Loved this piece, really helping me as a digital artist watching your process from start to finish :) Thank you
For such a casual short session, I feel like I learned so much in how I handle my own style. Thank you for the insight, sir!
I saw his tutorial in March, when I start to draw, and now, 8 months later, I realized that I've learned Nothing back then. My perspective change, and this tutorial was so worth it to see again with this new perspective. I learnd much more now, thank you.
I started drawing digitally 1 year ago thanks to you and your video of how to paint skin i learn so much thanks to your videos and help me improve so much i can't say how thankfull i am towards you, thanks like videos like this i learn things that i can implement in my drawings and keep evolving , thanks so much for everything Dave
I'm really passionate in drawing and dream if becoming a concept artist for adventure or action games but I just can't get it right since I've only recently moved to digital and was was so lost. so I kept looking for tutorials and always felt too overwhelmed and defeated when I understood nothing.
But after watching this while drawing I calmed down and actually managed to get somewhere for once! Your voice is so soothing and calm and it made me at ease so thank you thank you so much
After a really difficult year and losing my visual voice and goals- this video and your process single-handedly reignited my process and actually helped me answer digitally why I am having a hard time finishing digital images. Thank you immensely.
I watched this last year and watch it again today, I began to understand now what's he doing instead of just following the steps. I'm thankful for this video, now I can also do something like this maybe not in 2 hours but in couple days. It's like watching a master paint something and you learn a lot for free! I just want to drop by and want to say thank you!
this is what I'm always looking for. . . I'm a kind of learner who needs to properly see the whole process instead of someone just explaining it. please post more video like this!! this really helpssss!!!
This was very refreshing and the speed was perfect. Watching fast timelapses dont give me enough time to get whats going on. The voiceover explaining what was on your mind while painting also makes me feel like im not the only one who loses momentum and gets annoyed at cleaning up lines. Thanks!
Dave: my thumbnails are such a mess
Me: No, no, no those thumbnails make me instantly click on the video and enjoy!
I think that by "thumbnails" he meant his initial sketch idea, not the thumbnail of the video
He means the initial sketch idea (which is also be called thumbnail) not the thumbnail of the video.
26:19 and even a bit before is so pretty, it nearly splits it down the middle in terms of rendering and the background sketch gives so much character to the painting just 😙👌
I love these longer videos with added commentary. You get to know what the artist thinks and how he makes decisions while actually doing the things he thinks. That's what is so valuable about these videos. I totally advocate for more of these videos. Thanks for this. It helped me a lot. Stay strong and healthy.
I really like how you completed the art and the commentary separately. I personally don't like when the art is disrupted for the sake of focusing on the commentary or vice versa. It seems like a very fluid and enjoyable presentation when they are completed individually, avoiding any interruptions or pauses in either. Thank you for sharing the creation of this beautiful piece!
This has been helping me alot. I felt stuck with my painting for a long time and now this is helping me out alot to just expand on techniques and goals to do on every painting
This format is perfect for me. I can just kick back, pull out my tablet and listen. There are no silent moments. I love this :)
This was honestly good to listen to/watch while playing an mmo because it honestly helps me focus on both. I also find the fast and messy sketching helpful because adhd makes object permanency not great and having the shapes on the canvas, even if they're not perfect, helps me get past that initial hurdle of actually starting a piece.
I personally love this approach to both your piece (especially the loose sketch and primary use of overpainting!) and your tutorial format, it is more informative and insightful compared to quick, often surface level videos so I really enjoyed this and am looking forward to more like this - thank you so much for your generosity and tips Dave!
Dave thank you so much for existing, everytime I find myself frustrated after attempting something, one of your videos pops up and just fills me with inspiration like, "hey, I can do that!" so I go ahead start creating again. Just wanted to let you know!
I love long commentary of art pieces, especially talking about what you were thinking when u decided to do X or Y. It helps me to understand ur process and see if it can help with my own creative process as well! Great work!
Long videos are great - feel free to post both maybe. The sped up commentary and then full length video. As other artist below have said I love long art videos and streams because I draw along while I watch/listen - it's inspiring and keeps me company.
tbh I love long video. I think this is not super complicating or too much detail, basically you just try to show us the very basic but not extremely basic like understand the tools, etc. A newbie like me need it so much. And the speed is enough for me to understand what are you doing. Thank you. =]]]]
This is absolutely awesome, thank you so much for sharing! I learn so much from artists when they post real-time or close to real-time videos of their process, and especially when they talk it through. Everyone works so differently; there are always little nuggets of value to be picked up through their process.
Feels good to come back to drawing after a break. For me it was to loosen up and just start drawing again. It is fun again to look for inspiration, like this video, and start creating. Stay well and keep creating!
