Worst Art Instruction Ever. Do not draw like this. No. Bad. Wrong
on November 10th, 2009I haven’t felt well the last few days, and when I first saw this in my inbox, I thought I was hallucinating. Maybe it’s the meds? Antihistamine?
Do not draw Asian women like this. Do not draw anything like this.
Buy a couple of my books. They will rinse out your eyes. Speaking of eyes, Girl to Grrrl Manga has a an extensive chapter on drawing eyes. A review is here.
I’m going back to bed. Thank you for reading my online comic in which I draw people who look nothing like what you will see in that video.
YES! BECAUSE EYE SHADOW AND “ADDING MAKEUP LATER” ARE BASICS OF UNDERSTANDING HUMAN ANATOMY. BRILLIANT.
*HEADDESK*
Is this how to draw barely recognizable as human ‘asian’ women? or what? I’m confused.
Ho dare you question the Cartoonist Extraordinaire! OMG, seriously, this is the funniest thing I have seen in ages.
I am also confused by the “Asian Women” thing. The epicanthic fold is kind of a standard for that sort of eye, but what do I know. I’m not a Cartoonist Extraordinaire.
I had to watch it twice, just to see if it was really that bad. It was.
*whimper*
I’m going to have to run over to the Hammer at lunch and go look at their two Rembrandts, just to calm down. And I’ll see what I can send to entertain you, while you’re resting in bed.
Holy crap that was… horribly wrong. Painful, too. It always amazes me how people who can’t really do something even moderately well have the gall to promote themselves as the greatest thing since banana splits and puppies. Self-delusion must be a wonderful thing.
I’m … staggered. And he calls that “beautiful”? I wouldn’t even call it a good facsimile! I could do better than that in seventh grade.
Just. So. Wrong.
Oh, and yeah… all Asian women drape their hair over one of their eyes. Right.
what. the. EF.
It is for this reason that the meme “what this is I just don’t even” was coined. I’m sure of it.
And for extra bonus lulz, check out the
mutant pretzelceltic knot one.I have now found someone over the age of 6 that I can honestly say I can draw better than.
@scribblerworks
I agree, although I was a bit more generous and would give him 8th grade. If Colleen draws at a PHD level, I draw at a first year college level. Even I would not draw like that.
Okay I had to post this to my livejournal. This is some serious WTFitude that needs to be shined a spotlight on, then pointed, laughed at, and thrown beer bottles at.
Wow.
Every so often I feel compelled to trot out a rant I wrote a while back. This is one of those times: http://www.monkeyspit.net/rantman/inept.php
This fella displays the unique brand of excessive self-confidence that is possessed only by those who don’t know they are incompetent. He calls himself a “cartoonist extraordinaire” because he thinks he is one; his skills are so weak that he literally can’t recognize good cartooning.
darn you, can’t-draw-for-nuthin-dude, you made me have to finally sign up for a YouTube account just so I could comment on these! Gosh darn you all to heck!
Well, thanks very much!! Grrr… That’s the last time I post one of my tutorials to You Tube. Why you ungrateful… Bah, I’m off to create my sure to be a hit comic strip about women working in the mysterious East: “Me Love You Long Time…!” Watch for it.
OMG!!!
I’ve been in bed all day, and I actually had a nightmare about this video. Seriously. I think being one of these bad art instruction people must represent my worst fear.
Or my second worst. I think Arlnee knows what my worst fear is. Ahem.
I just took a look at one of those other videos. Can’t really see much due to crappy uplink, but now I know how to draw a tree that looks nothing like a tree.
Apparently, these are a series of professional EHOW vids.
Yikes!
I really could have lived my life without having to see that video.
However, once you put it up, like a train wreck, I couldn’t stop myself from looking.
BTW, I hope you are feeling better.
Yeah… I checked them all out. (I’m a glutton for punishment.) The weeping willow one — wow, I did not realize that the willow was just branches wearing a fringe! Because according to him, the draperies have nothing to do with branches, really.
Whimper. And that “celtic knot”! I have an unfinished piece that is ALL knotwork… and it is WORK. (Huh. Lemme go take a picture of it and upload it.)
Now, see — THESE are knotwork! It’s crazy-making…. which is probably why I haven’t finished the piece. The picture that shows more isn’t even all of it, as there are two interlaced birds and more knotwork above the dragon.
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z156/scribblerworks/Artwork/knotdragonl.jpg
With detail –
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z156/scribblerworks/Artwork/knotdragond.jpg
(Yeah… I’m showing off. Rap my knuckles, please.
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I couldn’t do it. He makes me sick. The knotwork was a wtf????
There is an artist on youtube who does a “how to draw (mostly) manga” that is years above the dude above.
My gods…the Cartoonist Extraordinaire *stole* my idea! That’s exactly the woman I used to draw in seventh grade 40-mumble years ago!
Feel better soon, Colleen!
http://www.youtube.com/user/markcrilley <= that guy knows what he's talking about when it comes to drawing manga style at least. He spends over half an hour (compressed to about 10 minutes) showing how to draw a realistic eye.
@scribblerworks:
I think you gave me a headache. The knotwork! *faint*
Jan: hey, that’s the one *I* used to draw in seventh grade! You big stinky stealer-head, you! I’m telling!!!1!
okay, this is awesome. The “asian women” one now has ten times more views than the other ones in his series… and the comments it’s generating are awesome!
My faves:
“i’m an asian girl and now that i know how to draw myself? i will teach others the ancient ways”
“Ooh! He also has a video called? *How to Draw in Proportion.* ”
“why did he? just draw a bratz doll? ps creepy fetish alert.”
and my favoritest of all:
“This is? total BS. That bag’s not Louis Vuitton. “
I don’t know where the extra ?’s came from in those. I just c&p’d them. I have punctuation fail
MANY LULZ!
Man, if I were that guy, I’d be going into a witness protection program right now.
Heh. The ultimate reality check for the self-deluded. Your family may have told you that you were a wonderful artist, sir, but the net will give you a course correction on that.
Unless he’s one of those people who really does think that all publicity is good publicity.
LOL! Well, the internet will not necessarily tell you what is good, but it will surely tell you what it does not like!
True. And I realized that even as I said it.
But there is something to be said for the fact that when the majority of the reactions are “WTF?!?” you are probably off track. Unless you are Picasso, which Cartoonist Extraordinaire is NOT.
@scribblerworks I can’t even fake Picasso and I’ve tried. I’m got an art assigment for marks and I have to do an abstract piece. I just can’t seem to do it!
I found Girl to Grrl at my local Indigo and grabbed it. Finally – a book that shows how to draw Children and not chibis or mutated adults!
LOL! Thank you!
ooo an explanation on hands that makes sense! I’m going to have to sit down and read it cover to cover.