I got James' Color and Light and Scott and Thomas' How to Render for Christmas. They're both outstanding alongside 2013's How to Draw, thanks for all the work gentlemen. The clarity of your instruction is a rarity. Scott, the soft cover version of How to Render reached 101 GBP (~155 USD) on amazon UK mid December.
Scott, As this video is old, I doubt you'll see this. I went into architecture school back in the early 90's in the UK. I was fortunate to be working as a architectural designer and also learned CAD from '87. I could do 3d in cad but this was way before there were any rendering engines. My experience was pre internet so I had to read books. I bought a couple of books by Dick Powell and Richard Seymour who were well known product designers. I leant about the marker techniques from them as well as the pastel and talc. Sticky notes were my go to for masking and I did dabble a bit with my aztek airbrush. I would do 3d cad drawings for uni and then do an overlay of handwork. I miss the days of hand drawn linework and artistry. This was a lot of work for me to learn these skills and to see them available for free online is a bonus to everyone now. I hope they learn to appreciate the uniqueness to a hand render image vs the photo realism that just get chucked out of the front of a printer.
I've been glued to your videos all afternoon. They're truly inspirational. Haven't picked up a pencil and sketchbook in years, but now I think I'll try some of your techniques. Great stuff!
I just bought this book for myself. I haven't seen a better "how to" book ever. I'm making myself go through the suggested practicing from the book, and what I thought would be boring to practice really is not when I saw the results. Cone shaped objects for instance. Doing them they way they describe in the book is so much better than how I was incorrectly shading previously. It is really cool when you buy a book that actually is useful.
awesome demo scott, I learnt to use pastels in design school over a decade now and it never occurred to me that you could use a small piece of plastic for a tighter edge, learn something new everyday. though I found that a small piece of chamois cloth work nicely for powdered media as well I used that method for allot of charcoal renderings and a few nu pastels.
Thanks for sharing，you’re a Legend! Totally worth of respect for any reason. One of the most influential concept designer I’ve ever seen. showing that manual rendering techniques still being the essence of creation driven by materialization of the abstract and you do it with singularity. “All our Knowledge has its origins in our perceptions” Leonardo Da Vinci
Back when I was in art school (while the Earth was still cooling), my Illustration teacher taught using Nu-Pastels for rendering "photo indications" (long before the computer) and we turned out some surprisingly nice art. But it was terribly messy and required multiple applications of workable fixative: Not the ideal. The first job I had had nothing to do with photo indications, and at the next job, I was introduced to tight markers. This has almost nothing to do with your video (which was great, BTW), but I thought I'd just throw that out... :)
Thanks for these videos. Been a big fan since The Skillful Huntsman. Had the book for a few years now and when I pick it up I am still learning a lot, I love looking at your students beautiful work. I wish I had one of your classes. I am also learning through your Basic Perspective Drawing Gnomon DVD. Trying to tighten up my illustrations for my 3D Modeling. It seems since I just jumped into 3D without touching up on my perspective drawing, my 3D Models and sculptures look better than my freehand illustration. I need to touch up on my foundation. Your tuts will help me out a lot. I am a new subscriber. Thanks for taking the time to make these videos.
Sir you are an Amazing Artist and one hell of a great Teacher and man thats no BS, been following you work for many years-have all your books and DVD's and they are the best investments I made hands down! Aways checking to see what new projects your working on and new video's you uploaded,ok with that said I want to say Thank You Scott! all the best to you Lou
Is it possible to use charcoal instead of pastel ? Just curious since I've used charcoal and blending stumps in the past. Was curious id that would work with talc ? Maybe I've just got to try it!!
Fantastic video, very helpful I will definitely want to try this technique, I noticed your polychromos pencil had a nice long sharp tip, could you recommend a good sharpener? I went through so many sharpeners from electric to regular and they just don't cut it, I use a staedtler sharpener but it breaks the tips of the pencil from time to time which is very frustrating. Also was that a weaver fabric/cloth you were using for this technique?
instead of an exacto knife, I use a surgical scalpel. The blades are ridiculously cheap and they cut like something I've never seen before in my life and also you can get various blade sizes and shapes.
