5 Things I Tell Beginner Digital Artists

[@viyaura]

I MADE THIS 2 YEARS AGO WHY ARE PEOPLE FINDING THIS😭(i should make an updated version...)

[@Ilikeyogurt-z2y]

Yes please!!

[@CH50T1CFAWN]

Totes!!

[@Cookie_011]

Same lol, I love the anime art you make tho, and the advice was so useful it boosted up my confidence in art so I’d like to thank you for that ❤ Btw what’s your fav anime or anime character?

[@personontheinternet-dz5oi]

It was recommended to me

[@Emeriiixzy]

IT CAME ON MY HOMEPAGE, IM GREATFUL IT DID CUZ I NEEDED THISSS

[@NinaZab]

As a digital artist, I can truly agree that coloring is the most difficult thing to do whenever you're illustrating something. AND YET COMES RENDERING-

[@hotsouse5569]

Beleive me i dont even understand what is rendering till this day

[@NinaZab]

@@hotsouse5569 Oh, well, rendering is like shading! [ i suppose-] Edit: My mistake, rendering is actually a part of coloring. Rendering gives life to your drawings!

[@CelesteVZ]

I don't know, I'm a complete beginner and I can't seem to wrap my head around drawing. I swear it feels like there's a mental wall that is blocking me from understanding. And the learning process is boring for drawing, I can't keep being consistent. Coloring however, is more fun to learn and practice and it's easy for my poopoo brain.

[@NinaZab]

@CelesteVZ I too had fun with coloring when I was a beginner like you!

[@ArtistRiri]

​@@hotsouse5569 rendering is kinda like shading but makes it more realistic andd more smoother ig

[@DrawnInk1]

Colouring is about lighting not colouring by numbers. You are so right about pixelation. Procreates biggest weakness in my opinion.

[@jarosbodytko6462]

I disagree. Procreate in that regard is no worse or better than any other drawing program. It’s all about canvas size like she said in the video. 300 dpi on a 3000 x 3000 canvas looks the same in procreate as it does in photoshop, no matter how you slice it.

[@xxvenus_viperxx4826]

For anyone who is frustrated about not feeling like you’re improving: I’ve been drawing for 8 years. I learn very slowly and have trouble moving out of my comfort zone, but am trying very hard, so I ended up not understanding a lot of fundamentals until now. I was mostly a sketch artist until now. am still after 8 years, learning coloring, lighting, shading, rendering, line weight, posing, positioning, fluidity, and much more. You can do this. Don’t be hard on yourself. Don’t worry about it looking horrible in your own eyes, just draw. Draw anything. Some things that helped me are -draw on top of something, then draw it on your own, then draw it next to the reference. - try to draw something tiny every day but don’t push yourself. Only draw when YOU want to! - don’t be afraid of color messing up a good sketch. Just because it’s hard to master, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try it! -don’t take any ONE art help video as a lifeline! Use many and find what helps you understand a skill best! There is no one way to learn a skill, and if you can’t understand something, try a different approach! And most importantly -take a BREAK from your art for a bit after drawing, and then come back to it!!! It REALLY HELPS!! You’ll immediately see your mistakes and try to correct them!

[@Pgia55]

first step of learning how to draw is drawing. dont worry yourself too much on fundamentals or any of that stuff, draw until you are comfortable to take your time and then learn how to draw. The order should be like this: open/get a canvas draw and then you learn. Not learning and then drawing

[@yukidandelion8537]

N O 👹👹👹I’ll never stop spending 5 hours on lineart bcz I like it

[@dalmajikkot90]

this! I've been drawing for over 15 years and my level is probably somewhere other people get in like 2 years. Does it bother me? Sometimes. But I also just enjoy drawing occasionally, not every day or week, sometimes not even every month. But I still see progress and that's what matters ☺

[@thescreamingharp]

As someone who’s completely used to traditional art, trying digital was hell😭. It’s as if i was learning to draw all over again. Seeing improvement in my digital drawings was awesome though! Still a long way to go, but i’m getting it where i want it to be:D

[@birnel_czr2117]

I just ordered a pen tablet to start My journey

[@starcrumblez]

Ikr like omg it’s like 6 years of my life basically just gone when it comes to digital art (I am pretty good at like drawing but rendering and lineart all that is just ieiehduegwudhsiw)

[@Excorpselix]

Pens really help. I actually made one cause DAMN THOSE THINGS ARE EXPENSIVE! The one I made actually works pretty well too.

[@starcrumblez]

@@Excorpselix rlly? I should prob get a pen, bc I’m just drawing with my finger on my phone on ibispaint bc I’m poor

[@Excorpselix]

@@starcrumblez They are pretty expensive though, well some are. You can search up videos on how to make on but I made mine by getting a thin marker and taking out the tip, cutting down the top until the opening on big enough. Then I get a Q-tip and cut it into less than half and put water on the top of the Q-tip and squeeze it out the insert the other side (not the fluffy part) into the thin marker.

