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Best advice I've ever received is "Dont Suck"

"Don't draw shitty, draw good!" 💀💀💀

I don't think I ever heard you be so angry I mean It is understandable

Tiktok is not the place to go for advice or tips. I swear, there was that video that shows how to make chocolate popcorn by simply putting chocolate bar in a rippling hot pan while you're popping kernals. Anyone who ever messed with chocolate or at least familiar with tempering chocolate would tell you it would just burn. Couldn't believe they would blatantly lie like that.

The first one is such a humblebrag. My favourite manga artists are in their 30s and 40s now and is still thriving. Age is the least of our problems 😅

Since when is 17 considered "too old for art"?

lol do more of this pls, it's hilarious (btw thank you, i'm a beginner and your channel helped me a lot)

the best art advice I've seen on tiktok is to not always trust art advice on tiktok, and I think that says a lot about how often people on that platform who don't know enough give bad advice 💀

Oh my gosh, that second one about tracing a photo and smudging the photo's colors around. I see this in art groups and it's SO obvious because the "imaginative details" (like the hair in that tiktok) are a totally different skill level. Like, that face is pretty cool. It has dimension and neat lighting. But that hair shading makes NO sense. It's just random blobs in random places. So when an artist does this and asks for critique and people say, "Wow, the face looks great, maybe you could add more detail and rendering like that to the hair," they can't do it. Because they don't actually know how to CREATE it, or even understand how it works on a fundamental level. I get so frustrated because if the artist just did their best to imitate the photo (without drawing directly on it), they'd probably learn a lot and maybe eventually they CAN draw like that.

The worst "tutorials" are when they do something a 5 year old would do and then say "oh dont do this, do this" and then actually try to draw something. They aren't showing you a mistake you might do, they're just not trying.

You can get soft edges by using a hard brush and soft eraser. And you can get hard edges with a soft brush and hard eraser. Do this on a temp layer and merge down once satisfied. Sakimichan uses a soft brush and selection to create hard edges. She uses other techniques as well.

The art tips are just "Don't go to school, do drugs!" at this point.

Damn I hate those "Do and don't" kind of stuff. It always feels like they're saying "How about you stop sucking at art, huh? You ever tried that?". There's no explanation, no general rules to follow or anything. You can't learn anything from that.

Art tip that changed my life: if you're stuck in paralyzing art block/fear then purposefully draw shitty till you get back I'm your groove

That one about the airbrush tool starts off good by saying “you don’t need hundreds of brushes, you can make good art with just a few” but then it kinda fucks it up by specifying that the airbrush is all you need. Instead, it should’ve said something more like “try to limit yourself experiment and find what works for you, I personally find the airbrush tool really cool”

The airbrush works in certain styles. However in other styles it just makes the drawing look muddy or cloudy. Also sketching with the airbrush (I’ve only had this problem) it leaves unnecessary blurry lines, and you sometimes have to fight it to get a decent line. As an artist, I only use the airbrush for lighting in some scenarios. This is just my advice to beginners

Yes, I love people roasting tiktods users that gives "tips". The platform itself is a cringy place already so why not. I'm not saying they're all bad content creators. Some are very good, really, especially just the meme users. But others that gives these trash life tips... Idk man they're just some kind of random person claiming they're somewhat experts in that topic.

With the whole "how is this tips" youd be surprised by how many people on TikTok argue that tracing and then pretending it's their is just "reference". My theory is that a lot of TikTok artists learning from these are quite literally very young new artists- like tweens starting drawing. I've had such big arguments about not stealing and tracing artwork and pretending it's your own on TikTok before I eventually deleted TikTok

:000 please do more of this!! its really interesting hearing your opinions!

