Airi Pan 53-54 Industry and more part
53 Lesson 9 - Industry and More Part 1 - Final Application - One! Giant!!
P53 - 00:01
I'm like getting emotional. We've been through so much together. You're at episode nine, like you went on this life long journey. And all of these lessons so far you're used to having the recap being at the end of the episode. But we're shaking things up and putting the recap at the beginning of this episode.
P53 - 00:27本章节我们提前进行复盘。
This is a very special kind of lesson and module, one that isn't going to be targeted at the canvas, but rather at your mind with modern medicine. We know that we can't just have a healthy body, but our mental health is also incredibly important. And they are intertwined very heavily.
P53 - 00:48身心健康都是非常重要的。
If your body isn't healthy, your mental health will deteriorate, and vice versa. Similar to art, I can teach you all of these things. But if your mind isn't taking it in, or if you don't have the proper mindset, none of this stuff will stick, which is the same as me never teaching you at all.
P53 - 01:08如果心态不健康，无法吸收知识。
When I was in high school, I was selected to be a translator for an international watercolor exhibition where I met some of the world's best and most famous watercolor artists,
P53 - 01:19遇见过水彩画的艺术家。
such as Stanislaw Zolandz, Joseph Zbukvic, and Alvaro Castagnet as well as LiuYi. I watched their demo religiously and I was literally translating for their demos.
P53 - 01:33虔诚的看演示，并且翻译。
So I was able to hear their process first hand. But as much as I watched and as much as I wanted it to stick into my head, I just felt like when I went to my own canvas, I just couldn't do the same things that they did.
P53 - 01:44但是我就是做不到模仿艺术家。
And I'm sure that you felt that way before seeing someone incredible, do something in front of you. And then you go off and try the same and feeling like you just can't do it.
P53 - 01:56你尝试同样的事情发现做不了。
This is what this lesson is for, from all the time that I went through different teachers, I always appreciated it above all else. When teachers not only taught me how to do something. but how to integrate it in. What is the best mindset for furthering my improvement?
P53 - 02:14强调心态如何更好的推进。
Let's call it artistic mental health. Ok. This is going to be a super chill module where we just have a heart to heart chat.
P53 - 02:23心与心的聊天。
First of all, though, we need to go over everything that we've learned so far. Cause oh boy, we went through so much probably to the point that some of the stuff is already falling out of your brain. It due to Information overload.
P53 - 02:37信息量过载。
So let's put them back into your brain jar. All right, here the recap.
P53 - 02:41开始复盘吧。
number zero. This entire course is about the foolproof painting method, because it is infinitely more difficult to cook something. If you don't have a recipe.
P53 - 02:54如果没有菜谱，很难去烹饪什么。
So if you have a recipe for something like painting, then effectively you'll be able to paint something each and every time That is an absolute bigger.
P53 - 03:03有效的做一次，还愿意做下一次。
And once you're comfortable with each of these steps, you can change In any way that you would like. I am simply here to provide you a process, and it is up to you to take it and turn it into your very own.
P53 - 03:15变成你自己的东西。
So the first steps that process is black and white. Our values, if we are making a concept art pizza, the black and white is our dough,
P53 - 03:26黑白阈值就是面团。
It is absolutely paramount that we can discern things apart our piece. If they are turned into black and white. Our human eyes are evolved and instinctively gravitate to things that are darker and lighter, not necessarily coloured, because we perceive depth, using black and white far better than we do with color.
P53 - 03:41通过黑白来分辨远近的。
It's in our biology. So we need to make sure in our pieces we have a good breakdown of different values, preferably in the three main colors, a black a grey and white.
P53 - 03:52黑白灰三色。
Now the two different ways to differentiate these values would be through Notan and Chiaroscuro, Notan being the local value of something like a white jacket or a dark pair of pants or as Chiaroscuro, is the shadow of something such as light. Casting across the face.
P53 - 04:09N光影按部位C光影非部位。
This isn't to say that every single piece in the world is to follow these two values of either Notan and Chiaroscuro. But we need to be aware of what is causing the biggest value differences in our piece and allow this to make us more sensitive to changes in values.
P53 - 04:21允许我们对阈值变化更加敏感。
Afterwards, step number two is the composition. in our concept art pizza. composition is still considered to be our dough.
P53 - 04:35艺术概念合成是面团。
The foundation, the main purpose of compositions to help us convey an immediate feeling in our piece, helping us tell our story, serves as a skeletal structure that we put everything else on Top of.
P53 - 04:46黑白灰阈值是打底的基础。
whether it's a very dramatic composition or a simple one. Different compositions can color our experience with a piece of drastically. We started by learning the different aspect ratios that we can this can be and know that the aspect ratios have a very rich history of how they came to be.
P53 - 05:02横宽比演变的历史。
Then we divide the inside of our piece with the lines is exactly through the canvas and fractions like 20 30 10 90 28 and so forth.
