Taking Bad Art Advice From Unlicensed Art Teachers 2

[@MohammedAgbadi]

how did you spend February 14?

[@griffin1188]

Alone, simping over a jjba manga

[@user-fg4tn8ot6b]

Working

[@midnightmakesart]

Drawing and singing

[@kofinart]

Working

[@lune7220]

With the fam,

[@NotSoMax]

I really hate the all or nothing either do 1000 different drawings or finish every piece to 100% fidelity arguments, both act like the middle ground doesn’t exist. Because on one hand you do improve through repetition but you also have to be learning the right things for that repetition to translate into actual progress and that takes time and studying what’s working and what isn’t in each piece. I’m a 3D artist and I have my pipeline pretty nailed down but I still discover new things every time I start something that improve the experience and efficiency for the next piece. In my experience both sides are important and it’s very individual as to where you most thrive on that sliding scale.

[@MohammedAgbadi]

this is always my problem with the draw a thousand images tip, because you can achieve your goals without having to do that necessarily, if you're focusing in proper learning. Not that repetition is not good though, it has its benefits, but it's not the one and only way of improving.

[@Lewisiaisoutofcontext]

Back a couple of years ago I kept a goal of finishing one 250 page sketchbook each year. If I felt like time was running out I turned to the grinding repetitive art studies to fill it before the end of the year. I hated it. Personally, I learned nothing, because I was so focused on massive quantity that the quality of both the drawings and my learning went straight to shite. So you absolutely have to be in the right mindset while working to get something out of it and not just plow through 1000 below average drawings.

[@jjcymbolic]

This is why I like DrawingWiffWaffles method and it is also similar to what my animation professor taught me. Use a spread for studying. Make a series of sketches and/or thumbnails of what you're working on. Make some more detailed things that have a more coherent line work, use something to pull the eye toward your favorite ones, and then maybe do a finished image, maybe not. Mainly...have fun? I guess? I always have, 'that page', in my sketchbooks. A page where none of my art is working out, so they are a whole bunch of doodles of nonsense. I usually add voice boxes from all these makeshift characters. And, much to my surprise, my professor read through every single voice box on each of these pages. We just waited in front of him whenever we handed him a sketchbook to review, and he'd chuckle away at my nonsense. He once said, "I like these. Your hand kept moving and you made it fun on your own." They aren't the greatest sketches, and they come with no intention of trying to get better, but I've found that with each passing 'that page', the silly sketches have gotten better. All in all, I don't think there is a right or wrong way to use a sketchbook. It is what is working for the artist. In these classes, the range of difference between sketchbooks was its own art in of itself.

[@saintsugoi]

i agree about this. quality over quantity is my personal belief, which is why i spend 3-4 hours on one completed drawing every few weeks as opposed to shitty gesture drawings every day.

[@griffin1188]

2:48 As a perfectionist "you draw better than other 13yr olds" who litterally bit a chunck of her pencil in art class today this hurts me on a spiritual level.

[@MohammedAgbadi]

LMAO!

[@-Diamond-Art-]

LMAO ME FR

[@Lewisiaisoutofcontext]

This reminded me of how one of my favourite artists on Tiktok was recently literally bullied off the platform because "art teachers" kept giving them unwanted "advice" and critiquing everything they did. The artist said again and again that they did this to escape from their mental health issues for just a moment and did not care if the outcome was perfect or not, but people just kept going. And it's so sad because their art was amazing. I just wished people knew when to cut it out, not everyone has to follow these guides or rules. 😥

[@user-fg4tn8ot6b]

Those "art teachers" should be aware that giving critiques and advice when the artist in question never ask for them is rude. It just makes them come off as condescending A$5h0L3s. :/

[@Lewisiaisoutofcontext]

@@user-fg4tn8ot6b It's so rude and unnecessary, especially if the artist in question is doing it as therapy. Makes me sad. ☹

[@coffintears5821]

Thats literally me. Ill be happy as a bee doodling on my phone or sketchbook. When i post it online however people give me a crap ton for my art style and techniques when im over here like "im just doing this for fun"

[@Lewisiaisoutofcontext]

@@coffintears5821 Exactly! I don't even like posting my art online at all because of this. I just want to make pretty paintings and feel happy. ☹

[@hamby1837]

What was their @

[@darkshadowsaver]

"Taking references is cheating don't do it." Me a intellectual person: no its not its called inspiration because you can see it being a natural thing to be in those poses.

