All the tips in this video are great, except for this one (2:14). No matter how hard it is to draw the other eye, try to fix it, don't hide it. The same thing happens with hands. No matter how hard it is to draw hands, try to do it. I personally suck at drawing hands, but every day I draw at least 5 hand poses. I know that if I keep doing it, I'll get so much better at drawing hands.

40) correction PNG only, Jpg LOSES quality with each save, so unless you intententionally wanna make it so the bes tpossible quality comes from you directly use Png

My personal tip. If you're having an artblock and you don't know what to draw? Draw something stupid and over exaggerated art/pose this sometimes gave you happy mistakes and ideas and you'll be back to normal in no time

I gotta say, at 2:30 it's not actually a bad thing if your lineart ISNT a consistent size. Using line weight can sometimes really improve the look of your work if you do it right c:

Love the video! I'd like to say that tracing another person's artwork (2:48) isn't an ineffective practice. If you're not thrilled about how your art style looks and across the table someone has jaw-dropping work, observing, referencing, and tracing are all good ways to "take notes" per se, and pick up on nuances you otherwise might've missed. (Never claim the traced artwork to be an original piece and avoid posting it at all if the artist hasn't consented.) It's a teaching device :D One that shouldn't be over-relied on nor expected to produce beautiful art. Thank you for all the awesome tips

The only thing I disagree on is the tip about tracing, as long as you don't pass others art off as your own tracing can help with muscle memory. Personally, it's helped me tons.

4:12 this applies to all programs. If the bucket tool doesn't work as intended for you, just disable anti-aliasing and there wouldn't be white lines when using the bucket anymore. This makes your drawing less blurry and if you are working on a low resolution, your drawing might look pixelated, so is up to you disabling it or not.

If your drawing with a mouse DONT :D

Kinda hard to do an art tips video because everyone has their own way of doing art, but I like how brief the video was. Few little complaints though: 1. If you can't draw hands, learn to draw hands, don't try to hide them because it will just make things worse (and that goes with anything art wise). 2. If you can't draw 2 eyes, try to simplify them into shapes first. Draw the lines across the face, add the shapes that best represent the eyes you want to draw, and then add the details on top. The shapes almost acts as a guide as you draw the eyes because it allows your brain to focus on the important bits of the eye instead of the whole eye. 3. The thickness of the line-art depends on the style you're going for. Thinner lines does not equal better art Bonus tip: Drawings don't have to follow realism or some kind of norm. Experiment with the medium, try things no one else dares to do, fuck around with lines, shapes, and colours because you might find something really cool in that mess (like coloured line-art). Bonus bonus tip: It's good to copy other artists work (without tracing or stealing of course). Doing so will allow you to learn how an artist created their art, and you can see a bunch of little nuances in their work that you yourself can use to further improve your own art. Plus, you can turn it into some cool fan-art once you're done.

Here some corrections: - ALWAYS try to draw hands and the other eye, if you keep evading them, you wont ever know how to draw them. - drawing with a mouse is NOT wrong It will be way slower but still possible to draw good

Honestly I really love the “without reference” horse. With a little cleaning it could look like a really good stylized horse

"learn color theory" great tip, man wow

Finally a bunch of tips in a short video that is straight to the point Tracing CAN be a good way to understand how things work, but it doesn’t work for everyone and it’s easy to be too dependent on tracing. Don’t always hide the eye unless it’s part of the design, but if you REALLY can’t be bothered, just copy and paste the eye on a new layer, invert, then horizontally squish it and tilt it. If it got blurry, just trace over that new eye on a another new layer. I wish I knew about that trick when I was 11, but somehow I knew that always drawing the bangs would be a problem in the future.

3:41 The chicken scratches for sketching can be a style on its own. You don’t necessarily need a clean sketch if you are going to use it to make clean lineart.

Sky did you know that a youtuber 18x bigger than you,copied your video and now it's being canceled in my country(brazil)his name is torajo you need to do somenthing Sky!

as someone with a severely short attention span who doesn't do well paying attention long term, this has really been a pleasure of a video, easy to keep up with and entertaining to keep my silly mind attracted.

