Marc hey, i got some questions, i feel like its easier for me to learn if someone points out what im doing wrong and explains me how to fix it, thats why sometimes tutorials dont work as good for me, because i can only see an example and then is hard for me to apply it on other things, do you think thats bad? should i change my way of thinking or its an actual thing? i know you had a lot of questions from your viewers, but if you see this i will apreciate it a lot
@@era2s When I was younger I always used to think drawing was so boring, and I was bad at it so I'd rather go play videogames. Little bit of regret there
@@mari.artcastel Yeah, it does suck. But I can't exactly moan about that since I'm not trying my hardest anyway even with all this great content. Gotta try and push myself more
The one problem about me when I come to art in the beginning is that I wanna draw things fast, sometimes I skip sketching and just start drawing, but now I just take my time and just draw, simple shapes and connecting them with lines and it’s great. All I am saying is just patience, and it’s not a contest, don’t get jealous when you see another artist, just keep drawing
Idk how to sketch tbh, I only have a pen I just try shapes as a little warm up. I wasn't really that motivated to get into Anatomy. I tried to draw a fan from just observation and it went. Ok ig.
notes 1. observe what you'll draw a good amount of time before drawing it to make sense of what you see. shapes, shadows, highlights 2. look to fundamentals especially construction using simple 3D shapes [lineart]. look to other artists to see how they do it 3. educate yourself to become a specialist of what you like to draw. for characters, anatomy. the more you know about the subject you like to draw, the better you can observe it and improve your drawings. use references, draw the construction, move on to detail. try to not depend on the reference after construction, but look at it if you hesitate or forget any information, then put it away. with a solid construction, now we can move on to details. rely less and less on references, trust your memory and what you have learned and observed.
ive been struggling with drawing alot and when i read "educate yourself to become a specialist of what you like to draw" it all clicked. I can draw some things really well because i know every in and out of them, i know everything about them but i cant draw things that i have no experience with.
Other Artists: I paid more than $1000 learning art but I still haven’t learned anything good. Me: I paid Marc Brunet a sub and a few hundred likes and my art keeps improving over time.
Yeah right? Hahaha I am finding myself and arts having those style touches of him. Plus his advise about the artblock it is true. I am always trying to trick my brain that my art is awesome before leaving it and go back excited. Not all the time tho. But still, depends on your efforts.
Marc, I appreciate that your introductions are fun and goofy and you clearly have fun editing them. But I ALSO appreciate, that when it comes time to give your instruction and your knowledge, you present it very professionally and clearly without wasting time. I hope that your students understand that this is a GREAT quality to have in the workplace and in life. You set a good example of a great professional attitude. Don't take yourself too seriously, but take your work seriously. Have fun while being the best. Much love to you Marc, for spreading the good art vibes!
What I learned so far: 1. Observe the reference/subject you want to draw. 2. Understand the anatomy and look to the fundamentals and build a construct for your drawing using basic 3d/2d shapes and see how other artist do it.(or simply take inspiration) 3. Line art is the most important part in a drawing after details. 4. Educate yourself to become a specialist of what you like to draw. 5. Be patient, trust the process, take your work seriously and enjoy :D
I've been "seriously" doing art for almost 3 years now, but only recently have I discovered the REAL importance of study and practice in art. Marc's video has motivated me to start studying and I'm suddenly feeling a lot better with myself and my art. I hope if I remember or ever come across this comment in some time, I will be able to appreciate this video even more than I already do.
He always emphasizes and exaggerates some part of the body, ever so subtly. Every drawing looks a bit different. He KNOWS how to exaggerate every part, and he does it really well
+1 for using reference after attempting to draw from memory first. This is effectively the art equivalent of self-testing (from studying), which is well known now for being the most effective method of learning
This is so encouraging. I'm only in my twenties but sometimes I get so overwhelmed with the thought that I'll never improve. Finding your channel, I found the direction I'd been missing. I'd love to tell stories through art. I hope I can get there someday!
When he said work on lineart, this is so so true. I spent about 2 years just doing lineart and my art really skyrocketed. I will definitely use the advice I heard :) Thank you so much for the helpful tips ^^
Marc answering my "prayers" once again. You must be some kind of mind reader or something because you always end up posting a new video just in time when I need it the most. Thanks so much!! 🙏💗
Man what are you doing for the art comunity is incredible. I found about you, learned a lot from you and helped me a lot with the video of "Thoughts on Burnouts", nobody speaks about it and that helped me a lot, it helped me to love what I loved once again. I never stoped after being burn out, hating every minute i draw something, your words helped me take a break without feeling guilty. Every video I see is gold, it let me refresh some things and learns new things every day. So what im trying to say is thanks man!
Dear Marc, thank you so much for providing this video. I consider myself an experienced artist, but I found so much new and mind-blowing truths that I have been overlooking for many years. First of all, the eyes! They are so much more that what I used to think, such a powerful tool we have, given by nature! The ability to focus beyond what we actually observe, and to SEE it from a point of real perspective, measuring and classifying. I understood once again that there is more to what I'm seeing. Thank you again so much. Thanks youtube for sponsoring this amazing teacher!
