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Me: "Oh boy do I feel great this morning! I should work on my drawings!" Ten hours later: I drew one line

DELIBERATE PRACTICE: 1. Learn the theory 5:18 2. Use references 5:36 3. Get Feedback 6:00

Hearing "2-3 hours a day" is seriously saving my mental. Picked up drawing about a month ago and I am pretty tapped out after an hour or two of practicing new stuff. Hearing how others grind out dozens of poses a day had me absolutely stunned. I am happy when I get one out a day lol.

One thing that I have found to be helpful to also keep in mind is that in most cases, you probably are not going to be able to put your nose to the grindstone for 2-4 hours a day as soon as you make the decision to engage in deliberate practice on a consistent basis. As with pretty much anything you want to make into a habit, you will find a lot more success if you start out small. I have found that the pomodoro technique (for every 25 minutes you focus, take a 5 minute break) gives me a really solid frame of reference and helps me divide my time into measurable units that make me feel like I'm collecting exp points each time I finish one. You can start with just one 25 minute session a day (or as short of a session as you need it to be!) and slowly increase that time as you go.

Your art is improving, mine is getting worse, we are not the same

Marc is spitting truth here. The secret to improvement isn't doing what you're already comfortable with. It's acknowledging what your weakness is, observing and deconstructing other people's process and then challenging yourself by applying that knowledge. I can speak from personal experience. I can definitely see a noticeable improvement in my work in a pretty short amount of time. I've been pushing myself to do more dynamic poses, implement a better sense of dimension and volume to my subjects and, most of all, forcing myself to COLOR. I hate coloring. I think I'm terrible at it. But I've been forcing myself to color and push my color ranges as much as possible. I'm actually quite proud of myself, which is pretty rare for me.

When I started teaching Chinese painting, the most common question I got was, "How long does it take to reach your level?" I started answering that question by bringing my practice papers and showing students my stacks and stacks of paper on which I practiced just one kind of brush stroke hundreds of times. Then I would say, "The time it takes is less important than how you use it."

Ah yes, gotta love how I'm watching this acting like I haven't stopped trying to get better for like 2 months. I was pretty consistent for a while there but then I made one drawing that I hated and I've not gone back since. The learning process has just become so dull for me, feels like I've been in limbo regardless if I practice the same things or try to learn something new, nothing really sticks in my mind

I am still so grateful how I managed to improve my drawing body anatomy in males and females just by watching your videos. Not only that but now I have the ability to draw fluid, more detailed poses with no reference at all

Nothing like sensei's videos for a boost of inspiration. I'm struggling through a massive art block.

You upload, I like. No questions asked 😂. I always come to this channel for art tutorials because it helps me out a lot with my progress. Looking forward to this video and more 🤟

Glad to know there's a 2 hour max out. I been feeling burned out and wanting to draw for hours and not seeing a huge improvement. There's so much to remember it can be overwhelming at times.

Really encouraging to watch it and notice that you have been practicing the "right" way. Thanks Marc.

Somehow those videos come in clutch everytime, thanks a lot!

recently I start to pick up my wacom again to start become serious about my art career, But I found out I have some issue while learning art. I think my art suck, So I learn, But after I study I will doubting myself that "am I actually learning?" "How is this study gonna help me? " "am I learning the 'right way' ? " and it make me become so frustrated and depress, until somebody point out my issue was keep studying but didnt draw any artwork to see how much I improve/what weakness I have. And from that day somehow the feeling of frustration and depress have disappear and I'm been enjoying drawing ever since. Moral of my story: Dont kept studying just to be better, you need to actually draw a piece of artwork to output the knowledge you had learned and see how much you need to learn.

Whoa perfect timing. I've been feeling down lately because I feel stuck at art. Thank you for this vid!

Ur advice are always a huge help for many artist ! ^^ also i would like to mention your character design from your 2 ocs are incredible !! It tells so much about their personnality !

This discusses some thoughts or mistakes I've had in the past years... Thank you for sharing the advice and motivation :) I really hope we can do it!

