How to draw/paint ANYTHING faster
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Are you a slow artist? Learn how to draw/paint anything faster with this easy to understand and practical system that has helped thousands of artists, just like you. You aren't damned to having a slow art process, and this video will teach you how to supercharge and love your art process!
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00:00 How to make art faster
You certainly motivate me a lot. Your observations about the psychology and mentality of the artist are very accurate. It's amazing how difficult the act of making art is. I have watched your videos several times, because the fear I have of selling my work is UNBELIEVABLE. So many years of effort and I can't deal with the small details and the difficulty of "pricing" each work for example. Thank you very much for everything Sean, you have been a fundamental influence in my life.
wow, thanks so much for your kind words! It's so easy to underappreciate our mindset and individuality going into artmaking, isn't it? I always acknowledge that we can't separate the artist from the art, and divorcing the two from each other makes it less personal, doesn't it? I'm blessed to have been a part of your journey, and I'll be here to support you in years to come
You always have golden gems that no artist I know of on UA-cam is giving out. I remember when I first found your channel on 2022, I was going through a negative time in my life where art became negative for me. But over time, whenever I listen to what you have to say, I get a clear understanding of why I make art and it ameliorates my creative philosophy. Thanks again, Sean.
Wow that's an amazing story, and I'm so happy to hear that you're finding my content helpful. I deeply appreciate you and your support of my channel, as it sounds like it's impacted you. I'm proud of your persistence, and I hope we all never lose it
@@TheArtMentor all thanks to you, man, I've made 18 pieces of art since I found your channel. That's not a lot but coming from zero motivation for 2+ years, it's quite something lol.
Wow that's awesome! So glad to hear it!!
@@TheArtMentor just did another this morning lol, have a great Sunday! 😊
Ask the question but also be willing to do whatever it takes to find the answer. There might not be a video to explain it to you. Sometimes you have to practice until you find what is working for you. It may take many many tries.
absolutely! Time and persistence bring forth wisdom, don't they? Asking those questions couples with the actions will transform everything about your process, right?
Wow... your line work is so much rougher than I realized. I really need to get past that myself, I hyper focus on my line smoothness and line weight and often find my lined art ends up looking so much worse to me than my rough sketches.
thanks? lol. Mind you, my linework isn't present in the final product, so I'm not fixated on it being an end goal. It's more of an individual undertaking, aside from making my sketch clear for my clients. What about you? Is lineart a permanent fixture in your art?
@@TheArtMentor Line art is probably the most foundational part of my work. With my ADHD sketches are very rough at times and I have a lot of difficulty getting the idea out on the page. It's not till the line work phase that really depends if I can get into a zone or not and form the actual image I want out of it. This is why I defended AI art for use as reference back early this year, I found it pretty useful at grounding that idea in my head into something I could easily work off to get the image I wanted.
I might just be a painter though who just really wants to be a cartoonist, Cause I seem to get the most praise in my color work both in digital and traditional painting. 🐭💧
you can definitely keep up that practice because, honestly, it is tough to do extremely well. Much respect for people that do. Keep up your awesome hard work!
I have an additional tip but its a tough one to get used to. If you skip the lineart and just paint the forms directly you will massively improve speed. It gets even faster if you are good with colors too because then you just get straight to the result. Its a bit harder though because you have to be able to visualize the object you are painting or drawing to make this technique work.
True, I've heard that too. Are you aware that that technique isn't cognitively compatible with everyone though? Most artists either conceive through line or volume, thought not exclusively either. It's a great one to try though! Good suggestion!
@@TheArtMentor I am yeah. It's an old technique too that actually has a name. It was coined by the old Italian Renaissance masters way back. They called it alla prima or first attempt. It's super fascinating.
This works! Ive been doing this for a lot of my art as well, and it does improve speed dramatically. I find lineart feels grueling sometimes and actually takes up a lot of time.
What I do is I use my sketch as a base, make a base colour underneath and another layer for all the colors and details in between. Any clean-up will be done in one more layer above everything before I merge. It's great for quick draws!
@@zinzolin14 Same it's a very strong technique especially if speed is the goal. If there's something faster I haven't seen it at least.
Making a decision is a thousand times better than being indecisive about it... I think that'll stick with me forever. It's great advice, especially for someone so indecisive like myself 😅
Haha I know how you feel! I've been there so many times as well, and sometimes you just have to pick a direction, don't you? Indecision is also a decision, but a lethal one
Hi, Sean! About working quick... I noticed, when you want to block the sillouette, you tend to manually select parts of it. A tip, that works for me: I select all the blank background space wiht autoselect tool and invert the selection (ctrl=shift=I in Clip Studio Paint). And I have selection of the character in less than a minute. I'm pretty curious if ot works for you as well.
How keen of you to notice! Yes and there's a reason for that in my workflow. I often don't bother perfecting the lineart to the point where I ensure there are no gaps, so when I use the selection tools to select the background and then inverse it, it tends to invade the surface anyways. Therefore, I've just found it personally faster to just manually do the process lol. Does that explain it?
@@TheArtMentor It sure did. Thanks :)
I always try to finish the important stuff first, as they usually take the most amount of time and energy, and then work my way down. The less important stuff I tend to skim on details. Hope this is helpful! Another great video Sean 😁👌
That's a great perspective! I bet that helps keep you morale higher, doesn't it? When you see your progress quicker, it allows you to stay in there longer, right? Glad to hear you enjoyed this!
@@TheArtMentor yeah it does! I've always been the type who'd rather get the bigger harder stuff done first. It puts my mind more at ease as I work my way through.
If you are putting yourself down, a thing NOT to do is look at other artists who are mountains ahead of you, this will only make you feel so much worse. Not related to being faster or anything but I like to take a look at my old work, it does make me cringe but also shows my progress and that in itself can help boost confidence.
That’s so true! Is that something you found out the hard way?
@@TheArtMentor Yeah
Great video, thanks for your support!
My pleasure! Are you better equipped to power up your speed now?
@@TheArtMentor Yes, few things like tracking how much time you spend on drawings and giving small rewards I already did. However, I stopped it for some reason. Good to have a confirmation that it works in the long run, so I will try again. Analysis paralysis is very annoying indeed... I guess, trying a different mindset "good enough" is absolutely okay instead of trying to pick the best path/decision. Thanks
glad to hear! Thanks for sharing your perspectives!
With each vid I see the more motivation I get
That's amazing to hear, and I'm happy to support you! What project are you working on lately?
@@TheArtMentor currently doing some commissions as well as writing my own manga.
That's awesome! Is your manga published anywhere?
The layer thing is the only bad advice here. That only works if you're going painterly style stuff. For people like me and others that work on anime style stuff with more cell shaded, it just doesn't work.
Would you mind explaining that? I ask because I privately mentor plenty of anime and stylized artists that utilize those techniques with much success. What's the core issue you're experiencing with that advice?