right? Steven's style is so recognizable, and he sets down each stroke where he wants it to be. It's an incredible efficiency. I love watching his IG reels, they're always so impressive. I'm all for everyone having access to art but the tendency of people who don't understand art to say 'a kid could do it' is just aggravating.
I kinda get it, as a person that was always told to stay in the lines whilst drawing. When I first saw the original video it took me a minute to realize what the artist was doing, with shading and everything. It's sloppy until you see the big picture.
As someone who learnt product rendering as part of an industrial design degree. Using a background is a real technique that designers do to get the product to pop off the page. This person here is just augmenting that technique by using the different base colours as the background. What they are flexing here IMO is a mastery of value contrast and line work. It allows them to do this with surprisingly dark colours and distracting shapes and still gets our eyes to ignore it in the final rendering
This right here. Like, learning about toned paper was a huge game changer for my paintings, unifying backgrounds are brilliant for harmonious palettes. These days I'm refining a technique to try go beyond matching the palette of just one painting, but making unrelated sets of them match in like a visual timeline of my work, by using the paint water of the last painting to start the background of the next, making it begin as a summation of the entire last painting's palette. Also to save acrylics from going into the plumbing 🩵
I know I’m nowhere near as good as what people are talking about here, but even I’ve been experimenting with backgrounds on my character sketches to help them pop Both trying different solid colors to see what contrasts best with them, as well as trying different textures and scenery behind them. It’s interesting how much more you can communicate about a character through the backgrojnds
@@dunkawunka2278 but art that isn't realism is objectively art. by definition. how would you measure this in other mediums of art? only people who write fantasy are real authors? the only real dance is ballet? this mindset is greatly flawed and bars skilled artists from showing their passion and creativity.
It is however a great way to ensure quality control... artistic liberty and modernism sounds so nice until you pay 20 euros to see a 4 by ten meter canvas with a single blue dot on it and it makes you violently angry.
you can set them apart in a glance when they say "now this is modern art", because if they actually liked art they would know "modern" is a period that has passed a while ago
@@elcatrinc1996 yup, and they usually don't even really mean "modern art" they just don't like abstract expressionism in particular from what I've seen
And AND ITS TECHNICAL! hes not judt scribling colors randomly. The colors still work together. Each wipe has its placement. Ugh just because it's not "in the lines" doesnt mean its not intentional ❤
When I started making art that wasn’t for social media, I found it way more freeing and fun. I think artists online tend to forget that art is fun and expressive
It's not sloppy or messy. It's dynamic and expressive while using deceptively simple techniques. Look how the overshot colors become backgrounds that highlight the subjects. These are well planned works with clever compositions. There are traditional Japanese art styles which also emphasize simple and efficient strokes yet tell very complex stories.
"Part of art is becoming yourself and doing what you think is interesting and finding an audience that agrees with that." thank you for reminding me of this, I needed to hear it!
It’s called elastic thinking, and 5 year olds are masters of it. The best way I’ve heard it describes is this: If you ask an adult to come up with 100 uses for a paper clip, they will ask things like, “Can I bend the paper clip?” If you ask a young child to do the same thing, they will kid will ask stuff like, “Can the paper clip be as tall as a building?” Elastic thinking pretty much dissolves away by the time you’re a tween. Our neuroplasticity decreases as we age _AND,_ by age 12 or 13, we’ve become more restricted by rigid beliefs and/or the established patterns of thinking we’ve learned from the adults that surround us.
Also the overshooting is efficient like there is not much background detail, & your eye already interprets lines as disruptions of volume. The blocks of color give texture, the lines give detail
In college I took a painting class that my friend who was a senior art major was TA for.She worked on some of her capstone project in class and let me tell you people LOVED her art, but there were always some insecure newbies who told her that her art style was too niche and she’d “never sell” due to it 🙄 she’s doing just fine, people who are insecure just hate seeing someone succeed in an art style they don’t personally like
This is another example of people needing to understand layering, lighting, and color to understand art. This artist is making some cool art. I love how they use layers of pen ink to build up depth. Also, my 7-year-old couldn't do this art. I asked him
I really like this and it doesn't look sloppy or messy at all. He keeps inside the lines where important. The coloration beyond the lines looks very intentional. It creates a background that complements the image instead of being a stark white background. Despite the fact I was never alive during this period, this strikes me as how I would expect product design to have been like during the 20th century. Before computers. Taking a blueprint and rendering(?) It in color, with dimension and texture, with a background that is more 'real'(?) than a white void. A background more like the environments the product is expected to find itself in. Contextualizing it in a way.