Oh wow, thanks Marc! I didn't realise but I've actually been doing this(except for the third part that much lol) THANK YOU 😊

Thanks for the video mark! I've definetly seen more improvement when I'm consciously looking for something. Referencing a past video, I'll learn more if I get to the knee, then look up references for the knee, learn it, apply it, then move on. The last point in the video is really important though, and something I think I'll be adjusting in my daily grind, that is, to kick off with sketches to losen up, then some of the learning stuff, and end with something more comfortable.

I like the focuses on art but I also like that you can really apply this to other things one might be learning/practicing as well!

Your videos are always top notch! Love the art! Also, I think that you would have a lot of fun drawing animals, like dinosaurs or mystical creatures of sorts.

Thank you, Marc-sensei

Thank you for the video Marc :D

Here's to another 7 Years, Happy Anniversary!

Thanks Marc for another very helpful video this one will definitely help me get out of the spiral I’ve been in.

You are My hero you helped me during my burn out

Thanks for the video Marc, kinda needing this

I agree with your advice, keep in mind to keep things fun and not get too lost in the studies and perfectionism

This video helped a lot for getting a new point of view. Thank you so much.

the color palette for these characters is amazing! Also yeah, I should practice more consistently...

you posted this just as i was feeling my art progress was stagnant 😭

Yeah thats fair. Literally like an hour ago I was looking at some old drawings side by side with some recent ones and thinking man, my art really hasn't improved much over these past few years. :( But ik its because not only do I not practice a lot but when I do its not the deliberate practice as described in this video, so of course I'm limited to how much better I can get just drawing from memory. Guess I really gotta tryhard if I wanna get back to improving again rahh. Thanks for this perfectly timed and very helpful video :)

Thank you I needed this

OMG HE’S BACK 🔥🔥

as someone who's never known focus my whole life like literally i could not be doing anything and my head is stil bombarded with random thoughts. back then when an artist tell me i need focus to improve always say screw that, it's not possible and i get irritated upon hearing that idea but now I'm trying my best to acknowledge it bit by bit and I'm beginning to agree with them.

I am hoping once I move I can work more on my art. Right now I can't work on anything big so only doing small practice but trying to analyze what I am getting wrong and try to redraw what I got wrong. I have gotten better at seeing when I start getting lazy about where the lines should go and fixing it before the whole drawing is off.

Ive been really pushing myself in my art. Iv learned im drawing alot more, drawings are taking longer and im paying attention to alot more things. Its actually becoming alot more mentaly taxing. But also im finding more meanimg in my work. I hope that shows visually in my work.

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Studying up to understand what you're struggling to draw is so true tho. By now, when I wanna draw new animals, I study up their skeleton first, and it not only makes it easier to draw proportions, but also to pose them quicker and easier. I get multiple references together, study their components and how they interact, and then filter out the most important parts of them that I can then use as ankers to replicate what I found by myself. This is important _especially_ in animation - that's advice given by ghibli animators as well - if you don't understand the figure you're depicting, then movement will look janky and weird, bc some part of our brains still understand that "that's not how that should move"; even if we can't articulate it, it would still feel off somehow. It's a bit of a relief to learn tho that there's a scientifically proven limit on how long it's possible to actually focus up like this, bc I always felt bad and frustrated when I couldn't practice for more than three hours at a time before my brain started going to shit

Another amazing video as always

Chill, sensei. I barely just started.

Finally OG marks art style is back 😭🙏

Next 3 months planing on getting 16 hrs of head drawing practice. Not hard to do in that time span, but job and kids. Definitely coming back too this video now and then in that time.

I am going to try the art school trial tomorrow and do some deliberate practice for once, lol. I have noticed now it has been a long time since I've drawn something properly out of the scope of what I know.

It really comes down to one thing. Practice what you are bad at. If your practice looks good, you are practicing the wrong things. Stop practicing those, you already know them. That's how learning literally anything works: do what you are bad at until you are not bad at it anymore. Then go find something else you are bad at.

