I was a traditional old school draftsman who definitely learned how to draw from the wrist down. Then I took life drawing and learned how to draw from the shoulder down. Good tips. The important thing is to quit the fear of failure to be perfect and just pick up that pencil and draw, draw, draw every day. 🤗
@@kmoartyycI also think contour drawing is excellent for getting into flow and to be consistent… but I go from this to abstract ideas and imagination… I am not interested in drawing a real object. Also years ago I was told not to hold your drawing tool like a pen as if you are writing… the grip should be different to this.. as it then gets your brain from Left side thinking brain to Right side creating brain…
@@jdmosaics Thank you for your comments! I think it depends on the scale you're working with and personal preference. There are a lot of ways to hold your drawing tool, though some people are certain there can only be one way. If I'm working on a small paper an overhand grip won't be very useful to me. But if I'm working on a large scale drawing with conte or charcoal, that would prove beneficial. Your style of drawing will also influence how you should hold your tool. If you want to work on accessing the right side of the brain, I recommend drawing upside-down. It's one of my very first (unedited) videos on here, but the concept is still relevant. In response to your question about abstract drawing, I might need a little more context for what you're trying to achieve. But, you could try different drawing tools such as charcoal, something chunkier to prevent the need for indicating every line on a leaf. It might help loosen up your drawing as well. I like to set parameters for my project so I don't get lost (using a certain medium or tools, specific techniques or methods such as drawing backwards or pointillism, etc). I hope that helps! Thanks for watching!! ♥
@@jdmosaics I thought I would share that last night while working on a few of the portraits for the 100 heads challenge (which I'm doing in a small sketchbook) I tried holding my pencil in different ways than my norm, and it was a really interesting experience! I'm definitely going to explore this more. So, thank you for your comment. I'm of the mindset of continuous learning, so I am always open to trying new things.
I also had thoughts about 'using the whole arm'. As the mother of several artistic children, I dealt with a lot of drawings on the walls. There was something irresistible about the walls. I suppose I could have broken my children's spirits by employing draconian discipline, but I couldn't do that. We had oodles of paper for drawing, but something about the walls was just impossible to resist. We still have a few big Stay Puft marshmallow men on the walls in the basement playroom - almost 40 years old now - hiding behind some book shelves. Those marshmallow men required circular arm movements. It must have been fun to do. I now have 3 children who are professional artists and others who are good amateurs. It has all been worth it.
As you were talking about using your whole arm I came to the realization that this is one of the foundations of Tai Chi... interesting how one thing can bring another thing to mind😊
You're welcome! Thank you for watching! I have found that putting my sketchbook and pencils in plain sight has helped me to improve consistency. I hope that helps! ☺️
Great tips! Another good use of a pencil as measuring tools: when guesstimating an angle, you can look for things that align, for example if you try to find the angle of the side of a face, you can place your pencil on top of the line (in your line of sight), and then look for other points in the reference that are also on that line. It helps ensure that things align properly in all directions in your drawing.
You're welcome! Thank you for watching! If you have Pinterest, search "100 heads challenge" and you'll see many options there. That's what I've been doing and the pictures are labelled 1-100, so I just scroll. Let me see if I can find a link for a better format.
Thank you for sharing. I have been wrestling (not literally) with this drawing technique for a while now. I have a mental block or something.But your video helped me free up my brain to arm a little bit. I actually got a moment a month ago when my arm got in sync with my brain and I was able to draw as if my arm had wings.And I have been trying to get back to that again. I haven’t been able to since. Rhythm lines. I recently read an article about Rhythm lines. I tried this theory with music and I noticed that a slow tempo beat made my lines a bit neater than loud booming sounds.Anyway I thank you for sharing your video. It was very helpful.
I was just thinking about how to incorporate speed sketching into drawing heads.Maybe by using the Loomis method to get the measurements and then take the;;linear method ?Anyway if I’m understanding it correctly use the background horizon as the vantage point for perspective and then measure the planes of the head to make the facial features and then just divide the distance like you advised me with the mountains.By the way I tried it last night and it worked out great so thanks again.Although don’t give me the credit. I said a prayer 🙏 first🙂.
