Thank you for your videos. I am 62 years old and have only been dabbling in art until just the last few years your videos are very well thought out, informative, and inspiring.
Love these great reminders! I definitely need them! I only began teaching myself a few years back in my mid 40's in a desperate need to help myself with my severe chronic pain, PTSD, anxiety and too many ridiculous things. I don't draw or paint anything amazing, but it has saved my life in many ways. I do tend to want to push past the needed practice because the vision in my head is SO clear it feels as if my hands will make it happen....but of course no🤣🤦🏼♀️so, when my arms work I try to do something, anything, no matter how small, or even maybe just a swipe of color on a piece of paper or tiny doodle if thats all my body will allow that day, and it always makes me happy :) and on the more often days, especially right now, when my body allows nothing, I LOVE seeing so much amazing art being made or taught and for free!!!! The generosity of that blows me away and it means the world to me because its easy to slip into the black hole of pain, physical or emotional, that sadly so so so many fight against constantly, like me...but I hope they, like me, are able to find that scrap of passion you maybe never allowed yourself, and let it save you. These videos keep my head right, positive, excited and SO inspired so that when I get those moments, however brief, I'm full of excitement and joy to put things I've learned to use!! Sorry to be all emotional...I'm healing from a very recent surgery gone wrong so many complications along with more pain then my normal every day and not able to breathe well ....but...still...I'm super excited to exercise patience and especially work on my circles and straight lines!! Right now with no work and medical bills I can't fully comprehend right now, I don't want to use my 1 sketchbook nor my very first splurge (with a gift card at an online art store, cuz they said they knew if it was for Amazon I'd buy for my son and hubby or necessities cuz thats what I did before😳 , but it was from a friend that wanted me to get something to look forward to using once I heal up in coming months, hopefully sooner, and something they knew I'd never buy myself) a small pad of actual 100% cotton arches watercolor paper!!!!!!😲🥳🤢😲😬...I'm terrified to use those 12 pages! Feels so fancy and I'm not worthy of that! SO, I alwayslike to have these done and ready... just folded some printer paper in half and sewed it together like I do for a watercolor booklet with my cheaper watercolor paper when I have some. So then I feel ok about making crazy marks and feel no stress about "wasting" or running out of cheaper paper, knowing it was cheap. I also had a friend give us a box of those, um, I think the divider sheet you would put inside a hanging file, if that makes sense. They were given tons instead of seeing it trashed. So it's actually nice thick white paper, but it has that little bump up where you write a label, but they can be cut right off and its paper for practice for anything. So make use of anything you have. I look forward to being able to get back to practicing at being better at practicing 🙄😏😁 Thank you so much for all your efforts, I know it's a lot!! But it truly makes a difference in our lives, mine at the very least :)❤
Hand yoga... Genius! This important golden nugget has never entered my mind. Yep, I'll be doing the digits tango for a few minutes henceforth, lol. I bought Alphonso Dunn's workbooks a while back and he goes through many exercise drills, including hatching, among many others. Exercises and doodling in a spare five minutes has helped my muscle memory enormously. Exactly as you describe... you don't become a pianist or touch-typist overnight. This week I've been practicing pointilism in sketches :) I've only been doing the exercises in lead pencil, or in my Rocket Book with a Frixion rollerball pen, so far, but will be bringing out other supplies to see which fits and the differences. We're all different in that regard so that makes total sense to repeat practice with other materials (although there is no bad pen, lol). Was thinking of Teoh when you were drawing without lifting the pen. He does this all the time and I think that's why his style is easily recognisable. Also, that way is freeing, so relaxes the perfectionist mindset. I totally agree that random marking, doodling, and simply being in the moment is great for mindfulness. It's why I got into art a couple of years now... to create my calming personal time and space. I kinda feel I'm already with the program as I've been practicing small mark-making for months, but the finger-flexing is a brilliant tip. So, my little tip for yourself and viewers: I've been using my RocketBook for doodling. Sure, I can only use Frixion pens to erase the pages, but it's been saving me a ton of paper