A Tutorial…really?

Hey everyone, today I don’t have a tutorial for you or a piece or art or a video. Instead I felt like ranting about something I find very annoying. When a title of a video on youtube says “tutorial” or “how to” and it doesn’t tell you how to do something.

So I go to youtube a lot and, like many others, I got to it not only for entertainment but for answers.Once I saw a video that had a title like “how to draw a car in photoshop.” I was like oh yeah! right on man, gonna check that out… and when I did it was just a freakin’ speed painting video of the guy drawing a car!

I like a good speed drawing video as much as the next artist but when a title says “how to” or “tutorial” it implies that you’re actually gonna inform the viewer on how to do something…can’t really do that when you speed up what you’re doing 900 %.

Another example is today, my friend and I were looking up how to cut choppy layers on youtube and one video had “tutorial” in the title…we watched it and it was this chick cutting her hair sped up. How are we suppose to figure out how  to do that?

I don’t really know how that works, putting those words in the title when you’re not really gonna teach. Just to get views I guess? I don’t know..just annoying to me.

So anyway, any one have any preference as to what kind of tutorials they like? Written tutorials vs. Video. What do you think is better? I personally like video because you can see what the person is doing at all times…I’ve read some tutorials that I feel they must have left out a step because I have no clue how to get from one to two or something. lol I don’t know, maybe I just can’t understand things haha. But what do YOU think?