Your concept of simply focusing on the SHAPES has moved my sketching ability along at an AMAZING rate. I’m able to apply it to any subject and getting better every day. THANK YOU!
I have a 284 page book called "How to draw anything" but I learned more and importantly, enjoyed myself more in your ten minute video - thanks as always Toby 👍
Here, here. I have lots of those books too. Prefer following Toby for sketching and Chris Petri for painting. Both are superior teachers like Bob Ross was with oils.
I am 38 and just recently started drawing, by following online tutorials, on procreate. I now know that I really like architecture and urban sketching. I love the way you draw! I love the loose sketches! But when I do it, it seems like my 5 year old did it. And I have the hardest time choosing colors for my drawings. Anyway, this is a great video. I'm trying to simplify and find the shapes. Hopefully it would get easier in the future. Thank you for your videos!
This is one of your best videos yet. I was quite impacted by your discussion about not following rules. It is one thing to say we shouldn't follow rules because they just cause us to get tied into knots, but that wasn't your point. Your point,, as I understand it, is that a rule of proportions, for example, works only for a head on view of your subject. As soon as there is foreshortening or a distorted figure or a slant etc. the rule no longer can be followed. THAT makes so much sense, and yet I wouldn't have tumbled to it on my own. I would love more content like this....in fact, a whole course!
Hehe thanks Eva, I've a few more videos like this coming out, I hope you find them just as useful. The feedback is great because they take blooming hours to edit 😅😂
I really like how you color coded the shapes in 10:13 a scene after you showed the scene. That is very helpful. Likewise I liked your lines that you added to my sketches when I took your coarse. I really would recommend your coarse to anyone with even the slightest interest in learning to draw or improving your drawing. You keep instruction simple, in small bites, and it is a fun way to practice.
I loved the dueling drawing video with Doug, each 'artist' can express a scene in their own 'style' is great. I also like this video helping me go back to basics. Thank you
Merci pour votre production régulière, je me suis remis au dessin à ma retraite et j’adhère à votre concept maîtrisé, vous avez raison il faut travailler avec aisance et liberté, émouvoir et ne pas se prendre au sérieux Continuez vous nous inspirez
I have signed up to take both of your classes and I am thoroughly enjoying the first one, Mark Making. It was this video on "How to Draw Anything" that spurred me on however. It is such a novel idea to me to look at scenes according to shapes and always simplify the scene. I find your style and instruction very refreshing and encouraging. I feel fortunate to have found you in this world of cyber space that usually just takes me down rabbit holes to nowhere.
I have watched a lot of beginner guidance on you tube. I am struggling. You finally made it amazing easy and simplistic as possible. Thank you so much! So grateful you did this video!❤
My basic problem is that I have spent almost all of a rather long life (80 is looking younger all the time) convinced that I am an artistic incompetent, constitutionally incapable of doing anything artistic. I continue to work on that, but it is a huge barrier. I internalized the responses of adults when I was a child; I very strongly remember two particular such events.
Sorry to hear that! It can be difficult to get over childhood experiences, if you'd like some different feedback feel free to email me a picture of your sketches
I am sorry to hear that, Alan! But welcome to our community. You are welcome to ask anything about watercolours at any time on any video here on TH-cam 😃. We are always happy to share and assist 😊.
@alanjameson8664 And thank you for sharing your experience here; it is a strong reminder for us all to take what others say with a healthy pinch of salt.
I empathise with you, I was not encouraged at anything, but decided to have a go at about 60 and now 81, I just do it for fun, and luckily my children who are in their 50s have encouraged me. Aren't we lucky to have the opportunity to watch and learn from all the things available on the Internet.
@@annwornell7510 Oh, yes, indeed! I am very grateful that I have the internet to get information from. Horrible things are happening and problems are everywhere at the moment, but I never forget how lucky I am to be able to learn so, so, so much by simply launching TH-cam or my browser. I am eternally grateful to have this 🙂. And I am also pleased that older generations are joining us, it’s really nice to be sharing art with people like you 😃.
