I literally gasped when you uploaded! You're such an inspiration for me to continue painting on my channel! I have notifications on and everything because the things you talk about make you a true influencer! This painting is gorgeous. :) Thank you for creating the video, Alpay!
I’m so happy to hear this. I’ve only recently gotten into digital realism. What I’ve found out is that... when I paint something just like the reference, I’m actually more vulnerable. From having a sketch base onward. If the guy in the photo has a wide neck or the girl has bigger hands than you’d expect, it looks as though I, being new at this, simply misjudged the proportions. I also had a few cases where faces were not at all symmetrical, from one brow being less arched and looking lower, to the bottom of the upper lip arching higher on the left, to the right eye being 30% less open, and her eyeshadow removed much of the natural shadow along the eyelids as they curve outward along the eyeball. I realized I needed to actually be “‘More true to life,” than the photo if I wanted to really make the eyes look right. They looked weird and flat without those shadows that had been lifted by the model wearing light eyeshadow in the inner third of her eyes. I can go out the reference side by side, or even slide it under my photo, and it becomes apparent in not over-emphasizing, but it’s still not... harmonious. It detracts from the piece. This was problematic for me. I felt realism was capturing the truth of what is there as closely as possible, that the better I got, the closer it would be. So I wondered if this meant I’d actually stray from realism and go into something else. But I think it might just be the difference between a copier and someone who makes art. I wouldn’t call myself an artist yet. But I hope, if I keep on, one day I will be.
What a great way to explain the originality of a painting rather than just a straight copy no matter how amazingly accurate it is. Thank you as always for sharing your thoughts and painting process. I find your videos so inspiring. T x
Your point about exaggerating the contrast and only comparing to other parts of the painting, rather than trying to match a reference, blew my mind! It makes total sense. Thank you!
Well i don't know much about art nor painting. But i believe what you learn is kinda essential for you to progress to a level that you can reflect your art to others. Once you master your skills you can find your own path and bind techniques you learn there to reflect your art. I think Alpay already practiced a lot and now he can ignore things and alternate some of the techniques with his skills and build his own aproach to reflect his art. Of course art has no limits but i don't think what they teach there is irrelevant.
I like how you really talk about art and not just about painting. I was in a gray area about this “need” of painting or drawing, thanks for inspiring :D
Thank you. You helped me learn an important lesson that I had not previously been able to accomplish, and I hoped to show you that. Thank you and I am grateful to you, I love you💜🙏
This is what I needed to hear! I've been trying to paint and not being satisfied and then just avoiding to paint hands for long Just get discouraged by the drawing or if it doesn't look right no matter what I do And this.... This makes it better More instinctive and much more malleable Thank you ♥️♥️ subscribed instantly
Youre my role model as a painter and artist. I love all your intriguing and smart and realistic insights, teaching me simplicity for equal or better quality in the end. Pls keep going i wish you the best and love your art so much
Can you please do an in-depth tutorial on how to paint veins? Also, how can we figure out the positioning of veins and how they're supposed to branch out? I've always been curious about how to paint details like veins but I haven't found many tutorials on this subject.
Studying anatomy is great for many branches of art. If you learn where the veins are, how close to the surface, their structure, you’ll know better how to paint them. This is quite a callback, but I know about four years ago Jazza (Josiah Brooks, has a channel here) put out figure drawing videos and also had an ebook with a ton of reference photos in it and discussed anatomy and muscle groups and the circulatory system, that kind of thing. You can find videos and photos of veins and the general circulatory system online easily enough though. It was very helpful. Especially on older people, muscular people, or large breasts, knowing how transparent the skin should be and how much the veins should show through is important. I’d also recommend portraits of people in those categories of various skin tones, as what you see come through changes depending on the tones on top of it. A mid blue looks different under a yellow filter than under red or green, after all. Just some ideas. It’d be cool if he did a video, of course, but this way if he doesn’t, you have some ideas.
