I am trying to do stuff in G pen and inking tools Every single advice of yours came in handy during my drawings I just want to let you know what a valuable teaching you did for all the beginners out there 💕💟
Hi Alphonso! I've always loved drawing with pen and I've become obsessed with your videos be because they're really helping me get to the next level! I'm a teacher (of 10, 11 and 12 year olds) and the other day they asked me how to draw trees and so I taught them some of the techniques you show in your tree videos. They were so thrilled and proud of themselves! All of a sudden, my fineliners are constantly being borrowed and I'm fighting to get them back!
You're such a great teacher! Before i watched your video, i was kinda self conscious about drawing trees and trunks. Then I tried to watched your video, paused it for moment to moment and followed it on my paper to draw the trunk with Micron pen(they are great btw!) step by step. And I was kinda surprised myself that I can really draw tree trunk and IT WAS BELIEVABLE enough to call as a tree trunk. Thanks sir, you're just simply the best! *And i kinda waiting my self to get hand on you book tomorrow!
Hi Alphonso! of all the online drawing instructors, I think you are the most natural or how do you say it... pure or so... I mean the filming and the work is all one on one and very direct with ink and, as one of your many subcribers, I just wanted to tell you that your work is super and inspiring. Kind regards, Lineke
Lineke you're right! - I got my Wacom yesterday ;) and started to search for tutorials about drawing, to start at the "beginning" and i found this videos, and i wanted to leave you a BIG - THANK YOU Alphonso! You do it really in way, everybody can follow and understand, and you pick me really up at the beginning and take me further! - thank you for that! cheerz from austria
Hi Philipp! I could not agree more, he is super. And you have a Wacom? I have done one video on working with this medium. It is called: How to draw a dragon for beginners digitally. it is done on a Wacom and painter 13 so maybe there are some ideas for you in it. Thank you Philipp for sharing my admiration and cheerz from Holland and thanks again Alphonso...
I really enjoy your videos. I used to think that cross hatching and cross contouring were skills that I would never have. Now I am able to use these techniques in my work. Such a difference! Also, I frequently listen to your videos while I am drawing so I don't feel like I am drawing all alone. Thank you so much.
My son (7) watched your video, and it has given him a much better idea as to how he should go about drawing a tree. Thank you for helping to get him started.
Your teaching method is so straightforward and clear...I've watched many drawing instructors and I swear I learned more practical, immediately applicable skills in the first five minutes of this video than I have in a lifetime of listening to teachers! Well done, and thanks for your excellent tutorials!
Hi Alphonso, I accidentally found your channel on TH-cam and I am so amazed by your tutorials! You are such a talented artist and a superb teacher! You dissected difficult skills into simple and fun steps, by following them I can see an immediate difference in my own drawing. Thank you so much for sharing these gems with the public. I will definitely buy your books and recommend them to my friends who want to learn drawing.
When I started drawing, I really don't know how to shade, how to contour and pretty much all these tips that you are giving. Your channel is gold for me and for other beginners. Thank you so much!
Alphonso, thank you. This is video gold to me. In addition, your other videos regarding the drawing mindset and 7 simple tips to draw everyday have reinforced my drawing objectives. In addition the tips on drawing trees helps with rebuilding my confidence in drawing and expanding my visual library.
your work is outrageous!,just what I need,I love to use pen and ink.I have been teaching myself,now with your video on tree trunks I am actually getting somewhere,thanks
AWESOME!!! I normally do graphite and I've experimented in color, but I find graphite more satisfying....I think I will LOVE pen and ink. I find the repetitive stoke very calming. I shall be watching as many of your videos as I can. I'm self-taught and lack funds (don't we all?)
Thanks Alphonso - Son I am 66 plus young man , had been drawing without teacher since my childhood , but after watching your way of teaching wow !! thanks buddy stay blessed I am now more at ease - yoo hoo
Thank you so much for facilitating training for my new fascination with drawing. Your instructions click with me and I am very grateful. I find the Timbre of your voice soothing which helps me to be more receptive to your instructions.
you're a really good teacher I love your your message please don't stop I love that you don't do that speed drawing you explain everything and that's very helpful
Thanks a lot for your explanations which are really clear. As a landscape architect, I am learning a lot from your videos and start to be more confident in my drawings. Merci beaucoup from France !!!!
Great video! I didn't think I could make stick people. I tried your technique and was AMAZED! Thank you for opening this door for me. You are a great teacher...
