Flipping upside down is very powerful to convince beginners that they can really draw anything as long as their pre conceptions don't get in the way. That's how I started, at least

Draw what you see not what you think you see is one of those concepts that makes absolutely no sense until suddenly it does.

"Draw what you see, not what you THINK you see." This was drilled into me in college art classes, I think about it a lot!

I learned this as mass gesture then moving into using organizational lines & negative space for measurement. It’s greatly improved my art over the past few years.

measuring helps me with proportions so I use it so my drawing actually looks proportional

When I’m using a reference (mostly from irl) I just take my glasses off or squint in order to blur the details and focus on the shapes and colour masses ^^

I want to hear more. I love that you are talking about merging intuition and strategy together 😮

I really like your channel. The more I watch the more I learn, so thank you.

Flipping the paper/canvas is something I've never done. It feels more comfortable to just get in to the right mindset

When people ask for drawing advice, this is always the first thing I mention. It's important to remember what things look like if you want to draw from memory, but to get a basis for that in the first place you need to know what something really LOOKS like and not just what you THINK it looks like, stereotypically.

Flipping the reference upside down is something I’ve never heard of! Might have to try it 😂

Stan is refering to Betty Edwards approach. Actually for me flipping upside down is a step of learning how to switch my brain to the visual mode. It's quite hard to convince the brain that you are not looking at an eye if it is in normal position. But going through Betty's course helps a lot to learn it do at the end you don't have to flip the reference.

What good teacher ❤❤❤

Stan is telling all y'all scrubs to git gud basically

I honestly never had this told to me, but at some point it just happened and now everyone is all amazed by this seeming skill, simple yet powerful. 9/10 would definitely recommend

The way I learned this is when I had the idea to separate these shapes into lines. When I started to not draw shapes and I copied my references per line it was seriously like an epiphany experience to me.

ive been artist for 5 years now, but mostly rely on my "visual library" or things i dont see. I hope this helps me overcome that habit ;) thank you sir Stan

well we all know that we all started by doing the eye shape "circle"

For beginners try to flip your drawing like this: You draw: ) Then flip your drawing: ( You will see some errors to erase. To do this irl you use the light then look at your drawing, it might be frustrating if you see errors because you have to fix them but its not a big of a deal

My bring and I fight about seeing eye to eye😂😂😂 once I can get my brain and eye on the same page its smooth sailing!

Pick a few key spots (corners of eyes and mouths and such), and relative heights and widths, measure and plot those, and it'll be hard to screw up too bad after that.

Thanks it is a great help

Wish my eyes were as beautiful as his! 😅😍🥰😜😛❤

Very helpful❤❤❤❤

Nice! I thought im the only one thought of this thing

i have received it

I almost master drawing now but the perspective is always in the way😢. do you have a solution about it Proko?

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As can another person's eyes. For example, to any novice artists out there, eyes are much smaller in proportion to the rest of the face than you think they are.

Didn't knew jesse pinkman was teaching art on youtube.

Everytime I look at his sternocleidomastoids

I always fail at getting the distance right between the brow and eyelid.

What pencil do you use

Hey proko, can i ask you why you never liked the flipping upside down technique? Is there like a downside of using that technique?

I remind you that the major problem for weak artists is the thickness of the line you drew in this video is a sufficient error that makes the difference between good and bad artworks. Somehow you manage to make this line correct. I would try to do the same and it would seem like I did exactly that. But the line went half the line higher in the beginning and half the line lower in the end. And that turns everything wrong. Now I described a perfect situation where error is known. Tell me what to do when ALL the lines are in this "Schrodinger superposition" and can be right or wrong? Any parts of them can be right or wrong. So fixing may actually lead to one part going right and the right one going wrong. And the problem may be the opposing line. Like that concept of "shapes are never even on both sides, it's curved on one side and flat on the other". So... Simply curving one side of the shape changes the feeling on this shape. And thus lines that you think form it are irrelevant because the shape is formed in your brain by the perpendicular lines that you don't even consider wrong yet. And the old question: when to give up? When should I suspect I may not be physically able to ever learn that? I try for a week, I fail. Ok. A month? A year? 10 years of drawing, producing art, selling art, when is that point coming? Never? I'll always stay blind to whether I'm blind or not? Maybe everyone has the same problems. Maybe I'm the only one. Maybe half the artists experience that. How would I know?! What if THE ONLY way to learn right is to be constructed A to Z by a master? And learning alone would never work. Unless you get lucky and follow exactly the same path a master would choose for you. Because, I remind you, I'm blind until I learn and so I have to follow that path blindly. I cannot see if my learning path is right or wrong because if I did I would be a master already. And I'm not. You need a driver's license to get to where you're given a driver's license. You need to fly an airplane to get to the airport where they teach pilots. You need to be good to know what's a mistake and what's not to learn right. And that may be a lone wolf's doom. Then nothing you say matters because a newbie just need a personal teacher, not a YT guide.

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"Get good at switching into that mode in my mind" - This is not advice. The reason we flip it upside down is to remove the 'logic' of symbols. You can't just dismiss symbols from your mind. :/

I don't like when artists rely on Loomis or line graphs

Dose all of this also caount on painting

This shows sukuna actually smarter than Gojo with the six eyes Bro does the unthinkable and gojo fans call it 3 vs 1 Y'all must be crazy cuz Megumi did nothing

If you want to see flaws take your art work to a window turn it around place it on the window the Sun light will show you the swalf. Flaws. Hahaha

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