"For this one, while the paint is still wet, I'm going to mix burnt umber with yellow ochre together and just spread it around randomly in some spots while the surface is still wet."
"Knowing how to work with the bottom and top eyelids and how the pupils dilate and react and look at certain things, using features like shadow to create a darkness to the face, stretching the entire angle of the face so it looks like it's pulling itself in a certain direction."
"Drawing's all about adding a lot of textures and making things look kind of more interesting and not so flat."
"Layer those colors to create a brighter shade."
"Adding gradients can help simple shading feel a lot more fancy than it really is."
"Twitch's controversies impacting its reputation."
"The most important stage of painting? Form rendering and cast shadow decisions."
"Shadows cast shadows, large shadows, small shadows, and on the early stages, that's when you should be spending the most time."
"Value contrast, smaller shapes, and contrasting edges - these are important elements to consider for focal points in your artwork."
"One thing I love about pastels is their forgiveness."
"Don't be afraid to cover subjects you really like to make things look natural or just to improve the painting as a whole."
"Layer blending modes can really enhance your artwork, especially for shadows and lighting."
"So hot tip when using colored pencils keep those pencils sharp keep them sharp."
"Only through experimentation will you find what works best for your artistic voice."
"You can create smooth, even transitions of tone and value here because the tooth is quite a bit weaker."
"Chicken scratching really makes your art more expressive."
"How do you make puke green? Exactly, it's like green with yellow, but then yellow makes it bolder."
"It's not cheating... I'm not saying it's cheating... yes, you can."
"It's very sexy to have a full range of value. Don't be shy."
"The best way that every amazing artist does it is by simplifying it, seeing it as a simplified thing, the simplified problem."
"My Method and techniques for Designing characters."
"I actually use a bit of a mix of both, I strengthen and embolden the blues with darker blue pencils but I also use some reds and purples to just add a little bit of subtle complexity."
"You can match any color in the world with oil paint using a simple palette."
"Transparency is high on my list. As a general rule, I want all my watercolor to be very transparent."
"Avoiding symmetry in your canvas will help you create more interesting compositions in the future."
"Glaze is our friend when you're making shadows."
"These brushes will grab onto this pigment and they will place them down."
"Color mixing is one of the most amazing things about oil painting."
"So now we're going to enter the world of the paint layers."
"Composition perspective color theory etc. ways to learn to face a complicated subject and make it seem much more doable and much more fun."
"Tracing is not cheating. As a matter of fact, the thing about art is that you can't cheat. You can lie for sure, don't do that, but as there are no rules or guidelines or even right and wrong in the making of art, you can't cheat."
"Tracing can be referred to as a copy of a drawing or pattern made by drawing over it through a piece of thin transparent paper."
"Layering lighter, the key to building depth."
"The value scale is your best friend as you learn about values."
"Just hit the lines you really like, hit the lines that you want to make seem a little bit more pronounced."
"When you're adding expressions to your anime and manga characters, it's going to help a lot when you're actually getting into story design and trying to tell a narrative."
"One thing that is also good to get used to is not zooming in as much because you can't really do that in real life so zooming it not a zooming in as much helps you be able to focus on how the drawing looks and you'll be able to see it at all times."
"For speed painting, it's so fast to go through it and you can just actually build up much more intense opacity to the right color."
"Consider a little different way of framing and presenting that allows people to engage with the work."
"The value of reference in art cannot be understated."
"It's really important to note that the only way that rendering is really effective or cross hatching is really effective on a figure is if your underlying structure and your lighting is well established."
"The smaller the pieces, the more realistic it's going to look."
"You can really fine-tune even within the same type of brush, you can really get into extreme sort of modifications and fine-tune exactly how you're going to use it."
"Adding distant mountains for depth and scale. It's straightforward and adds a lot to the scene."
"This allows me to push the value range outward, so essentially I can start with a neutral value and add both darks and lights."
"We want to add some roughness and some grunge to our metal."
"You still get a really wide range of colors and you can paint pretty much any realistic image."
"Using those simple four colors only, I just made 40 new colors that weren't there before."
"You don't need to slavishly copy everything that I'm showing you, I'm just helping you understand the overall effect and how to build it up."
"An oval and ellipse, if you draw a circle and deform that circle in perspective, that is going to be too thick."
