Great video! Here's my notes: 0:00 Quality of practice matters (not just amount) 4:22 Be mindful and attentive, studying is an active learning process 5:56 Remove distractions 8:42 Have each study target a very specific aspect (not just "art") 12:43 Take the time to create, rather than just read/watch 14:19 Draw from memory to test your knowledge of the studies 17:00 Create pieces that apply principles from the study 18:55 Study in different mediums I've been creating art for nearly 10 years, and as I approach this point I've felt some disappointment with my skill and progress. My whole life I've loved discovering things intuitively/holistically, working from gut feeling rather than specific knowledge or others example. A lot of the times I chaotically aim for unplanned "aesthetic" art pieces rather than establishing a specific process towards a specific goal. I feel like this mindset has held me back, and hopefully going forward I can learn to appreciate targeted, mindful studying and specific goal-setting to reach a level I can be proud of. Thank you for the great video!
I barely have time to paint lately and it really gets me down BUT some part of my work is related to photography shootings and when I focused on it and just tried different lighting schemes in the studio, it gave me a much better understanding of how the light works! It's also very important to understand that it's so not about being "talented" - as too many people think - it's all about the real investment as you describe it in your video. You reap what you sow, right? And that artist who can't paint without references... that's so totally me. I can clearly see what I really need to practice in the first place, I believe. Thank you for this video, Noah!
Thanks, Maria! I totally hear you. It's often the case that I can't draw/paint and am busy doing other things. But there are so many lessons to be learned and things to be practiced in just about anything we do. The learning never has to stop--it just has to change. :) And that's good to figure out! That's kinda similar to what I had to learn, too. I could copy a reference of a figure decently, but couldn't change it much at all. So I didn't _really_ know how to paint figures. I could just copy pretty well. Big difference.
Thank you so much for this video! After watching a plethora of art videos, that honestly have just left me overwhelmed and almost paralyzed, your simple 24 minutes have given me the tools I need to move forward. You've distilled the information perfectly. Thank you again! :)
Thank you! I learnt something new today! There’s also a cool practice I picked up from other people online for drawing from memory and reference study. ‘When studying from a reference try rotating the object in your drawing. Figuring out how it looks from different angles. This helps you understand what you are drawing and what the object is made off etc.’ This actually helped me improve in my perspectives as well along with my memory. I also found work in prop design thanks to this :0
These are such great tips, with a variety of examples. Your videos have a really approachable, down to earth tone while often being so clear and refined. Really grateful, thank you.
There are too many tutorials on the internet so it can be very overwhelming to a beginner. However, there is also an advantage of that because if you learn different ways of drawing something you will improve much faster. I also have a hard time focusing because of distractions, discipline is very important!
What a great video! I was taking notes, and once the video ended I found myself reciting the lessons I learned from memory. Also I really like the tip about doing a study or exercise from memory. I've been doing just that with Blender tutorials; mixing textures and learning the basics of geometry nodes. I would follow along with the video tutorial, and then re-do it from memory. After doing that a few times, I would try and execute the same steps in a different setting, with different desired results. And it's amazing to see how much better the information is embedded in your brain once you put it to work, áfter you flexed it's muscle a few times. Thanks for the video!
Meditation is super underrated. Its a skill in itself to get better at meditation and when you do you become more mindfull like you said, but you also get more confident and have a flow to whatever you do.
@@TeamBradley I've found meditation super helpful to focus, prioritize goals/tasks and gather energy to make it through difficult times, especially during the pandemic. The discipline is also a great by product people could benefit from.
I sure hope so! And yeah it's the sort of thing I'm surprised isn't talked about more. People seem to be scared of giving super practical advice sometimes.
I have a unique (maybe not;if there are other people in my position); I am trying to keep doing art, on an iPad, and a PC. My situation is I was left handed for my whole life and 2 years ago I had a stroke. My right hand/side is OK, but my left side is paralyzed. So, re-learning with my right hand is a big challenge, and seems rather awkward after being a lefty all my life. Your knowledge and insights make a lot of sense, Noah; I appreciate your knowledge and time into your videos !Thank you!
@@TeamBradley Thanks man! I was soaking up the video you did on the base principles of landscapes. It really made sense;I believe will help me tremendously! i.e. values, contrast, etc.
