"Find ways to make your work fun" - is sculpting D.Va's ass

@i-dunnowhatimtalkingaboutbut

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@GunzzYT

4 жыл бұрын

Motivation 😂😜

@BinBintheRiceCake

4 жыл бұрын

@@GunzzYT NOW IM MOTIVATED!

@Johnnyb167

4 жыл бұрын

Her butt is a bit more thicc than normal if you ask me

@NoumanAliKhanBdarija

4 жыл бұрын

Dick?

Jeff Lew was self taught and he created Killer Bean after 5 years of working all by himself, so being self taught clearly works well

@oscartaylor1159

4 жыл бұрын

And killer bean is the best animated movie ever

@pure.panic.productions33

4 жыл бұрын

A fucking masterpiece.

@commentwar7949

4 жыл бұрын

He made every individual bean character and one bean takes 8 months to finish

@g4fly4ever8

4 жыл бұрын

He also worked in blockbuster movies as a VFX artist so being self taught isn't that bad for getting a career

@mjodyh

4 жыл бұрын

You know for a feature length film, just by working on it all by himself is already an impressive feat moreover, the movie was incredibly good

I learned more from KZread and Reddit than I did in 4 years of Art School. However the people I met there are irreplaceable.

@jacksonstapleton396

4 жыл бұрын

What art subreddit do you follow?

@huggingpuppy2613

4 жыл бұрын

@@jacksonstapleton396 tell me when they respond

@ivangraypiece

3 жыл бұрын

was that really a good school then?

@robertvassallo3386

3 жыл бұрын

Anyone can go to art school, pursuing it as a career, seeking out new knowledge, and having a fundamental drive to succeed is where you define your value as an artist.

@ZigealFaust

3 жыл бұрын

@@robertvassallo3386 This^. The drive to seek out education will always trump simply seeking to complete just enough to get a degree. Also, I don't really follow subreddits, I tend to hop around depending on what I'm learning hah. I guess r/3Dmodeling and r/3Dprinting are my favs.

God people make 3D sculpting look so damn effortless. Ive tried, and tried, and tried, again and again, following hours worth of tutorials for multiple years. And i still can't get it. Guess ill stick to 2D

@cheezorger

4 жыл бұрын

Ho you have friends who can model/sculpt in 3D? I'd recommend to ask advises from them and let them critique and comment on how you can get better. And also the whole emotional support and encouragement to not lose the passion to keeping going forward.

@ripples1072

4 жыл бұрын

Bad mindset

@thorham1346

4 жыл бұрын

The better they are, the easier they make it look and the harder it is.

@existentialcrisis8321

4 жыл бұрын

How many different 3D programs have you tried to learn? It's good to just try and get comfortable as much as you can first with one program. Also, a negative self criticizing attitude towards your art and learning stunts growth a ton. If you can move a few vertices around on the default cube, good! repeat that over days, weeks, as long as you need to until you're comfortable to move forward a little more. Once you turn the cube into a weird shape to your choosing, then learn to sub divide it, then shape the geometry to whatever, and etc. Don't be too precious about it, use 3D programs like they're a digital playground. At least that's how I like to learn. It's not THE MOST effective way to learn, but it's how I like to learn, and I think that's what it's really about at the end of the day. Don't compare yourself too much to industry experts, though easier said then done.

@AuXXKeyz

4 жыл бұрын

Like with anything there's a learning curve. I don't think it's possible to put a lot of hours trying something & not improve. either you're too hard on yourself or you're not really trying

The never give up mentality...Holy shit...it's so true... The infinite grind ahead of you, the endless problems that you face even if they are trivial or even the lack of motivation are stuffs that kill you slowly. It's such an underrated advice.

I appreciate this video for two reasons: 1) super uplifting and positive advice for budding artists 2) you taking the time to give D.Va defined abs.

I wish I went the self-taught route instead of going to college...because at least then, I wouldn't be neck-deep in debt strangling me well in my 40s. I think the same applies to most things, like starting a business as an entrepreneur--just do it. Unless you want to be a doctor, lawyer, engineer, something that actually requires formal institutional education, then most colleges are a waste of time and money, or an outright scam anyway. Want to be an artist? Most employers only care about actual experience and whether or not you have a kick-ass portfolio (despite what they say on their job listings), they could care less about whether or not you went to college, or even high school for that matter. You can even be a high school drop out, but if you're the best at what you do, having actual real-world experience, with a never-ending supply of perseverance and determination, those things are paramount and will make you stand out from the crowd who only have a piece of paper to their name that's not even good enough to wipe your ass with.

