Welcome back, fellow artists and art lovers! 🖌☺Hope this tutorial is helpful for those of you getting started with drawing or looking to improve your drawing skills. I've left the links to the reference photos used in the description box for you, right below the video. If you have any questions, please leave them below and I'll do my best to get back to you. For immediate access to my real-time, fully-narrated sketching and watercolor tutorials (with downloadable outline sketches, reference photos and supply lists), classes and workshops on Art Fundamentals (covering art school basics) with assignments, feedback from me on your work, live monthly art chats/Q&A's, and much more: patreon.com/erika_lancaster_artist 🙌 Thanks so much for watching! ❤
Thank you for the insightful tutorial! Helpful review and tutorial for my pen and ink class I am currently taking. Contour lines was the more difficult technique for me to envision so I appreciate your exercises!
I'm so glad this video popped up. It's embarrassing to say I'm an adult but I'm a beginner at drawing. I have been watching tutorials and getting started with the basics. I have seen artists look at a dog's face and they do an outline of it, then they paint and of course adding highlights. It's not necessarily Contour drawing because they do lift their pencil but they're able to see an outline of the image. I'm only a few minutes into this video and I'm thinking this might help me to see images in the way I desire to. If you have any other suggestions or videos, I would love to hear it. I just subscribed and shared this video on Pinterest. Thank you so much for providing it.
As I'm further into the video, I realize this is exactly what I need to be working on.❤ Since I am truly a beginner, I'm just watching this video now and I'm going to look for the video you said you have for holding your pencil.
The pepper was tricky.❤ you are a fantastic teacher and I believe I might do this video over again before I move on to something else. I enjoyed this tutorial because you talk to me the whole time I was doing it. Yesterday I watched this video all the way through without drawing. I'm so sorry to go on and on, but you have helped me immensely. Before I found you, I watched about 7 or 8 channels and a few videos of each. None of them had a step-by-step that explained everything and told us what we're supposed to be observing. The other videos would have been fine if I wanted to copy what they were doing but that really wasn't helping me learn. So sorry to go on and on, I'm just blown away at what I've learned from you. You have made all the difference in the world. I sent my best friend this video and she's been practicing it today. Tomorrow she's coming over and we're going to go through it again.❤❤❤ She told me that you speak the way we do, we understand you! Have a beautiful day❤
Hi, Rita! I hope this message finds you well and enjoying your day. 🌞 Thank you so much for watching, and for taking the time to leave your valuable comments. 💙🙌 I'm truly so happy to hear that this tutorial was helpful and that it has cleared up some things for you. There's absolutely no need to feel embarrassed about where you're at. Drawing is a skill that can be learned and developed like any other skill. You can move forward, no matter your age. I love that you're working on developing your drawing skills as I 100% believe that drawing is the basis for all kinds of art. I have a playlist that's full of graphite drawing/sketching tutorials and tips videos that you can find here: th-cam.com/play/PLUhSVLFDaUTKUpCt0kITpRyh3utBkQfO1.html Hope it's helpful. If you have any questions, feel free to leave them below the video and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Enjoy your art practice!
I can see how the contour line exercises help us to better see forms in three dimensions. How can we use this as we sketch and paint to give our subjects more depth?
Hi, there! Great question! 😁🙌 When we're going to be shading a drawing in a more realistic way (with smooth shading techniques) and when we're going to be painting with any painting medium, in order to achieve realism and depth, we need to develop a wide range of values throughout the subject. Value or tone is key for realism. Meaning, we need to be able to observe light areas, midtone areas, and darkest areas throughout our subject (preferably via a reference photo or having the subject in front of us in real life), so that we're then able to make those different value shapes happen in our drawing or painting. This said, in order for us to be able to shade something effectively, it's essential to acknowledge it as being a three dimensional structure made up of different planes that are affected by light. Oftentimes, even if the artist knows how to achieve smooth shading via graphite or paint, the artwork still looks flat because they haven't yet acknowledged the subject as being a three-dimensional structure in space. This is where this type of exercise comes in very handy, as it helps us understand these objects as being voluminous structures and not flat. They help us start seeing objects/subjects in a new way and start transmitting that 3D-ness/depth on the page. I hope this answers your question! :) Thanks so much for watching!
