Why Color Studies Are So Powerful

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  @Pinkstarpirate · 4 years ago

  It's a good reminder to new artists that your one hour study will not look like some of his one hour studies. Quick studies and the ability to get that much information on a page is also a skill that takes time and practice. So understand that it is also something that will build and grow with you and the effort you put into the process and your own learning. Don't let yourself get frustrated! (I know a lot of young and new artists try to follow the advice and get very frustrated when they can't replicate the same results in their studies as professional artists with thousands of hours of studies under their belt).

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  @angelbiscuits · 4 years ago

  the thought of doing studies admittedly scares me, BUT the simple act of giving them little faces makes it so much more fun. ur a genius lmao

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• MR

  @mrsplosh999 · 4 years ago (edited)

  The thing that helped me the most were<br>1. Sam Neilson’s colour and light course<br>2. James gurney’s colour and light<br>3. Light for visual artists- Richard Yot<br>4. Studies

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  @vickywengella · 3 years ago

  In art class in high school, we were learning about light and shadows, so we painted an egg still life. I was so unbelievably proud of my egg, and I was so excited to show my mom because I thought she might finally be proud of me for something since she was an artist. I showed her the egg with a huge smile, and she looked at it with no emotion on her face and blankly said, &quot;It&apos;s an egg.&quot; That moment will forever haunt me, but I still love egg paintings and I think it&apos;s really cool how the different light and shadows are so simple but still make such a difference. It would just be a basic oval without it.

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• XL

  @Xluss-05 · 2 years ago

  My problem is whenever I want to paint something from my own imagination without references, my color palettes are awful I want to give up and cry lol

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• DI

  @DigitalGamersX · 4 years ago

  I felt very seen when you said &quot;drawing made sense to me in line but color always confused me&quot;, thats my current problem in my art progress rn haha. Time to put pedal to the metal with these studies, and thanks for being so honest!

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  @uh-ooooh · 4 years ago

  This is my first video I&apos;ve seen of yours and I already love it. There&apos;s a lot of art channels that do too much gimmicky shortcuts or counter-to-the-grain methods but feels unnecessarily contrarian for the sake of being contrarian to seem more unique and gives false-hope to aspiring artists. But I love videos like this where it just feels honest. There&apos;s no &quot;different angle&quot; or &quot;clever never before seen solution&quot; or &quot;trickity trick&quot; that&apos;s going to suddenly make me become an expert. Face it head on - look at things, study things, put in the work, put in the fun. Love the videos, man

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  @NornChaver · 4 years ago

  You&apos;re like an art dad that I&apos;ve never had. This is so cozy inspiring and educational all in one video. Thx man

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  @AlistairBonfronte · 3 years ago

  Reminds me of a few years ago, when I was stuck being unable to improve anything with human shapes and I was like hating my art and all that jazz. Then I had to take that one mandatory class in creature design I thought I was going to hate as well because it’s not my cup of tea, and we had this exercise where we could only draw slimes, but like, thematic slimes, so everybody had 10 minutes to draw elemental slimes, emotion-based slimes, historic-figures slimes and a bunch of other crazy stuff as a smile for an hour. At first I just thought that it was relaxing, didn’t think much about it and didn’t realize that it was the first time I relaxed while drawing in months, so it came for me as a surprise when I sat to work on a major piece and it just, I don’t know how to explain but it just worked; it wasn’t flawless, and I wasn’t in the zone or any fancy stuff, but I didn’t feel as constricted as I would. Later I found out that I don’t need to be drawing humans all the time to improve that skill, our brain works in strange ways when it comes to learning, and for me it’s now about drawing some odd slimes a few minutes every day. I guess everybody has their own slimes or eggs to discover.

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  @XEPHOURIA · 3 years ago

  Something that fascinates me is that his art looks so realistic even with a stylized style because of how good of an understanding he has of light. That&apos;s something I&apos;ve noticed throughout mediums, even with a unique or cartoony style, something that doesn&apos;t reflect actual life, and you give it really good lighting, then it looks realer than if you used a realistic style with mediucre lighting.

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• MA

  @MadDannyWest · 4 years ago

  wtf why does this only have 2,000 views? It deserves at least over 100,000. This is awesome!

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  @thecaptainchrome · 1 year ago

  This is exactly how I have always felt about playing guitar, once you finally put in that time to unlock your intuition it completely changes and you love it like you knew you could.

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