/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3772868
lol at this level of mental gymnastics.

>>3772868
Just learn to draw the way that works best for you. Pride will keep you stuck in /beg/

>>3772897
oh, so sorry I feel for you, for you dont know the pleasure of being in search of truths, thru discussions of what is and is not so

>>3772905

>>3772868
>>3772905
Just draw and keep training, retards. Artists of yore would've killed to have the access to information we have now.

Easy access to information helps everyone.
Low tier artists have easy access to entry level stuff.
High tier artists can put their investment elsewhere. Instead of wasting time looking for information, it means more time actualy doing art.
And the ones who provide information also benefit from it through recognition and popularity. And some sweet ad revenue.

So don't be stupid OP, just consider youtube as a tool and remember:

No rules. Only tools.

I find books can cover information in greater depth, and it's more natural for me to scan through for reference.

So for example, I've followed videos to learn some fundamentals of mixing oil colors (naturally this is something you'd like to see in a visual medium, whether in person or at the elbow of a mentor).

But when I need a thorough overview of different pigments, varnishes, mediums, etc, I'd rather go to a well regarded book.

Another problem is that most videos and online help articles are poorly edited, and may have incomplete or outright bad information.

Manufacturer videos have better production value, but usually focus heavily on selling their products for obvious reasons

>>3772868
Hand holding? It's exactly the same thing that happens in art classes. And happened in artist's studios when they took on apprentices, like when Michelangelo studied under Urbino.

You're hanging around here entirely too much if you think seeing a visual example of technique is "cheating" or "hand holding". Some of the most meaningful moments in my art school career were when the teacher did it as an example for us.

Books are a modern thing. Artists for most of history learned by watching their masters. Sme with any skill or trade or music.

There are few videos that give proper detailed information
Most are made as diluted versions of full books

But don't focus on how hard it is to get good, if you wanted to make it harder you could avoid using all books and videos, reinvent the wheel, if you managed to get good doing that, that would be an achievement...
but a better achievement is using these new resources to get better faster than people could do so in the past and then go beyond them

Artists of the past cut up dead bodies to understand anatomy, think of the time that took them and how inefficiet it was, nowadays we have books from artists who spent their entire life learning anatomy and have written it down for you to learn from.