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# 3 STEPS TO INSTANTLY FIND YOUR STYLE| NEVER draw from IMAGINATION!
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00:00:01.669 don't you ever drop from imagination
00:00:04.230 never drop from imagination ever all
00:00:08.160 right what is style I'm gonna break it
00:00:09.599 down into two simple terms that your
00:00:11.280 little infant brain can understand style
00:00:13.500 is mileage plus reference all right
00:00:15.719 that's all it is drawing from
00:00:16.920 imagination is bad and mileage is a lie
00:00:19.470 all right I'm gonna do a demo I'm gonna
00:00:21.390 prove to you with three simple steps
00:00:22.859 that this is true all right so what
00:00:24.720 we're gonna do is we're gonna pick three
00:00:26.099 artists and we're going to combine each
00:00:28.170 of their styles one's genre one's shape
00:00:31.410 language and one's line quality
00:00:33.420 we're gonna combine all those three to
00:00:35.370 create your own style and that's what
00:00:37.739 I've been doing that's what every
00:00:39.210 professional has done all right whether
00:00:40.950 they realize it or not it could be
00:00:42.420 subconscious it's happening okay in your
00:00:45.180 in your little brain so this is a way
00:00:46.980 we're going to laser focus and and learn
00:00:49.649 a little bit faster about it you see
00:00:51.210 this thing over here says mileage with
00:00:53.579 the scribble thing and reference from
00:00:54.989 imagination that's wrong all right I'm
00:00:57.239 gonna get into that in a second all
00:00:58.500 right so at the core of all of this what
00:01:00.149 is it about it's about referencing
00:01:01.770 artists find the artists that you love
00:01:04.170 find the things that really make you go
00:01:06.689 I want to do that I'm just gonna go over
00:01:08.939 the most important one of these
00:01:10.320 categories first its genre so why is
00:01:12.869 this one so important because you can
00:01:14.640 have sonora without shapes without line
00:01:16.979 and people will still go for your art
00:01:19.590 let's say comic strips okay they don't
00:01:22.259 have the craziest shapes comic strips
00:01:24.000 don't have the craziest line they focus
00:01:26.189 on the genre of comedy that's what sells
00:01:29.040 so genre is by far the most important
00:01:31.560 now you want to be thinking about
00:01:32.909 overall mood love action horror Anthony
00:01:36.930 Jones he's a really good example of this
00:01:38.700 this guy's all genre all mood look at
00:01:41.759 that for the most part this guy's got a
00:01:43.740 darker tone to his stuff alright he's
00:01:45.689 got a mood to it another really good
00:01:47.729 artist that I can think of when I come
00:01:49.530 when it comes to this type of mood and
00:01:51.149 darker tone is Natalie Hall I mean look
00:01:54.479 at her stuff super super dark and moody
00:01:57.630 another quick example is folks folks
00:02:00.180 keeps it interesting there's a different
00:02:01.740 perspective there's a different culture
00:02:03.299 it's just so much more interesting so
00:02:05.969 whenever you can stand out this way it's
00:02:07.799 somebody that you really need to pay
00:02:09.690 attention to and try to understand why
00:02:11.500 works okay Natalie and Anthony both kind
00:02:14.140 of share a darker tone but here's the
00:02:16.150 key to making this type of graph work
00:02:18.250 you've got to pick one and I'm gonna
00:02:19.900 just click I'm just gonna choose
00:02:21.490 Anthony's Anthony is gonna fill this
00:02:23.500 slot of genre all right now for the most
00:02:26.050 second important category shapes the
00:02:29.530 goal here is to find the shapes the
00:02:31.540 animation the artists find the shapes
00:02:33.610 that you love
00:02:34.420 alright the adventure time has some
00:02:35.590 crazy shapes Sean O'Neill he has some
00:02:37.990 amazing shapes I always look at Sean for
00:02:40.630 his for his shapes really good stuff CT
00:02:43.240 Chrysler also amazing shapes in this one
00:02:45.670 and by far probably my most favorite is
00:02:47.860 Christine she has some incredible shapes
00:02:50.020 in her work if you go look at her animal
00:02:51.640 designs and stuff some amazing shapes in
00:02:53.980 there at first you might not be able to
