Developing Your Style by Studying the Masters

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What do Krüger, Opdebeeck, and David O’Keefe all have in common? They’re each a master caricature artist with their own unique style! One of the top questions artists ask us is how they can develop their own unique style. Besides experimentation and a lot of practice, one of the ways to figure out your own style is by studying from artists you admire. In this lesson, we’ll focus on studying a piece from Sebastian Krüger and try to copy one of his caricatures. In the process of trying to replicate his artwork, Court will explain what makes this a “Krüger” piece. Taking note of these traits is important as you can then try to develop your own traits that you want to put into your own drawings.
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@lorenzoarbia3072 3 жыл бұрын

love how proko channel became like a school where you find a lot of great artist and teachers giving lessons, top notch quality

@mikeynyc6857 Жыл бұрын

Yep, genius.

@KnjazNazrath 5 жыл бұрын

Watching this as a musician is giving me some interesting ideas.

@convadodeltaro1997 4 жыл бұрын

I am an actor-musician, totally feel ya.

@chasechapman9302 4 жыл бұрын

That's funny! I'm an artist but I often study musicians and how they compose/write music and implement that to my image building!

@giovannipanarello 3 жыл бұрын

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@tamerov2387 3 жыл бұрын

@@chasechapman9302 Musicians *are* artists ;)

@Cino31313 2 жыл бұрын

@@tamerov2387 true! Just different instruments pencil, own body, drums all artists

@Dragonknight761 6 жыл бұрын

I copy meself, so I am already on another level.

@SebastianTinajero 6 жыл бұрын

Elvis Cosovic now sue yourself for copying yourself and you’ll be on an even higher level!

@priscillahernandez8193 6 жыл бұрын

@brainlessman548 6 жыл бұрын

No, you're

@boweneveritt3400 5 жыл бұрын

Elvis

@convadodeltaro1997 4 жыл бұрын

Cheers my fellow narcissist.

@Krisjennewein 5 жыл бұрын

Well done....I saw you put in a shadow under the forward eye, very early in your feature forms, and I was like; "that is way too dark" and I watched you put in all the values around it....amazing....you didn't touch it through the whole drawing. All the values organically coordinated around your first rendering. It was a very nice lesson in planning value ranges. - - You teach like the nicest person on the planet. -- I really liked everything about this video.

@benheine 6 жыл бұрын

Great! I was there with Kruger when he made this painting (I actually took this photo), Kruger made the painting in just a couple of hours. The drawing is really good too! Glad I could contribute to the making of this nice tutorial

@CourtJones 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the use of your photos, Ben!

@davidthomspson9771 5 жыл бұрын

I learned something interesting from reading a book called ' Drawing on the right side of the brain" you can draw almost anything by turning the image upside down and then sketching it.Regardless of artistic experience,there is a glaring example shown in the book of several students told to recreate a sketch of Picasso sitting in a chair.Its quite fascinating.

@Mipetz38 6 жыл бұрын

That amazing, I never expected you could that much insight from copying drawings When I do so, later I keep and drop some of their traits I think I identified well and incorporate to my own style

@tbev3363 6 жыл бұрын

I went to the only 2010 U.S. workshop, her did Clint Eastwood in 3 days. It was awesome to watch a master do his thing!

@jerrichocross9755 6 жыл бұрын

My mind has been opened up. Thank you for the tips

@TheHostofHeaven 6 жыл бұрын

beautiful drawing! love these caricature videos!!!

@stephenjoiner3738 5 жыл бұрын

Big to medium to small with the shapes. Excellent process to do a drawing.

@BAwesomeDesign 5 жыл бұрын

I agree with just about everything, but also think that part of doing a study is discovering the process itself. Having a process laid out for you can get in the way of actually developing perhaps a more compact process. Aside from learning to look at something very closely and basic hand/eye coordination, I feel like the most natural way to develop as an artist would be to do the master study and develop a process on ones' own. Inserting another person's methods or analyses in between the brain and the study is an extra complication.

