Hey Priyanka! I saw you were picking up steam producing videos again also! Very good to see you back! Shall we compare notes one day on what we discovered works on this platform? Great to hear from you again!
the audio isnt centered. it sounds like its coming from the bottom/back left side of my headphones. its almost centered. idk how you would fix that. i enjoyed watching the video though. at UNT university, i did everything on my own. they only taught one gestural drawing class. i had to learn how to draw on my own, and im not that good at it.
Thank you! I hadn't noticed that, frankly, and need to look into that. The reason that didn't happen in the previous recordings was that there I edited the audio in Audacity and reduced it to mono. It dulled the sound considerably, I think. I thought I'd try and see what happens if I leave the 4 (!) audio channels that come out of the microphone intact. I like the crisp sound of the unedited version, but maybe I need to tune the balance in the microphone. There's a lot I need to improve still. I hem and haw a lot in the video. The thumbnail has a click-through rate of only 1.2%. People watch the video for around 20%. So there's work to be done! Scary to show my face in a video, but this was rather fun to do. It's funny, it's kind of a soap box. Thank you so much for your feedback!!! Learning to draw, you can do a lot on your own! It's a matter of, like the video says, practice a lot, study the fundamentals (perspective, composition, anatomy, dexterity), study and copy the masters, learn the conventions and canon of masterpieces in the medium, learn to look critically at your work (like you did for my video) and figure out ways to improve. It's not an easy path, but I find it helps if you stay stoic ("I'm not that good at it" perhaps suggests you have negative feelings about your skills, and it becomes easier if you tune that out), recognizing and noting down things you want to improve, and to then go about doing that. Thank you again!
@@PracticeDrawingThis Try stereo audio. That's the two circles; I think it's cardiod or something. That is the default for most microphones. On your thumbnail, I think the 3 could be a lot larger, like a giant 3. Have it stretching big from to the top and bottom of the page, but on the left side. You might be able to leave out the words. Your face on the right side of the thumbnail is fine, but people like clicking on bright stuff, so make the numbers or topic more clear at a glance in the thumbnail. Your titles are great. I liked the white thumbnials you did. dont worry about engaugement, becuse once people watch a few seconds of your video, they will stay if they like the pacing or the topic. Niche stuff sometimes catches the algorithum. your video " easy drawing" has lots of views becuase people searched for similar videos and wanted to watch it. go on an incognito tab and search that to see how your videos compare to other peoples channels. specifically look at titles and thumbnail colors.
@@jkl970 Well! You have my attention now! You clearly know more about this. I loved the idea of the larger 3! I did it immediately, of course. I can't believe I never go this bold. I'm not Paula Scher, but playing with type is fun! It certainly attracts the eye. I also was able to play with negative space a bit more this way. The thumbnail is still not great, but I can see it is better now. It pops much more. I need to rethink my approach to thumbnails. I went incognito and I see what you mean. The thumbnails of successful videos are often bright, daylight-like with a positive vibe. About the engagement, I am over that a bit. If people don't like it, my stuff clearly isn't for them and that really is totally fine. The alternative is me making things I don't want to make, for an audience I don't even want to reach in the first place. That's not a life well lived. It's magic, though, when the algorithm finally finds your audience and it's sometimes surprising *what* finds an audience. And the audio... I know my hearing is not perfect, so I might actually need to find someone near me to help me with that. I suspect you're a more bit more experienced at this and I wouldn't be surprised if you usually charge for this information. Know that the time you gave me is very, very, very much appreciated. This was really good feedback, or rather, advice. You've given me things to think about. Thank you!
Hi Ayal, another great video. Helpful tips to improve in all areas, not just art. Looking forward to seeing more of you on UA-cam.
Hey Priyanka! I saw you were picking up steam producing videos again also! Very good to see you back! Shall we compare notes one day on what we discovered works on this platform? Great to hear from you again!
Thankyou ❤
the audio isnt centered. it sounds like its coming from the bottom/back left side of my headphones. its almost centered. idk how you would fix that. i enjoyed watching the video though.
at UNT university, i did everything on my own. they only taught one gestural drawing class. i had to learn how to draw on my own, and im not that good at it.
it sounded better in your previous videos
Thank you!
I hadn't noticed that, frankly, and need to look into that. The reason that didn't happen in the previous recordings was that there I edited the audio in Audacity and reduced it to mono. It dulled the sound considerably, I think. I thought I'd try and see what happens if I leave the 4 (!) audio channels that come out of the microphone intact. I like the crisp sound of the unedited version, but maybe I need to tune the balance in the microphone.
There's a lot I need to improve still. I hem and haw a lot in the video. The thumbnail has a click-through rate of only 1.2%. People watch the video for around 20%. So there's work to be done!
Scary to show my face in a video, but this was rather fun to do. It's funny, it's kind of a soap box.
Thank you so much for your feedback!!!
Learning to draw, you can do a lot on your own! It's a matter of, like the video says, practice a lot, study the fundamentals (perspective, composition, anatomy, dexterity), study and copy the masters, learn the conventions and canon of masterpieces in the medium, learn to look critically at your work (like you did for my video) and figure out ways to improve.
It's not an easy path, but I find it helps if you stay stoic ("I'm not that good at it" perhaps suggests you have negative feelings about your skills, and it becomes easier if you tune that out), recognizing and noting down things you want to improve, and to then go about doing that.
Thank you again!
@@PracticeDrawingThis Try stereo audio. That's the two circles; I think it's cardiod or something. That is the default for most microphones.
On your thumbnail, I think the 3 could be a lot larger, like a giant 3. Have it stretching big from to the top and bottom of the page, but on the left side. You might be able to leave out the words. Your face on the right side of the thumbnail is fine, but people like clicking on bright stuff, so make the numbers or topic more clear at a glance in the thumbnail.
Your titles are great. I liked the white thumbnials you did. dont worry about engaugement, becuse once people watch a few seconds of your video, they will stay if they like the pacing or the topic. Niche stuff sometimes catches the algorithum.
your video " easy drawing" has lots of views becuase people searched for similar videos and wanted to watch it. go on an incognito tab and search that to see how your videos compare to other peoples channels. specifically look at titles and thumbnail colors.
@@jkl970 Well! You have my attention now! You clearly know more about this.
I loved the idea of the larger 3! I did it immediately, of course. I can't believe I never go this bold. I'm not Paula Scher, but playing with type is fun! It certainly attracts the eye. I also was able to play with negative space a bit more this way.
The thumbnail is still not great, but I can see it is better now. It pops much more. I need to rethink my approach to thumbnails.
I went incognito and I see what you mean. The thumbnails of successful videos are often bright, daylight-like with a positive vibe.
About the engagement, I am over that a bit. If people don't like it, my stuff clearly isn't for them and that really is totally fine. The alternative is me making things I don't want to make, for an audience I don't even want to reach in the first place. That's not a life well lived.
It's magic, though, when the algorithm finally finds your audience and it's sometimes surprising *what* finds an audience.
And the audio... I know my hearing is not perfect, so I might actually need to find someone near me to help me with that.
I suspect you're a more bit more experienced at this and I wouldn't be surprised if you usually charge for this information. Know that the time you gave me is very, very, very much appreciated. This was really good feedback, or rather, advice. You've given me things to think about. Thank you!