[@Kitoki.]

okay but can we talk about her immaculate taste in anime/genshin characters?!?

[@THEautisticGUY11]

Yes, yes we can.

[@Angel-24t]

Fr!

[@Lily_86]

IKRR I WAS LIKE "WOAAHAHAAA". LIKE SUCH GOOD ART TOO

[@0x.mei1]

Fr, the Scaramouche and dazai ones

[@henkeb3]

Ya! Dazai, Sigma, Xiao, Hu Tao, Tanjiro, Scara, and many more!

[@Bubblemaster3000-uh8oe]

So actually the 4th tip about not being good overnight is actually really useful for me. I was one of those gifted burnout kids so if something doesn’t come naturally to me I sorta just give up. But I’m really set on being an at least decent artist so just the reminder that it’s GONNA TAKE TIME and I can’t just be good at it immediately is good for me. Thank you❤❤❤ also your art is stunning and I wish I had gotten a better look at the Tanjiro one

[@ThatBullDupree]

Omg me tooo! It keeps me from starting things when I know it won’t turn out like I expect it!

[@엉덩이먹는사람]

lol I was the same, I've been drawing for 5 years and I'm kinda decent, but it'll take a lot of effort fren

[@jarosbodytko6462]

Same here, I was pretty much the best in my art school and drawing came very easy. But eventually I started slacking and fully stopped drawing for almost a decade. When I finally started drawing again, itbecame very hard toget my skills back and even now 12 years later I still struggle with stuff that came easy when I was young.

[@Pale_Empress]

something that is very important that I heard was "don't compare yourself to other artists, compare yourself to yourself a year ago." and that "taste" or your eye for art will develop quicker than your skill. (you get better quicker in seeing why something looks off but it takes time until you understand how to correct it as well)

[@Elizabethx3-xl3ek]

1:38 I didn’t expect to see Dazai love this video

[@Starry640]

SAMEE

[@kckckckc1842]

me too!!

[@kckckckc1842]

and sigma as well!

[@nianhere_4920]

RIGHT?? BSD FANART IS NOWHERE ON YT

[@spaceyberry]

FR ??? AND SIGMA AND LANGA TOO

[@costelinha1867]

"You don't have to be good at everything to be a good artist" True, that's why I'm a bad artist, I'm terrible at everything.

[@animatedmvs8818]

You got it man, you'll get there one day.

[@TopatTom]

Just keep drawing i guess lololololololol Im dieing ive gone through 2 sketch books already and have almost no improvement whatsoever 🤣😅😔

[@Downwhorrendously]

Same

[@Luna-uc1mc]

Same

[@stickyspiderwebz]

Yeah u r

[@radioisactive7590]

I would also recommend having messy shading. I used to do very solid blocks of shading and it was boring for me and didn't look very good anyway, but I switched the brush option to an oil paint style and made my shading messier and it looked better, was much easier to do, and I had more fun drawing that way. This isn't really a rule just a tip for anyone who also struggles with shading and dislikes it like I did. This is how I do it, but every artist works differently and that's perfectly okay. So I guess my real advice is to not be afraid of trying something new and using new techniques in you art! You might discover a way of doing things you like way better

[@aestheticsoul1656]

yeah, tha's what i noticed abt my self doing art at first. I studied multimedia arts n animation and most of my classmates and ofc my proffesor do that thing like putting a solid color of grey for value (from lighter to dark or vice versa) but for me tbh, i tried to explore because for me it doesn't fit on my logic so what i found that perfectly convince and made me happier is the exact thing that you said, "The Messy Way of blending thru strokes) I don't do the grayscale instead i on the spot choosing color that im seeing in my head that would fit the blending and using smudging, blur, and those paint that have pure dots for helping me the next step for coloring the texture and the texture itself (don't know if you get it 😅). So yeah m more satisfied and confused why Im like this and not like them, questioning if im doing it in the wrong path.

[@mosart7068]

very objective just because you were bad at solid shading does not make it bad at all, you just werent good enough to see it for what its worth but there are examples of artists who excel at it you can check out where they show work that is as good as non solid shading

[@radioisactive7590]

@@mosart7068 I know its objective? I wasn't saying its a bad way to do shading, just that I found a different way to do it that worked better for me. I shared my personal method here in case someone had the same struggles I did or just wanted to experiment with something new in their art.

