Analyzing and Copying an Art Style with Esben Rasmussen

Learn one method for how to analyze and apply another artist’s style to your own work. Esben Rasmussen teaches you the thought process of how he samples the style of JC Leyendecker and then shows you how to redraw a video game character in that style. This is a 2 part series with part 1 focusing on quick sketching a pose and in part 2 he’ll show you how to finish the piece by painting in that style.
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[@ProkoTV]

Be sure to subscribe and hit the notification bell so you don’t miss part 2 of this lesson. Also, big thanks to Esben collabing with us for this lesson. Make sure to check out his KZbin channel - kzbin.info/door/-soRkckMwMirRP8eg75ZfA

[@waleedalaskar4013]

name brush?

[@renatolins4670]

Hey Proko, whats the name of the brush used in this video? Thanks

[@pjlewisful]

I'm probably not the audience that you'd expect to be enjoying this video but I loved it! I'm a retired 72-year-old Hollywood makeup artist who now does portraits & fashion illustration (mostly just for my own entertainment). I'll probably never do drawing on a computer but still just found this so informative.

[@deuceight2407]

1:45 QUEEN CL AS JETT

[@Cmetzgus14]

I love Esben’s outlook and approach. Starting with analysis, taking notes, creating a solid plan for a foundation, using references, immersing himself in the feeling of the art, then analyzing more critically. Great methodology as well as embracing the mistakes to move forward testing ideas.

[@reihanalfansa7519]

Thank you for knowledge. Very helpful for me beginner artist.

[@hoonterofhoonters6588]

This is going to be good. I've always wondered how artists achieve certain effects. Specifically imitations of brushstrokes and texture added into digital art. That fascinates me.

[@cdscissor]

What the heck, I was literally trying to copy Hesse's Sonic design just a minute ago! This video's gonna be useful.

[@meticulous_mot]

Good luck on that btw! A lot of people get confused on his spines haha

[@cacatuamiseravel9207]

I love the shoes Hesse made for sonic, They look so nice

[@teryliuhoo5989]

Good taste, bro. Good taste.

[@cdscissor]

@@meticulous_mot The best way I can describe the spikes are wide and separated. Such a great design quirk.

[@futures.e.a.l6606]

BRO IM LITERALLY DOING THIS RN THERE IS NO WAY

[@alliu6562]

Leyendecker is such a legend, his work inspires so much of modern illustration, often without the artists even realizing it. He’s really an icon and a legend

[@ascoresdalua80]

I felt so happy seeing CL in the reference board :') Also, amazing video! I've been struggling a bit with translating the reference into my art and I think this is very helpful

[@SansP3ur]

@14:05 Esben touches on the difficulty of marrying an American painting style with Korean facial features. As a Korean-American myself, I'm here to let everyone know this is possible. I mean, if my parents could could do it, then you got this!

[@hamiltonsgood6597]

""When you're drawing/painting make sound effects"" I've heard this from 80% of the visual artists i watch, i tought it was a joke but it seems to be something we should do. Me trying it out: dying animal sounds

[@anniemadeit21]

@rossdraws he's got that down pat huh? 😂

[@PeterGriffin-pk8tt]

chris o'neill does this, its funny and effective

[@moldman5694]

@@PeterGriffin-pk8tt lmao Oney just does gremlin noises when he draws

[@PeterGriffin-pk8tt]

@@moldman5694 he does! it's crazy what newgrounds can do to a man

[@apaleguy]

It's so funny I've seen this style so many times but I never knew who it was and never even learned about him in all the art history classes I took. I know Norman Rockwell but I've seen people use Leyendecker's style for years and years now. Really glad this exists been dying to paint like this.

[@AlecSorensen]

This is great! Too often, drawing is reduced to tips... but seeing the artist's whole process from ideation, to reference, to experimentation is awesome!

