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I appreciate the sponsor details, really. The equipment options are a resource I've been looking for. I want an Easel that stays "put", heavy enough to handle the push of a brush with Oil Paint, to get it in/on the canvas, and the only ones that seem to accommodate are a "retrofitted Aluminum Ladder". The subject likely doesn't exist for the Watercolor and Acrylic People, ... but, well "Oil is the medium I desire to master". I don't care if it smells ... It is the "medium" I first came to know. Right after "tempura". .
Why do some people pronouncing the word "Drawing" as Dra-wing? You are adding ing to the word draw. Draw-ing. To draw is to pul/dragl or scrape an object along. Like a pencil.
after obsessing over the form and accuracy because of the previous video its like this video is telling me to be free. you play with my heart Mr.JakeDontDrawr
Correct me if I'm wrong because I struggled a bit with the main message of the last video - but I thought the point of the other video was exactly to show that there is not ONE right way, and that we need to explore and just take the old masters'd advices as advices - not fixed laws of nature. We have access to a lot of helpful methods and techniques, but I strongly believe we can just play around and have fun with them until one or two of them really resonate with us. So yes, be free 🩵
I've never used a plumb line before but after watching this video I gave it a shot, played around with the idea not really knowing what I was doing. I was really quite surprised to find that it improved my larger sketches a lot! The figures seem much more grounded and elegant. Which is what one looks for when painting reindeer 😆 Thanks for the video! Nice work!
Why not just get a vernier equipped Vemco Drafting table and machine and make all your art look like technical drawings? Don't get me wrong I've seen drafted tech drawings as the detailed images under watercolor painting layers. I love it, but I also love the loose free art with the absence of accuracy too. Somehow I just cant envision Dean Crouser using a plumb bob! Sorry , I only see it as one more technique of many!
@@samstewart9249 If you can find that perfect vertical line with your bare eyes, you are right. If not, you need to train hard, or to rely on this tool, or both. It’s fine to be free, but how would you know if the figure you are painting is leaning to one side or the other?
Yeah, it’s only a tool, but I can see how it could be useful when working on large pieces. It’s something that I try to do visually. But what usually happens is that I’m a little bit off but I can’t see it until I step back. So I keep having to make adjustments. An actual bob could save some time.
In the early 2000s, I went to a rather aclaimed art school (SCAD) for video production and I was required to take some drawing courses for the major. They wanted all students to have a foundation of art. The teacher never explained anything like this, first I ever heard of a plumb line for drawing. This one video was far more instructional that a semester of college art classes. They just said "draw this" and put a bowl of fruit out for a still life or had a model stand in font of class. I asked the teacher to TEACH me to draw better and he said thats not his job. Only trick I was offered was the grid method for transfering different size images. Obviously, I never got very good despite trying my ass off cos was just expected to already know how to draw in Drawing 101. I got through my drawing and painting classes with Ds wondering what the point of traditional art schools were and if all the masters of the past were just born great artists. After seeing this and knowing about other painters like Vermeer, it seems like there were some skills taught to all beginners in the past.
Also, I went in with little to no traditional art ability during this time and found even the foundation courses like 2D design and Drawing 1 really helpful. I don't think I was ever just told to just draw something with no instruction. I distinctly remember being in Drawing 1 (Pagratis was my professor) and finally getting the dimension I wanted to see in my drawings through his meticulous instruction using the value scale.
That's just how it is in the art world. I learned more about painting and drawing during a month of lessons in preparation for entry exams, than in the few years of actual studying design. Same with acting. Five years of filmschool and I had to teach myself or perish.
SCAD is nothing but a vending machine for unaccredited diplomas. Money goes in, paper comes out. They sometimes hire good teachers, but they treat them like shit and most of them either quit or get fired for imaginary infractions of unreasonable rules.
@zaloo yes, even the rags that have the flammable solvent in them should be stored in metal. The ventilation is needed because the fumes from these solvents are also toxic
@@ch-arts-us sure.. but the ventilation is more likely the key.. i have a metal locker that was less ventilation than other options. but the take away is: well ventilated metal for all worlds i spose
Fun Fact: This tool is also a great way to steady a camera. Large washer, string, and a bolt that can affix to the bottom tripod hole in your camera. Step on the Washer and pull it taught. Nothin shaky about it. Also a great way to move smoothly when filming.
@@davenik1999 It's a bit of tensegrity. Rather than having a support pushing the camera up, the support is pulling the camera down. It does work in cases where you can't have a tripod, or didn't bring one as it fits in the bag and never needs to leave. It's definitely less than ideal as you will tire out a lot quicker than with a tripod, but it also weighs practically nothing, requires no space and is something that you can likely bring into Disneyland.
