Art Hacks: Helpful or Harmful? (The PROBLEMS with Art Hacks) || SPEEDPAINT + COMMENTARY

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[@mythos2490]

In my opinion I extremely hate the phrase “you’re ruining your art!” Cus a lot of them use that phrase “stop doing this you’re RUINING your art” just as they’re about to offer their hack. I haaaaaaaate that to no end. It makes me feel awful. It puts me in a panic since they always say it in a loud and cut throat way. You cannot ruin art. They’re saying you’re doing something that’s impossible. It makes me want to ignore the hack more. I hate it so much.

[@katokianimation]

Dont let them to put you down. Most of the time when somebody says you cant it means on of the 3 things: A) i cant B) 30 years ago an art teacher was too lazzy to explain to their students what are they doing wrong, so they just threw the baby out with the bathwater and banned the whole practice altogether on their classes. And this ban is dogma now for many or at least has a stigma on it. C) they are fear mongering to get your attention.

[@0OB08O]

I love that you acknowledge both art in a path of improvement and as just something to enjoy. I'm currently busy with uni stuff and I NEED a hobby that doesn't require studying.

[@art.by.kiera_]

i feel like 'art hacks' exist just as another way to get views and attention from beginner artist's insecurities and their desperation to improve. because most of them are only going to work if you already have a lot of drawing experience. if youre reading this and are a beginner artist please just have fun with your art. art takes a lot of time to learn, you never stop learning it. theres not a cheat code or secret formula like some of these 'art hack' and 'art secret' videos imply, so dont feel bad when their 'advice' doesnt work. :)

[@JustAnotherJames3]

I used to shade by duplicating my coloring folder as a single layer, turning down the opacity, and applying the "mono-color" filter with a darker color to it, making all the colors all darker and giving them an wash. I then used a soft eraser to erase where light was. This worked well for establishing an overlying composition to the scene, in addition to the comps of each character, but it had the big drawback of every single time I would do small coloring fixes, I'd have to redo the entire shading process. Then I saw a Lavendertowne art hack where she used a multiply layer to shade with two colors - a cool tone overlapped on the entire piece, and a warm tone she used for spot lights. I immediately recognized that the color wash of multiply was the *exact same* as the color wash of "mono-color," but ibisPaint didn't expalin that at all. I now use a folder set to multiply when I shade, rather than having to redo the shading each time I remember that my plant character is supposed to have a vine texture.

[@five-fold]

the folder set to multiply is genius, i’ll be using that too as well! ibis paint suffering solidarity

[@PeriluneStar]

Aaaa yes!! Lavendertowne is always so helpful!

[@insecuresession1638]

My fav art hack is when you draw necklaces or chains etc you can outline it in bulky black and then colour it by painting on a layer ontop inside of the the black so you don’t have to line art a very finicky detail

[@satohime]

i love doing this for hands and hair as well! being able to just draw the silhouette then clean it up really takes away the stress of lineart

[@IAARPOTI]

I watch lavendertown channel to know art knowledge more. She is the best for my view.

[@tocasmiley360]

Lavendertown is great

[@ArtsyDoll.]

I love her Chanel. She’s awesome!

[@Anonymous-91010]

Same! I love her channel.

[@BlueCrystalAnimatez]

I lover her channel been watching her for years

[@xxsistersxxgacha__roblox5826]

Sameee

[@FreelanceCarmine]

One of my favourite 'art hacks' was one I learned watching Incase do his comics. In this one, he makes a separate, blank layer with a stroke of boarder effect and then he just paints on the speech bubbles and the tails with a solid brush.

[@eenakulot]

A favorite "hack" of mine is using Linear Burn on your lineart layer then turning the value a bit lower. The lineart appears a darker color than the color below it. That way, you won't bother coloring over your lines if that's the kind of look you're going for.

[@Moonleii]

WAIT THATS THE KIND OF LOOK I NEED that’s genius tysmmmm

[@ShslbunnyloverVA]

As a beginner artist, using 3d models as an art hack has been life changing, because it's honestly helped me feel better while drawing. I believe that you should know how muscles work and all of that, but I believe that 3d models are there for a reason,

[@SunnyCress]

Also great practice for anatomy, as someone who’s been studying art (mostly self taught) for 4 years, I cannot express the leap in my proportions quality before and after 3d models. I don’t use them anymore because I didn’t want to keep paying for csp and don’t particularly like the free posing softwares but my anatomy is significantly better, even though I didn’t do anything different, learning-wise. Just tracing over them *in the right frame of mind* will help you improve eventually

[@ArtbyElliott]

an art hack that turned out to be a GOD SEND for my art was that if you cant tell if there is enough contrast in shades you can go into your settings and turn it in greyscale so you can see if the colors contrast enough shade-wise

[@katokianimation]

I have strong opinion on that one. You want to learn from a single person, until you get the basics of their system. Then you can add to it from other sources or learn a new thing and bring back and forth something from them. Learning a bunch of unrelated shortcuts is not a craft. There is no hack in art. You learn the basic effects your tools can produce. You learn visual concepts. And you combine what you have untill you get the image that pleases you. Anything that distract you from that, will slow you down in the long run. By the time you got your frankeinstein's monster of drawing from 12 lifehacks, you could had learned the fundamentals enough to get a better result.

