Sargent realized that simplification is actually far more "difficult" than sitting at a painting for 500 hours painting the tiniest details. Anyone who paints knows that's just a time grind When you simplify though, your brain has to take the information and process it into something different - something simpler. And that actually takes skill.
I agree with you overall. Especially with a modern analysis of how we look at art, we see people who grid out photos or people who paint photographs matching everything perfectly spending 50-200+ hours to replicate the photo. Being able to simplify and understand the essence is a sign of true mastery. When I say that other artists are more technical than him, I'm talking about the academics at the time, Bouguereau, Gerome, Lefebvre, Cabanel. These artists also understand that simplification and real analysis is one of the highest levels of art mastery. They are all capable of painting incredibly quickly and efficiently. They taught the classes that sargent took doing incredible large full figure drawings in only 12 hours and full paintings in around 20 hours. Its a speed that even art schools nowadays is unheard of (at least for the level of completion they got to). I think what you have to understand is your idea of simplification is the bare minimum for a practicing high level artist at the time. Nowadays its seen as something incredible but really it was the essence of the entire philosophy that Sargent came from. Sargent certainly pushed these ideas to incredible heights though, not from a technical perspective but from a philosophical and conceptual perspective. But Sargent had no shot of winning a competition like the Prix de Rome. There were hundreds of artists that could compose, create multi figure paintings and compositions, more details renderings with more structural analysis than Sargent. Theres a reason why he never tried to win those high level art competitions. Of course, many that won the Prix De Rome did not go on to have successful careers. Someone like Bouguereau makes the exact same simplification that Sargent does at the beginning of the painting (at least conceptually). He just pushes the overall completeness to a far greater degree. He also had more skill to produce hundreds of large scale compositional paintings and decorative paintings.
@@JakeDontDraw Bouguereau, Gerome, Lefebvre and Cabanel weren't more technical, they just painted in a different style; the indirect style technique of multiple layers of blended paint and glazes, where Sargent painted in the direct style, using a more impressionistic, alla prima technique. They blended their paint in their paintings, where Sargent's paintings require the viewers eyes to do the blending. Not that one is better than the other, just two completely different methods of applying paint.
Picasso, who was drawing and then painting on his father's commissions by age ten said in late life that it took him a lifetime to learn how to paint like a child. Something to think about perhaps. 😊 Greetings from Toronto Ontario 🇨🇦.
@@douglasriddle6447Yes, they painted in a different style - which required more specific technical skills, such as the glazing and blending that you describe.
I feel frustrated because I went to art school for 3 years and I've learnt just as much, if not more, here, than I did there. My teachers philosophy was draw until you hate it, which worked, I hated everything I'd created by the end of it. They also taught us to work like factories, and produce finished pieces in 30mins or less and it burnt me the fuck out. Your approach is opposite and makes so much more sense. I left 6 years ago and I'm only just starting to enjoy art again. Thank you for helping me feel inspiration again.
I think the majority of people take wrong turns in life. It's never a straight line of progress. The likelihood is that you gained something from those three years you spent at art school, even if you don't see it. Don't be too hard on yourself
I did an art course in college and it was the biggest waste of time. They taught me literally NILL. Ive learnt more from my own study and branching out to research other artists
I felt like we cranked through everything way too fast. Like we did 1 charcoal drawing of a trash bag and now you understand folds and draping. Would I have liked to repeat some assignments on my own? Yes. But I was so busy trying to keep up in class there wasn't time for it.
this guy speaks so eloquently then pulls out words like "rizz" and "gigachad" its like getting slapped in the face Edit: guys this is a joke, chill out 💀😭
Old masters had only one advantage over us - we however also have one advantage over them. We got better tools to study and practice, they had less distractions - it was more natural and easier to them to get into deep state of focus, where learning comes more efficiently. We suffer from distractions all around us. I like you channel Jake, a lot of great informations here ! Keep it up.
This is definitely true in areas of music. With the advent of desktop computers and sequencers, it has never been so easy to produce music. However, a lot of what passes for "music" these days is generic copy-and-paste music. In the pre-digital era, every note needed to be composed and performed with the exceptions of niche instruments like music boxes and player pianos. So often music is used, and often misused to add background interest, but it is oftentimes just needless clutter.