Thank for sharing but what i like the most is how you explain tje details and the types of shadows so thank you alot one of the most complete videos. ; )
Thank you so much for this drawing tutorial! It really did help me to understand different ways of shading tree trunks and how the branches are positioned! ^.^ This really helped me on a drawing I'm working on, so thank you very much for explaining this! You're a awesome artist, and then explaining it to us makes you even more awesome! n_n Thank you again for all of your videos! Keep up the great work! ^.^
I really want to say thank you so much so the tutorial , ur teaching way is so useful compare to others tutor which just upload step by step drawing , I can see u are really trying hard to convey the idea and the passion towards drawing . I learned much from ur video Appreciated ; )
Hi Alphonso. I am glued to your video, which is very informative and excellent. I just wanted one feedback - how would you approach a tree in the foreground, middle ground, and background. Will the technique change?
Alphonso!!!! You have saved me!!!! I have been trying to draw a tree for a project at our church for the youth! I was getting so frustrated because I could not draw the branches!!!! I was trying to find a tutorial where they used shapes!!!! Now I am so excited, I have already got it started!!! I don't claim to be an artist but when I am impressed to draw something I absolutely can! When I am not impressed I can't even draw a stick man! LOL.... I was showing my husband and I said look this is my cousin!!! I am a Dunn also! LOL.... So could you fling some more artistic ability my way!!!!! LOL....
Thanks a lot. This was a great help :) I subscribe to a lot of different artists, but I really like your way of explaining along the way using shapes. It really helps a lot when you see the technique in a simpler way first and then see it used. Because then when you draw it, I kinda understand what you're about to do. :) You're a good teacher. :D
discovering your videos and books in 2024! Thx Alphonso!
You are such a brilliant teacher
Consider me a fan of yours from this day on
saeideh rad :-) yayyy thanks so much
I am trying to do stuff in G pen and inking tools
Every single advice of yours came in handy during my drawings
I just want to let you know what a valuable teaching you did for all the beginners out there
💕💟
Thanks. It feels good to know that :-)
Hi Alphonso! I've always loved drawing with pen and I've become obsessed with your videos be because they're really helping me get to the next level! I'm a teacher (of 10, 11 and 12 year olds) and the other day they asked me how to draw trees and so I taught them some of the techniques you show in your tree videos. They were so thrilled and proud of themselves! All of a sudden, my fineliners are constantly being borrowed and I'm fighting to get them back!
Mr Dunn there are some real gems in these older videos of yours. This one is very helpful to me right now, thank you.
You're such a great teacher!
Before i watched your video, i was kinda self conscious about drawing trees and trunks.
Then I tried to watched your video, paused it for moment to moment and followed it on my paper to draw the trunk with Micron pen(they are great btw!) step by step.
And I was kinda surprised myself that I can really draw tree trunk and IT WAS BELIEVABLE enough to call as a tree trunk.
Thanks sir, you're just simply the best!
*And i kinda waiting my self to get hand on you book tomorrow!
The basics. This is how we learn to draw and then let your imagination take off. Love your work Alphonso. Thank you
Christine Barney glad you find it useful :-)
Hi Alphonso! of all the online drawing instructors, I think you are the most natural or how do you say it... pure or so... I mean the filming and the work is all one on one and very direct with ink and, as one of your many subcribers, I just wanted to tell you that your work is super and inspiring. Kind regards, Lineke
Thanks so much...that means alot
Lineke you're right! - I got my Wacom yesterday ;) and started to search for tutorials about drawing, to start at the "beginning" and i found this videos, and i wanted to leave you a BIG - THANK YOU Alphonso! You do it really in way, everybody can follow and understand, and you pick me really up at the beginning and take me further! - thank you for that! cheerz from austria
Hi Philipp! I could not agree more, he is super. And you have a Wacom? I have done one video on working with this medium. It is called: How to draw a dragon for beginners digitally. it is done on a Wacom and painter 13 so maybe there are some ideas for you in it.
Thank you Philipp for sharing my admiration and cheerz from Holland and thanks again Alphonso...
Thanks much, very much everyone :-)
I really enjoy your videos. I used to think that cross hatching and cross contouring were skills that I would never have. Now I am able to use these techniques in my work. Such a difference! Also, I frequently listen to your videos while I am drawing so I don't feel like I am drawing all alone. Thank you so much.
My son (7) watched your video, and it has given him a much better idea as to how he should go about drawing a tree. Thank you for helping to get him started.
Charlotte Victoria Murakami-Richards glad it helped..keep encouraging him :-)
Your teaching method is so straightforward and clear...I've watched many drawing instructors and I swear I learned more practical, immediately applicable skills in the first five minutes of this video than I have in a lifetime of listening to teachers! Well done, and thanks for your excellent tutorials!
Hi Alphonso, I accidentally found your channel on TH-cam and I am so amazed by your tutorials! You are such a talented artist and a superb teacher! You dissected difficult skills into simple and fun steps, by following them I can see an immediate difference in my own drawing. Thank you so much for sharing these gems with the public. I will definitely buy your books and recommend them to my friends who want to learn drawing.
