Other artist tutorial: "I first draw a circle" Sinix: "so we just draw a skull"

when you hear him talk it sounds like he's smiling the whole time

me: learns to draw circles properly after a few years Sinix: don't use circles *confused screaming*

@zippythewildone In my sketchbooks, I always just used pens... I suppose that makes you be more confident with your lines. The purpose of the skull stuff is mainly to drill the proportions into your head. The fleshyness of a face can make it difficult to figure out all of your visual cues for proportions. That is why visualizing the skull is so great. It has such obvious landmarks and visual cues. At the end of the day, just draw a lot of faces and you'll be fine.

Hey, I just wanted to let you know that your tutorial made me really happy. Even though there are heaps of online resources that show how to draw faces, this is the only one that made me smile just because I can hear it in your voice that this is something you really love and something that keeps your engine ticking and gives me hope that maybe one day I can comfortably draw at this level and be as happy as you are :) peace

the skull looks happy haha

It's porobably the first video ever that literally improved my drawings immediatly.

@Mygo666 I always just use the background color or white. That way I can color pick quickly back and forth from black and white. It's a lot faster.

rewatching these videos again! crazy how its been 11 yearss

Man your videos are better than the 3 years of art school I went through. Thank you so much

@D1NOSAWR Oh yeah, I'll just add an annotation to the video. That probably makes the most sense. Thanks for the comment! The link is at 20:00

I've been binge watching your videos today and I have learned so much. They are incredibly educating and I adore the way you explain everything. It all makes sense! I've been wanting to create semi realistic art recently, rather than cartoon and I really do feel like I will be able to do so, using your tips. Thank you for the amazing content.

At first, i'll admit, i was like...oh god. Skulls and anatomy and more studying and blehh. But the further i went on...the more inspired i got. So i guess im going to end up picking back up my skull studies after all XD Because drawing expressive and unique faces is my biggest goal amongst my many others

@DarkSaibot88 It's just minor interface differences and control stuff, as well as how the brushes feel. I wouldn't say one is better, and photoshop does a lot of great things with custom brushes that painter doesn't. But overall, I just feel more at home in Painter.

The anime jaw hits me hard there. I'm still having a hard time getting rid of anime jaw in my drawings

The skull thumbnail looks happy its just so cute haha

If 4 or 5 years ago was outdated back then this is ancient now 💀

You have no idea how useful this was for me. I think I'm pretty decent at drawing. faces aswel, but these small things just put things into perspective for me. (well, not literally.) Hands down, The best video on youtube on how to construct a face. You cover functionality and shapes and placement in one. It improved my visual understanding of the face and skull greatly.

Having these vids on in the background has been really helpful :) I even pick up on stuff halfway through a drawing XD

I can't thank you enough ... for the first time I was able to draw a semi-decent face , my first time drawing a skull too! so I don't draw digitally I drew the face over a faint skull drawing and it turned out great , which took only 5-10 minutes :) I will go now and practice drawing skulls :D thank you very very much.

@Lydomina I've tried the guideline stuff far in the past, but this ties into the second part of the question. I only use either a lining pen or a brush pen to do all of my traditional sketching. No room for guidelines there.

I totally didn't care that it was a kinda long video sooo worth every second! It's so hard to find someone that explains things well and can keep and ADHD kid like me fully enthralled for more than 5 mins. Good job man!

@554Kathrine It is the "scratchboard tool" you mentioned. Not sure what to say about it feeling different. The more you use a brush, the more comfortable you get with making it behave how you want.

9:49 CRAP THAT SCARED ME (also I love your videos, you inspire me to draw and challenge myself. Thank you

just wow..... you can draw from your memory? That's amazing

i just realized this was from 10 years ago. your improvements are amazing

Great work! I just found out a new world through this! Painting seems way much more fun than I used to think. Thanks!

@omanitnathan I don't think my pen pressure is anything special, but if yours feels off to you, be sure to mess with the settings in your Control Panel -> Wacom Tablet Settings.. as well as on the tablet itself. The sensitivity should feel natural to you, so that you're getting the line weight you want instinctively. Painter has a preference setting called "brush tracking" which helps adjust sensitivity. I'm not sure if photoshop has something similar as well.

