Digital Shape Carving with Scott Flanders

[@ProkoTV]

Scott started a patreon and has mentorship slots open. If you're interested in supporting him or want to be mentored by him you can find his page here - www.patreon.com/shapecarver

[@sinixdesign]

Yay Scott! So happy to see this!

[@veganjotaro]

Yay I'm the first internet stranger to reply to you! XD

[@shinobivice1800]

i also appreciate your video about shapes and shadow. This too looks like a fun experiment.

[@tobiasarboe5753]

Now you just need to do your video on shape design and we can *really* start getting into it xD

[@micahthieves]

as soon as he started talking about shape design i immediately thought of you :)

[@grimmbleaper9981]

Sinix Design eyy just here to tell you that video about the importance of speed was amazing

[@AhmedAldoori]

Mah man Scott! He's a legend!

[@sekkataziz1644]

Ahmed Aldoori Hey Sinix: how r u

[@vloopyart]

@@bfjerky For realz

[@imtired3599]

Said the legend

[@seb1520]

No U

[@AngeNamnNamnsson]

Great Scott!?

[@sillymation8718]

Me: downloads thousands of photoshop brushes Scott: makes masterpiece with lasso tool Me: *cries in corner*

[@Le_Phantom]

The magic isn't in the brushes, the magic is in you

[@megatronondacounter]

@@Le_Phantom No you're the magic!

[@SerpentLightDrums]

At Hogwarts

[@bluethumbbuttoneek9465]

Relate

[@tak828]

Lmao you and me both

[@LawnMowerLapDance]

Chill dude with some solid art wisdom.

[@marvelleonline]

"Speed is cool. Confidence is nice. But thinking, I believe's the most useful thing you can do. Take some damn time and think about what you're doing." - Scott mother effin Flanders, 2019

[@kayaeki]

That spoke to me

[@nyaa2478]

15:00

[@marvelleonline]

15:27 but yeah all 🔥@@nyaa2478

[@guilhermefontes7608]

Damn, that was crazy! Never seen someone do so much with 'Lasso' tool!

[@GamerTuxedo]

you need to watch this then kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXSun6Nndq2jpbs

[@pablobarrios7681]

Concept artists use it a looooot, i learned it on a Chanel called tonko house

[@pablobarrios7681]

@Lara you are welcome! i´m happy to help!

[@KalinTheZola]

I use it almost exclusively at this point, so this was a very helpful video!

[@grimreaper9350]

"No polished turds in my classroom." I will remember that rule, thank you.

[@drewby4701]

I can't believe we get such amazing content like this all the time for FREE

[@bends8611]

Data harvesting pays for it

[@jordanabbatiello]

"These big veins are useful in two ways. 1. They make him look jacked."

[@IronGordon]

"thinking, I believe, the most useful thing you can do" wisdom for the ages my man!

[@asimian8500]

The lasso is such an underrated tool. It bridges the lines of pencils and shapes of brushes. It’s a great way to learn to paint as well as for painting. I use it all the time and as much as I use brushes.

[@hanzflackshnack1158]

If you have a tablet, the mobile app Infinite Painter (not to be confused with Corel Painter) has a customizable fill brush. It's a lasso tools that autofills instead of creating a selection. Few people have heard of it (small dev team. No marketing. No popular influencers use it) so most assume it's bad. I've been using Painter professionally (3V071 visual information specialist) for close to a decade. They worked out the bugs over time if the reviews concern you. I haven't sent a big report in over a year. The workflow takes a few sessions to be comfortable (their marketing campaign at launch was "we are not photoshop") but it's smooth once you force yourself to get over the fact that it's not an Adobe clone. Apologies for the long rant like I'm a salesman. I get excited when I hear people say they love lasso tools because Painter feels like a secret. They made every tool a little more user friendly than market average and the result is pretty awesome

[@sadepennbrook]

First guy that has ever put into words about how I feel about flat vs rendered illustrations. Never cared about shadow rendered art. Once you’re in graphic design, it messes with your mind. You never look at art the same way again.

[@limeart8859]

"What kind of brushes do you use?" Scott: *Starts laughing

[@trelligan42]

Very nice, a completely different emphasis on starting a project than I'm used to. I feel my brain changing.