Thank you Mr Robertson. I'm studying Industrial design and my professors techniques aren't as good as yours. I hope I would be better than my professors. Thanks again
Hey Scott, Could the same techniques be used with gray tone soft pastels? This video has given me some ideas and inspiration to finally give em a try. Thank you for sharing your time and knowledge..it is much appreciated!
Scott Robertson Thank you so much for your reply. I would also like to thank you for taking time out of your busy career to make these videos for free, as well as the books and videos you've created. You will never know how much impact you've had on my own art as well as the inspiration your art gives me to keep pushing to get better. I've known basically since I can remember that I was going to be an artist. It was in my blood and bones. I was 14 when I got a book about Boris Vallejo and The Art of Dungeons and Dragons. It was then I knew I wanted to do fantasy and concept art for a living. I'm not sure how many people in their teens and even high school know what they want to be..but I knew not only the overall field but the specific genre I wanted to do. I was always that kid who had people crowding my desk as I drew my superheroes and funny caricatures of the teachers lol It's just I also grew up poor in a small town with no mentors with no encouragement from anyone but my grandmother, and no opportunities to go to art school. We didn't even have art class in high school so I'm completely self-taught. I live in Mississippi and have struggled with self-esteem, abusive stepfathers who all but killed my confidence and later, a bad divorce and a battle with painkiller addiction that took me years to come to terms with. I've battled with self-defeatism, fear of failure, motivation issues, and just a general lack of understanding of how to reinforce the fundamentals I've learned from the boxes of art and how to draw books I've amassed over the years. Couple that with my loss of nearly all my art I've done and the lifetime of books and supplies I cherished due to Hurricane Katrina, I've all but given up on the idea that at I would never realize my dream..especially in my mid-30s. But if it weren't for your books, DVDs and TH-cam videos, along with an old childhood friend that came back into my life a couple years ago, I would've given up completely. Along with everything you've given back to the art community and my friend's techniques on how to develop a process to deal with my emotional issues; I now deconstruct art I like, apply those deconstructions along with a handful of important principles to my own art. Since December 2013, I now do pencil portraits for a living and am constantly improving in ways I only dreamed of before. My confidence is off the charts and now have no fear of taking on any art project. I'm getting requests for commissions just through Facebook that has given me a backlog of work for the next year or so. I'm learning ways to optimize my days to do pencil art, as well as to practice to get better at concept art. I'm also becoming a decent caricaturist and have become proficient at digital art. I just wanted to thank you for your impact on my life and the inspiration I get daily from your videos and books to keep pushing towards my dream. It's finally in my sights and can't wait to pay it forward to the art community. -Gary Dean gkeebler.deviantart.com/ facebook.com/DeanPencilArt?ref=hl
I want both of these books so badly, I don't know which one to get though, I own your gnomoon dvd but would getting how to render be useful or should I get how to draw first?
I ordered your book the hour after reading your response, I have to say that this is a treat, certainly more in depth than your gnomon dvds. however the Cone of vision part left me a little confused. I would have liked to see a video on it
Just to share with viewers around the world, Webril Pads are only available in the U.S. and cannot be available in retail stores outside nor in Canada. I'm Canadian and I'm trying to ask for an Alternative or in this case, a way to ship them here into Canada.
I am having an issue with the videos for the How to draw book from the link provided. When I click on a video it says an error has occurred. Are some of these videos not available any longer?
It seems to be an occasional problem with a few browsers like Safari and Firefox. I just installed Google Chrome and they all play through that browser. I would recommend that as a fix.
Just for anyone stumbling on this today: Please do not blow away your pastel dust! The fine particles are toxic to breathe in, and pastelists are at risk of major long-term health complications comparable to those of oil painters and epoxy artists. Instead of blowing, flip the page so it's facing almost toward the table, tap it against the table so the powder falls off, then use a brush to dust the powder into a container.
