"Drawing is just a series of really small decisions, you know."
"The whole collaging process is not as messy and it doesn't take as long because I don't have to overthink things."
"It's sort of like you doodle something and then you look at it, oh okay that's interesting that could be this and I can morph it into something else."
"Art is actually a process rather than an end product."
"My eyes observe, my mind interprets, and my heart guides my brush."
"I would encourage you though if you like the final render here, I know you'll enjoy watching the process as well."
"Don't stress if you're not drawing, walk away and come back later."
"When you're painting at home, step back, always stepping back and looking. That's how you know when you're on the right track."
"Great, so once you're happy with your line art, you can go ahead and hide the sketch layer."
"It's crazy to think all I'm doing is drawing ellipses, teardrop shapes, egg shapes, and circles. These are just lines."
"I'm just like filling in with the dark blue."
"Let's get into the painting and let's see where it's going to take us."
"...the more layers you have on it, the more realistic it's going to look and it becomes a really fun process."
"The tape peel is a wonderful time in a painting."
"Just because there's so much paint on the canvas at this point, you just touch it, it disappears."
"...try not to get fussy and perfect throughout the whole thing."
"...I love to sit down and kind of just get lost in my painting and pick up a smaller brush and get lost in the details I mean it's a it's part of the painting experience."
"...I'm going to show you how I use it and all of these materials here in an illustration so I'm only going to be using the colors I picked out as my favorite and I'm going to show you the process for a spread in my Sketchbook so I hope you enjoy and on to the process video..."
"One is that painting is a journey, not a destination. The time that we spend making a painting is as important as the end result."
"I know that I can put a layer upon layer on it and it's okay. I can keep messing with this eye until it's exactly what I want."
"...it always dries darker but once the varnish or resin hits the surface it brings the color back to life."
"Now white highlights time and I'm so excited. It really just ties the whole thing together. It just simply elevates the drawing."
"It's all about guessing and then checking your work, and then comparative measurement and angles."
"I start off lightly blocking out the character's silhouette and proportions, slowly trying to get the pose to take shape."
"Doing this in grayscale before you even go to color allows you to be free to just think about the storytelling of your environment."
"Inking is a fail-safe step that never really goes wrong, thankfully."
"The whole process of making paste paper is just the process of playing."
"Swatching your materials is always a really important part of your process."
"With pixel art, we spend a lot of our time zoomed in super close to the illustration."
"The painting will take over; you'll find that the painting will just simply take over."
"The best part of paint is because I dried that first layer, I knew that when I put this other layer over the top, it would remain that color."
"When you look at whatever object on the page that you're coloring and you think you're done, remind yourself always that you can always come back and add more layers."
"That is perfect, so took a little while, now you can see on the monitor about two minutes, but we found the correct color."
"I'm just going piece by piece and I'm mapping everything out, breaking it up into smaller shapes."
"As the sculpture goes on I let it dry a little bit more, so, I'm not risking moving what I've already sculpted when I'm applying more clay or tooling."
"All of the line work and most of the ink washes are done on location."
"You're just going to keep layering and building until it starts to look good."
"Now for my favorite part of the painting, which is painting in the silhouettes of the birds."
"It's full of not only the finished artwork, which is great, but also you can see the rendering of the pencil pages and then how that carries over into the inks and the color."
"I really like the realism of the process that I use for painting those clouds."
"And to turn those things into an art process is very interesting, to have that intimacy associated with that."
"I'm just going to start by sampling my background color for my shading; that's a good place to start."
"...every time he would go over it, the color would look richer and get richer and richer the more glazes he applied."
"Once the drawing is finished, it's time to add the tone and color."
"Great, so once you have your super rough sketch like this, we're going to move on to adding some colors."
"Remember this process in your next quick sketch and go methodically about it, and you too will have a successful line drawing that shows the form well."
"You will see how to make minimal illustration from sketch to finished artwork with gradients and shadows."
"The process of making art is the process of composing."
"Don't stress out if that happens, it's part of watercolor and that's okay."
"I always like to start with the eyes because I think it gives the subject a soul."
"I'll talk about the source of my painting, what was the inspiration behind it, what's going to be my process for approaching this watercolor painting."
"There really aren't mistakes in painting, and what a lot of people don't know is that acrylic paintings have kind of a rough stage. Everybody's. Mine, yours, everybody's."
"That's what it will look like wet and then, as it dries you get this beautiful blended translucent stained glass look."
"Allow your piece to fully dry before adding in the stars."
"The three steps or phases that I go through to paint a portrait are: Step one, I get an accurate drawing; step two is I construct the form by blocking out the big shapes with thinner paint; and the last step is dialing in smaller shapes and subtle value relationships."
"The mordant helps create the deepest, clearest print that's possible."
"I always start by building up a skeleton first."
"Laying sketches and thumbnails are highly important."
"I'll be basing this vector portrait off of a photo, and this is the photo I'll be using."
"Timing, placement, the application - those are all factors that contribute to the end outcome."
"Shading is a delicate process that requires patience and the right technical application."
"It's really scary, so what I do when I start drawing anything like this is I like to go in and sort of work out where my darkest areas are."
"For those of you that are just joining, we started with the under sketch once again."
"You start with a white piece of paper, canvas, whatever, and then you work at it for a while, and then it's a thing."
"I was very grateful that as soon as I started to put like opaque paint, I immediately realized that the painting had to like change course."
"I think one of your biggest steps and biggest advice I could say for your work is just spend a little bit more time in the black and white."
"The type of medium that you use can really change how you approach making art, which also changes your art style."
"The process of abstracting can really teach us a lot."
"Starting with big flat shapes and then working down towards the finer, finer details."
"It's loose and messy and fun, and you kind of are working your way down to the nitty-gritty details, even though they're not very nitty-gritty."
"A lot of art is just trial and error until you get something you like."
"Don't ever set yourself up for failure by thinking this is going to be the most amazing painting... every painting is just a study."
"A painting like this will definitely go through an ugly phase before we get to the other side and everything starts to make a little bit more sense."
"The whole process of picking the materials and then preparing the pigments made it all feel more meaningful."
"If you mix 50/50, only fill in half of your chart because the other half is going to be exactly the same."
"I always start in the middle and I work my way out."
"Sometimes you capture things in the sketch that once you refine it, you oftentimes lose it."
"It is going to look weird; you're going to get to a point where you think, 'My painting clouds are in my painting squiggly lines that look like a kindergartener project,' but just hang with it."
"I'm quite happy with the outline, I'm going to start to paint."
"Sometimes my best paintings are ones that I've kind of hit that point where it's like, 'Oh man, I ruined it,' but then I have nothing left to lose, so I'm going to try this, and that's how you learn."
"It's important that beginners expose themselves to the actual process of art-making, and not just the process of studying to make art."