These Useless Art Tips Are Making You BAD
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Mohammed Agbadi talking about awful art advice from wikihow and rating them to see if you can become a better artist if you use them.
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2 жыл бұрын
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Wikihow in a nutshell: Step 1: Draw a circle Step 2: Finish the drawing
I guess wikihow article was oriented not on learning artist, but on people that are gonna try to draw some doodles and then forget about if for the rest of their lives
@MohammedAgbadi
2 жыл бұрын
lmaoooo passerbys
@msilverwolf8994
2 жыл бұрын
@@MohammedAgbadi sounds kinda dismissive of the beginners who haven't been doodling and sketching since they could clutch a pencil in kindergarten. No doubt the wikihow stuff could use some improvement, but my bro if someone wants to try drawing, why laugh at them just cos they don't intend to work as illustrators or whatever :'(
@katm8128
2 жыл бұрын
@@msilverwolf8994 I agree, if someone wants to draw on the off chance they aren’t feeling well or something, or just want to kill time, they shouldn’t be made fun of
@eat_buttons
Жыл бұрын
Don’t laugh at them, laugh at the tutorial
@HeyAHappyHuman
Жыл бұрын
@@msilverwolf8994 They're not talking about those people because those people don't quit, they learn and grow. Which, is commendable
Contour drawing is actually pretty good for beginners, I actually learned this in an art class at my school. It teaches beginners to work in their observational skills.
@MohammedAgbadi
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the tips! i never really tried it even in school
@Kat-zh4ly
2 жыл бұрын
I also had to do this in middle school, it was very far from my favorite thing to do but I'm so thankful we had to do that now
@jakesharrocks3803
2 жыл бұрын
100%, it was brilliant for life drawing. Negative spaces + shapes wooo
@madyak2108
2 жыл бұрын
I didn’t know the significance of the exercise until much later in my drawing career. It can be a lot of fun!
My drawing tip: To make all drawing of faces more accurate is to measure the negative space. Approximate what isn't there. Example: if you draw a face and it doesn't look right, take notice of the distances that are not the main features of the face. The space between the eyes or eyebrows, the size of the cheeks the distance between the mouth and chin. It's a very common problem with starters.
@mini-bi8482
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@pix6005
2 жыл бұрын
Tf a hundred likes but 1 reply 💀
@mini-bi8482
2 жыл бұрын
@@pix6005 Now 2, Oh!3🤗
@pix6005
2 жыл бұрын
@@mini-bi8482 omg now 4
@artbargra
2 жыл бұрын
Solid advice there, mate. Also, a good way to notice it is to see your drawing mirrored. Many of the flaws will become evident. I read that online quite a while ago, and it's something that has helped me greatly.
Sometimes I feel that I never learn anything while drawing. I can see that my art is getting better, and then still I find myself struggling with the most basic things. Art is hard…
@MohammedAgbadi
2 жыл бұрын
its just how it is tbh. you get better with time and experience and ALOT of trial and error. as you grow your visual library and take inspo from other artists you'll see that every form of art is just built on the same fundamentals and the only thing different is the style
@ilovemonke420
5 ай бұрын
i can relate
I'm so glad i grew up as an artist watching people like ethan becker and rossdraws to teach me how to draw instead of these tutorials on wikihow honestly
@MohammedAgbadi
2 жыл бұрын
love both of them they so goo! and modernday james too and marco bucci so good
@theplague3941
2 жыл бұрын
Sorry, yes
@deadbush9857
2 жыл бұрын
@@MohammedAgbadi Aswell as sinix anatomy quick tips
@Falacomo
2 жыл бұрын
@@deadbush9857 ikr, his tips help me a lot, i used to draw more cartoon/anime style until I wanted to change and his tutorials made me so much better in a short time!
@imparalyzed763
2 жыл бұрын
I honestly feel the same, glad I didn't fall into most of the basic "How to Draw X" that have the same energy as wikihow. Started looking up my favorite artists I had been eyeing on for a while before I got interested right into illustration, more and more artists started popping up on my feed that I'd also gotten interested in. Looking back on these types of tutorials feels like it was only meant to help you get done with school art projects forced onto you.
"Don't go searching for water in the desert in the middle of summer..." now THAT'S what I call words of wisdom!