[@realdragon]

In general messy colouring helps figuring out the shapes and colours

[@khaliqrafiqi9233]

When you said "because you can't draw anything that doesn't make you bad" is a huge relief for me because i practice drawing girls hair and eyes I'm don't know how to draw men properly 💀

[@Jjm0n_Artist]

I know how to draw boys not men 😩😩😩

[@jarosbodytko6462]

Yeah, but you still have to get out of your comfort zone eventually. Not being able to draw ‘everything’ isn’t the same as ‘just draw the same stuff over and over’. If you draw humans, you should at least be able to draw women and men of different ages and body types and kids. However, no one would call you out for not being able to draw animals, or cars if you’re good at people. It’s a specialty and you should be able to draw as much as you can within that specialty. Unless you want to draw nothing but pretty anime girls the rest of your life, you’re severely limiting yourself as an artist by not expanding at least in one category.

[@EternalGamesNMusic]

I am an Ibis Paint X artist. For no. 5 I gotta say 1,000 x 1,000 doesn't look pixelated at all, in my art app at least. (I'm close-sighted and have to wear glasses that just makes things a bit bigger, However I can live without them as itc's not blurry at all.) Plus on another one of my art sites (pixilart where the max is 700 x 700) I use 500 x 500 and there are some tricks to make the art seem less pixelated there, which is using a bigger canvas (I think the magic starts around 300 x 300) and thinner lines. Edit: Autocorrect pixilart as pixel art so I had to fix it.

[@lunarsaber368]

Ok but I use the exact same apps... IBIS for my usual art and I've been getting into pixel art using Pixilart for potential game sprites :3

[@Samhwain]

So while you can use smaller canvases (and indeed, some art styles are best viewed on smaller canvases, and it sounds like you're in the art-niche where small canvases make the difference as Pixel Art styles are the only thing that come to mind for 'small canvas is best choice') the general rule is go large. Typically digital art turns out better when you start large and shrink. It's the equivalent of painting a life size portrait in oil paints. You're up close absolutely loading this space with details then you step back (zoom out or shrink your image in digital art) and it all comes together with nothing getting 'lost' in the distance. You can fit 'more' into a larger canvas than a small one. From more details outright to more implied details to more characters, etc. If you've found a way to make small canvases work for you, that's great. But it's really, REALLY important advice to share that "large canvases are better" because a lot of digital artists don't learn this until much, much later in their experiences and they miss out on a lot of growth opportunity early on. I, for one, favored smaller canvases because I could 'finish' the piece quicker. Which is true. But couldn't fit the details I wanted to into the art. When I finally started pursuing fine detail work I was forced to move to larger canvases where I discovered not all of my skills translate well. I developed very bad art habits to make small canvases work for me and I'm having to unlearn these habits in order to start learning new things. It's taken me 2 years of forcing myself to work larger for me to see improvement. But the improvement was absolutely worth it. I can cram details into my more elaborate images with less effort now. I can imply the details instead of going in and refining every single pearl in a necklace just for those details to become a muddy, blurry or pixelated mess, for example. What you can spend 10 hours doing in a tiny spot on a small canvas you can probably slap out in 2 hours with implied detail that get the job done. Most of the popular or 'top' artists we see today don't refine every single detail, they imply things with shapes and dots of light and color and then refine the most important parts of the image (such as the character or the face of the character) WLOP is a great example of implied details instead of highly-refined hyper-realistic details.

[@Taerora]

Tysm! About lineart..I could somewhat relate to you. As someone who has really shaky hands I spent way more time than necessary just on trying to perfect my lines which was pretty useless at the end since I just went with drawing messy lines instead

[@viyaura]

same!! messy lines is my favourite approach now ^^

[@aasthamini4090]

Ma'am sir WHY HAVENT YOU BLOWN UP ??! IS THE KZbin ALGORITHM A BIT BONKERS NOT TO BLOW THIS UP btw love the tanjiro art ✨🖤

[@viyaura]

AHHA THANK YOU

[@Yescuzynot]

@@viyaurait happened lol

[@gingerrr_]

@@Yescuzynot a year late lol

[@Yescuzynot]

@@gingerrr_ it still happened 🤷‍♀️

[@Imsketchingcherries]

1:04 not gonna lie I LOVEEE clean and cartoony lineart, more specifically kind of like marikyuuns artstyle

[@amaira4651]

I have a tip myself: if you find that drawing certain things works better for you on paper but you want the ease and comfort of digital art, then simply take a picture of the art done on paper and use the line extraction feature. My friend pointed it out to as I was importing a paper drawing into Ibis Paint and I wish I had known it's existence sooner. Just keep in mind that you'll likely be doing some fix up work on it depending on how much is already drawn.

[@Lumberjack_Linnie]

The improvement mindset is what kinda holds me down. I know I will be no master in a few weeks or even month and I really suck at drawing in general, always did. But I have so many ideas in my head and it really messes with me that I can't bring them to (digital) paper like they are in my head. I have to say it to myself over and over again that in two, three, ten years I will be good enough do draw the things I want to share with the world.