I’ve been reading Harold Speed’s painting book lately, and he talks a lot in it about how you should interpret the form instead of being a photographic painter. Such an important and difficult lesson to learn. Also the talk of how those guys were so good reminded me of the latest Defunctland video about animatronics, “You will never do anything better than an 18th-century monk when you have a TV in your house.”
You are really taking that quote out of context so it sounds like it is saying something completely different than what was meant. You make it sound like he was saying people will never do better than past masters when they are distracted by modern technology and entertainment; but what was meant was that Disney’s engineers up to that point had been retreading the same ground as people from the 18th century without taking advantage of all the new technologies which had opened up whole new horizons for achieving effects that were previously impossible. If your goal isn’t tied to demonstrating mastery over a specific medium then it behooves you to at least consider taking advantage of newer technologies to achieve the effect you desire.
That quote has almost the opposite meaning to what you suggest. They were referring to TVs usefulness in conveying something compared to animatronics, saying that even the most advanced animatronics are still surpassed by the new technology of TV, at least in some aspects.
@@NitroLemonswho gives an f about what the quote is supposed to mean, it's a good enough meaning by itself now. A person today isn't going to be practicing every moment with modern distractions.
I'm impressed with the ad, honestly. Usually I'll skip sponsorships but here we got something actually relevant to the topic and something one might actually want. Rest of video is super interesting too, but kudos on picking a relevant sponsor.
I love using zest it as a solvent alternative, there's a faint lemon scent to it and behaves exactly how turpentine behave with non of those toxic fumes allowing me to paint and clean my brushes without the need for elaborate ventilation. To expand on this I absolutely love using water soluable oil paints, the pigments are just as vibrant and buttery smooth to use too and dry in around 4 to 5 days depending on how thick the paint is applied. After using thinned out paint on an entire project it dried in just 1 day which allowed me to work on it further with glazes quicker.
this is a wonderful video to stumble upon. sometimes when i have shown my realistic work to friends, they tell me "it's not realism" because it doesn't look like a perfect photographic representation of a person. but that's not the only thing realism is. i like to think i do realism in the way sergeant does realism- looking beyond the physical figure and into the emotional and almost spiritual figure, representing a person not by just the lines of their face but also their personhood.
Oh, freaking duh! So easy, and sensible. Truly, being an artist is having basic knowledge in so many different things: color, geometry, a plumb line, zoology, biology, anatomy, nephology (clouds), botany…..and confidence in yourself to drawr what you freaking see, even if it is only in your own mind.✌️♥️
I was surprised to hear Morrowind music when you talked about Sargent’s paintings. But actually the mix of beauty and nostalgia i get from this soundtrack matches his art so perfectly!
Building Trades guy (who also likes art)... you can still get an old school Plumb Bob at the hardware store. Because to this day, it's still the most accurate way to get something straight up and down. This is different, though, and quite interesting!
Weights were (and still are) often made from lead, which the Romans called "plumbum". Thats why plumb lines are named that way and why we have words like plumbing and plumbers and plummet. The symbol for lead on the period chart is Pb for this reason.
18:11 telling stories, painting, and editing videos-how is it possible to have so many talents at the same time?I hope that one day I’ll be able to create the community you’ve managed to build! I’ve published my first video, we’ll see
The parallel of painting to electric guitar these days is fascinating. We tend to get obsessed with ‘tone’ which is like brushes and paints. The tools are just that. They don’t matter. A master is a master regardless of tools. All the greats had to use the simple tools available and now we pay extra for fancy when it wasn’t used. Humans are funny. Thanks-I learned something. The concept of starting with larger shapes and adding to them. I’m going to apply that to my writing. These are the kinds of things that are learned by years of experience or a great formal education.
I studied art in college, even got a Bachelors in Studio Art. When I was determining going to art school as a Highschool student I imagined that art colleges would have been like the French academies I saw in the history books, in my experience it wasn’t. Your average art student is fed post modernism and taught to scoff at academic drawing and painting in pursuit of “their creative voice”. It didn’t pay off for my classmates and it didn’t pay off for me; I’m a janitor.
feel this :( I'm currently a bio-art double major and so far in my studios critique has been next to useless. Gentle to the point of ZERO helpfulness. "Looks great!" sure sounds pretty but doesn't help my artistic fundamentals, which is why I love this channel.
@ that may be true, but at least they have a skill. The people coming out of the college art programs so far only seem to have debt. The exception to the visual arts are those engaged in the commercial arts. I’m not saying jobs are guaranteed in animation, video-games, and film, but a chance is better than no chance.