00:02:55.720 see it the more that you study different
00:02:57.520 artists and you kind of go in and break
00:02:58.900 down the work you'll get to see all the
00:03:01.209 different types of shapes that they that
00:03:03.160 they have in their work all right
00:03:04.330 different types of structures this is a
00:03:06.310 big part and standing out with your own
00:03:08.560 style for the demo I was very tempted to
00:03:10.780 choose Christine but I'm gonna have to
00:03:12.070 go with phobes alright so here's the
00:03:13.959 thing I could have chosen folks under
00:03:16.090 the genre but I'm choosing folks for
00:03:18.400 shapes so like I said you have to focus
00:03:20.560 on one you got to choose one artist for
00:03:23.080 each of these categories and you can mix
00:03:25.090 them up later but uh let's just focus on
00:03:27.310 this for now alright let's jump into
00:03:28.540 line huh huh all right line and shapes
00:03:32.950 they kind of come hand in hand you know
00:03:34.959 because the lines kind of determine the
00:03:37.330 shapes and this and that so at the end
00:03:39.130 of the day you can throw this one out
00:03:40.959 because I will say it right now not
00:03:42.700 everybody has line quality and I'll just
00:03:45.310 show you what I mean there I'm just
00:03:46.450 gonna start us off with an extreme
00:03:47.650 example here my oh me she has very
00:03:51.130 iconic type of line quality we're not
00:03:53.350 gonna be paying attention to her shapes
00:03:54.489 we're gonna be paying attention to the
00:03:55.780 thick and thin of this line so this also
00:03:59.350 consists of the flow enos of the lines
00:04:01.239 and also how thin too thick they are all
00:04:04.750 right I'm trying to teach you how to
00:04:05.890 teach yourself here alright let's go to
00:04:08.290 the other end of it Alex Alex is
00:04:10.299 incredible the reason I like Alex's
00:04:12.549 stuff is because there isn't really a
00:04:14.290 line quality he's got his shapes no
00:04:16.418 doubt but his line doesn't necessarily
00:04:18.250 go thick to thin or extremely wavy or
00:04:21.279 extremely straight
00:04:22.690 I love lines that are very clear so I
00:04:24.130 actually look at
00:04:25.030 Alexes stuff a lot if you guys have seen
00:04:26.830 the new Netflix animation TV series that
00:04:29.230 came out it's called keepo okay this was
00:04:31.690 the style in keepo it had a very very
00:04:33.790 specific type of line quality this show
00:04:35.860 was created by red and I actually got to
00:04:37.780 work on the show for a split second
00:04:39.310 alright I actually did a few character
00:04:40.990 designs on it and it was very
00:04:42.190 particularly difficult for me it was
00:04:44.800 difficult for me because the line
00:04:46.930 quality was so specific and I couldn't
00:04:49.720 quite get there an example of the line
00:04:51.970 quality to the extreme is Dan Holland
00:04:54.820 this guy did some character designs for
00:04:56.560 keepo and I just kind of wanted to point
00:04:58.330 out how beautiful and simple it is but
00:05:01.810 if you look at it it's got a very
00:05:03.220 specific type of texture to it and it's
00:05:05.980 not on accident this is in no way on
00:05:08.080 accident this is a very specific style
00:05:10.390 that in rad and I he sat me down and he
00:05:13.510 tried to show me he tried to show me how
00:05:15.850 to build structure in this style and it
00:05:18.100 was very difficult it looks very simple
00:05:20.050 but it's a it's pretty darn difficult so
00:05:23.080 it was done with just like a standard
00:05:24.760 round brush it had this a shaky lion
00:05:27.340 effect to it and every now and then
00:05:29.020 sometimes the lines would extend past
00:05:31.030 you know where they were meant to and
00:05:32.950 again it's not an accident this was done
00:05:35.800 on purpose you can see here there is
00:05:37.570 structure beneath the line quality but
00:05:40.419 over on top of it you have to choose
00:05:42.310 what type of line quality you want and
00:05:44.050 for red that's important for me it's not
00:05:46.450 so much important if you watch avatar if
00:05:48.520 you watch Korra any animation in general
00:05:50.380 the line quality is not the most
00:05:52.960 important thing unless you take
00:05:54.520 something like attack on Titan versus
