Thanks Stephen, this subject resonates so much with me! Even if I work digitally, I find I approach "drawing" and "painting" with different mentalities (pulled from working with traditional mediums) and it feels like a never-ending struggle to synthesize the things I love about each approach. Even if it's frustrating at times, I think this kind of distillation process is what gives each artist their individuality, and is a fun puzzle to solve. Thanks again for sharing your wisdom.
I really appreciate it when artists on TH-cam leave the reference photo on the screen while painting/drawing. I'm such a deep visual learner, and love seeing why you're putting this here and that there - does that make sense? 😬😂 I find in other videos I'm wondering why they're placing green in a certain spot and spend a lot of time focusing on why, instead of just watching the process So thank you for helping my brain 😂🫶🫶🫶🫶
Wow this has been so helpful. I have just spent a year doing nothing but pencil, now moving onto oils I was missing the elements of pencil this is just empowered me while I learn paint without feeling I was starting again.
I really like how you work..I'm an artist too, I like hyperrealism, but I decided to get into tattooing..mostly because of finances, honestly🤷. Greetings from 🇭🇷
i draw. im ok. i want to learn oil painting. i have very little interest in color. this is perfect. im going to try this. i have no schooling, no real classes. im faking it as i go. my experimentation, has been with digital. it really opened my mind to light being just as important as the shadows.
Howdy! When it comes to different mediums, oil painting is actually my experimental branch, as I work as a digital illustrator. I love digital illustration but as you also said, working only within a single medium can get so monotonous, so I had to add another medium. When I was starting out painting it was mostly a motivational tool for illustration [when I didn't want to work on illustrations I would paint in oil which was much more difficult, and as soon as I was done oil painting it was a relief to use an easier medium again], but now painting is a part time job that I'm building as a career. There are limits to adding mediums of course, just because of time. If I could clone myself then I could learn all of the mediums I want, haha. Nice video!
Another excellent video, maestro!! I always teach our students that PAINTING IS DRAWING WITH COLOUR. Apropos of autopilot, a million years ago, I had a student who said to me that Raphael said, "Painting always goes better when you think of something else." I told him that Raphael never said that: it was Irving Stone who wrote that (in The Agony and the Ecstasy), and Irving Stone doesn't know how to paint.
I used to hate or be afraid of drawing with a pen. So I decided to study perspective using a pen! and anatomy and gesture, and then suddenly when I picked up a prismacolor pencil or a regular pencil, they felt soooooo much more accessible, and I found myself needing to erase a whole lot less! Pen is unforgiving, but it is that which forces you to be deliberate while drawing. Also, I tried Crayola crayons for gesture drawing, and they work PHENOMENALLY well!!!!! Definitely it is great to try different mediums, especially unforgiving mediums like ink.
Since going digital as my industry required, I've been doing nearly no traditional work, so it's very refreshing to be reminded of the cross medium learning that I've always noticed growing up drawing! I've spent more time doing traditional (gouache, charcoal, watercolor, pen, never oil tho) than digital in my life so I'm relating more to your videos than most other YT who are digital. I've also experienced similar cross medium learning, but it's when I begin to study and drew like people from the animation industry(I was predominately an illustrator). I'm able to learn to drawing much more dynamically and learn to push shape design by embodying a completely different approach to make a picture. It feels really good since I've felt stagnant for years.
Yeah, it's definitely true. Im a student for Entertainment Design which involves a lot of painting and drawing. I didn't have enough money to go to school so I ended up finding a job as a graphic designer (something completely out of what I was doing). I've been doing it for 3 years and dabbling back in my drawing/painting and I noticed that my approach to it is completely different. Rather than just making art pieces, I'm thinking as a designer, I can organize my project, I'm able to think through the function of what I'm working on and now I can actually style it so it looks professionally acceptable. I never thought graphic design would help open up my drawing a bit more
Always struggled handling paint. I always took a Euan Uglow approach of painting shapes but I never really took it seriously because I had no idea where to go. Drawing is so much easier. Preferred Goauche to oil.
Since you asked, I work in carbon dust/pencil and graphite and occasionally watercolor for portraiture. I very much appreciated this video because I'm trying to "get over" my trepidation around oils and begin using them. I didn't do any coursework in oils when I was in school. So intimidated! Sigh. Anyway, I appreciate this video so much. Thank you!