I agree but I also need to say that rules are very good for problem solving. Not adhering to them but rather practicing them enough to know them. 'Drawing what you see' isn't for inspiration or interpretation but it's a very good means of achieving technical acumen. Few people can paint as adeptly or as quickly as what is depicted in this video. It takes a lot of time to develop that kind of confident hand (for most people) I would encourage people to break the rules but break them in the context of actually knowing them.
I love this drawing😍❤️ you are so inspirational 🔥 If you are reading this god bless you and your family hope you are successful in life. Have a nice day beautiful souls 💕 Small artist here😊❤️
I’ve got a lot of purple and cool tones in my skin tone, self portraits can be annoying due to that. But I like pale cool skin tones too much to not do it. Also, as a tip, some darker skin tones can have a bit or green or a deep red.
What I personally got out of this was to stop trying to imitate and worrying about perfection but focus on self expression. As a perfectionist in art, that’s hard for me to grasp. But I’m sure I’ll be able to get past that. Thanks for the video
Ditto. I can basically only do digital art because I’m too worried I’ll mess a picture up on hour five if it’s IRL. And with realism I thought the point is to draw what’s there! 😅 But each time I got negative feedback, strangely enough, it was stuff that looked odd, but matched the reference. If a guy had a thicker neck than usual or a woman had large or long hands. Or if the face is asymmetrical, brows uneven, lip raised higher on one side, and one eye closed farther. Painting what’s there just served to get me into situations where those things got pointed out. I even digitally slid the reference under my piece and saw I wasn’t exaggerating the features, but even just... acknowledging them was getting me into trouble. It drew focus in a bad way. So I’m still figuring out how far to go from the reference and when it’s important, but since it’s called REALISM, I wasn’t expecting to do that at all. But he’s totally and completely right! Doing what’s there isn’t enough. I figure it’s the difference between a copy and art, but I’m still figuring out how to give myself permission to go off the path to “improve” it. It’s a very odd prospect.
such an inspirational video. I am always impressed with the way you approach things. "The mind of an artist" might be my favourite art related series on UA-cam. From your thoughts you really seem like an artist, less of a craft-man. Btw I only realised you are a native German speaker when you said "Rembrandt" and "Schmincke" :D Viele Grüße aus Berlin!
I would love to see a video showing how you mix your colors, how much paint you mix as well as what viscosity you are looking for. please please please?
I love how translucent you've made the skin with subtle shifts in color. Thank you for explaining the process in detail! I do have one question though...as a realism painter, how do you decide what to paint as a body of work, and what is the process like? Do you create small studies/concepts for every piece first, then paint them full-scale after all studies are done? Or do you paint one at a time as the inspiration strikes?
I have a question when it comes to how you have your workspace such as what's the best way to keep it uncluttered and what is the best way to prevent messes etc
which movie would you watch, kids unattended competing with each other or pokemon? I understood the concept that reality is boring but couldn't answer this. Can anyone answer :) Sorry for asking silly question .
People love watching recordings of real life. We do it all day every day. Me watching this right now is me watching a normal slice of your very ordinary life. Depending on what slice is showing, people will pay a pretty penny. Whats important is that its not your own life that youre watching. Familiarity is what is boring, not realism. also there was plenty of light and shadow in those hands and you painted it. plenty of places where planes turned or gradations occurred. so you weren't just painting colors, you were painting values as well. just because there's not strong directional lighting doesn't mean there's no light and shadow. i saw plenty. if i screencapped this and turned it black and white i would see a lot of value changes
Switching to sketching with a brush instead of charcoal or a coloured pencil has sped up my process so much ♡ great advice
I love that you're going against many of the "rules" & simultaneously backing it up with such beautiful work. THANK YOU, your channel is gold.
AKA painting like a boss.
@@Sewius lol YES
😊!😅
I literally gasped when you uploaded! You're such an inspiration for me to continue painting on my channel! I have notifications on and everything because the things you talk about make you a true influencer! This painting is gorgeous. :) Thank you for creating the video, Alpay!
