I am really blown away by such talent while having such humility. You make it fun when you talk about your mistakes as a pro. You can laugh at errors and I would like for you to elaborate on mistakes and successes with great detail. An artist learns greatly from creative mistakes. I really would enjoy as a life goal to become an artist like you. Your wonderful! Thanks you. Jim.
This is beautiful. I'm someone who has talent for imagery, but lacking all the techniques. I've spent years fumbling with my own idea of how to apply the medium to the paper, never having had the education of different skills and techniques. Now that you have taught me this technique, I will put it to practice and see how I get on! Thank you so much for being so generous in sharing your skills with me. new sub :)
FYI-The jelly pens are not archival, you could end up with yellowed highlights all over your drawings in a year or so. You don’t want that to happen if it was a commission piece.
I think this is a very helpful drawing tutorial, Grace. As an animal artist myself, it's very interesting to see the differences we like to draw. I especially find interesting you draw the fur with the triangle technique, as i don't do that at all. I must say your technique is incredible as your work is so detailed and beautiful!
Isn't there a easyer way to load your mechanical pencil? Remove the top and put down the graphite? or is it it can be used with different size graphite?
Hi Grace, I am a VERY early beginner in graphite. I want so bad to learn to draw pets and people. I thought I would start with my husbands GSP. I have searched and searched for a drawing tutorial on a GSP. I finally stumbled on your channel while watching another artist. When I saw the picture of this dog I almost screamed in delight 😊. The fur on a GSP is so different than other dogs because the hair is so short and all the spots. I have practiced the fur in so many different ways but it just didn’t look right. You explained the stroke so well and how to get the white in as well as their dark spots. I can’t wait to try it. I would love it if you could do another one that shows more of the body. I want to do a drawing for my daughter who now has my Piper Jo. I moved after my husband passed and didn’t have anywhere for her to burn off all of her energy. She is a BEAUTIFUL dog. I want so bad to do her justice. I hope to see many more of your tutorials in the future. Your work is AMAZING!!!! This dog is just as beautiful 😍
I can't thank you enough for the simple yet life changing tip of using triangle strokes I would always just angle individual strokes then blend and it was very straw like
Brilliant Grace. I'm just starting my process of learning how to draw realistic hair and fur. Your videos have really shown me some great ways to improve. Thank you so much for sharing. Really looking forward to the eyes and nose videos.
I’m just getting started as a self taught artist, il need new pencils. I really am excited to start trying to create some wonderful animals in the future. Wonderful tutorials Thank you for the close up pictures, so helpful.
Incredible work! I'm blown away. You have nailed your techniques also and thank you so much for sharing these! Looking forward to watching your other videos now too ☺️
Grace thank you for this video, it helped me out immensely, I do hair with an airbrush and it took me almost two years to perfect the dagger stroke which is used in airbrushing to do fur. It takes awhile to do fur with an airbrush and too many factors can screw up your piece, air pressure or the paint decides to start drying in the pot. Doing fur in graphite is so much more soothing than with the airbrush. Thanks again!
You're very welcome, I'm so glad it was helpful! I commend your patience creating fur with the airbrush. I absolutely love my airbrush but all the troubleshooting issues have me going insane 😂 some days it's like it's just in a mood and doesn't want to work properly at all! It is such a good tool though 🙏
@gracemurrayart I understand that, and most of my airbrushes are microns and H&S for hyper realism which the price of the gun and buying parts can hurt.
I've watched a number of videos in the past few days but yours was by far best regarding your individual process. I practice calligraphy and I immediately resonated with your concept of strokes. You have a great mind, are clearly aware of the importantance of 'draw what you see not what you think you see'. Thank you for your guidance and good luck with your channel and endeavours
This is fantastic Grace. So much detail about the techniques and even better about the tools you use. This is often not emphasised in other tutorials but really makes a difference to improving my drawing. Thank you so much for posting. I’ll definitely be looking at others you’ve produced.
Amazing artwork!!! The texture and details are fantastic. I wish I had that kind of skill - I've been doing art in all forms for a long time, and I cant even come close to a drawing like that! Bravo!
Love your fur technique. Just picking up my graphite after a few years and your work is inspiring. Always found fur challenging, but your triangle strokes and wiper blade strokes look so good, I will have to try them and maybe fur won't intimidate me anymore. Thanks!
As usual, you make it look so easy. I’m new to this depth of detail and I need to put in the work to make sense of what appears to just flow from your pencils. Thank you.
