I Wouldn't Recommend THIS Technique, Yet I Use it ALL THE TIME!!

In most of my videos, I talk about techniques that I would recommend to anyone. Yet, this time I am going to share a technique that I don't actually recommend because it’s too weird and too specific, it breaks too many rules. Paradoxically, this is something I use almost everyday, one of the most useful tricks I have in my inventory but that I wouldn't really suggest.
What kind of tutorial is that then, you might ask? Why would you be interested? Well… let’s say that it’s going to be a lesson on ignoring lessons. Through this technique of mine, we’re going to talk about going your own way and, ultimately, finding your own way. As a beginner, you first learn all the rules, as a master, you perfect them and as a true artist, you transgress them. I can explain all the techniques in the world to you, they only count if you make them yours and integrate them to your unique vision. I’m sure you have a very unique technique in your repertoire as well, a quirk that you came up with but never saw anywhere else, let me know in the comments.
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I am an artist living and working in France. I learned the techniques of the Atelier of the Nineteenth century and now I try to share some of my knowledge with the rest of the world, because I think that beauty still has an important role to play in artistic creation. I do mostly drawing and oil painting, and my goal is always to provide techniques, thoughts and explanations that can be useful to anyone, from beginners to more advanced artists.
The material I use most of the time (not necessarily in this video) :
Drawing
✓ Kneaded eraser
✓ Plumb line (DIY)
✓ Small mirror
✓ An old synthetic brush
✓ Masking tape
✓ Cutter
✓ Sandpaper or sanding block
✓ Mahlstick or Hand rest (DIY)
✓ Level ruler
Graphite
✓ Pencils 2H, HB and 2B
Charcoal
✓ If available: Nitram charcoals (H, HB and B)
✓ Square charcoals
Black and white chalk
✓ Sketch pencil Conté white
✓ Square Conté noir : HB and 2B
✓ Chalk or pencil holder
✓ Pencil sketch Conté Pierre noire : H and HB
Sanguine
✓ Sketch pencil Conté : Blood and blood Medici
✓ Crayon Polychromos Faber-Castel : sanguine
✓ Sketch pencil Conté white
Oil painting
Palette
(Extra-fine paint, recommended brands depending on availability: Sennelier, Lefranc Bourgeois, Winsor and Newton, Royal Talens Rembrandt, Blockx, Michael Harding, Gamblin)
✓ Titanium White PW6
✓ Flake White (or substitute) PW1
✓ Cadmium Yellow light (or "lemon") PY35
✓ Yellow Ochre PY42
✓ Raw Umber PBr7
✓ Transparent Red Oxyde PR101
✓ Burnt Umber PBr7
✓ Venetian Red PR101
✓ Pyrrole Red PR255
✓ Quinacridone Rose PV19
✓ Quinacridone Magenta PV19
✓ Ultramarine Blue PB29
✓ Mars Black PBk11
✓ Cobalt Teal Blue (turquoise light) PG50
✓ Phthalo green warm PG36
Brushes
✓ Filbert hog bristle and Synthetic sizes n° 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12
✓ Flat Synthetic brushes (same size)
✓ Round sable brush or round Kolinsky sable n° 4, 8, 10, 12 (from the size of the nail (about one inch) or synthetic imitation
Medium
✓ Linseed stand oil
✓ Odorless mineral spirits
✓ Or Alkyd medium (Liquin, Galkyd, Flow'n'Dry etc.)
✓ Safflower oil
Surface
✓ Linen canvas, fine grain universal coating
✓ For studies : Canson oil-acrylic oil paper Figueras
Others
✓ Palette
✓ Sponge and spalter brushes
✓ Palette knife in the shape of a water drop, no souldering
✓ A few small pots, containers, jars...
✓ Paper towels
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Thanks for watching !

[@jameshomschek8155]

My technique, if you can call it that, happens in the very beginning. Specifically when you want to paint but you don't have anything in mind or maybe you have too much on your mind. The Rorschach test, better known as the ink blotch test. I'll tone a canvas usually Burnt sienna. I'll wildly throw my brush about the surface, leaving the brush marks. Then stand back and look at it. I'll let my mind make sense of the chaos. Then use what I know to bring out the image I see. I've created some very personal pieces that were hiding away in my subconscious. Note...sometimes it doesn't work. That's ok because sometimes...it does.

[@sujanithtottempudi2991]

" Master the rules first to transgress them! " This is like metaphor applicable to life too! Wonderfully said. I m going to note this down and make a calligraphy letters with this statement later😊

[@johnny9048]

I have more respect for you now due to the game character creator you chose to show ! Love all your tips you share, much appreciated … don’t give up skeleton!

[@rodeastell3615]

Great video ... thought provoking and inspiring

[@mattschtick]

You're videos have a habit of saying exactly what I need to hear. Thank you Florent.

