I'm training to be an Art Teacher atm and one of my students was building an art portfolio for animation. And I was looking through it and it was all photo realistic pieces. When I asked if they drew anime or cartoon, they told me that their parents didn't allow them to because it wasn't "real art". So they instead had to draw it in secret and when they gave me their "secret sketchbook" I was completely blown away. They honestly looked ashamed they gave it me but when I started complimenting it they seemed almost in shock that I liked it. So yes, PLEASE ENCOURAGE YOUR STUDENTS/CHILDREN TO DRAW ANIME AND CARTOON.
Aww that is so sad... :( I hope your student eventually feels more confident about their cartoon work! But yeah anime, cartoon, any style of art really, if that's what gets you to lay that line down, just do it!
@@mewTripled Exactly. It was g in the end. I told them they could draw it in class or even after school ended if they wanted. And it made their portfolio more diverse. As an art teacher idc what they draw as long as its fun and helps them build confidence.
Thank you for being the change for art teachers! I feel like most aren't like you, so you encouraging whatever style a student does. I had an art teacher who was strict with the school curriculum, and she was a pain to deal with. I went into art class because of the teacher next door, who was forced to do ceramics since there wasn't another teacher who can. Now he was the one who was just like you, so I would always go to him for advice. Just wanted to share this.
instead of saying don’t use black, the good advice actually is ‘remember you can’t shade black’ and ‘black get some colors muddy, if that happens try adding the complementary color to the mix’
I was told it was "avoid shading with black" in the idea that black is dull and it's better to use dark blues and purples to give more 'life'. So, like, unless piece is black-and-white or you want to make a dull piece of art, avoid using black to shade.
@@mastertofu yea! shadows actually can be more saturated! thats probably the trap people fall into thinking shadows are only desaturated and dull, rainbows can be found in the most unlikely places! blacks nice to shift radiance, blacks just all 3 colors combined and easier to slap into for use when dulling things rather then having to keep double, triple, quad dipping into paint piles, sighs!
I was really lucky about the anime thing. My art teacher didn't discourage me from drawing it at all, he knew I enjoyed it, so he would make me study classically and when I was done with my piece, he would encourage me to cool off with an anime styled artwork. Now thanks to him, I can switch from photo realism to anime in an instant.
I wanted to add to the "teachers don't want you to draw anime". It could be because of the reasons you listed, but I also think it could be that they just want you to understand realistic human anatomy before you start stylizing it. I don't think teachers should ban the students from drawing anime, but make them understand that learning the fundamentals of anatomy (the head, eyes, muscles, poses....) is a big benefit before you start stylizing it. It's just the phrase "learn the rules before you break them" as everyone knows at this point. Of course, everyone has their own comfortable way of learning. But personally, If I think back to the days when I was a beginner, I drew whatever I liked, I had fun. But if I was just nudged a bit more to learn proper anatomy, I would probably be better off from the start. I could have always stylized it later and on the side. And for the "Don't use the color black for shading". I do think black is a valid color to use when used properly in stylized art. Comic books with solid black shading are a good example. But I think when people refer to "don't shade with black" it's more of shading a character with just a transparent black color. Which often makes the character's colors look flat. It's not the worst of art crimes imo haha, but adding a transparent blue or purple for shading would make it pop up more and make it more lively.
Idk if u watch Lavender Towne, but she also made a bad art tips video, and she suggests that u develop technical skills and stylized skills at the same time
i got the 'dont draw anime' as a kid who had never watched a single anime in my life and it confused the hell out of me. some art teachers will call every cartoon style anime which is not only wrong but also really weird?? if they wanna say 'draw realistically' they should just say 'draw realistically'
I’ve only recently gotten into art so I’m kinda developing a style and trying to work on parts of drawing one at a time (eyes, hair, anatomy) and I’m not in an art class or anything so it’s really unhelpful when I’m not given actual ways to improve by people. So thanks for the help
Honestly, anime at its core is 90% realism and 10% aesthetic window dressing that hard-headed, old-fashioned Western art snobs hate. With its already built in anatomy and structure, anime isn't a bad place to start. You also get a bonus peak into how the fundamentals are applied to design decisions in a legitimate entertainment environment. For anyone actively pursing the anime style, they eventually learn that anime has a very, very heavy grounding in the fundamentals. In my opinion, art teachers should be thanking students that they're starting here and not anything weirder.
as an anime artist, completely agree, a lot of my practice for drawing good art is actually anatomy practice! although, id like to note, if you are planning to draw with an anime artstyle, learning how an actual head and face looks is also very important to get it right, since animes 10%, is mostly the head, and by god I do not speak of the blob like chinless terrors i drew before I traced like 3 photos of an actual human face to get used to the placement.
@@r_tten Yeah, one of the pitfalls of the anime style is that it can be difficult to figure out how the head works when all you've got to go by are the large eyes and nonexistent noses. But, you do see why those design decisions were made once you look at a few realistic references. And, admittedly, anime artists can get a bit defensive about art style around the head area (with the weird anti-anime sentiment, especially a decade ago, I can't really blame them--us).
Some anime is not at all %90 realism, most anime is actually aesthetic. The reason why teachers don’t like anime is because usually people start their art career drawing anime only, and not acknowledging realistic proportions to actual realism. Small noses and big heads is not good proportions at all...
@@nerdiebitch755 Me too, I'm very much a perfectionist and I'm often disappointed by my work and the lack of results. Sometimes I just need to remind myself that baby steps are the key and not everything can be perfect right off the bat.
it’s sad that even when you get into an art college, some professors will still tell you to only take inspiration from classical art and art history. what ever happened to taking inspiration from things you enjoy and and working towards the future? aaaaaa
I’m in art school right now and they focus so much on fine arts . Super precise lines, realism and perfect perspective. I’m glad to learn it but it’s so....un-inspiring to me. I feel like I thought I would be able to be more creative. I’ve already taken two classes that are about drawing random objects and buildings.
or the one where its like "dont trace, tracing is bad and makes you a bad artist" tracing is literally what got me to my point of art now, tracing is good if you actually are willing to learn from it, like anatomy and stuff but never claim it as your own
I think that when your a beginner, the only criticism you should get should be about the end product, not the process. Like- the no copying should be something told to you when you are further down the path to be an artist. So yeah I agree :)
I never trace when doing original art unless it will not be included in the final piece and is just to emphasize reference features. However, doing edits of different styles, such as editing Genshin characters to be more scantily clad (to see what they would look like under the clothes, this is mostly done with razor) can help with learning anatomy, and how to morph your style so that it isn’t the same all of the time. Also, IF YOU WANT TO DRAW PORN, DRAW PORN. It REALLY helps anatomy and skin shading.
I agree, tracing is fine so long as you don't take what you did and pass it off entirely as your own. If you're gonna share it, then say that you traced it, even if it's one of those "draw the squad" things that are kind of meant to be traced.
I feel like the "Don't use black" is good temporary advice because I know when I was younger I had such a hard time getting my colors to look good because I was using black as shading for EVERYTHING and it was muddy and ugly. Taking black out made it easier for me to get a hold of how to make colors look good and once I got a better grip on that I reintroduced black. So if you're having trouble with your colors being muddy and ugly don't use black, figure out how to use colors, THEN ignore the don't use black rule.
to me, my shading looks completely fine being black and when i try another shading style it looks bad. does this mean i should change my style or is it just me being lucky?
i used to get shat on for only drawing girls (now my issue is only drawing boys but alas) but i dont plan on going into a career pertaining to art so if i wanna draw a million pictures of the same person in the same style, let me do so in peace
Same with me, I can only draw girls, I know the anatomy /structure of girls etc. I'm doing gcse art next year and want to learn how to draw boys as well
I was told "Not to draw that." When I was drawing a naruto fan comic while on brake. I just jaw dropped and said nothing because I was like ... "Not draw what???" My teacher at the time did a full on back step to the back of the class room to "help" another student... They never explained why and said nothing after they walked away. I still wanted to know why they did it.
I mean my art teacher basically told me the way i draw is "too easy". I love drawing anime. It's very comforting to me which is why that upset me quite a bit since its one of my only hobbies and it's one of the only things I put effort into. I really hate it when they never give a good reason why you can't draw a certain way. I can understand if they are trying to teach you something but that wasn't really the case during this lesson. They never give a valid reason or any good criticism. My mother dose a better job and she dosnt draw.
honestly, i had the best art teacher last year. she considered any and everything art and was so inclusive about everything. you could draw a stick figure or literally anything, and she would say that you did amazing. she encourages everyone to draw, and she helped so much :)
What you said about the "dont use black for shading" rule is exactly what I think about using black!! There's been 1000 times that I used black for shading in my art classes and the professors never knew lol
I always felt like when I’m as working in class I would use black then hide it away quick or be ready to cover it up using a darker color as the teacher walked by and they never knew either 🤷🏻♀️
I mean your both just hurting yourself by not learning how to Mix colours without black, my teacher discouraged black but if you didn't want to listen he'd just focus on the students that were. He was very nice and loved it when students experimented.
@@nerdycurls6253 Oops, my comment made me sound super dismissive. I meant that I used black a lot for shading in the way that was described in the video - for shading to portray the drama, intensity, etc. I just use both that technique + color mixing (complementary, warming up colors, cooling down colors) to paint.
