Improve Your Drawings by Avoiding This Detail Trap

[@mattkean1128]

Overshading and losing contrast is a pitfall I easily fall into

[@CloudCookie1013]

Atleast you can shade🙄 but seriously how do you shade i wanna know. TELL ME YOUR SECRETS

[@SUGAR_XYLER]

​@@CloudCookie1013 people that are really talented use colors. It's not very realistic in black and white and looks boring 🥱

[@hawkeyescoffee6399]

I'm the opposite, i always understate, especially if I start off and it's going well, I get afraid of ruining it by adding too much shadding. 🤦 I'm still teaching myself that it's ok to have an ugly phase and to trust the process.

[@Mellow-p2g]

I find I make most mistakes when I don't take enough breaks, and come back after awhile to see if I notice something that needs fixing.

[@MoonlitFungus64]

​@@SUGAR_XYLER I like black & white, yeah the world isn't in black in white but it reminds me of old films (I only have a pencil)

[@Highcastle_of_Geek]

Thank you for sharing your old drawings, it really helps to see how far you’ve come in a relatively short time.

[@gigiartstudiowithartistvir3919]

I think value is almost the most important thing in painting as well. I'm always thinking about values before I concern myself with color. I noticed once I had a good handle on values, my paintings turned out so much better. Your drawings are lovely. I never had the patience required for hyper realistic pieces of art.

[@frankkennedy6388]

What's the difference between values and shading?

[@scarlett3205]

I think the reason why too many details make a drawing look off is because usually, when our eyes focus on something, we only see one part in details - everything else, like the background, gets blurry. So the drawing must capture that effect.

[@quantumblurrr]

Good point; drawings usually have no depth of field

[@FernCurtis]

Didn’t even have to guess. I already knew that contrasts and shading are the vital parts of what makes for the best results.

[@fex144]

6:41. That is where the answer is. In a seven minute video 6½ minutes in is where it starts.

[@autumntds]

Them yap wildin'

[@Awkwardpotion-j2k]

Saved me time

[@riasd_wan]

Thanks

[@SheilaLandry]

Thank you for this. I have been drawing and painting for many years and have realized this exact point just in the last several months. I have been working more with monochromatic drawings and paintings and it has really helped me do things more realistically as well as quicker. I just wrote a blog about it today in which I did a pastel painting that was probably one of my quickest to finish, yet has an incredible amount of realism. Moreso than some of the paintings where I made the mistake you spoke of - too much detail everywhere. This is a huge breakthrough for me and I can see how your class will be so beneficial to so many. Also, I am loving being on your mailing list. Thank you for the thoughtful and informative emails. They are very appreciated. EDITED: Wow! I didn't even realize it was free. I went to sign up and I hadn't noticed that it was a free mini class. THANK YOU! :)

[@jeffersonmorant215]

Hello Sheila how are you doing, where are you from?

[@krishgujaran3987]

I have been drawing for the last 8 years now I am now 17 and I just started doing realistic drawings and no thought me how do do drawing i am a self taught person and am still learning and this video is very help fun for the people who are getting into realistic drawings for the first time.

[@dianeo]

I really appreciate you showing your early drawings! I feel like I was born with zero art talent and it has improved over the years. Knowing your tips and tricks (plus lots of practice) really makes for dramatic improvement no matter how weak one's skills are.

[@AnnaLiu-jk4lx]

I don’t think you know how much this helped me.

[@VasanthArtz]

Im one of the person without commented about how much you taugh me and your speech is like hypnotising . Have a gud day my teacher ❤

[@rowdyryderleather5139]

Great video! As a photographer, I get this so much. It’s depth of field.

[@someuser4166]

It's interesting to learn even photographers have to fight flatness

[@BioClone]

Wouldnt it be lighting/contrast or composition?

[@mariatrapani851]

I LOVE YOUR FLOWERS IN BLACK AND WHITE

[@Smgs-ue7tj]

I love those little birds at 2:24 😅, they look so cute and huggable.

[@artistchris2004]

I have been involved into drawing from 11 years, and my paintings have been going better when I know how tones and values matter. Everything told in this video is true and helpful.

[@kellysmith2322]

Wish I could upvote this more than once. It was EXACTLY what I needed to know. Thank you!