I work with children, and its actually helped me as an artist! You dont have time or energy to go all in with chalk on the sidewalk while keeping an eye on 12+ kids, but when they find out you can draw, theyre gonna ask you to draw. I think drawing those monkeys, sharks and dinosaurs has helped me get over that perfectionism i didnt realize i had!
I love this on so many levels 😻. One thing I never thought about before having kids, was how often I'd have to recycle or throw away so. much. original. artwork 🤣. Kids drawings and other creations are so unique and as you've put it - so unbelievably expressive.
This is honestly really freeing of a style cause he doesn‘r have to stay in line and then uses deliberate shading to deepen the actual thing he‘s coloring. This very much reminds me of the studies you have to do to learn painting. Aka the style. There you also try to limit your palette and try to understand how shadow works by limiting your palette to light and dark without allowing any gradients. This is very much like that in a way. And it‘s cool how you can see the high level of understanding of shadow just in how he uses so many light but still deliberate strokes to make these.
This guy’s art is a perfect representation of sculpting form through less defined shapes. He doesn’t need to color inside the lines because the shading and color choices make the form of the object pop off the page by themselves. I remember a UA-cam video that said you should render like you’re sculpting instead of drawing, focus on the big picture then work out the details. It’s advice I struggle with still.
My brother's Christmas gift is a print of this artist's work I got after seeing your first short. Incredible talent! I bought him the Gameboy one since my brother likes video games even more than he appreciates cool artwork. I'm excited to encourage his interest in art while supporting an independent artist!
I love it when artists think design and art arent the same. Expression is design. You design your words when you speak. You design your life to meet your goals. Your art is your design. Intentional art is design.
And even if it was sloppy, art doesn't have to be "good" to be art. The point of art is to communicate an idea and make a viewer feel something. Back to the original video, I love this style so much. It reminds me of doodles you'd create with school highlighters with the straight and angular lines
Dan doesn't understand the difference between doing something on accident and doing something on purpose. This artist isn't coloring outside the likes by mistake, but as part of the style. You can see all the other coloring/shading that's intended to be within the lines, does so flawlessly. With any art, the goal of learning the rules isn't to follow them perfectly, but to know how to break them intentionally. This art style isn't my thing, but it's done with a master's skill. ...Wish I didn't have the weight of society on me, perfectionism is why I don't really do much art.
This style of art is actually so difficult (at least to me, where maximalism is my natural instinct)!! I’m a traditional artist, I’ve done everything from acrylic, to wood burning, to scratchboard, but I have such massive respect for people who work in this style! Every little bit counts. If you don’t like a style of art, you can just scroll past, without making a fool of yourself. Art is the purest form of emotion, and to attempt to regulate it or define what is good is a folly.
I saw the other video and loved it!! I see lots of videos on, I guess, mark making and doing different techniques and art styles to fill up a sketch book page or overcome the fear of the blank page, honestly this feels like this would be great for that, even if you didn't like the style.
I really like them. It's like hustling pool, start very roughly outside of the lines and gradually reveal you do actually have fine skill and a really fine plan.
you can tell dan doesn’t draw because if you know anything about illustration/coloring then it’s obvious how skilled and knowledgeable this artist has to be to make these
This looks like something that would be used in a ad. Not as an insult, but as a way of quickly speaking to/catching the attention of the public. There is purpose here
People also forget that markers and pens can be insanely hard to work with! This coloring technique requires not just a steady hand but confidence and knowledge. A single mistake can absolutely ruin a piece. While I don't want this conversation to go off your point and change to "technical skill is the greatest decider of art", because it's not, there is verifiably an insane amount of technical skill here. It shouldn't be dismissed because it isn't what is "expected".
I say this every time, but when you ask adults who call this art “childish” to make their own version of it as an example, they fail and you can see that they aren’t good at this “easy” art style. A really good example of this is the Prager-U video where they had conservative anti-modern art folks try and make modern art and they weren’t even able to convince folks that their work was as good as other modern art pieces, when the folks they were interviewing ALSO didn’t like modern art! Even with folks mostly on their side with regard to abstract art’s worth, folks could still sniff out that they were amateurs who didn’t know what they were doing. Folks will see art that isn’t photorealistic, and assume that means it’s talentless. The problem is that’s just not how art works, and folks will become unrealistically confident in their abilities because they don’t understand what actually goes into more expressive pieces.
What’s wild is how skillful it is. Despite the main focus and background having the same colour, you can still clearly tell which is which and the main part stands out.
