Top 7 Digital Painting Mistakes - Proko
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It's ridiculous. The great thing about modern technology, like digital, is that you can produce and do a lot more work faster, to make you better faster.
Date: 2022-03-14
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Comments and reviews: 7
TheSpearton45
Sorry to say that this is a terrible video for beginners. These feel like someone's own personal preference rather than objective advice.
What about a lack of fundamentals? Perspective, color, shapes, values, lighting; these are all crucial for any artist and this video failed to mention any of them. What about not using references?
The -Carelessness- and -Laziness- tips seem quite careless and lazy to me. I don't see how these made the list above other, more important mistakes. Besides, who's to say these wouldn't work in the artist's favor depending on the situation?
Calling impatient those who start with digital seems rather ludicrous. Experimenting with traditional art is awesome, don't get me wrong, but telling beginners that they HAVE to learn to paint on a canvas and with real paint to -have their own painting style-? That's ridiculous, you can easily develop that by doing art digitally as you would with any other art medium, not to mention that those who aren't interested in traditional are wasting both their time and money.
I mean, come on, recommending beginners to get more brushes? Anybody in the art community is fully aware that beginners have a tendency of grabbing too many brushes and end up not being able to stick with any of them, causing tons of frustration. It's going to screw with their mind.
Guys, Proko has some awesome content and this shouldn't deterr you from watching it, but this isn't something you should listen to. Court has some great skills and I do not wish to attack him personally, but please do not confuse personal preference with actual art tips, because these are not.
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Sorry to say that this is a terrible video for beginners. These feel like someone's own personal preference rather than objective advice.
What about a lack of fundamentals? Perspective, color, shapes, values, lighting; these are all crucial for any artist and this video failed to mention any of them. What about not using references?
The -Carelessness- and -Laziness- tips seem quite careless and lazy to me. I don't see how these made the list above other, more important mistakes. Besides, who's to say these wouldn't work in the artist's favor depending on the situation?
Calling impatient those who start with digital seems rather ludicrous. Experimenting with traditional art is awesome, don't get me wrong, but telling beginners that they HAVE to learn to paint on a canvas and with real paint to -have their own painting style-? That's ridiculous, you can easily develop that by doing art digitally as you would with any other art medium, not to mention that those who aren't interested in traditional are wasting both their time and money.
I mean, come on, recommending beginners to get more brushes? Anybody in the art community is fully aware that beginners have a tendency of grabbing too many brushes and end up not being able to stick with any of them, causing tons of frustration. It's going to screw with their mind.
Guys, Proko has some awesome content and this shouldn't deterr you from watching it, but this isn't something you should listen to. Court has some great skills and I do not wish to attack him personally, but please do not confuse personal preference with actual art tips, because these are not.
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27thPrecinct
I might understand the frustration on lots of people on the comment section, but attacking the tutor's art style won't help. This is probably a misunderstood video. The whole thing on -Practice traditional before moving on to digital! - does seems terrible but it could help somehow. When I was trying digital I felt how convenient it was with the undo and eyedropper. The convenience offered makes me lazy, in a way that I stopped learning fundamentals like shape, forms, col. temperature and whatnot. This might be things that the tutor was afraid of for his students. (Maybe a lot of people didn't have this problem) Then, as I was confused with the stagnant growth of my artwork, I tried traditional with waaay limited budget, so I bought paints in limited palette. It forced me to learn everything I've skipped, especially color temperature (due to paint color limitations) so when I jumped back to digital, there was a huge growth (but still, an adjustment is also needed because digital is a different medium. This might not work for everyone, really, and saying these as sins is not helping at all! (thus all the relatively negative comments) but I believe this was just a lost in translation kind of video. Keep up the great content, though.
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I might understand the frustration on lots of people on the comment section, but attacking the tutor's art style won't help. This is probably a misunderstood video. The whole thing on -Practice traditional before moving on to digital! - does seems terrible but it could help somehow. When I was trying digital I felt how convenient it was with the undo and eyedropper. The convenience offered makes me lazy, in a way that I stopped learning fundamentals like shape, forms, col. temperature and whatnot. This might be things that the tutor was afraid of for his students. (Maybe a lot of people didn't have this problem) Then, as I was confused with the stagnant growth of my artwork, I tried traditional with waaay limited budget, so I bought paints in limited palette. It forced me to learn everything I've skipped, especially color temperature (due to paint color limitations) so when I jumped back to digital, there was a huge growth (but still, an adjustment is also needed because digital is a different medium. This might not work for everyone, really, and saying these as sins is not helping at all! (thus all the relatively negative comments) but I believe this was just a lost in translation kind of video. Keep up the great content, though.
