Figure drawing, realism, and COLOR!

[@fuin4597]

Lets Goo!!! it took me like half a year to be able to become intuitive with colors.

[@JackOAriaValentine99]

Whats the best resource for learning color for you? I am so not good with it :)

[@fuin4597]

@@JackOAriaValentine99 I'd say read painting fundamental books and try to understand it. Then observe from life how other artists use colors. And paint alot, do alot of master studies and learn the law of light. If there's no light, then there's no colors. There's a book called Lighting for visual artists and the content looks really good.

[@VirtualSG]

Wow. I really luv those recent figure sketches. Evolve has served you well so far. Great job!

[@aquiledelrosa]

amazing video mith

[@alexander_alexis]

I think this is one of your best videos! You sound authoritative in it. Older vids used to be spattered with questions that you didn't yet have answers for. It looks like things are finally making sense for you! A question I have that maybe you could address in one of your future vids, or maybe even put the question to Kevin in a future Q&A, is about digital tools. I see you getting so frustrated with some of the menial work that needs to be done, like cleaning the spatula all the time, cleaning the brushes, not able to stop drawing cos the paint needs to be used before it dries, throwing away paint, light changing and then you need to turn on the lamp, color matching, and so on. I can also imagine how much time that all takes. Time that, if you were doing digital, could be spent actually drawing. An hour or two of more drawing every day over many years could easily make the difference between an artist who finds success after 10 years vs an artist who does it after 20 years of work. People like Peter Han (e.g. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmicY3-fo5KBp5Y ) and Aaron Blaise (e.g. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oXnafqiQaddmr9k ), otherwise quite traditional, say that they hardly do any work on traditional mediums anymore. Any traditional drawing they do seems to be done as a hobby, but for work they're all doing it digital, giving reasons like how easier it is to change something at any point in the future if you have it as a photoshop file, how easy it is to experiment (e.g. with colors and see immediate results), how much space they save, the fact that some traditional tools, like paints, actually have noxious effects on your health, even cancer over the long run, etc. For everyone today who's trying to work more efficiently, who's moving about and maybe can only carry a tablet, for anyone who's environmentally aware and maybe doesn't like the idea of chopping down trees to make papers and pencils, and for young people who just feel far more comfortable now with digital tools, I think the question of traditional vs digital is becoming increasingly urgent. Imagine how much less expensive it would be to have a tablet, and how much space it would save in your roomful of art supplies! I guess there's nothing that will replace the tangible feel of a finished 3D product in your hand, but then again paintings are perishable, and by that I mean the physics acts on them and they get degraded, the paint cracks, museums have to restore very old paintings, sometimes the famous painting we are looking at has a completely new coat of paint on it laid by someone definitely other than the original painter of the picture, so even this tangible idea is kinda illusory if you dig deeper, plus most people see these works of art through their screens, so it's digital anyway! I suspect that it's possible to design a beginner's curriculum around digital drawing and painting but the tools are just so new that people haven't gotten around to it. There's courses of course, but they all seem rather chaotic and under par compared to older more established methods of progressive and comprehensive teaching like Evolve.

[@alexander_alexis]

Just watched your vid on traditional vs digital ( kzbin.info/www/bejne/ranbnKOLidVqeq8 ) that I had actually apparently watched before cos I up-thumbed it! You make a lot of good points there and so I'm putting it here for reference if anyone reads the above comment.

[@youeladamas7840]

remember the color of the light moves in to the color of the object if its from the source light or from a bounced surface. so many times to brighten its not white and darken its not black you need but the color of the light as it hits the object to merge spectrums. also the the light temp shifts in the shadows merging source and bounce light this then blue shifts at a distance because the atmosphere. dont waste the paints if you use them to try small practices of what you learned like limited palate small versions of the class. just to mix an see how colors merge at different consistencies with the extra. if you have space you can also put the extra paints in small containers source colors many times are the same and can be used in practice and other projects

[@DOFIXERR]

I like your eyeglasses! Also, great channel. Subbed to see your progression during your journey to mastery.

[@Mithrilda]

Thank you! Welcome to the mythology ;)

[@chair8436]

I came from minute videos!!

[@welcomecataclysm]

Throughout the program, did you do any "just for fun" paintings on your own on the side that was more your aesthetic?

[@Red-qx7me]

Do you think the skills you learn from evolve are transferrable to digital art? (procreate,artrage)

[@Mithrilda]

Absolutely, it's all the same base skills you'd need to learn no matter the medium. Then a little bit of learning the specific tool. Kevin says there's also a technique in the advanced blocks you learn that is very similar to how many pro digital artists work.

[@Red-qx7me]

@@Mithrilda thanks for answer, im just getting started with illustration/painting and basically have no drawing skills. I can create basic non fiction book covers but want to illustrate children’s book as well in the future, ugh feels like so many things that i want to learn haha, is there a specific resource you can recommend if i want to go the path of illustration?

