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I have a question: How long will this discount in your courses last?When will it stop?Because that video has been for a year and it could be over by now...
According to my "western" teacher: "You must walk before you can run." According to Russian schools: "You must crawl in the gutter before you can fly like an eagle."
I just want to point out that this video is focusing on the fine arts and targeted towards aspiring professional artists. Being at 'Level 0' doesn't mean you are are a terrible artist or that all your practice has been a waste of time. It just means that you are a beginner when it comes to the specific techniques and concepts taught in Russia, which appears to hold its students to a very high standard. If you're a hobbyist, the most important thing is that you enjoy drawing, so don't think that you need to master all of these levels for your work to be valuable and appreciated. But, studying the concepts from this video would definitely be helpful if you are looking to level-up your art. This video also doesn't acknowledge that there are many other art-related industries (e.g. animation, illustration, comics, architecture, contemporary art) which each have their own skillsets that wouldn't be measured according to this system of levels. It's an informative video, but I just want to stress that your place in these 10 levels does not equal your worth or ability as an artist, especially if you work in styles other than fine art.
I am a complete beginner, so out of curiosity, how you you measure skill in other industries? I am really overwhelmed and trying to figure out how to do it the right way.
@@therisj Just learn fundamentals first, of how to draw body from simple shapes, and also simplified faces, worry about this later if you are a complete beginner
This is really sad when you know that all of your learning still count at level 0 and when you get compared to children, but it also what give you motives
Based on my life experiences I can assure you that 99.9% of kids aren’t having lessons like this unless they go to a school only for art or if they have some kind of private tutor. so you’re doing your best with what you have, keep following your dream :)
Lol, I wonder if they disabled the ratings because so many people were angrily downvoting after finding themselves at level 0. As a level 0 scrub, watching this video was actually oddly motivating to me. If Children Art School in Russia gets young minds that proficient in that short amount of time, there's a lot of growth potential with solid instructions.
@@mystereoheart2579 Yeah, I'm almost certain it wasn't - or if it was, they were some particularly exceptional children. However, those are still the tasks they are given, and given the nature of this video I suspect they wanted to make them look as good as possible. Even if made by adults, the children's versions will be similar but less technically skilled, I'd say. I absolutely agree with this video though and wish so bad that classical art would be taught again in the West.
this is extremely useful in figuring out what you need to work on for sure, but for anyone feeling demotivated by it, it's important to remember that art is about a lot more than technical skill
Not really. Technical skill is what draws ppl to you. You having a great concept but shxtty portrayals then ppl aren’t gonna wanna look at it. But everyone will look at a heavily detailed artwork even if there’s no concept.
As a university-level art student, please know that this is very high level stuff. The things that kids are taught in the first few "levels" are absolutely essential knowledge for artists who want to make higher quality art but this is also clearly targeted towards a very classical painterly style that the average artist is not trying to achieve. My greatest tip for improving your art based on this leveling system is do the more boring exercises over and over and over again until you have the fundamental skills before you attempt "finished" works. Some of the best advice I've ever received as an artist is to not try to act like every single piece is a finished piece. Until you're at a professional level, damn near every piece you do should be in the interest of improving your skill and learning. That doesn't mean that you can't do fun things, but it does mean that you will be able to do more fun things much sooner and to a much higher standard.
I‘d like to add to this: Maybe, if you have a piece in mind but think your art skill is not yet good enough tonexecute said idea- DON‘T POSTPONE the idea. Rather try to learn and develop the skills you need FOR and WITH the artpiece. Like this i think you could outright connect the „fun“ thing you wanna do with the hard work you have to put into practice. E.g. when you make concept sketches to plan out the drawing/painting you can train on the cylindrical shapes in the painting (imagine a fanart-composition with characters between antique pillars as shown in the video for example, so you could train multi-person composition, pillars and cylindrical shapes in. The sketches for one piece). Also, the result might not be „objectively“ perfect, but from experience i can say it will feel very good and make it easier to live with the imperfections in such a piece because you will finish it with the knowledge that you learnt something.
do not worry, keep in mind this is constructive art, it takes everything without pre-realism. it's hard to learn this when all you've done is stylisation. art is subjective, you don't need art standards from 3 millennia ago to consider yourself a good artist.
Well you can still produce great artworks without mastery of every component or even mastery of beginning fundamentals. Or even being decent at these fundamentals.
@Kyle Balmer you are right in some aspect, but you don't have the right to discouraged an aspiring artist. If that person can't afford those expensive schools that never give a chance to a child who dreams to become an artist or because of race, they can learn on their own. There are thousands of books out there in this planet that these young people can afford. If these young people have talent and desire to be artists why not? I have read of many artists who were self taught and were successful in their lives later on. Blocking an opportunity for a aspiring artist is not fair. We are in century 21 for heavens sake, discrimination is not fair. They offer an opportunity, but one need to find out the price and the school procedures. Also the school give you "an opportunity" ....before the price goes up...hummm, liars, liars is a trap.
@Kyle Balmer Yes you can, because what's considered great is dictated by people, and people's perspective changes with time. This applies to all the arts, the reason why pop music is more in demand than classical. Technical mastery does not equal success, and the fact that artists have to eat too means they'll always be chasing what's profitable.
True, but I also notice that no major art movement has come out of Russia in the last half century, either. Conservatism is safe, and if you devote your life to it you can make perfect conservative art. But it isn't telling us anything new about the world, it isn't telling us anything about what makes the 21st century unique, and it sure isn't attempting anything exciting.
At 70 years of age I don't really care at what level I am. Probably 0. But I'm at least proud at what I've achieved. so far. At 15 I won an international contest in drawing. So that made me feel good. My grandfather was a self thought artist and as a child I enjoyed watching him at work with his brush. I took up my drawing just a few months ago this after a 20 year break. I draw simply for the pleasure and relaxation. I wish I could have taken art courses at a younger age but I was not privileged coming from a poor family. For anyone contemplating taking art courses at an early age, my blessings go out to you.
This video is about drawing skills from a practical and traditional perspective, not a modern perspective. A lot of people in the comments don’t seem to realize that. The skills listed in this video ARE important when looking at the world in a 3 dimensional plane. Perspective, proportions, shading, geometry. These are all helpful and are things that definitely improve an artists ability to understand how shapes work and how would fit together if they were 3-D. Even if someone is going for a cartoon style, these thing are still important. Maybe not so much for artists who are more about modern art and abstract art, but these ideas can still help any artist looking to improve. While these skills obviously improve an artists work, it is still possible for a piece to look good without ALL of these elements, especially if it’s not supposed to be a reflection of how the real world works. This video really inspired me to take a look at fundamentals because right now my art is at a level where I’m not sure how I can improve even though I know it needs improvements.
Yes you are correct. I lived in Moscow for about 9 years with a close friend who had trained at the esteemed Surikov School. This was about 10 years ago. I'd taken drawing and painting courses as an undergrad in the USA. (On my first day the prof took a lot of newspapers, sticks, bottles and trash and threw it on the floor saying sketch that!) Walking in the classrooms in Moscow I was struck because there would be 20 students sitting at 20 easels, the old fashioned types that seemed made from the wood of a 19th century frigate. 6 feet high. The teachers were never young or hip looking as in the West but were severe looking unsmiling and wore black 3 piece suits and were in their 50's 60's or older. Of course easel painting is taught in the West but not at many art schools. In Russia at that time "creativity", not originality or finding your own style, mixed media etc etc all that was anathema. Technique was everything. And when there was a term ending expo I was doubly amazed, these young students could do anything, level of Manet or Courbet in technique. And not at all similar, they all had styles that were distinctive, without trying to be, that says something about Russian art school pedagogy.
@@victoria5846 Exactly! Optical credibility, composition, a naturalist expression are valuable assets, but you today have tools like photography or abstract styles which develop their own dynamics. The video is a little as if an artist of 30,000 BC were admonishing that well-paid Russian academy professors of today lack a focus on how to project silhouettes of animals onto cave walls. The stance is well known from the history of art as one of ossification and paralysis, like in the Egypt of the 1st millennium BC or in the China of the centuries leading up to 1900. I would like to hear on what level they put Cezanne or Renoir!
I mean, this video exposes the IDEAL education of a vistual artist who practices drawing/painting; I suppose it's similar than in music: you can certainly be a great artist without yet mastering all the aspects of the hight level training of an artist. For example, Van Gogh was learning to draw human anatomy, by the time he already had produced important paintings in early stages of his career (this has been documented and exposed by Betty Edwards). Or take the Beatles, they never took high academic music education but still they're historically recognized and popularly acclaimed artists of music. Anyway, this is a very interesting topic for discussion. Cheers!
This is how amateurs think, you dont need academic training to have an academic level of drawing. You can teach yourself through academic methods. I would suggest the Bargue Drawing Course. And your examples of Vincent Van Gogh and more humourously the beatles are examples of different things. Van Gogh is great because he pushed and experimented with existing ideas of what painting could be. Not about technical skill although he did have some great technical skill. It sounds like youre just trying to shelter your ego. Theres nothing wrong with needing improvement.
@@kullenberg All four Beatles could play an instrument, none of them at the skill level a music academy graduate can. Van Gogh’s set of skills might appear rather limited to a russian academy graduate. Yet with their (relatively) limited set of (academic) skills they managed to produce great Art, which most conservatory or art academy graduates would only dream of producing, amounting maybe only to impressive craftsmanship, but barely managing to produce anything of artistic value. And others combine both, good skills set and artistic talent. I think that’s more or less Jorge’s point.
@@dago87able art and drawing are 2 different definitions. You dont need to reach lvl10 to be a professional artist. Lvl5-6 should be enough. Van gogh paintings does required a set of drawing and painting skill. He had great control of value and color, not to mentioned his ability to draw quickly and accurately. He just expressed himself with those knowledge. In order to study in any fine art or architecture school, you must know the principles of drawing, at least lvl3. Contemporary art is a different concept.
don’t let it ruin your day. let it be a starting point where to go from here. like anything, art is about enjoying the process not necessarily the end goal. imagine how much you can still learn and how it’ll affect your future work. exciting!
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As a self-taught artist, I can't stress how much this video has helped me. Thank you for posting this video, I really appreciate the informative content. Normally, it's hard figuring out where to start because there's so many basic elements I need to learn. Glad to have a video like this as a guide!
@@DrawingArtAcademy one can be desmotivated about this measure of knowledge. But the thing is, art is a thing you do for your entire lifetime. So there's time to improve as much life you had. Good video.
