How To Draw Literally Anything
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Published 2023-11-30
this vid was inspired by the book ‘Drawing in the Right Side of the Brain’ by Betty Edwards
the videos used in this video (i highly recommend checking some of these out)
• Right Brain vs Left Brain
• Observation for Drawing Success #1 - ...
• After watching this, your brain will ...
• Hemispheric differences and hemispher...
• Jordan Peterson | Left vs Right Brain
chapters:
0:00 how to draw anything
0:45 where it all begins
1:53 how your brain works
6:15 how this affects your art
10:43 the actionable steps
14:55 how to draw literally anything
15:52 your brain is now different
All Comments (21)
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my mom, an artist, only gave me one thing to teach me art. she said, "art is just learning how to see properly". I've used this to teach myself art, then I went to an Atelier later to refine it all. The info in this video will absolutely help you, this guy is 100% right.
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"draw what you see, not what you think you see" I learned this concept of symbols a few years ago and it improved / developed my drawing skills tremendously. I think this is the best drawing advice to give beginners who want to improve their technical drawing skills :> 👍
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My guitar teacher told me "you'll never be able to play what you can think." I convert this lesson to everything, including drawing. What you create will never, ever be the level you want it to be, but it will always be better than it was. Look at your drawings from 3 years ago and you'll see what I mean.
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My advice for artists is to deeply use reference photos especially if it's unknown to you. Then to incorporate your left side, try to use things you do know about the image. If it's clothing, play with the style, make it more loose, add wrinkles to the shirt, make stains, patches, even if the reference photo doesn't have it. Just use it for inspiration and stylize it, improvise, make it your own and always add a bit of you to it what you know.
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as a psychology student and an artist, i love how deep the connection of art and psychology is, far deeper than what we thought in class (at least at my uni and other schools i knew). i swear that most people in the psychology department of my uni doesn't have any idea about this. thank you for bringing this topic and maybe i'll take this not only to improve my art but as a research idea 💗
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As someone who started "drawing" around a month ago (about an hour a day), I realized I have been doing this unintentionally. When I first tried drawing people I could NEVER get the proportions right/ faces to look good, but for fun, I decided to trace a couple photos of myself and my friends, and doing that gave me a way better (if still very imperfect) understanding of how people are supposed to be proportioned. The mental image I had of people was NOT people shaped lmao. Great video!
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I appreciate how quickly you talk and how you don’t say “umm” or any pauses, you are a very concise speaker
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“I can talk about it all I want, but the best thing is for you to just try it out” is the best advice in the video.
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YES!! After graduating from art school, I can’t stress how many art profs I’ve had saying “just focus on the shapes! The contour!” Etc etc. Once u see it, u can apply it to EVERYTHING. Another tip that has helped me a lot is looking at the negative space to help me position things properly, those are shapes too! Love this sm, and the psychological experiments u explained were fascinating to hear <3
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My elementary school art teacher was incredible. She started our lessons with this. In ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
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I'm 75 yrs old and I have been waiting for this video,. Thank you so much!
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My art teacher in high school explained this to me, she explained it very well, and something in my brain clicked. After that I went from not being able to draw to drawing very good realistic drawings. This was 25 years ago, so I can not remember just how she put it, but basically, you draw the lines you see, not the symbol your brain wants you to draw.
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I find that, when drawing from reference if you time yourself for 20 seconds to lay down the base outline as fast as possible it helps to keep everything in proportion! You’re not getting enough time to analyze the image as familiar items, but abstract sections of light and shadow.
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Here's a neat drawing exercise. Draw random shapes with your right eye. Draw random shapes with your left eye. Draw random shapes but blind contour. Then draw some with both. And then do one up side down based on a reference. :glasses-purple-yellow-diamond:
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I’m so grateful for your video! I’m a newly retired nurse (left-handed) with right sided stroke injury. My mother and grandmother were artists as well as my dad. And all three of my children. I could never draw. Until the stroke. Your video describes perfectly what happened in my brain to make this possible.
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"a few years ago you're a kid"....Thats so cute! Im 60.
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I just found you tonight...I have heard some of these concepts from art class in high school back in 1981-1982. My art teacher used exercises from that book you referenced. I am 57 yo as of yesterday, and I absolutely LOVE your approach! It makes me want to go get my supplies out right this minute. Thank you, the world needs this, especially us striving artists.
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Great video man. I think the one thing that helped me the most was breaking down complex shapes into smaller simple shapes. As humans we’re attracted to shapes. The shape of your favorite car, clothing, furniture, an attractive face, body type, etc. Study things you like to draw and then, with a lot of practice, you’ll start developing your own shape language. This is part of what determines your art style.
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I accidentally developed these skills in class! I always used to get bored and start drawing without seeing the paper, and since the benches I used to sit at were at a weird angle, I used to draw upside down a lot! It really helped me become a better artist and better at looking at details in general! Now I'm trying to live my art since university has been a nightmare. I just wish I had started sooner!
