Aye, you do learn more by teaching. A mentor once told me, "Learn something so well that you could teach it". A piece of advice I've always kept close. In my high school, art was just a class you took to get out of study hall. There wasn't any "teaching" per se. You just made marks on paper and if you did, you passed. I do remember painting a door in the art room with Ameoba like somethings on it. I hated the assignment, but I had to do it. I didn't see the purpose in abstract... now, it's starting to make sense. So, I'm really enjoying your vids. I'm learning so much of the info behind what I've been doing on my own for a lifetime. Just two days ago is was -2F with windchills of -13F... brrr... Not a day to get out to the bus stop and wait 30min for a bus to get out to internet. I do post my sketchs on Facebook. I tried once to do youtube, but I really don't have a good way to vid and no editor... Did that back at college for a few projects.
Great! The nice part is, as this is episode 100...there are another 99 behind it to take care of you! Sessions like this will likely keep coming out, just less regularly, and probably less scripted and longer. Or...they will be realtime things I do and then have as pseudo livestreams. We shall see, but as always the feedback is good, and appreciated!
I think the most useful thing when starting in ink, is how to draw straight, confident lines. More than anything like proportions, perspective, composition, color theory or anatomy, it's more important to feel good using the medium. Drawing confident lines also serves as a foundation for things like hatching.
I've participated in a Splash Week last year. It's a 5-day event or workshop with 30+ artists in one big room. Each artist had his or her own table, rather than a booth. It was all open to the public, meaning people could come and watch you work and purchase your art right off your easel or sketchbook. We could also display older works for sale. It was a lot of fun and a great networking opportunity for a new artist like me.
@@zack_feldman The local gallery here, in Northeastern North Carolina, organized it. It's a yearly event in the middle of October, though it was my first time taking part in it. We had artists from several different states, different stages of artistic journey, some professional, some beginners, different skill levels, all kinds of media etc. It was a blast.
I love your rambles 😂 and as for the weird sentences i do the same, i didnt even notice you do the same. I love seeing you working on your ideas. Im not so much into the teaching video's but still watch, well listen to them in the background. I hope your content will be a nice mix of educational and your ideas. You could even use your own towns as example for perspective lessons et cetera. All you find as educational video's is the same old same that you find in every video or book. It would be much more interesting to show how to implement the technique into your style.
As far as teaching completely new students, I would start with form & mass, light & shade, techniques, be it with pencil, brush, charcoal? I think this would get extremely complicated, because you don't know what the people watching your videos want to focus on. Do they want to draw dragons & robots? Cars & planes? Spaceships & Dyson spheres? Either way, I look forward to seeing what you come up with. Also, good luck on the writing.
Hello Zack! If I was 13 or 15 years old again, I would want to learn how to take the fundamentals and make them fun for me to use them for my work being comics and illustration. Because, I hear practice the fundamentals and I just want to draw my characters and their world. So what would you as a teacher if you had a student like?
Apply the fundamentals as quickly as you can, that's what I would encourage. Need perspective? Work on fun backgrounds for your comics, like the stuff below spider man as he swings around the city. Need anatomy? Use it as an excuse to draw a really big muscular character as a foe. Need to practice lighting and composition? Study some of the two page spreads in famous manga, they usually have intense lighting and comps...and working on your own versions pulls you along. You have to have the application of the fundamentals, or they stop working as stepping stones, and become an ocean you simply drown in.
Greetings! I am not in the industry if you mean games or concept are and what not. I am a retired (currently) art teacher, and a local painter in Colorado.
Focusing on the "it makes me happy" to create and share is some excellent advice!
Love the rambles. Excited for the new era, though. ❤
Aye, you do learn more by teaching. A mentor once told me, "Learn something so well that you could teach it". A piece of advice I've always kept close. In my high school, art was just a class you took to get out of study hall. There wasn't any "teaching" per se. You just made marks on paper and if you did, you passed. I do remember painting a door in the art room with Ameoba like somethings on it. I hated the assignment, but I had to do it. I didn't see the purpose in abstract... now, it's starting to make sense. So, I'm really enjoying your vids. I'm learning so much of the info behind what I've been doing on my own for a lifetime. Just two days ago is was -2F with windchills of -13F... brrr... Not a day to get out to the bus stop and wait 30min for a bus to get out to internet. I do post my sketchs on Facebook. I tried once to do youtube, but I really don't have a good way to vid and no editor... Did that back at college for a few projects.
As a new viewer I like the rambles. I play long videos as I am working on art, so the more rambly the best.
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Great! The nice part is, as this is episode 100...there are another 99 behind it to take care of you! Sessions like this will likely keep coming out, just less regularly, and probably less scripted and longer.
Or...they will be realtime things I do and then have as pseudo livestreams. We shall see, but as always the feedback is good, and appreciated!
I think the most useful thing when starting in ink, is how to draw straight, confident lines. More than anything like proportions, perspective, composition, color theory or anatomy, it's more important to feel good using the medium. Drawing confident lines also serves as a foundation for things like hatching.
I've participated in a Splash Week last year. It's a 5-day event or workshop with 30+ artists in one big room. Each artist had his or her own table, rather than a booth. It was all open to the public, meaning people could come and watch you work and purchase your art right off your easel or sketchbook. We could also display older works for sale. It was a lot of fun and a great networking opportunity for a new artist like me.
That sounds very cool! Where did that occur?
@@zack_feldman The local gallery here, in Northeastern North Carolina, organized it. It's a yearly event in the middle of October, though it was my first time taking part in it. We had artists from several different states, different stages of artistic journey, some professional, some beginners, different skill levels, all kinds of media etc. It was a blast.
I love your rambles 😂 and as for the weird sentences i do the same, i didnt even notice you do the same. I love seeing you working on your ideas. Im not so much into the teaching video's but still watch, well listen to them in the background. I hope your content will be a nice mix of educational and your ideas. You could even use your own towns as example for perspective lessons et cetera. All you find as educational video's is the same old same that you find in every video or book. It would be much more interesting to show how to implement the technique into your style.
Thanks, that makes sense! I don't think I'll ever get totally away from my rambles and such...its part of me.
As far as teaching completely new students, I would start with form & mass, light & shade, techniques, be it with pencil, brush, charcoal? I think this would get extremely complicated, because you don't know what the people watching your videos want to focus on. Do they want to draw dragons & robots? Cars & planes? Spaceships & Dyson spheres? Either way, I look forward to seeing what you come up with. Also, good luck on the writing.
Hello Zack! If I was 13 or 15 years old again, I would want to learn how to take the fundamentals and make them fun for me to use them for my work being comics and illustration. Because, I hear practice the fundamentals and I just want to draw my characters and their world. So what would you as a teacher if you had a student like?
Apply the fundamentals as quickly as you can, that's what I would encourage. Need perspective? Work on fun backgrounds for your comics, like the stuff below spider man as he swings around the city.
Need anatomy? Use it as an excuse to draw a really big muscular character as a foe.
Need to practice lighting and composition? Study some of the two page spreads in famous manga, they usually have intense lighting and comps...and working on your own versions pulls you along.
You have to have the application of the fundamentals, or they stop working as stepping stones, and become an ocean you simply drown in.
@ Thank you! I will do that.
Hi I'm new here! Do you work in the industry? Your art is really cool
Greetings! I am not in the industry if you mean games or concept are and what not. I am a retired (currently) art teacher, and a local painter in Colorado.