感謝分享~! 筆記 0:00 HOW TO STUDY ART THE RIGHT WAY 1:08 BRIEFING 3:17 LEVEL 1 STUDY(學會觀察周圍的事物or參考圖，查看簡單的對象並嘗試繪製，花較多時間觀察後再繪製，輪廓、大小、色彩變化、頂面底面) 6:02 LEVEL 2 STUDY(理論與藝術基礎相結合，加入結構&細節) 9:05 LEVEL 3 STUDY(分成各個主題研究，增添細節，不要一直看著參考圖，學會默寫歸納到腦中的資料庫) 12:48 YIKES
I'm kinda proud of myself after realising I've been intuitively doing these steps. Every time I see something cool around I keep staring at it and trying to notice all the details of shape, colour, light, movement pattern (if it's a living being) etc
thank you so much. from now i'll start to practise the fundamentals every day, 1 hour a day. until now i've just copied drawing without observe the structure of what i'm copying, even if i'm currently quite good at this, i wanna improve. at the moment I consider myself a photocopier rather than a artist
Hey Marc, for someone who's not face-to-face with a classroom in this format, you do an amazing job of keeping it simple, engaging and understandable. I've been painting and drawing since i could hold a pencil (so around.. 34 years now?). But I went ahead and bought a reasonable pen-display (like you said.. there were cheaper ones out there..) and found myself woefully lacking in a lot of areas. (shading and texturing, specifically, though your approach to anatomy is VERY helpful too.) Areas that your videos have been immeasurably helpful in highlighting and now improving on. Thanks for taking the time to spread some passion and knowledge, and raising the bar for someone who "plateu'ed" years ago. You're awsome!
What I had to teach myself as an intermediate artist is to not compare my work to others, who clearly have spent more time drawing than I have. I don’t know how much work they have put in to get where they’re at. It used to not motivate me but now it makes me realize I have so much more to learn !
Omg I've been going at it backwards!! I'm over here hammering over the specifics of human anatomy as a beginner. No wonder it feels so stressful. Thank you!!
4:21 I do something similar to this but except I just randomly notice it. Since I'm self taught I've learned ways I can improve on my drawings and the main way I did it was observing people or drawings and realizing about that thing.
I watch one of your UA-cam videos almost every day. Sometimes multiple times a day. So I Just bought term1. Looked at the term schedule and was shocked how it was an 8 week schedule. Shocked and happy! Spent the same amount on someone else’s corse and literally only came with 5 videos and they used procreate so I had to try and teach myself how to use the program to try and keep up. So exited to start. Can’t wait to see where I’m at in a year.
holy shit, ive been drawing for 14 years now and gone to art classes but the things you talked about in the video blew my mind, its just so much easier now. thank you so much
Pretty good video, except one thing I have aphantasia, aka I'm not able to have visual memory, it does make being an artist kinda hard, but also makes my approach to art kinda unique, I'm more relying on my muscle memory and drawing feels more like sculpting than well drawing. I thought this would be interesting thing to know, since not lot of people know about aphantasia!
@@loumona76 it truly sucks, but ive kinda learnt around it by studying references(and how to deconstruct them for my work) and like building my muscle memory
i've never feel so confident like this after see this video... marc really give us premium knowledge that all other art teacher need you to paid.. bless you sir
Lol, my path as an artist has been incredibly backwards! I started just with(Horrendously bad) freehand doodles, then went straight to construction, as a result my observation skills are not as good as I'd like. Thanks for this video, it really helps me and others who do not have much guidance with our studies.
I left drawing a few years back because of personal problems, i just didn't feel like drawing anymore, but recently I've been watching these kind of videos and the drawings you make make me wanna draw like that, I've always drawn since i was a kid but I never got to a great level, I might give it a try again but following these steps and knowing that I'll take years to reach a level where i feel good. I've always wanted to reach a similar level to yours, I'll give it a shot, it's never too late to start again.
Thank you very much marc, you’re the best art teacher, you really help me a lot and you also gave me the confidence to transform my art journey in something serious and more professional. I just stared ART SCHOOL a few days ago and already learned so much, I think it’s really really nice of you to invest all this time in helping people to reach their dream. I definitely feel like you really care and support us more than any of my teachers in school did. I will eventually upgrade to art school+ feedback to get more insight on my work from you, if there is a place for me, I can wait. So thank you very much again :) , without your help I probably would have never continued art and regret it later!
It's kinda hard for me to tell what level I'm at. I'm not sure if I'm overestimating or underestimating my art skills, and because of that I don't know what to focus on studying.
Thanks to you i've been drawing since 2 months, i've seen great progress thus far, your tips guides are so very useful and inspiring, keep doing this, love your work :D
Subscribed when you said you were a senior artist at Blizzard!, Long story short i actually got offered a job with Blizzard as a concept artist way back in 2015, Due to living in Australia i couldn't take the job as i needed to be in the States, But i am a huge fan of Blizzards art style and artwork, I used to play WoW just to screen shot the buildings and characters to draw them. Sheer aesthetics, no gameplay haha
Hey man, grate video, I been an artist since I was 10 and now I'm 23, but I whent to the Military after high school and been having a creative block. But this video helped me a lot remembering some basics that I learned and I think it will help me out.