In the recent painting of Lamar I did this and it resulted in my most successful painting yet. I was nervous about drawing with paint but wanted to give it a try. Learned a lot and found it really helped me. Since I don’t use solvents I used linseed oil on a paper towel to erase.
I just connected a new drawing tablet today, after 7 years, and was lucky enough to run into your video. I'm was more of a cartoon artist (hobbyist) but now I want to learn traditional/realistic techniques. I will stick around. Your drawings convinced me.
Thanks for this, Stephen. I am a ceramics BFA student (mostly pottery with some sculpture) but used to do mostly watercolor painting and illustration, so I really resonated with what you said about cross-pollination of disciplines. This video helped me to look at those times with less frustration that I did not specialize earlier and more gratitude for what they brought my current practice. Thanks for your insights.
This is interesting that this video popped up in my feed now. I am currently experimenting with painting figurative art in a very small space. I'm an artist that paints alot of miniature art for people either on Magic the Gathering cards or Warhammer 40000 and such. And I have been struggling with getting the art to feel painterly on such a small size. What I have done is to approach it like drawing first, but with rough and worn small brushes instead of the fresh pointy brushes I could use and that unlocked a whole new world for me. I paint, draw, sculpt sometime and generally the more different things you do the more crossover tricks you find that makes each of them feel better. It is kind of like learning how to cheat better hehe. Thank you for the video.
I started using new brushes on photoshop, and using a blue pen with a sketch book, the pen and sketch was really hard but i feel its helping me advance and i felt the advancement ripple off to digital but i didnt fully indulge on the fact until this vid opened my eye to it
Exactly that 👌 doing some watercolour and ink drawings has helped think about drawing and texture which frees up paint application when drawing with oil paint. Looking at watercolour and simplifying values has helped see value shapes more clearly. This is great Stephen thanks very much. I’ll be watching this one again for sure 😎
over the past 2 years I have been trying to get used to painting with oils but something didn't feel right so I thought maybe I need to draw more and I picked up charcoal drawing and then later I introduced white chalk to it and I learned so much, I felt like I was painting but with a dry medium I could control the shadows and the lights same thing happened with toning the paper in charcoal and picking up the lights with an eraser.
I’m using graphite and today I decided to use charcoal. Also I see the same thing as you described in my other field of work in doing amateur musical and theatreplay. Doing different things strenghten the others.
Improve your oil painting by not painting, this is really good advice, use arcylics to iterate faster, and do sth. intimidating like having NO reference, you will learn so much it’s scary 😂
Right now I’m working on oil and I’m struggling with color matching because oil colors all have an undertone that i have to study . But I’m tackling that first with a preliminary painting before i create an enlarge version. Thanks Stephen for your videos i really learn a lot from watching them
Thanks this was so helpful. I've been trying to teach myself how you use brushes. They feel foreign so it's a challenge when you're use to pencils & pens. You've given me a different perspective on how to approach this. Love the background music, what is it?
Thank you! Nice tutorial that I can relate to. I concentrated mostly on drawing in college and then began teaching high school art directly upon graduating. It was only 2 years ago in my retirement that I began to get serious about oil painting. My drawing background has helped tremendously. Values are so much easier for me to obtain in drawing, but looking at my portraits in oil with the eye of a "drawer" helps me. I know exactly what ya mean!
Fabulous video Stephen! Very interesting parallels and contrasts between drawing and painting. Also, I notice you are using a Manfrotto arm with your iPad - can you please tell me what you are using to connect the arm to the iPad case? Any info on this gratefully received!
Thanks, Stephen, for the awesome lessons and insight you share in your videos. I have arrived at the same conclusion years ago with the cross pollination of ideas between -playing music and drawing / painting. The general structure of a song is like the 2-D composition. Then finding beautiful passages, darker moments, hierarchy of focus, movement throughout, transitions, etc. is brought from one medium to the other.
Taking up gouache and oil painting really changed how I paint digitally (my main medium). At the same time I started to see some of the little problems from my digital work show up in my traditional painting and that was weirdly comforting lol, like at the end of the day I'm the same artist whichever medium I work with.
