this video goes out to the people who are busy maybe they just don't got a lot of time
who are on a deadline or maybe just don't want to put in the extra effort if they don't have to
this video goes out to y'all hi my name is rae and i've been making art youtube videos for a
very long time and i've been making artwork for an even longer time i'm very old and over the
years of doing all of these videos and doing all this artwork i have found so many tips and
tricks that make my life easier when it comes to creating artwork and at this point i've made so
many different art hack videos to teach you how to save on money but this time around i'm going to be
showing you art tips that actually save on time and effort and speaking of saving time today's
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the lazy art hacks all right so for this very first lazy art hack that i do ah this is so
i don't know why this is embarrassing but i feel like i shouldn't be admitting all this stuff to
the internet cause it's like girl you can't be lazy like this but what i'm about to tell you it
truly stays on time and i personally prefer it and on top of that it's definitely not the cheapest
option out there but instead of buying regular everyday canvas you can buy pre-gessoed canvas
now if you don't know what gesso is it's basically like a primer before you put on
your paint and it helps the paint stick to the canvas longer which is why it's so important to
have gesso on your canvas and whenever you do gesso it's recommended that you wait up to 24
hours before even touching the canvas so theoretically if you were gonna paint on
something and you were gonna do three layers of gesso it would take you three full days before you
can actually get to painting and i'm the type of person that when i get that strike of creativity
i don't care if it's at 2 pm or 3 in the morning i have to create right here right now but if you
didn't know you can spend a little bit more at the craft store and buy pre-gessoed canvas
which is yet another reason why i truly love using gesso board over canvas because literally
the gesso is already on it all right for this very next lazy art hack this is one that has
absolutely swept the nation ever since this product came out and i'm sure a lot of you guys
who have experienced this if you know you know and this lazy art hack is that whenever you're
doing a watercolor painting instead of using just like a regular every single day brush you have to
constantly clean add water change out the water no we're done with that instead of doing all that
work you can just use a simple water brush now if you don't know what a water brush is
they're literally one of the best things of all time it's basically like a clear tube of water
that you can squeeze and at the end of it it has a little paint brush and basically that cuts out the
entirety of having to dip your hand in a water bowl to be able to activate your watercolor and
because the fibers of the brush are made out of plastic it makes cleaning the brushes an absolute
breeze and besides like having to refill the brush occasionally it saves you so much time
it saves you so much effort the only downside to these is that they definitely do have a learning
curve but once you get the hang of it if you know you know so yeah water brush for the win
now for this next lazy art hack this is one that i have seen all over the place on tik tok i see
this a lot when it comes to digital and even on twitter somebody had suggested that i do this and
that is whenever you're drawing a portrait i truly understand more than anybody else in the world
how frustrating it is whenever you have one eye that's just absolutely beautiful it's perfect it's
everything you've ever wanted and then when you go to draw the other eyeball it ain't the same story
and so what the solution to that is is that you can trace the very first eyeball that you drew if
you're doing this digital obviously you can just make a new layer and then copy that directly on
top of it but if you're doing this traditional basically how you would do this is copy it onto
a new piece of paper and then you get the freshly drawn eyeball flip it around and then just trace
directly on top of that and then bada bing bada boom you got both eyeballs completely symmetrical
and speaking of a lazy art hack when somebody suggested this to me on twitter my mind was blown
like how could i have never thought about this before how have i gone this long throughout my
life without thinking about this before because this hack is the definition of work smarter not
harder so every single time you paint everybody knows that one of the most annoying chores when
it comes to doing artwork is having to clean up a dried palette you ruin your nails paint flakes
everywhere and then on top of that sometimes the paint stains and then it never just fully
gets clean but somebody on twitter suggested to me that they use saran wrap over their palettes that
way when they're done cleaning it's completely easy clean up and if you're not comfortable using
saran wrap you can use foil you can use paper a lunch baggie you can use those papers that
are specifically designed to be paint palettes i mean this tip is literally from the year 3000
all of us who are currently using paint palettes like this we're stuck in the past because that
is such a good idea and in the long term it'll preserve your palette so you can use it longer
because it's not just getting constantly beat up all the time and it's so good and of course the
lazy aspect is that you don't have to clean up like literally at all just throw it in the trash
so smart next up we have a lazy art tip that i have been doing for quite a while to say the
least and this actually started out of complete desperation and frustration because to me as
somebody who paints my portraits very very slowly there is nothing more frustrating than you mixing
up the perfect skin tone and then as you're working on the actual painting that perfect
skin tone that you spent hours and hours just trying to perfect completely dries up and then