@MohammedAgbadi
2 жыл бұрын
lessgooooo
I started to learn drawing "once and for all" in adulthood and the very first thing I did was filling several printer paper pages with circles, boxes and cylinders to strengthen hand to eye coordination and to get better control on circles, boxes and cylinders as foundation work and to get some perspective. It helped immensely honestly since I was so behind in milage of drawing to otherwise build the feel for it gradually since childhood. It was tedious but mega helpful.
@mimthyss
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah! It's not a super uncommon practice at all. In fact I think I distantly remember doing the same for a little while, though I got bored and stopped pretty quick haha. And things like the drawabox course actually force you to do a bunch of lines and shapes only at the beginning! It's a great way to improve line confidence without getting bogged down with thinking about anatomy, posing, clothing, that kind of thing. :]
@klaratehcoolcat
2 жыл бұрын
This is why my drawing prof told us to draw every day! ***NOT make a completed piece every single day, just spend time drawing something on paper each day. To keep the fine motor control developed, and to allow your own personal style to eventually emerge
@AmbiCahira
2 жыл бұрын
@@klaratehcoolcat I did that as well! When I was too tired to draw I drew a mouse or hedgehog so my older sketchbooks have so many random mice in it from bad days 😂
I remember treating wikihow articles like the bible 😭😭
@xdiatia4197
2 жыл бұрын
BROOOOOOO- During early puberty (not tween years tho) I read them like they were the only way to survive
@bxttercxp_swxxts
Жыл бұрын
"like the Bible" "like they were the only way to survive" bruh these comments are hilarious 🤣😭
I'm so glad this is back. KZread is so annoying like OMG. But your videos are always really funny and interesting!
@MohammedAgbadi
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!!
@B14z3rather
2 жыл бұрын
@@MohammedAgbadi finally!
5:19 The significance of contour line drawing relates to the "draw what you see, not what you think" mantra, this is a drawing exercise that helps an artist train their brain to turn off their visual library when using a reference, since it can feel uncomfortable and difficult to do that at first. This allows artists to improve their visual library and (most importantly) use references to replace bad or innacurate parts of it, which effects parts of a drawing that feel frustrating. Artists who can't easily switch off automatically interpreting images with their visual library tend to dislike using references and don't see the point of them, or feel like they draw poorly from memory and make the same mistakes over and over again. So this exercise can help make a reference more beneficial to your art proccess.
@Nakia11798
2 жыл бұрын
I always use references and I still make the same mistakes every time. 🙃
YOU FIXED THE DEVICE RESTRICTION THING THANK GOD
@MohammedAgbadi
2 жыл бұрын
better late than never!
I'm mostly self-taught, but I'm glad I have friends who are far more skilled than I as well as guys like Marc Brunet and Sinix for advice when I'm stuck.
@smal5504
2 жыл бұрын
sameee
@cupio-stardust
Жыл бұрын
@@smal5504 I found you again lol.
@smal5504
Жыл бұрын
@@cupio-stardust well hello there
Lol I remember following tutorials in wikihow back in 2013
@MohammedAgbadi
2 жыл бұрын
lmaooooo fr? on a scale of 1/10 how did you improve?
@grindermachine8856
2 жыл бұрын
I think like 3/10 I think i learned hatching that time
My mentor had me blind contour. Not entirely looking away from my image though. He had me hold my pencil at the eraser, very loose, and I could never lift my pencil from the page. From there, I did outlines of figures that I was seeing, being allowed to look back at my paper the entire time. We did this to loosen me up and make my male figures less stiff. Totally worked too!
This is unironically stuff I learned in my high school art class but somehow more helpful (I dropped that class really fast)
@spaceaster
2 жыл бұрын
Same here but there’s no a lot of other electives I want to do so I just get stuck with it
@JokeHatesItHere
2 жыл бұрын
@@spaceaster I dropped that specific class and made my own course online but they don't know that 🤫
@Nakia11798
2 жыл бұрын
My art teacher hated drawing humans so I learned nothing about it. We did a lot of landscapes and objects, but we also used different media so I guess we didn't have much time to focus on anything. Sketching, pastels, charcoal, painting, paper mache, sewing, collages... we did everything but nothing. I loved art but I am a terrible artist for never having focused on a one to few topics. I'd have been happy sticking with sketching, learning to properly colour, and maybe a little sewing on the side bc it was fun.