@@nerdycurls6253 I’m not saying I don’t know how to mix black at all its definitely a skill I use for in painting! I don’t do much painting though I’m talking like colored pencil and chalk pastel mostly where it’s more difficult to get deep deep blacks and when you are on a deadline as a student with other projects using black is a shortcut sometimes and you usually can’t tell as long as you layer more colors of course. I think the point is that you shouldn’t stop yourself from using something if you think your piece needs it because ultimately you are learning how to get your piece to where you want it. For me, I didn’t really choose to not listen to the professor because I would try it in other areas for example that would work out fine. But sometimes something needed to go deeper yknow? I love teachers like that though because there’s always that student that is taking the class because they have to and aren’t really into it and why waste his time when he could help the kids who actually want to move forward ☺️
at my art school I constantly get critiqued for 'being too inspired by anime' and it drives me insane, because anime, while it's a huge part of what I enjoy and study, isn't the only thing I take inspiration from. I love classical and romantic art (especially German/Russian and from my home country Poland), golden age illustration, Victorian poster art, spooky vintage Halloween postcards, ancient Chinese and Japanese paintings, all sorts of different animation styles from different times and countries, you name it, there's so much more to what influences me, and yet all they see is the evil anime. and even if it was, so what? they can't deny the huge success and influence of people like Osamu Tezuka or Miyazaki and all the other amazing artists. I personally value them more than Disney, because I like when animation has some mundane realism to it, I love the quiet moments, I love the exaggerated emotions, and I hate inbetweening both because it's tedious and boring and I could spend that time drawing better keys and because it just looks too smooth if the whole film is 24fps. on the other hand people who straight up copy simple wacky ass cartoon styles or just go full on Disney-style, or do some extra abstract experimental shit always get praised and get higher grades. can't wait to graduate this year lol
If an art professor were to say “don’t like that” to me... I’ll straight up say “Fine YOU make a portfolio thats meets YOUR standards.. all drawn by you by Monday.” If they are gonna try to use you as a door mat, pull the rug out from underneath them and get the upper hand.
The not shading with black rule is more for digital art, beginners usually take black or a darker version of their color to shade and set it to multiply and it muddies the colors. A quick fix for something like that is shading with a color of a different hue entirely, it makes things a lot more vibrant
Teachers don't like it when I say I want to draw anime. Frankly speaking, it's one of the toughest art styles I have tried to amulate and is personally the prettiest so of course I try to draw anime styles. The teachers kept discouraging me from drawing anime and to continue improving my realism and I practically lost all fun I got from art. Then my mom got me a phone and I was exposed to digital art and slowly learned to develop an anime-inspired art style which got me back into drawing. I think the way the anime art styles share and highlight is magnificent and I'm no longer going to listen to those art teachers. It's disappointing how some art teachers give biased marks. In my art test last year, we were supposed to paint a vegetable/fruit based on a reference. Me and two other classmates were the 'artists' in the class and we did the tomato. One does anime only and made the lighting and shading so dramatic it was beautiful. I tried following the reference as close as I could. We both got way less marks than the last girl. Why? Because even though her tomato wasn't based on the reference, it was so hyper-realistic that all the teachers believed hers was the best. I'm not trying to discredit her, we're all friends and she's insanely good, but it's insulting when our art teachers favour realism over everything else about the art.
@orbit in my opinion, I think doing a non-realistic (anime/cartoon/etc) drawing should be good if people find it hard to do realism, because you can first try to do proportions with it, and when you’re completely comfortable in that aspect, doing realism would be a ton easier
I 100% agree with the topic of drawing manga/anime. I remember being discouraged a lot for drawing manga and often told to draw other things. I’m not opposed to drawing other stuff because it’s helps me develop more different styles, but I overall enjoy drawing manga. But when I started my junior year of high school one of my art teachers really enjoyed my manga art and always encouraged me to continue with it. He even helped me put together a portfolio when I was applying to art schools and in the end I got accepted into my current art school. What surprised me most was that a lot of my professors enjoyed the art I was producing because I’ve heard the stories of professors not liking the art form. Like you said in the video, the anime art form has had such an influence on western animation lately so I feel people are starting to be more accepting of it which I’m really happy about. Anime and manga is still art, it’s just different from what you’re used to seeing.
Yeah for sure! And there are so many styles within anime as well, it's hard to say "stop drawing" anime when there are many varieties of styles within it.
I think this anime stigma comes from people that see beginner artists only copy the art they admire and be proud of the result because it looks anatomically and generally accurate and really awesome but in reality they didnt really learn anything except the way the original artist stylizes and that obviously doesnt help without a good foundation. But those people/artists often overlook the fact that anime is usually the first step for a beginner artist into serious art, a journey of improving and learning to love what you do. I've always loved drawing but it was only when i discovered webtoons that i was so amazed by this art that i wanted to replicate it. Soon i realized i do not have even the tiniest bit of the skill that is required to actually draw a webtoon, so i started practicing to get there. And as i was going i discovered a lot of new stuff that was partly fun, partly tiring but now my art teacher seems impressed by my "skills". He wouldn't have been back in the day when i was only able to copy the done cartoon, so i would take their advice with a grain of salt. Of course they are somehow right, you shouldnt stay in the "only copying other peoples stuff" phase for too long, but it can be a portal to a new dimension and a big joy for you, if you follow the route! (Excuse my English, i'm still learning as well i'm still learning considering art)
I remember I always draw anime but was discouraged by my family that " drawing anime won't get you anywhere because you're not in Japan, you're in America." I still draw anime because it's difficult to get out of the phrase.
13:50 the idea that a catcaller should be like the beast from beauty and the beast is just so messed up.... HUH??? i can’t believe someone would actually say that
Ahhhhh, you just gave my high school art teacher a coronary, you put colour and ink in a sketchbook. “Never put colour or ink in your sketch book!” Yeah I failed my sketchbook.
Sketchbooks are supposed to have no rules. I'm sorry, but I get the feeling that your art teacher isn't helping you reach your full artistic potential.
I feel like if a professional artist looked at my art and told me "Yeah, not my thing. Don't like it." I would actually be kinda happy because if you want to look at the positive side and be a little sassy, it means they didn't pick up a fault in my drawing. Though I'd probably feel shitty because I have no self-esteem... Don't be like me!
power dynamics are a big part of some art "tips" that people give out and it pisses me off when i see it, if im able to intervene and give more positive criticism/advice i do try
My worst grade (C) in high school occurred in my art class because my art teacher didn’t like anime art styles. So my style was kind of impacted by that and it’s a mixture of anime and realism.
Just wanted to say your advices really help me alot! Even tho I am in art school and a senior at that, I've learned more from you than my professors. Thank you 😊
Back when I was in art school the art teacher we had most classes with was actually fine with you drawing anime. She would even help people even tho she have never watched it. Like yeah we had classes on sill lifes and stuff or plain air drawing when you couldn't really draw whatever you want but I think that's fine because it's art school after all. So hearing how some other teachers banned you from drawing whatever you want I love mine even more. She banned rulers tho but I think it was actually helpful as everyone with time learnt to freehand straight lines.
My theories of design prof always tells us theres nothing wrong with drawing and liking anime but in the end of the day its just a style and we should always try to branch out to different styles, especially bc what if the style goes out of fad
Thanks for this. I'm only doing Anime/Disney Fan Arts in my art account. I told myself I'd do a realism but up until now I can't see myself doing it. I'm trying to improve my art in my own style (anime-ish). I'm trying my best not to compare my art to others and instead compare my old art to the recent one and say, 'Hey, I've improved! It looks really good!'
Yeah it's like referencing art heavily you can pick up on artists mistakes is how I see some advice but you give great advice though learned a lot from you, criticism is something you gotta be able to handle when it comes to art.
the only real reason why you shouldnt use black is because it flattens and desaturates a color. unless you really have one of the deepest darkest soulsucking shadows in a painting, black is just gonna kill your other colors. they'll look muddy and lifeless. for an illustration or style similar to yours i dont know why anyone would say dont use black... thats odd
Hard agree. Black/desaturation should be used in a way that makes it look appealing, just with all colors, and when it’s used in a form that would benefit more from hue, it can take the life out of a drawing. Of course, artists can do that for stylistic purposes if they want to, I’m just talking about the ones who are doing it unintentionally and want to learn more about shading.
I love the advice to not take all advice so seriously! Artists need to trust themselves more in order to keep growing :) I also really love the advice to keep using anime as a reference, there are so many amazing things to learn from that art style and it sucks when people try to say it’s not worth looking at. Great video!!
I love the growing amount of artists making vids about the worst art tips they've heard. Good because there are some trash advice around on YT that isn't helping anyone.
