@@squarrot9355 I am aware, but that doesn’t change the fact that he’s said that he feels uncomfortable with the name. One, he doesn’t want people to look up to him as a parental figure, because that would mean minors on the channel. And two, he’s not very fond of people calling him “daddy”, for obvious reasons. He changed the name thing to “Art Guy”, and the series name to “Dear Pencil Pals”. Edit: Sources: ua-cam.com/video/c-2nIE0RtgI/v-deo.html ( description ) ua-cam.com/video/69YjXf3R0KE/v-deo.html ( 3 : 00 - 4 : 19 ) ua-cam.com/video/-TlMqDd-ShY/v-deo.html ( 0 : 43 - 2 : 03 ) I realize how little he’s talked about it, and how it’s probably not that big of a deal, but man, *someone* needs to remember this kind of stuff, and get people on the right track :)
My only tip would be to add more texture to different types of fabric- they all have the same shiny look (that I love) but some fabrics would take on light different. One of my favorite things to do is add subtle vertical small stripes (like a ribbed turtleneck) it just adds that much more detail and contrast. Then again I know you’re trying to simplify things… so ah ignore this Also i would die for Mabel and Robin and we’ll- all of them
6:04 the "how? what? help" is me in relation to anything to do with my art style lmao, the way I draw heads changes like 10 times a month and I have never improved my bodies, but it's fun so 🤷♀
I kind of have the same thing/problem with my style too! I get self conscious about it and don’t think of just letting my brain turn off and not focus on details 😅 Sometime you just gotta let your brain go brrr when doodling in a sketchbook (hope this doesn’t sound so awkward…….XP) Also the simplified style could add more to some comedic aspects to some of the characters and make you feel more loose while you draw. That kind of works for me at least (I hope that helps!) Btw nice work Oliver!
this happened to me a lot in the past, I drew mostly semi-realistic with some touch of anime, I ended up restarting my whole art style to just basically look like something between anime and cartoony, and I'm happy with it 🤧🤧
I have a pretty simple art style, as well as an even simpler one I use for quick concepts. When you’re going simplistic, the focus shifts from lines to shapes. I have a mostly lineless style so that’s especially apparent, but even in my more simple style (which uses a lot of lines) the focus is still on shapes. I only draw a line if it’s necessary to convey information about plane shifts, textures, the boundaries of a shape- otherwise, I just work in simple shapes. For example, a pair of jeans only gets a seamline to show the form, a line at the crotch, and maybe pockets. Everything else (fit, weight, material, etc-) is shown through the shapes. It’s also helpful to simplify the shapes themselves. Drawing floursacks taught me how to make shapes express weight, emotion, and character- you don’t need much! A turtleneck can just be a squishy cube with a square bit poking out for the collar, a leg can just be some bendy tapered tubes. In the most extreme cases, a hand can be simplified to a triangle or diamond- though that’s usually reserved for extra fast fashion illustration inspired sketches.
the importance of seamlines to me cannot be overstated… I don’t tend to draw wrinkles, but I can show them with a zigzag at a normally straight seamline and maybe a little bumpout in the nook of whatever’s bending. And it works perfectly fine for most materials!
Maybe look at the adventure artstyle. You can easily see the shapes. But it's a art style that a lot of people hate since it's so simple. Which is rude because adverture story telling would take way longer. You don't have to do dot eyes either can do big eyes and more shape language. You can even do a chibi art style. Hope this helps.
This new art style is really great. It takes all the best bits of your other style and makes it cartoony and cute. Every time I see that you post a video, it literally makes my whole day. Love your content, no matter how few and far between.
Waking up and the first thing you see if your favourite UA-camrs new video is posted WHILE you are in an arty mood. The best thing ever I now can draw while watching this video and eventually just put all your videos on shuffle, cause I’ve already seen them all Post video watching comment: Oliver, this style is both very cool, and very cute. And it definetly looks like your art style but simpler. I absolutely love it and would love seeing it more often!