"No matter what techniques you use, you always go through four stages."
"Using reference is not only fine, but also a helpful and even necessary tool."
"Reference is an exceptionally helpful tool that will always make your art better."
"Creating organic shapes to represent foliage."
"I'm not going as dark as possible because I'm still gonna look for an opportunity to create a bit of texture within the shadows."
"It's a great method for seeing your proportions more accurately particularly with figure studies."
"White is cocaine, save it for the specular highlight in your eyes."
"Use the exact same color temperature as their markers, it's almost like traffic or nose."
"Gray is a better starting point for all the other colours we're going to be using on the miniature."
"Techniques that are easy to replicate and will get you a fantastic result."
"This allows me to handle him whilst painting him."
"Picasso painted the old guitarist on top of another unfinished painting."
"Everything that you imagine sandpaper doing with colored pencils, the opposite actually happens."
"Usually everyone should try the one color challenge, you know why? Because it makes you try things."
"Drawing with pen has taught me to use mistakes and implement them into something."
"Seriously, it's a lot of colors. You think there's gonna be one magical pencil for creating skin color, there's just not. Takes lots of colors and lots of layers."
"Pen and ink allow for bold lines, spontaneity, and immediate capture of the moment."
"I use these paints and this brush in my speed painting videos."
"This is my time to kind of play with that and play with patterning and getting it to that place where all the local color is laid in and I've got a nice varying degree of color."
"Varying your line thickness will help so much in making your art look more Dynamic and compelling and giving it significantly more depth."
"Understanding of the anatomy, understanding of solidity of forms... try to push the pose."
"Drawing a simplified human head with virtual planes is a very useful exercise."
"So it's just all about dialing that edge in and I can always shift back to the black brush and get that dialed in."
"Pointillism in art: dots creating vibrant images."
"Representation, even in the smallest details, adds depth to the canvas."
"Simple skills that are going to level up your drawing really really fast."
"Layering color like this also greatly increases the depth of the figure."
"Watercolor pencils layer easily and dissolve in water, making thousands of colors."
"Oil painting is that you can just like literally wipe it away if it's not right."
"I don't want to start with sink white so I'm gonna just put the lightest pink possible the lightest pink that slightly warmed over my whole canvas as a ground."
"Balancing loose brush strokes with realistic details for effective concept art."
"Consistency in lighting and texture application enhances the realism of concept art."
"Canvas work with my stencil projects and oil paintings."
"Sometimes you just gotta go in and scribble around, and then once you have a collection of scribbles, you're like, 'Oh, what looks sloppy just kind of looks cool now.'"
"One nice technique you can use for coloring is to begin with marker and then add a colored pencil on top of it."
"Contrast is really, really important to create an effective and dynamic illustration."
"Is tracing right or wrong? It depends on how it's used and respecting the work of others."
"Even with acrylic paint which is known to dry very quickly, you can get some beautiful blending effects."
"Pencil has even stronger role than the previous watercolor. The watercolor marks are rather loosely and broadly rendered on their own. They don't really wrap up the shape of the subject that Sergeant is painting, and he uses pencil to lasso those shapes and form those shapes."
"Watercolor can be worked translucently or opaquely. Many artists choose to use both techniques."
"...so that instead of using two Reds for Spiderman you could have used the Grays and then use the one red to kind of wash over everything right to get that the same effect that I did."
"Efficiency in color mixing is way more important in watercolor than almost every other medium because we are constantly working with the drying time."
"...don't apply it to paint or to paper that's wet because the surface is porous and fragile and the masking fluid will sink in too much and you're gonna have difficulty getting it off."
"There's all kinds of ways to use a squeegee in a watercolor painting."
"I'm going to mix more of my space blue with my Payne's Gray to get a darker value."
"It's fun using the markers first and coloring that solid, and then adding the extra details with the colored pencils."
"I'm excited to try some watercolor techniques."
"Despite them being very badly constructed, just really simple lines and all made up, they're suddenly just brought to life by a little bit of hatching, a little bit of shadow."
"I'm going to go over the recipe with you that I'm using for today, but remember the series is more about teaching you what these recipes can be used for and how to use them."
"It's not necessarily about exact measurements."
"Just kind of keep your spray bottle and keep those paints wet."
"There's so many different ways to lay the paint."