I had no idea art education for children is taken so seriously in Russia! A big contrast with where I am from (Netherlands). Where can I find out more about art education in Russia?
Yeah some countries have different perspectives and pressure when it comes to Art, Russia, Italy and France have much higher standards and skill levels.
I might be wrong, but I personally feel like this video and the scale presented don't really apply to every artist per se and more towards those pursuing fine arts (not that I have anything against fine art o fine artists). Let's say if you were trying to be an animator in the modern entertainment industry, yes having these skills would give you an advantage and an entirely new perspective compared to other artists as these insanely proficient rendering or construction skills presented will mostly go to waste. Again I don't have anything against fine arts and I genuinely respect it as it portrays a really sophisticated and different side of art compared to what we usually see in the modern age, in fact, I personally would love to try out fine arts in the future but the way your channel titled the video might cause confusion and a huge knock to one's confidence for those artists that aren't trying to pursue fine arts but more modern art industries such as animation, CGI and such. You can even see that from a lot of the comments below. Still though, great work. I learned quite a bit from this video.
You summed up my thoughts perfectly. I understand why lvl 0 is lvl 0 in the context of fine art but he should've made it more clear that this didn't apply to visual arts in general. All of the lvl 0 work looked fairly impressive by layman's standards and were done by moderately competent and experienced artists; some of whom might not have even been aiming for perfect realism. Again, I understand lvl 0 in the context of fine arts, but when the context isn't certain, it comes off as the stereotypical restrictive elitism associated with the fine arts world
@@gaminikokawalage7124 I somewhat disagree. Drawing anime, or cartoon doesn't equal bad. The pictures shown lack depth, good proportions, or the poses look stiff. People should learn the fundamentals of art before 'letting loose'. Not to say that artists that let loose are bad, it just doesn't require any technical skill.
Very true. However, even when it comes to fine art, this is very much not what the field is about anymore. Russia and several East European countries such as Ukraine have the concept of 'живопись', which is the product of this kind of classical, academic tradition. It is not necesssarily the exact same as fine art or 'исскуство' - in which (especially in the west) modernist and post-modernist artists ranging from Kandinsky and Picasso to Andy Warhol and Gerhard Richter dominate.
This video felt like a punch in the ego and then immediately makes you evaluate your entire sense of accomplishment for the better, I'm actually amazed.
I would have literally killed to have had my art classes in school to have been like this. I've been trying to teach myself to draw for around 7.5 years and while I know very basic ideas in each level (eg basic understanding of perspective, simple shading and bounce light, human proportions etc) but I cannot really say I'm past level 0. It's both a little disheartening in a way but also relieving because I know that in the end, there is more I can do to improve my art in the direction I want, I just need to find it. Though I am looking more into comics and animation I really want to have better versatility as an artist.
You know, artist like you are probably the best mentally. Many artist find excuses, or have too much pride to tell themselves they aren’t level 0. If you find the proper motivation, it’s the artist like you who will continually get better. I know many artist who constantly stay in the same level, not because they don’t draw, but because they think they’re good enough.
this is a late response but unless you want to go into fine-arts. learning everything in this video will be absolute useless and a waste of time if you wanna go into the industry or wanna work as a freelance artist.
@@Raya.T lmfao, you will need fundamentals everywhere. Doesn't matter if you want to write poetry or a book, knowing your alphabets and grammar is necessary.
get better nerd, it also gives an outline on what to learn Edit: nvm past like level 1 is total dweeb shit and mostly concerns the quality of a far more specific type of art, despite the title saying drawing as a whole
i am an abstract artist my style has never required any knowledge of realism and I'm very happy that I finally found a video about realism that's straightforward and honest about levels in realism. i have learnt from learning abstract art that without honesty about your current level you wont progress so thank you.
Best $997 I ever spent. I've been going through the Life Drawing Academy's Life Drawing Correspondence Course for almost two years and I've learned so much and loved every minute of it. Vladimir is very patient and helpful and the course is very well layed out. The videos are great too. I've watched all 52 several times. Wish I had found a course like this when I was young. I think it's such a great course. I love it that Russian art schools are preserving traditional art skills. I'm amazed by it.
I have a natural ability for drawing. A gift... However, I would LOVE to have the foundation of classical art training. Yes, the study is surely intense and grinding, but oh the mastery & skill imparted!
At 44 years old I am at children’s art school level one :-) and realize that I will never ( unless I quit my job and move into my Moms basement) have the time to achieve this extraordinary level! My current ambition is to make it passed Children’s art school Level 3 in my life time. 😂
I feel an important thing to note is that this is how to assess your DRAWING skills specifically, not art skills. For assessing general visual art skills, I think there would be more focus on design theory like shapes, composition, value, colour, story telling etc. Progression would be less linear - someone could be practicing both tone and realism at the same stage in their life (level 3 and level 8). Someone could also be an excellent environmental artist without being good at anatomy. This assessment is very traditional and drawing focused. That being said, these are all great fundamentals to know.
Watched the whole video and concluded that I was at Level 0, but noticed I had experience at almost all levels, so I learned the things mentioned to quickly to get up to Level 6! Now my goal is to reach Level 8 by the end of next summer. I already have learned so much, that 15 elements of composition instantly made my works better which was nice, wish I knew that 7 years ago lol
Van Gogh started drawing when he was 27 and died at 37. The pictures he painted 2 years after first starting to draw are recognized as masterpieces worldwide. If he went on a route of a Russian art school he would have died before he even finished studying :)
Do not confuse "marketing" and "masterpiece". Any garbage put together can be called art these days. It's all down to the marketing budget. Have you actually seen just a single drawing by Gough that can be called a "masterpiece"?
@@DrawingArtAcademy Theres a difference between a draftsman and an artist. The point of traditional art was to paint and represent reality accurately on canvas or paper, the point of modern and contemporary art is to express thyself, and overall give artists the freedom to create which was never seen before, ironically, thanks to the camera. Picasso, Bacon, Munch, Oswaldo, and Van Gough are among many artists who exemplified the artistic freedom. Van Gogh was unfortuantely born in an era that didnt value his art. You may not like Picasso's or Van Gough's paintings, you may not see them as masterpieces however others will. Some artists chose to not paint in a "good" technical method, others just created what felt right but some of the most evocative and emotionally raw pieces I've ever seen weren't good in a traditional nor technical sense but rather intense and overwhelming from the colors to the composition
@@DrawingArtAcademy I'm not saying you have to like a Van Gough or a Picasso or a Jason Pullock etc. However recognize that it isn't just "marketing", to some its a true masterpiece. I particularly enjoyed Gough's bedroom, Picasso's Guernica, Pullocks Autumn Rhythm among other pieces
its funny how if you scroll through the comments, you find a lot of people who think this information is irrelevant if they don't want to do fine art, but i think it would be a good base of knowledge for any style, especially if you want to draw people. if i had the money for it i would do this course, but still i am inspired to learn and improve, i've been drawing seriously only since september 2020 and i have some bad art habits i need to break out of
Most are just mad cause they were expecting to be lv 10 to only find out they are lv 0 lol. If you can master this type of realistic art style then you'll most likely be able to do any other type of style with ease, the same isn't true for other art styles.
Just bear in mind that no major art movement has come out of Russia since before World War 2. Conservatism in art is safe, and if you devote your life to it you can make mistake-free conservative art. But such art isn't telling us anything new about the world, it isn't telling us anything about what makes the 21st century unique, and it sure isn't attempting anything exciting. There must be some other choice besides the no-skills-required American art school approach and the everybody-must-draw-and-paint-as-if-the-world-hasn't-changed-since-the-nineteenth-century Russian academy approach. The artists who finds it is the artist who leads into the future.
Good point. They don’t know what is good drawing. Drawing is more than making an image. If you don’t know what to do, you will never know how to achieve it. Good video. Just scratches the surface.
Apologies in advance for using a translator. I am from Russia and now I study at the state art school. We do have a program and training schedule indicated in the video. However, according to my observations, often high school students do not have the highest level of drawing. This may be due to the fact that teachers cannot find an approach to each student, since every day they teach a lot of people not for the highest salary. Most often, those who additionally study on their own succeed in teaching in our art schools. These people watch educational videos and go to plein air outside the school curriculum. So the whole secret is in trying, no matter how trite it may sound. Good luck, artists❤❤
I can’t describe how much appreciation I have for this video. I’ve never gone to art school but I’ve been drawing for years, while some people absolutely love and admire my art I always knew I was (extremely) lacking in the basics. But being put in level 0 honestly made me laugh, it feels so refreshing to know that even though my art as it is now and the progress I’ve made isn’t even the tip of the iceberg. I love art and I’m seriously not ashamed to admit that even after all of these years my journey is just now starting.
I found the video very interesting and actually motivational as a hobbyist that only started drawing 2.5 years ago and started to feel stagnant. This information is useful for any artist.
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So to my understanding, russia prefers old school way of art, kind of like a continuation of the renascence movement, while the western world prefer imagination and creativity to explore new paths. I think a bit of both would be desireable, the reason realistic art is not that impactful anymore is because of cameras and their perfect mimesis, so it is more impactful to convey a unusual way of the thing one want to represent, kind of like picasso, who could draw realisticly from a young age, but he is known for his abstract art.
Yes!! I agree, i study in an art school in moscow and im in the 4th grade so far. I actually wish we had more creative approach. Im planning to go to study to UK at the uni so i guess I’ll get what i want, but ab the approach it is definitely old-school and a lot of people i know hate thats side.
I suspect Russians are learning classical art as a foundation on which to build. Kind of like a writer or poet might study classical literature/poetry.