@distantsails

4 жыл бұрын

Just wanted to say thanks for the insightful comment - what you've said speaks to me a lot as a young person just getting into art freelancing. I've been struggling at school as of late, and I find myself doubting myself and second guessing a lot of what I do because of it. Your advice is inspiring to me.

@princealmighty5391

4 жыл бұрын

A doctor doesn't require a degree either you can learn it yourself too same with lawyer and engineering just study alot on it and go to Canada and if you can memorise facts the exam is a peice of cake I think

@Cabolt44

3 жыл бұрын

@@princealmighty5391 A Doctor (as in a M.D) certainly requires a formal qualification (also known as certification). Taking a test is teh same as getting certified, which is a formal qualification, so you're very wrong there.

@Gratori

3 жыл бұрын

@@princealmighty5391 please dont diagnose me

@overgeared2014

3 жыл бұрын

@@Cabolt44 I'm assuming that he is referring to how you don't need a *specialized* degree to become a doctor. You can be a doctor with an art degree or engineering degree, it's all about getting a bachelor, passing the MCAT and finally getting into medschool followed by your residency

I did go to art school and I can tell you that we're all self-taught artists in reality. You can teach theory and how a tool works but you can't teach creativity and practical application. The reason why you would want to study at a school is to get inspired and motivated by other creative people around you. It is also the best way of getting project time to make a strong portfolio for your future professional life. However when it comes to employment education mostly doesn't matter. Any rational employer will consider hiring you if you're portfolio is good enough.

@keepyourshoesathedoor

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly.

@onenone7593

3 жыл бұрын

I want to go to an art school just because it gives me something to do, those projects and etc, i find it difficult to actually start my piece because i lack that push like a deadline, criterias and etc. Hard to come up with those myself ;(

@Cabolt44

3 жыл бұрын

@@onenone7593 You don't need to go to a formal school to do that. However it sounds like you're the kind of person that needs the certainty of deadlines to work on something. Perhaps give yourself a schedule to work with and try that out as a sort of motivator?

As a young self-taught artist, I never aprecciated it, but when someone as pro as you says that it's like hardcore mode, it made me feel very happy C:

@eshcroft3942

3 жыл бұрын

@Lomborg Agree

Scheduling is a very important point! Defenitely, otherwise you always work very random and might also not develop beneficial habits. Like always sculpting/training around this certain time but sometimes this time of day, the other time ti's gonna be 5 hours later. A proper schedule will help lead you to success. That's my takeaway from this video. Good job as always!

one of my tips as a self taught artist (even tho I'm not really good on art) is make a list for what you want to learn in a month or years... It makes me kinda not lose track and don't know what to learn after learning one things...

This has motivated me to a large extent.

Hi, I follow your arts journey from your drawing days. Amazing to see how far you've grown as an artist just in a few years. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and positive vibes, keep up the fantastic works buddy!

Even if the character face is stylized, you get all the details in for the anatomy. You're really a master in anatomy! Awesome! 😊

Broooooo, I can't explain the help that you give me. You are basically my mentor. I have been messing around in blender since I was 13 (2013) and have been on and off with learning both edit mode modeling and sculpt modeling. I have just barely, if anything, moved fully to sculpting (about the past year) and I have seen such an improvement in my ability to make what I see in my mind. I have been struggling recently when it comes to the motivation to learn/practice, but being able to see the actions, fundamentals and tips that you describe, expand my knowledge of blender, and sculpting, immensely. Thank you for what you do, man!

Oh man your workflow is smooth ! Very nice to watch

i really searched for such a channel, thank you for existing

I'm a year and a half-ish into self teaching myself 3d and I've been considering doing an online course next year but for some reason every time I hear that the self-taught artist route is hardcore mode I get a sense of pride and determination as if I was a kid again, trying to complete a game on hardcore on my first run.

I really love the lighting on D.Va in the final renderings!

I tried to be a little self taught but whenever I had time, I didn't have motivation and when I had the motivation, I didn't have time. I'm now on my 2nd year of College in a 4 year animation and visual effects course and I've made a crazy amount of growth. Having experienced people as teachers as well as classmates that all work together really makes a huge difference. While I struggled on my own, in this school I made the presidential and the deans honour role in my first year. That's not to say there aren't any struggles though. As a self-taught artist you can learn at your own speed and do things on your own time. In school you're working on very limited time, especially if the course is geared to prepare you for a job in the industry. For my course, the course load gets heavier each year. In my first year I spent a fair bit of hours doing school work, usually not leaving the college until anywhere from 7-10pm. In my second year now I've spent many, many days doing schoolwork until 12-2am, sometimes even 3am. Now of course in a full time job you likely won't be pulling hours like that but you will definitely have to get used to working fast, organizing your work and avoid overdoing detail while still pulling a lot of late hours. If you can't learn to do that you will fall behind and potentially even fail. Work like this can be extremely difficult and it has definitely taken it's tole on my mental health so if you struggle with working fast and know you won't be able to handle that much stress and that much work, it might be better to start teaching yourself and disciplining yourself or working on any sort of mental problems you have first. One way of doing that could be working for a year or 2 in a job that requires a bit more discipline and fast working. I personally worked as a car detailer for 2 years which I believe helped prepare me for the amount of work I have to do with time limits.

