How a Professional Artist ACTUALLY makes Paintings

today i'm going to take you through the making of this large scale commission that i'm doing for a collector and we are going to dive deep into some of the details and intricacies of how i create a painting like this the process of creating a professional work of art usually looks something like this for me decide what i want to paint figure out what my goal is with this artwork decide on which materials would work best to realize the project find out the best process to make sure that i create the very best work that i can in a reasonable amount of time and lastly execute and adapt as i go the first two points in the decision making process were pretty simple for this project i didn't need to figure out anything since this painting is for a collector who commissioned me to create an oversized version of one of my small portraits and the function of the painting is pretty straightforward it is to look absolutely stunning in the collector's home i actually don't do many commissions anymore but i used to i used to do many many so many commissions when i started making a living as an artist you wouldn't believe the things i had to paint when money was short and i was just starting out anything from chainsaw zombie dwarfs to naked grandmas and all of that for a few hundred bucks i'll let you do the math on how many i had to do to even make a somewhat decent living but spoiler alert it was simic bushes as we like to say in germany luckily those days are over though and i don't have to take on any commissions anymore but if you ask me to paint something bad ass [Music] giant kratos painting or something that gets me totally excited that also doubles as great material for a video like this giant sized portrait here i'm obviously all game and so here we are now you know my painting process for these kinds of paintings you've seen it here before i've talked about it many many times before but what i usually don't talk about so much is my decision-making process as a professional artist and how and why i make some of the choices and decisions that i do why i'm painting on canvas for example it's not just a random choice at this scale it's a no-brainer to go with a canvas panel instead of a wood panel or an aluminum panel it's much easier to handle you can easily move it around in the studio you can easily restretch and start over when you mess things up and maybe most importantly a canvas panel has less glare than a wood panel and the final painting at this size especially will look good from pretty much any angle once it's up on a wall other of my material choices follow similar rationales i paint with oil paint because it creates the most vibrant and luminous artwork i use a lot of large brushes to create interesting shapes that you can see even when you're a few feet away and i use thick stretcher bars so that the large painting really stands out on the wall as you can see all professional choices to make sure that i create the best work of art possible and the same is true when it comes to the process for example to get my composition onto the canvas i use a projector did he say projector yeah absolutely i have a professional artist i will use every tool that helps me create better art more efficiently it's not lazy it's not cheating it's just part of the process it doesn't magically make you a great artist but even if it did who the hell cares it's just a professional tool that artists use to make sure they can deliver the absolute very best work they can because that's what being professional means so if you ever heard the word cheating or anyone tried to shame you into feeling guilty about what you do or how you do things i am happy to tell you there are absolutely no rules in making art absolutely zero and that is a hill i am happy and willing to die on which i won't because i'm a freaking giant indestructible tank of an artist and i'm happy to shield all of you from all the idiots out there my pleasure but here's another thing that you usually don't get to see but that's an essential part of pretty much every painting i create at some point during the process i switch to digital tools to help me figure out which direction i want to take the painting it's probably one of the simplest yet most underrated and underused tools or techniques for traditional artists out there but it is a tool for the past few weeks or actually months i've been using clip studio paint for this who are also the sponsor of this video whenever i'm unsure where i want to take the painting next or whenever i think about making some changes to the painting i take a photo of my artwork and try things out digitally in this case i wasn't sure what i wanted to do with the background so i made a few variations back in the day i used to do this with transparent sheets of foil that i put on top of the painting super inconvenient but luckily today we have tools like clip studio paint and drawing tablets that make this an absolute piece of cake clip studio paint is a very powerful drawing slash painting software and i'm not even remotely using it to its full effects there's hardly anything you can't do with it but what i personally like is their traditional brushes they behave surprisingly similar to real paint in the ways that the colors mix and that allows me to make changes and adjustments to my painting digitally and get a pretty accurate impression on how it will look once i switch back to real brushes and paint if you want to give it a try and check clip studio paint out for yourself which i can highly recommend they have a 3 months free trial that you can check out and you can find all the links and details for that in the description down below there are many different ways to approach a painting project and there's really no right or wrong way of doing this there are smart and less smart ways there are efficient and not so efficient ways but what it ultimately comes down to is finding a way of doing things that works best for you i personally prefer a process that favors efficiency without compromising quality of course but your mileage may vary now before we get to the real juicy part and simultaneously controversial part in my painting process two things if you made it this far into the video don't forget to leave a like and comment down below really goes a long way and secondly if you want to dive even deeper into the art of creating dazzling paintings and support the channel at the same time you should totally become a patron of this channel where you can now also check out the extended process video for this painting it's unnarrated but it shows you the uncut process from the very first to the very last brush stroke okay let's do it then okay it's super early i'm super tired but i gotta finish this painting today and this next part might get a bit messy i know some of you love this part but i also know some of you really don't like this part and i can already hear people in the comments whining but i don't really care if you're seeing this for the first time it might look like i've lost my mind but i'm a professional i know exactly what i'm doing don't send help let's do this [Music] [Applause] do [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so [Music] you

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Id: 4ZKUKCnkZ6E

Length: 9min 7sec (547 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 16 2021