P53 - 05:12三分二八分一九分比例。
We explore the golden rule of thirds. And how is probably the most foolproof way of putting anything that we like onto the canvas and then get even deeper, by looking at all those fractions which are ultimately there to serve some different composition stereotypes such as the arrival shot, the close up, the hiding from spying on and so forth.
P53 - 05:33抵达 特写 窥视的镜头。
And now my personal favorite part of the pizza, the sauce, or I'm sorry, the colors, we lightly go over some terminology. But honestly, to truly foolproof our colors, we need to look at how color is actually used, which is going to be in tandem with light, which is literally the source of all colors physically.
P53 - 05:54颜色如何和光源相互影响有作用。
Thus to understand color, we need to find our different sources of light. And there are really only two, the sun and the artificial light. We go over all the different times of day, from dusk to dawn and rain sunshine, each having their own special attribute.
P53 - 06:10黄昏 黎明 雨天不同的阴影。
The second source of light is artificial light, whether it's fire or if it's a man made lamp. One key thing to note, however, is that artificial light is almost always going to have a radius like effect where it gets weaker. The further you move out. Whereas sunlight is usually all powerful invades everything.
P53 - 06:28人造光源近处强远处明显。
But how do we actually implement that into our paintings? Simple really. all we do is look at colors from real life. No more we're having to memorize what works for this or what works for that. Whether I use this color or use that color, just take a photograph and I drop your colors. It's that easy. You can't really steal nature's colour palette. That's just not possible.
P53 - 06:50用正午 夕阳 夜间的色彩。
So I demonstrated how by using multiply layers, almost like a filter, we can turn a neutral colored painting into just about any color we would like.
P53 - 07:00自然光可以转化到各种颜色。
this way. If your art director wants something different, we can give it to them instantly.
P53 - 07:09按照艺术总监的要求改写。
Now we're going to start putting all that together. And in our concept art pizza, this would start to become our toppings. Our first topping is the visual development piece, a standard painting that we would turn in for just about anything we really need within the industry.
P53 - 07:21视觉化图片打印出来。
Nothing fancy, just pure painting. But the main point of me putting the visual development piece here, is the practice combining the previous lessons.
P53 - 07:30训练结合之前的课程。
First we establish a clear black and white value distinction in our piece. Then we consider the composition. And for my piece here it was an arrival shot. And I placed my character in the intersection of the golden rule.
P53 - 07:44抵达场景，黄金分割线。
I even go over a little bit of character design. next week we colour everything flat. And by looking at some reference images, we color our piece. None of this was stuff that I just pulled out of a hat like a magic rabbit. We went through each of these stages one by one. And if you go through these stages and steps, your piece is going to be an absolute a bigger as well.
P53 - 08:06一步步走下来不菲的工程。
So by now it's really just a rinse and repeat of those steps, black and white values, composition and color and lighting. Everything else is about execution. And one of the most high fidelity executions out there is the photo bash technique.
P53 - 08:25照片拼图是高保真度的。
It is now a staple of the concept art industry. So if anyone ever hopes on you for using this technique, they clearly don't know what the current meta or standard is. It's their loss, with improving technology. We artists need to keep up to or else we will be the artistic equivalent of my space and nobody wants to be my space.
P53 - 08:47偏见证明无知。
Our photo bashing lesson is split into two courses because technique is always a little bit more difficult to teach them concepts. Put it simply, though, we take out different parts and aspects of photographs and then stitch them together into one cohesive image that I coined as the photo search.
P53 - 09:02无缝连接到新的图片。
Then we lighted the overall piece and using the same method we learned in module three on color. We can filter the peaceful and cohesive and also inject any color that we would like.
P53 - 09:14可以涂抹上我喜欢的颜色。
My first birds demo was to show you the techniques of photo bashing. But in the moment, red riding hood a piece, we now combine all of the previous lessons. Now, first, as always, a strong black and white value difference needs to be established early.
P53 - 09:27还是最早创建黑白图。
Don't forget. Typically things that are closer to us are darker and things further away are usually lighter.
P53 - 09:34近处的偏暗，远处的偏淡。
Feel Free to really exaggerate this in your piece, because honestly, I don't think it's exaggerated enough in a lot of paintings. At the same time, we're establishing composition and placing our main subjects like little red and our house on the intersections of the golden grid rule of thirds.
P53 - 09:53角色放在三分线的位置上。
We actually then need a separate module just to discuss how to add colour on to our piece.
P53 - 10:02如何把颜色加入到作品上。
And our demonstrator three different lighting scenarios, including one with artificial light at night. Notice that each time I had a solid reference with me. And one of my references was a film, a screen shot, to really imitate the feeling of the movie, that covers my color and lighting.