I feel like because of your shading style even this "simplified" style feels pretty on par with your usual stuff! Maybe playing around with flatter shading instead will make it more distinct. I think even with a different shading style it'll still look very much like your art just because the way you draw and do lines is rather unique. Also just a fun thing I think about with style, though it doesn't apply much to the pictures you drew in this video, is that I find ears a good marker of style. Even with a change in style, the way people draw ears usually remain the same because they're so complex that once we find a comfortable way to stylize them people tend not to change it lol
It's always a good thing to play with your art. That's what makes art fun! If you fall into the same thing all the time your going to get bored. So changing or trying something new is always a good idea. I love the way the pictures came out and love seeing you post again. 😍😍
hi!! i love ur channel! this might be the first time im commenting here tho 0_o this video was really interesting to watch bc it mirrors something ive been trying to do with my art lately! although in my case, i really want the simplification to be permanent lol. i feel like a major weakness of my older art was focusing a lot on -unhelpful- details just bc they were maybe fun to draw, or i thought i needed them, so for the past couple years ive been deliberately trying to draw more cartoony (after a period where i tried to draw super realistic anatomy because i thought drawing anime was bad lol). simplifying your art when you're used to doing more complex/realistic stuff is surprisingly hard. makes me think cartoonists must work their butts off to get those super simple styles to work. youre totally on point about using a bigger brush size for inking, too. it was a big adjustment for me but i really like how my work's been turning out recently (and i hope youve been enjoying your recent work too!). i think having to simplify your work is good for your art brain, cause it makes you think about what you really /need/ to get the idea of a drawing across. haha sorry for the whole paragraph comment lol ive just been thinking about this exact art topic lately so it was fun to see a video about this right now! :3
i definitely think it's fun and also convenient to have a simple art style! I'm still trying to figure out doing that myself but i just really love the idea of style exploration and experimenting. also this little spread turned out so cuteee!!! i want to put them all in my pocket >:0
Welcome back Oliver! Since you asked for a bit of advice, it’s kinda just about drawing characters and figuring what really makes your art different. Then you can accentuate those details and loose detail in the places that don’t really matter! Like loosing detail some parts of anatomy like ears or noses and armpits, lol. As for something like shading and highlights, you can simplify them by using only one color. You could also lose detail in the way you shade :) I hope this helped a tad 😅
i’m trying to simplify my style too! i really enjoy doing tiny textures and details but since i’m aiming to make a comic one day i’m trying to figure out a quicker and more replicable process. watching this video has definitely inspired me to work on that!
I love this simplified style. I've always loved your art style for how stylized it is. Personally I don't like semi realistic styles as much So this is nice.
Yay, a new video from you. You saved my day. ^^ I like your "new" art style too. It´s quite a challenge to simplify an art style without losing everything unique about it. And that the characters/OC are still recognizable.
I absolutely love the way you draw various things and every video you make I love analyzing the details and maybe rewatch dozen time to learn the cool tips and tricks you teach of shading detail, simplifying , honestly I love others art work but I love that at the end of the day I don't wanna copy cat I wanna learn how to improve and see what I'm not trying that other artists do such as I don't render as much as I should I just coloring page style slap on the color and then 1 cell shaded and light layer and call it dine, but bow I'm learning how to merge layers and blend or cross hatch shading and ad many many more layers of detail instead of just 3.
VOGRACE offers all kinds of customizable products btw :3 like literally anything! from pillows to stationery like washi tape, pencil cases etc. aND THEY HAVE "WRIST SUPPORTING" MOUSEPADS I REPEAT *"WRIST SUPPORTING" MOUSEPADS, YOU GUYS* SKDJBFVSEBVER I AM DEAD ON THE FLOOR OMG WHO'S A$$ AM I GONNA PUT ON THIS I CAN'T EXPRESS HOW ELATED I AM AAAAAAAA
Just wanted to say that after all this time I finally turned 18 and resubscribed to your channel. I wanted to respect your wishes about your channel audience. I’ve been waiting for so long resubscribing was the only reason I was excited to turn 18.😂
Hey, Oliver - glad you're doing okay! And this entire video is a mood. It's. The constant struggle of wanting to spill the exact idea I have down right and having a lot of focal points. The comments section here seems to understand the struggle of needing to turn off ya brain.
Just wanted to say that your art style's awesome and your always so talented, pus it's nice to see another video from you. God loves you and hope your doing alright.🙃
I have advise. But like idk if its going to work for you butt the first the second and third one that you drew i think have a lil just a lil bit to much shading like coming from an artist which has a very simple art style it would have been closer to your goal if they were not shaded alot how you did and like flat colours and a lil bit of shading on parts that shading is commonly used like for eg you drew a skirt underneath that you get what i am saying right?