in recent months. Then, using the barcode on the pages, I take a photo and upload to wherever... email, cloud, etc. All those scribbles and sketch ideas are forever available without using up loads of space at home too. Just a thing I've been doing, although it doesn't help when trying different supplies for their benefits. Still, it's been a godsend for doodling and note taking as well as saving paper cost and space saving. Important tips in this video that shouldn't be underestimated 🙂👍✍ EDIT to elaborate: my Pocket Book is always in my bag. So any ideas or thumbnails (I often use it to do a rough sketch of value blocks and decide landscape or portrait or square etc) and notes when out and about (after taking a picture) so they are always available later with notes on what I was thinking, feeling, seeing, eating, hearing, smelling... all the five senses stuff that is easily forgotten if there is no time to sit for an hour or two. Hope that makes sense :)
@@jadedenthusiasms Likewise, I feel super happy you found my comment valuable and gave such a lovely comment. I read your comment and it wasn't embarrassing in the slightest... many of us need mindfulness in our lives to try to reduce anxieties or stresses in daily life. Luckily, we found sketching and art to provide that haven. Best luck in future, Jaded 😁❤
Thanks for the reminder! Some of these tips were in a Drawing I class I took for fun last semester. I need to add these basics back in and draw. My new discovery is dip pens. I need to stop buying and start using 😄
Too late , I’m doing them 🫢. The blind sketching got me into art , started on the 21.July and haven’t stopped. Thanks for the info it’s very much appreciated.
Wow! This is so well done: concise and to the point. Thank you so very much! After seeing this I sprung right up to grab my notebook and started practicing. You really are an inspiration. Good luck!
Excellent Taria... exactly what I have been looking for. I'm taking a sketching course at the moment that has not addressed warming up. Now I have a warmup! Thank you. Question: I've been thinking a bunch about my thinking as I'm drawing, what is going on in my head good and bad, as a draw, my inner dialogue, if you will. Have you done a video or considered doing one on that aspect of sketching? Or can you recommend any resources?
Hi Lance - thanks so much for watching and glad it was useful. To be honest, I think many of my videos deal with my head demons while sketching ha ha....but perhaps not overtly....there was definitely one video where I mentioned I kept repeating to myself this sketch would be the best one I have ever done, to stop my nerves from taking over - oooh I know - it was the Texas commission video...as obviously that one I did not want to screw up....but thanks for the idea, I really do believe how we talk to ourselves in our head massively influences what our output is....I am going to write this down.... :)
Hahaaa!!!! This is soooo funny! Why bother with the sense you're going? I just realised I too go anticlockwise... and I haven;t noticed that Taria is going clockwise... :D :D :D
Decades ago at an airshow of WWII aircraft it was pointed out that American piston engines rotated clockwise and the British rotated anti-clockwise. Maybe an unconscious national trait?
A black woman who is loving urban sketching and your great help to keep on journaling along...Your Amazing!
Thank you for your videos. I am 62 years old and have only been dabbling in art until just the last few years your videos are very well thought out, informative, and inspiring.
Love these great reminders! I definitely need them! I only began teaching myself a few years back in my mid 40's in a desperate need to help myself with my severe chronic pain, PTSD, anxiety and too many ridiculous things. I don't draw or paint anything amazing, but it has saved my life in many ways.
I do tend to want to push past the needed practice because the vision in my head is SO clear it feels as if my hands will make it happen....but of course no🤣🤦🏼♀️so, when my arms work I try to do something, anything, no matter how small, or even maybe just a swipe of color on a piece of paper or tiny doodle if thats all my body will allow that day, and it always makes me happy :) and on the more often days, especially right now, when my body allows nothing, I LOVE seeing so much amazing art being made or taught and for free!!!! The generosity of that blows me away and it means the world to me because its easy to slip into the black hole of pain, physical or emotional, that sadly so so so many fight against constantly, like me...but I hope they, like me, are able to find that scrap of passion you maybe never allowed yourself, and let it save you. These videos keep my head right, positive, excited and SO inspired so that when I get those moments, however brief, I'm full of excitement and joy to put things I've learned to use!!
