The Illusion of Depth - Contrast, Aerial Perspective and Form

[@Phantomyre]

I know this is going to sound weird, especially since this is over 7 years old-- but I've been struggling with flat-feeling images for so long. I knew I lacked something but couldn't figure out what. I created shadows, edges etc. But even then-- it still felt flat. Then I realized I needed depth, but didn't know how. And your video helped me. It's so simple and to the point. I literally teared up in joy as it was liberating to know. Thank you so much!

[@sumitshrestha8428]

Good for you and for us!

[@leothelion8796]

I know this comment is 2 years old but glad you finally found a method to enhance your skills

[@r8che1111]

As a high school art teacher (adv draw adv pntg and others 2d), I can't say enough about these videos! So clear and succinct! They are perfect, telling us all that's important and nothing that isn't. You do things that I can't demonstrate in ten minutes but shouldn't take up the whole period doing. Thank you so much for being a valid and ACCURATE/objective resource for us teachers to use to better our instruction. I could show you from one year to the next, a portraiture project, taught exactly the same, except for the addition of your facial feature videos. The improvements are subtle but important. It also helps when the kids hear you saying the same stuff I'm always saying.. Proves I actually do have an education and I'm not just making it up. A biggie as of late was your how to hold a pencil video. I'm always talking about it, trying to get them to stop "writing" to draw. When they saw your video they were like "oh. Ok". Prior they acted like I was just trying to make them miserable. Thanks so much!!

[@ladymuck2]

r8che1111 Thats what it feels like being a mother

[@deepikaramshetty7227]

You are an exceptional teacher!! Thank you for all the time and effort....you make learning fun....

[@ProkoTV]

You're welcome! Glad you're enjoying the lessons.

[@kevinnoel9024]

Self-taught artist struggle with portraits as the topic of values needs extensive coverage. Thanks for sharing this knowledge with the wider public Proko!

[@graemeduddridge]

This is an amazing channel with proper advice ...

[@pablochamber1622]

you mean proker?

[@NatChasouwall]

He's the best teacher to me, and he's really cute.

[@yellowcactustvz4929]

Creepy

[@ItachiUchiha-gf4fz]

@@yellowcactustvz4929 lol

[@RoxOn413]

o-oh

[@noot3315]

cute as in a sort of baby face, right?

[@miscelaneasdealguem]

Lmaoo

[@pinaymlc]

Darn you for being so adorable! Trying to pick up drawing again and I'm sitting here w a stupid smile watching the bloopers.

[@sholae8860]

THIS is one of the best videos I have EVER watched on how to improve my art skills, thank you!! You broke it down so clearly!

[@MartinNebelong]

Great video Proko. I'm really enjoying your way of teaching.. very light and fun to watch.

[@Hamazan]

Your laughter in the takeouts is beautiful. :)

[@DennisCNolasco]

Stan looks so young in these old videos, it's hard to believe he's been doing these for almost 10 years now.

[@5000miner]

I love your tutorials it's DYNAMIC and not STATIC :D

[@omerkap]

!i!i! DyNaMiC !i!i! true

[@theFriendlyGhst]

That's really helpful. I had a teaching who would point out that there wasn't much depth in my drawings but wouldn't really say anything about how to fix that.

[@ShortFuseFighting]

as a stubborn autodidact who learned drawing trough trial and error without ever watching any tutorials or reading a book i gotta say....ive learned so many things the wrong way and picked up so many bad habits over the years. wish i could go back in time 15 years and go to school for this...

[@hi.241]

Well I also had the same experience being stubborn but I was a kid and not really trying so now still a kid imma go and watch more vids

[@randysajol8521]

this is my best art teacher

[@skwidvishus1188]

The portrait dvd's are incredible and include more indispensable info than just the KZbin videos. They are a "must have." -John Willis

[@ficheye00]

One of the very best videos by Prokopenko.

[@RichaKumariGMSTelipuraJagadhar]

I just wanna say that you are the best .Keep inspiring people by your knowledgeful and unique vedios and always remember that you are the only one in this world which has this type of extremely remarkable descriptive skil with so much of talent.. Your fans love you very much.....

[@victorlozada]

Thanks a lot Proko, I've never had the chance of receiving formal education on art and this comes at a great time. You are an excellent artist and instructor!!