[@70RD]

Yeah. Same

[@neji2401]

You single-handedly rekindled my passion for drawing. I don't know how to explain this, but the first time i used this technique it "clicked" for me - i could see shapes in the formless blobs of colour and i knew how to give them form by using light. This video flipped my art on its head. Thank you so much!

[@bilbonbigos]

I was using it a lot when I was designing websites. If you need a background, some quick effects or elements of UI, it's perfect to make them characteristic. And most importantly - none of my clients had an issue with it even when I was working on huge IPs because it didn't hurt their visual language. This technique is also great for texturing - you're just adding details and even if you're working on something realistic it's just matter of how much time you spend on the project, how many colors you use. It also gives you lot of control without practicing discipline of your hand a lot. For this moment I didn't really learn it as a form of making art pieces but after this video I'll will practice it a lot.

[@MrSofazocker]

4:20 "[...] Shapes [...] are not in demand right now." *And it shows!. Honestly every mayor game release these days has really weird shape language. You cant read silhouettes at a distance and everything becomes a blur. We NEED people like you!.* (Oh and Evolve was a beautiful game. Sadly the game was a flop)

[@marc-andrerenaud1394]

Some game designers get it yet it seems that silhouette communication is a disappearing skill. Factions should be able to be differentiated from their contours alone, yet so many designers seem to get lost in colours and gribbly details that can't be processed in the thick of the action.

[@_caith]

Try the game "Typoman"

[@ProkoTV]

You can get a print of Scott's Swamp Thing here - gum.co/iQCOm

[@jorge62142]

until you started that kind of video i had a sort of bad impression of you... its completelly different now. very good!

[@andrewgunter6534]

Mind Blown. I have been working with and teaching Photoshop for years. This is such a brilliant approach to illustration. Thank you for sharing!!

[@EnzoDraws]

"We're gonna run some chromatic aberration on this bitch" For some reason it took me by surprise to hear "bitch" on the Proko channel of all places

[@juanana2466]

Impeccable sense of making shapes.

[@kota86]

Not only was this insightful, but Scott, your chill vibe really spoke to me on a deeper level. I'd love to be a fly on the wall of your classroom.

[@BarKeegan]

I really respect the comparison to graphic design here, and the emphasis to visually communicate what your intentions are

[@midgetthingers6360]

Your like the Digital Artist version of Bob Ross! You just made all of this from just a Lasso tool, wow.

[@malikkemp7617]

he was talking about "happy accidents" in the video too lol

[@guttersnipe77]

You beat me to it, I was just about to make the same comment

[@lullabi3234]

the metal Bob Ross, hell yeah.

[@KloVerdant]

This is still my all time favorite art video on youtube. I come back to this video every now and then cause it’s just so helpful for me

[@yttrium7646]

I was recently in a very large bookstore, and the one book with silhouette cover art was the only book in the entire store that genuinely caught my attention. It's now my favorite book.

[@sublimexs]

woke up at 3 am, couldn't sleep. got this recommended and i am completely blown away. this is phenomenal art and craftsmanship

[@TV-8-301]

Interesting, the lasso tool seems to get you more jagged lines than using round brush & eraser

[@cestarianinhabitant5898]

As an artist I'm having doubts about this process... I mean it's perfect for images you want to make in profile or from the front/back but if you want something like say 3/4 or if you want to involve any kind of foreshortening I don't think this process works as well. This is essentially a different way of sketching, and it's really damn cool but it's focus is a bit more narrow than usual sketching. However as a game developer I think this is bloody genius, I can't think of a better way to plan out designs in a platformer than this. The silhouette is absolutely vital in conveying character designs and poses in a platformer like that. It's important to make everything read better, what an awesome approach :D even when you're animating and planning out the details visible in your keyframes this is indispensible.

[@msunardi]

In Preston Blair’s book on animation, there is a section that talks about choosing poses, and the preferred are poses where the action is clear from the silhouette. I feel like it’s a similar concept to your “drawing by shapes” idea. Great video! I enjoyed listening as you explain your thought process 👍

[@bronkula]

Noticed you use the paint bucket tool a lot. CTRL+backspace or ALT+backspace can fill an area with foreground or background color. It also completely fills, so it ignores any edges except selections.

[@HateSonneillon]

"Speed is cool. Confidence is nice. But thinking, I believe, is the most useful thing you can do. Take some damn time to think about what you're doing." I really needed this. Too often lately I feel pressured to hurry up in my work that I've been making noob mistakes lately.

