I Can't Get Enough of This Sketching Process!

I started experimenting with this sketching process about 3 years ago and I keep coming back to it. Very effective, fun and satisfying. This is not just for faces. Works for sketching any subject in just about any sketchbook.
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[@mushiArt]

I’ve been doing quick little portrait studies of the folks in the nursing home where I volunteer. They LOVE it! This will help fill out these little studies for them. Could use this technique for drawing ANYTHING! Thank you, once again!

[@repeatdefender6032]

That is so sweet! I love it. I have a real soft spot in my heart for the elderly, and imo we don't respect and treat them well in the US.

[@MicahBuzanANIMATION]

That is such a lovely way to use your skills :)

[@carolinewithers1647]

I know their character and their life experiences are all over their faces. I'd imaging observing and sketching their hands would also be a reflection of the person and their life.

[@GabGirl56]

LOVED the watercolor sketches! Incredible work! Yes, please do watercolor sketches of landscapes and still lifes? That would be wonderful! Thank you!

[@barriereid9244]

When I saw the white going on the paper I thought WOW! No way! Then it faded to calm. Excellent technique. Next time I am in town I will look for the brush.

[@athieliagriffin7957]

Your tinted graphite and watersoluable charcoal would also work great. Just use a spritzer to keep them juicy. Thanks for sharing.

[@josefschiltz2192]

This brings back memories of the way I used to sketch on toned paper many years ago. Since I developed a tremor I really miss it.

[@zoeuphoria]

Keep going with it, try and embrace the unique style you will get. I bet people will still love your sketching x

[@josefschiltz2192]

@@zoeuphoria Many thanks for the encouragement. I can manage to create imagery digitally, but it's the feel of actual pen, brush and paper/canvas that I miss.

[@dian6087]

Love this!!! Yes, more landscapes using this method would be great.

[@OldeLeshi]

I started doing this recently as well when I was returning to anatomy studies and found myself not wanting to use graphite or charcoal but not wanting the unforgiving nature of jet black ink brushes, so I just started using a brush pen with dried up patches of gouache. Now I just do it on the regular, or over top of line. And it's a great way to get a lot more use out of dried up gouache that might not be ideal for something more serious but that would also be a waste to just wash off a palette and squeeze more from tubes just for the sake of some studies. Thick toned tan paper is probably my favorite thing to work on.

[@PeterQuentercrimsonbamboo]

Yes please ! Landscapes ! … and architectural, too ! Thanks muchly !

[@seahorse5689]

Yes, a landscape would be lovely!

[@ralphherrick596]

Landscape thumb nail would be fantastic. Your talent is great. I need to try this. Thanks

[@amberdreams_0]

Landscape thumbnails are great but I actually love seeing you draw people for a change. I've done a kind of drawing with a brush before, but not often, and not on toned paper - it's really cool.

[@essietangle9931]

Landscape please, thanks for the video. I am really anxious to try gouache.

[@PaulaScardamalia]

Yes, please. Demo of this technique with landscapes. Thank you.

[@ingridfreeman3126]

Your work is amazing!! Id love to see a landscape using this technique 😊

[@grahamrowland969]

Yes please, more of this, in anything you want to with a little of what's going through your mind whilst drawing, it's truly superb.

[@winterillust]

i find this style of painting so intriguing. have to try it out for myself some time.

[@roxanaromano7340]

Thank you for your lesson. Lesson about scetching landscapes would be great

[@carolelegault801]

Love to see a landscape example.

[@hopelessatusernames]

Love this. I'm trying to get back into art and recover my confidence lost since adolescence by not practising. Feel a bit intimidated by the (expensive) watercolours I bought and feel like I was always much more of a natural drawer anyway, so this might be exactly what I need to try.

[@cluek9780]

Thanks for the intro to a reservoir brush…. Will check that out! Reminded that drawing on a toned background it’s easy to use too much white accent

[@addasenta]

Thank you, I love this process and will definitively try it. Would love to see you do some landscape sketches.

[@ashleyevans3330]

Brilliant! You truly are a fabulous artist!

[@user-jo1hn5pg5l]

Great technique/process! i've had those water-brushes for years and hadn't found a good way to use them. Thank you for your video ❤ hehe couple of hours later i went and dug my water-brushes out and tried your technique. It worked better than i was expecting. I already fashioned a tiny kit out of a pill box with black and white quache and made a small sketchbook out of coloured paper. Thanks again.😄

[@t2terri]

Sure … please do companion tutorial of a landscape! U r just a wealth of information! I so enjoy your tutorials! Thanks for sharing😊

[@ljschlag271]

Love it. Yes, would like to see a landscape sketch.

[@dlars56]

Yes definitely please do a couple landscape sketches using the waterbrush process. I would love to see it, as I'm struggling with this in my own sketches. Thank you for your consideration in this.

