The BEST Art Advice to Change Your Life (NOT Clickbait)

I taught my daughter to draw and paint from the minute she could hold a pencil. For years, visual art was her passion. I asked her recently what the BEST art tip I ever gave her was... and I'm sharing that with you here today in detail. I hope you find it as helpful as she did!

Happy Creating!

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:33 BEST Art Advice
01:23 How it Works
02:10 Applying it to Landscape Painting
03:55 Applying it to Portraiture
04:53 Applying it to Figure Drawing
05:33 Applying it to Colour Mixing
06:21 Applying it to EVERYTHING
06:50 Final Thoughts

[MrMoghal]

"You're from an advanced planet that supports the arts!" - I loved that line 😀

[paulaelliott]

I’m almost 80 and I’ve been a professional artist my adult life one of my favorite paintings that I’ve ever done is a small painting. I did from a photograph that I held upside down and I literally just copied the spots of color with without any thought of what the object was, that was so rewarding so fun and probably my favorite Painting

[anieth]

The Zen people call this "Beginner's Mind." I also know people on the spectrum who are very good at this because they don't acclimate to seeing without seeing. The impressionists were also into this kind of seeing. But knowing structure and doing work like blocking and painting with a large brush first gets you out of the fiddly habits like spaghetti hair. Good video!

[mklarson]

This advice is golden. I think at some point every art teacher said to me, "draw what you see." But never did anyone explain exactly how prejudiced my eye could be made by what my mind thinks I am seeing. A lot of struggle could have been eased by understanding and working with this lesson much earlier on. And now the new challenge is not to try to paint exactly what I am seeing, but to design a composition that best depicts the point of the painting infused with my experience of the scene. I'm afraid one lifetime just won't be enough, but that's what keeps art so fascinating.

[BarbaraClayArtisticsoulwithin]

Thank You❤ I am legally blind and I am an artist. I have been an artist all my life. When my eyesight took a sharp decline a few years ago, I went into a deep depression because I couldn't do what I always did. I loved Surrealism, but when my eyesight got worse, I couldn't do that anymore. Even still, my family kept encouraging me to keep doing art. Before my mother died in 2020, she made me promise that I would never stop doing art. It was hard because I was so used to painting what I saw with great detail, and no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't get it right. Until one day, I came across Picasso cubism, and for some crazy reason, his cubist art made sense to me. I learned that he and other artists went blind at the height of their careers. I thought, what if I just painted what I saw and booooy did it give me new life. I learned how to paint pop cubism, and I love it so much❤ I paint women with big beautiful eyes, no straight lines, and beautiful pops of colors. I love what I do now more than ever before. I will never forget what you said to think like an alien. With my eyesight, I already feel like an alien, and what I see is beautiful. Thank you so much for this video.

[PatriciaVoinescuArt]

'You're from an advanced planet which supports the arts'😂😂😂

[momma]

Okay so thank you for finally breaking down the “draw what you see not what you think you see” concept. This was tremendously helpful. I noticed right away I could start applying this to my practice. ❤

[ms.rocketscience]

This is excellent advice. We all tend to be too much “in our heads” and get tripped up by our preconceived notions. Thank you for the reminder to keeping trying to see the world through fresh eyes.

[elsf]

I'm a musician and I'm here because I find each artform can teach you about every other as well. I end up learning a lot about writing, drawing, painting, etc because of that and this advice is a PERFECT example! It's easy to get trapped in formulas and habits, and forgetting what's so amazing about your expression of choice— the thing that you loved in the first place🙌✌️

[jameswingert]

Hi. My name is Zork. I just started water coloring. Thanks for helping me. I support Galactic Arts Education!

[janscott]

Grand advice. Look at what is there, not what your brain knows to be there and too often fills in what isn't there.

[agu]

Great advice. When I was a child I liked to play that game and I remember watching the tv off like I had never seen it before, ..it was so funny.After years, I still do it..😊 and it fascinates me!

[JoAnneSmith-diok]

Great advice. When I was in High School in the 70's. 1974-1977. The first thing my drawing teacher taught me was "to draw what I see.". This advice has never let me down. I am glad that old advice stands the test of time. Thank you for reminding me.

[joannephillips]

Great advice! I especially like the idea of drawing what you see not what you think you see. Something I struggle with all the time. Thank you for sharing what you have learned. It truly helps me to be a better artist.

[buddhabro.]

I am so glad you spoke on this subject today. I've been thinking recently about the way small children draw with an open creative mind, a freedom most of us lose when we get a little older and the world tells us what's what. That person is still in us, if we could tap into that again as grown-up think, how awesome would that be? There's a term in Zen Buddhism: "The Beginners Mind". The teaching is that Knowledge and understating are two different things. Knowledge without understanding can be a block to learning. The trick is to move away from the preconceived views and notions we have about the world and approach everything with a beginner's mind. Think like an alien! 😊🙏

[UNCLEBOB]

Definitely NOT clickbait!
Thanks so much for this insightful advice.

[giantorangerecords]

That was great advice, thank you! When I painted more in younger days I noticed how landscapes had so many colors I wasn't expecting, and it was good to mix up a landscape painting with bits of colors from all around the painting. Gosh, this makes me want to pick up the brush! Painting is such a great way to get lost in time.

[TracieT-dcvv]

Fabulous advice! I realized something very powerful about myself while watching this, to let color and shapes guide me more than details. I intend to practice this in my paintings more, thank you!

[yuleassagai]

Great advice. That's exactly how I started thinking after a few drawings. Shadows and light !

[InkNSap]

Just thinking how lucky is to have a mom artist and art teacher. I keep scavenging books and the internet for art knowledge, art courses are so expensive. I even thought about doing a A level thinking it would be affordable but it isn’t.