@@hov3968 I'm halfway through! I've had some home projects that have left me quite exhausted by the evenings, but I'm trying to do at least one each day!
@@kmoartyyc That’s great to hear. If you want to share I would like to see in your videos sometime. I have some that are finished but they are not a portrait. I just draw them and try to get the features in the correct place so I have a lot of them with mistakes.hahaha.Thank you for your reply and Keep up the good work.
Great tips Kris, I used to struggle speed sketching the models at Vandart Gallery and New Masters Academy channels, and you solved it like a charm. Thank you so much!
Very interesting video. I tend to use a loose grip for the initial sketch and then a tighter grip for the detail. I seem to have just developed this method naturally.
It's hard to choose but I loved the drawing like the people real quick. That was a challenge for me. And I surprised myself that I was doing it quite well but it had to do with your teaching. Thank you for all that you have given us. This is a great video!.❤
Thank you!! 💗 It's okay to be afraid! Do it afraid! Find the courage to start, because you miss 100% of the shots you never take (from a Wayne Gretzky quote). And don't worry about perfection, just focus on making progress and building up your skills. I hope you start tonight! You've got this 🙌
These are the best tips on drawing I’ve seen in a long time thank you! Most hit home but the one that really got me was the last, consistency, I try to follow some of those 30 day challenges but couldn’t understand why I’d give up half way, I’ve even tried setting my own but it hasn’t worked out, now I know why! So now I’ll pick a topic and see if I can stick to that 😊
Thanks for the tips. I agree with your approach. I do daily exercises in loosing up. I've got self challenges with my ambidextrous skills. - So I do both left and right handed versions. A great motivator to improve my weaker hand/eye skills. I think applying different methods of holding the pencil matters in speed sketching - I would add this to my list [ #11] .
@@kmoartyyc In grammar school I was educated to write with pencil and ink as a right hand person. But I had a preference to using my left hand. Hence, I evolved with this learn skill set. It severed me me well in all my endeavors - I'm now a retired engineer with a constant quest to learn and share new ideas and skills.
You are very good at drawing hands. I took notes. I too have been working on drawing heads.Here lately I started trying to draw mountains and I try very hard to keep everything in the right proportion.That part is difficult for me.Also when drawing heads a lot of times I look back and see that I have drawn the eyes too large to fit the side planes of the head.By the way, I am also drawing the 100 different heads challenge .Anyway if you have any suggestions please let me know. Thanks again and keep on drawing.
That is so kind! Thank you! 😊 You might be getting into the details of the drawing too soon. For something like the mountains, try making a loose grid (mark the center of the page, and the center of the edges), then go the same on your reference image. From there you find points of interest (peaks and valleys of the mountain). Leave a soft mark to indicate where those items are in your page. I would then sketch the edge of the mountain or range with all of its angles, starting with the most prominent visual features. If I had to capture this really quickly, I would simply look for those prominent visual features and loosely mark them in my sketchbook so I can use it later on. I might do some scumbling to indicate trees and shrubs, and shaded areas. Depending on what you're looking at, starting by scumbling or shading the dark areas of a piece is helpful in finding proportions. Once I have more experience with heads, I'll share what I learned in a video! I hope this helps! 🙏💕
Thanks for this. Really helpful. A question. I get the thing about using the whole arm but in the next bit on gesture sketches it looks like you were mainly drawing from the wrist which is how I tend to sketch figures. Is it possible to gesture sketch using the whole arm especially in small sketches? Thanks.
The key thing is to loosen up and not lock your wrist in place. You will still do smaller motions that don't require large sweeping arm movements, especially when you're working on a smaller composition (mine was about 3×3"). So stay loose when you're doing a speed sketch. Then allow yourself to get into the details and you may find yourself working tighter into your wrist at that point. Hopefully I wasn't too dramatic with my large arm movements. But I have seen many students who work so tightly, restrict their movements, and apply too much pressure to the page. I hope that helps! Thank you for watching! ☺️
I draw a dog a day. And when I get stuck, I set a 2 minute timer. Thank you for the tip on grinding up the page loosely. Just tried this and it worked well.