@JokeHatesItHere
2 жыл бұрын
@@Nakia11798 Sometimes it's better to be self taught and learn at your own pace
wikihow is so good that only immortal beings can understand it
@MohammedAgbadi
2 жыл бұрын
Lmaoo demigods and loki
I think it's more oriented at kids and complete beginners because the fundamentals you referred to are hard work and can be boring, taking too long to make fun stuff. For a complete beginner or a child, this would be discouraging. Now after having fun, the person might want to proceed to improve, then the hard comes in and they stay with it even if it gets frustrating and discouraging still, there's a need for it.
Contour drawing is extremely beneficial in the fundamentals of art; it's one of the first things I learned in art school. Essentially, the way it's explained, is that students need to learn the difference between simply observing, and actually analyzing, a subject (drawing what you think you see vs. what you actually see). Art professors will typically have you do contour drawings so you can grasp form and planes rather than diluting your focus with tone and color. It's a good starting point, and I recommend it to anyone who's starting out with art! Doing a sustained gesture of your face in a mirror, in just contour, helps you analyze your face, and keeps you from reverting to an iconographic image in your head of what you think you're seeing. Along with tools like straight-line inspection, and a proportional frame, you can get a really accurate drawing in less time than just free-handing multiple gestural sketches and shapes!
Am 15 years old and I still wonder how I notice so many artists making mistakes on the Internet and I genuinely think that am not even good at drawing
@MohammedAgbadi
2 жыл бұрын
nah its' okay. we all feel the same way! you improve everyday the more you practice! keep going
They're trying to teach a very non linear skill with thousands of resources in a step by step tutorial like your trying to learn how to whistle (something I totally know how to do.....)
@smithmarina970
2 жыл бұрын
You right?? It feels like an ai robot putting things together.
I've gotten to the "look at the object and just draw". To be fair, it's not the worst advice, I have a hard time drawing from tutorials, how to books, and even tracing. I've always been a draw what I'm looking at kind of person, but I digress, while not the worst, they really should have the various ways of teaching how to draw, for those who learn differently. Different strokes, for different folks and all that.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the reason the gesture drawing was clothed is because whoever got the final day of what went up decided they couldn’t have a “naked lady” on the article. I’ve also heard their artist are required to do a BUNCH of articles really quick so that’s why the subreddit r/disneyvacation exists lol
This is why we weren't supposed to copy our homework from Wikipedia. It's not very good XD
from what ive experienced and noticed over the years, developing your artstyle is a priority more than anything, since you can learn funadamentals that compliments specifically for your artstyle, ive seen and talked to people that have studied heavily on anatomy but cant understand why it just doesnt seem to work for them
even on Pinterest I still see some related tips like you say on the video Abt wiki and it's ridiculous that the anatomy can be more confusing when they were doing body angles
The wiki how art tutorials remind me of my current art teacher…I’m in high school and in art 3 and she still wants to teach me super basic stuff
only ogs remember when this video wasn't available on ur device lol this alr looks good though
@MohammedAgbadi
2 жыл бұрын
lfg!!! ogs tap in!
i just found your channel, i love your humor and how you explain things! your voice is very lovely as well
One minute in and I had to pause this video and write this down cuz sadly I used to see tutorials on how to draw anime on wikihow and it didn't go well (I used to be broke af that I couldn't afford to waste internet on 15 minute long videos) because the picture guidance is like when you look away for one second during a math class. So glad I saw other more professional stuff later
Contour drawing (following the object outline without looking at ur paper) is actually really great for hand-eye coordination
man, watching this has honestly kinda boosted my confidence in my art lmao
Good video as always!!! ❤️❤️ Will you be at Lightbox Expo this year? I’d love some merch if so.
Contour drawing is a exercise recommended by Kimon Nikolaïdes and Betty Edwards. Two famous art teachers. It helped me a lot
Finally a video I can watch on my device
@MohammedAgbadi
2 жыл бұрын
whew! thank god damn!
I really like wikihow lol. The illustrations for the instructions are kinda entertaining
The best way to learn how to draw is to be into things nobody around you is into and be fueled by pure spite and occasionally, horniness.