Great tips Marc! Without an instructor, I think it is pretty easy to get the usage of reference wrong (for me, my instinct was to just "copy what's there"). But that doesn't apply to us, cause I think we got a great instructor here
I've been telling my art friends to try meditation at least 5 mins before every session but they think its too much work and they hate silence😑. Vipssana meditation aka body awareness or insight meditation has made my art journey as a returning artist far better and manageable thus far this year after a 10 day silence course ( highly recommend it for artist😇). Marc your an artist who finally understands that a mindfulness practice can get your art to a different level and how the power of present and observation ( in life and art) can make an overall better artist🤗. Cheers 🍻 also could you do a whole video on observation??
Sometimes before going in the bath to take my shower I observe my body, I am thin and I also work out so I can see the muscles. I haven't started working on things like that,I am waiting for my first pen display but it's actually fun to observe 😅
This video was super helpful, thanks a lot for this. I see myself at level 3 and the point where u mentioned that this is where you decide to specialise on specific things is actually something I struggle a lot with. I love to draw and paint so many different things and when I focus on only one thing, I get bored of it super quickly and lose motivation. For example I’ve been painting a lot of portraits lately and received great feedback…but now I’m already so bored of it. Every new idea for a portrait seems super boring to me. So now I’m going back to character designs and I’m already afraid when I’m getting bored of those too. Already thinking about drawing backgrounds again. I’m like jumping around between so many different things and I really don’t know how to properly deal with this. Especially since I’d love to get into the art industry. Tips on how to get out of this loop would be greatly appreciated. c:
this is true. I used to do "study" like open a picture and just try to copy it line by line. Of course if you do it a lot it still improves your drawing somewhat but not really help much. Then I took an online course for portrait and now I know how to do studies. When you do studies you need knowledge to know what you are trying to find on the refference, not copying it. Like when you do anatomy studies, try to see where is pecs, tricept, bicept.... and reconstruct it from the refference, which mean to have to learn anatomy first and then do study of it.
Okay imma teach this to my cousin who isn't getting enough support from her parents since one of her elder sister is much favoured more despite having no passion, while the passionate one isn't... OwO I'm excited for weekends as always now. And I'm glad quarantine gave me enough time to watch videos like this to improve my art.
thanks for the video!, I've been struggling to learn art at a good rate for bout 10 years now, my progress has been very slow despite a lot of studying, i'm gonna take the observation advice to heart and try to do that a lot more with my study subjects.
I’m only 18 years old and I feel like I’ve been having a mid life CRISIS because I wanna get so far so fast but the more I practice the more I realize I don’t know anything and my mental health is going down the drain I hate it here
I feel like this is a very important video for every artist in the world, I am so glad I discovered your channel for a long time now you're one of the channels that heavily impacted my improvement in art! Currently I am mostly struggling a bit with faces but alot in clothes. It's gonna be fun observing fabrics and different clothes interacting with the bodies of people :p
You’re funny, and you helped me a lot. Thank you so much for doing what you do. I have been on a rocky rode with my art. I started digital art last year as a hobby. I had NEVER painted something, I just used to do simple sketches, not even using light or shadows. It has been a year and I feel like my art has actually become worse. Sometimes I’m able to do a cool piece that I like, but then it’s like I don’t know how I did it and therefore I can’t re create that technique in other pieces. I had given up on painting since April this year (when it made an year of me being on digital art) and three weeks ago I found your page. It has helped me improve, get back to sketching and painting, and your tutorials aren’t like ALL the ones that are out there, where they are like “here let me teach u” and then just skip a bunch of steps and do stuff to the drawing without recording and with little to no explanation. Those videos make me depressed ngl. So thank you.
For myself taking art as a hobby(atleast for now) means i can be patient and not stress over it, becomes a relaxing experience, just like Bob Ross taught, i think it is the best approach
This is exactly what I needed to hear and thank you for speaking slow, i haven't find anything in my language and my basic English can't understood that people speaking so fast in UA-cam videos.
I'm happy I'm level 2, and I agree observation is one of the best skills ever (I try to see values everywhere, for example). Been following your vids and they are helping me a lot! Thanks and I've always paid the fee. Now, I want to join an art community where they can give me feedback and I can help others too. Does anybody know a website, discord server or anything like that?
Great video on the right time, I've been strugle with my drawings feeling that I don't improve , so I noticed that I have bad fundamentals and I decided to take a step back and start studying them. I made a list with many of your videos to study, starting with the structure of the head, so thank you for doing this free classes (I always pay with likes) since I can't aford to pay for your course right now (I live in another country and the conversion of dollar is umberable right now). Thank you for this videos =D
Nivel 1: observa Nivel 2: aprende los fundamentos y la teoría Nivel 3: especialízate en alguna materia para hacer tu arte. Nunca dejes de lado las referencias, y trata de hacer las cosas de memoria, confía en tu memoria 🙂
@@Maarv_Robb mas que simplemente observar, se trata de aprender a observar mejor, analizar de mejor manera y ser capaz de ver las figuras de las cosas de forma que seas capaz de visualizar las figuras en el cuerpo humano (si estas estudiando anatomia o dibujas personajes)
@@Maarv_Robb de igual forma, me sorprende ver que hay un comentario en español en la comunidad de marc, osea estaba claro que no era el unico bilingue que lo veía pero me alegra estar 100% seguro de ello
Asking for a like and sub as payment for your lesson is kind of genius, i don’t normally care if people beg for likes but I feel bad not liking the video after you say that 😭
I've been rewatching you videos on this topic so much lately. I feel like I hit a wall and that I'm not improving. I'm not that good at art to begin with so every time I try practicing I get frustrated that its not coming out well, so I feel like I'm practicing wrongly. Especially since I'm learning mostly on my own. I'm trying to at least draw something once a day even if it takes me over 3 hours to do 1 simple thing.
