I've been watching some of your videos, it's been almost 30 years without drawing and I want to try your techniques, and start over, but in a more professional way, thank you so much for sharing!
Thank you! So helpful. I'm getting into drawing for the first time. At school I always felt discouraged and like I couldn't do art, but this makes me think differently. Thank you!
Dear Alphonso: I didn't realize there were so many ways to shade an object. Thanks for enlightening me. I appreciate your lectures very much. So glad I found you.Shading is very difficult but you make it seem doable.Love Elsa.
I get hatching and all, but some people can make it look like art without effort. Every time I do it, it just looks like just a bunch of criss-crossed lines on paper.
James B I can truly feel your pain! Every artist went trough that. Be patient my friend. It takes time and dedication. Believe in the progress you make and you will eventually improve. Just don't quit!
Copy other artists crosshatching. Don’t copy the drawing, just the technique used. For instance when crosshatching around an ear or a finger or animal, refer to a pros use of shading. All it really is is replacing color with ink to demonstrate value.
I've learnt this way: - train at least 4 degrees of hatching from light to dark, - take a black and white picture of something easy and angular like a chair and increase its contrast. - try to identify the 4 degrees of shading on the photo, and draw lines to separate then - copy only the lines of the drawing and try te recreate the image using the 4 degrees of shading - repeat
Going through all your inspiring lessons Alphonso and im buzzing.Got into town and got myself back in the artshops for materials.All the best and many many thanks.You really have a knack and the gift for teaching.
Omg I am loving this channel . Once I underestimated power of simple ink pens but I was so wrong . It’s so fun medium and this channel is gold . I am glad we live in an age where there are platforms to learn things from masters like this channel for free . This is why technology was made for and TH-cam too . I wish I could subscribe to this channel a thousand times . I am loving these videos .
Thank you, I appreciate your generosity with all these videos. I read all the comments, curious if anyone else noticed that you do all this without turning the paper or angle of your hand. I guess it is a crutch that I turn a lot to draw the lines mostly horizontal.
I enjoy drawing with a pen because it makes me live with my choices and forces me to accept my mistakes and move forward. I am trying to do this in my life as well. I am in chapter three of your book and taking my time.
OMG THESE VIDEOS ARE SO HELPFUL have this project in art class only inking and we need to so depth and perspective with lights and shades i was so stressed because im not that good with only ink and other shading other than regular old shading with pencil these are so helpful thx
Thanks for sharing this. I'm a private art teacher for home schooled students. This is an excellent tutorial. I'm going to use it in my value lesson plan.
Just subscribed to your channel. After a few years of wanting to restart my love for drawing I think I'm finally inspired to take the plunge! Thanks for the inspiration!
I watched this video a lllooonnnggg time ago and just now found it again. Thank you for sharing your techniques in this way. These methods of shading have helped me so very much. Blessings to you!
it took me a bit to realize that I needed cleaner lines when shading (or even drawing) smooth surfaces like these. they kept looking funky b/c i was being rough, quick and useing sketch lines. thx, this helped :)
This is a brilliant idea as I never thought to practise these techniques in this way i.e drawing small shapes. I'm currently re-learning how to shade using lines, so I know what I'm doing tomorrow. Thank you for breaking it down and also giving me new ideas about how I am going to continue to practise and understand this process. x
Very helpful, man. Very helpful indeed. I'm trying to teach myself to do scratch art but have problem with the shading. I've searched and searched...and this is the most clear and easy to understand. Sleep well tonight in the knowledge that you have done a good thing for some one. LOL Thanks.
Thanks. I've really only done shading with pencil and other smearable mediums. Pen is much different, but an important medium since I've been thinking of scanning my drawings so they can be uploaded and printed.
Thanks Alphonso. I had never actually noticed that the shadow doesn't always get darker further and further away from the light. I'll experiment with the light / dark interface. I must also have patience!!!
amazing great demonstration love it looks really artistic wonderful great for beginners and learning and getting in the process students wonderfully explained great how about shading mangoes yuour tutorials are great i tried one and my teacher enjoyed it
Love your skill and talent and thank you for sharing it with us. I understand the shading part in this video and the various ways of doing it. But where I am confused it knowing when to use which method. In a drawing of urban sketching, how do you know which method to use?