@omegaredtooth5104 2 жыл бұрын

A brilliant explanation of this process! Bravo!

@GothicWiccan61 6 жыл бұрын

I'm so happy that I found your channel!!!

@NotAppIicabIe 3 жыл бұрын

I'm so indecisive so studying from multiple artists instead of just one makes it easier for me haha. I never decided who to study from..

@noahhunt8575 2 жыл бұрын

Try Kim Jung Gi. He’s great.

@vebelostotsky 6 жыл бұрын

thank you very much for nice advises!

@thesketchwizard6406 Жыл бұрын

This was so helpful and relaxing to watch!

@angelakate9922 3 жыл бұрын

I actually learned a lot from this in just a minute

@zonvas 4 жыл бұрын

Great content and useful advice for every artists. Really love the way you explained. This is applicable for realistic portrait too. Thanks

@giovannipanarello 3 жыл бұрын

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@antonioblanco3086 6 жыл бұрын

Amazing! This kind of videos is very cool! I'm gonna copy your style court! jjajaaj

@NotAppIicabIe 3 жыл бұрын

Is there any types of warm ups to do to improve at finding the bigger shapes and getting them proportionally as accurate as possible? I think I get lost in the detail too much. My brain struggles to get proportions precise.

@imajyn8tive334 6 жыл бұрын

A video posted!?!? And on my birthday as well!! Holy cow this is awesome! Your video is cool as ever, thank you proko!

@amaiacarcedo1566 6 жыл бұрын

Imajyn8tive happy birthday!🎉 Have a nice day❤️

@anonicantthinkofaname7440 6 жыл бұрын

Imajyn8tive happy birthday!!

@angelbracero4053 5 жыл бұрын

I love your channel. So very helpful. Thank you for sharing.

@giovannipanarello 3 жыл бұрын

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@TheOneAndOnlyLewis 4 жыл бұрын

I thought I was going insane looking at that Krüger, it keeps changing resolution.

@stevemccracken5856 Жыл бұрын

Superb work.

@MrMinermation 6 жыл бұрын

Brilliant video, I will be sure to incorporate these techniques into my own art-making process.

@recklessrenegade9150 3 жыл бұрын

Autumn Leaves! A great music choice c:

@cartoonmark75 6 жыл бұрын

Great advice

@afro18en Жыл бұрын

This is sooo impressive

@geoffbrandenburg4685 4 жыл бұрын

Stan - can you share a source for the gold band Pierre Noir 1710 B pencils that you and Court use in your videos? I can only find the plain black barrel 1710's. Thansk!

@nikkiswenson54 Жыл бұрын

I enjoyed the study!

@Billionaireben 5 жыл бұрын

For the Sebastian Kruger art, I like his realist pop art portraits. The distorted caricatures look like something I'd see on a click bait list.

@TomVfishing 5 жыл бұрын

Great video. So many similarities to learning an instrument.

@giovannipanarello 3 жыл бұрын

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@RosssRoyce 6 жыл бұрын

Your vid is wonderful for beginners! But on the critical side: these straight lines only give you the impression of outlining "correct proportions" because ...they feel..assertive(Russian/American) academic style. For example your lower ear is outlined drastically incorrect, so is the proportion of the line of hat sticking out from nose, etc. I feel one should cultivate a renaissance style light line and care more about triangulation than one to one proportions leading to wrong shapes. Developing a light curved line takes only two three days even when you are not used with it. This line can be easily corrected (like michaelangelo does for ex.) while uselessly repeated straight line doesn't invite variations and corrections without erasing. Cheers

@CourtJones 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your input. However, as I mention in the video, the most important thing about this exercise is not making it an exact copy like how a machine would reproduce it. But just to get a feeling of how the original artist chose to exaggerate his shapes and re-define Wagner's head. It's good that you have a particular drawing style and technique that you are passionate about, but that does not appeal to everybody. I am not really a fan of Michelangelo and Da Vinci's drawings. They have a look or stylization that feels a little formulaic and a product of its time. I welcome the students of my course to draw using whatever process and personal style they like but they should try to follow some sort of procedure. In my case, I did a version of the Reilly Abstraction to build the shapes. There are many roads that lead to Rome, as they say.