[@breakdancingcatto]

Thank you so much for these tips

[@viyaura]

You got this! Thank you so much for the nice comment :)

[@breakdancingcatto]

@@viyaura no problem! and thank youuu as well :)

[@ravaralyn]

I literally started drawing today, and needed some tips and this really helped, espically the one about 'You wont be amzing overnight' Its really helping Me. Thank you.

[@Spiritwalking]

What a wonderful human being, your energy is appreciated, even though this video is 2 years old now, as someone that's just walked into art for a few weeks, your energy has quelled my feelings of giving up, thank you for existing ☺

[@ayrine7211]

I came here for the drawing tips, stayed for the amazing Sigma painting, CAN WE TALK HOW BEAUTIFUL IT IS????? Also the tips really helpful! ty so much for this!!!! cant wait for future videos!! 😄

[@viyaura]

AHH THANK YOU! that was one of my favs

[@Kitoki.]

YESSS AND THE DAZAI DRAWING TOOO

[@emuxxwonderhoyy]

LOVE THE COLUMBINA, TANJIRO, DAMIAN, SHOTO, ANYA AND SCARAMOUCHE ARTTTT btw so goodddd how didnt this get at least 1k likes???????

[@Humam403]

Real😢

[@lyavie.]

AND XIAO

[@your_lil_gacha_gurl]

Poor xiao getting leftout

[@soleil4951]

The columbina jumpscared me in a good way 😭😭😭

[@Darkkan13]

And Jaeha! 😆

[@emik2019]

Okay hi! I’m a new fan and I learned about you like a week ago and honestly in that week I became addicted to your art. Your a amazing artist and I wish I could draw like you and because of your art and this video I think I’m inspired to draw digitally again. Tysm and again, I love your art.

[@viyaura]

Hi!! omg truly this made my entire week, thank you so so much! I wish I could frame this and look at it when i'm sad :'D You're so sweet and I'm so glad that is inspired you draw digitally again! If you ever post your art I'd love to see it :)) Thank you so much again!

[@-_-official_Hanako-_-]

​@@viyaura❤❤❤❤

[@audaellom]

THANK YOU SO MUCH it helps a lot 😭 I get frustrated all the time bcs I'm not yet experienced in digital art and I feel like I don't know how to paint and I compare myself a lot with my fave artists But I keep telling myself that it takes time to learn that skill And having someone tell me their experience with that just helped me a lot, thank you❤

[@skye_the_alien]

Im a beginner and this literally cured my art block i was crying Cause i couldnt draw humans backgrounds and etc but now i realized That i draw other things better and Thats just What i Need for now tysm

[@HolyAwesomeStitches]

I feel the exact same toward coloring digitally! Its taken me years to realize I need to consider it it's own skill and to try experimenting and seeing what I like and I swear, I will never stop learning new ways to color. I also recently saw another video (I forgot who by, but I know she does some where she draws scenes from games of bit life) and she said the same thing about not needing to draw perfect lines. It really does take soooooo much time away and when you finally stop worrying so much, it's such a HUGE relief (also, no one will notice).

[@viyaura]

so true!

[@mariohoehlein8011]

Looking back at your old art. Can help you realize how far you’ve come. I look back at my old art sometimes. And I was terribly bad at drawing humans and Humanoids in general. I still struggle with drawing hands. But that is every artist’s problem. So I’m not the only one here who struggles with hands.

[@pacman1187]

Thank you for this! It’s so true! Me in high school had no problem drawing manga style characters and shading with pencil. But me at the moment who did not draw for 10+ years and just started to do digital art, felt so highly that coloring/rendering is wayyyy more difficult than drawing.

[@caccolascorbutica2968]

your video just popped up into my home and... im not an artist, i can't even draw a pencil and i'm so trapped into perfectionism that probably i will never learn to detox from it, so i'm that critic to myself that i don't even start because i would feel a failure if i'm not perfect from the beginning (yeah, shitty, i know. trying to work on it, but is so hard to improve on myself). buuuuuuuuuuuut, and here's the point: your voice, your calm tone of speaking, your sweetness into talking and expose yourself and even your weakness points is wholesome. your art is beautiful and most of all i find inspiring your approach to it. you're not that kind of artist who's "oh, yeah, u gotta work hard to be like me" style. u're humble and sweet and this makes it easier to take your insights as something from a friend instead of a "pro artist". Thank you for your video and i wish you the best in your career and life! and again: your art is stunning!!! 💚

[@Kumozu-sp7lw]

I'm going through the same struggle

[@caccolascorbutica2968]

@@Kumozu-sp7lw we're going to make it, somehow ❤️

[@JayemelMusicUniverse16]

