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if you're an artist you're probably
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kicked off 2025 something like this this
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year I'll draw more and really improve
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my art but if you're anything like me
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the initial burst of New Year's
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motivation Fades fast by February it's
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back to H I'll just draw later or I
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don't really feel like drawing right now
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what's the harm of just putting it off
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and before you know it another Vier has
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slipped by with maybe 10 pieces of
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artwork to show me last year here's the
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truth being an artist is about waiting
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for the inspiration to strike it's not
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about those rare bursts of creativity
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it's about showing up especially when
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you don't feel like it so let's make
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2025 the year that sticks not with the
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impossible resolutions but with small
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sustainable steps with the New Year in
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full swing it's the perfect time to set
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fresh goals and learn new skills luckily
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with the start of the New Year my
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resolution for this year is to start
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making Comics eventually turns out
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there's so much more that goes into
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Comic making than just the drawing
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it's really enlightening and although
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it's short it really like shows you how
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to kind of get into the the groove of
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making comics and then a little self pra
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I actually also have a class on
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how you can stop relying on motivation
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and actually grows an artist this year
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and what you can study this year to
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actually see the improvements so here's
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what not to do do not go ham when you
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get a spark of motivation it's easy to
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jump full force in but going too hard
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too fast can lead to burnout if you try
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to do all the things at once painting
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realizm studies every single day for
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hours on end you'll quickly run out of
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steam if you want to keep the fire going
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you need something stronger which is
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consistency but consistency doesn't mean
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forcing yourself into long exhausting
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sessions every day it's not about
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grinding until you burn out or hit a
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creative block burnout doesn't just
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pause your progress it actually makes it
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really hard to get started again which
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you'll put off and it'll just become
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months and months with no art number two
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is do not set impossible
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goals sometimes and I'm also guilty of
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this we aim to high because we're too
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excited and want quick results but
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setting goals you're almost certain to
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fail just leads to disappointment
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if you haven't been drawing for months
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telling yourself you'll draw for 5 hours
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every single day just randomly one day
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is not very realistic or telling
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yourself you're going to draw for six
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seven hours every day and do religious
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studies every day is not
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realistic and number three allow
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yourself to make mistakes mistakes
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aren't failures they're Stepping Stones
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the more mistakes you make the more
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you'll learn so let go of the
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perfectionism it's okay if your sketches
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are messy if your studies don't turn out
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quite as you hoped every stroke every
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line every effort adds to your growth
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remember every professional artist you
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see you don't get to see their ugly work
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you just get to see the work that they
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like every artist that is really good
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has thousands and thousands and
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thousands of sketches that they did not
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like here's what you can do one you can
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choose consistency over motivation
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inspiration is the spark not the fuel if
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you want to keep the fire going you need
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something stronger consistency but again
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consist consistency doesn't mean forcing
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yourself into long exhausting sessions
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every day so what does consistency
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actually mean it's about finding balance
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it's about understanding what you can
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commit to daily and follow that through
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maybe it's a quick 10-minute sketch
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maybe it's an hourong study once or
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twice a week the key isn't perfectionism
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it's persistence and it's keeping to
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that persistence number two is to set
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doable goals I know for a fact that
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we're all really unrealistic when it
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comes to you know our hopes and dreams I
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do the same every year so what I
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realized the best thing is to do is to
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take whatever goal you have and to chop
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it in half so whatever goal you think
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you can manage try having it if you're
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certain you can do 30 minutes of drawing
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daily commit to only 15 this way you'll
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always exceed at your Target and feel
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encouraged to do more and you won't be
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like over extending yourself number
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three is to draw even when you don't
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feel like good we don't always wake up
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with that I want to draw today some days
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you just don't feel like it and
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sometimes that I don't feel like it can
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last weeks and even months you need the
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persistency and consistency to push
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yourself to show up every single day if
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your goals are small and manageable this
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will make this part of the thing really
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easy here's how to study and improve
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your art this year I get this a lot so
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before I get into like what you can
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study here are some resources you can
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use to deepen your understanding of
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these subjects or at least the ones that
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I find really interesting so far so
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there's a website called line of action
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this is an excellent site where you can
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find references for any subject you want
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to study or redraw they literally have
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everything you can imagine from still
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life to figure to backgrounds to animals
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it's got everything it's it's really
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really good so just understand
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fundamentals better like in a
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professional way I think Ethan Becker's
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videos are great he's really fun but
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very professional and his like way of
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explaining things and then the next
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resources are books these are some of
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the books that I have gotten and plann
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to get there's like some of them that I
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haven't picked up yet so color and light
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a guide to realism painting by James
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gurnie is very very good like it
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I
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hello okay my cat's here say hi a figure
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drawing for all it's worth by Andre
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Lumis which is Lumis he made up the
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Lumis method for like the anatomy so you
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just know like he has a really good
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grasp on how to understand anatomy in
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easy way and then this perspective Made
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Easy by Earnest AR norling this is one
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that I really want to pick up uh but it
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looks really enlightening and then art
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models 360 is another website for figure
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drawing and Anatomy studies I suggest
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picking a topic that you're interested
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in studying whether that's Anatomy