Thank you Noah, this is the motivation / guidance I needed this morning! So easy to get locked into only working on big pieces / being a slave to the reference without realising it...
One thing I noticed as an inexperienced artist is that when I'm studying... say, color... and I need to trace something first, I get too caught up in the tracing and end up learning something completely different that absorbs me. Or when you are learning gesture, you notice a pattern in a curve, you go see what muscle causes it, you end up with 100 pinterest tabs about smth completely random. It's really hard to focus on one thing while studying art when you are new, everything feels so new, you are observing too many patterns on so many fields.
You're literally the first artist I've seen who's said it's good to practice from memory. Almost every other creator (including my teachers) demonise drawing or painting from memory.
Agree with all of those tips but the advice of tracing over to get to the colour study part I found most interesting and I will defenetly do that in the future. It's just a logical consequqnce of what was said in the rest of the video but sometimes you need to hear something explicitly to get it. Thanks Noah, looking forward to more of these videos!
I’ve been wanting to illustrate and write my own graphic novel but I don’t even know where to begin because I have so much to learn from perspective, anatomy, color theory etc. I haven’t even started because I get so paralyzed by not knowing where to begin learning what I need to first. Any advice Noah?
I want to talk about practicing in different mediums but before that I want to tell you my origin story lol. (YOU CAN SKIP TO THE POINT AT " *** " SYMBOL BELOW) Here it is... When I was just a kid I always had an interest about digital painting time lapse videos. Also I was doing scribbles,doodles trying to create characters etc. It was my daily thing when I got bored in the school and lost my attention during the lessons. Always was the "the drawing guy" of the class. For a while, I forgot this passion of mine in the hurry of high school exams and landing on an university etc. Then I got the breakpoint of my life. I was doing so bad in my 3rd year at the university. I wanted to get a course to learn how to draw. My first intention was learning anatomy etc to create unique designs for hobby. Meanwhile I got a girlfriend and getting bad results at my class wouldn't make a good impression on someone I try to build a relationship I thought. Then I decided to go to the course and prepare for the faculty of fine arts exams of the same university. And finally I accepted in to the art class as the 9th student (only 25 people were accepted). Then after a while I bought the necessary equipments for the digital drawing and It's been 3 years now. *** SKIP TO THE POINT HERE *** : In my faculty we are learning traditional mediums as drawing and painting also I am so much interested in listening watching pro concept artists and painters. I am actively searching and practicing. I found out that whatever medium you practice on, it makes the bridges to understand the other. Also you can have different approach and styles in each one individually for instance I have a loose and speedy sketch style when I use the tip of my pencil, when using the side of it, I get more pressure based size control (perfect for doing leaves etc) When I paint on canvas, I am using watery or plastic effects. And when on digital, I try to see the compositions as a whole like you did on the landscapes video and always trying new techniques as I find. Stylized, cartoony, realistic you name it. By the way I fell into the "just watching" trap once either but then I found my balance. It goes like this usually: I practice myself for a period of time then when I have burnouts I watch people and freshen myself with some nice art (doing this also gives you a taste and a vision about the shape, color, form, composition designs. Elevates your perfectionism in your work and in general. If this inspirations used in a constructive way without falling into the insecurity zone.) then I leave everything about art for a while for weeks etc. (except the faculty paintings I must do) And then when I return to study watching stuff and practicing I am having milestones of approvement in my approach and how I see things. Nowadays I am working on landscapes mostly so that when teachers lets us do our free studies in the class, I am trying to recreate the pieces done in the digital medium like color sketches or matte paintings by pro artists (with a way simple approach of course) to practice composition aspects. If someone wants to become a good artist I think they should feed themselves with the knowledge of pro artists first. And then make intentional practices. Then they should find their balance and skip the topics like "finding your own style or spiritual side of the art" things like traditional artists bragging about. Focus on the technical side until learning fundamentals and master them. Finding a style before mastering most of the different styles is living in a bubble nothing more. You can do it but please do not hang in that comfort zone I mean. That's why I want to become a concept artist or a digital illustrator instead of becoming a traditional painter at the first place. Because concept artists in the indusrty are working like chameleons. When I have enough confidence and master what I try to achieve I will create more than what I do now. Because everthing starts slow and boring at the beginner level but as you dig deeper it is getting way more fun to create.