00:05:56.590 avatar they have two very different line
00:05:58.600 quality but for the most part line
00:06:00.220 quality isn't that big of a deal unless
00:06:02.350 you want it to be you know alright so we
00:06:04.780 have our three major artists that we've
00:06:06.520 plugged into each of our categories I'm
00:06:08.770 just going to do a demo kind of show you
00:06:10.150 how I'm gonna match these people
00:06:11.590 together alright quickly though right
00:06:13.150 over here is the color section if you're
00:06:14.710 really trying to stand out in your art
00:06:16.330 style with painting and that type of
00:06:17.800 stuff
00:06:18.340 color is gonna be a big part of it you
00:06:20.680 can have different types of genres
00:06:21.610 different types of shapes or whatever
00:06:23.260 but the color is what is going to bring
00:06:25.510 it all together but we're not gonna talk
00:06:27.520 about that because that's a little bit
00:06:28.720 too much alright I need to focus we're
00:06:30.430 gonna focus but if we were gonna talk
00:06:33.400 about it talk about Peter Chan here I
00:06:35.680 believe that's his name this guy's work
00:06:38.120 is incredible already looking at this
00:06:40.040 work you can tell he has a very specific
00:06:41.870 type of color choice so if you're
00:06:43.639 painting your characters or whatever
00:06:44.660 you're just gonna add another column for
00:06:46.669 a color and do the same thing that I'm
00:06:48.530 doing here we're not doing that though
00:06:50.000 because I got to keep it simple because
00:06:51.290 you're just stupid
00:06:53.380 do not think don't you alright do not
00:06:58.850 study from just three artists obviously
00:07:00.979 you study these guys and you move on to
00:07:03.110 the next three all right like I said
00:07:05.000 before referencing things from your
00:07:06.500 imagination it's bad no bad thing and
00:07:09.979 mileage it's a lie mileage is a lie
00:07:12.350 meaning that you can sit here with their
00:07:14.690 little baby crayon all freaking day
00:07:17.060 private buddies practice makes perfect
00:07:20.750 doesn't exist perfect practice that's
00:07:23.780 what you need to be doing all right
00:07:25.160 doing little circles going around just
00:07:27.440 like drawing from your imagination all
00:07:29.000 day you can do that for as long as you
00:07:32.030 want if you're not referencing
00:07:33.560 professional artists gonna get nowhere
00:07:35.570 baby so whenever I say mileage is wrong
00:07:37.669 I mean incorrect usage of mileage is
00:07:40.070 wrong do not think that you're getting
00:07:43.100 anywhere faster by just drawing the same
00:07:45.200 old junk over and over okay and that's
00:07:47.570 coupled with referencing from
00:07:49.039 imagination bad bad big bad no okay
00:07:53.300 whenever you're a professional and
00:07:54.860 you've learned all of the structure and
00:07:56.750 this and that yeah reference from
00:07:58.370 imagination but when you're first
00:07:59.660 starting out reference professional you
00:08:02.479 don't know you don't know how to create
00:08:04.220 something on a professional level
00:08:05.510 you've never seen something on a
00:08:06.800 professional level originality I'm gonna
00:08:08.690 try to go over this fast all right and I
00:08:10.220 just want to be clear here this is to
00:08:12.200 get faster faster real fast no wait this
00:08:15.229 is to get better better really fast if
00:08:18.229 you want to get better faster than all
00:08:20.000 the other high schoolers around you you
00:08:21.800 blast it with this if you want to sit
00:08:23.750 there and call yourself an artiste
00:08:25.610 then you know draw everything from your
00:08:27.650 imagination and from your feelings
00:08:28.940 whenever people say I'm completely
00:08:30.860 original I draw everything from
00:08:32.450 imagination I got some bad news
00:08:34.190 you're not original you're not drawing
00:08:35.839 from imagination all right in that case
00:08:38.029 how do you make a sentence you make a
00:08:39.500 sentence with words the words the things
00:08:42.049 that you are saying the ideas that
00:08:43.700 you're speaking they've come from a
00:08:45.320 thing called an alphabet something that
00:08:47.540 somebody has already invented nothing is
00:08:49.670 original
