just looked up the brush and can confirm this looks exactly like what was shown in the video. thanks :)

Tysm for finding it I am downloading this brush immediately!

oh you are a saint

I am so thankful for you man! Thank youu

At 10:53 what did he meant by yellow splitting from magenta?

Hers and LAMs are the ones I can recognize at a glance

Mika Pikazao, Torino, Yom, and Yoneyama Mai are some anime artists that I think are unique and very recognizable.

@@AZ-zz4kn o ye yoneyama mais art also has that recognizability

what about hyanna natsu, just adjust the saturation on her art +10% and its almost the same

THIS

Thank you! Mika Pikazo was actually the most suggested when I started the study. Her art was difficult to breakdown, and honestly I wished I could've gone a little deeper into composition techniques and color theory. But the whole process of figuring out the techniques was really fun to do! 😁

@@tppoart You did more than enough. So much actually that you left me speechless. I‘d love to see more Mika Artworks on your channel in the future. Keep up the good work you are super talented and amazing!

@@tppoart I typed out a massive comment where I went a little more into what you -might have- missed during the making of that recreation image, along with some suggestions, I hope you will read it and give it some thought. Cheers!

Final boss is probably wlop lol

Honestly I watch these videos for editing insight just as much as I watch them for art insight

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Please!!

Omg yes😳

TRUE I LOVE THEIR EDITING SO MUCH TOO

Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed all the little details! 😭 I think those small touches are my favorite things to do during the editing!

YES. as long as it remains feasible to you, PLEASE DON'T STOP DOING IT. I'm this close to take your vid to my molecular genetics prof to shame him into putting more effort into his 3D molecular rendering lectures. as part of biology, 3D spacial geometry and art is a fundamental science language that needs to be understood but it's almost always never taught systematically. every prof just draws the molecules relevant to their lecture and pretend what they're asking you to do, aka asking you to imagine 3D biological processes as if they're 2D lineart. like, d*ck, that freaken IgG's binding domain isn't a flat hexagon anymore, it's a wibbly wobbly black hole... I wanna say I'm sorry, but tbh, it irks me when profs don't go the extra mile to teach better when they want us to go the extra 100 mile to show "enthusiasm" for science. 3D RENDERING IS SCIENCE DAMMIT.

​​@@tppoarthat is the logicial plz?

HELP HE WENT OUT OF HIS WAY TO BUY REAL HALFTONES

her art is honestly amazing it feels illegal 😭😭😭

And you listening to it patiently is the perfect match:)

ahhh thank you!

As a person who watched those, it's common to see it on sunsets or sunny days where you are on a place with shadow

@@pansitopapasito I see thank you, also nice Ena pfp :>

Terminator is a boundary between light and shadow! It happens mostly when light hits an object in tangets and the light refracts, or when it hits a semi-translucent object (like skin)! As far as my observation goes, on skin, it "shone through" and highlighted your blood vessels underneath (the same way your hand looks red when you put it up against bright light). That's why on skin, usually terminator line has a reddish undertone. It usually warms up and liven up the skin tone. On other things, it technically is refracted lights. Beyond terminator line, if the shadow doesn't overlap with other light source (secondary light or bounced light), it became core shadow which is deep and dark. But if it has secondary light or bounced light, it's common to have terminator line darker. Some artists uses terminator as a means to "brighten up a picture", since mixing two colors often results in a muddier, toned-down color, so they add a more saturated "transition color" and put it in the terminator line. The softer the light is, the less rigid and more gradually blended the terminator line looks. In my personal opinion, Mika Pikazo sensei uses a lot of cell shading which allows them to play a lot with the terminator line!

I heard it happens because it’s where light waves are compressed to shorter waves before losing its brightness into the shadows, hence a more saturated appearance

helo ae :D

helu

I also still feel weird doing it, but I think as long as it's for studying purposes and we're not claming ownership then hopefully it's fine? 😅

Hellu.

I’m so stubborn with this that I eventually learned to just observe several artworks and references from people all over and just practice doing them on my own until I get a similar result XD Might take me a while but I’m also learning how they do it in tutorials

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id call this a case study, not really tracing but i agree with you

@@anartismal well, this is literally tracing, you just dont want to call it that because that has negative connotations.