The video was super interesting. Even the ad was interesting. Finally a relevant ad. Advertisers. This is how you do it. After getting all hyped about painting and drawing from the video, you show off this cool paint cart thing and paints.
thank u, youve helped me learn to actually paint well, you taught me that if i overwhelm myself with every tool and paint i can afford i will not actually use them to the fullest capabilities, you inspired me to take my time more and actually try with what i have rather than try to get where i want, thank u.
I hung wallpaper in a woman's bathroom and it turned out very nice. When I returned to meet with her and collect the pay, she was mad! After I was done, she had a large mirror hung on the wall you see when you walk in to the room. The mirror wasn't flush with the wall so it reflected the opposite wall's pattern completely off kilter! She swore up and down that I had hung all that paper crooked. I got out my plumb bob and showed her the seams were actually spot on. It was the mirror, so, I suggested she try to adjust the mirror or get a smaller framed mirror. She wasn't having it. She could not get it through her head that the mirror was what made the paper pattern appear crooked. I never got paid for the job. C'est la vie!
my great figure drawing teacher (at a local community college, not a fancy french school or anything) had us use one of our big 24x36 inch cheap newsprint paper sheets. we would fold one up into a long narrow rectangle and hold on to that to use as a line. he also recommended a ruler, but the advantage of a paper over a ruler or plumb line is that you can mark it with your pencil/charcoal as you're sighting with it. you can let it fall straight with gravity using a loose grip, but you can also sight diagonal lines somewhat, since the folded paper is stiff.
There was so much in what you said about my personal enemy, perfectionism, that I wish I had heard when struggling with foundation art courses. I majored in animation, too much of which was spent behind a computer. We should have spent the first year doing nothing but drawing, the second hand-drawing key frames and "tweens", only thereafter using computers to manage the production, not creating the production. I had one graphic design elective teacher who followed such a pattern during a one semester course. Nit nearly enough time to imbue the value of hand and eye. Thank you for what you said. I'm subscribed. PS- living in Philadelphia. Sargent, Cassatt, Parrish loom very large.
Yo!!! Is the Jake’s first sponsorship!!! (I’ve missed a few videos so I might be wrong) but if so: Congrats!!!!! This was a really great ad and I’m so excited to see your channel grow so fast!! Don’t stop doing what you’re doing!
I'm so fucking happy this channel exists I'm fascinated by the absurd reality that people treat illustration as if it cannot be learned, as if it has no pedagogical history, and as if the current state of art pedagogy - relegated to the closed knowledge of private institutions - is perfectly fine. There is so much closed knowledge, and historical ignorance, it's ridiculous.
I was taught breaking images into a grid and transferring what I saw to a larger grid. But it's the same concept of using plumb lines impromptu without drawing them.
0:49 My brother "similar" to what I do? Look at those _fucking_ side profiles, his art wasn't crazy but his ability to recognize and replicate a face's structure like that speaks to some noteworthy anatomical understandings of the human form even as a kid.
When you speak about colour and value, I cannot mix accurately if I am using an iPad (or other device) because it’s a light source. So, well done if you can make this work 😊
Two weeks ago, a former CIA officer on UA-cam posted a video about making a cheap self defense weapon by combining a nut with a cord. Today, it’s a plumb line.
Omg omg! I remember in my UCF drawing classes used string and plumb lines, conte and charcoal to draw and measure! Very helpful! I only recently found out that the string/ plumb line method was an old method.
Great video!! I'd be so interested in one about the overcomplicated colour theory, because I find all the different theories and techniques so confusing and contradicting that I just end up going off of intuition and base knowledge (complementaries and monotones and other things you learn in high school art classes)
7:44 I think that’s a universal for good art of people. I’ve seen similar discussions about capturing the essence of a person in Japanese anime style, which is not photorealistic but can be shockingly accurate to an individual
Dude you are the best window into art history I have ever come across. One day, many years from now, I will commission a piece by you Side note for colour matching: it is indeed easy. More blue/less blue, more red/less red, more yellow/less yellow - the only question you need ever ask imo
@15:13 What the Skyrim 😆funny how jarring familiar things can be like sounds or smells I couldnt have told you what even genre of music was playing before this assuming there was some but as soon as the Skyrim music swelled in I was totally taken away from the video for a second haha
To your point about obsessing over the particular tools and techniques used by master artists, I've come to a similar conclusion about music. Every minute spent "researching" the exact gear that so-and-so used to get a particular sound on such-and-such song is a minute that you're not practicing your craft.
I need one of these artist's storage carts. Merry Christmas Jake! I never got to use the plumb line in school but we did learn the academic method in college as a study in Anatomical Life Drawing at FIT from 2007-2011 using a copy of the Charles Bargue drawing course book from the 19th century and the sight and see method that Sargent and the rest of the artist used to draw and paint from life.
the hampton book and vine boom lmao. i’m a hobbyist artist who’s worked in a bunch of random digital mediums for a long time and recently wanted to start taking it more seriously and learn traditional sketching techniques and anatomy. i’d asked a few friends who went to art school if they had any resources and a couple of them had pointed me towards that book. i honestly felt like i was going absolutely nowhere with it for the last few months and then switched to drawing from anatomy reference books instead and immediately felt like i was seeing improvement practicing day to day.
