How I define good drawing skill

I talk about what I think makes good draftsmanship skills for drawing.

00:00 INTRO
01:48 3 Components to good Draftsmanship
02:02 Technical
03:18 Design
05:07 Observation
06:36 Other Skills/Factors that make great draftsmanship
07:49 Final Thoughts

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[riproora]

We all suck. Just keep drawing and you will gain experience to unsuck. Powerful message my man.

[bananabike]

I've been figuring out for almost a year what draftsmanship is, but no one could give me a clear answer...
THANK YOU for making this video and solving the mystery!!

[anzolomyer]

Great video. I like the closer, lol--"You suck." Yeah, drawing is really hard.

What helps me focus my intentions is a mind game of sorts. I imagine walking around through the library and all of a sudden hearing, "Holy shit! That guy can really draw. It's insane." And then I imagine walking up to that person and what their art would look like. For whatever reason, to me, it's quick, dynamic cartoon figures with lots of energetic and funny poses. None of them are rendered or really shaded at all, but they have very expressive silhouettes, and the same figure is turned around in all sorts of different perspectives. So then I work on doing more of that, lol.

[Tacospaceman]

I’ve been dreaming about stories I want to make with animation. But making a big project alone is hard. I have a story idea, I have a script. I can’t draw characters, or animate, but I hope this helps lol, listing the anatomy color theory and interesting things like that and how it has to make sense.... I’m excited to learn. Thanks toniko

Clarity is a good point. And the free handing is insanely difficult lol.

[johnnylamonte]

Funny how you say observations should be trained first. As a beginner artist who mainly wants to have fun first and make drawing a habit, I was thinking of just collecting art and reference I like for a drawing, draw that to get a feel, then draw said idea and repeat. Feels like a fun way to start drawing at least.

[madjidchouarbi]

What draftmanship is to me is Toniko Pantoja. Really an amazing artist and teacher.

[BBWahoo]

I'm just binging your entire video library, lots of crucial, honestly fantastic advice.

[joelmayerprods]

Video Idea: I talked to quite a few industry people, listened to countless interviews, etc. and the point of views differ greatly but here we go: next to life-drawing one knee-jerk answer to anyone starting to draw is "ANATOMY!" . But... how much anatomy do people really know? I feel this really depends on who you ask. Do you know every individual muscle or simply the bigger shapes, as illustrated in many simplified charts you'll find on the internet. An "Anatomy for the working Animator" quick tips guid would be awesome! (meaning muscles, since you already excellently covered the skeleton :) ) OR "How much anatomy i actually know" would be quite helpful as well :D

[Henbot]

Honestly more into Stanchfield technique TBH. Also, would love to be able to do 3D clothing simulation on top of 2D animation and textures to be more easy to use in animation programs

[SenseiTeachingOfficial]

Great video man, love your work. Wishing your channel will exponentially grow, you deserve exposure!

[mysteriouswolven]

"anyway that's all I wanna talk about, bye, you suck." Best outro ever. <3

[jammygoldfish]

Thank you for this video, it added some guidance to my journey in drawing!!

[Manganization]

Thank you for this video. I mean, really, THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO!
I really needed this.

[whisper-wave-]

omg is that schmendrick from the last unicorn? thanks for the great video btw :)

[aredpnd]

"Bye!~
You suck."
I like this as an outro. XD

[kamranmostoufi]

00:45 I never noticed the Star Wars poster to the bottom right and also prob just me but I thought the middle one was Bo Katan. I think draftsmanship can take on helpful and unique definitions but yeah if no one was actually defining it for THEMSELVES before they do for others anymore, then it does suck as provisional advice.

To me I’d pin it down to having the ability to create the ideas or foundations of a drawing through the expression of your line work. Like the space that undoubtedly might be apart of an illustration for a spaceport scene in a manga or other media is something I would regard as a fundamentally founding idea for something like your drawing, or, in this case, your illustration. Even down to your ideas for a mass you are talking about, obviously one might figure draftsmanship is a tool for these.

I don’t care so much as making sure that I want to cut something in half, but if I see it is clearly some kind of piece of wood, I’ll know I’ll likely need some kind of tool like a saw; I’m worried about not having the tool for my ideas and draftsmanship is that kit of tools for achieving my ideas in the fashion I imagine. I can cut triangles out of it or make halves. I want to feel I have everything I need cause in my opinion it’s dangerous when you cannot pin those “there’s gotta be something for this” feelings, it always makes me feel I am not using a tool for something I am doing and it clearly could have one.

Toniko you covered this very well for me actually and I feel I am struggling to still balance out the idea behind all the technical application. I do sometimes get wrapped up on the problems and technicalities on purpose and later I’ll see these huge benefits when I thought I was hampering myself. I put it all to use and create an idea and I’m like oh crap, sometimes I forget why I was doing all those lessons or activities but then it shows. I will keep that more in mind “what is at the core of this, what are the values of doing this” next time I set out to do a long task or even creative thing. Identifying that is what I will improve because that makes my direction more clear and that’s strong and important to me. Thank you Toniko this has been a golden experience for me…also you suck I suck he sucks but eventually we’ll all…still suck but less

[DarthBiomech]

Oh, so it's like "practice more" "advice"? (PROTIP: keep drawing to get better at drawing! Amazing secrets from industry professionals!)

[inyuji]

Thanks for reminding us that we all suck in our own unique way hahaha

[yovidal]

that last character make me remember to schmendrick the magician

[ovaettr]

Awesome video. Thanks for your insight!