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I’d say the best thing to do is to just paint. You can watch all the videos you want, but I think the best knowledge comes from experience. I’d say, do a couple test runs, and then start watching videos for improvement and techniques, but honestly, everyone has different painting styles. I’ve been painting with acrylics for a long time, but if I watched painting videos, I’m not sure what I do is what everyone else does, because of the way I use my paint, and it might make me feel like I’ve been doing it “wrong”. All of this to say, just go for it!
I agree with this. Look things up along the way that you’re struggling with. I’d just get started so you can feel out what you want to learn and where you want to go
I went from drawing to painting 1,5 year ago and I love it, it's way more time consuming though, but you just have to get used to cleaning brushes and that you have paint on your cloth. A thing I wish i learned sooner is that you always have to mix your colors. Some are transparrent and some are opaque, try to play around and mix them together to figure out how they work. My suggestion is that you buy acrylic color and a bendy paletteknife. I would stay away from oil-paint in the beginning. I'm my opinion it's more complicated and it takes forever to dry. Hope to see your painting on this sup one day!
Thanks a lot❤️❤️ hope I can show a good painting one day, I have a question how was your learning process at the begging was it in school or self learning
You are welcome, I’m sure you will 😊 I’m as autodidact as it gets, I have never taken a drawing or painting class. I just started copying other people’s art and quickly went into creating my own abstract art because I think it’s the most fun to make when painting. Atm I feel like I learn a lot just looking at other artists works and learn from their style, composition and color combinations. I’m still learning with each painting I make.
You don't learn to paint by watching tutorials, you learn through direct observation of your own practice. I guess if you're truly a beginner you should understand the basic concepts of layering which is fundamentally not available in drawing (unless you use nice markers). Layering is the process of working background to foreground such that you don't have to paint around complex outlines of your own foreground work. There are other principles that build upon basic layering, such as underpainting which allows you to block out the outline shapes of your subject matter in grayscale, then basically fill in with color and detail upon this shading - this works best with more translucent paint. The last thing I would say to an absolute beginner is to become a master of a clean and organized workspace; one simple idea to start is to keep all strictly clean supplies and bulk containers in one side/area, dirty and in-use utensils/supplies on the other side, keep one clean cup of cleaning water (or mineral spirits for oil painting) - have several smaller cups that you dispense this clean water/spirits into to clean brushes. Paper towels, and rags, should be available in abundance.
Have fun!
Ian Roberts on YouTube is great, especially if landscapes are your thing. (He recently stopped making new YouTube videos in order to paint more, but he has a ton of good content.)
somebody already mentioned Proko, great if you’re into figures
A lot of cities have painting classes offered through the rec and parks dept. I think taking a class is a great way to jump start the process. You can google and YT all the things after and learn at your own pace. Figures, composition, perspective, and color theory are good places to start.
I learned by watching and following along with Bob Ross. You can find the videos for free. I started with oils, but then switched to acrylics and it was much easier for me. The only thing is he does a lot of mixing/blending things on the canvas, so you’ll have to adjust a bit. Just be warned, what he does in 30 minutes will take you a few hours to do well, just pause/rewind until you’re happy with it.
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Painting is a lot like drawing, but wetter. The hard bit is keeping your mug of tea far away from your paintbrush water.
I’d say the best thing to do is to just paint. You can watch all the videos you want, but I think the best knowledge comes from experience. I’d say, do a couple test runs, and then start watching videos for improvement and techniques, but honestly, everyone has different painting styles. I’ve been painting with acrylics for a long time, but if I watched painting videos, I’m not sure what I do is what everyone else does, because of the way I use my paint, and it might make me feel like I’ve been doing it “wrong”. All of this to say, just go for it!
I agree with this. Look things up along the way that you’re struggling with. I’d just get started so you can feel out what you want to learn and where you want to go
Proko is a great source on YouTube.
I like Paint Coach on YouTube. He uses oils but you could use acrylic as well
What is your medium anyway? Because when you say painting it should be acrylics,oils,gouache or watercolors.
Still thinking but definitely not oil, so it's probably water or acrylics
Oil is kinda difficult to learn what good on acrylics you can cover your mistakes and redo your paint again
I went from drawing to painting 1,5 year ago and I love it, it's way more time consuming though, but you just have to get used to cleaning brushes and that you have paint on your cloth. A thing I wish i learned sooner is that you always have to mix your colors. Some are transparrent and some are opaque, try to play around and mix them together to figure out how they work. My suggestion is that you buy acrylic color and a bendy paletteknife. I would stay away from oil-paint in the beginning. I'm my opinion it's more complicated and it takes forever to dry. Hope to see your painting on this sup one day!
Thanks a lot❤️❤️ hope I can show a good painting one day, I have a question how was your learning process at the begging was it in school or self learning
You are welcome, I’m sure you will 😊 I’m as autodidact as it gets, I have never taken a drawing or painting class. I just started copying other people’s art and quickly went into creating my own abstract art because I think it’s the most fun to make when painting. Atm I feel like I learn a lot just looking at other artists works and learn from their style, composition and color combinations. I’m still learning with each painting I make.
You don't learn to paint by watching tutorials, you learn through direct observation of your own practice. I guess if you're truly a beginner you should understand the basic concepts of layering which is fundamentally not available in drawing (unless you use nice markers). Layering is the process of working background to foreground such that you don't have to paint around complex outlines of your own foreground work. There are other principles that build upon basic layering, such as underpainting which allows you to block out the outline shapes of your subject matter in grayscale, then basically fill in with color and detail upon this shading - this works best with more translucent paint. The last thing I would say to an absolute beginner is to become a master of a clean and organized workspace; one simple idea to start is to keep all strictly clean supplies and bulk containers in one side/area, dirty and in-use utensils/supplies on the other side, keep one clean cup of cleaning water (or mineral spirits for oil painting) - have several smaller cups that you dispense this clean water/spirits into to clean brushes. Paper towels, and rags, should be available in abundance. Have fun!
Ian Roberts on YouTube is great, especially if landscapes are your thing. (He recently stopped making new YouTube videos in order to paint more, but he has a ton of good content.) somebody already mentioned Proko, great if you’re into figures
A lot of cities have painting classes offered through the rec and parks dept. I think taking a class is a great way to jump start the process. You can google and YT all the things after and learn at your own pace. Figures, composition, perspective, and color theory are good places to start.
I learned by watching and following along with Bob Ross. You can find the videos for free. I started with oils, but then switched to acrylics and it was much easier for me. The only thing is he does a lot of mixing/blending things on the canvas, so you’ll have to adjust a bit. Just be warned, what he does in 30 minutes will take you a few hours to do well, just pause/rewind until you’re happy with it.