Super nice Dave! I always adore how you paint hair. Its always very iconic of your work and your style and it is BEAUTIFUL
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THE TALENT ON THIS MAN
I work in video production and have recently been getting into digital artistry. I wasn't too interested in the sketching style of digital art but as soon as colour, shading, lighting ratios etc. start being added and that 3D-ness begins to show, I get into digital art 110%. I'm a cinematographer so going from video production to digital art feels like more of an extension of what I already do and I'm so excited to learn this amazing craft you and others have incredible talent in. I'm going to watch this full video, but I quickly jumped to the end from the beginning sketches to see your final result and I am in disbelief. I can't fathom how long it must take you to get to such a skill level where you can create something like that. Amazing!
This is a great combination of enjoying your streaming conversation and your painting process in a easy to view UA-cam format. I love this. Would definitely appreciate more of this. Thanks again for sharing. Great piece too!!
First video of yours I've seen. Exactly what I was looking for: being able to see and hear process and ideas. More please. I will watch every minute of every one.
love the whole painting wth commentry, much better than timelapse
Very interesting. Some most people do highly constructive and additive workflows in these types of tutorials, but this quite intuitive and 'sculptive' for lack of a better word, and I find this type of shape finding via refining over more and more specific sketching. Very nice tutorial.
This in depth tutorial is great, much preferred to the quick ones!
I have been looking for a long time to find a style of art that resonates with me, and that I can try to draw inspiration from. Dave's art is just the perfect style for me, and I hope I can be as good as him one day.
I'm happy you talked about artists and their relationship with guilt, I feel like it can't be expressed enough. It was something that took me a long time to figure out, "Hey I can't use guilt as a motivator anymore. It's only tearing me down."
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I’m so blessed to find your channel. I love the way you explain things and the way you paint. It’s relaxing to watch and listen but still very entertaining and helps me learn, I appreciate your content so keep on doing what you’re doing! ❤️
About what you sled: YES I loved this painting and the whole process. I watched the entire video and I didn’t mind at all it was “long”. I’m actually planning on watching it again and try to copy the painting as you go. I’m sure it’ll take me more than 2 hours though!
So thank you very much for such a video. I loved every bit of it: the process, you talking “behind the scenes”and explaining each step and the “why”s of it.
Thank you.
Amazing workflow. I relate so much with what you are saying. For the first few weeks I didn't really feel like painting anything, feeling guilty for playing and not creating stuff. But after a practice piece I am feeling again that wonderful passion for painting personal stuff. So nice to hear other artists talking about it!
I really liked being able to see the process from start to finish here! Watching the way you paint and render was inspirational and taught me many things! Digital art is loaded with tools I’m still learning to master, and videos like these are always so helpful
This was amazing to watch transform. I decided to see how people find a starting point in their work and you sharing your thought process really has helped with that.
Yes, please! More of this, Dave. I'm sure I'm one of many who plays long chill educational videos like this one in one monitor while working in the other.
Thanks for sharing!
this drawing is just mindblowingly good wtf
Love this tutorial. I really enjoy both watching these ones, and the longer ones where its not sped up. Beautiful art! Thank you so much for sharing your process with us. Its very interesting to watch.
please do like a full on long hours of this its such a helpful guide and im loving every second of it
Thanks Dave for sharing your tips, skills and time with us! Stay well!
When he said "on the right side... sketchy... that's not done"
Me: But I like those sketchy lines... mixed with some rendered. It looks like it has sort of emotional-feel-ish. But, that just me.
Me toooooo
Yeah, that's a badass painting, but I found myself feeling a bit let down when all that cool linework started to disappear.
I really like this format for videos, the length is good enough as well because if you speed it too much, its hard to follow your process. I learned a lot , thx for the tutorial Dave.
that was AWESOME! Thank you so much! Looking forward to new videos!
Long videos are the best I enjoy the process !!
Good talk about getting up during a burnout or block... I needed that Tnx a bunch
please do more of these kinds of videos; you have no idea how much this helps
Just watched it for the third time Dave and have to say ! Just Inspirational from a senior man (not old) desperately trying to keep up with technology just bought my first iPad. 😀
I really really enjoyed you explaining the process. I also like how you mentioned the mental state of an artist; how we definitely have ups and downs when doing a piece; it helped me realize I'm not the only one. I learned a lot, thank you! The painting is very well done. I love the color and shapes as well as the movement you gave :)
bro you're voice is so good. It was so calming/fun drawing along with you
First of all, thank you. Thank you for your generosity in giving us these helpful videos for free. This is not only a beautiful piece of art but the video and your commentary were incredibly useful. I have about four pages filled with notes on all the things you said and the things I saw. Thank you again and I hope we see more of this type of video. Personally I don't mind the length at all.
Loving this, would definitely watch entire 2 hours of the process. Also your voice is so comforting. And thank you for all the explanations, it does help a lot
I really enjoy this, I love that I am able to see the whole process and understand it more than in some tutorials even.
I haven't done art nor do I see myself getting good at it but lately, your videos have inspired me to trust the process of channeling my inner creativity into digital art. I look forward to learning more and gradually do better! Really appreciate this vid ❤️
My creative process has been really different during these current times. I used to be much more methodical, almost obsessively so, when it came down to sketching my pieces out, doing research, etc. I spent more time in my sketchbook than I did on canvas/paper, and it showed because I was drawing my ideas while being fearful I wouldn't be able to pull them off. My sketchbook kind of became my safe space. Now, I've been much more spontaneous, I have a more "just go for it" attitude as far as jumping right into an idea and letting it transform over the course of creating it. It feels a lot better, and I feel better creating more "finished" ideas instead of treating each painting like a research project, haha.
