I love how Ori just explained how to prepare before your exam and how to make your art better in one video.

@JeetKunDrawYT

3 ай бұрын

this is how I studied for exams and I never thought to apply it to my art💀 tho with my exams it was 1- blind copy (recall) 2- reference copy (review) 3- blind copy (recall)

@anapple6912

3 ай бұрын

@@JeetKunDrawYT can you recall even when someone forgot all the basics?

@JeetKunDrawYT

3 ай бұрын

@@anapple6912 as someone who stopped drawing for 5 years and basically lost all of what I thought was "skill", it was fairly easy to get back the basics by easting myself back into my drawing process

@aguyontheinternet8436

3 ай бұрын

@@anapple6912 I believe one would do a recall first, without grounding themselves in the proper knowledge first, for two main reasons. First, to see what exactly you have for prior knowledge, properly understanding where the biggest and most noticeable holes are, and second, to seriously engage your critical thinking so you can better absorb the knowledge in the review.

@fatematuzjohra3451

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tips guys :D

For future reference: 1. Pick one part to learn (e.g. eyes, head, etc.): limit the scope, don't try to do too much at once 2. Quick analysis: get a feel for the overall structure, break it down into simple shapes, understand what you're looking at 3. Normal copy (optional): draw a copy while being allowed to look at the reference 4. Compare-Analyze-Fix 5. Blind copy: draw a blind copy, remember the lessons you've learned so far, don't feel down when the first blind copy doesn't look good 6. Compare-Analyze-Fix 7. Repeat: each repetition usually takes 10-20 minutes, but may vary depending on the complexity of the part you draw; repeat until you think that you've learned enough from this particular artist/artwork Compare, Analyze, Fix: 1. create a duplicate of the reference with 50% transparency 2. adjust the size of your copy to roughly match the reference 3. create two duplicates of your copy and line them up next to each other 4. use a different color and try to find and mark improvement points 5. fix differences on copy 1 by trace or transform and note down the changes (why did the master do it differently? -> write down your best guess) 6. fix copy 2 without tracing (only use eraser and brush) 7. compare your two fixed copies with the original copy and appreciate the improvement

@sebastianarevalo9113

2 ай бұрын

Nope, if you learn only a part, later you will struggling putting all together like eyes.

@francis7336

2 ай бұрын

​@@sebastianarevalo9113 If you want to memorise a list of items, do you repeat the entire list over and over again or do you memorise small bits first and learn to put them together at the end? Both methods work just fine and which one you choose depends on what you want to practice and what works best for you. For example you can draw crap faces with correct anatomy and learn the details later, or you can learn to draw everything nicely individually and learn how to connect them correctly later on. The latter one worked for me, and maybe the fomer worked better for you. People learn differently. Saying "Your approach of studying is wrong bc it doesn't work for me" is really narrowminded imo

@dragonslayer-is4ow

2 ай бұрын

@@francis7336as a guy who loves playing games I agree practice a thing so much or remember it u will be good at that

@blueishbeatrice

2 ай бұрын

thank you so much, random commenter! this will save a lot of time since i'm quite forgetful

@lukemichael8496

2 ай бұрын

but what if I don't have an artist as an inspiration, is using photo references a problem here?

My dumbself thought I was supposed to put a blindfold and draw blindly for the Blind technique

@it-s-a-me-oli

2 ай бұрын

i literally thought the same

@sasvkeee._

2 ай бұрын

wait you arent?

@it-s-a-me-oli

2 ай бұрын

@@sasvkeee._ nope, just not looking at the original

@Carboy45

2 ай бұрын

FR

@pyechos

2 ай бұрын

that was my thought too. that's why i clicked on the video like : wait a minute

4:02 - I read somewhere that the human brain learns stuff much easier if it has a need too. I applied the same strategy to language learning, its almost like a cheat skill!

@alexmccaleb2152

2 ай бұрын

Ohhhh yes. That it does. "Needing" something can be simulated too. Enriched Wheat Flour: Wheat flour, malted barley flour, folic acid, riboflavin, thiamin mononitrate, reduced iron, niacin. Made myself recite potentially meaningless ingredients from bun back in 2021... STILL remember it for no reason. Simulated a need to USE the information every day for that week and a few rehearsals later on. Needing Information = Using it regularly for any reason.

@Laura_cookie-

2 ай бұрын

so it will be easy for me to learn how to draw?

@corasundae

2 ай бұрын

​@@alexmccaleb2152 thought this was gonna end in a pun about kneading bread.

