Everything You Wanted To Know About Negative Space (In Under a Minute)
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- Опубліковано 25 кві 2022
- I love exploring Negative Space. Finding cool shapes.
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*it’s been five years. The painting is now the size of Australia.*
“No… BIGGER”
Jupiter is the goal here 😂
Underrated comment 😂😂😂
@🖊 𝓢𝓪𝓶𝓶𝔂 𝓛𝓪𝔀𝓻𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓮…🖊 *nah, the whole multiverse is the goal here
This comment sections profile pics are so similar it’s hard to keep up with who is who lmao
@@Just_Nooo *nah, the whole omniverse is the goal here
Yeah l use thumbnails all the time when a pose is too hard! 10/10 would recommend 👍
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Today I found out a cool way to make a comic character that’s very exaggerated! You sketch out the general shape of the face, then one by one close your eyes and draw a part of the face, then open your eyes, rinse and repeat with other parts of the face. This helps me get a characters general idea and personality figured out, and it’s very fun!
Ohh I love that!
@@sundayok2307 thanks!
This sounds super neat, but I tried it on my tablet and the result looks the same as when I use both eyes to draw. 😅Does the technique not work with digital mediums?
@@whatthehecktye do you have a stabiliser?
@@whatthehecktye I think they mean close both eyes. Fun idea :D
Don’t be negative, get negative 😜😂
Can we see the final version of this composition? I’d love to see it in it’s fully recognized form, thanks!
Right? All I thought to myself was negative Nancy
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@@ssavaart thank you
I’ve been having crazy art block and I just gotta get those drawings I’m not proud of out of the way so thank you for this I’ll be trying it ♥️
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@@karak2113 why are you burning the heart-
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*H e A r T b U r N* 👁👄👁
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I’m so glad that you’re talking about thumbnails! I hadn’t heard about those until my art teacher talked about them and they are super helpful!
What are thumbnails in art exactly?
@@astrobookwormsinger super quick, small (generally) sketches that focus heavily on composition and rough shapes.
They're like the fastest way to get an idea out of your head and onto paper before you commit to anything.
They kind of seem like a less formal version of something I was taught in design and technology at school. There was an acronym with each letter corresponding to a different modification you had to make for one of your initial ideas before you decided on your final design.
“So i started doodling”
Proceeds to make a masterpiece
That is doodle
You explain and visualize concepts that've taken me years to try and understand. Thank you so much.
You're very welcome!
I actually learned so much from you. From eyes to sketching. From realism to cartoon. Really, you helped me a lot!
i cant wait to see the final product! nice sketch as always :)
Thanks SO much! ♥
"It's over Scott. You can't draw hair more bigger."
Scott: "You underestimate my power."
Thats a great tip, i like how gestalt psychology comes to play here. I mean we see the world in holistic perspective anyways, so anything can be taken as an example. But i really like this example, so clear-cut.
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The "small doodles" are better than anything I ever did in my life 💀
"Thumbnails only take about a minute to do".
Me: *spends an hour*
Ok 1.) FBI!?
2.) stop spending time on thumbnails. Thumbnails =\= sketches, they should be quick and rough just to get compositional aspects down, experiment, and they're generally small. Whereas a sketch can be your actual piece's size and should be about getting the idea you've figured out in your thumbnail a lot more refined.
Generally you want idea -> thumbnails -> sketch -> finished piece, but your flow may vary.
Some people do sketch -> idea -> thumbnail -> sketch -> finish (which is what happened here) which is totally fine. Hell you might even do idea -> sketch -> finish, hate it, thumbnail -> sketch -> idea -> thumbnail -> sketch -> finish 😉
It's all about the process, but utilize thumbnails more efficiently and stop wasting time on them. You'll be a better artist for it!
@@Takapon218 it's a joke and their not the real fbi, please don't misunderstand, thank you.
@@g0ria161 welp ima thank them for the tips lol 🤓📸📸
@@g0ria161 who knows 🧐🥴
After so many years of ignoring my love for art because of fear of failure, you tips have really helped me gat back into drawing and wanting to practice. Thank you so much ❤️
Absolutely My Pleasure ♥
Your tips are always so helpful in improving my art and everyone else! thanks a lot :)
You're so welcome!
Hi Scott! Amazing art as always! I dont understand how you make a minute scetch look good I could never😅
You're too kind. Thank you! ♥
Person on the call: "dude it's been three hours and you haven't said anything, are you even still there?"
Thumbnails are the first thing my graphic design professor taught us in the course. Not only good for personal doodles, but also extremely helpful for commissions when trying to communicate thoughts between the artist and client!! I love this man.
