You're right, pen sketching is very fun/good for quickly capturing moments from life. I thoroughly enjoyed sketching in pen when I went to New York in 2016 or 2017. Happy moving you and you're wife💕😁!
Great sketches Cesar...!!!!The way you draw with ballpens is so warm and full of lightness without losing the realistic side and without expecting someone to focus on something particular on the drawing... Just like the flow you describe in the video. Big fan of the way you see painting.. Welcome to Florence...!!!!
Once again you have blown our minds with your drawing skills Cesar !. I think deep down you love the challenge. The pen was outside your comfort zone and as a true artist this was a challenge to you. And artists love challenges. Ink is very unforgiving when it comes to mistakes and ultimately you beat the ink hands down. Ultimately the pen submitted to the masters wishes. The ultimate humiliation was using the white-out on the ink, not to put out a mistake but to high light your victory !. Nice touch !!. Bravo !!!
I enjoyed your video! I am also excited for you both moving to Florence! 21 years ago I lived there too! I had earned a merit scholarship from my university for a semester at the Lorenzo D' Medici Art Institute! It was so beautiful and inspiring there! One of the happiest memories of my life!
Benvenuto in Italia! Sicuramente sei un valore aggiunto per qualunque paese in cui tu voglia andare. Grande Toto Cutugno. Good luck for everything, e non vedo l'ora di conoscere i tuoi prossimi progetti :)
On the subject of artists' tools, I heard painter Brian Rutenberg's opinion that the most important one is a locked door. Very true I think (I recommend his inspiring words only book Clear Seeing Place). I've visited Firenze a good number of times and look forward to following your adventures in your new Italian home.
Cesar, thank you for sharing with us what's going on in your life. You are one of the most inspiring artists on TH-cam. I came to art late in life and am just painting and drawing as a hobby now, but I'm always inspired by watching your videos.
Those drawings were amazing. Your song at the end was unexpected and so cute. You are always so happy. I always feel uplifted after one of your vlogs x
My Father used to draw little sketches of Rat Fink in pen on little note paper, napkins and receipts with pens and leave them for me to find as a child..That's all I had sometimes to draw with, lots of great doodling memories in cheap notebooks! Great video:)
Congrats on your new home/studio! As per your recommendations, Harold Speed’s comments on drawing make a notable eco on yours, regarding beauty and emotion; which as an aspiring artist is always exciting to find. Thanks for the thoughts, sketches and the Italian song maestro! Hope to meet you one day in Florence! Saludos desde México!
I love working in ink. I am currently working on a 24” x 36” pointillism in metallic inks. Great video, moving to a peaceful village sounds wonderful. I wish you happiness in your new home.
IMO pen or similar-looking mediums like etchings are one of the mediums that show mastery of art best because the flow and subtle effects that you can achieve with it requires such a high degree of skill, to get an idea of what I'm talking about look at the drawings by Rembrandt or even better the drawings/etchings by Andreas Zorn, look how he manages to make people look so life-like with perfect bounced lighting despite only using just a few flowing lines. If you look at Zorn's paintings you could try to study and replicate them brush stroke by brushstroke, but doing so for one of his etchings/drawings is completely different, each line has to be placed perfectly to describe forms in the detail that he and other masters like Cesar do with these types of mediums.
Agreed. Very Rembrandtian drawing style ! Many of Cesar's sketches definitely relate to the slightly curved cross hatching technique Rembrandt used. Cesar is one of the few (loosely speaking) 'realist' artists whose works I like, due to his command of technique. As kids in the 70s we all learnt to draw in a Renaissance/semi-Florentine to Super Realist style, but as we got older the art teachers would (*inflict?) the modernist approach. Now we can step back and I personally often see a happy amalgam of the two in the artwork that matters to me- whether by others or myself. Etching definitely imposes a discipline, but also can allow great linear freedom.