I have heard interesting counter arguments with the whole art teachers hating anime shtick. And that is that in some cases it's the teachers know that if a student starts to draw in anime and only draws in anime because they like it and their fav media is in that style that the student will stump their growth. They will only know how to draw in an anime style and won't build their own unique one and if they want to go into the art industry they might not have the chance to work on an anime project. So I think for some teachers it's more the argument of not wanting the student to just stick to one style and replicate it but rather form their own. In saying that there are some teachers who genuinely are just anal about no anime because "it's not real art"
You can shade black if it is in blocks or hatching etc, or if it’s in a comic style (think of old hulk comics or others and see how they shade). If you do shade with black it does look gross if it is blended or blurrred. ❤️❤️❤️
I can’t add the ascended spongebob meme here but it’s precisely how I felt when Meesh validated my entire art path as an animation student who has drawn more anime inspired art until now lmao. I can draw other styles and hell I even do quite frequently in my own time. I have a comic style completely separate from my anime one. But my anime style is not only my strongest style to share online, its also the style I enjoy and personify as my style the most. I’m a third year whose about to graduate and I’m stubborn as ever lmao. You can draw mostly anime, you just gotta have the confidence and determination to see it through despite people who may throw you down. Anime is such a diverse style even if we consider it a style in its own too, alot of artists takes on the style is their own interpretation which makes it their style. People invalidating artists versions of the style as just copying is usually trashing on the years of growth and inspiration from multiple artists eastern and western to make that style- as well as just invalidating every anime studio out there that has their own unique version of the style. It’s not one style, sure some may share similar points but these are points shared across all animation as a whole, not just anime. Animation has had big eyes and expressions since near its beginning with the exception of cut out and rotscoped animation. The main thing with some anime is the more human esque proportions in places but even then you look at studios like trigger and even thats bot the case most of the time. Most people compare works made by the same studio as them having the same style and it hurts my soul. Not every anime style is A1- A1 just has a formula for the style they use since its popular. I absolutely agree people should diversify styles and take inspo from multiple sources to build their own style, but hell you could technically do that even entirely within anime, the range is really alot more dynamic than people give it credit for. I like taking inspo from both eastern and western works but I wouldn’t call someone with a unique style made from mostly anime works invalid for their style inspo origins. Hell I wouldn’t call someone who did just draw in A1’s style invalid either especially if they are aware of that inspo, theres a market for that style, it’s not a bad thing. I actually consider anime and western cartoon styles as the new modern art movement. Though its funny to joke about how hentai might be looked on by art historians in a hundred years time as a magmum opus, it’s actually something that can really happen. Hell it already is, the worlds oldest anime is hidden away as a japanese historical treasure and it has the panty trope in it ftfggggh Hell its even been done with past artstyles in the past, art only is validated when the style is not popular, I don’t get humanity for that fact. I’m gonna be writhing in my grave when art teachers start telling kids off for not drawing spongebob correctly because they are drawing in the new art trend in many hundreds of years time. And hoo sorry I had to get that off my chest. That was meant to be a short comment, but Meesh’s acknowledgement on all this ignited something in me lmao.
This all being said, there are many beautiful western styles too and I think we should equally fight for those styles too! I think anime style onlys are only ever annoying when they claim traditional anime style is the best style out there. Theres so many beautiful styles out there, all deserve love and attention for what they have to bring to the table.
Oh and theres more eastern styles than just anime in the east! I say eastern influence talking about anime but theres many non anime eastern styles I take influence from too! It’s good to acknowledge that anime is not the only non western origin style to exist!!
Awe the kitty, I was doing some mushroom paintings today and my cat decided he wanted to lay on me. I had to stop so he could try to groom me and wiggle around on me, at one point he ended up cuddled against me on his back like a baby.
I had a professor that help to destroy my inspiration saying that “we should not dry anime”.. ridiculous, I regret so much listening to him. I ended up in a huge 4 year gap without touching art at all because of this. I will buy clay today and go back to the hobby.
To students who are told to not draw what they want do NOT listen! I was so obsessed with approval I only did studies and completely lost sight of what I wanted to make. Studies are very important but if you don't make art that brings you joy your work will suffer a lot more and you will feel very unhappy. When I got to college I felt much better because I was encouraged to explore more. People will visibly see work you care about and the work you have passion for will almost always be better.
Good thing my art teachers is chill with me drawing in an anime-like style. (They actually like it.) I think the “anime” most art teachers are mentioning however are the “how to draw anime” books from 2007 with the most poorly done anime art.. which are drawn by peeps in the west who didn’t fully understand how anime looks and works. 😭
that was almost all of the bad advice I was given in either one art class or another ._. it's... honestly reassuring to hear it referred to as bad advice, for a while I'd stopped asking for advice since I was expecting any of it to be along these lines ^_^;; especially the "I don't like it" angle, because you're right! it doesn't help anything at all! XD I've slowly gotten better since getting out of college, but all of this was still very nice to hear, thank you
The girl on the very left looks like a pokemon trainer and I say that as a good thing! Also, I think that's some good advice that you've given in this video :))
My teachers thought that anime/manga meant Japanese p*rn. So whenever I would mention anime/manga they would tense up and ask if it's drawing inappropriate things. I literally had to show my homeroom teacher a pokemon manga to show her that some manga had nothing to do with nsfw stuff but for some reason she acted like she didn't believe me. She flipped through the manga and asked me "This is manga?", I said yes and she started looking through it again and I kind of felt like she looked at me like she thought I was lying to her when she handed the manga back to me. Some boys from the older classes even asked if I'm the girl that "draws naked girls" because they want me to draw something for them. So thanks to these teachers who had no idea what they were talking about, created the rumor that I draw nsfw stuff. -_-
I always end up subconsciously drawing on my book during class and my teachers would always tell me off and tell me to correction tape it (I’m using pen). Hence the reason why I love my English teacher, she really likes my doodles, encourages me and adds little notes sometimes like “cute! :)” or “oh no D:” according to what doodle I did ^^
I related to this really hard! After going through art school for so many years I’ve had my share of great and not so great professors. There were some professors that really tried to help me get my pieces to read as I wanted it to by sharing how it read to them and how I could improve it toward what I wanted but others that just... tried to change it completely to what they wanted which made me end up making a piece they wanted rather than what I wanted to make in the first place with the message I wanted. In hindsight mayyybe I guess in a way it helps to learn to make corrections for what a client wants for example but they don’t frame it that way so I doubt that was the intention. Sometimes I got professors that just wanted their student body to look good (and I think that’s all professors to a degree of course) which was sometimes at the expense of students original concepts. Lots of frustrating advice in college and I love hearing experiences from other art school grads! I definitely made a ton of friends going through art school because we bitch about that same stuff 😅
@@pogz1 I thought your videos were great! I love the intro animation and catchy music to the one I saw! I wish I had time and patience to do more animating in my videos 😅 You’re killin it!
Thank you so much! These are so great to hear, also I love your art style! I was always afraid of pursuing artistic endeavors, but thank you so much for explaining and giving tips! I feel a little more empowered! I hope you keep making art and I'm sorry you had to fight so hard against the art social norm. Thank you for being you!
Some input: I never trace anymore when doing original art that will be shown unless it will not be included in the final piece and is just to emphasize reference features. I did trace when I was a beginner, however. It helped me learn. Black can muddy certain colors, but it is not invalid to shade with black. Doing edits of different styles, such as editing Genshin characters to be more scantily clad (to see what they would look like under the clothes, this is mostly done with razor) can help with learning anatomy, and how to morph your style so that it isn’t the same all of the time. Also, IF YOU WANT TO DRAW PORN, DRAW PORN. It REALLY helps anatomy and skin shading. Learning to draw the genitals/crotch can actually really help your characters to look more anatomically correct. Hentai also helps with posing. Realism is quite impressive, but twisting reality is even more impressive.
My art teacher always said don’t draw anime durning class but would encourage me to do it in my free time. She never demonised it she just wanted me to learn the basics and stuff before I drew in my own style. I used to love showing her my personal drawings after class cause she would constantly hype me up 😂
One of my art teachers absolutely HATED it when I or my friends would draw something that looked slightly anime-ish. She'd tell us to stop and do something else when the assignment was to draw/paint something we wanted to draw/paint. But then she'd turn around and praise the students drawing western cartoon characters, even when they are not listen to her abd not following the assignments directions (so like, she'd tell us to paint a sky or something and those kids are painting spongebob instead) I've heard that apparently she's gotten better but she mistreated me and my friends (she did way more than just yell at us for drawing anime) to the point I just don't like her and don't want to forgive her.
my art teacher was very strict on the black sading, which i understand like you said with realistic, but personally i like block shading on certain things, so i block shade with black :)
Honestly, I’m having such a hard time of developing a style. I get very caught up in making sure my art is accurate, so even when I’m trying to create something stylized, it often ends up being more realistic than I intended. I think this is partially because people would make comments saying, “You should use less line work. There’s not lines in real life.” I’m currently trying to let myself be more creative.
It depends on your end goal/ artistic path, and who you're creating for. For yourself, do what you want. For a design piece, black can help immensely. If your goal is a visual artist, then listening to your teacher and applying the fundamentals are very important in order to gain that knowledge. No one says you have to follow everything that is given to you, though. So to say "don't listen to these tips" isn't allowing yourself to grow as a creative. Comparing art and design, they carry different techniques and fundamentals. And I do not understand how the catcaller analogy relates to your art teacher telling you that for this lesson, you have to make black in order to understand natural colors and color theory.
I'm 17 right now and I'll be going into my senior year and ive been really lucky to have a school art teacher who is young and supportive of different styles,, and i have an afterschool art class with a teacher who is inks comics for a living. Through having these teachers over the past year I've improved so much and im so much more confident in my art. My biggest suggestion or piece of advice i have is to draw as much art with ink or pen as possible. My afterschool teacher started me off with perspective and basic still lifes and then immediately started teaching me how to do linework and inking. After learning how to control ink and render images using it i improved in literally every other form of art because i learned to control my hand and wrist movement, while also learning how to convey light and shadow while only using two colors (black and white). Its crazy because a year ago i struggled to produce straight lines with anything other than a pencil, but now im a lot more confident with my lines and im able to draw quickly in ink with barely any sketch underneath. Im glad my teachers never pushed me away from doing art other than realism, but if your teacher is pushing for realism only, explain to them why drawing anime or cartoon characters is useful. Talk about improving composition, storytelling, contrast, lights and shadows, perspective, or even colors. If they still push realism only then tbh they dont know what theyre talking about and you shouldnt listen to their advice.
