Iterative Drawing – The Fastest Way to Improve

46 thoughts on “Iterative Drawing – The Fastest Way to Improve”

1. Neural network learns to draw heads

2. me: i don't draw and can't draw
   youtube algorithm in 2020: hey watch this

   me: i know kung fu

3. Really useful, thank you!

4. THAT IS PERFECT!!!!!!

5. I feel like this perfectly explains how to make practice most effective. Going on drawing the same thing over and over will allow you to draw that thing faster, but you won't be improving. I love the idea of constantly changing your work to understand what can make it better.

6. Something flys across the screen at 32:02

7. Excuse me, i don't wanna be rude but we don't care about your personnal belief in why peeople are more intuitive or analytical. Just presetn the thing stop turning around !

8. If you don't have a cake and just have icing, what do you have? Cavities xD

9. I think the key this unlocked in my brain is "what if I did it bad (different) on purpose just to see what happens" – giving myself the permission to do it badly (even very badly!) because that's just one more practice step.

10. I disagree with your claim that "everything is right" in a dream. Think about any dream that doesn't make sense. Your brain just rolls with it, doesn't question it. What's to say that we don't just "roll with it" even if the proportions, details, lighting, etc are wrong? We are exceptionally good at recognizing faces. You've seen hundreds of thousands and rarely confuse two people, though it does happen. I'm fairly positive my brain has been able to generate new faces in dreams, even. So to some extent, I think we can intuit what a face should look like. I'm just not sure your premise of them being perfect in a dream is concrete.

    Side note: As an artist myself, I feel as though those twilight moments between awake and asleep are where we can more freely tap into our subconscious and use that in our art. Similar to why some artists use drugs. Salvador Dali would hold a spoon in his hand as he fell asleep, and as soon as he slept, the spoon would fall and wake him. He would immediately begin painting. Our brains constantly filter information, and this is one way to break down some of those filters.

11. In the middle of the spectrum
    cant analyze things , cant feel what is right neither

12. This is possibly a completely dumb question, but what about this weird big checkered brush tip (or cursor) when you're obviously using some digital represenpration of a lead pencil? I'd be very irritated seeing this all the time…

13. What the hell is that thing at 32:05 ? Why is there a stock image of a farting superhero flying across the screen? Am I going completely mad?!

14. Oh wow, this is really good! Thank you! I'm a super analytical person, and the concept of talent and intuitiveness has always baffled me. (Plus I get easily bored by repetition, so I've never had much patience for sketching the same thing over and over. Guess I need to suck it up)

15. Analytical people are what destroy art imo.
    They can't just see the art for what it is in my experience. Nit picking little pricks.

16. This is so valuable to me. Thank you so much, you are a great teacher.

17. It is locked up on the right side of the brain. Practice and learn.

18. When you were talking about dreams, I could relate SO MUCH TO THEM! I have always been inspired by my dreams and people ask me where I get these ideas and I just say dreams. I lucid dream a lot and sometimes I control my dreams just to get the idea for an artwork and every single one of my artworks have been inspired by one of my dreams. I can remember my dreams pretty well too.

19. Best advice ever, thank you!!!

20. woho, very good vid, I can totally agree with it.
    I think Im somewhere in middle of analytical and creative, maybe a little to the analytical side. I discovered some kind of this iterative method too some time ago when I was working in graphic design. Like its common when you do logos or some design to make multiple tries with a little change and look what works best. Then do next few and next few ect. But somehow its not used to drawings. Later when I was working in comics and I wasnt happy with panel or pose, I was doing some fast few tries with little change and look which one looks better. At first I thought its a waste of time to do so many tries just for one pose instead of just fixing the first one, but then I really saw benefits of it, just how you stated here on the vid.
    But no matter if artist is intuitive or analytical, all need to practice and learn alot to progress. I really like those reference practices without looking at reference, I will definately try that.

21. This is thumbnailing, isn't it? Just with a focus more on improving.

22. much love from germany

23. I really appreciate this content was very helpful, thank you for sharing.

24. Thank you for this great lesson.

25. 32:05 I just saw a green super hero farting???

26. Lemme tell you, this is the first tutorial I have ever seen that actually addressed the exact problems I have and gave me some sort of good solutions. Literally every other tutorial I've seen was made by a mainly intuitive person for another intuitive person (even though "naturally intelligent" is a better term because this isn't intuition/instinct, it's natural intelligence, the ability to grasp things better than others, just like other animals do it; P.S. animals operate on intelligence, not instinct), without anything ever being explained to me and I just kept overanalysing and overly judging my art, getting nowhere and thinking that I just suck ass. But you actually explained what needed to be explained and I'm eternally grateful.

27. SO HELPFUL

28. Truth be told, likely the best, most comprehensive art channels on YouTube.

29. Hope this helps he says. You just saved me a skillshare subscription lol Amazing video man. Subbed. As a new artist this is perfect.

30. That brain is DUMMY THICC

31. What advice would you have for someone like me who is extremely analytical but has a hard time analyzing/ studying?

32. This video was very helpful for me. I consider myself very analytical as well. Thank you

33. I don't like anal……… lyctical people lots of talk and going around and not doing shit they try to make inspiration and creativity and you dont those are things they are included in who you are or not you don't make it happen by BS is to be or not to be and that is that

34. in animation we: Draw draw draw draw draw draw draw draw draw draw draw draw draw draw draw draw. And that's JUST in our sleep.

35. Great lesson, have been practicing this and my improvement has been fantastic. Thanks much !

36. Your brain works by making 'patterns' or 'circuits.' these are like constantly changing computer programs. Basically, some people more easily create the circuits that translate images in brain through motor fuctions and tool usage into an external image.

    This is true for any cognative-motor task, from throwing a ball to drawing to shooting a bow an arrow.

    Learning is simply the process of actually creating circuits in your brain that enable you to do something. You may recall information, solve puzzles, or complete a cogantive motor task, like assembling an interal combustion engine. All these are based on those circuits.

    Scientists have even made circuits in petri dishes of rat neurons that can fly a plane in a flight simulator, acting as a biological autopilot.

    The brain is an extremely plastic structure, so everyone can learn. Just, some people earn easier than others. But generally, people how learn quick also forget quick. If it takes you longer to learn, then you will probably lose your skills a lot slower, too. That isn;t a good thing or a bad thing. It's just how it is.

37. Thank you so much

38. I suppose this will let you reap the benefits of "happy accidents." Where one person will say that it's wrong and scrap it you'll have seen some variation that might work well with this new and different thing.

39. why not just use a reference? get it right the first time and forget, time is money.

40. This man is literally teaching you not just drawing but life…

41. Amazing insight!! Thank u

42. thats a nice set of lungs

43. I'm confused.

    1) I don't dream at night, I think. I have thoughts until I stop having thoughts and it's just black emptiness and the sound of me breathing till I wake up.
    2) I can't picture anything in my head. I cannot think in images, only hear words I'm thinking.
    3) My memory is so absolutely shit that I can't think of poses to draw or types of people that exist, to the point that what I'm drawing is either a total surprise to me or it's exactly like a reference with no alteration

    Am I analytical or creative? or am i brain dead.

44. maaan look this logo of the channel uau

45. Just do the thing. After you do it, then do it again with feeling. Then try again with focus. Then combine the two.

46. 13:51 well, it's actually good if you were tryinh to draw megamind

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