(in case you need it) Level 0: Complete Beginner Level 1: Children Art School Year 1 ★how to sharpen a pencil the right way ★how to hold a pencil the right way ★how to draw perfect lines both straight and curved ★how to hatch and cross-hatch in layers ★how to measure relative proportions, alignments, angles and cross points w/ a pencil ★how to draw simple flat geometric objects ★principles of linear and aerial perspective ★one-point and two-point perspective ★principles of constructive drawing ★how to draw cubes, ovals, cylinders both standing and reclining ★how to draw simple geometrical 3D objects in perspective ★how to draw vases, pots and mugs ★how to draw man-made geometric objects ★rules of and 15 elements of composition ★golden proportions ★theory of contour ★proficient tonal rendering techniques Level 2: Children Art School Year 2 ★classical orders: doric, ionic, and corinthian ★how to draw classical capitals ★how to draw simple still lifes with man-made objects ★how to draw still lifes with simple organic objects ★how to draw animals ★how to draw draperies ★how to draw complex still lifes with draperies ★how to render tonal values to reveal complex construction and aerial perspective Level 3: Children Art School Year 3 ★how to draw interiors ★how to draw exteriors ★anatomy of a skull ★planes of a skull ★how to draw a skull ★how to draw an ecorche of a head ★muscular anatomy of a head ★proportions of a human head and face ★how to draw simple classical busts and headcasts ★how to draw classical headcasts with complex hair ★how to draw full-face and 3/4 view portraits Level 4: Children Art School Year 4 ★how to draw a skeleton ★proportions of a human body ★how to draw an ecorche of an arm ★how to draw an ecorche of a hand ★how to draw an ecorche of a foot ★how to draw an ecorche of a leg ★how to draw an ecorche of a torso Level 5: Children Art School Year 5 ★how to draw male and female greek and roman sculptures/ classical canon figures ★how to draw drape figures ★how to draw multi-figure compositions ★how to draw portraits and figures of live models Level 6: Art Academy Year 1 ★how to draw complex still lifes ★how to draw interiors ★how to draw exteriors ★how to draw classical busts and full body sculptures with full knowledge of human body anatomy proportions and constructions Level 7: Art Academy Year 2 ★deeper knowledge of skeletal muscular anatomy of a human head and face ★geometry, construction, & functionality of bones and joints ★functionality and geometry of muscles; their origins and insertions ★life drawing ★how to depict emotions in portraits Level 8: Art Academy Year 3 ★how to tell a story of people by drawing the world around them ★how to portray the inner world of a person and sitter’s personality ★how to draw double-figure compositions to tell the story ★how to draw human figures in motion ★how to capture a moment ★drawing from memory and imagination Level 9: Art Academy Year 4 ★how to draw multi-figure compositions ★how to draw genre and historical artworks Level 10: Art Academy Year 5 ★how to express the artist’s inner world and pov through realistic figurative art ★conveying emotions ★telling a story ★delivering a philosophical message (thank me later ;) )
I'm a Russian kid and I'm trying to get into an art academy here for graphic design. I think other universities around the world don't have such a tough drawing exam for this department, but here you have to draw a full-length figure, a shoulder-length portrait, a cutout of figures, a capitol. Sometimes I wonder, why would a good designer want to be able to draw academically correctly? But as they say, everything comes in handy. So I'm off to sell "cute" pictures on the patreon.
This video turned out to be really informative to me. I was stuck between learning anatomy or finding my style. I am the artist who always used to copy but few weeks back I realised the issue with myself, now I know I'd have to work very hard to get to the point where I can start developing myself as a concept artist.
I've been struggling w the same problem as well, my brain wants to make good art without learning the core basics and fundamentals I'm looking forward to following this module, would you mind sharing some updates or progress you experienced since the past year? I'd love to know
You have nailed it. 100% agree... I have had long interactions/association with artists/art schools from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine etc. also all the central Asian counties and China...verses the artists from the Western EU/USA/UK... and of course India! Would always recommend the 'Russian' or the 'classical' style of art education than what is now taught in 'Western' art schools!
Thank you for this video. I loved it. I think you explain very well how art has been inflated by creative fluff. Artists who work hard on the "boring basics" will awaken to the fact that learning never stops. One can be as creative as ever while also having a good foundation of traditional techniques.
I loved it! Far from making me feel bad about my lack of skills, this information allows me to know exactly what I should practice and why my execution isn’t so good, like any skill, drawing is a matter of practice, but also of knowing what to practice, to undo first you have to know how to do it, it doesn't matter if you dedicate yourself to another type of art, as they say in other comments, we should never stop learning and improving our skills. Thanks for the video.
I just spent a month drawing an eye over and over to see if I could make it look real. I hit every one of the frustrations mentioned in this video. I also realized I love drawing for the process. Now I know what my next steps are - and they do not involve giving up. I'm excited there is so much more to learn.
Get yourself an artist's anatomy book, and do a little work every day. Give it a year with that kind of practice, and I can promise you will be better and more confident.
i’d recommend not drawing only anime characters if you don’t understand basic human anatomy. anime is a stylized version of human anatomy, so it is important to learn fundamentals before moving on to stylization.
@@likeBigTimeRush i would take what they said in this video about how drawing from photographs suppresses ones ability to draw from life, memory, and imagination with a grain of salt. Even though they said copying from photographs requires a different set of skills required for constructive drawing ... at the end of the day drawing is just about being able to visualize. Its the same skill just done a different way. Drawing from photographs is a little bit blinding compared to drawing from life but the difference is too subtle. Plus the risk of the still life movie or even changing over time is there as well. What to do to learn the arts? Figure out what you like to see and draw that in an infinite number of ways.
My soul left my body at level 1 of "Children" art school!! .. I self-taught myself art and when UA-cam because a thing it was my school. I never had any real experience with art schools or art teachers in real life cause it's always way too expensive for my family. Now I'm a freelancer I draw for a living and support them with my ( so called art ) BUT I love everything is this video and I don't mind going back to 0 and spend another 9 years of my life to reach that final level of professionalism !!
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Wow! this is so logical I feel that this will give me a 100% guarantee to be able to learn how to draw. This is a amazing guide in drawing logically as it tackles a lot of practical use of drawing back in the day when cameras didn't exist. I will definitely follow this closely because of how practical it is.
I realize the most in the comments are overwhelmed but maybe the reason is cut they already are intermediate artists because if they were professional/experts in academic art they wouldn't be watching this video including myself lol but hey cheer up all levels of learning are achievable! :D
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It is a little bit depressing but at the same time very motivating.. If in level-zero we can draw this much (because our art is not that bad also and also we enjoy that very much),then what could we do when when we level up .... It means there is a vast ocean of things we can learn...
This just fuels me more! To think that you can always be better is truly magnificent! Just imagine if there was a ceiling that you already reached how boring it would be.
Listen people, art is art. Art is creative. Art is expressive. Art is personal. Art is so many things. To so many people. Don't let a UA-cam video, taking an objective approach to something SUBJECTIVE BY NATURE, confuse you. Art is and will always be, whatever you make of it. - your artist neighbor
that's like saying "music is music, as long as it's creative, expressive and personal. nevermind if everything is off key, the whole thing lacks a coherent melody, and it closely resembles the sound of a cat in heat" i beg to differ, sorry. i like having some standards.
Art is where emotion and logic meet. It is not entirely subjective, and it is not entirely objective. Funny way of saying that you’re salty because your technique sucks.
@@MyLittleCreeperakaKyleMLC I can objectively say a piece of art looks like someone stuck a paintbrush up their ass and waved it at a canvas, and I can emotionally be enraged that that crap they call art is what people praise so we effectively lost our collective skill as artists in the west, and because of this I was held back so fucking much in school because sub bar to shit guidance at worst once the good teacher left.
Him: you need to have proper art education to be able to draw Me who just wants to know how to draw as an hobby so I can make my favorite waifus: but- i-
This is the break down I needed to improve! I felt so stuck seeing the flaws in my work and always feeling something was off and inability to articulate what I need to learn to get better. My art education has always disappointed me, as I wasn’t taught ANY of this. Thank you so much!
I think art education is disappointing these days because (a) they’re mainly teaching how to become a commercial artist, and most people aren’t going to be able to earn money creating masterful artworks that take months to complete, and (b) many people just don’t have the patience to learn this level of artistry. Most people want to finish a drawing or painting a a day or two at most, not weeks or months, or in some cases, years.
Thanks for this, I'm still at the level 0 honestly. I just get interested with this kind of stuffs this 2021. I think before, I'm just to frustrated to start because of the wrong knowledge that people said it is a talent. I admit it, I'm not really the talented one, and the truth is, this is not the field that I am into. I'm an Education Student, major in social studies, but right now, I'm slowly facing my childhood frustration which is drawing and making art. I'm glad I discovered this channel.
This rubs me the wrong way. What I hope is being said is that, by emphasizing expressiveness over technical skill when learning, many artists fail to reach their full potential. This, I agree with. As someone entering their senior year of art school in America, I can think of a handful of people in my class that still don’t fully understand the proportions of the face and the human body and that reflects in all of their work. I believe that by understanding the fundamental rules of creating effective visual art, you can then understand what rules can be broken or warped to suit your end goal. However, the examples shown in this video of art from colleges that “proves” that these artists lack technical skill are not suitable. The art shown was not trying to be realistic, that’s not the point. No one style or movement of art is inherently superior to another. For example, while I personally am not the biggest fan of many of my friends cartoony art, I recognize that that’s simply my opinion and I can still look closer and see the technical skill behind it. Yes, the Russian schools have _far_ more realistic art than the American examples shown. How does that make it superior? Yes, it’s better at representing reality, but why should art be bound so strictly to reality? When practicing the fundamentals, realism should be prioritized, but when creating a final piece, art is art and it should not inherently be limited to reality or near-reality. By the way, I am not talking about the “level 0” art examples shown at the beginning, those _are_ attempting realism.
Completely agree - technical skill really can advance your ability to express yourself the way you want; but I find it a little black and white to compare contemporary art practices to classical drawing techniques. The move away from realistic, technical execution was intentional and started by the invention of mechanical tools like the camera. When hours of work is replaced with a shutter click, what's the point of your labour? When representation is no longer the key purpose of artistic excellence, what does art become? This is why you see the emphasis (possible over emphasis) on the skill of mental labour, through concepts and ideas, rather than on technical and physical labour. I think finding a middle point between technical and conceptual skill is crucial. You can see there's a bit of disdain for contemporary "western" practices in this video (even though, Russia has a history of really cool abstract art), but I think both have a time and a place.
Realism is not an obligation, and I don't think the video was trying to express this. The only message here is that learning the rules before you break them can only be a positive. Obviously people can do what they want, but I could probably draw a better picture of an expressive, unrealistic warped face that suited my artistic message, if I already knew how to draw a realistic perfect face.
I feel most of this give importance to portraits and realistic art , but in reality abstract art and other forms of are equally important and enjoyed throughout the world
Nice to know that I am somewhere around -1 💀. This video definitely gave me a panic attack and motivation at the same time. I want to draw nicely and I want to reach level 1 at least. Now I know that there is more to drawing.
I realized that I am only in level 1, this video made me motivated to be better with learning the fundamentals. I will relearn everything in the first level and I will do my very best to be better than before. Thank you!
This is the ideal basis of art, it's a guide book to help your art become what YOU want it to be. Don't feel demotivated and don't feel as though that ideal art is the only path to "good art" :)
You're coping hard kid. There is indeed art level and this video literally proved it. You cannot draw something absolutely realistic and beautiful according to aesthetics and anatomy without learning the basics first. There is always a right and a wrong way to draw.