"This inclusion will strengthen that layer, give it a little bit more of a cloth-like function in your work."
"'I feel like this picture had a lot of different elements to shade. I spent a total of four and a half hours on this picture which is a bit more than usual but it does make sense since I am drawing more of a pose and the lighting was kind of complicated.'"
"Watercolor is all about using water and making your paints create unusual effects for you."
"Watch here, you just take the knife and scrape in all kinds of little things and people'll think you spent just days and days workin' but you got one haired brush and put them in. Don't tell them any different, shh!"
"These are gonna be great if you like to do mixed media and you want something for highlighting over your watercolors or your alcohol markers."
"The second technique is to create a stencil with your background dyes."
"The third technique is to create a dry embossed background."
"If you want to hand letter, this is what you need to do."
"Drawing in light and shade is also creating form and creating that sort of like 3D effect that we really like when we're drawing characters because it brings them to light."
"Let's draw some guidelines first; you'll want to use an HB pencil with light pressure."
"I learned how to draw fur, I made these brushes so that we can all be able to draw fur easily and it's not so scary."
"Adding more line weight to shadow areas such as grooves and folds where you would get ambient occlusion helps hint at the light direction and where shadows are."
"You'll never go wrong by working light to dark."
"One way to kick some spice into your drawing is to just keep playing up the different kinds of movements that you're creating in the piece."
"I need to pay attention to the highlights as well as the shadows."
"This has over 4000 levels of pressure sensitivity."
"Understanding how to convey 3D form through shading is probably one of the most important things to learn in art."
"This gives you the ability to stamp with beautiful colors right on top of that colored cardstock, which you wouldn't normally be able to do."
"Highlighting does take some time to do, but as you can see, it really makes a difference when painting."
"I was able to mix the colors that I needed."
"I finally brought back the kind of negative painting and more blooming and gradients."
"Those are some tips, tricks and techniques and methods that you can use to create more depth in your images in Photoshop."
"Impasto, those are the two strongest ones that we can go with."
"They're excellent for layering so you can layer on top, you can paint light over dark, and you won't disturb any of the layers below."
"Wet the paper and lift off anything you don't like; it gives you a sense of security knowing that you can actually kind of erase mistakes in your watercolor painting."
"With pixel art, we spend a lot of our time zoomed in super close to the illustration."
"These four are really important to making your art more vibrant and they give you an easier way of making color schemes."
"It's easy to darken something. It's very difficult to lighten something."
"So that's the Northern Renaissance, an epoch of startling invention; it gave us oil paints, it gave us optics, it gave us the truth."
"Make sure your paint is totally dry, heat set it, then when you put on your collage medium, put on a thin layer and dry it with a heat tool immediately."
"Don't be afraid of your eraser, think of it as problem-solving."
"Collage is also a fantastic way of rescuing a watercolor painting that is beyond the pale."
"It has the most vibrancy since the paper is sized and the pigment is going to sit right on top of the paper for you."
"They maintain their color integrity when you are layering them, which is really a great aspect of distressed paint."
"This is what I learned from Dana, which I found so fascinating because you can't do this with distress ink, you can't do this with oxide."
"If you've ever painted with oil paints or acrylic paints, you know that those highly opaque and creamy media are capable of creating some incredible textures on the surface of a painting."
"The Derwent intense is how it looks once you dilute it with water, it becomes absolutely beautiful, absolutely vivid."
"Using non-absorbent surfaces like oil prime linen will give your work a more painterly appearance."
"I always keep a piece of paper off to the side to swatch out my colors."
"You can increase your skill as an artist because you get to use a wider spectrum of tonal values than you would otherwise on white paper."
"Clear gesso is fantastic because you can use it in so many ways."
"If you seal it down with clear gesso, which you can absolutely do, and it'll be clear, then you can also write over it and do your doodling."
"Look what you can do with clear gesso, it's amazing."
"It's a lot of fun, but they're surprisingly easy and simple techniques."
"Watercolor is transparent, so you're going to be able to see those lines through this paint."
"The big difference is that watercolor lifts when reactivated with water; acrylics do not."
"For a watercolor artist, you can get a lot of great ideas and some really fantastic techniques."
"If you do use a lot of solvent, you need a paper that can really handle those layers and still give a nice smooth result."
"I like the way I can rapidly add value with the ink wash."
