Recommend some good YouTube channels for learning how to draw.

[matg27]

Hello, I am someone who is interested in drawing, but I have no knowledge of it. So I would like you to recommend YouTube channels for people who are just starting out in drawing.

 

[Sorion]

Draw like a sir is great, highly recommended, he's got a book as well you can buy on amazon

 

[matg27]

thank you

 

[Neb Lleb]

Hello, I am someone who is interested in drawing, but I have no knowledge of it. So I would like you to recommend YouTube channels for people who are just starting out in drawing.

Sorry. I don't watch YouTube that much at the moment.

 

[qw90700]

It is rather easy to learn but too time-consuming to practice actually:

- Learn what objects look like by drawing them by looking at them. Most artists never draws/paints without a reference image. However even with a reference image it is hard to draw people therefore learning about anatomy is necessary. You gotta learn how skeleton, fat, muscles and all changes the way body looks like. In this regard learning how to draw people is no different than Anatomy 101 class lol. You may either learn it you will go with bad-looking anime drawing that people kinda look like PS1 graphics or overly exaggerated wrong representation of what a human looks like lol.

It is a me thing that I cannot draw shit with the generic "perspective lines" and "drawing people as you just draw generic body parts" idea. I cannot draw people without first drawing their skeleton, fat, and muscle underneath their clothes and then I calculate empty spaces and gravity when I draw their clothes. I also calculate perspective's depth on the surface of objects area by area in my mind so perspective lines means nothing to me. When I don't follow these steps or don't care my drawings looks like shit, that's why I try to come up with my own shortcuts to make drawing faster.

- Study depth and perspective. That's why artists tend to use reference images, or you will need to study mathematics and geometry in art context. It is kinda necessary to learn drawing postures that don't look shit and too 2 dimensional flat like people were crushed under a big heavy flat object lol.

- Study how objects are shaded and therefore looks like in real life due to darkness to lightness ratio. The tip is the default state of real life is darkness that when there is lightness in it objects light up and the areas got less light has shadows instead depending on where the light comes from. Sometimes I see people draw in a way default state of reality is lightness so they add darkness later. You gotta at least design images in your mind starting from darkness. It is relevant to how to create hair for example. First start from dark parts and then add light parts. Lightness is always on top of darkness.

- Study pencil types and simple pencil methods for what you wanna draw, however they are kinda "overkill". Any pencil is fine to draw whatever.

- Get used to the way a logical point of view is bad for art, so you gotta learn how to pour your emotions into paper for the actual "art", otherwise your art will never look good despite it may be logically look proper. So you gotta ignore how your logic says "it is technically looks right" but listen to how your emotions says "it looks good" by following what makes you like your art.

- As you draw on a blank paper you may cannot pour the image in your mind onto the paper and that's okay. I could never draw what I wanted, but I realized as I draw I decide what would make my drawing better and better and sometimes it leads to "perfect" drawings that are way better than what I had in my mind. The bad thing is until you draw enough you may never realize "how bad it looks" so you gotta get used to erasing a lot until you find the right way.

However the hardest part no one can teach you: Coming up with your own style that you are satisfied with.

Youtube channels can give you tip on, for example "how to draw anime style characters" and they may even teach you how the silver ratio is key in anime art especially when it comes to designing faces. To understand it you would need to study psychology but who bothers lol. For shortcut lots of artists using reference images without having any understanding of how they can create a visual art without any reference image. They can spam great "3D looking" people drawings via reference images but with it they can hardly draw a person lol. This is also corporate way to do "visual arts" especially in the anime industry. They record a video of a person and an artist draws on the video frame and you say "wow the animation quality is so high" but we call this method rotoscoping lol. And most of images and animations are done by using automated tools instead of plain hand-made ways.

TL;DR: Just get a pencil and enough paper and draw objects exactly as you see them as much as you can to practice it until you git gud. Use reference images until you are good enough without them. You may get used to drawing by changing images like changing faces, hair style and clothes of people before going for drawing a whole person phase.