[@LNVACVAC]

Not only inspiration, it is a principle of analysis, a scientific approach. Art can instrumentalize science, even if they are distinct.

[@5soda]

Tbh I don't get when people say this, everything we see possibly and probably can and would be used as a reference If I don't see any human I can't just draw one, I need to see them in order to draw them

[@RobAngol]

@@5soda how do people draw from imagination then? If you do the fundamentals, then you too can draw from nothing, using perspective, construction, and anatomy.

[@piskelo10]

I can feel every classical artist rolling in their graves when they hear someone say that XD Artists have used references for centuries like WHAT???

[@zeldadevorak42]

Honestly there are just people out there that draw for fun, and the constant pressure to always be improving can actually bring you down. You don't HAVE to actively be trying to improve your art all the time. I've been drawing for about 7 years, and I've found the best way (in my opinion) to improve is just, having fun. I don't enjoy drawing a page entirely full of just hands, instead I incorporate hands into my actual drawings I want to create, and over time you will see improvement. You'll improve more gradually, but your mental health won't suffer as much. AND telling a new artist to "draw everyday" is damaging. I don't draw everyday because sometimes I just don't want to. And great video as always btw! 💙

[@tamminar_]

thanks! i realized this recently, when i stopped trying to improve, i just enjoyed drawing what i liked and i instantly saw improvement!

[@zeldadevorak42]

@@tamminar_ That's awesome! Art in my opinion should be fun and enjoyable, not a chore you force yourself to do

[@QueenMariposa5]

"I don't enjoy drawing a page entirely full of just hands, instead I incorporate hands into my actual drawings I want to create, and over time you will see improvement." Exactly! Who wants to draw a bunch of disembodied eyeballs and hair tufts? It makes more sense and fun in an actual piece. Besides, it's important to learn how those fancy eyes, hands, hair etc fit with the rest of the body

[@thatstockin]

Actually, Yeah, I genuinely agree with this. It’s Psychologically effective.

[@zeldadevorak42]

@@QueenMariposa5 Agreed! More power to the people that can do that, but in my experience I just get bored with it haha

[@bobo_the_artist3727]

Yesterday a toxic ex friend of mines said if u use references ur character isn't original like bro im just tryna draw sum correctly

[@MohammedAgbadi]

whatttttt????? 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

[@appelsiini465]

🤡🤡🤡

[@endlessemptyvoid]

The "don't use reference, that's just copying/cheating" is a mindset I used to see... In middle school, back in like 2008. To see it still exist is mind-boggling.

[@bobo_the_artist3727]

@@endlessemptyvoid ikr just shallow

[@meikahidenori]

Everyone learns at a different pace. People expecting to be professional super fast is something that can kill your enjoyment of the hobby. I've drawn since grade 6 - 25 years later I'm still learning a TON of stuff and make TONS of mistakes. I'm on the slower end improvement scale compared to alot of other artists with my experience, but if I took some of these peoples advice and some of those around me while growing up I wouldn't still be plodding along at my own pace and still enjoying every second of it... I'd have given up years ago.

[@disaster4550]

tbh for a beginner it's better to start with basic proportions, not anatomy.. idk ,if you never do human scetches and don't know what size is what body part you really shouldn't be worrying that much about muscles and bones also lmaooo so true, we too drew trash and old trucks, art school do be like that

[@gongorelocksmagiincommand]

You can draw like a million bucks without knowing hardcore anatomy. But bit by bit learning names and functions to further know what you’re doing helps most definitely. That’s how I’ve been doing it. I don’t have anywhere close to an encyclopedia worth of knowledge of anatomy but it feels good to know what I’m doing and committing information to memory slowly to really sink it in ya know

[@strawberrymilkshake112]

Perspective and basic forms Cube, Sphere, Pyramid, Cylinder

[@gongorelocksmagiincommand]

@@strawberrymilkshake112 for sure :) literally everything you could possibly draw or paint is made up of those shapes

[@asher-360]

i thought human proportion was part of anatomy??

