Your tutorials are tantamount to taking a course in college or anywhere else where one would be dropping a few hundred dollars. I really appreciate not just your keen and fluid abilities at drawing, but your clarity in speech and innate gift at teaching. In other words: You are awesome and Thank You so much for the art tutorials! :)
This is incredible! You watch professional artist use these steps all the time. But I've never seen it broken down like this. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this. I expect my drawing skills will be pumping up on your 5 stages. AWESOME!
You sir, are a natural teacher. I find it to be one of the most lacking traits in humanity, but you are a natural at conveying your thought process. Love the video!
a full college course of art knowledge, for absolutely zero dollars. you, sir, are a hero and the tutorial works so well, learning how to break down the complicated reality into something we can understand and then building back up from there is such a great explanation of using shapes
You are an excellent instructor. You confirmed what I was already aware I was doing and enlightened me to and explained very simply what I was doing but didn't really understand why....and everything in between :) Thank you.
I'm very impressed. As many people already said, you're a great teacher, Alphonso. Most artists show off in their tutorials, they rather draw the way not to look bad, hiding all inconvenient "stages". And you actually explain things, you make tutorials for people, not for your ego, and that's awesome. I wanted to ask about the boxes and cylinders. It sounds good but on practice I'm not sure what goes first. It feels like these boxes come out of the understanding of proportions, shapes and lighting, not forming it. And mostly they mislead by a wrong shape as a body still has many complicated bents... I mean it looks good in your example because you know how to see past it, right? So did you always use them or did you start once you had a strong base? Do they still help you? And most importantly, isn't it better to go for the shapes I actually see there, not as simplified but teaching me to work with the difficult shapes from the very start? Thanks in advance, I'll keep watching your vids. ^__^
Thanks for the post and for that excellent question...I advise starting with basic simple forms at all times for a looonnng time. And this is not only for the sake of simplifying what you see but it also indirectly enables you to sense the mass, volume, structure and proportion of objects you draw. Its just one of those things you have to experience but you have to be patient enough to let it work. I have had students who would be quick to draw things just as they saw it yet found it difficult to draw cubes, cylinders and spheres...why is that? They didnt practice enough with start their drawings with the basics first. It is so simple it is overlooked. I still do it Plus it enables you to draw from the imagination with so much more ease :-) I have a tutorial coming up with drawing complex forms with major and minor planes that will address this as well..stay tuned
Thanks Alphonso! I'm learning to teach drawing and your tutorial has helped me break down what I do naturally but have forgotten the process I now do without too much thought. I've discovered that learning to draw is like learning to drive. There's the car stuff (pedals, gears, wipers etc) that's your equipment - be it whatever - pencil, paper, eraser etc. Then there's the head stuff........shape, form, perspective, hazard perception, traffic lights, basically where you are in relation to the world around you and what your intentions are. (and everyone else's to--boot). Then after a shed load of experience (more than what the average learner believes). You find yourself putting it all together naturally. With a bit of luck bad habits haven't crept in and you are still open to the learning experience. Again, thanks for breaking down the process into understandable and bite size pieces.
Bruce Penny thanks much, I really appreciate all you've said. I think the beauty here is that you remain open, open to learning still. I am forever a student
Alphonso you're a really great teacher, I love that you go through every detail. I really appreciate you doing this!!! Thank you for sharing your skills and knowledge!!
Wow. You are hands-down the best art teacher I've ever seen on TH-cam. Your videos are extremely well made. You really go in-depth with everything, but without it taking forever. You get straight to the point, and you use really easy to understand learning methods that work like a charm. Stay awesome, Alphonso. You're doing a real service to us aspiring artists! :D
I love the fresh and informal way you talk and explain stuff, it really locks my attention from start to finish and makes it easy to digest what you're saying and virtually impossible to become bored :)
As an ex-art major I can say that you teach better then any Professor I've encountered. One of the best things I was ever taught was to draw what you see, not what you know.
The progression is so inspiring! Thank you so much! It reminds me of an idiom: At first, you look at the mountain and the river, you see the mountain and the river. Then after ten years, mountains are no longer mountains, and rivers are no longer rivers. Another ten years pass by, and you see mountains still as mountains, and rivers still as rivers.
