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While I understand that it's a popular format nowadays, I personally find your usual style to be incredibly meditative and calming. Watching your videos helps me to unwind and feel more at ease, or even encourages me to slow down and truly listen. Your content has been a source of comfort for me, and I truly appreciate the effort you put into creating it.

My guy had a coffee this morning!  Love the passion, and great video man, as always

The shorter format was very useful, as always your content is very helpful. But I really like the longer videos, it's very peaceful and I personally enjoy watching it while I'm drawing.

You know Tim what have attracted me towards your artwork & your art style

1. I love Bande Dessine. And no wonder for someone who has worked in this section for a long while will always attract me.

2. This style reminds me of Alphonse Mucha, now I am not really into fine arts or that sort of Design, but I just don't know why I feel so pleased watching his art.

3. I think this is the most simplistic yet comprehensive style an artist can have, whose main target is storytelling. This is fleshed out yet simple style that is so robust that you can simply use it for Concept design to production art to Visual development to Illustration to comic without any tweaking.

4. Last, but not least, the importance of linework. I think it gives a solid structure to your artwork. I always appreciate the emphasis on line art.

As an aspiring concept artist/draftsmanship I really like it when a teacher is putting so much importance in drawing.


I am really considering getting your Line & Color Academy & Drawing Scene course in the near future. Hopefully soon.

The whole thing of separating the background, middle ground and foreground line art and painting is amazing! You keep on blowing my mind and your art style keeps on delivering on the good stuff

Thanks, this helps in my current project!

I like the shorter format, except I like the laid-back tim more....but learned a lot. Thanks

I really enjoy your videos my man! Thank you for contributing so much to the art community

Your videos are always the best. Your instruction has been immensely helpful in my art journey. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge with us!

I would love to see you do a course on Proko's website!

Thanks for the video. For the atmospheric layers of fog. What color, opacity, and blend mode do you use?

Great video as always! I tend to give those viewers credit who point out that you seem to be a little excited, which isn't necessary, because you're a cool guy with a clear message. Just my opinion, sorry. But thanks a lot for talking about atmosphere here!
Related to that: I finally seem to have mastered digital painting - which tempts me to paint in the backgrounds rather than simply cel shade my lineart like I do for the characters. It gets quick results that look nice, but it creates the problem of figures floating on a "green screen" - the people and their world are no coherent unit anymore... Paradoxically, painting the figures in the same manner as the backgrounds would make the process much slower than cel shading them... Could you make a video on merging the actors with their backdrops in a convincing way? Or about ways to unify lines and painterly colours, if you will. I really struggle with that!

Thank you for breaking this down into easy to digest pieces. BTW, you Sound a bit congested compared to normal. Hope you're feeling OK.:)

Helloooo

Wow! That was something!
Well, while I understand that you have to try new formats and look at the raw data of numbers and view count, I somewhat remember you being sort of against the speedpainting culture of the internet that makes young artists thing they need to be a red speedster superhero to make it in the art world. You would demonstrate what the speed a professional artist draws in really is.

Maybe there is something to be said in those same lines for the videos where you present information instead of a drawing focusesd demonstration. Being a teacher myself I know that if I just dump everything that I know on my students at once, they won't understand much. I'd actually need to make them understand in their own time each step of the process in order for them to really learn. That strategy could even prove to be more profitable once people might need to watch the same video more than once to digest the information presented on it, but I fear it would take away from the long term engagement of your channel since people might feel fatigued by the format and not come back for more videos after a while.

There is always also the side of who do you want you public persona to be perceived as. You seamed pretty true to yourself on the more laid back videos from the channel's beginning. If that trully who you are, I'm sure you past viewers will stay with you, but if that is too far from your real self I think it may be difficult to keep the act up.

I always enjoy your content and I really think you deserve both the financial compensation for all the awesome content you've been putting out for us, as well as the public appreciation you are due. If that is the way you get it, I'm all of it. I just remenber a quote from Immanuel Kant - the philospher - in wich he says that some books would be shorter if they werent so short. Meaning that if things were explained a bit longer, maybe with more examples or with more depth, maybe they wouldn't need som much interpretation and effort from the audience.

If you are trully bothered by comments that say you speak too slow - wich I've never seen BTW - maybe recording the video in your confortable speed, edit it as you would normally and than speed it up by a notch in post production, like 1.1x or 1.2x, could be enough. I've heard it's a trick many youtubers use nowadays and I imagine it would require less effort on your part.

Hi Codex.. rather have the longer format,I want to pick your brain 🧠,ha..hay,been wanting to say your minimalist rendering is great, kind of Morpheus style,adding to what you're talking about..also the concept of color Harmony is a good point, (color Harmony can make bad art look good) same with a good inker/rendering over someone else's work.. I also heard someone say(there is no bad color) hope your book is going well.i go now, bye'eeee..

To add to other comments here, I'm not sure its the shortness of the video, but more how you are talking that's a bit off-putting. It's faster, and also louder in a way that's trying to be dynamic and attention grabbing, but (I'm not quite sure how to describe it but ill make an attempt) comes across in a way where you are trying to grab, take hold, and keep someone's attention instead of their attention being absorbed into what you are saying. Like, I'm no longer watching because I'm absorbed by the content, the grabbing is taking part of attention so it feels like my attention would naturally go somewhere else if you weren't doing these things; I'm partly focused on the grabbing and not the content. Also, most of the onscreen movement is happening in your camera in the bottom right, so my attention keeps going to your image, not the image you are describing.

The more relaxed tone of your videos is one of the reasons I watch. If you did the same lines in your more relaxed tone, sure a few minutes would be added, but the better delivery would make the aspects of the image come across more, and the assertions of what I will be taught at the start of the video would come across less as hype and more as true statements. Like, it's not as confident and doesn't have the same feel of expertise.