5:42 Say, I’ve got one simpler question: Could and would this be possible with ultra-long pointed woodless graphite, graphite pencil, art stick, woodless colored pencil, woodless charcoal, chalk, or hard or soft pastel? Please answer the question to me, and thanks.

Amazingly done video. Very nice as always!

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My recommendation to sketch in ballpoint is bold 1,6 pen. and you're right about fineliners, they cant be so delicate in final look like ballpens.

Always respect a fluid attack. Charcoal. Simple and so afforable. Bravo.

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Thanks for watching! Let me know in the comments if you try these exercises? Which is your favorite - for me it's definitely contour line drawing. But I did love doing the mass drawing too, so I might come back to that again. ❤

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Nice gesture drawing

Good video

I've been drawing a few months consistently to help discover myself authentically. Rather than trying to draw what I want, I see what wants to emerge and focus on drawing that out, in a fast motion. Today I posted it in a group and some lovely people told about gesture drawing and Kimon Nicolaides book. You might tell from that snippet that I am not a trained artist, but I have been unconsciously drawing my entire life. I spill coffee I see a face in it and help it emerge before wiping it up. Creating for me is about discovering myself authentically and "re-illustrating" my self after the first 7 years of my life being traumatic, for the next 27 years that trauma affected me deeply. Now with scribbles from shaky hands I find in being what we are authentically, which may seem the scariest thing to be, is own innate creativity. Your lines are just that, they are yours and when we learn to be accountable for our lines, they develop. Thank you for sharing his picture, i used it as a figure and made him move around it like in his drawings to help me commit this to memory. Thank you for the amazing content, I feel i am where I am supposed to be. Kind regards, Leon.

would this book be good as a first professional resource? I have drawn very on and off for the past 2 years, and I'm still an extreme amateur. I have great problems with finding an approach that helps me improve effectively, and thought this book might be a saving grace, but have my doubts with regards to my skill level

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Your talented is amazing! I’m learning the proportions of the body.

Hi i am from the netherlands and years ago i bought 2 types of charcoal 1 were round sticks 1 was square stick now i have willow and thats even softer can you tell me what i bought years ago i seems a kind of mid kind of charcoal

Hi Siobhan - What kind of sketchbook is this you’re using? The thin book with the red cover.

Thank you for sharing your experience with us ❤❤❤❤❤

Wow! I love this 😊

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As always I leave your video with many things to think about. I draw daily, doing countless 30- and 60-second gesture drawings, but find it maddeningly hard to leave aside the drive toward detail and accuracy. Now and then a drawing feels alive, and with those I am aware of having felt alive while making them. Perhaps that is enough. Thank you. I also enjoy your Substack greatly.

very underrated channel. so glad I found you!

As an older person who’s “drawn” their entire life wanting to really be able to draw the way you explain movement and structure relationships to form finally sunk in. Thanks for helping this old dog learn new tricks. Great videos thank you each and every time.

Thank you for your very good message and yes I struggle with gesture drawing but I start to love it too

Thanks for this, it's a very clear explanation of why gesture drawing is such a essential skill to learn. Your drawings are inspiringly beautiful as well!

man your facility is jaw dropping!!! many thanks 🔥🔥🔥 ❤

Thank you so much for watching! Let me know in the comments if you find gesture drawing challenging, and if this approach is helpful? Would love to hear your feedback ❤

Thank you for this!! I really struggle with gesture drawing - they seem to be missing volume. This was super helpful to me!

il disegno è fantastico! sono da poco sul canale, complimenti ti seguirò 😍

Gorgeous work ♡

Currently taking a color figure drawing class! Hoping you can make a video with conte pastels 😁

Very useful indeed, as usual :) What online drawing session do you subscribe to ? Thanks

Beautiful “quiet” drawing. You are so right about the importance of the eye direction, but for me, sadly, the drawing is mostly totally ruined when I try to draw the features of the face. I must practice! I do like the more “finished” drawing so I am definitely going to try five minute drawings, maybe a little longer 😉, and see if I can achieve that.

Where is the model? Where is the pose? I dont understand

Thank you, Siobhan. I found that useful! 😊

I love your videos,just recently discovered them. They free something up inside myself.and this is off topic,but I recognize the coffee shop ;) I am married to a South African and we have often been there ;)

Your videos are so awesome and helpful! Thank you! I'm somewhat new to figure drawing, and I find since my approach has been generally more expressive/intuitive, I tend to get confusion over the construction aspect (for example relationship of hips to torso, how the shoulders connect to the body, etc.). How do you recommend getting a better understanding of construction without relying on a method that solely focuses on construction?

I like very much the body engagement in drawing. Usually I don't feel the freedom to try because it involve the ability to accept failur. After your video I think I will give me a chance

Ok, it's official. "Glidey" is now a term for artistic flow in our community. 😄

I love the Conte' a Paris 1710 B pencil the most but sadly I can't recommend them anymore since some of them come broken when I order them. I'm a pro at sharpening pencils but they tend to break much more often, so I've switched to the Wolff's Carbon 4b or 6b.

Bellissimo! Thank you, Siobhan. Roberta

Wow I love the drawing process ❤

Thank you, Siobhan, just what I needed. Hands are so difficult to draw. I will definitely try to begin with an overall gesture of the hand and then look for the negative space. So helpful.

Great video, many thanks!

Amazingly done video. Very nice as always!

Thank you, Siobhan. So helpful. And definitely inspiring!

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Thank you so much for watching! Let me know if you have a specific approach to drawing hands, and if you do share any tips with us in the comments below! ❤

Here’s Siobhan! I’m going to do some oil on paper.