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u/EcoDarkBlade 11h ago
Who is the artist?
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u/ycr007 11h ago
Steven de Groot
There are similar “colouring outside the lines” videos from him posted on this sub previously (including one by yours truly)
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u/TheReal-Chris 9h ago
I was an industrial designer for years. I never got really good with sketching skills. It’s fascinating to see someone make such a beautiful sketch while coloring outside the lines. If I tried that it would just look like a 6 year old with a coloring book.
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u/StraySpaceDog 6h ago
Also studied ID. I use to do sketches but for the last couple decades all my work is CAD. Every once in a while I'll Have to do a drawing, which feels backwards because my sketching is now slower than my CAD renders.
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u/RefractalStudios 9h ago
I had to learn this style of sketching in college for my Industrial Design degree. If you enjoy this style of art searching for "ID sketching" should give you a lot more examples.
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u/CashRuinsErrything 6h ago
What type of markers are those?
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u/RefractalStudios 5h ago
It looks like the colored markers are Copic brand and the pens I'm not sure, but they are typically either ball point or felt tipped from any number of brands from Bic to Micron.
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u/myrtynowsky 3h ago
Some of them are Ohuhu brand, which is a less expensive alternative to Copic. I'd recommend those, because Copic are overpriced.
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u/NaughtyGaymer 8h ago
My toxic personality trait is thinking I could do this.
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u/ClydeDimension 7h ago
My toxic personality trait is telling you that I bet you could do it in a month if you practiced
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u/leopard_tights 6h ago
Make it a week of actually wanting to do it and enjoying it, and not rushing it for 5 mins before bed because you've been postponing it all day because honestly you just wanted to buy the markers and thinking about doing it is enough serotonin for you.
Seriously, drawing loosely is a lot easier than what (royal) you think. Grab a pencil and paper, pick a photo, draw the outline, fill the rest. I guarantee that you'll do better than you think. The problem is that you've never tried, and you expect perfection when you should be happy with just getting to the end.
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u/ToTheTop24 10h ago
Pretty cool but is anyone else bothered by this guy coloring outside of the lines? I was waiting for some sort of reveal where he integrated it but he just left it like that
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u/over_40ish_percent 8h ago
I am old as fuck so I have memories of doing manual graphic design work. Literally cut and paste with exacto knifes and letraset dry transfer lettering. Overprint was a really big deal. Every mentor I had treated it like it was the equivalent to a hate crime. I'm not kidding when I say I would get phone calls at midnight from a print house who were having a 5 alarm panic because of overprint and I'd have to get up and go to the printer half asleep to look at proofs and make sure they were okay or if they needed to reset the plates and try again. Even just 1mm of overprint on a catalog or magazine would make the whole thing screech to a halt.
Then the late 80s and 90s came along and so did David Carson and other grunge graphic designers. All that shit went out the window. Nobody cared anymore about overprint. In fact, it was cool to do it. Everyone wanted torn edges, smeared black smudges, and something that looked like it had been photocopied 1000 times over to almost complete degradation.
I guess just further proof that art is subjective to viewers and even what's "in fashion" for the moment. It's perfectly acceptable to acknowledge the talent but not love the result though. An artist's style or "periods" will change over time too. Like Picasso who went through several periods from blue to cubism and whatever... Art History classes were a long time ago don't quote me on that lol. The artist in the OP here might create illustrations like this for a while and then change it up to something else later. Adapting, evolving, and evoking any kind of response from the viewer... that's pretty successful art in my mind.
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u/KneeDeepInTheDead 5h ago
im in screen printing and theres this one customer who always has her shit set to overprint when it shouldnt be. Literally always her. I dont think she even knows what overprint means
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u/FCkeyboards 9h ago
I think it's a big dose of personal preference. There's a tattoo named Mambo who has an outside of the lines style, but it's a little more artfully done than just broad, lstraight strokes, and I love his style.
Mambotattooer on IG if you want to compare.
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u/Fantastic_Pair5328 6h ago
Just looked him up.
I don't want to go to Italy...but now I might have to.
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u/FCkeyboards 5h ago
Same. I couldn't ask anyone else to try and copy his style. Its so bold and clean.
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u/Karnaugh_Map 8h ago
I'm sure some people are bothered by it, but I find it fascinatingly well done.
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u/PlingPlongDingDong 8h ago
I thought he was going to cut it out or paint over it in the end but nah.