@alexmccaleb2152

2 ай бұрын

@@corasundae LOLZ no pun this time 🤣. Just the fact that the importance has less to do with memory retention as reciting or using the information with spaced repetition.

@mayaneko1094

2 ай бұрын

It's less about necessity and more about consequences. Like in school tests, it is necessary to learn everything as good as possible to get a grade as good as possible, but that obviously doesn't turn everyone into someone who gets A+ on everything. The thing that people miss, who get worse grades are often the consequences, since getting anything above D usually makes you pass the classes and less strict parents might not punish you for it (or even worse, you might even form a group with others, making fun of people who're doing too good, that might even happen in drawing groups, where there's only praise, but never critique). However, when you might get punished or rewarded by your parents or you need a specific grade to pass the year, then that might make you perform better Same with learning languages. The best results can be achieved, when living in said country, as not being able to speak the language has the consequence of not being able to communicate properly. As for studies, universities often work with monetary incentives for the test subjects (usually students, who might have money problems to begin with) to introduce an external motivation to be as productive as possible, thus it ensure, that all testers actually try to perform properly (since making mistakes will actually make you loose money in these cases). So even though these studies imply, that some methods work better than others, you should still be aware, that trying to use it for hobby learning might miss this crucial motivational part about the studies. And for drawing the problem is, that when starting out as a hobby, we simply don't have any consequences, as nothing happens when we're bad. Sadly i don't really have any way to give tips on this, as this is a very subjective matter. Everybody needs to find the motivation in themselves and build a habbit around it (or try to get paid for doing good i guess^^)

The fastest way to learn anything is to learn how NOT to do it first. Most people are so afraid of failure that they don't realize that failure itself is the greatest teacher of all.

everytime I start to lose motivation ori posts a video and it gives me motivation to continue drawing again

@octobsession3061

2 ай бұрын

Ori : all according to keikaku

@unlimitedquickworks7387

2 ай бұрын

Build a routine, don't depend on motivation, it makes your progress too slow...

@ManjigumiVirus

2 ай бұрын

I draw like my life depend on it. (dont be me though)

@unlimitedquickworks7387

2 ай бұрын

@@ManjigumiVirus same lol

@Orincraft000

2 ай бұрын

also for me

New artist here! I've been using this method for the past seven days, and tried drawing something from scratch today and I feel like I got a new pair of hands. The techniques and methods I memorized while doing this made the drawing process way faster and I'm way happier about the result than before. Going to binge all of your videos right now. Thank you!

For the past week, I've tried to go back to the basics like drawing with circles, etc. but ended up feeling like my art skill are getting worse. I just got a notification that ori uploaded a video, It's nighttime but I suddenly feel motivated to draw now. Kinda feel exaggerated, but its not. Big thanks!

@Badartist888

2 ай бұрын

You might be training your eye faster than your hand. This was a problem I had when I first started (not saying you a noob, it could happen any time). I rapidly learned a million problems to spot and so for every 1 thing I improved on I learned 3 errors to spot. It got frustrating and I ended up stopping watching all tutorials. Letting my hand catch up with my eyes. Then once I stopped finding errors I started to learn new things again.

@Malcommind

2 ай бұрын

the circle thing is something I can't seem to ever understand i don't see how ppl draw a circle and a few lines and automatically know how to turn it into a perfect head and body

Honestly, I was skeptical about how well this would work... but I gave it a go and was making near perfect blind copies after my 4th repetition! And it really did only take an hour!! Gonna try doing this regularly now xD Thanks Ori-Sensei!

I actually kinda did this as a kid (not consciously as practice of course) by copying from my grandpa's dinosaur books (I started out copying but since I didn't always have access to the book, I ended up drawing them "blind" a lot as well) and later the Pokemon artworks from the guidebooks. I did it every day too, since I wasn't all that sporty. Didn't know it was considered a valid method though. That's cool.

this is gotta be the best kind of sponsor video there is

@TopatTom

2 ай бұрын

H yeah

@TopatTom

2 ай бұрын

h aeyh

@vivishii_

2 ай бұрын

yeah i really love how he incorporated the sponsor into the video!! i dont think ive ever seen anyone do it this well haha

@octobsession3061

2 ай бұрын

​@@vivishii_that's how good creator do things. they create not because the sponsor, they create just because they want to. And sponsor come right after Love him

@Desned369

2 ай бұрын

It actually feels like he plays/would play the game ngl

Babe wake up! Ori-Sensei posted again!