[@gongorelocksmagiincommand]

@@asher-360 it definitely is

[@zinzolin14]

Tbh, for the second one I didn't feel like it was forcing yourself to make needless mistakes, moreso to not get hung up about being perfect and experiment. But of course making excessive mistakes is pointless if you're not making any kind of progress from it.

[@Specters0rd]

Sometimes it's just fun to make mistakes and see what chaotic mess you made with your own two hands. Sometimes you need to take that time to just make a ugly mess of scribbles, paint, and disproportional people just to vent out that frustration of perfectionism and the dislike of "being told" what to do. You never know, the ugly art is actually pretty cool to see and sometimes it's not.

[@TheScaredLittleScholar]

@@Specters0rd yeah, I started drawing because I wanted to. I don’t think I would have ever kept at it or improved if I was hung up on being perfect at first

[@yellowpencil5233]

Its always interesting seeing how so people came up new drawing techniques.

[@MohammedAgbadi]

I know, right?

[@benhillman8384]

Great stuff as ever. At the other end of the spectrum from the 30 second chap is that clip of the guy saying "Having ideas is easy - it's whether you carry it through to the other 40+ hours to finish up that matters. Some people spin an entire career out of just one or two ideas."

[@MohammedAgbadi]

trueee

[@CuriosityRocks]

I think the second tip was more saying that inevitably you will make inaccurate marks and lines on your drawing so don’t worry about it because that’s the process of getting to your finished sketch, it’s not saying to deliberately be inaccurate even when you’re happy with your mark making.

[@charlesrodriguez7984]

If using references to draw is cheating then using blueprints of buildings to build everything as planned is also cheating. :) 😂 people don’t have any idea how hard it is to draw anything without a reference image.

[@-kurow-7113]

This is a bad comparaison since a blueprint for an architect won't serve the same purpose than a photo reference for an artist. But the argument you try to respond to is dumb I agree.

[@charlesrodriguez7984]

@@-kurow-7113 yep

[@hp4985]

How about writing a research paper without .. you know,... The research

[@charlesrodriguez7984]

@@hp4985 lmAo

[@Crimjonn]

Can't remember how many art advice I got from random "Twitter user" lmao

[@MohammedAgbadi]

twitter user is OP!

[@maxord11]

I got most of my drawing education from college courses and they kept saying draw over and over again for years. It never helped. People like Mohammed Agbadi and Ronillust gave me literally 10 second advice and I started improving. I guess what I'm saying is that you don't need to struggle to understand something, just need to find a Eureka moment sometimes.

[@teaonwednesday]

Honestly, I wish I had people who told me not to feel so pressured when I first started. I remember just last year I was getting all stressed over “finding my style” and “how to draw this or that” but once I dropped all that just recently I’ve finally started to expand. Doing art for fun and at your own pace is truly the best way to learn.

[@paranira6466]

the best moment i ever had was when a random stranger walked up to me, said my sketches look cool, and then left when i was doodling some hands before physics class. I didnt know him and it felt great getting such a genuine compliment. Latter that day my physics teacher called both my ability to draw hands and diagrams brilliant, felt nice too to be complimented by a non artist haha

[@allexmussen9107]

Each time someone tells me to use an art book to learn it frustrates me bc I can't learn from them even when I try really hard. Tutorials and hands on is always how I've learned drawing. A few days ago someone told me that you can't learn like that because it isn't proper art and studying books is how you should learn. Everyone learns different and saying you can only learn one way is incredibly frustrating and usually degrading to the artist when you tell them their art isn't art because it wasn't learnt a specific way.

