# moderndayjames: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-10-28, moderndayjames has 539,000 subscribers, 19,446,533 total views, and 452 videos. It ranks #141,780 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [moderndayjames](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for moderndayjames is “Proportions of the Figure”, a long-form video published May 6, 2025.
- These are moderndayjames’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between May 4, 2018 and May 6, 2025 (42 long-form videos and 6 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 123,471. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “New to Animation? Start Here” (1,115,529 views, May 11, 2022). Least viewed: “Fun sketching before 12 hours of not fun sketching!” (6,980 views, Dec 4, 2024).
- Median length: 11:18 for 42 long-form videos; 0:32 for 6 Shorts.
- In this sample, moderndayjames’s consecutive uploads were a median of 25 days apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 301 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 29, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Proportions of the Figure](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/UEzkEuV8uJY/) | 2025-05-06 | Long-form | 35,812 | 3:49 | 2.17x |
| [What it's like animating for Netflix](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/jaHLI0PRHDU/) | 2025-02-11 | Long-form | 40,100 | 8:15 | 2.43x |
| [Fun sketching before 12 hours of not fun sketching!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/s6XkWkjq4ZM/) | 2024-12-04 | Long-form | 6,980 | 49:12 | - |
| [Storyboarding Basics](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/En7u6PTDn7Q/) | 2024-09-20 | Long-form | 133,689 | 7:59 | 0.66x |
| [Animating so quickly even AI is jealous](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/f0VOzSw0Yb0/) | 2024-08-19 | Long-form | 18,079 | 1:03:28 | - |
| [The Animation Marathon Continues](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/7I_9rqEbZ7E/) | 2024-08-12 | Long-form | 19,660 | 2:07:37 | - |
| [How Professional Animators Use Clip Studio Paint](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/3s88IcD2Q-8/) | 2023-10-16 | Long-form | 456,332 | 5:02 | 2.22x |
| [How to Draw Foreshortening](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/ZqIZZkATs1w/) | 2023-10-04 | Long-form | 199,229 | 6:11 | 0.98x |
| [NEW CINEMATIC DRAWING CLASS (link in description!)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/mGbiHIpWzcE/) | 2023-02-23 | Short | 12,235 | 1:01 | - |
| [Think of each pose as a sequence of events, #2danimation #drawingtutorial #animationtutorial](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/WUI1gfyGGpE/) | 2023-02-06 | Short | 66,971 | 0:17 | 4.05x |
| [A great way to study composition and figures in perspective #animation #drawingtutorial](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/HtgOZMNx-DU/) | 2023-02-05 | Short | 111,645 | 0:13 | 6.76x |
| [How I animate a 2D run Cycle #2danimation #animation #anime](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/RgdiS7cdRw8/) | 2023-02-05 | Short | 17,300 | 1:01 | 1.05x |
| [Layout drawings from my Musashi short #animation #2danimation #anime](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/KVeJJEV_cg4/) | 2023-02-05 | Short | 31,671 | 0:15 | 1.92x |
| [Here’s how I go about my independent animation production. #animation #anime #2danimation](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/Bzch3W9ZBCc/) | 2023-02-02 | Short | 78,960 | 0:48 | 4.78x |
| [Figure Drawing for Animators](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/x-EHFaGoMKI/) | 2022-09-26 | Long-form | 206,597 | 8:48 | 12.51x |
| [Animation: Slow in and Slow Out/ Follow Through](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/dpwgmOGJQIw/) | 2022-07-10 | Long-form | 108,640 | 16:03 | 6.58x |
| [Animating Character Turnarounds](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/XEqAwKUGwhM/) | 2022-06-28 | Long-form | 123,938 | 21:36 | 7.5x |
| [New to Animation? Start Here](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/37L-8lbyS1Y/) | 2022-05-11 | Long-form | 1,115,529 | 9:04 | 67.54x |
| [How to Animate Run Cycles](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/nKvBYXzRszw/) | 2022-04-05 | Long-form | 369,026 | 11:41 | 22.34x |
| [How to Make Your Drawings Cinematic](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/GiDKYvYwahU/) | 2021-08-08 | Long-form | 131,148 | 10:25 | 7.94x |