@@pogz1 hey, I am just started UA-cam myself so I'm maybe not the right person to do this since I don't have much experience on what's good or not 🥲 Still try to figure it out myself
I think the main reason teachers don’t want you to draw anime is because it’s important to have a basic understanding of anatomy before you stylize it. Anime is very stylized so if a student only draws anime and never bothers to understand proper form and such it will harm them in the long run.
Love this video, definitely good to take each critique with a grain of salt. Definitely keep learning, but not everyone is gonna offer advice that will help your projects specifically.
I had a similar experience when I applied to art university...the teacher told me that my art doesn't speak to him and that I should try drawing baseball cards somehow? I didn't got it at all *lol* And he was also against Japan-themed things. I studied Japanology to that time, so he said "At LeAsT YoU haVE A CoNneCtiOn tO It"... Right now I am frustrated with people telling me I am too illustrative for Fine Art and too Fine Art-ish for Illustration. haha
You can be illustrative and fine artish You can do BOTH! Why limit yourself to one thing. No one wants to have only one dish for dinner their whole lives.
@@aotulapongen8382 Hahaha you're absolutely right! It's just hard for me to get this into my head. But I am trying to..just do what I love. // And yes it was oddly specific..I believe it had something to do with Manga as well..and art teachers don't like it. But yeah I get that...he was..weird and a snob too.
honestly the only reason i dont usually use black in my drawings and paintings is because i feel like it dulls every other color out. UNLESS im working in black white and gray, then its awesome to use. im a digital artist tho so my experience is a bit different
Personally, I love that you speak critically about the art industry. You are honest in a conversation that very few people are having. We can't rely on the mainstream to make comprehensive documentary that will be applicable to anyone looking to enter the art industry. So, thank you. And, in the same way the professors push the students to speak on, "Okay, you like it. What do you like about it?" Professors NEED to tell you why they don't like something. And it needs to be more than their personal peeves/subjective style bias or whatever.
Some teachers just ban black color without any explanation but in fact black in shadows often makes everything muddy and grayish. Teachers should tell people how to use it instead of just banning it
I showed my mom a drawing I saw the other day, it was a really realistic drawing of tommyinnit that was digital, and she said “anyone could do that it’s digital” and that made me feel really bad about my art cause i do digital cartoon-ish/chibi
I feel like every artist should try to learn realism because there are definitely things you can take from it that you like. But I also believe this about anime and other cartoony things. You might learn you love or hate doing different styles
I remember growing up in the art community around the time where people would make videos giving criticism to random people on deviantart and I even remember times where it went completely south. Now giving advice to artist who want it can be a very good thing but the problem came when a lot of users are criticism forced onto them. Some UA-camrs would treat their advice like it was this holy grail that you dare would not question and you MUST take it. A lot of artists got hurt during this time. some got a massive amount of harassment, some had to change their username to help escape the mob and some straight up quit art afterwards. (A name like Aki dalliah comes to mind, I forgot how to spell her username.) In short, if you’re giving criticism be aware who you’re giving it to as far so you know, that random user might just be a 13 year old child first starting art. It also help to ask if they’re ok with criticism first before giving it. Just my thoughts.
Speaking of realism and communicating - you should really check out the book "illustration" by Alan Male. It's one of my course books in my visual communication degree, and I especially liked the breakdown of hyper realism and the whole "creating fantasy worlds" aspect. It also has tons of inspiring images and other fun stuff :3
Yee, I mean tbh the other reason why people kinda judge others for an anime style is cause anime is easier to learn/faster to draw. The learning curve for artist when it comes to anime is usually two things: they start drawing anime with no foundation or they start from foundational and decide they want to later draw in an anime style. Like I was surprised when friends could draw awesome anime styles, but struggled with realistic. A lot of professors and artists say they ended up "growing out if it" or that its more of a passion project. I did want to make a YT video about it down the line, but idk thats what I think!
@@pogz1 hey! so actually we probably started yt around the same time, you have more subscribers than me! i think what you have is great already, your thumbnails are definitely eyecatching. now is the time to be working on your skills as an artist not necessarily the yt you produce rn. i would say keep studying, use reference photos, and practice more! also perhaps a voiceover in your videos? atm i would say you're a lv 2 artist. all the equipment i use is pretty much from my iphone 11, so if you have a recent phone it would be really easy to record. great content!
for me, a good way to get into art is to start off very simple, then if you want delve into more and more complex anime styles, and even eventually adopting a more realistic/complex style if you want. I've only been drawing for about 7 years, though, so I don't know how valid my advice is.
Well... I think that art teachers don’t explain themselves enough most of the time. I agree with no using black but mainly because it tends to dull down colours when mixing/blending. I think it’s better to use a different dark pigment. Though you of course should do as you please and do what works for you. That’s after all just my experience 🙂
Ah I have a tale of this one art kid at my school I was talking to tell me that I shouldnt do symbolism with my stuff??????? She kind of always talks about wanting to go to art school so was her critique an actual thing or just a personal distaste? I haven't actually had an art class since 5th grade and I wanted some advice and some criticism, so I asked this girl who is like "I'm going to go to art school" and "look at my new watercolor pallet" because I was using watercolor and, hey she uses it too. I was drawing a set of characters once on a sheet of watercolor paper for each one and I was using symbolism for the background of each one as well as using one color in different shades for each character with a different color usually contrasting but not necessarily opposite like I did purple+green and pink+yellow. This chick literally was like "hey that foreground is done in a normal perspective but the city scape is layered and has no depth that's bad" so I explained the reasoning and symbolism along the lines of "I'm making it look like a stage play because the character being drawn sees the world around them as more of a play that everyone is acting in so they put up a façade" (I was kind of inspired by dramaturgy) And after I explained she told me to draw more literally because "no one is going to get your stupid symbolism give more hints about it" and she went on a minor rant about why my work sucked with this specific one out of my 8 or so characters because of how no ones going to get its a stage background and to add theater lights or something THEN SHE TOOK OUT A PENCIL AND TRIED TO DRAW THEM ON THE TOP OVER MY WATERCOLOR. And its not even like the city scape was looking realistic, I made them look more like a drawing then the other backgrounds and specifically told this girl they were meant to be viewed as a group- so like was that her personal bias or was she actually serious about that cuz I know she gets all flaunty with that "When I graduate I'm going to blah, blah art college" ah sorry for the length if you read through this anyone.
I'm training to be an Art Teacher atm and one of my students was building an art portfolio for animation. And I was looking through it and it was all photo realistic pieces. When I asked if they drew anime or cartoon, they told me that their parents didn't allow them to because it wasn't "real art". So they instead had to draw it in secret and when they gave me their "secret sketchbook" I was completely blown away. They honestly looked ashamed they gave it me but when I started complimenting it they seemed almost in shock that I liked it.
So yes, PLEASE ENCOURAGE YOUR STUDENTS/CHILDREN TO DRAW ANIME AND CARTOON.
Aww that is so sad... :( I hope your student eventually feels more confident about their cartoon work! But yeah anime, cartoon, any style of art really, if that's what gets you to lay that line down, just do it!
@@mewTripled Exactly. It was g in the end. I told them they could draw it in class or even after school ended if they wanted. And it made their portfolio more diverse. As an art teacher idc what they draw as long as its fun and helps them build confidence.
You’re an amazing teacher for encouraging them! We need more teachers like you in the art world ❤️
@@kyliehoover7589 Aww thank you so much!! I try my best. Don't praise me too much tho. Still don't have a full degree lolz.
Thank you for being the change for art teachers! I feel like most aren't like you, so you encouraging whatever style a student does.
I had an art teacher who was strict with the school curriculum, and she was a pain to deal with. I went into art class because of the teacher next door, who was forced to do ceramics since there wasn't another teacher who can. Now he was the one who was just like you, so I would always go to him for advice. Just wanted to share this.
instead of saying don’t use black, the good advice actually is ‘remember you can’t shade black’ and ‘black get some colors muddy, if that happens try adding the complementary color to the mix’
Yeah wording matters a lot with teaching!
yes, I'm sick of mixing dark colors! after years i reintroduced black into my pallet and i just feel so free
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I was told it was "avoid shading with black" in the idea that black is dull and it's better to use dark blues and purples to give more 'life'. So, like, unless piece is black-and-white or you want to make a dull piece of art, avoid using black to shade.
@@mastertofu yea! shadows actually can be more saturated! thats probably the trap people fall into thinking shadows are only desaturated and dull, rainbows can be found in the most unlikely places! blacks nice to shift radiance, blacks just all 3 colors combined and easier to slap into for use when dulling things rather then having to keep double, triple, quad dipping into paint piles, sighs!
I was really lucky about the anime thing. My art teacher didn't discourage me from drawing it at all, he knew I enjoyed it, so he would make me study classically and when I was done with my piece, he would encourage me to cool off with an anime styled artwork. Now thanks to him, I can switch from photo realism to anime in an instant.
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That's so dope! :DD
Wow awesome teacher, incredibly important to cool of from studies with something you enjoy
Same, I don't draw in an anime/manga style but my teacher told us to just do it in our free time because Cambridge doesn't like it
Dude, he is such a great teacher and a good person! :) Im so happy you knew someone like that!
