Beginner Drawing Secrets Nobody Tells You!

[@gilashroot8697]

My inner critic dislikes you intensely. Thank you for sorting out another frustration and stiffness in my art journey and improving my art and joy in the process. ❤❤❤. I love erasers. It makes me feel safe, and helps me. However non-erasorable tools work for others. They increase my anxiety (and having erasorable tools calm me) when.I try use them like you are suggesting. However I have pushed myself to use non-erasor tools and they grow me in a different way. So definitely worth using them to stretch myself.

[@KristyRice]

Thank you for the honesty and rawness of this comment. I think it will be important for many to read😘😘😍😍

[@gilashroot8697]

@KristyRice you are soooo incredible. I am very grateful to have you as my teacher. I searched for a teacher like you and I am privileged to learn from you. You are 1 of the few channels left that I still make time to watch because I am in a different stage of my journey and life Because of your teaching skills and courage as well as your ability to see the value in my comment that I left exactly for the reason you pointed out. No one is perfect, but I am better off for watching your videos even it is to reasure me when I am feeling out of my comfort zone. Thank you. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️. I am amazed at how you maintain your joy and self compassion throughout your career and that is what I want to learn from you and emulate the most regardless how my painting turns out. My art has benefitted, but so have I. Thank you for giving my comment a boop. I truly appreciate you whether I have the time and resources to support you or not.

[@Titus2-3-4]

I'm right there with you @gilashroot8697, trying to draw or write with ink can be very frustrating. It's the inner perfectionist that needs to be moved out of the way 😆

[@keariewashburn4680]

Thank you Kristy 😊 ❤

[@janetrusterucci3232]

Kristy I have heard you say many times to “put down your eraser” and I try to do so but always think my drawings are not good enough and I find myself needing to erase over and over. Sometimes when I just let myself not be so focused on my subject I do less erasing. Sometimes I certainly need to take your advice more seriously. Thank you ,❤

[@KristyRice]

How about trying the last tip-draw with something you can’t erase! Yessss!

[@janetrusterucci3232]

@@KristyRice that would be a big challenge for me! Lol

[@soniccookie655]

Ballpoint pen! And timed drawings!

[@gilashroot8697]

@janetrusterucci3232 if I can do it, I know that you can. What helped me was taking non expensive supplies and drawing something that I liked enough to draw, but was not attached to or was way too above my skill level to get right. That way whatever came out was fine because I detached from the beginning. Also I found that sometimes I would surprise myself but the results. Once you start getting better at non-erasorable art, it can actually become an independent thing. However I always mentally prepare myself (occasionally it does not work 😅) to be OK with whatever results I get and to always choose something that I am not so invested in. Sometimes I use non-erasorable tools as first drafts or sketches and trace over the lines I want on more expensive supplies. That way I get both practices in and I do not waist so much. I hope these help. Please have the courage to try once.

[@janetrusterucci3232]

@@gilashroot8697thanks 😊❤

[@lindaeckeck3232]

You are a very good artist! I feel it is hard for an artist to convince someone that feels like they can't draw to draw? We are our worst enemies.When it comes to any kind of craft item! And I am number one at that! I am one of those people that will draw and want to draw every detail. I try not to think that way, but it always ends up! I love your easy going art work

[@KristyRice]

Set a timer and just start painting when the timer goes off. Whatever sketching you got done is it!

[@GRINGAperoLATINA]

Soooo true!

[@julieboyle170]

I don't feel anything extra is need. I really enjoy your technique. Thank you for sharing.

[@KristyRice]

I’m so glad you’re finding it helpful!

[@Kreative_Rainbow]

Lovely, lovely leaves!! 🍃 Those fruit nails are absolutely amazing!! 🍋

[@KristyRice]

I'm so glad you liked the nails! And the leaves lol!!!

[@Kreative_Rainbow]

@KristyRice 🤗😍🥰

[@Titus2-3-4]

I just started following you Kristy and I'm glad I found your channel. I'm 64 and never had a drawing lesson, we moved a lot while I was growing up due to my dad's job. I missed art class is two different school districts because of when they were offered. I doodled a lot. Then in my middle 20s I took an oil painting class while my husband was in seminary. I found it enjoyable, but frustrating at the same time. I wanted my paintings to look like photographs...ugh. I did oil painting for a few years, then gave it up because I could only paint from someone else's drawing which I copied onto the canvas. I started taking drawing lessons from a friend in my 40's and drew everything backwards from how it was in front of me (using stationary objects). She moved, end of drawing lessons. Now I'm learning to paint with watercolors. It is stretching me, causing me to do things outside of the box. Still not fully enjoying it yet, but I am determined to do this. Now to quit simply watching videos and getting to it 😁.

[@nicolewolfcry7408]

I started using my longest bristled, thinnest paint brush and sketching with that and a xtremly extremely watered down black. sometimes i use a purple or a brown. it has done wonders for my watercolor images. I can 'clean up' the lines with water and going over with a darker outline after but for the actual prepaint sketch, it kinda works amazing

[@NessaWolfeMuller]

Happy mail today, a Kristy Rice painting ❤ so happy 😎

[@KristyRice]

Oooohhhhh!!

[@MorePranaGardens]

I have an odd thing I'm wondering if anyone else has experience with. I'm trying to figure out how to make art, draw, paint, and everything with aphantasia. (Aphantasia is an inability to see pictures in a person's head - to some extent. I have a very vague visual memory. At best, the image I see in my head looks like a faded cling decoration on a dirty window and it lasts for a second at most.) Anyone out there have experience with making art with aphantasia? How do you work around it? Thanks.

[@KristyRice]

I don’t have experience with this but I recall it being mentioned by other commenters :)

[@amandaterrio4823]

I have it too. I also watch Diane Antone here on KZbin and she has it.

[@MorePranaGardens]

@amandaterrio4823 Oh, thank you!

[@MorePranaGardens]

@@KristyRice I'll read through some comment sections. Thank you!

[@MorePranaGardens]

@@amandaterrio4823 Have you known for long that you have it or was it a new realization?

[@binnad7091]

So, I've taken up painting recently (watercolor started last summer -- acrylic a year or two ago), and I'm pretty good as long as I have a reference, but I have dysgraphia, so without a reference, proportion and anatomy goes well out of the window. I often struggle to even find shapes - my typical subjects are landscapes, animals (often modified to add whimsy, so... a jackrabbit gets antlers to become a jackalope, for example). Here for tips on creating a sense of anatomy and proportion. On typical sketch paper, I can use the oval here, rectangle, triangle there method, but I can't really do that on watercolor paper, or erasing the guidelines shreds the paper.

[@KristyRice]

Hmmm what kind of paper are you using for watercolor?

[@sarahmitchell9247]

I’d say it looks just enough

[@anettes8536]

I realyrealyneed this. I cant even draw a stick figure😂.., so I have onley done abstractpaintings. But now I Will try this❤

[@Love.Yourself.1976]

What are you drawing with?

[@conniesidbury9806]

I was wondering the same thing.