Thank you for your kind words, Tom! Haha I guess that's where hundreds of hours of practice gets you, it does start to come naturally but there's always still so much more to learn :)
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I think this video is more helpful than most of the ones I watched. I'm wanting to work on my realism and drawing fur and this was what I needed thank you
Absolutely amazing! Fur has been my biggest struggle and this has helped me tremendously, thank you! Do you have any tutorials or advice on how to do a dog’s gums?
Thank you so much Tim! I'm so glad it helps. For dog's gums, I'd say keep them dark (they usually tend to be almost black), with nice contrasting reflections to make the mouth look wet & healthy! I'm aware my response is late, I hope you're getting on well with it :)
Thank you, I have watched these videos a couple of times now, I do appreciate the step by step, and knowing which pencil/ tool is being used. Love all the info. and you have a pretty relaxing voice. Look forward to future videos
Stonehenge paper is excellent. Try Arches hot pressed watercolor paper and Arches printing paper. Very good papers for what you're doing. There is a vellum that can be used for this type of technique, as well.
I tried Arches once and liked it, but then found out they use gelatine based glue and I stay away from animal products so I didn't buy any more, I'll definitely give stonehenge a try though thank you!
@@gracemurrayart Hi! I definitely did not expect you to reply. I'm so used of commenting and never getting a reply, so I just assume everyone is too busy, lol. But, you did....twice! Thanks! I am no longer a watercolorist, pastelist and pencil artist. I am actually a silk painter, but I have some experience in the former areas. For example when I painted people and pet portraits I sometimes would use watercolor paper and wet the paper then put down my underpainting. When it's wet you can move it around and once dry it won't move at all. The water to pigment ratio takes some trial and error (at least for me it did) to find the "perfect" mix(?). Anyway, I hope the Stonehenge Vellum works out for you. I found it to be a beautiful paper and a silky surface. It makes the marks we make on it look better😉 Btw, your work is beautiful! God Bless 😊
I keep coming back to your technique but I can’t yet get it to look anywhere near as good you do. Yours looks so good, I guess it’s the time I spend on my drawing? How long would you spend on an ear, a nose, a chin?
The stroke you are trying to describe is a tapered stroke. This is very useful so you don’t see a harsh beginning or end of the fur. Really lovely techniques best regards. Mike.
Hi Grace, not only are you gorgeous but your art is as well! I know you drew this Shorthair Pointer a year ago but if you drew this in colored pencil, would your technique be the same? I am attempting to draw a German Shorthair Pointer in colored pencil but I am totally lost at how to do the mix of the dark brown hairs and white hairs mixed together, like on the neck. I don’t think embossing tool will work, too much white hair or the slice tool. How would you go about doing this? Thank you, Karen
Hi Karen, thank you so much for your kind words! That's a good question - I'd definitely say my technique with coloured pencil is very similar to the one with graphite, adding in those triangle shapes and leaving the negative space in between to fill in with the lighter colour! Let me know how you get on 🤎
wow you are amazing! and I learned a great deal, so thank you, I'm looking forward to watching the other ones as well thank for giving up you secrets..
Grace, I’ve looked closely at the start of the dogs ear dark shading and it looks to me like the flow of the fur is more vertical than the angle you start your shading? I’m having difficulty with short and long fur in smaller size drawings - is this normal?
Just found your channel and had to subscribe. The drawing is amazing and the advice you've given is really going to help with my drawings! Brilliant tutorial and delivery!
Hi Grace great video, The paper that I use is St Cuthberts Saunders Waterford 300gram Hot Press, I have also just started using Arches Aquerelle 356gram. I emboss texture and both of these are very tough. The one to avoid is Fabriano Artistico as when the company was taken over a few years ago they changed the manufacturing process and it now has a horrible surface to it that really stands out with graphite. For shading I find a blending stump is really good but they do vary from one make to another, the ones that work best have a velvety feel to the end and they blend graphite smoothly. Hope this is helpful.
Hey Jamie, I've only just seen this comment which is really strange as I'm about to order my first roll of Aquarelle! Really looking forward to trying it out. Thanks for the heads up on fabriano, too.