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ShojoDraws
Please stop perpetuating the lie that brushes matter. They don't, it took me a long time to realize that but they absolutely do not matter and are finishing details if anything. Most of the time, I'd spend most if not all of my time painting with the hard round preset brush and come out with great results. You don't NEED fancy brushes, you don't NEED pen pressure. If the Santa MSPaint video has taught me anything, it's that you don't need some fancy dancy brushes, you need to git gud.
Edit: Forgot to mention, leave the background- WHAT? Leaving the background with the fill color is a better idea than leaving it white. Leaving the background white only works traditionally because the backgrounds not actually white, its an off white. Leaving the background white on a painting strains the eye, color it, do SOMETHING, don't leave it blank
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Please stop perpetuating the lie that brushes matter. They don't, it took me a long time to realize that but they absolutely do not matter and are finishing details if anything. Most of the time, I'd spend most if not all of my time painting with the hard round preset brush and come out with great results. You don't NEED fancy brushes, you don't NEED pen pressure. If the Santa MSPaint video has taught me anything, it's that you don't need some fancy dancy brushes, you need to git gud.
Edit: Forgot to mention, leave the background- WHAT? Leaving the background with the fill color is a better idea than leaving it white. Leaving the background white only works traditionally because the backgrounds not actually white, its an off white. Leaving the background white on a painting strains the eye, color it, do SOMETHING, don't leave it blank
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Dream
There is merit in the statement -if you don't start with the traditional medium you may never develop a digital style-, although I disagree with as absolute truth. You could also think along the lines, - Starting with digital painting can allow you to develop your style even more because the anxiety of making a mistake and not being able to fix it goes away and allow for a more daring exploring of techniques you may not even attempt with traditional painting. -
Be careful of pompous know it alls who are condescending on anything that goes out of their egoic -expertise-.
Art is about communicating what's in your subconscious. Yes there are fundamentals in art but making a rigid list of narrow-minded do's and don'ts is, in my opinion, the number one -sin- in all artistic mediums.
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There is merit in the statement -if you don't start with the traditional medium you may never develop a digital style-, although I disagree with as absolute truth. You could also think along the lines, - Starting with digital painting can allow you to develop your style even more because the anxiety of making a mistake and not being able to fix it goes away and allow for a more daring exploring of techniques you may not even attempt with traditional painting. -
Be careful of pompous know it alls who are condescending on anything that goes out of their egoic -expertise-.
Art is about communicating what's in your subconscious. Yes there are fundamentals in art but making a rigid list of narrow-minded do's and don'ts is, in my opinion, the number one -sin- in all artistic mediums.
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Brett
#5 nah. That's money dude. I only had to get a tablet fairly cheep (couple of hundred) and hook it up to my gaming PC. I don't have a single cost apart from power. The amount of money to even start painting with traditional stuff is basically the same and has a lot of ongoing costs.
Although I do agree that a lot of people seem to have a different standard for the speed of expected learning when it comes to digital. I know I did. Just because you can hit undo on everything doesn't mean you'll get it perfect.
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#5 nah. That's money dude. I only had to get a tablet fairly cheep (couple of hundred) and hook it up to my gaming PC. I don't have a single cost apart from power. The amount of money to even start painting with traditional stuff is basically the same and has a lot of ongoing costs.
Although I do agree that a lot of people seem to have a different standard for the speed of expected learning when it comes to digital. I know I did. Just because you can hit undo on everything doesn't mean you'll get it perfect.
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Coyote
Good tips! But also, I think that these are all natural mistakes and practices that every artist has made and probably must make along the path to becoming great. Sometimes you want to practice drawing, and should not worry about color or composition. And vice versa. At certain times you should asses your strengths and work primarily on improving your weaknesses. Not every work needs to be a masterpiece in order for you to learn, and improve.
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Good tips! But also, I think that these are all natural mistakes and practices that every artist has made and probably must make along the path to becoming great. Sometimes you want to practice drawing, and should not worry about color or composition. And vice versa. At certain times you should asses your strengths and work primarily on improving your weaknesses. Not every work needs to be a masterpiece in order for you to learn, and improve.
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brettjih
Some of these are okay, but make your canvas white? That's almost never a good idea. I have never seen someone say that before. Also, the brushes really don't matter as much as he seems to think. Its classic mistake beginners always make to think that a brush is going to help you get better at digital painting.
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Some of these are okay, but make your canvas white? That's almost never a good idea. I have never seen someone say that before. Also, the brushes really don't matter as much as he seems to think. Its classic mistake beginners always make to think that a brush is going to help you get better at digital painting.
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