@@rickh3714 yeha for all types of drawing I have found simply doing hatches at about 15 degrees from eachother instead of 90ish makes drawing a million times better wether I am doing this with 4mm lines as a technique to block out a even area in extreme slow detail where close hatches help to create the most even coverage or when doing lines that are multiple cm long and loose as it gives much more flow and at least a step towards the look of master drawings, idk what other secrets there are to these crazy pieces of art but thats one I have identified which is super useful
@@awildtomappeared5925 Rembrandt was prior to the use of aquatint use in etching etc, so for the tonal range he had to experiment with line if he wanted more tonalities. Some of his tiniest self portrait etchings are amazing.
I wish my husband would want to move to Florence. Lucky you. I was all over Italy Oct-Nov 2019. Florence is where I would live. Wishing you much success in your new studio. Hope to get back there soon.
Muchas felicidades Cesar!. Durante muchos años tuve la necesidad de saber si mi trabajo tenía algún sentido. Me acabas de revelar muchas cosas de mi mismo que estaban latentes y te estoy muy agradecido
@@bFABIO When I go to the bank to make a deposit for work I am the passenger in the car and I always do a quick sketch of the girl at the bank. I think she looks like an elven princess. and when I am the passenger on the ride to work and home , i do a quick sketch of the people in the cars around me. It is really hard to get an idea/drawing/memory at a glance but it is awkward to stare lolz. May we all have great luck finding people to draw.
To me, you are as amazing and exceptional as Caravaggio. You are a true genius of painting. Cesar Santos, certainly the best painter today. My luck was to have seen the birth of such an artist
Amazingly beautiful work, proving once again that “it’s the wizard, not the wand.” 💕 If you don’t defend your country...eventually, there won’t be anywhere left to run to. ❤️🇺🇸❤️
Love what you achieved with your "new to you" medium! I usually do hatching and cross-hatching myself, as I like how it has built-in contour information. I love how you took this even to a higher level, imbuing an energy in the pieces and an effect that's kind of a mixture between sfumato and Rembrant. Please do more... maybe a series to explore "the energy within" of a range of subjects? ...on second thought, I think that I'll explore that concept! Grazie mille per l'inspirazione! Cheers,
Cesar, I recently discovered your channel and am learning so much. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, experience and enthusiasm for creating excellent works of art. You have accomplished so much, and you are so generous in sharing with us. The lights are turning on for me more and more. I can't thank you enough!!!
Really enjoy you video's. I like and agree that we should adapt to the capability of the tool, as for learnt practice and when i teach a way strangely i put all that to the back of my mind when i paint as if i am not following anything of what i say to do lol. However technically its not falling off the canvas so method is not entirely abandoned. Love your work. And guitar love it. I have mine nearby and something about the sound calms the soul
Cesar you said something here that made me think you might have had a bad experience in America. I hope not. Things seem to be in turmoil everywhere. Many, many people here in America love you, your wife and your art. I hope and pray you find joy, peace and continued success in Florence. I purchased your wonderful DVD on portrait painting and it was in that and your TH-cam videos I came to care so much for you, Valentina and your art. Peace & God Bless!
Hi to you I love your ballpoint pen work the ballpoint pen I like to use the pen that one pen with define color in one ballpoint pen so you can mix your color in one picture I look forward to see more drawing
I love cheap materials I used to sketch on a small notebook with just an office pen still looks good.... It's just gives me a feeling that a true artist doesn't care if he uses cheap or junk materials. Coz for him it's all about masterpieces
Woooow ........ you are a good singer ....💗😉
Theres so many artists on youtube, but only one Cesar Santos..how can you make ball point pen art look so beautifull..incredible
Who in school days didn't feel like they did some of their favorite pieces in the cheapest lined notebook?
i like your paintings too Liz, i checked your videos out, beautiful!
My god , you are an artist and a classical guitarist
You are a great Living Master, without you the world of Art incomplete
I love the idea of keeping art playful or at least having playful aspects when most of us take our art maybe too seriously
Thanks so much for continuing to post videos like this. It's so nice to have top tier artists do free youtube comment. A real blessing
I love your sketchbook tours so much especially the academic ones and drawings, please do keep doing sketchbook tours!