@xxriellixx978yt3

2 ай бұрын

bruh

Who else thought you actually had to draw blindfolded, not even looking at the paper/screen? lmao

@alienfortytwo

2 ай бұрын

there's actually a legit exercise that has you copy lines by looking at the reference but not at where you're drawing. it's been a while but it's something like that

@medicinemouse7647

2 ай бұрын

​@@alienfortytwoblind croquis!!

@vvghostly

Ай бұрын

@@alienfortytwoi was just about to mention this, i hated doing it so much in my drawing classes lol

youtube is my art school lol

@NorthofSmoke

23 күн бұрын

Agreed especially cause I'm broke

Looks like a cool method, though as an aphantasic artist, ill probably have to keep the blind stage to very localized areas or principles (like gesture, colors). I dont think it would be productive for me to try to copy a whole peace from memory. Imma give it a try tho

Hello ori, I found your videos 4 months ago and have been practicing every day since then and I have improved so much since!

@twilightreaperx8382

3 ай бұрын

perchance a video to see some of your artwork?

@chienshyonglee7427

2 ай бұрын

@@twilightreaperx8382 can't link but my art acc is arcticaviary!

@chienshyonglee7427

2 ай бұрын

@@twilightreaperx8382 art acc is arcticaviary!

@chienshyonglee7427

2 ай бұрын

@@twilightreaperx8382 arcticaviary

@dokkin215

2 ай бұрын

@@twilightreaperx8382you can't just say perchance

This is amazing, I always struggle with doing studies and always looking at the reference doesn't often help me, explained learning better and taught me how to get better at chess as well. Thanks Ori!

Love the work Anders Ericson did and hate how Malcolm Gladwell basically turned his work practically into a meme with the "10,000 hours rule". Glad to see more people going to the source though! great vid!

This is honestly one of my favorite videos for art studies. The method just makes so much since on how it relates to how people retain and study information. Absolutely game changer for me personally!

A concept artist taught me to include blind studies after reconstruction from reference, plus studies for imagining subjects from completely different perspectives and making modifications without reference. It felt impossible at first but it helped me improve a lot when I was starting out. I gave up studying though when I hit a plateau and realized a few years later I have visual aphantasia. I was basically just memorizing how to reconstruct specific works methodically, step by step, rather than improving visual memory and having a vivid picture in my mind to work with. Drawing from imagination for me is like going through a complex algorithm in my head I can barely remember anymore and the sense of touch I feel looking at a drawing. Blind people identify things using their hands and that's basically how I work with art in my imagination. For lighting I use my sense of heat. This video makes me think I might be able to still improve though by analyzing drawings by feeling them in my imagination first before doing a blind study because then I could be like 'oh yeah, I remember what this part feels like.' I never thought of studying like that before.

I feel encouraged when you said having this mental sense about something feeling off when you’re noticing something not correct in your drawing because I recognizing that same feeling too, and it help improve my drawing process.

Thank you, Ori. I've made massive progress since watching your last videos. I'm finally starting to understand the small improvements that I need to make and how to fix and learn from my mistakes. This guide will help me improve even more! Most importantly I'm actually starting to have fun finally.

Ive been waiting for this!

This was an incredible demonstration. Love how you put studies in but not only just putting them in, you demonstrated the why and you made it entertaining. So good. Subbed.

Thanks for being such a valuable art resource throughout mine, and others art journey's! I really appreciate these videos

I have narrowed down on a similar method, so seeing someone else advertise it actually gave me a boost of confidence. Thanks bro.

I love this channel, it's what has kept me learning to draw. Thank you very much for the guides

no way! you are a genius, i never thought of using active recall in drawing even though it works great in my studies. but now that you show it, it's like how i never thought of it? thanks a lot, i'll make good use of it!

this is actually so smart, thank you for making this video and explaining it! you make it seem so easy to learn art

"There isnt a correct answer in art, but we can find our correct answer" thats so good, i already love this

@marselo1316

2 ай бұрын

theres no correct path to becoming a master, but some paths are definitely shorter than others

I’ve been experimenting with efficient learning methods and will tweak my methods with what you’ve shown here. And thanks for the book recommendation, it’s one I have yet to look into!

You're literally the best teacher ever! Your past and this video has made me improve a lot. I'm so glad that you're here to teach us.

Thank you so much!! I feel like I learned so much from you! I want to improve on lighting and shading so I can't wait to try this process for my improvements ♡♡

This is kind of insane. Such awesome and actionable feedback, I’m so excited to try this!