[@mothmanghost983]

I always felt like the mannequins were used to show how light moves across the body and the different dimensions based on position. Makes a lot more sense in my opinion since the movement is pretty static. Otherwise, I tend to enjoy mannequins as simple "desk buddies" since they are funny looking, and I like to make them do silly poses.

[@graeson3317]

I like how he's not just like "these all suck don't do these" he actually says what's useful and what's not in these videos.

[@evedoggo5830]

As an actually licensed art teacher - the last "eye drawing" tutorial made me roll on the floor screaming in pain

[@RyznZ]

There’s an unlimited amount of information out there to “teach” art and tho most of that information is good but there is still those select few that just makes people confused

[@juliabazanska]

Unlicensed art teachers be like: "using references is cheating" Me: You saying Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt and Caravaggio were cheats? UAT: um Me: ARE YOU?

[@zaltyboi2]

Another thing is that some "tips" will work depending on your art "style"

[@SleepyRulu]

My favorite art series as on this channel is back

[@MohammedAgbadi]

yall really do love it huh?!

[@mikazukimunini]

Just wanted to say, I really love your videos and I watch it while drawing because you usually have great commentary on whatever the topic is. Your voice is so soothing to listen to as well! Ironically, I was looking for references /while/ watching the video pfft

[@miramari732]

mannequins are excelent for two things: as cool pencil holder and if you can't find reference and/or figure out how specific fabric will drape on joint bent in specific way. In other cases they just collect dust :)

[@orbeezeater]

A much quicker way could be to sketch an eye could be: Get the eye's SHAPE first Then, you can simply add the iris as a semi-circle to the depth (that's how I describe how much of the eyeball is hidden by the eyelids) of your choosing. Much faster. That way, you won't spend ages sketching that one circle over and over and over again just to erase 45% of it, because people's eyes are usually not that wide open.

[@MsSumoon]

I'm a professional, but when people ask about my process and how I do “things“, I tell them that I'm not a teacher and my process is way too personal for me to explain, it's a mixture of techniques from different places and people, it's way too hard to explain it. I do admire people who can explain in an understandable way, it's really hard and people underestimate that. Being a good teacher is also an art. I have had terrible art teachers, that were great artists but they clearly didn't know how to explain things. One thing that I don't like it when people say “this is wrong do MY WAY and you will be doing right“, yes some basics can be good but also find your process, sometimes it may look “wrong“ to some people, but if the final project is good it doesn't matter if the process was messy or way too complicated. Of course, try to listen to others sometimes they do have a shortcut that can be helpful.

[@sole_jewel598]

Fun fact of the day: did you know... a synonym for anatomy... is suffering All around me are familiar faces~~

[@bullseye2377]

Thanks for putting subtitles, I'm not an English speaker so it helps me to understand words that i don't know

[@majlordag1889]

Pet peeve.. it was the same thing growing up being interested in creative writing it was so damn annoying with "writing teachers" that absolutely didn't know what the h**l they were teaching

[@YoRewuh]

- " *Sometimes I tend to draw characters without eyes, mouths, nose, faceless or with huge hair. I have a very delicate reason behind this, but still a lot of people annoy me with their "unlicensed art teacher" mania, and it's even worse if I use "weird" poses to try to describe a feeling in the drawing.* "

[@MrBlorp-sf9ye]

6:56 That one made a whole-ass zit 💀

[@triplerstudios6108]

I drew everyday. Maybe for like an hour or something or more some other days. I practiced faces that I saw on anime I watched… TBH I used google images and searched up anime *blank* references and went from there. My style didn’t come until 6th grade but I’ve been drawing (coloring) since 5 (mostly cute stars and stuff). I literally got coloring books and practice coloring with my cheap ass crayons and colored pencils. I learned to color and shade with color before I even draw a person. I even bought those fashion angels fashion design books to draw clothes bc I didn’t know how to draw a body yet. All of that helped, but there’s no real way to draw it’s about being creative.

[@sunnishae5047]

Every artist just use what works for yourself, thats how it is and go at a pace that is comfortable, for example I like to improve my artwork and OCs because its fun to me, not because I have to do it, no one likes to be told what to do lol.