you have to go through that entire process of color matching and then trying to figure
out the exact colors that you used and then it just never truly turns out the exact same
as you wanted it originally so my lazy artist solution is whenever you're painting a portrait
instead of using the paints that come standard in a packaging and having to go through all the
effort of making your own skin tone what i like to do is buy a gigantic tube of flesh colored paint
and i don't mess with it at all like if there's a shadow in the skin i'll add one single brown to it
if there's a highlight in the skin i will add one single highlight to the skin tone of course if you
want to get it to look super realistic and super colorful and add a bunch of undertones and stuff
like that you do you but for us lazy artists out there it's so much easier to use three different
colors whenever you're making your portraits for example if you turn to the left you'll see
the renaissance painting that i did if you look at the bodies you can see that i definitely use
that method where i only used one single skin tone shadows and highlights and thank god i
did this method because this drawing took me like six days but if i was to have made the skin tone
every single time i was doing this giant canvas it would have taken me months to do this painting
this is definitely in my opinion one of the easiest ways to hack painting skin tones
all right so for this next lazy art tip this one i have mentioned quite a few times throughout my
channel's history hello alice here on youtube such an incredible artist i will definitely leave her
channel down below ever since she showed me this hack like i swear to god that's the reason i've
talked about it so much on my channel is because it's just that good and that is whenever you're
doing watercolor drawings it is an absolute pain in the butt to have to sketch out the drawing
and then go over it with your kneaded eraser but not too much so that you still
can see the actual drawing and then paint over it well instead of using a regular number two
pencil to sketch out your watercolor drawing you can use a watercolor pencil because it's a
watercolor pencil the water will completely break down the pencil and you don't have to worry about
erasing the number two pencil lines and having those little marks show through your artwork ugh
i love this hack it saves so much time and it makes the artwork come off a lot cleaner 10 out
of 10 get yourself some watercolor pencils even if they're at the dollar tree get them all right
sorry i cannot breathe the lord doesn't want me to continue this video apparently
now this next one that i'm about to mention i definitely wouldn't say that it's an art
hack per se it's more or less like a product that makes your life easier when it comes to cleaning
up artwork you know whenever you're drawing it doesn't even have to be drawing it could be any
time you use a number two pencil you know that anytime you erase anything it's very frustrating
to have all those little shreds all over the place and what do most people do with them
and once you do that it ends up all over your carpet all over the floor if you don't immediately
clean it with a vacuum it gets stuck on your socks it can like embed into the carpet and just all
around it's not the vibe to have eraser shreddings all over the place so what the solution is
this guy right here so what this is is a mini desk vacuum and i think i literally got this for like
maybe 10 bucks off amazon or something like that and any time you're racing and you have like this
little pile of just like little eraser shreds or pencil shavings or whatever it is broken pencils
you press the little button he turns on and all you do is just like drag it all over your desk
and he literally vacuums up the entire thing for you and when you're done all you do is
like pop him open and just like dump him out and that's it and on top of that he has a
rechargeable battery so you can keep using him over and over and over again god bless this guy
and for this very last artist hack this is one that i have been doing since college
this is something that i do probably more than i'm supposed to do okay so anytime i use charcoal the
very first thing that i like to start off with is the darkest areas of my charcoal drawings so like
anywhere on the charcoal drawing that is gonna that is gonna be pure black i will start with
that first but instead of filling it in with a charcoal pencil which would take years to fill up
a completely empty space with just a little tiny tip i go out of my way and buy charcoal pastels
and then from there i'll fill in the big empty areas first with charcoal and it cuts down the
time of making a charcoal drawing drastically and the second reason that i do this is because
whenever i'm working with charcoal it can be kind of a pain in the butt to lightly draw and then
blend it out lightly draw and then blend it out no no no no i don't get time for that so what i do
is i get the giant blob where i went in with the charcoal pastel and i just get the blending tool
and i'll dip into the areas that have the pastel on it and i'll slowly slowly slowly
build up the shadows that way and basically what that does is it saves you so much time because
you basically don't have to use the pencil hardly at all anymore and of course you know if i need
to use the pencil it's there for whatever i need and that's truly the secret of how i personally
get my charcoal drawings to look as smooth as they do it's literally just because i'm using a
blending tool the entire time so anyway guys that concludes our session today so hopefully some of
these tips were helpful to you guys if you want to see more art hacks i have an entire playlist i've
been doing this for years now so i'll leave that playlist down below or like right here
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amazing and yeah let me know if you have any lazy artist things that you do put
that down below we can all expose each other together in the comments and with
that being said thank you so much again for watching and i will see you guys next video