Is it just me or is someone else's mind blown by what this man can do with a regular ball point pen? :)
it's absolutly amazing!! :D
tools become everything
-Cesar Santos
So we don't need to get a more professional items to make a masterpiece
nice
Practice, practice, practice that is how he do it, and you to can do it , start it is ugly but continue, and became a master, not easy but can be done
I also feel the same
Cesar, you're living my dream 😅
A lined notebook and a ballpoint pen and he creates the most amazing art!!! I love drawing in ballpoint also!!!
Actually the ruling method in the notebook keeps your proportions better just like a grid without vertical lines
you're so funny man, should be an awesome experience to spend a day just talking to you
You're right, pen sketching is very fun/good for quickly capturing moments from life. I thoroughly enjoyed sketching in pen when I went to New York in 2016 or 2017. Happy moving you and you're wife💕😁!
Great sketches Cesar...!!!!The way you draw with ballpens is so warm and full of lightness without losing the realistic side and without expecting someone to focus on something particular on the drawing... Just like the flow you describe in the video. Big fan of the way you see painting.. Welcome to Florence...!!!!
Once again you have blown our minds with your drawing skills Cesar !. I think deep down you love the challenge. The pen was outside your comfort zone and as a true artist this was a challenge to you. And artists love challenges. Ink is very unforgiving when it comes to mistakes and ultimately you beat the ink hands down. Ultimately the pen submitted to the masters wishes. The ultimate humiliation was using the white-out on the ink, not to put out a mistake but to high light your victory !. Nice touch !!. Bravo !!!
You got poetry
Great video! I love the singing too. You continue to be my inspiration.
Awesome video! I’ve been waiting for a sketchbook tour😎😎
Your pen sketches are Beautiful.
What a wonderful life you two are living. Bless you
You've moved to Florence!! I'm so pleased for you both🤍🤍 enjoy the joy😄
I enjoyed your video! I am also excited for you both moving to Florence! 21 years ago I lived there too! I had earned a merit scholarship from my university for a semester at the Lorenzo D' Medici Art Institute! It was so beautiful and inspiring there! One of the happiest memories of my life!
Benvenuto in Italia! Sicuramente sei un valore aggiunto per qualunque paese in cui tu voglia andare. Grande Toto Cutugno. Good luck for everything, e non vedo l'ora di conoscere i tuoi prossimi progetti :)
Benvenuto in Italia. 🥰
You are an amazing artist 🙂
llena de felicidad por tus logros y pasion en la vida. Te Amo❤️
😘te amo a ti
On the subject of artists' tools, I heard painter Brian Rutenberg's opinion that the most important one is a locked door. Very true I think (I recommend his inspiring words only book Clear Seeing Place). I've visited Firenze a good number of times and look forward to following your adventures in your new Italian home.
Awesome Cesar! Thank you for sharing.
Cesar, thank you for sharing with us what's going on in your life. You are one of the most inspiring artists on TH-cam. I came to art late in life and am just painting and drawing as a hobby now, but I'm always inspired by watching your videos.
Those drawings were amazing. Your song at the end was unexpected and so cute. You are always so happy. I always feel uplifted after one of your vlogs x
Thank you and best of luck with the new place
Good luck!! A great artist is always great does not matter what about the tools !! You are one of those!!
My Father used to draw little sketches of Rat Fink in pen on little note paper, napkins and receipts with pens and leave them for me to find as a child..That's all I had sometimes to draw with, lots of great doodling memories in cheap notebooks! Great video:)
Oh what a story!❤
Congrats on your new home/studio! As per your recommendations, Harold Speed’s comments on drawing make a notable eco on yours, regarding beauty and emotion; which as an aspiring artist is always exciting to find. Thanks for the thoughts, sketches and the Italian song maestro! Hope to meet you one day in Florence! Saludos desde México!