[@nujuumarts6307]

Proko my favourate channel teacher with sence of humer.............

[@dragonking6760]

Thanks for the tutorial. You’re the only one who helped me, more than other channels.

[@carnngi]

let me just say, i highly appreciate your channel, it is excellent, education and entertaining. although i have not left my anime phase, i still find these tutorials highly helpful

[@stephenmusquiz2197]

I love this guy....Dude you are amazing !!! thank you for sharing ......I am drawing light years ahead of where I was.....

[@NobleWoods]

I really appreciate that you show us rather than just tell us, thanks!

[@j.elizabeth4621]

Your voice is so clear and easy to follow. Gets through the ADD somehow!

[@dustinmcfarland2441]

Contrast of huehuehue

[@midnightrider2089]

lol

[@Ondra_rx7]

Haha

[@sanadbenali6993]

Sims reference?

[@ariannahernandez4745]

@@sanadbenali6993 no lol huehue was a laughing meme from 4 years ago

[@lakesidegumtrees]

Fantastic, you are brilliant at explaining, so very much appreciated.....and love the touches of humour

[@B3Kusa]

I love your way of teaching. Thank you.

[@harshborderwala1144]

Best online tutor.

[@Ed-lz4jv]

Good tutorial, I as a newbie, am doing it wrong, but after seeing other videos and this one about Depth and values, I find it it the KEY I was missing

[@ianjackson5834]

thanks for the in depth explanation of depth in 2d work, i put up a video today using atmospheric perspective, it a great way to get depth, TFS

[@Mortamir_ActionFigures]

Proko, you are probably the best drawing/art teacher currently here in youtube. You are highly skilled, the videos you make are quite interesting and fun to watch. Thanks again for updating us :)

[@ni3d4888]

Great tutorial, we appreciate all the hard work you put in these!

[@B_D_J]

This is pure gold

[@untitled4141]

This channel is the best

[@marka112]

Very good. I'm going to give my teacher a good kick in the back for not going over this in detail.

[@elliemerc01]

Can relate, I paid for lessons and my first experience was that she placed a book in front of me and said paint! Sheesh!!! Some are born teachers others are just born lazy lol :). (Nov. 24/16).

[@marka112]

Ellie Mercer :D

[@kazimkazim8197]

Delitescent Cenotaph me too

[@DiabolicalAngel]

This is great Stan! And the portrait of the old lady is stunning!

[@zumpoof]

This was an excellent tutorial, thanks for putting this together.

[@setheh]

Very good video. Thanks, Stan. James Gurney's book "Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter" also discuses atmospheric perspective (and many other things) in depth. Highly recommended!

[@jamesmukui3148]

Wawaaaaaa! great lessons very very informative. Keep informing us upcoming artists.

[@katherinesimonds622]

I love this woman's face... So intriguing

[@shreksspawn2359]

She reminds me of the holocaust survivors.

[@akalaton]

Life saver series :'( such beautiful summarization

[@susanpaul4179]

Such informative videos. Thank you so much!

[@ctrout_studio]

Those bloopers xD Awesome tutorial as always!

[@afaziill]

*Applause* Love how you break it down. Looking forward to the new videos. Really appreciate what you're doing :)

[@gabrielramirezorihuela6935]

Very nice videos!

[@JKalit]

fine lessons. i hv been a subscriber for last two weeks and find your videos to be new as well as efficient. i hv a request to make, please talk about hatching and cross hatching as i don't understand them, even if you ave discussed these processes before please talk again. i hope you will. thank you

[@brubafc]

Proko, you are amazing. Thank you so much! ♥

[@noorabdulhadi5190]

I'm so happy to find you and your channel, your way of teaching is really really good thank you very much

[@LalitaBanana]

I could say a lot of things like "This is so educative ad fun".. but all comes to my mind after the bloopers is: "SO cute!!!" :D You're awesome, thank you Proko ;)

[@artesgr1]

The best video I've seen about this topic!

[@wagnergoldberg]

look "hue" up in the dictionary, you'll get a very good description there. wonderful, wonderful in fact.