My god. This artist is so impressive that I dreamt about his art last night. 😂🤩♥️ I can't recall if you ever mentioned if he's one that you could buy from him. I freaking love how he colors. Reminds me of how really good sketches are from a practiced artist where it has all the rough squiggles and outlines and it just looks like it belongs there. I got a tattoo in a somewhat similar style to that. I wanna get one with the same vibe as this artist. Haters gonna hate and you keep on educating. We love this! ♥️
I love this artist's style. Its beautiful how every stroke has precise intention. It reminds me of coffee water color art. Kind if abstract but lively.
I am so curious of what compels people to comment on things they don’t like in this way. What is going on inside their heads? Are they trying to dissuade the artist? Or is the idea they’re “knocking them down a peg” bc of all the positive attention the artist is getting that they don’t think they deserve? In that case are they trying to socially pressure everyone who likes it to dislike it? Do they think their voice is that important as to change the mind of so many at once? Is it solely attention-seeking? Just number-go-up? Can’t you go idk like read an article about worms or spend that time making a good sandwhich or something instead.
I didn't love the particular style the first time i saw it until the camera pulled out and i got to see the finished piece at a distance. It's an absolutely gorgeous style. Somehow feeling very retro and modern at the same time.
we are way too obsessed with cleaness in art, you can't expect all emotion to stay within the lines, that's how you end up with thousands of artists being forced to churn out the exact same copy pasted shit lest they be accused of making "weird art"
I think Dan is jealous because somebody insulted his art when he was five... Sad thing is that he's probably pretty good and just is too afraid to draw anymore
Somewhat recently I tried my hand at extreme stylization as a way to try and visually represent the concept of abiogenesis, something that we don’t really have many visuals for. I had people tell me my piece was lazy or low effort, yet, the very same people were still able to make out that it looked like the bottom of a lake (which it partly was). That tells me I did my job, they just didn’t care to put in any effort to interpret it. I think this is another clear example of the disconnect lying with the viewer. Then again, art is subjective. Even if it ended up clumsy, if they attempted to articulate _why_ they perceived this artist’s work as messy, I would give it actual thought (even though I personally disagree with that opinion)
This is something one of my art school professors had to remind me during my senior year. I’d been taught, whether intentionally or not, that my opinions on what looked good and what didn’t were less valid than those of professors and peers. Because of this, I would DRASTICALLY change my pieces based on critiques given in class, often to the detriment of the original vision and intention of the piece. During my thesis class, I came to one of my classes with a piece I thought was finished. Instead, I was advised to add more to the background. So, the next class, I brought a few different potential revisions of the original. I hated making them, they weren’t what I originally wanted for the piece, but I thought “oh well, they know better”. Funnily enough, during the next critique I was told by two different people that they also thought it was done and the professor said the changes were too drastic. Once I explained how I tended not to trust my own sense of composition, she told me basically that I have the skill and knowledge to understand when advice given is good and when it’s bad and that I need to trust my intuition. Since then, all of my art’s gotten more and more of a proper extension of myself rather than what I think others think would be best and I think it’s gotten much better as a result!
I'm actually trying to take cues from his art! I love how the color overshoots become a sort of outline that frames the subject, while the rendering is what defines the shapes and gives them form. His techniques are so clean and technical but his style still feels dynamic. Furiously scribbling notes lmao
I have a 5yr old. They are not developmently capable of that kind of line work. And those perfectly straight lines of color across the picture is definitely practice skill. There are plenty of adults who can't draw a straight line.
As someone who has beennstudying art for a decade, has hundreds of pieces up in a progress account, and has had several commissions for my work, that person doesnt know anything about art and their priority just appears to be making people feel worse. These pieces are actually a technique that has really stuck in my mind as particularly appealing and skillful, like they genuinely make the creative cogs turn to look at for me, and cleverly deconstruct the shading layers of objects.
I guess some people can hate joy, but it’s still annoying. Anyway, markers are so fun, and it’s so relaxing to watch someone be so confident and confident with them
This is a cool style. Detailed and vague at the same time. I was once given a bad grade in 2nd grade for not coloring all in the same direction on a picture of an elephant in a blanket. It traumatized me and almost made me give up art. I had colored in relation to the shapes of the blanket and body of the elephant as best i could. I still think about that first art critique. It.was harsher than all the horrid ones i got in art school. Because it crushed my soul. To this day i worry my coloring will ruin my line art. Thank you Mrs.Kelley for scarring me. Never forgot you.
