FINALLY, a clear explanation of line weight. I've had people tell me for years that I need to learn to "vary my line weight", and I never understood what it meant until now.

@alanomarperezalvarez292

Жыл бұрын

Same, this is a life saver

@orebb2204

Жыл бұрын

Honestly the best on KZread, I even tried proko and still didn't get it up until now

@ShakDrawzOfficial

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. My biggest pet peeve is when people say “you need to practice” without actually explaining what needs to be practiced.

@ScottMcMaster-er4xj

11 ай бұрын

We can think of it as micro-shading before any real shading. That's how I am going to approach it.

@nopenopenopepikachu5206

9 ай бұрын

This comment is a perfect culmination in all of our feelings

Dave straight up made a commission-quality illustration just for this tutorial. If that doesn’t show how legendary he is, idk what will. Thanks so much for this video!!

@DavidFinchartist

Жыл бұрын

Thanks KillerTackos!

Thank you Dave again for great video. Because of you this world will have great new generation of artists. Thank you for your teaching us. You are source of knowledge even for poor people who cant spent money for course and school to follow their art dream. But you are making our dreams real ... now its just on us to work hard to gain what we want. Thank you Dave you are amazing. God bless you.

@DavidFinchartist

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! Its humbling to think that I could be helping along some upcoming great artists in this business. I was fortunate enough to work in a studio where I learned all this stuff, so it's important to me to be able to pass that on.

@rockon8174

Жыл бұрын

@@DavidFinchartist doing awesome work, sir! Thank you for sharing!

@Fm83473

Жыл бұрын

Agreed

@austin7280

Жыл бұрын

@@endymcgufin4570 cope

He crossed the line this time. Edit: Thank you, never had 123 likes

@thepurpleman119

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, but he has a point

@halidramzan2803

Жыл бұрын

Ha! 🙌🤣

@thepurpleman119

Жыл бұрын

@@halidramzan2803 Ty

@canvasninja

Жыл бұрын

wdym?

@khrystianadams8165

Жыл бұрын

@@canvasninja its a pun

Memories... I'm thinking about that old studio in Mira Mesa and how Marc (Silvestri) and Scott (Williams) used to sit next to each other in that office. It was great for me, because I'd go to get advice from Scott and wind up getting a lesson from Marc too about half the time. They both got together for a few minutes one afternoon and explained this to me. Great stuff. I've already sent a couple people who regularly ask me questions a link to this video. You're giving away GOLD over here, David! Thanks for what you do.

2 minutes in and youve given me better information on line-weight than ive been able to find on any more popular channel on youtube! Awesome stuff! Thank you!

This is the perfect example of using line weights!! 🔥💯

@DavidFinchartist

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Mighty!

Get this guy 1 million subscribers 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

THE legendary intro of david finch.🔥🔥🔥LOVE IT

I'd been wondering about line weights for a long time. Appreciate that you've covered them here.

Yes! Yes! Yes! Can’t wait to watch this when I get home from school. 🔥🔥🔥

Best Art Teacher of All Time.

As a classically trained draftsman, I love the use of the lead holder! My first paying drafting job was all board drafting, and I used a combination of lead holders and Koh-I-Noor mechanical pencils of various line weights. For very similar reasons. But instead of light, it was dimension. Object lines were thicker to denote the edge of a surface, whereas hatch lines were thinner to denote the material was cut, and you were seeing the inside of it. Centerlines and dimension lines were among the thinnest to denote that they were imaginary lines no present on the material, used for dimensioning only. Etc etc.. Great stuff!

One of the best comic artisits and educators you can find on the whole yt.

Can’t thank you enough Dave. Taking your time to pass on such immensely helpful knowledge is wildly appreciated

David, thanks.😊

Beautifully explained

This helped clear A LOT of things up!

Dang!!!!! This seems so simple but i never took enough time to really do this and he's right, my sketches looked so FLAT.