I have a question. If the "rock" or whatever object this is is receiving the light from above shouldn't the base of the object be darker? I see you are only adding volume and shades in the middle but the bottom of the object isn't really receiving any light. Any reason why you did it this way?
That would depend on how reflective is the surface on which the rock sits. Very often when setting up a still life it's under a bright light which reflects off the cloth or table or whatever your object of study is sat on
btw, I love your videos. I only just found you and I've probably already watched an unhealthy amount of your videos for one day lol. Please keep up the amazing work.
Im TOTALLY inexperienced so please don't hate me for asking but I was just wondering why you didn't continue darkening/shading as you continued towards the bottom of the egg. I'm confused why you shaded the middle of the egg darker than than the bottom of it? Is it contrast your trying to achieve between the bottom of the egg and its shadow or is there an alternative reason for leaving the bottom of the egg so "light" compared to it's center?
+Christian D Good question. To better understand this, place a sphere on a light colored surface and then illuminate it from above. The light colored surface causes some light to be reflected unto the lower half of the sphere that makes it appear as they do in the tutorial. The area causes you to have a stronger sense of the its volume
Hello 👋 I just wanted to say that I love your video and I also wanted to ask which shading do you think is best for a raven? (You don’t have to answer if you’re busy)
I enjoy your work. I just wish you could slow down and explain what’s happening instead of the end. I personally learn better that way. It seems like you fill in where it should be darkest instead of repeating the different
Does anyone know what the shading method to the bottom left corner is called? I'd like to get more proficient at it but can't seem to find a name for it. Thanks
He mentions reflected light at 8:17 or there about. So, yes I think he’s trying to show there’s shadow on the lowest third but not as deep where light is reflected back onto the subject.
Thanks for the great videos. I feel I have learned quite a bit from the them. However, I do have a request. I am a blacksmith, and I like to use pen and ink for my design process. Could you show how to indicate metal with pen and ink?
I wanted so badly for the camera to pan back at the end of the video to show him sitting on a bus or like a park bench, doodling in a sketch book, with a little old bald man sitting in front of him...just feeding some pigeons and completely oblivious.
Hey.. A 12-year old kid like me is an editorial cartoonist. This is helpful sir coz I am myself's kind of horrible at shading. I always make my trainer's head ache. :)
Glad I could help. Keep practicing and try to find Editorial cartoonist who are considered the best and study their technique and find others who's style you just really like and study their techniques too
Hello , can you please tell me why the values is in the shading is less towards bottom of the figure ? Is it because of reflection of light back from ground to figure ?
lol take a closer look....technically all you see are dots really...a line is just a continuous series of dots...but the variation they can have....oh boy
I've been watching some of your videos, it's been almost 30 years without drawing and I want to try your techniques, and start over, but in a more professional way, thank you so much for sharing!
I really understand how shading works after watching few of your videos :D I hope more people will find your channel because you're great!!
Thank you! So helpful. I'm getting into drawing for the first time. At school I always felt discouraged and like I couldn't do art, but this makes me think differently. Thank you!
Yes you can! yes you can! yes you can! you know what you're capable of
Dear Alphonso: I didn't realize there were so many ways to shade an object. Thanks for enlightening me. I appreciate your lectures very much. So glad I found you.Shading is very difficult but you make it seem doable.Love Elsa.
+Elsa Geldhof It definitely is doable :-)
In a big sketch can we use all of them on different things or do we just have to follow one
If you do different it will look amazing trust me because I am a professional sketcher
@@palakswami3481 thank you!!!!!
It will depend on the texture of the surface you will draw.
I love seeing the different types of strokes applied to the same egg shape ... very effective teaching technique!
:-) thanks
I get hatching and all, but some people can make it look like art without effort. Every time I do it, it just looks like just a bunch of criss-crossed lines on paper.
James B
I can truly feel your pain! Every artist went trough that. Be patient my friend. It takes time and dedication. Believe in the progress you make and you will eventually improve. Just don't quit!
Same
Copy other artists crosshatching. Don’t copy the drawing, just the technique used. For instance when crosshatching around an ear or a finger or animal, refer to a pros use of shading. All it really is is replacing color with ink to demonstrate value.
Same 😐😐 some random lines . It doesn't behave like light .