Thank you!! 🙏

agreed this channel gives practical ideas

I learned so much from watching his videos and reading the comment section here

Thank you 😊

@@tppoart Man you are Hilarious the way you explain AND THE AMOUNT OF EFFORT YOU DO is just so amazing inspiring me to word hard too if I want to be a better artist. Btw we love the way you edit and explain things more easily Pls continue your hard work God bless you ❤️❤️❤️

Thank you!

i sorta thought it was the terminator

yeah core shadow was what i was thinking

Thank you! I'm relieved that you enjoyed the pacing and information in this video 😭

Thanks for sticking around! The growth is so fast its scary😅

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! ❤️

might be really late but namie has had many tutorials on tumblr back in the day, they might still be there

Thank you! 🙏 I did change the curve of the pen pressure graph to give the pencil brush a sharper taper!

I will now list more *minor details* that differ; however, as my comment is already ginormous in length, I will _try_ not to dwell on these. In your recreation, *the clothes* on the bottom right look rather dull, unlike the original, where only the very edge is white, which immediately drops into this deep, muddy, blueish-grey color. Both images achieve the passive look. However, the original is a lot more aggressive and offers more perspective, as the white color is used to highlight the curvature of the clothes. *The weird piece of aqua plastic(?)* on the top right that sticks out all the way out of frame casts a distorted shadow onto itself, giving it a blurry look, on top of being actually blurred. On top of not being blurred, your shadow is completely straight and ends up drawing more attention to that part of the image. Even the highlight is curved on the original, which looks more organic. Your shadows tend to be a tiny bit sharper in general too, which is fine as long as you can be flexible when needed. *The nails* on the original are far more textured, and the colors seem to fit more with the hands. Here we see when you shouldn't have too much sharpness in the details, as that can draw too much attention away. The nails in the original give the viewer an illusion of greater detail without being so over-detailed as to draw focus away. At the same time, your recreation has sharper white spots and a more uniform base color for the nails; even with bright and sharp-colored nails, the lack of texture can come across as dull or overbearing. Here's one detail that I like more about yours than on the original; *the three pins(?)* on top of the eye. In yours, they look cartoony and candy-like. The sharp and bold edges work in your favor to create a simplistic appeal that, in reality, doesn't take away from anything else important. I do still miss the speck of red on the green pin, gives it a little more character. The pins in the original are smudged and roughed to the point that it seems like a redundant addition. I can see this creating the illusion of more detail, but in my opinion, it just looks slightly worse without much rhyme or reason. *The glasses*, although out of the center, are clearly within the intended focus of the image, spotting some crazy contrasting and saturated colors. You really nailed this one, apart from some stuff I've already mentioned, which I will say again. For example, the white squiggly line is clearly not to be applied any effects or filters as it is on the external side of the glass, but you went and treated it like the rest of the glass anyway, which doesn't work. Another thing is that you have too little contrast to really make it pop as it does in the original, especially the lack of white near the bottom is hurting the final result a lot, in my opinion. One more thing, this is visible on both glasses but more easily on the left one; in the original, it looks more like a wild mashup of colors the more angled the glass is, which makes for a convenient excuse to go all out and give the colors a chance to shine and dance. In your version, it's more like looking outside the window on a chill drive on a Sunday evening. There is a singular *strand of bluish-black hair* on the very top left of the image, which fills that black void and gives an illusion of detail. A bigger stroke of bluish hair is barely outside the focus frame, which also serves to uphold such an illusion to the viewer; this one has the same familiar gradient as the one in front of the face. I would argue that the *flower ring* on one of the fingers is by itself superior in your recreation; it has a more pronounced contrast which is essential within the zone of focus. However, its border is too close to, if not the same color, as the border of the fingers, which makes it stand out a tiny bit too much. The red ring on the next finger is also more defined, but it's a bit too defined in this case. I find an issue in this because the finger sharing a border with the ring is so weak that the finger gets eclipsed by the ring in your recreation, making it look like it's slightly clipping into the skin. If you look at both of *the lips* in a vacuum, they don't really represent anything; it's just this alien shape waving at you. However, the moment you distance yourself away from them, you can start to see that these are indeed some pouty lips. The lips you drew are functional and quite pretty for what they are. But on the original, Mika went the extra mile to smudge the bottom part of the lip, which makes them more 3D, presumably to make them extra pouty, to represent the emotion before you've even seen the rest of the context around them. *Conclusion and Suggestions* So, all in all, what do these small differences add up to? The image of the girl changes from "chaotic and mysterious, but lovable" into "cute and cool, giving me attention," with the implication being that she will reject you if you ask her out. I don't think it's a failure. Frankly, you're great at this, far greater than I have any motivation ever to be, and that's why I felt like writing this all, to share my insight with someone who can potentially make some good use of it. I would be lying if I said I don't care if you even read this, so I want to make the deal a bit sweeter; here are some things you might want to take away: You draw most things *too consistently* and *at the same level of detail*, essentially oblivious to where the focus of the image ought to be. _Try to look at the image from afar and decide where you want the viewer to look; make those parts of the image more detailed and sharp._ your *colors are off or dull* in certain places. _Try experimenting with a more contrasted look to bring out the full colors of the image._ You *don't improvise enough* to give the art more character, although perhaps that is all in the spirit of making a pure recreation, which I would not dream of criticizing if that's the case here. However, if this wasn't a deliberate choice on your part, _try to connect the choices you make during painting/drawing with an idea to have a more comprehensive picture._ You leave *too many blank or uniform areas* where the details or texture are lacking. _Try to look at different parts individually._ What are they missing? And _keep in mind that you don't need to add anything that sticks out if you're drawing details outside of focus_ You are *too afraid/cautious* to draw sharper and more pronounced features *in general*. _An important feature should take as much space as conceivably possible_, and therefore even though this is a recreation, _you should try experimenting with the edges/linework of the image to bring out certain parts more or less._ Heck, even the flowery ring on the finger, which I myself said was better executed by you in a vacuum, serves to establish a shared border color for the rest of the orange found in the image in the original work, making it no more an issue than abundant rain is to a flower. And so, I suppose, that's all I wanted to say 😄 *Sources:* (according to me) intuitive logic, my eyes, independent research into character study/color theory over the years... aka _I came up with everything I typed_ P.S. my sister said she likes your image more than the original, so what do I know lmao.