Babe wake up, art dad just posted
He doesn’t like that name anymore
@@edgy_circles he hearted the comment
@@squarrot9355 I am aware, but that doesn’t change the fact that he’s said that he feels uncomfortable with the name. One, he doesn’t want people to look up to him as a parental figure, because that would mean minors on the channel. And two, he’s not very fond of people calling him “daddy”, for obvious reasons.
He changed the name thing to “Art Guy”, and the series name to “Dear Pencil Pals”.
Edit:
Sources:
ua-cam.com/video/c-2nIE0RtgI/v-deo.html ( description )
ua-cam.com/video/69YjXf3R0KE/v-deo.html ( 3 : 00 -
4 : 19 )
ua-cam.com/video/-TlMqDd-ShY/v-deo.html ( 0 : 43 -
2 : 03 )
I realize how little he’s talked about it, and how it’s probably not that big of a deal, but man, *someone* needs to remember this kind of stuff, and get people on the right track :)
This new art style looks very edible 10 out of 10 would eat
Fr fr looks yummy like skittles
My only tip would be to add more texture to different types of fabric- they all have the same shiny look (that I love) but some fabrics would take on light different. One of my favorite things to do is add subtle vertical small stripes (like a ribbed turtleneck) it just adds that much more detail and contrast.
Then again I know you’re trying to simplify things… so ah ignore this
Also i would die for Mabel and Robin and we’ll- all of them
6:04 the "how? what? help" is me in relation to anything to do with my art style lmao,
the way I draw heads changes like 10 times a month and I have never improved my bodies, but it's fun so 🤷♀
This is a really cute style, and it totally does look like something that you drew
I kind of have the same thing/problem with my style too! I get self conscious about it and don’t think of just letting my brain turn off and not focus on details 😅 Sometime you just gotta let your brain go brrr when doodling in a sketchbook (hope this doesn’t sound so awkward…….XP)
Also the simplified style could add more to some comedic aspects to some of the characters and make you feel more loose while you draw. That kind of works for me at least (I hope that helps!)
Btw nice work Oliver!
Man I am glad your doing fine and omg I loved that intro it made me laugh thank you
this happened to me a lot in the past, I drew mostly semi-realistic with some touch of anime, I ended up restarting my whole art style to just basically look like something between anime and cartoony, and I'm happy with it 🤧🤧
I have a pretty simple art style, as well as an even simpler one I use for quick concepts. When you’re going simplistic, the focus shifts from lines to shapes. I have a mostly lineless style so that’s especially apparent, but even in my more simple style (which uses a lot of lines) the focus is still on shapes. I only draw a line if it’s necessary to convey information about plane shifts, textures, the boundaries of a shape- otherwise, I just work in simple shapes. For example, a pair of jeans only gets a seamline to show the form, a line at the crotch, and maybe pockets. Everything else (fit, weight, material, etc-) is shown through the shapes.
It’s also helpful to simplify the shapes themselves. Drawing floursacks taught me how to make shapes express weight, emotion, and character- you don’t need much! A turtleneck can just be a squishy cube with a square bit poking out for the collar, a leg can just be some bendy tapered tubes.
In the most extreme cases, a hand can be simplified to a triangle or diamond- though that’s usually reserved for extra fast fashion illustration inspired sketches.
the importance of seamlines to me cannot be overstated… I don’t tend to draw wrinkles, but I can show them with a zigzag at a normally straight seamline and maybe a little bumpout in the nook of whatever’s bending. And it works perfectly fine for most materials!
Maybe look at the adventure artstyle. You can easily see the shapes. But it's a art style that a lot of people hate since it's so simple. Which is rude because adverture story telling would take way longer. You don't have to do dot eyes either can do big eyes and more shape language. You can even do a chibi art style. Hope this helps.
This new art style is really great. It takes all the best bits of your other style and makes it cartoony and cute. Every time I see that you post a video, it literally makes my whole day. Love your content, no matter how few and far between.
Waking up and the first thing you see if your favourite UA-camrs new video is posted WHILE you are in an arty mood. The best thing ever I now can draw while watching this video and eventually just put all your videos on shuffle, cause I’ve already seen them all
Post video watching comment: Oliver, this style is both very cool, and very cute. And it definetly looks like your art style but simpler. I absolutely love it and would love seeing it more often!