[@socratesthecabdriver]

You I have not the time to even attempt oils acrylics, still penciling self taught from repetitious input,I always appreciate yours

[@socratesthecabdriver]

The other day I was watching a video on arts, in which you provided them with information needed, I rather enjoyed it extra

[@stephent2700]

Outstanding! I know and have experienced that of which you speak. I really enjoy portraits which are by definition and necessity an exact representational likeness, but when I am developing characters in a narrative work I have essentially started following this process. It is easier to create than look for the right model with of course exceptions. I have a vision of the character but they come out differently. It's almost like the characters tell me who they are and they emerge from the canvas on their own. They are often different and more "real" than my vision with which I started. I've tried to understand but can't so I just go with it. Thanks.

[@evahovbrand9439]

I think it seems like a great technique.

[@catherinecervas3726]

Thank you Florent!

[@flux1940]

Really interesting and great video ! I think your very traditional perspective on the topic of painting is reshaping this methode into something "weird and quirky" in your mind. In the worlds of comics, digital art, photobashing and even traditional manga drawing this is just standard procedure. I for example come from an comic art background where i initially (and stupidly) assumed using actual reference AT ALL was cheating because the thing i would draw then would not be of my absolute own imagination. I tried to construct everything from 3 dimensional building blocks and turn everything in my head. Many do. Of course later in live realised that everybody uses reference even the people i absolutely admire and adore the works of. It is a tool. You have the opposite initial standpoint where it seems that you are so used to the perspective of the traditional painter having his reference models that "constructing" and "changing" things is something rather foreign to you. I think it is amazing and interesting how different schools and ways of art intertwine and show similar techniques and findings from a completely different light. What is strange to them is normal for you and the other way around.

[@717379]

Well said 👍

[@kerryallen6476]

Brilliant, as always, Florent! What a great idea to use yourself as a model. I'm going to borrow this idea....

[@sujanithtottempudi2991]

" Necessity is the mother of invention " is I realised with your style

[@sujanithtottempudi2991]

Extremely creative👌👏👏👏👏👏

[@huntsail3727]

Interesting, enjoyed this.

[@sujanithtottempudi2991]

Excellent video..

[@jimloth6091]

“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations” - attributed to Orson Welles.

[@artistronit]

Nice artwork 🎉❤

[@cynthiamarston2208]

Imagine painting is something i haven even tried and I will do it. I bet I can get more loose too….to put it mildly. They’ll all end up looking like Rory Gallagher, my muse! Im extremely hung up on likeness. And true advice! You are the best at lighting. When I used Parelli Natural Horsemanship videos and books to train my horses it went quite well. He had an interesting section about horse personality and how to handle their learning styles. Some need provacative stuff and others need reverse psychology and others need desensitizing confidence building ( well all do mostly ) and some need slow slow easy does it. Their were a lot of trainers who had a lot of trouble doing Natural Horsemanship because they were masters at training a different way. The unlearning is pretty difficult. Id like to suggest to get the foundation you need and then start transgressing. Like a couple years of foundation and then relax in to a way to do things that suit your circumstance and desired result etc…. I mean really becoming a master of all the foundational teaching could take loooong time. And then be very difficult to break out of. As each horse needs different treatment so does some subjects. If you think about. And Im horrible. I usually paint the same person for a portrait. Oooo that’s bad! Well ok at first. 😊😊

[@rosered103]

Thank you. I already did this and did not know that you can do this. If that made sense.

[@chadmensa]

I do this very same thing, even when painting females sometimes. No one else can get exactly the right facial expression, if you already see it in your mind.

[@LeeLightfoot]

I run around 30 miles per week and now have an ex-military guy I train with once a week so that I have the physique appropriate for paintings of dynamic figures. Technically, I'm also slim enough to use for a female character!!

[@JCarrera27]

🔥🖤

[@jilliancrawford7577]

If anything, you get more dynamic and accurate references if the model (be it you/the artist or someone paid to do this) does the desired action the piece is depicting to completion and in video instead of photo. In video, you can choose your favorite or most dynamic frame in the middle of the action. And when doing the action the piece is about to completion, the posing will be more accurately because it's in motion rather than being refined to maintain balance to be held for a photo. A frame of a video of someone falling for example will look very different from trying to pose as if you're falling for a still photo. Even if you know you won't use the follow-through action since you wnat a frame acreenahot of the most dynamic climax of the action, following through ayway prevents you/the model from subconsciously holding back at the climax instead of naturally allowing the movement that comes with following through.

[@sujanithtottempudi2991]

What is your opinion on acrylics compared to oils? Do you feel oils give you better scope to create than acrylics?

[@sujanithtottempudi2991]

Maybe you have hidden actor inside you. Did you do any theatre before? Are you secretly interested in theatre or direction?

[@sujanithtottempudi2991]

Do you think you found your style " Dynamism" as you mentioned?

[@careyyost4981]

If you use a friend or partner, don't forget to pay them. There are rates for models online and it could even be as simple as picking up a lunch tab. Obviously for a romantic partner there may be more uh.. ahem *elaborate* exchanges 🙃In any case know you are taking something of value so gratitude and an appropriate exchange of value is in order!

[@alisonlekarev2183]

If I did that, all my characters would look like overweight women. :D But glad it works for you.

[@omnesilere]

'true' is overused and as a result becomes an ambiguous term here.

[@landreeall]

🤍