I have just arrived here. What a wonderful teacher you are, I am truly inspired to get started, I have never known where to start. Retired now, I look forward to this enormously. Thank you so much!
Thank you, this is very useful, I consider myself a beginner although I have been sketching on and off since I was very young. This was very useful and I will check out your class.
Toby, quando penso que você já deu as melhores dicas, acho no seu canal este vídeo. Você é simplesmente sensacional para quem está tentando iniciar...Muito obrigada!👍🏻🇧🇷
Your psychological support to people, your perspective that makes people trust themselves to take a step, is more than drawing🥲😊. People including me:) Appreciations and thanks with love 🙌🏾💙
Ein super tolles Video mit wertvollen Tips. Danke herzlich für die Mühe und die wunderbare Art dein Wissen zu teilen. Das ist so hilfreich für mich, denn ich zeichne und male gern, aber noch nicht lange,🎨
Ha - I DEFINITELY need more Practice! As well as everything else! Shapes --- must remember everything is really just shapes! THANKS for this - it helps a lot!
It seems a bit like music where we learn to hear pitches, then take two pitches to form an interval and then we stack intervals in clever ways to create chords from a very simple triad to the most complex of chords. Saying it and doing it tho are two different things. We spend our whole life learning more and more about the combinations and how to use them. As for rules in music, I often say that we study the rules in order to break them properly or improperly as the case may be lol! I'm sure that may well apply to drawing as well. Enjoyed your video by the way. I'm an old road dog musically, but just starting to learn to draw now that I'm retired from the road. Still make music vids tho for youtube. Thank you for the video!
I avoided drawing people (and animals) like a plague- until I saw your video where you drew 2 people in the back alley, and it looked easy and fun so now I’m doing it and it made me happy to finally inhabit the empty streets I usually go for - thank you for your excellent videos - much appreciated
Thank you for this video, Toby. I approach drawing with an architect’s eye and want to draw what I see “precisely “. I am also not very good at it, so I’m going to go back to basic shapes and see what that does to my drawings.
Glad it was helpful! Architectural sketching can be strangely different from sketching sketching. More focussed on precision, perspective and clean lines.
I took a drawing class locally. The instructor gave us pictures and had us do shapes with a marker. It is really helpful. This is a very useful video. Thank you.
I just started a drawing course. Never done this before and she just planked loads of stuff on table and told us to draw it. Then came in a told me everything I'm doing wrong. Basically everything 😂 I'm doing more rubbing out than drawing. I'm kinda hooked now, and if she explain this, I might have had a better concept of what I was meant to be doing. THANKS A LOT.
I love drawing small thing, larger. Like a piece of popcorn, the cracked kernel in the hull, the ridges. Everything can be broken down into lines. Replicate a curved line here, a swirly line there… ❤️
Your channel is one of the best for education about sketching and aquarel. Thanks for sharing that informations. Greetings from Bosnia and Herzegovina. 😁😁
Thanks so much for this Toby. Excellent information and great examples. It really encouages me to keep practicing. My philosophy on art is that if you can write then you can draw. It's all lines and a line is nothing more than a dot that goes for a walk. From Toronto Canada 😊
I like sketching landscapes and small buildings. But I love churches and ruins like old abbeys and castles. But there are parts of churches I am finding very challenging. It’s the shapes on the corners of church towers, buttresses I think they’re called. They go downwards in rectangular ‘steps’. But I’m practicing. Thanks for more invaluable tips, Toby. 😊
Basically.. style isn't something you find, it's not something you seek out. It's a result. It's where you accidentally end up. Think about it like photography - a photographer's style is just what they end up liking to take pictures of, and in the way they like taking pictures of it. Same for art. Look at art and find what speaks to you, like for instance watercolor and pen, and go from there and let your style end up where it ends up when you draw what you like in the way you like drawing it.