"People deifying the past, people looking at the old masters and saying they were born with some sort of virtuosity that they can't achieve..." Very well put. Even if well meaning, chalking it all up to talent is an insult, as if they didn't work hard to get that level of skill.
Yes. I believe it takes both talent and hard work. Not everyone that trains like Sargent did with end up drawing as hood as Sargent. It can be true that one is talented but must be disciplined and work hard to realize their potential.
Bro - the way you talk about abstract concepts is exceptionally smooth. Keep it up. This is the best Sargent explainer on YT hands down. I've watched every single one.
I love these videos. How you look back at old artists and techniques and really learn the process. Can't wait for more videos, in an age obsessed with technology and drawing using computers I find this 1000 times better and more entertaining. Keep it up. You and the old masters have taught me so much and reignited my love for drawing.
not only your artwork is beautiful, but this video is very inspiring. there are many art videos out there of artists teaching “academic” technique, but your blend of teaching while showing your own process of applying the theory is so good!!! love the videos
You should revisit this idea every year, to track your progress and technique, and as a byproduct of that record your own evolution as you age. I think this end result is good, but as you've already said, the likeness isn't perfect. Also, I don't think you captured your own 'spirit' for lack of a better word. With those Sargent drawings, you get an immediate sense of the sitter, their vitality, their essence as a person. It's really remarkable. Great video.
30:08 Im 74 . I can almost draw a portrait. This video is very helpful. The stepping back incorporated with how you touch the work will so. Just learning to “see the whole” , slow the f down . The very first strokes. One of those choices you spoke of that has helped me with layout is….thinking of the front of a parked car. All the elements, headlights, side mirrors, grill, etc. all relate in an expected way. So. Do face parts. Pick an angle, even if it is subtle. Feel it when I step back. All part of seeing the whole. Thanks
For all the moving around you did, you still achieved your goals. Just like in sports. If you really, really want to win, you climb the hill harder, or swing the bat better or run faster. Seeing how much you wanted to make it work under pressure was encouraging to me as an artist. Thanks for the video. I learned a lot. I also think you showed me that drawing from life might be better than drawing from a photo.
This video somehow finds me at the exact point where I'm thinking about simplification of my drawings and being amazed about what it's enabling me to do. Such good timing thx!
Very useful to see you scramble through and figure this out in such a raw way. I learned a lot. Need to try myself. Just a hunch: Sargent and his generation did a lot of self-portraits, and I'm guessing they'd have the same problem as you with the stepping in to fence style of working. But you can modify the technique to have the mirror align when you're drawing, and then step back instead. You loose some of the ability to directly compare, but since you're not doing sight-size that's a worthwhile trade. And it's harder to remind yourself to step back than it is to have to step forward to draw. But all in all I should think that's a better way to do a self-portrait. But someone might correct me if they've actually tried.
I loved the acceptance and humility in the conclusions. As artists we can get really judgy about ourselves but is nice to recognize try outs and improvements
Hey I really liked your session..not only about the great drawing itself, but also about the frank, individual, and intelligent way of talking about it. Keep it up👍
I was there with you feeling uneasy about the hair and at the same time having to admit to myself that it was indeed the level Sargent would've brought it to before stopping. You knocked it out of the park on this!
I just saw an exhibit of Sargent At the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and his portraits are just stunning. The expressions on the faces are so relatable and alive.
Very cool, I just started learning charcoal portrait with serious intent this month and plan to transition to painting with the development of the skill Thank you, Jake
17:00 this is very insightful! I have read Andrew Loomis' head drawing book in the past and I always tried to copy his constructions, and it ended up just frustrating me because it was so tedious. But now I get it. It's a matter of doing the construction in your mind and applying it into your drawing, not necessarily drawing all the construction lines every time. This has opened me to a new perspective. Thank you!
Out here saving lives, man, appreciate the tips and comprehensive tour of 19th century drawing. You have single-handedly motivated me to draw again. ❤❤❤
Hey Jake! Not sure if you read comments. Love your content, I think it deserves much more views than what you currently have. It would be cool if you can make a series of videos teaching people your perspective of drawing based on lighting (for what I have seen in some of your videos), I personally have never thought of art in this way and it made me click on certain aspects of it. It would be great to learn from you. Thanks!
