A brilliant video. I have thought the same way for years. The finished picture was much better than the photo.

thank you for this video I have to draw in exam

You just gained a suscriber :)

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You've just shown me the solution to a perspective problem that's been bothering me. New subscriber. Thank you, Steven.

Great demonstration and explanation. I'm thinking this technique makes you more of an Impressionist. You're capturing the effect of detail, the light and shadows, without rendering the actual details of an image? I am aware the Imprssionists were using color, but this seems similar to their method, only with pen and ink. Cheers to you, Steven.

This was really helpful, thank you!

Ok, did I miss something, I thought we'd be getting a solution to correct the uphill perspective drawing, That's what I sat through the entire video for. Now I leave the video just knowing the error but not how to fix it.

Great advice! I've said for a long time that art teaches us how to learn. KZbin can be a great resource, however, many how-to videos seem to be designed to make the creator look like an artistic genius. They create gallery level art in 5 mins or less making the viewer feel very inadequate. There are no shortcuts. Practice, practice, practice. And spend time trying to copy your favorite artists. You'll learn a ton for your effort.

Amazing 👏

This was very inspiring video. Thank you!

Really enjoying watching these videos.Things are FINALLY starting to make sense (with your clear explanations and drawings). Now I will get doing practice. Thank you very much.

Love the constant description of what, and why, you are thinking. Fantastic as always!!

Let's take a shot everytime "detail" is mentioned.

Very helpful thank you!! The pine tree one confused me a little, but overall my trees look so much better than I could have ever done on my own! Ty

In other words, stop thinking about drawing and just draw?

Thank you very much!

game developers does same to reduce gpu load

The tip about not looking at the pen reminded me of when I went to a bicycling class (as a mature person) and they wanted to assess us first. We had to ride up and turn right. There was a person standing to mark where to turn and I found myself heading toward them. She then told me that I needed to look where I wanted to go, not what I was trying to avoid.

😊 thank you !

Ooooo you're in Australia. It was lovely to hear the kookaburras in the background. I'm glad you mentioned them for the non-Aussies.

Thank you so much for all this information, I needed this.

Stephen...I am traveling for the holidays and wanted to just wish you and family the merriest holiday season. I am off to the rural country where technology is lacking but friendly neighbors, strangers and cows abound! So peaceful. I wish that for you...peace.

I have nata in 1 year i have less drawing skill i am afraid of getting low mark any tips plz and this video helps me a lot😢

Great tutorial. What pens do you use?

Wow, this is brilliant. Thank you very much. It popped up on my YT page after I had checked out a few other videos. I noticed your Peanuts t-shirt (see comment below about cartoons). I'm 67, recently retired so looking at what I can do, and been wanting to learn how to paint/draw since my early years. I don't want to go to classes, at least at this time. I want to learn so many different things, have collected some wonderful books and videos, have purchased lots of supplies but have been so overwhelmed about where to start. This video has nailed it for me. Most of what I have done in the past has been copy drawing (without grids). I used to collect the *Peanuts* cartoons (not strips) out of a magazine and copy those about 4x the original size. I've always thought that I cannot draw but only copy BUT yesterday I found a pencil sketch that I did back in the late 1970s of a real orchid flower and it made me realise that I can draw. Unfortunately I don't have a photo of the original flower to compare how good the drawing is, but I know that when I finished it I was happy with the result.

Watching you draw in real time as you describe what you are doing and why is very useful as it really ties the process with the thinking behind it. Thank you.

Finally got to watch this. And I think i need to watch it again before I'm attempting a sketch. The lightly outline a shape and then use that to draw properly the form, is something to try out to see if can move towards convincing forms. Thanks very much for this extremely useful advice.

Thank you. This was very helpful

I was watching a recent video of Proko and he stressed the importance to commit to our marks and make them clear; line work, the edges of shadow etc, i.e. how we design shapes and form. If we just scribble these until they get right how are we supposed to know exactly what we do and do not understand, Proko asks us.

Love to watch you sketch!

Stephen... Very very much informative❤

Tysm for this!! I've felt kind of stagnant with my art lately and have been hopping around with different tips/tutorials and whatnot tryjng to work on various things I want to improve. Definitely gonna take some of this info to heart!

It may be that different people struggle with different challenges and dangers to varying degrees. For me personally, I've always been headstrong and rebellious enough to pick and choose from the advice and inspiration I see, and I've never been very worried about getting lost tagging along on somebody else's journey, but a modified version of your advice that would resonate better with me would be to constantly alternate between looking for advice/inspiration and trying out your own things, experimenting and figuring things out.

This was one of the most difficult paintings I have ever tried to draw, especially since my mother language is not English. I don’t understand what you are saying, but I felt happy after finishing. Thank you very much🤍

You read minds😂, im so scared to try and find my style, i judge myself harshly but i cant get away from drawing because its a antidote for my anxiety ,in fact thank you to all artist for bringing beauty to my ugly world ,thank you Mr.Travers for sharing and teaching

Just getting started at age 66. There is so much guidance available on the "tube"!

I see young people struggle with deciding because they want to try out everything. I think we elder better understand that our choices in the end does not really matter, what matter is the journey and what we did during it.

Fully agree! On my 760th Loomis head and still counting (with twenty new once per day)...

Also, regarding, technical skills and practical artistic skills. A interesting observation I can make is this. In the days before KZbin became monatizable . There were basically two types of art videos, one flashy edited and trite and boring and another one with a static camera, on a canvas actually drawing something and in that era , you would always choose the static camera videos because they were the one who actually were providing at-least a recreation of the process required to paint or sketch or draw or so on. But, later on, these edited video being popular with masses but dropping in view slowly, very very slightly, started imbuing personality in their videos using the flashy catchy editing and a creator on face and so on to dazzle the audience into staying, if not actual art advice perhaps personal anicdotes (like half the painting video people talk of their struggle instead of teaching how to paint, I can name some names here *cough cough* ,but we all know who they are *shots fired*), if not anicdotes perhaps silly expression or so on, it became less about sating the artist will to learn but to distract them. Even back then, I was thinking these videos are entertaining and well made but, the process is hardly explained at all and in the long run, I fear actual art videos which explain the process will be displaced by these videos. And now, I think the tables have turned. The actual artistic art videos with static cameras because the artist is more interested in the art than technical know hows are the less popular one no doubt because the razzle-dazzle videos are so wide-spread and just out-compete in the search algorithym for any search regarding art. Its just exhausting to find actual advice now, so people give up and assume there is no advice out there. Hmm, honestly, people should have been more careful and astute of what would have happened eventually.

Super tecnica, muito lindo!!!

I could never, draw with a pen or just outline at all

Just discovered your channel and it’s been such a big help on my art journey thank you !!

Thank you! This helps

I get frustrated because my drawing is so inconsistent from day to day. Hopefully this will help.....

Great video

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