Top 5 Drawing mistakes Beginners make

Here are the Top 5 BEGINNER art mistakes that I've seen from artists on twitter and other social media, or in my discord. If you make mistakes, don't let it discourage you! Your life as an artist will be ALWAYS to improve and not let your frustrations stop you from achieving your bigger creative goals. Good luck to everyone out there chasing your dreams!

Games I've worked on -
Fortnite (Environment concept art)
Overwatch (Environment concept art + Sprays artwork)
League of Legends (Character design + Environment concept art, UI + Icons)
Diablo 3 (Character design + Environment concept art)
Hearthstone (Illustration)
Burning Crusade(Character design + Environment concept art)
Wrath of the Lich King (Character design + Environment concept art)
Indivisible (Environment concept art)
Final Fight Streetwise (Voice Acting + Character Design + World Design + Cutscene Direction + Co writer on script)
He Man GBA (Pixel Art)
Terminator 3 GBA (Art Direction + Pixel Art)
CannonBallers (Character + World design)
Ikeda: The Scrap Hunter (Programming + Art + Design)
Goblins and Gnomes (Concept Art)

Books available-
CreeD Re:Imaginary (2021) - 2 part Comic series
Twilight Monk - Return of the Ancients (2021) - Illustrated Novel
Twilight Monk Secrets of Kung Fulio (2020) - Illustrated Novel
Escape from Giants Crown (2019) - Illustrated Novella
World Of Twilight Monk Vol 1 (2019) Art Book
The Man and the Moonken (2019) - Illustrated Novella
The Beast of Tuksa (2018) - Illustrated Novella
Twilight Monk (2012) - 2 Graphic Novels
Nova Colony (2009) - 1 Graphic Novel
CreeD (1993-2007) - Comic Book Series
Ghost Rider (2000) - Comic Book Series
The Fuzz (1997) - Comic Book

[TheKenttt]

Watching you draw the rough under drawing is encouraging. You watch people like Kim Jung Gi draw perfectly from memory and it's a punch in the gut.

[zzernathezebra]

The putting my work out there, is something I'm learning to do now. I've always showed friends and family (although, I stopped showing family, because when I openly ask for criticism and critiques. They utterly refused to do anything but praise it.) However, I am learning to get over the anxiety of people I don't know seeing my art, to try and ask for thought, tips, tricks, and critiques.

[brucenunn]

The Best in the Business.!! The Work Shops have Definitely Helped me Over the Years. Heck just the Regular YouTube Videos have so much Value in them.! Long time OG subscriber here.!
Thanks for all that you do Trent.!
👊😎

[mir]

Won’t know if you’ll be reading this. But i want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the free videos you made. Ever since i found your channel for the past two years, i really wanted to be one of the artist working on a game project. It was countless sleepless nights balancing finishing my masters degree and practicing my art skills. I just got hired last week as a junior concept artist and i would have never dreamed to even consider myself to have the skills to be hired in such a competitive field. Im from southeast asia and the current company is designing a game which has some of my culture being its main focus design point. Thank you for the videos and tutorial but most of all in life talks behind the industry. Ive come a long way thanks to these types of videos and being not as wealthy, it was really hard affording any form of professional art courses. I still have to use my crappy ipad for work and i hope you keep uploading these videos. Best regards

[gage]

Much love to you, brother. Some of the best energy out there in the YouTube art community is right in your videos. We appreciate you.

[CreativeSteve]

Hey Trent, thanks for all these great talks over the years. I've been doing the grinding game at my local community college for about 8 years now having fun exploring my interests. I have discovered past 4 years I am enjoying both art and computer science. So I have been having fun non stop learning how to be a GameDev. Defently going to be taking few of your courses to get better. :)

[alitabaker]

Glad I found this artist. Great video!

[BruceCarbonLakeriver]

Trent's channel is always a place for me to get rid of the lack of motivation :)
Thanks Trent! o/

[The_Local_Blacksmith]

Editing is in perfect sync with Trent, as he says "to bridge that gap" while there is an image of a literal bridge spanning a literal gap up on screen (x2).
If that wasn't planned then I'll have to reconsider reality.

[newbreedartistzone]

Relly helpful have some of your courses, good and honest.

[phikaphinorthborneo]

Awww, thank you for the kind words and thank you for making art content.

[ScottWinterbourne]

Love your content Trent. I bought the Easy Art Lessons 1 - 20 box set a little while back. I am on lesson 13 right now. These lessons are amazing. They have really helped me break through the initial barrier I was facing trying to improve my own drawing as a beginner. They are simple, straight forward, and they work.

Focusing on the initial sketch and under drawing first until you nail the composition, pose, and fundamentals is something I was missing. That so far has been my biggest takeaway.

Thanks again for the awesome content.

[AllanGildea]

Superb artistry - and equally superb teaching skills.

[Niko_D]

Trent's workshops are really awesome. Even for 3D artist they have been huge help when texturing. Especially photoshop tips and tricks.

[webbiemow]

needed this video today. needed that pick me up

[xadierz]

Thank you very much man, seriously you helped a lot i started from 0 to 10.

[pixelv]

Hey Trent can you make a vid about how to use silhouette as a foundation

[Smlfan]

Always makes great videos for us to watch

[DuskEalain]

So this reminds me of a, for lack of a better term, student of mine who's dead set on ignoring fundamentals and doing his own thing because he wants to make his own style and doesn't want to "do it like everyone else" and yaddy yaddy yadda. I've repeatedly tried to tell him time and time again to brush up on fundamentals, learn the basics, and then bend those basics into what you want. I go back and brush up my fundamentals whenever I can because I wholeheartedly believe they're something you can _always_ improve upon in some form.

But through it I've found probably the best comparison when it comes to art; trying to make art without knowing at least the basics of the fundamentals, underdrawings/underpaintings, etc. is like trying to make your own macaroni recipe when you don't know how to boil pasta.

[_HanaPanda]

I mean.. I made ALL these mistakes when I was younger, I really wish there was a lot more information around for artists when I was a small fry. but like I was around when dial up internet was a thing, and I remember comparing myself ALOT to more experience artists and thinking “hey.. why can’t I draw like that?” I would ask them for help, and all I got was ‘practice!’ What I really wish they had said was ‘practice anatomy’ or ‘break down the human body into parts’ you know something helpful to younger me instead of ‘oh just practice’ I ended up giving up and coming back to art in my 30’s with now a lot more information about and my mind set is different, I know now what I have to practice, but I regret so much giving up when I was younger due to frustration and just not knowing what to do to get better at art.