@audittlivereaction1964
Жыл бұрын
genuinely the most powerful motivator
note to self: stay far away from wikihow as a beginner artist 😂
awesome informative vids as always bro!
@MohammedAgbadi
2 жыл бұрын
Appreciate it!
I’m so glad I went to LavenderTowne, Kooleen, and ItsAJArt for tips on drawing and not wikihow
@holoangie9106
2 жыл бұрын
We believe in Lavendertowne supremacy
I think they’re trying to introduce blind contour at 5:32 but they’re doing a very bad job of it. It’s a method that trains the brain to draw without looking at what your drawing. Basically it’s hand-eye coordination. It’s a great learning tool but they did a terrible job explaining it.
6:11 will haunt me in my dreams forever 😨
@MohammedAgbadi
2 жыл бұрын
lmaoooo that's top tier art
I think the wiki how article was made for a total beginner and I think for a total beginner many of those tutorials are helpful. And at the end The article is just called "How to Draw" which doesn't imply that a high skill will be thaught to you.
Mohammed out here roasting all these drawings in that first tutorial, but all I see is the exact kind of things someone who makes art professionally for commercial clients or children's books would draw. It looks generic and bland, yes, but I suspect it's supposed to be. I've seen this art style in classroom stuff for schools, in textbooks, in employee handbooks, on company websites, on advertisements, and in damn near 50% of every children's books ever made.
Omg this wiki page is identical to my art teachers classes- :00000
Wikihow has to stay on that grind😤😤😤
@MohammedAgbadi
2 жыл бұрын
but can wikihow show us how to be on the grind
Oh gosh. As soon as a saw the sphere with the shading, knew it will go down to sh*tter. Btw, who is the artist from @5:30? That looks awesome!
@thealmightycrisprat
2 жыл бұрын
maybe if you had paid attention he was talking about kim jung gi
Some of this advice just shits on what I have been practicing for 3 years
When I wanted to learn to draw Chibis last month, I think I read this article. I was so annoyed. I just ended up looking for specific articles and KZread videos. I don’t have time for that. The whole grid lines are extremely confusing. Even when I was in art school. I never learn.
HOW DID U GET THE TROOM TROOM VOICE 😭
@MohammedAgbadi
2 жыл бұрын
lmaoooo i got it from tts tiktok lmaooo!! hahhaha
Thanks for including lots of picture examples! The more to be jealous of thats what i say /j
"But you're not Kim Jung Gi!" I now know how that start industry scientist felt when he couldn't make a copy of Iron man's reactor.
That was a bizarre moment of KZread. But it's back. Hi Ughum. Huuu For the algoooorithm!
@MohammedAgbadi
2 жыл бұрын
lesgooo!!! youtube be jacking the kid, buh issall good
Also using a square for a female character isn't that good usually use more triangle shapes.
I can never follow drawing tutorials. I just use reference image or my imagination and try my best
I feel like Step 7 (5:10) was a poorly explained bit stolen from the book "Drawing from the Right Side of the Brain" which also had an exercise where you focus on the negative space of an object (the example used in it was a chair) so that you don't get too caught up with the details. But of course the book introduces it 100+ pages in and assumes the reader already has a decent foundation by the time they reach it.
11:06 Everywhere I go I see that advertisement
@MohammedAgbadi
2 жыл бұрын
smh dang
I did lines in my 2nd grade art class once, once. But the light source might be useful ig?
Lol the wrong device thing is fixed, anyways nice video man 👍
@MohammedAgbadi
2 жыл бұрын
My bad! i had no idea what happened
a few days ago i was drawing my art pretty consistently but for some reason now my art stops looking the part i prefer as if its degrading. what is happennning???
Some of my better drawings started as stick figures so I could make a pose.
Hate that the wikihow is exactly how my teachers in art school taught me how to draw TT
Mohammed, You face looking good today. What you using?! Teach me!