@robenriven

3 жыл бұрын

Well, it is obvious that you have never been into freelancing or selft taught. actually, I studied and both self taught. And i can say. Is much more stressfull to be doing all by yourself. Most of the time until you finally get a good schedule and everything. You are going to blade yourself a lot, i actually mean, A LOT of times, because you are not working, because you are not improving, etc. In free lancing is the opposite, there would be sometimes that you accept so many jobs that you dont have almost any time to deliver them

@ProfiresKnight

3 жыл бұрын

@@robenriven I'm just speaking from my own experience. It'll be different for everyone.

My jaw drops every time! Your knowledge of anatomy is out of this world!

Thanks for everything. I didn’t know I’d be getting such amazing life lessons from this video. I really appreciate it

So much detailing... Just Wow!!

Holy cow you are amazing. Instant fan. Great video and amazing Diva creation.

Thank you! I started learning Blender recently, I was very afraid that I won't succeed being self-taught person. But you really filled me with enthusiasm and determination.

6:24 "Find ways to make your work fun" He says while sculpting the butt

@yukuro2190

3 жыл бұрын

XD

you Showed so much on on anatomy in this video.great video yan!!!!!!!

Great video and nice ending!

Simply the truth about self learning! Keep the good work! :)

Dude the way you sculpt it looks like your drawing the character really awesome your an inspiration

i just love the feeling of rendering the final image

Really good sculpture! :3 You are amazing

Congrats!!!!! It´s amaszing!

I'm looking forward to the character package for this! I'm a recent patron and I hope to learn something from the full sculpt video.

I got distracted when you were polishing. She's got a big heart

I have never seen this kind of art process before. This was super interesting!

I love how effortless he makes it look to sculpt that D.Va... Then there is me: 20h to sculpt Minecraft Steve.

@cl0ud230

4 жыл бұрын

well this person has years of experience, keep going!

@chatter2765

4 жыл бұрын

No hate, but I'm sorry... what? 20 HOURS of SCULPTING... for a boxy model???

@Robjohn37

4 жыл бұрын

@@chatter2765 It was a 500k poly Steve. Takes some time.

@extranosense9553

4 жыл бұрын

Barthez ah yes my favorite thing to sculpt... CUBES

@pakarpintu4917

4 жыл бұрын

Me too, the problem is i forgot to subdivide the cube hahaha

Awesome recommendations 👌🏻 and sculptures

Just what i need listen. Ty for the vision

Thank you Yan for advices, you're awesome...

Thank you for this video!!

you know what inspired me? your video and your sculpting

Beautiful work - great !

Thanks bro you got me with your timelapse of dva really into sculpting +1 sub

Hey man, your video is awesome and I always watch what you post. One good thing I'd suggest when making a video like this though, is try to get in touch with someone who went to art school and have them give their opinion on the matter, because then you'll have a perfect perspective of someone who is self taught and of someone who went to school. I think that would lead to some pretty important insights that may be unique to each situation. 😊

Health is probably the most important point here for me... and scheduling. Sometimes I mix my digital art with my homeworks on the computer which leads me to sleeping past 1am.

Very nice sculpt, as aways!

I've been learning to draw and I think the hardest thing is making 100 crappy things just to see that 1 good thing. It's hard but when I look back to the things I've made when I first started I can look at it and say yah I definitely improved. Just don't give up!

@i-dunnowhatimtalkingaboutbut

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's definitifly true.

@i-dunnowhatimtalkingaboutbut

4 жыл бұрын

I initially wanted to write a longer text of agreement showing the sameness of my situation but it took me so long to think of anything to write so please feel understood by this xD

@TK-sr2hz

4 жыл бұрын

When I look back I see crap. And when I look at now I see crap. They're both different, but they're the same crap

@HandmadeGoose97

4 жыл бұрын

@@TK-sr2hz keep making crap, one day you'll get something that's less crap, and even lesser crap. Keep making crap!