I thought I couldn't paint with watercolour, I'd forgotten Tip 6 and was trying to conform to "A Watercolor Artist" that painted realism and perfect flowers and animals - i dont like painting realism or perfection with any medium why would watercolour be any different. Loose sketching is perfect because it doesnt have to be perfect - it can be a bit abstract and that's the artist i am - thank you for helping me to remember that I am the artist I WANT to be, not the artist I think I SHOULD be
Honestly sometimes the art being more up to abstraction lets the imagination fill it in, it's more unique than trying to print a photograph in an overly complicated manner.
thanks. I really enjoy your videos. do you have anything for someone who love making art but find they keep procrastinating and/or is blocked somehow? thanks in advance.
can i ask a question about 1:20? Because if you look at it, the ask italian building is slanted in the pic and the door is straight but the shape your drew around is the opposite - the building is a straight square and the door is a sort of oblong triangle. is there a reason for this? or am i not seeing things clearly?
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Your concept of simply focusing on the SHAPES has moved my sketching ability along at an AMAZING rate. I’m able to apply it to any subject and getting better every day. THANK YOU!
Happy to help!
I have a 284 page book called "How to draw anything" but I learned more and importantly, enjoyed myself more in your ten minute video - thanks as always Toby 👍
Wonderful! Thanks Martin!
Here, here. I have lots of those books too. Prefer following Toby for sketching and Chris Petri for painting. Both are superior teachers like Bob Ross was with oils.
Maybe you learn better visually rather than from a book. Most people learn better from visuals.
This lesson was too good to be free, thanks a lot!
I am 38 and just recently started drawing, by following online tutorials, on procreate. I now know that I really like architecture and urban sketching. I love the way you draw! I love the loose sketches! But when I do it, it seems like my 5 year old did it. And I have the hardest time choosing colors for my drawings. Anyway, this is a great video. I'm trying to simplify and find the shapes. Hopefully it would get easier in the future. Thank you for your videos!
You can do it! Delighted to have you along too 😁
Thank you for these videos I really appreciate them. I love loose art its beautiful.
Glad you like them!
Your tips are really helping me. I sketched and painted my first street scene. Yay!
That's great! Well done!!!!
Congrats, Teresa! 😃
Very VERY helpful…and proof that “simple’ (including advice) is often best! Thank you!
You're very welcome!
This is one of your best videos yet. I was quite impacted by your discussion about not following rules. It is one thing to say we shouldn't follow rules because they just cause us to get tied into knots, but that wasn't your point. Your point,, as I understand it, is that a rule of proportions, for example, works only for a head on view of your subject. As soon as there is foreshortening or a distorted figure or a slant etc. the rule no longer can be followed. THAT makes so much sense, and yet I wouldn't have tumbled to it on my own. I would love more content like this....in fact, a whole course!
Hehe thanks Eva, I've a few more videos like this coming out, I hope you find them just as useful. The feedback is great because they take blooming hours to edit 😅😂
I can only imagine the time that is required to edit. This was well worth it imo !
Brilliant. No waffle. To the point. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Your lines have so much character and soul. You’ve inspired me
Thanks Toby. This is the most helpful yet!!
Glad to hear it!
Brilliant! Step 1 alone is genius. That's almost all ya' need. Almost. Love this video 🤓 Leave "perfection" behind and go for "essence" and "shape"
Yes! Thank you!
I really like how you color coded the shapes in 10:13 a scene after you showed the scene. That is very helpful. Likewise I liked your lines that you added to my sketches when I took your coarse. I really would recommend your coarse to anyone with even the slightest interest in learning to draw or improving your drawing. You keep instruction simple, in small bites, and it is a fun way to practice.
Thanks Mary for this lovely endorsement!!
I loved the dueling drawing video with Doug, each 'artist' can express a scene in their own 'style' is great. I also like this video helping me go back to basics. Thank you
Awesome, thank you!
Thank you,thank you!!
Any time!
Merci pour votre production régulière, je me suis remis au dessin à ma retraite et j’adhère à votre concept maîtrisé, vous avez raison il faut travailler avec aisance et liberté, émouvoir et ne pas se prendre au sérieux Continuez vous nous inspirez
Your tip on seeing the shapes as the foundation for everything was very helpful. Thank you so much for simplifying it in my head! 😊
My pleasure!