For the first one there was this trend where it would be like “people seeing my art: you are 17 going on 18” and the artist would be like “actually I’m 13/14” and there were so many of those where they turned out to be younger than what people thought. So the first person was just trying to show that they are actually the age people think they are based on their art and not everyone is gonna turn out to be much younger

my issue with these tutorials is the fact that they don't account for uncontrolled variables. you can't make a tutorial about how to draw thing A but have the "do" side also have significantly better drawn things B, C, and D as well

If you're worried that you're not a good enough artist for your age, remember: Age and art skill level are not directly related. Someone can be old and a beginner or 12 and nearly a master. Also no one is perfect at art, especially if they are new to it, regardless of age. Practice, watching other artists work, using references, figuring out which areas you want to improve on and all sorts of other things will help you get skill over time and it's never too late to learn. Also some people are very skilled at one thing but not at another thing. For example someone could be amazing at hands and terrible at perspective, or someone might be skilled at 2D animation but not know how to do 3D animation. I'm better at drawing animals than humans, even though I draw both equally often. Also remember that art skill develops slowly so the best way to tell if you're improving in the way you want to is to look at your art from a few years ago, and a good way to improve is to pinpoint what you want to work on in your art and study that in depth.

i like how you actually give proper tips after saying what's wrong with their given tips very constructive and helpful man, keep going king 👌

I'm always depressed cause i got into art late, i mean, at a point your videos caused the problem. But yeah having someone saying everyone improves at diferent speeds than flexing their age is a bit annoying. (Also even if they sometimes make me depressed, i'm glad you make videos, they do help a lot of people me included)

Summary of the whole video: 15:26. DON’T MAKE TUTORIALS ABOUT THINGS YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND!!

The tip "Just draw" is better than most of tiktok art tutorials

Struggled with the whole "younger artists are better than me" during my teens especially since it felt like I was still really bad at art even though I had been drawing for most of my life. Best advice like you said is to not worry about the personal details of the artist, and just focus on yourself. It can be very depressing knowing someone who is far younger has more skill than you and I personally get that. I stopped caring about all of that as I got older and since then my art has been improving drastically. Focus on you and don't feel like you need to reach perfection ASAP.

“When you’re trying to learn something, you should probably not learn the wrong things.” Well said, Somenormalartist, well said.

7:00 You can have sharp edges without other brushes aside from airbrush. Just use lasso tool like Sakimichan does

I can't stop laughing about your reaction, we need more of this reacting videos.

tbh your art tutorials where so far to my opinion one of the best, so well explained and horizon expanding ! ! Keep going and when I get a job I´ll probably join ur patreon ! ! !

"dont draw shitty, draw good" Thats more helpful than the stuff tiktok gives with there "art tips"

Honestly, I don't mind some of the 'bad' tutorials because sometimes I found myself needing to figure out a bad way to get the result I wanted so I could have the motivation and belief in myself to learn the correct way slowly. Then again, I don't plan to be a professional, I like it as a hobby because I stress out about it too much xD

"Dont draw shitty, draw good" -SomeNormalArtist

Art in the digital age is so draining. There's so much competition, jealousy, & drama. This shit is so tiring because of tiktoks like this. Back then artists were just artists. That really cared for there work. Now there's these kids... btw i love your art. It's gorgeous bro. And sexy.

alot of art on tiktok is either carbon copies or traced 💀

I just wanna say that you can critique people without making fun of them or being rude. That guy that you said has no personality and implied that he hasn't done anything cool is putting down other artists. Yeah maybe you dont think all of what he said was a tip, but what he said is valid, and I think instead of putting down artists, we should support them and critique in the correct way for all of us to improve

The third one is actually really good advice. It’s just the way she worded it. You don’t need like 20 brushes for one piece. A hard round brush and the airbrush is just enough. She even mentioned Sakimichan who does exactly that so it is good for beginners. Even Samdoesarts has mentioned this before. It also depends on if your good with blending and for hard shadows with an airbrush the selection tool is good for that.

the best art advice i ever got, personally was: "just... draw."