@babadook1283

3 жыл бұрын

@@TK-sr2hz and I'd recommend trying a different medium. Straight up, I can't do 2D art. I can't draw, I can kinda paint, that's it. My 3D journey started with painting warhammer models, and realizing that I could conceptualize how light would reflect, color pallets, and other things much easier. I think it has to do with the fact that when working with 3d I don't engage the left hemisphere of my brain as much as I do when working with 2d, because it removes the element of reinterpreting space from the equation.

Oh another Dva! loving how you did the character whereas I did the meca! thanks for the video!

Speaking of the ways of a self-taught artist, I just watched some parts of this video frame by frame to figure out how you did them. :) 2:10 That *Subdivision - Shrinkwrap - Solidify* trick will definitely come in handy.

Art school has been a two-bladed knife for me. I started learning to draw through what I would call self-teaching. I had an informal mentor at the very start, but he never taught me techniques or anything. All he taught me was to be free in my own skechbook and ceeation. I ended up going to art school because I began to love drawing so much that I wanted to dedicate myself so much more to it. I was able to. I've been dedicating myself endlessly more to my art and I've met amazing people in art school, but after two and a half years of art school, that spark and that freedom and that fun and that childlike love I used to have for my art is mostly gone. My sketchbooks feel like they aren't mine anymore, and it's been slowly eating at me. I know the world would have punished me by not giving me time if I hadn't gone to art school, and for that I'm thankful for going. I'm thankful for the time I had to explore and learn. I'm also thankful for all the amazing people I met, but after this, I never again want to be an art student or have an art teacher. I want to have an art mentor again, someone whose opinion I can trust, someone who will open doors and guide, but not someone to whom I'm doing work for. Once again, I know the world will punish me for this, but I don't think I'm mentally able to sacrifice my art to a job nor I think I ever will.

Wow amazing man, I wanted to do animation, VFX and 3D stuff when I was in my teen years but I lived all my years in a part of the world where this was not available to us, years later it became available but we couldn't afford it, years later at 36 I finally got a very good job for 2 weeks that payed well and finally had the money to buy a very good laptop, now I'm learning really hard and pushing to make up for that years I lost, I still can't afford to go to a school but these tutorial videos helped a lot

Hey Yan! I had this question in my head for a long time: Have you ever been approached by a game company to make models for them?

@Vector_Lotus

4 жыл бұрын

He said in a very old video he has gotten contract's. But turned it down.for his KZread channel.

@theartscanut7355

4 жыл бұрын

Vector Lotus damn, thats dedication right there😎😎

@kuakkauk.

4 жыл бұрын

@@Vector_Lotus well he could do both tbh .

@yansculpts

4 жыл бұрын

@@Vector_Lotus Oh i must have mentioned that in a very old video, you come from way back!

@Vector_Lotus

4 жыл бұрын

@@yansculpts Yea man I love your videos keeps me inspired for what I do myself as a CG Artist

you are the reason i got into 3d sculpting

That is soo cool!

I'm a self-taught artist trying to get the motivation and inspiration to get back into art after life changed my passion for doing it (literally haven.t really did art in 7 years because of personal life stuff). Using your video as inspiration.

Man...You really motivate me. You definitely succeed If you become motivational speaker.

You have improved a lot

I waiting for this

Great information thanks

Thanks a lot for such great video yanal..

Still youre making it look so easy in the background xD I that of a noob in sculpting that i still stuck in the basic beginner anatomy part with zbrush for years lol

Im that guy, using literally every other 3D softwares than Blender cause I'm at school and we have student licences, I know them pretty well, Zbrush, Maya, 3Ds Max, Substance Painter, but still I'm here watching a guy sculpting in Blender, that is free and can do pretty much everything the softwares I just mentionned can do, (maybe not texturing as good as SSP, I don't know) and I just feel that strange urge to go try out Blender even if I don't really need it to get to my results, maybe its the community around it, I don't know.

@mdahsenmirza2536

3 жыл бұрын

Blender is indie, while what you are learning is mainstream

@babadook1283

3 жыл бұрын

It's all about workflow. Personally I've used C4D and maya fairly frequently in the past; mostly the workflow. I tried blender a few times prior to 2.8, but the constant need for shortcuts and (fuckin) ugly UI made me give up before I could really sink my teeth into it. With 2.8+ I had a much easier time wrapping my head around a lot of the things I was struggling to do previously, and while it's still more shortcut driven than I'd like, blender does a fine job for what I need it to do, and I don't have to pay out thousands of dollars for it.

Wow...your blender skills are dooope!

Your texture painting is awesome

Awesoime video!

Great video. Love to see a narrated time lapse of this character in your gumroad. Lots of nice techniques but too fast for me.