@@gracemurrayart Hi Grace, I don't know if this is also of help but I found the best way to flatten paper off of a roll, is to put a piece of paper on top of the piece you've cut off and iron it flat. These watercolour papers are notoriously difficult to flatten out. The other way you can do it is to tape it down and wet it as when it dries it will stretch and flatten out. If you are going to be buying a lot of paper then you may want to contact R K Burt in London as they are the wholesaler for art papers in the UK. I've used them for many years and they have been excellent. Hope this helps, Jamie
Can you please tell me what paper to get if i want to display my work or gift it to someone? Cant seem to find this out. Say if i did a piece with graphite (realism) or coloured pencil and wanted to frame it. Any advice?
Hi Anna, I use Bristol board smooth (strathmore), or my recent favourite, Fabriano 5 (colour liscio). These are both for graphite. For coloured pencils I use pastelmat, or you may enjoy fabriano artistico hot pressed paper for coloured pencils if you're used to regular paper. All of these papers are professional and will last :)
Thank you! I get all my reference photos from clients as they are commissions, or take me own from my dog or people's dogs I know. There's also lots of stock photos websites you can get some references from :)
Oh wow your work is incredible. I havnt attempted drawing animals but I would love to draw my own dogs so have picked up some fabulous tips here, however I think it is going to take me a few years to master this 😀
Thank you so much 😀 A lot of people start with their own animals, it's great to have the connection with you subject! I'm glad this could help and inspire you, Bernadette :)
Fantastic work! Thank you so much for sharing! I'm working on a graphite drawing of a puppy at the moment and I'm struggling a bit with the short fur. This tutorial helped a lot!! Thank you! ❤
Love the tutorial, thanks heaps for the video. Would this technique work for longer fur as well? Also what is the thing under your hand to prevent the smudging? I currently use a piece of paper but like the look of what you are using since it’s see through.
I'm glad it was helpful Jessica! 😊I've actually got a vide going live tomorrow showing how I use this technique with longer fur! In this video I'm just using a cellophane sheet, but usually I use glassine paper x
I didn’t understand the second stroke, can you explain it again? I am not grasping the back and forward and how can it be done with soft and hard pressure, it should be in the middle the hard pressure?
Hi Laura, yes so it's almost like stroking the paper with the pencil, reserving most of the pressure for the centre of the stroke and getting lighter in pressure at the beggining and end :)
@@gracemurrayart a combination of that, the drawing and you voice; has as a very calming effect. Also, I've gotta see how you did the dog's nose. Looks so good!!
Can't wait to try your techniques with my pet portraits!
This is the first helpful video on hair techniques I’ve seen. Thank you 🙏
Thanks so much for actually showing the tips and tricks instead of speeding it up so we can't see. Very much appreciated.
You're very welcome, glad it was helpful, and thanks for taking the time to comment :)
@@gracemurrayart your welcome. Your videos have helped me improve my drawings quit a bit. Thank you so much. Your an amazing artist by the way.
I am really blown away by such talent while having such humility. You make it fun when you talk about your mistakes as a pro. You can laugh at errors and I would like for you to elaborate on mistakes and successes with great detail. An artist learns greatly from creative mistakes. I really would enjoy as a life goal to become an artist like you. Your wonderful! Thanks you.
Jim.
I really appreciate you showing the two strokes you use to make fur. I was able to see what I was doing wrong. Can’t wait to try it out! ❤
Two years after posting and this is helping me out greatly with drawing my dog! 😊
Aw this is lovely to hear, so glad I made this one!
Very helpful. I'm going to watch this a few more time. Excellent instruction, you're a good teacher -- as well as a talented artist. Thank you!
Thank you so much, I'm glad it was a help to you! ❤️
I use Bockingford HP watercolour paper for both graphite and coloured pencils. I've tried many others, but this is my favourite,
This is beautiful. I'm someone who has talent for imagery, but lacking all the techniques. I've spent years fumbling with my own idea of how to apply the medium to the paper, never having had the education of different skills and techniques. Now that you have taught me this technique, I will put it to practice and see how I get on! Thank you so much for being so generous in sharing your skills with me. new sub :)
This was so lovely to read, thank you! I'm really glad this was helpful for you and I hope you are having fun putting the technique to good use!
The first video where you can actually see what happens on paper. Thank you very much! 🧡
FYI-The jelly pens are not archival, you could end up with yellowed highlights all over your drawings in a year or so. You don’t want that to happen if it was a commission piece.
