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Wikihow in a nutshell: Step 1: Draw a circle Step 2: Finish the drawing

I guess wikihow article was oriented not on learning artist, but on people that are gonna try to draw some doodles and then forget about if for the rest of their lives

Contour drawing is actually pretty good for beginners, I actually learned this in an art class at my school. It teaches beginners to work in their observational skills.

My drawing tip: To make all drawing of faces more accurate is to measure the negative space. Approximate what isn't there. Example: if you draw a face and it doesn't look right, take notice of the distances that are not the main features of the face. The space between the eyes or eyebrows, the size of the cheeks the distance between the mouth and chin. It's a very common problem with starters.

Sometimes I feel that I never learn anything while drawing. I can see that my art is getting better, and then still I find myself struggling with the most basic things. Art is hard…

I'm so glad i grew up as an artist watching people like ethan becker and rossdraws to teach me how to draw instead of these tutorials on wikihow honestly

"Don't go searching for water in the desert in the middle of summer..." now THAT'S what I call words of wisdom!

I started to learn drawing "once and for all" in adulthood and the very first thing I did was filling several printer paper pages with circles, boxes and cylinders to strengthen hand to eye coordination and to get better control on circles, boxes and cylinders as foundation work and to get some perspective. It helped immensely honestly since I was so behind in milage of drawing to otherwise build the feel for it gradually since childhood. It was tedious but mega helpful.

I remember treating wikihow articles like the bible 😭😭

I'm so glad this is back. KZfaq is so annoying like OMG. But your videos are always really funny and interesting!

5:19 The significance of contour line drawing relates to the "draw what you see, not what you think" mantra, this is a drawing exercise that helps an artist train their brain to turn off their visual library when using a reference, since it can feel uncomfortable and difficult to do that at first. This allows artists to improve their visual library and (most importantly) use references to replace bad or innacurate parts of it, which effects parts of a drawing that feel frustrating. Artists who can't easily switch off automatically interpreting images with their visual library tend to dislike using references and don't see the point of them, or feel like they draw poorly from memory and make the same mistakes over and over again. So this exercise can help make a reference more beneficial to your art proccess.

YOU FIXED THE DEVICE RESTRICTION THING THANK GOD

I'm mostly self-taught, but I'm glad I have friends who are far more skilled than I as well as guys like Marc Brunet and Sinix for advice when I'm stuck.

Lol I remember following tutorials in wikihow back in 2013

My mentor had me blind contour. Not entirely looking away from my image though. He had me hold my pencil at the eraser, very loose, and I could never lift my pencil from the page. From there, I did outlines of figures that I was seeing, being allowed to look back at my paper the entire time. We did this to loosen me up and make my male figures less stiff. Totally worked too!

This is unironically stuff I learned in my high school art class but somehow more helpful (I dropped that class really fast)

wikihow is so good that only immortal beings can understand it

I think it's more oriented at kids and complete beginners because the fundamentals you referred to are hard work and can be boring, taking too long to make fun stuff. For a complete beginner or a child, this would be discouraging. Now after having fun, the person might want to proceed to improve, then the hard comes in and they stay with it even if it gets frustrating and discouraging still, there's a need for it.

Contour drawing is extremely beneficial in the fundamentals of art; it's one of the first things I learned in art school. Essentially, the way it's explained, is that students need to learn the difference between simply observing, and actually analyzing, a subject (drawing what you think you see vs. what you actually see). Art professors will typically have you do contour drawings so you can grasp form and planes rather than diluting your focus with tone and color. It's a good starting point, and I recommend it to anyone who's starting out with art! Doing a sustained gesture of your face in a mirror, in just contour, helps you analyze your face, and keeps you from reverting to an iconographic image in your head of what you think you're seeing. Along with tools like straight-line inspection, and a proportional frame, you can get a really accurate drawing in less time than just free-handing multiple gestural sketches and shapes!

Am 15 years old and I still wonder how I notice so many artists making mistakes on the Internet and I genuinely think that am not even good at drawing

They're trying to teach a very non linear skill with thousands of resources in a step by step tutorial like your trying to learn how to whistle (something I totally know how to do.....)