Alphonso, I agree with Betty. You are awesome. Giving back when you yourself learnt without this support also speaks to the character, traits and values you possess as the unique caring person you are. Thank you.
this is why I don't pay for art school theres totally amazing teachers on the internet for free even thought this guy should definitely receive something for this
This is one of the best videos I have seen. It explains how a tree that I drew yesterday, which looked good when I started out, but which became successively 'robotic' (as Alphonso warns in this video) as I started to 'refine' it. I ended up scrapping the drawing and becoming discouraged. I now feel (after listening and watching Alphonso) that I understand the reason for my failure and I can go back to my tree and try again. Thank you, Alphonso.
I've just started a figure drawing class and I'm obsessively watching all your videos! They are so, so helpful and not intimidating in any way. You are an amazing teacher and artist! Thank you so much for sharing your obvious passion.
Thanks for these vids. Drew alot as a kid and left it alone till a couple years ago. I found you on youtube a couple months ago and took off back into my books again. Thanks for motivating this 45 year old to be back into art. Appreciate you bro.
This is the second tutorial of yours I've watched. I am amazed at how well you explain things. I sure hope you are making a living at teaching. You are an excellent teacher!!
How does one sharpen a pencil to that extent, like in the beginnign of the video? Is there a special pencil sharpener, or do you use like a knife or something?
I don't know if this is how he does it, and my way is definitely not the safest way, but I use a knife. I fine tip one, like a box cutter. I find it's much more effective than a pencil sharpener.
***** I really appreciated your emphasis on not being rigid and dogmatic with your art, to flow with it and have fun, thanks for putting the effort out there to make these, they really help me. I've never really gotten into art much, but feel inspired to start now and eventually doing illustrations at age 20 for reasons unknown, these are indispensable.
I teach HS art in Southern WI and use your videos in all my 2D / drawing classes. I have yet to find another person whose entire set of videos are always on target. You make planning curriculum easier. Thank you for explaining things so thoroughly!
I started learning how to draw from your videos because you break it down into a substance that really makes sense in my mind. However I do have to revisit them all over again because I stopped for a long while and I have to relearn the skills, It's a lot more frustrating than the first time but I'll hopefully get through it. Drawing is really liberating when you get breakthroughs and you get in the zone.
It's literally so good, like not the secret of a better drawing, it just makes me remember things that I don't really pay attention anymore. Thanks for the awareness.
I like how you old videos can still give valuable knowledge. In this series so far, i've started to keep to your egg torso more, and try to be more loose with gestures and attempt to be less flustered with my gesture poses and simple foreshortening. I've even learned that my drawing process starts with the sketch first then overlaps 2 and 3 in the second step. So I measure and add form once i know the measures in my art. I am a bit too perfectionist when it comes to my sketches since I want to be able to draw a body with few lines as possible and essentially feel bad when I have to build my pose I can't freehand with a frame. But these videos are slowly but surely helping me feel less frustration when just sketching something to start a drawing.
Alphonso, Thanks so much for continuing to put out these fantastic drawing tutorials. The whole complicated to simple, back to complicated process really clicked with me. I've watched and paid for countless tutorials and none have made me understand that basic principle the way you just did. It's really opened my eyes to the whole drawing process. I tip my hat to you sir!
I can't even tell you how much I am improving by watching this series. You really have built my confidence, let alone my sketching skills! I have to pass an exam which includes sketching to get into college, and I am sure that your videos are going to get me through. I have my exam in January next year and I will tell you how I perform; but until then, I am going to practice these techniques and challenge myself to do better, not only to pass the exam, but to become a great designer. Thank you, Alphonso. Love from India!
I have watched maybe 15 videos today...and yours was absolutely the most helpful for me to get back into my sketching after life happened. You have really inspired me!
Thank you for bringing back and promoting traditional drawing techniques!! Most youtube videos are all about photoshop and such!! Great instructions too!
I make a goal of watching atleast 3 of your videos per day, repeats are always okay because I can always pick up one some other detail I missed. You've got a plethora of knowledge and a gift in communicating it. Thanks for everything you do.