As someone who never heard of the plumb line I thought it would be used to drip paint onto the canvas in a controlled manner creating organic shapes. This doesn't appear to change the whole process as much, and really I don't understand what makes it more suited than a ruler you line up parallel to your painting
don't think that's what he was getting at tho... it's about whether the painter is a human photo enlarger (which is not bad imo) or modeling these 3d maths through these methods. or whatever in between..
GREAT VIDEO! I always watch your videos as soon as I get the notification, you are skilled, funny, and great at getting information and tips across. I've learned many neat things from your videos, and I really enjoy learning more about the history of art and its masters. The way that you can bring forward alternate mindsets in order to humanize the greats, or inspire and motivate the upcoming is amazing. I really do love your work!
de ahora en adelante me llevare un hilo amarrado a un peso para pintar del natural. Gracias por compartirnos tus investigaciones sobre los grandes maestros!
Betty Edwards in Drawing with the Right Side of the Brain teaches the trick of using the pencil for measuring. Although she doesn't mention the plumb line, the rationale is the same. It's still the best book (alongside Composition of Arthur Dow) on drawing that I ever read...
It makes me think; things like this were lost because of their abundance. "Everyone knows about the plumb line, we should be doing other things and teaching other things." Until it wasn't known anymore. Extinction from abundance.
You know what's funny is that I've been unintentionally using something like the plumb line when I draw things digitally. What I do is use the borders of my screen or the application to find if the vertical and horizontal alignment. Screens are never crooked, so they make for perfect leveling tools.
Great artists often honed their skills at institutions like the École des Beaux-Arts, where rigorous study and dedication were essential to mastering their craft. However, a certain level of natural talent was required before they could even gain admission
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I appreciate the sponsor details, really. The equipment options are a resource I've been looking for. I want an Easel that stays "put", heavy enough to handle the push of a brush with Oil Paint, to get it in/on the canvas, and the only ones that seem to accommodate are a "retrofitted Aluminum Ladder".
The subject likely doesn't exist for the Watercolor and Acrylic People, ... but, well "Oil is the medium I desire to master".
I don't care if it smells ...
It is the "medium" I first came to know. Right after "tempura".
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morrowind music = like
Why do some people pronouncing the word "Drawing" as Dra-wing? You are adding ing to the word draw. Draw-ing. To draw is to pul/dragl or scrape an object along. Like a pencil.
after obsessing over the form and accuracy because of the previous video its like this video is telling me to be free. you play with my heart Mr.JakeDontDrawr
Correct me if I'm wrong because I struggled a bit with the main message of the last video - but I thought the point of the other video was exactly to show that there is not ONE right way, and that we need to explore and just take the old masters'd advices as advices - not fixed laws of nature. We have access to a lot of helpful methods and techniques, but I strongly believe we can just play around and have fun with them until one or two of them really resonate with us. So yes, be free 🩵
I've never used a plumb line before but after watching this video I gave it a shot, played around with the idea not really knowing what I was doing. I was really quite surprised to find that it improved my larger sketches a lot! The figures seem much more grounded and elegant. Which is what one looks for when painting reindeer 😆 Thanks for the video! Nice work!
Why not just get a vernier equipped Vemco Drafting table and machine and make all your art look like technical drawings? Don't get me wrong I've seen drafted tech drawings as the detailed images under watercolor painting layers. I love it, but I also love the loose free art with the absence of accuracy too. Somehow I just cant envision Dean Crouser using a plumb bob! Sorry , I only see it as one more technique of many!
@@samstewart9249 If you can find that perfect vertical line with your bare eyes, you are right. If not, you need to train hard, or to rely on this tool, or both. It’s fine to be free, but how would you know if the figure you are painting is leaning to one side or the other?
Yeah, it’s only a tool, but I can see how it could be useful when working on large pieces. It’s something that I try to do visually. But what usually happens is that I’m a little bit off but I can’t see it until I step back. So I keep having to make adjustments. An actual bob could save some time.
Your cinematography is getting better and better every video
In the early 2000s, I went to a rather aclaimed art school (SCAD) for video production and I was required to take some drawing courses for the major. They wanted all students to have a foundation of art. The teacher never explained anything like this, first I ever heard of a plumb line for drawing. This one video was far more instructional that a semester of college art classes. They just said "draw this" and put a bowl of fruit out for a still life or had a model stand in font of class. I asked the teacher to TEACH me to draw better and he said thats not his job. Only trick I was offered was the grid method for transfering different size images. Obviously, I never got very good despite trying my ass off cos was just expected to already know how to draw in Drawing 101. I got through my drawing and painting classes with Ds wondering what the point of traditional art schools were and if all the masters of the past were just born great artists. After seeing this and knowing about other painters like Vermeer, it seems like there were some skills taught to all beginners in the past.