[@taylorsvlogs.5552]

jett and CL in one video? i love it

[@zerperior4238]

who is a valorant fan

[@zarleenseenye2343]

Thank you both for this video!! I reallly love his artworks, but he never had put any tutorials on his channel so it's nice to see it now! :D

[@drawingfandome]

Thank you for this video I definitely need to watch a lot more of your videos when I have time so I can really level up my art as your teaching some next level stuff! Most art videos on here teach the basics but your one of few that goes beyond the basics to teach how to really make your art look professional and more 3D! And I’m glad you manage to do so well also teaching stylization bc imo anyone can make a realistic and well done copy of life drawing but the hard part as an artist is to take all the things that make a still life or copy of a reference look good when going to stylize art or draw an original character

[@kellkatze4128]

20:10 Wow, that before and after! It’s such a small thing but it really changes the whole sketch. Definitely gonna start using the liquify tool more :)

[@Kelly99844]

These sort of videos inspire and motivate me to draw more. Ty for this 🙏🏽

[@mawudekadaniel7693]

"I'll embrace the mistakes that will come along the way and fix the one that i can" thank you🙏🏾❤️

[@DennisCNolasco]

Excellent analysis method, I'll have to try this out, thanks Esben!

[@Heatherbailey1]

Yes! I’m SOOOOO happy you have made a Leyendecker video. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@Simon-et4hu]

I find Esben very approchable and I like his approach. But! Big but. I like him even more now that I know sound effects are a part of his workflow :D

[@giulyanoviniciussanssilva2947]

This added to the knowledge of Proko is enough to be a designer, empowered to draw whatever you want..

[@jonathanaverstedt]

Loving this video. Great walkthrough!

[@Silbusia]

Perfect timing! I was looking for something like this during last few days xD

[@shutupack5389]

I took some notes on this video to help me better understand the art styles of popular stories. Thanks!

[@alppatuk]

Esben is art goals. The guy is a freekin’ wizard.

[@drxgxn1742]

I love CL, I love art, so I'm here

[@user-kz8wu8yk8c]

Ayy, finally, someone with my hobby

[@mapplemoore197]

Crazy lyndecker is exactly who I was wanting to study this up coming year. :))) thank you!!

[@kencoleman5007]

I went to a museum in Newport, Rhode Island where they had paintings from both Leyendecker brothers. In addition to Parrish, Harrison Fisher, Rockwell, Pyle, and other illustrators. Though, I've grown up around a lot of Sargent pieces, I often look elsewhere for my favorite impressionists. Renoir, Monet, and someone the old school impressionists. Then, Aragones, the Garmashes, Razumovskaya, Pino Daeni, and bunch of the contemporary romantic impressionists (given or take a few decades, because Aragones was a Barcelona contemporary of Dali's). Then there's Petrov who literally animates oil paint impressionism.

[@Silbusia]

"Liquify is a good way to break up some of that evenness that's naturally happening when you're drawing..." *Me looking at all my deformed, asymmetrical sketches*

[@illustratornamedkasper]

:-D

[@anthonypc1]

Loving the jazzz leaving these on while I draw

[@darasto2023]

Awesome! Can't wait to see how he will handle the Leyendecker style brush strokes, so the next video is coming out when, anyone knows maybe?

[@thelightningbrony4745]

Ah yes, the Danish English accent. Always a joy to hear xD Jokes aside though, this is great! Really an inspiration to see such a good artist from one's own country! Gonna have to work even harder if I want to become as good as Esben! :D

[@janraeycanobas6742]

So we need to call him "The Copy Ninja Kakashi"

[@shadowyes3249]

Yes finally a video about leyendecker's art style

[@xdfinu8416]

This video is gonna help me finish my xmas assignment so nicely

[@raphraph1873]

thank you for esben!

[@harrisonfernandes1328]

Thank you proko, this was helpful

[@CoCoComet]

I can't believe he mentions Dylan Dog as an influence! For the record, the 2 covers shown are respectively by Mignola and Angelo Stano. Stano has been the cover artist for many years of the earlier original Italian publications (after Claudio Villa). He also drew some of the stories, but mainly they were drawn by many other fantastic italian artists

[@natureworldarts2644]

It's Very Helpful , Your Videos Are Always Helpful 😊 Thanks ✌️

[@harindranugraha]

Supercool. Inspiring as always 👌👌👌

[@amethystr7412]

OMGGG CL THE QUEEN OF KPOP

[@jamessantiagovsky1882]

great analyzation.