You are such a good teacher and artist. I was so depressed, that can't drawing clearly and correct. 1 tutorial and I made what I like. Srsly.... my first portrait in Photoshop was so baaaad. I am redrawing your portrait now with you... and I like it. I am so happy.
the longer the better , we appreciate it a lot .
This is great Thanks.
It would be nice to know what you are doing with the tools opacity, layer, blending modes /options.
maybe name the layers if they are multiply or overlay or whatever might help thanks
This video was so great, I'd love more like it. Being walked through the whole process is refreshing, and it feels very motivating to watch the whole pic unfold!
I watched this video on a few stages of my still early art journey and everytime i watch it (or any other video of yours) i learn even more or expand on already learned knowledge, this is such a nice feeling learning so much and then putting it all to the test and expanding the skill part , you are Epic Dave and your arts are very inspiring, stay awsome 💖⚜️
Wow. You don't know how much this means to artists like me. Thanks Dave!
I really like it when I can see the artist's process and not some speedy painting, I also really enjoy your commentary. It add's an extra touch of calmness and it's suprisingly intresting. Keep up the good work!!
I have to agree with you that by going straight to colour this piece definitely felt more expressive with a lot of subtle colour notes. This is definitely one of my favourites of yours and thanks for sharing the process - this content really inspires and helps my development so please keep it up as long as you are also getting something out of it!
This tutorial helped me so much!!! Thank you!!!
I was in a bad funk and I thought that everything that I drew sucked but your video helped me through that and gave me a totally new way to color my drawings!!!!
I can't say thank you enough!!
Thank you so so much for making this! Its so hard to find some extensive tutorials when you're trying to get into digital art and arent sure of how to even start the process. This really helped me a lot, thank you!
Thank you for your amazing painting and commentary. It helped me understand the process I have to go through to make a complete art work. It was really helpful and entertaining.
much thanks for the brushes, awesome piece u did there.
May the fourth soon be with you
This was really interesting to watch, thank you. I prefer longer videos as it's easier to understand the process and learn from them as you have more time to talk about why you are doing things :) I struggle to put pen to paper at the minute as I feel like everything I will create will be rubbish... but watching this has given me a little nudge to tackle a project today :)
Have never seen you before so take my opinion with a grain of salt: I like this long format because you give insight into the mindset. If you were trying to teach a specific skill, I think short and to the point works. But for big picture, sort of top down thought, I like longform.
This is great, I loved seeing the process and hearing your commentary over it. I wouldn't mind a 3 hour painting to be honest. It's great to hear about the type of stuff you're working through in your head when your at each stage.
Tbh I really like this video format, like full commentary (doesn't have to be full all the time if you feel redundant) while a speedpaint of the piece your talking about is played. It's easier for me to learn from videos like this, I'm more focused and I really don't know why haha
No doubt this is a great format for sketching vid's! I love the longer versions with voice over where the artist talks us trough their process. These are the videos I actually can learn from. PLEASE MORE OF THIS!
2 things. I'm glad I'm not the only one that has the almost random, I'll figure it out process. Second your voice is so lovely and ASMR approved. Thank you.
I've been drawing starships for a while, but have very rarely drawn people, and the shading and highlights are something I'm not entirely familiar with, so tutorials like this is a godsend!
I'm not quite as good as above yet, but I look forward to future attempts!
I really like this format. It is easier to follow the process. Please do more!
Very nice painting and video. I recall how excited I was to discover the undo function and layers are simply the best part of working digitally! I have since almost completely stopped working digitally and gone back to traditional methods and I am enjoying creating art again! Keep going and keep showing your process! Really sweet voiceover!
I love this character and design so much, the way you balanced the different colors is so beautiful. I would love to see you draw her again in the future. You're definitely an inspiration to me on how to digitally paint. Thank you so much for sharing your art with us.
I love her artist art style I found her about a year ago but I love your style as well I actually really liked the way the sketchy line art was under showing a bit !
Hi Dave, I've had so ma y little questions and obstacles in trying to overcome in my art at the mo and you answered them all with this video. I way prefer this format. You get to see the whole process without it being too long. I learnt so much. Thank you!
Thanks a ton for the video Dave! trust me , the commentary makes it that much better! we get to have an insight as to what you are thinking during your process bro!
this was so helpful. i was drawing along so i can get some practice and this was helping me fine my style a bit more!
They do be making it look so simple
I really enjoyed this! It was great to have on while I worked and a really interesting insight into your process. The end result looks amazing!
Love it man! These times aren’t easy but great to see everyone kind of getting back in the groove. Was a challenge for me as well. Thanks for sharing again great work!
Found your channel yesterday and so happy I did. You'r such an amazing artist and love the videos, I learn so much for you by watching. Stay safe and have a nice weekend.