I also went to SCAD around this time (2008-2012). I learned about the plumb line in life drawing.
Also, I went in with little to no traditional art ability during this time and found even the foundation courses like 2D design and Drawing 1 really helpful. I don't think I was ever just told to just draw something with no instruction. I distinctly remember being in Drawing 1 (Pagratis was my professor) and finally getting the dimension I wanted to see in my drawings through his meticulous instruction using the value scale.
That's just how it is in the art world. I learned more about painting and drawing during a month of lessons in preparation for entry exams, than in the few years of actual studying design.
Same with acting. Five years of filmschool and I had to teach myself or perish.
SCAD is nothing but a vending machine for unaccredited diplomas. Money goes in, paper comes out. They sometimes hire good teachers, but they treat them like shit and most of them either quit or get fired for imaginary infractions of unreasonable rules.
schools dont teach the small how tos. just the whole goal...... practically just say "just draw." lol
Safety tip. Not only is ventilation good but store your gamsol and other flammable solvent in a metal cabinet.
bc it won't catch fire?
@zaloo yes, even the rags that have the flammable solvent in them should be stored in metal. The ventilation is needed because the fumes from these solvents are also toxic
@@ch-arts-us sure.. but the ventilation is more likely the key.. i have a metal locker that was less ventilation than other options.
but the take away is: well ventilated metal for all worlds i spose
Fun Fact: This tool is also a great way to steady a camera. Large washer, string, and a bolt that can affix to the bottom tripod hole in your camera. Step on the Washer and pull it taught.
Nothin shaky about it. Also a great way to move smoothly when filming.
Also useful in construction and architecture for measuring finished floor heights.
That is some high level MacGyver sh*t there. I’m definitely going to try it!
@@davenik1999 It's a bit of tensegrity. Rather than having a support pushing the camera up, the support is pulling the camera down. It does work in cases where you can't have a tripod, or didn't bring one as it fits in the bag and never needs to leave. It's definitely less than ideal as you will tire out a lot quicker than with a tripod, but it also weighs practically nothing, requires no space and is something that you can likely bring into Disneyland.
*taut :)
Entertaining and enjoyable, i often struggle with art teachers ramble about this and that, but your ramble just works.
I’ve been reading Harold Speed’s painting book lately, and he talks a lot in it about how you should interpret the form instead of being a photographic painter. Such an important and difficult lesson to learn. Also the talk of how those guys were so good reminded me of the latest Defunctland video about animatronics, “You will never do anything better than an 18th-century monk when you have a TV in your house.”
You are really taking that quote out of context so it sounds like it is saying something completely different than what was meant.
You make it sound like he was saying people will never do better than past masters when they are distracted by modern technology and entertainment; but what was meant was that Disney’s engineers up to that point had been retreading the same ground as people from the 18th century without taking advantage of all the new technologies which had opened up whole new horizons for achieving effects that were previously impossible.
If your goal isn’t tied to demonstrating mastery over a specific medium then it behooves you to at least consider taking advantage of newer technologies to achieve the effect you desire.
That quote has almost the opposite meaning to what you suggest. They were referring to TVs usefulness in conveying something compared to animatronics, saying that even the most advanced animatronics are still surpassed by the new technology of TV, at least in some aspects.
I'll be better at watching TV than him!
@@NitroLemonswho gives an f about what the quote is supposed to mean, it's a good enough meaning by itself now. A person today isn't going to be practicing every moment with modern distractions.
I'm impressed with the ad, honestly. Usually I'll skip sponsorships but here we got something actually relevant to the topic and something one might actually want. Rest of video is super interesting too, but kudos on picking a relevant sponsor.
I love using zest it as a solvent alternative, there's a faint lemon scent to it and behaves exactly how turpentine behave with non of those toxic fumes allowing me to paint and clean my brushes without the need for elaborate ventilation. To expand on this I absolutely love using water soluable oil paints, the pigments are just as vibrant and buttery smooth to use too and dry in around 4 to 5 days depending on how thick the paint is applied. After using thinned out paint on an entire project it dried in just 1 day which allowed me to work on it further with glazes quicker.
Legendary filming ✅
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Legendary thumbnail ✅
this is a wonderful video to stumble upon. sometimes when i have shown my realistic work to friends, they tell me "it's not realism" because it doesn't look like a perfect photographic representation of a person. but that's not the only thing realism is. i like to think i do realism in the way sergeant does realism- looking beyond the physical figure and into the emotional and almost spiritual figure, representing a person not by just the lines of their face but also their personhood.