It's the same in Georgia too. I'm an art academy student in Georgia and let me tell you it's even more difficult here to get in the academy. Nine years of art school education isn't enough, you have to pass the drawing exam which is really difficult and requires all the skills and knowledge from art school. I didn't go to art school so I had to study all nine years of material in six months. My teacher is a lector in art academy and she is the best teacher in whole Tbilisi, because of her 35 years of experience she taught me everything and I got 94 points out of 100 in exam. It was really hard work because I couldn't effort to go to lessons during lockdown ( there was only taxes available and they are expensive) I missed lots of lessons but three months before exam I was working on myself 11 hours a day and I got great results and tuition funding for the academy. It was hard work but for me every sleepless nights and every kilos a have lost due to not eating normally ( I only ate once a day because I didn't have time) was worth it. Sorry for my bad English ❤️❤️❤️
This taught me that to create great artistic drawings you must learn technical drawings first. I love this video and am considering to buy the art courses.
thank you for this video. I’m still pretty young and I’ve always thought I’m considerably good, but I didn’t know how to improve my drawing skills. now I know I have to start with the basics again in order to do so.
A person who loves making art...and even without professional help can keep on going .. try to improve ...and make realistic and visually pleasing art are real artist...To all the artist who's doubting themselves after this video...Dont .Be proud of your art and try to learn more...you don't need to pay thousands of dollars in these schools to be an artist...One day You can be better than them if you try...Its not that hard...♥️
doubt is good. if you've got what it takes, it becomes motivation for improvement. you don't have to go to school to be an artist, but you do need to accept where you're at in terms of ability, and find resources to help you improve.
for those who hate this. ive been a painter for more than 10 years, im at level 0. but that's in classical drawing terms. not advising to start this course but right now, im also studying classical techniques to improve whatever skills that i have. its useful. thats just it. dont NEED it, but its quite useful. i watched a thesis defense one time that involved a student scattering half hearted paintings in a room, and used feminine napkins. at the end of her defense, she told the panel that she collected her mother's fecal matter this morning and has it in a bottle in her hand. she proceeded to smash said bottle in the middle of the room. she passed. now she's a very well known artist in our country. not a fan. but what can i say? Cant really define what art is, but a good illustrator can never be mistaken for a bad one. having the title of artist and having artistic skill are very different. id rather have the latter.
i was great at fine art, on this video id say easy above lvl 8 at like 17. i dropped out of my art school after a year because i suddenly felt pressure in something i loved. stopped all art stuff for 20 years and generally put it off. now im 40 and just getting back into it again. I will say if u love art and feel ur not good enough, don't stop like i did, take a break sure but don't stop. Remember how happy it makes you and do it for that alone, and ur probably get somewhere with it.
I think that studying Fine Art is pretty overwhelming when you see it as a whole, but when you take your time and just try to understand the fundamentals of Art, one step at a time you'll get there, as a Fine Arts student myself i consider myself as level 1, even tho i started being an Artist 2 years ago... Just enjoy the process dudes, and looking back at your works as it develops is sooo F'kng GOOD!
I loved this video, gave me motivation actually dispite some comments here, it gave me a good knowledge on where I am in terms of self expression with my skills, I think I just reached level 3, I'm so happy with it because I did it by trying to understand instead of copying but I'm still strugling with a lot of things, because I recently starting on drawings after many years of leaving it behind, and now I have another way to see life due to my life experience, I'm 36 now, and this gave motivation really, specially the lasts steps are really the goal I'm looking for, to express emotions and personalities trhu drawing, is really hard but this gave me a boost, I understand perfectly what they are saying, and I know what I need to work better with this type of videos, I'm searching for info all the time to get a better understanding, drawing relax me and help me a lot plus I can see I can do things really good with art, so I'm giving it a shot, thank you for the video, I know art is more than what you are expressing here, and you can do and express yourself however you want, this is about solid basis and you can tell when it is there, even though if a person is really creative and artistic, you can tell, so I'm working right now on my skills, because I have some goals and I feel the need to level up, I know I can get there in less time but it is about practice and understanding, I enjoyed a lot, I mean I really liked the break down, I always wanted to get into an art school, life is the way it is, I'm whatching this now, thank you!
This is so similar to how we are taught in art schools in india! But again, here art isn't that valuable, but this video really gave me a reassurance that I'm heading in the right direction in learning!
These studies are definitely very impressive. Children's art school and they are already so skilled and experienced it's amazing. I instantly felt bad about myself :) For me personally, it definitely has to do with patience why I don't try to learn to draw like this and do constructive drawing studies. These works are all super impressive because a lot of time was spent making them and making them accurately. For me when it gets to the perspective lines and measuring, I immediately feel myself get uninterested because I get reminded of geometry and math in school I guess :) Which is not good. I know and always thought that my skills and knowledge of the basics and fundamentals of art were nonexistent or at least I felt like I knew nothing.
I fell like I thought I was almost at the top and then fall in the abyss, and I'm actually have a lot to go though, like way more that American art school, but this does motivate me to go stronger to get to the next level and train harder.
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Where do you get these guide lines from?
И ум хх
@@АзаматГабитов-з8н o dont understand greek
I have a question: How long will this discount in your courses last?When will it stop?Because that video has been for a year and it could be over by now...
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Level 11
How to transcend humanity
How to exist everywhere and nowhere
How to create your own reality
How to tweak time*
and....how you might be able to eek out a livable wage.
How to draw in 12-dimensional perspective
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Imagine watching this video and seeing one of your drawings come up as an example for a 0 💀
Ouch
think differently, Picasso's art is also in the lv0 territory, so you either say that this video is bs or you are at the same level with Picasso
there are many ways of art and this video does not demonstrate all of them and therefore is not really accurate.
*Me a anime artist** ; hm yes art
@@abordwaylong1339 picasso was at level 8-ish before he was 18
me: "i cant even draw stick figures well, soo im probably level 0"
*level 0:*
*me who's been drawing for years and is still in level 0*
if it's any consolation i think you're actually at Level 1. they were learning how to draw lines and circles. Level 0 is the lack of awareness
probably -1
@@karalsor6145 same
I think my level is below zero
According to my "western" teacher: "You must walk before you can run."
According to Russian schools: "You must crawl in the gutter before you can fly like an eagle."
Western schools have become a joke and getting worse by the day.
That's... true.
Wow.
Russians do be like that tho. The best piano teachers I’ve ever had were Russian and said pretty much the same thing.
Lol
I just want to point out that this video is focusing on the fine arts and targeted towards aspiring professional artists. Being at 'Level 0' doesn't mean you are are a terrible artist or that all your practice has been a waste of time. It just means that you are a beginner when it comes to the specific techniques and concepts taught in Russia, which appears to hold its students to a very high standard.
If you're a hobbyist, the most important thing is that you enjoy drawing, so don't think that you need to master all of these levels for your work to be valuable and appreciated. But, studying the concepts from this video would definitely be helpful if you are looking to level-up your art.
This video also doesn't acknowledge that there are many other art-related industries (e.g. animation, illustration, comics, architecture, contemporary art) which each have their own skillsets that wouldn't be measured according to this system of levels.
It's an informative video, but I just want to stress that your place in these 10 levels does not equal your worth or ability as an artist, especially if you work in styles other than fine art.
Thank you
I am a complete beginner, so out of curiosity, how you you measure skill in other industries?
I am really overwhelmed and trying to figure out how to do it the right way.
underrated comment.
@@therisj Just learn fundamentals first, of how to draw body from simple shapes, and also simplified faces, worry about this later if you are a complete beginner
Cope
Levels of art skill:
Bilginer
Intermediate
Professional
Russia
Ahahhahaha
More like
Beginner
Intermediate
Professional
Russian child
based
But gotta admit that, for art, there're skillful artists from many countries
..bil... bilginer?
This is really sad when you know that all of your learning still count at level 0 and when you get compared to children, but it also what give you motives
Don’t worry 90 % of children can only draw stickmen
@@jackfouquette8399 except for Russian childrean
@@jackfouquette8399 oops sorry. so you mean 10% of them are Russian. lol. makes sense tho. hahaha
Based on my life experiences I can assure you that 99.9% of kids aren’t having lessons like this unless they go to a school only for art or if they have some kind of private tutor. so you’re doing your best with what you have, keep following your dream :)
It's depends of ur circunstances. Not all the people lives in that ideal family wich have money and interest to help u. (When u are child)
im 4 minutes in and shitting my pants because im really impressed by level 1
Lol, I wonder if they disabled the ratings because so many people were angrily downvoting after finding themselves at level 0.
As a level 0 scrub, watching this video was actually oddly motivating to me.
If Children Art School in Russia gets young minds that proficient in that short amount of time, there's a lot of growth potential with solid instructions.
I'm really skeptical that the art shown here was actually produced by children.
@@mystereoheart2579 Yeah, I'm almost certain it wasn't - or if it was, they were some particularly exceptional children. However, those are still the tasks they are given, and given the nature of this video I suspect they wanted to make them look as good as possible. Even if made by adults, the children's versions will be similar but less technically skilled, I'd say. I absolutely agree with this video though and wish so bad that classical art would be taught again in the West.
@@mystereoheart2579 of course it’s not
I am impressed even by some of the level 0s
this is extremely useful in figuring out what you need to work on for sure, but for anyone feeling demotivated by it, it's important to remember that art is about a lot more than technical skill
Thank you for your feedback!
CORRECT! Which Russians schools lack also a lot, bc most of their artists just wannna show off their skills, so, one extreme or the other is not good.
@@inkagarden8939 Video is talking about fine art & those are ESSENTIAL skills required to become an fine artist
Art is a technical skill buddy
Not really. Technical skill is what draws ppl to you. You having a great concept but shxtty portrayals then ppl aren’t gonna wanna look at it. But everyone will look at a heavily detailed artwork even if there’s no concept.
As a university-level art student, please know that this is very high level stuff. The things that kids are taught in the first few "levels" are absolutely essential knowledge for artists who want to make higher quality art but this is also clearly targeted towards a very classical painterly style that the average artist is not trying to achieve. My greatest tip for improving your art based on this leveling system is do the more boring exercises over and over and over again until you have the fundamental skills before you attempt "finished" works. Some of the best advice I've ever received as an artist is to not try to act like every single piece is a finished piece. Until you're at a professional level, damn near every piece you do should be in the interest of improving your skill and learning. That doesn't mean that you can't do fun things, but it does mean that you will be able to do more fun things much sooner and to a much higher standard.