The demo is just on regular bond/book matte paper. Regarding vellum you will just have to test what you have available. Last I worked on it I liked 100 Univel by George Vincent Inc.
Please! English is not my language. I understand 99% but I don't understand the name of the pads that Mr Robertson is using. Can You write me the exact name of those pads please?
How to Render and How to Draw are great. My only fear is How to Design will never reach fruition rendering (no pun intended) these books a waste of time and effort.
Wonderful clear explanation and demo. This makes a really helpful supplement to your Rendering book.
Thanks! I wish I would have had the time to make all the videos more recent recordings like that one.
Scott Robertson 2 legends corresponding :D
I got James' Color and Light and Scott and Thomas' How to Render for Christmas. They're both outstanding alongside 2013's How to Draw, thanks for all the work gentlemen. The clarity of your instruction is a rarity.
Scott, the soft cover version of How to Render reached 101 GBP (~155 USD) on amazon UK mid December.
Scott,
As this video is old, I doubt you'll see this.
I went into architecture school back in the early 90's in the UK. I was fortunate to be working as a architectural designer and also learned CAD from '87. I could do 3d in cad but this was way before there were any rendering engines.
My experience was pre internet so I had to read books. I bought a couple of books by Dick Powell and Richard Seymour who were well known product designers. I leant about the marker techniques from them as well as the pastel and talc. Sticky notes were my go to for masking and I did dabble a bit with my aztek airbrush.
I would do 3d cad drawings for uni and then do an overlay of handwork. I miss the days of hand drawn linework and artistry.
This was a lot of work for me to learn these skills and to see them available for free online is a bonus to everyone now. I hope they learn to appreciate the uniqueness to a hand render image vs the photo realism that just get chucked out of the front of a printer.
I've been glued to your videos all afternoon. They're truly inspirational. Haven't picked up a pencil and sketchbook in years, but now I think I'll try some of your techniques. Great stuff!
Just got the book for Christmas, it is amazing. The 3d vehicules and the videos AND EVERYTHING ELSE is amazing!!!
Good to have you back sir! I always enjoy your videos very very much. You never fail to deliver some sort of valuable piece(s) of insight. Thank you!
I just bought this book for myself. I haven't seen a better "how to" book ever. I'm making myself go through the suggested practicing from the book, and what I thought would be boring to practice really is not when I saw the results. Cone shaped objects for instance. Doing them they way they describe in the book is so much better than how I was incorrectly shading previously. It is really cool when you buy a book that actually is useful.
Thomas Bohm just a question, the book teach how to do this types of cars design,mechas,etc?
Thomas Bohm i don't know só much about the book...
I love that you're covering traditional media in these books. I usually work digitally, but don't like staring at a screen all day.
Many thanks Scott -your work is inspirational and I'm loving trying out some of your techniques on my digital Sci-Fi paintings.
One of the best art channels on TH-cam in my humble opinion, haha! Thank you so much for sharing your awesome work and techniques with us. :)
haha!
awesome demo scott, I learnt to use pastels in design school over a decade now and it never occurred to me that you could use a small piece of plastic for a tighter edge, learn something new everyday. though I found that a small piece of chamois cloth work nicely for powdered media as well I used that method for allot of charcoal renderings and a few nu pastels.
awesome!...some drawing techniques to the next level! Thanks Scott!
Thanks for sharing，you’re a Legend! Totally worth of respect for any reason. One of the most influential concept designer I’ve ever seen. showing that manual rendering techniques still being the essence of creation driven by materialization of the abstract and you do it with singularity.
“All our Knowledge has its origins in our perceptions” Leonardo Da Vinci
Back when I was in art school (while the Earth was still cooling), my Illustration teacher taught using Nu-Pastels for rendering "photo indications" (long before the computer) and we turned out some surprisingly nice art. But it was terribly messy and required multiple applications of workable fixative: Not the ideal. The first job I had had nothing to do with photo indications, and at the next job, I was introduced to tight markers.
