I know this was a long critique, but get ready! We’re hitting the ground running with the foot lesson next.

@davidjohn6253

4 жыл бұрын

Proko does exaggeration work for all body types?

@menudaschuletas5582

4 жыл бұрын

Subtitles in spanish please😭😭❤

@polymorphicblacksteve5038

4 жыл бұрын

yes the foot so excited

@hannahpieplow8557

4 жыл бұрын

Hi I love Drawing

@Rodrixchan

4 жыл бұрын

Hola soy mexicano y tus consejos me an ayudado mucho aun que no hablo ingles :3

Number 1 tip if you want to be an artist: First be a doctor

@carlosprivacy2547

4 жыл бұрын

Anatomy isn't that hard that u need to studying it :)

@cocorosh7295

4 жыл бұрын

@@carlosprivacy2547 Yeah because who needs to study something you don't know.

@carlosprivacy2547

4 жыл бұрын

@@cocorosh7295 Ever heard of self-taught learning?

@axserwz5022

4 жыл бұрын

@@cocorosh7295 you could just study online, or get an anatomy book, whether that be for doctors or for artists, or both

@howie3750

4 жыл бұрын

I guess but that would take a lot longer than being an ANATOMIST!?!?

I keep putting off studying anatomy. It sounds so difficult, but I’m starting to see how it’s an important part of learning how to draw the figure.

@TheSCPStudio

4 жыл бұрын

Unless you wanna draw highly detailed figures, then studying anatomy isn't entirely necessary. At least not to the extent that you learn every little muscle and tendon. Most art is gonna be simplified shapes and shadows so knowing the simplified shapes of the basic muscles and the basic properties of anatomy (how muscles extend and contract and overlap) is usually gonna be enough. Ethan Becker on KZread has a good video on this. It's called "fixing prokos trash art" or something like that. But don't worry the title is a joke and he simply explains that highly detailed anatomy isn't important for most art but it's absolutely okay to learn and draw it if you want to.

@cassiezcreates2878

4 жыл бұрын

EpicSC Oh thanks for pointing me in that direction! I will go check out that video by Ethan Becker. I appreciate your time! I don’t know if I’m a novice yet based on my skill level (not advanced at all) but I’m a homeschooling mom that wants to learn to draw the figure, and I just don’t know if I have the time to study anatomy. I’m more interested in stylized art than realism anyway. But I love Proko! He’s super helpful!

@vikrant555

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheSCPStudio what bothers me about ethans approach is, he suggests to learn anatomy and poses by feeling and not to get more confused about anatomy names and landmarks. But when I do that I feel like there's always something wrong with my figure but I'm unaware of it cause lack of knowledge on anatomy. I think best way to free my (probably there are more people like me) mind from this is to study anatomy. It isn't going to harm artists in anyway, if anything it will give you more freedom to draw something of off your imagination.

@TheSCPStudio

4 жыл бұрын

@@vikrant555 yeah it's not a good approach for some people. For me all the extra information just confuses me and makes me worry too much about putting things perfectly in place. Without focusing too much on anatomy I can stylize easier and make things look less stiff.

@benjaminlyons5261

4 жыл бұрын

What I like about all these comments is each approach fits the way we learn and appreciate things. For me, I don’t know names of things but when I draw even stylized characters the anatomy is felt by my finger tips and mind. I draft the structure. Learn it. Then when I draw from imagination I know what to accentuate and soften. That works for me and I get a lot of joy from it.

Me: Wow, that one looks nice. Him: [Gives feedback] Me: Yeah, nevermind. that one sucked. [Repeat]

@1010otep

4 жыл бұрын

note that nothing is flawless, because with that mentality pretty much every art piece in the world sucks

@afsl808

3 жыл бұрын

That's literally me😂

@afsl808

3 жыл бұрын

@@1010otep i think u didn't get what he means

@joelstephenson8017

3 жыл бұрын

Lol. Fr tho😂

@testname4464

2 жыл бұрын

No, they're all really well done, they just left out some details that Proko was looking for. It's like writing a really good essay but you forget to fully flesh out one out of maybe 5 or 6 topics you were supposed to cover. They're all covered, but one is a bit lacking.

he's almost a medical student, he knows every muscle and bone and tendon name 😲

@Dooweyful

4 жыл бұрын

Knowing every muscles, tendons names and bones is not that hard, it's probably the easiest things you can learn when studying anatomy.