I feel like your videos are going to be one of the most invaluable resources I've come across yet, for picking up drawing skills. I don't even know what it is, but you really have this knack for teaching/explaining. It's fantastic. Thank you so much for sharing your explanations with us through youtube!
It's nice to see you break down all of those steps of drawing a good figure. I often draw a figure and see a whole bunch of problems with it. Then I see you draw your figures a lot faster than me, and I wonder how that came out so much better. I assumed it was just because you draw a lot more than me. So, thank you for showing me this easy to follow process.
I think that who watch your videos don't need a lot of time to learn drawing like other prof said (more than 3 years) because you teach us the tricks of drawing you are one of the best professional artist.👍👍👍👍👍👍
Great questions to ask while drawing to get it right as we go along...much quicker than to keep erasing over and over....thanks, Alphonso, for teaching this so well!
I can't imagine the amount of comments you have like this one, but you are a huge inspiration for me when I have none. anytime I've felt like a dry well of creativity I watch your videos and you breathe it back into me. thank you for being an awesome teacher and beautiful positive force.
That was very helpful, thanks a lot. I just started again and want to practice the fundamentals properly this time. Have been doing gesture drawings mostly during the last two weeks plus some quick sketches of random objects (and my cat when he's in sight). When I added "shape figures" to my practice, I was confused, because it felt odd that the cylinders and boxes should change direction? Good to know they actually do. I don't do measurement yet, because I am using 3D models from Posemaniacs or a mannequin for gesture drawing and also for the "shape figures". My ultimate goal is painting digitally anyway, but the fundamentals are the fundamentals, and it's good to know that the more boring practice actually will pay off one day.
I'm a french student and this video (like all your videos) is the most helpfulI I have found on youtube (and I can tell you I watched a lot of videos). Thank you and continue . genius
+Alphonso Dunn lol first video I saw I watched a second time just to take notes. You are just so detailed and specific on everything you teach. You go over every step even the basics just to make it clear to the viewer just so you know they can learn from it, and I respect that.
I can't tell you how much I'm grateful for watching these and I'm giggling like crazy like holy cow, I have never been so informed in art in all my life except now! With enough practice, these are going to be highly effective for any artist! Wow I feel so energized with artistic feels. Thank you so much Alphonso!
This is the best overview of drawing planning I've seen or read. I hope that you come out with a sketching book for beginner artists. Thank you for sharing. I'm going to watch all of your videos.
stumbled upon your vids today, thankfully. i'm a total amateur, who doesn't take classes, because most can "do", but cannot "teach". you're a really good teacher.
gotta thank you, again. i'd ruined and intended to discard a tangle of a face. my thing is faces. when i learned to tangle i practiced w faces. i'd done too much black around a frontal hairline and made the lips look like the joker. but after i saw your tiny dot method i applied it in white and it saved my work. reshaped the lips and the dots added interest to a creepy hairline. thanks. i have great respect for artists; esp. those who can teach and don't mind sharing.
Like one comment already said: you put ego aside and teach what people need to know. I salute you sir, you've helped me a great deal...i've been drawing for as long as i can remember and finally decided to take it to the next level. Many people i know think i'm on the next level already but deep down i know and tell them..not even close. Your method of tutoring is what i've always needed. I'm off to watch all your videos...and of course Practise practise practise. Thanks again
Once again, this has been an eye opener for me. Took drawing classes and yet they've lack these basic instructions on how to start a drawing. Very Nice Bro!
thank you so MUCH! This is so simple, yet none of my drawing teachers ever put a lesson together that is so easy to understand and COMPLETE! I learned more here than I did in 3 years of drawing classes at university. THANK YOU!
I took art in school, graduated in 1980. Just a few days ago. You blow there teachings out of the water. My son is taking art now told him to watch your TH-cam videos and learn more. Thanks any videos on hummingbirds?
Thanks, currently studying the human figure and it's harder than anything. While I already naturally do some of this it still provides some good insight and little things I neglect.
Alphonso, I watch your video daily, considering this as attending an art class. I ordered your books yesterday, and am looking forward to practicing with them, too. My deepest appreciation to your great work. Thank you very much.