Enjoyed the additional Runescape theme. The portrait turned out very well, I would've liked to have seen you throw the bold contour lines on the highlighted section like in Sargent's portraits.
This video is so good! The focus on the concepts and tools needed rather than following a process or emphasizing materials was incredibly refreshing for youtube. Looking forward to more videos and thank you sm for sharing information so transparently!
Truly enjoy Sargent's charcoal sketches. You did a great self portrait. I enjoy charcoal as a drawing medium. I recently found pencils called general's carbon sketch pencils and they work very well too.
Great analysis of Sargent and his work. You have a good understanding of history and the techniques used and do an excellent job explaining in an engaging way. I am now a new subscriber and look forward to watching your channel.
I really wish I had a class like this at the same time as all my life drawing classes where we were constantly doing 30 second to 20 minute gestures and drawings
I really enjoy these, watching this Particular one. I had the light bulb moment and oddly can draw now and in a sense realizing, I knew more than I thought I did. After many years of absorbing information but never really applying this knowledge. It took this particular Series/Video what have you to bring it all together. So Thank You for That! Now...This would be a fun one to watch is a Paint like "Ken Currie" (honestly, I'd be watching for the humor of yours) or a more serious one but still creepy for the Halloween season would be "Dragan Bibin" (for the Values). Anywho I enjoy your Channel and your Spin on things and finally Subscribed after watching ya for awhile.
Sargent simplified so much that he didn't drew collar bones and always manipulated light on their models to have the same value from the arch of the nose to the lower part of the forehead
Just found your channel recently and I must applaud you. Really well presented and informative. Definetly gave me newfound drive to continue learning to draw. I will absolutely buy your "Academic Drawing Made Easy" course. I never clicked with my art teachers back in the Schooldays, but your teaching style seems right up my alley!
Phenomenal in-depth view on sargents techniques, however the background soundtrack. I had to do a double take, that was the soundtrack to my childhood😂
Super informative overview of Sargent drawings.After your lecture and demonstration I felt like I had a better understanding and I’m looking forward to making some master copies and self portraits. Thanks
that drawing of the architecture should tell you that sargent was in fact a highly skilled draftsman... his painting were him loosening up these extremely developed fundamentals. thats one of the reasons he's highly respected in academic art circles
Your video is quite instructive and I really appreciate that. I do believe the left eye (from the viewer's perspective) is just a bit lower than it should be. I also would like to see a further softening of the mid tone in the hair and a bit more separation of values in the suggestion of strands clumped together in the hair. These are not critiques born of any agenda. There is nothing wrong with leaving it as is. However, I cannot help but point them out as I believe with some very few adjustments along these lines you might have an extraordinary self portrait. Good Luck and thank you for sharing.
When it comes yo self portraits, you gotta draw the legend! Give yourself that giga chad jawline! Excellent video! I have subscribed. I'm gonna do this same exercise tho perhaps drawing a subject that isn't me from life or a photo.
😀I feel you, can’t leave mine alone. It’s amazing how returning after a break from it, makes the discrepancies, which were invisible, suddenly pop out.
Hi, Jake! I don’t know if you like digital art, but it’d be very interesting if you could tell us something about the art of Yuming Li. It’s very classical-looking and their approach to color and form is very striking. I’d love to know your thoughts about these sort of styles!
0:48 Sargent's primary weapon of greatness is fiah, fiah and sah-prise...TWO! Two qualities that make Sargent great are Fiah, and Sah-prise, and a ruthless efficiency THREE!!! Amongst Sargent's greatest qualities, are such diverse elements, as Fiah, Sah-prise, a ruthless efficiency, and beautiful simplification of his techni....Arrgh buggahs we're come again
This style reminds me of my favorite artist, Akihiko Yoshida (which probably was heavy influenced by Sargent). You could check his artwork for videogames like Vagrant Story ,Final Fantasy Tactics and Tactics Ogre. Sadly, its very difficult to find art from him.
Sargent realized that simplification is actually far more "difficult" than sitting at a painting for 500 hours painting the tiniest details. Anyone who paints knows that's just a time grind When you simplify though, your brain has to take the information and process it into something different - something simpler. And that actually takes skill.
