hello and welcome to cheap joe's art stuff my name is julie and i'm here to impart some
knowledge to you today via two minute art tip and today's tip is a cautionary tale in abject failure
i actually have made myself a new year's resolution to like
work paint draw do something every single day now we're a few weeks in i can already tell you
i've messed it up like i haven't hit it every day i mean i missed a couple so it's not like terrible
but it's been quite a learning experience already um and i want to share with you
one of the things that i have learned for sure and that is that if you are working on a piece
that has a human form in it um and you have the features or the proportions wrong you're done
you don't need to finish that you don't need to go anywhere else like if you're at a stage where
you can't go back and correct that you're done now and let me show you an epic fail
then i i went through myself it had to come to terms with the fact that this was over now
so i had started this large scale colored pencil i haven't done one of these in a really long time
this one is about maybe 28 inches across so the form is actually pretty big see the sample
shots here one of the things that i have tried to make myself do all the time is deal with the
facial features the most recognizable features first because if you have messed that up there's
really no reason in going on if you can't go back and correct that you're done playing now which is
the the moral of my story here now as you can see i had the face and the form mapped in pretty good
but from the second shot you will also see that this is a male model i don't know who he is or
you know what this is about but the interesting part of this piece was that he has a very very
distinctive tattoo which is what got me because i did all this background work i did all these
layers and all this kind of junk like this and then when i went to convey the tattoo i messed
that up so i had several hours already built in thought i was well on my way to just rocking
this out and you know taking it across the finish line i was wrong it was horribly horribly wrong
you know and the thing is that because that tattoo was as much of a feature of the subject as he was
it can't be wrong it can be all wrong and so and her face was just messed up you know as you can
see right here so the moral of the story is when you have a subject matter that is that specific
especially like the human form you have to execute it well that is why specifically why the human
form has been such an important instructional tool for artists across centuries it's because
you know what a nose or an eye socket should look like or a set of cheekbones and stuff like this
you know that you have a set of your own uh so you know how it reads you know how it feels you know
what it is supposed to look like and yes there are slight variations here and there or big variations
you know for people's individual features but the construction is very very much the same
and if you get that part wrong in the execution it's just over and you're better off to save your
time learn the lesson and go back and start over so that's what i'm going to have to do
but i thought it would be important to share with you a little bit
of that that learning curve right here and hope that you enjoy you
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