I've gotten to the "look at the object and just draw". To be fair, it's not the worst advice, I have a hard time drawing from tutorials, how to books, and even tracing. I've always been a draw what I'm looking at kind of person, but I digress, while not the worst, they really should have the various ways of teaching how to draw, for those who learn differently. Different strokes, for different folks and all that.

It wouldn’t surprise me if the reason the gesture drawing was clothed is because whoever got the final day of what went up decided they couldn’t have a “naked lady” on the article. I’ve also heard their artist are required to do a BUNCH of articles really quick so that’s why the subreddit r/disneyvacation exists lol

This is why we weren't supposed to copy our homework from Wikipedia. It's not very good XD

from what ive experienced and noticed over the years, developing your artstyle is a priority more than anything, since you can learn funadamentals that compliments specifically for your artstyle, ive seen and talked to people that have studied heavily on anatomy but cant understand why it just doesnt seem to work for them

even on Pinterest I still see some related tips like you say on the video Abt wiki and it's ridiculous that the anatomy can be more confusing when they were doing body angles

The wiki how art tutorials remind me of my current art teacher…I’m in high school and in art 3 and she still wants to teach me super basic stuff

One minute in and I had to pause this video and write this down cuz sadly I used to see tutorials on how to draw anime on wikihow and it didn't go well (I used to be broke af that I couldn't afford to waste internet on 15 minute long videos) because the picture guidance is like when you look away for one second during a math class. So glad I saw other more professional stuff later

only ogs remember when this video wasn't available on ur device lol this alr looks good though

Contour drawing (following the object outline without looking at ur paper) is actually really great for hand-eye coordination

i just found your channel, i love your humor and how you explain things! your voice is very lovely as well

man, watching this has honestly kinda boosted my confidence in my art lmao

Contour drawing is a exercise recommended by Kimon Nikolaïdes and Betty Edwards. Two famous art teachers. It helped me a lot

Good video as always!!! ❤️❤️ Will you be at Lightbox Expo this year? I’d love some merch if so.

Finally a video I can watch on my device

I really like wikihow lol. The illustrations for the instructions are kinda entertaining

note to self: stay far away from wikihow as a beginner artist 😂

The best way to learn how to draw is to be into things nobody around you is into and be fueled by pure spite and occasionally, horniness.

I’m so glad I went to LavenderTowne, Kooleen, and ItsAJArt for tips on drawing and not wikihow

awesome informative vids as always bro!

I think they’re trying to introduce blind contour at 5:32 but they’re doing a very bad job of it. It’s a method that trains the brain to draw without looking at what your drawing. Basically it’s hand-eye coordination. It’s a great learning tool but they did a terrible job explaining it.

6:11 will haunt me in my dreams forever 😨

I think the wiki how article was made for a total beginner and I think for a total beginner many of those tutorials are helpful. And at the end The article is just called "How to Draw" which doesn't imply that a high skill will be thaught to you.

Mohammed out here roasting all these drawings in that first tutorial, but all I see is the exact kind of things someone who makes art professionally for commercial clients or children's books would draw. It looks generic and bland, yes, but I suspect it's supposed to be. I've seen this art style in classroom stuff for schools, in textbooks, in employee handbooks, on company websites, on advertisements, and in damn near 50% of every children's books ever made.

Omg this wiki page is identical to my art teachers classes- :00000

Wikihow has to stay on that grind😤😤😤

Oh gosh. As soon as a saw the sphere with the shading, knew it will go down to sh*tter. Btw, who is the artist from @5:30? That looks awesome!

Some of this advice just shits on what I have been practicing for 3 years

When I wanted to learn to draw Chibis last month, I think I read this article. I was so annoyed. I just ended up looking for specific articles and KZfaq videos. I don’t have time for that. The whole grid lines are extremely confusing. Even when I was in art school. I never learn.

HOW DID U GET THE TROOM TROOM VOICE 😭

Thanks for including lots of picture examples! The more to be jealous of thats what i say /j

That was a bizarre moment of KZfaq. But it's back. Hi Ughum. Huuu For the algoooorithm!

"But you're not Kim Jung Gi!" I now know how that start industry scientist felt when he couldn't make a copy of Iron man's reactor.

Also using a square for a female character isn't that good usually use more triangle shapes.