This was a much needed reminder. thank you, and i share those experiences where id get so discouraged that my art didnt look as good as others "simple" line work and etc. But after almost a year and trial and error, i do see improvement and getting better with little things. I love the "clean lineart isnt mandatory" part, thank you! Now i feel better about it but still will improve. Take care, ill keep this for a rainy day. :)

[@xylo7003]

i'd learn how to draw and colour in like a month then spend the rest of the year trying to find my artstyle lmfao💀💀

[@Yoitsxirii]

Real like I took 3 years 😭😭

[@mitzywebtoons]

Broke my Apple Pencil and had to save up money to buy another one and now I’m trying to relearn an art style that I haven’t drawn in for four months 😭😭😭

[@lycanthrochick]

I've been drawing for a decade and still don't have a unique art style

[@wetsocksyum1791]

Just draw what you like, finding an 'art style" should be natural and not something your forcing yourself to have. It's unique because it's what you enjoy (and it's supposed to change )

[@IshalEmaan]

Fr i would just copy paste the art 😅

[@bunbunchan406]

Coloring and rendering is the most fun for me because I get to experiment on it every art I do. Right now, shadows are what I'm improving the most. Lineart however, is where I usually take days to finish and is a pain in the ass

[@Raekoid]

lowkey needed to hear this, "lineart can be messy", i'll spend most of my art time cleaning up my lineart so it looks nice, and by the end of it i'll drop the piece and end up not finishing it because i hate, and i mean HATE doing lineart and lines in general, so ty very much :D

[@ohw5306]

Its refreshing to hear another artist thinking the same way about line art 😅❤. I find doing line very stressful and it feeds into my perfectionalism more times than I want it to. In the past I see so many digital artist doing line art so I just assumed it was the norm.

[@Reallycoolwaffle]

lesson learned, just dont color your drawings! :) LINE ART FOREVERRR. Edit: Oh. 308 likes. Noice Anotha edit :D : ooo 627 likes noice

[@i.eat.children1234]

Fr

[@goodrichgaditano1818]

Fr fr 🗣️🗣️🔥

[@bunibubble]

But then messy line art 😭

[@animatedmvs8818]

Sketches forever

[@MeowsterDuffy]

you would be amazed to know that greyscale colouring is way harder than normal colouring

[@basilwyrm]

Just drawing with a dip pen brush and coloring it afterward has been a new saving grace for my art, I am so happy, so carefree, I just get straight into drawing and I don't have to do it *again* as a lineart layer. It's perfect and I love it so much. My art feels so full of love and care without me spending hours being miserable. Don't do anything in art you don't love!!!!!

[@coal-ks1hx]

I love yout description of not being good at everything doesn't mean you're a bad artist

[@sweetralllyy]

2 years. yet this is the most helpful video ever. im subscribing cause your being real and explaining it like you cant do it over night which is what im gonna have to learn 😭🤞.

[@epicdude6578]

thank you sadness from inside out 2, for teaching me how to draw digitally

[@Kand1y0z]

0:22 lmao rendering shading and coloring has always been easier, drawing itself is way harder for me😭😭😭

[@RadiantHopefulll]

For some people, but to most of us, including myself, coloring is MUCH HARDER since we're used to doing simple sketches and leaving it at that without coloring it

[@Kand1y0z]

@@RadiantHopefulll oh yeah i get it too😭🙏

[@fa1rylils738]

the way u draw sm of my favs😭

[@Tamashiifuxk]

I think u meant that ure just a weeb and simp

[@Sweet_Treat_]

Thank you I have been out here buying brushes for procreate expecting them to instantly fix my coloring😂

[@AshZa20]

This was really helpful for me. I have been a fan of a anime "Dragon Ball Z" since i was young and i started drawing the character's from it from time to time and i can say without a shadow of a doubt that i have improved in drawing in that anime style quite a bit since my first time but since i couldn't still draw a regular anime style male / female i felt like I'm not a good artist yet but this actually boosted me. Im slowly developing and practising other styles and basic autonomy and I'm confident now i will improve even more with practice ! Thanks and Keep up the great work ! 🙌

[@viyaura]

thank you! keep going :)

[@Kit_Katttttttt13]

Really “line art” is just your last sketch before you render so it is important that your line art looks good or the way you want it to but you can do as many sketches over each other as you want before that stage

[@Personalitypandemonium]

Being a bsd fan(bungou stray dogs),I was genuinely suprised seeing dazai and sigma😊.that aside love ur taste in characters

[@rainie.q]

YES YES YES I SAW DAZAİ AND ITS ALREADY DONE FOR ME I'M FOLLOWİNG HER WAAA

[@RaccoonCat_]

When I saw dazai I was like HM OHMAHGAWD IS THAT DAZAI🤩🤩

[@MUfFIN-ol5yr]

Same 😭 I was like wait, dazai!?!...omg sigma!?!

