The WORST Art Advice I have Ever Heard (you probably hate these too..)

I hate vague art tips that tell you to go after whatever you want to and that's it.
"Just practice" practice what-
"Just draw"

applying to a video game centered art school when asked what I drew and I mentioned I drew in an anime style and drew a lot of characters but wasn't good at backgrounds, and that I wanted to become a character designer

Recruiter: "Well you can't just draw characters all teh time. Why don't you go outside? You could draw... a tree, or maybe a rock!"

Like I was fucking five.

That's when I decided I would never go to art school and hated everything about art school.

A few months later another recruiter called me askin why I didn't go through with my application, and he was appalled as I was, but it still didnn't change my opinion.

And let's not forget the advice called "rule of thirds", the bastardize, make-you-think-art-is-stupid version of the dynamic symmetry and method, and I was lucky I've stumbled upon the latter, as it saved me from quitting painting forever!

Seriously, all I see in those people throwing around those "advices" are insecure rotters fuming with jealousy, so they attempt to control innocently-naive artists.

Fwck society.

The worst trash I've heard is teacher teaching how HE/SHE draws, not give'n information about colour, dynamic, anatomy, perspective. Like: do this like me and its will be right 💀💀💀💀💀

you can learn art rules/fundamentals with anime

Remember my art teacher at regulare school:

-Lila and Pink isnt a color

-real Art is, just what u see in Museum, anime, Comic or that isnt real Art

-i draw wrong, even i try technicks like i learn it from an Artist. It was, after she say, that there cant anything wrong in Art, cause Art is free and we need to go our own way.

She make me so much unsure, that i stop doing it the Way that feels right for Years. Than i know Ytbe and see that so many other Artist make it nearly the same Way i did it before. So try it again and it works better for me then her way.

Definitely a huge loish fan myself. Learning new concepts and just studying for art can feel tedious and exhausting.

I was in an artslump and felt like i wasn't progressing. In hope of getting a good tip I was watching random videos of "professional artists" (can't confirm that) and one advice changed my life

"Draw everyday. Saying you don't have time is a lie. You can always take a sketchbook to the toilet and draw instead of being on your phone"

That day I decided that I won't watch those art improvement videos anymore.

‘ONLY draw humans!”


Nah how bout’ I draw some more dragons?

Everyone"my art teachers did this my art teacher told me this"


Me when i first wanted to draw art"eh I'll just figure it out!




Context"I'm doing much better and watching more tutorials now I've now realized that your art is not perfect in the beginning

I am surprisingly good at drawing feet, I learned by using my foot as reference

I used to not understand teachers that hated the anime style. Now as an artist I understand that it’s because it usually lacks variety or the practice of anatomy. It’s not the style, it’s just that you need to know how to do variety in said style (face shapes, body types, nose shapes, ect.)

P.S. Please please please take breaks and don’t draw for popularity. I got extremely depressed and burnt out for 4 YEARS.

I know this is year old video but I think that there is also one very shitty piece of advice you can give someone

An art tip only applies to a certain level of skill. I'm sorry.
I once saw a person recommend gesture drawings to another person who drew like a literal kindergartener. Not an insult, but, noodle arms, big egg shaped bodies, and shaky linework. And you're here giving them the genius advice to practice gesture drawings. When you draw like that, then recommending gesture drawings is like recommending learning how to do advanced physics maths when you struggle addition maths. I'm sorry but it is how it is. When you draw like that the problem is in the foundation. You gotta learn how to draw from ground up. Learning gesture drawings will be pointless when you don't even know how anatomy works or draw a straight line without it being wobbly

The "don't draw anime tip" is good to a point. I think it is good to venture outside your perfered style of drawing every once and a while, but that doesn't doesn't you should completely stop drawing like that all together.

Lol, I always start from the legs.

when art teachers say stop drawing anime stop drawing cartoons furries or any other art style that isn't realism I kinda get it's important to learn realism before drawing stylized I mean people can still draw whatever they want and still get good at it but the progress you'll get would be a lot slower but them I would agree they haves to elaborate more because people might feel like they are being forbidden from drawing what they like

Dude the one about noses hurts my soul because I LOVE seeing nose diversity, it's such a great way to create different recognizable faces and shapes, if they all have the same nose they tend to look the same

The "draw every day" thing just puts insane amount of pressure on you. There were periods in my life when I was filling page after page daily for weeks and there were times when I couldn't make myself draw anything at all. And I felt extremely guilty of wasting valuable practice time. Now that I am older and I stopped caring how I "should" do things I am so much more free to go in my own pace. :)

"even if you're doing like an anime style learn realism first" no.