@shelz5855 6 жыл бұрын

loved it

@realswobby 3 жыл бұрын

3:15 quite a way to become a new Picasso

@drawingstuff6660 6 жыл бұрын

I am far too impatient for this kind of work process but I know I gotta do it If I wanna get goos

@JoeDoe2 5 жыл бұрын

What do you mean by 'how they rendered the forms' at 11:28? Can you talk about how you decide which way to hold the pencil at various times? Also, why you whittle pencils for sharpening as opposed to using a pencil sharpener, and which brands and hardnesses you use?

@CourtJones 5 жыл бұрын

The illusion of form in a drawing is created by the values and edges that separate them. What I meant by learning how the original master artists rendered their forms was that in doing an exercise where you're trying to recreate the look and style of someone else's work, you may discover that you have to design shadows, halftones and lights and the edges between them in a particular way that maybe you are not used to. The act of re-creating that look is a great teacher, especially if you have trouble rendering forms in a drawing when working on your own. Regarding the pencil, I sharpen it that way because it gives me the greatest variety of use. I can use it flat on its side for a wide area of value or on its tip for a thin line. How I hold it is a reaction to the effect I want to achieve: broad even tones of value, soft edges, thin lines or hard edges. It also encourages you to draw more from the shoulder and elbow, creating larger more graceful strokes. It also helps prepare you to handle a paint brush. It is weird at first to hold the pencil those ways if you're not used to it. But you quickly adapt and it will become the only way you will want to draw.

@Axiassart 2 жыл бұрын

The main question is how do I learn about old master or how do I choose an old master to study about?

@myrkflinn4331 6 жыл бұрын

Isn't it also visualizing it ? I can visualize it in my head on how it would look like if I did something with it. xd idk it helps me to ease into drawing composition and characters easier.

@mephisto6250 4 жыл бұрын

kim jung gi ples bless me with your drawing skills!

@cshula1 5 жыл бұрын

Wonderful drawing!

@giovannipanarello 3 жыл бұрын

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@luckylicks3497 6 жыл бұрын

These principles apply to music as well.

@miguelangeljavierpereyraar4386 2 жыл бұрын

Gracias por subtítulos en español

@bunnyfreakz 6 жыл бұрын

Proko could be considered master already.

@MegaRudeBoy69 6 жыл бұрын

I've always wondered about that, because i feel making a copy of another artist, without knowing their method, only leads you to make the same technical mistakes. You may end up with something that has similarity, but you don't get the real knowledge of that artist. If you don't know that a painter started with a grise, you will miss all that knowledge and go straight for color.

@mikeg4691 3 жыл бұрын

At what skill level is it recommended to do master studies?

@orsonwelles4254 6 жыл бұрын

How does one study Al Hirschfeld?

@loumed206 6 жыл бұрын

Study his linework and simplifying of the human form.

@skyweli 6 жыл бұрын

Nice video :D I don't understand why some artists are against copying 🤔

@FilmTalkNow 5 жыл бұрын

Skyweli they will never be masters at it. As long as you don’t pass it as your own on social media or anywhere else’s it’s perfectly fine. Some beginners don’t understand that copying great masters makes you into one.

@Cronosx2008 6 жыл бұрын

muy util papuh

@ManooniTV 6 жыл бұрын

Master :)

@imahumanbeing3446 6 жыл бұрын

YES

@goldroger9990 6 жыл бұрын

What if I don't like carry catcher.

@beeeean 6 жыл бұрын

Is it better to go super light

@Armendicus 6 жыл бұрын

codina doesminecraft yes

@CourtJones 6 жыл бұрын

In the beginning, yes, so you can erase badly placed lines more easily.