Since no one notice this among the big amount of comments, I’ll just leave my reply here. The opinions you contribute here is very helpful, the amount of time you took to identify the detail he’s missing is very impressive, I think I’d need someone to feedback my art like this too! 🥰 thanks for the effort you put in to type these, after reading it I know that I should be more careful in focusing minor details when I’m studying someone’s artstyle.

@@aurelie9230 Well, I'm glad someone saw it 😁

this is an awesome extended breakdown crazy how the creator of the video hasnt seen it yet

I've heard that Fair Use is almost non-exist in Japan, but, still. I'm pretty sure that all of his videoes fall under Fair Use Policy and doesn't require her permission, as his video show that he use Pikazo's works as study materials for the technique without claiming her works as his own, and doesn't get into the way of how Pikazo could have benefit from her own works.

@@diamonch1215 Thank you for your reply comment No matter how much you respect Mika Pikazo and indicate that you are tracing Mika Pikazo's work, uploading without permission is prohibited. If he has permission to upload from Mika Pikazo, he will indicate it, and if he does not have permission, he must not upload the video. Even if you show that the illustration is not your own, uploading without permission is prohibited even if it is to help someone who admires her, or to show respect for her. Anyway, all problems are fine as long as you get permission to upload from Mika Pikazo.

@@diamonch1215 Also, as you say, there is almost no fair use in Japan, and it has never been recognized in court. In addition, this video has ads and the poster earns money. I can tell that he respects Mika Pikazo, but it's an extremely vicious act.

1. As of ads in youtube, sadly it falls into "just youtube being youtube" now. There were certain conditions that makes youtube slips the ads no matter if you disable it in the first place. Some uploaders actually goes back to disable it again if certian conditions to make the videos have ads are met (usually if the video is more than 10k-1m viewers) 2. Mika pikazo sense actually saw the video and actually impressed that tppo tries to know her technique. Same with qtonagi before. The real blunder is just he's drawing the same pic (no much signs that he's tracing, as he didn't in yoneyama-sensei's study either)