How To Look At Plants

I talk about how I do nature sketching and where I go to look at weeds and trees.

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Twitter: @kylelatino

[InkyIsScared]

There's lots of jokes around about little girls digging holes and making "potions" in them in playgrounds like little witches. It's definitely something I did and I know as a little girl that when fantasy books had interesting plants in them it definitely became a part of my daydreaming/play. Definitely an underappreciated part of worldbuilding.

[GregMcNeish]

Here's a bit of kindness to counteract the algorithm. I'm not a visual artist, but I love your philosophical approaches to maps, monsters, and seeing the world. This video was a treat. Cheers!

[CaptainWizard]

This was great.
I get the algorithm is a thing, but sometimes the “un-algorithmic” videos are the best out there.
Thanks for the insights and for showing a different side of yourself.

[liamcullen]

There’s something very meditative about this video! I really appreciate the idea of examining ordinary things until extraordinary details and identity become apparent. Lots of great takeaways from this video, but that one stuck out to me!

[LighthoofDryden]

I’ve been having to draw SO much foliage for my game lately, and these insights were so appreciated. Especially thinking about the distant view—I often get too lost in detail.

[alexreel]

The algorithm might not appreciate content like this but it doesnt have the same way of seeing this as other people do. Do whatever makes you happy and if you want to show us your process through your channel, don't hesitate. Love your videos, keep up the great work!

[robynagape]

Despite initially drawing me to the channel, TTRPGs are a very casual hobby for me - I like them more in theory than practice - but I LOVE your art and I love plants, and it's wonderful to see them brought together here! Thank you for the video, and for the tips!

[dimdive]

As someone highly focused on local plants I appreciate a lot that you explain noone has to go into the deep dark forest or to a national park to see beautiful and interesting plants.
Nature already provides art and inspiration for us.
Take St.John's wort for example: Grows freely at fields and streets, blooms in the beginning of the hottest months bright gold like the sun itself, used to treat depression. And if you dry (and press) one of the leafs and hold it up against the light it looks like a hundred tiny stars.
Or Queen Anne's Lace, which looks like someone put down tiny white umbrellas along a path and hold a single red bloom like a treasure in the middle.
Or sunflowers, who look like hundreds of yellow eyes following the sun.
Or poppy, which is just a thin wooly stem and a comparatively giant blotch of crimson red, but so delicate the petals fall off almost immediately if you pluck the plant - but if you dry the petals they are thinner than a butterflies wing and almost as light as air.

People should look at the ground more often, I think that would solve many problems

[colewethey]

This feels like such a nourishing video that is calming and interesting. This is what YouTube hates, but what we all need.

[humptydumpty]

I’ve seen almost all of your videos since I first encountered your channel. As an artist and DM your content is wonderful and invaluable. However the most important lesson I took away from your videos was one that you never made a full video on. I don’t have to replicate your processes. I’ve found that isometric maps aren’t something I’m very interested in for gameable maps, I’m far less academic than you are, and I just flat out wouldn’t use some of the ideas that you have in your Building Better Monsters series because they’re too fantastical for my worlds. But what I do take away from all of your videos is to make things my own. I don’t have to be like you, or Brennan Lee Mulligan, or Matthew Mercer. I just have to be like me. And I thank you for that.

[devinplombier]

Surely did not expect such a topic on your channel, but you've given me the drive to draw and paint again multiple times now, Kyle. I'm glad that you share so much of your experiences and thoughts with us. Wish you all the best for your new job.

[arkanoid]

I'm kind of obsessed with a very particular vine we have in my town down the river which is so invasive that it can kill alot of the local flora including large trees. It's really impressive visually speaking because it spreads awfully creating a vast green mantle that covers and strangles everything. I simply call it "the monster" and I developed a love/hate relationship with it. Many times I tried to draw it but it's very difficult to capture. If I go too close there are overwhelming number of details. If I look from further away I think loose the distinctive character. It's tricky.
Oh, and it has been a major inspiration for an Apocalypse World campaign too! So your video has so many points for me to work on that it's kind of mind-blowing, lol.

[cydeadhunter]

I loved this video on drawing plants, personally I always try to develop a few fantasy plants for every environment, I think flora is heavily underlooked in dnd. I really enjoyed this calming video it was very original!

[ottertvmtg]

plants are so interesting, im sad people don't get more creative with them
good job on doing that!

[formosaetc.]

Behold, oh great Map Crow, a sacrifice for the algorithm. May it bring good fortune

[flibberfrogman]

Man, I love the honest appreciation of nature. I feel a bit like people think I'm mad when I try to talk about looking at things as an artist.

[leonardobarauna]

I'm so glad I found your channel a couple of months ago, your content is very inspiring, thank you!

[cesare]

This an important part that a lot of artists leave out

[RevRaak]

I have been staring at trees all spring and summer! They're NEVER "perfect, " and yet I keep drawing them as the idealized shapes. There's so much negative space and air and light, and it's very good for the soul to take them in.

[laggingdragons]

Gotta say, your quick, open, soft-handed approach to drawing has done more to make me want to draw than just about anything I've tried to kindle that desire in the past decade. My biggest problem is finding a style because I feel so set in my ways and this video and the character design video really helped me realize that what I'm missing is gesture lines. Seeing it done firsthand rather than on static guides or images made it just click for me that I was missing a whole step in my construction and detail process. Thank you and well wishes your way