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lighting perspective painting whatever
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and consuming as much content as
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possible about that subject that's my
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plan and that's what I've always been
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doing so every month I plan to go into
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detail about each topic that I studied
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and what I consumed about the subject if
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you're interested in waiting for those
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you can but if you're not I definitely
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suggest going out and figuring out for
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yourself what works for you okay here's
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what you can study this year so the
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first study I'll be doing is realism
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practice drawing from real life or
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photos to train your eye and understand
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proportions focus on observing shapes
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forms and details this is how you can
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study
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realism try replicating realistic
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subjects portraits or object objects by
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redrawing them side by side you can
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repaint them redraw them or even stylize
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them this is really important because
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this is like a fundamental rule so if
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you know the rules you can break them
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the next study I'll be doing is painting
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studies experimenting with painting both
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traditional and digital so trying
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different brushes techniques and styles
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to have like many different options to
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paint with so how can you study
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painting uh what I love to do is I love
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to replicate other artist painting
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Styles and techniques I love to study
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their Styles and brush works and how it
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comes together and what makes it look so
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good so what I do is I repaint the piece
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obviously not posting it it's just my
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private little You Know sketch but I
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will repaint them and try and like
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capture the essence of what the artist
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is doing then doing realism studies also
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helps with just painting techniques so
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they both kind of tie into each other
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the next one I'll be studying is
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fundamentals so I have a okay
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understanding on fundamentals but I feel
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like I could really dive more into that
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so fundamentals are perspective Anatomy
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proportions these are all Bolding blocks
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for any good artwork don't skip the
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basics they'll serve you in everything
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else there's a lot to cover on what to
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study for fundamentals but I have a
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video over here if you're interested in
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checking it out the next is something
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I'm really weaken is shading and
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lighting so I want to learn how to
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create depth and mood through values I
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want to practice spheres cubes and
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understand light setup so all the cool
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terminology that you always see artists
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use so here's how to study lighting
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focus on shapes under different
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lightings learn about various lighting
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types and how they interact with each
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other and materials and environments
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there are plenty of resources there are
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plenty of resources like there are
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plenty of resources online like 3D
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models and blenders or real life photo
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references I think the 3D models is
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probably like the best way to go about
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it and then just read drawing that what
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you see so the next one is probably the
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funnest one for me is style studies
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study and redraw artists work that you
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admire try replicating the key elements
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of their style like color choices Line
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work shading painting style Etc to see
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what resonates with you there's a lot of
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fun and this is so much fun and helps
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with you this is so much fun and helps
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you improve while discovering new
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techniques I often redraw my favorite
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artists work and try to figure out how
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to achieve their certain looks this kind
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of study is okay to do as long as you're
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not posting it or like making money off
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of it or anything like that it's
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perfectly fine to redraw other people's
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work that's how you learn at the end of
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the day and then the final one is the
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one that I think most people hate which
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just background studies but it's
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something that I would love to get into
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since I do plan to do a comic so don't
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ignore your backgrounds they can add so
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much to your overall artwork and it's
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really fun to like actually like learn
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them so practice environment Landscapes
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or simple patterns to create depth
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here's how you can study backgrounds so
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you can study one point and twoo
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perspectives that's something that I'm
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learning right now it's actually really
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cool and then you can also learn
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perspective so like form uh form and
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perspective like go hand in hand but
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that really helps with understanding how
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backgrounds work and then lighting also
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but yeah everything just kind of ties
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into each other at the end of the day
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and then the final one is experiment
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with different Medias so watercolor gach
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acrylic digital 3D modeling sculpting
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you can learn you can learn a lot more
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when you're experimenting with different
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art mediums and you can integrate them
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into your own art skills what you learn
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from each medium will add to the next so
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whatever I learned from digital art when
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I did watercolor I added that into there
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they kind of just all link together and
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it's like really good way to expand like
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your knowledge on how art
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works so I that's everything that I will
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be studying this year you can feel free
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to join as well so my study schedule for
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this year is I am going to spend at
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least 30 minutes to maybe 40 minutes
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every day doing studies I have a lot
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more free time on my hand that's why I'm
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able to do it so whatever suits you you
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should do that I am also planning on
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keeping notes and saving all the
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artworks so at the end of the year I can
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see like progress I've made and then
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maybe next year I can like improve on
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the things that I lacked in this
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so remember it's not about the perfect
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days it's about making steady progress
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by focusing on small steps and staying
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kind to yourself and exploring different
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art fundamentals from realism to color
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theory you'll see real improvement over
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time and remember just to show up even
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if it's a little bit and should not be
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too hard on yourself I know those two
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things are like kind of hard to like
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distinguish from each other cuz like if
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you don't show up then you bring hard on
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yourself or if you like show up too much
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much you being hard on yourself like I I
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understand that's a bit hard but just
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yeah okay well thank you so much for
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watching and I'm super excited to go
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through this art year with you guys and
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be more active and actually like improve
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with you uh yeah so thank you so much
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for watching and on to the next one bye
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