I feel like because of your shading style even this "simplified" style feels pretty on par with your usual stuff! Maybe playing around with flatter shading instead will make it more distinct. I think even with a different shading style it'll still look very much like your art just because the way you draw and do lines is rather unique.
Also just a fun thing I think about with style, though it doesn't apply much to the pictures you drew in this video, is that I find ears a good marker of style. Even with a change in style, the way people draw ears usually remain the same because they're so complex that once we find a comfortable way to stylize them people tend not to change it lol
When i draw in a simpler style i sort of just think of what simpler art styles i like
It's always a good thing to play with your art. That's what makes art fun! If you fall into the same thing all the time your going to get bored. So changing or trying something new is always a good idea. I love the way the pictures came out and love seeing you post again. 😍😍
OMG YOUR VOICE SOUNDS SO DIFFERENT! I LIKE IT!
both simple AND complex art styles? gotta love a multitalented king
I love your art style, it's so cool. You're so relatable c:
YEAHHH so good to see you back, Oliver !!! Hope everything’s going well ! :)) Also love the video !!
Love the new art style, it's a joy to see how yours is evolving. It's what I keep practicing with mine as well.
I'm glad you're back Oliver ! Also the drawings looks so cute !! ^w^
take a sip of water every time oliver says "shading" and "vibes" lmao-
hi!! i love ur channel! this might be the first time im commenting here tho 0_o
this video was really interesting to watch bc it mirrors something ive been trying to do with my art lately! although in my case, i really want the simplification to be permanent lol. i feel like a major weakness of my older art was focusing a lot on -unhelpful- details just bc they were maybe fun to draw, or i thought i needed them, so for the past couple years ive been deliberately trying to draw more cartoony (after a period where i tried to draw super realistic anatomy because i thought drawing anime was bad lol). simplifying your art when you're used to doing more complex/realistic stuff is surprisingly hard. makes me think cartoonists must work their butts off to get those super simple styles to work. youre totally on point about using a bigger brush size for inking, too. it was a big adjustment for me but i really like how my work's been turning out recently (and i hope youve been enjoying your recent work too!). i think having to simplify your work is good for your art brain, cause it makes you think about what you really /need/ to get the idea of a drawing across.
haha sorry for the whole paragraph comment lol ive just been thinking about this exact art topic lately so it was fun to see a video about this right now! :3
Ommgggg hun, I haven't heard your voice change, it's so smooth I'm so happy you were finally able to get it done~!!! 😍
i definitely think it's fun and also convenient to have a simple art style! I'm still trying to figure out doing that myself but i just really love the idea of style exploration and experimenting. also this little spread turned out so cuteee!!! i want to put them all in my pocket >:0
This style looks so cute! You could try to simplify the coloring even more if you wanted to try stuff, but it looks really good already!
Welcome back Oliver! Since you asked for a bit of advice, it’s kinda just about drawing characters and figuring what really makes your art different. Then you can accentuate those details and loose detail in the places that don’t really matter! Like loosing detail some parts of anatomy like ears or noses and armpits, lol.
As for something like shading and highlights, you can simplify them by using only one color. You could also lose detail in the way you shade :)
I hope this helped a tad 😅
i’m trying to simplify my style too! i really enjoy doing tiny textures and details but since i’m aiming to make a comic one day i’m trying to figure out a quicker and more replicable process. watching this video has definitely inspired me to work on that!
WELCOME BACK !! so good to see youre doing well :D
I love this simplified style. I've always loved your art style for how stylized it is. Personally I don't like semi realistic styles as much So this is nice.
I love all your art style, def recommend, looks absolutely scrumptious. I give it 5 michillen stars
Yay, a new video from you. You saved my day. ^^
I like your "new" art style too. It´s quite a challenge to simplify an art style without losing everything unique about it. And that the characters/OC are still recognizable.
Hi Oliver, hope you're having a good day! Love your channel❤❤❤
Good work! Glad you are finding ways to make art work better for you. ^^
OMG WELCOME BACK AND I LOVE YOUR LITTLE PNG MODEL(???) IN THR CORNER!!