[@semdesk1965]

It’s nothing you didn’t know… value wow

[@kenvng]

This is exactly happened to me and I gave up drawings for years. I was so good with detailed but things looked so flat. I get lots of comments on how great and good they are but that was the problem. No one really opened my eyes by giving me a real critic. I recently decided to come back and researching more on my style. This is what I want to know and hear. I need to learn and fix what I am doing. Thank you.

[@Mojhutch1992]

THANKS Kristy😭💜lots of help I struggle with realism but I can draw animation really well like anime AND THIS HELPS ALOT💜

[@lshwadchuck5643]

Thank you so much! This has, I hope, helped me over a hump on my piano journey. I've been a professional illustrator for fifty years. You speak my language. I'm learning piano on a deep foundational level at age 71. When my fluency and improvisation coach tells me my busy, patterny playing is 'flat', I struggle to understand. I'm supposed to be driving my moment-by-moment choices with the big waves of the groove I'm feeling, the poetic metre I'm feeling/creating/chanting, but I tend to let the metre flatten to a mere time-keeping function and then my choices are many and similar. If I do it from my depths, two measures can sound epic. If I get lazy/busy, it all sounds what I call diddly-poo. A grey drawing with an evenly distributed texture of tiny details is diddly-poo. A simple, boldly lit drawing can be epic.

[@NAREAREAL]

I improved so much just by listening to you. Your speech is also hypnotising😊 I compared my drawing before and after watching your videos, improvement was huge. I was immediately hooked after watching your colored pencil tutorial :)))))

[@Bridget7521]

You read my mind. I was thinking about this very thing as I was working on my drawing this morning. I was deciding on what to detail from what to keep simple from my reference. Thank you for bringing this to my attention! 💞

[@paigesb2601]

Thank you!! I used this advice to go back and work on a drawing of my late husband that I was never "quite" happy with, and it made such a difference! 😯 I look back at my pics of how it was, and I'm amazed at the improvement. It's improved to the point I am now pretty happy with it and ready to hang it on a wall 🥰

[@brucenunn3268]

The Best in the Business.! Thank you for all that you do.! 👊😎

[@VDArtworks]

Thank you for sharing your artistic journey and inspiring others with your talent. Your video has undoubtedly encouraged countless artists and art enthusiasts to explore their own creative endeavors with renewed enthusiasm.

[@GlitterGolde]

This whole video was informative and helpful for a beginner like me. Thank you Kristy Partridge Art. ✨🌷🎨

[@tradingrush7972]

I make at least 5 different artworks every month. But I don't know how to sell them? Any idea please.

[@arnoldchukwudi5342]

You can sell your artworks to known art collectors like Mr nickyhall.

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You can become your own boss with the help of an art collector

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[@Amy-qd7it]

​@@arnoldchukwudi5342, do you mean Mr Nicholas Hall from USA.

[@Amy-qd7it]

He's really a gem

[@divert4abit86]

I am a beginner ♥ I am practicing to get better, and then I am going to sign up for your course. I am not good enough for the course yet ♥

[@JNeedels]

Thanks for the tips Kirsty. Your mini course is fantastic.

[@SkitZHitZ]

i would literally be so happy to do either of the drawings the one at 5:59 i actually like the original more but i love the facial pigmentation and hair the hair looks glossy it looks great

[@miharadissanayake7738]

Thank you very much for the tips and your free mini class is very helpful. Love everything on your website!

[@yasminehsan727]

Your videos always make me want to draw even if I am tired ❤ I hope that the next video will be about the experience of using makeup as pastel pan 😊❤

[@charlesthomas3147]

Thank you for all the wonderful advice! I can't wait to use it. I mean, I REALLY can't wait.

[@ChantelleArts]

Just joined your mailing list! Art critiquing is such a great idea, I look forward to seeing them ☺

[@dumbo2408]

Your tutorials have helped me a lot, thankyou so much for making these! :)

[@danielburris3932]

There’s nothing wrong with adding lots of details as long as the values are there. The world is full of details, lights, darks, colors, shapes, angles, proportions, perspective and more. If you get the values in there with the right proportion and detail, placement of features and forms, you can achieve realism and create drawings like you never thought you could. Just look at her old drawing compared to now. She learned it, I’ve learned it and so can you.