Sorry to be all emotional...I'm healing from a very recent surgery gone wrong so many complications along with more pain then my normal every day and not able to breathe well ....but...still...I'm super excited to exercise patience and especially work on my circles and straight lines!!
Right now with no work and medical bills I can't fully comprehend right now, I don't want to use my 1 sketchbook nor my very first splurge (with a gift card at an online art store, cuz they said they knew if it was for Amazon I'd buy for my son and hubby or necessities cuz thats what I did before😳 , but it was from a friend that wanted me to get something to look forward to using once I heal up in coming months, hopefully sooner, and something they knew I'd never buy myself) a small pad of actual 100% cotton arches watercolor paper!!!!!!😲🥳🤢😲😬...I'm terrified to use those 12 pages! Feels so fancy and I'm not worthy of that! SO, I alwayslike to have these done and ready... just folded some printer paper in half and sewed it together like I do for a watercolor booklet with my cheaper watercolor paper when I have some. So then I feel ok about making crazy marks and feel no stress about "wasting" or running out of cheaper paper, knowing it was cheap. I also had a friend give us a box of those, um, I think the divider sheet you would put inside a hanging file, if that makes sense. They were given tons instead of seeing it trashed. So it's actually nice thick white paper, but it has that little bump up where you write a label, but they can be cut right off and its paper for practice for anything. So make use of anything you have.
I look forward to being able to get back to practicing at being better at practicing 🙄😏😁
Thank you so much for all your efforts, I know it's a lot!! But it truly makes a difference in our lives, mine at the very least :)❤
Ok I'm going to say it. This is the best urban sketching YT channel along with the best teacher/motivator.
Awww, you're making me blush! Thanks for your kind words :)
Hand yoga... Genius! This important golden nugget has never entered my mind. Yep, I'll be doing the digits tango for a few minutes henceforth, lol. I bought Alphonso Dunn's workbooks a while back and he goes through many exercise drills, including hatching, among many others. Exercises and doodling in a spare five minutes has helped my muscle memory enormously. Exactly as you describe... you don't become a pianist or touch-typist overnight. This week I've been practicing pointilism in sketches :)
I've only been doing the exercises in lead pencil, or in my Rocket Book with a Frixion rollerball pen, so far, but will be bringing out other supplies to see which fits and the differences. We're all different in that regard so that makes total sense to repeat practice with other materials (although there is no bad pen, lol).
Was thinking of Teoh when you were drawing without lifting the pen. He does this all the time and I think that's why his style is easily recognisable. Also, that way is freeing, so relaxes the perfectionist mindset. I totally agree that random marking, doodling, and simply being in the moment is great for mindfulness. It's why I got into art a couple of years now... to create my calming personal time and space.
I kinda feel I'm already with the program as I've been practicing small mark-making for months, but the finger-flexing is a brilliant tip.
So, my little tip for yourself and viewers: I've been using my RocketBook for doodling. Sure, I can only use Frixion pens to erase the pages, but it's been saving me a ton of paper in recent months. Then, using the barcode on the pages, I take a photo and upload to wherever... email, cloud, etc. All those scribbles and sketch ideas are forever available without using up loads of space at home too. Just a thing I've been doing, although it doesn't help when trying different supplies for their benefits. Still, it's been a godsend for doodling and note taking as well as saving paper cost and space saving.