@fellen1611 6 жыл бұрын

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the same technique as Charles Bargue?

@CourtJones 6 жыл бұрын

Some of the strokes are Bargue-like, I guess. But my process is more heavily influenced by Frank Reilly.

@lavamatstudios 6 жыл бұрын

This video would have been a true Gesamtkunstwerk if you had played some of Wagner's best tunes in the background.

@CourtJones 6 жыл бұрын

That IS a good idea. I don't know why we didn't think of that!

@RebekkaHay 6 жыл бұрын

Yes, I agree. This was such a cool video to watch but I found the Jazz music quite unnerving. But that's just me. ;-)

@Honken 6 жыл бұрын

Tunes? TUNES!? Leitmotifs! [Anal retention intensifies]

@lavamatstudios 6 жыл бұрын

+Honken _Well ackshually_ Wagner never endorsed the theory of leitmotifs himself. The only time he used the term in his text was as _"so called_ leitmotifs," indicating that he found the concept reductive. [pushes glasses back up nose]

@Honken 6 жыл бұрын

[Cognitive dissonance thickens] [Rebutes with reducto ad Hitlerum]

@vitdmilk5466 6 жыл бұрын

that DANG ear!

@shuvoDhar.5537 Ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤

@tbev3363 6 жыл бұрын

I mean *he*, Sebastian, did Clints portrait...i should proof read sometime.

@jamesbenson2090 5 жыл бұрын

Now would you want to Copy artists one at a time or dedicate a certain time you focus on one artist at a time

@CourtJones 4 жыл бұрын

I would say either way is beneficial, depending on your personality. You could copy one artist for as long as he/she inspires you and then move on to another one that inspires you. Or you could constantly jump back and forth each time you do it. It's all good.

@aethiluvatar 6 жыл бұрын

I use a #2 pencil so...

@rachelmurphy4190 2 жыл бұрын

Am sitting in my room staring at my anime drawings and thinking "wow am rubbish at drawing" lmao. Shading, clothing tension etc and so bad at and same with hands and feet >

@oldmanandthesea7039 5 жыл бұрын

It’s a very good drawing except that I wish the artist paid a little more attention to the coutures of the nose and the chin. They both could be a bit more pointed.

@popesuavecitoxii2379 6 жыл бұрын

It'd be more effective if you did a study of an artist's work and then tried to create something new in that same style. Just copying the picture doesn't do much beyond making you better at copying that one image. You have to put it to work.

@CourtJones 6 жыл бұрын

It's funny you should say that. In the premium caricature course, that is exactly what I did. For each copy of a master's work I made, I attempted an original in their style. It's quite a challenge. I hope you can check it out. Near the end of this video above, we show a quick preview of my original Arnold Schwarzenegger sketch that I did for the premium course attempting to recreate the style of Krüger.

@BAwesomeDesign 5 жыл бұрын

@Pope: Not necessarily. Pencil mileage when copying does count, especially if you analyze what you're doing.

@Xilaas 5 жыл бұрын

Pope Suavecito XII if you are doing a master study thAt is the opposite of what you wanna do, you want to analyze and break down the piece first

@sath6089 6 жыл бұрын

Dat chin tho

@cloudqbaby4580 5 жыл бұрын

I know right ;-;

@kairassubliminals6235 5 жыл бұрын

Aaand the nose 👃

@DARKNESSrbg 5 жыл бұрын

SO u just drew layer by layer?

@burntt999 5 жыл бұрын

WHERE DID LEONARDO DICAPRIO GO!!!!

@notaninstrument7707 6 жыл бұрын

Oh jeez. Is it me or does that look like Kevin Spacey

@uhiqx 6 жыл бұрын

i Don't need to copy the masters i am the master himself kappa lol

@RosssRoyce 6 жыл бұрын

Your style may come mostly from your sensibility, predilections, temperament and taste inclinations.

