Top art skills that make your art look more pro!

[@Cesar_Orostegui]

Bro a sponsor? So happy for you man! And yeah Xp Pen is actually good stuff so awesome! 😎😎😎

[@TheArtMentor]

Thanks so much man 😁 yeah exciting stuff huh?? Do you have an xp pen as well?

[@magicimaginations]

Oh wow i love your art, and the shading is something i lack a bit in my landscapes so your tips are going to help me so much, i'm going to try out your mixer brush tips now as i'm currently doing landscapes with grass, and guess what! I've got an XP pen, the big artist 24 pro!!! omg it's so AMAZING best thing i ever bought for digital drawing, i use my ipad too but only for quick sketching up, then i take it to my xp pen tablet as is it gives a much more beautiful, defined and detailed result!!! and yea 24 inch is huge but the bigger the better, i bought mine quite a few years ago and i didn't know they did a hand held control thingy, must get it!!!!

[@TheArtMentor]

thank you for your kind words, and I'm glad to hear that tip helped! I have some other videos to help with your painting process if you'd like a link. Btw, you can use any express key remote with your XP Pen tablet and it'll work. I sometimes use my Wacom remote with my 22" artist pro tablet

[@magicimaginations]

@@TheArtMentor yes i'd love some links!! and wow good to know about the key remotes are universal!!

[@zinzolin14]

Bro coming in with the hot tips. 🔥 Also your art has been growing! Your level of details and rendering has improved so much in the last year 👌✨

[@TheArtMentor]

Thanks! What tips did you find most helpful in this video? And I really appreciate your kindness regarding my art 😁 been really pushing myself lately to do new things

[@polinarolia2964]

The amount of times you said "check this out" 😂 But the tips are straight gold, not gonna lie

[@TheArtMentor]

Well…did you check it out? 😂Haha I’ll monitor that next time. What advice was most helpful for you?

[@polinarolia2964]

​@@TheArtMentor The shortcut that modifies loose selection to what's on the layer is a real life saver. I also liked the rim light technique, and the idea of using layer masks instead of clipping masks is so obvious, but no one talks about it for some reason. But all the info was really helpful, so thank you for your hard work!

[@TheArtMentor]

great to hear!

[@Woodchuck-SEVEN]

Wow, there's somethings in this video I have always been curious how to do it and now I know. Thank you for explaining and sharing it!

[@TheArtMentor]

Glad to hear! What was it?

[@Woodchuck-SEVEN]

@@TheArtMentor I always wondered how people used the lasso tool to color in spots and after watching you I felt like I understood it better :)

[@allanatiers9261]

thank you so much for this. i think this was the best tutorial video i ever saw. finally someone is going into details about how to use the tools correctly. it's so hard to switch to digital painting when you are someone who learned how to paint traditionally T_T

[@TheArtMentor]

I feel you so hard on that! I’m also traditionally trained and it’s so hard transitioning to digital isn’t it?? 😅

[@magicimaginations]

Yes i learnt to paint traditionally too and transitioning from traditional to digital has been a long process, it is so different!

[@TheArtMentor]

I can remember that struggle all too well lol

[@costelinha1867]

I remember when I used that copying and warping perspective technique just to fix the eye of my latest drawing, because I wasn't able to redraw it in a way that looked consistent to the other eye, so I just copied it and adjusted it in perspective. (Thankfully both eyes were looking in the same direction, so that probably made it easier for me to do this.)

[@TheArtMentor]

Oh yeah that works nicely too 👍 have you tried liquifying it as well?

[@costelinha1867]

@@TheArtMentor I didn't knew how to find the liquify tool on Krita, so I didn't.... I knew it had one, I just didn't know how to access it, especially since almost everything in Krita seems to have a completely different name vs in photoshop. (also all my friends say I need to move on from the piece since I kept making edits trying to make the shading perfect, so...)

[@TheArtMentor]

glad to see you found it!

[@costelinha1867]

@@TheArtMentor I... specifically said I didn't find it, but ok...

[@TheArtMentor]

Sorry, after reading that, I thought you implied that you found it since you spoke about the liquify tool in the past tense. Did you google it?

[@igoldenknight2169]

Wow this is so good! I actually always wanted an art mentor! I’m wondering can you also include examples in Procreate as well?

[@TheArtMentor]

happy that you found me then 😁 So I personally don't use Procreate, but my mentees in my mentorship confirm that all of these tips are applicable in PC as well

[@Crazy_Sue]

If you want to level up your pen display even more, put it on a Book Stand Arm. This will allow you to move the pen display closer to you and have it raised up off the desk. When not in use, you can move it away from you and use it as a second monitor. Just look for one with a vesa mount, and swap out the wood boad for a laptop tray. Its great, and they are perfect for when your pen display doesnt have a vesa mount.

[@TheArtMentor]

Can you PLEASE tell me more about that?! I’ve been so curious about putting my tablet on a mount but I literally never see it nor do I know anyone that’s done that! How is it??

