The FASTEST Way to Learn to Draw Color & Light

In this video, I walk you through how I practiced color and light with 3 levels of experience to systemize your learning. This method helped me improve my skills incredibly fast, so I though it might help if I shared it with you. I hope it did!
As always, I'm happy to hear your feedback or any suggestions.

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Tools:
Software: Clip Studio Paint
Mic: Fifine Ml6

Music by Louie Zong

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:41 Your Goals
01:45 Simple Color Studies
06:50 Recoloring Existing Art
08:15 Brushwork & Breaking the Rules
10:02 Conclusion

Thanks for watching

[sariyaart]

What are some art things you struggle with that you'd like me to make a video about?

[chwcreate]

Brushwork is the area I'm most fascinated by, because when I look at some of my favourite artists' work, I often think, "They must just know exactly which colour, shape, and shade goes where in a single stroke, " if that makes sense. My artworks still turn out a little too smooth for my liking, but this video helped me realize that it's probably because I'm still learning colour and light and need to continue focusing there ~

[iwtsmgfwahs]

I love that you talk like a peer sharing what he knows instead of a teacher, really warmed my heart

[RallyTheTally]

The biggest thing to me is drawing and painting outside. Go touch grass really does work for a lot of things.

[-danin._omera_.hasan-]

BRO YOU LEGIT READ MY MIND I- omg this was so useful. Now I just need to somehow master anatomy ... chocolate fudge brownies dang it. Hella helpful tutorial tho plus the rendering in your art is just *chef's kisses*

[reybarber]

It’s awesome to see your practice and It’s super awesome to hear it described instead of just a finished piece of art. Love this

[x]

One advice. Don't pick the color from picture directly, use your eyes to pick. The most important thing in color practice is not how accurate you pick the "right" color, but how you achieve the overall feeling of the reference photo or painting, and some time even exaggerates it a little bit.

[feeame]

your videos are one of the few art videos that are actually helpful and easy to understand thank you so muchhh

[omedha.]

Props to you, really well structured video nice vibe with good examples and actually helpful, love the red font on the brown tone!
From all the subjects, Color and light is the most daunting and most uncomfortable subject for me, this reminded me that there is a long way to go but there is a way to tackle it and break it down! The second exercise where you take a color setting and apply it to another drawing is so clever imma definitly use that. Keep doing your thing, gonna look forward for future videos :)

[MossyDroid]

This was genuinely such a helpful video, thank you !!

[valery]

Thank you so much! I've been struggling a lot with colour and light recently, thank you for making this video 💖

[SinOfAugust]

Highly functional, practical, no-nonsense advice. Superb video!

[indygo_art]

I just found your channel, and I'm impressed by the quality of your work and how sufficient your painting process is. Also, great advice. Keep it up <3.

[PhurboTisto]

Wow Sariyaart, quite an exquisite video in my opinion. I don't know how to explain this but this one really struck an instense emotion deep in my heart. I didn't think it was possible but this, coincidentally, was the exact video I was looking for, which is the exact reason my mom entered my room after hearing me cry. We thank you very much for your wisdom and information

Edit: I do have to criticize you for one thing however. As a consequence of your soothing ASMR voice I accidentally fell asleep while watching and had to watch the video twice.

[armand.blanchet]

God bless you, thanks for these clear studies process

[thesetwofloofs]

I tend to make notes on videos such as this, so if anyone wants to steal my notes, here they are;

- To be as effective and efficient as possible, studies should have a goal. However, you may improve at other things. For example, someone with the goal of drawing solid backgrounds may improve color intuition and brushstroke fluidity alongside that.
- The first exercise is the simple color study. Choose a reference with an interesting light source and try to draw the essence of the light by copying with intention.
- Recommended to use references with a variety of subjects, such as people, backgrounds, items, others’ work, etc.
- Limitations assist greatly in this first exercise. For example, you want to improve at sight-reading colors, do not color pick from the reference, which will force thinking and learning about the color and light instead of mindless color picking. One strategy to avoid color picking is choosing a color and comparing to the reference without color picking.
- You can change these limitations if it serves your improvement better.
- For this exercise, try daily studies. These pieces can be quite rough and not very detailed; capturing the essence of what you wish to learn is more important.
- The second exercise will test your skill once you have done several of these color and light studies. This exercise consists of getting isolated line art and a separate reference for the lighting, then attempting to apply the lighting to the line art.
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Finally, even if you have good light and color knowledge, brushwork is very important to create appealing paintings. Brushwork can make the difference between a good painting and a great one.
- ‘Breaking the rules’ of light, once you know them, can create an appealing style. When lighting does not exactly mirror what you’d see in real life, it can create something beautiful.

Great video! I think it will really help how I approach light and color going forwards.

[erinnicole]

thank you bro. I usually never comment but this video is great and I really appreciate your honesty.

[MGOsketches]

Thank you for this video, it was very useful!

[HybridBeastsAI]

Great video, everyone can learn something, both beginners and artists who have been creating for some time :)

[MabukzArts]

OMG This video couldn't have been better timed to show up on my feed!! I am in a hurdle right now :(