Is that Don’t Study or draw things you don’t need I’m not very good but i see myself draw things I know will not use

About the know the rules before your break them tip. I think it works to a certain extent. I had a realism phase where I wanted to draw it because it was something I thought would be cool to do. After I did it for some time I actually developed a new style similar to an anime style. The realism practice helped me come up with ways to stylize movie characters in my anime style and I think it worked out well. It’s not for everyone and I don’t think you need to know realism but it did help me.

I just looked up Kim Jung Gi ...

WOW. Where did he learn from I need to look into that

lol my highschool art teachers art style was basically loomis 2.0, just all chiseled symmetrical white people. he kept trying to push me to draw faces perfectly symmetrical, but real people often aren't symmetrical. he also thought that any artstyle that wasn't 100% realistic/loomis was cartoons or anime. he was a nice dude, but he had SERIOUS sameface syndrome in his work.

also there are times where it's better to shade with black. the most common usage for black shading is for horror art.

Yall have horror stories with your art teachers hating anime style altogether, meanwhile my highschool art teacher was cool with it, heck, even gave me one of those non-copy blue pencils.

It is thanks to him that I'm now drawing alot

And planning out one heck of an Isekai story(Isekai has so much potential it's not a bad subgenre of anime, it's just under a literary crisis), which is slightly inspired by a few popular anime(at least,the magic system is, heavily adapted and mashed together, it's a little bit black clover[mostly elemental magic, except based off the Chinese 5 elements instead of the western 4] a little bit Shaman king[It works and plays by similar rules to the Over Souls from shaman King, except it's physical and not mana constructs] and a little bit One Piece[How soft the magic system is, not to say OP is a soft magic system but it's pretty soft, with a firmness to it, afaik, the limits of power in one piece are just how creative you can get with it, so not many rules] it's also got some sliiiiight inspiration to its looks from magical girl anime, Accel world, and superhero comics+some real world inspiration from the Italian Carnival of Venice... despite the fact it's shifted to using heavy Dao symbolism-)

Other than the magic system there's alot from my own mind as well, i think what i have is actually pretty unique as far as Isekai goes, mostly cause im... actually putting effort into worldbuilding and not just slapping an expired coat of paint on the Ol LOTR/DnD/Pseudo-Medieval-Europe-with-magic-shoehorned-in setting.

Heck my world, like the actual world itself isn't even planet like, it's an inverted planet shell-like thing with its own rules

They never told me to draw every day, for me It is just an extreme urge that I need to satisfy. In fact my teachers are mad at me all the time because I can't stop lmao

The only good advice that really does help is wake up (early), put yourself together and go for a walk or run for at least 30 minutes, then start your day. Walking/running for that time shakes the cobwebs out of your head. With no screen in your face, your creative energy will increase, and you'll be in a better mood to handle your workload.

The music at the end of the video slaps, man!

My art style for the longest time has been semi-realism with elements of anime and cartoons (usually lips ngl) mixed in. Funnily enough though, I never learned proper proportions as I always had an issue with the "they have to be this height and the proportions must be this way" because my body isn't all thst proportionate. My nose is off-centre, my arms are long and lanky, and my torso is a fucking box. So I learned proportions through Steven Universe characters. It made proportions so much easier to understand for some reason because I would look at all these characters with different body types and they made sense. Unlike my 8th grade art teacher telling us about heads n stuff. It's probably not practical but it helped me personally.