Julia Ferguson :)
"Reality can be boring, it often is." ~Alpay Efe
I’m so happy to hear this. I’ve only recently gotten into digital realism. What I’ve found out is that... when I paint something just like the reference, I’m actually more vulnerable. From having a sketch base onward. If the guy in the photo has a wide neck or the girl has bigger hands than you’d expect, it looks as though I, being new at this, simply misjudged the proportions. I also had a few cases where faces were not at all symmetrical, from one brow being less arched and looking lower, to the bottom of the upper lip arching higher on the left, to the right eye being 30% less open, and her eyeshadow removed much of the natural shadow along the eyelids as they curve outward along the eyeball. I realized I needed to actually be “‘More true to life,” than the photo if I wanted to really make the eyes look right. They looked weird and flat without those shadows that had been lifted by the model wearing light eyeshadow in the inner third of her eyes.
I can go out the reference side by side, or even slide it under my photo, and it becomes apparent in not over-emphasizing, but it’s still not... harmonious. It detracts from the piece.
This was problematic for me. I felt realism was capturing the truth of what is there as closely as possible, that the better I got, the closer it would be. So I wondered if this meant I’d actually stray from realism and go into something else.
But I think it might just be the difference between a copier and someone who makes art. I wouldn’t call myself an artist yet. But I hope, if I keep on, one day I will be.
What a great way to explain the originality of a painting rather than just a straight copy no matter how amazingly accurate it is. Thank you as always for sharing your thoughts and painting process. I find your videos so inspiring. T x
Your point about exaggerating the contrast and only comparing to other parts of the painting, rather than trying to match a reference, blew my mind! It makes total sense. Thank you!
What you said to paint what is inspired by life and not a copy.... I agree wholeheartedly! Fun video to watch and listen to!
I love the way you think and it really helps open my horizons as a young artist
Thank you
Beautiful philosophy for painting! Much different than what I'm learning at the Atelier I attend. Thanks for sharing.
Well i don't know much about art nor painting. But i believe what you learn is kinda essential for you to progress to a level that you can reflect your art to others. Once you master your skills you can find your own path and bind techniques you learn there to reflect your art. I think Alpay already practiced a lot and now he can ignore things and alternate some of the techniques with his skills and build his own aproach to reflect his art.
Of course art has no limits but i don't think what they teach there is irrelevant.
I love your approach to art! don't over think it, and enjoy. great advice!
Because of your videos I have learned so much and become a little better each time! 😊 thank you please never stop 💛
I like how you really talk about art and not just about painting. I was in a gray area about this “need” of painting or drawing, thanks for inspiring :D
Somehow I missed this video , and I hate missing any of your wonderful videos .. so relaxing and informative.. Thanks for them all..
Thank you. You helped me learn an important lesson that I had not previously been able to accomplish, and I hoped to show you that. Thank you and I am grateful to you, I love you💜🙏
This is what I needed to hear! I've been trying to paint and not being satisfied and then just avoiding to paint hands for long
Just get discouraged by the drawing or if it doesn't look right no matter what I do
And this.... This makes it better
More instinctive and much more malleable
Thank you ♥️♥️ subscribed instantly
Youre my role model as a painter and artist. I love all your intriguing and smart and realistic insights, teaching me simplicity for equal or better quality in the end. Pls keep going i wish you the best and love your art so much
Can you please do an in-depth tutorial on how to paint veins? Also, how can we figure out the positioning of veins and how they're supposed to branch out? I've always been curious about how to paint details like veins but I haven't found many tutorials on this subject.