I also noticed step 4: Recycling. I been watching your channel for a while and i can say most characters you draw have exact or every similar appearances. For example: Face, ear/eye shapes, body, gestures and so on.
I’m going to guess he does that on purpose to keep it simple for his videos? The best way to get good at drawing something is practice through repetition. He also mentions in a lot of his videos that he’s ex-Blizzard, but I don’t think he’d brag about that fact if he’s no longer an employee because they fired him for only being able to draw the same character over and over...
@@Dark_Mishra Of course he is doing to save his time in videos, because if you look at his art its hard to find "used" features. I personally like that idea of recycling certain features like face for example. Artist by name Genzoman do that a lot and he is very popular. Also you totally understood that wrong, i'm not calling him out or anything. I just stated my observation.
as somebody who was working for blizzard and in this video also show your approach at female anatomy, maybe you can tell me why in the industry theres this bias towards completely unrealistic and downright unhealthy posture of women, especially their backs? for example widowmaker in overwatch or your drawing in this video? is it really that boring to draw females with vaguely realistic bodies instead of those oversexualized nightmares fuels? im not saying make em ugly on purpose, but just dont pretend like those proportions or postures are normal or even sexy. it depends on the art style ofc. not every artstyles bodies need to be super realistic.
Slightly late this week
Marc really be out here giving top tier advices🙇🙇🙇
A great weekend indeed! Thanks for this great study-advice and a great weekend for you as well, cheers!
Marc hey, i got some questions, i feel like its easier for me to learn if someone points out what im doing wrong and explains me how to fix it, thats why sometimes tutorials dont work as good for me, because i can only see an example and then is hard for me to apply it on other things, do you think thats bad? should i change my way of thinking or its an actual thing? i know you had a lot of questions from your viewers, but if you see this i will apreciate it a lot
Don't tell me what to do.
That blonde character looks anorexic.
100 gesture drawings, 100 character turnarounds and 10hr anatomy study for every day after doing that Marc lost his hairs!
one punch man but for art
@@era2s One Paint Man
one pose man
One Pen Man
Same applies to Kim Jung Gi
So what I'm understanding now is that the top secret most important art skill is patience, because it's required to take all of those steps.
I agree mate ^¬^
Definitely (cuz I lack it). I'm suffering from Yoshihiro Togashi syndrome I draw for like an hour max before my back starts killing me
Meanwhile my ADD says “This is boring. DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT.”
Yup patiance is everything with art
@@yushaare and then playing dragon quest for the rest of the day
It's insane that we live in times where knowledge like this is free and so accessible that I can watch this video without any pants on.
That took a turn
It did
I KNOW RIGH-- waiiitt...
And you only need one hand!
wait whut-
Been drawing since I was 13, only just started practicing at 21. Guess it's time to binge all these videos, practice and try to catch up
Same here
i dont even remember a point of me not drawing in my life, its pretty wierd now that i look back at it
@@era2s When I was younger I always used to think drawing was so boring, and I was bad at it so I'd rather go play videogames. Little bit of regret there
Too bad we didn't have tutorials like this when we were younger... :/ ...
@@mari.artcastel Yeah, it does suck. But I can't exactly moan about that since I'm not trying my hardest anyway even with all this great content. Gotta try and push myself more
Dang, Saitama here literally becoming the best master of arts. You saved millions of us. Thank you very much
Omg 😂😂😂
LMAO AHHAHA
He’s a true hero
One Art Man
True hero
The one problem about me when I come to art in the beginning is that I wanna draw things fast, sometimes I skip sketching and just start drawing, but now I just take my time and just draw, simple shapes and connecting them with lines and it’s great. All I am saying is just patience, and it’s not a contest, don’t get jealous when you see another artist, just keep drawing
Idk how to sketch tbh, I only have a pen I just try shapes as a little warm up. I wasn't really that motivated to get into Anatomy. I tried to draw a fan from just observation and it went. Ok ig.
Sometime jealousy is gud but if you take it in a gud way!! 🙃
ur pfp 😍
I'll take your words wise man
I can't help myself but to be jealous. I know that you shouldn't be but idk i just can't help it. My brain is the problem haha
notes
1. observe what you'll draw a good amount of time before drawing it to make sense of what you see. shapes, shadows, highlights
2. look to fundamentals especially construction using simple 3D shapes [lineart]. look to other artists to see how they do it
3. educate yourself to become a specialist of what you like to draw. for characters, anatomy. the more you know about the subject you like to draw, the better you can observe it and improve your drawings. use references, draw the construction, move on to detail. try to not depend on the reference after construction, but look at it if you hesitate or forget any information, then put it away. with a solid construction, now we can move on to details. rely less and less on references, trust your memory and what you have learned and observed.
ive been struggling with drawing alot and when i read "educate yourself to become a specialist of what you like to draw" it all clicked. I can draw some things really well because i know every in and out of them, i know everything about them but i cant draw things that i have no experience with.