| [2D Animation: Walk Cycles](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/IViMJyqU9gY/) | 2021-05-25 | Long-form | 284,739 | 10:35 | 17.24x |
| [Solid Drawing for Animation](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/MpHIvAYCie0/) | 2021-02-24 | Long-form | 174,259 | 20:34 | 10.55x |
| [Painting with Warm and Cool Colors](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/w04rmaqYzfs/) | 2021-02-05 | Long-form | 123,004 | 10:43 | 7.45x |
| [Learn Art Tactically](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/sXgaNuxf1vk/) | 2020-07-09 | Long-form | 105,151 | 11:45 | 6.37x |
| [2020 UPDATE AND FIGURE PAINTING](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/2CKwoNrMVFY/) | 2019-12-18 | Long-form | 25,741 | 10:01 | 1.56x |
| [FIXING MY TRASH ART](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/Ca32fpXjFTw/) | 2019-11-27 | Long-form | 277,997 | 10:02 | 16.83x |
| [DRAWING THE HAND: DECIPHERING BRIDGMAN PT. 4](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/I0iZCGtVa8I/) | 2019-10-31 | Long-form | 170,762 | 13:39 | 10.34x |
| [DECIPHERING BRIDGMAN 3: DRAWING THE ARM](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/Qr-cR4HKviY/) | 2019-10-25 | Long-form | 288,375 | 15:58 | 17.46x |
| [DECIPHERING BRIDGMAN 2: ANATOMY OF THE TRUNK](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/tZ9entFMbtI/) | 2019-09-30 | Long-form | 418,089 | 15:27 | 25.31x |
| [ANATOMICAL SHAPE LANGUAGE](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/BWb15Nb4PWI/) | 2019-09-16 | Long-form | 306,972 | 10:36 | 18.59x |
| [DIGITAL PAINTING IN COLOR: SIMPLE PALETTE PAINTING](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/kNMDew24sM8/) | 2019-08-29 | Long-form | 30,004 | 10:02 | 1.82x |
| [HAND CHALLENGE CRITIQUE - NEW CHALLENGE ANNOUNCED](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/V6AXps-NoO8/) | 2019-08-21 | Long-form | 31,268 | 11:18 | 1.89x |
| [DECIPHERING BRIDGMAN'S ANATOMY 1](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/FupeKX4NQsQ/) | 2019-07-27 | Long-form | 1,090,243 | 10:47 | 66.01x |
| [50 VALUE PORTRAIT CRITIQUE - NEW CHALLENGE POSTED](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/tkaVnSBS5Qo/) | 2019-07-01 | Long-form | 43,468 | 10:05 | 2.63x |
| [EDGES IN PAINTING - DIGITAL PAINTING 3](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/w3zVGXSw_d8/) | 2019-06-26 | Long-form | 108,010 | 11:27 | 6.54x |
| [YOUTUBE 101 EP. 1: HOW TO GET MORE VIEWS](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/_6inBvuxxYI/) | 2019-06-21 | Long-form | 13,492 | 10:25 | - |
| [DIGITAL PAINTING 2: PAINTING PRIMITIVES](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/F5VNb5itr9Y/) | 2019-06-13 | Long-form | 119,481 | 11:18 | 7.23x |
| [70 FIGURES CRITIQUE - NEW CHALLENGE ANNOUNCED](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/LXuWTsYzXAQ/) | 2019-05-21 | Long-form | 51,406 | 14:40 | 3.11x |
| [100 EXPRESSIONS CRITIQUE - 70 FIGURE CHALLENGE](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/aGjVYZx14J0/) | 2019-04-29 | Long-form | 39,948 | 14:40 | 2.42x |
| [100 EXPRESSIONS CHALLENGE](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/fCsDSxq4nJs/) | 2019-04-15 | Long-form | 106,281 | 10:08 | 6.44x |
| [DRAWING MECHS WITH MODERNDAYJAMES](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/li2qw57PqZI/) | 2019-03-29 | Long-form | 449,946 | 13:13 | 27.24x |
| [COMPOSITION 1 - Understanding Shapes](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/wg-So3ElA8g/) | 2019-03-22 | Long-form | 322,538 | 12:10 | 19.53x |
| [CLOTH AND DRAPERY 2: MOVEMENT IN FABRIC](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/Wz7SdRoMhT4/) | 2019-02-14 | Long-form | 519,719 | 21:03 | 31.47x |
| [DRAWING FIGURES IN PERSPECTIVE](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/g5gKA7hu7Fc/) | 2019-01-22 | Long-form | 504,683 | 10:04 | 30.56x |
| [WORLD BUILDING III: EXTERIORS AND PROPS](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/tacFAOrKr1E/) | 2018-11-07 | Long-form | 181,886 | 13:29 | 11.01x |
| [TEXTURE: DRAWING IN SHAPE AND LIGHT](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/4Y0XVPprbYY/) | 2018-10-03 | Long-form | 223,597 | 10:52 | 13.54x |
| [BECOMING A GI 4: POSING IN PERSPECTIVE](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/D0g2MMsvqEM/) | 2018-08-12 | Long-form | 563,628 | 14:00 | 34.13x |
| [VEHICLE SKETCHING IV: Sketching Modern Cars](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@moderndayjames/videos/sL1f_tBYquE/) | 2018-05-04 | Long-form | 151,834 | 15:57 | 9.19x |

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