[@snootypatooty9793]

Read blue period, if you're an artist. It's a manga that talks about life as an artist in Japan and there were so many relatable moments that it hit different. Has some pretty interesting advice too. My artist recommendation is probably Takehiko Inoue. He draws some excellent figures of dudes.

[@sixrabbits3972]

On the subject of art lectures and the abandoned truck, that sparked a memory of stuffing myself into a corner of the nursing building on campus for our perspective project. Try concentrating on your work while you can hear someone explaining how to insert a catheter.

[@AnnieCampbellMedical]

Thanks for another great video. Also love that Commando is casually playing in the background.

[@Nitzah]

I think one punch-sketcher who is saying “draw a 1000 sketches a day of motion” works best for people trying to get better at drawing live candid subjects such as animals or random people outside. I’d personally tweak his advice in that the point should at least be if you’re trying to improve is start off at least learning what key features or marks to put down quickly before your subject moves so that you can use that as a starting point. That way you can finish the sketch on the degree of accuracy you are striving for after they have moved, because you have already added your doodle version of annotations that you know are the key features you need to be cognizant of to capture their likeness in that moment. While I don’t really do too much in terms of candid subjects, I suppose making a base sketch where you focus on say their jaw or specific body parts like pivot points looks like this at this angle only so I’ll make sure to get that down first and worry about more stagnant always pretty much the same things like hair towards the end.

[@love_u3o]

LMAO 11:44 it's like the meme of "DON'T" draw funny eye "DO" draw a circle, add details XDDD

[@swoop9890]

I hate when people say "dont use reference, its cheating" like, sorry if i cant draw shit from imagination and if i dont know how to draw everything.

[@Misile91]

The title itself terrified me

[@MohammedAgbadi]

lmaoo!

[@dianas7549]

11:44 The eye drawing reminds me of my 2D art teacher in 10th grade. She was teaching us to pay attention to the details and angles in eyes and ears. She even made it our homework to go around school and just draw everyone's ears and eyes. I gotta admit, I felt very uncomfortable just staring hard at someone and drawing their features, but I did learn a lot from that lesson.

[@SunaStarr]

Although I’m a self taught artist I won’t have the best techniques to create art. Though through effort and skill. Can achieve the art of “professional artist” (quote on quote just because a professional artist can be rounded as something different every time”

[@jeepeedurocher]

On the topic of the mannequin, it also helps with lighting as many of them have planes on the face, ribcage area, etc.

[@karaoconnoraliasraidra]

The pretentious “You have to draw/make art in this specific way/style!” people irk me because as someone with my own drawing style (for better or for worse) I’m the kind of person they’re attacking/belittling/acting better than. I don’t know if this happens a lot, but I feel sorry for anyone who had a unique style, but changed it because they were told, “You have to draw like this! You’ll never get anywhere drawing like that!” and then saw someone with a similar style become famous and get praised for their style, meaning they could have found success if they’d kept their style rather than copying the work of others. You should always seek to improve, experiment, and use any style you like, but don’t ever become some passionless imitator because some snooty person heckled you.

[@valala2987]

I m still a beginner but personally I think doing figure drawing from the start is pretty useful even if you don t know anatomy. It's just that the focus of the exercise changes a bit depending on what your current goals are. First and foremost it s great to warm up exercise. Then when you are a beginner you can use figure drawing as a way to improve your observation skills. You can use it to learn a lot about light, shadow and construction too and then, when you tackle anatomy it s obviously great for that too.

[@unfunnymeiling2315]

Now I know even more,thanks

[@MohammedAgbadi]

don't mention!

[@robinchandler6215]

Art KZbinrs for me are: Temi Danso Art, Rae Dizzle Mark Crilley, Force with Micheal Mattesi Marco Bucci, Ethan Becker, Ross Draws, and LavenderTowne

[@mothman7430]

“using references is cheating” ex-freakin-cuse me?