I've learnt this way:
- train at least 4 degrees of hatching from light to dark,
- take a black and white picture of something easy and angular like a chair and increase its contrast.
- try to identify the 4 degrees of shading on the photo, and draw lines to separate then
- copy only the lines of the drawing and try te recreate the image using the 4 degrees of shading
- repeat
Going through all your inspiring lessons Alphonso and im buzzing.Got into town and got myself back in the artshops for materials.All the best and many many thanks.You really have a knack and the gift for teaching.
Very welcome. The pleasure is mine
Omg I am loving this channel . Once I underestimated power of simple ink pens but I was so wrong . It’s so fun medium and this channel is gold . I am glad we live in an age where there are platforms to learn things from masters like this channel for free . This is why technology was made for and TH-cam too . I wish I could subscribe to this channel a thousand times . I am loving these videos .
😊 thanks much. Happy I can help
Thank you, I appreciate your generosity with all these videos. I read all the comments, curious if anyone else noticed that you do all this without turning the paper or angle of your hand. I guess it is a crutch that I turn a lot to draw the lines mostly horizontal.
Not necessarily. Its something that comes with practice
I enjoy drawing with a pen because it makes me live with my choices and forces me to accept my mistakes and move forward. I am trying to do this in my life as well. I am in chapter three of your book and taking my time.
This has been the most perfectly structured drawing video I have found so far
in the presente there are a lot of videos teaching how to draw, but you are the best!!! I just bought your book in amazon
Number 7 is outstanding! Number 4 is the one I like the most. Thank you for the VERY IMPORTANT point you make about where the shadow is the strongest.
Veronique Aglat no worries :-)
This has been exactly the lesson that I have needed. I am working with pen and ink. Thanks!
I've been learning from all your videos all a big help. Been drawing and practicing for a month now improved so much
Thats so great to hear. Keep it up! Lets make 2018 a big one : )
OMG
THESE VIDEOS ARE SO HELPFUL
have this project in art class
only inking and we need to so depth and perspective with lights and shades
i was so stressed because im not that good with only ink and other shading other than regular old shading with pencil
these are so helpful thx
Very welcome
Thanks for sharing this. I'm a private art teacher for home schooled students. This is an excellent tutorial. I'm going to use it in my value lesson plan.
thanks. I hope they find it useful :-)
Alphonso I get so much out of your videos, wish you the best man!
TheProtole glad you do and thanks for sharing that
I’m a total noob and know zilch, but I love to doodle in ink. Thank you for these videos! I learned a lot from this one in particular.
I'll take nine dragon eggs please.
Lmao
Just subscribed to your channel. After a few years of wanting to restart my love for drawing I think I'm finally inspired to take the plunge! Thanks for the inspiration!
:-) I love that...glad you are..keep it up now
I Have recently rediscovered the joy of drawing , thank you Alphonso
Your guidance is priceless,
Thanks much. Thats exciting
I watched this video a lllooonnnggg time ago and just now found it again. Thank you for sharing your techniques in this way. These methods of shading have helped me so very much. Blessings to you!
You’ve been the most useful tutorialist I’ve crossed om yourube so far. Also so cool to finally see a brother do tutorials. Thank you 💪🏽🔥
it took me a bit to realize that I needed cleaner lines when shading (or even drawing) smooth surfaces like these. they kept looking funky b/c i was being rough, quick and useing sketch lines. thx, this helped :)
Thanks, glad I could help : )
I need to learn this so I can add this too my superheroes .how do I use this in a comic book style
This is a brilliant idea as I never thought to practise these techniques in this way i.e drawing small shapes. I'm currently re-learning how to shade using lines, so I know what I'm doing tomorrow. Thank you for breaking it down and also giving me new ideas about how I am going to continue to practise and understand this process. x
MoominBetz Glad you found it...it has helped me alot so I hope it will for you too
Very helpful, man. Very helpful indeed. I'm trying to teach myself to do scratch art but have problem with the shading. I've searched and searched...and this is the most clear and easy to understand. Sleep well tonight in the knowledge that you have done a good thing for some one. LOL Thanks.
haha I will : )
you really deservs more views! This is gold, and it is free.. amazing! I wish i had more time to practis this.
Also I really like the way you reply to the comments!
Paul and Dan :-) my pleasure....whenever I can
So glad I've found your channel, trying to see if I can learn using your excercises!