@fonts3490

4 жыл бұрын

@Yeet Skideet the foreshortening and perspective, probably

@fandiarmayanda2218

4 жыл бұрын

@Yeet Skideet watching the whole entire video

@joethejo-ker9480

4 жыл бұрын

@Yeet Skideet nerves and blood vessels

@sharonoddlyenough

4 жыл бұрын

There are anatomy colouring books that might be helpful for learning all the muscles

I had a revelation. I'VE NEVER KNOWN what studying actually means in painting! Thank you! Every time I read 'color study' or 'anatomy study' or whatever, I was wondering what that actually means. How is it different from just 'replicating and maybe adding your own thing on top or exaggerating'? I ignored my own questions, though. Hungry to making progress. Honestly, the many repititions of 'We study anatomy ...' or 'When you study anatomy you want to ...' really shifted something in my mindset. Because what you said about it making it harder to draw (on any other project that's not about studying), I could connect very well to that, and then you added that exactly that is ithe goal in studying anatomy with another 'But when we study anatomy ...' - aaah enlightenment. I feel so underprivileged right now. No wonder noone wanted me back then when I was applying for art school. HAHA. The only thing I now still need to figure out is how gesture can sometimes look impossible anatomy-wise (real life, like when doing Yoga or Ballet). Like where, in that crazily bent leg, is the friggin fibula?! :)

@dyetaa

4 жыл бұрын

Can you explain more? How do you do better studies than just replicating?

@TheCof6656

4 жыл бұрын

@@dyetaa By actually not just tracing the outlines or values I see but try to think about where they origin from. Which bone is under that straight part? Which muscle forms this bulge? Why is there a little bump, where does it come from? Basically, instead of just Doing something, ask yourself Questions about what you're trying to do and find the answers.

@noahprussia7622

4 жыл бұрын

@@dyetaa Imagine you have a wooden figure (simple cylinders, simple joints) and you have some clay. Replicating would be putting large chunks of clay on that sort of look like the reference, focusing on the shapes of the reference. Studying would be making each part then attaching it to the figure, focusing on the underlying detail with the goal of understanding why it looks the way it does. Now you can rotate the figure and see why studying is better in the long run. By understanding the parts of it, you can recreate it much more effectively than simply copying. In terms of drawing, you are focusing on what should be visible, what kind of shape it is, and how it should look.

@krsmanjovanovic8607

3 жыл бұрын

@@dyetaa build bones and muscles out of 3d forms like cubes and cylinders, of course those cylinders can be curved and twisted etc. Hope it helped!

This video has given me a leg up on the competition

@punitkk7696

4 жыл бұрын

Don't

@dominickmelendez1572

4 жыл бұрын

Do

@hickyhaddock7638

4 жыл бұрын

@Dominick Melendez Thank you, I will.

@danbonits8156

3 жыл бұрын

Break a leg

@uigaming5229

3 жыл бұрын

the PUNS

its crazy coming back to this channel after so many years and just seeing how lucky your viewers and students are to get information and attention like this for free. I watched a ton of stuff like this before I went to school and didn't really continue while I was in school but these are the kind of crits people pay thousands of dollars a year for.

These really in depth critiques are useful not only to the person being critiqued in the specific area of being critiqued but also to everyone else with general AND specific improvement, thanks Stan!

love when you get serious you really are an amazing teacher

Everybody else: Thinks about and watches him say all those things Me: Watching that Bob Ross pluss figure too many times and feeling weird about it..

@mikekazz5353

4 жыл бұрын

Bob Ross: ok let's finish the shading, oh that's a little too dark for that part, but how bout we turn that into a little heart tattoo, there we go now let's just keep that our little secret, and you know what let's add a Lincoln log cabin in the background to add a story.

@TheSCPStudio

4 жыл бұрын

No one cares, find a new joke format and stop being an unoriginal sheep.