[@kellynguyen353]

J.C. Leyendecker as your art inspiration is ✨

[@Sebijy]

Thank you !

[@skyisb]

OMG I see my Queen CL 💋💗🌙🪐⭐️ Yass She's a great inspirations!

[@djvillan]

@MonstyDR The queen of kpop. The Baddest Female. "Out of my way, I am a legend and I'm here to stay".

[@Aryaman20]

ok

[@antonioblanco3086]

Nice Studies!

[@illustratornamedkasper]

Great vid!

[@MN-yf7on]

Beautiful video, I was wondering what hardware did he use with the photoshob for drawing.

[@alixsprallix]

Great video

[@scribbleznbitz33]

Lendecker is my favorite!

[@kingpen1179]

I really wish they make a peter han sketchbook tour or just more superani member interview and demos in the near future ❤️❤️🇵🇭

[@Nile18008]

Kumusta

[@kingpen1179]

@@Nile18008 ok lang kapatid, sana safe kayo lahat sainyo😊

[@KershalJC]

Bruh your in every youtube art comment. Do u have an art account? Mine is ig: Kershal_Art.

[@linkfire32]

"English is hard, man!" Me: Laughing in French

[@Kirakiwi21]

Me: Laughing in Arabic

[@zonydragon1141]

Me: Laughing in Serbian

[@teddybear7200]

@@zonydragon1141 Me: Laughing in Spanish

[@bogarts4034]

Me: Laughing in bisaya

[@jemini7353]

Me: Laughing in Zodiac cipher

[@---tr8fx]

exactly what i need

[@gorfulator]

There's an orig Leyendecker in Stockton ca . Im gonna go see it.

[@natureworldarts2644]

Very Good

[@uncleatelier8495]

You're really good at graphics.~~~~♡★☆♡♥♥

[@aisaito4956]

he's so precious

[@frankmasih5367]

Damn I've never been this early, 1 min, and thanks proko for helping us

[@angelruizrisueno2729]

Hola PROKO, me encanta tu canal. Perdona pero le tengo que poner un fallo, que no lo subtitules en español, sabiendo que son 600 millones de personas que hablan este idioma. Un saludo desde España 🇪🇸, gracias por enseñarnos arte.

[@ttextinction7273]

Esben Lash is a cool guy

[@jishnuchakraborty2019]

"English is hard" - Esben Rasmussen 2020

[@vinzcastro9304]

When verb conjugations are more irregular than irregular, rules being more broken than followed (i.e the i before e rule) and with some pronouns like (you, we, our not having an internal or external as in we could mean 'we' with the person we are talking to but it could also mean 'we' as in others outside the conversation.) There's also a lack of funny insults make it super hard.

[@jas_bataille]

@@vinzcastro9304 You do NOT want to learn french lmao everything is gendered for no reason and if you think the verbs are quite irregular in English... oh boy. To be fair I'm a langage nerd and 40% of English is French tho

[@inamorata966]

The concept you refer to at 5:43 is called, by literature types, a caesura. It is a brief interruption.

[@BlazinNSoul]

Riot games across-the-board I think is well ahead of the curve. They have produced some outstanding music. Along with some of the most unique Music Video promotions I've ever seen for a game company. K/DA alone is one of the most amazing uses of an in-game promotion I have ever seen. I mean creating an entire group just to promote an ingame feature is brilliant. So it really is not a surprise seeing CL represeted here!! Would expect nothing less from Riot games. It's interesting seeing the development behind these projects and how they take form. :b

[@Sour_Ink]

Who was watching his old vids when this popped up?

[@Wolfspiritzero]

I was just thinking about J.C. Leyendecker yesterday. Spooky...

[@beteseeking4613]

wow next to my wardell jett montage recommandation is this video

[@MartynCito]

Gracias por los subtítulos

[@Pain1666]

Glad to see Dylan Dog and its artist recognized also outside Italy

[@benjaminhejsel9909]

Danish artist in the House!

[@gzbxcl6860]

CL as the reference for Jett!!

[@RamierPediangco]

it's Queen CL!! ❤️

[@Ram-iy8xz]

lets go CL!