As art is subjective, can't one argue that people are allowed to dislike certain art and that no art piece will appeal to everyone. Some people just want to eat chicken nuggets and will refuse to eat an amazing pasta dish cooked by a famous Italian chef just because there are mushrooms in it. This is not to say that there aren't "bad takes", but is it fine for me to say I dislike a certain art style (for me it is Jackson Pollock) even though I know others adore his work?
I love this explanation, I hope Dan does better moving forward. I have been traveling a lot lately and realizing how much we are lacking expression and curiosity as a human culture. We lost something, I hope we all get it back cause I miss when shit was colorful and loud. I miss when we were curious and brave-with art and other stuff 💕
This artist is actually what inspired my "chicken scratch"/sketch line art and messy coloring art style to flourish. When I'm not thinking too hard about it being perfect, I'm able to actually finish my art and enjoy drawing
Its concise and controlled, nothing like a 5 year old's at all. And this is kind of cruel of this dude to say, a 5 year old's art has as much merit as an adult's.
Learning how to draw is actually ‘learn all the rules so you can know how to break them’ You have to know how many rules you have to lean into and when to ignore them all on purpose. Art is break expectations consistently for it to be a pattern, but follow rules enough to make a meaningful impression 😊 I usually use a 3 strike rate: 2 things you expect and 1 thing that change the outcome. Example 2: A picture of a beautiful Victorian style bridge over a lake, painted with acrylic paints using a traditional method, in the foreground a love pair are hugging and kissing 1: there’s a lady hanging from a tree, red color on her dress. and the loving couples are actually two spectators see through and sparkling like fresh fallen snow.
Bro the 5 year old comment actually kinda felt encouraging cause I thought he meant like you can start trying whenever even a 5 year old could learn to do this so go ahead and try. And then I remembered mean people exist.
Yes!!! It's important to know that art is just something humans do. 5 year olds just do art because they don't repress that urge to create and express themselves
I'm looking at it, it has great color values, clean lines, good structure, gorgeous color palettes with plenty of contrast. I have a whole ass art degree, and let me tell you, those things take WORK. It is a good and interesting aesthetic.
“Sloppy and messy” when the artist clearly knows where exactly to put the shadows and highlights is wild
Fr, the efficiency is impressive
You can clearly see that every stroke is thought out and intentional, it's so fun !
I honestly really like that style ^^
For real
I'm an artist now, but my 5 y/o ass could not have made this 😂
right? Steven's style is so recognizable, and he sets down each stroke where he wants it to be. It's an incredible efficiency. I love watching his IG reels, they're always so impressive.
I'm all for everyone having access to art but the tendency of people who don't understand art to say 'a kid could do it' is just aggravating.
I kinda get it, as a person that was always told to stay in the lines whilst drawing. When I first saw the original video it took me a minute to realize what the artist was doing, with shading and everything. It's sloppy until you see the big picture.
As someone who learnt product rendering as part of an industrial design degree. Using a background is a real technique that designers do to get the product to pop off the page.
This person here is just augmenting that technique by using the different base colours as the background. What they are flexing here IMO is a mastery of value contrast and line work. It allows them to do this with surprisingly dark colours and distracting shapes and still gets our eyes to ignore it in the final rendering
Agreed
This right here. Like, learning about toned paper was a huge game changer for my paintings, unifying backgrounds are brilliant for harmonious palettes.
These days I'm refining a technique to try go beyond matching the palette of just one painting, but making unrelated sets of them match in like a visual timeline of my work, by using the paint water of the last painting to start the background of the next, making it begin as a summation of the entire last painting's palette. Also to save acrylics from going into the plumbing 🩵
I know I’m nowhere near as good as what people are talking about here, but even I’ve been experimenting with backgrounds on my character sketches to help them pop
Both trying different solid colors to see what contrasts best with them, as well as trying different textures and scenery behind them. It’s interesting how much more you can communicate about a character through the backgrojnds
Absolutely agree. I originally pursued a degree in civil engineering and this reminds me of drafting. I’m a fan!
Reducing art down to neat realism is the exact opposite of an artist’s mindset
Art is subjective, you have no say in a universal set standard for how an artists mindset should be.
@@dunkawunka2278 but art that isn't realism is objectively art. by definition. how would you measure this in other mediums of art? only people who write fantasy are real authors? the only real dance is ballet? this mindset is greatly flawed and bars skilled artists from showing their passion and creativity.
@@cccosmo112you are doing exactly what you claim is so bad to do. you are saying realism isn't art.