Very timely video. I just started sculpting last week for these reasons. I have been a little stagnant and needed to do something and sculpting seemed interesting. I love it and I am back at drawing also. Learning some animal anatomy currently but the sculpture of a hand is the most fun thing I have done in a while! My wife walks by and says so you're into this now?? lol So my response was "all the greats did a bit of everything and this is all art". Thinking to myself as I say it " you're comparing yourself to the greats lmao"
Thank you Stephen, I always enjoy your thoughts about art and love your work. It always inspires me to stretch myself a little more. Unfortunately TH-cam has not alerted me to your postings. I have some catching up to do!
I really appreciated hearing how you thought about the process. In fact, the painting on my easel is at the grisaille stage right now, so we are thinking along the same lines. And it is a lovely portrait as well. Beautiful work.
Stephen, another great illustration. Can you confirm my understanding that for your method, instead of doing the blocking the object and refine, you simply refine it from the get go, hence no blocking and hence you are using a small brush ( to mimick the graphite pencil) is that right?
Interesting video on experimenting with mediums, i've been working with Gouache for few months now. For many years been a purist and worked with one medium at a time however working with Gouache as helped me work with more medium. Trying to combine watercolor, gouache and acrylics last month. Results are satisfactory. Need to explore more though! During art blocks i just sketch alot and fill up my sketchbook with ideas and studies.
For years before I began taking art education seriously, I was doing a lot of pencil drawing. Simple, HB mechanical pencil and eraser with hatching. After this I got into digital sculpting, and then eventually started art education through digital painting. Lately I have begun returning back to traditional mediums. I got some nice graphite pencils of 6 hardnesses, kneaded and fine tip erasers, Q tips for blending, the works. I will say that over this process, digital sculpting and 3D rendering helped me accelerate very quickly with digital painting, and digital painting has changed my approach to drawing with graphite entirely as well. It's been a very satisfying process for me now. 😄 It feels a lot like sculpting on paper with values. I plan to try acrylic painting at some point as well.
Omg! I have been wondering about this. I love drawing, but I also love painting but I'd always want to try and find a middle ground, like the perfect spot between drawing and painting which lets me just have one mindset instead of switching mindsets all the time. Also, when you did this approch did you feel like you had to use more medium, to thin it out, or did you use the same amount of medium as in your previous approach?
It's a good video as always but i thought it was going to be about art block in regards to lack of motivation to do art and depression . This is just about different art mediums I didnt get the Art Block part.
I think if you dig a little deeper in to what he's saying this is actually what's implied when he is talking about how you can go on auto-pilot or become disatissfied with your work, these are things that can impede your motivation or lead to more depressive thoughts e.g if you are struggling with art block then try different things to motivate yourself
I play the piano like I play the drums. I just keep the beat with chords and notes. Idk if that relates to this. But painting like drawing.. piano like drums. Swah?
Medium, it is that which you use to communicate or to carry out an artistic task. Paint is a medium, charcoal is one, graphite is a different medium. Each has their qualities that are similar or totally different from other mediums.
Hello Stephen! I have a question or rather would really like to hear some advice from you . Whenever I start drawing, I initiate some rough sketch, trying to put landmarks and all spots I feel like I need to guide myself in next steps but.. - next steps never show up. I swear the God I can't finish one single drawing nor painting because I start doubting in every-single-sketch just to eventually erase it, start another "doodle" and before I realise... I've just sat for straight 1-2 hours with solid 0 results. I feel like I am too rough for myself, I doubt that I can create something good looking, maybe the issue is some kind of lack of patience, but in real life I don't have such issue . Is there any way to make some small video analysing such problem?
I spent a decade as a trainer working with pro and amateur athletes. I was also a fairly accomplished powerlifter. And what I found in physical competition is the same as what I've pieced together as a respectable "training philosophy" in art: the best way to get better at something is to perform exercises and training cycles that aren't that thing. If you want to maximize your strength on the bench press, you need to train the surrounding muscles (triceps, deltoids, etc.) while also improving speed/efficiency. You can't just go in and lift heavy/max out on the bench all the time. Your progress will stall. Art is no different. If all you do is paint full portraits everyday, you're going to plateau very quickly. However, if you spend time dedicated to anatomy, rhythm, interlocking forms, etc. and then go back to portrait painting, I'll bet two things will happen: 1. You're going to be excited to paint a full portrait (with less anxiety) AND you're going to see major improvements, especially in the areas where you dedicated your training. As a bonus, you'll also see major weaknesses emerge (which helps inform future training). However, those weaknesses will be stronger than your previous attempts even though, in contrast to your improved areas, you'll feel like you just picked up a paint brush. Painting is drawing. Drawing is painting. Watercolor is oil. Gouache is acrylic. All is basically the same if you have a very strong base and lots of strong supportive muscles. I believe Richard Schmid would repeatedly say he evaluated everything for shape, edge, and value. If those were incorrect, there was no point in going further into color. If his idea of creating excellent art is true, then the relationship between crafts, mediums, subjects, etc. is far more interconnected than we understand or acknowledge.
