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As a visual learner, what are some good resources (channels, videos, courses, whatever) with timelapses that show every step of the process?
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>>7909207
>"As a visual learner"
Get away from this idea that pictures are visual so there's no need to read. Im not crabbing here, at some point you're going to have to read, and if you don't, then learning to draw will take 10 times longer. Videos can be helpful, but if you're not reading, you're not putting in the basic level of effort required to learn this shit.

The worst thing is that the reading in most art manuals is very limited, maximum 100-150 words a page.

With that said, I'll throw the Morpho BOOKS in for figure drawing.
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>>7909209
>With that said, I'll throw the Morpho BOOKS in for figure drawing.
I guess I was thinking a timelaps of the entire drawing, from the basic sketch to coloring and shading, just so that I can have an idea of what drawing entails and how every part of the process is layered on top of each other from the very start.
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>>7909212
timelapse*
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you can find shitloads of timelapses just by searching on youtube, for anything.
>how to draw thing
and you'll find timelapses. many artists also post timelapses on their social media.

pro tip: you're not gonna learn much from that unless if you've already got most of the basics down well and you're looking for something specific like how to render/color digitally or for tricks/refinements you can apply to your process.

reading is important if you want to actually git gud as first post said, especially from master artists & good instructors like Loomis.
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>>7909209
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Adding to what both Anons said, professional artists who have been working at their craft as long as we have been alive have a confidence and flexibility built on years of experience. Watching a timelapse of a great piece of art won't teach you much because the fundamentals upon which the process you're watching is built are not apparent. You need to start with more abstract things and work your way toward a more fluid approach. For example, if you don't see a professional artist using boxes or measuring proportions in segments in a timelapse, that doesn't mean he isn't aware or doesn't apply that knowledge; he's just absorbed it to such a degree that he doesn't need to lay it down because it comes naturally to him. It's sort of like how we wobble the first time we use a bicycle or how uncomfortable and stiff dancing can feel for a first-timer.
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>>7909207
Cognitive Drawing by Brubaker. It's probably the most valuable visual method of self-learning art you can get your hands on, especially as a beginner. Fantastic book.

>draw from memory
>draw while using a reference (look at the subject as you draw)
>hide the ref, draw from memory
>draw while using a reference
>repeat

Use it in conjunction with Iterative Drawing (quickly draw something from memory 10-20 times from different angles) and the Shrimp Method (trace and break down references). Study using blind contours, gesture studies, and the Envelope Method.
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>>7909207
>visual learner
>that show every step of the process

go to some physical workshop that has people looking at your work
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>>7909209
>visual medium
>you have to read to learn
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>>7909209
With the exception of perspective and maybe practice theory, books are a crux of actual learning in regards to art.
I'm not even trolling, the time spent reading is better spent actually drawing. It's why literal fucking children can make so much progress without ever needing some master's lecture.

In the time someone spends not only watching but writing notes to try to replicate Erik Olsen's course, they could have simply watched a one minute twitter clip of how boxes rotate in 3 point perspective and drew backgrounds with a simple understanding of basic perspective, and have made far more progress than some retard meticulously trying to measure the correct perspective of a fucking rotating staircase.
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>>7909207
are you a complete beginner? focus on drawing accurate shapes. don't watch videos
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>>7914655
Art is mostly knowledge, knowledge put in practice with intent during the creation of a work of art.
If you don't know this, I'm sorry to inform you that you're a beg.
Now go read
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>>7909207
Even if they were spoon fed to you, you would not understand them. You must take the journey to understand what you are looking at. If there were shortcuts, we'd all use them.

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