It is however a great way to ensure quality control... artistic liberty and modernism sounds so nice until you pay 20 euros to see a 4 by ten meter canvas with a single blue dot on it and it makes you violently angry.
@@bionicleguy32 im not saying that. im actually saying the opposite of that. please reread my message
The people that usuallly criticize are the same people who don't even partake in the art ... they haven't even seen a museum in years probably
you can set them apart in a glance when they say "now this is modern art", because if they actually liked art they would know "modern" is a period that has passed a while ago
@@elcatrinc1996 yup, and they usually don't even really mean "modern art" they just don't like abstract expressionism in particular from what I've seen
It's funny that you assume they ever saw a museum in the first place beyond their depiction in mass media.
And AND ITS TECHNICAL! hes not judt scribling colors randomly. The colors still work together. Each wipe has its placement.
Ugh just because it's not "in the lines" doesnt mean its not intentional ❤
Kids make art for the sake of making art, that’s something I admire about the art I made as a child, it has a different charm
When I started making art that wasn’t for social media, I found it way more freeing and fun. I think artists online tend to forget that art is fun and expressive
It's not sloppy or messy. It's dynamic and expressive while using deceptively simple techniques. Look how the overshot colors become backgrounds that highlight the subjects. These are well planned works with clever compositions. There are traditional Japanese art styles which also emphasize simple and efficient strokes yet tell very complex stories.
"Part of art is becoming yourself and doing what you think is interesting and finding an audience that agrees with that." thank you for reminding me of this, I needed to hear it!
That was the best explanation of the "personal style" or "finding your voice" that I have ever heard.
This type of “controlled outside the lines” art has been around for ages, not only on paper but also digitally, and I usually love it. 🤗
"part of art is becoming yourself, and doing what /you/ think is interesting and then finding an audience who agrees with that" ok woah ✍🏻✍🏻✍🏻✨
It’s called elastic thinking, and 5 year olds are masters of it. The best way I’ve heard it describes is this:
If you ask an adult to come up with 100 uses for a paper clip, they will ask things like, “Can I bend the paper clip?”
If you ask a young child to do the same thing, they will kid will ask stuff like, “Can the paper clip be as tall as a building?”
Elastic thinking pretty much dissolves away by the time you’re a tween. Our neuroplasticity decreases as we age _AND,_ by age 12 or 13, we’ve become more restricted by rigid beliefs and/or the established patterns of thinking we’ve learned from the adults that surround us.
Also the overshooting is efficient like there is not much background detail, & your eye already interprets lines as disruptions of volume. The blocks of color give texture, the lines give detail
I love this read, your dry wit warms me
Danning Kruger effect 😂
We are the first commenters on this short and both are named Sarah, and I think that's neat enough to mention. Have a great day!
i love you 😂❤
This is great
In college I took a painting class that my friend who was a senior art major was TA for.She worked on some of her capstone project in class and let me tell you people LOVED her art, but there were always some insecure newbies who told her that her art style was too niche and she’d “never sell” due to it 🙄 she’s doing just fine, people who are insecure just hate seeing someone succeed in an art style they don’t personally like
This is another example of people needing to understand layering, lighting, and color to understand art. This artist is making some cool art. I love how they use layers of pen ink to build up depth. Also, my 7-year-old couldn't do this art. I asked him
For those of us who are gone beyond the 5 years old … 😂😂😂😂. Man you are gold❤
I really like this and it doesn't look sloppy or messy at all.
He keeps inside the lines where important. The coloration beyond the lines looks very intentional.
It creates a background that complements the image instead of being a stark white background.
Despite the fact I was never alive during this period, this strikes me as how I would expect product design to have been like during the 20th century. Before computers. Taking a blueprint and rendering(?) It in color, with dimension and texture, with a background that is more 'real'(?) than a white void.
A background more like the environments the product is expected to find itself in. Contextualizing it in a way.
I work with children, and its actually helped me as an artist! You dont have time or energy to go all in with chalk on the sidewalk while keeping an eye on 12+ kids, but when they find out you can draw, theyre gonna ask you to draw. I think drawing those monkeys, sharks and dinosaurs has helped me get over that perfectionism i didnt realize i had!
I actually love this. It’s alittle poppy, it’s ultra expressive, and his line quality is 👨🏻🍳😘
I love this on so many levels 😻. One thing I never thought about before having kids, was how often I'd have to recycle or throw away so. much. original. artwork 🤣. Kids drawings and other creations are so unique and as you've put it - so unbelievably expressive.
idk Ive never seen a five year old do that kind of follow up detailing.
to me just looks like he's providing a background so its not on stark white
His work is sooooo satisfying. Can’t explain it.