Thanks Stephen, this subject resonates so much with me! Even if I work digitally, I find I approach "drawing" and "painting" with different mentalities (pulled from working with traditional mediums) and it feels like a never-ending struggle to synthesize the things I love about each approach. Even if it's frustrating at times, I think this kind of distillation process is what gives each artist their individuality, and is a fun puzzle to solve. Thanks again for sharing your wisdom.
Well said!
your presentations are most enjoyable. You speak well and clearly and make a lot of sense. Thanks
I appreciate that!
I love the black and white one! Do you know Daniel Bilmes? He preferred his drawibgs to his paintings and came up with a beautiful style.
I really appreciate it when artists on TH-cam leave the reference photo on the screen while painting/drawing. I'm such a deep visual learner, and love seeing why you're putting this here and that there - does that make sense? 😬😂
I find in other videos I'm wondering why they're placing green in a certain spot and spend a lot of time focusing on why, instead of just watching the process
So thank you for helping my brain 😂🫶🫶🫶🫶
Wow this has been so helpful. I have just spent a year doing nothing but pencil, now moving onto oils I was missing the elements of pencil this is just empowered me while I learn paint without feeling I was starting again.
I'm drawing exclusively for the last two years, having set aside my brushes- Love the control of graphite and am nervous to return to paint.
I really like how you work..I'm an artist too, I like hyperrealism, but I decided to get into tattooing..mostly because of finances, honestly🤷. Greetings from 🇭🇷
Nice grisaille technique.
i draw. im ok. i want to learn oil painting. i have very little interest in color. this is perfect. im going to try this. i have no schooling, no real classes. im faking it as i go. my experimentation, has been with digital. it really opened my mind to light being just as important as the shadows.
Howdy! When it comes to different mediums, oil painting is actually my experimental branch, as I work as a digital illustrator. I love digital illustration but as you also said, working only within a single medium can get so monotonous, so I had to add another medium. When I was starting out painting it was mostly a motivational tool for illustration [when I didn't want to work on illustrations I would paint in oil which was much more difficult, and as soon as I was done oil painting it was a relief to use an easier medium again], but now painting is a part time job that I'm building as a career.
There are limits to adding mediums of course, just because of time. If I could clone myself then I could learn all of the mediums I want, haha.
Nice video!
Another excellent video, maestro!! I always teach our students that PAINTING IS DRAWING WITH COLOUR.
Apropos of autopilot, a million years ago, I had a student who said to me that Raphael said, "Painting always goes better when you think of something else." I told him that Raphael never said that: it was Irving Stone who wrote that (in The Agony and the Ecstasy), and Irving Stone doesn't know how to paint.
Stephen, thank you for your thinking out loud - it rings a bell!! And that is a beautiful portrait that you paint!! Hugs from Brazil!!
Thank you! Cheers!
I used to hate or be afraid of drawing with a pen. So I decided to study perspective using a pen! and anatomy and gesture, and then suddenly when I picked up a prismacolor pencil or a regular pencil, they felt soooooo much more accessible, and I found myself needing to erase a whole lot less! Pen is unforgiving, but it is that which forces you to be deliberate while drawing. Also, I tried Crayola crayons for gesture drawing, and they work PHENOMENALLY well!!!!! Definitely it is great to try different mediums, especially unforgiving mediums like ink.
Since going digital as my industry required, I've been doing nearly no traditional work, so it's very refreshing to be reminded of the cross medium learning that I've always noticed growing up drawing! I've spent more time doing traditional (gouache, charcoal, watercolor, pen, never oil tho) than digital in my life so I'm relating more to your videos than most other YT who are digital.
I've also experienced similar cross medium learning, but it's when I begin to study and drew like people from the animation industry(I was predominately an illustrator). I'm able to learn to drawing much more dynamically and learn to push shape design by embodying a completely different approach to make a picture. It feels really good since I've felt stagnant for years.