I love working in ink. I am currently working on a 24” x 36” pointillism in metallic inks. Great video, moving to a peaceful village sounds wonderful. I wish you happiness in your new home.
First like and second comment .. love your work ❤️🙏
Your singing isn't half bad cesar, we need a full cover of L'Italiano!
lol!
It surprised me how good his singing voice is
love the singing as well ! You are so up for it !
I love your energy and positive appreciation of everything around you. Great perspective to have!
Welcome to Italy!
Damn, I always feel like you have three hands with that t-shirt :D
Love the T-shirt, Cesar. I get it.
I am sooo Happy for you!! Thank You for inspiring me!!!
IMO pen or similar-looking mediums like etchings are one of the mediums that show mastery of art best because the flow and subtle effects that you can achieve with it requires such a high degree of skill, to get an idea of what I'm talking about look at the drawings by Rembrandt or even better the drawings/etchings by Andreas Zorn, look how he manages to make people look so life-like with perfect bounced lighting despite only using just a few flowing lines. If you look at Zorn's paintings you could try to study and replicate them brush stroke by brushstroke, but doing so for one of his etchings/drawings is completely different, each line has to be placed perfectly to describe forms in the detail that he and other masters like Cesar do with these types of mediums.
Agreed. Very Rembrandtian drawing style ! Many of Cesar's sketches definitely relate to the slightly curved cross hatching technique Rembrandt used. Cesar is one of the few (loosely speaking) 'realist' artists whose works I like, due to his command of technique.
As kids in the 70s we all learnt to draw in a Renaissance/semi-Florentine to Super Realist style, but as we got older the art teachers would (*inflict?) the modernist approach. Now we can step back and I personally often see a happy amalgam of the two in the artwork that matters to me- whether by others or myself. Etching definitely imposes a discipline, but also can allow great linear freedom.
@@rickh3714 yeha for all types of drawing I have found simply doing hatches at about 15 degrees from eachother instead of 90ish makes drawing a million times better wether I am doing this with 4mm lines as a technique to block out a even area in extreme slow detail where close hatches help to create the most even coverage or when doing lines that are multiple cm long and loose as it gives much more flow and at least a step towards the look of master drawings, idk what other secrets there are to these crazy pieces of art but thats one I have identified which is super useful
@@awildtomappeared5925
Rembrandt was prior to the use of aquatint use in etching etc, so
for the tonal range he had to experiment with line if he wanted more tonalities. Some of his tiniest self portrait etchings are amazing.
Continue to be an inspiration to us all Mr. Santos
Muy Buena la canzonetta !!!
Y tus dibujos / bocetos, una maravilla😂
Gracias,de Argentina
I’m so excited for you and your new life and journey in Italy.
I’m living vicariously through you 😂
7:33 that setting would make a beautiful portrait painting
I love your pen work. Missed your channel happy moving.
I wish my husband would want to move to Florence. Lucky you. I was all over Italy Oct-Nov 2019. Florence is where I would live. Wishing you much success in your new studio. Hope to get back there soon.
Exelente trabajo Cesar, eres un idolo del arte
U r an inspiration for many contemporary artists . Thanks sir
Muchas felicidades Cesar!. Durante muchos años tuve la necesidad de saber si mi trabajo tenía algún sentido. Me acabas de revelar muchas cosas de mi mismo que estaban latentes y te estoy muy agradecido
Nice lines, in paper and in mind
Wow awesome playing
whaaaaat this is insane! Beautiful!
You are a privileged person because you always have the company of someone who likes to pose for you.
Congratulations. That gives you happiness.
Privilege has to be earned! Thanks
@@santocesartI'm honestly not sure if this will be the first permit. Perhaps it is initially luck that allows us to find someone who understands us.
@@bFABIO When I go to the bank to make a deposit for work I am the passenger in the car and I always do a quick sketch of the girl at the bank. I think she looks like an elven princess. and when I am the passenger on the ride to work and home , i do a quick sketch of the people in the cars around me.
