How to get DARK backgrounds with pencil
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In the US, that product is drywall sanding screen . It was designed to smooth gypsum plaster .
jayson phillips Our local art store sells a set that has a screen with a box to collect the powder for grinding charcoal. After this video came out they started selling out🙂.
Thanks for that, Jayson.
awesome! I had found the screen too. Might you know the grade or grit that would be perfect for this process as I wouldn't want something too rough?
What grit is it?
@@jcatalan1496 usually 80, 120 & 220 grit (coarse, medium, fine)
Only artist I have told my students, "you can become amazing young if you practice". His talent is of another level but his dedication is even more impressive. A worthy inspiration to the youngsters in this hard times of finding great young people.
The sandpaper with holes in it is a sanding screen commonly used in dry wall work and available in most hardware stores and online . What Jono calls "Cotton wool" is actually just cotton fiber - ie cotton balls you can find in most stores or online. Hope that helps.
Yep, it's just cotton wool, as in cotton wool balls. That's what's it's called in UK.
Your drawings are amazing Jono and your tips are so helpful. Thank you so much, I look forward to the next one!
The best Artist in my country 🇿🇦, u inspired me to push myself to be a great Artist . Keep on doing your drawing u really good man.
Proud to be South African
Am 61 y/o and am an artist and cannot wait to give your techniques a try! Thanks for sharing knowledge and techniques ... it is very much appreciate!
Keep up the videos, they are so helpful and inspiring. I'm moving into large formate drawing can you talk more about your process and approach to starting a large format drawing. Also, talk about your table. Do you always draw flat over the table? Do you ever use easels for large format? Thanks for sharing your thoughts, I really love your work.
I've been experimenting with trying to create that dark background ever since you touched on it in your last video, so this video is extremely helpful. Thank you!
Thank you for sharing this! I've always wanted to know how you did it!! Great job love your work!
How wonderful is this?!! Thank you so much for making these videos. Keep them coming! I love hearing about your techniques and the background story behind your drawings.
As a high school art student your art helps me a lot right now with inspiration and techniques. Keep up with the videos if you enjoy making them!
Your advice changed the quality of my art forever, thank you.
Thank you for sharing this insightful video, Jono. I enjoy and admire your talent. It's neat that you (the artist) shares this information to others.
Thank you brother!!!
i didn’t know about the cotton, I’ll try it out 👍🏾
Your art work is so thoughtful and amazing, your talent is out of this world. Just wish I had enough money to purchase one. Keep up the great work.
Thank you for all videos, can’t wait to see more
Incredible
The tips you give are helpful from one artist to another I hope I can achieve the level of skill you have
The fact that he holds on to his pencil in each of his video, shows how much he loves his pencils.
That stuff is known as cotton wool through most of the English speaking world. Thanks to you I have tried it and yes, it really can help to get smooth, dark, even tones.
Your art is simply fantastic. So loving your videos!
Since drawing with the 9B doesn't get the same darkness as rubbing in the shavings, can you share how you get those deep blacks within the figures? Inspired and grateful from California!
He sprinkles some powder and uses small used cotton ....best way is the watch certain of this timelapse in 0.25x I'll get to k
U hoy a new fan... It's kind of mind blowing the different values you get with just using graphite... Keep up the good work
I was trying to find out where you're from for so long from your accent and it makes me so happy to find out that you're from SA
San Andreas?
@@Joe-em2pg South Africa
Awe , fellow South African 😂💪
Remember when I found out I was like whoa, someone this great is this close to me :0
I was wondering the same thing! My last boyfriend grew up in England and SA, so I spotted the accent but couldn't be sure. It's really a lovely lilt they have there.
Oh here that dark value video I been looking for. Thank you Jono
Your videos inspire artistic people. Great talent
Thanks so much for sharing your secrets and techniques through your gorgeous videos. Your pieces are awe inspiring! Greetings from the Pacific Northwest, USA.
Thank you! Just learning to create so this was helpful 😄
You inspire me. Thank you Jono. In Mzansi we are blessed to have you.
I've been waiting for this video for sooooo long. Thank you very much for sharing your technique. Someone mention below for you to do a Q&A. Sounded great. Can you do it live?
You are my favorite thanks to you now i am in love with graphite !tnx for the lesson very helpful
Hi, JONO...great work and really loved your creations!
The only 1 that I can say, it’s amazing how you made your 🖼
I’m curious about your subject matter, over-arching themes, symbolism, surrealism, intended messaging, etc.
You’re fabulous, btw. 🙏
This is one of the underrated artist that i stan! He deserves more subscribers grr💙😭
Very informative and helpful as well. Thanks.