I think this is a very helpful drawing tutorial, Grace. As an animal artist myself, it's very interesting to see the differences we like to draw. I especially find interesting you draw the fur with the triangle technique, as i don't do that at all. I must say your technique is incredible as your work is so detailed and beautiful!
Thanks so much for watching Petra! It's funny isn't it, and makes all of our work wonderfully different 🤎
great!
Isn't there a easyer way to load your mechanical pencil? Remove the top and put down the graphite? or is it it can be used with different size graphite?
You are amazing!!!!!!! Thank you so much for these tutorials 🙏🌸
You deserved a lot of subscribers
I can't thank you enough for the hair technique being explained like this. It's turned my career around.
I'm so glad I could help, Tony. Thanks for watching! 😊
Grace, thanks to you I've finally got to grips with this!! Thank you so much. New sub!! You are amazing ❣️
Aw I'm so glad to hear that Anna, thank you! ❤️
Hi Grace, I am a VERY early beginner in graphite. I want so bad to learn to draw pets and people. I thought I would start with my husbands GSP. I have searched and searched for a drawing tutorial on a GSP. I finally stumbled on your channel while watching another artist. When I saw the picture of this dog I almost screamed in delight 😊. The fur on a GSP is so different than other dogs because the hair is so short and all the spots. I have practiced the fur in so many different ways but it just didn’t look right. You explained the stroke so well and how to get the white in as well as their dark spots. I can’t wait to try it. I would love it if you could do another one that shows more of the body. I want to do a drawing for my daughter who now has my Piper Jo. I moved after my husband passed and didn’t have anywhere for her to burn off all of her energy. She is a BEAUTIFUL dog. I want so bad to do her justice.
I hope to see many more of your tutorials in the future. Your work is AMAZING!!!! This dog is just as beautiful 😍
Fantastic thanks again 😀
I can't thank you enough for the simple yet life changing tip of using triangle strokes I would always just angle individual strokes then blend and it was very straw like
You're so welcome! I never realised I used triangles until I started making tutorials, then realised thats basically all I use 🤣
Excellent!!!! Thank you, very helpful since I've just recently started drawing pet portraits. The triangle strokes are genius, It's sure to help me.
7:05 "stroke" is like a sweep. Good work. Definitely an inspiration
I like that word haha, thank you Bob!
Many many thanks for your tips and tricks, and your detailed explanation!!!! You are really great!!!!!!!
Brilliant Grace. I'm just starting my process of learning how to draw realistic hair and fur. Your videos have really shown me some great ways to improve. Thank you so much for sharing. Really looking forward to the eyes and nose videos.
Thank you so much for watching, I'm so glad it helped! 🤎
I’m just getting started as a self taught artist, il need new pencils.
I really am excited to start trying to create some wonderful animals in the future.
Wonderful tutorials
Thank you for the close up pictures, so helpful.
Incredible work! I'm blown away. You have nailed your techniques also and thank you so much for sharing these! Looking forward to watching your other videos now too ☺️
Thanks for sharing your expertise, really helpful 👌
Fantastic demo!!... So worth you sharing such amazing skills & dedication! What an amazing result!
Thank you! I'm so glad it was helpful ❤️
Grace thank you for this video, it helped me out immensely, I do hair with an airbrush and it took me almost two years to perfect the dagger stroke which is used in airbrushing to do fur. It takes awhile to do fur with an airbrush and too many factors can screw up your piece, air pressure or the paint decides to start drying in the pot. Doing fur in graphite is so much more soothing than with the airbrush. Thanks again!
You're very welcome, I'm so glad it was helpful! I commend your patience creating fur with the airbrush. I absolutely love my airbrush but all the troubleshooting issues have me going insane 😂 some days it's like it's just in a mood and doesn't want to work properly at all! It is such a good tool though 🙏
@gracemurrayart I understand that, and most of my airbrushes are microns and H&S for hyper realism which the price of the gun and buying parts can hurt.
I've watched a number of videos in the past few days but yours was by far best regarding your individual process. I practice calligraphy and I immediately resonated with your concept of strokes. You have a great mind, are clearly aware of the importantance of 'draw what you see not what you think you see'. Thank you for your guidance and good luck with your channel and endeavours
What a lovely compliment, thank you so much! I'm really glad it was helpful 🙏❤️
Absolutely brilliant, I always struggle with fur, never thought of the triangle method. Thank you so much.