Hi Noah! Thank you so much for these videos! They are SO useful! Your voice is also so calming, makes me feels encouraged! I just have one question in my mind. If we always have to study few focused lessons at a time, how do we understand that we have to move on to the next topic? I also think that at some point we should go back repeating what we have studied in the past, or deepen it again. How could we handle this?
Sometimes when I'm studying i get too focused on being productive, an example of this is I would be trying to understand the forms of something, and i'll start worrying that i'm spending too much time on this one drawing, or even at the end of the day I feel like I havent accomplished enough because theres not a huge volume of drawings and studies actually done. Do you think the volume of drawings and studies are important, or as long as you are doing the hours its ok to take your time with each piece? Ps. The advice on drawing from imagination to work on your memory was most helpful, as well as doing a piece right after a masters study, thank you :)
I kinda touched on that in the last video, but yeah it _can_ be a risk to only do slow work. Look at the classic ateliers. They can draw _crazy_ well in 40+ hours. But it's a totally different skillset than the people who master 1 minute gesture drawings. So balance is good. I think learning both ends of that spectrum is a good idea.
@@TeamBradley Hard agree. I left my local atelier because they only did slow 60+ hour paintings, which took months because it was a 2h/week class. So what ended up happening is that the overwhelming majority of student work was just bad pieces that got bad rendering endlessly piled on top of it. And the teachers legit just thought it was natural to take 15 years to get good at art. I know there are good and bad ateliers, but you get what you practice for, its dangerous to just assume you can only do something one way and never explore other venues.
After a certain amount of time spent learning the physical/technical skills, getting "better" at art transitions to more about state of mind than it does learning more skills. Once you develop the state of mind then all the technical skills you've acquired along the way have their place in helping construct the world that is in your minds eye.
Yes and no! Yeah it does become more and more mental. But I still find that some of the breakthroughs in my art come from a deeper understanding of the fundamentals.
@@TeamBradley I guess I should have added that mastering the fundamentals never ends, that just becomes a fact that we accept. Thanks for your insights, it gets harder and harder to make those breakthroughs.
Thanks so much for your really helpful video! I'll definitely try out the studies from memory and also to use different media: Yesterday I saw your video making the different landscape thumbnails /value studies digitally and I'd never come to the idea to make them digitally, it's kind of embarrassing. :) Thanks again!
One of the things i've been struggling is the medium-term cohesiveness of my study. Like I can hone into something on any given day, I can do a hand structure day, or a movie frame day. But I feel weird if I do hands today, then gesture tomorrow, and faces the day after and there's no clear continuation of the thought process throughout the week i get lost a bit
I wish I knew! I don't have a steady hand at all, never have. So I've adapted by 1. embracing painterly styles and 2. using digital tools to improve line stability and 3. painting big so nobody can see just how messy things actually are.
@@user-by4ru5pr1g i already am doing drawabox and it has definitely helped especially when you ghost the lines and when you’re confident in the stroke.. but sometimes it just feels like a can’t control my hand at all
Hi Noah Thankyou for your email this morning, been watching this video great advice, can I take the principal to use in Photoshop. Although I'm a graphic designer by trade and did start out on the drawing board after Art School, I've been trying to take all what I learned in Art School to use on the computer through Photoshop. Do you think this course would be beneficial to me? Jim
When you started out did you have a art groups or peers you share with? Personally I feel drained by not truely having a community I could resonate with constant improvement pictures and progress updates.
That's a really hard thing to find these days. I think that the smaller discord servers are your best bet for finding community. But it's hard and I'd like to do a video about that sometime.
Thanks! 1. Not really. We learn at different rates and there are so many variables that go into how quickly you'll progress, so it's impossible to say. This is why you should save everything you do and look back frequently to see what you were doing 3, 6, 12, 18 months ago. 2. Compare yourself with the people who are doing the sort of work you want to do. Does your work look like it fits in? Be honest and a little harsh.