[@Mithrilda]

Unfortunately I wouldn't know how to go down that specific path 😅😅. I do believe all art starts at the same basic skills though. You should reach out to Evolve customer support if you're interested in the program and ask to talk with Kevin. He used to illustrate book covers and all sorts of commercial art so he'd be able to maybe point you in the right direction.

[@Red-qx7me]

@@Mithrilda thank you so much! your progress is amazing, keep going! ❤️

[@100sketchbooktoursflipthro6]

Hi Mithrilda! I have been following you for a while and I added a new username. I am wondering if you figured out what you will do next after Evolve since you said something about art school. I followed you since Draw a box, and I am halfway done with it. Just finished half of animals with my right hand, and might do my left. I will show my progress soon. Should I join your discord if I want to join an art improvement community, or do you use it for something else now. I have been wanting to join yours and Robert Lazslo's discord, but I dont use discord too much so I dont know much about it. Let me know :)

[@Mithrilda]

Hi, thanks for your support! You can definitely join the discord, it's got lots of student artists. Post evolve, for now the plan is to go study with Kevin in New Jersey. Like Evolve grad school lmao. It's not set in stone, but I think it would be so cool. Why are you aiming to draw with both hands?

[@100sketchbooktoursflipthro6]

@@Mithrilda Yay thats awesome. I will definitely join. I need to make a new username just for my art. Yeah that sounds cool. I hope to see that video when you do it :) Haha, the two hands thing is something I learned about doing recently. Im not good at the second hand at all, but, loish lois van barlee and even zeronis have had hand complications. I think tendonitis and hand pain, and zeronis said his is going to get worse. Sometimes he actually finger paints on his digital pad. Lois actually can draw on the second hand and she switched back. Another artist actually had surgery but I dont know what for. Its just that hand pain and wrist pain is extremely common. My mom had trigger finger so I know thats its a good idea to switch if it hurts. It takes forever though. My friend is lucky he was born kind of ambidextrous for drawing. Its really cool. I dont know how much I am going to need to switch, but my hands already hurt, and I barely even started really drawing whole day straight like these other guys do. Its not a must to do, but I feel liek the hand pain isnt talked about enough in our community of art ppl.

[@100sketchbooktoursflipthro6]

@@Mithrilda Thanks for everything. Im still figuring out discord haha. I feel like a dinosaur. Also if I finally finish draw a box, I will let you know (I have been at it a year. It was so hard when pandemic first hit, so I just chilled out). I might make a tour of all the art progress. probably months from now at the least, but I will be able to show the left hand attempts.

[@ArtbyPatrickPetruccello]

Great video! You are doing great.

[@j.s.elliot7121]

Pursuing the Ghibli Effect should be a lot of fun, for both you and your work! I'd love to see what you do with it. What kind of light bulb did you say you had to get? I didn't quite catch the full name.

[@Mithrilda]

Yes! The Ghibli effect haha. I just found some really white daylight bulbs from somewhere else in the house. They need to be 5000k and higher.

[@j.s.elliot7121]

Ah, okay! :)

[@GamingwithCasss]

Remember. Art is about expressing yourself while also capturing emotion that the subject has in in the reference. You can do stuff to emphasize that like exaggerating certain elements. Once you get comfortable with recreating from reference you can really start to design your own shapes and your style will devolp overtime. Also I think you are overthinking shading. Instead of thinking as shading as a way to make your artwork look pretty. Think of it as a way to reveal form more or really salitefy your structure. It will give it more 3 dimensional form. This is also where knowing your anatomy comes into play so you can shade correctly. Without just looking at an image and guessing based on shadow shapes. A lot of times the lighting in the photo can fool the eye to think something is there when it's really not. I recommend this youtube video on shading kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKfEoapso5t5r7c

[@Magicme79]

Wait...okay, this might just be me being a dumb-dumb...when I did my first paintings, I had trouble because the canvas seemed really rough. Then on my second painting I realised that was the back of the canvas (rofl) and the other side was much smoother. So is the block three canvas even smoother than that?

[@Mithrilda]

Lmao, I accidentally used the back once and the paint wouldn't stick at all and it was horrible. Yes the new canvases are smooooooother than the correct side of the first block canvases

[@Magicme79]

@@Mithrilda yeah, I was comparing my attempts at covering the canvas with Kevin’s, and just couldn’t understand what was happening XD And he said the first exercise was supposed to take no more than an hour. I took four or five because I could barely make a mark and I was just freaking out XD

[@Mithrilda]

@@Magicme79 alas, the struggles of online learning. They would have caught it immediately in person. But on the other hand, we know not to make that mistake again now so the education worked? Lol

[@batgirl65]

Are you the one featured in animated video.

[@Mithrilda]

I've done voice acting for minute videos and their other channels :)

[@Macreator]

good! i subscribed! i draw too, i hope that my drawings can inspire

[@VolodiaLukianov]

раскраски за тысячи долларов... ??? Гораздо дешевле сделать это акварелью и опыта больше будет.