Organizing Your Values

One drawing mistake to rule them all. You can do really interesting things with your values! It just has to be consistent.

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[Kimyoski]

He drew himself with a lightsaber and thought we won't notice😂

[DyanGaming]

Drawing with values is super overwhelming, but Proko made it a little easier!

[zephyrias]

This explained how to make smooth shadows than anything ive seen before! 👏

Breaking intentionally can be used for texture 👏

[laxi]

Can you talk about how to "intentionally" break the rules?

[TonxArt]

'' You Can't Break The Rules, If You Don't Know The Rules ''

[nondumbgd]

I have not seen bad videos from this channel.

[mocerlaalacbaino]

Don't get fooled by this. He's not talking about drawing. He's talking about philosophy, about changing your values, about having shadow as carl jung would out it.

[camaraman]

I see i dont even understand anything but I'll try to process and learn how to apply those techniques in my drawing

[vallonmitchell]

I don't know man, all of this sounds a little shady.

[jimpittman]

Do you have any tips for shading in color by chance 😅

[astrawboory]

When I "shade" my drawings, I don't really shade them 😅
I usually just do lines across the surface I want "shaded" and leave it at that. It might not make sense to someone else but it does to me since I only draw with my pencil and paper.
I color in different parts of my drawing to represent different areas of color and use lines to represent shading.

I don't know how to explain why i do it without showing an image of one of my drawings. I draw in monochrome, black and white. So there's no color. Shading the way I do helps differentiate between where I want to represent color and where I want shadows.

So I break the rules but intentionally and with the intent of making sense of my drawings to myself.

[RedGallardo]

Ok, the problem I get here is... I don't get a shape. I mean, not like you do. I have no idea what exactly makes your shapes pop out and be so lively, I can't get this effect. In theory, ANY shadows should work creating some shape. So anything you put on paper should become a shape, right or wrong. But it doesn't. "It's a shape you don't see often" you may say, but I also don't see the shapes you draw very often. And yet I believe yours. And mine stay... a symbol. A symbol of shadow. Heck, even the uneven strokes on this ball look like scratches on clay. And even when I make shadows that exactly dark, very accurate, very smooth, following each element of light-shadow distribution, I... suck.
"When you focus of kung fu, when you concentrate... you stink" (c) KFP

Honestly, it makes me feel fooled. Like all masters teaching art on YT tease me, keeping that secret ingredient... Yeah-yeah, I remember, "there is no secret ingredient". But that's not true, there is mastery so there is a reason behind it. Why does this artist draw with a brick and make everything convincing and I draw with a mosquito needle and suck? Your ball isn't even a ball! It's askew! I can see that! And yet it's more a ball than what I draw... You have no idea how much it hurts.