That's honestly probably a great subject for some future videos, but I did always like Andrew Loomis's list: "proportion, anatomy, perspective, values, color, and knowledge of mediums and materials" There are some more I'd probably add to that list, but that's quite good.
2021 was the year that taught me that drawing ten hours every day is pretty much pointless if you don't practice the right stuff... feels like such a waste of time now...
It’s bad enough trying to learn art online with no structured instruction and then if you’re not practicing correctly either, you’re screwed. How can somebody learn all of this stuff online without going to an art school
If it all seems too overwhelming, don't let it get too complicated! Just try your best. This is just for people looking to optimize or running into problems. :)
@@TeamBradley I meant just in general, art education online is very sporadic and hard to piece everything together. And like I've seen other comments say, "just draw" isn't going to do it. You need to know how to practice and WHAT to practice in order to get better and very very few courses online do that. There are so many sites that have courses about a bunch of art subjects but they are all talking about different things and they don't teach it in a structured way that builds on previous lessons until you reach pro level. This can really discourage people who want to learn this as a hobby because if you don't want to fork out 100k for an art school then you're spending 4 hours a night searching online for pieces to put together.
I know you have artcamp, I mean for other types of art as well that you see pro level artists do but then have no clue how to figure out how to do it yourself (like drawing from imagination, stylized art, etc)
If you have problem to focus in a room of 25 painters, and are little nervios what everyone says just in-front of everybody, it can be really good to just take personal classes online, follow god teachers here fore example, and work and focus in your own space, no 1h drive stressing in traffic, and 1h home in the car. I can paint 2h more everyday and I have grown faster than my 3 years in art academy.
Enjoy your content, I've followed you from the beginning, but c'mon man, 8 ads by the 17 minute mark! 3 or 4 ads per video, fine, comes with the new territory, but an ad every 2 minutes? The 17 minute mark even had a double ad that couldn't be skipped. Appreciate your take on things, but you're not sharing the secrets of the universe here. I won't be sticking around if the invasive # of ads continues.. genuine feedback.
Dude I don't even pick the number of ads. Also do you really want me to put time and effort into making these and get $0 in return? Does that seem reasonable to you?
@@TeamBradley my understanding is that content creators don't choose the ad content but have some control over the number of ads as well as the placement of them in the timeline. Never said anything about $0.. no need to be dramatic. I specifically said 3-4 ads would be reasonable in a 25 min video. But 8 ads & counting at the 17 minute mark is excessive. Makes it impossible to listen while doing other things, as one needs to stop & return to the computer every minute & a half to skip the ad. If you don't choose the # of ads then you might wanna look into whatever setting has 'hyper-monetized' these videos..
Lol u can click the 'i' n why am i seeing these ads and then remove it with few click without waiting to skip. Also just play video to end and replay and no more ads
Great video! Here's my notes:
0:00 Quality of practice matters (not just amount)
4:22 Be mindful and attentive, studying is an active learning process
5:56 Remove distractions
8:42 Have each study target a very specific aspect (not just "art")
12:43 Take the time to create, rather than just read/watch
14:19 Draw from memory to test your knowledge of the studies
17:00 Create pieces that apply principles from the study
18:55 Study in different mediums
I've been creating art for nearly 10 years, and as I approach this point I've felt some disappointment with my skill and progress. My whole life I've loved discovering things intuitively/holistically, working from gut feeling rather than specific knowledge or others example. A lot of the times I chaotically aim for unplanned "aesthetic" art pieces rather than establishing a specific process towards a specific goal. I feel like this mindset has held me back, and hopefully going forward I can learn to appreciate targeted, mindful studying and specific goal-setting to reach a level I can be proud of. Thank you for the great video!
As always, you know what you are talking about, and explain it in the right way. Again, a video that helps me a lot, thanks Noah :)
Thank you so much! I love getting to do these so I'm glad you find it helpful. :)
I barely have time to paint lately and it really gets me down BUT some part of my work is related to photography shootings and when I focused on it and just tried different lighting schemes in the studio, it gave me a much better understanding of how the light works!
It's also very important to understand that it's so not about being "talented" - as too many people think - it's all about the real investment as you describe it in your video. You reap what you sow, right?
And that artist who can't paint without references... that's so totally me. I can clearly see what I really need to practice in the first place, I believe.