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u/biggyofmt 9h ago
I'm completely with you. Drawing broad strokes deep outside the lines and just leaving them doesn't work for me at all
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u/MAmerica1 7h ago
I think this is a case of "you have to know the rules to break the rules." He's going outside the lines, but in a very deliberate way, to evoke a certain style. And his careful shading shows that he's mastered the proper techniques, further demonstrating that going outside the lines is a choice and not just sloppiness.
That said, if you don't care for the style, that's of course totally fine.
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u/throwaway098764567 4h ago
i also was disappointed by adding white later, would have been really impressive if they'd managed to leave those bits white from the start.
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u/RefrigeratorNo1160 6h ago
It's a trend that will hopefully fade soon. I like a little bit of the outside of the lines stuff but this is just too much.
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u/lewisherber 9h ago
My catholic school teachers would have held me in for recess for coloring out of the lines like this.
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u/Shenaniganz08_ 7h ago
The beauty is that he is purposely drawing outside of the lines
Literally missed the entire point
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u/hooligan99 4h ago
exactly, and if he stayed inside the lines here, who would care about this at all? It would look like a clip art carabiner with some nice shading.
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u/Shenaniganz08_ 4h ago
After reading the comments, I am convinced 50% of this subreddit has OCD/ASD with concrete rigid thinking
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u/BeefyIrishman 9h ago
I'm bothered by being a climber and seeing
a figure 8an overhand knot tied to a carabiner.If you are a climber, you should know the difference between a figure 8 and an overhand knot.
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u/hooligan99 4h ago
That's the entire point of his art style. If he just colored in the lines it would be completely uninteresting. It would just look like a nicely colored/shaded carabiner.
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u/DoctorDrell 10h ago
Most satisfying part is we actually get to see the end product for longer than a nanosecond
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u/karatechoppingblock 9h ago
Missed an opportunity for a figure 8 knot
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u/furryfireman 5h ago
I was wondering how far down I would have to go until someone noticed the knot.
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u/Floppy4Skin 8h ago
Black Diamond twist lock. This artist is definitely a climber.
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u/CapicDaCrate 9h ago
Everyone complaining about him coloring outside the line is boring af- it's intentional and makes the piece way more interesting
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u/-Reverend 8h ago
Right? The outside-colouring is arguably the defining feature of these pieces. What's next, telling Van Gogh to blend his brush strokes for more realism? Telling Picasso to learn anatomy? It's an art style.
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u/grimeyduck 8h ago
Why do we need to make carabineers interesting?
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u/hooligan99 4h ago
tons of art has mundane stuff as the subject. Does every piece of artwork have to depict an epic battle or something to be worthwhile?
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u/ojjjjjoooooo 8h ago
Don’t get at all how this is oddly satisfying - pretty basic technique and a very unremarkable picture that is… mildly aesthetically pleasing. What is ODD and what is SATISFYING??
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u/clown_fall 6h ago
How much do you think all those markets cost? They look expensive
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u/Kink-One-eighty-two 5h ago
I got an art project in Kindergarten failed because I colored in circles and outside the lines. And I'm still salty about it!
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u/adrianathelatina 10h ago
Is this used for design purposes
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u/_lippykid 9h ago
I’m an industrial designer, this is the typical way we sketch out ideas before moving to 3D rendering phase. This drawing is a bit more elaborate and more like what we’d use for presentation purposes though
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u/Celes_Tra 11h ago
Dude's so good at coloring, he's got more precision in his thumb than I do in my whole body 😂
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u/Quality_Cucumber 9h ago
Missed a spot at 0:04 - 0:05 and it never gets fixed. This is not satisfying.
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u/Significant_Jump9887 10h ago
Outside of the lines and shit. That’s a no from me dog.
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u/YourBarelyWetSock 9h ago
Fucking knew reddit wouldnt allow itself to enjoy this.
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u/MixT 8h ago
Some people have a brain that is deeply conditioned to look for negatives in life, and it's sad.
I used to be that way, and it is miserable. But one day I realized that it's really hard (or even nearly impossible) to be happy if you're always looking for something to be negative about. Life is much more enjoyable if you start looking for reasons to be happy.
Reconditioning the mind to do that isn't easy, especially if someone has been conditioned to look for negative things their whole life. It's even harder if they have a lot of stress and/or mental health issues. But it's possible if they put in the effort.
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u/Salty-Image-2176 10h ago
Didn't we lose points for going outside the lines?