Other Artists: I paid more than $1000 learning art but I still haven’t learned anything good.
Me: I paid Marc Brunet a sub and a few hundred likes and my art keeps improving over time.
true tho his content is superb
his paid content is also mint :D
Ikr? I’ve learnt so much and I’ve only been watching in only two weeks
Yeah right? Hahaha I am finding myself and arts having those style touches of him. Plus his advise about the artblock it is true. I am always trying to trick my brain that my art is awesome before leaving it and go back excited. Not all the time tho.
But still, depends on your efforts.
His explanation is so simple!
0:01 wow i never saw so many bald men! i mean, professional artists
Too my bitter disappointment there is no proven correlation between being bald and being a professional artist.
Even my art professor is bald...BOTH of them
all that professionalism made marc's hair fall out. WORTH IT!
One and the same
Trails TM Saitama style😎
Marc, I appreciate that your introductions are fun and goofy and you clearly have fun editing them. But I ALSO appreciate, that when it comes time to give your instruction and your knowledge, you present it very professionally and clearly without wasting time. I hope that your students understand that this is a GREAT quality to have in the workplace and in life. You set a good example of a great professional attitude. Don't take yourself too seriously, but take your work seriously. Have fun while being the best. Much love to you Marc, for spreading the good art vibes!
Man thanks for that! That’s so nice
What I learned so far:
1. Observe the reference/subject you want to draw.
2. Understand the anatomy and look to the fundamentals and build a construct for your drawing using basic 3d/2d shapes and see how other artist do it.(or simply take inspiration)
3. Line art is the most important part in a drawing after details.
4. Educate yourself to become a specialist of what you like to draw.
5. Be patient, trust the process, take your work seriously and enjoy :D
Marc: Study anatomy, like a physical therapist would!
Me, who's in college to become a physical therapist: 👀
Guess you'll study art well then XD
You’ve got a leg up on the competition!
I've been "seriously" doing art for almost 3 years now, but only recently have I discovered the REAL importance of study and practice in art. Marc's video has motivated me to start studying and I'm suddenly feeling a lot better with myself and my art.
I hope if I remember or ever come across this comment in some time, I will be able to appreciate this video even more than I already do.
Marc can you do a tutorial on "composition" and how to use that to get people's attention. Or did you make one and I missed it?
Already did :) ua-cam.com/video/Zbi_XUtb1Mk/v-deo.html
Thanks the videos really helps
Nice
Who else got insanely much better at drawing after finding Marc's channel?
Me torsos are much better now
I can draw humans now :D
I observe better now rather than just seeing thanks to marc
12:13 I love the first character with the pale blonde hair.💖
I'm an art student and this single video alone helped me more than the entire course I took this semester 😭
I love how you teach me stuff and take 12:50 minutes of my depression away. Thanks!
"I don't want you to cry"
That was sweet :')
He always emphasizes and exaggerates some part of the body, ever so subtly. Every drawing looks a bit different. He KNOWS how to exaggerate every part, and he does it really well
I think it goes into the fact Marc knows the fundamentals so well, he can exaggerate them while still keeping them true to their form.
Exaggerated swagger
Jokes aside, I mean. He's a professional
That's why one fundamental is anatomy he knows how ever muscles wraps around another muscle which creates indentations and bumps
@@lonczz having muscle definition on yourself can be better than having to stare and analyze a reference
These tutorials are underrated, Come on UA-cam algorithm!!
I was about to say that I was getting them pretty consistently.
Then I checked the view count, and remembered I have the bell active 🤔
So yeah, as opposed to the many videos that collect several 100k views after the first hours, I agree, Mark's videos seem genuinely underrated.
im so glad i can just watch these videos to try and work towards a career in character concepts and get a degree in graphic design at the same time
I wanna find 1 video on this channel without a comment saying *"tHe InTrO kEePs GetTiNg BeTtEr"*
The intro keeps getting better
Because of your comment, someone will now go to his very first upload and say exactly that.
The comments keeps getting better
The intros... hmm... delicious crazy intros... keep them coming.
The introductions keep getting more exquisite
+1 for using reference after attempting to draw from memory first. This is effectively the art equivalent of self-testing (from studying), which is well known now for being the most effective method of learning
i’ve done that before without realizing! that’s neat
This is so encouraging. I'm only in my twenties but sometimes I get so overwhelmed with the thought that I'll never improve. Finding your channel, I found the direction I'd been missing. I'd love to tell stories through art. I hope I can get there someday!
I want to watch a video compilation of all of Marc's intros
The 10 h version!
This came at the EXACT time I needed it!
Wow dazai😍
Marc is a mind reader
Samee
Same
When he said work on lineart, this is so so true. I spent about 2 years just doing lineart and my art really skyrocketed. I will definitely use the advice I heard :) Thank you so much for the helpful tips ^^
I feel like he pays someone to do the "bad" drawings of his thumbnails 🤣🤣
The left one lookin pretty good
Marc answering my "prayers" once again. You must be some kind of mind reader or something because you always end up posting a new video just in time when I need it the most. Thanks so much!! 🙏💗
Man what are you doing for the art comunity is incredible.
I found about you, learned a lot from you and helped me a lot with the video of "Thoughts on Burnouts", nobody speaks about it and that helped me a lot, it helped me to love what I loved once again. I never stoped after being burn out, hating every minute i draw something, your words helped me take a break without feeling guilty.