Great video. thank you man.

I tried taking a course recently; thinking that the feedback and surrounding myself with better artists would give me a push, but it didn’t work for me. I’ve always been a very disciplined/persevering sort of person, and I enjoy figuring out how to learn new skills and project planning. From my experiences art seems like a difficult skill to teach. When teaching myself I can figure out where the problem areas are and focus my practice into that, whereas many courses follow a general path for everyone. Students often complained about some parts being too easy, or not having more time to spend on the parts they wanted to improve at, which was different for each person. In the end it was implied that I was too self-driven to be on the course and that it’s more for people that need help to structure their work. It has put me off courses somewhat, but I’m sure there will be better ones out there and there are lots of good reasons for doing them. It comes down to personal preference and how you like to learn and approach things. For now I'm back to teaching myself.

I loved the Pen and how good you are. Cheers

Learning a solid workflow for 3D animation I could have never learned on my own without my teacher. I think drawing and design is kind of a solitary practice. But animation is kind of a specific process with many ways to achieve a result. But his methods were just so unique I never could’ve found them on my own.

im self taught, began drawing again back in 2001/2002 when I was in highschool. I've been drawing now for near 12 years and Im still learning more and more. I still fail at things but I improve. Learning to understand the rythm and basic shapes and foreshortening of art to draw better characters and such. I hope to get into animating down the road. Even might try 3d Sculpting too soon.

Best motivation sir ❤👈

Awesome video

So neat I love this

Watching your videos motivates me to draw

Thanks for this

Yo, this motivated me

These are awesome do more I like them

It takes time to learn on your own, its frustrating but worth it.

I’m hoping to pick up drawing as a hobby and I felt I’ve improved over the years in using shading and anatomy I’ve got so many years to learn and I’m planning to use them thanks for the motivation

Wow, you’re extremely talented. Thanks for the awesome video, I hadn’t even taken into consideration the amount of work it takes to be a self taught artist. I used to draw everyday for hours when I was in high school, although once I graduated life and other obligations took priority over art. Sadly I lost touch with my creative side for 6+ years. I got into Blender modeling about 3 months ago. I’ve gone through a few tutorials like the infamous Blender Donut and a few animations. Sometimes it seems very overwhelming because it feels like I’m starting from ground zero. I wish I had started years ago, but hopefully late is better than never. Thanks again for the great video!

@iceseic

3 жыл бұрын

The best time to learn blender is years ago, the 2nd best time to learn blender is now lol

@iceseic

3 жыл бұрын

At least you don't need to adapt transition from pre 2.8 to 2.8+

Cool stuff! ;)

Also take care of your back guys Very important aspect of your productivity x.x"

I've taken 2 classes in school for 3d modeling and in those classes I mostly did my own thing and learned on my own without really any guidance from the teacher, they do just look at my work and complement it. Personaly I find being self tought works best for me

I'm actually learning all about topology flow, like 3d polygon modelling, and I am mostly self-taught...

Yan, can you do a character that have puffy clothing next? Like character with samurai outfit or something similar that have loose cloth. When I want to make one I always confused on how to approach doing a character that doesn't have a tight clothing. Btw, great job on this one I think this is my 2nd favorite after the Akali sculpt!

great vid

Love this D.Va

I was taught to use Maya for 4 years from two different course... I can tell you now, after only a few weeks of Blender... I learnt how to use that faster than the 4 years of Maya. I want to get into 3D Animation and Sculpting, so I'm using Blender as that gateway into it as a hobby and software for my career

Amazing

6:25 you come for this part.

@thorham1346

4 жыл бұрын

Some people probably came at that part.

@fyf1248

3 жыл бұрын

@@thorham1346 you spelled everybody wrong

You inspire me

The KZread algorithm lead me here and I love it. I wasn’t thinking about this at all

Yes I definitely can I believe it whatever it takes

Having some bumps along my way coz sometimes I feel I'm not progressing at all. Also, there are a lot of studios here in the Philippines that are still looking for artists that are using industry-standard programs which makes me discouraged if I should continue on being a self-taught artist or not. Anyways, thanks for this vid, I feel encouraged to continue what I started :)

Thank you.

So based on my experiences and when I see what you are doing I can definitely say that we people who have taught themselves things learn faster and better and for this reason, not always, but mostly, are better than people who learn it in a school. I know some people who were at a school for game or graphic design and they asked me if I could teach them something simply because they couldn't take enough from their schools ^^

You are my favourite Artist.

Yeah I am going on my 3rd year if being a self taught artist and i must say I am progressing good in my oponion.