Beautiful Stephens

Really insightful this. Wish I had teachers like this at school. Thanks for the post x

In my past life I used to be an 9H pencil. Hence I'm very hard on myself.

Facinating! Real speed has a completely different "feel" and I really do enjoy these new videos as I can relate them to my own drawing processes.

Stephen, excellent bit of teaching and visual explanation; Thank you, so very helpful. The video display really made me “see” the three-dimensionality. Then I DISCOVERED BY SIMPLY MOVING MY HEAD SLIGHTLY LEFT, UP/DOWN while staring at the still photo, I could suddenly “see” the three dimensionality! A real and valuable insight and visual technique of which I was previously unaware. So, again: Thank you so much for helping me gain a new visual technique to use with still photos.

It is very good advice to not reach too high. That can be very frustrating and mess up the motivation to continue. I myself rarely draw architecture, but when I do I find ruins the most interesting.

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For me, these Drawing without sound videos are an exciting addition to your KZbin portfolio. I found myself adding my own direction, “ah, that’s how you do it”

this was very helpful. thank you !!

this video was amazing thanks for making it! Your point on the videos presentation was really well said, some vidoes have fancy editing but does not mean it will contain the best information, most of the videos ive seen for learning the best ones tend to be the most unedited no fancy images or music, just the person, the material and teaching you what they know.

Hi Stephen, thanks for uploading this and ALL your content. To answer your question about voice overs etc, I find watching you draw and listening much easier than your garden videos which I have to say I tend to switch off after a while. I loved in this video how you encouraged to learn from mistakes and not fear them, something I still do and will remember your advice when sketching, Best regards 🙏👍😀

Gracias Stephen, muy interesante verte dibujar

Another lovely video, i miss your commentary though. Kinda liked the "thought process" as each line is drawn. But I wont stop watching. 😊😊

Thank you, Travers! Love the videos

thank you!

Another video today, thank you. Love the old farm house, might give it a go

You need to give a Ted Talk!

THANK YOU!!

Nice modification just now on the final slope of the roof and the placement of the large chimney.

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Jesus loves u and he died for u

Thank you

Great

Hatching genius! Doing a hatch picture now

I have only recently discovered your channel (loving it). I was taught that you should always keep your crosshatching lines straight, and I have always kept it in mind. This is unfortunate as that was 50 years ago - and only now have you proved it to be wrong! Only half a century wasted! Why was I taught that? I am guessing it was to make sure the lines didn’t turn into scribble.

Very useful video, I will apply it in my studies. Thank You Stephen

I break up my self learning into 4 blocks annually. In Winter, I paint and carve wood (indoor activities/fine focus learning), i then decide what I want to improve on and give myself 4 months to curate / outline a process to move the needle on the skills required. I find and commit to a learning guide (for example a tutorial book or presentation) and I stick to it early in week 1 of the 16 weeks learning block. I tend to also stick to one type of material (charcoal, pen & ink, acrylic, etc). I then see where I get in 4 months and take a break or push on depending on where i am getting. I don’t spend too much time wrestling frustration. I realized when i started teaching myself to be a better well rounded artist with a strong grasp of many tools (photography & film making, carving & wood working, drawing and painting, etc.), that all my skills direct and indirect had commonalities. Command of reflecting what I see in a drawing, understanding color, appreciating the dynamics in tool and material use, bravery in trying and failing, all came into play regardless of what skill I applied myself to learning. Came to realize that for my skills to improve, my attention to detail had to apply to every aspect of my learning. If I wanted to tell a story with stick figures, i had to be able to pay attention to giving the stick figures personality. If I can’t do that in 16 weeks, I put it aside and think about my approach. I don’t give up, but spending energy on frustration verses turning to do something else creative, actually helps me see the stick figures in a different light. Instead of painting them as a family in a living room or on a trip, how about painting them as a carpentry crew erecting a house of cards? Turning away from painting and into the wood working shop, got me unstuck to paint what I know including bringing across the hammer in hand experience to my stick figures. All of a sudden, my confidence and command of my skills push on as I draw more panels of the stages of the stick figures erecting the house of cards. Skill building as a self thought artist is about developing the skills that make sense to your storytelling. I’m not a fan of trying to be the best technical artist alive. I look at some beautiful technique in drawings and i think “all gear, no idea”. Not enough life experience to tell a story with all that skill, instead it’s an exercise in OCD or just making one more color burst pretty picture. Develop a skill to tell a story you have inside you and that skill will take to you. Try and develop a skill for ego and it will be a hard slog.

❤ New sub❤I love the idea of getting really good at 1 thing, but I have ADHD and I can get bored easily. Even if I am very interested in what I'm learning. If something else new and shiny comes up, I can go. Squirrel brain on that, and then I lose traction of what I was doing before so if you have any of those issues and any tips to help Bring you back in and focus be most appreciated for people like me, learning new things and sticking to it can be a real pain in the butt. I have a channel, but I'm pivoting into a art channel. And i've started withdrawing and calligraphy, cause I really love drawings that are done in ink and stylized, and I'd love to learn how to do that, but my squirrel brain has a tendency to lead me off dip the path and into interesting other areas, but sometimes I get lost.

Great exercise. Very interesting and informative. Thank you.

Nice try diddy

Brilliant. Your explanation makes it so much more easier to understand.

Μr Travers, does all of these also apply, if I decide to add some color to the sketch? I mean if someone adds aquarelle the sketch won't look too much? I had troubles with this recently 😂

I recently started cross hatching, and I've always thought of cross hatching as just a fancy method of shading- nothing else, until now. Fascinating! Never thought of using it to create clarity, or detail and definitely not negative space and light... Thank you so much! Your explanation helped me understand cross hatching more in-depth. I'll definitely keep this in mind❤👏✨✨!

Loe voice? Away from recording microphone?

Good advice. One thing that helped me was treating my handwriting as drawing exercise, trying to get it to look better. My grip changed with that, over time, as I discovered it looks more fluid and organic when I do not hold the pen so tight.

This is something I find myself struggling with a lot. I mainly draw people and animals, I wonder how well this method translates to that. But I will give it a try. Thank you.

Love this demo... It made a lot of sense in my brain. I'll need to try this out... I can sense my patience being tested though 😂

Thank you 👍

Those tips are all so helpful <3 I like the last drawing you showed, the distribution of hatching-no hatching areas is really beautiful :=