Oh, freaking duh! So easy, and sensible. Truly, being an artist is having basic knowledge in so many different things: color, geometry, a plumb line, zoology, biology, anatomy, nephology (clouds), botany…..and confidence in yourself to drawr what you freaking see, even if it is only in your own mind.✌️♥️
I was surprised to hear Morrowind music when you talked about Sargent’s paintings. But actually the mix of beauty and nostalgia i get from this soundtrack matches his art so perfectly!
Hah, I had the exact same reaction!
@@nakenmil There's also music from world of warcraft tucked in there, at 6:30 ish
around 3:30 I thought I heard a song from Castlevania SotN...
Skyrim as well
@@emmathearcticurbanistthis really messed me up!
Building Trades guy (who also likes art)... you can still get an old school Plumb Bob at the hardware store. Because to this day, it's still the most accurate way to get something straight up and down.
This is different, though, and quite interesting!
The plumb-line, the key to assessing the weight of a subject, and knowing the absolute verticals of a subject.
Morrowing, Castlevania, Zelda OoT... very nice subtle audio references!
World of Warcraft, Baldurs Gate 3, and Skyrim too
^_^
Weights were (and still are) often made from lead, which the Romans called "plumbum". Thats why plumb lines are named that way and why we have words like plumbing and plumbers and plummet.
The symbol for lead on the period chart is Pb for this reason.
your videos just get better and better man welldone
I mean, the thumbnail was good but the editing was just next level. Chefs kiss fr
18:11 telling stories, painting, and editing videos-how is it possible to have so many talents at the same time?I hope that one day I’ll be able to create the community you’ve managed to build! I’ve published my first video, we’ll see
Pablo overturns the table, steals your wine and girl but leaves you a portrait that no one knows its you but love it all the same.
The parallel of painting to electric guitar these days is fascinating. We tend to get obsessed with ‘tone’ which is like brushes and paints. The tools are just that. They don’t matter. A master is a master regardless of tools. All the greats had to use the simple tools available and now we pay extra for fancy when it wasn’t used.
Humans are funny.
Thanks-I learned something. The concept of starting with larger shapes and adding to them. I’m going to apply that to my writing. These are the kinds of things that are learned by years of experience or a great formal education.
I studied art in college, even got a Bachelors in Studio Art. When I was determining going to art school as a Highschool student I imagined that art colleges would have been like the French academies I saw in the history books, in my experience it wasn’t. Your average art student is fed post modernism and taught to scoff at academic drawing and painting in pursuit of “their creative voice”. It didn’t pay off for my classmates and it didn’t pay off for me; I’m a janitor.
Your day job is not relevant to a continued artistic aspirations.
feel this :( I'm currently a bio-art double major and so far in my studios critique has been next to useless. Gentle to the point of ZERO helpfulness. "Looks great!" sure sounds pretty but doesn't help my artistic fundamentals, which is why I love this channel.
ppl with classical drawing training are janitors too
@@Arkansya yes but at least they've developed stronger fundamental skills :(
@ that may be true, but at least they have a skill. The people coming out of the college art programs so far only seem to have debt.
The exception to the visual arts are those engaged in the commercial arts. I’m not saying jobs are guaranteed in animation, video-games, and film, but a chance is better than no chance.
3:13 bro thought he could put Castlevania Symphony of the Night music in this video without us noticing
I didn't recognize every piece you used in the score to this video, but I did catch Skyrim and Symphony of the Night.
Ah, the classics.
I was really excited for this one
cheers from Brazil
The video was super interesting. Even the ad was interesting. Finally a relevant ad. Advertisers. This is how you do it. After getting all hyped about painting and drawing from the video, you show off this cool paint cart thing and paints.
your videos are always so high-quality and well-researched. appreciate your stuff.
thank u, youve helped me learn to actually paint well, you taught me that if i overwhelm myself with every tool and paint i can afford i will not actually use them to the fullest capabilities, you inspired me to take my time more and actually try with what i have rather than try to get where i want, thank u.
I hung wallpaper in a woman's bathroom and it turned out very nice. When I returned to meet with her and collect the pay, she was mad! After I was done, she had a large mirror hung on the wall you see when you walk in to the room. The mirror wasn't flush with the wall so it reflected the opposite wall's pattern completely off kilter! She swore up and down that I had hung all that paper crooked. I got out my plumb bob and showed her the seams were actually spot on. It was the mirror, so, I suggested she try to adjust the mirror or get a smaller framed mirror. She wasn't having it. She could not get it through her head that the mirror was what made the paper pattern appear crooked. I never got paid for the job.
