The way you blocked in the color BEFORE the line art was crazy!

Worst tutorial ever. Learned nothing. Just some hot shot with an inflated ego trying to sell us into some equally useless online course of his. There are wayyyy better color theory videos out there. Value your own time and view a real tutorial and don’t give this clown extra views so he can go stoke his own ego. Complete trash 🗑️.

Мені подобається! Красивий пейзаж! Вподобайка! ❤❤❤

You are a great drawing and painting teacher and your thoughts on painting have a deep philosophy that goes often beyond drawing, it is sometimes surprising for me considering your age. I am really surprised in a pleasant way with your videos, which are also produced very professionally. Thank you for your effort and don't change style in teaching. Regards from Serbia.

I appreciate you and your moist channel very much and can tell you put a lot of work into editing this. However, (and this is intended as helpful feedback) I would suggest calling this a "guide" rather than a "tutorial", as to me and I'm sure others, a tutorial is a step-by-step detailed process to achieve a specific finished painting, whereas a guide has more general tips and advice like this video. Love your moist work so much!

Impressive video, angrymikko. Looking forward to seeing your next upload from you. I smashed the thumbs up button on your content. Keep up the fantastic work! Your insights on focusing elements in landscape paintings are incredibly helpful. How do you balance the need for detail with the necessity of keeping the viewer's attention on the focal point?

Is "Big Paw" from a set you do not sell yet? I ask because I got all of your sets, but I do not have one named "Big Paw" :(

I love all your videos. I actually made a children’s book and you really inspired a lot of how I drew them (though I’m nowhere close to your skills) .. but if there was a video I’d love to actually see, is perhaps you draw different materials. For example distinguishing rock and tree, water and cloud . I think a lot of beginners like myself always get lost in what brushes to use , which is why we always ask ‘what brushes do you use’ . But maybe you have a way of helping us see how you do it ~ Sorry for the long comment. I’m just really a fan and consider you such a great teacher

But the first painting looks amazing to me 😭

I don't know if I can become a landscape artist but I love how you describe the importanse of message in the paintings. I wish to achive the skill of creating meanings and showing them with my art too!

You are by far my favorite artist, and I'm so glad you are back doing content. Very inspiring. Keep it up. Much thanks.

I always make a minimal sketch and then make the reference tiny (maybe 4-5cm by 7-8cm) and set it a meter away. Then simplify as much and possible and look for ways to “connect” the shapes. Cameras don’t see how we see and we have to pretty much ignore 95% of the info in a scene. And the contrast thing is spot on! Super constrasty images are not natural. But go nuts with saturation and contrast with heavily stylized scenes.

The background is a part of a landscape painting.

The naughty shrub!! 😂😂❤

I really appreciate the tip of "how would you give directions to get to your landscape?" Especially with living in a more rural area it instantly clicked for me. I've always been a fan of environmental storytelling and think the process is fascinating, so it was also nice to hear how much thought goes into your pieces. So thanks for giving us insight about that. Also: you're actually the artist that made me realize I don't see the world in outlines, but in volume and shape in the video you talked about that in. Since then it gave me the courage to try digital painting (I was only using a sketchbook and a mechanical pencil at the time). And that change made everything click for me! I'm finally working with my brain, and not against it. And it's showing in my pieces so far. So thanks a bunch for making these videos. Hope you're doing well!

I need help figuring out how to tell those stories and give the emotional response I got from painting it. I painted my grandma’s cabin before and i want to go back to it now and tell the story.

Even if I do character art and haven’t ventured into landscapes yet, there is something this video has taught me. When I get to the later stages of my artworks, after the sketch, the occasional lineart, and building values in greyscale, I find myself lost. The artwork is now in color, the shading and values are correct, but the piece is not finished. At this stage I’m always like “well, now what?”, and I think it happens because all the “mechanical” steps are done, and now I’m left with making decisions about mood and actually leaving my personal touch on the canvas. This video reminded me that making art is telling a story. Sometimes it’s obvious, sometimes it’s subtle, but there is always something being said, and I need to remember that more often when I’m making those decisions. Otherwise I’m just painting a background.

Angrymikko, we understand that you don't like the old concept art, but to us mortals its still such an amazing display of skill we are all in awe. Thank you for always being willing to share art tips that can help us, I tried a landscape a few days ago but it just doesn't feel right, might apply a few of these tips to it, and hopefully I can copy a 1/5 of your style because it always impresses me.

Really helpful! Thank you for sharing ❤

You deserve so much more audience Mikko you always have the good words to explain complicated things simply :)

wow

omg my dreams come true to subscribe on your course! I do it on domestika. I really do hope I can have fun during my study with you and thru this can I boost up my digital painting. ❤

I will never understand how people are able to just do this

What is this brush name?