This video is great I'm an artist going through college and it has all become very mechanical to me. I find myself starting and being stuck on proportions and form. It was a great reminder how important gesture drawing is. Thank you!!!!
Thank you Alphonso, hope you are doing well during the Covid. I think I am starting to see basic forms on everything around me, thanks for breaking everything down to the tee, your videos are extremely informative. Thank you, thank you, thank you. All the best to you.
Your lessons are awesome, I've done other lessons where I'm just either bored to death or can't keep up with their level of drawing. I really like the way you break it down and explain it so it actually makes sense and gives me techniques to practice. Thinking about it, its super simple stuff but its easily forgotten and looking back at my drawings my measurements and mass is pretty off - Thank you!!
Your tutorials are tantamount to taking a course in college or anywhere else where one would be dropping a few hundred dollars. I really appreciate not just your keen and fluid abilities at drawing, but your clarity in speech and innate gift at teaching. In other words: You are awesome and Thank You so much for the art tutorials! :)
Betsy Kirkland Very welcome. I like to share what I know in a way I would have wanted to be taught
It shows! Bless you :)
:-) Thanks much
@@betsykirkland418 And you too Betsy Kirkland ;)
I can second this, my college art teacher is legit having us watch your video as part of our assignment.
1:35 1) sketch 3:10 ; 2) measurement 5:00 ; 3) mass/form 8:29 ; 4) light/shade 10:49 ; 5) refining 14:18
+Phil Limbacher Thank you!
This is incredible! You watch professional artist use these steps all the time. But I've never seen it broken down like this. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this. I expect my drawing skills will be pumping up on your 5 stages. AWESOME!
Glad I could help :)
I'm completely speechless of how helpful it was! haha
Syreadisa :-) glad it helps
You sir, are a natural teacher. I find it to be one of the most lacking traits in humanity, but you are a natural at conveying your thought process. Love the video!
Thanks so much 😊
a full college course of art knowledge, for absolutely zero dollars. you, sir, are a hero
and the tutorial works so well, learning how to break down the complicated reality into something we can understand and then building back up from there is such a great explanation of using shapes
Omg u dont know how , much this has helped, ive been strugling with bodies and this just made it easier thank u so much, u sir r a good teacher
oh man i came back after like a year and i see you have 700k subs now. YES! This is what good artists deserve! good work.
You are an excellent instructor. You confirmed what I was already aware I was doing and enlightened me to and explained very simply what I was doing but didn't really understand why....and everything in between :) Thank you.
Thanks so much
I'm very impressed. As many people already said, you're a great teacher, Alphonso. Most artists show off in their tutorials, they rather draw the way not to look bad, hiding all inconvenient "stages". And you actually explain things, you make tutorials for people, not for your ego, and that's awesome.
I wanted to ask about the boxes and cylinders. It sounds good but on practice I'm not sure what goes first. It feels like these boxes come out of the understanding of proportions, shapes and lighting, not forming it. And mostly they mislead by a wrong shape as a body still has many complicated bents... I mean it looks good in your example because you know how to see past it, right? So did you always use them or did you start once you had a strong base? Do they still help you? And most importantly, isn't it better to go for the shapes I actually see there, not as simplified but teaching me to work with the difficult shapes from the very start?
Thanks in advance, I'll keep watching your vids. ^__^
Thanks for the post and for that excellent question...I advise starting with basic simple forms at all times for a looonnng time. And this is not only for the sake of simplifying what you see but it also indirectly enables you to sense the mass, volume, structure and proportion of objects you draw. Its just one of those things you have to experience but you have to be patient enough to let it work. I have had students who would be quick to draw things just as they saw it yet found it difficult to draw cubes, cylinders and spheres...why is that? They didnt practice enough with start their drawings with the basics first.