Bro turning into solar sands im dead. shit had me crying

I actually worked on a traced image in the background while listening. Tracing tips fall into a category of "easily heated and misinterpreted" because there are three different kinds of tracing: copying a final result(obviously bad), using it as the basis for studies(really good, given direction on what to study), and supporting a transformative process(good in the right context like rotoscoping or creating concept art). While I wouldn't defend the exact words of the Tiktoks, there are plenty of reasons to consider it. If you want to train your memory, you can set things up to trace, but then hide the reference as you work and periodically toggle it on to instantly reveal errors. Even the smallest smidge of difference will be obvious, so it's easy to study extremely tiny details this way, and when you hit a real head-scratcher where you can't figure out how to represent a form, being able to trace it a few times in different ways and get that fast feedback is a blessing - I think this is what the second video was trying to say(badly). It can be really fun to study a photo this way and try to gradually simplify it down to a cartoon while still retaining most of the information in the original. Likewise if the scene is conceptually and technically complex and demands high detail - go to town with the photobashing toolkit, 3D models, etc., to get the rough down; making the composition work as a final image basically always entails reinterpretation with new linework or paintovers, so even if you start by tracing, you won't end there and the intuitions from studying art fundamentals still kick in. It's extremely useful for the early stages of getting away from the blank page, and then less useful as you try to make the image more specific in what it communicates.

I really want you to do this again one day because I laughed my brains out on this video. Like no offence, but kinda offence, tiktok's art tips are the equivalent of saying if you are a beginner and want to draw, pick up your tablet or pencil and draw the whole solar system. Its just so funny to me.

13:53 the tips were so bad that bro forgot how to speak

"I dont wanna fcking like it" There's heavy tone there

I love how unfiltered your reactions were. Tbh this is what I’d say if I were reacting to them for the first time

Another tutorial I saw once is about hands.. It said something like "what to do so you don't have to draw hands, hide them behind the back, long sleeves, headshots!" ect, etc, and I was like.. ok?? if you don't want to learn, improve and get anywhere with your art then do that I guess.. I know hands are hard to make but omg you just need to learn how to do it! my hands look like shit but I still draw them because what's the point of avoiding them?? Same happens with people who just flips the eye to make the other or covers it.. bruh the perspective will be the same in every piece if you do that and it's stupid.. just draw both eyes at the same time, it's easier, idk how nobody thinks about that, I never did one eye and then the other, I always did both and never understood why people suffered with them until I saw they were making it one by one.. bruh

4:00 that’s a problem because you can use only in real things, for example I can’t make this for my character, because is a skeleton head with the head in the body with ice in one part and water evaporating in the other with a suit.

"How is that a tip? It's basically common sense" Bold of you to assume all people have common sense...

3:19 You don't know how much this one pisses me off because people who actually learn how to paint from blobs to blocks - it takes me hours to do and they just blend it, ew yowch.

As a 35 yo artist who has been drawing for my entire life pretty much, but I'm still not super great, seeing kids making professional quality art discourages me a lot. Younger people saying "those darn kids are too good" is kind of frustrating, tho

"Don't draw shitty, draw good!" gotta be my favourite.

Your reaction is true af, I can't stand with those tiktokers who giving fake tips for bigginer to get views

Tracing shapes on photos is good if you wanna learn proportions, but tracing outlines can actually set back a lot of the stuff you've learned

A substitute for airbrush is using the sumdge or lowering the opacity

art "tutorials" on tiktok be like: don't draw like this you beginner, you amateur, you draw like this don't you? stop it. instead, draw this. see this? yeah i know i'm not explaining. just draw good. see how easy it is? i can do it so just do it too.

I've given art advice before and after realizing I'm not improving as much I kind of just didn't tell people stuff anymore. I wanted to let people learn the way that they can. Someone did, however, asked me for an art tutorial on how to draw hair. I was like, "man there's so many tutorials out there that are way better than my anime character's hair." Sometimes people just don't know what they want when it comes to art content and that's perfectly normal. Which is the reason why I'll never post on tiktok.

it honestly makes me more excited to know i can learn from your art on your patreon than the fact that it's nsfw

13:27 dude idkwhy people say to have fun while drawing. It’s not always “fun” sometimes it’s work and kinda stressful. It’s not just” have fun”.

