*"Okay it's been about fifteen minutes..."* Me: 👁👄👁

Me, who can't even draw circles correctly: "Ah, yes. My mistake was not focusing on values."

“Doesn’t really take any brain power. Which is perfect for me...cause I’m stOupiD🤧” felt✋

As someone that's been through an art education, videos like this convince me more and more that my education was NOT worth it. Sam's videos have probably taught me more than my illustration course did in 3 years

When Sam tries to grab the digital pen but drops it instead 💀😂

Never been this early, notice me master gave me your blessing.

"except we're doing this digitally so it's going to save us a lot of time and it's going to save us some trees " lmaoo

hey sam do you plan to make another tutorial and how to trade your soul for the talent you got

this mans voice, i swear sometimes i just play it in the background

You are one of the few artists I saw here who really want to help new artists to develop their skills.😀 You are my greatest inspiration. I love to watch your videos again and again cause they are so helpful 😉

I LOVE doing grayscale art!! I normally only do gray scale when I'm trying a different shading style. Also I am in love with that art at the end!!!

Really, the way you make sure we the noobs need to calm down and take things little by little so we don't overwhelm ourselves in this journey becoming a good artist means a lot for me in particular. I often rush anything, be perfect as quick as possible, no rest, etc which turns me into the opposite, showing a slow progress and somewhat stuck. Anyway, thank you. You deserve my subscribe button!

I'm a traditional artist and I work in graphite too! It's the love of my life

Brushing up on my understanding of values was one of the most effective things I did to improve my art. Thank you for the great tips, Sam!

I'm in art school rn, and one of my most recent classes was color theory and still life and I've learned a lot about grayscale and it's def helped me improve

I'm an experienced artist with pens, pencils and paints on paper or canvas. But once I made the transition to digital it was hard, but once I got a feel for it all my knowledge of art eventually transitioned over. So in a sense I did have to start with square one, it was frustrating knowing you can make art a lot better on paper but having to stick with this to get better, and I did, but it also has to do with what kind of tablet you have. Display tablets are definitely the way to go the others are just way too hard to adjust to.

This opened my eyes why my traditional and digital quality levels are so different. I've been drawing traditionally for 2 decades but just picked up digital . Thank you

This definitely one of my favorite video's of yours, maybe one of my favorite art ones on YT. It's so important to remember how to properly use values!!! defo gonna share this and go back to it when needed.

It’s nice to see outtakes when you’re hashing out the dialogue. Makes us remember that talking to a camera is hard 😂😂 Excellent video!!

i never thought of doing grayscale art until this video popped up. Thanks for telling us why grayscale art is important to learn! ❤️️

This is such a lovely painting! I love her expression, this video made me want to draw again 💞

As amazing as the information Sam gives us through his videos can we just appreciate the FIRE that is the music he uses as BGM?

Yayayaa congrats on 100k :D

I don’t know how your channel finally got into my feed but this is my Lucky Day. I’m a beginner and totally appreciate your clear informative approach to drawing! I’m a jazz musician by trade and appreciate the value of practice but, as you said, it’s important to know where to begin! Many thanks for all you do!

You deserve millions of subs! Thank you for inspiring me always! Whenever I want to draw, I look to your artworks first for inspiration! Thanks a lot!

I only recently found your channel, I think your videos are super informative and inspiring, they make me excited to get better at painting again!!

Amazing timing for this video, been feeling as if my illustrations have been more flat these days and I couldn’t figure out why :”) I might even try this out with a single hue only too! Something like a monochrome portrait

Great work! I started out a more traditional artist and I completely agree with you. Learning values is So important. Love your work.

Love your vibe and how well you explain things :) I can tell you have a genuine love for your art. Thanks for the great vids

I agree! I recently started taking it seriously and it really helped my art!

You're voice is gorgeous and hypnotizing. It made me wanna focus on every words you are saying. I learned a lot. Thank you!

I needed this and had no clue as to how much... Thanks big homie!..... And this sound track in absolute GAS🔥

Gorgeous piece!!

Okay now...i know why its so important! Thanks alot Sam! Your an inspirational, and talented artist, we love you Sam, i hope you can do a tutorial of painting skin plz🙏🏻

A thousand thanks ♥️♥️♥️♥️ I'm really looking forward for your next videos !!!!

7:59 damn he did this in 15 mins i practice values, i turn into samdoesarts

Ah, so fundamental basics of art do apply in both traditional and digital. I always wondered if my traditional knowledge could transfer over. I adore the finished painting! She's so pretty and the contrast is really nice without being jarring.

I start my day with Sam's videos and end it the same, practice in between, hoping someday I'll be able to draw like this.

This was awesome! To the message and music! Thank you for making this!

Sam, you taught me so much that i didnt understand back then. I’m not so experienced with art but yet pretty good, but i see some issues i do and dont really understand them. Thank you, Sam does education!