Thank you Malcolm, I'm glad you found it useful! 😊🙏🏼
This is fantastic Grace. So much detail about the techniques and even better about the tools you use. This is often not emphasised in other tutorials but really makes a difference to improving my drawing. Thank you so much for posting. I’ll definitely be looking at others you’ve produced.
This is great to hear Mike, thank you! I'm aware my reply is 6 months late.. I hope your drawing journey is going well!
Beautiful Picture. Great tutorial. Thank you.
Wow, such a great video, and an amazing drawing ✍️
THANK YOU for sharing these details. I find fur incredibly challenging, and I'm always looking for tips. Appreciate you!
You are so welcome Danielle, glad it was helpful!
This channel and video deserve so much more views and subs
Thank you so much! 🙏
Your triangle stroke is incredible.
Thank you very much, Kevin!
Amazing artwork!!! The texture and details are fantastic. I wish I had that kind of skill - I've been doing art in all forms for a long time, and I cant even come close to a drawing like that! Bravo!
Thank you so much! I'm sure you could if you put your mind to it! 😊
Love your fur technique. Just picking up my graphite after a few years and your work is inspiring. Always found fur challenging, but your triangle strokes and wiper blade strokes look so good, I will have to try them and maybe fur won't intimidate me anymore. Thanks!
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Thanks so much! I'm glad it was helpful, I hope you've had lots of fun using the technique so far :)
Love your art!!
Beautiful and Talented , just wonderful.
Thank you 🙏🏼
As usual, you make it look so easy. I’m new to this depth of detail and I need to put in the work to make sense of what appears to just flow from your pencils. Thank you.
Thank you for your kind words, Tom! Haha I guess that's where hundreds of hours of practice gets you, it does start to come naturally but there's always still so much more to learn :)
Love your technique, awesome
Thanks so much!
Amazing art
Hi,i may of missed it but when are the sweeping strokes best used rather than the triangle ones. I loved this so much i don't want to miss anything 😊
Absolutely Outstanding and very detailed! I just subscribed to this channel!🙌 Thanks!!!
Thank you very much, welcome to the channel! x
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I'm going to start drawing a dog for the very first time. Watching this video so far(LOVE IT) it's going to help me A LOT and I'll watch first, second and third part.
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH. 🙂❤🐶🖋🖌
This was so helpful! I like the way you explain things. Looking very much forward to see you doing the dog eye!
Can you please tell me what you are leaning your drawing hand on so that you don’t smudge the drawing? TIA
Wow this is an amazing tutorial. Thankyou 😊
Thank you so much, I'm glad it was helpful x
NICE WORK GRACE!!!1
JUST STRANGE HOW DIFFERENTLY WE ALL WORK!!
Thanks Robert!!
Ah this was so helpful. Thank you for sharing your talent!
You're so welcome!
Fantastic work Grace. As a beginner I've a lot from that.
This is great to hear Steve, thank you!
Nice video. I learned a lot from watching this. Thank you.
Glad to hear it!
Amazing work Grace, breath-taking details, beautiful pointer too
Thank you so much! He sure is a beautiful doggo
I think this video is more helpful than most of the ones I watched. I'm wanting to work on my realism and drawing fur and this was what I needed thank you
Thank you, I'm glad you found it useful!❤
This is a great tutorial video! I have a question though, what do you do when you have a dog with all white fur around the nose?
Absolutely amazing! Fur has been my biggest struggle and this has helped me tremendously, thank you! Do you have any tutorials or advice on how to do a dog’s gums?
Thank you so much Tim! I'm so glad it helps. For dog's gums, I'd say keep them dark (they usually tend to be almost black), with nice contrasting reflections to make the mouth look wet & healthy! I'm aware my response is late, I hope you're getting on well with it :)
Thank you, I have watched these videos a couple of times now, I do appreciate the step by step, and knowing which pencil/ tool is being used. Love all the info. and you have a pretty relaxing voice. Look forward to future videos
Thank you so much Suzanne, I never thought I had a relaxing voice haha!🙏🏼❤
Stonehenge paper is excellent. Try Arches hot pressed watercolor paper and Arches printing paper. Very good papers for what you're doing. There is a vellum that can be used for this type of technique, as well.
I tried Arches once and liked it, but then found out they use gelatine based glue and I stay away from animal products so I didn't buy any more, I'll definitely give stonehenge a try though thank you!
Just found the Stonehenge Vellum, will include some with my next art order 😍
@@gracemurrayart Hi! I definitely did not expect you to reply. I'm so used of commenting and never getting a reply, so I just assume everyone is too busy, lol. But, you did....twice! Thanks!