Yeah that what actually surprised me when he said his drawing are not as technical as other artists drawings when in fact it only seems that way
I agree with you overall. Especially with a modern analysis of how we look at art, we see people who grid out photos or people who paint photographs matching everything perfectly spending 50-200+ hours to replicate the photo. Being able to simplify and understand the essence is a sign of true mastery. When I say that other artists are more technical than him, I'm talking about the academics at the time, Bouguereau, Gerome, Lefebvre, Cabanel. These artists also understand that simplification and real analysis is one of the highest levels of art mastery. They are all capable of painting incredibly quickly and efficiently. They taught the classes that sargent took doing incredible large full figure drawings in only 12 hours and full paintings in around 20 hours. Its a speed that even art schools nowadays is unheard of (at least for the level of completion they got to). I think what you have to understand is your idea of simplification is the bare minimum for a practicing high level artist at the time. Nowadays its seen as something incredible but really it was the essence of the entire philosophy that Sargent came from. Sargent certainly pushed these ideas to incredible heights though, not from a technical perspective but from a philosophical and conceptual perspective.
But Sargent had no shot of winning a competition like the Prix de Rome. There were hundreds of artists that could compose, create multi figure paintings and compositions, more details renderings with more structural analysis than Sargent. Theres a reason why he never tried to win those high level art competitions. Of course, many that won the Prix De Rome did not go on to have successful careers. Someone like Bouguereau makes the exact same simplification that Sargent does at the beginning of the painting (at least conceptually). He just pushes the overall completeness to a far greater degree. He also had more skill to produce hundreds of large scale compositional paintings and decorative paintings.
@@JakeDontDraw Bouguereau, Gerome, Lefebvre and Cabanel weren't more technical, they just painted in a different style; the indirect style technique of multiple layers of blended paint and glazes, where Sargent painted in the direct style, using a more impressionistic, alla prima technique. They blended their paint in their paintings, where Sargent's paintings require the viewers eyes to do the blending. Not that one is better than the other, just two completely different methods of applying paint.
Picasso, who was drawing and then painting on his father's commissions by age ten said in late life that it took him a lifetime to learn how to paint like a child. Something to think about perhaps. 😊 Greetings from Toronto Ontario 🇨🇦.
@@douglasriddle6447Yes, they painted in a different style - which required more specific technical skills, such as the glazing and blending that you describe.
I feel frustrated because I went to art school for 3 years and I've learnt just as much, if not more, here, than I did there. My teachers philosophy was draw until you hate it, which worked, I hated everything I'd created by the end of it. They also taught us to work like factories, and produce finished pieces in 30mins or less and it burnt me the fuck out. Your approach is opposite and makes so much more sense. I left 6 years ago and I'm only just starting to enjoy art again. Thank you for helping me feel inspiration again.
Did you at least get good while styduing?
I think the majority of people take wrong turns in life. It's never a straight line of progress. The likelihood is that you gained something from those three years you spent at art school, even if you don't see it. Don't be too hard on yourself
That's what happen when the school vision of art is more industrial than artistic.
Happened to me too.
I did an art course in college and it was the biggest waste of time. They taught me literally NILL. Ive learnt more from my own study and branching out to research other artists
I felt like we cranked through everything way too fast. Like we did 1 charcoal drawing of a trash bag and now you understand folds and draping. Would I have liked to repeat some assignments on my own? Yes. But I was so busy trying to keep up in class there wasn't time for it.
this guy speaks so eloquently then pulls out words like "rizz" and "gigachad" its like getting slapped in the face
Edit: guys this is a joke, chill out 💀😭
LMAO??
Pop culture references ?
I knew what I was in for when I saw the adhd zoomer subtitle editing
Slapped in the face gently .
And the morrowind music lol
9:20 i really thought that was a joke for a second. i haven't seen this piece, so i thought you just placed in a self portrait for a laugh.
Would be amazing if they were related somehow
I thought so too! They really look alike.
I was about to comment about the same thing 😂
One of the best portraits of Yeats. Who was and is a very famous and great poet
That drawing of the lion hearth is CRAZY. I thought it was a 3D render
lmao just realized he does kinda look him XD
Old masters had only one advantage over us - we however also have one advantage over them. We got better tools to study and practice, they had less distractions - it was more natural and easier to them to get into deep state of focus, where learning comes more efficiently. We suffer from distractions all around us.
