Improve Your Drawings by Avoiding This Detail Trap

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[@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.

[@user-ei7ze6zb2k]

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.

[@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.

[@I-serve-you-tea]

Yes exactly

[@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.

[@cassanateli]

Good point; drawings usually have no depth of field

[@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?

[@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.

[@tradingrush7972]

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

[@arnoldchukwudi5342]

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[@Amy-qd7it]

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

[@Amy-qd7it]

He's really a gem

[@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?

[@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.

[@kellysmith2322]

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

[@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.

[@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 ❤

[@mariatrapani851]

I LOVE YOUR FLOWERS IN BLACK AND WHITE

[@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! 💞

[@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.

[@JNeedels]

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

[@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.

[@Rahul_BTS]

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

[@charlesthomas3147]

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

[@AnnaLiu-jk4lx]

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

[@miharadissanayake7738]

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

[@elemental_fractal]

I keep watching more and more of your video's and I'm seeing a difference in what I'm doing.

[@dumbo2408]

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

[@ChantelleArts]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@larag4646]

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

[@MrAnders1000]

Love your channel. Learning so much 😀

[@brucenunn3268]

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

[@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 😊❤

[@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😄

[@Smgs-ue7tj]

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

[@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 😊

[@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!!!

[@bm6753]

Great video! Super energy! 💖💖💖

[@clubskitzhardstyle]

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

[@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 ♥

[@StoicClairvoyance]

Love the course

[@mawisch2987]

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

[@artbykshitij17]

Thank you for this video 🙂👍

[@artloverhridaya2023]

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

[@kitwithoutkat]

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

[@jimcorbett3764]

Great advice, thanks!

[@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! 🥰

[@onlyhoasibuiart448]

So beautiful 💐💞

[@thomasburdon660]

What a helpful video ❤

[@AndrewKapendMulenda]

Love your videos 💖💖💖💖💖 so amazing

[@laxmanmasal7426]

Thankyou for this

[@Yashkirtivardhan]

❤❤❤❤❤❤so informative.... As always.

[@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.

[@eslammohamedaziz3007]

Amazing 😍 I need teacher like you

[@Itsiliartstories]

You deserve a lottttttttttt of subscribers

[@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 👍)

[@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

[@7USC7]

Great video 😊😊

[@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.

[@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!❤

[@LizMillerDesign]

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

[@ajaytyroncandelariaabitan9206]

nice workk

[@darthpaul5534]

I am a big fan of implied detail.

[@albertpietrosanu2667]

Tone of deep shadows is the key.

[@fileminokilicho1292]

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.

[@jowmama2598]

thank you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCHHH

[@IlovecoffeandArt71]

Thanks 😊

[@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."

[@maryam.liryaei]

tanks alot👌🏻✍🏻🌺👏🏻👏🏻

[@I-serve-you-tea]

In a sense you add elements of painting.

[@bbarker5766]

Blurring out some of the background is exactly like the Dof (Depth of field) in photography. Dof is how much sharpness the photo will have. In other words how much of the photograph is in sharp focus. If the subject is real sharp and the background is blurry the less Dof you used in the photo.

[@spirallion6829]

Simplicity is sometimes better sometimes less is more

[@chitra_banana_sikhe]

Nice information..

[@qweentiy4030]

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

[@Semut987]

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

[@tejasr4098]

Thank you mam you are a great

[@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? 😊😊😊

[@mayfly9319]

Thanks

[@user-ov4ko2bq7j]

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

[@DrawnInk1]

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

[@firenfirst1234]

I LIKE YOU SAY " THE WOW FACTOR "

[@AzureSymbiote]

I am interested in your beginner art class.

[@mohammedsaidi445]

Hello kirsty good job

[@annalarose5392]

I like both lol I think both artistic styles are valid

[@emilyestelle7471]

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

[@annemason685]

Hi Kirsty. Firstly I would like to say that I love your channel. I love to do my art work, which I self taught myself. I just want to ask you, if it’s ok to use a graph set up to help get the dimensions right in a drawing. I feel like I’m cheating. Also I have trouble making my drawings look realistic. Do you have a book out that can help me with my drawings or do know a good book out there that might help me. Anne

[@PRINZYT]

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

[@leif1075]

What pens and pencils did you use here? Thanks for sharing

[@johnjay1723]

A good tip to see where your missing Value is to take a picture of the subject and your artwork and turn it them too B/W using a greyscale filter. You'll see what you need to change.

[@animexpro9505]

do you practice how to shaed realistic

[@iceteeize]

In school I had an art teacher that told the whole class “children, you are so scared of using black!” because we didn’t do the full range and I keep remembering that when drawing now (We were like 16, but she called all students children)

[@jx4219]

It's like photography with a pencil.

[@davidswift9120]

Hey Kirsty. I'm looking into buying a set of Prismacolor pencils, but I'm a bit apprehensive about the manufacturing quality. I heard that they crumble and break very easily. After a bit of research, I've seen that there's a rebirth of the Karismacolor pencil, manufactured in Japan that's supposed to be made by the same company that does Prisma, but are a better quality build and deliver better quality results in application. Have you tried these? Any thoughts? Thanks! 🙂

[@andreahoffbeck9391]

Please, will you make a video on how to draw glass? in color. I can figure out how to draw light shining through colored stained glass. I really need help for that. Like how would it the "shadow" be on the surroundings, and how would you make the color of the glass look transparent and as light is shining through? I've had this problem for a while now, and i couldn't find any good video or tutorial for it at all. Currently i'm working on a dragon, who has glass stained wings.

[@ossie742]

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

[@smollsquishytaeil]

shadows are what helps realism

[@theselfish120]

I have a question about the paper I want to buy canson Bristol 180g A3, it's work to drawing to pencil or color pencil?

[@sricharcoalworks]

Always giving nice techniques.😎..what happened your hair🙄 Nice seeing you 😊😻

[@Aisaaax]

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

[@akshayakshay8274]

Can you start a drawing series for beginners plz

[@a.a.1867]

The "wrong side" looks better lmao