Researching

The video I found the most relevant to me was a YouTube tutorial about using colored pencils. I am currently in my fundamentals of drawing class that has my class doing colored pencils this week and I haven’t used them in an artistic way since high school. The video was posted in 2020 which is the most recent and decently in depth video I could have found. She goes into detail about layering our pencils and going back over for finer details at the end. She seems very reliable because her channel is focused a lot on art and drawing. She has also been posting art tutorials since 2013 along with the fact that she is also quite detailed in the way she spoke and instructed the viewers on her coloring. She was also speaking slow enough to keep up with and make sure the viewers are following which I found quite nice as it also helps those with hearing disadvantages or those who are neurodivergent and have trouble with retaining information. The only gatekeeping I saw in her video was the editing and speed in which she is coloring but it wasn’t in a way where she was speeding though her video and coloring but more in a way where she was describing her steps and movements through the video. I am also not able to see any dislikes due to YouTube’s new system with dislikes however, the ratio of her views versus likes is very wide as she has nearly 4 million views to her 100 thousand likes which could just be a viewer and user issue with YouTube videos as of late. Despite this though, YouTube pushes videos based on views and not likes regardless so I feel that she must be a helpful tool for artists such as myself. As for the quality of information, I feel like as she went through the video, her descriptions and instructions were very helpful, easy to follow, and wordy enough to be well in depth but not boring or have her seem like she’s rambling. I really liked her video and tutorial and feel like for the next assignment in my drawing class I would absolutely use her videos as a guidance.

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