[@HiNi.]

Scott Ive studied your Thumbnail Silhouettes extensively and they are simply exceptional.

[@newatlas898]

It's incredible how one picture can encourage you to make up and tie different plots to it.

[@ryno583]

Love it Fantastic reminder of how much i love swamp thing, mike mignola, mood, swamps…and just wonderful technique

[@jesselay7119]

I have a new appreciation for shapes.

[@poppenandy]

It's really awesome to have you narrating. I don't see a lot of these kinds of instruction vids with narration this good.

[@plentiheart]

I came for the Photoshop, I stayed for your extremely insightful words. I like you a lot Scott

[@DarrenPeet]

I would never have thought you create something so great with the lasso tool

[@Vic-Valentine]

never thought about using the lasso tool like this, cool tips man

[@jimmysrandom]

Love those bold shapes.

[@leosouza4693]

Holy crap man, thank you so much for the video. Proko way to go getting Scott to show his process, the way he explained made a lot of sense and for the first time I have seen someone started separating the grounds and designing the shape before heading towards the rest. Very helpful

[@Guez_art]

Right on Scott! Making the Illustration Department proud!

[@briaalebleu]

Wow first video I’ve seen on this channel. I want this guy as my teacher, I’ve learned more in 2 minutes of hearing him talk than one semester of Drawing

[@JohnPorsbjerg]

I've been saying this to so many newbie artists when they ask me for advice, but it didn't know it was actually a technique that pro artists use! I've always told them that the eye seeds silhouettes and shapes first, then lighting, then detail, so don't start with sketching detail, and i tell them to try and draw silhouette drawings for practice. It's cool that you can use that technique to do an actual art piece!

[@AndrewJosephKeith]

I love that way of approaching the image by carving out the shadows and focusing on the silhouette. Very cool.

[@ocdraco]

It looks like a rad screen sprint! Very cool technique.

[@AlfredBaudischCreations]

The music makes this great video even greater.

[@plaguebearermetal]

This is fascinating! The use of the lasso tool here is amazing! I've just got into drawing in the last few months and I'm finding the digital world so challenging. I can't believe how impactful, and easy, Scott makes this look. Awesome work.

[@akibahmed4251]

this was a fantastic episode, the artwork is like the old classic movie posters and there was alot of small little tips and tricks and the grey scale image was like a frank frazetta concept and using the core basics of design and shapes to tell a story, SO many things to like about this video.

[@georgebrowne6846]

Wow! Really glad youtube led me to this page. Never really thought of shape carving as the actual artform. was always taught to use it to get quick shapes to work on. Never to develop it further. so awesome

[@GamedevFred]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

[@ObscenumLoL]

This was just amazing... Knowing how to use a few tools is much better than having a thousand tools that you can't use correctly.

[@HiNi.]

oh my god its Scott Flanders! im so happy!

[@HiNi.]

Didnt know he worked at riot now awesome

[@3doftom]

Excellent! Scott Flanders masterfully communicates his process and makes it really easy to understand what, why and how. Video editing was great. Very inspiring.

[@ColinGMBrown9727]

as somebody who studied graphic design for four years at uni, I appreciate the approach you take to creating

[@rover2923]

I was really curious about how they get such interesting shapes. Nice!

[@TheKidAlderman]

this video, your technique, the way you think about shapes, light and consistency, everything has been so helpful and amazing. Tank you.

[@crystanubis]

Never would have thought to use the lasso tool like that. I'm stoked, now.

[@chad912]

Evolve was a really cool game the environments were definitely one of its strong points so good on you man.

[@brubrunito8630]

The greatest intro

[@ryno583]

“If you are into metal Samson is your guy” biblical bad ass dude reference….love the way your mind works Scott

[@kiriappeee]

Just finished watching. More please! I'd subscribe to Scott so hard if he showed up on KZbin. In general, I've watched a lot of tutorials and practiced concepts a fair bit, so now I find that these kind of "talkthrough" demos help so much more than they used to. Really grateful that you made this happen Stan ❤

[@rocky8838]

That chromatic aberration trick is great! I was doing it in a more complicated way.

[@MisterBungle]

Whoa! I've been doing this type of lasso draw and fill technique too before this video. You get some really nice hard edged vector-like shapes.