Tips Number 51. Accept criticism! Just because someone criticizes your work doesn't mean they hate it. If you can't handle criticism, then don't post your work.

-Not everyone has the money to buy a tablet, I've been using a mouse for years and I think my art looks good, it all depends on the artist -Use colors for shadows instead of black, especially if you use a specific color palette -Always save as .PNG, never .JPG or other similar formats -Tracing can help you improve, especially to notice some details and understand more some artistic techniques, as long as you keep it for yourself, just DO NOT trace and make it pass off as yours

I used to trace art, and being very honest, without that I probably wouldn't be where I am today. I would constantly find myself immersed in different styles and eventually asked my older sibling to help me learn how to draw. As long as you don't claim said traced art as your own and use it as a learning experience, I personally think its fine. (I'm not speaking against Skynix, I'm sharing my experience and thoughts: also its #33)

0:32 that felt more like a roast than an art tip 😭

Aight, there's a lot to unpack here. This isn't necessarily _bad,_ but it does give some counterproductive or subjective tips so, I'll add on to these for beginners. Get ready for a lot of reading. 0:00 while i do agree that using black on a lower opacity is much less realistic, blending modes aren't the _only_ way to shade (although they certainly are a valid one, do what you want :) especially, for digital painting, if you want to use normal layers and figure out the shading color for yourself, a good way is to (using HSV) lower the value, then use the color of the light source as reference for where to go next. if your light source is more yellow for example, shift the hue farther from yellow and closer to purple (the opposite of yellow), if it's magenta, shift it closer to green. do the same with the saturation; if the light source is more saturated, progressively turn the saturation down the darker the shadows get, and vice versa if it's less saturated. 0:11 actually that's separate from the midtone, it's the terminator. iirc it's a subtle transition from the midtone to the shadows. 1:01 this is just a stylistic choice. oversaturated just makes it less realistic, which isn't a bad thing. if you're going for something vibrant and cartoony, more saturated colors can actually support that. 1:16 it all depends on how close the light source is. in this case, the light source is so close that it's hitting a lot less area, hence the darker shadows. 1:26 not... necessarily. this may be better for details but it's actually _not_ the best idea to lean to much on your sketch, as that tends to result in flat lineart. instead it's better to have the sketch at a very low opacity, and keep it zoomed out (not as much) while you do lineart which will not only let you make sure everything looks ok, but will also allow you to make more fluid strokes from your elbow/shoulder which will make lineart a lot easier. it doesn't have to be precise. 1:31 yeah this is very subjective. tablets can make your job a lot easier but it really isn't a necessity at all. you can use anything that can physically draw to draw. 1:47 using pure white for highlights is a lot like using pure black for shading. it can work, but if you're going for more realistic shading colors, it's best to just use the color of the light source (which _usually_ will not be 100 value and saturation but knock yourself out 🤷🏾‍♂️). you also do not always have to add it. if you want a darker feel to the expression or the light would not logically make a highlight on the iris, you can leave it out. again, as with everything else, do whatever you want. 1:53 no criticism here, this is a really great tip. add even more if you want, and also try to think about what could be in the environment that could give off light, like the sky or a fire. 1:56 once again, blending modes are a valid option but if you're not using them, just shift the color of the light you're adding closer to the light source's hue, value (by which i mean don't go past it, really pay attention to how intense your light source is), and saturation. 2:14 yeah this is not the best way to tackle this. drawing them at the same time instead of one by one is easier. if you keep avoiding it, you will _never_ learn how to draw the other eye. that ability doesn't come from nowhere. 2:23 this is a color theory thing. you know what im going to say by now. this method is fine, but if you don't want to use blending modes, block out the background first, even if it's just a flat color, and choose your colors based around that color. for example, against a blue background, a red or even a purple can look orange or yellow depending on the value and saturation. an actual (saturated) orange or yellow would just look out of place. 2:49 this will actually help you improve, especially if you do it a certain way as practice. most experienced artists have done this at some point. just don't go around sharing it and claiming it's yours and you're good. 2:55 since foreshortening is a very difficult technique for beginners, before you get the hang of it, there are easier ways to make a pose dynamic, such as asymmetry, twisting the figure, or making the shoulders and hips not parallel (which is just natural posing in general). 2:59 stylistic choice. the thinner the lineart, the closer to realism, since there are no lines in real life. the thicker, the more cartoonish. 3:03 similarly, to the eyes, just learn them. there are tons of great resources out there, and having them look off in your art until you get the hang of it is better than never tackling the problem and never getting the hang of it. you can do it :) 3:12 refer to the first tip. the hue of the shadows mostly depends on the light source. they also are often tinted with reflective light from the environment. in this case, the shadows are likely blue because of the contrasting yellow of the sun and the blue of the sky. if your character is outside in the sunlight against a bright pink wall, your shadows should actually mostly look pinker in the end, as well as your midtones. but there should still be a hint of the original shadow color in there, as it's best to shade before considering reflective/environmental light. 3:16 this isn't inherently incorrect (again, there's no such thing in art) but it can make your expressions less dynamic. asymmetry in expressions is cool, hell, even facial *features* don't have to be symmetrical in art, as they never are in real life. 3:29 everyone else has alright said this but yeah png is objectively higher quality for art 3:46 instead of airbrush, it's better to think of this in terms of hard and soft edges. soft edges are for, well, softer transitions, and hard edges are for more sudden transitions like the middle part of a crease, or anywhere else it would make sense to draw a line. it's a good idea to have a mix of both. airbrushes or soft brushes in general can be used to make a soft edge, but you can also use a hard brush then blend or blur it. 4:17 i don't know about photoshop, but this is called antialiasing and most programs have a setting to tweak this beforehand. 4:26 clip studio paint pro (the less expensive one time purchase as opposed to ex) is about 50 dollars when not on sale. the only way to legally use it for free is the 1 month free trial.