Just wanted to say thanks for all the great tutorials! Between you and Peter Draws I've become much more confident!
you're very welcome
Thank you for characterizing the tree trunk and limbs as being basically cylinders. Helps my understand of construction.
When I started drawing, I really don't know how to shade, how to contour and pretty much all these tips that you are giving. Your channel is gold for me and for other beginners. Thank you so much!
+approaching infinity youre very welcome : )
Alphonso, thank you. This is video gold to me. In addition, your other videos regarding the drawing mindset and 7 simple tips to draw everyday have reinforced my drawing objectives. In addition the tips on drawing trees helps with rebuilding my confidence in drawing and expanding my visual library.
Your toturials are fundamental.I think this is the best way for teaching and learning.I've looked for somthing like this for a long time.Thank you.
Mr. Dunn,
You, sir, are a Master. I keep coming back to you again, and again, and again!
Thanks so much
your work is outrageous!,just what I need,I love to use pen and ink.I have been teaching myself,now with your video on tree trunks I am actually getting somewhere,thanks
another great tutorial: basics, simple, short, well explained, good focus: just love them!
alphonso you are such legend man , helping the yutes with architecture school and art
The way you explain dimensions is just great! Thanks so much, you rock the pen!
Thanks. Glad it could help :-)
Excellent. I have learned so much, in such a short time. Alphonso Dunn speaks very clearly in a concise way.
AWESOME!!! I normally do graphite and I've experimented in color, but I find graphite more satisfying....I think I will LOVE pen and ink. I find the repetitive stoke very calming. I shall be watching as many of your videos as I can. I'm self-taught and lack funds (don't we all?)
Thanks Alphonso - Son I am 66 plus young man , had been drawing without teacher since my childhood , but after watching your way of teaching wow !! thanks buddy stay blessed I am now more at ease - yoo hoo
+Yuvraj Sharma thats wonderful! Its never too late : )
Just found this and I followed you through the whole video and felt that you explained this so well!! Thank you so much!
2024 and still watching!
Same bro!
Thank you so much for facilitating training for my new fascination with drawing. Your instructions click with me and I am very grateful. I find the Timbre of your voice soothing which helps me to be more receptive to your instructions.
Glad I can help with the journey. I hope you find it exciting
you're a really good teacher I love your your message please don't stop I love that you don't do that speed drawing you explain everything and that's very helpful
You are a fantastic teacher! Thank you!
thanks :-)
No
Another great lesson … Thank you so much Mr. Dunn
I used to draw trees and they looked 2-D, but just watching this tutorial and drawing along, I managed to draw the best tree I ever drew. Thank you
:-) glad to know it helped
Thanks a lot for your explanations which are really clear. As a landscape architect, I am learning a lot from your videos and start to be more confident in my drawings. Merci beaucoup from France !!!!
Youre very welcome. And thanks
Great video! I didn't think I could make stick people. I tried your technique and was AMAZED! Thank you for opening this door for me. You are a great teacher...
Kelley OHara thanks alot..glad it could help some :-)
Your way of explaining is very helpful and easy to understand! Your voice is also very calming...
+Marie Mirto Thanks. Once it helps lol
I think this will be my style, this stands out from all the other art styles I've tried
+Irritation Gaming Just make sure it enables you to have fun : )
Another fantastic tutorial.This is inspiring me to pick my pens up again.Thanks so much.
Awesome! As you should
Hi there. Just found your channel and love what I see so far. Very nice work. Ink is tricky for me.
My husband got me your book for my birthday. Thank you so much for making it.
Yayyyy tell him I said thanks 🙂
Enjoying and learning a lot from your drawing tutorials! Thank you so much!
Love what you do and your instructions are so clear etc. Love the house... I will have to practice, I am sure.
Marion Armitage thanks :-)
I loved what I watch. You are a good teacher. Thanks a lot...
Thank you
I love how you teach this to us man. Thanks so much. Great voice too :)
funnylookingfoetus thanks much :-)
I watched this with the sound off, listening to music. Got every word. Thanks for a great tutorial!
+Theo Robbertze lol that sounds so cool. Glad it helped :-)
Thank you so much. This really helped with shading and conveying form. I had a hard time with understanding shadows and its relationship with light.
Leana Cam thats what I love to hear...progress :-)
Great video. Thanks, and happy new year!
Thank for sharing but what i like the most is how you explain tje details and the types of shadows so thank you alot one of the most complete videos. ; )
thanks...glad you found it useful
Thankyou Alphonso, very didactic tutorials, I will recommend them to my students
Greetings from Barcelona.
