Pen and Ink Drawing Tutorials | How to draw a Valley Gorge landscape scenery
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VIDEO DESCRIPTION
How to draw a valley gorge landscape scene as it relates to drawing landscapes and scenery. This tutorial provides simple but effective tips on drawing a valley gorge landscape scene using pen and ink shading techniques and variation in texture. Following these techniques you can do the same drawing with graphite, colored pencil, charcoal, pastels, and even paint :-)
i never thought i would be drawing some of the things i have been here lately. ever since i started watching your tutorials, ive found myself learning something new with each video i watch. if i have no inspiration or desire to draw, i can watch one of these tutorials and instantly dive back into a blank sheet of paper to give it some life. Thank you for taking all the time and dedication you put fourth towards your videos. They are greatly appreciated by me amd many others 🙏🙏
This. So true.
Sorry to be off topic but does someone know of a tool to get back into an instagram account??
I was stupid lost the account password. I appreciate any help you can give me.
Hi Alphonso!
Your channel is like a bottomless treasure chest. I feel myself really lucky that i found it. :-) Your works are truly amazing
thanks so much...that really means alot. I just want to share things that help to make it easy to see that drawing is about "seeing", first and foremost
All yours videos, I had see, until now, are pure gold.
I'm 36 West Coast USA and I recently started doing pen & ink. Your video was the first one I watched a few weeks ago. Since then I have watched them all & done 3 or 4 cool pictures of landscapes, trees and a barn. I took all my supplies to Japan and practiced while there for two weeks and I left a drawing for my wife's mother in Tokyo Japan.. I'm sharing because I really appreciate your ability to translate the simplicity of drawing and how far reaching your passion has traveled. You have helped me make a new connection between my eyes and my brain and my brain to my hand. Looking forward to your future Videos! You are the MAN! Thanks a lot Alphonso I'm going to have my son watching your videos when he is old enough! I also like how you teach about the drawing supplies which helped me.
M.J Proctor Thanks so much! I really appreciate that show of support :-)
Thanks again. Very helpful and clear. Very useful.
your videos are so inspiring! You break everything down so well
I absolutely love your channel, I loved art but my 7th grade art teacher told me to give up because I couldn't draw a straight line, I'm 22 now and I recently decided to seriously learn, you've taught me so much.
Edward Yorke :-)...some teachers just suck...glad you didnt give up altogether..prove them wrong!
I'm 23, and i take my revenge now :) !
how's it going so far?
Wow. This is a great scenery for little gremlins to pop out of the cracks. Thanks. I learned something. yeah. :)
thanks for sharing this priceless tutorials
I like how you show how to simplify, simplify, simplify. perceiving basic shapes is really helpful
+Billy Glen Jr Thanks. Thats what helped me
Spectacular drawing...great music! Thanks so much for sharing your talents. You rock!
Thanks
2:00 Love this! It really helps break down complicated scenes for me
glad it helps : )
Wow this turned out really good, love the 1 in the foreground and the 01 in the background.
+elementsk8er40 thanks
Wow! Awesome!
Oh my god. That was so satisfying!!!
+Marisa Hernandez :-) THanks
Truly inspiring tutorials!
Thanks much :-)
Wow, Alphonso! That was a great demo. Thanks!
Thanks
great work Alphonso!!!
denton9111 thanks
Love watching you go beast mode on drawing... it looks so impressive at the end. But at the same time im thinking, hey this is simple i can do this (eventually)!
lol You can
Just drew some cliff dwellings. This video will sure help me a lot on improving it. I'm in the middle of going through all your pen and ink tutorials, slowly getting there :) Thank you!
+Xin Xu Thanks much. Glad you find them helpful
Mid-ground rocks -- I see faces!
Great technique. Your drawings are FANTASTIC!