Thank you for this video, Noah!
Thanks, Maria! I totally hear you. It's often the case that I can't draw/paint and am busy doing other things. But there are so many lessons to be learned and things to be practiced in just about anything we do. The learning never has to stop--it just has to change. :)
And that's good to figure out! That's kinda similar to what I had to learn, too. I could copy a reference of a figure decently, but couldn't change it much at all. So I didn't _really_ know how to paint figures. I could just copy pretty well. Big difference.
I feel so inspired after watching this, hope this inspiration won’t leave as i start actually practice
You can do it! 💪
@@TeamBradley thank you!
Thank you so much for this video! After watching a plethora of art videos, that honestly have just left me overwhelmed and almost paralyzed, your simple 24 minutes have given me the tools I need to move forward. You've distilled the information perfectly. Thank you again! :)
Yay, thank you so much for saying so! Art's not too scary and it shouldn't be taught to be either.
Thank you! I learnt something new today!
There’s also a cool practice I picked up from other people online for drawing from memory and reference study. ‘When studying from a reference try rotating the object in your drawing. Figuring out how it looks from different angles. This helps you understand what you are drawing and what the object is made off etc.’
This actually helped me improve in my perspectives as well along with my memory. I also found work in prop design thanks to this :0
These are such great tips, with a variety of examples.
Your videos have a really approachable, down to earth tone while often being so clear and refined.
Really grateful, thank you.
There are too many tutorials on the internet so it can be very overwhelming to a beginner. However, there is also an advantage of that because if you learn different ways of drawing something you will improve much faster. I also have a hard time focusing because of distractions, discipline is very important!
What a great video! I was taking notes, and once the video ended I found myself reciting the lessons I learned from memory. Also I really like the tip about doing a study or exercise from memory. I've been doing just that with Blender tutorials; mixing textures and learning the basics of geometry nodes. I would follow along with the video tutorial, and then re-do it from memory. After doing that a few times, I would try and execute the same steps in a different setting, with different desired results. And it's amazing to see how much better the information is embedded in your brain once you put it to work, áfter you flexed it's muscle a few times.
Thanks for the video!
Meditation is super underrated. Its a skill in itself to get better at meditation and when you do you become more mindfull like you said, but you also get more confident and have a flow to whatever you do.
Yeah I'm wondering about doing a whole video just dedicated to meditation for artists. I think it's really valuable.
@@TeamBradley yes, please! I myself have problems with focus a lot lately and I'm trying to walk without phone as kind of meditation
@@TeamBradley I've found meditation super helpful to focus, prioritize goals/tasks and gather energy to make it through difficult times, especially during the pandemic. The discipline is also a great by product people could benefit from.
Thanks alot for this videos, there are no that many videos that tell you how to practice effectively so this really helps a lot of people
I sure hope so! And yeah it's the sort of thing I'm surprised isn't talked about more. People seem to be scared of giving super practical advice sometimes.
I have a unique (maybe not;if there are other people in my position); I am trying to keep doing art, on an iPad, and a PC. My situation is I was left handed for my whole life and 2 years ago I had a stroke. My right hand/side is OK, but my left side is paralyzed. So, re-learning with my right hand is a big challenge, and seems rather awkward after being a lefty all my life. Your knowledge and insights make a lot of sense, Noah; I appreciate your knowledge and time into your videos !Thank you!
That's so hard. Can't imagine what you're going through with that. Impressed you're doing it, though! You got this.
@@TeamBradley Thanks man! I was soaking up the video you did on the base principles of landscapes. It really made sense;I believe will help me tremendously! i.e. values, contrast, etc.
Thank you Noah, this is the motivation / guidance I needed this morning! So easy to get locked into only working on big pieces / being a slave to the reference without realising it...
One thing I noticed as an inexperienced artist is that when I'm studying... say, color... and I need to trace something first, I get too caught up in the tracing and end up learning something completely different that absorbs me. Or when you are learning gesture, you notice a pattern in a curve, you go see what muscle causes it, you end up with 100 pinterest tabs about smth completely random. It's really hard to focus on one thing while studying art when you are new, everything feels so new, you are observing too many patterns on so many fields.