It is so simple it is overlooked. I still do it Plus it enables you to draw from the imagination with so much more ease :-)
I have a tutorial coming up with drawing complex forms with major and minor planes that will address this as well..stay tuned
Thanks Alphonso! I'm learning to teach drawing and your tutorial has helped me break down what I do naturally but have forgotten the process I now do without too much thought. I've discovered that learning to draw is like learning to drive. There's the car stuff (pedals, gears, wipers etc) that's your equipment - be it whatever - pencil, paper, eraser etc. Then there's the head stuff........shape, form, perspective, hazard perception, traffic lights, basically where you are in relation to the world around you and what your intentions are. (and everyone else's to--boot). Then after a shed load of experience (more than what the average learner believes). You find yourself putting it all together naturally. With a bit of luck bad habits haven't crept in and you are still open to the learning experience. Again, thanks for breaking down the process into understandable and bite size pieces.
Bruce Penny thanks much, I really appreciate all you've said. I think the beauty here is that you remain open, open to learning still. I am forever a student
Alphonso you're a really great teacher, I love that you go through every detail. I really appreciate you doing this!!! Thank you for sharing your skills and knowledge!!
This may be the most informative art channel I have watched.
Thanks much
You are a good teacher, thank you for sharing your talents.
Wow. You are hands-down the best art teacher I've ever seen on TH-cam. Your videos are extremely well made. You really go in-depth with everything, but without it taking forever. You get straight to the point, and you use really easy to understand learning methods that work like a charm.
Stay awesome, Alphonso. You're doing a real service to us aspiring artists! :D
Thanks much 🙏
I love the fresh and informal way you talk and explain stuff, it really locks my attention from start to finish and makes it easy to digest what you're saying and virtually impossible to become bored :)
thanks so much...glad you found it useful :-)
you just made my art life easier with your tutorials. . . i am forever in your debt.
John Perez :-) glad I could help
would be great if i could show you my drawings so you could criticise it.
As an ex-art major I can say that you teach better then any Professor I've encountered. One of the best things I was ever taught was to draw what you see, not what you know.
Gene Starwind :-) thanks much...I hope you're still making progress
One of the best on youtube :)
The progression is so inspiring! Thank you so much! It reminds me of an idiom: At first, you look at the mountain and the river, you see the mountain and the river. Then after ten years, mountains are no longer mountains, and rivers are no longer rivers. Another ten years pass by, and you see mountains still as mountains, and rivers still as rivers.
this is by far the most useful drawing video I've seen.
tdksparda thanks. Glad you found it useful
The way you relate concepts and ideas is very unique. Thank God I found your channel, and thank you for the excellent work
great videos! you explain things so well!!!
Alphonso, I agree with Betty. You are awesome. Giving back when you yourself learnt without this support also speaks to the character, traits and values you possess as the unique caring person you are. Thank you.
very welcome
this is why I don't pay for art school theres totally amazing teachers on the internet for free even thought this guy should definitely receive something for this
Edward Reyes :-) thanks much, glad to know its helping and its appreciated
Incredible. Thanks so much for your videos, they're so helpful.
Great tutorial! Good job on making so many good ones!!
TY :-)
I was watching different drawing tutorials for 3 hours but this was the first one that actually helped me. Thanks a lot!
Glad it did : )
Thanx Alphonse,Your the best........
rockymontana1 :-)
***** Not even close, but thanks
This is not just Drawing tips, this is a real and very good drawing course.
Thank you so much for that :-)
you're very welcome
thank you so much Alphonso, so helpful for a beginnner like me!
3126 Brooklyn glad it helped :-)
I love that he’s so professional and intellectual but still finds humor in a glutiel crease. Stay humble.
WOW! you are awesome drawing!!
+Gabihorse thanks
This is one of the best videos I have seen. It explains how a tree that I drew yesterday, which looked good when I started out, but which became successively 'robotic' (as Alphonso warns in this video) as I started to 'refine' it. I ended up scrapping the drawing and becoming discouraged. I now feel (after listening and watching Alphonso) that I understand the reason for my failure and I can go back to my tree and try again. Thank you, Alphonso.
Very welcome. Glad I could help
ur work is awesome
+Yashasva Jain thank you
+Alphonso Dunn hey can we get a tutorial on eyes I'm having trouble drawing lifeness in the eyes and I can't figure out a good light source to use
Wow, these vids are not only informational but are full of wisdom as well. :) Thank You!