I am no longer a watercolorist, pastelist and pencil artist. I am actually a silk painter, but I have some experience in the former areas. For example when I painted people and pet portraits I sometimes would use watercolor paper and wet the paper then put down my underpainting. When it's wet you can move it around and once dry it won't move at all. The water to pigment ratio takes some trial and error (at least for me it did) to find the "perfect" mix(?).
Anyway, I hope the Stonehenge Vellum works out for you. I found it to be a beautiful paper and a silky surface. It makes the marks we make on it look better😉
Btw, your work is beautiful!
God Bless 😊
Wow!! I'm amazed at your ability to capture details so well. Thank you for the tutorial. I wish someday I could draw like that !
Thank you so much for watching Valeria, and for your kind words. I'm sure you're much better than you think you are!
Hi, i have a cheap bic 0.8 mechanical pencil, will that work for the fur or does it need to be the o.5 cause it is not working out
I keep coming back to your technique but I can’t yet get it to look anywhere near as good you do. Yours looks so good, I guess it’s the time I spend on my drawing? How long would you spend on an ear, a nose, a chin?
The stroke you are trying to describe is a tapered stroke. This is very useful so you don’t see a harsh beginning or end of the fur. Really lovely techniques best regards. Mike.
Ahh it has a name! Thanks for watching Mike 🤟
Hi Grace, not only are you gorgeous but your art is as well! I know you drew this Shorthair Pointer a year ago but if you drew this in colored pencil, would your technique be the same? I am attempting to draw a German Shorthair Pointer in colored pencil but I am totally lost at how to do the mix of the dark brown hairs and white hairs mixed together, like on the neck. I don’t think embossing tool will work, too much white hair or the slice tool. How would you go about doing this? Thank you, Karen
Hi Karen, thank you so much for your kind words! That's a good question - I'd definitely say my technique with coloured pencil is very similar to the one with graphite, adding in those triangle shapes and leaving the negative space in between to fill in with the lighter colour! Let me know how you get on 🤎
Really hands off ....
wow you are amazing! and I learned a great deal, so thank you, I'm looking forward to watching the other ones as well thank for giving up you secrets..
Thank you very much Jerry! So glad I could help you learn, happy drawing 🙌🏻
What camera are you using to film this? :)
I loved the video btw!
My Samsung note9 camera, it's so handy! Thank you Lottie x
That triangle hair stroke should work for a guinea pigs fur as well, right?
For sure! :)
Thank you so much for sharing this lesson! I'm looking forward to trying this method on my next drawing.
You're welcome Pat, I'm glad it could be of help, let me know how you get on!
Grace, I’ve looked closely at the start of the dogs ear dark shading and it looks to me like the flow of the fur is more vertical than the angle you start your shading? I’m having difficulty with short and long fur in smaller size drawings - is this normal?
Just found your channel and had to subscribe. The drawing is amazing and the advice you've given is really going to help with my drawings! Brilliant tutorial and delivery!
Thanks so much Stephen, that means a lot! Really glad it helped you 🙌🏻
Hi Grace great video, The paper that I use is St Cuthberts Saunders Waterford 300gram Hot Press, I have also just started using Arches Aquerelle 356gram. I emboss texture and both of these are very tough. The one to avoid is Fabriano Artistico as when the company was taken over a few years ago they changed the manufacturing process and it now has a horrible surface to it that really stands out with graphite. For shading I find a blending stump is really good but they do vary from one make to another, the ones that work best have a velvety feel to the end and they blend graphite smoothly. Hope this is helpful.
Hey Jamie, I've only just seen this comment which is really strange as I'm about to order my first roll of Aquarelle! Really looking forward to trying it out. Thanks for the heads up on fabriano, too.
@@gracemurrayart Hi Grace, I don't know if this is also of help but I found the best way to flatten paper off of a roll, is to put a piece of paper on top of the piece you've cut off and iron it flat. These watercolour papers are notoriously difficult to flatten out. The other way you can do it is to tape it down and wet it as when it dries it will stretch and flatten out. If you are going to be buying a lot of paper then you may want to contact R K Burt in London as they are the wholesaler for art papers in the UK. I've used them for many years and they have been excellent. Hope this helps, Jamie
Also use deeper blacks to gain depth for more realism
Thank you for the tutorial! Very helpful!