It’s great that people can find kinds of art they love 💕 You don’t just have to paint sunsets 🌅 or draw fruit bowls 🍉 People like
photographers 📷
Musicians 🎶 and just anyone like you who finds something they think is fun
Im glad you dont end the sentence with;
“So next time youre stuck on an art piece-“
Hello Mr Scott! I randomly found u a week ago and my God ur art is awesome! I really wanted to say, thank you for telling me that I should continue with my art :)
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You should 100% draw this drawing in your hair journal! Love your content! ❤️
“Don’t forget to explore your negative space, that’s where the magic happens”
I find this very profound. Like not just for art on paper but for real life
“I started doodling in the middle of a call with my tripod perfectly positioned and already recording”
Dude draws better in 1 min than I could in an hour.
Bro the negative space sounds absolutely rad
i find it hard to really make a certain thing to pop out, thank you for posting this!
Absolutely My Pleasure ♥
Your videos really helped me to improve my art skills! I still need to practice, but I learned a lot from those shorts! :D
Glad I could help!
I am an elementary art teacher and teaching positive and negative space is always a challenge, especially when trying to explain the terminology and the differences between the two. Love the way you worded your explanation. Also, righteous sketches.
I don’t know where you received your training or if you are entirely self taught but your discipline is admirable and your practices are recipes for success. Art teacher here, love the promoting of thumbnail sketches before committing to the drawing :-) it saves a lot of time and money to think on paper in the form of drawing or painting :-) one way that I loosened up was by only using a fudé brush and india ink. It’s hard to get technical with those two lol
You're amazing, Scott!! In fact, I plan to study you as an artist for my GCSE art portraiture project I'm starting in a few days!!!
Wow. Thanks SO much! ♥
The circle in the hair reminds me of "Hewligans Haircut" by Jamie Hewlett, one of my favorite artists!
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OMIGOSH that’s brilliant! Thank you so much! This is going to save me so much time. 😅
Thumbnails and quarter roughs are probably the things that helped me most as an artist. It REALLY helps. Especially when having others give you feedback.
"the I thought.. no BIGGER. But it still wasn't big enough'
Me: wa- HOW? 😂😭
Ayo 🤨📸
“What’s negative space?”
Me: ThE bAcKrOoMs!!!!
**currently holding back the urge to say "your mom"**
you really just like- ok wow- you were just doing a small doddle and then you decided you wanted it to be a certain way… then you put so much work into it. your such an amazing artist!
i love doing thumbnails before drawing. it really helps to visualize a pose with them too
How to draw mouth's I've been interested in art for a while I'm still figuring out some stuff but I just couldn't get the mouth's right
He have made that video before
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Oh god college flashbacks. The amount of thumbnails y’all😭
Ha. Sorry
I wish I could have this guy as an art teacher. He’s so inspirational.
I learned about thumb nails in an art class in college and they seriously help so much!! Especially when you’re stuck. You can mess around with composition before putting in all the work on a full-size piece and realizing that you don’t like the placement of something.
Doing thumbnails fr is the best thing I started doing. Really helps you get a feel for what’s working about a composition and what isn’t. Also good for when a figure goes off the page, so instead of just drawing what’s shown, you can draw a figure and box in what you need so you have an idea of what goes where.
This is super helpful, especially since I wanted to create large pieces of art. Going small, creating many pieces and then choosing the right one, this way is helpful for me.
The way he did the hair bigger without erasing anything
I am impressed😎
been having doubts about my art recently, and I just want to let you know how much your channel has been helping me and break out of that mindset :) ❤️
I remember my art teacher telling students to draw with thumbnails and never explaining it's uses, like for composition, finding negative space and how it helps you plan out your work. I'll remember this often the next time I'm drawing. Thanks!
This channel is an integral part of my art improving.
Love this. It works for writing too. If you have an idea but aren't sure what direction to take it, give it several wildly different outlines or summaries and you'll start to get a feel for where the story wants to go.
Thanks for the advice Mr. Sava! This will help me improve!
Happy to help!
the fact that a doodle can turn into such a good drawing
Honestly, I think I've learned more from your short videos in the past month than I ever did with 5 years of high school art classes. Thank you so much for having created this channel, I hope you know how helpful it is to beginner artists like me :)
Wow, thank you!
I am obsessed with these small videos these are so helpful ❤️
Been drawing for as long as I have and I'm still learning seemingly obvious things like you can make a sketch of a sketch. That's gonna my life easier lol
This actually helped me a lot because right now I am experiencing major art block, and this gave me ideas. Thanks!
I love these, I’m an artist, but not with art (drawing, painting etc) instead with writing, and these videos give me inspiration to write.
Since I started using this (thanks to you) I'm no longer stuck and I feel very motivated to draw again. I wanna fill a sketchbook now
ive never thought of using thumbnails to help with an art piece. im very glad to have found your yt channel, its given me a lot of inspiration and ive learnt quite a few useful tricks. love it ✨✨
OMG your drawings are soooo amazing. You help me out alot during my depression!!! 😀😀😀😀 Thanks!!!
Your tips are so helpful honestly I've learned so much from you :D
My art teacher used to call these layouts and in our classes she'd give us a topic, a scenario, a happenstance... anything... and 10-15 mins to brainstorm and create these layouts. She'd then choose one for us to draw and the rest would be our homework.