@cristianmontoya3149

4 жыл бұрын

I think I was disturbed more for the naked man xd

@stephaniepeters2590

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheSCPStudio Destructive much?

@stephaniepeters2590

4 жыл бұрын

Yep 😆

Getting a proko review on my drawings would be a dream come true.

This was a really interesting episode. This is great info for learning anatomy and also using artistic license with the exaggeration of the gesture in a smart way, but it's also great for blocking in a painting and giving a very bold and painterly look like a painting by John Sargent or Anders Zorn. The simplified planes of the hand shown at 9:21 is a really great way to begin a painting. Blocking in those large planes with a big brush filled with oil or acrylic paint and then painting the smaller secondary and tertiary forms on top of that, can really give a very free and painterly look to the brushwork.

These critique videos are great! Big thanks to Proko for doing these, as well as the students putting their work out there to get torn up. :) An amazing free resource...

Hi there, Love the critique! Lot of useful tips. I like the Idea of analysing the form instead of coping the form. It makes so much difference. Your shading can become on that basis so much more powerful!

Such a FANTASTIC video! To share this knowledge and info for free is awesome! I never ever got this helpful (and essential) information in college when I got my BFA in Drawing and painting in the mid 90’s. There was almost a purposeful LACK of teaching this information, like it was coveted by our professors in fear of competition, and just not in vogue at the time.

i like the way you try to make your students see the simple forms first because the way that i was taught was a " trial by fire " mentality to just draw and you will get better, now 7-8 years later im having to come back to the basics of simple shapes not because i can't draw them well but because i can't get my proportions right or my since of scale correct without them. I would even say try to make your students go back to the beginning again with seeing the simple shapes in less complicated structures so that the focus doesn't go off topic or the student doesn't get board of drawing the same thing.

Honestly i was constantly told to learn anatomy and from listening to you makes it more clear than my home room teacher and its easy to understand things and honestly its really hard for me to learn over computer but i fell like you just changed that so basically you helped alot ill definitely look for more of your videos

Great lesson, you have such a knack for teaching what is normally a very difficult concept. Thanks Proko!

This is why I workout, it makes learning the body easy when you know what muscle you build

@lli766

2 жыл бұрын

YES

I thought drawing legs would be easy... ...there I go again, putting my foot in my mouth

@calebbach7542

4 жыл бұрын

Ah, the agony of “defeat”.

@ddlcp

4 жыл бұрын

It's with practice

@zqxy694

3 жыл бұрын

@@ddlcp oo

@ddlcp

3 жыл бұрын

@@zqxy6943: /

Dude you have SO much content. It’s insane. I want to study/DO ALL the things Stan. 👌

hi Proko this new vid that you release help me realise how should I really do the shadings ...... It really helps me to think how will I do shadings more :)

Proko is one of the very great art teachers. His demos are excellent and are very useful for the amateurs like me . His lectures are quite useful..my thanks to him. Anilkumar Mumbai India.

Great video Learning anatomy and knowing how the human body is constructed is really important and I've seen a lot of people kind of skipping this part

Tough, fair and generous. Thanks for this Stan!

DUDE TYSM!! I’m a 13 year old artist and I’ve never gotten art lessons, so I didn’t know how to even do this correctly. Thankfully we have the internet 👍

@aliciasam5239

2 жыл бұрын

I’m 14 and l finished studying the planes of the head already and am not too bad at it so moving on

@thedorkknight4739

2 жыл бұрын

I’m also 13!

@yagami2737

2 жыл бұрын

@@aliciasam5239 how to study the planes of the head

Thank you for this! I never thought of thinking of anatomy in terms of primary, secondary, and tertiary forms before!

Oh good I just did lower leg studies last night- time to fix them!

The most professional youtube lesson I have ever seen☺️🤩

These videos are so insightful. I can see why you are such a as good artist with level of knowledge you have. When you traced over the foot it look like a good way to build a perspective of the forms? I’ve got a lot of studying and practise to do. Ps love the Peter Han illustration behind you. That’s a level I wish be reach someday.

Is it me or is he particularly savage in this critique? ... I love it tbh

@varunsingh2052

4 жыл бұрын

It shows that the students doing the drawings have put work and time into them and proko wants to give them harsh critiques so that they get the value of the time and work they are putting into these drawings.