[@nianhere_4920]

same ong 😭😭😭

[@SpecRose]

As a still learning artist, I will also say; "practice every day" can be all well and good, but it can also be detrimental; STUDY every day is more important. Even if you don't actually draw, find some art you like and really study it, try to deconstruct it with your eyes and think of why and how they did some things. Even if I don't draw for a couple days, I come back to it feeling a bit improved both from really looking and studying art I like, and what I learned from before settling. Which is another thing; a break can help your things you learn settle into your mind and muscle memory.

[@littlemissNiaYT]

3:33 THE SIGMA ART IS AMAZING

[@eladriellebachental]

Thank you so much! I recently started, and I think I am not able to do soft colors, yadda yadda, but now - honestly, I drew so much motivation from your video, thanky! 0u0

[@Renikee]

Honestly, rendering might actually be the most fun part about drawing, at least for me, especially drawing the lighting

[@SkaterMakesArt14]

this was so useful, especially the parts where you said clean line art isnt mandatory and that it takes alot and alot of time to get really good at it and that you dont have to be good at EVERYTHING to be considered an artist. Thank You so much for this video

[@the.winged.devil.]

3:12 CANT DRAW THE SECOND EYE ARTIST SPOTTED

[@steal.]

draw both eyes at the same time

[@the.winged.devil.]

@@steal. ik

[@steal.]

@@the.winged.devil. idk how to draw eyes tho

[@zahradraws2045]

This video was exactly what I needed to hear! I've been struggling so much lately over lineart and expecting myself to draw perfectly! and now I know what I should do. Thanks.🥰

[@Blueberrydoartstuff]

Viyaura's voice is sooo..... Relaxing 😎😌

[@igoonx15]

Tbh one thing that helped me painting digitally is using only two layers. This might trigger some artists but it helped me A LOT, i use one layer for the sketch and lineart and it’s fine to be messy, the another layer underneath to add color and shading then i just blend the two layers and just paint on one layer. I find it very fun and help me go out of my comfort zone and just paint without focusing on lineart and stuff like these. Of course you will eventually end up adding more layers for lighting, adding new details etc... but overall i find one layer to help me just do whatever i want and it did help me get better. It can be hard and messy at first but to my art style, it’s way better than doing typical paining styles with linearts and many layers.

[@Ewa_spa3e]

2:15 Picasso draws cats like a master even tho he doesn’t

[@Cupcake38175]

just found this video 2 years later and omg are you me…. this speaks exactly to my current frustrations on my digital art journey

[@eliskaneugebauer5338]

The "you just need to practice" is unfortunately not obvious to everyone... At least to me it wasn't 😅 I am a traditional media artist myself, very good with pencil and (for some reason) oil pastels. And I just thought this would be just like that. I can't be THAT BAD if I know how to colour, shadow whatever and I know my way around illustration programmes... Well that was a fuckin delusion. And going from 100 to zero "overnight" is something that I can't get over and I can't make myself try again. So I am just watching videos like yours 😂

[@Milleniajimmy]

Okay so this video stalked my feed! I just started drawing consistently(2 months in) and I’d made my peace with points one to 4 and I was like okay I’ve finally watched the video, thanks Yt and then the last point comes up! The canvas size!! My art is always so pixelated! I guess that’s why the video stalked me!! Thanks for this video!!

[@HuTao_BestPyroMain]

My drawings usually take 5-30 minutes then the colouring takes like 60 minutes

[@jangkkutea]

real

[@Pringles_Doodlez]

I only sketch messily and consider it done (definitely NOT done… but… yeah! 😅) so it takes me like 10 minutes

[@2amCryptid]

what are you drawing that takes you only an hour to do

[@HuTao_BestPyroMain]

@@2amCryptid the colouring takes an hour because like I have to get it perfectly in the lines

[@artbymiwsher]

​@@HuTao_BestPyroMain not sure which program you use, but let's say it's procreate - make life easier with layers. Have your line art on one layer, and when you're satisfied, set it as your reference layer. Open another layer beneath this one to colour on, and you can drag and drop colours to fill the large spaces neatly within the bounds of your line art. After you set your base colours like this, you have the option to add further depth to the colour layer: - unselect the line art layer as a reference layer - add a layer above the colour layer and set it to clipping - add your variations of colour - they will stay within the bounds of the colour layer.

[@TimesChu]

I also hyperfixate on my lineart, and I don't know if I'll ever stop, but I have noticed one scenario it's useful: Monochrome art that relies heavily on value instead of color. Some things need those sharp lines to differentiate them from hatching. Helpful tips though! Thanks!

[@thememeilator2633]

This is funny to me because its the opposite for me. Coloring feels borderline effortless to do and learn more about while Line Art feels like such a monumental challenge.