Thanks jono
Great video! Thanks for the info. I love your work. It’s very inspiring. 💕
Thanks man appreciate you sir. Your very talented an humble 👍
Thank you to sharing your knowledge, I love your artwork...
You're an amazing amazing person and an artist
Hello very nice video,and thx for helping people getting better in drawing with grafite!
Great video. Informative and to the point. Thanks.
Great video. Just found a really easy way to make the powder by putting a block in a plastic bag and then breaking it into smaller chunks with a hammer, then put it in a pepper grinder and this works well. Did the same thing using a Nutribullet and again produced a very fine powder. Both ways are quick plus no mess. Thanks again for the video😊
Great tip!
This is what I was looking for! Thank you
Thank you. I enjoy your videos.
The sandpaper is used for Sheetrock joints. The joint compound is a lot like plaster and you want smooth joints for painting and texturing.
Thanks for all your great videos. I am wondering if you will share in a video : safety.. you seem to be protecting your airway. And also when you use fixative. Keep creating. Thank you so much
Thank you so much!!
I'm so glad I found your channel on TH-cam. Your work is beautiful and the subject matter you choose is fascinating. I haven't watched all the previous videos, so I'm not sure whether you've covered this before... but it will be cool to hear how you decide on your subject matter before you begin to draw. Do you also prefer to work in series?
Can't tell you how much inspiration you give, We would love to hear you talk about,
1) If you accidentally did something very dark, how do you get it back to white?
2) How do you make proportions in such size,
3) Where do you find such good pictures,
4) Why are you covering your face?
5) What is this spray and whether it is not scary to spray on the work,
Jono takes his own reference photos -- he's talked about this before.
Which spray?
In his previous videos, you see him spraying the work after he finishes,
@@yos8778 I didn't catch it, no, but I had thought he had to use some kind of fixative, it's probably that.
Peter Stein 4. So as not to breathe in dust
The video's are very helpful love your work
A video about pursuing art career would be very much appreciated 👌🏻
In the USA we have cotton shaped into small balls, squares, small tubes and sheets. I believe the cotton wool is sold in the USA as unbleached or bleached cotton. The medical (sterilized) cotton and sewing cotton can be purchased in a sheet that is usually packaged rolled up. The cotton comes from the cotton plant, not from a sheep or goat hair.
Thank you so much for your amazing tips. I was wondering how you avoid or work with wrist pain. I have been drawing a lot lately and it has taken a toll on my body. Any tips on this subject?
I've had this issue too, mostly with colored pencils. I had to switch to painting in order to give my wrists a break at times. I'm always impressed that he can use his wrists for so long!
I've never had the opportunity to work on some popular brands of paper (Arches, Fabriano, Strathmore etc), just some ordinary which I buy in nearby bookstore. Therefore quality is probably worse, so how I do my dark background, is that I usually first take 8B or 9B pencil and cover the entire surface with graphite. I do it very relaxed, trying to push it as easy as possible. Then I blend it with cotton wool but more often with dry sponge because I'm chronically impatient. After that paper gets grey color. Then I use a tiny bit of black pigment (which is usually used for making oil paint but for other things also). It is great for dark backgrounds, since one pinch of it can efficiently cover at least 30x30 cm surface. I push it around as hard as possible, with cotton wool exclusively, because sponge absorbs it more than paper itself.
And quite frankly, I'm pretty happy with the results.
Hey thanks for the advice really helps
Sir i am your biggest fan...i am watch your all videos. ..and lerning.........and improving my...sketching. ...
Nitin Panchal Too late, i'm his biggest fan.
Iam watching ur artwork and I am impressed. ..please.teach me how to make realistic sketch? i am trying but can not do that..
Nitin Panchal Thank you! But it's all about practicing... Training the skill and training your eye: Being able to see different shades correctly. But don't go into the details too much too quickly. First get the proportions right. That'll make your drawing look more realistic
@@ns04402 thanks😊
and here comes me...... jabra fan
Your videos already helped a lot, so I wanna say thank you in the first place. Also, I would like to ask about how you get your proportions right especially in such a big format. I struggle a lot even with a basic sized paper and would be interested in hearing about your process or your tips.
Novice in photo-realism practice! Working on a portrait of Anthony Bourdain using grey, grit paper as i thought the areas of white would pop amazingly... But i was wrong lol. Skin texture comes out great, but adding my white pens/charcoal for pop turns it a lil cartoony? Which isn't bad, just not what I'm going for... Gonna try your protocol, paper-wise, makes so much sense.. Thanks for making these vids!! Tremendous style, absolutely stunning work... Love from Northern Cali! 👊
U in SA, WOW. you are an inspiration indeed thank you
Thank you so much for the tips, 👍💐
Thank you for this video!! I have one question though, do you use any fixative? If yes, which one?