Thank you so much for the encouraging advice.This video had me so😢
Lol you wasted thousands and thousands of dollars to learn how to draw?
I‘d like to add to this: Maybe, if you have a piece in mind but think your art skill is not yet good enough tonexecute said idea- DON‘T POSTPONE the idea. Rather try to learn and develop the skills you need FOR and WITH the artpiece. Like this i think you could outright connect the „fun“ thing you wanna do with the hard work you have to put into practice. E.g. when you make concept sketches to plan out the drawing/painting you can train on the cylindrical shapes in the painting (imagine a fanart-composition with characters between antique pillars as shown in the video for example, so you could train multi-person composition, pillars and cylindrical shapes in. The sketches for one piece). Also, the result might not be „objectively“ perfect, but from experience i can say it will feel very good and make it easier to live with the imperfections in such a piece because you will finish it with the knowledge that you learnt something.
@@StallionFernandoit might have been a scholarship, but I don't see what's your problem?? I also Attend art school.
omg thats so helpful im gonna quote it on my notes ;-; ty
this video makes me feel to questioned my entire life existence
:)))
Heh same
yeah it should. get to work. draw harder!
My thoughts exactly!
do not worry, keep in mind this is constructive art, it takes everything without pre-realism. it's hard to learn this when all you've done is stylisation. art is subjective, you don't need art standards from 3 millennia ago to consider yourself a good artist.
Most artist on the internet with millions of views wouldn't like this video.
Well you can still produce great artworks without mastery of every component or even mastery of beginning fundamentals. Or even being decent at these fundamentals.
@Kyle Balmer with time artists figure about many things by themselves..and can produce good art
@Kyle Balmer you are right in some aspect, but you don't have the right to discouraged an aspiring artist. If that person can't afford those expensive schools that never give a chance to a child who dreams to become an artist or because of race, they can learn on their own. There are thousands of books out there in this planet that these young people can afford. If these young people have talent and desire to be artists why not? I have read of many artists who were self taught and were successful in their lives later on. Blocking an opportunity for a aspiring artist is not fair. We are in century 21 for heavens sake, discrimination is not fair. They offer an opportunity, but one need to find out the price and the school procedures. Also the school give you "an opportunity" ....before the price goes up...hummm, liars, liars is a trap.
@Kyle Balmer Yes you can, because what's considered great is dictated by people, and people's perspective changes with time. This applies to all the arts, the reason why pop music is more in demand than classical. Technical mastery does not equal success, and the fact that artists have to eat too means they'll always be chasing what's profitable.
@Kyle Balmer yes you can lol
Holy shit. The Russians really don't mess around when it comes to art, huh.
In Russia you don't learn art, art learn you
Russians don’t mess around in general. They are much more upfront and coarse when it comes to speaking the truth.
True, but I also notice that no major art movement has come out of Russia in the last half century, either. Conservatism is safe, and if you devote your life to it you can make perfect conservative art. But it isn't telling us anything new about the world, it isn't telling us anything about what makes the 21st century unique, and it sure isn't attempting anything exciting.
@@EyeLean5280 may be level 11 will help. Name it the "exciting- life" (as oppose to still-life). 😁😁
@@vig6321 ??? weird ass reply
At 70 years of age I don't really care at what level I am. Probably 0. But I'm at least proud at what I've achieved. so far. At 15 I won an international contest in drawing. So that made me feel good. My grandfather was a self thought artist and as a child I enjoyed watching him at work with his brush. I took up my drawing just a few months ago this after a 20 year break. I draw simply for the pleasure and relaxation. I wish I could have taken art courses at a younger age but I was not privileged coming from a poor family. For anyone contemplating taking art courses at an early age, my blessings go out to you.
I love this comment so much
Damn this needs to be a Netflix movie named "the beauty of a line"
Same no money
This video is about drawing skills from a practical and traditional perspective, not a modern perspective. A lot of people in the comments don’t seem to realize that. The skills listed in this video ARE important when looking at the world in a 3 dimensional plane. Perspective, proportions, shading, geometry. These are all helpful and are things that definitely improve an artists ability to understand how shapes work and how would fit together if they were 3-D. Even if someone is going for a cartoon style, these thing are still important. Maybe not so much for artists who are more about modern art and abstract art, but these ideas can still help any artist looking to improve. While these skills obviously improve an artists work, it is still possible for a piece to look good without ALL of these elements, especially if it’s not supposed to be a reflection of how the real world works. This video really inspired me to take a look at fundamentals because right now my art is at a level where I’m not sure how I can improve even though I know it needs improvements.
you’re so right!
Yes you are correct. I lived in Moscow for about 9 years with a close friend who had trained at the esteemed Surikov School. This was about 10 years ago. I'd taken drawing and painting courses as an undergrad in the USA. (On my first day the prof took a lot of newspapers, sticks, bottles and trash and threw it on the floor saying sketch that!)
Walking in the classrooms in Moscow I was struck because there would be 20 students sitting at 20 easels, the old fashioned types that seemed made from the wood of a 19th century frigate. 6 feet high. The teachers were never young or hip looking as in the West but were severe looking unsmiling and wore black 3 piece suits and were in their 50's 60's or older. Of course easel painting is taught in the West but not at many art schools. In Russia at that time "creativity", not originality or finding your own style, mixed media etc etc all that was anathema. Technique was everything. And when there was a term ending expo I was doubly amazed, these young students could do anything, level of Manet or Courbet in technique. And not at all similar, they all had styles that were distinctive, without trying to be, that says something about Russian art school pedagogy.
yep. this channel has a very classical realist philosophy to art, which isnt wrong per se but art can be a lot more other things than pure naturalism.
yeah. I personally believe that if it makes you feel something, its a good art piece. Not how close you can get to copying an object but idk..
@@victoria5846 Exactly! Optical credibility, composition, a naturalist expression are valuable assets, but you today have tools like photography or abstract styles which develop their own dynamics. The video is a little as if an artist of 30,000 BC were admonishing that well-paid Russian academy professors of today lack a focus on how to project silhouettes of animals onto cave walls. The stance is well known from the history of art as one of ossification and paralysis, like in the Egypt of the 1st millennium BC or in the China of the centuries leading up to 1900. I would like to hear on what level they put Cezanne or Renoir!
I mean, this video exposes the IDEAL education of a vistual artist who practices drawing/painting; I suppose it's similar than in music: you can certainly be a great artist without yet mastering all the aspects of the hight level training of an artist. For example, Van Gogh was learning to draw human anatomy, by the time he already had produced important paintings in early stages of his career (this has been documented and exposed by Betty Edwards). Or take the Beatles, they never took high academic music education but still they're historically recognized and popularly acclaimed artists of music. Anyway, this is a very interesting topic for discussion. Cheers!
This is how amateurs think, you dont need academic training to have an academic level of drawing. You can teach yourself through academic methods. I would suggest the Bargue Drawing Course.
And your examples of Vincent Van Gogh and more humourously the beatles are examples of different things. Van Gogh is great because he pushed and experimented with existing ideas of what painting could be. Not about technical skill although he did have some great technical skill. It sounds like youre just trying to shelter your ego. Theres nothing wrong with needing improvement.
If you can't play an instrument, no amount of creativity can compensate for that fact. It will sound like garbage. Same is true for the visual arts.
@@kullenberg All four Beatles could play an instrument, none of them at the skill level a music academy graduate can. Van Gogh’s set of skills might appear rather limited to a russian academy graduate. Yet with their (relatively) limited set of (academic) skills they managed to produce great Art, which most conservatory or art academy graduates would only dream of producing, amounting maybe only to impressive craftsmanship, but barely managing to produce anything of artistic value. And others combine both, good skills set and artistic talent. I think that’s more or less Jorge’s point.
@@dago87able art and drawing are 2 different definitions. You dont need to reach lvl10 to be a professional artist. Lvl5-6 should be enough. Van gogh paintings does required a set of drawing and painting skill. He had great control of value and color, not to mentioned his ability to draw quickly and accurately. He just expressed himself with those knowledge. In order to study in any fine art or architecture school, you must know the principles of drawing, at least lvl3. Contemporary art is a different concept.
That's right. Some masterpieces are produced during practice.
Alternative title: how to be a Russian artist
lmao I thought this was a joke
@Stormtrooper1916 HAHHAHAHA
why?
Alternative title: how to draw Greek statues
Dude I fucking wish just being Russian would make me draw this good
God fucking damn it I have wasted my life at the age of 20
Well this video definitely didn't ruin my day while also making me reconsider all of my life choices and goals in life, nope not at all
don’t let it ruin your day. let it be a starting point where to go from here. like anything, art is about enjoying the process not necessarily the end goal. imagine how much you can still learn and how it’ll affect your future work. exciting!
Lol 😂 I get you.
Same LOL
it should make you happy because you now have definite places to look for what you lack.
Yeah it totally didn't 😫🤦♀
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As a self-taught artist, I can't stress how much this video has helped me. Thank you for posting this video, I really appreciate the informative content. Normally, it's hard figuring out where to start because there's so many basic elements I need to learn. Glad to have a video like this as a guide!
Glad it was helpful!
@@DrawingArtAcademy one can be desmotivated about this measure of knowledge. But the thing is, art is a thing you do for your entire lifetime. So there's time to improve as much life you had. Good video.
where are you now with your art?
I had no idea art education for children is taken so seriously in Russia! A big contrast with where I am from (Netherlands). Where can I find out more about art education in Russia?
Yeah some countries have different perspectives and pressure when it comes to Art, Russia, Italy and France have much higher standards and skill levels.
legit, ik begrijp dat dus niet.. Nederland had een van de beste artisten en toch neemt niemand hier art serieus. Ook niet op scholen
after seeing this video , i know im at lvl -15
@@BlackLotusV1 wat for school was de school waar je art lerden do naam dus ^_^
Hate when they make a drawing period on time tabel just to entertain themselves...."ok draw"
"Good" "bad"
Wil they even take it on drawing
I might be wrong, but I personally feel like this video and the scale presented don't really apply to every artist per se and more towards those pursuing fine arts (not that I have anything against fine art o fine artists). Let's say if you were trying to be an animator in the modern entertainment industry, yes having these skills would give you an advantage and an entirely new perspective compared to other artists as these insanely proficient rendering or construction skills presented will mostly go to waste. Again I don't have anything against fine arts and I genuinely respect it as it portrays a really sophisticated and different side of art compared to what we usually see in the modern age, in fact, I personally would love to try out fine arts in the future but the way your channel titled the video might cause confusion and a huge knock to one's confidence for those artists that aren't trying to pursue fine arts but more modern art industries such as animation, CGI and such. You can even see that from a lot of the comments below.