You're literally the first artist I've seen who's said it's good to practice from memory. Almost every other creator (including my teachers) demonise drawing or painting from memory.
Happy to help! Learning to draw from memory can be an _amazing_ supplemental study habit.
Great video sir.... thanks a lot for your precious time for making this❤️
Thanks so much, glad you liked it!
This video and many more from you have been incredibly helpful to me! Waiting for more, thank you!
Happy to help, thanks so much! :)
Thank you so much for these videos of working smart instead of working hard alone,new sub!!
Agree with all of those tips but the advice of tracing over to get to the colour study part I found most interesting and I will defenetly do that in the future. It's just a logical consequqnce of what was said in the rest of the video but sometimes you need to hear something explicitly to get it. Thanks Noah, looking forward to more of these videos!
Great video! Will try my best to apply these!
Thanks, hope it helps!
Good one Noah, thanks for sharing!
I’ve been wanting to illustrate and write my own graphic novel but I don’t even know where to begin because I have so much to learn from perspective, anatomy, color theory etc. I haven’t even started because I get so paralyzed by not knowing where to begin learning what I need to first.
Any advice Noah?
I want to talk about practicing in different mediums but before that I want to tell you my origin story lol. (YOU CAN SKIP TO THE POINT AT " *** " SYMBOL BELOW) Here it is... When I was just a kid I always had an interest about digital painting time lapse videos. Also I was doing scribbles,doodles trying to create characters etc. It was my daily thing when I got bored in the school and lost my attention during the lessons. Always was the "the drawing guy" of the class. For a while, I forgot this passion of mine in the hurry of high school exams and landing on an university etc. Then I got the breakpoint of my life. I was doing so bad in my 3rd year at the university. I wanted to get a course to learn how to draw. My first intention was learning anatomy etc to create unique designs for hobby. Meanwhile I got a girlfriend and getting bad results at my class wouldn't make a good impression on someone I try to build a relationship I thought. Then I decided to go to the course and prepare for the faculty of fine arts exams of the same university. And finally I accepted in to the art class as the 9th student (only 25 people were accepted). Then after a while I bought the necessary equipments for the digital drawing and It's been 3 years now.
*** SKIP TO THE POINT HERE *** : In my faculty we are learning traditional mediums as drawing and painting also I am so much interested in listening watching pro concept artists and painters. I am actively searching and practicing. I found out that whatever medium you practice on, it makes the bridges to understand the other. Also you can have different approach and styles in each one individually for instance I have a loose and speedy sketch style when I use the tip of my pencil, when using the side of it, I get more pressure based size control (perfect for doing leaves etc) When I paint on canvas, I am using watery or plastic effects. And when on digital, I try to see the compositions as a whole like you did on the landscapes video and always trying new techniques as I find. Stylized, cartoony, realistic you name it. By the way I fell into the "just watching" trap once either but then I found my balance. It goes like this usually: I practice myself for a period of time then when I have burnouts I watch people and freshen myself with some nice art (doing this also gives you a taste and a vision about the shape, color, form, composition designs. Elevates your perfectionism in your work and in general. If this inspirations used in a constructive way without falling into the insecurity zone.) then I leave everything about art for a while for weeks etc. (except the faculty paintings I must do) And then when I return to study watching stuff and practicing I am having milestones of approvement in my approach and how I see things. Nowadays I am working on landscapes mostly so that when teachers lets us do our free studies in the class, I am trying to recreate the pieces done in the digital medium like color sketches or matte paintings by pro artists (with a way simple approach of course) to practice composition aspects. If someone wants to become a good artist I think they should feed themselves with the knowledge of pro artists first. And then make intentional practices. Then they should find their balance and skip the topics like "finding your own style or spiritual side of the art" things like traditional artists bragging about. Focus on the technical side until learning fundamentals and master them. Finding a style before mastering most of the different styles is living in a bubble nothing more. You can do it but please do not hang in that comfort zone I mean. That's why I want to become a concept artist or a digital illustrator instead of becoming a traditional painter at the first place. Because concept artists in the indusrty are working like chameleons. When I have enough confidence and master what I try to achieve I will create more than what I do now. Because everthing starts slow and boring at the beginner level but as you dig deeper it is getting way more fun to create.