Its funny how im still watching every single new video even tho they're not that helpfull anymore, the questions i ask now sadly only getting answers in books and paid courses, but im always here to get sum motivation and leave a like.

Thx so much marc, finally getting back into art after I moved houses

This might be helpful for me because I'm currently trying to get back to art since I haven't made anything for a while now and needing to catch up with my artistic skill. Thanks for the advice.

Thanks Marc :)

1:14 It seems like you adopted part of May Yoyenma's artstyle, those tips of the hair are looking very Yoyenma-like! So good!

this video was aimed directly at me thank you professor brunet

I'm just happy these videos exist, i went through art school nearly a decade ago and was taught all the wrong things with only a handful of instructors actually being great at teaching, went into art school with decent talent and developed downwards due to stigmas or poor teaching and came out worse than when i went in on top of graduating during an economic depression didnt help

Marc is one of the few youtubers that actually get me to like when they ask

Thanks, Mark!

My 4yo son is so exited from your videos)

My art isn't improving but that's because I haven't practiced in 3 years. This video gets me 1 step closer to maybe starting to think about practicing again. But that's all it takes

When I start getting paid again (yay new job), I am DEFINITELY paying for the art school program. I have improved exponentially from watching and practicing Marc's suggestions in just under a year and a half. This guy is a phenomenal artist AND teacher.

Never had an idol before but I think you are my first one. Artistically but especially as a human. Thank you SO MUCH for making learning accessable not only through your art school course but these free YT-videos as well Hope it isnt socially inappropriate to say this. I'm just super thankful for this learning opportunity in a world where education is often only for the rich Have a great week and thank you for your work!

ty for the vids ^^

is Time to practice more .....💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻 master mark

Great video as always. I enjoy the drawing, specially the cute girl with pants. Thank you for sharing!

Omg he extended it. Dude I wanted to sign up for the program but money woes + rent. Thank you Marc 🙏🏿

Bro your newest 2 videos are so relatable to me. I've been drawing since 2016 and my art is still super meh

Gimme the art gainzzzz !!!

One more gem from marc

So glad i watched till the end, don't want to be doing 'illegal' activities (😂). Gr8 video, as per usual and THANX for yet another tid bit of awesome information SENPAI! 🙇

what fucks me up the most is that i want to draw what i'm imagining at the moment, and some of my art ain't that bad but still at beginner level. i know that i have to practice to get good at it but i find the process of learning so boring that it literally stops me from practicing, it's not because i'm lazy, i just don't see the point of spending so many hours or even days practicing, and the level i wanna reach is the same as SinCastermon does his art, he's gotta be one of my biggest inspirations to even learn to draw (and i say that when i've wasted around 2.5k hours in tf2)

Hey mark great video I've had some issues improving my art from half an year. Context: I'm an intermediate-advanced ish artist who has a decent grip on all fundamentals and wants to focus on improving my rendering Ps: I'm an artist who has practised all fundamentals to a good extent but my art doesn't look impressive from a technical standpoint I can't figure out a good way to practise and improve rendering I'd be eternally grateful to get feedback on this problem

Bro uploaded the moment I checked my phone

Wow this is so amazing to hear. I was trying to cram 8 hours of studying a day

Lately I’ve been struggling with burnout and insecurity and I feel this lol

OK SIR

Thanks for the informative class, Mr Mark! Have a tip of one comment to show my appreciation!

That's the reason why I dropped drawing 9 years ago, and stayed with watching others and their results.

want to join your class but can't right now. hope when i can there's a sale or when i can i have it so i can learn from you. though ty for the vids

can you teach us how to draw a fight scene? and how to use hatching to an expression that something is moving, like they why use it in manga

I like to remember that nizmo exhaust video when you talk about you art school

Hes correct on this. Experienced it myself. If i put not only effort (physical motor skills and muscle memory) into drawing, but also actively thinking about it, while also actively seeing how its supposed to look, i gain a lot of insight and improve a lot quicker. But, hes also on point on that one, cant really do that long. I tap out after around an hour or two. I continue drawing then, usually, but not as actively. The hardest part for me was accepting, that i wont be as good as the artists i have around me. At least, not in the near future. Because, well, it takes years to get to that lvl. But thats okay. As long, as i am improving, i will reach that skill lvl at some point.

