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

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!

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!

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.

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

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

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🙌✌️

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

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. ❤

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.

Great advice! This reminds me of the book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, by Betty Edwards.

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.

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.

😅👏 this is really a funny but fantastic way to explain "how to see" , it took me "blood, sweat and tears" as we say in a matter of speaking during my study at artschool before I really got it but once you know you finally "see" , I really enjoyed this video !

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.

Absolutely the Best Advice for Artist and the most important Advice for new Artist. Thank you for sharing 🤗

I tried pretending to be an alien, and the little watercolor I did was much better than any of the other ones I did before. Thank you!

Getting deeper into seeing, It's not the small details that are attracting you to paint. Rather it's the shapes. Start with painting the largest shapes with a toned down version of the color you see. Then the next size smaller shapes within the larger shapes and next smaller and next smaller. Never put in the darkest or brightest values at first. Paint them toned down or you will get lost and confused. Bring it to life gradually. Too much contrast will cause you not to first get your shapes right. The most mundane basic shapes need to stand alone as art before anything else. That is your base for the entire work.

I love this way of looking! This is so helpful, thank you!

I’m a hand quilter so that’s my art form, but the art I collect is mostly watercolors, Qing dynasty paintings on silk, Qing dynasty embroideries and crank badges, vintage and antique American watercolors, and I even have a Russian oil painting. I buy what I like and in quilts, I make what I like since I know how to make my own patterns and I have good color sense.

« From an advanced planet that supports the arts »😂 one can always dream!