Every video I see is gold, it let me refresh some things and learns new things every day.
So what im trying to say is thanks man!
Dear Marc, thank you so much for providing this video. I consider myself an experienced artist, but I found so much new and mind-blowing truths that I have been overlooking for many years. First of all, the eyes! They are so much more that what I used to think, such a powerful tool we have, given by nature! The ability to focus beyond what we actually observe, and to SEE it from a point of real perspective, measuring and classifying. I understood once again that there is more to what I'm seeing. Thank you again so much. Thanks youtube for sponsoring this amazing teacher!
The fact that I'm lost and I always go back to Marc and my art actually progresses. Love your videos and your teaching :)
感謝分享~!
筆記
0:00 HOW TO STUDY ART THE RIGHT WAY
1:08 BRIEFING
3:17 LEVEL 1 STUDY(學會觀察周圍的事物or參考圖，查看簡單的對象並嘗試繪製，花較多時間觀察後再繪製，輪廓、大小、色彩變化、頂面底面)
6:02 LEVEL 2 STUDY(理論與藝術基礎相結合，加入結構&細節)
9:05 LEVEL 3 STUDY(分成各個主題研究，增添細節，不要一直看著參考圖，學會默寫歸納到腦中的資料庫)
12:48 YIKES
I'm kinda proud of myself after realising I've been intuitively doing these steps. Every time I see something cool around I keep staring at it and trying to notice all the details of shape, colour, light, movement pattern (if it's a living being) etc
thank you so much. from now i'll start to practise the fundamentals every day, 1 hour a day. until now i've just copied drawing without observe the structure of what i'm copying, even if i'm currently quite good at this, i wanna improve. at the moment I consider myself a photocopier rather than a artist
sorry for bad english, i have to improve in english too
@@Esal_02 Your English is perfect!
@@Esal_02 How is it going the progress Lele? ^^
Your art is amazing dude. I am inspired by it to make absolutely stunning art from my imagination
if you were a chef instead of an illustrator, you name would be Marc Brûlée
If your comment were a steak it would be well done
I feel the art knowledge coming inside of me
the intro keeps getting better.
what about conbtent?
Hey Marc, for someone who's not face-to-face with a classroom in this format, you do an amazing job of keeping it simple, engaging and understandable.
I've been painting and drawing since i could hold a pencil (so around.. 34 years now?). But I went ahead and bought a reasonable pen-display (like you said.. there were cheaper ones out there..) and found myself woefully lacking in a lot of areas. (shading and texturing, specifically, though your approach to anatomy is VERY helpful too.)
Areas that your videos have been immeasurably helpful in highlighting and now improving on.
Thanks for taking the time to spread some passion and knowledge, and raising the bar for someone who "plateu'ed" years ago.
You're awsome!
Fun fact: if you look closely at him you will notice he is not 100% bald 🙂
What I had to teach myself as an intermediate artist is to not compare my work to others, who clearly have spent more time drawing than I have. I don’t know how much work they have put in to get where they’re at. It used to not motivate me but now it makes me realize I have so much more to learn !
I only started to draw seriously last year-
😶
Omg I've been going at it backwards!! I'm over here hammering over the specifics of human anatomy as a beginner. No wonder it feels so stressful. Thank you!!
Without knowing any foundation, I dived straight into drawing. And my process is too inefficient so hope to learn the principles now! :D
4:21 I do something similar to this but except I just randomly notice it. Since I'm self taught I've learned ways I can improve on my drawings and the main way I did it was observing people or drawings and realizing about that thing.
I was feeling so frustrated with my recent studies 🥺 this video came in the right time. Thank u Marc 💓
I watch one of your UA-cam videos almost every day. Sometimes multiple times a day. So I Just bought term1. Looked at the term schedule and was shocked how it was an 8 week schedule. Shocked and happy! Spent the same amount on someone else’s corse and literally only came with 5 videos and they used procreate so I had to try and teach myself how to use the program to try and keep up. So exited to start. Can’t
wait to see where I’m at in a year.
Me: Just seeing a marathon of your videos.
Marc: There is another one.
Best timing ever!! xd
holy shit, ive been drawing for 14 years now and gone to art classes but the things you talked about in the video blew my mind, its just so much easier now. thank you so much
Pretty good video, except one thing I have aphantasia, aka I'm not able to have visual memory, it does make being an artist kinda hard, but also makes my approach to art kinda unique, I'm more relying on my muscle memory and drawing feels more like sculpting than well drawing. I thought this would be interesting thing to know, since not lot of people know about aphantasia!
@@loumona76 it truly sucks, but ive kinda learnt around it by studying references(and how to deconstruct them for my work) and like building my muscle memory
i've never feel so confident like this after see this video... marc really give us premium knowledge that all other art teacher need you to paid.. bless you sir
Lol, my path as an artist has been incredibly backwards! I started just with(Horrendously bad) freehand doodles, then went straight to construction, as a result my observation skills are not as good as I'd like. Thanks for this video, it really helps me and others who do not have much guidance with our studies.