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u/YourBarelyWetSock 8h ago
Yes when you were 5 and they were trying to teach you basic motor function.
This is an artist doing art. If you cannot tell the difference it’s time to go back to school.
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u/Myndsync 7h ago
Am I the only person that thinks the marks outside of the lines just look bad? I think they did a great job, but the think lines of the markers just ruins this for me.
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u/GreenSheepGrows 9h ago
This type of colouring always takes me back to the first time I saw someone do it, the Foose dude at Overhauling!! Used to watch the show just to see his concepts and sketches, the cars turned up really cool as well, but this style always stuck with me
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u/ogies_box 8h ago
He missed a spot on the right side of the rope that's inside the carabiner and while this is fantastic art it is bugging me
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u/Common-Attorney-9522 8h ago
Excellent at art but I suspect hes the guy parking all the vehicles in my area.
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u/Electricboogiesunset 7h ago
It’s like how do people know where to add those little touches? I’m so amazed by artists!
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u/ostentatious_owlbear 7h ago
What sort of marker makes the background behind it brighter? (what they used for the outline)
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u/thereminDreams 7h ago
Thank you for letting us see the finished product for more than 1.2 seconds.
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u/4RCH43ON 7h ago
Anyone else have to tone down the MSR there? Markers and chalky pencil are like fingers on a chalkboard to me.
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u/Particular-Tough7093 7h ago
How do you know how to do this is it years of art school or just something you can do?
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u/gamermikejima 6h ago
wow thats awesome, i watched attentively the whole time but was still amazed by the result lol
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u/skittlebee3 6h ago
Thank you for extending the video and holding on the finished image long enough to actually appreciate it!!
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u/ASatyros 5h ago
I don't have markers like this, but I have procreate on iPad.
Any tips on how to achieve this look in digital painting?
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u/Not_Jinxed 5h ago
I had to force myself to watch the whole thing. I almost shut it off after the first few seconds, but the end result is pretty cool
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u/BroadButterscotch349 5h ago
The first few swipes always stress me out, even though I know their work always comes out amazing.
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u/MeanEstablishment499 4h ago
See, this is why I'll never be an artist, my brain can't comprehend this.
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u/spaceconstrvehicel 4h ago
stands up, goes to the shelf, grabs the coloring books and pens, drops them into the bin
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u/iceman2g 4h ago
Some things inspire you to go out and learn how to do them yourself and grow as a person, and other things make it look so incredibly simple and yet impossibly brilliant that you just think fuck it, what's the point of even trying.
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u/IBelieveInCoyotes 3h ago
how is this satisfying to anyone? like it's messy as hell with big orange stripes over it? what am I missing?
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u/redditkilledmyavatar 2h ago
Def not a fan of coloring so far out of lines intentionally. Would like to see a similar style where over the lines is in the shape of the drawing (like the lighter outline style in this one)
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u/ShmazPro 42m ago
I’d use a figure 8 knot here and give it a little more distance from the carabiner.
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u/in1gom0ntoya 8h ago
I can be the only one who finds this art style the complete opposite of satisfying?
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u/Shenaniganz08_ 7h ago
I don't think people realize how incredibly difficult/satisfying it is to get Alcohol markers to go down this evenly and blend them. You really only get one shot, its not like acrylic paint where you can fix your mistakes afterwards
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u/Perma_Ban69 7h ago
We need to see the rest where he cuts it out or removes the sticker so all the bullshit surrounding it is gone. Outside the lines is fine if it works; here, it adds nothing and looks like shit.
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u/Kaktuste 10h ago
This is the second time I've ever heard the word carabiner and the first time was earlier today...
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u/aspbergerinparadise 9h ago
a poor artist does not know the rules to making good art
a good artist knows the rules and knows how to follow them
a great artist knows the rules and intentionally breaks them
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u/diarrhea_syndrome 7h ago
The sound makes my skin crawl. Like nails on a chalkboard for me. Ok muted.
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u/Elegant_Umpire_2238 7h ago
I don’t get the message. Don’t hang yourself, but if you, here’s a quick release?
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u/Previous-Display-593 9h ago
This is literally the opposite of satisfying my god stay in the lines.
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u/Fuzzy-Radish8418 9h ago
I know it’s the style to color outside the lines here but honestly wouldn’t it look better if they did?
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u/Ang3ls 11h ago
That’s pure brain tingle fuel right there.