[@MsSeneth]

Thanks for your videos and your jokes, make learning fun, I hope to continue learning. thanks

[@KashiGirl911]

clear, concise, helpful.. super!

[@killerpimp069]

Proko, or should I say... MORIARTY!

[@emilysha418]

I can't unsee it

[@edgesearchlifestyle7903]

Yeahh

[@kennekibs6471]

😂😂

[@gashy5526]

This is super helpful and straight to the point. Thank you!

[@happyonherjourney]

I'm very glad that this video has sub in english

[@m2m8154]

Thanks for all your videos, my friend indeed share your link to me...it really helps me! Thanks again and God Bless!

[@herrapan95]

Thank you so much, you are such a great person Proko

[@ivelinkostadinov2569]

Thnks man! One of the greatest artist ✌️

[@Pinsel486]

Its the color itself e.g green, yellow etc. ... as I understand it. So if you use complementary colors its a contrast between those

[@iamnachman148]

dear stan, please do some advanced videos. because youre the only tutorial creator who actually teaches something. please. please. please.

[@halimsamy]

Aaaaaaaah! This is a real cool way to learn, I love this kind of lessons, lot of freshness, thank you Stan.

[@sandipavhad4330]

you are very great artist and reached sir I am very proud of you .I any time motivat that time wacth your video

[@JeanMoore]

Very well explained. Simple yet covers the most used ways to apply depth. And, very entertaining too!

[@MisTikkalRosy]

always fantastic - love your portrait lessons

[@KawaiiKanvas]

Beautiful 🤩

[@elliemerc01]

How easy are you to follow! I'm excited with your teaching and you should actually call yourself PRO lol. Great stuff thanks so much (Nov. 24/16). Hope I can see more of your videos.

[@krushnkumarmuley6864]

thank you sir for your lessons.

[@BIZEB]

The binocular aspect of our vision is but a small part of what our brains use to interpret what we see as a "3d" image. Everything you talked about actually counts to our brains as much as having 2 eyes in a slightly different position. In fact, what makes us perceive the world as 3d can be completely absent even in people with functioning binocular vision, though normal people don't completely lose it when they close one eye.

[@ProxCyde]

Yup. Of course, there is a slight difference between depth in curvature, and depth between objects. ie. foreground to background. Micro movements also helps our brain in recognizing depth. Our body is never completely still. This is probably part of why we're able to pick up depth slightly when looking through one eye. Background objects seem to move with you, whilst foreground objects seem to move the opposite direction relative to the background. (Driving on a road, seeing trees go quickly past you, whilst the mountains in the background are "following" you.). So the tiny movements your body does "all by itself" helps your brain pick up that difference in movement, converting in to depth as we know it. The more extreme the difference in distances between visible objects are, the greater the effect. ...I just made all of that up. But it sounds like a plausible scientific theory, doesn't it? :p

[@BIZEB]

Neeken Besides the "all by itself" body movement, what you talked about is called Parallax, and it is indeed used by our brains to help it perceive depth. So you didn't make it all up :)

[@ProxCyde]

BIZEB Oh, good. At least it made some sense then. ;)

[@ivanbrighton2276]

@Proko Hello. Why does the area between her right eye (closest eye, our left) and nose look that way. I am not an experienced artist and do not understand what it is I have an issue with, other than that it looks maybe as if the eye and nose are disconnected. It looks to me as if she was a piece of paper and someone had cut her eye and tucked the nose area beneath it. I apologize if this comment seems rude. I'm only trying to communicate my observation with very little artistic vocabulary, and understand the choices you made. I am not happy with this aspect of the drawing and need to understand it. You are a wonderful teacher, thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos and offering them out of your own pocket. I look forward to picking up on of your DVDs.

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[@AllKindsOfFashion]

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Love the outtakes!

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Do a tutorial on clothing next!

[@emilysha418]

So helpful!!

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Great video as always!!! Thanks for the subtitles.

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Oh thanks! I didnt notice the signature because i the subs were overlaping it . I turned them off and i c it! THANKS

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good stuff, man!

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That's awesome...I too show my creativity with my paintings always

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Close Far Farther Farthest Propper grammar, that is! x) Great tutorial by the way!

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Learn something big again!!!

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[@doctorcaroline]

Great as usual. And funny!