[@thgritic102]

I play around w/ CSP even tho I'm strictly traditional at the moment, so this video is so helpful for me when I want to play around in the app again 😄

[@TheArtMentor]

These all work in CSP too with some minor adjustments, so let me know how it goes alright? Also, what traditional media do you enjoy working with?

[@mizu7654]

thank you very much

[@TheArtMentor]

and thank you too! What new skills did you pick up from watching this?

[@alexchristian1463]

I hope you make more art in the future

[@TheArtMentor]

I always will! I hope you will as well!

[@OrFennSchuller]

I like painting though I haven't done concept art and paintings professionally for years. These days it's just a hobby. So I use mostly Krita not photoshop these days. I will try these tricks on Krita though. If I may share this, as a storyboard artist we need to know the basic of cinematography even a bit of acting aside from basic drawing skills. Have a good day

[@TheArtMentor]

That's so true for storyboard artists! I have loads of respect your industry. I'm happy this helped, and I've seen these applied in pretty much all programs, so let me know how it goes, would you?

[@costelinha1867]

I never tried greyscale or anything or gradients, but blending modes definetly help a lot, especially when it comes to shading. (Also please use a stabilizer, I don't care if you think it's cheating, don't make lineart a torture... Well, maybe someone who has more experience can do fine without a stabilizer... but I sure as hell am not one of them right now...)

[@TheArtMentor]

Yeah I used to paint greyscale to color, but gave it up years ago bc I find it limiting, personally. And that’s perfectly fine to do, okay? 👍 if anyone has beef with it, tell them I give you my blessing lol

[@costelinha1867]

@@TheArtMentor I never tried painting with greyscale, to be fair, I only now started coloring my drawings, so I haven't found out the workflow that works best for me.... (I just feel I need to learn to use the lasso tool, or find something other than a round brush for coloring...)

[@TheArtMentor]

yeah I personally don't use grayscale painting anymore either

[@KimJImagery]

I tried that lasso clipping in Clip Studio Paint and it works!

[@carlosemiralonso7997]

Totally worth it. I just do the same right now.

[@TheArtMentor]

Haha glad to hear! Had you heard of that before?

[@KimJImagery]

@@TheArtMentor No I haven't heard of it before now.

[@afklegends151]

I was wondering any good tips and like practice for traditional drawing to start? and like to make effects?

[@Creative_Calico]

Hey, I've got a question regarding timelapses. I've got my OBS set to record at 24 fps and the same for my final export from my editing software. Is this the best setting fps-wise and what percentage do you generally speed up your footage by in your editing software?

[@TheArtMentor]

Happy to answer! That fps sounds fine, and I generally just copy the length of my clips and speed up my recording to match that clip’s length. So it definitely depend on what you do. For example, my line art Speedpaints go much slower than my illustrations bc they’re 2 hours compared to 15. How’s that sound?

[@Creative_Calico]

@@TheArtMentor Ahhh, good to know. Do you mean matching them to whatever accompanying voice clips the footage has? So far I've been doing full colour illustrations, somethings lineless, sometimes with lineart which is generally anywhere from 5 - 12 hours in length and then increasing the speed so it fits into a video around 10 minutes in length and adding in voiceover to explain my process but I think I need to do a lot more editing, trimming out bits that maybe go on for too long as squishing the whole thing down to that seems to make my final video come out a bit jittery on the playback.

[@TheArtMentor]

oh okay! Yeah I do the exact same thing. Just trim your timelapse video to where a clip ends, then copy the length of it, then undo the trim and paste that video length into your time lapse. It will automatically match the speed of the desired clip length. For shorter clips, just copy the length of the audio clip, then paste it into the length of the video clip

[@Creative_Calico]

@@TheArtMentor Hey, thanks for the advice. I'll give that a try in my future videos. I'm also taking on board the advice you gave in your videos about growing an art channel and getting rid of my intro and I'm going to start releasing my videos in batches of three to see how that goes :)

[@TheArtMentor]

Which of these tips do you want to start using now?

[@Wydrolak]

I noted down the Shift + CTRL + Alt cheat. Will test it after dinner :D

[@TheArtMentor]

It should definitely work 👍 what program are you using it in?

[@Wydrolak]

@@TheArtMentor Clip Studio Paint.

[@TheArtMentor]

yep it works in that

[@FuzzyImages]

How do you prevent the transforms and warps from blurring the crap out of what you just changed? I do this trick you mention all the time just I usually have to draw over it cause it becomes messed blurred and messed up.

[@TheArtMentor]

Okay so it should fix that after you hit enter from warping. My other thought is that your canvas is simply too small. Mine are 4K at the smallest parameter. What are yours?

[@FuzzyImages]

@@TheArtMentor I tend to work at either 11x17 inches at 100 PPI or 4000x3000 pixels. Unfortunately even with a 3070 and a 3700x I still get a lot of slow down on larger resolutions. It's strange to, I still have the same slow downs now as I did with my old computer 10 years ago, maybe it's a poor optimization on my part some how.