Vina Seeker thanks much :-) Glad you find them useful
Thanks! this was really helpful, basically summed all of my art studies :D
: )
Great explanation! Draw any thing any size...........AWESOME!
Thanks
Awesome dude!! your tutorials are very helpful thank you.
You are awesome 👏🏻 Thank you so much for breaking this down!
Awesome and helpfull Keep up the good work Bro! :)
I've just started a figure drawing class and I'm obsessively watching all your videos! They are so, so helpful and not intimidating in any way. You are an amazing teacher and artist! Thank you so much for sharing your obvious passion.
Sara Smelt thanks much and glad they help...keep me abreast with your progress
Thank you so much I always have problems with drawing but ya helped me out thanks dude!:)
Thanks for these vids. Drew alot as a kid and left it alone till a couple years ago. I found you on youtube a couple months ago and took off back into my books again. Thanks for motivating this 45 year old to be back into art. Appreciate you bro.
no worries at all :-)
I'll catch some drawing advices with you and learn a little of english watching your videos too, thanks (Y)
Bob Mras thanks :-)
This is the second tutorial of yours I've watched. I am amazed at how well you explain things. I sure hope you are making a living at teaching. You are an excellent teacher!!
Thanks alot. Not as I want to as yet
How does one sharpen a pencil to that extent, like in the beginnign of the video? Is there a special pencil sharpener, or do you use like a knife or something?
Freeman Wilder I show how I do it here th-cam.com/video/YaZ13tStm0s/w-d-xo.html :-)
***** Thanks. I'm currently using your videos to self-teach myself and they're very useful! :D
I don't know if this is how he does it, and my way is definitely not the safest way, but I use a knife. I fine tip one, like a box cutter. I find it's much more effective than a pencil sharpener.
I use a razor.
once its done safely :-)
You are SO under rated. You are one of the best art teachers on this site. Thank you.
10/10, loved this tutorial.
Sylinic thank you :-)
***** I really appreciated your emphasis on not being rigid and dogmatic with your art, to flow with it and have fun, thanks for putting the effort out there to make these, they really help me. I've never really gotten into art much, but feel inspired to start now and eventually doing illustrations at age 20 for reasons unknown, these are indispensable.
Sylinic thank you. feels good to know you're starting to get into it...I hope you keep making progress
I teach HS art in Southern WI and use your videos in all my 2D / drawing classes. I have yet to find another person whose entire set of videos are always on target. You make planning curriculum easier. Thank you for explaining things so thoroughly!
Elizabeth Carpenter wow, thats sooo cool. Thanks so much for sharing them :-)
i always struggle with the mass part thank youuuu
very welcome
I started learning how to draw from your videos because you break it down into a substance that really makes sense in my mind. However I do have to revisit them all over again because I stopped for a long while and I have to relearn the skills, It's a lot more frustrating than the first time but I'll hopefully get through it. Drawing is really liberating when you get breakthroughs and you get in the zone.
Yeah, gesture drawing is very important.
Sure is :-)
simple and helpful.. thanks man!
very welcome
Thank you for this! I like how your mind works :D I've subscribed. ^_^
It's literally so good, like not the secret of a better drawing, it just makes me remember things that I don't really pay attention anymore. Thanks for the awareness.
like, its so helpfull
thanks ALPHONSO it's helpful to me :)
sushant manes glad it did
I like how you old videos can still give valuable knowledge. In this series so far, i've started to keep to your egg torso more, and try to be more loose with gestures and attempt to be less flustered with my gesture poses and simple foreshortening. I've even learned that my drawing process starts with the sketch first then overlaps 2 and 3 in the second step. So I measure and add form once i know the measures in my art. I am a bit too perfectionist when it comes to my sketches since I want to be able to draw a body with few lines as possible and essentially feel bad when I have to build my pose I can't freehand with a frame. But these videos are slowly but surely helping me feel less frustration when just sketching something to start a drawing.
I gave you"like" when I heard the first 3-4 words.
