Copying other’s art to learn their secrets | Mogoon (モ誰) Artist Study

Which artist do you want to see next? Or are there any specific illustration that you want to see a breakdown of? I wanna do more image copy study since this one was weirdly fun and helpful 🌝

The amount of dedication you put into this breakdown, even watching 15 hours worth of video for this. I don’t think i can even do that

I'm honestly more curious on how he decides the composition/pose for his characters. He says "texture before painting", but even if you remove those and leave just the flats and lineart, it already looks good because of how appealing the character appears in the first place.

So what I'm getting from this is Mogoon wouldn't be able to do it if he didn't reach this kind of level of mastery before starting the 100 day challenge. It really hit me at 2:32 when it came to materials. There's just so much hidden expertise on top of it all!

The first point about his lineart being more "sketchy" than "typical anime art" is interesting, bc I actually find that from far away, most pro anime artists lines look neat at first, but if you zoom in you really see how sketchy everything is, but they manage to make it look so refined! Speaking from my experience, trying to make lineart "as neat as possible" is a bad move. It actually makes the process of shading harder (for me) and it makes things feel plasticky while shading idk how to describe it otherwise, but I guess artificial is another word. I think this is because when your lines are super neat, your colouring has to also be super neat so things would match together - but the catch is having to make colours neat ends up being undynamic as hell, but if u try to make it normal/"messy" the lineart would feel out of place. The catch here is to aim to make lines more dynamic weight wise and stuff instead of "perfectly neat". Ofc this isn't a universal rule bc it depends on your kind of shading, but if you're aiming for soft shading and a painterly style it helps to make things a bit more loose :").

do you ever get a roadblock from studying these artists and dont know what to do? i am rly in awe how you managed to analyze and comprehend artworks. not to mention sharing it in this format. holy shit man

Despite the art's anatomy, composition, and shading, the texture is my big problem when it comes to rendering. I love this sketch feeling some artists put into their art. I'm bad when it comes to brushes as the texture always looks out of place when done by me.

OMG OMG OMG HE DID IT HE F KING DID IT AAAAAAAAAAAA I've recently wanted to try copying mogoon's style but I didnt understand his coloring technique since I only watched a few of his streams during the 100 day art challenge so this video is a GODSEND!

Something I noticed on his bilibili page is that his videos start with the sketch already done and a lot of his drawings take anywhere from 3 to 8 hours... that's still INSANELY fast! But it's nice to know that even with a seasoned artist like that, it takes a full day of work to get something that nice (especially for someone like me who doesn't have free time, it's freeing)

From experience I feel like adding filters and blending modes to your work and pushing them is a really good way to build a sense of what your art can look like and how you like to balance out your colors. Over time it’ll just become how you illustrate or paint and you won’t need blending modes to do that as much anymore. It’s the same “you can’t draw what you haven’t seen” principle just with color and contrast

i love how he said about the importance of the shadows and then leaves the face flat. But i love the composition, definitely worth studying.

I'll be honest here, no matter how hard you focus when drawing for improvement. It'll always will take a very, very long time. And I mean years due to understanding your failures and willing to improve upon them on your next creation (This goes for any work process not just drawings) To achieve a higher standard such as these artists isn't just years because time is only dependant on what you spend it on so what you must always do is simple; just keep drawing. Draw thousands upon thousands of sketches, anatomy, base shapes, perspectives, objects, backgrounds, lighting, shading, colouring, line art. EVERYTHING. if you truly want to become better. It is very helpful to copy other artworks from artists and from random images everywhere on the internet no matter what to get a great sense of things; but you got to observe as to how it works. Like body positioning, lighting directions, folds of clothing everything. Because if you dare try to draw from your imagination you will most certainly not understand as to what you are doing and as to that problem is simple. You weren't learning, you were over complicating things, you weren't admitting your errors to yourself. Big artists like these all had to go through the hard way because there is no shortcuts, it's always extreme perseverance and constant dedication. YOU CAN'T create a style if you don't know the basics and haven't practice enough to understand how certain things work. So in conclusion, time is a vital concept with drawing. But that only depends if you are learning from it and do it constant enough so it can permanently stay inside your brain for the long term process in life (oh yeah good tip is always use basic shapes first with sketching no matter how annoying it can be because that oval shape will help ya with proportions and perspectives so much with bodies and heads or anything) XD

For me, I've always been heavily stuck on the colouring process. I overthink it and then lose direction, so my works are often left half-finished or barely started. Your videos clarified my brain clutter and they are truly a joy to just watch. Thank you so much for your dedication!

Man, I hope your channel grows because I enjoy your content so much! The way you explain how the artists do their artwork and put them into practice really shows your dedication. Really hope that you keep pumping videos!

I really appreciate the effort you put into creating these videos. They're very informative and the production quality is awesome.

Edit: Your video studies are so interesting and refreshing. In world where the art field is so competitive, and speed paint videos out there that add to the pressure of unrealistic art goals, your videos are a nice reminder that people have different ways of painting that we can learn and study from.

This channel is god. How could I didn’t discover this channel for sooooo long?! He pays tone of time and effort to analyse different artists work to share with us!!! Love ur videos and I have gone though all of them already :) please keep it up cause the content u are making is the thing I have been searching for soooooo long!!!!!

it's fascinating how your own style still shows in the copy, even after all that extensive research. Your piece looked more smooth and blended, while Mogoon's is more block-textured coloring and less lineart. This is still an amazing study nonetheless; you put in a lot of effort and it really shows. Looking forward to more of these in the future!

Man, you're so underrated, your explanation of every aspect is great and easy to understand and the presentation is 10/10

i really like seeing your progress and process of the study. keep it up man