It is really hard to get an idea/drawing/memory at a glance but it is awkward to stare lolz. May we all have great luck finding people to draw.
@@bFABIO well sure, but they'll be gone in two seconds if you don't treat them right
@@peterjacksonanton4814 That`s true.
To me, you are as amazing and exceptional as Caravaggio. You are a true genius of painting. Cesar Santos, certainly the best painter today. My luck was to have seen the birth of such an artist
I always look forward to your next video.
Yeeeeeeeees a new Video!!!!
Now I know that you are talented in music too! 🎸🎶🎵🎼
Canti benissimo e la tua pronuncia italiana è perfetta. Auguri per la nuova casa
Grande!!! Welcome to Italy!!!
Cesar is such a nice guy! Enjoy Italy!!!
Great stuff.. always inspiring
Hey Sar I'm your big fan lot of love California ❤
Primero Florencia y después España. Congratulations
If it is possible I just want to get a lesson from you about figure and portrait drawing, specially in your way. You are just too good
Amazingly beautiful work, proving once again that “it’s the wizard, not the wand.” 💕 If you don’t defend your country...eventually, there won’t be anywhere left to run to. ❤️🇺🇸❤️
Amazing!!!!!!!!!!
Beautiful and inspirational.
You inspire so many!!
Love your work
Brooo luv it
Love what you achieved with your "new to you" medium! I usually do hatching and cross-hatching myself, as I like how it has built-in contour information. I love how you took this even to a higher level, imbuing an energy in the pieces and an effect that's kind of a mixture between sfumato and Rembrant. Please do more... maybe a series to explore "the energy within" of a range of subjects? ...on second thought, I think that I'll explore that concept! Grazie mille per l'inspirazione! Cheers,
I wish you all the best on your new way in italy
Good luck on your new era Cesar.
Just brilliant
Cesar, I recently discovered your channel and am learning so much. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, experience and enthusiasm for creating excellent works of art. You have accomplished so much, and you are so generous in sharing with us. The lights are turning on for me more and more. I can't thank you enough!!!
Congratulations on this big move. Best of luck
Really enjoy you video's. I like and agree that we should adapt to the capability of the tool, as for learnt practice and when i teach a way strangely i put all that to the back of my mind when i paint as if i am not following anything of what i say to do lol. However technically its not falling off the canvas so method is not entirely abandoned. Love your work. And guitar love it. I have mine nearby and something about the sound calms the soul
Good luck on your new home and Muchas felicidades!
Benvenuto!!! Complimenti per la canzone, pronuncia perfetta e bella voce! Spero un giorno di poterti salutare dal vivo ora che sei a Forenze :)
Bentornato in Italia
Recently I've done a couple of harbour scenes in Tenby using coloured biro.
I never knew there was so many colours available.
Cesar you said something here that made me think you might have had a bad experience in America. I hope not. Things seem to be in turmoil everywhere. Many, many people here in America love you, your wife and your art. I hope and pray you find joy, peace and continued success in Florence. I purchased your wonderful DVD on portrait painting and it was in that and your TH-cam videos I came to care so much for you, Valentina and your art. Peace & God Bless!
Wonderful !
I love drawing with ballpoint pens and fountain pens.
Best wishes on the new home in Florence.
That Valentina sketch reminds me of Rembrandt’s etchings
Hi to you I love your ballpoint pen work the ballpoint pen I like to use the pen that one pen with define color in one ballpoint pen so you can mix your color in one picture I look forward to see more drawing
Bravissima! Molto buono! Tu sei un cantare😁
I love cheap materials I used to sketch on a small notebook with just an office pen still looks good.... It's just gives me a feeling that a true artist doesn't care if he uses cheap or junk materials. Coz for him it's all about masterpieces
Hi to you I love your work I learned a lot from you my drawing faces got really good
Great sir 🙏🙏🙏❤
Thanks for sharing
This men are one Genio
Thanks for this
Big Fan ❤️
Living in italy. Great
great artworks