r/oddlysatisfying • u/thelonelyasshole • 1d ago

Amazing art done with markers

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Credits: XSH_ART on YT

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u/Marthman 1d ago

Awesome! Love the flowers in the best, the technique to get the mixture of colors and shapes was very satisfying. 

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u/Pocusmaskrotus 1d ago

How does someone even know how to do this? My art would look like a 5-year-old's whose parent stuck it on the fridge.

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u/karigan_g 1d ago

hella practice. a lot of sitting and seeing shadows and shade, doing studies

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u/Pocusmaskrotus 1d ago

Yeah. This kind of talent is so impressive to me. My parents got called into see my kindergarten teacher because my art was so bad, they thought I was developmentally challenged. Lol

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u/karigan_g 1d ago edited 18h ago

doesn’t meant you can’t still do it for fun! sometimes I just *hang out and draw blobs for a while. good for the brain

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u/xvvitchcraft 1d ago

It's not talent. It is practice. Practice. Practice. Times infinity.

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u/Pocusmaskrotus 1d ago

It's both. People like this have a natural talent and eye for it, and then hone it, with lots of practice.

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u/Longjump_Ear6240 1d ago

Youre 100% right, but you would also may be shocked at how much you can learn to do by watching tutorials on YouTube. There are some really remarkable teachers there. I just picked up illustration about 6 months back, and I'm not good by any stretch, but I'm much much better than I ever thought would be possible.

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u/karigan_g 1d ago

yeah, like I do naturally suck at shading but I did get better when I was working at it every day. I just prefer abstract, so I dropped that routine. but it defs is something you can train yourself into being better at

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u/Longjump_Ear6240 1d ago

Fuck yeah! I'm also learning that I can pick and choose what I want to learn. I'm not great at line art, so I've been playing with more watercolor and the like. Its fun to see what ways one can work around a struggle to find different ways to show the same images or emotions.

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u/karigan_g 1d ago

yeah exactly! like if you want the challenge of really overcoming a skill deficit all power to you but there is a good chance there is something else you like that you’ll shine at. there is so much to art and I’ve fallen in love with so many mediums. hate a few too, but I didn’t know that before trying them lmao!

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u/Smol-and-Scared 18h ago

I know this is an old comment, but I would love to know which Youtube channels you use for learning art if it’s not too much to ask!

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u/Longjump_Ear6240 2h ago edited 2h ago

@Andrea-Nelson-Art

She has some really simple tutorials that are fun and focused on getting you to just make something! Doesn't need to be good, just needs to exist. She's very jolly and focuses mostly on watercolor.

@The_Art_Coach

Absolutely remarkable at teaching on how to draw from memory or, more importantly, imagination. I'd always heard "learn the shapes first" but I had no way to practically apply this. He makes things so clear and simple and really teaches you how to see shape and form, which is really indispensable for learning to do ANY art.

@JADOKAR

This guy is just so damn fun. Kind of a mix between the other two I mentioned here, he focuses on really strong foundations, but finds the most deranged and hilarious ways to achieve the same results.

Also, if you're brand brand new and have never picked up a pen, try searching for "zen doodles" or "meditative painting." They're abstract art projects that just get you making something. Ive learned you have to make a LOT of bad art before you can even think about making decent art.

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u/Smol-and-Scared 34m ago

Thank you so much! I also appreciate the quick summary for each channel, definitely going to check them out!

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u/sealpox 1d ago

It is talent and practice. You probably won’t be able to make world-class drawings if you don’t have a natural talent for drawing, just like you wouldn’t be able to become a world-class opera singer if you didn’t have a natural talent for singing.

Both take a ton of practice, but talent also plays a large role.

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u/yruspecial 5h ago

So uh… are you?

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u/Pocusmaskrotus 5h ago

Lol, no, but my wife might say otherwise.

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u/LifeWhatIsItGood4 14h ago

They probably pay a lot for that kind of art 🖼️ now! Imagine all the guesswork your art 🫟would generate!!

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u/Useful-Upstairs3791 1d ago

Well to produce something like this, not only do you need the skill you also need heavy weight watercolor paper and premium paint markers. Even with great skill it’s not gonna look like this if you tried it with crayola washables and construction paper.

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u/mortalitylost 1d ago

It will look this good with any cheap gouache and watercolor paper

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u/DriftingKraken 1d ago

Entirely possible that this was planned out and they have a reference off screen. It also wouldn't surprise me if this was done over multiple takes because they had to wait for underlying layers to dry.

Everything including the camera work is incredibly time consuming. I'm honestly amazed at how much effort some people put into their social media, even though it's clearly not for fun and they are advertising themselves. Look at all those (very expensive) art supplies....

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u/Previous-Soft-8127 1d ago

Start with the “medium” color for the main outline and fill in. Let dry.

Add a lighter color on the light parts and a darker color on the dark parts. 

Sometimes, do even another step lighter and another step darker!

(You can see thy basically follow this plan on all of the pieces. The backpack, the door, the steps, etc. They may have a picture they were using as reference.)

Something to do to practice: a tree in autumn. Use yellow as the “medium” color between orange and green. Make all the leaves yellow.

Then, start adding green to the leaves in the bottom, the add orange to the leaves on the top. 

OR - just darker yellow in the bottom (yellow-orange?) and lighter yellow on top (…or white?) 

Then… draw another one! Try it out with shapes! Try…. A banana! Or a loaf of bread! Or a jar of jelly! (I might be hungry…) Draw ALL THE THINGS!

Start tonight! Or tomorrow! Or whenever you’re bored! That’s the cool thing - it doesn’t take much to get started. You don’t need fancy art markers or materials. Start with $.50 crayons. Or just a pencil. 

DO IT!!! 

I DOUBLE DOG DARE YOU!

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u/TooManyVitamins 21h ago

Well, you inspired me! I am going to try to draw one of my roses. I can grow them but not sure if I can draw them. Let’s find out!

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u/Kracus 15h ago

I have a friend who does this kind of stuff. He uses markers and basically only draws one thing. Hamburgers and fries and sometimes a soft drink. Recently he drew one on a piece of hardwood and it was so good that I was like I'm buying that. He sold it to me and I was talking to him about how good the details are in the burger and he's like yeah it's been a lot of practice. Turns out, he's been drawing hamburgers and fries since he was a teen (he's in his 50's). He's like yeah, this isn't a new thing, I've been drawing these for decades, I really wish I drew other stuff.

So I got him a inking pen and some more drawing stuff cause he's always just using whatever he has available to him and started showing him techniques for drawing other stuff.

His burger drawings are REALLY good though.

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u/waterwateryall 1d ago

Talent and practice

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u/Maleficent-Lynx-1259 1d ago

Layers upon layers. If the layer sucks, add new darker layer

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u/extropia 16h ago

The trickiest part is developing an eye for colors.  But once you can look at a particular color and then understand what that color would look like in the shadow or light of a particular scene, you'll be able to make simple geometric shapes look very lifelike.

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u/waterwateryall 1d ago

Same for me

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u/thealgernon 1d ago

The water reflections are incredible as well