I have been unknowingly using a very similar method for months when doing studies from real life images, and can definetly say that this sort of "blind copy" aproach has been helpful for me!

i love your videos!! the editing is amazing and your voice is calming to me

sheesh im digging this editing style! amazing tips as well

Ori your art is quite literaly what got me to start drawing difitaly. Especialy your Laplus art got me wanting to draw as well. Thank you yet again for another helpfull video Ori!

@kirbyx2573

3 ай бұрын

Edit here, I Messed up writing digitaly lol.

This actually works! I used to do this method whenever I feel stuck with my art. Doing this method sparks creativity and the same excitement that I'm looking for when I'm in an art slump ☺️

Love your videos so much ori, they're so valuable, cheerful and kind, and I'm so grateful for what you do to help aspiring artist to grow up And I just realized I was already applying this method to music, when I want to learn a piece by ear I always start with what i recall of the music, trying to figure it out, then give it a listen and ajust. I always did it unconsciously, and never thought of doing the same for drawing

Thank you so much! I just tried the blind method and it makes the studying way more fun too! Maybe because you can see the improvement a lot sooner.

I accidentally have been doing this and I thought I was crazy for not actively using references, thank you for validating my sanity

This is the best art tutorial I've ever seen in my life. It just makes sense.

Hey I just wanted to say I appreciate you and your videos, and this dropped right as I was feeling stuck with my art. Have a good day ❤

This is so helpful because i want to learn how other artist draw and i don't really have a method to do it so the blind method would be perfect thank you ori.

Ori, you are the best, thank you for helping us how to draw. I love yours videos!

Just started drawing a bit for fun. Your video's have been the best help there is. So much usefull information explained really well. Thanks alot!

Never heard of this until now but will try it! I can also recommend to go through old art and throw away some things. I recently moved and I am slowly working through a lot of old sketches, drawings I did especially while studying. It's nice to see what I did good back then and where I improved. It doesn't make you better necessarily but it gives a mental boost of confidence that there is and will be improvement that is even more apparent in the future ☺️.

Incredibly helpful! Always love your vids

great video, new sub here! I have been drawing on and off for the last 25 years. I have VERY slowly improved over that time. this video is the first time I have seen something that I can actually use to get better that will work for me. even in 1 hour of trying this I noticed things that I would not have ever figured out myself. thank you

boy I'm soo exited!! this is gonna help me a lot

Thank you, Ori. This actually helps a ton.

i do something similar. i study looking at a reference first, then try to actively recall that and then decide what i messed up in my recall and try again. this might not be as productive or time efficient but it works more comfortably for me and has helped a lot :)

I'm not even an artist but this was extremely well made- explaining the theory as discovered by experts, explaining how to apply it, then demonstrating yourself following it with plenty of examples. Excellent video, what you've talked about could apply to learning many skills!

Your video always help me a lot, THANK YOU ORI!!

I've been doing a less extensive version of the Blind Method you described here for these last couple of months now so this is awesome to see. It really works guys! Ive imporved more than i have in years combined (this isnt even an exaggeration, when you practice right you grow right) I'll definitely follow your tips with a more critical analysis like note taking though, very helpful, thank you!

You're my favorite art channel because of how you teach ❤ i wish to become as good as you 🙇🏻‍♂️

This sounds extremely effective.Excellent work on the video👍👏👏👏

the transparent overlay comparison reminds me a lot about the metric scott young used to improve at drawing portraits in 30 days, i recommend finding his post about it if you havent seen it before very cool video and love that more learning theory is being applied here :)

Why did this get my grades and art skills up, congrats on another sub

THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH I appreciate your videos a lot,this helps a lot❤❤

I do this already because my adhd ass is not sitting still enough to look at the refrance lol

Honestly, i love THIS art advice the most from all i watched and it's really amazing! It contains everything - research about learning science, and god it's sad how NON OBVIOUS this thing is and how USEFUL it was for me from the first time i applied it (more for colors and palette choices, but damn it's really opened my eyes on differences between my color choices and choices of my fav artists. great!) Thank you! Im so grateful to be recommended such an amazing art tutorial. Thank you for publishing it for free! I really love how universally it's easy to apply to almost everything, and i love it. Would totally rewatch 1000 times. This is some really brilliant tip that others art videos and my artschool personally lacked (dont get me wrong artschools in old academic fashion are great and useful, but this can be used for any part of art and skill, indeed.)

The way you use your other field of interest for studying art is pretty clever. This made me remember on how calligraphy class taken by steve jobs helped have apple earn their beautiful font

this video actually helped me a lot, thanks oridays 😎👍

oridays new upload thx for making me go out of my comfort zone in art

No joke, the art style in this game and your advice are 🔥!