Haha, same here :)
:-) thank you
:-)
Rhythm, parts, feeling of concept.. So its like making music! I'm so buying your book!!!
if only my hands could do the things im thinking about xD ....
lol
Alphonso, Thanks so much for continuing to put out these fantastic drawing tutorials.
The whole complicated to simple, back to complicated process really clicked with me. I've watched and paid for countless tutorials and none have made me understand that basic principle the way you just did. It's really opened my eyes to the whole drawing process. I tip my hat to you sir!
glad it helped
Why does your voice sound so strange?
perhaps because it sounds so to you lol
No, it's not that. It's just that it sounds robotic like you are using some voice changing software
lol i am a robot
***** More like a drawing machine lol
lol
I can't even tell you how much I am improving by watching this series. You really have built my confidence, let alone my sketching skills! I have to pass an exam which includes sketching to get into college, and I am sure that your videos are going to get me through. I have my exam in January next year and I will tell you how I perform; but until then, I am going to practice these techniques and challenge myself to do better, not only to pass the exam, but to become a great designer. Thank you, Alphonso.
Love from India!
Wow! So glad I could help
I love your way . It is very easy and helpful ..... Thanks from my heart شكرا جزيلا God Bless You
Thanks much. glad it helps
I have watched maybe 15 videos today...and yours was absolutely the most helpful for me to get back into my sketching after life happened. You have really inspired me!
Very good advice, thanks.
Man
I can’t thank u in words
❤️❤️❤️
very good lesson, thanks.
Thank you for bringing back and promoting traditional drawing techniques!! Most youtube videos are all about photoshop and such!! Great instructions too!
most definitely! good never abandon the the good ole pencil on paper! :-)
I make a goal of watching atleast 3 of your videos per day, repeats are always okay because I can always pick up one some other detail I missed. You've got a plethora of knowledge and a gift in communicating it. Thanks for everything you do.
Wes Kuhn Thanks much. Glad its appreciated :-)
the measurement part was so genuine and important ..
i totally agree !
I feel like your videos are going to be one of the most invaluable resources I've come across yet, for picking up drawing skills. I don't even know what it is, but you really have this knack for teaching/explaining. It's fantastic. Thank you so much for sharing your explanations with us through youtube!
+Stephanie Sawyer Thanks much :-)
It's nice to see you break down all of those steps of drawing a good figure. I often draw a figure and see a whole bunch of problems with it. Then I see you draw your figures a lot faster than me, and I wonder how that came out so much better. I assumed it was just because you draw a lot more than me. So, thank you for showing me this easy to follow process.
There is always a process
I think that who watch your videos don't need a lot of time to learn drawing like other prof said (more than 3 years) because you teach us the tricks of drawing you are one of the best professional artist.👍👍👍👍👍👍
Great questions to ask while drawing to get it right as we go along...much quicker than to keep erasing over and over....thanks, Alphonso, for teaching this so well!
Very welcome! : )
I can't imagine the amount of comments you have like this one, but you are a huge inspiration for me when I have none. anytime I've felt like a dry well of creativity I watch your videos and you breathe it back into me. thank you for being an awesome teacher and beautiful positive force.
+ian gillin thanks so much for taking the time to share that. It means alot
Of course! You take the time to make these videos, showing my appreciation is the least I could do.
That was very helpful, thanks a lot. I just started again and want to practice the fundamentals properly this time. Have been doing gesture drawings mostly during the last two weeks plus some quick sketches of random objects (and my cat when he's in sight). When I added "shape figures" to my practice, I was confused, because it felt odd that the cylinders and boxes should change direction? Good to know they actually do. I don't do measurement yet, because I am using 3D models from Posemaniacs or a mannequin for gesture drawing and also for the "shape figures". My ultimate goal is painting digitally anyway, but the fundamentals are the fundamentals, and it's good to know that the more boring practice actually will pay off one day.
Revisiting it again after years. Timeless wisdom.
I'm a french student and this video (like all your videos) is the most helpfulI I have found on youtube (and I can tell you I watched a lot of videos). Thank you and continue . genius
Thanks much! that means alot :-)
Your videos are the ONLY ones I valued enough to take notes from! Thanks so much. You are awesome!