I wanted to add to the "teachers don't want you to draw anime". It could be because of the reasons you listed, but I also think it could be that they just want you to understand realistic human anatomy before you start stylizing it. I don't think teachers should ban the students from drawing anime, but make them understand that learning the fundamentals of anatomy (the head, eyes, muscles, poses....) is a big benefit before you start stylizing it. It's just the phrase "learn the rules before you break them" as everyone knows at this point.
Of course, everyone has their own comfortable way of learning. But personally, If I think back to the days when I was a beginner, I drew whatever I liked, I had fun. But if I was just nudged a bit more to learn proper anatomy, I would probably be better off from the start. I could have always stylized it later and on the side.
And for the "Don't use the color black for shading". I do think black is a valid color to use when used properly in stylized art. Comic books with solid black shading are a good example. But I think when people refer to "don't shade with black" it's more of shading a character with just a transparent black color. Which often makes the character's colors look flat. It's not the worst of art crimes imo haha, but adding a transparent blue or purple for shading would make it pop up more and make it more lively.
Lol, it’s actually about u and how u make those “tips” into actual tip for arts. It’s about how u analyze of the tips to make your art better
Idk if u watch Lavender Towne, but she also made a bad art tips video, and she suggests that u develop technical skills and stylized skills at the same time
i got the 'dont draw anime' as a kid who had never watched a single anime in my life and it confused the hell out of me. some art teachers will call every cartoon style anime which is not only wrong but also really weird??
if they wanna say 'draw realistically' they should just say 'draw realistically'
I’ve only recently gotten into art so I’m kinda developing a style and trying to work on parts of drawing one at a time (eyes, hair, anatomy) and I’m not in an art class or anything so it’s really unhelpful when I’m not given actual ways to improve by people. So thanks for the help
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Honestly, anime at its core is 90% realism and 10% aesthetic window dressing that hard-headed, old-fashioned Western art snobs hate. With its already built in anatomy and structure, anime isn't a bad place to start. You also get a bonus peak into how the fundamentals are applied to design decisions in a legitimate entertainment environment. For anyone actively pursing the anime style, they eventually learn that anime has a very, very heavy grounding in the fundamentals. In my opinion, art teachers should be thanking students that they're starting here and not anything weirder.
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@@pogz1 I gotta be honest, if your gonna copy and paste this on every damn comment can it at least make grammatical sense? Yeah cool thanks-
as an anime artist, completely agree, a lot of my practice for drawing good art is actually anatomy practice! although, id like to note, if you are planning to draw with an anime artstyle, learning how an actual head and face looks is also very important to get it right, since animes 10%, is mostly the head, and by god I do not speak of the blob like chinless terrors i drew before I traced like 3 photos of an actual human face to get used to the placement.
@@r_tten Yeah, one of the pitfalls of the anime style is that it can be difficult to figure out how the head works when all you've got to go by are the large eyes and nonexistent noses. But, you do see why those design decisions were made once you look at a few realistic references. And, admittedly, anime artists can get a bit defensive about art style around the head area (with the weird anti-anime sentiment, especially a decade ago, I can't really blame them--us).
Some anime is not at all %90 realism, most anime is actually aesthetic. The reason why teachers don’t like anime is because usually people start their art career drawing anime only, and not acknowledging realistic proportions to actual realism. Small noses and big heads is not good proportions at all...
"Nothing will be perfect no matter your path in life"
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@@nerdiebitch755 Me too, I'm very much a perfectionist and I'm often disappointed by my work and the lack of results. Sometimes I just need to remind myself that baby steps are the key and not everything can be perfect right off the bat.
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the anime one is so true. and like anime art styles are so diverse like you've got attack on titan and you've got sailor moon, polar opposites
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it’s sad that even when you get into an art college, some professors will still tell you to only take inspiration from classical art and art history. what ever happened to taking inspiration from things you enjoy and and working towards the future? aaaaaa
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@@zondwhomlovesjesus8444 not everyone is Christian.
I’m in art school right now and they focus so much on fine arts . Super precise lines, realism and perfect perspective. I’m glad to learn it but it’s so....un-inspiring to me. I feel like I thought I would be able to be more creative. I’ve already taken two classes that are about drawing random objects and buildings.
or the one where its like "dont trace, tracing is bad and makes you a bad artist"
tracing is literally what got me to my point of art now, tracing is good if you actually are willing to learn from it, like anatomy and stuff but never claim it as your own
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I think that when your a beginner, the only criticism you should get should be about the end product, not the process. Like- the no copying should be something told to you when you are further down the path to be an artist. So yeah I agree :)
Tracing is ok to an extent. It’s ok to get the form down but some people use it too much and it becomes a crutch
I never trace when doing original art unless it will not be included in the final piece and is just to emphasize reference features.
However, doing edits of different styles, such as editing Genshin characters to be more scantily clad (to see what they would look like under the clothes, this is mostly done with razor) can help with learning anatomy, and how to morph your style so that it isn’t the same all of the time.
Also, IF YOU WANT TO DRAW PORN, DRAW PORN. It REALLY helps anatomy and skin shading.
I agree, tracing is fine so long as you don't take what you did and pass it off entirely as your own. If you're gonna share it, then say that you traced it, even if it's one of those "draw the squad" things that are kind of meant to be traced.
I feel like the "Don't use black" is good temporary advice because I know when I was younger I had such a hard time getting my colors to look good because I was using black as shading for EVERYTHING and it was muddy and ugly. Taking black out made it easier for me to get a hold of how to make colors look good and once I got a better grip on that I reintroduced black.
So if you're having trouble with your colors being muddy and ugly don't use black, figure out how to use colors, THEN ignore the don't use black rule.
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Yeah I think its more like "don't mix black into everything?"
to me, my shading looks completely fine being black and when i try another shading style it looks bad. does this mean i should change my style or is it just me being lucky?
@@metra8604 To be safe, learn colour theory so you can learn to mix the exact colour you want. 👍
@@Waste-Water-Management ok. I'll also work on changing my style, maybe that's the problem of black looking good.
i used to get shat on for only drawing girls (now my issue is only drawing boys but alas) but i dont plan on going into a career pertaining to art so if i wanna draw a million pictures of the same person in the same style, let me do so in peace
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The only reason i only draw girls is because im bad at drawing guys ;-; and because i like girls more than guys so HAHAHAHA
I used to have both those problems :,)
Same with me, I can only draw girls, I know the anatomy /structure of girls etc. I'm doing gcse art next year and want to learn how to draw boys as well
I've only ever drawn one dude and it was a flop 😭
The subtitles were all “Hello bishops.” Everytime Lol 😆
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Praise the lord
I was told "Not to draw that." When I was drawing a naruto fan comic while on brake.
I just jaw dropped and said nothing because I was like ... "Not draw what???"
My teacher at the time did a full on back step to the back of the class room to "help" another student... They never explained why and said nothing after they walked away.
I still wanted to know why they did it.
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@@pogz1 Y o u a r e e v e r y w h e r e , s t o p c o m m e n t i n g t h i s
I mean my art teacher basically told me the way i draw is "too easy". I love drawing anime. It's very comforting to me which is why that upset me quite a bit since its one of my only hobbies and it's one of the only things I put effort into. I really hate it when they never give a good reason why you can't draw a certain way. I can understand if they are trying to teach you something but that wasn't really the case during this lesson. They never give a valid reason or any good criticism. My mother dose a better job and she dosnt draw.
The confidence in drawing the faces in pen with no sketch.
honestly, i had the best art teacher last year. she considered any and everything art and was so inclusive about everything. you could draw a stick figure or literally anything, and she would say that you did amazing. she encourages everyone to draw, and she helped so much :)
Aww may God bless her! And you too :)
@@zondwhomlovesjesus8444 god bless you as well !!!
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What you said about the "dont use black for shading" rule is exactly what I think about using black!! There's been 1000 times that I used black for shading in my art classes and the professors never knew lol
I always felt like when I’m as working in class I would use black then hide it away quick or be ready to cover it up using a darker color as the teacher walked by and they never knew either 🤷🏻♀️
I mean your both just hurting yourself by not learning how to Mix colours without black, my teacher discouraged black but if you didn't want to listen he'd just focus on the students that were. He was very nice and loved it when students experimented.
@@nerdycurls6253 Oops, my comment made me sound super dismissive. I meant that I used black a lot for shading in the way that was described in the video - for shading to portray the drama, intensity, etc. I just use both that technique + color mixing (complementary, warming up colors, cooling down colors) to paint.
@@chelsea15367 oh I see that sounds very interesting, I'm sure your work looks great.
