Thank you for watching! Remember, a lot of these are just my opinions so don't be pressured to change your art because I said something negative. Different things work for different people! Also, no, I'm not becoming a tiktok react channel. I'm just experimenting with video topics!

I mean its important for digital artists to understand color theory even if they use blending modes. Understanding why unexpected colors work in certain circumstances is great and helps you be more expressive with color. It works best if you can thoughtfully pick a funky color and roll with it rather than just relying on blending modes. You can add more nuance & appreciate traditional art more for the work

the "tracing to study not bad" take is sooooo crazy overdone lmao. when I'm starting a new drawing I will trace over a reference to get a feel for the pose I'm using and then I will draw it myself using what I observed from tracing. it absolutely has its merits and to most artists its common sense that its fine as long as you dont claim its yours

Also something for the symmetry tool, I use it actually for sketch purposes, if I am drawing a pose or face that is symmertrical to a degree. Because I am using iot for a sketch I can get Arm/leg positions, or general fave shape symmetrical while not making it look unnatural to my own style

About the color theory-

Tiktok artists giving tips: "Things i wish i knew when i was a beginner artist! - to get better at drawing i have to draw"

I feel like being told not to use overly saturated colors, shade with black, shade with blue etc. really ruined my painting process because while yeah it might apply to the more mainstream social media art style with lineart and stuff it DEFINITELY won't apply to a proper painting because real lighting is so much more malleable than that

on art tracing as a form of study - you'll learn more if you trace photo references or even 3D models rather than other's illustration.

Bro got really upset over colors lmao

I'm actually glad you covered black hair styles, im black myself, and i do agree with your take on those custom brushes. I have a few characters that have black hair styles like that and i don't think i would personally use them either because of your reason. Thank you for covering this!

my art hot take: line quality doesnt matter on the sketch layer. put all your energy getting the weight and smoothness on the inking, the lines people will actually see not the guidelines they wont. sketch layer is all about composition posing and form

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I'm the freak that likes to draw lots of complicated stupid details by hand because I find a weird zen in it - but I don't find issue with the custom brushes. HOWEVER - a big tip that my friend and I have discovered is that it's actually better to use the custom brushes on a separate layer to get the general shapes/direction/etc then lower the opacity and on a new layer draw over it. You're gonna get a more natural line variance while you're tracing and you can make small edits as you go to make it actually work more with your natural drawing style.

I think with the colour theory craze, it's more meant for beginner artists who don't know you're actually layering on another colour and bend over backwards tryna figure out how and why the "blue" looks the way it does and then when they eyedrop it it's actually some desaturated shade.

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