C'est la vie!
my great figure drawing teacher (at a local community college, not a fancy french school or anything) had us use one of our big 24x36 inch cheap newsprint paper sheets. we would fold one up into a long narrow rectangle and hold on to that to use as a line. he also recommended a ruler, but the advantage of a paper over a ruler or plumb line is that you can mark it with your pencil/charcoal as you're sighting with it. you can let it fall straight with gravity using a loose grip, but you can also sight diagonal lines somewhat, since the folded paper is stiff.
The Choice of music was a bit of a surprise ^^ Been a long time since I heard this particular forest theme :D Amazing Art Education!!
I have an art exam tomorrow I’m making my plumb line rn thank you dude!
Came to learn about art, but now I want to play Castlevania.
Same but with pmd
Love the subtle game music in the background. I'm not an artist but your video is so good I subscribed!
There was so much in what you said about my personal enemy, perfectionism, that I wish I had heard when struggling with foundation art courses. I majored in animation, too much of which was spent behind a computer. We should have spent the first year doing nothing but drawing, the second hand-drawing key frames and "tweens", only thereafter using computers to manage the production, not creating the production. I had one graphic design elective teacher who followed such a pattern during a one semester course. Nit nearly enough time to imbue the value of hand and eye. Thank you for what you said. I'm subscribed.
PS- living in Philadelphia. Sargent, Cassatt, Parrish loom very large.
Yo!!! Is the Jake’s first sponsorship!!! (I’ve missed a few videos so I might be wrong) but if so: Congrats!!!!! This was a really great ad and I’m so excited to see your channel grow so fast!! Don’t stop doing what you’re doing!
There's a lot of life advice in this video. Loving it
I'm so fucking happy this channel exists
I'm fascinated by the absurd reality that people treat illustration as if it cannot be learned, as if it has no pedagogical history, and as if the current state of art pedagogy - relegated to the closed knowledge of private institutions - is perfectly fine.
There is so much closed knowledge, and historical ignorance, it's ridiculous.
I was taught breaking images into a grid and transferring what I saw to a larger grid. But it's the same concept of using plumb lines impromptu without drawing them.
0:49 My brother "similar" to what I do? Look at those _fucking_ side profiles, his art wasn't crazy but his ability to recognize and replicate a face's structure like that speaks to some noteworthy anatomical understandings of the human form even as a kid.
When you speak about colour and value, I cannot mix accurately if I am using an iPad (or other device) because it’s a light source. So, well done if you can make this work 😊
Your essay here is informational, succinct, entertaining and demonstrative in the ways only a great teacher can be!!
Two weeks ago, a former CIA officer on UA-cam posted a video about making a cheap self defense weapon by combining a nut with a cord. Today, it’s a plumb line.
Omg omg! I remember in my UCF drawing classes used string and plumb lines, conte and charcoal to draw and measure! Very helpful! I only recently found out that the string/ plumb line method was an old method.
Great video!! I'd be so interested in one about the overcomplicated colour theory, because I find all the different theories and techniques so confusing and contradicting that I just end up going off of intuition and base knowledge (complementaries and monotones and other things you learn in high school art classes)
I hear me some Castlevania Symphony of the Night music. I can see Alucard jumping around from platform to platform while I hear this.
Really good video!, but what really makes it even better for me is... the SOTN music on the background LOVE IT!
putting morrowind music to describe going to paris is crazy, instant sub
The thumbnail for this video is fantastic.
genuinely always the best advice for art. thank you for what you do.
2:17 What is a “drawring”?
All the way through. Clearly a speech impediment but it's driving me crazy!
The American Midland dialect adds an "R" as in "warshing."
7:44 I think that’s a universal for good art of people. I’ve seen similar discussions about capturing the essence of a person in Japanese anime style, which is not photorealistic but can be shockingly accurate to an individual
Dude you are the best window into art history I have ever come across. One day, many years from now, I will commission a piece by you
Side note for colour matching: it is indeed easy. More blue/less blue, more red/less red, more yellow/less yellow - the only question you need ever ask imo
sotn ost in the background and an andean fabric in the beginning of the video got me even more invested in the video
@15:13 What the Skyrim 😆funny how jarring familiar things can be like sounds or smells I couldnt have told you what even genre of music was playing before this assuming there was some but as soon as the Skyrim music swelled in I was totally taken away from the video for a second haha
helps with gathering visual references. good for when you are drawing landscapes!
To your point about obsessing over the particular tools and techniques used by master artists, I've come to a similar conclusion about music. Every minute spent "researching" the exact gear that so-and-so used to get a particular sound on such-and-such song is a minute that you're not practicing your craft.