I want to add that tip 31 (2:33) is a very easy way to get stuck with stiff designs. You want the silhouette to work WITH the anatomy, and spending too much time on what is essentially a base can take away from that. It can be a good starting point for beginners, but after an understanding of anatomy is reached, silhouettes are the way to go when sketching.

Hi, so a brazilian channel copied your ENTIRE video, the name of the channel is ''Canal do Torajo'' unfortunaly he only go to delete the video if you contact him (sorry for my bad english)

Bro is explaining each question in less that five seconds and it makes more sense than most tutorials

Some of these things were normal nice tips but some were um.. strange. Tracing isn’t bad and can help improve! As long as you don’t try and convince others that it’s yours it can be really helpful to trace when you’re a beginner artist! Also what do you mean by “if you want more dynamic poses use foreshorting” ah yes let me just casually use some foreshorting, y’know.. that very easy thing to draw. Also if you can draw the other eye or draw hands don’t hide them! This isn’t going to help you at all, just try and practice and then they’ll be no need to hide it! Also one last thing… did my man really just say to do skinny lineart instead of l thick lineart because is “looks better”???? It’s a artstyle choice, this is not a tip and is just limiting freedom, also I would beg to disagree because as someone who has a thick lineart style I actually get a lot of compliments on it for looking cute and unique. Sorry for the rant lmao 💀💀💀 Edit: did not expect my little ramble to get much attention haha ( but thanks for the likes tho :D ), but I do understand that sometimes thick lineart can look worse and make things too muddy but the guy didnt really explain why thin lineart tends to look better. I just don’t really like tutorials that tell you to do something because it looks better and then don’t explain why lol

1:31 you can draw with a mouse and do art. if your software has a stabilizer tool .that will help you make the lines less jagged and be able to draw nicer . its a little slower but not by much and you can always zoom in to be more precise . i still do recomend getting a tablet but drawing with a mouse is quite pog