[@DudesOnline]

I couldn't listen to what you were saying because the whole time i was wondering, "is that dude wearing pants on pants"

[@ModernFennec]

Lmaoo

[@ArbitraryOutcome]

This isn't really an "art hack" per se but I've come to realize it's a lot better for me to actually... slow down to draw quicker, and let my mind think before actually putting pen on paper (or pen on tablet) so my marks would actually go where I want to. I was quite stupid and bothered by how quickly people seem to put out decent art (not the mona lisa or some intricate Korean artist painting, but still something nice-looking) that I didn't take into account my own control. Might also help for handwriting as well because I've been rather sloppy at it since childhood.

[@YourWaywardDestiny]

The internet likes to forget to mention in all their advise to "avoid fuzzy lines" and to "use your whole wrist" that this is a skill that needs training, and that means you gotta take time with it. Intentional line placement isn't some mysterious, god-granted super power. Having the muscle memory and fine control you need for that kind of work isn't zapped into you by telling you it's bad to have millions of unsure lines and good to have one clean line instead. You're going to be killing it a lot faster with your decision to slow down now and build up to a comfort with your tools than people who give into the FINISH-THIS-RIGHT-NOW-OR-NOBODY-WILL-EVER-SEE-THIS pressure.

[@sunnysunsins_4920]

An art hack from me: to make lighting on my pieces i do basic colors as they would be under normal light, put hard light mode on top of it and then go ham. Esp it works great for evening scenes - orange/yellow for light, purple/dark blue for shadows, profit

[@princess_shymiera]

My personal favorite digital art hack is to use a neutral grey background while drawing characters. This is the way I use when drawing out my comic characters to check for empty space where the paint didn't quite reach. I learned that from BAM Animation's character design video

[@Ecliptical.Eclair]

This is honestly such a great video.

[@Catamations109]

This video hasn’t even been out for long enough for you to watch it-

[@odin-aries]

Not exactly an art hack, more like a fun art challenge. Doing the opposite of what you do when drawing. You draw a circle for a head? Draw a square! That sort of thing! I saw it in a drawfee video and thought it would be fun and did so, and now i have my current shapey art style that brings me a lot of joy!

[@nintai6656]

I must confess, sometimes I trace around a coin to get a consistent circle for heads but to offset the blatant self abuse of this system I make sure to practice free hand drawing 10 circles each time I do. Use the time when you have it to save time when you don’t.

[@rzeka]

10:38 this is SUCH a good explanation of the problem

[@DreamyAileen]

The way I see it, art hacks are a shortcut, and you can't know how and when to use a shortcut correctly until you're already intimately familiar with the long way.

[@Tenko72]

I like all the program related hacks, because for reasons I don't know, a lot of hard/software makes no effort to tell you about them. All the Ctrl and Shift options are the best. With traditional art, IDK if this is a hack, but if you don't have a scanner, but you like sketching traditionally, you can eyeball your sketches the same way you eyeball anything else. Or if you like using layers IRL, you can by cutting the lineart to put on a background.

[@Swe3t_Coffe3]

Thanks again for the upload, Blue Crest Bethesda!

[@Ninjacatmuffin]

I really liked how well rounded this video was in regards to art hacks. I'll copy paste my comment from Patreon too since I watched this video there. ___ I mostly do traditional art, so hearing about how art hacks can give art program tips is interesting. I run into the documentation issue in my coding job, so I see a lot of cool tips from blogs, Stacked Overflow, or from messing around myself. I've seen some art hacks for markers as well (mostly in how some artists use them to create cool effects). I don't use a lot of them myself, but they're fun to watch. (My opinion on the technique ones are mostly negative. My reasons are the same as the ones you listed in the negative side of your video) ps. I love the Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service fanart! That manga was one of my favorites growing up. The story that stuck out to me was the Leucochloridium one.

[@sketchystrawberry302]

i’ve learned a lot of procreate stuff from these videos which is really helpful but i think a lot of the anatomy things tend to be bad

[@NyanMaddyNyan1986]

One the best hacks isn't mine, it was a gacha edit I think but she showed that her character stood out too much from the background she choice so she took one of the background colours, coloured it over the character and faded it till the character looked like part of the background. If that help anyone because I use it alot....

[@SANESTMARIFANGIRL]

Just realized you only have 60K? Here, I'm boosting this for my underrated queen!

[@TawnyCodeCat]

Best art hack: Hiring an artist to make the art. 😎

[@NightmareEadin]

I find it funny the first thing that caught my ear wass the cucumbers and mustard thing. Ngl i do the same but its exclusive with spicy brown mustard

[@andreimircea2254]

As someone who needs sprites but doesn’t have the money for commissions and struggles a lot with shading (I don’t understand how proper lighting works) AO (Ambient Occlusion) shading is my art hack because it finally makes shading make sense to me. As far as I know, if you’re not trying to do realism or semi-realism, or any style with complex shading, this could be a viable alternative to traditional shading techniques that require knowledge about lighting, and I genuinely planning on using it for my sprites.

