Fixing My Own Art Mistakes - Quick Art Tips

[@seeker19030]

These long breakdown videos are the best!!

[@excaliblader]

Glad you think so, I'll definitely do more in the future!

[@SimoneBellomonte]

Pfp (Profile picture) and / or Banner Sauce (Source [Artist])? 🗿

[@hxppyxkate]

You’re literally the best at explaining proportions and perspective, thanks a lot!

[@excaliblader]

Happy to help!

[@sirgogetter]

This was really good! It's easy to be super critical and even harsh of our older works, but I think what you did here with reworking one of your past ideas was reasonably fair. I think you saw the appeal of your original piece while also realizing that its flaws existed due to your lack of understanding, which is pretty typical of beginning artists. In reworking this piece, you managed to portray the charm I think you were originally going for when you had the idea. It's a great reminder that the path of an artist is never-ending and that there's no shame in revisiting our older works, especially since they help pave the way for what we're able to do later and can be recreated themselves if we so choose. Brilliantly done!

[@excaliblader]

That was well said! As you said the path of an artist is never-ending I'm sure a couple years from now I'll be looking back at this video and thinking of new ways to improve on it.

[@TheLampAtHome]

great explanation in perspectives and proportions. i can relate to looking back to my old drawings and being very critical of how disproportionate and weird it looked.

[@kibong277]

I've been waiting for a longer video like this, great job!

[@excaliblader]

Thanks for watching!

[@itschrissyx]

Love your longer content/tutorials. Please keep it up :)

[@obsession9298]

man, I love your tips. I am a beginner artist. started drawing a few months ago. and I am struggling a lot with anatomy and even with basic proportions. but your video has been so helpful. you are so underrated. you deserve more attention

[@excaliblader]

Thanks, I'm happy to hear that!

[@zohir8415]

dude i love u !! but srsly: keep it up , i rly like ur vids and u are the best at explaining proportions . have a nice day and i look forward to your next vids

[@excaliblader]

Good to hear, thanks for watching!

[@culan_SCP]

“How to make art more f**kable” 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@baileyjustin12]

Maybe the ear is up there because the character is looking down? That would make sense as the mouth is so far down on the face same with the nose? Also i personally think you should of made this more dynamc, you could of tilted the entire frame, and you should of had the hand/arm moving as well as the hair in motion as well!

[@adeptgirl3454]

Me: At last, the tutorial for making art not suck! Excaliblader: You have to plan your art with basic structure and perspective. Me: NYEH In all seriousness though, thanks for all your tutorials on anatomy, structure, perspective, and composition. I may not like having to plan out my drawings, but it does look a lot better when I do.

[@excaliblader]

Yeah the technical aspect of art is something not many people enjoy from what I've seen, but unfortunately it's a necessary evil to make good drawings

[@drawwithcustom500]

You’re really good at explaining.

[@excaliblader]

I appreciate it!

[@Artdavidrolea]

Hey, love your videos, and your shorts, really liked hope to keep learning with your videos, hope to see more.

[@excaliblader]

Happy to hear that and there are more videos coming in the future!

[@Stvrfiire_]

You teach me so much man, thank you

[@excaliblader]

No problem!

[@JayPhyJP]

Great content, so much explained so clear, thanks man!

[@imLen]

This is impressive! Really well done

[@excaliblader]

Thanks!

[@JJStevens]

Subbed! Been loving your shorts, excited to see more breakdowns like this. I'm in the process of learning anatomy for the purpose of figure drawing and solid drawing in general and your videos have been a massive help. Do you think it's important to learn and get a solid grasp on perspective first before trying to learn anatomy? Or should I work on both simultaneously?

[@excaliblader]

Drawing humans is about 90% perspective knowledge and 10% anatomy knowledge, so I'd say put most of your focus on learning perspective and maybe spend 1 day a week on learning anatomy. Also when you're studying perspective you should still be trying to draw the human body, but try to simplify it to geometric forms like boxes and cylinders. Eventually you'll be able to draw characters even if you don't know the anatomy yet.

[@JJStevens]

Great answer, thanks! I will say I'm only 'learning anatomy' in that simple sense still, so I haven't jumped the gun too much thankfully. Still doing very simple shapes to represent the solid masses of the ribcage and pelvis without worrying about intricacies like individual ribs and whatnot, but from your answer I think I should be doing a lot more perspective studies rather than purely focusing on figure drawing. @@excaliblader

[@potion2640]

Longer video better person is the strat yes

[@Helllag]

I'm starting at all these things about drawing, can i ask u in what app you made your drawings? Also, you know an app for making animations? I want to do them too, good videos!

[@excaliblader]

I'm using clip studio paint, which you can also use to make animations, but you'd have to get the EX version

[@Helllag]

@@excaliblader thank you, man!

[@8sgen2]

Yes make long videos

[@excaliblader]

For sure, I'll do more in the future!

[@Nole2701]

Hey I was just wondering, at the time of drawing it, did you notice a lot of the obvious mistakes that look off? Like the head proportions. And then skipped fixing them? I'm starting out and every little thing that looks wrong with my drawings I keep fixing them and it takes hours in endless cycles of finding and fixing little things but there's always more to fix.

[@Dinatoc]

this is useful, thanks!

[@excaliblader]

Glad to hear it!

[@BATMAN10N]

"you can place the ear wherever u want depends on the character" ok so thinking hey this characters ear seems low or high was not an illusion

[@RoschuhLP]

I will mark everything, that had some problems *Proceeds to mark literally everything*

[@dogethedog5158]

blud's cooking

[@krycek743]

The eyebrows are visible through the hair. Is there a way to obscure them?

[@skyhavender]

I dont get the horizon line part how the hell is a single line suppose to get the "perspektiv" of the upper part being further away and the lower part being closer to me? Cus i'm a gonna be honest i cant see the difference between the upper part and lower part 😅😅 I do understand the Horizon line with boxes but with a human figure its alot harder to see. And i am doing this traditionally something that alot of artists seem to avoid doing now adays. 😢

[@NovumSB]

Nice vid

[@excaliblader]

Thanks!

[@ChirpyNoob]

Why did you change the legs

[@bobsmithy3103]

do you study hide's stuff? you're looks kinda like his

[@excaliblader]

I do, I've learned a lot from his videos!