How to sketch out your subject prior to painting | Episode 247
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HiMichael ,you are an angel .!.👍🏻I think you are making a lot off people very happy with this information…so many people that like to draw but are not confident they are able to do so correctly…or do not have a steady hand…As per usual…😃👍🏻👍🏻👋
Wow, Michael I've been watching you as I have time and this is so important to me because I failed a painting because of not sketching 1st. Plus I've heard Procreate is really awesome and thank you so much for showing us how to use it. I realize it's a lot to learn, but you made my day just showing me this much. I will check it out, but app sounds pricey. I love it though 😍
You have such a beautiful Soul, to help others find the artist within them. Thank you for helping with things I've struggled with in the past. This video is a God Send.
I had asked for your technique in another video. I do photo realistic drawing and painting on a tablet using this exact same procedure. It's about getting the subject to your canvas quickly and accurately so you can start enjoying developing your art instead of struggling with proportion and placement.
There are dozens of ways to make a transfer: projector, light box, grid, layers as displayed here, camera obscura and one thing they have in common is a rabid collection of high-horse purists that will denounce you for "tracing".
I need people to hear that it's okay to use whatever means necessary to get the sketch on the canvas so the real work, the fun work, can begin and you can feel confident in that.
And to the naysayers that call foul, if you think this gives us some magical upper hand, you need only compare MJS' start and end point to appreciate how insignificant the sketch phase is compared to the final product.
I totally agree with your call on rabid high horse purists. It's not just in the art world either. There are people in the craft world that set themselves up as the expert and tell people there's only one correct way to do something, and that's their way, for which they are charging an arm and a leg to teach it. Art is self expression and if you're going to stifle the pleasure and freedom of self expression with totally unnecessary rules, then you've just taken away the pleasure. If you want the frustration of a challenge, by all means go ahead and draw, but most of us don't. We'd rather spend our time enjoying the creative process of painting, rather than giving up before we get to that point because we can't draw an accurate sketch. We don't need purists sticking their noses into our private creative processes.
What I used to do is adjusting the image in Photoshop using the Posterize filter to simplify the reference image. Then I use a cheap projector to project the image on a canvas and make basic outlines. It's much faster.
me too!
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This is great! I do something similar, but in Photoshop. I layer my pre-made grid file over my reference photo and transfer to my tablet. You're the first artist I ever saw use a tablet for reference (this is going back years now). It was such a game changer! No more printing and taping paper together for larger paintings, guessing at details. I'm a waterclor painter, but I've learned SO much from you. Thank you!
Thanks so much for this Michael
Big fan of your art love that❤️
This was incredibly helpful. Thank you so much, Michael.
Great job, this lesson was very important to know.
Im so happy i found your channel previous year. I learn so much from you
Wow thanks for showing how to make the drawing diagram!
Bahahaha your intro is hilarious 🤣. Great video. Thanks for all your advice and teachings.
Dzięki Michael! Super pokazałeś, szukałem tego tematu po internecie i nie wielu artystów pokazuje właśnie ten moment przygotowania projektu przed malowaniem. Dobra robota jak zawsze. Pozdrawiam z Polski. :)
I do murals and too close to wall to draw proportions correctly.this is so helpful
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St Catherine’s Passage, Talinn. I remember it well! Nice subject to paint, thanks Michael!
Brilliant! 🌟
Hi Michael! Great video as always, but I do have a question.
Why create a sketch on the iPad to then have to sketch again on the panel? Why not just transpose a grid onto the original reference photo and use that to sketch on the panel, eliminating the iPad altogether?
Thanks in advance!
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That's what I do. Photoshop Elements.
Or apps available on IPhone or IPad like Grid# that puts any grid you want over your reference photo
Remember that he also provides these grided line drawings to his students as part of the painting lesson.
Hello Mr. Smith, if you hold your point after a drawn line, it gets totaly straight automatically.......just a hint....Happy early Christmas...
You can get a cheap af usb projector pretty much anywhere for under $50 that would save you a lot of time. Just project on the canvas directly, quick sketch with a pencil, paint. Keep in mind, it doesn't have to be a great projector. You're not tracing every detail, you just need the shapes and even the cheapest models can give you that.
That is so helpful! Thank you!
This is a pretty good technique! I don't have an ipad/procreate, so I sketch traditionally, then scan it, then figure out how many standard pages the canvas I want to use fits on, and then print the sketch on however many pages. I sometimes have more canvas on the edges than the image or too much image for the canvas, but it generally works out!
M always here for ur beautiful works
Hallo Michael, es ist eine ausgezeichnete Idee, die ich noch nicht in Betracht gezogen habe. Vielen Dank
One of the more practically useful lessons.
Have you tried the app Da Vinci Eye instead?