I have signed up to take both of your classes and I am thoroughly enjoying the first one, Mark Making. It was this video on "How to Draw Anything" that spurred me on however. It is such a novel idea to me to look at scenes according to shapes and always simplify the scene. I find your style and instruction very refreshing and encouraging. I feel fortunate to have found you in this world of cyber space that usually just takes me down rabbit holes to nowhere.
Delighted to hear, thanks Sarah!
Thank you so much Toby for sharing
Any time
I have watched so many of your courses and this video is one of my favorites. Thank you for such important information in a compact little bite!
Thank you for these drawing tips!
Glad you like them!
Such wonderful and practical instruction. Thanks so much!!!😊
You are so welcome!
Great job ❤thanks much for your wisdom
Thanks, a great video as usual. More than for beginners I find these tips useful for anyone, no matter which level of experience in drawing they have.
Thank you 😊
@@TobySketchLoose That’s right :)
I have watched a lot of beginner guidance on you tube. I am struggling. You finally made it amazing easy and simplistic as possible. Thank you so much! So grateful you did this video!❤
Awesome, thanks 🙏🙏🙏
My basic problem is that I have spent almost all of a rather long life (80 is looking younger all the time) convinced that I am an artistic incompetent, constitutionally incapable of doing anything artistic. I continue to work on that, but it is a huge barrier. I internalized the responses of adults when I was a child; I very strongly remember two particular such events.
Sorry to hear that! It can be difficult to get over childhood experiences, if you'd like some different feedback feel free to email me a picture of your sketches
I am sorry to hear that, Alan! But welcome to our community. You are welcome to ask anything about watercolours at any time on any video here on TH-cam 😃. We are always happy to share and assist 😊.
@alanjameson8664 And thank you for sharing your experience here; it is a strong reminder for us all to take what others say with a healthy pinch of salt.
I empathise with you, I was not encouraged at anything, but decided to have a go at about 60 and now 81, I just do it for fun, and luckily my children who are in their 50s have encouraged me. Aren't we lucky to have the opportunity to watch and learn from all the things available on the Internet.
@@annwornell7510 Oh, yes, indeed! I am very grateful that I have the internet to get information from. Horrible things are happening and problems are everywhere at the moment, but I never forget how lucky I am to be able to learn so, so, so much by simply launching TH-cam or my browser. I am eternally grateful to have this 🙂. And I am also pleased that older generations are joining us, it’s really nice to be sharing art with people like you 😃.
Thanks, Toby. Very helpful, so glad I found you here.
Happy to help!
I have just arrived here. What a wonderful teacher you are, I am truly inspired to get started, I have never known where to start. Retired now, I look forward to this enormously. Thank you so much!
Welcome!
Once again, brilliant. You help me make sense of it all. Thanks so much!!!
My pleasure!
Yes shapes, yes practice ! Thank you
Perfect!
I sincerely love your style. Very loose which makes them more interesting.
Wow, thank you!
I love your sketches. They're so good. I want to be able to sketch like you, but I find it hard to loosen up
Thanks for the lovely complements
Thanks Toby
Fantastic lesson, thank you
My pleasure!
Thank you. So very helpful. 😊
My pleasure
This was really helpful. Thank you for this video!
You're so welcome!
Excellent techniques 😊
Brilliant . Thank You so much.
Thank you, this is very useful, I consider myself a beginner although I have been sketching on and off since I was very young. This was very useful and I will check out your class.
Glad it was helpful!
Toby, quando penso que você já deu as melhores dicas, acho no seu canal este vídeo. Você é simplesmente sensacional para quem está tentando iniciar...Muito obrigada!👍🏻🇧🇷
These are great tips. I love the picture of the seal, still in your unique style. I’d love to see a tutorial for this or something similar. 😁
Great suggestion!
