Hi everyone! Chiken here.
In the last video, we talked about art styles and
I mentioned that one way to train yourself to draw
in a certain style is to do studies.
In this lesson, I'll be explaining methods
of studying, and teach you ways to
specifically study color and anatomy.
I'll also be talking about the importance
of honing your observation skills, and how
you can use them to improve.
When we are doing studies, it can be very useful to
just copy and try to replicate exactly what we see.
That way, our brain and hands will recognize
how to move and what kind of exaggerations
are present in the artwork.
And when you work on your own art, your
brain will more likely be able to remember those
movements and exaggerations, and then repeat it.
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So, if you're trying to paint hair like a
certain artist, try copying exactly what you see.
You will learn and internalize how and where the hair
tends to fall, or where the shadows are present.
So, referencing our previous lesson, it's important to do
this with different artists so you take little bits
from each of them, and not everything from one.
Now, I want to focus on two
big study topics, anatomy, and color choice.
Firstly, for anatomy, I'd like to introduce
several levels of study that you can
do based on your current skill level.
For all of them, we'll be relying on photo references.
If you're still a beginner, and you're still starting out,
go ahead and trace right on top of the reference.
I lower the opacity of the reference layer so
that we can see our lines more clearly.
We will just be training ourselves to see what
kind of shapes are present in the model.
Try to pay attention at what kind of angles
the arms, leg, torso and hips are at, like,
are they facing backwards, are they slightly going forwards?
And etc.
Remember to draw the curves in the arms
and the legs like the sausages to indicate
its volume, and the way it's facing.
If you don't know what kind of shapes to draw
for now, don't worry too much because we'll cover them
later on in the anatomy chapter.
And keep on doing this until you think the form looks good
when you take it away from the reference below.
When you're happy with how it looks, and
you're comfortable tracing the shapes, go ahead and
start drawing on the lines of the body
contour, while looking at the reference.
Pay attention to what kind of curves there are,
and ask yourself what kind of muscles are under
there that causes it to curve like that.
Just to recap, before we finish up
here for level one, trace the basic
shapes directly over the reference photo.
Do that until you're comfortable making the
basic shapes of the human body, and
you are happy with how it looks.
For level two, you can start drawing the outline
of your character while looking at the model reference.
And for level three, if you feel like you're comfortable
with level one and two, go through both steps while
looking at the model reference without tracing at all.
Now moving on to colors.
A cool trick that I learned, is to have a painting
that I'm studying open on the canvas and color pick them
to see on the color wheel, where they sit. Take note
of how saturated or how dark they are.
You can even bring the color wheel here and move them
around to see how they transition from light to shadow.
We can see that the brightest part is
very white, but it's not saturated at all.
But when we move on to the transitional
part, it is more saturated and less bright.
And finally, when we get to
the shadow, it's less bright.
But we notice that the
saturation didn't change that much.
Or in this piece, we can try and study
how the colors change as we get further away.
So, let's see... In this rock that's
closer to us our colors lie here.
But when we kind of pick from something further
away, we notice brightness goes up, saturation goes down,
and the hue shifts more towards the blue side.
What I sometimes do, is isolate the colors to have
a clearer look at them and their relationship with each
other, without being distracted by the colors around it.
For example, in this piece, when this color is
on top of this bright orange, it appears blue.
But when we color pick it, we can
see that it's actually a shade of pink.
It only looks blue because it has more blue tint
compared to the color we are viewing it against.
So, there's a lot we can learn
by dissecting a piece of art.
You can do this with your favorite artist,
see what kind of colors they use.
You can notice if the color palette tends to
be darker and less saturated, or if the color
palette tends to be lighter and maybe more saturated
in the shadows but less in the light.
Ask yourself why you think they chose these colors,
and if it's something you like, you can try
to incorporate them into your own art too.
I believe a big part of improving also lies
in your observation skills when viewing other people's artwork.
In order to use them to improve our own art, we
not only need to look at the art, but observe it.
We are trying to pick up what makes
the art piece look good and why.
If the anatomy is good, why is it
because the torso is being exaggerated or the
arms are drawn more stretched out?
Or, if the colors look good, why?
What type of color harmonies can
you see that they've used?
But before we are able to do that, a certain amount
of knowledge about the subject is needed, and my aim is
to give you that knowledge in the following lessons.
So you can better appreciate and pick up
the artistic decision made by the other artists
and use them in your art as well.
So, please just keep this in mind and the next
time you see an artwork you really like, pick out
what you like about it and ask yourself why you
think that artists make that decision.
To recap we learnt
about how to study effectively, and the importance of observation.
In the next lesson we'll move on to how to
use brushes and shading techniques.