Love your demo❤
Hi Alphonso! Besides being a great artist, oh wow! You are a fantastic teacher - just sensational! Your videos inspire!
sandra d becker thanks much...glad I could
your tips are amazing! thanks from Brazil!
+Henrique Schneider thanks much!
This is awesome. Teaching the principles that give the potential to create beauty. Thank you :)
Kristina Stelling :-) very welcome.
Thank you very much for your tuto's that are very clear and helpfull ! Thanks from Belgium !
your pen drawings of tree trunks are great, keep it up.
drawingideas :-)
Best tutorial on trees that I've seen. Thanks!
i'm gonna try making drawing a hobby. You make it look so simple and interesting
Thank you so much for this drawing tutorial! It really did help me to understand different ways of shading tree trunks and how the branches are positioned! ^.^ This really helped me on a drawing I'm working on, so thank you very much for explaining this! You're a awesome artist, and then explaining it to us makes you even more awesome! n_n Thank you again for all of your videos! Keep up the great work! ^.^
Thanks for your amazing videos. It`s helps me a lot, you show a very special way to see the possibilities for drawing.
cool to know they help. Thanks for sharing that :-)
The only video where they explain about shadows!
Ur way of teaching is awesome.great teacher ur
Thanks much
love your style
Your tutorials are amazing! Thank you!
These are great tutorials.
Thanks
I really want to say thank you so much so the tutorial , ur teaching way is so useful compare to others tutor which just upload step by step drawing , I can see u are really trying hard to convey the idea and the passion towards drawing . I learned much from ur video Appreciated ; )
tiffany tan thanks so much for sharing that :-)
Thank you so much.Your tutorials are very informative and helpful.
That's a happy little tree :)
TheWaywardWinter yes it is :-)
Hi Alphonso. I am glued to your video, which is very informative and excellent. I just wanted one feedback - how would you approach a tree in the foreground, middle ground, and background. Will the technique change?
Tu, just so informative!
Beautiful ❤️
Thanks so much for sharing your technique, really like it.
Thank you Alphonso, this was very very helpful for me!
Raffaele Baronchelli no problem
You are the best!
Hi Alphonso,
Thanks for the wonderful videos.
Alphonso!!!! You have saved me!!!! I have been trying to draw a tree for a project at our church for the youth! I was getting so frustrated because I could not draw the branches!!!! I was trying to find a tutorial where they used shapes!!!! Now I am so excited, I have already got it started!!! I don't claim to be an artist but when I am impressed to draw something I absolutely can! When I am not impressed I can't even draw a stick man! LOL.... I was showing my husband and I said look this is my cousin!!! I am a Dunn also! LOL.... So could you fling some more artistic ability my way!!!!! LOL....
Lol thats exciting! So glad I could help 😊
Thank you! Excellent tutorial.
+Dalila Ibrahim thanks much!
loved everything. It is going to help me a lot. I am just a beginner.
+Maria das Graças Reis Rodrigues Thanks. Glad you find it helpful
Great tips - thanks for sharing.
+U G Murthy very welcome
Thank you this is a wonderful instruction!
thankyou so much for sharing your talents with the people of youtube!! ^-^
My pleasure!👍🏾
Very good tutorial!! The tips are so great!
very welcome :-)
you are so amazing! i loved all the your videos
Thanks much!
You give good lessons. Thank you.
thanks...once you find something useful
So refreshing to see a black artist ^__^
as a fellow artist/ brother Im subscribing lol
phenomenal
: )
Great tutorials. Very inspiring.
awesome work, man!
thx
Awesome tutorial! Your channel is really helpful. Thank you for your work.
+INCONSTANT LIFE Thank you
Awesome tutorial thank you!
+Hanna Nguyen very welcome :-)
Love your tutorials :D
Thanks much.
Your videos are so helpful!
:-) thank you
Wonderful, thank you 💐
best teacher
Thank you so much!!!
Very welcome : )
This is an amazing tutorial and great explanation!!
+ash tash thanks
+Alphonso Dunn of course ☺️
Thank you sir for such a excellent experience of learning 🙏💕
thank you alphonso just purchased one... :)look forward to receiving it
Thanks a lot. This was a great help :) I subscribe to a lot of different artists, but I really like your way of explaining along the way using shapes. It really helps a lot when you see the technique in a simpler way first and then see it used. Because then when you draw it, I kinda understand what you're about to do. :) You're a good teacher. :D
stiras1 thanks much. Am glad you got it
I love you!, big thanks from Spain
+Pedro Gonzalez : )
This is a great lesson thank you so much
Thanks much and youre very welcome : )
Magic right here
Thank you, good sir
Very welcome
Now I can improve my tree drawings
this really help. a lot of helps.
: )