"Still got it" that talk way of yours got me in love hahhaa, love your channel Sam! Looking forward for the next video :D

i like your style, it's so beautiful

This is very helpful.Thanks!

This drawing is just insane

thats insane, ive been trying to get coloring down for the longest time. Always on and off with feeling like i was stupid or the videos i was watching had holes in them, here i am learning that i should have been learning values and grayscaling all along. REALLLLLY puts things into perspective. THANKS :)

Thank you for this video! I learned so much, you're incredibly skilled and I appreciate this a ton!

Great video, u never disappoint man.

I swear he needs more recognition! he is amazing at what he does!

You're very talented, wow. I love your style.

Awesome tutorial. Appreciate your teaching style and keeping it about the art.

Your art always inspires me a lot, it always leaves me mesmerized :O

this is literally so cool

Extremely useful,Thank you!!!❤

This is really good man, I haven’t tried to fully render out a digital painting with just grayscale. I’ll have to try it sometime

Thank you so much for this video. I've been drawing with graphite for a while now, but I haven't tried Grayscale digitally. This was very informational! Thanks, Sam

Sams content has chage ALOT!!! Im glad to see how much he has grow

I'd love a video of you talking a bit about how you started and some tips about what kind of a road map you think will be good when learning. I really like your style, I think your understanding of light and value is fantastic and I wanna learn.

Thank you for these tutorials Sam! They really help me out a lot. I was wondering if you could do one about "finishing touches" because i really like the last details and shapes you add to your paintings!

Your art is so beautiful Sam ... that’s one thing you and it have in common

you are really talented.period

Watching you sketch before you paint is my favorite man. Your lines are so pretty. I’m really having trouble with proportions of facial features idk how you do it

Sir it is illegal to be this talented

2k to 113k its been an amazing journey till now looking forward for many more amazing & helpful videos from you. Thank you 😊😊

I am obsessed with grey scale. Just finished a big piece in grey scale. one of my best work.

Love that man.. I in a process of achieving my dreams And now your video was part of it. And never say I’m stupid 😆

Omg this is sooo prettyyy 🤩👏

This video is exactly what I needed, Thank you !!

i normally don expect great artists to look this fine 😳 plus the voice omg

Your voice is just like Bob Ross. Its so relaxing. This helped me a lot btw!

Thanks alot sam for this ❤❤ !!

Watching you always makes me want to do digital art! Great video btw :)

seeing your videos make me more and more exicted to finally get my drawing tablet

so glad i found your channel a couple months back. I really love your style and i cant WAIT to see you blow up!! ALSO I WAS LISTENING TO SHIT ON SPOTIFY AND IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZED YOUR ART STYLE FOR THE PINK SWEAT$ AND KEHLANI SONG

You are a lifesaver, grateful for your video's💎

My problem is figuring out how to pick the correct values.

Awesome video. I’m that new digital artist that has only been studying anatomy, colors and rendering. But I’ve been sleeping on values to be honest. So I’m definitely going to learn about them. What you said about there just being so much info online and not knowing where to start is also true and can be very overwhelming! 😅

I love this sm!

I’m doing a weird way of learning how to do a realistic drawing by starting fresh without any experience knowledge and trying to do this on a program that I basically just picked up and don’t really know how to operate it. So this should be very interesting.

Thank you for this!

Thank you sam,really helpful tutorial👍❤️. Wish u all the best

I have been troubling picking color even though i have an reference to follow it, but after watching your video, im gonna start with learning grayscale first before jumping to coloring and other complex stuff. Thank you so much! :))

YOUR ART IZZZ AWESOME!!!! And I know YOU GET THIS A LOT, BUT YOUR VOICE!!!! 😍 IT MELTS ME AND IT FEELS SOOOO SOOTHING, COMFORTING, AND I KEEP BLUSHING WHILE WATCHING AND LISTENING 💖💖💖

Thank you so much for this video!

Great advices! Thanks a lot!!!

I was having an art block and hadn't drawn in weeks... This helped me so much .. I will surely go back to drawing

It looks so easy when he does it, when it's actually not.😯

Yeees, we were waiting for this...

I found u on Instagram and I love ur drawing style, it’s so beautiful ❤️

Thanks for sharing your digital art! You are so good!👏👏👏👏👏👏

Haiii, great video. Tbh ur style has inspired me soo much, and I and ur yt channel helps a lot. Ty sam💖

i needed this! i started off with colors so hopefully practicing can make me better with lighting and shading with colors

Greyscale is definitely important and can help alot

Very informative vid! Thank you senpai

Thank you for this tips it really helping me

Wow im actually struggling a lot learning to render art - and last night I started to try to do greyscale and it really isnt working. I really needed this video thanks :D

so usefull video! thank you so much!!

Wonderful work. As always 💙

This is super helpfull, thaks for making this video!

this dude is the art teacher we all wanted in school!

Thank you. I understand a lot from your explanation.