[@dragonofspades2837]

I'll do your lineart if you do my coloring 🤣💀

[@thememeilator2633]

@@dragonofspades2837 lmao! Why does everyone hate coloring its easy!

[@ulichik8964]

I have the same problem, so I just start colouring right on sketch x))

[@justkev1044]

@@thememeilator2633naw you have to tell us your ways

[@Tail_sez]

I agree, though the lady in the video makes it sound like she learned to color AFTER she learned to draw. Whereas I learned to draw and color, TRADITIONALLY, at the same time. It took me much longer to fill in all that space, and it was stressful knowing that if I made a mistake with shading I wouldn't be able to cover it with a gel pen. Only over the past year have I learned to draw and color digitally, and now coloring feels effortless compared to before thanks to the paint bucket and the ability to undo. So, coloring is harder in traditional drawing, but easier in digital, at least for me.

[@SurgicalJust0n6838]

I'm at a point in my life where I shelved art for a bit, but now I'm trying to get back into it. This video was a nice refresher!

[@pandagaming-ry5dw]

0:54 aye why he kinda looking like Xiao from genshin inpact- *KHUGH* ITS THE FACE AND HAIR😭😭 1:45 SCARA

[@Kitoki.]

lmaoaoaoaoaooao we love anemo boys

[@ezfrialxa]

the no line art tip saved me. thank you!! all my art looked so nice just sketched and the line art looked like absolute doodoo, now all I do is clean up my sketch a bit and I’m good to go 🎉

[@Shoumie]

Okay, but when I was young I thought I needed to use as big of a canvas as possible (like 16000x16000 kind of big) and then realized that a lot of details get lost and you need a huge brush size to really make a difference when it comes to pen pressure. So, there is not only just "too small of a canvas", there is also "too big of a canvas". ....Also your PC will die. Don't do it.

[@riewolf7777]

Thank you for the video! I definitely agree on all the things you’ve said here; coloring has been one of the main things I have to work on, and consistency in how often you draw is key! I have drawn a lot less over the years so I see how frequency is very important

[@ArissaHaque]

1:47 if they’re calling that messy lineart, then my art is literally scribbles made by a kindergartener

[@TS-vz7ui]

Same!

[@marktuohy1088]

I’m not really a digital artist. I’m an artist and tattooist, but use procreate for tattoo design. Some very useful tip in this video. I need to start using a bigger canvas for my designs, which I didn’t consider doing before. Thank you for sharing!

[@K3L_ORANGEJOE]

0:50 OML IS THAT XIAO

[@victoriahewitt9938]

This is so comforting to me! I'm about to pick this up again (I dabbled very briefly in my teens) & this takes away so much pressure. Thanks so much!!

[@Telleaa]

1:30 DAZAIIIII

[@starzhj]

thank you so much for this woww i'm just beginning digital art (again) and needed to hear this stuff while being swamped by youtube tutorials and my own unrealistic expectations

[@Umyea-ql1pk]

WHEN I SAW THE GENSHIN CHARACTERS I STARTED CRYING IM IN TEARS IN A CORNER😭😭😭😭😭😭💀💀💀💀

[@taquyaki]

im an artist who tends to drown myself in imposter syndrome no matter how many times i try to reason w myself, but this video helped me feel grounded. im glad seeing other peoples art journey and learning process being very similar to mine. i also started taking digital art seriously in 2020 and all that daily practice was so worth it. happy with my art now but i just have to work on silencing my mean thoughts lol!

[@Tobiasxoxo]

THE SCARAMOUCHE AND COLUMBINA?? GOD DAMN

[@kflemonice]

Thanks for telling me I won't improve overnight. No, really, you say that it's obvious in the video and I know it is, but I have this mindset that I need to see some improvement quickly so I practice and practice a lot and exhaust myself in the process. That was a useful reminder for me.

[@_chuuya_Chibi]

I way i SCREAMED Dazais name when i saw him😂 but on a different note, your drawings are amazing!

[@INXU_L0V3]

OKAY IM AMAZED THAT YOU CAN DRAW ANY MEN, I CAN ONLY DRAW WOMEN😭😭

[@TheGreyAngelic]