[@larag4646]

Thanks for your tutorials. It's really helped me improve.

[@HannahJenkins-l8p]

How I found kirsty: looking through some random art videos, then I saw her. And so, I knew that she was the one that I needed. I was a early learner, I started drawing realistically when I was 11, but I wasn’t getting enough depth. Then when she told me that there was different values of darkness, I was like “WHAT! How didn’t I know that!?! THERE’S 14B! WWWHHHAAAATT!!!!” and so I learned that I needed more darker values then just plain boring HB. Thank you kirsty for helping me understand the stuff I needed to understand 🎉🫶🏻❤️❤️🫶🏻🎉

[@ROBYNMARKOW]

Very few of us are born w/artistic "Talent"; we work our a**** off to become Talented. ( & your tutorials definitely help u get there 👍)

[@mawisch2987]

very helpful, thx for showing me some of the parts about drawing I am starting to forget while doing it

[@Itsiliartstories]

You deserve a lottttttttttt of subscribers

[@PRINZYT]

i love how it took her a solid 5:30 just to say "value"

[@kurosakiichigo7815]

Love your videos always helpful and amazing there are basically no words to describe how amazing you and your drawings are ❤️

[@somtougwu2734]

Ban-Kai!! sorry I couldn't help myself😄

[@artloverhridaya2023]

Thank you very much for your tips. I improved my drawing

[@richardborowski5463]

I agree with what you say , one tip I got is take your drawing and hold it infront of a mirror , you will see a different perspective

[@alkannahcartwright4984]

Lighting is really important . Kelvin dgree plus contrast and harmony

[@Mothersubs]

I signed up and also I love you. Wow if I told you my story you'd laugh and cry and then laugh. I came to art school in America and NOBODY was teaching how to actually draw or paint. It was ALL critique and talking and honestly it was driving me nuts. Then I was prescribed a really bad psychiatric drug which messed up my hand eye coordination. And my seeing. So now I am relearning how to draw after catastrophic art school times and rebuilding my skills. Art school was terrible ! Absolutely wasted $110,000 when I should have just found someone like you to learn from. Your art is amazing and I am genuinely in awe. Your skills are exactly the way I wanted to draw and maybe by signing up to your classes now I will become an awesome artist too. I'm still a really good musician and dj though! Lol and I'd love to send you gifts for free! Where can I send them too ? Much love to you! You are one the greatest artists who has ever Lived. Even better than Da Vinci!

[@kathleenstoin671]

Art schools won't teach you photorealistic drawing. It's something you have to teach yourself by studying the drawings of someone as skilled as Kirsty and practicing! Don't be discouraged! Some people sneer at realism, others love it. But ultimately, to be a happy artist, you must please yourself first. Don't let criticism beat you down! Make your kind of art, for yourself.

[@qweentiy4030]

Waited 6 minutes for her to say the most important part💀 /j

[@fileminokilicho3159]

thank you so much. You've explained really well what I needed to hear. And you have the luckiest husband to have married such a beautiful, smart, and outgoing and just overall good personality artist.

[@kitwithoutkat]

great work, Kristy! i wish i could draw as good as you. ❤

[@darthpaul5534]

I am a big fan of implied detail.

[@spirallion6829]

Simplicity is sometimes better sometimes less is more

[@DavidLeeCoach]

Some of the best advice that made a big difference for me: "You're not drawing the thing. You're drawing an illusion of the thing."

[@eslammohamedaziz3007]

Amazing 😍 I need teacher like you

[@LizMillerDesign]

I got it right! I guessed contrast was the most important thing!

[@mattsteele80]

I appreciate this knowledge thank you

[@donnawalter3061]

Great video sweetheart, lots of useful information and tips. Wow some of those drawings you shown brought back memories ie: the 1950's pin up lady, I remember you doing them and I thought then you were fantastic. So proud of you my love ❤️ 😍

[@alexiswilliams3233]

Love this video very helpful ❤️

[@KirstyPartridgeArt]

Glad it was helpful! 🥰

[@CarlosGallegos-y6k]

We came here to learn details just for her to say details aren’t important Then she says details are important then we have to go to her class just to learn what we came here for

[@artbykshitij17]

Thank you for this video 🙂👍

[@MasAlo-o2g]

That was super helpful thanks but wish we can do it easily still struggling in same place unfortunately 😢

[@DirkOhde]

I Love your fantastic artwork and subscribed to your channel, thanks for all your tips , please keep up your high quality work, looking forward to your upcoming videos , greetings from Germany 😊

[@katedavison5926]

This helps so much

[@DrawnInk1]

Most important is shape and by that i mean substance/feeling of subject, then tone.