The problem with me is I give up really easily, I've tried art but all these tips aren't things ima be able to remember, I'm sure there's alot of people who will become good artist and fulfill their dreams, I always wanted to be a artist myself, but it's been years and I've never done art and now it seems impossible and complex, I really wish I wasent a failure at times and was good, and everytime I see any type of art I think of how I'll never be at that level,

Hello, I know you probally don't gonna see this message, but, an KZfaqr called Tojaro (The channels name is "Canal do Tojaro") copied this video. The video is called "DOMINE a Arte de DESENHAR com esse Simples Truque". Hope you have an good day :)

mouse tip is completely incorrect, people who draw with computer mice should be feared especially if its fully shaded stuff

Art tip for any beginners: If you don't know how to draw, and you don't have your own style yet, _Copy!!_ It is not bad to just copy others art when you just start, that's how I learned. As long as you don't post it online and claim it as your own, it's perfectly fine. When I was starting, I had problems with proportions and sketching. I started copying a KZfaqr called DrawingWiffWaffles and I got much better at sketching. Those parts in your style will be buried the longer you draw. I copied UnknownSpy's style of drawing hands [specifically Sploot] and now I can draw hands better. Most of my arts style, and many others art styles, are not original to them. Your art forms after you, so don't try and restrict how you draw too much, just draw how it however comes naturally to you.

there's some good advices here, I'd like to add some thoughts: 2:27 I prefer using overlay instead of multiply, so things dont necessarily have to get darker 2:32 I wouldn't make the lineart too consistent, it can make drawings look dull very fast imo. Some anime studios use that consistent lineart style but it's mostly for productivitys sake. A good balance of line weight depends on the lighting or the thickness of an object. google "lineart line thickness", there's quite a couple of tutorials on that topic 2:45 I would even go so far to constantly save between two separate photoshop files. I once had the "honor" for a ps file to become corrupt and lost quite some progress thanks to it 2:52 instead of tracing, I would recommend trying to redraw someone's art instead. This way you find out a lot of small things that you wouldn't learn by just looking at it 3:10 don't hide things that are hard to draw, be it hands, eyes, etc. You'll have to learn it anyways sooner or later, new artists regulary draw their characters with their hands behind the back, avoid that! 3:16 in general use mildly colored shadows in multiply mode, avoid black/grey shadows, shadows are never truly colorless 4:22 I prefer to put expand onto a ps action so I only have to press one button for that. To contract the selection, I simply invert the selection with ctrl+shift+i and use expand again nice video!

4:00 I DO WHAT I WANT

- Tell me you haven’t met a good mouse artists without telling me you haven’t met a good mouse artist: - Tracing is good for beginners, just don’t claim it as yours!! - Varying lineart size can be used to make some amazing art, consistent vs inconsistent lineart is a stylistic choice.

3:22 me(who does pixel art): 💀

The tips for hiding things you can't draw are bad tips. They're bad habits to teach someone. Just put in some extra time to learn how to draw them instead of hiding imperfections

weird how you say "just learn color theory" but with hands you say to hide them instead of learn to draw hands

“If you’re drawing with a mouse, don’t!” Me, who’s been using a mouse for three years and is too broke to afford a wacom: 👁👄👁

Loved your tips, they are wonderful! My tip for you, as someone who deals with audio levels and such, please lower the bell sound level and raise your voice output level because that bell sound was absolutely piercing. When I lowered my volume to avoid the sharpness of the bell I barely could hear your voice. I’m sure others may have experienced this as well. Hope you have a wonderful day!

another tip: DO NOT rely too much on avoiding drawing things you struggle with (ex. hiding eyes & hands) or too much on tools (symmetry & stabilizer) cuz you’ll never improve at them

33) correction, you can trace other people's art if you need to get a feel on drawing smoother lines, do it at the beginning and steer clear afterwards

13. I think you may need like an extra bad example of oversaturation in colors. Cuz the example you got going on is still pretty heckin great coloring imo lol. 20. Also some of my cool art friends use a mouse. It is definitely recommended to use a tablet, BUT Definitely not necessary. Good tips otherwise!

i painted with mouse for years and still managed to do something better than some people i knew with expensive tablets..