I need one of these artist's storage carts. Merry Christmas Jake! I never got to use the plumb line in school but we did learn the academic method in college as a study in Anatomical Life Drawing at FIT from 2007-2011 using a copy of the Charles Bargue drawing course book from the 19th century and the sight and see method that Sargent and the rest of the artist used to draw and paint from life.
The combination of music in this video is straight up wild.
I absolutely love how your newer videos are edited to be more like a documentary
I love watching these
Absolutely hypnotic video. Subbed for more art history stuff.
Bro is rocking the old Morrowind exploration music!
pls color theory video. I think that would be really helpful
the hampton book and vine boom lmao. i’m a hobbyist artist who’s worked in a bunch of random digital mediums for a long time and recently wanted to start taking it more seriously and learn traditional sketching techniques and anatomy. i’d asked a few friends who went to art school if they had any resources and a couple of them had pointed me towards that book. i honestly felt like i was going absolutely nowhere with it for the last few months and then switched to drawing from anatomy reference books instead and immediately felt like i was seeing improvement practicing day to day.
Wow that was some beautiful art that was showcased. excellent sense of abstraction from the French academic artists.😊
excellent choice in music. a very enjoyable and informative video as well. I like the stark contrast in parts of the video
UCF has a similar method!! They called it descending intercross, it looked more like graphing connect the dot points but similar idea
I have a JSS coffee table book and it's so good. He's my fav portraiter
Every the i see ur vids it inspires me to paint and draw and just do art
nice touch to leave the viewer with heavy words, which they didn't want to hear. great video, I learned a lot
I'm 27 but the actual plum on the line made me wheeze and feel 20 years older. Excellent work
I knew I recognized that background music. Elder Scrolls FTW. Great educational info on a simple tool!
I just wanted to pop into the comments to say i found this video by accident when i was scrolling. very enjoyable thanks, I'm subscribing.
Oh, when I saw that string, my first thought was to melt the end to keep it from unraveling.
Absolute cinema
As someone who never heard of the plumb line I thought it would be used to drip paint onto the canvas in a controlled manner creating organic shapes. This doesn't appear to change the whole process as much, and really I don't understand what makes it more suited than a ruler you line up parallel to your painting
photography certainly can capture the character of a person.
don't think that's what he was getting at tho...
it's about whether the painter is a human photo enlarger (which is not bad imo)
or modeling these 3d maths through these methods.
or whatever in between..
GREAT VIDEO! I always watch your videos as soon as I get the notification, you are skilled, funny, and great at getting information and tips across. I've learned many neat things from your videos, and I really enjoy learning more about the history of art and its masters. The way that you can bring forward alternate mindsets in order to humanize the greats, or inspire and motivate the upcoming is amazing. I really do love your work!
de ahora en adelante me llevare un hilo amarrado a un peso para pintar del natural. Gracias por compartirnos tus investigaciones sobre los grandes maestros!
Betty Edwards in Drawing with the Right Side of the Brain teaches the trick of using the pencil for measuring. Although she doesn't mention the plumb line, the rationale is the same. It's still the best book (alongside Composition of Arthur Dow) on drawing that I ever read...
It makes me think; things like this were lost because of their abundance. "Everyone knows about the plumb line, we should be doing other things and teaching other things." Until it wasn't known anymore. Extinction from abundance.
“…don’t let the techniques become your art…”
Such important advice.
not only was this informational... i really loved the sprinkled in game music. XD
Still confused on what a plumb line is 😭but this vid helped a lot
A weight on a string, to give you a vertical line to compare things to.
YAY ANOTHER VIDEO!
@6:18 was that an old Tomb Raider sound? Love it!
You know what's funny is that I've been unintentionally using something like the plumb line when I draw things digitally. What I do is use the borders of my screen or the application to find if the vertical and horizontal alignment. Screens are never crooked, so they make for perfect leveling tools.
Anti spiral couldnt solo jake.
Honestly his vidoes are so well eddited and give such informationaly ritch content its so ammazing.
Great Video. I recently read about the Plum Line in the Atelier book; "Charles Bargue Drawing Course", so today's subject seems very serendipitous.
The editing of this video is incredible, and nice challenge you guve us in the discord.
Are you actually using Breath of the Wild brackground sound? Is just so… soothing and smooth, I LOVE IT!!!!
Great artists often honed their skills at institutions like the École des Beaux-Arts, where rigorous study and dedication were essential to mastering their craft. However, a certain level of natural talent was required before they could even gain admission
the best christmas gift i could have asked for, thanks dude ur doing great
My eyes see the beauty of classic art, my ears hear the beauty of the Castlevania symphony of the night OST, and i'm taken.
I needed to hear this. Thank you ♥️
I like when the Morrowind music kicks in…so good
What a beautiful art old.. with tool