[@ChaosPrototypeIX]

That eye drawing video "tutorial" was terrible in so many ways.

[@aaasht2606]

Ok the love fk thing was pretty hilarious, n a bit cute. She wants ta know where she stands in ur lifee dude xD

[@midnightmakesart]

My favorite series is back :D

[@MohammedAgbadi]

yasssssss!

[@Rzrk2020]

being called pretty penguin lifted my spirits and made me happy thank you

[@notyourbusiness7947]

when he called me a pretty penguin that was the highlight of my day

[@SpicaStudios6427]

“You don’t necessarily have to draw the mannequin as is,-“ Me: *has an oc that is literally a wooden mannequin doll*

[@no_title0w0]

"Taking references is cheating" **Mona Lisa has left the chat**

[@GregoryCarr]

He’s got Commando on in the background. Love it

[@chrissvayart1111]

OK, So 8:50 - same happened in my "art high school". never told us WHAT are we learning! just draw randomly... I had to dissect stuff and learn things all over again when I wanted to get more serious about this xD

[@renaa-maizono]

I recommend Kooleen too^^ Her face art is really detailed and amazing!

[@marienguessan8520]

I have to point out that making repetitive art work, even if it is not accurate and lacks the fundamentals, is not bad for beginners or even more advanced levels. I say that because I believe, it creates a loose on perfectionism, habits, and many templates to correct once you learn the fundamentals. It actually happened to me, when I learned some foundational skills, I was lost to how to do it and so afraid to make any mistake, but my old sketches as inaccurate as they are helped me apply the knowledge, practice and be more free to show up to practice. It also made me see my progress. And I am sure they are many people in this case. The thing is why beginners and seasoned artists should not always be afraid to make inaccurate art, they can always come back to it to apply the accurate knowledge and skills. At the same time, it should not be used to be a comfort zone preventing from learning and applying the fundamentals later to improve.

[@Le_Stamp]

I went to a college level art class back in… I wanna say 2017/2018 and they actually stunted my art progress, it stressed me out and made feel like I had to stick to a certain way of drawing, not only did it teach me things I already knew and could do but it taught me ways to do it but more time consuming and grating, honestly all art teachers are different and unique and you should really just try and bounce around until you find someone who can teach in your way of learning, that’s what I did and I’ve been steadily improving since! I actually learned how to do my favorite style of lineart from someone on instagram, and learned anatomy from a professional who does free classes here on KZbin, and learned some realism at my old high school, don’t stick to one mesthod of learning! Feel free to experiment! I am in no way a professional but that’s what I’ve learned over the last 10 years of my drawing journey!

[@kouryuu1694]

“If you’re starting out do art for free because you need exposure”

[@TheNamesTerra]

Someone that I know that has amazing tutorials on KZbin is Sycra! he has a lot of videos on stuff and the playlist I’ve been watching from him right now is “Composition for Artist” which is supposed to help with perspective and stuff, i’ve learned more from him in a week that I have from my actual teachers at school in a month. you should check him out

[@outphase78]

It really bothers me when people draw eyes like that because they tend to make the iris bigger than what it needs to be which makes the eye look like 👀 Having big bug eyes is kinda creepy looking lol

[@yourlocaltransfemboy1179]

2:43 I thought they were gonna draw a photo of someone pole dancing💀

[@CinemaZiggy]

Do you still make tutorials? Are they on your Patreon? I love your art style and would like to learn from you. It seems like all the artists with actually cool styles are becoming more KZbinr than artist these days. I’m willing to pay for content that’s more like some of your older videos. Your art is truly fire bro and I don’t see anyone else who has your exact style I just want to see more of it.

[@koifish6973]

Personally I find the draw more in less time, rather than draw less in more time method pretty useless because drawing more doesn't necessarily mean you will learn faster / at the pace you want to and you'll most likely end up frustrated-

[@senritsujumpsuit6021]

That fuk clip is funnier to me since I watch a good junk of Asian shows the Chinese can English better then half of us for example

[@MohammedAgbadi]

lmaoo!!