Hi Noah! Thank you so much for these videos! They are SO useful! Your voice is also so calming, makes me feels encouraged! I just have one question in my mind. If we always have to study few focused lessons at a time, how do we understand that we have to move on to the next topic? I also think that at some point we should go back repeating what we have studied in the past, or deepen it again. How could we handle this?
Sometimes when I'm studying i get too focused on being productive, an example of this is I would be trying to understand the forms of something, and i'll start worrying that i'm spending too much time on this one drawing, or even at the end of the day I feel like I havent accomplished enough because theres not a huge volume of drawings and studies actually done. Do you think the volume of drawings and studies are important, or as long as you are doing the hours its ok to take your time with each piece?
Ps. The advice on drawing from imagination to work on your memory was most helpful, as well as doing a piece right after a masters study, thank you :)
I kinda touched on that in the last video, but yeah it _can_ be a risk to only do slow work. Look at the classic ateliers. They can draw _crazy_ well in 40+ hours. But it's a totally different skillset than the people who master 1 minute gesture drawings.
So balance is good. I think learning both ends of that spectrum is a good idea.
@@TeamBradley Hard agree. I left my local atelier because they only did slow 60+ hour paintings, which took months because it was a 2h/week class. So what ended up happening is that the overwhelming majority of student work was just bad pieces that got bad rendering endlessly piled on top of it. And the teachers legit just thought it was natural to take 15 years to get good at art.
I know there are good and bad ateliers, but you get what you practice for, its dangerous to just assume you can only do something one way and never explore other venues.
After a certain amount of time spent learning the physical/technical skills, getting "better" at art transitions to more about state of mind than it does learning more skills. Once you develop the state of mind then all the technical skills you've acquired along the way have their place in helping construct the world that is in your minds eye.
Yes and no! Yeah it does become more and more mental. But I still find that some of the breakthroughs in my art come from a deeper understanding of the fundamentals.
@@TeamBradley I guess I should have added that mastering the fundamentals never ends, that just becomes a fact that we accept. Thanks for your insights, it gets harder and harder to make those breakthroughs.
@@filebrowzer yeah absolutely! Progress becomes pretty weird when people get really good at something.
Thanks so much for your really helpful video! I'll definitely try out the studies from memory and also to use different media: Yesterday I saw your video making the different landscape thumbnails /value studies digitally and I'd never come to the idea to make them digitally, it's kind of embarrassing. :) Thanks again!
One of the things i've been struggling is the medium-term cohesiveness of my study. Like I can hone into something on any given day, I can do a hand structure day, or a movie frame day. But I feel weird if I do hands today, then gesture tomorrow, and faces the day after and there's no clear continuation of the thought process throughout the week i get lost a bit
thank you for this video.
Great video Noah!! Any idea on how to practice gettinga "steadier" hand??
I wish I knew! I don't have a steady hand at all, never have. So I've adapted by 1. embracing painterly styles and 2. using digital tools to improve line stability and 3. painting big so nobody can see just how messy things actually are.
check out drawabox, they have a few exercises
@@TeamBradley hahah yeah i guess all of those tricks you mentioned can work.. thanks a lot for the reply btw!! :)
@@user-by4ru5pr1g i already am doing drawabox and it has definitely helped especially when you ghost the lines and when you’re confident in the stroke.. but sometimes it just feels like a can’t control my hand at all
@@aggelosmaris9652 I feel the same way, I still have problems with it. I think it is just the way people are. Practice is the only solution I have.
You mentioned something about mode for art works , please how can I know more about that ?
Wow, now i see how bad and unfocused my learning process is. Thanks alot for these tips :D
Haha it happens to us all! Hope I was able to help a bit. :)
thanks for the video, quite useful
Thanks! :)
9:05 I’m gonna practice…..Basketball!
lmao that’s great
This was super helpful!
Hi Noah
Thankyou for your email this morning, been watching this video great advice, can I take the principal to use in Photoshop. Although I'm a graphic designer by trade and did start out on the drawing board after Art School, I've been trying to take all what I learned in Art School to use on the computer through Photoshop. Do you think this course would be beneficial to me?