Yeah, it's definitely true. Im a student for Entertainment Design which involves a lot of painting and drawing. I didn't have enough money to go to school so I ended up finding a job as a graphic designer (something completely out of what I was doing).
I've been doing it for 3 years and dabbling back in my drawing/painting and I noticed that my approach to it is completely different.
Rather than just making art pieces, I'm thinking as a designer, I can organize my project, I'm able to think through the function of what I'm working on and now I can actually style it so it looks professionally acceptable.
I never thought graphic design would help open up my drawing a bit more
This is EXACTLY why I made this vid. Thanks!
Always struggled handling paint. I always took a Euan Uglow approach of painting shapes but I never really took it seriously because I had no idea where to go. Drawing is so much easier. Preferred Goauche to oil.
Oh my God you are talking about the same thing Iam trying to do. My drawing is on fleet. But my painting I am unsatified with.
This advice is pure gold. Also love the monochrome look that matches the transparent background. Boom!
Since you asked, I work in carbon dust/pencil and graphite and occasionally watercolor for portraiture. I very much appreciated this video because I'm trying to "get over" my trepidation around oils and begin using them. I didn't do any coursework in oils when I was in school. So intimidated! Sigh. Anyway, I appreciate this video so much. Thank you!
You're very welcome!
I love this. I'm learning how to use Procreate on the Ipad. I would love to achieve a level of draftsmanship and love of portraiture that you have.
In the recent painting of Lamar I did this and it resulted in my most successful painting yet. I was nervous about drawing with paint but wanted to give it a try. Learned a lot and found it really helped me. Since I don’t use solvents I used linseed oil on a paper towel to erase.
I just connected a new drawing tablet today, after 7 years, and was lucky enough to run into your video.
I'm was more of a cartoon artist (hobbyist) but now I want to learn traditional/realistic techniques. I will stick around.
Your drawings convinced me.
Wonderful!
Thanks for this, Stephen. I am a ceramics BFA student (mostly pottery with some sculpture) but used to do mostly watercolor painting and illustration, so I really resonated with what you said about cross-pollination of disciplines. This video helped me to look at those times with less frustration that I did not specialize earlier and more gratitude for what they brought my current practice. Thanks for your insights.
This is interesting that this video popped up in my feed now. I am currently experimenting with painting figurative art in a very small space. I'm an artist that paints alot of miniature art for people either on Magic the Gathering cards or Warhammer 40000 and such. And I have been struggling with getting the art to feel painterly on such a small size.
What I have done is to approach it like drawing first, but with rough and worn small brushes instead of the fresh pointy brushes I could use and that unlocked a whole new world for me.
I paint, draw, sculpt sometime and generally the more different things you do the more crossover tricks you find that makes each of them feel better. It is kind of like learning how to cheat better hehe.
Thank you for the video.
Oh Stephen this painting is sooooo beautiful!!!!
I started using new brushes on photoshop, and using a blue pen with a sketch book, the pen and sketch was really hard but i feel its helping me advance and i felt the advancement ripple off to digital but i didnt fully indulge on the fact until this vid opened my eye to it
Yes! I’ve been exploring this very idea the last few months and came across your video! Thanks!
Exactly that 👌 doing some watercolour and ink drawings has helped think about drawing and texture which frees up paint application when drawing with oil paint. Looking at watercolour and simplifying values has helped see value shapes more clearly. This is great Stephen thanks very much. I’ll be watching this one again for sure 😎
over the past 2 years I have been trying to get used to painting with oils but something didn't feel right so I thought maybe I need to draw more and I picked up charcoal drawing and then later I introduced white chalk to it and I learned so much, I felt like I was painting but with a dry medium I could control the shadows and the lights same thing happened with toning the paper in charcoal and picking up the lights with an eraser.
I’m using graphite and today I decided to use charcoal. Also I see the same thing as you described in my other field of work in doing amateur musical and theatreplay. Doing different things strenghten the others.
Improve your oil painting by not painting, this is really good advice, use arcylics to iterate faster, and do sth. intimidating like having NO reference, you will learn so much it’s scary 😂
Right now I’m working on oil and I’m struggling with color matching because oil colors all have an undertone that i have to study . But I’m tackling that first with a preliminary painting before i create an enlarge version. Thanks Stephen for your videos i really learn a lot from watching them
Thanks for sharing!!
The problem that I have I’m with me I’m good with proportions and other stuff but some reason I can’t get the shading of the on the Portrait.