That was a great advice. Thank you so much for sharing this :)

i think sinix is lilke the world's top 10 drawers....seriously this is insanely skilled (and with only a intuos tablet)

Really loved your video Sinix! My hand hurts so good from following along and filling up the sketchbook with faces. I am on page 4. Have a great day!

you should do tutorials on more specific parts of faces. noses eyes ears etc.

Really good, great job man, many thanks... I´m coming back to my old hobby, so that´s nice to learn a lot about drawing.

Pretty nice how you put the lines 1st time in exactly the right spot, and the expression you can give to a line blows me away dude....Awesome stuff ;)

@Lydomina No, but I skateboard goofy for what that's worth.

Your art theory tutorials are what's getting me through my funk. Thank you drawing god

i luv these kinda tutorials draw like a painter, paint like a sculptor, so yeah basiclly u are sculpting ahaahah, btw i discovered Sinixes chanell a week or so ago, did i learnd so much usefull things, thank u so much

Super professional guy. Excellent presentation of the material. Top notch, thank you sir!

its amazing how you can draw so accurately on a tablet, I wish I had your skill.

Thanks for a very enjoyable video. I admire the sureness of your lines which are so dark, crisp and sharp! What's been most enjoyable, though, is my attempting to go draw along with you; as, basically, everyone draws 'different', I guess; so the faces that came out when I copied yours...were NOT the sort of faces I as a 'beginner' would normally produce. Certainly, I tend to struggle an awful lot with getting proportions right; and, your proportions are therefore far better than is mine. The overall lesson I learned here is...when you try NOT copying...then, you are in effect copying yourself(not a good thing when you're a beginner?!); but, when you copy from others...who, really and truly, know what they're doing; then, you learn one hell of a lot more. ;-)

I tried this for the first time a while back and it worked, I haven't done it in awhile but it helps so much :D

you just got another subscriber, keep the tips coming. i'm learning alot

That skull has a pretty smile. I'm actually drawing anime too and I'm kind of bad drawing real faces because they always look like kids. This seems a good idea to try it may help a lot with drawing faces and skulls :D!

The happy face at the end looks like the happy masks man from Zelda :D Hey thanks for the tutorial, it really helped me!

Hey Sinix, This video helped a lot. Filling my sketch book with skulls now. Thanks.

Glad you updated, you don't sound all depressed anymore like you did in your first video lol.

This is really good and I was so giddy when I already knew some stuff you were talking about. Are you going to do a vid about shading the face? I usually pull and take pictures if mine if I get stuck :/

You're like the X of art. It's awesome!

I missed your channel I've been looking forever!!

I always rewatch this video, it is great!

thank you, thank you, thank you so much for this!

Your videos and tutorials are really so helpful and gives a different perspective on how one can view their own art and improve it, thank you so much for your time in spreading your knowledge! O u O

Very good tutorial. Started to follow your advise yesterday and I improved skill almost instantly. Thanks for enlightening me. /Robert

How i didn't find this channel earlier? its so helpful!

looks like samurai champloo in a good sense love your art

loving your videos! =]] someone posted it on my sketchbook on conceptart.org for me to improve my brush strokes and I'm just loving your channel... besides having a very fun and awesome style I really dig your narration, hehe... it's sweet and funny xD thanks for sharing your knowledge!

wow, this is great! must try this. Thank you!

Hello, did you apply special settings to your brush to achieve the full vs fine lines?

Ok i watched the video half first and stopped and started drawing skulls. I mean a lot of skull, from lots of angle. Its really help and btw now the video is feeling more informative.

I love that brush you draw with is there a photoshop equivalent?

I enjoyed your video. I wish you can teach me how to draw skulls, its terminology and functions. I think it is absolutely necessary to learn everything about the skull before drawing the flesh that is if one desires drawing from the mind. Many face tutorials I came across are deemed helpful, but always find something lacking. In addition some are like reading a textbook; not as fun to watch. I also like your little I suppose unintentional countenance lessons. And your style is awesome! Thanks!