P53 - 10:21模拟影视的光源。
Because I had a strong neutral base of my original photos dish, which has good luck and good values and a work in composition. I was able to add any color I wanted on Top of it.
P53 - 10:29各种颜色加入到中性光源中。
Just like if you had multiple pizza dough and you spread different sauce on each. A good thing to note is also that the focal point of your composition should usually have the highest point of contrast, which is why I was able to shift away from my main focal point from my little red to my house instead,
P53 - 10:51光影对比，小红帽焦点移到房子。
at the night time piece, because the interior lights made it the brightest thing on the entire page.
P53 - 10:55夜间，屋内灯光点亮环境。
Now, once we finished all the photo bashing, when you combine both photo bashing and painting together into a piece that utilizes a bit of both, this is also where I introduce perspective and interiors. Because how can I call it foolproof? If we don't go over how to draw stuff, that's man made.
P53 - 11:19绘制视角线，照片绘制结合起来。
for me, I never learned perspective well, trying to draw cubes in space, but I did understand it. The simple rule that stuff you draw in stitch in need to adhere to the perspective grid. It's just easy as that. So I began by taking my own photographs and just placing grids on Top of them to start off my piece.
P53 - 11:40自己拍照片提炼视角线。
And the rest is history, photo bashing and a strong base and painting on Top to finish it off. This is the part where I would encourage for you to try all kinds of different methods. I simply demo to one way.
P53 - 11:53鼓励尝试不同的方案。
But now that you have the knowledge of knowing how to photo bash, you can utilize it in any way that you would like. That being said, these are instructions for after you complete the homework. Because in the homework, I still asked you to follow the steps pretty closely, because i'd like for you to at least get comfortable with using both. But after you get the hang of it, explore a way.
P53 - 12:14探索全新的方式。
And lastly, to take it to the final tier, we are speed painting, where we are literally taking every single and I mean every single piece that we learned so far and mashed together to create a painting within one to three hours.
P53 - 12:36一到三小时完成速写。
Whether that's humans or vertical painting or exterior or nature, or magic or real life, we've basically covered it all.
P53 - 12:44内景外景装潢都涉猎到。
Speed paintings are a form of painting that only get better with the overall improvement of your standard paintings,
P53 - 12:53速写改写整个水平。
or at least in my opinion, and is the most instinctual of all the painting methods that we've covered so far. If I had to compare it to a pizza, it's like your speed making pizzas and just throwing whatever toppings you think might taste good together. But you're just making them quickly one after the other. I also lightly go over my brushes.
P53 - 13:15速写的同时用笔刷。
And even during my demos, I shout out what brushes I'm using for each specific portion. However, the reason I waited until now to explain brushes is because I don't want you to focus on something this minute and meticulous until you've had experience. It can fully grasp the bigger picture of values, colours and compositions. Basically the big guns. Oh, my god!
P53 - 13:38阈值颜色合成，之后才是刷子。
Okay, we aren't done. Holy cow! That was so much! I think my tongue grew like ads. I bet I can lift weights now. But that is the full proof of concept painting recipes. Black and white values with a good composition. And colors are taken from real life. That's all you need to inject.
P53 - 14:08黑白阈值对比，源自生活的绘制。
However, everyone's versions of these paintings will look different. And yours will certainly look different from mine. I've shoved a lot of Information at you. So what you need above all else is a moment to process it.
P53 - 14:25你也需要自己走一遍过程。
So here take a seat next to me. Probably already sitting. Or maybe you're using a standing desk, I don't know. But either way, let's just chill out and talk to each other for a moment here on probably the most important thing of all above all of us, which is your mindset.
P53 - 14:47重点还是心态。
54 Lesson 9 - Industry and More Part 2 - A Foolproof Mindset
P54 - 00:02
if you presented it to equal human beings are essentially clones, I guess, and asked them to learn, oh, say I don't know shoemaking and gave them and gave them all the same equipment and opportunities. And even though these guys are supposed to be clones, if one of them has a healthier and stronger mindset, they are no doubt going to be the ones to learn the skill and trade faster and better.
P54 - 00:28不质疑自己的话，技术会有突破。
What is the point of all of this Information? If it's never acted on? at the end of the day, we can learn and gather Information, especially in an age where Information is just so abundant.
P54 - 00:39在技术如此丰富的年代。
So now one of the biggest obstacles to our growth and improvement is ourselves.
P54 - 00:45最大的障碍是我们自己。
It's very possible that during this course, and I'm sure it's happened because it happens to all of us artists that you felt frustrated before, because you saw someone do something in front of you.
P54 - 00:55你看见某些人在你面前做一些事。
But you yourself could not do the exact same thing or you've seen a piece of art so good that it doesn't even inspired you, but rather it crushes your soul because you feel like you could never get there.