This is honestly really freeing of a style cause he doesn‘r have to stay in line and then uses deliberate shading to deepen the actual thing he‘s coloring. This very much reminds me of the studies you have to do to learn painting. Aka the style. There you also try to limit your palette and try to understand how shadow works by limiting your palette to light and dark without allowing any gradients. This is very much like that in a way. And it‘s cool how you can see the high level of understanding of shadow just in how he uses so many light but still deliberate strokes to make these.
"For those of us who have gone beyond 5 years old..." 💀
I bow to you.
This guy’s art is a perfect representation of sculpting form through less defined shapes. He doesn’t need to color inside the lines because the shading and color choices make the form of the object pop off the page by themselves. I remember a UA-cam video that said you should render like you’re sculpting instead of drawing, focus on the big picture then work out the details. It’s advice I struggle with still.
My brother's Christmas gift is a print of this artist's work I got after seeing your first short. Incredible talent! I bought him the Gameboy one since my brother likes video games even more than he appreciates cool artwork. I'm excited to encourage his interest in art while supporting an independent artist!
Hooray!!!!!
Love the sass. I stay for the class.
I love it when artists think design and art arent the same. Expression is design. You design your words when you speak. You design your life to meet your goals. Your art is your design. Intentional art is design.
And even if it was sloppy, art doesn't have to be "good" to be art. The point of art is to communicate an idea and make a viewer feel something.
Back to the original video, I love this style so much. It reminds me of doodles you'd create with school highlighters with the straight and angular lines
That persons comment is wildly disrespectful.
This is awesome! A favourite I’ve seen on this channel
Thanks!
Dan doesn't understand the difference between doing something on accident and doing something on purpose. This artist isn't coloring outside the likes by mistake, but as part of the style.
You can see all the other coloring/shading that's intended to be within the lines, does so flawlessly.
With any art, the goal of learning the rules isn't to follow them perfectly, but to know how to break them intentionally. This art style isn't my thing, but it's done with a master's skill.
...Wish I didn't have the weight of society on me, perfectionism is why I don't really do much art.
Kids art is real art and is good and is not a horrible insult to be thrown around
Love that your response is to uplift 5 year olds
This style of art is actually so difficult (at least to me, where maximalism is my natural instinct)!! I’m a traditional artist, I’ve done everything from acrylic, to wood burning, to scratchboard, but I have such massive respect for people who work in this style! Every little bit counts. If you don’t like a style of art, you can just scroll past, without making a fool of yourself.
Art is the purest form of emotion, and to attempt to regulate it or define what is good is a folly.
I love her videos, you can tell she is so well educated and knowledgeable in the creative world! 🌍 bad ass !!
I saw the other video and loved it!!
I see lots of videos on, I guess, mark making and doing different techniques and art styles to fill up a sketch book page or overcome the fear of the blank page, honestly this feels like this would be great for that, even if you didn't like the style.
True
Kids aren't born with shame, that is some of the first things adults teach them
I love you defending the artists you love with such passion. Makes me so happy
I really like them. It's like hustling pool, start very roughly outside of the lines and gradually reveal you do actually have fine skill and a really fine plan.
I love how well the opening broad strokes fit perfectly into the finished peice
Making the background blend well and then being accused of being bad is crazy
you can tell dan doesn’t draw because if you know anything about illustration/coloring then it’s obvious how skilled and knowledgeable this artist has to be to make these
“childish, naive, sloppy, unrefined, simplistic” same words used to describe the works of Van Gogh, when he was still around that is.
This looks like something that would be used in a ad. Not as an insult, but as a way of quickly speaking to/catching the attention of the public. There is purpose here
Yep! The idea you talk about here that children have true expressive power is exactly what Picasso credited as his artistic inspiration!
People also forget that markers and pens can be insanely hard to work with! This coloring technique requires not just a steady hand but confidence and knowledge. A single mistake can absolutely ruin a piece. While I don't want this conversation to go off your point and change to "technical skill is the greatest decider of art", because it's not, there is verifiably an insane amount of technical skill here. It shouldn't be dismissed because it isn't what is "expected".
Ironically, I remember getting told around that age that I had to color in the lines. Nice thing about growing up is making your own rules.
I say this every time, but when you ask adults who call this art “childish” to make their own version of it as an example, they fail and you can see that they aren’t good at this “easy” art style. A really good example of this is the Prager-U video where they had conservative anti-modern art folks try and make modern art and they weren’t even able to convince folks that their work was as good as other modern art pieces, when the folks they were interviewing ALSO didn’t like modern art! Even with folks mostly on their side with regard to abstract art’s worth, folks could still sniff out that they were amateurs who didn’t know what they were doing.