On proportional measurement your arm held out at full length doesn't change distance so your measurement will stay accurate. Otherwise the arm distance will keep changing. Proportional dividers are a good way to get measurements too.
Thank you for this! Yes, you want to keep your arm on the same depth of field so to speak, otherwise your proportions will be off. You're right, keeping it straight - when possible - will be your best bet, as long as you don't shift your posture. Proportional dividers would be a great tool as well. I'm not sure if it would be best for speed, but definitely for accuracy. Thanks for being here! ☺️💗
@@kmoartyyc a good compass with an ability to lock in place can help speed. Curves can be drawn from moving points ( shoulders, elbows hip joint, knee with stick skeleton drawn quickly allows a light sketch as a step to help visualise possible positioning. There is a sewing measuring device that is a bit like a calliper with measures, it has a built in slider. Use it like a pencil for measuring and set it eg. Head height student learns the 7& a half heads or modified 8-10 heads high hero's 4-6 heads child or cartoon figures. By placing dot to paper first as preliminary prep it is then possible to quick sketch to those dots as gesture. It starts to train brain/body habits into the memory. It means teaching formulas that some studios use like Disney animation in early days.
Your student is NOT drawing with their whole arm, so watching them is pointless. I recommend holding the pencil on it's side, and drawing with large swwping mptions on a large pad/piece of paper.
@@kmoartyycwhat if I don’t want to draw realistically? I am board with drawing a leaf like a leaf… how do you suggest learning abstract drawings. I do this but want to know how you loosen up instead of being tight.
A good way for u to expand creativity for what u would call abstract thinking(note this is very different than what the “new agey” mentality of paint splatter nonsense that is then explained by grandiose philosophies)- is to read good quality literature, i personally recommend classics, such as kafka, dickens, poe exeterra, and while u read mentaly invision what u are reading and then procede to draw, sketch illustrate a page that really strikes out at you; let the style flow from the simple or quaint idea in your mind so that u are not hindered by style- example; use dots straight lines, circular exetetra….
@@zatoichimasseur6767 thank you for sharing this idea. I sometimes think about how I'm being influenced in my work based on the various audio/media I'm listening to. But to do so in a more intentional way would be an exercise worth trying.
My teacher was a trained professional. We did roadside billboards. If he had relied on the "techniques" in this video he would have starved to death. "Practice more" is not a technique.
Thank you for your comment. I'm sorry you didn't find this video valuable. You're right, "practice more" isn't a technique, it's a strategy. But it's #2 of my "why speed sketching is a valuable skill." As you practice the techniques I share in this video, you will gain muscle memory and be able to capture scenes more quickly without hindering accuracy.
That is incorrect. Muscle memory is only good if you are making the right moves. Doing wrong movements a whole bunch will certainly be counter productive. The reason you use the whole arm for large shapes is because it has a larger radius than your wrist or fingers so you can do straighter lines more easily. For small shapes you still move from wrist and fingers, like you are doing in all of these clips. Speed sketching - draw with fewer strokes, use a brush to get line widths with single strokes, glance at subject and draw from memory. If you want to be serious, find a real teacher who will watch and correct what you are doing.
@@dsmith9572there are countless pro artists that speak exactly the same things you do. And i think theyre valuable and thats great for them. But drawing with your arm, making the biggest, cleanest, most accurate strokes is absolutely not the only way to make art. Artists through history have been constantly showing us there is not a single right way of creating, but multiple possibilities of expression and elaboration through different materials. In my opinion, its so damaging to one's own creativity and personal journey when well intentioned people try to impose on others the way they think everyone else should be thinking of and making art. Go out of your artistic bubble and you will be greeted with entire new worlds.