Studying anatomy is great for many branches of art. If you learn where the veins are, how close to the surface, their structure, you’ll know better how to paint them. This is quite a callback, but I know about four years ago Jazza (Josiah Brooks, has a channel here) put out figure drawing videos and also had an ebook with a ton of reference photos in it and discussed anatomy and muscle groups and the circulatory system, that kind of thing. You can find videos and photos of veins and the general circulatory system online easily enough though. It was very helpful. Especially on older people, muscular people, or large breasts, knowing how transparent the skin should be and how much the veins should show through is important. I’d also recommend portraits of people in those categories of various skin tones, as what you see come through changes depending on the tones on top of it. A mid blue looks different under a yellow filter than under red or green, after all. Just some ideas. It’d be cool if he did a video, of course, but this way if he doesn’t, you have some ideas.
You make intricate paintings seem trivial. You are amazing!
You are such an inspiration and you say many profoundly insightful truths. Keep up the good work. So glad I just found your channel!
Beautiful! You make ordinary hands looks so beautiful!
Wow! that's really nice!!😘😘😘 I was were drawn into the your illusory world right now going to hold that hand soon..
Beautiful! I love watching your videos, You inspire me so much! Thank You! ❤️❤️
Another great video!!! Thank you for sharing your work with us! You have an amazing talent!
It would be amazing to see the reference photo used to see how your paintings differ from it, and what elements you took from the reference 😊
I agree but I also need to say that rules are very good for problem solving. Not adhering to them but rather practicing them enough to know them. 'Drawing what you see' isn't for inspiration or interpretation but it's a very good means of achieving technical acumen. Few people can paint as adeptly or as quickly as what is depicted in this video. It takes a lot of time to develop that kind of confident hand (for most people) I would encourage people to break the rules but break them in the context of actually knowing them.
Love your artwork always. You're such an inspiration 💖
Just WOW. you are sutch a inspiration to all lil artist out there including me 💜
Alpay Efe, I would deeply appretiate if you created a video specifically on brushwork!
I love this drawing😍❤️ you are so inspirational 🔥
If you are reading this god bless you and your family hope you are successful in life. Have a nice day beautiful souls 💕
Small artist here😊❤️
I’ve got a lot of purple and cool tones in my skin tone, self portraits can be annoying due to that. But I like pale cool skin tones too much to not do it. Also, as a tip, some darker skin tones can have a bit or green or a deep red.
Fantastic as always! 🔥🔥🔥
I like this approach.
I seriously love your approach to this! This makes so much sense to me. I hope I can some day master color theory
What I personally got out of this was to stop trying to imitate and worrying about perfection but focus on self expression. As a perfectionist in art, that’s hard for me to grasp. But I’m sure I’ll be able to get past that. Thanks for the video
Ditto. I can basically only do digital art because I’m too worried I’ll mess a picture up on hour five if it’s IRL. And with realism I thought the point is to draw what’s there! 😅 But each time I got negative feedback, strangely enough, it was stuff that looked odd, but matched the reference. If a guy had a thicker neck than usual or a woman had large or long hands. Or if the face is asymmetrical, brows uneven, lip raised higher on one side, and one eye closed farther. Painting what’s there just served to get me into situations where those things got pointed out. I even digitally slid the reference under my piece and saw I wasn’t exaggerating the features, but even just... acknowledging them was getting me into trouble. It drew focus in a bad way. So I’m still figuring out how far to go from the reference and when it’s important, but since it’s called REALISM, I wasn’t expecting to do that at all.
But he’s totally and completely right! Doing what’s there isn’t enough. I figure it’s the difference between a copy and art, but I’m still figuring out how to give myself permission to go off the path to “improve” it. It’s a very odd prospect.
I like your speach about life and paintings 🙏👍👍👍👍👍
this was very helpful! love the way you describe the process.
This wasn’t a tutorial on how to paint hands. This was a tutorial on how to become an extraordinary artist!
such an inspirational video. I am always impressed with the way you approach things. "The mind of an artist" might be my favourite art related series on UA-cam. From your thoughts you really seem like an artist, less of a craft-man.