Folks will see art that isn’t photorealistic, and assume that means it’s talentless. The problem is that’s just not how art works, and folks will become unrealistically confident in their abilities because they don’t understand what actually goes into more expressive pieces.
What’s wild is how skillful it is. Despite the main focus and background having the same colour, you can still clearly tell which is which and the main part stands out.
"Part of art is becoming yourself" 🙌🔥
My god. This artist is so impressive that I dreamt about his art last night. 😂🤩♥️
I can't recall if you ever mentioned if he's one that you could buy from him. I freaking love how he colors. Reminds me of how really good sketches are from a practiced artist where it has all the rough squiggles and outlines and it just looks like it belongs there. I got a tattoo in a somewhat similar style to that. I wanna get one with the same vibe as this artist.
Haters gonna hate and you keep on educating. We love this! ♥️
Would like to note, yes, he does sell prints! I happy!!!
This is so beautiful.
I like that you take the time to address comments. Love your content -keep up the great work!
Jeez, i can't get enough of this this style of art.
That last cut off “But Dan.” 😂
Let's all pledge to move beyond a five-year old's understanding of Art and Life ❤
When you understand the rules, you understand how to break them
My little one (5) was thought "accurate" and "creative." Accurate stays in the lines and grass is green. Creative is expressive.
I love this artist's style. Its beautiful how every stroke has precise intention. It reminds me of coffee water color art. Kind if abstract but lively.
Thank you for boosting 5 year olds and the artist, rather than choosing only one to appreciate. I need to learn how to think like a 5 year old 😊
“Stay inside the lines “::::shudder::::::
I am so curious of what compels people to comment on things they don’t like in this way. What is going on inside their heads? Are they trying to dissuade the artist? Or is the idea they’re “knocking them down a peg” bc of all the positive attention the artist is getting that they don’t think they deserve? In that case are they trying to socially pressure everyone who likes it to dislike it? Do they think their voice is that important as to change the mind of so many at once? Is it solely attention-seeking? Just number-go-up? Can’t you go idk like read an article about worms or spend that time making a good sandwhich or something instead.
I have no idea. I think it’s the anonymity
I didn't love the particular style the first time i saw it until the camera pulled out and i got to see the finished piece at a distance. It's an absolutely gorgeous style. Somehow feeling very retro and modern at the same time.
I love learning about art from you!
A lot of art is unlearning the need to hide your sincerity from the world
Your channel is one of the most beautiful i have ever followed
THATS THE COOLEST USE OF THOSE CRAZY BROAD TIPS!!!!!!!!
we are way too obsessed with cleaness in art, you can't expect all emotion to stay within the lines, that's how you end up with thousands of artists being forced to churn out the exact same copy pasted shit lest they be accused of making "weird art"
I have always loved art styles with beautiful line work and out of the lines/offset coloring. I saw it a lot in animatics and I've always loved it.
This is a legitimate technique a lot of interior designers use.
I think Dan is jealous because somebody insulted his art when he was five...
Sad thing is that he's probably pretty good and just is too afraid to draw anymore
Somewhat recently I tried my hand at extreme stylization as a way to try and visually represent the concept of abiogenesis, something that we don’t really have many visuals for. I had people tell me my piece was lazy or low effort, yet, the very same people were still able to make out that it looked like the bottom of a lake (which it partly was). That tells me I did my job, they just didn’t care to put in any effort to interpret it.
I think this is another clear example of the disconnect lying with the viewer. Then again, art is subjective. Even if it ended up clumsy, if they attempted to articulate _why_ they perceived this artist’s work as messy, I would give it actual thought (even though I personally disagree with that opinion)
I love this style.
Yeah this is someone who is "breaking the rules" with purpose he's making a very interesting & unique style that's eyecatching.
This is something one of my art school professors had to remind me during my senior year. I’d been taught, whether intentionally or not, that my opinions on what looked good and what didn’t were less valid than those of professors and peers. Because of this, I would DRASTICALLY change my pieces based on critiques given in class, often to the detriment of the original vision and intention of the piece.