I feel this is a lot of good information, I personally was trained to do manga, so-- for myself and many in this craft, the quality of your inking and "line-art" skills needs to be topnotch, not neccessarily perfect, my mangaka never taught me to be perfect--but accuracy and line-character with little to no deviation and lots of consistency is very important to a lot of us. I feel that coloring is harder for some people and easier for others and I think that goes to a lot of how artist have started off, some artist learn to do line-art and cell shading off the bat but this doesn't cover the complexities that come with full-rendering and painting techniques that are often are used today. And yet, I know people who started off learning primarily freehand painting and are amazing at painting or rendering but ask them to do more complex line art like manga -styles etc- and thier lack of skill in that avenue becomes evident. For myself, learning rendering has been tough, because I started in much different place than others, having to step out of that comfort zone has been very hard for me--I used to think coloring was very difficult because it was inherently more complicated than working with greyscale like manga does. There is a spectrum to color, and greyscale is just black and white. But now I am seeing that just like very complex manga, once you master the basics and understand these themes, its just different way of doing things. In fact, the two share some simularities: Greyscale and color are built on hot and cold dichotomies They are technically both a spectrum, just with different outputs. Just understanding those two things helped me a lot in transferring between them. Unfortunately though I've also met a lot of people who say that artist who only draw in greyscale like mangaka are inferior artist to people who work with color, which is funny because if you asked a lot of them to work with greyscale, in comparison to those who charcoal paint and do other very intensely detailed monochrome art styles, its apperent they lack the same skill as those who have mastered it.

[@personontheinternet-dz5oi]

I actually found that my line art relies on COLORED LINE ART And then I color on top of my line art on a different layer

[@guyman1570]

Even if the tips aren't "helpful", the fact that they're being said aloud is so reassuring and oddly helpful by just that aspect itself. Thank you for that video.

[@-MistytheYT-]

I dont even know how to draw a male body,male eyes,male hair- AND I CANT EVEN DRAW A CARTOON-LIKE STYLE-

[@DazaisBaldHead]

Tysm for this! This'll help me a lot! .... I CAN'T GO AN HOUR WITHOUT BSD ATP, IT'S INSANE (I'm not complaining, live, laugh, love BSD) I love your art!

[@asterisk.v]

0:42 ILLUMI???? 😱 (I know this video was 2 years ago don’t ask)

[@horamigaun]

As for the coloring, you're absolutely right. I'm not saying that I didn't understand it back in the days, but sometimes it really takes a toll, especially now, when I got a little more confident with my lines and anatomy and I think that I'm capable of coloring it properly. Well, NO!

[@Beeheeshe]

3:05 Tanjiro I the Demon Slayer Series

[@kfjellyjaymehopkins4746]

Exactly. No holes but the color STILL LEAKS OUT ONTO THE WHOLE DAMN CANVAS!!!!!!

[@nicolesfault]

1:58 isn't that frankie from spy x family?

[@Isabella-RoseGaweda]

It obviously is

[@nicolesfault]

no need to be rude i was just asking 😭

[@tanjiarahman2474]

I THOUGHT THAT WAS DENDRITIC CELL FROM CELLS AT WORK

[@Isabella-RoseGaweda]

@@nicolesfault I'm not even being rude

[@nicolesfault]

@@Isabella-RoseGaweda its the way you worded it

[@AugustoDis]

That's actually really good advice. The opera singer example, really made me think. Thank you.

[@1_-angel-_0]

Illumi!? Killua!? Tanjiro!? Todoroik!? Edit: 5:24 killua and gon there are so cute🙂

[@StarShi-i3u]

For me personally, when I render I draw over the lines anyways so I actually can’t be bothered to even draw over my basic sketch, which is just my style, but here’s a tip, when you start drawing, don’t jump right into lighting etc, it’s rlly complicated. The best way is to slowly learn it and adapt it to ur art. ❤

[@YoseiHayashiiiiYT]

3:26 OMG IT'S SHINOBAE

[@MamoVTube]

I never thought about using bigger canvas sizes. Thats a great tip, thank you!

[@HarmonyMoonbeam024]

Another thing I will add to this, don’t be afraid to use reference pictures! I’ve been doing art for almost a year now (mainly traditional, but also I make little MCYT animatics in flipaclip from time to time) and I still use reference pictures for my character designs, dynamic poses, and etc. I also kind of disagree with the part about coloring. While it can be much harder than the drawing itself, I personally LOVE the process of adding color to my works! It brings that extra bit of life to them and just ties everything together impo

[@thatwasverypunny.-.]

THIS using references is so, so, SO important and can drastically improve art. and i can't tell you how much my dumb, lazy ass forgets or don't feel like looking for refs. but the difference between my art where i used reference compared to my art i used without is very clear. not only irl refs but if you can't think of anything to draw, looking at other people's art can inspire ideas! ideas don't just come out of nowhere, it always comes from something. and nobody should feel bad if they can't think of ideas on the fly

[@shadowyct]

the "use a bigger canvas" one is so funny to me bc i love digital art FOR the pixelation! xD

[@c3lest1a_k4to]

0:42 THAT AINT ILLUMI NO MORE

[@ryvyr]

Many thanks for these tips, they resonate and help keep me grounded in the long journey ^^

[@bhuvananaidu3911]

2:51 is that Tanjiro Kamado?

[@charlotte-ru8sl]

I always like your posts, and I like your voice even more. It gives me a friendly vibe. Please stay healthy!