You just set your iPad or phone up on a tripod in front of the canvas load the image and it lets you trace around it. looking through the screen you see the photo and your canvas superimposed so you can sketch direct on the canvas with pencil, much much quicker
Você é o melhor. Parabéns artista 🎨
thank you michael very informative , i tend to use the " da vinci eye " app but may try your way , by the way at the beginning of the video top right of the screen says for a short while " join my pain school " 😂😂 i have joined , no pain so far just pleasure and education , anyone reading this , it's worth every penny , great value .... no i'm not getting paid to promote michaels school 🤣🤣
Hermoso tema.
Good teacher ❤❤
very nice video and so amazing👍
Thank you, that's interesting.
i thought that it was a bad idea to draw with pencil on canvus as it might show on painting after its done ,,, great to know you can mark it out before hand with pencil :) ,,
He will use acrylic which hide the pencil's lines under it and finally he apply oils over the acrylic .. so no problem
@@ohiovic1236 nice one ,, thanks for that :) ,,
I’ve downloaded Procreate but not had the foggiest how to use it..seems to complicated but you’ve shed some light on it, thanks
Perfekt 👌
Thanks
Going to that level of preparation for the sketch... why not go one step further, and just get a projector to transfer the drawing? It would save you loads of time once you have your sketch done, and you could save the "sketch time" and just draw the sketch onto the canvas to begin with? It can also give you flawless size adjustment abilities... IDK, makes too much sense to me I guess. Oh, and DLP projectors are amazing for artists.
I’ve used a projector in the past and it’s great for complicated scenes 👍. This video is for those who don’t have one
@@MichaelJamesSmith you can get a projector for a lot less than a pad and pen. You don't need a top notch movie projector, just one where you can see the main lines, shapes and perspective.
Que bonito me encanta que chulada de cuadro y de video de verdad Michael eres el mejor gracias por enseñarme aprendo mucho de ti gracias Michael gracias por tus vídeos y explicaciones Michael al igual que los vídeos explicativos de TH-cam Michael me ayudan muchísimo a mejorar cada día más en el concepto lineal y espacial en mejorar en la mezcla de colores de pinturas y en las distintas técnicas y uso de materiales como en este caso el ordenador o la tablet gracias Michael atentamente Susy
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@@Tiktk525 i want to become like MJS
I learned a lot from this video but I have a question for you! Rather to do all this job why you don’t use just a projector 📽️? I use a projector when I want to copy a pattern that is difficult for me to draw by hand 🤷🏻♀️🥴 buy I would love to know your opinion about it ! Thanks master 👏🏼
This is a long way. There is an easier way to transfer images to canvas.
Print the picture on a printer in A-2 or A-3 format, or another format. . And using regular carbon paper, transfer the image to the canvas.
When i do my blocking in, it looks like a third grader blocking it in, then from there is where i struggle to make a good painting! i block in, then build layers from dark to light, highlights last, need practice i guess???
You are one of the great artist and tutor .your painting skills are mind blowing. I am also an artist with little skill . I can't capture my painting videos properly. How you arrange your light and which camera you use ? Your videos are of best qualities. Pls some day explain all about devices and arrangement .I need to know .plz
You are beautiful!
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Hi Michael, I followed the tutorial magnolia, but the sketching is just shining through the paint😢. How can I solve this?
Add more paint and in future make your sketch fainter
Mitico!
Привет. Рад новому видео! 😎✌️
Sometimes I use a grid as a tool. This got me thinking maybe I should try making it as a layer on GIMP if can figure that out. I usually adjust any building drawings by hand tho, of just draw without grid, so vertical lines are straight and I use perspective drawing, so as not to have the photo effect of lines slanting inward... even for 2 story buildings they seem to have that photo effect.
GIMP is a bit difficult. I have trouble figuring out how to use the levers for curves. However I have software where you can just drag the curve nodes around and add more nodes if you need to. It's is a lot easier than using the levers. Libre office and a mouse is far easier than either of those though.
@@warpedweft9004 Are you saying LibreOffice is easier to make the grid? I need to look at that and see if there is a ruler on there somewhere so I can pick the size I want for the even squares of the grid... a ruler so I am not guessing the square size. I don't really use LibreOffice to import photos onto, but I know one can import a photo to its document... I just never looked for a ruler on the sides before or if there's a tab to add a ruler.
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I do it the lazy way. Just print out a photograph and then trace it onto the canvas using carbon paper. 😬
I tried that. I got carbon smudges all over my canvas, no matter how hard I tried not to....
@@warpedweft9004 that's never happened to me. I guess it depends on the brand of carbon paper.
@@FollowerOfYeshua1974 You don't know me! I seem to be able to smear all sorts of stuff everywhere. Suffice to say glue and me are not friends.