During my thesis class, I came to one of my classes with a piece I thought was finished. Instead, I was advised to add more to the background. So, the next class, I brought a few different potential revisions of the original. I hated making them, they weren’t what I originally wanted for the piece, but I thought “oh well, they know better”. Funnily enough, during the next critique I was told by two different people that they also thought it was done and the professor said the changes were too drastic. Once I explained how I tended not to trust my own sense of composition, she told me basically that I have the skill and knowledge to understand when advice given is good and when it’s bad and that I need to trust my intuition. Since then, all of my art’s gotten more and more of a proper extension of myself rather than what I think others think would be best and I think it’s gotten much better as a result!
I'm actually trying to take cues from his art! I love how the color overshoots become a sort of outline that frames the subject, while the rendering is what defines the shapes and gives them form.
His techniques are so clean and technical but his style still feels dynamic. Furiously scribbling notes lmao
I have a 5yr old. They are not developmently capable of that kind of line work. And those perfectly straight lines of color across the picture is definitely practice skill. There are plenty of adults who can't draw a straight line.
As someone who has beennstudying art for a decade, has hundreds of pieces up in a progress account, and has had several commissions for my work, that person doesnt know anything about art and their priority just appears to be making people feel worse.
These pieces are actually a technique that has really stuck in my mind as particularly appealing and skillful, like they genuinely make the creative cogs turn to look at for me, and cleverly deconstruct the shading layers of objects.
this art is SO COOL to me!! it literally looks like a video game spray cosmetic!
I guess some people can hate joy, but it’s still annoying. Anyway, markers are so fun, and it’s so relaxing to watch someone be so confident and confident with them
This is a cool style. Detailed and vague at the same time.
I was once given a bad grade in 2nd grade for not coloring all in the same direction on a picture of an elephant in a blanket. It traumatized me and almost made me give up art. I had colored in relation to the shapes of the blanket and body of the elephant as best i could. I still think about that first art critique. It.was harsher than all the horrid ones i got in art school. Because it crushed my soul.
To this day i worry my coloring will ruin my line art. Thank you Mrs.Kelley for scarring me. Never forgot you.
I explored a similar style back in 2008 for a school project, very neat to see someone lean hard into it.
his videos have taught me so much already
im a teacher and I envy the creativity of my 5 year olds. so unburdened and full of love
this is incredibly cool
Just stop trying to control what art is and you will find that EVERYTHING is art.
As art is subjective, can't one argue that people are allowed to dislike certain art and that no art piece will appeal to everyone.
Some people just want to eat chicken nuggets and will refuse to eat an amazing pasta dish cooked by a famous Italian chef just because there are mushrooms in it.
This is not to say that there aren't "bad takes", but is it fine for me to say I dislike a certain art style (for me it is Jackson Pollock) even though I know others adore his work?
I love this explanation, I hope Dan does better moving forward.
I have been traveling a lot lately and realizing how much we are lacking expression and curiosity as a human culture. We lost something, I hope we all get it back cause I miss when shit was colorful and loud. I miss when we were curious and brave-with art and other stuff 💕
This artist is actually what inspired my "chicken scratch"/sketch line art and messy coloring art style to flourish. When I'm not thinking too hard about it being perfect, I'm able to actually finish my art and enjoy drawing
Its concise and controlled, nothing like a 5 year old's at all. And this is kind of cruel of this dude to say, a 5 year old's art has as much merit as an adult's.
I like it a lot! It’s very fresh and fun
Learning how to draw is actually
‘learn all the rules so you can know how to break them’
You have to know how many rules you have to lean into and when to ignore them all on purpose.
Art is break expectations consistently for it to be a pattern, but follow rules enough to make a meaningful impression 😊
I usually use a 3 strike rate:
2 things you expect and 1 thing that change the outcome.
Example
2: A picture of a beautiful Victorian style bridge over a lake, painted with acrylic paints using a traditional method, in the foreground a love pair are hugging and kissing
1: there’s a lady hanging from a tree, red color on her dress.
and the loving couples are actually two spectators see through and sparkling like fresh fallen snow.
Bro the 5 year old comment actually kinda felt encouraging cause I thought he meant like you can start trying whenever even a 5 year old could learn to do this so go ahead and try. And then I remembered mean people exist.
Mm I like the art style a lot
I don’t even think this necessarily super expressive, but it’s clean, it’s efficient and quick, and it’s super cohesive and effective.
Yes!!! It's important to know that art is just something humans do. 5 year olds just do art because they don't repress that urge to create and express themselves
I was an industrial designer for quite a while those renderings are beautiful, that commenter has no clue what goes into rendered sketches.
I'm looking at it, it has great color values, clean lines, good structure, gorgeous color palettes with plenty of contrast. I have a whole ass art degree, and let me tell you, those things take WORK. It is a good and interesting aesthetic.