"Here we're studying Anatomy. And so our goal is to learn. It's not get good drawing" a lesson I need to learn

When I see this I wanna get my pencil and start some drawing! Thank you so much!!

Great video! Love your concepts!

Very good lesson - and this is exactly what you have to do when 3d sculpting or modeling from reference: Understand the basic forms, the base meshes to construct the body parts, then go more and more into detail. Thx for uploading.

Thank you so much, it was very helpful. I can't wait for the next lesson! I wonder if there will be a bonus lesson where you teach us to put everthing together to draw the whole body. Kinda like in the drawing butts from every angle lesson but including the limbs as well.

Lol, caught the video 40 seconds in. Can't wait! Love constructional anatomy videos!

I loved this critique. Not sure what is different but i like it. Keep up the good work sir!

Stopping at 16:00. This is---- not the direction I want to go in? I don't know, this just reminds me of when I went to an art class once and the instructor spent the whole class talking about veins in the human body and wanted us to draw each of the 50,000,000 off-shoot veins in the fingers. I feel as though I have been treading water in my art journey for 6 years. Very frustrating. I have time to study and I watch videos and even worked through a few books but I don't feel like I'm getting anywhere. It's as if I'm at the end of a path, standing at the edge of a cliff and see a hundred feet up and away from me is the continuation of my path but the bridge was cut. So I jump into the abyss and spend 6 years climbing up to that far away cliff only to see the same situation again. Meanwhile people are constantly blowing past me after a few weeks of studying because they just--- study better resources than me??? It's so frustrating because no one can help you on your art journey it seems. Because everyone will tell you something different because there is no right way to learn but there sure is a wrong way. My way. The way that took 6 years of my life and amounted to what (seemingly) everyone else made it to in 6 months just because they happened to find a random video or book or teacher that pointed them in the right direction while the other trillion books/teachers/videos point you in the direction that eats years of your life for nothing. I hate it.

@shibba2517

Жыл бұрын

How you doing now?

Stan, will you still be doing a series going through the best way to study specific anatomy books?

@johnedelmann6711

4 жыл бұрын

That sounds like a great idea!

Holy crap I can see the drawing by Peter Han behind you! Loved that so much!

I know I’m only 11 years old but I really want to learn and study anatomy. It really interests me a lot and I want to learn more about the human body. It’s always been my dream to become a professional artist. I would say I’m pretty good for a 11 year old but I’m not the best. There’s a lot absolutely amazing artists that I admire so much and would dream be like them some day. It’s always been tough for me to learn about the human body because as a child I have a pretty hard time focusing on what I’m doing and just get bored, but I’m willing to risk it all and finally live up my dream.

Time to review my Latin! Geez Stan... In all seriousness though. Flippin' awesome info, for me at least. Can't wait for the new series. Thanks for all you do.

so learning anatomy isn’t boring but this video was definitely enlightening and difficult at the same time😭

hello Proko. Nice work there! You're kind. And your explanation is pretty amazing, I like it. Great! Really. Some art schools would need this kind of good explanation and kind teaching.

Stan very good job of explaining anatomy I like your approach of Inside to outside from bone to skin. Brilliant!

Thank you for the video, Stan, I took it as a lesson or a lead for my study plans.

really great video, i found it very helpful :)

You know proko what did you do to me?? It was like 4.5 years ago I started learning from your tutorials. It seemed so easy that I enjoyed doing anatomy first. Yes " Anatomy first"without having solid foundation in basic drawing skills. So you know the rest part of story. Now I'm learning basics. I'm learning backward bro and you and your easy peasy anatomy are the cuplrit. Lol

@Khanosaurus

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, same thing to me. Took me 4 years to realize my mistake. Learned a lot in the process, though.

@sameehakhaliq8327

4 жыл бұрын

@@Khanosaurus Nonthless process is god.

@THEPURRINGMACHINE

3 жыл бұрын

Hey excuse me, you said you started by learning anatomy first without the basics and now u have to go backwards.. what should have you learned first ? I thought anatomy was the first thing we should learn. So what are you learning now ?