Hey Mikko! Great stream I wish I caught it live. I’ve had some serious art block recently and I think this really helped. Just wondering what canvas dimensions you used here and how do are you able to have so many layers? Also that stars technique/hack blew my mind. Thanks for all you do, I love this corner of the internet. 💜

Much underrated video, very important message. ❤🐾

1:25 the voiceover saying “short king” but the subs reading “pocket gay” took me out. good to know a Nintendo charger (I’m assuming Switch?) can charge an ipad, though! my charger got chomped by my cat and I fear it’s not much longer for this world. and to actually address the video: thank you! it was good food for thought and the vibrant paintings were fun to watch. I really do struggle with being too focused on the little details too early in the process 😭

Procreate Pocket is a big reason I wish there was Apple Pencil support on iPhone… the iPad Mini is quite tempting as a carry everywhere digital sketchbook because of Pencil support.

i always struggled with painting backgrounds, but i've gotta say that procreate has the most amazing brushes ever. I still struggle as i draw people mostly, but i still want to improve :DD

iPad powered by Nintendo.

Insane talent, you should be called happymikko with those skills!

Your channel is a goldmine of art knowledge. I don’t understand all of it because many of the things you talk about seem a little advanced for my skill level. I work from grayscale to color because I want to make sure that I understand value before diving into color. I still find it very scary to “embrace the mess” and trusting the process since I’ve always been very line-dependent, but I’m trying to break free from that. I can’t wait to finally be in the right mindset to actually follow along your tutorials. 😊🌈

the first one doesn’t seem to work anymore?

wow just wow

Thank youn

Wow your art is amazing ,.. then and even more so now . I just subscribed

Fun editing ! Great advices Mikko, love your content.

Todella hyvä video, tää auttaa rutkasti! Kiitos :)

Within the short period of time since I started following this channel (and I dearly wish I had found it earlier) I have learned so much more about art than anywhere else in decades before. I’ve had so many revelations, big and small in terms of painting and everything I never knew I might want to know about it, due to a very dedicated, and hands on approach on conveying all that knowledge that is unique to me. It’s also the no-nonsense mental attitude (including some sharp-edged truths) that made me come from a place where I just wanted to make pretty pictures but didn’t, because I can’t and it’s not worth the effort anyway to a place where I just want to paint. So, again, thank you, Mikko. You’re one of a kind and I’m so glad to be here. ❤

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Really good video! Did you finally get a paper like cover though? There was practically no glare on the screen!

Im just starting drawing in general. Using Krita because i have a windows laptop/tablet. What would you do in order to learn effectively? Where would you start? I dont even know what exactly i want to paint, im completely lost :D

0:00 How to not get caught up in details, or get paintings that look too stiff. How to make art with wild and loose brush strokes! 0:40 You don't need to download any brushes or textures, you can use any brush 1:29 Size matters - I start with the biggest possible brush size 2:00 Use only one brush for the entire painting, to get the benefit from this video - texture, direction, blending 2:35 Choose a brush that shows the direction of your brush stroke 3:18 Brush stroke economy - try an exercise with max 30 to 50 brush strokes Brush strokes: 5:20 What do you do with the brush strokes? Where do you place the brush strokes? The rest of the vid is about this. 5:50 Paint strokes contain information: movement, energy, materials, volume 6:05 Annoying brush stroke? There is a right time and place for brush strokes, we need tools to identify where to put the brush strokes. 6:35 Make a mess! Random shapes and colors and brush strokes. This is a way to search for ideas. 7:35 When I see a shape I like / an idea Identify the Three Components and know when to go crazy: 7:43 Three Components: 1) roads that lead to the focal point 2) the stage for the focal point 3) the focal point 8:44 Stage should highlight the main attraction in your painting, not pull attention away from it 9:29 Does it read? 10:06 Everything has already been done, but not by you. Don't worry about originality. 11:52 A way to create a focal point can be, to place the hardest edges on the focal point, and add softer edges on other elements 11:40 Areas of play / Crazy brush strokes =) 13:07 Let loose! You can do this after all of the hard decisions have been made. 13:30 Which areas are NOT for play. Don't put crazy brush strokes here. TIP: Crazy focal point? Have a contrasting background (no crazy brush strokes), to support the focal point. 11:45 Light hack: defining shapes only in light 15:50 Don't put unnecessary detail in shadow parts There are many ways to be loose with your painting style: 16:34 Different ways to paint 18:30 Useful tools - choose one approach in one painting. 19:30 Don't take yourself too seriously 20:22 "What kind of brush strokes are ok here?" Answer: identify which component you are working with (focal, road to focal, stage) 20:45 Remember to have fun! The viewer can see your excitement in the way you are painting and feel that excitement: they will be painting together with you. That's how you create connection. Omg, this video was jam packed with advice! Thanks so much, Mikko.

I'm so happy with this video!! There is so much info here. I struggle a lot with this topic (and even asked you few days ago about this perfectionism on details that will not be noticeable), and this is the most well-explained video that I have ever seen about how to break down your painting between areas of high and low detail, and the role of brushstrokes on this process. I'm so inspired to try this, and will definitely come back to watch this video many times to really process all this information. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us, and being such a kind person! Also, loved that you named the last paining "invisible beach". It's cute and fun especially for us that saw live your process of making it visible ;D Hope you have a great week <3 much love from brazil

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