Still though, great work. I learned quite a bit from this video.
You summed up my thoughts perfectly. I understand why lvl 0 is lvl 0 in the context of fine art but he should've made it more clear that this didn't apply to visual arts in general. All of the lvl 0 work looked fairly impressive by layman's standards and were done by moderately competent and experienced artists; some of whom might not have even been aiming for perfect realism. Again, I understand lvl 0 in the context of fine arts, but when the context isn't certain, it comes off as the stereotypical restrictive elitism associated with the fine arts world
@@gaminikokawalage7124 exactly..
copee
@@gaminikokawalage7124 I somewhat disagree. Drawing anime, or cartoon doesn't equal bad. The pictures shown lack depth, good proportions, or the poses look stiff. People should learn the fundamentals of art before 'letting loose'. Not to say that artists that let loose are bad, it just doesn't require any technical skill.
Very true. However, even when it comes to fine art, this is very much not what the field is about anymore. Russia and several East European countries such as Ukraine have the concept of 'живопись', which is the product of this kind of classical, academic tradition. It is not necesssarily the exact same as fine art or 'исскуство' - in which (especially in the west) modernist and post-modernist artists ranging from Kandinsky and Picasso to Andy Warhol and Gerhard Richter dominate.
This video felt like a punch in the ego and then immediately makes you evaluate your entire sense of accomplishment for the better, I'm actually amazed.
I would have literally killed to have had my art classes in school to have been like this.
I've been trying to teach myself to draw for around 7.5 years and while I know very basic ideas in each level (eg basic understanding of perspective, simple shading and bounce light, human proportions etc) but I cannot really say I'm past level 0. It's both a little disheartening in a way but also relieving because I know that in the end, there is more I can do to improve my art in the direction I want, I just need to find it. Though I am looking more into comics and animation I really want to have better versatility as an artist.
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@@DrawingArtAcademy LETS GOOOO
You know, artist like you are probably the best mentally.
Many artist find excuses, or have too much pride to tell themselves they aren’t level 0.
If you find the proper motivation, it’s the artist like you who will continually get better.
I know many artist who constantly stay in the same level, not because they don’t draw, but because they think they’re good enough.
this is a late response but unless you want to go into fine-arts. learning everything in this video will be absolute useless and a waste of time if you wanna go into the industry or wanna work as a freelance artist.
@@Raya.T lmfao, you will need fundamentals everywhere. Doesn't matter if you want to write poetry or a book, knowing your alphabets and grammar is necessary.
Finally, someone who can tell me where I'm lacking with art, gonna dive deep into all of these lessons and techniques mentioned as much as I can now
I'm appalled at this. heartbreaking to remember all the wasted years to only be a level 0. wow
Level 0 still takes hard work like any level, plus if ur doing art just for fun then who cares where u are
once you get over the shock, you can only improve.
american education system for you
Alternatively, you could be glad that you just discovered this video and found a better way to improve.
get better nerd, it also gives an outline on what to learn
Edit: nvm past like level 1 is total dweeb shit and mostly concerns the quality of a far more specific type of art, despite the title saying drawing as a whole
YO BE MAD AT THE RUSSIANS BUT HAVE MERCY ON HIM HE'S JUST A MESSENGER
don't shoot the messenger lmaoo
i am an abstract artist my style has never required any knowledge of realism and I'm very happy that I finally found a video about realism that's straightforward and honest about levels in realism. i have learnt from learning abstract art that without honesty about your current level you wont progress so thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
this is the pinnacle of art. The freedom and ability to draw or create anything whenever and whatever they want given the proper tools
Best $997 I ever spent. I've been going through the Life Drawing Academy's Life Drawing Correspondence Course for almost two years and I've learned so much and loved every minute of it. Vladimir is very patient and helpful and the course is very well layed out. The videos are great too. I've watched all 52 several times. Wish I had found a course like this when I was young. I think it's such a great course. I love it that Russian art schools are preserving traditional art skills. I'm amazed by it.
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The path that you guys shown to become a professional artist is a lot of hard work but shows the true satisfaction of improvement and growth.
I have a natural ability for drawing. A gift... However, I would LOVE to have the foundation of classical art training. Yes, the study is surely intense and grinding, but oh the mastery & skill imparted!
At 44 years old I am at children’s art school level one :-) and realize that I will never ( unless I quit my job and move into my Moms basement) have the time to achieve this extraordinary level!
My current ambition is to make it passed Children’s art school Level 3 in my life time. 😂
draw 8
hours a day afterwork dude thats what im doing
where u taking the course
You should draw as much as you can do ideally every day but 20 minutes
Good luck man lmao
is not so complicated as you think, just practice and read, maybe 1 hour per day, you will eventually improve a lot. Trust and practice
never in my life have i ever felt so humbled
Good! Now you know what is the way to improve your drawing skills
I feel an important thing to note is that this is how to assess your DRAWING skills specifically, not art skills. For assessing general visual art skills, I think there would be more focus on design theory like shapes, composition, value, colour, story telling etc. Progression would be less linear - someone could be practicing both tone and realism at the same stage in their life (level 3 and level 8). Someone could also be an excellent environmental artist without being good at anatomy.
This assessment is very traditional and drawing focused. That being said, these are all great fundamentals to know.
Im level 1 watching this 2 years later. 2 years ago, i was level 0. Keep going, keep growing guys!
I've started I few years back and I'm not stoping till death. I love art and I want to be a master in every aspect.
Watched the whole video and concluded that I was at Level 0, but noticed I had experience at almost all levels, so I learned the things mentioned to quickly to get up to Level 6! Now my goal is to reach Level 8 by the end of next summer. I already have learned so much, that 15 elements of composition instantly made my works better which was nice, wish I knew that 7 years ago lol
Glad it helped!
This video was very useful to me. He has given me a reference to know my level. Thanks a lot.
I agree.
Glad it was helpful!
@@DrawingArtAcademy wow I can never afford to go to an art academy
@@Small_mac31 No offence, but how is that THEIR problem?
Van Gogh started drawing when he was 27 and died at 37. The pictures he painted 2 years after first starting to draw are recognized as masterpieces worldwide. If he went on a route of a Russian art school he would have died before he even finished studying :)
Do not confuse "marketing" and "masterpiece". Any garbage put together can be called art these days. It's all down to the marketing budget. Have you actually seen just a single drawing by Gough that can be called a "masterpiece"?
@@DrawingArtAcademy Omg. Whatever :)
@@DrawingArtAcademy Theres a difference between a draftsman and an artist. The point of traditional art was to paint and represent reality accurately on canvas or paper, the point of modern and contemporary art is to express thyself, and overall give artists the freedom to create which was never seen before, ironically, thanks to the camera.
Picasso, Bacon, Munch, Oswaldo, and Van Gough are among many artists who exemplified the artistic freedom. Van Gogh was unfortuantely born in an era that didnt value his art.
You may not like Picasso's or Van Gough's paintings, you may not see them as masterpieces however others will.
Some artists chose to not paint in a "good" technical method, others just created what felt right but some of the most evocative and emotionally raw pieces I've ever seen weren't good in a traditional nor technical sense but rather intense and overwhelming from the colors to the composition
@@DrawingArtAcademy I'm not saying you have to like a Van Gough or a Picasso or a Jason Pullock etc. However recognize that it isn't just "marketing", to some its a true masterpiece. I particularly enjoyed Gough's bedroom, Picasso's Guernica, Pullocks Autumn Rhythm among other pieces
@@DrawingArtAcademy you’re like Squidward lecturing SpongeBob about the Rules of Art
its funny how if you scroll through the comments, you find a lot of people who think this information is irrelevant if they don't want to do fine art, but i think it would be a good base of knowledge for any style, especially if you want to draw people. if i had the money for it i would do this course, but still i am inspired to learn and improve, i've been drawing seriously only since september 2020 and i have some bad art habits i need to break out of
Most are just mad cause they were expecting to be lv 10 to only find out they are lv 0 lol. If you can master this type of realistic art style then you'll most likely be able to do any other type of style with ease, the same isn't true for other art styles.
This video is giving me an excitement. I am pretty much a blank canvas but with some knowledge of the first level, Thirst and want to learn more
@@StallionFernando I disagree, different skill sets needed
this video made me incredibly sad, it shows me that I haven't passed a child level so far, I'll have to rethink my studies
Don't! Everything requires work. It's not like you can get to a level 99 in Engineering if you quit art to pursue it.
How about just enjoy drawing it doesn’t matter how any one else assesses it. It’s a journey enjoy the journey
Just bear in mind that no major art movement has come out of Russia since before World War 2.
Conservatism in art is safe, and if you devote your life to it you can make mistake-free conservative art. But such art isn't telling us anything new about the world, it isn't telling us anything about what makes the 21st century unique, and it sure isn't attempting anything exciting.
There must be some other choice besides the no-skills-required American art school approach and the everybody-must-draw-and-paint-as-if-the-world-hasn't-changed-since-the-nineteenth-century Russian academy approach.
The artists who finds it is the artist who leads into the future.
Good point. They don’t know what is good drawing. Drawing is more than making an image. If you don’t know what to do, you will never know how to achieve it. Good video. Just scratches the surface.
Apologies in advance for using a translator. I am from Russia and now I study at the state art school. We do have a program and training schedule indicated in the video. However, according to my observations, often high school students do not have the highest level of drawing. This may be due to the fact that teachers cannot find an approach to each student, since every day they teach a lot of people not for the highest salary. Most often, those who additionally study on their own succeed in teaching in our art schools. These people watch educational videos and go to plein air outside the school curriculum. So the whole secret is in trying, no matter how trite it may sound. Good luck, artists❤❤
I can’t describe how much appreciation I have for this video. I’ve never gone to art school but I’ve been drawing for years, while some people absolutely love and admire my art I always knew I was (extremely) lacking in the basics.
But being put in level 0 honestly made me laugh, it feels so refreshing to know that even though my art as it is now and the progress I’ve made isn’t even the tip of the iceberg. I love art and I’m seriously not ashamed to admit that even after all of these years my journey is just now starting.
That’s exactly how I feel!
I found the video very interesting and actually motivational as a hobbyist that only started drawing 2.5 years ago and started to feel stagnant. This information is useful for any artist.