I like you channel Jake, a lot of great informations here ! Keep it up.
This is definitely true in areas of music. With the advent of desktop computers and sequencers, it has never been so easy to produce music. However, a lot of what passes for "music" these days is generic copy-and-paste music. In the pre-digital era, every note needed to be composed and performed with the exceptions of niche instruments like music boxes and player pianos.
So often music is used, and often misused to add background interest, but it is oftentimes just needless clutter.
bro looks majestic, just like his drawings
"People deifying the past, people looking at the old masters and saying they were born with some sort of virtuosity that they can't achieve..."
Very well put. Even if well meaning, chalking it all up to talent is an insult, as if they didn't work hard to get that level of skill.
Yes. I believe it takes both talent and hard work. Not everyone that trains like Sargent did with end up drawing as hood as Sargent.
It can be true that one is talented but must be disciplined and work hard to realize their potential.
Talent is a dangerous idea not because it insults the artist but because it makes the student complacent in their deficiencies
I don't even draw and i've probably watched all your videos, its just good knowledge. It makes me observe things with my eyes in a more intricate way.
I love this directness over entertainment, very rare, really helps me focus on the actual information ❤
Bro - the way you talk about abstract concepts is exceptionally smooth. Keep it up. This is the best Sargent explainer on YT hands down. I've watched every single one.
He wasn’t about replicating what photography does - art is about creating a feel and is more real in that sense than details
I love the way you make the whole thing of studying art look more accessible.
Promising a link in the description and actually putting the link in the description elevates you above most other content creators here 😊
Your channel is pure bliss. Thank you for all the information you give us
John singer is my little cutie
No he’s my little cutie!
:3
I love these videos. How you look back at old artists and techniques and really learn the process. Can't wait for more videos, in an age obsessed with technology and drawing using computers I find this 1000 times better and more entertaining. Keep it up. You and the old masters have taught me so much and reignited my love for drawing.
not only your artwork is beautiful, but this video is very inspiring. there are many art videos out there of artists teaching “academic” technique, but your blend of teaching while showing your own process of applying the theory is so good!!! love the videos
You should revisit this idea every year, to track your progress and technique, and as a byproduct of that record your own evolution as you age. I think this end result is good, but as you've already said, the likeness isn't perfect. Also, I don't think you captured your own 'spirit' for lack of a better word. With those Sargent drawings, you get an immediate sense of the sitter, their vitality, their essence as a person. It's really remarkable. Great video.
My favorite artist by far is Aron Wiesenfeld. His style is something special to me. Mystery mixed with nature, something beautiful.
Every master is just a student who understands the process better than most ❤😊
Your teaching style is phenomenal. I'm learning so much. So glad I found your account on UA-cam. Thanks for creating and sharing your skills.
Nothing better than a traditional art lesson with some OSRS tunes in the background
30:08 Im 74 . I can almost draw a portrait. This video is very helpful. The stepping back incorporated with how you touch the work will so. Just learning to “see the whole” , slow the f down . The very first strokes. One of those choices you spoke of that has helped me with layout is….thinking of the front of a parked car. All the elements, headlights, side mirrors, grill, etc. all relate in an expected way. So. Do face parts. Pick an angle, even if it is subtle. Feel it when I step back. All part of seeing the whole.
Thanks
This is so helpful and insightful. This reminds me that simplicity is important as well!
Your really good at simplifying and explaining techniques. Thank you!
For all the moving around you did, you still achieved your goals. Just like in sports. If you really, really want to win, you climb the hill harder, or swing the bat better or run faster. Seeing how much you wanted to make it work under pressure was encouraging to me as an artist. Thanks for the video. I learned a lot. I also think you showed me that drawing from life might be better than drawing from a photo.
You have great features. Perfect model. I love your work.
This video somehow finds me at the exact point where I'm thinking about simplification of my drawings and being amazed about what it's enabling me to do. Such good timing thx!
Awesome video. Thank you. Also Morrowind music at the 13 min mark is an ELITE accompaniment.
Very useful to see you scramble through and figure this out in such a raw way. I learned a lot. Need to try myself.
Just a hunch: Sargent and his generation did a lot of self-portraits, and I'm guessing they'd have the same problem as you with the stepping in to fence style of working. But you can modify the technique to have the mirror align when you're drawing, and then step back instead.