@@nerdycurls6253 I’m not saying I don’t know how to mix black at all its definitely a skill I use for in painting! I don’t do much painting though I’m talking like colored pencil and chalk pastel mostly where it’s more difficult to get deep deep blacks and when you are on a deadline as a student with other projects using black is a shortcut sometimes and you usually can’t tell as long as you layer more colors of course. I think the point is that you shouldn’t stop yourself from using something if you think your piece needs it because ultimately you are learning how to get your piece to where you want it. For me, I didn’t really choose to not listen to the professor because I would try it in other areas for example that would work out fine. But sometimes something needed to go deeper yknow? I love teachers like that though because there’s always that student that is taking the class because they have to and aren’t really into it and why waste his time when he could help the kids who actually want to move forward ☺️
at my art school I constantly get critiqued for 'being too inspired by anime' and it drives me insane, because anime, while it's a huge part of what I enjoy and study, isn't the only thing I take inspiration from. I love classical and romantic art (especially German/Russian and from my home country Poland), golden age illustration, Victorian poster art, spooky vintage Halloween postcards, ancient Chinese and Japanese paintings, all sorts of different animation styles from different times and countries, you name it, there's so much more to what influences me, and yet all they see is the evil anime. and even if it was, so what? they can't deny the huge success and influence of people like Osamu Tezuka or Miyazaki and all the other amazing artists. I personally value them more than Disney, because I like when animation has some mundane realism to it, I love the quiet moments, I love the exaggerated emotions, and I hate inbetweening both because it's tedious and boring and I could spend that time drawing better keys and because it just looks too smooth if the whole film is 24fps.
on the other hand people who straight up copy simple wacky ass cartoon styles or just go full on Disney-style, or do some extra abstract experimental shit always get praised and get higher grades.
can't wait to graduate this year lol
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May God bless you! Jesus loves you :)
What school is this? I gotta know now lmao
@@ix1628 all of them.
Wtf, do you don't like cartoon style? You have problem?
If an art professor were to say “don’t like that” to me... I’ll straight up say “Fine YOU make a portfolio thats meets YOUR standards.. all drawn by you by Monday.”
If they are gonna try to use you as a door mat, pull the rug out from underneath them and get the upper hand.
They'd probably tell you to fuck off and stop helping tbh. That or they'll be even worse to you from that point onm
@@highdefinition450 nah they really can’t do that due to it being seen as unprofessional
The not shading with black rule is more for digital art, beginners usually take black or a darker version of their color to shade and set it to multiply and it muddies the colors. A quick fix for something like that is shading with a color of a different hue entirely, it makes things a lot more vibrant
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Um what do you think shading is A DARKER COLOR.
@@coffintears5821 yes, but a hue shift as well as a darker color looks much nicer!
I turned on cc and UA-cam thinks you're saying "hello bishops" and I think that's hilarious
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@@babaarts007 please shut up
@@pogz1 u 2. Both of you. Shut up.
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Teachers don't like it when I say I want to draw anime. Frankly speaking, it's one of the toughest art styles I have tried to amulate and is personally the prettiest so of course I try to draw anime styles. The teachers kept discouraging me from drawing anime and to continue improving my realism and I practically lost all fun I got from art. Then my mom got me a phone and I was exposed to digital art and slowly learned to develop an anime-inspired art style which got me back into drawing. I think the way the anime art styles share and highlight is magnificent and I'm no longer going to listen to those art teachers.
It's disappointing how some art teachers give biased marks. In my art test last year, we were supposed to paint a vegetable/fruit based on a reference. Me and two other classmates were the 'artists' in the class and we did the tomato. One does anime only and made the lighting and shading so dramatic it was beautiful. I tried following the reference as close as I could. We both got way less marks than the last girl. Why? Because even though her tomato wasn't based on the reference, it was so hyper-realistic that all the teachers believed hers was the best. I'm not trying to discredit her, we're all friends and she's insanely good, but it's insulting when our art teachers favour realism over everything else about the art.
@orbit okay, that's fine, but just because one thing is easy to you does not make it easy for everyone
@orbit the while point is that I already got the fundamentals, they just don't want me to draw anything stylise, anything that isn't realism
@orbit in my opinion, I think doing a non-realistic (anime/cartoon/etc) drawing should be good if people find it hard to do realism, because you can first try to do proportions with it, and when you’re completely comfortable in that aspect, doing realism would be a ton easier
I 100% agree with the topic of drawing manga/anime. I remember being discouraged a lot for drawing manga and often told to draw other things. I’m not opposed to drawing other stuff because it’s helps me develop more different styles, but I overall enjoy drawing manga. But when I started my junior year of high school one of my art teachers really enjoyed my manga art and always encouraged me to continue with it. He even helped me put together a portfolio when I was applying to art schools and in the end I got accepted into my current art school. What surprised me most was that a lot of my professors enjoyed the art I was producing because I’ve heard the stories of professors not liking the art form. Like you said in the video, the anime art form has had such an influence on western animation lately so I feel people are starting to be more accepting of it which I’m really happy about. Anime and manga is still art, it’s just different from what you’re used to seeing.
Yeah for sure! And there are so many styles within anime as well, it's hard to say "stop drawing" anime when there are many varieties of styles within it.
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I think this anime stigma comes from people that see beginner artists only copy the art they admire and be proud of the result because it looks anatomically and generally accurate and really awesome but in reality they didnt really learn anything except the way the original artist stylizes and that obviously doesnt help without a good foundation. But those people/artists often overlook the fact that anime is usually the first step for a beginner artist into serious art, a journey of improving and learning to love what you do.
I've always loved drawing but it was only when i discovered webtoons that i was so amazed by this art that i wanted to replicate it. Soon i realized i do not have even the tiniest bit of the skill that is required to actually draw a webtoon, so i started practicing to get there. And as i was going i discovered a lot of new stuff that was partly fun, partly tiring but now my art teacher seems impressed by my "skills". He wouldn't have been back in the day when i was only able to copy the done cartoon, so i would take their advice with a grain of salt. Of course they are somehow right, you shouldnt stay in the "only copying other peoples stuff" phase for too long, but it can be a portal to a new dimension and a big joy for you, if you follow the route!
(Excuse my English, i'm still learning as well i'm still learning considering art)
I remember I always draw anime but was discouraged by my family that " drawing anime won't get you anywhere because you're not in Japan, you're in America." I still draw anime because it's difficult to get out of the phrase.
I really needed to hear this
Glad I can help in any way :)
@@mewTripled Thank you :)
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13:50 the idea that a catcaller should be like the beast from beauty and the beast is just so messed up.... HUH??? i can’t believe someone would actually say that
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Ahhhhh, you just gave my high school art teacher a coronary, you put colour and ink in a sketchbook. “Never put colour or ink in your sketch book!” Yeah I failed my sketchbook.
Sketchbooks are supposed to have no rules. I'm sorry, but I get the feeling that your art teacher isn't helping you reach your full artistic potential.
I feel like if a professional artist looked at my art and told me "Yeah, not my thing. Don't like it." I would actually be kinda happy because if you want to look at the positive side and be a little sassy, it means they didn't pick up a fault in my drawing.
Though I'd probably feel shitty because I have no self-esteem... Don't be like me!
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power dynamics are a big part of some art "tips" that people give out and it pisses me off when i see it, if im able to intervene and give more positive criticism/advice i do try
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My worst grade (C) in high school occurred in my art class because my art teacher didn’t like anime art styles. So my style was kind of impacted by that and it’s a mixture of anime and realism.
Just wanted to say your advices really help me alot! Even tho I am in art school and a senior at that, I've learned more from you than my professors. Thank you 😊
im so glad to hear that!!
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Back when I was in art school the art teacher we had most classes with was actually fine with you drawing anime. She would even help people even tho she have never watched it. Like yeah we had classes on sill lifes and stuff or plain air drawing when you couldn't really draw whatever you want but I think that's fine because it's art school after all. So hearing how some other teachers banned you from drawing whatever you want I love mine even more. She banned rulers tho but I think it was actually helpful as everyone with time learnt to freehand straight lines.
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My theories of design prof always tells us theres nothing wrong with drawing and liking anime but in the end of the day its just a style and we should always try to branch out to different styles, especially bc what if the style goes out of fad
Thanks for this. I'm only doing Anime/Disney Fan Arts in my art account. I told myself I'd do a realism but up until now I can't see myself doing it. I'm trying to improve my art in my own style (anime-ish). I'm trying my best not to compare my art to others and instead compare my old art to the recent one and say, 'Hey, I've improved! It looks really good!'
Yeah it's like referencing art heavily you can pick up on artists mistakes is how I see some advice but you give great advice though learned a lot from you, criticism is something you gotta be able to handle when it comes to art.
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that dude flipping through your portfolio was so rude, definitely a power trip moment >:(
Need your precious suggestions about my art work....💢⁌⁇‱
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Idk why art teachers say not to draw anime but have no problem with American cartoon styles usually? (For Americans at least).
Cartoon is life 🤘🤘🤘
Anime is a good start helps sometimes
the only real reason why you shouldnt use black is because it flattens and desaturates a color. unless you really have one of the deepest darkest soulsucking shadows in a painting, black is just gonna kill your other colors. they'll look muddy and lifeless. for an illustration or style similar to yours i dont know why anyone would say dont use black... thats odd
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Hard agree. Black/desaturation should be used in a way that makes it look appealing, just with all colors, and when it’s used in a form that would benefit more from hue, it can take the life out of a drawing. Of course, artists can do that for stylistic purposes if they want to, I’m just talking about the ones who are doing it unintentionally and want to learn more about shading.
I love your art, there is sooo much diversity in them in different ways. I love it!
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I love the advice to not take all advice so seriously! Artists need to trust themselves more in order to keep growing :) I also really love the advice to keep using anime as a reference, there are so many amazing things to learn from that art style and it sucks when people try to say it’s not worth looking at. Great video!!
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I love the growing amount of artists making vids about the worst art tips they've heard. Good because there are some trash advice around on YT that isn't helping anyone.