I was a traditional old school draftsman who definitely learned how to draw from the wrist down. Then I took life drawing and learned how to draw from the shoulder down. Good tips. The important thing is to quit the fear of failure to be perfect and just pick up that pencil and draw, draw, draw every day. 🤗
Thank you for sharing your experience! I agree with you, having the courage to just do it is necessary in order to get better. Thanks for watching 🙏💕
#1 - 5:50 - Basic Shapes
#2 - 6:36 - Move Your Whole Arm
#3 - 8:40 - Gesture Drawing
#4 - 10:30 - Drawing from your Imagination
#5 - 12:47 - Several Drawings at Once
#6 - 14:08 - Set Time Limits
#7 - 16:58 - Observe and Sketch
#8 - 18:59 - Mental Grid
#9 - 20:12 - Use Your Pencil
#10 - 24:15 - Consistency
Thank you so much! I will add these into my description. 🙏
@@kmoartyycI also think contour drawing is excellent for getting into flow and to be consistent… but I go from this to abstract ideas and imagination… I am not interested in drawing a real object. Also years ago I was told not to hold your drawing tool like a pen as if you are writing… the grip should be different to this.. as it then gets your brain from Left side thinking brain to Right side creating brain…
@@jdmosaics Thank you for your comments! I think it depends on the scale you're working with and personal preference. There are a lot of ways to hold your drawing tool, though some people are certain there can only be one way. If I'm working on a small paper an overhand grip won't be very useful to me. But if I'm working on a large scale drawing with conte or charcoal, that would prove beneficial. Your style of drawing will also influence how you should hold your tool.
If you want to work on accessing the right side of the brain, I recommend drawing upside-down. It's one of my very first (unedited) videos on here, but the concept is still relevant.
In response to your question about abstract drawing, I might need a little more context for what you're trying to achieve. But, you could try different drawing tools such as charcoal, something chunkier to prevent the need for indicating every line on a leaf. It might help loosen up your drawing as well. I like to set parameters for my project so I don't get lost (using a certain medium or tools, specific techniques or methods such as drawing backwards or pointillism, etc).
I hope that helps! Thanks for watching!! ♥
@@jdmosaics I thought I would share that last night while working on a few of the portraits for the 100 heads challenge (which I'm doing in a small sketchbook) I tried holding my pencil in different ways than my norm, and it was a really interesting experience! I'm definitely going to explore this more. So, thank you for your comment. I'm of the mindset of continuous learning, so I am always open to trying new things.
I also had thoughts about 'using the whole arm'. As the mother of several artistic children, I dealt with a lot of drawings on the walls. There was something irresistible about the walls. I suppose I could have broken my children's spirits by employing draconian discipline, but I couldn't do that. We had oodles of paper for drawing, but something about the walls was just impossible to resist. We still have a few big Stay Puft marshmallow men on the walls in the basement playroom - almost 40 years old now - hiding behind some book shelves. Those marshmallow men required circular arm movements. It must have been fun to do. I now have 3 children who are professional artists and others who are good amateurs. It has all been worth it.
What a lovely story! Thank you so much for sharing.🙌💞
You are good and you've an endearing style. Some very valuable tips for sure. Thanks.
Thank you so much for your comment, compliment and for watching 😊💖
As you were talking about using your whole arm I came to the realization that this is one of the foundations of Tai Chi... interesting how one thing can bring another thing to mind😊
Oh that is really interesting! Thank you for watching and sharing this insight. 💞
Definitely consistency.....I would benefit from making time to actually sit down and sketch. These are all great tips! Thank you!
You're welcome! Thank you for watching! I have found that putting my sketchbook and pencils in plain sight has helped me to improve consistency. I hope that helps! ☺️
Love the exercise and the positive outlook on arm movement. Remember,.. there are no mistakes only happy accidents!!!🌞Cute video. 👍🏽😊
Awe thank you so much! Bob Ross has left an incredible legacy, love him. Thanks for watching! ☺️💖
Great tips!
Another good use of a pencil as measuring tools: when guesstimating an angle, you can look for things that align, for example if you try to find the angle of the side of a face, you can place your pencil on top of the line (in your line of sight), and then look for other points in the reference that are also on that line. It helps ensure that things align properly in all directions in your drawing.
Yes! Thank you so much for sharing this tip. It's one I use frequently when sketching. I really appreciate it! ♥
Hello, I think 1 and 10 have my creative juices flowing!!!! Thank You, Sylvia
Hey! Thanks for watching! I'm so glad to hear that. ❣️
I love your energy! Thanks for the inspiration!