I absolutely love the way you draw various things and every video you make I love analyzing the details and maybe rewatch dozen time to learn the cool tips and tricks you teach of shading detail, simplifying , honestly I love others art work but I love that at the end of the day I don't wanna copy cat I wanna learn how to improve and see what I'm not trying that other artists do such as I don't render as much as I should I just coloring page style slap on the color and then 1 cell shaded and light layer and call it dine, but bow I'm learning how to merge layers and blend or cross hatch shading and ad many many more layers of detail instead of just 3.
When I draw on my phone, I use thicker lines, mostly just on my phone though
VOGRACE offers all kinds of customizable products btw :3
like literally anything! from pillows to stationery like washi tape, pencil cases etc. aND THEY HAVE "WRIST SUPPORTING" MOUSEPADS I REPEAT *"WRIST SUPPORTING" MOUSEPADS, YOU GUYS* SKDJBFVSEBVER I AM DEAD ON THE FLOOR OMG WHO'S A$$ AM I GONNA PUT ON THIS I CAN'T EXPRESS HOW ELATED I AM AAAAAAAA
I love heeeeeer!!! ❣️❣️❣️❣️ Love your new style ❤️
aaaaa its so beautiful ❤️❤️❤️
I love this style! It is less intricate and I don't get stuck looking at everything on the page XD
Just wanted to say that after all this time I finally turned 18 and resubscribed to your channel. I wanted to respect your wishes about your channel audience. I’ve been waiting for so long resubscribing was the only reason I was excited to turn 18.😂
AKJFHJDSKF welcome back, and happy birthday!
I love how you're working on simplifying your art style I'm working on making mine more detailed and put more effort into it 😂
I knew you said you were on t and for a second I thought that intro was your actual voice lmao, but your voice sounds great!
your new avatar look like you have a big ol lions mane and it's very fun!
Hey, Oliver - glad you're doing okay! And this entire video is a mood. It's. The constant struggle of wanting to spill the exact idea I have down right and having a lot of focal points. The comments section here seems to understand the struggle of needing to turn off ya brain.
Just wanted to say that your art style's awesome and your always so talented, pus it's nice to see another video from you. God loves you and hope your doing alright.🙃
Holy cow that looks amazing 😭
Here for all of the good vibes and to draw along
Welcome back my guy
oooooooo first of all love, and i love ur eyes too!
new art style poggers, glad to see you back ✨
You worry cuz you're a perfectionist! And that's ok....cuz we love ya and are SOOOOOO freaking proud of you and all your hard work!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Welcome back Mr. Art Guy!
the amount of times he says charm in this video
Missed you Art Dad!!!
the art style is adorable!
Olivier me also getting back to watching UA-cam because I was fucking hospitalized 2 times for my big sad. broooooo can relate brooo.
Oliver back!!
Ayeee a new Oliver video- Adaman is proud
It’s either my style is extremely detailed or it has about as much quality as any low quality scene from any tv show there’s no in between-
I was about to leave the house for my mental health walk, but this more important
I am the emotional support bisexual
HE IS S ALIVEEEE
POV:you struggle immensely with drawing detail (a bow on the hair is the best i can do)
THE RETURN OF THE KING!
WELCOME BACK!!!!!!!
I have the exact opposite problem with my art, it's too simple
Will you do something for streaming for thankmas this year?
Yayy i love this
I have advise. But like idk if its going to work for you butt the first the second and third one that you drew i think have a lil just a lil bit to much shading like coming from an artist which has a very simple art style it would have been closer to your goal if they were not shaded alot how you did and like flat colours and a lil bit of shading on parts that shading is commonly used like for eg you drew a skirt underneath that you get what i am saying right?
I KNOW IM LATE BUT IM STILL GONNA EAT THIS CONTENT UP
noot noot
Welcome back!
Thank you noot noot man, truly yhe highlight of every one of my comment section
You inspired me to start a UA-cam channel :D
I need to work on developing a humanoid art style lol
10/10 intro lol
I have never given thought to what M.I.A meant, thank you for this breadcrumb of knowledge
OK but why do they look like cookies lowkey🤔🧡
Body pillows you say 👉👈
i want this problem
FIRST
3rd, but close enough
@@OliversAntics69 aww still love the video though!❤
:)
:)
it, it looks the same😰
I love heeeeeer!!! ❣️❣️❣️❣️ Love your new style ❤️