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I have heard interesting counter arguments with the whole art teachers hating anime shtick. And that is that in some cases it's the teachers know that if a student starts to draw in anime and only draws in anime because they like it and their fav media is in that style that the student will stump their growth. They will only know how to draw in an anime style and won't build their own unique one and if they want to go into the art industry they might not have the chance to work on an anime project. So I think for some teachers it's more the argument of not wanting the student to just stick to one style and replicate it but rather form their own. In saying that there are some teachers who genuinely are just anal about no anime because "it's not real art"
You can shade black if it is in blocks or hatching etc, or if it’s in a comic style (think of old hulk comics or others and see how they shade). If you do shade with black it does look gross if it is blended or blurrred. ❤️❤️❤️
I can’t add the ascended spongebob meme here but it’s precisely how I felt when Meesh validated my entire art path as an animation student who has drawn more anime inspired art until now lmao.
I can draw other styles and hell I even do quite frequently in my own time. I have a comic style completely separate from my anime one. But my anime style is not only my strongest style to share online, its also the style I enjoy and personify as my style the most. I’m a third year whose about to graduate and I’m stubborn as ever lmao. You can draw mostly anime, you just gotta have the confidence and determination to see it through despite people who may throw you down.
Anime is such a diverse style even if we consider it a style in its own too, alot of artists takes on the style is their own interpretation which makes it their style. People invalidating artists versions of the style as just copying is usually trashing on the years of growth and inspiration from multiple artists eastern and western to make that style- as well as just invalidating every anime studio out there that has their own unique version of the style. It’s not one style, sure some may share similar points but these are points shared across all animation as a whole, not just anime.
Animation has had big eyes and expressions since near its beginning with the exception of cut out and rotscoped animation. The main thing with some anime is the more human esque proportions in places but even then you look at studios like trigger and even thats bot the case most of the time. Most people compare works made by the same studio as them having the same style and it hurts my soul. Not every anime style is A1- A1 just has a formula for the style they use since its popular. I absolutely agree people should diversify styles and take inspo from multiple sources to build their own style, but hell you could technically do that even entirely within anime, the range is really alot more dynamic than people give it credit for. I like taking inspo from both eastern and western works but I wouldn’t call someone with a unique style made from mostly anime works invalid for their style inspo origins. Hell I wouldn’t call someone who did just draw in A1’s style invalid either especially if they are aware of that inspo, theres a market for that style, it’s not a bad thing.
I actually consider anime and western cartoon styles as the new modern art movement. Though its funny to joke about how hentai might be looked on by art historians in a hundred years time as a magmum opus, it’s actually something that can really happen. Hell it already is, the worlds oldest anime is hidden away as a japanese historical treasure and it has the panty trope in it ftfggggh Hell its even been done with past artstyles in the past, art only is validated when the style is not popular, I don’t get humanity for that fact. I’m gonna be writhing in my grave when art teachers start telling kids off for not drawing spongebob correctly because they are drawing in the new art trend in many hundreds of years time.
And hoo sorry I had to get that off my chest. That was meant to be a short comment, but Meesh’s acknowledgement on all this ignited something in me lmao.
This all being said, there are many beautiful western styles too and I think we should equally fight for those styles too! I think anime style onlys are only ever annoying when they claim traditional anime style is the best style out there. Theres so many beautiful styles out there, all deserve love and attention for what they have to bring to the table.
Oh and theres more eastern styles than just anime in the east! I say eastern influence talking about anime but theres many non anime eastern styles I take influence from too! It’s good to acknowledge that anime is not the only non western origin style to exist!!
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Awe the kitty, I was doing some mushroom paintings today and my cat decided he wanted to lay on me. I had to stop so he could try to groom me and wiggle around on me, at one point he ended up cuddled against me on his back like a baby.
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I had a professor that help to destroy my inspiration saying that “we should not dry anime”.. ridiculous, I regret so much listening to him. I ended up in a huge 4 year gap without touching art at all because of this. I will buy clay today and go back to the hobby.
Good Luck!
To students who are told to not draw what they want do NOT listen! I was so obsessed with approval I only did studies and completely lost sight of what I wanted to make. Studies are very important but if you don't make art that brings you joy your work will suffer a lot more and you will feel very unhappy. When I got to college I felt much better because I was encouraged to explore more. People will visibly see work you care about and the work you have passion for will almost always be better.
So ironic that I have to turn down a lot of commissions because I can’t draw anime
Good thing my art teachers is chill with me drawing in an anime-like style. (They actually like it.)
I think the “anime” most art teachers are mentioning however are the “how to draw anime” books from 2007 with the most poorly done anime art.. which are drawn by peeps in the west who didn’t fully understand how anime looks and works. 😭
Triggered, my art school portfolio review made me not want to go to art school. Thanks for bringing this up.
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I agree on black 100%! Gets the best contrast
I think I needed to hear some of that, thanks!
Something people forget is that we make art for our comfort.
that was almost all of the bad advice I was given in either one art class or another ._. it's... honestly reassuring to hear it referred to as bad advice, for a while I'd stopped asking for advice since I was expecting any of it to be along these lines ^_^;; especially the "I don't like it" angle, because you're right! it doesn't help anything at all! XD I've slowly gotten better since getting out of college, but all of this was still very nice to hear, thank you
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The girl on the very left looks like a pokemon trainer
and I say that as a good thing!
Also, I think that's some good advice that you've given in this video :))
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@@pogz1 stfu
My teachers thought that anime/manga meant Japanese p*rn. So whenever I would mention anime/manga they would tense up and ask if it's drawing inappropriate things. I literally had to show my homeroom teacher a pokemon manga to show her that some manga had nothing to do with nsfw stuff but for some reason she acted like she didn't believe me. She flipped through the manga and asked me "This is manga?", I said yes and she started looking through it again and I kind of felt like she looked at me like she thought I was lying to her when she handed the manga back to me. Some boys from the older classes even asked if I'm the girl that "draws naked girls" because they want me to draw something for them. So thanks to these teachers who had no idea what they were talking about, created the rumor that I draw nsfw stuff. -_-
I always end up subconsciously drawing on my book during class and my teachers would always tell me off and tell me to correction tape it (I’m using pen). Hence the reason why I love my English teacher, she really likes my doodles, encourages me and adds little notes sometimes like “cute! :)” or “oh no D:” according to what doodle I did ^^
I related to this really hard! After going through art school for so many years I’ve had my share of great and not so great professors. There were some professors that really tried to help me get my pieces to read as I wanted it to by sharing how it read to them and how I could improve it toward what I wanted but others that just... tried to change it completely to what they wanted which made me end up making a piece they wanted rather than what I wanted to make in the first place with the message I wanted. In hindsight mayyybe I guess in a way it helps to learn to make corrections for what a client wants for example but they don’t frame it that way so I doubt that was the intention. Sometimes I got professors that just wanted their student body to look good (and I think that’s all professors to a degree of course) which was sometimes at the expense of students original concepts. Lots of frustrating advice in college and I love hearing experiences from other art school grads! I definitely made a ton of friends going through art school because we bitch about that same stuff 😅
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@@pogz1 I thought your videos were great! I love the intro animation and catchy music to the one I saw! I wish I had time and patience to do more animating in my videos 😅 You’re killin it!
Yess your video is what I need rn 🥺
Yay I'm so glad, thanks!!
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Thank you so much! These are so great to hear, also I love your art style! I was always afraid of pursuing artistic endeavors, but thank you so much for explaining and giving tips! I feel a little more empowered! I hope you keep making art and I'm sorry you had to fight so hard against the art social norm. Thank you for being you!
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Some input:
I never trace anymore when doing original art that will be shown unless it will not be included in the final piece and is just to emphasize reference features. I did trace when I was a beginner, however. It helped me learn.
Black can muddy certain colors, but it is not invalid to shade with black.
Doing edits of different styles, such as editing Genshin characters to be more scantily clad (to see what they would look like under the clothes, this is mostly done with razor) can help with learning anatomy, and how to morph your style so that it isn’t the same all of the time.
Also, IF YOU WANT TO DRAW PORN, DRAW PORN. It REALLY helps anatomy and skin shading. Learning to draw the genitals/crotch can actually really help your characters to look more anatomically correct. Hentai also helps with posing.
Realism is quite impressive, but twisting reality is even more impressive.
My art teacher always said don’t draw anime durning class but would encourage me to do it in my free time. She never demonised it she just wanted me to learn the basics and stuff before I drew in my own style. I used to love showing her my personal drawings after class cause she would constantly hype me up 😂
people like realism because it's palatable and easy for everyone to understand.
My Mother wants me to always draw realistically not anime...
;(
It makes me sad she says that my anime drawings look like zombies....
Meh,don't listen to them!
Lmaaoooo maybe you should try realistic but u don't need to stop on anime...
ALL ART IS REAL ART! that's what makes it fun!!
I was told not to draw anime too 😭
Drawing anime/manga is awesome and I learned a whole lot from it.
My current art teacher doesn’t even teach us how to do our work, just calls us to do it... I miss my old art teacher so much bro :’)
YES DROP THAT TEA
juicy tea
One of my art teachers absolutely HATED it when I or my friends would draw something that looked slightly anime-ish. She'd tell us to stop and do something else when the assignment was to draw/paint something we wanted to draw/paint. But then she'd turn around and praise the students drawing western cartoon characters, even when they are not listen to her abd not following the assignments directions (so like, she'd tell us to paint a sky or something and those kids are painting spongebob instead)
I've heard that apparently she's gotten better but she mistreated me and my friends (she did way more than just yell at us for drawing anime) to the point I just don't like her and don't want to forgive her.
my art teacher was very strict on the black sading, which i understand like you said with realistic, but personally i like block shading on certain things, so i block shade with black :)
LOOK AT THOSE DIVERSE BODY TYPES SO BEAUTIFUL🥺❤️💐
Honestly, I’m having such a hard time of developing a style. I get very caught up in making sure my art is accurate, so even when I’m trying to create something stylized, it often ends up being more realistic than I intended.