[@mr.pov.mp4597]

Its very strange to be able to understand all of this. Very helpful tho. Keep up the great work

[@daviedood2503]

How to do the sea of thieves art style. They got a whole TEAM that draws like that.

[@karldarwin1253]

take a sip every Esben say "graphic"

[@LX777]

The baddest GZB is everywhere. ⚜ CL ⚜

[@eissanasser9414]

Guys for all of the people saying his style is not Leyendecker, he is not trying to copy Leyendecker's style, to begin with, he uses him as a reference on how to approach shape design, silhouette, 3 dimensionality, and mainly how to stylize realism. your style doesn't need to be exactly like the artist you get inspired from unless you want to. plus if you went to his instgram you can find some artworks where he intentionally copies/studies Leyendecker paintings onto league of legends champions

[@juancarlosperez1745]

TE AMO

[@LizdeSouza]

Do you guys read thoughts? This week I made 7 drawings of my family copying different cartoon styles!

[@omghiiii755]

That's so cool :D!! is it difficult to use irl people for you as references for your drawings?? I'm an artist too and have a hard time referencing a lot of things with irl people; even when studying anatomy, I have to look at artistic sketches because it's hard to translate that sort of realism for art into a non-realistic art style SKDHDK

[@LizdeSouza]

@@omghiiii755 it depends on what I am doing. Recently I illustrated two children books for a friend and my reference boards for them on Pinterest has all kinds of reference, from photos to drawings. I think I’d rather use drawn reference sheets for complex anatomy subjects, like hands or feet. But I use all sorts of reference. The drawings of my family in cartoon styles are on my Instagram if you are curious. They are from nov/dec 2020, so you have to scroll down a bit to find them. My Instagram is @ artelizdesouza 😃

[@omghiiii755]

@@LizdeSouza OHH,, that makes sense!! :D and thank you for telling me, I'll be sure to follow you :DD!

[@kiwi__milk4646]

THE EMPRESS CL LEE CHAERIN IS JETT IS CL IS JETT WOWW I SAW SO MANY PHOTOS OF MY QUEEN CL !!!

[@carlkligerman1981]

Is that a twombly on the wall? Very high brow!

[@nayantarak897]

CL AS JETT?? C'MON NOWW

[@opgamer9296]

How are you so good at drawing people quickly? For me it takes so long and then I just get disappointed in what I drew

[@AverageCal]

What brush are you using?

[@bom-athapa4728]

Can you make a video of Michael Hampton as a guest and talk about his approach to Anatomy

[@kiroaldo]

That would be awesome! His book really helped me improve my understanding of anatomy

[@GabrielFerreira-nd5hv]

the big question here is where I can get his brushes

[@jubo3299]

what brush do you use?

[@kullenberg]

404 error: Leyendecker influence not found in the drawings

[@ap_po]

yeah, not sure why there are not more dislikes when it comes down to his results...

[@s-zz]

Yeah, I mean his artstyle looks pretty cool to me, but does not resemble Leynedecker in anyway shape or form?

[@agus-pw7yd]

I think we'll see that when he paints it

[@kullenberg]

I can see it in the neck gesture/pose at the end but not much else. Maybe he'll do some Leyendecker type rendering in part two?

[@seanramsey]

Yeah, the video got waaaay too big so we decided to split it in two, Part 1 - prep and drawing - part 2 - clean up and painting.

[@onepinkz7664]

CL 🔥

[@lettucecat3538]

hmm how does his brush tilt? what sorcery is that i have my tilt settings on but it doesnt work on csp??

[@mazakieenmorningstar3687]

im here bc of jett still great video

[@Nile18008]

I see Jett (anything valorant), I click

[@eomersimbajon2938]

I actually went like "wait IS THAT JETT?" and clicked, so yey?

[@NENeverDiesNENeverDies]

Ohh i see Queen CL

[@epicepic4561]

Drawing this in my notebook - "flip canvas"?

[@anniemadeit21]

It's funny cause i was just trying to study Axsens' anatomy!

[@sochettrachou1699]

Omg u inspired from CL

[@shivagopi3726]

❤