[@jovidepine5459]

This is legit one of the best videos I've ever seen on KZbin. Amazing

[@joshuaizly5502]

It's great to see a master doing something so good with a basic exercice, and I feel like he knows the rough shape of a kangourou too!

[@shay256]

wow he whipped out this super cool poster like it was nothing! makes me want to try out this technique really inspiring stuff!

[@ProkoTV]

Don't be fooled by the length of the video and seemless editing. Scott spent a full workday on this.

[@shay256]

@@ProkoTV haha thanks for clarifying that part. still gonna give 'designing with shapes' a go

[@JesseTurner]

The Evolve art team was absolutely out of control with skilled people. really glad that they landed somewhere cool. Stephen Oakley was another one from there that ended up on the God of War team. Great pick ups from studios.

[@soulalbeniz]

what a great technique, he builds the scenery so easily... wow man, thank you!

[@blackswan6386]

absolut astonished...you have to become an Oscar for your wokr ! pure Art ! thank you for sharing this !!!! wow !

[@ghostpaper]

*this was insane!!! You're a master Proko* - subscribed!

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

_"YOU CAN'T RUSH ART..."_ *~ Geri The Toy Repairman*

[@ctgooni]

I love this!! I already use the lasso tool exclusively for shading. This really helps me see the true potential of my toolkits! Thank you, Scott and Proko!

[@TheArtofKAS]

This is absolutely awesome. This came together very quickly with the lasso tool. I'll have to try shaping like this in the future.

[@Michaelqqq]

I love his style ngl

[@pedroalves-wy2kn]

One of the best videos I have seen in a long time. thanks.

[@hagaiitz]

Awesome! Looking forward for part 2

[@KekeShawnArt]

This is extremely important for me right now since I’m trying to do a background in a fantasy setting. I got frustrated and started working on the character before truly dealing with the setting.

[@vic2rvic]

This guy is AWESOME! What a great video! Thank you Scott!

[@skydyleyw0037]

really dope and in depth composition

[@oscarchavezart]

Silhouettes, funny how the simple art forms always grab me more than the super polished realistic art. Less is more is true, and by tackling art from simple terms, what looks complicated was actually built using simple techniques. This reminds me of adobe Illustrator, have not used it for more than 6 years, same tool in Illustrator but have to remember it is a dragon of it's own.

[@Zurdovik]

Dude this is brilliant work

[@someonesomewhere1100]

I wonder how many layers it takes him to finish an entire piece lol. Its so interesting

[@nirmansarkar]

That's how practice pays off. This was so amazing and helpful to watch.

[@mordecai1484]

What you do is very unique and looks amazing. Good job.

[@197XSK]

You're my skill trainer. I just spent all my XP on this video. Bad ass, and nuanced, with the framing issue. Real talk.

[@LarsVision]

Great line drawing, and color

[@jdfleblanc]

Love this. A hundred times better than any drawing class I ever took in college.

[@aaronchrusniak1169]

i really like this guy

[@jgiltner5056]

I love the way you shared your opinion! You’re amazing!

[@arbanafal]

This was so relaxing to watch; I hope its not taken the wrong way, because I mean it endearingly, but this felt like watching the Bob Ross of fantasy art; relaxing inspiring, and full of wonder what the painting will be, and if it will all be covered by a giant tree in the end.

[@marijhorn]

It is nice to hear such a nice voice used to give a lot of lectures.. so great technique.. not so many artists use actually.. thank you

[@LordofSeals]

Wonderful vid, Scott is like a digital Bob Ross

[@mlmattin]

I love this! Such a cool way to approach an image. It really forces you to think about and deal with the major shapes, composition, layout, depth, etc before you start getting caught up in details. I myself often rush to the details and in the end realize there is something not quite right about the image or I find it difficult to figure out what to do with the background. Sadly it typically results in me not putting a background in at all. I'll have to work this up-front shape carving into my process.

[@Overlord-le8nf]

Love this Guy's art style and direction....thanks dude

[@HoundtheVoid]

15:32 some of the wisest, common sense words ever spoken haha: “speed is cool, confidence is nice, but thinking, I believe, the most useful thing you can do, is take some damn time to think about what you’re doing” 👏👏👏

[@tqracing]

Awesome presentation! Thank you so much for this!

[@natasamanov8421]

Really nice video Scott. Thanks