3 STEPS TO INSTANTLY FIND YOUR STYLE| NEVER draw from IMAGINATION!

My graphic design teacher used to say “you aren’t god, you can’t make something out of nothing, what you can do is steal, learn to steal well.”

"Quit thinking that you're original, coz you're not. Nobody's original. We're all thinking the same ideas, in just different ways." love it.

As someone who cannot visualize in their head, it's refreshing af to hear someone say it's not an imperative part of "the process" to imagine your work.

8:40 as someone who writes far more than I draw, this sentence made everything make sense to me. What he's trying to do, in essence, is to make us understand the basic building blocks of drawing, art is, essentially, a language, with "words", elements, bits to understand. You can't learn to write well without first looking at other writers, and analysing what they do, their techniques, how they pace their stories, understanding these basic things woven into a piece of writing. For some reason, all this time, it didn't quite get into my head that this was what he was trying to do this whole time.

Real talk? I probably never got better at drawing because people around me were TOO supportive. No matter what I did it was always "It still looks good!" or "You'll get it next time!", not really telling me how to fix it or get better. Having a dude with a broken cigarette pull a knife on me and say "Hey, you're stupid" helped way, WAY more than all of that empty positive reinforcement. Thank you.

This guy's tutorials demolish and annihilate my understanding of art and put me in a strange position but goddamn I love them

“How to Steal Like an Artist” but the author has a knife calling me a stupid baby

I feel like finding your own art style is something you find along the way while you keep drawing and drawing

he's so aggressively wholesome??? Like even when he's acting tough his cigar falls and he smiles. and no matter what the topic of his videos are, all he wants is for students who are pursuing this path to improve faster. "We're not looking for perfection, we're looking for progress." -him in another video

I’m new to this channel, but it feels like boot camp for artists...

14:08 holds some extremely good advice for starting artists. Don't draw just because you "see it there", draw because you understand why its there, what its doing, and how it works. Understanding the subject and the material within helps so much more than just slapping something on there because you saw someone else do it and it looked good, but you don't know why. I cannot emphasize that enough. This includes those who start drawing by tracing as well, although not talked about much you can learn from tracing BUT it doesn't work if you don't *understand* what's happening beneath your pen, or give it some sort of reason for why that line / shade / color was put there. Tracing can help improve your line work, or help you to become better with muscle memory and identifying shapes within a drawing, but should be done in a sense of understanding what's happening, not copying (tracing). Anywhoo, I just really liked that part.

I’m too distracted from the crazy wind outside your window that’s pushing that tree back and forth.

I've never been so insulted and so inspired at the same time, all this bullying was very motivating thanks so much sir

"never draw from imagination." "Practice makes perfect doesn't exist." I SO wish I had heard these things as a novice artist. Spent my adolescence developing bad drawing habits and unhelpful elitist ideas, like the idea that using references or copying is "cheating" and therefore not real art. Or that artists have to learn everything on their own, not from other people. So now as an adult, I've hardly improved since i only used imagination and only drew the same thing over and over lol. Never practicing purposefully and never learning.

"Practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice is where its at 😎✨" this guy is such yearbook quote material, holy heck-

True. I've always wondered every time I ask good artists around me why they're so good at what they do. They always say it's just from imagination and you draw it out or something. But personally, my method is look for random references, make my own version, and people say it's some sort of plagiarism reason why I just completely stopped drawing back then.

ethan feels like a pro artist that's fed up with the industry and runs on cocaine to make it through the day. 10/10 teaching.

This man is bullying me into becoming a good artist thank you for what you've done I'm amazed how much I've progressed!

"Practice doesn't make perfect, practice makes permanent ." - Mr.Maerkle (He was my music teacher in middle school. Rest in peace.)