Important tips in this video that shouldn't be underestimated 🙂👍✍
EDIT to elaborate: my Pocket Book is always in my bag. So any ideas or thumbnails (I often use it to do a rough sketch of value blocks and decide landscape or portrait or square etc) and notes when out and about (after taking a picture) so they are always available later with notes on what I was thinking, feeling, seeing, eating, hearing, smelling... all the five senses stuff that is easily forgotten if there is no time to sit for an hour or two. Hope that makes sense :)
@Wen Wake lovely comment!!! And I agree ..as I mentioned in my embarrassingly long comment 🙄😳🤦🏼♀️ you said things so much better!! Love it :)
@@jadedenthusiasms Likewise, I feel super happy you found my comment valuable and gave such a lovely comment. I read your comment and it wasn't embarrassing in the slightest... many of us need mindfulness in our lives to try to reduce anxieties or stresses in daily life. Luckily, we found sketching and art to provide that haven. Best luck in future, Jaded 😁❤
@@wenwake7584 thank you :) and I hope the very best for you as well!! :)
Thanks for the reminder! Some of these tips were in a Drawing I class I took for fun last semester. I need to add these basics back in and draw. My new discovery is dip pens. I need to stop buying and start using 😄
Great! Will try these. Thank you
That proko video was so good thank you for sharing!!
Too late , I’m doing them 🫢. The blind sketching got me into art , started on the 21.July and haven’t stopped. Thanks for the info it’s very much appreciated.
When I grow up I want to be like you Taria!
I think you are an amazing teacher!
Thanks 🙏 ❤️
Thanks so much Lesley!
Thanks for this video, great work
Great warm up and general practice! Great for us beginners. Thank you.
Thank you for these tips and tutorial! Its a great vid, like it so much!
Me ha encantado el vídeo, muchas gracias.
I wish I found your channel sooner!
Hello from La Paz Baja California Sur, México.
Wow! This is so well done: concise and to the point. Thank you so very much! After seeing this I sprung right up to grab my notebook and started practicing.
You really are an inspiration. Good luck!
Fantastic! Glad it inspired you!
Very nice this video. Good job dear friend 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I'm really enjoying your videos - bring on the challenges!
Excelente ejercicios, muchas gracias!!
Excellent Taria... exactly what I have been looking for. I'm taking a sketching course at the moment that has not addressed warming up. Now I have a warmup! Thank you. Question: I've been thinking a bunch about my thinking as I'm drawing, what is going on in my head good and bad, as a draw, my inner dialogue, if you will. Have you done a video or considered doing one on that aspect of sketching? Or can you recommend any resources?
Hi Lance - thanks so much for watching and glad it was useful. To be honest, I think many of my videos deal with my head demons while sketching ha ha....but perhaps not overtly....there was definitely one video where I mentioned I kept repeating to myself this sketch would be the best one I have ever done, to stop my nerves from taking over - oooh I know - it was the Texas commission video...as obviously that one I did not want to screw up....but thanks for the idea, I really do believe how we talk to ourselves in our head massively influences what our output is....I am going to write this down.... :)
I love that tattoo on your right wrist so much.
“so just like vocalists, or those people who actually exercise- it’s a good idea to warm up your bits and bobs before sketching” pahahaha that’s funny
Fudenesco? Maybe related to the fude fountain pen nibs. The tip is bent to be able to make variable width lines.
Yep, I think thats correct! I just couldn't say the word.... ha ha.
Ha ha, paused when you showed the price tag on the sketchbook in the beginning. I spy a South African :)
:D
I really love the tattooon your right hand. It perfetcly suits your beautiful hand.
Inmoserrano?? Could you please spell the name of the artist who uses continuous line to draw, that you mentioned?
When I draw circles, I go anticlockwise. Now, seeing you do them clockwise, I feel like I'm doing it wrong. 🙃
Hahaaa!!!! This is soooo funny! Why bother with the sense you're going? I just realised I too go anticlockwise... and I haven;t noticed that Taria is going clockwise... :D :D :D
Decades ago at an airshow of WWII aircraft it was pointed out that American piston engines rotated clockwise and the British rotated anti-clockwise. Maybe an unconscious national trait?
Ooooh...thats so interesting! There is no wrong - you do you! Maybe I am doing it wrong?! Ha ha.
@@rogerehinger6694 Interesting. I never knew this.
@@tarias_sketchy_adventures Seems awkward when I go clockwise. I will try going both ways from now on when doing a warm up. 😀
Excuse me but It doesn't have to be a perfect circle right?