How to Start Drawing Comics - Working with Primitives

00:00 - Intro
01:20 - Basic Materials
02:28 - Red and Blue Pencils
03:17 - Getting Started
04:49 - Primitive Shapes
07:36 - Thinking with Primitive Forms
11:46 - Outro

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Instructional How to Draw videos for artists. My drawing lessons are approachable enough for beginners and detailed enough for advanced artists. My philosophy is to teach timeless concepts in an entertaining way. I believe that when you are having fun, you learn better. I take pride in producing high quality videos that you will enjoy watching and re-watching.

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Editing - Patrick Bosworth, Sean Ramsey

Publishing - John Birchall, Alex Otis

Music Used with Permission
Intro - The Freak Fandango Orchestra
Additional music by ABC Music Library

[RezaKaviani]

8:08 It's so interesting to see how different people use different methods, I'm so used to the Loomis head and the Asaro head that I forget different people have different preferences
and the fact that Ryan can have such a rough underdrawing and come up with such a detailed finished piece really tells you how experienced he Is. I always have very precise structure before starting

[Bergerons_Review]

In Short (still watch it, just for your notes):

- Basics Materials: If you just getting into it stick to a pencil and a pad. Easier to edit your drawings 2B pencil is the best choice. Use pencils only 2H-2B

- Red and Blue Pencils: Red pencils are for thinking. Sketch the basics everything and then go with a 2B. If you color it later you can just remove the red color layer if you are working digitally.

- Getting Started: "Capture the energy" of gestures with your hand movements. Don't hold the pencil too loose but don't restrict it badly too. Go either up or down with your movements.

- Primitive Shapes: Cylinders, Cubes, Circles (ellipses), Triangles. Whatever you draw these basic shapes will be the bedrock of your drawings. After "capturing the energy" you can go back and use primitive shapes to break it down further and you can redraw. Lots of iteration. Details mostly come from shading later on. Many students want to draw too fast and it will be crooked.

- Thinking with Primitive Forms: If you use these primitives it will help you to draw right. Create characters with these basics shapes and they will help you establish angles ratios and where to put what f.e. on a character's head or body or comparison to each other.

[Xiu]

I want to slap anime, comics, and renaissance art together. That's the artstyle I dream of having as my own 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Update: These are a lot of likes, I honestly dont think it can be done with my current style and skill, but I'll keep trying until I do! :D

[markdinsdale]

Ryan Benjamin is a truly fantastic artist and if everyone is interested in form and figure drawing then Dr draw and Tom Fox are really great and have some great resources to help you understand the concepts well. Good luck to everyone leveling up their skills!

[suat]

We are following you from Turkey. You have opened the Turkish language to automatic translation in most tutorial videos, thank you very much for your sensitivity. We would be very glad if you could open some of your videos that are not open for translation. Thanks in advance🖤

[sugu]

i love the way he draws its very satisfiying

[DuncanW]

This is the best art lessons I’ve watched in a long time. The way he broke down the fundamental shapes blew me away

[KentaroYuuki]

I am a aspiring comic artist :) so far created two one shot manga and three abandoned webcomics but currently i am trying to continue one of them.
I want to create a perfect story and mature story tbh, i have been working on that story since 2013-14 and so far created too much lore and world building almost half of elder scrolls maybe (just maybe ... Elder scrolls lore is too big anyway )

[serhiid]

The really useful information from the real professional! Nothing more to say.
PS: Big thanks to this wonderful channel!

[saph]

My god thank you so much, damn my work was falling apart for 3 years and I wish I listened to that insight.

[karim]

I love this series and I hope that one day you will do something similar but with Manga artists, that would be awesome!

[CyberValeth]

Nice seeing someone use that method instead of Reily and Loomis, I get this a bit better than the other two for some odd reason.

[monsterartzz]

Hi, i am about to upload my webcomic named 'Commander' and your video's are really helpful to me .

[WarmWindowsill]

All in one sitting. Amazing game! The edit where the screen switched to your editor's office sean was golden.

[lanigirognithemos]

I use ovals or circles for the head when I want a quick gesture or a simple head position but for more complex positions like turns and tilts of the head I would use squares cause it's way easier to place in perspective and then just round it out later.

[TheArtofRetouching]

More of this. You don't have to give away the course, but this was finally (after a long time watching) that showed me the detail a paid course can be. Showing sections little more than "this is a pencil" is not selling me anything.

[ajaysharma-ug]

2:50 I'm gonna draw that page definitely 😁

[CongaDude]

0:38...I HAD times:) I traced over this so many times as a kid! This one and Spawn #1 :)

[briansickboy]

Damn this dudes an outstanding teacher. Thank you, sir

[distortilla]

Damn, bros been drawing since before I was born