00:08:50.510 how you combine these different things
00:08:51.950 where original ideas come into play so
00:08:54.950 let's just take a look at this pure
00:08:56.720 originality from your brain close your
00:08:59.480 eyes and try to imagine a life where
00:09:01.850 you're not so stupid you're thinking of
00:09:05.480 all these ideas these things to mesh
00:09:07.010 together it's going to look like this
00:09:08.900 okay it's super blurry and mesh together
00:09:10.610 you can't decide where the design is and
00:09:13.040 as a student you need that clarity as a
00:09:15.260 little child baby infant you need that
00:09:17.870 clarity so what do we do we do
00:09:20.420 deliberate originality clear reference
00:09:23.480 from life I will say the only original
00:09:25.910 part of you is your taste it's what you
00:09:28.550 choose to combine to create this flavor
00:09:30.860 so quit thinking that you're so original
00:09:32.390 cuz you're not nobody's original we're
00:09:34.640 all thinking the same ideas in just
00:09:36.200 different ways all right you take the
00:09:37.790 FBI you mix it with aliens you get men
00:09:39.890 and black you take a theme park and you
00:09:41.840 mix it with the dinosaurs and then you
00:09:43.520 get Jurassic Park all right nothing's
00:09:45.140 original all right here's the demo this
00:09:47.000 is we're gonna get you learnt get your
00:09:48.350 turn I want to do something special for
00:09:50.090 you for this demo okay I'll call beer
00:09:52.460 Mike beard Mike beard Mike oh this is
00:10:01.070 painful for this section we're gonna
00:10:03.440 take it a little bit softer I'm just
00:10:05.210 going to assume that you already know
00:10:06.500 your structure and we're not gonna go
00:10:08.570 into that what we're gonna do is make a
00:10:10.010 mask oh and look at that I've already
00:10:12.200 made a mask all right at this point
00:10:13.520 we're gonna make your character based on
00:10:15.200 for this mask we have our genre picked
00:10:17.180 out it's a bit darker a bit more scary
00:10:20.150 boo
00:10:22.419 and we've got our seats this is so
00:10:26.470 painful all right moving forward we're
00:10:28.689 gonna keep Jinora in mind we're gonna
00:10:30.789 just move on to shapes okay so when it
00:10:34.659 comes to shapes we're gonna be studying
00:10:36.279 the exact type of shapes that this
00:10:38.379 character designer is using so if we
00:10:40.539 look at folks those work this is a very
00:10:42.189 specific design language in here let's
00:10:45.609 go to CT Chrysler's work now this one is
00:10:48.399 a much more different ER type of
00:10:50.799 approach so we're doing this not this
00:10:54.489 not anything else like this so we need
00:10:56.799 to find a differentiation let's try to
00:10:59.470 find what that is here high cheekbone
00:11:02.159 elongated face comes in here comes out
00:11:06.009 and we swoop back in something like that
00:11:09.099 all right we're not going all the can
00:11:11.589 way out here and coming back in like
00:11:13.659 crazy that's not what we're doing
00:11:15.669 no we're keeping it subtle pop pop pop
00:11:19.089 make it pop make it drop right there's
00:11:21.369 more of a brown line let's try to find
00:11:23.019 that all right I'm studying the ear here
00:11:25.689 doesn't matter too much all right I do
00:11:27.970 my ears like this huh does folks do it
00:11:30.489 though a little bit more detail all
00:11:33.279 right let's keep that one basic for now
00:11:35.109 the eyes are a big part now see here in
00:11:37.479 my mask the eyes are sitting here but if
00:11:40.629 we look at the reference eyes are
00:11:42.970 actually kind of sitting a little bit
00:11:44.169 more up that's the that's a different
00:11:46.089 culture that you're seeing there I don't
00:11:48.099 we'll see how the phobes does the
00:11:49.959 eyebrows all right I'm not trying to
00:11:51.759 make anything perfect right now I'm just
00:11:53.199 trying to give you an example we're
00:11:56.079 gonna extend this cheekbone up a little
00:11:57.639 bit noses that's a big part a really big
00:12:00.339 part of culture all right look at that
00:12:02.739 nose oh my goodness look at ct's nose
00:12:05.769 look at phobes nose very different
00:12:08.309 especially from my nose very different
00:12:10.659 here I mean it's more of a straight I'm