In actuality... people love to see simple line drawings that don't look like kids drawings...but they're also not teaching u any skill because most people aren't into learning art, most just wanna learn how to draw like... a circle with a couple of little trees contours, a line for the horizon and idfk, a little circle for a moon or something. And then show their classmates what they did in their notebook and get told they're the best at drawing from the class... That's literally what being an artist means here and it was really really hard for me to even discover there are fundamentals I had to know about, that's how much of this easy content I'd see 4-5 years ago when I was just starting and honestly I don't even remember how I broke through that because I never tried to do any of those simple drawings until my friend would ask me to. And I looked at her drawings and I said good job for trying it looks amazing! Keep learning! But when they asked me to teach them I started with perspective because that's what I thought it's the easiest to teach at that time but they lost interest when I'd ask for them to draw a couple of boxes in 1 point... and then I realized...they don't wanna go with drawing further in life. And that was okay. But I would always get sad at the knowledge that she hated the fact that her drawings don't look like the flawless perfect lines they do in the video and without sketch lines, directly starting to do the lineart wondering why does it look so wonky...my heart broke for my poor friend who wouldn't understand...

A little bit on the airbrush tool. You CAN ONLY use the airbrush, but please change the density of the brush and it’s spread (?). There’s a setting in clip studio where you can dial up and down how soft the edges are. An artist that mainly uses the soft airbrush is Jhyundee. What’s more, if you want to use just an air brush and dont want to dial the hardness around, pair it up with the lasso tool.

me: draws on paper Everyone: draws and gives tips for digital art me: why, whats wrong with my art

“How is that a tip it’s literally just common sense!” LMAO this is literally just 90% of art tips from Tiktok

8:00 life for iPad artist is so easy. Her circle was completely fuzzy but she has that line control advice on so it will looks perfect not matter what. It's almost a life hack. Tracing is and will always be useless

"When you are trying to learn something, you should probably not learn the wrong things." -Sun Tzu, probably

Honestly I have been so annoyed at a lot of these short art tips I am so glad some one else is also complaining about it

"No I don't want to f**king like it"that was really funny 😂😂

8:16 my opinion abt tracing. It's basically like coping from your deskmate all of the math homework (or also rewrite the math solution what your math teacher is giving). There is smart ways of how you can copy that homework(or solutions). But also if you keep coping homework without even trying to think abt it then too bad you will probably fail math test and have 0 fundamental knowledge on math so it means you will probably fail even next test and so on. But as I said, there is smart ways of how you can copy that homework/solutions. And it does help to look how people solves these problems, if you dont understand how they did it then you can ask them simple questions on how they did that. I think that tiktok video tried to show us that we can use tracing tehnique way smarter than just draw over mindlessly those drawn lines.

SOMENORMAL ARIST WELCOME BACK MAN! Was drawing a circle a boss fight for you? Jeesh i can relate :P

The person demanding us to use the airbrush was probably joking but it still came off very wrong Good on them for learning how to work with the airbrush tool but don't force anyone else to use it just cuz it works for you Everyone has a different style and process and you gotta respect that

"Just try your fucking best and pray to God." This one feels like me every time I pick up a pencil or something art related

Not art advice from Tik Tok but can I please get annoyed at "artists" who just draw over official Disney (usually) artwork and then just change outfit and hair colour to the tune of hundreds of thousands of views?? Idk that particular trend drives me insane

I completely agree. So glad we're on the same boat here XD Also I hate it for both the fact that it promotes minimal effort videos and cringy popular stuff It also hurts creators that actually put effort into their videos but aren't getting as much views because of the other junk.

Ah yes. My favorite art advice "Dont be bad"

The hard round brush with lowered opacity changes the game.