So to my understanding, russia prefers old school way of art, kind of like a continuation of the renascence movement, while the western world prefer imagination and creativity to explore new paths. I think a bit of both would be desireable, the reason realistic art is not that impactful anymore is because of cameras and their perfect mimesis, so it is more impactful to convey a unusual way of the thing one want to represent, kind of like picasso, who could draw realisticly from a young age, but he is known for his abstract art.
Yes!! I agree, i study in an art school in moscow and im in the 4th grade so far. I actually wish we had more creative approach. Im planning to go to study to UK at the uni so i guess I’ll get what i want, but ab the approach it is definitely old-school and a lot of people i know hate thats side.
If you are doing what you like you're nothing more than a child finger painting.
I suspect Russians are learning classical art as a foundation on which to build. Kind of like a writer or poet might study classical literature/poetry.
@@Heopful If being a true artist means you have to create dry, uninspired art that you don't enjoy making..nobody should be a true artist.
I tought i'll be in level 4 at least but turn out i'm around level 0 and 1 between 'real art'
Same 😂
Same here! It’s sad…very sa.
Yeah. Thanks...
I'm level -1 then
not real art. just russian standards
(in case you need it)
Level 0: Complete Beginner
Level 1: Children Art School Year 1
★how to sharpen a pencil the right way
★how to hold a pencil the right way
★how to draw perfect lines both straight and curved
★how to hatch and cross-hatch in layers
★how to measure relative proportions, alignments, angles and cross points w/ a pencil
★how to draw simple flat geometric objects
★principles of linear and aerial perspective
★one-point and two-point perspective
★principles of constructive drawing
★how to draw cubes, ovals, cylinders both standing and reclining
★how to draw simple geometrical 3D objects in perspective
★how to draw vases, pots and mugs
★how to draw man-made geometric objects
★rules of and 15 elements of composition
★golden proportions
★theory of contour
★proficient tonal rendering techniques
Level 2: Children Art School Year 2
★classical orders: doric, ionic, and corinthian
★how to draw classical capitals
★how to draw simple still lifes with man-made objects
★how to draw still lifes with simple organic objects
★how to draw animals
★how to draw draperies
★how to draw complex still lifes with draperies
★how to render tonal values to reveal complex construction and aerial perspective
Level 3: Children Art School Year 3
★how to draw interiors
★how to draw exteriors
★anatomy of a skull
★planes of a skull
★how to draw a skull
★how to draw an ecorche of a head
★muscular anatomy of a head
★proportions of a human head and face
★how to draw simple classical busts and headcasts
★how to draw classical headcasts with complex hair
★how to draw full-face and 3/4 view portraits
Level 4: Children Art School Year 4
★how to draw a skeleton
★proportions of a human body
★how to draw an ecorche of an arm
★how to draw an ecorche of a hand
★how to draw an ecorche of a foot
★how to draw an ecorche of a leg
★how to draw an ecorche of a torso
Level 5: Children Art School Year 5
★how to draw male and female greek and roman sculptures/ classical canon figures
★how to draw drape figures
★how to draw multi-figure compositions
★how to draw portraits and figures of live models
Level 6: Art Academy Year 1
★how to draw complex still lifes
★how to draw interiors
★how to draw exteriors
★how to draw classical busts and full body sculptures with full knowledge of human body anatomy proportions and constructions
Level 7: Art Academy Year 2
★deeper knowledge of skeletal muscular anatomy of a human head and face
★geometry, construction, & functionality of bones and joints
★functionality and geometry of muscles; their origins and insertions
★life drawing
★how to depict emotions in portraits
Level 8: Art Academy Year 3
★how to tell a story of people by drawing the world around them
★how to portray the inner world of a person and sitter’s personality
★how to draw double-figure compositions to tell the story
★how to draw human figures in motion
★how to capture a moment
★drawing from memory and imagination
Level 9: Art Academy Year 4
★how to draw multi-figure compositions
★how to draw genre and historical artworks
Level 10: Art Academy Year 5
★how to express the artist’s inner world and pov through realistic figurative art
★conveying emotions
★telling a story
★delivering a philosophical message
(thank me later ;) )
Thank youuuu❤❤❤
Thanks❤
0 isn’t complete beginner. 😂😂😂😂😂
Thank youu
Thanks
I am 17 and self-taught and I am oddly encouraged by this
Same
I'm a Russian kid and I'm trying to get into an art academy here for graphic design. I think other universities around the world don't have such a tough drawing exam for this department, but here you have to draw a full-length figure, a shoulder-length portrait, a cutout of figures, a capitol. Sometimes I wonder, why would a good designer want to be able to draw academically correctly? But as they say, everything comes in handy. So I'm off to sell "cute" pictures on the patreon.
This video turned out to be really informative to me. I was stuck between learning anatomy or finding my style. I am the artist who always used to copy but few weeks back I realised the issue with myself, now I know I'd have to work very hard to get to the point where I can start developing myself as a concept artist.
I've been struggling w the same problem as well, my brain wants to make good art without learning the core basics and fundamentals I'm looking forward to following this module, would you mind sharing some updates or progress you experienced since the past year? I'd love to know
You have nailed it. 100% agree... I have had long interactions/association with artists/art schools from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine etc. also all the central Asian counties and China...verses the artists from the Western EU/USA/UK... and of course India! Would always recommend the 'Russian' or the 'classical' style of art education than what is now taught in 'Western' art schools!
Thank you for this video. I loved it. I think you explain very well how art has been inflated by creative fluff. Artists who work hard on the "boring basics" will awaken to the fact that learning never stops. One can be as creative as ever while also having a good foundation of traditional techniques.
Thank you so much!
I loved it! Far from making me feel bad about my lack of skills, this information allows me to know exactly what I should practice and why my execution isn’t so good, like any skill, drawing is a matter of practice, but also of knowing what to practice, to undo first you have to know how to do it, it doesn't matter if you dedicate yourself to another type of art, as they say in other comments, we should never stop learning and improving our skills.
Thanks for the video.
Glad it was helpful!
You are very right! Art Colleges are passing students and become "artists who do not know how to draw a face"
I just spent a month drawing an eye over and over to see if I could make it look real. I hit every one of the frustrations mentioned in this video. I also realized I love drawing for the process. Now I know what my next steps are - and they do not involve giving up. I'm excited there is so much more to learn.
got to work that construction and drawing what you see not what you think you see.
Came here wanting to learn how to draw hot anime characters.
Now I left with several depression.
Nothing changed 😎
Get yourself an artist's anatomy book, and do a little work every day. Give it a year with that kind of practice, and I can promise you will be better and more confident.
@@lisathuban8969 was a little lost on what to do to learn arts after seeing the video, but you gave me an idea. Thanks a lot and have a nice day!
i’d recommend not drawing only anime characters if you don’t understand basic human anatomy. anime is a stylized version of human anatomy, so it is important to learn fundamentals before moving on to stylization.
but if you close your eyes
@@likeBigTimeRush i would take what they said in this video about how drawing from photographs suppresses ones ability to draw from life, memory, and imagination with a grain of salt. Even though they said copying from photographs requires a different set of skills required for constructive drawing ... at the end of the day drawing is just about being able to visualize. Its the same skill just done a different way. Drawing from photographs is a little bit blinding compared to drawing from life but the difference is too subtle. Plus the risk of the still life movie or even changing over time is there as well. What to do to learn the arts? Figure out what you like to see and draw that in an infinite number of ways.
When you're confident clicking on the video, expecting to be at least mid-level but you realize you're still at 0...
My soul left my body at level 1 of "Children" art school!! .. I self-taught myself art and when UA-cam because a thing it was my school. I never had any real experience with art schools or art teachers in real life cause it's always way too expensive for my family. Now I'm a freelancer I draw for a living and support them with my ( so called art ) BUT I love everything is this video and I don't mind going back to 0 and spend another 9 years of my life to reach that final level of professionalism !!
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Wow! this is so logical I feel that this will give me a 100% guarantee to be able to learn how to draw. This is a amazing guide in drawing logically as it tackles a lot of practical use of drawing back in the day when cameras didn't exist.
I will definitely follow this closely because of how practical it is.
Glad it was helpful!
I realize the most in the comments are overwhelmed but maybe the reason is cut they already are intermediate artists because if they were professional/experts in academic art they wouldn't be watching this video including myself lol
but hey cheer up all levels of learning are achievable! :D
After watching this video, I'm motivated now to study in Russian art school.
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@@DrawingArtAcademy is the language English? I wanna learn the anatomy masterclass
It is a little bit depressing but at the same time very motivating..
If in level-zero we can draw this much (because our art is not that bad also and also we enjoy that very much),then what could we do when when we level up ....
It means there is a vast ocean of things we can learn...
This just fuels me more! To think that you can always be better is truly magnificent! Just imagine if there was a ceiling that you already reached how boring it would be.
This video was mostly soul crushing, but also somewhat inspiring. I am a 2 now, hope to be a 3 soon.
Listen people, art is art.
Art is creative.
Art is expressive.
Art is personal.
Art is so many things. To so many people.
Don't let a UA-cam video, taking an objective approach to something SUBJECTIVE BY NATURE, confuse you.
Art is and will always be, whatever you make of it.
- your artist neighbor
that's like saying "music is music, as long as it's creative, expressive and personal. nevermind if everything is off key, the whole thing lacks a coherent melody, and it closely resembles the sound of a cat in heat"
i beg to differ, sorry. i like having some standards.
Art is where emotion and logic meet. It is not entirely subjective, and it is not entirely objective.
Funny way of saying that you’re salty because your technique sucks.
@@MyLittleCreeperakaKyleMLC I can objectively say a piece of art looks like someone stuck a paintbrush up their ass and waved it at a canvas, and I can emotionally be enraged that that crap they call art is what people praise so we effectively lost our collective skill as artists in the west, and because of this I was held back so fucking much in school because sub bar to shit guidance at worst once the good teacher left.
@@extrasoap4881 Standards that you yourself likely can't meet.
Him: you need to have proper art education to be able to draw
Me who just wants to know how to draw as an hobby so I can make my favorite waifus: but- i-
having a proper education doesn't mean you have to go to art school lol
Drawing waifus are diferrent from drawing real anatomy
Same
Couple of good anatomy lessons not hurt you anyway.
@@jeeloshsartscg6846 not really, its just how much of the anatomy you use is the question.
This is the break down I needed to improve! I felt so stuck seeing the flaws in my work and always feeling something was off and inability to articulate what I need to learn to get better. My art education has always disappointed me, as I wasn’t taught ANY of this. Thank you so much!