I think this is partially because people would make comments saying, “You should use less line work. There’s not lines in real life.” I’m currently trying to let myself be more creative.
It depends on your end goal/ artistic path, and who you're creating for. For yourself, do what you want. For a design piece, black can help immensely. If your goal is a visual artist, then listening to your teacher and applying the fundamentals are very important in order to gain that knowledge. No one says you have to follow everything that is given to you, though. So to say "don't listen to these tips" isn't allowing yourself to grow as a creative. Comparing art and design, they carry different techniques and fundamentals. And I do not understand how the catcaller analogy relates to your art teacher telling you that for this lesson, you have to make black in order to understand natural colors and color theory.
I'm 17 right now and I'll be going into my senior year and ive been really lucky to have a school art teacher who is young and supportive of different styles,, and i have an afterschool art class with a teacher who is inks comics for a living. Through having these teachers over the past year I've improved so much and im so much more confident in my art. My biggest suggestion or piece of advice i have is to draw as much art with ink or pen as possible. My afterschool teacher started me off with perspective and basic still lifes and then immediately started teaching me how to do linework and inking. After learning how to control ink and render images using it i improved in literally every other form of art because i learned to control my hand and wrist movement, while also learning how to convey light and shadow while only using two colors (black and white). Its crazy because a year ago i struggled to produce straight lines with anything other than a pencil, but now im a lot more confident with my lines and im able to draw quickly in ink with barely any sketch underneath. Im glad my teachers never pushed me away from doing art other than realism, but if your teacher is pushing for realism only, explain to them why drawing anime or cartoon characters is useful. Talk about improving composition, storytelling, contrast, lights and shadows, perspective, or even colors. If they still push realism only then tbh they dont know what theyre talking about and you shouldnt listen to their advice.
Thank you for your honest view on everything. I really enjoy your videos so much!
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@@pogz1 hey, I am just started UA-cam myself so I'm maybe not the right person to do this since I don't have much experience on what's good or not 🥲 Still try to figure it out myself
I think the main reason teachers don’t want you to draw anime is because it’s important to have a basic understanding of anatomy before you stylize it. Anime is very stylized so if a student only draws anime and never bothers to understand proper form and such it will harm them in the long run.
Love this video, definitely good to take each critique with a grain of salt. Definitely keep learning, but not everyone is gonna offer advice that will help your projects specifically.
Yes, totally agree!
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I had a similar experience when I applied to art university...the teacher told me that my art doesn't speak to him and that I should try drawing baseball cards somehow? I didn't got it at all *lol* And he was also against Japan-themed things. I studied Japanology to that time, so he said "At LeAsT YoU haVE A CoNneCtiOn tO It"... Right now I am frustrated with people telling me I am too illustrative for Fine Art and too Fine Art-ish for Illustration. haha
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@@pogz1 Hey!! Sure I can do that. Which video or art are you stuck on? :D ♥
Baseball cards! That was weirdly specific. And being against japan themed just gives me racist vibes Ngl.
You can be illustrative and fine artish
You can do BOTH! Why limit yourself to one thing. No one wants to have only one dish for dinner their whole lives.
@@aotulapongen8382 Hahaha you're absolutely right! It's just hard for me to get this into my head. But I am trying to..just do what I love. // And yes it was oddly specific..I believe it had something to do with Manga as well..and art teachers don't like it. But yeah I get that...he was..weird and a snob too.
honestly the only reason i dont usually use black in my drawings and paintings is because i feel like it dulls every other color out. UNLESS im working in black white and gray, then its awesome to use. im a digital artist tho so my experience is a bit different
Personally, I love that you speak critically about the art industry. You are honest in a conversation that very few people are having. We can't rely on the mainstream to make comprehensive documentary that will be applicable to anyone looking to enter the art industry. So, thank you. And, in the same way the professors push the students to speak on, "Okay, you like it. What do you like about it?" Professors NEED to tell you why they don't like something. And it needs to be more than their personal peeves/subjective style bias or whatever.
Need your precious suggestions about my art work....╚(•⌂•)╝
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Your videos are amazing! Thank you for sharing your tips with us!
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Say it with me ART IS SUBJECTIVE IF WHAT YOU DRAW MAKES YOU HAPPY THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS!!!
like the vid tho, good points!!
Some teachers just ban black color without any explanation but in fact black in shadows often makes everything muddy and grayish. Teachers should tell people how to use it instead of just banning it
"beauty and the beast moment" ya no thx lol
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I really cant believe a professional teacher at cal arts would suggest such a horrible ending like what??
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I showed my mom a drawing I saw the other day, it was a really realistic drawing of tommyinnit that was digital, and she said “anyone could do that it’s digital” and that made me feel really bad about my art cause i do digital cartoon-ish/chibi
For the "dont use black for shadeing" i think its ment for digital artists who just airbrush black to make a shadow
Been following you for years I love you so much 🥺
Gahh thank you!!
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I feel like every artist should try to learn realism because there are definitely things you can take from it that you like. But I also believe this about anime and other cartoony things. You might learn you love or hate doing different styles
I remember growing up in the art community around the time where people would make videos giving criticism to random people on deviantart and I even remember times where it went completely south. Now giving advice to artist who want it can be a very good thing but the problem came when a lot of users are criticism forced onto them. Some UA-camrs would treat their advice like it was this holy grail that you dare would not question and you MUST take it.
A lot of artists got hurt during this time. some got a massive amount of harassment, some had to change their username to help escape the mob and some straight up quit art afterwards. (A name like Aki dalliah comes to mind, I forgot how to spell her username.)
In short, if you’re giving criticism be aware who you’re giving it to as far so you know, that random user might just be a 13 year old child first starting art. It also help to ask if they’re ok with criticism first before giving it.
Just my thoughts.
Speaking of realism and communicating - you should really check out the book "illustration" by Alan Male. It's one of my course books in my visual communication degree, and I especially liked the breakdown of hyper realism and the whole "creating fantasy worlds" aspect. It also has tons of inspiring images and other fun stuff :3
Yee, I mean tbh the other reason why people kinda judge others for an anime style is cause anime is easier to learn/faster to draw.
The learning curve for artist when it comes to anime is usually two things: they start drawing anime with no foundation or they start from foundational and decide they want to later draw in an anime style. Like I was surprised when friends could draw awesome anime styles, but struggled with realistic.
A lot of professors and artists say they ended up "growing out if it" or that its more of a passion project.
I did want to make a YT video about it down the line, but idk thats what I think!
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@@pogz1 hey! so actually we probably started yt around the same time, you have more subscribers than me! i think what you have is great already, your thumbnails are definitely eyecatching. now is the time to be working on your skills as an artist not necessarily the yt you produce rn. i would say keep studying, use reference photos, and practice more! also perhaps a voiceover in your videos? atm i would say you're a lv 2 artist. all the equipment i use is pretty much from my iphone 11, so if you have a recent phone it would be really easy to record. great content!
for me, a good way to get into art is to start off very simple, then if you want delve into more and more complex anime styles, and even eventually adopting a more realistic/complex style if you want. I've only been drawing for about 7 years, though, so I don't know how valid my advice is.
My art style was not inspired by anime but people always assume it is
Well... I think that art teachers don’t explain themselves enough most of the time. I agree with no using black but mainly because it tends to dull down colours when mixing/blending. I think it’s better to use a different dark pigment. Though you of course should do as you please and do what works for you. That’s after all just my experience 🙂
I appreciate this video so so much
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Ah I have a tale of this one art kid at my school I was talking to tell me that I shouldnt do symbolism with my stuff??????? She kind of always talks about wanting to go to art school so was her critique an actual thing or just a personal distaste? I haven't actually had an art class since 5th grade and I wanted some advice and some criticism, so I asked this girl who is like "I'm going to go to art school" and "look at my new watercolor pallet" because I was using watercolor and, hey she uses it too.
I was drawing a set of characters once on a sheet of watercolor paper for each one and I was using symbolism for the background of each one as well as using one color in different shades for each character with a different color usually contrasting but not necessarily opposite like I did purple+green and pink+yellow.
This chick literally was like "hey that foreground is done in a normal perspective but the city scape is layered and has no depth that's bad" so I explained the reasoning and symbolism along the lines of "I'm making it look like a stage play because the character being drawn sees the world around them as more of a play that everyone is acting in so they put up a façade" (I was kind of inspired by dramaturgy) And after I explained she told me to draw more literally because "no one is going to get your stupid symbolism give more hints about it" and she went on a minor rant about why my work sucked with this specific one out of my 8 or so characters because of how no ones going to get its a stage background and to add theater lights or something THEN SHE TOOK OUT A PENCIL AND TRIED TO DRAW THEM ON THE TOP OVER MY WATERCOLOR. And its not even like the city scape was looking realistic, I made them look more like a drawing then the other backgrounds and specifically told this girl they were meant to be viewed as a group-
so like was that her personal bias or was she actually serious about that cuz I know she gets all flaunty with that "When I graduate I'm going to blah, blah art college" ah sorry for the length if you read through this anyone.