This has almost nothing to do with your video (which was great, BTW), but I thought I'd just throw that out... :)
Thanks for these videos. Been a big fan since The Skillful Huntsman. Had the book for a few years now and when I pick it up I am still learning a lot, I love looking at your students beautiful work. I wish I had one of your classes. I am also learning through your Basic Perspective Drawing Gnomon DVD. Trying to tighten up my illustrations for my 3D Modeling. It seems since I just jumped into 3D without touching up on my perspective drawing, my 3D Models and sculptures look better than my freehand illustration. I need to touch up on my foundation. Your tuts will help me out a lot. I am a new subscriber. Thanks for taking the time to make these videos.
Thank you for this demo Mr Robertson , it's very usefull for me in product design before making 3D.
Sir you are an Amazing Artist and one hell of a great Teacher and man thats no BS, been following you work for many years-have all your books and DVD's
and they are the best investments I made hands down! Aways checking to see what new projects your working on and new video's you uploaded,ok with that said
I want to say Thank You Scott!
all the best to you
Lou
Very helpful indeed. Thanks, I've used pastels many times before with success, but the pad and card is a trick I'm trying now
Your video makes me real nice benefited suddenly fell in love with hand-painted
Is it possible to use charcoal instead of pastel ? Just curious since I've used charcoal and blending stumps in the past. Was curious id that would work with talc ? Maybe I've just got to try it!!
Fantastic video, very helpful I will definitely want to try this technique, I noticed your polychromos pencil had a nice long sharp tip, could you recommend a good sharpener? I went through so many sharpeners from electric to regular and they just don't cut it, I use a staedtler sharpener but it breaks the tips of the pencil from time to time which is very frustrating.
Also was that a weaver fabric/cloth you were using for this technique?
I use Panasonic electric sharpeners and Webril lithographers pads.
Scott Robertson thank you
Your awesome !
instead of an exacto knife, I use a surgical scalpel. The blades are ridiculously cheap and they cut like something I've never seen before in my life and also you can get various blade sizes and shapes.
Thank you Mr Robertson. I'm studying Industrial design and my professors techniques aren't as good as yours. I hope I would be better than my professors. Thanks again
Hey Scott,
Could the same techniques be used with gray tone soft pastels?
This video has given me some ideas and inspiration to finally give em a try.
Thank you for sharing your time and knowledge..it is much appreciated!
Exactly. Techniques are the same for any color or value Pastel.
Scott Robertson
Thank you so much for your reply.
I would also like to thank you for taking time out of your busy career to make these videos for free, as well as the books and videos you've created.
You will never know how much impact you've had on my own art as well as the inspiration your art gives me to keep pushing to get better.
I've known basically since I can remember that I was going to be an artist. It was in my blood and bones. I was 14 when I got a book about Boris Vallejo and The Art of Dungeons and Dragons. It was then I knew I wanted to do fantasy and concept art for a living.
I'm not sure how many people in their teens and even high school know what they want to be..but I knew not only the overall field but the specific genre I wanted to do. I was always that kid who had people crowding my desk as I drew my superheroes and funny caricatures of the teachers lol
It's just I also grew up poor in a small town with no mentors with no encouragement from anyone but my grandmother, and no opportunities to go to art school. We didn't even have art class in high school so I'm completely self-taught.
I live in Mississippi and have struggled with self-esteem, abusive stepfathers who all but killed my confidence and later, a bad divorce and a battle with painkiller addiction that took me years to come to terms with.
I've battled with self-defeatism, fear of failure, motivation issues, and just a general lack of understanding of how to reinforce the fundamentals I've learned from the boxes of art and how to draw books I've amassed over the years.