Thanks this was so helpful. I've been trying to teach myself how you use brushes. They feel foreign so it's a challenge when you're use to pencils & pens. You've given me a different perspective on how to approach this.
Love the background music, what is it?
I love that painting Stephen.
Thank you! Do you mind telling us what you are painting on (surface) and what you used to prep it?
Thank you! Nice tutorial that I can relate to. I concentrated mostly on drawing in college and then began teaching high school art directly upon graduating. It was only 2 years ago in my retirement that I began to get serious about oil painting. My drawing background has helped tremendously. Values are so much easier for me to obtain in drawing, but looking at my portraits in oil with the eye of a "drawer" helps me. I know exactly what ya mean!
Wonderful teacher. Thank you 😊
Fabulous video Stephen! Very interesting parallels and contrasts between drawing and painting. Also, I notice you are using a Manfrotto arm with your iPad - can you please tell me what you are using to connect the arm to the iPad case? Any info on this gratefully received!
Thanks, this is very helpful.
I loved this. Perfect timing for me. Pushing materials to get effects new to the process. Exceellent! And so much fun to try.. . .
Thanks, Stephen, for the awesome lessons and insight you share in your videos. I have arrived at the same conclusion years ago with the cross pollination of ideas between -playing music and drawing / painting. The general structure of a song is like the 2-D composition. Then finding beautiful passages, darker moments, hierarchy of focus, movement throughout, transitions, etc. is brought from one medium to the other.
Taking up gouache and oil painting really changed how I paint digitally (my main medium). At the same time I started to see some of the little problems from my digital work show up in my traditional painting and that was weirdly comforting lol, like at the end of the day I'm the same artist whichever medium I work with.
I know what you mean- wherever you go, there you are.
This is amazing!
Very timely video. I just started sculpting last week for these reasons. I have been a little stagnant and needed to do something and sculpting seemed interesting. I love it and I am back at drawing also. Learning some animal anatomy currently but the sculpture of a hand is the most fun thing I have done in a while! My wife walks by and says so you're into this now?? lol So my response was "all the greats did a bit of everything and this is all art". Thinking to myself as I say it " you're comparing yourself to the greats lmao"
This is true for me too. I'm trying soft pastel for the first time so hoping it'll have a positive effect on my oil paintings.
Thank you Stephen, I always enjoy your thoughts about art and love your work. It always inspires me to stretch myself a little more. Unfortunately TH-cam has not alerted me to your postings. I have some catching up to do!
Thank you, Judith!
I really appreciated hearing how you thought about the process. In fact, the painting on my easel is at the grisaille stage right now, so we are thinking along the same lines. And it is a lovely portrait as well. Beautiful work.
Glad it was helpful!
Beautiful as always
Thank you! 😊
well said, experience talks!
Thank you. You're a good artist.
Thank you! Cheers!
This is lovely so,what paper do you use for graphite drawing
Always inspire me to get painting !
I am just beginning an adventure to do this with water soluble graphite.
It's a great place to be :)
Nice
Thank you for making this video! It was very helpful and perfectly said! Very motivating!
You are so welcome!
Stephen, another great illustration. Can you confirm my understanding that for your method, instead of doing the blocking the object and refine, you simply refine it from the get go, hence no blocking and hence you are using a small brush ( to mimick the graphite pencil) is that right?
Very inspiring video 🙂❤
Thank you! 🙂
very beautiful video, and nice portrait drawing!!😍
Thank you so much 😀
Gracias por compartir tan útil contenido, Stephen. Te mando un saludo desde México.
So lucid, your teaching. Thank you!
My pleasure!
Really fantastic demonstration and commentary. Thank you!
Interesting video on experimenting with mediums, i've been working with Gouache for few months now. For many years been a purist and worked with one medium at a time however working with Gouache as helped me work with more medium. Trying to combine watercolor, gouache and acrylics last month. Results are satisfactory. Need to explore more though! During art blocks i just sketch alot and fill up my sketchbook with ideas and studies.
Thanks for sharing!
Fantastic demo Boss 👌
Fascinating thoughts and ideas. Thanks very much. I'm off to experiment. I like to draw in graphite and paint in oils. Subscribed.
Welcome aboard!
Bomb dropped at 2:25. This is a genius way to approach this.