[@gracie_stories]

Thank you for the emails too! I received it and love reading all the things you've shared! the video is very helpful as well!!!

[@lenkylee2279]

I noticed a lot of your drawings have a lot of dark shading on the drawings you did Professionally. Try adding more white and blur instead of too much dark. My friend always tells me that my drawings aren't black enough and I agreed but now I realize too much black isn't good but not enough black isn't good either but really good work! You should try really smooth paper and make your drawings very smooth instead of bumpy, canvas material papers!❤

[@DarkChaosMC]

TLDR: draw like you’re looking through a camera

[@bm6753]

Great video! Super energy! 💖💖💖

[@emilyestelle7471]

I think shape and value is probably the most important part of getting a likeness.

[@BeckyMirdamad]

Well done.

[@annalarose5392]

I like both lol I think both artistic styles are valid

[@1995marixsa]

Value, form, light and shadow

[@Bassbarbie]

Loved this and the mini course, thank you. I absolutely love doing the shading - that's the fun part. I'm far too impatient with the drawing and getting the proportions right. I still probably don't add enough contrast.

[@PocongPUBG]

Can you please give tutorials for drawing bug's eyes? Like bee or fly eyes. Thank youuu ❤

[@thomasburdon660]

What a helpful video ❤

[@MrAnders1000]

Love your channel. Learning so much 😀

[@mariatrapani851]

VERY EDUCATIONAL, I ENJOYED YOUR VIDEO TODAY

[@albertpietrosanu2667]

Tone of deep shadows is the key.

[@Yashkirtivardhan]

❤❤❤❤❤❤so informative.... As always.

[@AzureSymbiote]

I am interested in your beginner art class.

[@jowmama2598]

thank you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCHHH

[@7USC7]

Hi....if it's not too much trouble...could you please make a short list of the items I'll need to make a drawing like these? 😊😊😊

[@jimcorbett3764]

Great advice, thanks!

[@onlyhoasibuiart448]

So beautiful 💐💞

[@7USC7]

Great video 😊😊

[@jx4219]

It's like photography with a pencil.

[@laxmanmasal7426]

Thankyou for this

[@AndrewKapendMulenda]

Love your videos 💖💖💖💖💖 so amazing

[@a.a.1867]

The "wrong side" looks better lmao

[@sinbincreations]

Wow. Motherhood Kirsty, am I right? 😅🙌👌

[@Aisaaax]

I actually like the "bad" drawings much better. They look cleaner and not so heavily shaded.

[@ClodaghMcnomee-k7c]

Gurl. Imagination = fun dreams ,love and come out of the heart! So just use your imagination also I'm almost a pro but... I knew all of these!

[@ClodaghMcnomee-k7c]

But your so pretty so it's okay!😊

[@ajaytyroncandelariaabitan9206]

nice workk

[@ElhamDarwish-d9u]

Omg Kristy watched death note!

[@mohammedsaidi445]

Hello kirsty good job

[@firenfirst1234]

I LIKE YOU SAY " THE WOW FACTOR "

[@tejasr4098]

Thank you mam you are a great

[@maryam.liryaei]

tanks alot👌🏻✍🏻🌺👏🏻👏🏻

[@ossie742]

YOU ARE A TOP DRAWER. yet I ask myself, how do you put your drawing on paper. Greetings from Holland

[@mossabmoss]

Holy yapachino

[@lucci2hot]

Omg get to the point

[@frankkennedy6388]

RIGHT!

[@littlewigglemonster7691]

This video could have been so short

[@purplerider2362]

Right!! 😂

[@kyungjung2299]

Agreed!!

[@Verycoolscienceteacher]

Geez give her time to explain..