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I honestly don’t really recommend any videos at all. At least not the kind I’m guessing you’re asking about. I can’t think of any videos that have helped me beyond some reels that showed how some of procreate’s hidden advanced tools work.. The majority of art tutorials online are repeating stuff by the masters but said through a telephone game of hundreds of people. I’ve yet to find one that didn’t feel contrived or is showing a very individualized stylistic technique that wouldn’t work for everyone

As an example for why I don’t like video tutorials: I recently watched a color theory tutorial on youtube because it had a kinda weird thumbnail, and it turns out that the artist had a very intense vendetta against the color green. So the whole video felt like a waste of time because I can’t trust a color theory lesson from someone who 1) hates and tries to avoid an entire color 2) relies on the curve tool and adjusting until it “looks right” which is not a good way to learn colors. I could clock that because I’ve been drawing for a long time but the majority of the comments from beginner-intermediate artists took it as gospel, unfortunately. So I heavily caution stuff like that..

If you learn best from video/audio, here’s some video lectures that may bore you to death as soon as you see the time stamps but hey it’s worth it if you’re dedicated. Should note that you should copy everything, not just idly watch it

Some good books are Anatomy for Sculptors and Color and Light/other books by James Gurney. Here are some free PDFs for Andrew Loomis (best for beginners is “fun with a pencil”). Copy the drawings, not just idly read it. Visual art is an extremely practice-intensive field

Something that helped me that I don’t often see get mentioned is being able to do formal analysis, which is actually an art history thing, but helps you be able to understand various artistic jargon and helps with the ability to analyze other people’s works

But here’s an alternate “how aucatgirl learned to draw, very slowly but with minimal burnout and having a ton of fun with it”

Art credit: royharpersmom on x/twitter

he doesn’t start hugging her back till the end of book 1 and even in book 2 he’s still thrown off by her cheek kisses. every time she initiates a new type of physical interaction, he has a confused or surprised reaction. the one time he initiates a hug is in the serpent’s pass after he initially rejected katara’s hug from earlier. in book 3, he initiates more physical interactions but it still doesn’t add up to the amount of times katara has in total. outside of katara, the only other time i can think of him reaching out to to touch someone is toph when he held her hand because she was feeling vulnerable.

even when i think of the flashbacks, i don’t really recall him getting a hug from gyatso or anyone. obviously the circumstances in the flashbacks are a bit tense but in general, the air nomads don’t seem to be that big on physical affection among friends or even pupils and teachers. gyatso gives him a pat on the head and that seems to be pretty much it when it comes to physical contact. the only being he hugs freely and consistently is appa 😭

anyway it’s just interesting to me to think of aang coming from a community of free-spirited monks and nuns who were not keen on too much touching and affection, being with katara, who comes from a culture or at least a family that hug and embrace each other whenever they feel like it. katara gets a hug from gran-gran, she hugs sokka’s annoying ass sometimes and he gives her a kiss on the cheek when he’s feeling particularly affectionate even if she gets the ick. plus, the water tribe is the only culture where the official greeting between people meeting for the first time includes physical contact.

individually, katara initiates platonic physical interactions with several characters to suggest that this is also just a part of her personality even if aang is definitely the one she likes to be affectionate with the most, let’s be clear!

Censorship won't teach people consent. This isn't a problem of content that normalizes rape online. The problem is that rape is already normalized. The fact that there are predominantly male groups who feel entitled to sexual gratification is an issue on a massive social scale. Prevent them from expressing one version of this entitlement in online spaces and you will martyr their "free speech" cause without teaching them anything. If they can't enable each other online, they'll still keep doing it in locker rooms and ballrooms. They'll find other, less traceable ways to do harm. We can't stop these guys from doing harm until we can ingrain consent, deprogram entitlement, and convince them that other people deserve rights and dignity too. A faster solution is to give their intended victims more tools to protect themselves. Not paternalistic sheltering, but knowledge and bodily autonomy. These are much harder solutions than censorship, and they'd take a while. People might still think cutting off these predators' content will mitigate immediate harm while we work on the long-term problems. BUT!

Censorship will cause more harm than it prevents. You can't censor these guys without censoring everybody. Recently a woman in Australia writing age play--a fictional depiction of adults performing consensual sex--got criminally sentenced. It's a well-studied phenomenon that the fantasies of women tend to be pretty transgressive. That doesn't mean they endorse rape. Women and queer people are finding space in communities to explore their fantasies safely in ways that don't endorse harm. Actually in many ways, these spaces are critical for harm reduction. Tagging specific types of abuse as warnings is showing young readers to identify those harms as harms, for instance, even if it's presented as fantasy. A warning, or even just the acceptance of a trope as 'dark', reaffirms it as transgressive instead of normalizing it. Acceptance of transgressive fantasy empowers vulnerable people with knowledge and control of their own sexual experience, which makes it harder for predators to present themselves as sexual authorities. Penalize depictions of transgressive sex and a lot of innocent women and queer people who are actually reducing harm are going to take the fall. Meanwhile it'll clog up legal resources that could be used to stop actual predators. And, of course, once we allow governing bodies to censor content based on moral grounds, all they have to do is get that line moved to wherever they see fit. Queer content is always one of the first things at risk.

it must have been equally terrifying for her as it was for the real nikki to have someone else fight for control over what she perceived as her body. the scene where she's sobbing in the corner, terrified of her dreams is now more sad than terrifying to me. real nikki, who has just been raped by her once best friend hurting so badly that it seeps into entity!nikki's nightmares. entity!nikki who doesn't understand why the thing she wanted so badly is causing her so much pain. why she can't bring herself to lie in bed next to the man who is the center of her world.

and the worst part is bear doesn't even seem to like her. she's trying so so hard; she made a lovely memorial for his dead cat, she waited for him to come home all day without moving an inch, she made sure to be the most doting girlfriend at the party, and he's not pleased by any of it. he seems disturbed and angry and scared and she has no idea what to do to make it better. to make it worse, he keeps asking her to behave like the original nikki but he was the one who wished for her!! she can't be like nikki because nikki was simply not capable of loving bear even a fraction of how much she does!

she can't seem to reconcile it; he wanted her so badly he conjured her into reality and now he doesn't want her anymore. she doesn't know what to do. she tries everything. she obsesses over him, she threatens to hurt herself, she gets rid of that bitch sarah who keeps distracting him and trying to steal him away, and then dresses in her clothes for good measure and he still doesn't want her.

and then finally in a fit of desperation, she makes the wish and for one beautiful moment its all perfect. he's finally looking at her the way she looks at him. and then he's dead and she's lost everything.