@@warpedweft9004 😁😆
@warpedweft9004 that's why you need to buy saral roll in blue or yellow, red, etc. and transfer your photo image to canvas. I had same problem you had & it was a mess. Jerry's Artarama and Blick's art store sells saral paper. I love blue. Good luck!
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Sort of complicated, what about a grid you make yourself then put it to the side and draw in the photo!
How can one rescue a painting gone wrong.
"Pretty simple stuff"- Me:
are we allowed to trace photo tho?? so far learning from you i'm just splat paint here and there and delete the excess later on after i added the detail. also.... it's fun to watch the "behind the scene goofiness" :D
allowed? its your creation, you can do what you like. The only reason not to trace is to learn to draw, but if you aren't interested in learning to draw, then there's no good reason why you can't trace. It is believed that even the old masters used lucidas, which was a series of mirrors to project an image onto a surface. I know many professional artists who trace because they can't draw accurately.
@@warpedweft9004 yea cause i thought if we trace...then we're kinda copying someone else stuff. okie then... i guess i can trace landscape from photo from now on :D
@@knightsjoker well yes you are, so I wouldn't trace any photo you don't own the copyright to. In other words, use your own photos. There are two sites where you can get photos that people have waived their copyright and you can use those. Unsplash is one, and Pixabay is another.
Warped Weft aha. I got tons photo from my travel. So I can trace them then. I mean overall I thought we are just not allowed to trace.
@@knightsjoker and who is going to police it? It is not up to anyone else to tell you what you're allowed to do and not allowed to do as far as art is concerned.
At the end of the day, whether you trace or don't trace, the sketch gets on the canvas and then gets covered in paint. You can't even see the sketch at that point. Ignore what others say to spoil your enjoyment, and do your own thing.
It´s very smart, but way to technical for me. Maybe that´s why i don´t paint buildings.......LOL.
Sir what tablet is the best to view reference while painting
Tracing is cheating
I call that tracing not drawing not sketching .make pretend is much better
@@SuperOlds88 his talent lies in the ability to keep color values in sync
But that is tracing, like paint by numbers. People will never get better at drawing if they don't practice, just saying.
rubbish. How is painting from a sketch you drew onto a canvas any different to painting from a sketch you traced on to it? At the end of the day, it's still a sketch on a canvas, regardless of how it got there. Sketching from a photograph or real life is a form of tracing anyway. You're still copying it whether from your minds eye or from a photo.
@@warpedweft9004 I disagree. Drawing from a photo or from life builds up your drawing skills, spatial observation and eye for detail. That is why solid drawing skills has always been the foundation of painting.
@@kimmullen2453 for purists maybe. Most of us are just hobby painters. We can do as we please. However even the old masters used lucidas. Most of us also don't paint photorealistically. While I greatly admire what MJS is able to achieve, I don't see the point. I might just as well take a photo and have it printed on to a canvas.
Art these days is more about the expression than photorealism and to show people it's a painting not a photo. The old masters were only intent on photorealism as there was no photography and people wanted things recorded as lifelike.
@@warpedweft9004we will agree to disagree on this. You don’t believe drawing is an important skill to practice. I won’t try and convince you. I feel something is lost in a painting which is traced directly from a photo. There is less of the artist’s personality there, and a valuable opportunity is missed to learn better drawing skills.
@@kimmullen2453 In my style of painting I'd doubt you could tell the difference. I can't tell the difference between ones I've sketched and ones I've traced. Could be because I don't do detailed sketches, I more or less draw with my brush, and by the time I've underpainted you can't see the sketch anyway. I don't paint photo realistically but I'm not exactly a loose painter either. Somewhere in between I suppose. However what other people choose to do is up to them. I'm not going to tell anyone else what to do.
Completely unecessary. If you can't draw you certainly can't paint. To transfer an image,draw it on paper, cover the back with chalk or charcoal. Tape your paper to your surface, then trace over all the lines and your drawing will transfer.Too easy.
You are too wrong.
Care to explain?
I beg your pardon if misunderstood but you told that if anybody can't draw either can paint.
I had painted without draw and also drawing. Nevertheless I am not a good drawer.
Onece again excuse me if I am who is wrong.
You can paint if you can't draw,but you will be extremely limited as painting is drawing,only with paint.I should have said so in my comment.
@@europeanroyalty4778 Ok, thank you sir. I shall keep it in mind.
dude!! don't do that!! it's gross..use a lens cleaner and a something to wipe it off... you need to start doing a lots of editing on your videos. You are very good just don't forget that lots of countries means a lot of different habits and personalities. A lot of stuff on your videos got a little or nothing to do with what you do here and will take the professional touch awal.