Awe thank you! I appreciate your comment!
Good tips Thanks
My pleasure! Thank you for watching ☺️
This is the very best art tutorial of all time! I learned more in this video than in 10 yrs of art class.
For real? You are too kind!! Thank you so much!! 💖
Very useful. Thank you. The 100 heads challenge appeals to me. Could you recommend a source for images of heads that I could use. Much appreciated.
You're welcome! Thank you for watching! If you have Pinterest, search "100 heads challenge" and you'll see many options there. That's what I've been doing and the pictures are labelled 1-100, so I just scroll. Let me see if I can find a link for a better format.
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Thank you for sharing. I have been wrestling (not literally) with this drawing technique for a while now. I have a mental block or something.But your video helped me free up my brain to arm a little bit. I actually got a moment a month ago when my arm got in sync with my brain and I was able to draw as if my arm had wings.And I have been trying to get back to that again. I haven’t been able to since. Rhythm lines.
I recently read an article about Rhythm lines. I tried this theory with music and I noticed that a slow tempo beat made my lines a bit neater than loud booming sounds.Anyway I thank you for sharing your video. It was very helpful.
That is very cool and so wonderful to hear! Thank you for sharing, and for watching! 💗 I hope this continues to help you!
@@kmoartyyc How are you doing with your 100 heads challenge?
I was just thinking about how to incorporate speed sketching into drawing heads.Maybe by using the Loomis method to get the measurements and then take the;;linear method ?Anyway if I’m understanding it correctly use the background horizon as the vantage point for perspective and then measure the planes of the head to make the facial features and then just divide the distance like you advised me with the mountains.By the way I tried it last night and it worked out great so thanks again.Although don’t give me the credit. I said a prayer 🙏 first🙂.
@@hov3968 I'm halfway through! I've had some home projects that have left me quite exhausted by the evenings, but I'm trying to do at least one each day!
@@kmoartyyc That’s great to hear. If you want to share I would like to see in your videos sometime. I have some that are finished but they are not a portrait. I just draw them and try to get the features in the correct place so I have a lot of them with mistakes.hahaha.Thank you for your reply and Keep up the good work.
Great tips Kris, I used to struggle speed sketching the models at Vandart Gallery and New Masters Academy channels, and you solved it like a charm. Thank you so much!
That is wonderful to hear! Thank you for sharing! It's my pleasure 😊💕 thanks for being here!
These are great tips and inspiring! ThanQ for sharing. 💛
Thank you so much! I'm glad you found it helpful! ☺️❣️
Yes a focused practice! 🙌🏻❤️.
Absolutely! Do you have one in particular you've enjoyed? Thanks for watching!
Very helpful, thank you.
Thank you for watching! I'm so glad you found it useful! ☺️💗
Very interesting video. I tend to use a loose grip for the initial sketch and then a tighter grip for the detail. I seem to have just developed this method naturally.
Sounds like you have some good instincts! Thank you for watching 😊
It's hard to choose but I loved the drawing like the people real quick. That was a challenge for me. And I surprised myself that I was doing it quite well but it had to do with your teaching. Thank you for all that you have given us. This is a great video!.❤
Your comment just made my day!! Thank you so much for being here! 🙏💕🥹
thanks for your lesson. i´ve enjoyed it. it was also very helpful. Greetings from Germany.
I'm so glad! Thank you for watching. It's incredible to have a global audience 🥰💖
You're inspiring I'm afraid to pick up my sketch book and pen for fear of failure 🙃
Thank you!! 💗
It's okay to be afraid! Do it afraid! Find the courage to start, because you miss 100% of the shots you never take (from a Wayne Gretzky quote). And don't worry about perfection, just focus on making progress and building up your skills.
I hope you start tonight! You've got this 🙌
You only succeed through failure, a person who has never made a mistake has never made nothing, good luck 😊
@@georgeharriott2995 Thank you for sharing this! We may not see the mistakes of those who we deem successful, but they surely have!
This is something I need to work on!