Thank you so much for making these videos they're super helpful, do you ever work with other mediums such as ink or paint?
It’s cottonwool in the UK and thanks for the video. It was informative
Thanks. Very helpful
Very informative thanks for sharing 😊
Amazing awe inspiring artist 👍
i use a powder puff instead of cotton wool, its easier to use coz it comes with handle thing, doesn't leave any remnant thread and can be washed and reused. its actually made to blend makeup so kinda works perfectly.
Gonna have to dip into my masculinity security pot and get my powder puff soon and try it, I think I’m an autumn, thx!
Can you buy it separately?
Thank you for sharing . It helped me alot✨ and also you are sooooooo effin handsome 😍
Incredibile, fantastico.
thank u for this ..!
Wondering if you can make a video about your sketching process before making your artwork ((Assuming you sketch everything first))
Love your videos as always!
We would love to hear you talk about the principles of taking pictures that fit for drawing, you are obviously really good at it,
Thanks, Yeah I think if you are working from references its important to take your own pictures. I will look into putting something together explaining my process and thinking behind my shots.
Thanks so much, it would be great. and by the way, I searched in a lot of realistic drawing channels and nobody has done it yet, If you do this you will be the first.
We call it cotton wool up in Ireland too. Thanks for sharing your videos and knowledge with us. I wish I had more time to draw; do you carry sketch books when you travel or just stick to large scale?
We also call it cotton wool in Australia :)
Thanks for sharing 😊👍🏻
Awesome video!! thanks bru.
Thanks man, Always a pleasure!
this video is very helpful to me. bro u are awesome,u are great, i really like u. thanks bro..👌👌👌👍👍👍👍
Thank u so much
Hi Jono, This is absolutely amazing! I was just wondering, I noticed you erasing some sections later to almost near white, how do you do that after pushing so much graphite into the paper?
Ahoj, sledujem tvoju tvorbu je to inšpirujúce .Prajem veĺa trpezlivosti a veĺa dobrých nápadov.Pozdravujem zo Slovenska
Mind-blowingly beautiful work, Jono. I especially like your recent works, such as Discomposure, where you are exploring the psychological as well as the aesthetic.
One question about achieving a dark background: I have tried using Arches Aquarelle 300g hot press paper, cotton wool, and making my own graphite powder by sanding 9B sticks, but I find that graphite brands such as Lyra come out as a shiny dark grey rather than a dark matte black. Would you mind telling us what brand of graphite stick you use?
Again, thank you so much for all you have shared through your videos.
Do you do your background first or last? Thank you for the videos. amazing work.I love it.
Sooo good...
Tu trabajo es hermoso a mi vista
Huge fan!
Hello Jono, Which side of the paper do you use? Also which method do you use to draw your outlines? Is it a grid method?
Regards
they use projectors
@Kedar Chande but he use grid method lol
Always love your vids Jono!!!!! Keep it up man, your channel is growing so much and you are helping so many people with this!!! Much love🙌🏼🙏🏼
Bro Jono you're from SA😍🇿🇦 i can't believe i didn't figure that out from the accent but still bro big ups much love and i cant wait for the next video 🥂🍾
Sir, Big fan of yours I would love to meet u once before dieing, u just true artist ,once painting use to be my passion but some condition laid to work and fulfil family.
I will be a big fan for yours
Huge fan
Thanks Jono, really enjoyable your videos. Do you use water soluble graphite?
can't wait till the next video comes out....
Amazing!! Love your videos, very very helpfull! One question: what do you do with the remaining graphite thats left on top of the paper after u got the backround perfectly dark like you want to?
omaima1310 you could try a small handheld vacuum cleaner to lift it strait from the paper. I managed to pick one up on amazon very cheap, usb charged. Instead of brushing graphite or charcoal all over your work.
Thank you sir... 💙💙💙😊
Cotton wool it is, Brilliant work .
Extremely informative video. Please can you tell how you get the outlines? Love you work bro
Desde Colombia te doy las gracias por excelente consejo. Tenía la inquietud
I have discovered your channel a few days ago and have learned so much already! Thank you for exposing me to cotton wool and blender. I have already made a drawing using those and already I can tell that my Technic - although still an amateur - is at a different level.
Question - I noticed in a different video that it seemed you were mixing the background graphite with a liquid? or was I imagining?
Do you simply just spread the 9B graphite with a dry cottonwool?
I was gonna ask this on your insta x) backgrounds, are, I believe my worst problem with drawings x) anyway thanks a lot for this video 😁