I love pen and ink!
lol thanks...ditto
I've been watching your tutorials since yesterday, and you made me think about a lot of stuff. I've always drawn inside my comfort zone, and when I tried to do something different I got overwhelmed by my lack of some techniques and a lot of things that I never studied. You are helping me to learn a lot of stuff, and to feel confident that I can improve a lot, practice is really the key. Appreciate it a lot. Greetings from Argentina.
+grayfoxmetal Glad I can help and thanks for providing the feedback :-)
You are an amazing teacher
You have a beautiful gift, it's great that your sharing your knowledge. Do you have a website?
wow great demo. so simple and very effective.
+Kevwe Okiti Thank you
Discovered your channel today and added just about a hundred videos t my saved playlists, thanks for blessing us with this info
: )
thanks ALPHONSO DUNN.
you welcome :-)
Wow. I am almost embarrassed to admit this, as someone who isn't exactly a beginning artist (I've been a pastel painter for many years, and have even won awards in some Utah plein air competitions several years ago), but over the past few years, my actual drawing skills have gotten very rusty, and have taken the level of my paintings down with them. As we all know, without daily practice of any skill, decay sets in. Once that starts, it can easily dampen one's desire to paint.
However, I did not discover your channel until just a few days ago! While I have been going out and sketching and painting on location recently, I felt like I was sort of spinning my wheels a bit; I didn't realize that your instruction was just what I needed and what I've been looking for until I started watching your tutorials.
Watching the manner in which you approach drawing and rendering rocks (also in your other video) made me wonder: "how did I not know these concepts years ago???" I have lost track of the number of paintings I've abandoned or avoided because the rocks were just too complex to deal with...despite the fact they are really my favorite subject to paint. I've gotten too bogged down with the overall composition and somehow failed to see the very simple idea to break the canyon walls and rocks into simpler shapes to more easily define their multi-faceted planes.
After watching this video in particular, I think a small explosion of enlightenment and clarity went off in my brain: what you describe as a valley gorge is also a canyon. I have tons of reference photos of canyons that are similar in scale to what you've shown in this video; they would be considered "narrows" (like what you see in Zion' NP's Virgin River Narrows). I immediately went into my reference photos, pulled up a few, grabbed my pencils and ball point pen, and started sketching. To say that I saw an instant improvement in my sketches is not an exaggeration! They are far better than the crap I was putting in the sketchbook over the past few weeks.
I just went and purchased your book, both because I can never have enough quality reference books in my art library, and also to support your work here. A couple of years ago, I wanted to get back into pen and ink drawing (I did medical illustrations almost 30 years ago when I was in medical school, believe it or not!), so I went to my library and checked out what books they had on the subject. They didn't help me at all. I'm really looking forward to working my way through your extensive videos here on TH-cam and pairing that with your book. I'm also confident that these will help me get more out of the other great reference books I have (Carlson and Edgar Payne's in particular).
Thank you so much, Alphonso! Your videos may end up being the single most important catalyst to getting me back into my art and helping me take my game up to a new level.
Thanks so much🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Loving the simplified thinking. I can totally see how you see it while listening to your explanation. Gonna try this one too. :)
+hiutale glad it helped :-)
Such a cool dude, just bought your book off amazon.. been sketching with pencil for years and youve inspired me to dip my feet into watercolor and pen + ink. Thanks!
Glad youre exploring something new : )
Really appreciate you showing us your whole process like this, it's very interesting and very helpful.
thx...once you can learn something
Cool landscape, music, and explanations! :)
thanx much
Very nice man. Tks a lot!
I have been watching you for a while and really like the music mixes you add in your videos.
thanks :-)
+Alphonso Dunn you want to know how funny this is I don't even remember making that comment I think someone else was on my account that's absolutely hilarious
lol
Excellent video, again!!
thx :-)
Thank you for making this!
Great beat on that music, love the fast tempo for pen & inking (Y) Great Video as usual (Y)
Thanks 🙂
You brought back my interest in sketching; thanks to your tutorials. I really do admire you sir and your work
+Jessa Angela Thanks so much! I hope you stay inspired :-)
I will Sir! thank you very much 😊
great skills!