Came to this in 2023 and just to boost because this stands out, tip 50 (4:26) Clip Studio Paint is not free, but it does offer two options of free 30 days or free 3 months but it is a paid application.

regarding the expensive tablet, my arts improved when i used tablets with display which is more expensive than regular tablet. felt so natural.

"If you are drawing with mouse, don't!" Weak. I've been drawing with mouse for 10 years

Some of these sound like troll tips honestly, I'm not even sure I'm watching a serious video. Hide what you can't draw ? Works if your drawing allows it, but on long term you'll just be harming your art skills.

I traced someone else’s art once. It helped so much! I traced a keychain I found on Etsy, and it taught me the proportions if that character for when I draw them next time.

I hate how everyone is critiquing you in the comments. This video is awesome, and so are all of its tips!

Tracing absolutely does help you learn exponentially!! Just do it respectfully and don't post it anywhere where people can see. I got good at art this way by putting my paper over a book with different animals and my brain remembers the proportions. Only do this for practice though and never say it's yours. I literally learned off this method the most and nobody can prove me wrong

god sometimes people dont want to or cant get a tablet using a mouse is fine just a little harder

Omg that brought me back to when I first got into digital art and I drew with my mouse 😭

I’ll have to watch this again and again to be sure I make amazing art for my games!

Really good video! However I do have to say that tip 35 (make lineart smaller) can very depend on the artstyle of the work! Like for example, my art has bolder lines used for my artstyle because using thinner lines would make it feel off and uncomforting. I would also like to add that it's very smart to use a mix of both! For my artstyle I use bolder lines for characters and thinner ones for backgrounds and details

i have an issue with 1:32 you can still make wonderful art with mouse, its literally just skill issue. use whatever u want to do art

5:25 damn you were accually pretty close on the sprigatito evolution line

Im 43 years old and just started digital art, I needed to hear the ending, thank you.

4:05 so the other light sources said "bye"

ive used mouse for doing art before and ive improved a whole lot with it faster than when i got my tablet, NEVER get discouraged from doing digital art because you dont have a tablet, my friends use mouse to draw or even their finger!, you can use mouse with the right settings and a program that supports high stabilization like firealpaca or stuff like ibis paint is used by plenty of finger users in mobile.

I dude, you were a victim of plagiarism.

Tracing DOES help you improve, as a practice. It’s called a study. Not knowing how to do something correctly won’t help you improve if you just keep doing it incorrectly until you stumble onto doing it correctly. Tracing as practice enough times helps muscle-memory you into learning how things are drawn, getting a feel for it. Especially with anatomy. You shouldn’t trace other people’s work and pass it off as an original work for your own project, but tracing can be a helpful tool for learning how it feels to draw something correctly. I couldn’t draw a thing until I did tracings of the 3D models in some programs. Now I know how to draw the shape of a figure in proportion when I start from scratch. Not one of the art books I bought helped me as much as study drawing.

I find it funny how some of this drawing tips are just "learn how to draw"

Amazing video and surely helpful! HOWEVER, you need to learn to draw the other eye and hands if you want to get better. Avoiding your weaknesses is a good way to improve very slowly or not at all. If your doing art for fun though and don't care about improving so much, go ahead no harm done. Also I find zooming out during line art helps keep line art consistent and lets you see how the whole image is looking. The advice on colour, saturation and layer types to make an image fit are amazing and super useful. All round great video :D

I like how youtube just decided "yeah this guy should totally become an artist " like art stuff started popping outta nowhere lol, great video though keep it up

Based on the comments, it really seems to prove that a lot of art is subjective and there are no hard rules! This video has some great general guidelines but do whatever works for you, and as long as you practice eventually you will improve.