Thanks. I've really only done shading with pencil and other smearable mediums. Pen is much different, but an important medium since I've been thinking of scanning my drawings so they can be uploaded and printed.
Fyi, i found your channel when i searched up "how to draw with ballpoint pen?", and i found your tutorial videos to be incredibly helpful to watch.
I'm definitely going to practice these techniques, thank you so much 👍👍
Found you just in time for my ink assignment this is super helpful
very good representation of rendering in different styles
Thanks so much for this. I'm experimenting with ink drawing, and this is really helpful.
+Alicia C very welcome
Your tutorial is perfect for beginners! I hope I found them earlier! Thanks so much for sharing
I'm a total beginner when it comes to drawing. Thank you!
No worries! You'll get better pretty soon
Watching this is strangely relaxing
🙂
Thanks Alphonso. I had never actually noticed that the shadow doesn't always get darker further and further away from the light. I'll experiment with the light / dark interface. I must also have patience!!!
Fred Preston definitely be patient :-)
Fred Preston same here NEED PATIENCE!
lol
This will help me how to shading properly!!! Thanks man 😆😆😆😆!!!!
This is very well practise for me! I'm highly enjoying your videos, thank you so so much!
kiyomimaro no problem....just keep practicing, you'll see remarkable results eventually
Another for my favorites! Thank you Alphonso!!
Lisa Gods Girl :-)
amazing great demonstration love it looks really artistic wonderful great for beginners and learning and getting in the process students wonderfully explained great how about shading mangoes yuour tutorials are great i tried one and my teacher enjoyed it
thanks much. Glad it helped : )
From the thumbnail I definitely thought that you were shading baked potatoes.
Lol
Funny 😂
I thought they were walnuts.
Lmao
That's spectacular. may I ask to label each technique with its name, please.
Thanks! Drew along with you.
Great work on all. .thanks. will try them. Keep on Drawing.
Charles Milbourn have fun
Impressive stuff sir. I shall learn from this.
Glad it helps : )
Learn you shall, child.
The video is very useful and clear thanks
+Sakina AlGharib thanks
Love your skill and talent and thank you for sharing it with us. I understand the shading part in this video and the various ways of doing it. But where I am confused it knowing when to use which method. In a drawing of urban sketching, how do you know which method to use?
Thanks bro this was real helpful . It's really improved my drawings
glad I could help
Really helped me a lot I am trying to do portraits in cross hatch
No worries : )
This is great for inktober, thanks!
🙂
May I ask what are the names of each individual shade? It seems very interesting.
made them up lol
+Alphonso Dunn lol thx for replying.
no worries
Thanks. Very nice video. It was useful for me.
Thanks
360 p is illegal for tutorial !plis quality, you are very good teacher
Lol
I have a question. If the "rock" or whatever object this is is receiving the light from above shouldn't the base of the object be darker? I see you are only adding volume and shades in the middle but the bottom of the object isn't really receiving any light. Any reason why you did it this way?
yes it should be
That would depend on how reflective is the surface on which the rock sits. Very often when setting up a still life it's under a bright light which reflects off the cloth or table or whatever your object of study is sat on
I'm pretty good at regular cross-hatching and scribbling, thank you so much. How's the book by the way?
Leana Cam its coming, its coming...update coming soon
!!!
btw, I love your videos. I only just found you and I've probably already watched an unhealthy amount of your videos for one day lol. Please keep up the amazing work.
+Christian D thanks much! :-)
Im TOTALLY inexperienced so please don't hate me for asking but I was just wondering why you didn't continue darkening/shading as you continued towards the bottom of the egg. I'm confused why you shaded the middle of the egg darker than than the bottom of it? Is it contrast your trying to achieve between the bottom of the egg and its shadow or is there an alternative reason for leaving the bottom of the egg so "light" compared to it's center?
+Christian D Good question. To better understand this, place a sphere on a light colored surface and then illuminate it from above. The light colored surface causes some light to be reflected unto the lower half of the sphere that makes it appear as they do in the tutorial. The area causes you to have a stronger sense of the its volume
+Alphonso Dunn Illuminati
Thanks for the help, needed that for homework!