Jeez, watching the low effort pyramid one having 22.5k watchers was super demoralizing. I'm busting my ass off all day, putting as much effort as I can, going back to back in any resource about drawing, staging, writting, storytelling, camera angles to have a somewhat quality cohesive storytelling narrative and some random bloke drawing pyramids in 1 minute per day effortlessly grabs thousands upon thousands of views.

How to be good at Art 1. Use reference 2. Don't trace 3. Pray to god

Your voice is really cute and pleasing to listen too, also I was literally rolling on my sofa laughing when you started roasting that low quality Tik Tok account with there crappy merch LOOOOL. Try to cut them some slack bro, their low effort content is actually quite endearing.

4:02 I used to do this with 3d models or pictures I found online and it honestly really damaged my progress of making anything decent that I liked. It made me rely on images instead of practicing lines and how to shade things properly from scratch. I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do but it can really stunt your growth. I do not recommend doing this. At least in my opinion Years later I put forth hours/days of effort into drawing and learning art. And I like my art a lot better than with this old method I used.

Needed more of this lol, It's very interesting and entertaining.

The third is pretty valid though. You can build up form with just the airbrush - pretty possible. Moreover, if you want to get down to it, all you really need is the round brush in digital art.. but that's just me 💁‍♀️💀

The DOs and DON'Ts at 13:00 is basically needed. Cz many people think tracing n claiming it as yours are okay so...

Dude is like “art tips!! Don’t steal art! “

Thats why i never EVVVERRRR GIVE ANY ADVICE TO OTHER BEGINNER ARTISTS because I'm afraid that i may give them misinformations Q-Q

for the second one id honestly just recommend using a background photo as a refrence for your own drawings of facial features and where to place them, not literally just tracing the persons face. For full body photos i like to make a lil stick figure to help me with anatomy and then draw in my own stuff.

i can't gotdamn stand the shitty "don't vs do" art """"""tutorials"""""" it's literally always like "DON'T: be bad; DO: be good." and it's always drawings of An Eye or A Mouth like who is the target audience? who benefits from those???

drama monday. like it. As you said, can t stuff if there is nothing to tell but this works for me, need something to listen to when drawing.

For the first one, the point it's that there are 13yr old that draws actually very nice and its very discouraging 😭

17 mins of someNormalArtist in pain

These videos are good. If there was ANY tutorial I'd like to see from you, it's an in depth explanation of how you draw eyes 😅

i am warning you, *this is just the tip of the iceberg.*

This is my first ever encounter with this channel and I did not expect that voice when I clicked this.

I think one of the best tips is that you take one of your old drawings and draw it new. Then you can see the progress you made when comparing them. Its not really a tip but seeing your own progress motivates you. Comparing yourself to other artists is a thing you shouldnt do. Look at your own art to see the progress you made. Greetings from Germany

I have a great tip for people that are having trouble improving their art, this helped me go from beginner to a professional artist, so what you wanna do is make good art.

Don't steal might sound like commen sense. But I've learned several people lack that so something like "Dont steal art!" suddenly becomes a tip.

For the first video her meaning is to not discourage people who are young and good at art, like sometimes people say to young artists that they couldn’t have drawn their art because they are young.

tbh different art tips might help different ppl but sometimes there's tips u shouldn't follow. Also, I'd love to see him do some other videos on stuff like this! Love ur vids!

When i was starting out i wouldn't have thought to look at other art for inspiration because i wanted be "100% original". i don't have that mindset now, but definitely something i was stubborn/prideful about not doing. Another thing i looked down on was tracing. It's totally OK especially for learning. It doesn't make you any less of an artist (in the right circumstances and permissions).

How these "Do/Don't" "tutorials" piss me off is how everyone got their own artstyle and they straight up deny others artstyles because they think theirs is better. Some cartoon artist with simple arm can be popular and they doesnt have to draw extra realistic arm. They should show how to use drawing tools instead of dumb "draw like me or you suck kind of video".

Man woke up and chose violence today 😭