You're very welcome!
Amazing
This is incredible. Do you know, if using a micro brush, this can be done with acrylic as well?
I don't see why not, I use the same technique with pastels! Thanks so much :)
Enjoyed watching this! You're such a good artist. Don't stop creating Grace😉 Greetings from my side, see yah 🤗
Thanks so much for watching and for your kind words Shelly!🤎
Not sure what I'mmoreimpressed by, the finished drawing, or the fact you can even hold a pencil with nails like those! 🙈😇
😂 I have a condition called dermatillomania, so having my nails done long like this helps. I wouldn't otherwise. :)
oh wow, fair enough! Do you do your own amazing nail art on them sometimes?
Yes I love to do them, I find it relaxing!
Soo Dope! 🙌🏽 I'm trying to draw a fox I'm going to use this method
Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it and good luck with your fox drawing!❤
Blown away😮 thank you
I wish I'd seen this before drawing my GSP, this is amazing Grace ❤
Your a lifesaver dude I was trying to do a wolf for my portfolio but it was a right mess this helped me out soooo much you’re wonderful thank you
Aw, I'm so glad to hear it helped you! Makes it all worth it :)
@@gracemurrayart
Amazing master!!
Can you please tell me what paper to get if i want to display my work or gift it to someone? Cant seem to find this out. Say if i did a piece with graphite (realism) or coloured pencil and wanted to frame it. Any advice?
Hi Anna, I use Bristol board smooth (strathmore), or my recent favourite, Fabriano 5 (colour liscio). These are both for graphite. For coloured pencils I use pastelmat, or you may enjoy fabriano artistico hot pressed paper for coloured pencils if you're used to regular paper. All of these papers are professional and will last :)
Hello, just wanted to say amazing drawings. I have 1 question. Where can one find reference images?
Thank you! I get all my reference photos from clients as they are commissions, or take me own from my dog or people's dogs I know. There's also lots of stock photos websites you can get some references from :)
@@gracemurrayart Thanks for the reply. Wasn't expecting one.
Beautiful 👍
You are amazing! Thanks for the great tutorial
Thank you so much!🙌🏻
You're very welcome!!🙌🏻
Very nice, thank you! Jenn🙏🏻
You're very welcome!🙌🏻❤
Oh wow your work is incredible. I havnt attempted drawing animals but I would love to draw my own dogs so have picked up some fabulous tips here, however I think it is going to take me a few years to master this 😀
Thank you so much 😀 A lot of people start with their own animals, it's great to have the connection with you subject! I'm glad this could help and inspire you, Bernadette :)
Really nice work, Grace. Do you have a paid prescription option where we can learn all the steps and techniques?
Thank you Jay! Glad to have you in the Patreon community now. Here's the link for anyone else wondering: www.patreon.com/gracemurrayart
Fantastic work! Thank you so much for sharing! I'm working on a graphite drawing of a puppy at the moment and I'm struggling a bit with the short fur. This tutorial helped a lot!! Thank you! ❤
So glad this could be of help! Thank you lovely x
Love the tutorial, thanks heaps for the video. Would this technique work for longer fur as well? Also what is the thing under your hand to prevent the smudging? I currently use a piece of paper but like the look of what you are using since it’s see through.
I'm glad it was helpful Jessica! 😊I've actually got a vide going live tomorrow showing how I use this technique with longer fur! In this video I'm just using a cellophane sheet, but usually I use glassine paper x
brilliant thank you
I didn’t understand the second stroke, can you explain it again? I am not grasping the back and forward and how can it be done with soft and hard pressure, it should be in the middle the hard pressure?
Hi Laura, yes so it's almost like stroking the paper with the pencil, reserving most of the pressure for the centre of the stroke and getting lighter in pressure at the beggining and end :)
Hey so you draw it without eraser at all?
Hi Eyal, I didn't use an eraser for very much in this one at all. :)
Beautiful video! Great work
Thank you so much ❤
good advice, thanks
Thank you this is really helpful xx
You're so welcome, glad it could help!😊
This video is really calming haha
Hahaha, must be my brother's piano playing in the background 🤣
@@gracemurrayart a combination of that, the drawing and you voice; has as a very calming effect.
Also, I've gotta see how you did the dog's nose. Looks so good!!
@@Leocoz82 Aww well I'm glad I could calm ya down 🤣 thanks Lee, hopefully out later this week!🐾