She also sometimes challenged us and tweaked a certain aspect of the topic and ask us to create more layouts. She'd sometimes even choose a figure in the scenery and ask us to draw what it'd look like from their perspective.
I used to hate how many times we had to do this but in the long run i realise how much it helped me create different things from a fixed topic given
They way you can just throw a face together makes me soooo jealous, I have been stuck watching your shorts for some time and I finally improved on faces a little! (Very little!)
Side note: I remember you mentioned how hard it is to draw hands! Coincidentally one of my favorite things to draw because of how gnarly and twisted you can make them! If you see this, are there any other body parts or even specific things like certain animals that you refrain from? I’d love to see you tackle more of what you find a challenge to do! Shows how one can improve drastically with some practice
I actually did this for the first time with an idea for a lily of the valley drawing, really helped me figure out angles.
You inspired me to purchase the zebra brush pens, and thank you! I love doing manga art and anime and this comes in really handy
That's why drawing my own mandalas are so satisfying because your main job is to fill negative space.
I already do this thanks to my art teacher. I've been doing it for about a year now; it works _wonders!_ Especially for when you have an idea in mind, but just planning it out in your head first is too difficult.
Something I never thought of doing, and definitely, for sure, it's going to help me. Many thanks, my dude
Reminds me of how fellow art youtuber Leilani Joy makes use of the negative space in her painting, and even use the whole background space as the playground for the hair! (Example: her acrylic paintings called "Lady Amalthea" and "Klimt's Adele")
Great advice!
“Negative space” (emphasis on SPACE)
Human eyes only see “negative space”
Hope everyone gets the time to observe & learn!!!
That’s actually really helpful i always have trouble on actually figuring out what i want to draw and i always scrap it when i don’t like what i did.
This video explained the purpose and usefulness of thumbnail sketches so much better than my hs art teacher did
Great work
Your videos always make me want to draw. You have an awesome art style. Love the channel
I wish I had the skill like this to suddenly and drastically change an image during the process and still have it look good
thumbnails are massively underrated imo
So happy I just found ur channel as a newer artist, subbed!
I love doing thumbnail versions of my larger idea!
I’m frequently indecisive when it comes to composition and colour choice, so doing little thumbnails in which I can work out the different ideas I have are super helpful!
Also great because you can always reference back to them so you never forget an idea you’d had, and if you decide you want to combine a few ideas you had earlier or come up with a new idea mid way through your project you can whip up a new one, rather than getting it fully done and then being disappointed because the other thing you thought up might have worked better.
Thumbnails are also a really good way of getting some ideas out there without needing to commit or invest too much care in them, like with sketching. 😊
A friend drew a skull pattern all over his jacket collars and cuffs drawing only the negative space. They looked way better than they would have if he drew them directly. Negative space helps your proportioning massively
for anyone still wondering, its like when you cut out a heart shape in a paper, unfold the paper and the heart is the negative space.
This really helped me with my art project that was about negative and positive space.I got 100% and my teacher displayed it in the schools hallway.
We all are artists, and this reminds me:
You are artist of your own life . Don't hand the paintbrush to anyone else.
So start loving whatever you do, and and make sure everything you do , it's coming from your heart. Don't be afair or ashame, nothing is wrong in it !
You remind me of my art teacher that I had in elementary school. Your voice has the same warm feeling as his. And you’re both really good at drawing!
I think making the whole subject smaller and surrounding it by a land of background would give it great composition
Scott, even tho this is a Old video i just wanted you to know, you been one of my inspirations for a bit now. And you're one of the reaons i keep learning To do art
Along with a few artists i love, like ghost and pals, clown, etc, and yeah! I wanted you too know your one of my biggest inspiration.
Thank you for this advice. It will help me immensely in future with my art.
The fascinating part about practicing negative space is that when you doodle and sketch even more thumbnails for practice reference you dont realize you've made so many doodles already and you can use all the sketches you practiced for future reference
I liked seeing a video focused on sketching and the conceptual work that goes into a work
I saw this video around when I’m learning negative and positive space in my art class lol
i started doing thumbnails after seeing this video a long time ago and it’s saved me so much time
One of my favorites you give the best tips !
I love the horizontal one
I also love negative space! I like to use thumbnails when an art isn’t working out or I don’t think it will work out and it helps me a lot! I like to copy them off into my full piece and then erase it afterwards, then I add some details and my art looks awesome.
It’s been two years and I still found it on my recommended page
Wow! My art teacher despises negative space. Like, we're just not allowed to have it. It's really cool that you're working with it!
*my brain at 3am* : “Don’t be afraid to explore your negative space”
Your videos are so nice it just makes me happy🥺😭
Hiya! I wanted to thank you because of you my art improved so much thank you again
Thanks man I was having trouble with these. especially at school. When I realize the problem I’m too late and don’t have enough time to change it. 🤩
THANK YOU. I did this a lot with designing, I just didn't think to do it for actual pieces.