You loose some of the ability to directly compare, but since you're not doing sight-size that's a worthwhile trade. And it's harder to remind yourself to step back than it is to have to step forward to draw. But all in all I should think that's a better way to do a self-portrait.
But someone might correct me if they've actually tried.
I loved the acceptance and humility in the conclusions. As artists we can get really judgy about ourselves but is nice to recognize try outs and improvements
YIPPEEEEEE NEW JAKE UPLOADDDD =3
Hey I really liked your session..not only about the great drawing itself, but also about the frank, individual, and intelligent way of talking about it. Keep it up👍
I was there with you feeling uneasy about the hair and at the same time having to admit to myself that it was indeed the level Sargent would've brought it to before stopping. You knocked it out of the park on this!
i wish u were my professor man , you genuinely make art easy to digest.
I love the use of OSRS soundtrack in the background.
I just saw an exhibit of Sargent At the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and his portraits are just stunning. The expressions on the faces are so relatable and alive.
Very cool, I just started learning charcoal portrait with serious intent this month and plan to transition to painting with the development of the skill
Thank you, Jake
17:00 this is very insightful! I have read Andrew Loomis' head drawing book in the past and I always tried to copy his constructions, and it ended up just frustrating me because it was so tedious. But now I get it. It's a matter of doing the construction in your mind and applying it into your drawing, not necessarily drawing all the construction lines every time. This has opened me to a new perspective. Thank you!
Out here saving lives, man, appreciate the tips and comprehensive tour of 19th century drawing. You have single-handedly motivated me to draw again. ❤❤❤
Hey Jake! Not sure if you read comments. Love your content, I think it deserves much more views than what you currently have. It would be cool if you can make a series of videos teaching people your perspective of drawing based on lighting (for what I have seen in some of your videos), I personally have never thought of art in this way and it made me click on certain aspects of it. It would be great to learn from you. Thanks!
This man is so beautiful, I simply can't!! Not fair for him to be so talented as well!
Great features You are a perfect model. Love your work and style.
Nice love the video Jake
I agree with everything u said, especially using a charcoal stick to learn how to handle a brush
thanks karim!
Enjoyed the additional Runescape theme. The portrait turned out very well, I would've liked to have seen you throw the bold contour lines on the highlighted section like in Sargent's portraits.
Greatest painter ever in my eye. Take a look at his watercolours to see his genius…Brabazon Brabazon as well. Genius.
Thank you for this. Indeed a very good Sargent likeness. Bravo
sargent's charcol and pencil drawings are some of my favorite works!
Take a look at his watercolours and landscapes: he was the greatest!
Love your stuff Jake!!
Loves the videos, how you explain things and the little history lessons as well.
You are doing well well done ! I thoroughly enjoyed your simplification of their techniques
Thanks 🙏🏻
6:55 That music is forever in my heart
This video is so good! The focus on the concepts and tools needed rather than following a process or emphasizing materials was incredibly refreshing for youtube. Looking forward to more videos and thank you sm for sharing information so transparently!
BROTHER YOU HAD ME TIL THE OSRS TRACK HIT 😂😂 I instantly went back to me farming goblins back in 5th grade over a decade go
Truly enjoy Sargent's charcoal sketches. You did a great self portrait. I enjoy charcoal as a drawing medium. I recently found pencils called general's carbon sketch pencils and they work very well too.
1:21 whelp you earned your upvote.
Great analysis of Sargent and his work. You have a good understanding of history and the techniques used and do an excellent job explaining in an engaging way.
I am now a new subscriber and look forward to watching your channel.
I really wish I had a class like this at the same time as all my life drawing classes where we were constantly doing 30 second to 20 minute gestures and drawings
Awesome self portrait!
I really enjoy these, watching this Particular one. I had the light bulb moment and oddly can draw now and in a sense realizing, I knew more than I thought I did. After many years of absorbing information but never really applying this knowledge. It took this particular Series/Video what have you to bring it all together. So Thank You for That! Now...This would be a fun one to watch is a Paint like "Ken Currie" (honestly, I'd be watching for the humor of yours) or a more serious one but still creepy for the Halloween season would be "Dragan Bibin" (for the Values). Anywho I enjoy your Channel and your Spin on things and finally Subscribed after watching ya for awhile.