David finch your art is incredible thank you ✨✨✨

ABSOLUTELY helpful!!! Thank you very much, Mr. Finch!

@DavidFinchartist

Жыл бұрын

Welcome!

Thank you so mich. This short video teached me alot. Line weight is something I neglected alot

Thank you mr finch for being my inspiration 🙏🏿

I've been struggling so much with line weight. This demystified aspects that I struggled with. Thank you so much !

My linework has been incredibly challenging, so thank you for explaining why this is absolutely vital for good drawings, and how it's basically the same as simple shading. I didn't even realize it, but I was accidentally following this technique when I was much younger and tracing comics.

Thank you so much Sir Marcel

Another great video with great information. Hope you are well Dave

This video is right on time. Was about to start looking for line weight tutorials.

Yes, lightweights I’ve been struggling so much wit this thank you Dave !!! 😊😊

I appreciate this explanation because when people were trying to explain this before they really did not do anything this simple and easy to understand.

This was pure gold, i think now i understand shadows amd volume a lot more 🙏🙏

Another great video! Thanks.

This is gold! To get all this amazing content from such a great artist is a real privilege. Thank you, Dave!

This video is a game-changer for me. Thanks, David!

That's such an awesome drawing, feels so solid.

Thanks Dave! You the man

This was extremely helpful. Thanks, sir!

This was very helpful! thank you

learning how to ink & this video helps immensely!!! Thank you

I have brought your course when it came out about 10yrs ago and this was the concept which made my drawing a lot better as I always wondered why my drawing looked flat even tho it has shadowing in it. Thanks again. P.S: you also showed this to me personally when you were in the Calgary expo and I was waiting for my V for vendetta commission from you. Thanks again for being such an awesome guy and great artist

I really appreciate the simple explanation, sometimes when you try and research this type of stuff it’s too easy to get bogged down in the big details.

@DavidFinchartist

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I definitely find that, yeah... It's so easy to overthink some of these things until you're completely turned around.

@DMAN99

Жыл бұрын

@@DavidFinchartist In regards to this video, I like how you pointed out how you were still following the same idea throughout the piece even with some of the finer details like around the rib area or some of the thigh muscle on the left leg, usually those details are where I get confused in other tutorials.

Thank you for this tutorial this is so helpful 😊

Thanks David I always learn something new from your videos, goes to show that no matter how long you have been at it there is always more to learn. 37yrs and still learning, this is what I love about art and design.

Oh my God this broke down a concept that I've struggled with for over a decade. Thank you for the simple explanation and examples!

this legend is such a great teacher

Dave, these video's are very helpful! Thank you

One of the best art instruction videos on KZread!!!!

Thank you so much!

Hero F.. great life lesson, thanks for your time, see you Monday.. bye'eeee..

@DavidFinchartist

Жыл бұрын

See you then!

Thanks for another video dave As an art teacher that dreams of being able to draw comics all day one day, these things give me hope to keep learning and going

That simple shape tutorial explained it all... then watching it in practice was really enlightening.

This was extremely helpful, thank you so much for this breakdown.

A thousand thank yous, sensei 🙏🙏🙏

Yes! Another great tutorial! Hope you’re feeling better Dave!

@DavidFinchartist

Жыл бұрын

I am, thanks Alpin!

@alphinart

Жыл бұрын

@@DavidFinchartist good to hear! And great line weight tutorial!

This video was just what i need, i love you

Thank you very much for this. It was very helpful.

Needed this. Have been trying to get better at my inking and this was a great lesson. Posting videos of my learning!

Nice breakdown! Thanks for sharing this.

@DavidFinchartist

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Amazing video, you're one of the GOATS Mr finch fr

Thanks to your videos bro.. 👍 i learn many techniques in your draw..

Fantastic Dave love this

Coloring ur works has changed my coloring skills thanks for the amazing lines I'll keep making ur cool work even cool thank u dave fin

Thank you again!

Thank you master.

this was great thanks.