Paul and Dan hope it helped
***** it did! :)
Hello 👋 I just wanted to say that I love your video and I also wanted to ask which shading do you think is best for a raven? (You don’t have to answer if you’re busy)
Gracias, por su EXCELENCIA... es usted un gran maestro
great job. good work, tight, very useful, very helpful, short and sweet.
yez
Thank you for this video, looking for something like this now for ages
Realy useful technical ,thank
I will watch all of your videos
AS with all of your videos great!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge! I enjoy your videos
Very welcome
I enjoy your work. I just wish you could slow down and explain what’s happening instead of the end. I personally learn better that way. It seems like you fill in where it should be darkest instead of repeating the different
Does anyone know what the shading method to the bottom left corner is called? I'd like to get more proficient at it but can't seem to find a name for it.
Thanks
it's a zentangle technique. I don't know the exact name though :( its a type of cross hatching I believe
PoisonousPotato i believe its called scribbling or such.
@@EL-zy9ru no, scribbling is top left
awesome tutorial
if the light is coming from the top; shouldn't the bottom part of the sphere be the darkest ? or is it because of the light reflected by the floor?
He mentions reflected light at 8:17 or there about. So, yes I think he’s trying to show there’s shadow on the lowest third but not as deep where light is reflected back onto the subject.
i learning so much already!!!
: )
Thanks for the great videos. I feel I have learned quite a bit from the them. However, I do have a request. I am a blacksmith, and I like to use pen and ink for my design process. Could you show how to indicate metal with pen and ink?
Great video. Just what I was looking for. Thanks! (Now I'll get caught up on the rest of your videos.)
lol there's lots and lots
*****
I know. It's great! Thanks so much for taking the time to put all this together.
no poroblem
I wanted so badly for the camera to pan back at the end of the video to show him sitting on a bus or like a park bench, doodling in a sketch book, with a little old bald man sitting in front of him...just feeding some pigeons and completely oblivious.
perfect! does the first pattern in the last line have a name?
What type of shade style is on the second last circle?
Is their a name for each one?
Oh, and which one is the fastest to do, but still looks appealing, judging by the speed up?
Hey.. A 12-year old kid like me is an editorial cartoonist. This is helpful sir coz I am myself's kind of horrible at shading. I always make my trainer's head ache. :)
Glad I could help. Keep practicing and try to find Editorial cartoonist who are considered the best and study their technique and find others who's style you just really like and study their techniques too
Thank you very much. This has been most helpful.
Hey you think you could do a little less fast forwardi during a demo. I'd really like to see how you make your marks in real time
I thought about that, how many people would really like to sit through that...you sure about that?
I guess maybe one or two examples of real time just so we can get a feel of your mark making. It's just a thought though.
Will definitely consider that though. A couple people have requested it
***** I second this :)
what kind of pens and other stuff are needed for this??
Awesome video...can you make a video similar to "The busy city" one....and one with the cars in perspective...
most definitely on the list
Is there a name for the stroke in the top center? I've never seen that before.
I love your videos, thank you!
This's helpful , thank you
aziz faisal glad it helped
excelentes dibujos. saludios desde venezuela
Gracias
Thank you excellent as usualy,
Richard Soulier thanks
Amazing!!
moviemagic233 thanks
Thanks for the vid. It helps a lot. May I ask, what number was your pen in this vid?
Nita Sellya glad it did, thanks
hi im from 2020 and i would like to say thank you it literally change my drawingss
: ) thank you
Hello , can you please tell me why the values is in the shading is less towards bottom of the figure ? Is it because of reflection of light back from ground to figure ?
coool... i only see 2 different ways that you present.... lines and dots...
lol take a closer look....technically all you see are dots really...a line is just a continuous series of dots...but the variation they can have....oh boy
well in that same logic you should make a video showing the infinite possibilities of shading with dots :D
lol you just saw 9....that infinity one will be the longest video on youtube...When I get old and too slow I'll pass the pen to you lol
word. you should shade an egg with little tiny egg shapes!
VERY helpful!!! Thanks!
+Art by Alex thanks.
What is the name of the nine different technics?
Which pen and ink is best for drawing?
You have to experiment. It depends on you really. What someone considers the best, you not feel the same way about
Was this sped up or is your hand moving actually that fast? I really need to know.
I feel certain it was sped up at points to keep us from getting bored and keep our focus.