For years before I began taking art education seriously, I was doing a lot of pencil drawing. Simple, HB mechanical pencil and eraser with hatching. After this I got into digital sculpting, and then eventually started art education through digital painting. Lately I have begun returning back to traditional mediums. I got some nice graphite pencils of 6 hardnesses, kneaded and fine tip erasers, Q tips for blending, the works. I will say that over this process, digital sculpting and 3D rendering helped me accelerate very quickly with digital painting, and digital painting has changed my approach to drawing with graphite entirely as well. It's been a very satisfying process for me now. 😄 It feels a lot like sculpting on paper with values. I plan to try acrylic painting at some point as well.
Omg! I have been wondering about this. I love drawing, but I also love painting but I'd always want to try and find a middle ground, like the perfect spot between drawing and painting which lets me just have one mindset instead of switching mindsets all the time.
Also, when you did this approch did you feel like you had to use more medium, to thin it out, or did you use the same amount of medium as in your previous approach?
Same amount of medium- the shift is 90% mental.
It's a good video as always but i thought it was going to be about art block in regards to lack of motivation to do art and depression . This is just about different art mediums I didnt get the Art Block part.
I think if you dig a little deeper in to what he's saying this is actually what's implied when he is talking about how you can go on auto-pilot or become disatissfied with your work, these are things that can impede your motivation or lead to more depressive thoughts e.g if you are struggling with art block then try different things to motivate yourself
I play the piano like I play the drums. I just keep the beat with chords and notes. Idk if that relates to this. But painting like drawing.. piano like drums. Swah?
Stephen are you able to comment on how sepia extra compares to something like a van dyke brown? Im trying to pick a warm or warm-ish black. Thank you
These two are almost the same in the brands that I have seen. I think that I have both.
@@stephenbaumanartwork thank you, its always nice to get input when you’re on a budget
......8:12 New materials or new media......?🤔
Medium, it is that which you use to communicate or to carry out an artistic task. Paint is a medium, charcoal is one, graphite is a different medium. Each has their qualities that are similar or totally different from other mediums.
Well, hello!
Hello Stephen! I have a question or rather would really like to hear some advice from you . Whenever I start drawing, I initiate some rough sketch, trying to put landmarks and all spots I feel like I need to guide myself in next steps but.. - next steps never show up. I swear the God I can't finish one single drawing nor painting because I start doubting in every-single-sketch just to eventually erase it, start another "doodle" and before I realise... I've just sat for straight 1-2 hours with solid 0 results. I feel like I am too rough for myself, I doubt that I can create something good looking, maybe the issue is some kind of lack of patience, but in real life I don't have such issue . Is there any way to make some small video analysing such problem?
Set a series of stages and time markers. Practice usually benefits from some kind of structure in your process.
I spent a decade as a trainer working with pro and amateur athletes. I was also a fairly accomplished powerlifter. And what I found in physical competition is the same as what I've pieced together as a respectable "training philosophy" in art: the best way to get better at something is to perform exercises and training cycles that aren't that thing. If you want to maximize your strength on the bench press, you need to train the surrounding muscles (triceps, deltoids, etc.) while also improving speed/efficiency. You can't just go in and lift heavy/max out on the bench all the time. Your progress will stall. Art is no different. If all you do is paint full portraits everyday, you're going to plateau very quickly. However, if you spend time dedicated to anatomy, rhythm, interlocking forms, etc. and then go back to portrait painting, I'll bet two things will happen: 1. You're going to be excited to paint a full portrait (with less anxiety) AND you're going to see major improvements, especially in the areas where you dedicated your training. As a bonus, you'll also see major weaknesses emerge (which helps inform future training). However, those weaknesses will be stronger than your previous attempts even though, in contrast to your improved areas, you'll feel like you just picked up a paint brush.
Painting is drawing. Drawing is painting. Watercolor is oil. Gouache is acrylic. All is basically the same if you have a very strong base and lots of strong supportive muscles. I believe Richard Schmid would repeatedly say he evaluated everything for shape, edge, and value. If those were incorrect, there was no point in going further into color. If his idea of creating excellent art is true, then the relationship between crafts, mediums, subjects, etc. is far more interconnected than we understand or acknowledge.
FANTASTIC comment. Thanks, Mike!
Is the blockin bootcamp recording available at atelier tier?
Only on Bootcamp Tier
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please wear gloves if you're using flake white, lol.
Too much talk and not enough instruction.