Btw I only realised you are a native German speaker when you said "Rembrandt" and "Schmincke" :D Viele Grüße aus Berlin!
GreatNini Draws - old channel Danke 😊
You are so talented~
Your thoughts are really inspiring! Thank you so much!
Waiting for more artist advice;)
Alpay abi çok güzel çiziyorsun bende akrilik yapıyorummm
I would love to see a video showing how you mix your colors, how much paint you mix as well as what viscosity you are looking for. please please please?
Excellent it looks amazing!
Subtitulos en ESPAÑOL.. Gracias ..Desde Argentina saludos.
awesome! i love how you sketch with a brush :D ( i do that too to avoid the pencil smudging with the paint haha)
Wow this is amazing! I'll try this way on my next painting :} thanks
The hands look so beautiful
I love how translucent you've made the skin with subtle shifts in color. Thank you for explaining the process in detail! I do have one question though...as a realism painter, how do you decide what to paint as a body of work, and what is the process like? Do you create small studies/concepts for every piece first, then paint them full-scale after all studies are done? Or do you paint one at a time as the inspiration strikes?
I have a question when it comes to how you have your workspace such as what's the best way to keep it uncluttered and what is the best way to prevent messes etc
Some really wise words! Thank you!
Fantastic!
ugh you're SO GOOD
his voice looks the narrator of Stanley's parable lol it's really well to hear
Did you sketch first using graphite before painting on canvas?
dnilla Aguilar not on this one
I would definitely rather play pokemon, than a game of a child travelling with little monsters in his pocket. amazing video as always!
Very nice
I learn way more with you than i did when i was in collage.🙌🏻♥️
Excatly same
Breaking all the rules again Mr Efe....Thankfully :)
Thank you ❤❤❤
How many brush did you use?
Çok başarılı tebrik ederim 🙌
That’s a nice tutorial ☺️💕👍🏻
I wonder if the same result can be attained with gouache..
Very nice beautiful
How do you clean your brushes?
EXCELENTEEEE 💕💕💕
How many layer you use to make the hand?
hello, what paper are you using
Sehr interessant, vielen Dank!
i missed my weekly ALLLRIGHT
Plz tell the shades of colors
THANK YOU FOR ENLIGHTENING ME😭
Akzent ist sehr beruhigen 😌
I wonder if you can paint hands like this if it were hairy hands? Like how does one view these strands of hair in a visually pleasing way
I like this!🤗
So fantastic 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤️
I wish you include the reference photos!
Are you a full time artist?
Darlene vn. Yes
i like your paintings o.o
you have a german-english accent. Are you born in germany? ;)
Berire A. Yep
super
Amazing!
which movie would you watch, kids unattended competing with each other or pokemon? I understood the concept that reality is boring but couldn't answer this. Can anyone answer :) Sorry for asking silly question .
awesome vid
You make it look so easy 😭😭😭
Acrylic?
好美的颜色，学习
OMG you painted Ryu from Street Fighter!?😭😍
Isn't cadmium toxic??
I love happy little accidents!
People love watching recordings of real life. We do it all day every day. Me watching this right now is me watching a normal slice of your very ordinary life. Depending on what slice is showing, people will pay a pretty penny. Whats important is that its not your own life that youre watching. Familiarity is what is boring, not realism. also there was plenty of light and shadow in those hands and you painted it. plenty of places where planes turned or gradations occurred. so you weren't just painting colors, you were painting values as well. just because there's not strong directional lighting doesn't mean there's no light and shadow. i saw plenty. if i screencapped this and turned it black and white i would see a lot of value changes
Good 👍
Lastima que no muestres tus mesclas
You absolutely must come to New York
You are a huge inspiration and I’d love to be able to meet with you
I paint digitally but this was hella helpful
that little bob ross quote
You're good! Good!
Come watch the 'Puppy Art TV' channel. You can see a nice picture and a dog video!
Thoughts on Sword and Shield?
👌👌👌🎨🖼️
❤❤❤