Your psychological support to people, your perspective that makes people trust themselves to take a step, is more than drawing🥲😊. People including me:) Appreciations and thanks with love 🙌🏾💙
My pleasure
Ein super tolles Video mit wertvollen Tips. Danke herzlich für die Mühe und die wunderbare Art dein Wissen zu teilen. Das ist so hilfreich für mich, denn ich zeichne und male gern, aber noch nicht lange,🎨
My pleasure, keep it up and you'll go far!
🧡💛💚@@TobySketchLoose
Thank you Toby for your advice and explanation. I really enjoy your video much.
Glad it was helpful!
Ha - I DEFINITELY need more Practice! As well as everything else! Shapes --- must remember everything is really just shapes! THANKS for this - it helps a lot!
You can do it!
Thank You. Love from Ontario, Canada
It seems a bit like music where we learn to hear pitches, then take two pitches to form an interval and then we stack intervals in clever ways to create chords from a very simple triad to the most complex of chords. Saying it and doing it tho are two different things. We spend our whole life learning more and more about the combinations and how to use them. As for rules in music, I often say that we study the rules in order to break them properly or improperly as the case may be lol! I'm sure that may well apply to drawing as well. Enjoyed your video by the way. I'm an old road dog musically, but just starting to learn to draw now that I'm retired from the road. Still make music vids tho for youtube. Thank you for the video!
Thank you Sir for your simple and very useful instructions. Your presentation is simple with clear words and examples. ❤
You are most welcome
I avoided drawing people (and animals) like a plague- until I saw your video where you drew 2 people in the back alley, and it looked easy and fun so now I’m doing it and it made me happy to finally inhabit the empty streets I usually go for - thank you for your excellent videos - much appreciated
That's awesome!
Thank you for this video, Toby. I approach drawing with an architect’s eye and want to draw what I see “precisely “. I am also not very good at it, so I’m going to go back to basic shapes and see what that does to my drawings.
Glad it was helpful! Architectural sketching can be strangely different from sketching sketching. More focussed on precision, perspective and clean lines.
Thank you! 👐🏼👌🏼
You're so welcome!
Excellent video….very motivating and super ideas.Thank you🙏
My pleasure!
I took a drawing class locally. The instructor gave us pictures and had us do shapes with a marker. It is really helpful.
This is a very useful video. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Very much enjoy your style and explanations...thanks both have advanced aspects of my art.
Wonderful!
Thank you thank you for explaining you are a good teacher 😊gracias
Thank you! 😃
Спасибо! Ваши идеи помогают мне в работе!
Мне нравится помочь. Спасибо большое
This is so simple and yet so effective. Truly probably one of the most beneficial drawing videos I've seen so far. Thank you.
You're very welcome!
wow thank you im starting your free course today
Splendid and friendly thanks for sharing, good video tutorial and tips👍
So nice of you
Thank you Toby u give excellent advice and have helped me to also luv urban art.
Happy to help!
I just started a drawing course. Never done this before and she just planked loads of stuff on table and told us to draw it. Then came in a told me everything I'm doing wrong. Basically everything 😂 I'm doing more rubbing out than drawing. I'm kinda hooked now, and if she explain this, I might have had a better concept of what I was meant to be doing. THANKS A LOT.
Haha thanks Karen :)
this was so useful ❤
Thank you so much, Toby! This video and tips are simply so insightful! 🤩
Greetings from Chile!
You're so welcome!
Great advice! Thanks so much!
You are so welcome!
thanks 🙏 so helpful
Excellent understandable lesson thank you 😊
You're very welcome!
I love drawing small thing, larger. Like a piece of popcorn, the cracked kernel in the hull, the ridges. Everything can be broken down into lines. Replicate a curved line here, a swirly line there… ❤️
That's a fun idea 💡
Really cool one! Thanks mate
No problem 👍
Thanks!
Welcome! Thanks for your generosity!
Your channel is one of the best for education about sketching and aquarel. Thanks for sharing that informations. Greetings from Bosnia and Herzegovina. 😁😁
Thank you so much 😀
Thank you! 💕✌️
Any time!
