How to learn (art) so fast it’s almost unfair | YTartschool

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  @wolfwoodstudio · 8 months ago (edited)

  Hey everyone! I'm a student on Marc's course, and will be posting a video soon to show how I learnt to draw hands in 24 hours (spread over a couple weeks). Never drew before but managed to do it. My logic was, if I just focus on one thing, and do it over and over again (with techniques taught by Marc), naturally... my brain should just get it. It's all problem solving, and I've solved enough weird, dynamic angles in that timeframe that it just works now. Weird how that works. So yeah if you struggle with that and want to see if "it can be done" then... well I have a video for you :)

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  @Christopher_Giustolisi · 8 months ago

  I started making rapid progress after doing just one thing at a time. I know, there are so many things to learn, so many techniques to explore and so many materials to try out but that is overwhelming. I wanted to learn how to draw bodies, so I started with just simple silhouettes and filled a sketchbook with those. Only outlines, no shading, no small details. I rotated those, drew different poses and did that over and over again. The goal is to not having to think about it anymore. I don&apos;t have to worry much about proportions anymore. My hands just know what to do and I can draw a body without thinking much it. Same goes for faces. I filled a sketchbook with those and now I can do that without thinking too much about it. <br>It&apos;s like playing an instrument. You can&apos;t learn 20 new songs at the same time. That&apos;s not how learning works. Focus on one thing, do that and you&apos;ll see rapid progress.

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• MR

  @mrsplosh999 · 8 months ago (edited)

  This is true btw.... I spent years drawing/studying for 5 hours thinking the things im drawing/learning were getting absorbed. I started Marcs anatomy course and instead only started learning NEW information for about 20-30 minutes per day. Id then practice what i learned for a couple of hours , then move on. And weirdly i started retaining much more. <br><br>Think of it like back in school where you get taught for 15 minutes of the class, but then spend hours over the week doing exercises/practicing that 15 minutes. <br><br>Key thing to do next is to CORRECT your mistakes, this will help drill it in further.<br><br>And another tip if you want to get over that &apos;fear of drawing&apos;. Heres a few things : <br>- Make it exist first, you can fix it later (don&apos;t worry about immediate accuracy or perfect lines/shapes) <br>- Don&apos;t strive for PERFECTION, strive for believable <br>- Assume you will fail, but take that as a good thing because it means you can fix it (learn)<br>- experiment with approaches, some people prefer working in line, some with shape, some a hybrid. Find what works for YOU

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• IB

  @ibethebandu.a.morrison653 · 7 months ago

  I&apos;ve worked at a few art studios doing storyboards. I always had a routine where I&apos;d do 45 minutes work, then 15 minute break. The manager would always come by when I was taking a break and accuse me of goofing off on the job. But they wouldn&apos;t fire me because I was the most productive artist on staff, churning out a massive amount of work due to me giving my brain a time out

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• KO

  @KobayashiRaika · 8 months ago

  Feeling called out from branch 2<br>i watched too many tutorials for my own sake

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• BA

  @Badartist888 · 8 months ago (edited)

  Skill 0 is having fun, or getting satisfaction, or whatever you want to call it. For me that meant enjoying the moment of drawing rather than being all about the result. I draw so much more, enjoy it so much more, and through doing it more have improved.<br><br>But yeah, quality of learning is far more important than quantity of learning. The old masters didn&apos;t have unlimited canvases like we do. They had to make each study really count. I see some fellow artists do like 8 hours of a single bit of anatomy but at the end, they have just been copying from various angles, not, for example, work out how the joint works.<br><br>The sleep part is interesting. The only time I dream is if I&apos;ve learned a new skill during the day. This is mostly something totally new so I don&apos;t dream that often. But when I do, suddenly I have improved at the skill overnight.

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  @draydodraw · 8 months ago

  I’ve lost count of how many times Marc has predicted my needs through these videos—you’re on a winning streak! I finally grabbed my tablet, picked up my pen, and decided to chase my art dream. Well, hello teacher! I joined the class an hour ago and then you teach me how to learn correctly!

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• PA

  @pausantandreu · 8 months ago

  Thumbnail = One Punch Marc

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• CA

  @cadian101st · 8 months ago

  Some things I will add: <br>Make sure your practice is fun, interesting, or at the very least fulfilling. The affective filter is a language learning hypothesis but it probably applies to other fields of learning. Very basically you are much more likely to retain things that are enjoyable and interesting than if they are frustrating or boring. If you hate drawing three billion cubes, then stop doing that and find an alternate form of practicing your target subject. Chunking helps with this as well, as if you try too much all at once you will be perpetually frustrated rather than getting over the initial discomfort of trying a single new thing quite quickly.<br><br>Have faith in what you are doing. If you are constantly plagued by self doubt it will become a self fulfilling prophecy. Other people have learned to become good at art and so can you. You are not special when it comes to art, you just need to do what artists have done before you and you will learn. <br><br>On a personal note I have really neglected the teaching aspect of learning. I am going to start a system of taking notes in a cheap sketch book and then compiling those notes into a mini tutorial I write in a higher quality sketchbook.

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• SY

  @synapsenblocker1238 · 7 months ago

  I tried out a method with my family that I call the vocabulary method. Here&apos;s the pitch: You can&apos;t write or read a book if you don&apos;t know the letters or vocabulary. The more words you know, the better books you can write. That&apos;s how Tolkien, a professor of English language studies, wrote The Lord of the Rings. <br>If you want to draw, and especially if you want to paint from your imagination, you need the appropriate vocabulary. You can try it yourself with your family using the example of a bicycle. Divide an A4 sheet of paper into 4 fields. In the first field, draw a bicycle from your imagination. You&apos;ll be surprised how funny it looks. Although everyone can ride a bicycle and sees one every day, it&apos;s different when you have to draw one. Now take the picture of a bicycle and look at it for about 2 minutes. Pay attention to the different shapes and rough details. Then cover the bicycle again and draw a new bicycle in box 2. Then look at the bicycle again for 2 minutes and pay attention to even more details. Then draw again in box 3 and finally one last time. Then compare picture 1 with picture 4 and be happy. <br>The concept can be extended indefinitely. For example, you could next tackle a saddle or what a bicycle looks like from behind.

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  @maskedanimatronic147 · 8 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ObtyUPkqbA&amp;t=685">11:25</a> So me getting up, circling my room and looking out the window ten thousand times while drawing is actually useful?!

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  @MadnessIsRising · 8 months ago

  Sleep is indeed the most powerful learning tool. Back in school and in training school, i had pretty much to learn and I only overcome those because i looked through the learning topics right before sleeping, then i repeated all that stuff in train in the next morning and wrote the exams. It mostly went well. I wasn&apos;t the best but i wasn&apos;t bad either and looking back to the amount of stuff i had to learn i think i did it well all thank to sleeping.

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