Welcome back, fellow artists and art lovers! 🖌☺Hope this tutorial is helpful for those of you getting started with drawing or looking to improve your drawing skills. I've left the links to the reference photos used in the description box for you, right below the video. If you have any questions, please leave them below and I'll do my best to get back to you. For immediate access to my real-time, fully-narrated sketching and watercolor tutorials (with downloadable outline sketches, reference photos and supply lists), classes and workshops on Art Fundamentals (covering art school basics) with assignments, feedback from me on your work, live monthly art chats/Q&A's, and much more: patreon.com/erika_lancaster_artist 🙌 Thanks so much for watching! ❤
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I'm so glad they are helpful! Thanks so much for watching.
Thank you for the insightful tutorial! Helpful review and tutorial for my pen and ink class I am currently taking. Contour lines was the more difficult technique for me to envision so I appreciate your exercises!
Thanks so much for watching! Glad it was helpful.
I'm so glad this video popped up. It's embarrassing to say I'm an adult but I'm a beginner at drawing. I have been watching tutorials and getting started with the basics.
I have seen artists look at a dog's face and they do an outline of it, then they paint and of course adding highlights.
It's not necessarily Contour drawing because they do lift their pencil but they're able to see an outline of the image.
I'm only a few minutes into this video and I'm thinking this might help me to see images in the way I desire to. If you have any other suggestions or videos, I would love to hear it.
I just subscribed and shared this video on Pinterest. Thank you so much for providing it.
As I'm further into the video, I realize this is exactly what I need to be working on.❤
Since I am truly a beginner, I'm just watching this video now and I'm going to look for the video you said you have for holding your pencil.
The pepper was tricky.❤ you are a fantastic teacher and I believe I might do this video over again before I move on to something else. I enjoyed this tutorial because you talk to me the whole time I was doing it. Yesterday I watched this video all the way through without drawing.
I'm so sorry to go on and on, but you have helped me immensely. Before I found you, I watched about 7 or 8 channels and a few videos of each. None of them had a step-by-step that explained everything and told us what we're supposed to be observing. The other videos would have been fine if I wanted to copy what they were doing but that really wasn't helping me learn.
So sorry to go on and on, I'm just blown away at what I've learned from you. You have made all the difference in the world. I sent my best friend this video and she's been practicing it today. Tomorrow she's coming over and we're going to go through it again.❤❤❤
She told me that you speak the way we do, we understand you!
Have a beautiful day❤
Hi, Rita!
I hope this message finds you well and enjoying your day. 🌞
Thank you so much for watching, and for taking the time to leave your valuable comments. 💙🙌
I'm truly so happy to hear that this tutorial was helpful and that it has cleared up some things for you.
There's absolutely no need to feel embarrassed about where you're at. Drawing is a skill that can be learned and developed like any other skill. You can move forward, no matter your age.
I love that you're working on developing your drawing skills as I 100% believe that drawing is the basis for all kinds of art.
I have a playlist that's full of graphite drawing/sketching tutorials and tips videos that you can find here: th-cam.com/play/PLUhSVLFDaUTKUpCt0kITpRyh3utBkQfO1.html
Hope it's helpful. If you have any questions, feel free to leave them below the video and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Enjoy your art practice!
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I can see how the contour line exercises help us to better see forms in three dimensions. How can we use this as we sketch and paint to give our subjects more depth?
Hi, there! Great question! 😁🙌
When we're going to be shading a drawing in a more realistic way (with smooth shading techniques) and when we're going to be painting with any painting medium, in order to achieve realism and depth, we need to develop a wide range of values throughout the subject. Value or tone is key for realism. Meaning, we need to be able to observe light areas, midtone areas, and darkest areas throughout our subject (preferably via a reference photo or having the subject in front of us in real life), so that we're then able to make those different value shapes happen in our drawing or painting.
This said, in order for us to be able to shade something effectively, it's essential to acknowledge it as being a three dimensional structure made up of different planes that are affected by light. Oftentimes, even if the artist knows how to achieve smooth shading via graphite or paint, the artwork still looks flat because they haven't yet acknowledged the subject as being a three-dimensional structure in space.
This is where this type of exercise comes in very handy, as it helps us understand these objects as being voluminous structures and not flat. They help us start seeing objects/subjects in a new way and start transmitting that 3D-ness/depth on the page.
I hope this answers your question! :)
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