Great video, Dave. Very simply explained and easy to implement. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you so much for this video. Im a learning artist that has never made a lot of progress because I dont like being taught by other people as i feel like they dont explain it right and i dont understand. This video was so perfect and simple I understood perfectly and I feel like. my art is going to improve a lot more because of this, thank you so much!!

I remember seeing tutorials on lineart that usually talk about using line weight to show the difference in volume/emphasis between the parts that compose the figure/object/etc. It's a very useful understanding, but I often got myself lost in the middle of the process, trying to guess if I should - or not - make the line thicker at some point, and it always felt some sort of logic was missing. Well, it was indeed: the line weight being guided by the light source. I'm going to watch it again and take notes, this is going to be a new lineart exercise for sure! Thank you, David :] Oh, and I always loved to get a comic with your art! But I don't remember seeing this channel before. Now I have a lot to watch around here hahaha

One of the best in the bizz.. for alot of reasons. Thank u sir david!!!

Dave gives more of an art education in these videos that any of my art teachers ever did at school

This is one of the most useful drawing videos I've seen (and I've watched a LOT!). Thanks so much for this, David.

Thanks you You doing gods work

Great vid!!! Thanks

Great video. Everyone benefits. It's amazing how much form that something as simple as line weight gives. One way to create greater dimension with line weight is to use the concept of ambient occlusion. When objects are close to one another, light gets trapped and the light dims.

Glad I found this vid. Been struggling a little with my shadowing. Awesome tutorial and thanks for the video.

This is honestly gold, and CRUCIAL knowledge. I haven't found this info anywhere so thank you so much for your contributions to the locus of knowledge that's out there. And for FREE at that.

This was so great and helpful David thank you again for another incredible guide.

This is amazing!

Thank you so much

Thanks for the informative video. You are truly a great ambassador for the industry.

Really useful Information for a beginner.

Thanx! Helps a lot!

@DavidFinchartist

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

This just came intuitively to me when I began to draw.

great tutorial thanks!

absolutely love this vid dave!! would seriously love more like this

Thank you so much for this. Hope you feel better.

@DavidFinchartist

Жыл бұрын

Welcome! I'm definitely feeling better today, and I think I'll be totally good by tomorrow.

@SanAndreas204

Жыл бұрын

@@DavidFinchartist happy to hear that. Hope you are 100% tomorrow.

Excellent. Thank you. 👌🏿💎

good to see you on here Dave. Glorious content.

Good video enjoyed and learnt something new

Thank you 👍

Once again thanks for making these videos Dave. I’ve learned so much from watching ur videos and I can’t thank u enough.

@DavidFinchartist

Жыл бұрын

Very welcome!

i actually already do this by nature when drawing. But this is still great advice. Nice work as always, mr. Finch. 😊👍

Thank you David! This is truly such a useful even necessary concept to learn, blessings for you and your family

@DavidFinchartist

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, and God Bless!

Holly molly, that last part, the different line weight in foreground - middle ground - backround, now i realized why my drawings felt so flat because i use the same lineweight throughout the whole drawing/panel, i have a hard time making the drawing focus on the character, instead my eyes always focused on something else sometimes the backround kinda more stand out, thank you so much dave, much love

Thanks for the video. This is truly the best video on the topic of line weights for line works in general.

@DavidFinchartist

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks Dave! Super helpful, great job man.

@DavidFinchartist

Жыл бұрын

Very welcome!

Easy trick to make your drawing look really cool. Making an object look 3d without shading, given line weight is a form of shading. Definitely got the dopamine flowing!!!

@DavidFinchartist

Жыл бұрын

It really is easy! And it's such a universal skill for comic artists.

Awesome stuff! This was very helpful and gave me ideas on how to approach it in clip studio

Thank you 🙏

Very timely, thanks! I've been practicing line weight with ink and breaking the line up closest to the light was a something I shall try right now.

@DavidFinchartist

Жыл бұрын

I hope you like the effect! I do find that it's more effective in black and white art, but it still works fine with color.