@sameehakhaliq8327

3 жыл бұрын

@@THEPURRINGMACHINE no. The basics of drawing; shape form and line quality is foundation. Anatomy comes later. Very later

Wow, I've never seen you so serious! Great session.

This channel is just amazing

Proko, l love your critique, it's really inspiring! Best teacher ever!😍

Awesome channel sir, you're very talented.

such a great way to start the day :D

i need a teacher like this

id love to see a version of this type of critique for the abs

If you are learning Anatomy geting Prokos premium content is a must!

@anu1d893

3 жыл бұрын

Andrew, do you know about Loomis? 😂

@andrewmaize9581

3 жыл бұрын

@@anu1d893 yes its nice too :)

More, mooore, more of this! Lots and lots of anatomy please. =) It's great!

Such a detailed video

Wow! awsome help! ty

Oh I got here so early!! Hel ya, a new video!!! Thank you

It really is sad there are so many art colleges who do not teach this...some that are considered "ivy league" and have no figure drawing programs at all! I have learned more from youtube than 6 years of college haha!

Awesome stuff

This opens the meaning of 'studying anatomy' to me in a whole new light! Thank you! Also what book would be recommended for constructing the human anatomy?

@MickeyOHare

2 жыл бұрын

He'd probably recommend the Proko Anatomy Course that this video is a part of

@Zorahime29

2 жыл бұрын

Michael hampton?

good instruction!

Nice tutorial

Great teacher

Thanks for saving my time.....

You’re the perfect teacher because you add humour

you achieved demotivating me, thanks proko

Thank you......👍👍👍👍👍

Peter Han n Aaron Blaise sketches on the wall 👍

@sharonoddlyenough

4 жыл бұрын

I think that's his copy of The Big Kopinski with the original sketch cover leaning on the right, too.

People who can't draw and have no idea what doctors are taught: OMG ARTISTS CAN BE DOCTORS THEY KNOW SO MANY BONES AND MUSLCES THEY KNOW IT BETTER THAN DOCTORS

damn, stan, you layin straight roasts "those bloated forms you drew" holy shit, the dude will never get off the floor now

@dasarcanaeum

4 жыл бұрын

this is an usual critique, where are you guys from? Lala Luna Land? This isn't a roast ...wimps?

@crazypanda9870

4 жыл бұрын

@@dasarcanaeum *sarcasm*

I've learned more in these videos than from my art teachers(an arts high school)

I love u Proko

I just went through a whole spectrum of emotions during this lol At first I thought you were being overly harsh reviewing the submissions, and then I got frustrated and angry. I was like, "This Proko guy has no idea what he's talking about, he's got all the names of the tibulas and the fibulas and the dextrous hypercampus and all that crap memorized, but he doesn't know nothing." But then I realized that the purpose of these exercises were to LEARN anatomy, so you have to be painstakingly precise with your studies, or else the information will be misremembered. I was discouraged. "Oh my god, I have to learn shape language but also unlearn contour drawing and learn gesture but don't just draw with gesture, use 3D forms too-- and don't forget Primary Secondary Tertiary but also remember the forms underneath and learn all these bones and tendons and muscles and fibers and veins and toenails and It really is like being plunged back into the deep ocean of not understanding anything. But your message at the end was inspiring-- I have even more respect for artists who know all of this stuff!

@mabeel99

3 жыл бұрын

The first time i saw a video of this guy i felt so disappointed and really useless. I felt so artistically immature. I feel you, I got angry at him for saying all of these names and facts about the bones and shapes, and forms, and muscles. I though to myself "I don't need to know all of that, I just need to know the basics and I will be alright" but THESE are the basics lol. It just seems so overwhelming sometimes bc is a lot of information and things to have in mind when drawing. But there's a point where you feel more prepared, maybe more confident and critical in your own mistakes even if your art lacks of the fundamentals aspects. You just feel ready to afront the pain lmao

@cue4070

3 жыл бұрын

I dont think ill ever be an "astist" this is too much for my head. :( im not good enuf. Maybe ill try another hobby...

@666Blush

3 жыл бұрын

@@cue4070 Every hobby requires time and dedication, don't give up!