Couple that with my loss of nearly all my art I've done and the lifetime of books and supplies I cherished due to Hurricane Katrina, I've all but given up on the idea that at I would never realize my dream..especially in my mid-30s.
But if it weren't for your books, DVDs and TH-cam videos, along with an old childhood friend that came back into my life a couple years ago, I would've given up completely.
Along with everything you've given back to the art community and my friend's techniques on how to develop a process to deal with my emotional issues; I now deconstruct art I like, apply those deconstructions along with a handful of important principles to my own art.
Since December 2013, I now do pencil portraits for a living and am constantly improving in ways I only dreamed of before. My confidence is off the charts and now have no fear of taking on any art project. I'm getting requests for commissions just through Facebook that has given me a backlog of work for the next year or so.
I'm learning ways to optimize my days to do pencil art, as well as to practice to get better at concept art. I'm also becoming a decent caricaturist and have become proficient at digital art.
I just wanted to thank you for your impact on my life and the inspiration I get daily from your videos and books to keep pushing towards my dream. It's finally in my sights and can't wait to pay it forward to the art community.
-Gary Dean
gkeebler.deviantart.com/
facebook.com/DeanPencilArt?ref=hl
I want both of these books so badly, I don't know which one to get though, I own your gnomoon dvd but would getting how to render be useful or should I get how to draw first?
Probably How To Draw first. You will need those perspective drawing skills to cast shadows accurately.
I ordered your book the hour after reading your response, I have to say that this is a treat, certainly more in depth than your gnomon dvds. however the Cone of vision part left me a little confused. I would have liked to see a video on it
The video suggestions make me want some cake!
P.S. Thanks for sharing the video!
Scott, you are awesome!)
Thank you for all your works!)
Just to share with viewers around the world,
Webril Pads are only available in the U.S. and cannot be available in retail stores outside nor in Canada.
I'm Canadian and I'm trying to ask for an Alternative or in this case, a way to ship them here into Canada.
I'm confused, what is the rebo pad you used in the video? Is it just cotton pad?
+Jason Yao "Webril" pad. Yes, it's a cotton lithographer's pad.
When I see these hands on the thumbnail,I click instantly.
What is the name of the blending pad you were using?
I am having an issue with the videos for the How to draw book from the link provided. When I click on a video it says an error has occurred. Are some of these videos not available any longer?
It seems to be an occasional problem with a few browsers like Safari and Firefox. I just installed Google Chrome and they all play through that browser. I would recommend that as a fix.
What would a webril pad be called in england.
Just for anyone stumbling on this today: Please do not blow away your pastel dust! The fine particles are toxic to breathe in, and pastelists are at risk of major long-term health complications comparable to those of oil painters and epoxy artists. Instead of blowing, flip the page so it's facing almost toward the table, tap it against the table so the powder falls off, then use a brush to dust the powder into a container.
Hi scott,
I purchased your how to draw book but it didn't come with the additional video content. How can I access that?
+Moe Y Read page 206.
+Scott Robertson Or page 4.
where is the quote at the end? 👀
Which brand Vellum paper?
The demo is just on regular bond/book matte paper. Regarding vellum you will just have to test what you have available. Last I worked on it I liked 100 Univel by George Vincent Inc.
can you spell the name of the pad and where to buy it ? that would be nice
Webril.
www.amazon.com/Webril-Handi-pads-4x4-Bag/dp/B002NMDNDY/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1543779974&sr=8-3&keywords=webril+handi+pads
Scott Robertson thanks what do u think about the pastel sponges they sell at blicks r they as good?
May dust cover good things like you
Please! English is not my language. I understand 99% but I don't understand the name of the pads that Mr Robertson is using. Can You write me the exact name of those pads please?
Nu-Pastel applied using Webril pads.
Scott Robertson Oh Thank you Mr Robertson! "Webril" was the mysterious word.
How to Render and How to Draw are great. My only fear is How to Design will never reach fruition rendering (no pun intended) these books a waste of time and effort.