I think art education is disappointing these days because (a) they’re mainly teaching how to become a commercial artist, and most people aren’t going to be able to earn money creating masterful artworks that take months to complete, and (b) many people just don’t have the patience to learn this level of artistry. Most people want to finish a drawing or painting a a day or two at most, not weeks or months, or in some cases, years.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for this, I'm still at the level 0 honestly. I just get interested with this kind of stuffs this 2021. I think before, I'm just to frustrated to start because of the wrong knowledge that people said it is a talent. I admit it, I'm not really the talented one, and the truth is, this is not the field that I am into. I'm an Education Student, major in social studies, but right now, I'm slowly facing my childhood frustration which is drawing and making art. I'm glad I discovered this channel.
You are welcome!
This rubs me the wrong way. What I hope is being said is that, by emphasizing expressiveness over technical skill when learning, many artists fail to reach their full potential. This, I agree with. As someone entering their senior year of art school in America, I can think of a handful of people in my class that still don’t fully understand the proportions of the face and the human body and that reflects in all of their work. I believe that by understanding the fundamental rules of creating effective visual art, you can then understand what rules can be broken or warped to suit your end goal.
However, the examples shown in this video of art from colleges that “proves” that these artists lack technical skill are not suitable. The art shown was not trying to be realistic, that’s not the point. No one style or movement of art is inherently superior to another. For example, while I personally am not the biggest fan of many of my friends cartoony art, I recognize that that’s simply my opinion and I can still look closer and see the technical skill behind it.
Yes, the Russian schools have _far_ more realistic art than the American examples shown. How does that make it superior? Yes, it’s better at representing reality, but why should art be bound so strictly to reality? When practicing the fundamentals, realism should be prioritized, but when creating a final piece, art is art and it should not inherently be limited to reality or near-reality.
By the way, I am not talking about the “level 0” art examples shown at the beginning, those _are_ attempting realism.
I am baffled by the need to be hyper realistic in art. That's not the sole purpose of art.
Completely agree - technical skill really can advance your ability to express yourself the way you want; but I find it a little black and white to compare contemporary art practices to classical drawing techniques. The move away from realistic, technical execution was intentional and started by the invention of mechanical tools like the camera. When hours of work is replaced with a shutter click, what's the point of your labour? When representation is no longer the key purpose of artistic excellence, what does art become? This is why you see the emphasis (possible over emphasis) on the skill of mental labour, through concepts and ideas, rather than on technical and physical labour. I think finding a middle point between technical and conceptual skill is crucial. You can see there's a bit of disdain for contemporary "western" practices in this video (even though, Russia has a history of really cool abstract art), but I think both have a time and a place.
I enjoy being at 0 and seeing other artworks that could be viewed as 0 level of skill. That's the aesthetic for me!
Realism is not an obligation, and I don't think the video was trying to express this. The only message here is that learning the rules before you break them can only be a positive. Obviously people can do what they want, but I could probably draw a better picture of an expressive, unrealistic warped face that suited my artistic message, if I already knew how to draw a realistic perfect face.
this is a useful video but i do find it a little condescending to people who go by less classical standards
❤️❤️❤️ I have master degree on fine art, but now I think I need to start over by following these levels.
30 years as a painter to find out im at level 0
I feel most of this give importance to portraits and realistic art , but in reality abstract art and other forms of are equally important and enjoyed throughout the world
Nice to know that I am somewhere around -1 💀. This video definitely gave me a panic attack and motivation at the same time. I want to draw nicely and I want to reach level 1 at least. Now I know that there is more to drawing.
Great! Now you can move forward
I realized that I am only in level 1, this video made me motivated to be better with learning the fundamentals. I will relearn everything in the first level and I will do my very best to be better than before. Thank you!
Keep it up
@@DrawingArtAcademy Thank you!
Im so glad this video exists, i can now know that my drawings suck but that theres always room for improvement
This is the ideal basis of art, it's a guide book to help your art become what YOU want it to be. Don't feel demotivated and don't feel as though that ideal art is the only path to "good art" :)
Well said!
There no such thing as art level.... it your drawing and if it make someone happy with it.. you a bless.. that is art all about..
That’s a funny way of saying that you can’t draw.
@@MyLittleCreeperakaKyleMLC bro lmaoooo
You're coping hard kid. There is indeed art level and this video literally proved it. You cannot draw something absolutely realistic and beautiful according to aesthetics and anatomy without learning the basics first. There is always a right and a wrong way to draw.
The way this video humbled me will be my villain origin story.
Don’t feel discouraged that after years of hard work that your at a zero. That’s a kids level zero too. Damn bro. Right to the heart.
The narrator is essentially giving a syllabus for an art education. As a teacher (not of drawing), I appreciate that.
Thank you
It's the same in Georgia too. I'm an art academy student in Georgia and let me tell you it's even more difficult here to get in the academy. Nine years of art school education isn't enough, you have to pass the drawing exam which is really difficult and requires all the skills and knowledge from art school. I didn't go to art school so I had to study all nine years of material in six months. My teacher is a lector in art academy and she is the best teacher in whole Tbilisi, because of her 35 years of experience she taught me everything and I got 94 points out of 100 in exam. It was really hard work because I couldn't effort to go to lessons during lockdown ( there was only taxes available and they are expensive) I missed lots of lessons but three months before exam I was working on myself 11 hours a day and I got great results and tuition funding for the academy. It was hard work but for me every sleepless nights and every kilos a have lost due to not eating normally ( I only ate once a day because I didn't have time) was worth it.
Sorry for my bad English ❤️❤️❤️
I really want to know more!!!
This is so inspiring. It inspires me to lock my sketchbook away forever!
I feel ya ;_;
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Level 1 - 3:08
Level 2 - 4:36
Level 3 - 5:21
Level 4 - 6:07
Level 5 - 6:39
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This taught me that to create great artistic drawings you must learn technical drawings first. I love this video and am considering to buy the art courses.
Thank you so much 😀
thank you for this video. I’m still pretty young and I’ve always thought I’m considerably good, but I didn’t know how to improve my drawing skills. now I know I have to start with the basics again in order to do so.
You're so welcome!
A person who loves making art...and even without professional help can keep on going .. try to improve ...and make realistic and visually pleasing art are real artist...To all the artist who's doubting themselves after this video...Dont .Be proud of your art and try to learn more...you don't need to pay thousands of dollars in these schools to be an artist...One day You can be better than them if you try...Its not that hard...♥️
Well said, can't agree more. There's one challenge though, it often takes more than a lifetime to get to the professional level without good guidance.
doubt is good. if you've got what it takes, it becomes motivation for improvement. you don't have to go to school to be an artist, but you do need to accept where you're at in terms of ability, and find resources to help you improve.
for those who hate this. ive been a painter for more than 10 years, im at level 0. but that's in classical drawing terms. not advising to start this course but right now, im also studying classical techniques to improve whatever skills that i have. its useful. thats just it. dont NEED it, but its quite useful.
i watched a thesis defense one time that involved a student scattering half hearted paintings in a room, and used feminine napkins. at the end of her defense, she told the panel that she collected her mother's fecal matter this morning and has it in a bottle in her hand. she proceeded to smash said bottle in the middle of the room.
she passed. now she's a very well known artist in our country. not a fan. but what can i say? Cant really define what art is, but a good illustrator can never be mistaken for a bad one. having the title of artist and having artistic skill are very different. id rather have the latter.
Alternative Title: Shaking your entire idea of self in less than 15 minutes!
i was great at fine art, on this video id say easy above lvl 8 at like 17. i dropped out of my art school after a year because i suddenly felt pressure in something i loved. stopped all art stuff for 20 years and generally put it off. now im 40 and just getting back into it again. I will say if u love art and feel ur not good enough, don't stop like i did, take a break sure but don't stop. Remember how happy it makes you and do it for that alone, and ur probably get somewhere with it.
That why, over the years, i saw a moltitude of amazing Russian artist, with amazing skills. This was really useful
I think that studying Fine Art is pretty overwhelming when you see it as a whole, but when you take your time and just try to understand the fundamentals of Art, one step at a time you'll get there, as a Fine Arts student myself i consider myself as level 1, even tho i started being an Artist 2 years ago... Just enjoy the process dudes, and looking back at your works as it develops is sooo F'kng GOOD!
Thank you
never felt so humilated and inspired all at once. Jokes aside, their course offer is a steal imo.
called out 90% of today's internet artists
I loved this video, gave me motivation actually dispite some comments here, it gave me a good knowledge on where I am in terms of self expression with my skills, I think I just reached level 3, I'm so happy with it because I did it by trying to understand instead of copying but I'm still strugling with a lot of things, because I recently starting on drawings after many years of leaving it behind, and now I have another way to see life due to my life experience, I'm 36 now, and this gave motivation really, specially the lasts steps are really the goal I'm looking for, to express emotions and personalities trhu drawing, is really hard but this gave me a boost, I understand perfectly what they are saying, and I know what I need to work better with this type of videos, I'm searching for info all the time to get a better understanding, drawing relax me and help me a lot plus I can see I can do things really good with art, so I'm giving it a shot, thank you for the video, I know art is more than what you are expressing here, and you can do and express yourself however you want, this is about solid basis and you can tell when it is there, even though if a person is really creative and artistic, you can tell, so I'm working right now on my skills, because I have some goals and I feel the need to level up, I know I can get there in less time but it is about practice and understanding, I enjoyed a lot, I mean I really liked the break down, I always wanted to get into an art school, life is the way it is, I'm whatching this now, thank you!
Thank you!
This is so similar to how we are taught in art schools in india! But again, here art isn't that valuable, but this video really gave me a reassurance that I'm heading in the right direction in learning!
Wow I didn’t know Russian art education was so amazing! This vid definitely shows where I need to improve on my work , great vid thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
These studies are definitely very impressive. Children's art school and they are already so skilled
and experienced it's amazing. I instantly felt bad about myself :)
For me personally, it definitely has to do with patience why I don't try to learn to draw like this and do constructive drawing studies.
These works are all super impressive because a lot of time was spent making them and making them accurately.
For me when it gets to the perspective lines and measuring, I immediately feel myself get uninterested because I get reminded of geometry and math in school I guess :)
Which is not good. I know and always thought that my skills and knowledge of the basics and fundamentals of art were nonexistent or at least I felt like I knew nothing.
Thank you
I fell like I thought I was almost at the top and then fall in the abyss, and I'm actually have a lot to go though, like way more that American art school, but this does motivate me to go stronger to get to the next level and train harder.
Oh dear this is remarkable! Thank god most in the comments felt the same way I did, and thank god to find this vid, hugely helpful
You're very welcome!