@cue4070

3 жыл бұрын

@@666Blush yea, Thought that if u're really interested/passionate abt sumthing u're more likely to be determined to work it out.. maybe im just too weak to fight off my laziness.. Or maybe art isnt really my best of interest...

@nohaaref829

2 жыл бұрын

@@cue4070 hey we all go through rough patches, and think that art probably isn't what we should be doing, don't let that stop you!! One day i was listening to Ahmed Aldoori interviewing an established artist , and this artist was talking about how sometimes he wonders the same thing(even though he is really talented and is working in the industry), all this made me realise that it's one of those challenges that we must face as artists, like being persistent and continually practicing. My point is you can do this!!! 💪💪🔥🔥🔥

Dear Stan, I became a premium member a long time ago but never sent in any studies to get reviews by you and the team. Is it still possible to send some over also for older subjects or won't they get reviewed anymore? Thank you for answering :)

6:25 that's the scariest looking foot I've ever seen lol , now i know why many artist suggest certain forms , and indicate others hahaha . I agree with our host here that learning the forms under the skin ie. The muscular and skeletal systems are important in figure drawing and painting , I'm a student of Bridgemans work and Grey's anatomy , which isn't just a TV show. I think prokos work here is very important because the human form is a very complex piece of machinery and of course our host understands this and how it applies to rendering the body in realism. Good work and best of luck with the sciences .*

13:44 HEY! NO!, YOU taught me that a box with perfectly parallel vertical lines was "imposible", that was the word you used, those lines should very slightly tapper down! 😁

hola me han ayudado mucho tus videos, por favor, este no tiene subtitulos, al español, se me dificulta, tienes algun link ?

Anatomy books to look at are Michael Hampton, Burne Hogarth and George Bridgman.

@yeahnah6763

2 жыл бұрын

Gotta say Hamptons my favourite of the three.

@shibba2517

Жыл бұрын

I have one by Daniel Carter and I hate it. It was written by a student of medicine not an artist.

Can you do these lessons digitally or do you have to do them in a traditional format?

Gotta admit I sometimes watch your videos and forget the lessons and start staring at you hhhhh

note: shading reveals the forms (12:00ish)

Very good example to me that good India good tichel

hi proko how are you? a question: does your Premium Anatomy course have a transcript or caption? Thanks and have a great day!

@seanramsey

4 жыл бұрын

The Anatomy course comes with transcripts with each episode. There are currently English and Chinese captions but we are working on adding more languages as opportunity arises.

Hi i am gettin around to by a course of anatomy but i am russian and a bit worry, do you have a subtitles there on the videos and if it is premium course how often should I pass the hometasks?

Impressive

i wondered! Some people have disliked such a good lesson too.

Proko: informative criticism The comments: lOook At bOb RoSs hEs beAutiful

Me encantaría poder pagar clases de dibujo y anatomía, he tenido que aprender casi sola, tomé 2 cursos no tan caros, aprendí si, pero principalmente he mejorado perseverando en practicar. Me gustaría tanto aprender de PROKO, pero sus clases son demasiado caras para mi 😞

30 minutes of Proko, I thing Im in heaven

is it right the cast shadow of the cylinder in 4:38?

This is great, i was lucky to be a gym rat before my art days, so i spent alot of time looking at anatomy haha

Now I can sticky figures with realistic legs, thank you

my question sir how long time to make perfect gesture?

Do your course have subtitles in portuguese BR?

i do art classes for about 6 months now and my master hasn’t taught me anatomy yet he just says study anatomy what am i supposed to do it’s so hard like how to do ? is it that we have to do of each part of the body in details ?

@varunsingh2052

4 жыл бұрын

Yes I guess you might have to learn anatomy of different parts of the body especially the major forms and the external muscles that affect the structure of the drawing. Starting with the head the torso the hands and the legs. Proko has so many good free videos for anatomy that you might learn from them too or maybe pickup some books like "Figure drawing for all its worth" by Andrew loomis or constructive anatomy by George Bridgman.

@laylajameel1836

3 жыл бұрын

@@p_dusty5451 thank you

@elysiumoeuvre_

2 жыл бұрын

@@p_dusty5451 thanks i needed this too