Critique Hour! Subtlety in skin tone and organic form studies!

Hi I'm Istebrak! I'm an art teacher. I paint-over your art work and embed the lesson in the critique. My livestream paint-over sessions are called CritiqueHour and I host the live-streams on this channel every Tuesday and Thursday at 5 PM EST.

Anyone can join and anyone can link or send the images they want critiqued or looked at. To receive updates and announcements for when class is going to air please keep an eye out on:

Some more videos you can learn from:

How to paint eyes:

Why your drawings suck:

How to paint with a lightsource:

How to paint a realistic anime:

How to paint realistic skin:

How to paint a nose:

How to improve edge control while painting:

How to paint female anatomy:

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-I

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[leandertaubner]

i wish i had some one like you as a teacher. Love your channel. Learning so much here.

[sasuwaidi]

Honestly, I'm not sure if people say this enough, but you are a godsend! All this information you provide is so wonderful in each and every single one of your critique hours. Not only do you point out the mistakes with how to improve them, you explain why and the science behind each decision. It's honestly incredibly helpful. Really, the only thing I'm sad about is the fact that I always end up being too late for these streams. Nevertheless, thank you for everything you provide!

[nothinmulch]

man if there was a book version of istebrak's notes then I would throw so much money at that!

[Richard-xdkw]

Thank you so much for the valuable feedback, the saturation issue is due to my shitty 10 year old laptop, everything looks desaturated, I will work on the shadows and lighting, change my skin color palette, and get a decent monitor :). Thanks again.

[BooksRebound]

you were soo zoomed out on that orange guy I felt like I was missing all the action. You know the zoom out is real when your navigator is half again the size of your painting lmao

[commanderflare]

Hi +Istebrak i really love your videos, learnt alot from them and have really improved.
I know you have a tutorial on realistic clothing already and that wasn't quite long ago however can you do one with coloured clothing and on a character aswell. That will help alot if you could since on my character i couldn't get the clothing looking good in colour no matter what i did. Thanks

[MysteriousAsteria]

But what is when I want to intentionally give my drawing a high contrast look? Like in High key photography? Not related to the form study, it's clear that for pracrice you wouldn't do it. But just in general about wether or not high key is a good idea (it's pretty hard to do decently in photography too, so I guess you should stay away from it?)

[martenlundin]

Anyone knows of a book similar to "color and light" by James Gurney but with real life photos instead of paintings for references?

[Yehuditx]

any small art youtubers here wanna be friends?