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Thank you so much for your kind words! How did you experience the exercise? Was it fun, easy/hard?

@@PracticeDrawingThis it was very fun and easy to understand It helped me to draw my spider man drawing :)

@@samratdeb7555 Excellent!!! :-) Thank you for letting me know, it''s nice to hear when someone finds it useful!

I *am* a lefty! What's the other way?

@PracticeDrawingThis from right to left isn't it ?)

@@briochew haha yeah! I tend to draw from right to left to not smear drawings (wet ink and such). I even start on the right page. But writing is done left to right of course. You the same?

What I meant on 3:40 , you write from right to left )​@@PracticeDrawingThis

Thank you! These are indeed an internediary step, relatively easy to learn, fun, and you can always do them. Thank you for commenting!

My latest videos are all about, and only about, how to draw certain things. Let me know if there's something you'd like to learn to draw, and no guarantees, but I might be able to make a video about it.

Yeah... I find I have a longer attention span if I stay offline... Social media is destroying our brains. That said, maybe my recent videos where I show how to draw things could be useful as they dive right into drawing something.

Yes, I do! I have a Discord. I'll add another comment with the link. If the post doesn't show, you can find it on my website: click "Free Resources" at the top, and then it's at the bottom of the page.

Here is the link to the discord: discord.gg/6dWjPNu8Xd

Thank you! Maybe I should turn it into a drawing demo video!

@@PracticeDrawingThis I would love that yes!!

@@FrancesSnihur I'll try to create that video as a warm-up drawing exercise. Thank you!

@@G.G.-nt2mi thank you for letting me know! It means a lot. Have you tried one of my recent drawing exercise videos? How do you experience them? Thank you again!

Yes! Lots of things in nature can be approximated through organic forms. And they are fun to draw.

@@magnuswootton6181 they are indeed 3d!

Thank you so much for your kind words!

Thank you! I hope you like it. Pages with texture studies can look nice!

Thank you! Glad to have you here! I'm planning some more exciting videos were we warm up drawing from a photo reference. I want to show how to find construction and rhythm lines to help drawing the reference. What did you think of this exercise? Thank you for subbing!

Thanks so much, just what I needed! Even the bell sounds encouraging 😂

@@ruthsantos6845 thank you so much for letting me know! I started making these for myself and put them online in the hopes it would help others, too. Thank you again!

@@cygnuschild9415 Thank you so much for your kind words! Glad it was of use. Indeed, dollar store sketchbooks can be fine, too, the most important thing is to draw, like you mention. But it's fun to try new sketchbooks. Thank you so much!

Hey Priyanka! I saw you were picking up steam producing videos again also! Very good to see you back! Shall we compare notes one day on what we discovered works on this platform? Great to hear from you again!

it sounded better in your previous videos

Thank you! I hadn't noticed that, frankly, and need to look into that. The reason that didn't happen in the previous recordings was that there I edited the audio in Audacity and reduced it to mono. It dulled the sound considerably, I think. I thought I'd try and see what happens if I leave the 4 (!) audio channels that come out of the microphone intact. I like the crisp sound of the unedited version, but maybe I need to tune the balance in the microphone. There's a lot I need to improve still. I hem and haw a lot in the video. The thumbnail has a click-through rate of only 1.2%. People watch the video for around 20%. So there's work to be done! Scary to show my face in a video, but this was rather fun to do. It's funny, it's kind of a soap box. Thank you so much for your feedback!!! Learning to draw, you can do a lot on your own! It's a matter of, like the video says, practice a lot, study the fundamentals (perspective, composition, anatomy, dexterity), study and copy the masters, learn the conventions and canon of masterpieces in the medium, learn to look critically at your work (like you did for my video) and figure out ways to improve. It's not an easy path, but I find it helps if you stay stoic ("I'm not that good at it" perhaps suggests you have negative feelings about your skills, and it becomes easier if you tune that out), recognizing and noting down things you want to improve, and to then go about doing that. Thank you again!

@@PracticeDrawingThis Try stereo audio. That's the two circles; I think it's cardiod or something. That is the default for most microphones. On your thumbnail, I think the 3 could be a lot larger, like a giant 3. Have it stretching big from to the top and bottom of the page, but on the left side. You might be able to leave out the words. Your face on the right side of the thumbnail is fine, but people like clicking on bright stuff, so make the numbers or topic more clear at a glance in the thumbnail. Your titles are great. I liked the white thumbnials you did. dont worry about engaugement, becuse once people watch a few seconds of your video, they will stay if they like the pacing or the topic. Niche stuff sometimes catches the algorithum. your video " easy drawing" has lots of views becuase people searched for similar videos and wanted to watch it. go on an incognito tab and search that to see how your videos compare to other peoples channels. specifically look at titles and thumbnail colors.

@@jkl970 Well! You have my attention now! You clearly know more about this. I loved the idea of the larger 3! I did it immediately, of course. I can't believe I never go this bold. I'm not Paula Scher, but playing with type is fun! It certainly attracts the eye. I also was able to play with negative space a bit more this way. The thumbnail is still not great, but I can see it is better now. It pops much more. I need to rethink my approach to thumbnails. I went incognito and I see what you mean. The thumbnails of successful videos are often bright, daylight-like with a positive vibe. About the engagement, I am over that a bit. If people don't like it, my stuff clearly isn't for them and that really is totally fine. The alternative is me making things I don't want to make, for an audience I don't even want to reach in the first place. That's not a life well lived. It's magic, though, when the algorithm finally finds your audience and it's sometimes surprising *what* finds an audience. And the audio... I know my hearing is not perfect, so I might actually need to find someone near me to help me with that. I suspect you're a more bit more experienced at this and I wouldn't be surprised if you usually charge for this information. Know that the time you gave me is very, very, very much appreciated. This was really good feedback, or rather, advice. You've given me things to think about. Thank you!

Thank you! With voice description, you mean caption text to read the spoken audio?

I'm sorry I replied this late...

Thank you! And so sorry for the late reply!

Sorry for the late reply! Very much agree with you!

Thank you so much for asking! I am fine, but the space where I make videos is not as accessible at the moment... More videos coming soon! Thank you! Hope everything is well with you also 🙂

oh no problem! WE ARE WAITING 🤩🤩@@PracticeDrawingThis

Sorry for the late reply. I am planning a video on how to actually make the marks with a pen and that video should be slow, real-time... Sorry about that, I will try to improve on that in the future. Thank you so much for the feedback!

YT has an option to do just that. Also, the pause button is helpful.

Yes. Play it at .75 or .5 speed

You're not the first one who asks about a video on how to draw lines well, so now it is on my list of videos I need to make 🙂Thank you so much for the feedback! And sorry for the late reply.

Thank you! And so sorry for replying so late.

Thank you!

Thank YOU for your kind words! They really help me going, thank you! And sorry for the late reply!