[@Oatrance]

I needed this vid lmao😰

[@zeedavis5176]

Using the outline tool in clip studio to make shoes laces, jewelry etc. life saver man.

[@3_14pie]

I live by the phrase "what I want to be easy is what I don't want do" so, to me is very, veeery weird how a lot of beginner and even some intermediate artists appear to desperetly seek methods to skip the _actualy doing art_ part (?), and it just does not enters my head...

[@mothss.]

Cucumbers in mustard?! Is it good tho? 😭😭😭

[@tcpratt1660]

Which mustard? Actually, I'm thinking dill garlic mustard would be abfab!

[@mothss.]

@@tcpratt1660I guess it doesn't sound too bad, but idk what kind of mustard. I was thinking of typical mustard you put on like hotdogs or something. 😭

[@OkiSmokey]

Get well soon celestia! Amazing video + art as always!

[@bunnylapin]

an ‘art hack’ that i’ve come to have some mixed feelings about is the use of copy paste. it definitely can be used in a way that looks good & to save time. it’s shown in this video, when celestia copy pastes an eye & it looks good & anatomically correct. However i often see people only draw half of their drawing. Literally like.. split down the middle & then copy paste it & it just looks terrible. wonky & like there’s a chunk of the middle of the body missing. i’ve even seen the mirror tool used to do this even faster. it just doesn’t work for drawing anatomically correct bodies like that imo

[@MSExel]

when my favorite youtubers post on the same day 😃

[@YourWaywardDestiny]

You're telling me, with your whole heart in your whole chest, that dipping cucumbers in mustard _isn't_ a normal thing to do? My life has been reduced to shambles. Cucumbers are the peak vehicle to appreciate spicy brown mustard, and it's not a normal thing to crave semiregularly??????????

[@tocasmiley360]

Thanks when I’ve tried art hacks my art looks bader 😢 and I’m lik “why does my art look so bad and ____ does it so fast and easy and great? 🥺

[@GothicPhantomZero]

I guess...even if they are bad or not, I still look at them to be helpful, because it's something I can keep in the back of my mind not to do either of them and to do it my way (in a way). Not everyone is right and not everyone is wrong. It's more of a suggestion then anything. Now not pin pointing any one quick tutorial/art hack...when starting out, I have used them in the past to help with art, even "bad ones". But they did help me become a better artist in the end. I'm not all that good yet, but I guess it was to help me take baby steps into learning how to do it the right way as I have a learning disability and they really help me walk so I could run.

[@thelonleyUchiha1]

I like the art hacks that are just making art supplies out of weird and wacky things around your house the best I feel like those are a little less egregious when it comes to me miss information because it’s more of just a fun little gimmick you thing that might be able to help you if you don’t have the money to get any supplies at the moment, but you have a bunch of stuff around your house that might help you until you do

[@decadentgamer3108]

I see both sides but ultiamtely feel it's better to learn technique in the long run. Art Hacks will only get you so far because if something happens to your program that interferes with said hack, you'll not know what to do as opposed to if you just practiced the technique more, you'd be able to work around it. There's an artist I sometimes watch from time to time who uses the auto-symmetry line thingy (where you can draw two sides at the same time) and whenever she draws front facing views, she does this with the eyes and they always end up looking cross-eyed and too close together and she's simply too lazy to adjust and correct it which ends up making her art look derpy for lack of better word. She thinks it looks good and hey, it's her art but there's just no doubt that if she took the time to actually space the eyes and maybe not rely on that tool so much, her art would improve exponentially. Anyway anecdotal experience aside, I just think that it's better to learn technique, at least devote some time to it anyway to where you don't have to rely on the art hack for every drawing.

[@Ezralyn0]

I've never been early but yes

[@Anaea]

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[@qualittyarts]

This was a great video.

[@kierafu1467]

a new video :0

[@spacecatnnabell]

HOW AM I SO EARLY? also this is the opinion ever

[@thealicornartist34]

I view it as similar to "give a man a fish he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he eats for life" Learn the techniques first, then speed it up with "hacks". The knowledge of how it all works will benefit you in the long run.

[@victinilightamv5513]

Commenting for the algorithmm

[@BlueCrystalAnimatez]

Hes

[@waterworks_yes]

commenting for the algorithm as usual!

[@Phantica]

Earliest I’ve ever been

[@c.l.7525]

There IS a problem with art hacks.

[@DrAngelKins]

Not really hacks, but more like fraud tips to make it harder and make beginner artists quit faster. art is supposed to be a fun hobby, and you are supposed to practice your own path using tips from artists, not using art hacks to make it faster.

[@elisaelisaross]

All the thins to consider around art hacks are rarely specified witht eh hack itself, but hare super important to keep in mind, especially for beginners!

[@TheGypsyBrigade]

Cucumbers dipped in mustard?

[@missmamawork]

I love tutorials but try to stay away from hacks. Maybe because of my non English brain translating the word hack as something negative (you are such a hack, for example)

[@playaboutpatforms2709]

i dont art