Awesome! I hope this video helps 🙏💗
These are the best tips on drawing I’ve seen in a long time thank you! Most hit home but the one that really got me was the last, consistency, I try to follow some of those 30 day challenges but couldn’t understand why I’d give up half way, I’ve even tried setting my own but it hasn’t worked out, now I know why! So now I’ll pick a topic and see if I can stick to that 😊
Thank you so much! I'm so happy to hear you've found value here. I look forward to hearing from you in the future to see how things are going! 🙌💗
"OK, no, I'm not that funny" - that made me laugh 😆
Seriously, though, great set of tips for an aspiring artist like me, thank you ♥
Thank you so much! I'm glad you found the tips valuable and made you laugh also. Win-win! 🙌🎉💖
Thanks for the tips. I agree with your approach. I do daily exercises in loosing up. I've got self challenges with my ambidextrous skills. - So I do both left and right handed versions. A great motivator to improve my weaker hand/eye skills.
I think applying different methods of holding the pencil matters in speed sketching - I would add this to my list [ #11] .
Thank you so much! I love that addition to the list. Are you ambidextrous or are you training yourself to be? Thanks for being here! 😊
@@kmoartyyc In grammar school I was educated to write with pencil and ink as a right hand person. But I had a preference to using my left hand. Hence, I evolved with this learn skill set. It severed me me well in all my endeavors - I'm now a retired engineer with a constant quest to learn and share new ideas and skills.
@@jamespacheco825 that is so interesting! Thank you for sharing. I'm glad to have you in my community!
Loved this… difficult for me but loved it 😂
Thank you so much! It's a journey and if you keep at it it'll get easier.
I m in!❤
Thank you so much! 🙌💖
You are very good at drawing hands. I took notes. I too have been working on drawing heads.Here lately I started trying to draw mountains and I try very hard to keep everything in the right proportion.That part is difficult for me.Also when drawing heads a lot of times I look back and see that I have drawn the eyes too large to fit the side planes of the head.By the way, I am also drawing the 100 different heads challenge .Anyway if you have any suggestions please let me know. Thanks again and keep on drawing.
That is so kind! Thank you! 😊
You might be getting into the details of the drawing too soon. For something like the mountains, try making a loose grid (mark the center of the page, and the center of the edges), then go the same on your reference image. From there you find points of interest (peaks and valleys of the mountain). Leave a soft mark to indicate where those items are in your page. I would then sketch the edge of the mountain or range with all of its angles, starting with the most prominent visual features.
If I had to capture this really quickly, I would simply look for those prominent visual features and loosely mark them in my sketchbook so I can use it later on. I might do some scumbling to indicate trees and shrubs, and shaded areas. Depending on what you're looking at, starting by scumbling or shading the dark areas of a piece is helpful in finding proportions.
Once I have more experience with heads, I'll share what I learned in a video! I hope this helps! 🙏💕
Thanks for this. Really helpful. A question. I get the thing about using the whole arm but in the next bit on gesture sketches it looks like you were mainly drawing from the wrist which is how I tend to sketch figures. Is it possible to gesture sketch using the whole arm especially in small sketches? Thanks.
The key thing is to loosen up and not lock your wrist in place. You will still do smaller motions that don't require large sweeping arm movements, especially when you're working on a smaller composition (mine was about 3×3"). So stay loose when you're doing a speed sketch. Then allow yourself to get into the details and you may find yourself working tighter into your wrist at that point.
Hopefully I wasn't too dramatic with my large arm movements. But I have seen many students who work so tightly, restrict their movements, and apply too much pressure to the page.
I hope that helps! Thank you for watching! ☺️
Thk u
Thanks for watching and for your comment! 💕
I draw a dog a day. And when I get stuck, I set a 2 minute timer. Thank you for the tip on grinding up the page loosely. Just tried this and it worked well.
Oh I love that! Thank you for sharing. I'm so glad you found some value here! ☺️
On proportional measurement your arm held out at full length doesn't change distance so your measurement will stay accurate. Otherwise the arm distance will keep changing. Proportional dividers are a good way to get measurements too.
Thank you for this! Yes, you want to keep your arm on the same depth of field so to speak, otherwise your proportions will be off. You're right, keeping it straight - when possible - will be your best bet, as long as you don't shift your posture.