Really thank you, I was trying to practice drawing but I didn’t knew how. Besides great video, can’t wait to see more.

This video was one of those that made me first think its probly stupid clickbait but ended up being deep and thought provoking 👍

Thanks oridays for the high quality explanation

Hi Ori, Im gonna try to challenge myself to improve by following the methods you had suggested. Hopefully I'll improve even just a little everyday. Thank you so much!

Just here to say your voice and accent are really lovely and calming and made me smile while listening to this. Like I dunno what about it, it's just generally pleasant. :D

I've been using the Active Recall method for studying for my exams without even realizing it was already a thing until now. Also loved how Ori made a sponsor video that aligns with what his channel is.

i just knew that i can learn art using that method. cuz i already use the review method and i felt that its really hard to improve. and btw i use this method every time there's academic study, thanks ori for remembering me this method again

Ive actually been doing this subconsciously! I would always draw something and then later come back and end up drawing it much better. I wish KZread allowed pictures because it happened just now! I drew some legs that were way off a while ago but i came back after a couple days with some light leg study, and observing other things not related but had legs in them, and there's a massive improvement! I'll need to follow yours more since it has more structure but im happy i was doing something that helped when i thought it used to hinder!

This makes a lot of sense. Thank you!

Ok I get your point, I bought a tablet two months ago and I will try this method for a month, then i will post a video or a series of screenshots of my results. Good luck to me and thank you!

the idea of "blind copy" itself isn't the first time i've heard of it, but I think you bring up some really good points regarding the specifics; you say it's okay to make a normal copy of it before attempting the blind copy, which reaaaally made things click for me. Its was just way too hard before when I tried it lol, will be continuing to try this out over the next few days, thanks!!

i spent so long in a hole of confusion with improving my art but thanks to you you simplified it enough for my small brain to understand

i watch these videos and save them knowing damn well I'm not gonna do anything

Nice video, it actually reminded me i havent done master studies since i was 14 lol. I'll try this method now, thank you!

whoa you're good at this!

Man ori just uploads at the perfect time.

“I’ve come up with the blind method.” Ericsson actually mentions the blind method in his book.”

@supermemobee

Ай бұрын

I think it's less "come up with" as in "invent" and more "come up with" as in "searched for it and found it"

@Utrilus

Ай бұрын

More like "come up with" in the sense of compiling an easy to follow version for art for a video and naming it.

@_jeezgg

7 күн бұрын

I can’t find the “blind method”. What’s the actual technique called?

@dani_drawzz

6 күн бұрын

@@_jeezgg idk I’m not the one that found it

@dani_drawzz

6 күн бұрын

@@supermemobee it’s misleading 🤷

As always great video

Crazy that we have oridays here, he's one the only few artist that help me improve significantly fast and keeps me motivated to drawing

Ori, please do a Q and A video 🙏

This is extremely useful advice, Ty!

I didn't expect this to be a technique, i was using this for years because i draw in a phone in spray paint the only thing i have in mind is my memory 😮

I did this when i noticed that every time i copy an art and i draw anything else i get bettee and better, which exlaplains that Blind Method is actually just your muscle memory combining it with your creativity then Voila! You just created an amazing art without a reference.

i found this video to be more useful for my examination than my drawing skill lol, nice vid by the way

does this also work with traditional drawings?

@ashrre.

2 ай бұрын

I think it might! It’s probably a bit more difficult, but you can trace in paper, or maybe you can fix it manually?

i have to thank you for this tutorial. one thing that's really liberating is the idea that we can select "masters" based on who appeals to us personally. in retrospect, it's obvious, but it makes it easier to have the will to practice when i'm able to say "I want to learn to draw like this"

I love how happy this guy sounds

4:05 makes sense, since just looking at it til you remember it for later isn't actually learning it-

Hello, I've been subscribed to u for awhile, n your tips helped me in some way, thank you, I also like your art 😊

might try this today

I remember doing this only once and what I learned from that one time has stuck to me even now for some reason hehe

I'm learning to draw and I'm bashing my head because I didn't think about this before. I learned this principle in a quick learning course a decade ago and I promptly used it to make people stronger faster than before. It works not only for mind things, but it also works wonders for "mindless" things, like any kind of physical training. Thanks for this!

i used to do this most of the time but sometimes fail everything, but it worked pretty well in the past few years now. i make good art and its now easy to copy the designs of characters that are very detailed (even poses too)