Amazing video thank you so much for this fun and informative ❤sketching info 😊
My pleasure 😊
Thank you this was great ❤
You're so welcome!
Great vid Toby
Thanks!
Great vid. ❤
Thank you! 😁
Thank you so much ❤
My pleasure!
Thanks so much for this Toby. Excellent information and great examples. It really encouages me to keep practicing. My philosophy on art is that if you can write then you can draw. It's all lines and a line is nothing more than a dot that goes for a walk. From Toronto Canada 😊
Fantastic!
I like sketching landscapes and small buildings. But I love churches and ruins like old abbeys and castles. But there are parts of churches I am finding very challenging. It’s the shapes on the corners of church towers, buttresses I think they’re called. They go downwards in rectangular ‘steps’. But I’m practicing.
Thanks for more invaluable tips, Toby. 😊
Pleasure 😊
Shapes have always been my principle.
Yes!
Can you pls do a video about style? And finding an own style? I am a beginner and find myself often trying to copy sketchers like you.
What a great idea, I'll try and get it done in the next couple of weeks :)
Basically.. style isn't something you find, it's not something you seek out. It's a result. It's where you accidentally end up. Think about it like photography - a photographer's style is just what they end up liking to take pictures of, and in the way they like taking pictures of it. Same for art. Look at art and find what speaks to you, like for instance watercolor and pen, and go from there and let your style end up where it ends up when you draw what you like in the way you like drawing it.
Thank you! This was so helpful 😊
You're so welcome!
ThanQ. At some stage in your presentations can u pls talk about how to hold the pen, pencil, brush. And when, why?
(Frm NZ)
Good idea!
Hi what fountain pen and nib are u using. Great content. Thank you
Check the supplies link in the description 😊👍
The shape Idea had liberated my efforts. Do you have a simple book I can reference
Nothing in print at the moment, hoping to get something out next year!
Great ten minutes about "How to scetch..." Btw i like your style of drawing and the way you explain it
Thank you so much 😀
Im almost finished with your free course. It's bene so fun and educational!!
I thought I couldn't paint with watercolour, I'd forgotten Tip 6 and was trying to conform to "A Watercolor Artist" that painted realism and perfect flowers and animals - i dont like painting realism or perfection with any medium why would watercolour be any different. Loose sketching is perfect because it doesnt have to be perfect - it can be a bit abstract and that's the artist i am - thank you for helping me to remember that I am the artist I WANT to be, not the artist I think I SHOULD be
Great reflections, thank you
Honestly sometimes the art being more up to abstraction lets the imagination fill it in, it's more unique than trying to print a photograph in an overly complicated manner.
These are all great but in this how we fit prespective
you could check out my videos on perspective
thanks. I really enjoy your videos. do you have anything for someone who love making art but find they keep procrastinating and/or is blocked somehow? thanks in advance.
Sorry I didn't answer this sooner! I don't have anythign specific to this, would just say go back to simple doodling and have some fun :)
Draw by the Pirate Code. As Barbossa said in Pirates of the Caribbean, "The code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules."
Haha yes!
I find drawing mech is quite challenging .
🙏
can i ask a question about 1:20? Because if you look at it, the ask italian building is slanted in the pic and the door is straight but the shape your drew around is the opposite - the building is a straight square and the door is a sort of oblong triangle. is there a reason for this? or am i not seeing things clearly?
The photo has a vertical perspective, I removed that in my sketch :)
3d artists use the same concept. From simpler blocky shapes to a finer detail. Otherwise life would be too complicated))
Which app do you use for tracing?
I'm using procreate here probably
nice
Thanks
How to enlarge shape and pics?
I'm not sure I understand... sorry :(
(0:17) I had it all wrong! I thought it was a circle triangle square😮
🎉
You must learn PERSPECTIVE. You can draw anything with it. ANYTHING
What pen are you using?
Mostly my twsbi - check urbansketch.co.uk/supplies