00:12:13.509 gonna straight down I don't even mix all
00:12:17.049 right and if you look at the eyes
00:12:18.039 they're kind of angled downward a little
00:12:20.109 bit getting this kind of sitting high on
00:12:22.329 the cheekbone at this point it's very
00:12:24.309 important to look at the distance the
00:12:26.169 distance between the the mouth and the
00:12:28.149 chin and the mouth and the nose a little
00:12:31.269 bit more out though because pay
00:12:32.499 attention to the end of the nose here
00:12:34.029 it's
00:12:34.700 like this it's not like that it's more
00:12:38.030 of a downward and that's the culture
00:12:40.550 that we're seeing here all right I'm not
00:12:42.200 doing it perfect here but you get the
00:12:43.610 point all right I hope the sound quality
00:12:45.170 for that one was okay we're moving on
00:12:46.610 boom next you might think we're moving
00:12:49.340 on the line quality but we're not here
00:12:51.170 we're gonna focus on shapes and genre a
00:12:53.090 little bit more I'm looking at this
00:12:54.470 genre and is he's got this crazy like
00:12:57.320 dark triangle looking thing and I want
00:13:00.440 to keep that alright but let's just kind
00:13:02.150 of mix it up a little bit and let's have
00:13:03.800 it go downwards he's got these things
00:13:06.350 kind of hanging off the sides we can do
00:13:08.510 that too we can do that with earrings we
00:13:10.100 can do that with whatever's coming off
00:13:11.420 of this thing that she's wearing we're
00:13:13.280 gonna leave the hair alone and then just
00:13:14.570 have her wear some kind of hood we're
00:13:16.280 not focusing on line quality we're not
00:13:18.050 focusing on anything like that the theme
00:13:19.730 of Anthony's thing right here is that
00:13:21.320 it's just kind of like things are
00:13:22.730 hanging down it's a very kind of creepy
00:13:24.770 and ominous in that way so let's try to
00:13:26.510 keep to that let's keep to that genre
00:13:27.800 don't try to pull multiple things from
00:13:30.230 one artist like you don't want shapes
00:13:31.790 genre online all coming from the same
00:13:34.010 artist you want different references
00:13:35.630 from that so let's say none of these
00:13:37.130 characters have the hair that I want you
00:13:38.840 would kind of scout for your own hair
00:13:41.840 column what this is is more of a wait
00:13:45.140 for you to teach yourself
00:13:46.820 the Internet's an incredible place for
00:13:48.920 where you can go and find your own
00:13:50.600 references find ways that you can teach
00:13:53.120 yourself and entertaining ways that you
00:13:55.190 can teach yourself let's look at the
00:13:56.510 eyes from our shape reference here these
00:13:58.490 eyes are very very dark thick outlines
00:14:00.770 as opposed to somebody like CT Chrysler
00:14:03.380 not so much all right let's say at this
00:14:05.120 point you got your shapes you got your
00:14:06.290 genre down good to go we're gonna lower
00:14:08.690 the opacity and now at this point then
00:14:11.210 you want to focus on your line quality
00:14:12.470 so up here I've turned on my tapering
00:14:14.420 especially for Miami's type of line
00:14:16.640 quality a lot of this is dissecting why
00:14:18.710 they do the things they do
00:14:19.880 she varies her thin and thick it's your
00:14:22.430 job to go and figure out why she made
00:14:24.470 this part thick why she made this part
00:14:26.240 thick why she made these parts thin
00:14:27.800 again for these things I'm not just
00:14:29.780 doing this randomly I'm going back and
00:14:32.120 paying attention to why the artist made
00:14:34.640 the decisions that they're making I'm
00:14:36.170 not thinking well I guess this goes here
00:14:38.180 this I'm referencing their work and
00:14:40.190 specifically trying to learn from them
00:14:42.620 as if I'm sitting right behind them
00:14:44.270 while they're drawing that's the whole
00:14:45.830 point of this
00:14:46.720 to think like a professional alright I
00:14:48.970 don't have the time to go in and clean
00:14:51.129 up this whole thing but you get the
00:14:52.300 point feel like the video if you like
00:15:00.910 the content that I'm trying to produce
00:15:02.019 make sure you go down below
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