We need a drawing bodies redux :D.

Dude, i love you

Do i have to always make that spiral line before drawing so my drawings will have a good result like yours? :D impressive drawing and tutorial as always

this was pretty great, thank you

God damn he’s been doing this for like 13 years now

Helped allot, would be cool to see some coloring and shading tutorials

SINIX, jesus christ. this is amazing.

He's making this shit make sense instead of the using the usually tutorial stance on KZfaq that employs the "drawing from air and memory " approach.

Good artstyle, it reminds me a bit of the old movie Akira!

This was good tip :D. Thanks.

simply wow!

This is wonderful! do you have some more advice for people who are from an anime backgrounds (and their mistakes)?

Love it!

very helpful - thank you!

thanks so much!! so helpful to me :D

Such pretty skuuuuulls!

Were these videos sped up? Cause you like rapidly draw lines and undo them until you draw one you like. It's just that you do it so fast, it's crazy, I have to know if it's real

You sound very jolly! Thanks!

This helped a lot. Thank you. c:

awesome video sinix!!! its kinda horrifying how sovereign u create those faces! some day i will be as good as u are ;) CHACKA :D

Hey man great video! Can anyone explain to me how he manages to set the pressure of the pen to influence only the width of the line while leaving the opacity at 100%? Thanks!

wow I find drawing faces so much easier now, skulls.. who knew!

I like this video alot brother!!!

i got scared when u were flashing from skull to flesh. O_O i caught on perfectly though, perfect vid.

I like the flat brush you used in painter 9 for the painting faces series, but I'm having trouble finding a similar flat, opaque brush in painter 12...any suggestions? It might just be that I don't know how to change the brush preferences, but the flat pens/brushes mostly have an automated tilt that results in them rotating instead of remaining flat...I don't know how to better explain...sorry..

9:50 scared the shut outta me

Great video. Really helpful. I had a thought about half way through the video - it would be cool if you took the traditional anatomical approach and theory and apply them to comic/cartoon characters, so we could see what Homer Simpson, Mickey Mouse, Rick Sanchez, Fred Flintstone etc etc would look like under the skin 🤔👍

10:07 3yr old me when I find a lickable/ touchable electrical outlet :)

Surely a skull can't smile cos its bone and non flexible..a smile is the retraction of the muscular layer over the skull, A jaw can open on the side hinges but there's no lateral movement.Also on your top down view I dont think you'll find the eyeballs projecting out from the eye sockets to that degree.It looks as if the model is tilting his head back, The phrase youre looking for is low angle or up-shot. Thx for the vid

i went and watched that first video, Sinix was here so long it's like watching sketchbook progress: their lines aren't as assured yet, the voice hasn't been yet rendered sly from drawing all the lewd pics; it's fun

great video :) thank you ^^

when do u think ur drawing its finished? im still practicing and ur vids r awesome! when im drawing i always think i can do it better! but the prob is.. if i watch my drawing the next and the day after and so on i might change something. i know that a drawing cant be perfect but when do u stop to make changes?

@sinixdesign Ah, I asked because it seems like you mostly draw from right to left instead of the other way around. I'm right handed too(amazing right?), but I can't play pool or open bottles and jars with my right hand for some reason. Next 2 questions: Have you always drawn without guidelines? Also, have you always preferred an ink style brush(no pressure sensitivity) for doing sketches digitally(or even traditionally)?

Damn.. thought id be first to comment lol... great vid... keep em coming... by the way, you seem to prefer Painter 9 to photoshop... why is that?

you sound so happy in this...just came from your first video and got used to your old voice (???)

I like this idea of thinking of organic shapes and lines. i just realized thats whats making my art look off

How do you get the brush to display like that, my brushes are displayed as circles no matter what brush I'm using. I know that you can change this in Photoshop for instance by just pressing Caps (as default). Is there a way to change it in Painter aswell? Awesome tips btw. You're a great inspiration.

This is teaching me more than art class ever did lol

What is that brush, are you changing the sizes or it's all pen pressure?