I left drawing a few years back because of personal problems, i just didn't feel like drawing anymore, but recently I've been watching these kind of videos and the drawings you make make me wanna draw like that, I've always drawn since i was a kid but I never got to a great level, I might give it a try again but following these steps and knowing that I'll take years to reach a level where i feel good. I've always wanted to reach a similar level to yours, I'll give it a shot, it's never too late to start again.
I’ve always loved the little rosy cheeks you add to your characters
Thank you very much marc, you’re the best art teacher, you really help me a lot and you also gave me the confidence to transform my art journey in something serious and more professional. I just stared ART SCHOOL a few days ago and already learned so much, I think it’s really really nice of you to invest all this time in helping people to reach their dream. I definitely feel like you really care and support us more than any of my teachers in school did. I will eventually upgrade to art school+ feedback to get more insight on my work from you, if there is a place for me, I can wait. So thank you very much again :) , without your help I probably would have never continued art and regret it later!
Thanks so much Sarah!
It's kinda hard for me to tell what level I'm at. I'm not sure if I'm overestimating or underestimating my art skills, and because of that I don't know what to focus on studying.
if your confused u might better start at level 1
Have u found your level? Did you level up?
Thanks to you i've been drawing since 2 months, i've seen great progress thus far, your tips guides are so very useful and inspiring, keep doing this, love your work :D
art schools finna have no students once they find out marc is giving lesson worth a sub and like
Subscribed when you said you were a senior artist at Blizzard!, Long story short i actually got offered a job with Blizzard as a concept artist way back in 2015, Due to living in Australia i couldn't take the job as i needed to be in the States, But i am a huge fan of Blizzards art style and artwork, I used to play WoW just to screen shot the buildings and characters to draw them. Sheer aesthetics, no gameplay haha
ok but when he said "i dont want to see you cry" i almost teared up ,,
This entire channel is a goldmine of helpful information!
I can’t stop staring at his eyebrows’ dancing as he talks
thanks for corrupting us bro
You should see Asmongold his eyebrows. They have a life of their own. lol
Hey man, grate video, I been an artist since I was 10 and now I'm 23, but I whent to the Military after high school and been having a creative block. But this video helped me a lot remembering some basics that I learned and I think it will help me out.
Great tips Marc! Without an instructor, I think it is pretty easy to get the usage of reference wrong (for me, my instinct was to just "copy what's there"). But that doesn't apply to us, cause I think we got a great instructor here
I've been telling my art friends to try meditation at least 5 mins before every session but they think its too much work and they hate silence😑. Vipssana meditation aka body awareness or insight meditation has made my art journey as a returning artist far better and manageable thus far this year after a 10 day silence course ( highly recommend it for artist😇).
Marc your an artist who finally understands that a mindfulness practice can get your art to a different level and how the power of present and observation ( in life and art) can make an overall better artist🤗.
Cheers 🍻 also could you do a whole video on observation??
Thanks!
Sometimes before going in the bath to take my shower I observe my body, I am thin and I also work out so I can see the muscles. I haven't started working on things like that,I am waiting for my first pen display but it's actually fun to observe 😅
Yeah, finally someone who's the same
This video was super helpful, thanks a lot for this. I see myself at level 3 and the point where u mentioned that this is where you decide to specialise on specific things is actually something I struggle a lot with. I love to draw and paint so many different things and when I focus on only one thing, I get bored of it super quickly and lose motivation. For example I’ve been painting a lot of portraits lately and received great feedback…but now I’m already so bored of it. Every new idea for a portrait seems super boring to me. So now I’m going back to character designs and I’m already afraid when I’m getting bored of those too. Already thinking about drawing backgrounds again. I’m like jumping around between so many different things and I really don’t know how to properly deal with this. Especially since I’d love to get into the art industry. Tips on how to get out of this loop would be greatly appreciated. c:
this is true. I used to do "study" like open a picture and just try to copy it line by line. Of course if you do it a lot it still improves your drawing somewhat but not really help much. Then I took an online course for portrait and now I know how to do studies. When you do studies you need knowledge to know what you are trying to find on the refference, not copying it. Like when you do anatomy studies, try to see where is pecs, tricept, bicept.... and reconstruct it from the refference, which mean to have to learn anatomy first and then do study of it.
Okay imma teach this to my cousin who isn't getting enough support from her parents since one of her elder sister is much favoured more despite having no passion, while the passionate one isn't...
OwO I'm excited for weekends as always now.
And I'm glad quarantine gave me enough time to watch videos like this to improve my art.
thanks for the video!, I've been struggling to learn art at a good rate for bout 10 years now, my progress has been very slow despite a lot of studying, i'm gonna take the observation advice to heart and try to do that a lot more with my study subjects.
I’m only 18 years old and I feel like I’ve been having a mid life CRISIS because I wanna get so far so fast but the more I practice the more I realize I don’t know anything and my mental health is going down the drain I hate it here
Take it slow man
YEY! new video😭 Sir Marc's channel is my new addiction now!!
Wow. I really needed this. How can you read my mind?!?
I feel like this is a very important video for every artist in the world, I am so glad I discovered your channel for a long time now you're one of the channels that heavily impacted my improvement in art!
Currently I am mostly struggling a bit with faces but alot in clothes. It's gonna be fun observing fabrics and different clothes interacting with the bodies of people :p
Ah yes
Me, a graduating physical therapist, is ready for this.