@MohammedAgbadi
2 жыл бұрын
aye lets go!!!!! that new routine doing wonders!
i've actually done a lot of these for an art course as practice
Sometimes I feel like people are trolling on wikihow
Yay it available
I need that background music
The squiggly lines and zigzags etc. are a very common warm-up in drawing schools. The wikihow was indeed confusing and not the best but I thought you were overly critical of it. I know having a drama channel and being overly critical of things can get your channel to pop, but you’re not like that. Don’t get it get to you. The good artists of KZread don’t do that, only the wannabes, (remember creepshow art? Yeah, she’s a good example), and you know your stuff, you’re a great professional. Don’t let internet’s rotten preference on high drama, low quality change your channel.
the thumbnail reminds me of how in an art class my teacher taught the other kids how to do a profile with everything perfectly lines up ect while i didnt follow it and used my own style (because not all faces r perfectly proportional) and i got in trouble for it....she was a weird teacher
I love the part of drawing a woman where your drawing transforms into a flamingo!
Honestly i used wikihow A LOT in middle school
@MohammedAgbadi
2 жыл бұрын
lmaoooo dayum! you learn anything from it?
@ghosthuntinbun5947
2 жыл бұрын
@@MohammedAgbadi no :/
@MohammedAgbadi
2 жыл бұрын
@@ghosthuntinbun5947 ouch 😰 but you have KZread now
@mimthyss
2 жыл бұрын
@@ghosthuntinbun5947 "no :/" is sending me somehow lmaoo 😭
SAM DOES ARTSTSTSTTSS
I’m not a pro but my friends always ask me to draw them, or teach them how to draw.
I used these articles growing up. The one I followed said to copy others. 💀
Always seen wikihow as a spoof website... all the example how-tos have been made into memes 😄 i went in with a list of stuff to see for myself a few years back and the content was either written by a troll, someone who didn't know their subject matter or if they did somewhat the instructions had major glaring gaps. Havent been back since lol
i started on wiki how, my first tutorial was "How to draw manga" it's really good for begginers, but after, found another way, because wikihow dosen't explain you anything, it juste say "draw like me"
Hi I'm trying to make story to write Got any tips
I don't get why they keep drawing and erase everything after, to start again...it can also destroy the paper texture. You can tell someone has experience when they start with the big picture and not the usual tiktok tutorial anatomy with middle construction.
These are basically the drawing lessons you'd get in school or college. Lines, forms, blind contours. aint worth the hate
Well…. That whole thing of not making the hair have enough volume, is just part of the learning process. I had the same issue making my own characters, and I also made the hair look somewhat….. bland. It takes time as well, so maybe this person who made that tutorial of the face is some sort of intermediate level, but not a professional. They most likely just wanted to share their process, in hopes it might help people.
I'll give the author some credit; The woman they ended up drawing for the tutorial would fit right in with Trip and Grace from Façade
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!? -the Angry Video Game Nerd
@MohammedAgbadi
2 жыл бұрын
jackkkkkkkk!
Is that the bully theme in the background?
@MohammedAgbadi
2 жыл бұрын
yes!!! love that game
@hiddensquid6769
2 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU I was losing it trying to figure out where I've heard that song
@ethanfarrington4034
2 жыл бұрын
@@hiddensquid6769 same! Lmao knew I recognized it from a game but couldn't remember which game 😂
HE KEEPS CLICKBAITING ME WITH THICC BEEFY MEN!!!😭
Anyone see the queen's blade add on the sides lol
OMG YAY IT'S WORKING NOW
@MohammedAgbadi
2 жыл бұрын
thankgod!
i have freaking tutorial sheets just in case if anybody wanted to draw differently and challenge themselves.
Wiki how... good times. 🙆🏾♂️
Just sayin but im p sure the artists that draw the pictures for wikihow articles are never the same person as the writers. :)
As someone whose a beginner furry artist I been learning from other artists and I thank them for my improvements. I still need to learn how to draw shading, perspective and more diverse poses
But like did u try the tips, it probably helped some people!
The best artist to learn from is spongebob
6:06 Omg my teachers put this up when we are doing portrait like wtf this is shit and the hair like 💀💀💀 I’m sorry but ts cursed we never did the body so that’s kinda good… but
6:05 was funniest
Im here just for the samdoesarts piece
0:36 fake news trolls volunteer themselves UwU
"i don't think they're the same exact situations" oh you're right. russian situation is worse lmao
At 0:50 he sounds like Jaden Smith lol
Noot noot
@MohammedAgbadi
2 жыл бұрын
noot!