[@s_d_skelton4221]

When ever I watch one of ur vids I always have to draw while I listen

[@luci_datum]

I think I learned the most from drawing patients at my job, since I'm stuck watching them for 12 hours a day. I'll do a sketch of their face, and I have to make it accurate. I've drawn so many people, so many colors and shapes and sizes and body types and hair textures. I always gift them it after, they're always shocked and such and it's always the CUTEST thing (unless they're severely confused but those usually need too much attention to draw anyways). It's given me so much vibrancy and expression in my character pieces that I simply wouldn't have otherwise. TL;DR: Drawing people irl helped me be more accurate in my art lmao

[@Grandma_Senpaire]

5:53 theres some violence going on that tv....

[@vaneabarca]

Dude the movie from the start is so freaking weird like at times I didn't know if it was a comedy or a serious movie

[@rogeras5966]

0:09 I remember that movie, It was called something like "great small life"

[@NEKO-mw9id]

All of those advices are for people that already know anatomy and unfortunately not many people understand that. I didn’t. And I was frustrated using all those tips and not geting the results I wanted. Yes these can help but.. only if you already know the basics of the body

[@mikshiinyanshi]

Actually the first video was right for me too. In my art class at school, I did it for the first time, but we had more time than 30 seconds obviously, but after that my artstyle changed and became more realistic and i can follow references better. My art also changes on a whim. One day I just tried to draw realism and cartoon together and it worked and now my hands only guide me to draw like this.

[@MsPoliteRants]

The advice about feeling free to scribble is fine and all but then what happens is all my sketchy, loose “scribbly” drawings actually look better than my polished figures. Like loose representations of a pose are cool and all but then when I try to go over them with lines to finalize the sketch into a painting, it looks like garbage

[@cherrypiekitten8013]

Don't use reference? Than how the hell am I gonna draw a muscular leg than?

[@basementdwellercosplay]

Questionable content on tiktok, never

[@MohammedAgbadi]

lmaoo

[@kuraiaku2997]

For the one on making mistakes, I agree with the advice since I found a lot of my students being way too afraid of making any mistakes they ended up stuck in place. I think you're misunderstanding his point that you don't have to be afraid of mistakes, it's natural and you can learn from them instead of avoiding drawing since you're afraid of making mistakes. This advice is most likely given to a very beginner artist which just started drawing and is afraid of doing anything, I know it since I teach art to mostly to kids/teenagers and I found it prevalent in a lot of cases.

[@Falney]

That first one makes me think the old saying of "practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect" it's OK if a 15 second gesture drawing takes you a minute to do right, just do it right.

[@wardar90]

Hi Mohammed. Great video as always! Can you tell me who is the artist of the devil girl on the tumbnail?

[@adakosta2415]

while watching the video, im somehow so focused at the show at the background

[@ghostratsarah]

Try your best but take 30 seconds... I don't think that's helpful for most people. More likely to induce anxiety and enforce bad muscle memory. I don't believe in time constraints in practice, and more does not equal better. Maybe a timer, you take your time but put it down when it beeps, put it at at least 1min- cutomize to how fast your brain functions. Mine is pretty slow, so I'd never put mine under 5min. And if you can't make progress or are getting worse, drop it. Come back later. If you have a headache or migraine, don't go anywhere near a pencil.

[@gongorelocksmagiincommand]

I feel you on this. Whenever I do figure quicksketch I tend to do reeeeally bad whereas if I was doing a long figure drawing it’d be better. But, the last couple times I’ve done it I kept in mind to get the gesture down and not worry about finishing a whole figure. Because quicksketch of course helps in making efficient decisions and execute well. But baring that in mind it’s still hella tough. I don’t do it everyday but compounding it over a period of time, drawing under a short time will get easier. You can always keep drawing even after the timer goes off which I tend to do often lol. Doing long figure drawings along with quicksketch is a good balance. When I noticed I was doing bad at quicksketch I decided to do more long drawings to strengthen that muscle so to speak. Doing things fast comes from doing things slow and methodically and making good decisions. I hope that all made sense :)

[@EricOlorunfemi]

I guess everything comes down to what your art goals are with all these tips. Some of them are important for specific disciplines and useless for others. So "Know thyself".