@CourtJones 6 жыл бұрын

And where would one form their sensibility, predilections and taste inclinations (which are basically three ways to say the same thing)? I would say from your instructors and the artists you most admire (your artistic influences). Just my humble opinion! :)

@luxuriousmindset1906 9 ай бұрын

@CourtJones no you can get inspired by anything its just that people wants to try to imitate art they like from others

@tubekulose 6 жыл бұрын

If you like Sebastian Krüger this much, you should perhaps improve the pronunciation of his name. ;-) However, well made!

@CourtJones 6 жыл бұрын

I try my best to pronounce international artists' names out of respect. But I never learned German. Actually, I find it a little obnoxious when an American switches over to a pitch perfect foreign accent when pronouncing words and names. It's like they're showing off or something. :)

@pardismack 6 жыл бұрын

I speak Arabic, French and English fluently and I know a bit of some other languages. I find it strange that people judge other people's accents but hold on to their native accent. What I learned is: 1. Don't judge people's accents. They're already interested somehow in your culture and you should be grateful 2. I found that what held my language abilities the most is that fear of showing off. I notice it in people and I think it's acceptable (as long as they don't try to "correct" my accent to their weird one, because that's real showing off). I know they're practicing to get it right, and I swallowed my pride and began doing it too. I got out of the weird phase and became good at it in no time.

@pardismack 6 жыл бұрын

I guess instead of holding on to what we're used to, copying the masters of their language does some good too =) they're just not as rare as in arts. just a thought :p

@CourtJones 6 жыл бұрын

I should also mention that on the few occasions when I've met Mr. Krüger at gallery openings and at caricature artist conventions, everyone pronounces his name as I do in a standard American English way and no one has ever been corrected. So I am using my direct experience of meeting him in how I say his name. And likewise, when I travel overseas, my foreign friends put their own native pronunciation on my name. I think most people are cool and understand that is going to happen.

@pardismack 6 жыл бұрын

you're great and I'm happy that you're doing these videos. keep at it and thanks =)

@luxuriousmindset1906 9 ай бұрын

This dont work with digital art though. you'll never be able to actually copy someone's look if you don't know what software they use it could be many software in there workflow then on top of that what settings or custom brushes and so on this is a nice tip for traditional artists but not for people doing digital

@ProkoTV 9 ай бұрын

This isn't true. You can make incredibly similar work to someone else's with almost any program. We see people make painterly masterpieces with MS Paint, I made a whole video about getting the same quality as a brush pen drawing with pencil and more. The point of a master study isn't to make it exactly the same. It's to try to reverse engineer how you'd do it with what you know and learn the why of the master's art. You may not have the same shortcuts for quick fills, chromatic aberration or other small workflow things but you can create the same work if you really want. The only thing stopping you is your desire and drive to try to figure out how. I believe in you and hope you make the work you're looking to!

@bozoclown2098 4 ай бұрын

Something waa not mentioned.

@Tony-xh2xm 2 жыл бұрын

Exquisite neck beard.

@_weetchy6009 6 жыл бұрын

I am the first😁

@dampierre99 Жыл бұрын

Villager ahh painting

@anuragbhatt6923 6 жыл бұрын

2nd

@Chaogardenx 6 жыл бұрын

I believe style is innate, no need to search for it. All that is needed is practice and lots of work

@clairew4829 6 жыл бұрын

Oscar Rubio I'm lazy for this work

@Dragonknight761 6 жыл бұрын

Oscar Rubio But practice and work are actually research tools for ones style. So there is no reason why you shouldn't do research of other artists.

@patricia4453 6 жыл бұрын

No, you need the base first and then with that base create your own style. Like when we were kids and we copied our parents walk, copying how to talk

@levesteM 6 жыл бұрын

Finding your own style is like learning to talk. Your voice might be unique, but the people you grew up with will influence your speech whether you know it or not

@BAwesomeDesign 5 жыл бұрын

Babies don't need a "base" when they learn to speak. Copy from masters. It's the right way to learn.