Using references have helped and still does help me to come up with my own ideas for drawing ^^

does it count as art advice if my art teacher tells us to use ai art and autodraw if you can't draw (she can't draw so what the heck is the point in being a art teacher :,( )

My mom's always like "learn realism first, then do stylized art"
like girl I draw because I enjoy it, not because I want to be the best

My art school teacher was an absolute stress maker, When me and my friend had our first class with her (she was a new teacher ) we came home crying after all these years of practicing are just worst than the stick figures she wanted us to draw We told her we are way out of that level and we can do more advanced than that she just forced us to draw the most basic family portrait with the stick figure looking artstyle she wanted us to draw in, Me and my friend told our parents and they were absolutely mad, specially because i have practiced alot and even showed the teacher my art yet she hit me with the "This style is just... Too much for me dear. Try simple stuff." excuse me??? i don't know about you but i definitely don't think this is how to teach art at all.

The problem with drawing anime style is there is no such thing. You’re either learning to draw generic anime style or you’re ripping off someone’s individual style. Japanese artists want the same thing western artists want, to create their own unique style. It’s a bit of an insult to claim they all draw the same way. Besides, everyone is doing that big eye bullshit.

Bad art advice: “Don’t listen to music while drawing”

I remember just drawing without any music and just silence and it was god awful. The quality of my work went down really fast. And this happened on multiple occasions too.

I had my art teacher once tell me my style was "too fluffy". He didn't elaborate or explain what part was too fluffy. I first thought perhaps it was because I'd drawn dragons a lot since that's something I'm passionate about but nope. Out of all the projects we'd done
I had done an abstract animation of shapes moving, a lighting test in a living room, my final piece for the first block which had dragons in it

All the editing had no animals what so ever

Our drawing class was doing masks that we were given to do, not picked for block 1 with the only time I drew an animal was something we were told to do, block 2 where we were to make characters and I drew people and the final block where I did a full 6 page storyboard based on the prologue of my own story while the rest of the class did a comic on the story they were given

And the other project was the do a robot which I gave hair and a tail but was still humanoid.

If he'd explained what he meant it might help but the only reason I can think he'd say this is he had looked at my own personal works (currently drawing a lot of cats for my Warriors au) and decided yes, they can't adapt despite my works sometimes varying in tone, especially now (plus the storyboard was really dark considering the themes of death in it)

k so yall can beat me up for this all u want but a beginner artist asked me the classic “how do you draw so good” and i gave them the good ol reliable “just practice” and then they were all like “yeah um ppl hate when other ppl say that” and i just like kinda disintegrated like do you expect me to give you an entire tutorial right then and there like i didnt know what else to say lmao

For me, the most detrimental advice was “ONLY use reference.”

I don’t do well with eye contact. I was trying to draw humans. So, even though I wanted to improve at human faces, I was being told to torture myself by staring at eyes and faces and strangers.

I felt like the reference was watching me.

Then I learned about the triangle of recognition, and learned that I improved drastically by using snapshot glances and memory to improve my proportions.

I will never do realism but my proportions are great now.

about drawing every day
well i dont know how it works but when i draw pretty often my skill always downgrading and when i got artblocks for two or three months and then just start drawing sometimes i look and can't believe that its me who drew it because its almost always three levels better than drawings before artblocks

"Don't trace!"

Now hear me out, tracing someone's drawing and posting it/pretending it it your own IS bad. But the aspect of using tracing to further your own art is good, great even! When I have trouble drawing a pose from a picture I see, I will trace it. Suddenly I understand that pose and could draw it from memory! Same thing with coloring really. You're allowed to copy existing pictures and objects. Just like refrence.

On another example I am a game artist, and for my school project we took reference from monster prom. Was having trouble making it "look right" so I drew over some existing Characters And immediately understood the line work way better.

Best art advice I’ve heard is to not be afraid to use bright colors in moderation. It can actually enhance your drawing and provide emphasis on certain areas. I’ve seen a lot of beginner artists stray away from any sort of bright color out of fear that it’ll make their art look amateur or strange, but it can add a lot of style and charm to an art piece

TBH there were a few "bad art tips" in here that weren't bad- the poster just interpreted them bad or in a way that it wasn't supposed to mean. The biggest offender, for example: the "You have to learn the rules before you can break them" comment

i remember being told a few times im not a real artist cuz i dont use references lol
i see their use i do but when using references i just cant focus on the image im making
you do get some REAL dumb advice too

its funny how every generation of art throughout history werent considered good art i mean some of our best painters in history were considered terrible for their time cause of the style they did