P54 - 01:08不能触碰灵魂不打动的无法模仿。
This is definitely happened to me multiple times throughout my own artistic journey. So if you you have been feeling frustrated during this course at times? Please know this. This course so far has been eight modules, each varying around an hour or so in length. Essentially, you've been taught the entirety of painting all of it in like an eight hours with around a week or so of practice in between. Even the most amazing and talented person won't be able to up their game from a zero to a 100 in that amount of time, especially for something like art, where improvement is gradual and it's a slow process.
P54 - 01:49技术的进步是个循序渐进的过程。
I am convinced, however, that if you compare your work from before taking this class to after taking this class, assuming you've been doing the assignment and practicing consistently that you should see an improvement.
P54 - 02:01持续不断的训练就会提升。
No matter what. But for us to be able to draw like the next John singer sergeant, that's going to take a little bit of time. And that is all part of the foolproof journey.
P54 - 02:11无懈可击的技术需要训练的。
So never beat yourself up for not being able to show results like instantly.
P54 - 02:16如果没有立竿见影别逼迫自己。
Our craft is something that we can really only see the difference after a year or two in retrospect.
P54 - 02:23回顾一两年的不同。
However, the only way that we can do that is if we continue to keep tackling at it and keep at it. Okay?
P54 - 02:30不断的精炼技能处理问题。
As embarrassing as this is, I'm gonna go out on a limb and show you some of the stuff that I did in middle school.
P54 - 02:37给你看下我在中学时候的作品。
Okay, brace yourself. Oh, god, it hurts to look at this stuff that I was doing back when I was probably around 10-11 years old. And all I really wanted to draw back then was pokemon and anime girls. And that was it. There is a very clear, distinct divide from how I was drawing back then to what I'm drawing now. back to when I was in middle school, the hottest thing trying to draw amongst everyone was like the cutest anime girl. And so my dream was to draw the cutest anime girl out there.
P54 - 03:09当时就是绘制漂亮女孩。
I was looking at this old stuff and going like, oh god, it's awful. But my point is that all of us started somewhere. Eventually I started to realize that if I wanted to work as an artist in the industry, unfortunately there aren't that many jobs out there just yet. For people who exclusively draw cute and bubbly animated characters.
P54 - 03:29然后绘制动画作品。
And I was going to need to learn how to draw other stuff. So when I was in high school, I gradually started to incorporate more and more environments into my skillset.
P54 - 03:39此后把环境加入进来。
I remember these pieces took media so so long and even a single rock was like the hardest thing to draw for me in the history of ever.
P54 - 03:51甚至石块对我而言都是难的挑战。
And just drawing a single tree was like what in the world am I doing? But I practiced and I kept going and I didn't give up. I pushed myself outside my comfort zone. Bit by bit, I didn't start drawing like amazing castles in the sky. Like just out of nowhere. I started from a single place, drawing a character.
P54 - 04:11一点点开始训练的，比如角色。
And then I slowly added some backgrounds. And then I crept a little bit more and more and more and more outside and eventually start to do things with perspective,
P54 - 04:19绘制外部场景，然后才是视角。
things with high angles, low angles. And gradually I increased my visual library.
P54 - 04:27高低视角构建的视觉库。
I learned everything I taught you here in the span of multiple years. You could even say that i've condensed eight years of what I learned down into eight hours.
P54 - 04:39八年学到的浓缩在八小时内。
Some of the stuff that i've mentioned in this course are things that I only learned myself a year or two ago or come to fully understand and realize maybe only two months ago. So even if there are aspects in this video on course that simply didn't click with you or you feel that you're not at that level yet to fully understand it, it's okay. Everyone's journey is different. But you now have access to the recipe. And on your screen, I have given you the blueprint ready for you whenever.
P54 - 05:07有技能训练清单等你心态准备好。
that's the best part of all of this being recorded, because you can come back to these videos over and over and over and over. And I will always be here happy to explain it for you as many times as you'd like until you understand it properly and feel confident to say that you've truly mastered the course.
P54 - 05:26直到自信到你掌握了课程。
That is the full proof mindset, the acceptance that improvement is something a gradual and not something that we can instantly rush, and thus having the perseverance and motivation to move on and keep striving for greatness.
P54 - 05:42毅力和动力，雷打不动训练。
I myself am on a constant journey to improvement each time. I think i've reached the peak of the mountain, I can see one in the distance that is even bigger. There are so many exciting things from polishing my own painting skills to things like 3D or bookmaking that I know what make my current paintings in work I do even better because of this. I will never be bored or run out of things to try and improve on.
P54 - 06:06总是看到前面的差距，锲而不舍。
I hope that a few years later I look back at my art in this course and say, yeah, WOW, I know a much better way to do that now. So you're not alone, we’re on this journey together. A symphony is not about the ending. It's an experience from the start to the finish, an experience that we will always be on.
P54 - 06:26进步本身就是旅途。
And it's up to you to decide how you'd like that experience to be.