Thanks much : )
+Alphonso Dunn lol first video I saw I watched a second time just to take notes. You are just so detailed and specific on everything you teach. You go over every step even the basics just to make it clear to the viewer just so you know they can learn from it, and I respect that.
I can't tell you how much I'm grateful for watching these and I'm giggling like crazy like holy cow, I have never been so informed in art in all my life except now!
With enough practice, these are going to be highly effective for any artist! Wow I feel so energized with artistic feels.
Thank you so much Alphonso!
+TNRea You're very welcome :-)
This is the best overview of drawing planning I've seen or read. I hope that you come out with a sketching book for beginner artists. Thank you for sharing. I'm going to watch all of your videos.
Very welcome and thanks : )
stumbled upon your vids today, thankfully. i'm a total amateur, who doesn't take classes, because most can "do", but cannot "teach". you're a really good teacher.
thanks much. Glad I can help :-)
gotta thank you, again. i'd ruined and intended to discard a tangle of a face. my thing is faces. when i learned to tangle i practiced w faces. i'd done too much black around a frontal hairline and made the lips look like the joker. but after i saw your tiny dot method i applied it in white and it saved my work. reshaped the lips and the dots added interest to a creepy hairline. thanks. i have great respect for artists; esp. those who can teach and don't mind sharing.
I knew it 😂 im using this method for my perspective drawing self taught. Just found your video today.
Like one comment already said: you put ego aside and teach what people need to know. I salute you sir, you've helped me a great deal...i've been drawing for as long as i can remember and finally decided to take it to the next level. Many people i know think i'm on the next level already but deep down i know and tell them..not even close. Your method of tutoring is what i've always needed.
I'm off to watch all your videos...and of course Practise practise practise.
Thanks again
:-) I love comments like these...keeps me going. thanks
This is one of the best and most essential tutorial videos about drawing I have ever seen.
Once again, this has been an eye opener for me. Took drawing classes and
yet they've lack these basic instructions on how to start a drawing. Very Nice Bro!
Thanks much
thank you so MUCH! This is so simple, yet none of my drawing teachers ever put a lesson together that is so easy to understand and COMPLETE! I learned more here than I did in 3 years of drawing classes at university. THANK YOU!
missanna208802 thanks so much...i'm glad you found it useful
One of the best videos to understand the core of what drawing is. Bookmarked.
I took art in school, graduated in 1980. Just a few days ago. You blow there teachings out of the water. My son is taking art now told him to watch your TH-cam videos and learn more. Thanks any videos on hummingbirds?
thanks so much for that..And I hope he will find the videos as useful as you have...thanks again
Thanks, currently studying the human figure and it's harder than anything. While I already naturally do some of this it still provides some good insight and little things I neglect.
Alphonso, I watch your video daily, considering this as attending an art class. I ordered your books yesterday, and am looking forward to practicing with them, too. My deepest appreciation to your great work. Thank you very much.
Thanks so much
This was the most helpful tutorial on sketching I've ever seen. Thanks for putting this up! *subscribed!*
+Cappinator I'm glad you found it helpful :-)
This video is great I'm an artist going through college and it has all become very mechanical to me. I find myself starting and being stuck on proportions and form. It was a great reminder how important gesture drawing is. Thank you!!!!
Haley Jones no worries at all :-) Glad you found it useful
Thank you so much for a good advice
i'm trying to draw since i'm 8, but you're the only guy who explained the process to me the way i understand :) thanks a lot !
Thank you Alphonso, hope you are doing well during the Covid. I think I am starting to see basic forms on everything around me, thanks for breaking everything down to the tee, your videos are extremely informative. Thank you, thank you, thank you. All the best to you.
I have too say, I absolutely love your videos. I have learned so much from your channel that I need to thank you. so, thank you.
Thats awesome. Thank you
Your lessons are awesome, I've done other lessons where I'm just either bored to death or can't keep up with their level of drawing.
I really like the way you break it down and explain it so it actually makes sense and gives me techniques to practice.
Thinking about it, its super simple stuff but its easily forgotten and looking back at my drawings my measurements and mass is pretty off - Thank you!!
So glad to hear that :-)