I can never follow drawing tutorials. I just use reference image or my imagination and try my best

11:06 Everywhere I go I see that advertisement

I feel like Step 7 (5:10) was a poorly explained bit stolen from the book "Drawing from the Right Side of the Brain" which also had an exercise where you focus on the negative space of an object (the example used in it was a chair) so that you don't get too caught up with the details. But of course the book introduces it 100+ pages in and assumes the reader already has a decent foundation by the time they reach it.

I did lines in my 2nd grade art class once, once. But the light source might be useful ig?

Some of my better drawings started as stick figures so I could make a pose.

Hate that the wikihow is exactly how my teachers in art school taught me how to draw TT

Lol the wrong device thing is fixed, anyways nice video man 👍

Yay it available

Mohammed, You face looking good today. What you using?! Teach me!

The squiggly lines and zigzags etc. are a very common warm-up in drawing schools. The wikihow was indeed confusing and not the best but I thought you were overly critical of it. I know having a drama channel and being overly critical of things can get your channel to pop, but you’re not like that. Don’t get it get to you. The good artists of KZfaq don’t do that, only the wannabes, (remember creepshow art? Yeah, she’s a good example), and you know your stuff, you’re a great professional. Don’t let internet’s rotten preference on high drama, low quality change your channel.

a few days ago i was drawing my art pretty consistently but for some reason now my art stops looking the part i prefer as if its degrading. what is happennning???

i've actually done a lot of these for an art course as practice

Sometimes I feel like people are trolling on wikihow

I love the part of drawing a woman where your drawing transforms into a flamingo!

I need that background music

the thumbnail reminds me of how in an art class my teacher taught the other kids how to do a profile with everything perfectly lines up ect while i didnt follow it and used my own style (because not all faces r perfectly proportional) and i got in trouble for it....she was a weird teacher

Honestly i used wikihow A LOT in middle school

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I’m not a pro but my friends always ask me to draw them, or teach them how to draw.

I used these articles growing up. The one I followed said to copy others. 💀

Always seen wikihow as a spoof website... all the example how-tos have been made into memes 😄 i went in with a list of stuff to see for myself a few years back and the content was either written by a troll, someone who didn't know their subject matter or if they did somewhat the instructions had major glaring gaps. Havent been back since lol

i started on wiki how, my first tutorial was "How to draw manga" it's really good for begginers, but after, found another way, because wikihow dosen't explain you anything, it juste say "draw like me"

These are basically the drawing lessons you'd get in school or college. Lines, forms, blind contours. aint worth the hate

I don't get why they keep drawing and erase everything after, to start again...it can also destroy the paper texture. You can tell someone has experience when they start with the big picture and not the usual tiktok tutorial anatomy with middle construction.

Well…. That whole thing of not making the hair have enough volume, is just part of the learning process. I had the same issue making my own characters, and I also made the hair look somewhat….. bland. It takes time as well, so maybe this person who made that tutorial of the face is some sort of intermediate level, but not a professional. They most likely just wanted to share their process, in hopes it might help people.

Hi I'm trying to make story to write Got any tips

WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!? -the Angry Video Game Nerd

I'll give the author some credit; The woman they ended up drawing for the tutorial would fit right in with Trip and Grace from Façade

Is that the bully theme in the background?

HE KEEPS CLICKBAITING ME WITH THICC BEEFY MEN!!!😭

OMG YAY IT'S WORKING NOW

Anyone see the queen's blade add on the sides lol

Wiki how... good times. 🙆🏾‍♂️

i have freaking tutorial sheets just in case if anybody wanted to draw differently and challenge themselves.

Just sayin but im p sure the artists that draw the pictures for wikihow articles are never the same person as the writers. :)

As someone whose a beginner furry artist I been learning from other artists and I thank them for my improvements. I still need to learn how to draw shading, perspective and more diverse poses

But like did u try the tips, it probably helped some people!

The best artist to learn from is spongebob

6:06 Omg my teachers put this up when we are doing portrait like wtf this is shit and the hair like 💀💀💀 I’m sorry but ts cursed we never did the body so that’s kinda good… but

6:05 was funniest

Im here just for the samdoesarts piece

0:36 fake news trolls volunteer themselves UwU

"i don't think they're the same exact situations" oh you're right. russian situation is worse lmao

At 0:50 he sounds like Jaden Smith lol

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