Shout out to the runescape music! Kindred spirit over here! XD
you inspire me to draw
i have not yet started painting as i feel as though i am not good enough to start painting
Thank you for introducing me to this art.
Sargent simplified so much that he didn't drew collar bones and always manipulated light on their models to have the same value from the arch of the nose to the lower part of the forehead
Very your in depth explanation and evaluation! Thank you
Just found your channel recently and I must applaud you. Really well presented and informative. Definetly gave me newfound drive to continue learning to draw.
I will absolutely buy your "Academic Drawing Made Easy" course. I never clicked with my art teachers back in the Schooldays, but your teaching style seems right up my alley!
Brilliant video on Sargent, his technique and informative and entertaining ❤
Please make more videos like this I absolutely love it!
never realized how badly I need Morrowind BG music while drawing/drafting hahaha
as a recent subscriber, appreciate the great content
Thank you from Denmark ❤❤❤
these videos are so good keep em coming !! love your work btw
Prud'hon has a similar technique, but does a lot of wiping out, which builds the form beautifully.
Phenomenal in-depth view on sargents techniques, however the background soundtrack. I had to do a double take, that was the soundtrack to my childhood😂
Super informative overview of Sargent drawings.After your lecture and demonstration I felt like I had a better understanding and I’m looking forward to making some master copies and self portraits. Thanks
that drawing of the architecture should tell you that sargent was in fact a highly skilled draftsman... his painting were him loosening up these extremely developed fundamentals. thats one of the reasons he's highly respected in academic art circles
I’m loving your videos and learning more each time I watch one. You have well earned a new sub
Your video is quite instructive and I really appreciate that. I do believe the left eye (from the viewer's perspective) is just a bit lower than it should be. I also would like to see a further softening of the mid tone in the hair and a bit more separation of values in the suggestion of strands clumped together in the hair.
These are not critiques born of any agenda. There is nothing wrong with leaving it as is. However, I cannot help but point them out as I believe with some very few adjustments along these lines you might have an extraordinary self portrait.
Good Luck and thank you for sharing.
When it comes yo self portraits, you gotta draw the legend! Give yourself that giga chad jawline! Excellent video! I have subscribed. I'm gonna do this same exercise tho perhaps drawing a subject that isn't me from life or a photo.
Can we have more of these Old Masters videos from you? I’d watch a full series of these.
bro is very attractive
Legit no one cares
I agree, this guy is good looking
@@splaturials9156are you okay
@@splaturials9156 Bro jealous seeing someone getting complimented 🙏
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😀I feel you, can’t leave mine alone. It’s amazing how returning after a break from it, makes the discrepancies, which were invisible, suddenly pop out.
Once the, elwynn forest music came ( I think?) on, I settled into this hard. Thanks for the art and history lesson.❤
Hi, Jake! I don’t know if you like digital art, but it’d be very interesting if you could tell us something about the art of Yuming Li. It’s very classical-looking and their approach to color and form is very striking. I’d love to know your thoughts about these sort of styles!
new upload that's why he's the goat
That was so fascinating and instructive.
Amazing video man, i told all my friends about your chanel ik u will grow❤
such a good vid jake loving the longer content
0:48 Sargent's primary weapon of greatness is fiah, fiah and sah-prise...TWO! Two qualities that make Sargent great are Fiah, and Sah-prise, and a ruthless efficiency THREE!!! Amongst Sargent's greatest qualities, are such diverse elements, as Fiah, Sah-prise, a ruthless efficiency, and beautiful simplification of his techni....Arrgh buggahs we're come again
Great video, even down to the OSRS beats.
I love the self mirror portrait, must have a go.
i love the wow background music
Great work! Fantastic!
Gotta love the WoW soundtrack in the background!
amazing video. also good choice re. the morrowind music in the background (unless I'm mistaken).
This style reminds me of my favorite artist, Akihiko Yoshida (which probably was heavy influenced by Sargent). You could check his artwork for videogames like Vagrant Story ,Final Fantasy Tactics and Tactics Ogre. Sadly, its very difficult to find art from him.
You are ridiculously talented 👏🏼
You rock, Jake. Great video, much appreciated.
That intro just spitting facts 🔥
Very nicely done! Fantastic info brother. Keep it up 💪🏽💪🏽