I hope you guys enjoy this video. Drawing this way of course is a lot more challenging, but it is actually very helpful in some ways for learning observational realism art, especially for beginners, because it removes one of the main stumpling blocks that trips people up: what they think something looks like.
yes, what you think something looks like screws you over in trying to draw accurately and realistically. The mind holds simplistic/cartoonish ideas of what constitutes everything such as an nose or an eye, and when the beginners draw something, even when staring right at the things they are trying to draw, prioritize this simplistic idea rather than what is actually infront of them. For example when they draw a nose they start to draw what they think the shape of the nose is in outline, but where do they see this dark outline? What you are actually seeing is different patches of varying shades, interwined in such a way that forms the illusion of a nose. Those varying shapes and shades that you are actually seeing is what you ought to put down on paper if you want to make it realistic.
Upside down (or sideways), what you see is often much stranger than what you think you know so the mind is forced to let go of what it thinks something looks like and focus more on drawing what it sees. This is a fundamental understanding that is required before one can incorporate their own style into the drawing.
Just a random story but the other day i was in my friend's class, I saw someone view one of your works. I thought it was kind of cool when she was watching it that it was drawn by someone on TL.
Amazing Great music choice. I got immense aesthetical pleasure while watching your vid.
Are there any plans of people you're drawing or it's just a random inspiration? Was wondering if you could do Jessica Biel since she's my favorite. Checked your page, I don't have 250$ for that. I would better pay it for my future wifes portrait.
Pretty amazing as usual, super good tip for drawing too, like you said, I knew when I drew that it was definitely super easy to get too caught up on what I thought I was supposed to be drawing whenever I drew realistic things.
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you are very talented.