"On top of that, I can draw these objects in the foreground which are far more defined with cleaner edges and more contrast."
"If you have your nice snappy colors of your watercolors to start out with, then you'll actually have maybe something that you'll be happy with."
"That's where the beauty of layers and also the mask comes in."
"Layering with transparent colors can help create the sense of light if you let what's underneath shine through."
"You're going to learn so much more about blending and layering and mixing color that way than you would if you've got this huge set that just gets confusing."
"Once that odorless mineral spirits went on top, everything just blended so smoothly, so beautifully."
"Hard pastels... are great for line and detail work, while soft pastels generate passages of velvety color."
"If you do paint a cloud that you don't like, all you have to do is add a little blue paint over the top of it and paint it again."
"You can play with crosshatching as a way to fill up space, and it's simple."
"It adds a little bit of weathering, a little bit of dimensioning, a little bit of shadowing to the piece."
"Remember, some brushes are great for mixing acrylic colors and above all to achieve the effects of blurring or blending the colors."
"If you're trying to create a hyper-realistic image, then these are the features you want to use."
"I'm just going to start by sampling my background color for my shading; that's a good place to start."
"The blends you can get with this stuff and the color bleeds are pretty wonderful."
"This method of rendering was shown to me by the people at ZBrush, and I just want to thank them for showing me how to render my model inside of ZBrush without having to composite it later inside of Photoshop."
"...it's not just the sepia color that is added to flesh tones but flesh tones also have additional colors: they have reds and blues and greens, for example, even some violet."
"I wanted the line art to have a bit of a softer feel, so instead of using the G pen, I am using the rough pencil tool."
"As soon as you combine it with pen and ink work, it becomes so much more forgiving."
"Everything an airbrush can do, a paintbrush can do with infinite time."
"I figured I'd share a quick summary of how I approach doing tonal studies."
"I really love all the different panels, and I hope you picked up some new techniques."
"It's super helpful to prop your painting up when it's dry, take a step back, even leave the room, maybe go do something else for a couple of hours, and come back to it with fresh eyes."
"Watercolor can have that tricky bit where you think that you've done it wrong, but it's just a case of pressing through and building up your layers slowly and carefully."
"I scan like a computer... I have three ways to communicate realism: I have contour, I have plane, and I have value shape."
"Colored pencils are so effective and they can be so bright and almost look like paint if you really take the time to blend and put that right pressure in at the right time."
"It's always important when you're painting in detail to not forget that the whole is more important than the parts."
"I'm going to sprinkle this pigment on top of my project, tying it all together."
"Before you actually go in with all of your colors, for the areas that you know you want to keep really bright and highlighted, go in first with a white colored pencil."
"Try a colorless blender marker... it really saturates the colors and just fuses them all together to give a really nice smooth piece."
"I'm a big fan of layering stencils that color in stamped images because it always gives great results."
"When you do the swipe and then you torch it, the magic happens."
"You learn a lot of tricks that perhaps you didn't know or if you learn a better way or just a different way to model something."
"If you're kind of, you know, not comfortable with doing lines, you could also use a pen for this."
"Blue and yellow make green, and the more you do with your pencils, the more you kind of realize what happens."
"The ability to mix and match distress is truly endless."
"One of the reasons I like to use alcohol inks to create backgrounds is that if you're not happy with the results, you can still move things around."
"When you apply black this way, as long as the black layers are quite thin, you'll see the other colors underneath shining through."
"It's always easier in watercolor to start out super light because you can always add another layer on top to make it darker."
"One of the important things when you're creating a galaxy is to leave a little bit of white space."
"The secret to painting is that center focal point."
"It's really important to weight your lines or have these dark areas in your composition."
"Just by using different brush strokes you can communicate the same thing without having to draw every single little detailed thing."
"The real key to this artwork are the Derwent Inktense pencils."
"You can just water the ultramarine blue down to make a nice pretty purple."
"You could just keep layering the pigment from these."
"You can see how the wash that I did earlier is complementing the spray-on effects very nicely."
"Tracing is the practice of drawing over an existing image... it's a tool practiced by both the skilled and the unskilled."
"Most really good artists are using horizontal, vertical, and diagonal alignment to control scale and proportion."
"If you want to use them to create some beautiful and easy watercolor effects, watercolor lettering, this is probably a good way to go."