[@oliviamartinsvaz487]

Marc brunet's channel is also a very helpful, since he was talking about sam does art and other art channels

[@poilapan]

9:50 I believe that this Sam refers to "samdoesart". I, however, am not familiar with this artist at all, but managed to find his Patreon via a quick search online. 9:57 Jordan Grimmer - I believe his last name is "Landscape", because that's what he does best. (That last part was obviously a joke. I'll check myself out now... Srsly though, he too does some tutorials on KZbin, I'm also quite surprised that he made some art for The Chinese Room that made Dear Esther and is developing Little Orpheus.)

[@LNVACVAC]

In latin america the best way to get a good teacher on absolutely any subject is to start by running away from licensed ones unless the license is actually an international accreditation like CELTA. Even our University teachers, with their Masters and Doctorates are specially crappy ones.

[@gabiwatches]

😔😥 sometimes I wish some TikTok make more sense in there advices, cause it's like solving a math problem in reading

[@humanoid1912]

I just realized how much zelda music is on tiktok... I wonder if they know where it's from, it's really a shame when wonderful pieces like the fairy fountain theme end up known as the "tiktok harp song"

[@Gwynhyvr]

the 'draw a lot every single day' advice is certainly advice you could give someone. personally, i'm the type to bust my ass every time i draw something. always have been. i've made... maybe 2-3,000 pictures across paper and tablet in the past 10-12 years, and i've improved steadily during that time. i've tried the daily drawing thing several times and run out of ideas _fast,_ not to mention the days where it just doesn't work. in saying that, though, i'm counting pages of gesture and anatomy drawing as single pieces. it's not how many hours you put in, it's how many _smart_ hours you put in.

[@TheParagonIsDead]

At 10:38 there drawing the belly button way to high 😂😂

[@emilyjones2794]

I was to distracted by the Lengend of Zelda music. I was jamming out to it.

[@lawrencelopez9839]

oh yeah... like before I start drawing for real I just keep drawing eyes and circles to warm up

[@nope6021]

12:10 ones like this just kinda annoy me cause they're just like "DONT do a quick sketch that's BAD! Instead, spend a long-ass time shading/rendering! GOOD! ALWAYS! Quick messy doodle BAD!" They so often don't actually show different ways of drawing or actual anatomical mistakes. The "bad" or "mistake" one is just the 30 sec version of the finished one. If you can just render it and have it look good to u, it isn't a fuck up or mistake to be fixed it's just not a completed product.

[@luffeevee]

Well, I'm not gonna say he's an expert at anatomy, cause although I actually like how he drawa it, he exagerates a lot of things in his art style, and he isn't flawless, of course, but, since you asked, I guess the artist who's inspired me most ever is Eiichiro Oda, he's the creator of One Piece (an anime) and I really love all of his artwork and character design! Then again, this is probably a biased opinion as I've watched One Piece ever since I was little, and it's what inspired me to draw, so of course I learnt a lot from his art, but idk, even if it is like that, still would recommend y'all to check his art out!

[@donbomBL]

The first video is true, a similar method is used at the university, first you are asked to make a lot of sketches of people who move so that you just keep up with the shapes and plastics, you can even create a silhouette in the form of a shadow, and then fill it in. Even if you learn the gestures, the head and other details are separated - later it will be difficult for you to put them together, partly because of this, there are often artists who draw only "flying heads" or other body parts that are not related to each other. Therefore, first learn how to convey what you see without really thinking about why, and only then delve into the anatomy of the body, folds and chiaroscuro. For example, at my university in academic painting, I was asked to draw something like this for a little more than a year before they began to study proportions consciously. But at the same time, in parallel, they taught perspective and drawing objects in this very perspective, so just by drawing sketches, you will train your eye to see and your hand to react quickly

[@ShadowNight21]

Keep going Mohammad your doing a good thing