You’re funny, and you helped me a lot. Thank you so much for doing what you do.
I have been on a rocky rode with my art. I started digital art last year as a hobby. I had NEVER painted something, I just used to do simple sketches, not even using light or shadows. It has been a year and I feel like my art has actually become worse. Sometimes I’m able to do a cool piece that I like, but then it’s like I don’t know how I did it and therefore I can’t re create that technique in other pieces. I had given up on painting since April this year (when it made an year of me being on digital art) and three weeks ago I found your page. It has helped me improve, get back to sketching and painting, and your tutorials aren’t like ALL the ones that are out there, where they are like “here let me teach u” and then just skip a bunch of steps and do stuff to the drawing without recording and with little to no explanation. Those videos make me depressed ngl.
So thank you.
if all teachers are like him, no one would skip class
Yaaaay! Thanks for listening to my suggestion Marc! I really appreciate the art study schedule! Downloading it now!
Just wondering could you do a video on how to give your characters emotions. Mine look dead all the time -_-
For myself taking art as a hobby(atleast for now) means i can be patient and not stress over it, becomes a relaxing experience, just like Bob Ross taught, i think it is the best approach
All the "Hi"s had me ded
This is exactly what I needed to hear and thank you for speaking slow, i haven't find anything in my language and my basic English can't understood that people speaking so fast in UA-cam videos.
I'm happy I'm level 2, and I agree observation is one of the best skills ever (I try to see values everywhere, for example). Been following your vids and they are helping me a lot! Thanks and I've always paid the fee.
Now, I want to join an art community where they can give me feedback and I can help others too. Does anybody know a website, discord server or anything like that?
Marc back at it again with useful tips for artist.
Senpai I grew so powerful ! My skiiiiiills are raaawr ! slap my bum! Whaaa ? Thank you ☺️❤️🇨🇦
Great video on the right time, I've been strugle with my drawings feeling that I don't improve , so I noticed that I have bad fundamentals and I decided to take a step back and start studying them. I made a list with many of your videos to study, starting with the structure of the head, so thank you for doing this free classes (I always pay with likes) since I can't aford to pay for your course right now (I live in another country and the conversion of dollar is umberable right now). Thank you for this videos =D
I want to know the history of your big ears in your characters , i'm curious ....
Seriously best video of drawing tutorials yet, no joke my torsos got better within 2 days!!!!!
no entiendo nada , pero disfruto :'v
Nivel 1: observa
Nivel 2: aprende los fundamentos y la teoría
Nivel 3: especialízate en alguna materia para hacer tu arte.
Nunca dejes de lado las referencias, y trata de hacer las cosas de memoria, confía en tu memoria 🙂
@@Maarv_Robb ¡gracias! (｀・ω・´)
@@Maarv_Robb mas que simplemente observar, se trata de aprender a observar mejor, analizar de mejor manera y ser capaz de ver las figuras de las cosas de forma que seas capaz de visualizar las figuras en el cuerpo humano (si estas estudiando anatomia o dibujas personajes)
@@indigo3032 buen punto, es la distinción que Marc hace en este mismo video respecto a mirar (see or watch) y observar (observe)
@@Maarv_Robb de igual forma, me sorprende ver que hay un comentario en español en la comunidad de marc, osea estaba claro que no era el unico bilingue que lo veía pero me alegra estar 100% seguro de ello
Why am I discovering this channel just now....... This is like an online art school!
Thank you so much!
Asking for a like and sub as payment for your lesson is kind of genius, i don’t normally care if people beg for likes but I feel bad not liking the video after you say that 😭
I've been rewatching you videos on this topic so much lately. I feel like I hit a wall and that I'm not improving. I'm not that good at art to begin with so every time I try practicing I get frustrated that its not coming out well, so I feel like I'm practicing wrongly. Especially since I'm learning mostly on my own. I'm trying to at least draw something once a day even if it takes me over 3 hours to do 1 simple thing.
I cant help but stare at his eyebrows. They're so...ALIVE?
I also noticed step 4: Recycling. I been watching your channel for a while and i can say most characters you draw have exact or every similar appearances. For example: Face, ear/eye shapes, body, gestures and so on.
I’m going to guess he does that on purpose to keep it simple for his videos? The best way to get good at drawing something is practice through repetition. He also mentions in a lot of his videos that he’s ex-Blizzard, but I don’t think he’d brag about that fact if he’s no longer an employee because they fired him for only being able to draw the same character over and over...
@@Dark_Mishra Of course he is doing to save his time in videos, because if you look at his art its hard to find "used" features. I personally like that idea of recycling certain features like face for example. Artist by name Genzoman do that a lot and he is very popular. Also you totally understood that wrong, i'm not calling him out or anything. I just stated my observation.
as somebody who was working for blizzard and in this video also show your approach at female anatomy, maybe you can tell me why in the industry theres this bias towards completely unrealistic and downright unhealthy posture of women, especially their backs? for example widowmaker in overwatch or your drawing in this video? is it really that boring to draw females with vaguely realistic bodies instead of those oversexualized nightmares fuels? im not saying make em ugly on purpose, but just dont pretend like those proportions or postures are normal or even sexy. it depends on the art style ofc. not every artstyles bodies need to be super realistic.
thank you so much for this video my learning paste is so slow but your tips are actually amazing