10000 Thanks .........so beautiful.....🏆
🙂
I purchased your book. looking forward to getting it
I love drawing with pens. My favourite art style to draw with when i use pens is the Don't starve style. It's really dun and simple
+Kole Hunt :-)
amazing bro! sick!
+Junk Life thanks
your rocks are so cool! I'm a very beginner in drawing and your channel's playlists are very helpful! And this video is so inspiring! Thank you! ☺️
Glad it could help : )
I love your videos, many drawing videos are so super boring but im just hooked watching your videos at the same time while sketching away, :)
thekapow thanks so much. and thanks for sharing that
i dont knw how ur brain works.. very creative.. u can draw what ever u want!
west capriye :-) practice practice practice
you are too good thanks for wonderful teaching
Swapna Mukherjee :-) Thanks. I hope they helped
Великолепно :D
Wow! You are really talented! Did you take art classes or are you self-taught? And your method of instructions is easy to comprehend. I love all of your videos and I am practicing what you teach as soon as I watch each one while it is fresh in my mind. Course, sometimes I need to go back and watch it again until I have it set in the right side of my brain. Thank you for taking the time to share your gift. What are the names of your books?
DANG. Also, good song choice!
+mariafancypants :-)
Great work. When you go to a final pen/ink size do you use different techniques for your shading? Example, if you took this cool scene you built, and wanted to draw it at 11x17, it would seem that making clean shading lines might be difficult. Do you adjust your shading techniques for larger sizes?
+Brian Warner yes...your line work would be tighter
You should share the music you put in this video into the description, you have good musical taste.
thx definitely will..its from the youtube audio library
I am so excited I got the hiccups. This is very nice for amateurs like me, who can only draw a few things. :)
LadyLiveLol you can do it!!
Thanks man, this is really cool
ipeh123 no worries :-)
***** Thank you! and What is that music??
i'll have to check back
Man, that is awesome how that came out. I never thought to use a smaller pen as I go back. I was making my forms simpler, but your way is awesome. My forms can be complex but my lines are much lighter. GREAT advice.
no worries...another trick under your belt :-)
those colored mechanical pencils you use to sketch are really cool!
arent they :-)
***** im a little late haha but what kind off colored pencils are those
I loved watching this vid! Hey i just came across your channel now, and I wish id seen it sooner!
+Gabby Vrielle :-)
That so great 😁
Thanks
its lovely. thank u so much.
+Marzia Rahman thanks
Alphonso, this video is wonderful. If you ever run out of topics for your videos, could you teach us how to do a cave? Thanks. :-)
amazing video, nice work man.
Hoho Ha thanks
I cannot wrap my brain around how someone like you has less views than say expert village. Not that they are paticularly bad but they teach on a very surface level whereas every video you make is so in depth. I feel that I learn more from your videos than a years worth of art class could suffice. That being one of the reasons I lean more towards being self taught but I digress. I'm just sad that when you type in drawing, illustration, or inking your not the first to show up. Thank you for the amazing content : )
no worries at all...at least you found it :-)
this vídeo has been so helpful, thanks a lot.
No worries
+Alphonso Dunn wait what blue pencil are you using I've tried to Google it but got nothing
Cool!
: )
Awesome.
thank you
Thank you!
The final result looks so damn interesting...
Amazing!
O_O
: )
Dude!!!! Great vid!!! I have learned a lot from you and you have a real knack for creating things from the minds eye. But I have trouble with sketching rock formations and stuff due to their lack of predictability. Could you create a video on that please? But seriously though, your art is amazing, keep it up!!^ω^
Awesome!
