My friend’s sister was an artist who used acrylic to make the under painting which she painted her oils on. It saved drying time.

I agree a lot on the first advice! Learning to control different mediums has the potential to make you better and more versatile in your medium of choice, too! As for the second and third advice... I think they can be valuable for a beginner, even if I personally disagree, and liked some of the art (and especially the photograph) more before they were made to be more 'symmetrical'/ 'pretty' ;-) But I think here's where subjectivity plays a lot into it, and I think for a beginner who wants to get satisfying paintings, the advice is very sound. I'll personally still try and capture the little imperfections of life, though.

When I paid for college art classes this was my frustration! I was given assignments to practice but not taught new skills! Thank you for your videos 😊💕

Best video on KZfaq till date 👍 your explanation is so perfect and clear, no artists has explained it so nicely . Thank you so much for this video 🙏

These are such valuable and incredible tips! I really appreciate all you do. Thank you!✨

Great advice. Beautiful art!

Thank you for your dedication to art!

I´m super fond of your art Lioba, and thanks for those tips! However, I must admit that don´t agree with all of them, particularly concerning the symmetry of a human face (or did you actually mean proportion?) since not every face in reality is symmetric. I also think that your advice on modifying a photo to make it less photorealistic is purely subjective, this is about you, the artist Lioba, applying your own personal taste and beauty criteria to your own references. I personally find Kaya Scodelario (the actress on the picture you modified on Photoshop) beautiful enough and I´d never even think of changing her features if I ever was to make a portrait of her, but maybe, it´s about taste... Wouldn´t you agree however that constantly modifying your references it is the best way to achieve the "same face syndrome"?

Thank you for clarifying so many things , it's a big pleasure to see your art process, it's very helpful, thanks and keep it up 👏🙏 - from a new follower

Thanks for your advices. 🌺

Omg your work is at a all time new higher level of amazing!

Thanks, Lioba, that you are sharing so much!!! By the way, I Love your dub. For me it is my favourite kind of "Podcast"

Invaluable lessons.

photo realism has its place, but its not very individualistic, all looks the same and could be done by anyone with enough practice, art always looks better (i think at least) when it has an artist's own personal touch to it 🙂

Great tips!

Thanks to you Lioba I have reached to this point in my art. I will continue to progress and try to improve my self and can't wait for your next online course! Each time I paint along with you, my art is elevated. Thank you for all the valuable knowledge and advices you give us. I highly recommend to everyone Lioba' s online live courses. Trust me you will not regret it.

Yes, it took me a while to understand this. I don't worry too much. You can't think as a profesional when you only a beginer. It is like explaining quantum phisics to a 5 yo. You just need to learn step by step.

11:17 her eyes are so pretty!

I find a lot of your advice flawed. When you edited the photography of a woman you took it from a beautiful photo to something mildly disturbing. Making art that looks like the photo will help you improve more than if you alter the proportions and end up not getting a good understanding of your subject. You can still have fun with a photo without messing with the proportions and that will aid your improvement more

I'd love to see your take on an mtg Planeswalker card. I think you'd nail it for sure.

Beautiful piece! What is your favorite watercolor brand ? ❤

What kind of sticky paper do you use for the stencil?

Beautiful. Is that photoshop used around 2 minutes in? Or what photo editor do you use? I'd like to find an affordable, possibly free, quality editor. I don't need too crazy advanced with things I won't use. Just ease of use and good basic tools. Thanks:)

Hello Lioba! Thanks for the video and the good tips. Your videos in Patreon seems interesting, and make me curious about how you work your compositions. I was asking myself, are there subtitles too in the videos of your Patreon ( because English is not my mother language, I hope I didn't do too many mistakes ^^ ) thank you!

Where do you get all those photoshop clip art?

Hallo Lioba, wie hast du die stencils gemacht? Was ist eine cutting machine und sticky paper? Liebe Grüße

Interesting advice, I'm not sure if your meaning may have been lost in translation or not. But alterting a face to make it more "beautiful" probably wasn't the best way to word it. Alter it to make it more mystical or magical or ethereal maybe? I just think in this day and age there are a lot of people with body dysmorphia, so choosing the right phrases is important. Otherwise it's a beautiful work of art, I love your style and how you help a lot of artists. I am considering joining your patreon 🫶

Changing the facial features could you lead to a lot of heads looking quite the same, without any kind of personality, don't you think. Isn't it boring and toxic to take away all unique features for the sake of pretty?

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Hi, can you tell Mr what cutting machine you used please. Thank you

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excelent, not taking the BS advice from rigid stuck up all knowing prodfessors, I bet you surpassed them😁😃😍

"This looks so much better, doesn't it?" After photoshopping a model's face to change her features to a smaller face, bigger eyes, smaller nose etc. no, it literally doesn't look better, it looks so creepy and uncanny, she looks like a bug, you made her more childish too, it's so weird and insulting for the models

cringing at you making that photo of a woman have way more child like proportions 😬😬😬😬

I’d love to join your Patreon but 10$ a month for one Patreon is pretty expensive. I back like 7 ppl and the most expensive is 5$. It adds up quick. Perhaps you could add some lower priced memberships.

ahhhh.... come on.... the one girl painted one eye upper and bigger than the other eye. so before your class, she didn't realise, didn't see in the mirror or by her family or friends that by every human one eye is similar to the another eye!!! ahhhh... come on... no one is that stupid!!!! 🤣 im artist myself and i never see a beginner doing that big mistakes. hey... sorry but i can't believe this!!! 😂