After watching this i felt like im going to be yoneyama mai

I never clicked so fast on a notification

I don’t know if this is something you’ve touched on before, but is it possible to create a tutorial on how to draw character sheets for consistent character features? I understand how to maintain proportions with turning heads, but not rotating up and down. I struggle with placing features to when the head is tilted up or down to make a character look consistent

I want to add: in two books I've read (Deep Work by Cal Newport and Talent Code by Daniel Coyle) both authors come to the conclusion the brain can only learn about 4 hours of NEW information every day; anything else after that will get discarded or the brain will go on autopilot. So, when you hear stories of artists GRINDING for 27 hours a day, just know most of that stuff was just either rendering or automatic behavior. EDIT: oh shoot you mentioned that XD

Hey Marc, what's the best way to reach you for feedback? I been drawing for more than two years, and the big struggle has always been trying to understand content from art teachers, like you. So far you have the best explanation generally but there's, I think room for improvement. I have your course, but I still struggle with the fundamentals.

Yes. lesson time

Question your classes seems to be geared towards digital drawings what if i want to do "analog?" drawing/pen and paper and use acrylics and such to color?

2:52 Bro just randomly draw hand in a blink of an eye, that would make me 30min to finish

im a professional artist and i recommend this channel to all my clients who are also interested in picking up art. might have to scoop up the paid class before the month is over 👀

For me the trial and error method of learning has worked best. I draw something, figure out what’s off about it or what I don’t like, then draw it again to see if I fixed it. Sometimes it’s without a reference or subject. Maybe I alternate between drawing a reference and imagination. A lot of improvements come from just fixing mistakes.

I can’t call this art block anymore. It’s like a black hole 🫠 I look for reference to be motivated and somehow end up depressed/demotivated and no drawing gets done. Alas! This too shall pass ✨(It must)

Omg THIS!! Your Art School improved my learning habits SO MUCH because instead of watching some UKposts-Video or Pokemon-Episode whilst drawing, I listen to the class and make specific notes and sketches about that. Once you know what deliberate learning feels like, it'll be like a complete explosion of your skills and learning-opportunities Funny to me that Art taught me how to study but neither school nor university did though :b Edit: I even feel like knowing how to study makes the learning super addictive (or it's just autistic me soaking every piece of information in like a sponge with no other duty but to have F.U.N. with ma starfish friend and learn about the wonders of our world)

WE ARE LEARNING FAST WITH THIS ONE 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

2 Hours feels like a lot, my brain starts fizzingly at roughly an hour. 😵‍💫

4:36 It is good news if you don't have ADHD. I have no controll over when I am able to focus. Sometimes 15 minutes, sometimes an 1 hour on a really good day, or 1 week where I can't focus at all.

It hurts to know but it is a must to inquire the knowledge and learn. But how do I get feedback from other people? Most of the places I post it even public, no one seems to critique my drawings, at this point I'd rather be roasted than being ignored...

"While half watching a UKposts Art School Class" Got me.

I sadly had a very bad and traumatizing experience with a mentor whose skill was superb but way of human communication was very insulting and degrading. I still have her voice in my head everytime I mess up even a little bit when I'm drawing/painting. In general I seem to have just bad luck whenever i try to conenct to other artists or try to find a mentor.. Recently, I have been pretty down due to this. I have not met one artist who supported me in any kind of way. It feels as if those artist told me that it's just all for nothign because I am not meant to get good...

As a lazy guy who doesn't spend 10k hours on painting and not improving, I can't relate with this video. Will check back once i got 10k hours. But ill watch it anyway

Anyone notice a leap from say an iPad or tablet to a Wacom graphic tablet w/screen? I am chasing that granular control you get with traditional