Jim
Absolutely! I've used Photoshop for most of my paintings in the last decade.
When you started out did you have a art groups or peers you share with? Personally I feel drained by not truely having a community I could resonate with constant improvement pictures and progress updates.
That's a really hard thing to find these days. I think that the smaller discord servers are your best bet for finding community. But it's hard and I'd like to do a video about that sometime.
thank you noah
Right on
hii! thank you for sharing ur valuable advice and great content it really helps a lot
Thanks!
1. Not really. We learn at different rates and there are so many variables that go into how quickly you'll progress, so it's impossible to say. This is why you should save everything you do and look back frequently to see what you were doing 3, 6, 12, 18 months ago.
2. Compare yourself with the people who are doing the sort of work you want to do. Does your work look like it fits in? Be honest and a little harsh.
@@TeamBradley all right i will do my best thank you 🤗
great video 👍👍
What would you say are the main fundamental areas that you should roll the dice for everyday?
That's honestly probably a great subject for some future videos, but I did always like Andrew Loomis's list: "proportion, anatomy, perspective, values, color, and knowledge of mediums and materials"
There are some more I'd probably add to that list, but that's quite good.
2021 was the year that taught me that drawing ten hours every day is pretty much pointless if you don't practice the right stuff... feels like such a waste of time now...
When's your exercise and fitness video buddy?
Haha there's so much stuff out there and I don't want people yelling at me if I get anything wrong. :P
@@TeamBradley Give the people what they want! :P
It’s bad enough trying to learn art online with no structured instruction and then if you’re not practicing correctly either, you’re screwed. How can somebody learn all of this stuff online without going to an art school
If it all seems too overwhelming, don't let it get too complicated! Just try your best. This is just for people looking to optimize or running into problems. :)
@@TeamBradley I meant just in general, art education online is very sporadic and hard to piece everything together. And like I've seen other comments say, "just draw" isn't going to do it. You need to know how to practice and WHAT to practice in order to get better and very very few courses online do that. There are so many sites that have courses about a bunch of art subjects but they are all talking about different things and they don't teach it in a structured way that builds on previous lessons until you reach pro level. This can really discourage people who want to learn this as a hobby because if you don't want to fork out 100k for an art school then you're spending 4 hours a night searching online for pieces to put together.
I know you have artcamp, I mean for other types of art as well that you see pro level artists do but then have no clue how to figure out how to do it yourself (like drawing from imagination, stylized art, etc)
If you have problem to focus in a room of 25 painters, and are little nervios what everyone says just in-front of everybody, it can be really good to just take personal classes online, follow god teachers here fore example, and work and focus in your own space, no 1h drive stressing in traffic, and 1h home in the car. I can paint 2h more everyday and I have grown faster than my 3 years in art academy.
I love ur videos
Wish ur courses little cheaper to join, cause I'm pretty poor
Thanks! Be sure to get on my mailing list for future sales, though. I do drop the prices down from time to time. :)
Enjoy your content, I've followed you from the beginning, but c'mon man, 8 ads by the 17 minute mark! 3 or 4 ads per video, fine, comes with the new territory, but an ad every 2 minutes? The 17 minute mark even had a double ad that couldn't be skipped. Appreciate your take on things, but you're not sharing the secrets of the universe here. I won't be sticking around if the invasive # of ads continues.. genuine feedback.
Dude I don't even pick the number of ads.
Also do you really want me to put time and effort into making these and get $0 in return? Does that seem reasonable to you?
@@TeamBradley my understanding is that content creators don't choose the ad content but have some control over the number of ads as well as the placement of them in the timeline. Never said anything about $0.. no need to be dramatic. I specifically said 3-4 ads would be reasonable in a 25 min video. But 8 ads & counting at the 17 minute mark is excessive. Makes it impossible to listen while doing other things, as one needs to stop & return to the computer every minute & a half to skip the ad. If you don't choose the # of ads then you might wanna look into whatever setting has 'hyper-monetized' these videos..
Lol u can click the 'i' n why am i seeing these ads and then remove it with few click without waiting to skip. Also just play video to end and replay and no more ads
@@rob4631 i only got like 2 ads.....maybe its a you problem