Proportional dividers would be a great tool as well. I'm not sure if it would be best for speed, but definitely for accuracy.
Thanks for being here! ☺️💗
@@kmoartyyc a good compass with an ability to lock in place can help speed. Curves can be drawn from moving points ( shoulders, elbows hip joint, knee with stick skeleton drawn quickly allows a light sketch as a step to help visualise possible positioning. There is a sewing measuring device that is a bit like a calliper with measures, it has a built in slider. Use it like a pencil for measuring and set it eg. Head height student learns the 7& a half heads or modified 8-10 heads high hero's 4-6 heads child or cartoon figures. By placing dot to paper first as preliminary prep it is then possible to quick sketch to those dots as gesture. It starts to train brain/body habits into the memory. It means teaching formulas that some studios use like Disney animation in early days.
@@reflectiveFrankC Oh I know the device you're referring to. Great tips! Thank you so much for your response!
Kristina: Don't draw what I'm drawing. Draw what you're thinking.
That brain inside my brain: Think what she's drawing. 😁
Bahaha this is an awesome comment. Thank you for that 🤣 fair point!! 😜
Your student is NOT drawing with their whole arm, so watching them is pointless. I recommend holding the pencil on it's side, and drawing with large swwping mptions on a large pad/piece of paper.
Thank you for your comment.
@@kmoartyycwhat if I don’t want to draw realistically? I am board with drawing a leaf like a leaf… how do you suggest learning abstract drawings. I do this but want to know how you loosen up instead of being tight.
A good way for u to expand creativity for what u would call abstract thinking(note this is very different than what the “new agey” mentality of paint splatter nonsense that is then explained by grandiose philosophies)- is to read good quality literature, i personally recommend classics, such as kafka, dickens, poe exeterra, and while u read mentaly invision what u are reading and then procede to draw, sketch illustrate a page that really strikes out at you; let the style flow from the simple or quaint idea in your mind so that u are not hindered by style- example; use dots straight lines, circular exetetra….
@@zatoichimasseur6767 thank you for sharing this idea. I sometimes think about how I'm being influenced in my work based on the various audio/media I'm listening to. But to do so in a more intentional way would be an exercise worth trying.
@@jdmosaicsyou loosen up by stretching. If you dont wanna draw realism just learn to observe
Need greater explanation but great start
Is there any particular concept you'd like me to dive deeper into? Thanks for watching! 💖
Way too much intro. Get to it.
I appreciate the feedback!
My teacher was a trained professional. We did roadside billboards. If he had relied on the "techniques" in this video he would have starved to death. "Practice more" is not a technique.
Thank you for your comment. I'm sorry you didn't find this video valuable. You're right, "practice more" isn't a technique, it's a strategy. But it's #2 of my "why speed sketching is a valuable skill." As you practice the techniques I share in this video, you will gain muscle memory and be able to capture scenes more quickly without hindering accuracy.
That is incorrect. Muscle memory is only good if you are making the right moves. Doing wrong movements a whole bunch will certainly be counter productive. The reason you use the whole arm for large shapes is because it has a larger radius than your wrist or fingers so you can do straighter lines more easily. For small shapes you still move from wrist and fingers, like you are doing in all of these clips. Speed sketching - draw with fewer strokes, use a brush to get line widths with single strokes, glance at subject and draw from memory. If you want to be serious, find a real teacher who will watch and correct what you are doing.
Damn “Karen” who p!ssed in your cheerios this morning??? Move on if it’s not for you. Wow
@@dsmith9572there are countless pro artists that speak exactly the same things you do. And i think theyre valuable and thats great for them. But drawing with your arm, making the biggest, cleanest, most accurate strokes is absolutely not the only way to make art. Artists through history have been constantly showing us there is not a single right way of creating, but multiple possibilities of expression and elaboration through different materials. In my opinion, its so damaging to one's own creativity and personal journey when well intentioned people try to impose on others the way they think everyone else should be thinking of and making art. Go out of your artistic bubble and you will be greeted with entire new worlds.
@@LittleBigDebbie Thank you for your comment! ♥