+Diosming Masendo : )
I like it, your drawings and tutorials. Keep it up. Thank you for sharing clear and easy to understand tutorials. ;)
Muito legal!!!
thanks
muito bom, meu amigo! gostei muito da aula e da calma com que explicou. congratulation!!!
great way to explain it
thx
You are really talented
thanks much
I was lucky enough to see you in an advert :)
cool! welcome onboard
Insane
splendid
***** thanks :-)
This was very informational.. keep up the good work
Marcia Woodley I sure will. thanks
Do u have a pc contact no. That I can reach u at I need some advice on a piece I'm doing in ink.
just inbox me here on or fb
Ok thank you very much
:-)
Alphonso that was awesome. Rocks always confuses me. I feel like Mr.dumb xD
This vid helps me alot !!!
remarkable. Hey, have you thought about making books? Like comic books for example?
an drawing instruction book is coming up this SUMMER! :-) a comic book?...hmmm, maybe
very good thx
Amazing videos you have here. Really thank you for all these information on inking and drawing.
Sorry but couldn't stop myself of noticing your pencils, may I know which brand are these? I tried to search the net but didn't find something similar.
kholood fantasy the brand is Alvin but I buy colored 2mm leads from ebay
Thank you ^^
hi dear alphonso.thank you again.it was amazing.and i have one favor to ask.if its possible please share a video about how to render a interior space with pen and ink.im an architect and i do that usualy with copic marker but the result is not fine.i will be so greatful.take care.
can u please tell me what colored pencils brand u where useing, they looked awesome, by the way love your videos u explained them in a way that was easy to understand, i love how u simplify your art but then u make it extravigant, well done well done ^_^
Jordan Letourneau I just used colored 2mm leads for a 2mm lead holder....Think I bought them on amazon or ebay
Dude you are a modern day Rembrandt!.... master of light and shadow. ...how long did it take you to draw that mother?.... I mean in real time.
ura239 thanks much...about 30-40 mins
Nice!...
Were you going from darker to lighter because there was more light at the end of the valley, or because it was further away and therefore fainter? Do you always make things that are further away lighter in value?
In this video, both...And yes, I generally make things that are further away lighter, with progressively less detail and contrast
beautiful
: )
Thanks, this helped alot :)
cool :-)
Where did you learn to draw like that, its well good!
practice practice practice...and a lil talent lol
Yup haha
cool
very cool sir! I'm a video game concept artist for a living and I draw rocks with very similar shaded linework.
+BL1TZEN awesome. do share some works when you can
+ALPHONSO DUNN , I live in kolkata(India), can you help me in one thing, can you tell me the regular fountain pen which is available in market for writing purpose, is it okay to use it for drawing and hatching work
Lamy fountain pens are pretty good
Thank you very much for your response. Let me search the kolkata stationary stores. I will get back to you if I find those pens.
when i saw the face i remembered Hiroshige¨s "Taira no Kiyomori haunted by visions" go for it Alphonso and put some piece of Nesta Marley...tnx man...
lol
Make a medieval armor's video!
I love your job, man! xD
I may just do that....I think thats on the list somewhere
WOW
+Tyler Lundy :-)
verry style!!!
:-)
Thanks keep the videos coming #AFan
Joshua Castro :-)
Where did you get your colored pencils they are awesome Bro we get wodden here in New Zealand I aint ever seen that dawg Keep up the work, Peace with you bro
I use either caran dache pencils or colored lead for my 2mm lead holder. And thanks much 😄
very cool
+헣 한횻참 thanks
جميل جدا موهوب
Nice video! I'm really enjoying your explanations. What track is that starting around 6:00?
Thx..the track is from TH-cam audio library called "voodoo like you do" by Huma-Huma
***** Thanks a lot. I'm really happy I found your channel. Great teaching skills!
Greetings from Germany
excellent, I hope you ll make more videos about waterfall, thank you so much
Richard Soulier definitely :-)
Thnx now I can draw rocks but I'm really into drawing trees vary detailed ones
lol one more thing to your arsenal :-)
:)
can you, if u havnt already, please make a video on how you do the shading like you've done for rocky landscapes like this