07-17-2015, 08:34 PM
Hey man! So great to see you have a goal to work towards! I've encountered the issues with manga drawing (as anyway who looked it up would). I got so fed up with short sighted / clueless anime / manga tutorials and books and videos that I decided I'd just learn figures the traditional way and figure out the rest myself from studying manga. I think it's a great, great idea you have. Can't wait til you get it up and running so I can learn some stuff ^^
Amit's given a pretty thorough set of insights. I'll just echo that I think great content is the key - even if videos are 6 months old, if someone joins your channel and likes your stuff they will go back and look (I still watch Proko's head drawing videos as a refresher now and then and they'd already been out for a long time when I first saw them, or Alphonso Dunn's been around for ages but I discovered recently, and looked at loads of his older stuff).
As a personal opinion, from someone who wants to get good and is serious about art, but also has responsibilities in life (like most adults), I am very very choosy about watching videos that are longer than 20 minutes. I do watch them, but very rarely and only if I really trust the maker that I'll get something worthwhile out of it. Whereby, a video that's 10 - 15 minutes long, if it looks interesting, I'll always click it. It sounds like you have great insights into potential topics, explaining the 'why' is so important - we can discuss your content in another post if you want to bounce stuff around. I think tight editing, clear aims that are clearly addressed are key, you can get as analytical and off the wall as you like, but I think general rambling (which can also delve into getting sidetracked and going off topic) is something to avoid. Careful planning and brutal editing of scripts before recording should help. Like a drawing, you want to simplify it down to basic shapes then build it back up, approach teaching the same way and understand that you can't teach everything about a topic straight away - students need time to digest it in little pieces. You can always do followup and multi-part videos spaced apart. It's actually less beneficial to download all the info in one lesson, it overwhelms and students will learn less than if they'd been presented with small chunks.
My day job is as a teacher for teenagers, so any advice you need about structuring and delivering that stuff let me know.
Lastly, I think it doesn't matter if you only post one video a month, if it is well thought out and presented and addresses something interesting, like the inward feet thing, as long as you consistently post a new video at that time every month. It's the consistency that's important - if you say you will update once a week and regularly miss, or are late, or post stuff you aren't 100% happy with just to meet the deadline, people will drift away. At least, that's how it works for webcomics - authors can have long times between posts but as long as they stay consistent people come back and read.
Best of luck!
Amit's given a pretty thorough set of insights. I'll just echo that I think great content is the key - even if videos are 6 months old, if someone joins your channel and likes your stuff they will go back and look (I still watch Proko's head drawing videos as a refresher now and then and they'd already been out for a long time when I first saw them, or Alphonso Dunn's been around for ages but I discovered recently, and looked at loads of his older stuff).
As a personal opinion, from someone who wants to get good and is serious about art, but also has responsibilities in life (like most adults), I am very very choosy about watching videos that are longer than 20 minutes. I do watch them, but very rarely and only if I really trust the maker that I'll get something worthwhile out of it. Whereby, a video that's 10 - 15 minutes long, if it looks interesting, I'll always click it. It sounds like you have great insights into potential topics, explaining the 'why' is so important - we can discuss your content in another post if you want to bounce stuff around. I think tight editing, clear aims that are clearly addressed are key, you can get as analytical and off the wall as you like, but I think general rambling (which can also delve into getting sidetracked and going off topic) is something to avoid. Careful planning and brutal editing of scripts before recording should help. Like a drawing, you want to simplify it down to basic shapes then build it back up, approach teaching the same way and understand that you can't teach everything about a topic straight away - students need time to digest it in little pieces. You can always do followup and multi-part videos spaced apart. It's actually less beneficial to download all the info in one lesson, it overwhelms and students will learn less than if they'd been presented with small chunks.
My day job is as a teacher for teenagers, so any advice you need about structuring and delivering that stuff let me know.
Lastly, I think it doesn't matter if you only post one video a month, if it is well thought out and presented and addresses something interesting, like the inward feet thing, as long as you consistently post a new video at that time every month. It's the consistency that's important - if you say you will update once a week and regularly miss, or are late, or post stuff you aren't 100% happy with just to meet the deadline, people will drift away. At least, that's how it works for webcomics - authors can have long times between posts but as long as they stay consistent people come back and read.
Best of luck!