I think tracing for PRACTICE is fine, it can help with figuring out shapes and even help with lineart. But do NOT claim it as yours, if anything I'd recommend keeping it to yourself. I used to trace (my own gacha characters, mind you) and it was like using training wheels because A) I didn't have to worry about starting from scratch B) could practice straight into lineart/coloring+shading Though I haven't done that in years (I stopped since I wanted to make my own art, plus it wasn't that fun anymore)

"If you draw with a mouse, don't! Use Tablet!" Me who is poor and only have potato phone and Laptop with a mouse: I see. Goodbye digital art.

Btw mouse will do just dandy if you want it to. In art, really, everything can be used to make anything if you brute force it hard enough. And if you have a tablet, it might be fun to try drawing something with a mouse. Giving yourself little challenges like that can be pretty fun.

2:50 i mean- tracing is sometimes good for learning, tracing hands is basically how i got better at drawing hands

I really appreciate the tips given in this video, but I feel there’s a lot of dismissal. For example, drawing the other eye is dismissed, which I feel is lazy, at most, and performed out of fear of “messing up,” at the least. The only way you’ll ever get better is by simply doing so, just like how drawing hands is the only way you’ll ever get better at drawing hands. Second, tracing another person’s style CAN be helpful. The only difference is that this person’s material is their own and they may not want people tracing. Otherwise, there’d be little difference in breaking down/tracing over a reference image and breaking/down tracing over an artistic reference image. The key, of course, is to use both to learn but not be reliant upon them to create. Last, some of the greatest artists I’ve met use a mouse, so don’t overlook it entirely. They’re great for pixel art. :P

If you use a mouse don't Me who doesn't have money :😥

Hey, sorry to bother you but there is a brazilian youtuber called Torajo and he stole your video and didn't even gave you credit before people had found out it was stolen. I think you should know to ask him to take his video down or give him a strike because he literally stole your content :(

I use gimp, do recommend. It’s good for everything. I’m not very good with digital art like this (that’s why I’m here •-•) but I use it for pixel art and it’s good for this kind of digital art. I’m migrating to Krita, though, because I want to be able to animate after I learn to draw. Gimp can also animate, but only in a .gif format, and it’s not amazing due to the fact that each layer acts as an animation frame (meaning you’ll have to group all the layers of each frame, then flatten each frame before exporting). Hoping krita will be better.

1:32 you lost me here, i feel offended, dont know if it was supposed to be a joke, but thats not a tip, thats obvious, obvious that drawning with a tablet would be better, but i CANT buy one right now, so it just looked like you were rubbing on my face and that ones that cant buy one , that you need one , maybe its just me but like, ''good'' for reminding me that i dont have one ;-;

bruh so many of these take absolutely nothing about the piece/artstyle into account or are just blatantly wrong also 1:32 feels REALLY discouraging, like what should i do if i dont have access to any other tool? give up? cuz it feels like thats what youre trying to tell us. drawing tablets arent required to improve/make good art and ive seen some super amazing art produced via mouse & phone screens

I came to let you know that there is a Brazilian channel that copied your video, the name of the channel is Torajo, I don't know if he got in contact with you to have the rights to your video but anyway it will be there

1% of comments: wow what a cool video 99% of comments: oh man, go sue "torajo"

0:04 I actually like the horse on the left a lot more :)

Tracing does have _some_ use (mostly for beginners) as it can be of some help for muscle memory. The issue with tracing is when the artist uploads the traced work as their own. That's art theft. Otherwise, tracing is a valid learning tool, so long as it is used as such and the traced piece never sees the light of day on public access. I never traced anything myself, but as personal training for anatomy of some things, I sometimes do copy existing works (like when I was teaching myself and practicing dragon wings and teeth anatomy) by looking at an original piece by someone else and then trying to draw it myself as close to the original as possible. Those practice pics I made only exist in my files and have never been and never will be uploaded. Helped a lot when I tried to learn how to draw dragon wings and teeth and now I can make those on my own with my own style. But that's it about tracing (and copying, since I brought it up): NEVER upload the traced/copied work and especially, never claim it as your own. It's not yours. Not really. Use it to learn and practice and develop your own style and techniques, but never take what others made and call it your own.

