Problem with YouTube Tutorials
When I started to learn drawing, YouTube was my go-to friend. ✏️
I always went on to YouTube to search for different tutorials on the different kinds of things that I wanted to draw.
I would spend my days watching these beautiful art tutorials that are so well-made and so well-edited. 😮
A decade or so later, I would also be one of those guys who would be sharing how I basically make art through my “Tutorials“. 🎥
And I’ve talked about very many subjects, from
• Learning to Draw the ‘Fundamentals’, to
• Drawing your ‘Own Characters’,
• Making your own ‘Comics’,
• Drawing from ‘Imagination’ and your own style.
And no matter how many tutorials and videos that I have made, people just keep coming and keep asking the same question. 😞
– They’ll ask me How do I draw a character – when I’ve made a clear video on how to draw characters.
– They’ll ask me how to draw from imagination – when I’ve clearly made videos on how to draw from imagination and style.
And the thing is, it’s not like they haven’t seen these videos. They have seen them. They’ve watched them.
And they’ve even, at times, taken the effort to practice some of it.
But they still have a problem.
That’s when I realized:
YouTube tutorials in general fail at this one main thing: Action. 😤
You don't need Information, You need Action
Let’s say you have a tutorial on ‘How to Draw Heads’.
You watch that tutorial with great intent, and that person gives you all the very specific things. The steps, the principles, the fundamentals.
But will that actually help you learn the process of drawing the head? 🤔
My answer is No.
Here’s why 👇
When you are watching a particular YouTube tutorial, what you are seeing there is a process of how things unfold.
If a person is cartooning a particular head, they are showing you the step-by-step process of how that particular thing unfolds.
But what they don’t fully tell you, are the skill-sets that are involved in doing each of those steps,
And the Specific, Actionable Exercises you need to do in order to gain those skills. 🏋️
And that is the biggest problem with YouTube tutorials.
They Lack Action.
“When you’re trying to learn how to draw a head, it’s not just enough to know the information or the steps. You need exercises.”
What you Actually Need
• You need structure.
• You need to know when to apply those exercises.
• How to make it easy so it fits into your routine.
• How long to practice.
• How to give yourself feedback.
• How to spot where you’re making mistakes.
This is how you learn:
Information → Action → Feedback. 🔁
YouTube gives you the first one.
It forgets the other two.
I’ve worked with thousands of students in ‘Drawing Camp’. One of the biggest reasons they succeed is this:
Drawing Camp is NOT a tutorial course. It’s a ‘Draw-Along’ system. ✏️
Each day has a short video + an actionable exercise in a Draw-Along format, so you do it then and there. 😌
You don’t just watch. You do. And those exercises are arranged into a larger curriculum that builds your skills in the right order.
That’s how you go from “I want to draw cool characters” to actually drawing cool characters and telling stories with your art.
So, next time you’re watching a YouTube tutorial, ask yourself:
1. What exercise do I need to practice this?
2. What structure and routine will help me improve this over time?
That’s the kind of tutorial I now try to make. 💪
And that’s the kind of structure you get inside ‘Drawing Camp’.
P.S. We have a ‘Drawing Camp’ sale running for the next 6 days. If you’re ready to stop watching and start doing, join below.
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Best,
Kesh.
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