Alternate tip 44: Use a light blue or grey for your sketch layer instead of low opacity black. It provides better performance that way.

I just got myself a drawing tablet and I have no idea how to draw but I will use this video to learn thx for making it :)

I would just say for a bonus tip: Not everything is perfect. Each piece you draw makes you better at drawing and should be an example of what you are doing wrong or on what to focus more. Art is subjective and even bad art is good art for some people

I agree to most of these and some where very helpful! Some I can’t really agree since it depends on style or other factors Tip #30 & #35 Thin Lineart doesn’t necessarily look better than thick Lineart, it all depends on the person’s art style like comic book, or cartoons. Also, it defeats tip #12 as it essentially eliminates line weight that gives depth. Tip #33 Tracing isn’t bad if you are learning to see shapes and how it was made. Everyone learns differently and tracing can help you learn depending on the person, but doing it as practice instead. HOWEVER, tracing and claiming it as your own is a big no. Tip #39 Don’t use pixels, use inches. It’s confusing and not used in school, nor work. Art teachers, professors and even employers prefer inches. (Anyone can use pixels, and are entitled to use their prefer method but just wanted to give my two cents on it) Tip #47 YES, THE BUCKET TOOL! Life and time saver on big projects. Finally, I really enjoyed the video and found many helpful tips I really can recommend to others. It was fun and entertaining. Keep up the awesome work!

I was always a traditional artist, but when i touch the digital, i see how more ez is all, no, is not ez draw in digital, but is more ez THAN traditional. Obviously i will start in digital cuz i dont have to buy all the colors

"we love skynix!!" We all say it out loud!!🎉

3:04 I personally think that if you dont know how to draw hands, instead of hiding them you should learn how to draw them so you wont have to draw them in pockets

Man, I was JUST asking my self about my drawing: how can I make this character look like it’s IN the scene with the background, and not just drawn on top of the background scene? That multiply layer really helped. thanks!

guys… "don't use a mouse" is a lie, i swear some mouse artists draw much better than us 😔 and they have a f***ing cool art identity

Bro using the transformer tool SAVED MY ART CAREER. I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH PEOPLE USE IT ITS SO MUCH EASIER THAN REDRAWING

you can definitely vary your lineweight in your art btw!!! just make sure it’s consistently varied throughout the piece

1:53 Secondary light source to make more dynamic pieces 2:03 GET RID OF TANGENTS 2:07 Create a mood board for your character

over the tracing thing: i trace, then break it up into anatomy parts, then reference the sketch of the anatomy parts (not trace), then make a drawing from it. Therefore, you are not tracing, but referencing in a more consistent way that will help you learn the anatomy (from referencing the anatomy breakup of the drawing).

I'm sure someone must've said this before, but the "WITHOUT REFERENCE" horse is amazing...

Really good video. Right to the point, and I got some really good pointers out of it. I agree mostly with the bonus point. So many artists try to "do it right" from the beginning, since other artists seem to only have amazing pieces in their portfolios. The thing is, we all start somewhere and get better as time goes. Some faster, so slower, but there is simply no substitute to experience and practice as you continue learning.

If you don't want to draw the other eye, try copying, pasting, and flipping the eye that has already been drawn. There are no need to hide the other eye and change your character's design just to avoid drawing the other eye, it can become a bad habit. Try to use references for hands as well, even if it's "ugly". Drawing hands is still important. Although putting your character's hand in their pockets/behind their backs can work for personality or body language.

The ding at the beginning nearly gave me a heart attack 😭

If every tutorial/tips video was this straightforward the world will be a better place

1:32 what if you dont have one lol

2:21 the problem its that they only study human anatomy but when you want to draw a furry or something it’s bad because you don’t know,I also reccomend at least studying mammalian and bird anatomy if you also want to draw animals

I love you your voice is making me super calm

As someone who wants to learn how to draw and on a digital medium I am so appreciative that this video exists. It looks like a very daunting skill to learn but this makes it a little easier to start off on.