[@TheSpinmonkey]

Yes, landscapes, please!! I learn so much from watching you work in your videos. Thank you for making them!

[@chriskeable730]

Yes please, landscape and bird studies too would be good. Thanks

[@donnagoode6923]

wow i tried this and fell in love right away, thanks !

[@falconette8911]

Would really appreciate a video like this for landscapes! Landscapes are a weakness of mine I'd really like to improve on and I love this method as a way to ease into them with a new perspective

[@marilynromans2546]

What a pleasurable experience it was to see such talent in action. Thank you so much for the opportunity.

[@dgwarchitect]

Would love to see this technique demonstrated with thumbnails, landscapes and plain air. Enjoy all your videos.

[@sidegigcrafts]

You are so incredibly talented to make this look easy! Wow!! Thank you so much for sharing your talent with us!

[@followyourbrush]

I’ve been working on more sketches. I really like this idea.

[@aliciamolloy5948]

Thank you Steve, great video you are awesome. Yes please love to see some landscapes.

[@jimhartlageart5665]

Very nice. Yes, please do some landscapes with this technique.

[@ralphcrosby9622]

Thank you for this useful content.

[@jrousseau66]

I just ordered 4 of them. I love your videos; I've been watching since I started with watercolors a couple of years ago. Your work is beautiful - what I aspire to. Thank you so much for all of them!!

[@rleeelliott4597]

You are a true master Steve, thank you for all your lessons.

[@carollegros8671]

Great sketching. Would like to try waterbrush. Yes would like to see that process with landscape

[@eileengoldenberg270]

Interesting, that would work with Urban Sketching as well. Thanks Steve!

[@mindofwatercolor]

You bet!

[@edzejandehaan9265]

I would sure be interested in landscapes with this technique. I have such a waterbrush laying around around, Not used it very much. But I've gotten into watercolours via my drawing hobby, and also been doing a couple of landscapes lately, so this is a good fit for what I'm experimenting with myself at the moment.

[@sarahackland6103]

This was great! Such and inspirational and I definitely would love to see a landscape with this technique. Thanks Steve! 🙂

[@paulappswildlifeart]

I have played over the years with all these things Steve, until now never thought of bringing them together for mark-making in this way. thanks for sharing, cheers Paul

[@dneel468]

Would love to see a landscape sketch like this! Thank you Steve for the fun video.

[@ErinEnoArt]

This is a great method! It reminds me of my college life drawing class (fromMANY) years ago when we drew with neutral coloured pencil crayons on toned paper. I’m going to by a water brush for sure! Thank you so much!

[@akaErma]

Both artists are go-to references for master studies for me. I love how dynamic they are with form, color, and stroke. And drawing with a brush is always a fun exercise.

[@clairebureau5881]

Thanks Steve. What a great idea! I will definitely try this!

[@serjerin]

So amazing. Loving this sketching technique as well. I didn’t know they made water brushes with that fine a tip.

[@AtomicRakshasi]

I use fine liners on any medium-toned papers and get so excited when it's time for the highlights to make that drawing pop! Never occurred to me that I could do the same with a brush and WC, and it looks a lot harder!

[@karenturner-cf7vq]

I am learning from your demonstrations. I draw and paint. This has given me the inspiration I need.

[@alicereed5368]

Yes please for the landscape😊

[@maryanharrell561]

Loved it, Steve!

[@MrsBeasleys1111]

Thank you! Very cool!

[@rodeastell3615]

Excellent ... I have everything you used .... just never never used them like that. I certainly will be. Thank you so much.

[@scootmcgoot570]

Thats dazzling sir! Ive been absolutely intimidated with watercolors so ive avoided them. Im soaking up alot watching you. Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us

[@lorrihonstein7251]

Yes landscape sketch tutorials please

[@BA-ho9mm]

MARAVILLOSO. Muchas gracias!

[@katscreativelife]

Loved watching the sketch and paired with the music. This fellow looks like my Dad who passed away a few years ago. It was so lovely to see his visage slowly appear! ❤

[@wingslanding]

Love to see landscape sketching

[@starr-starr]

I would really appreciate seeing some landscapes done this way. The sketches are amazing as always.

[@windywednesday4166]

Wow, I am blown away! I love how you are using watercolor for sketching. What a brilliant idea.

[@joannhenderson7395]

You are so amazing with your drawing and painting skills. I could feel the connection to the man in my heart that you were drawing. This is how I know when a piece of art is really good. I always enjoy you and your videos. Thank you.

[@HerradaJulio]

A video about gouache would be great.

[@peters.4263]

I would very much like to see you do landscape sketches please.

[@lindagerhard8381]

Love this process. Yes, please demonstrate using this fine water brush for landscape sketches!.

[@alicejump2290]

As always, learn so much from watching you work! Still using techniques from a nest demonstration! Thank you!

[@annettecolgrove580]

I gave this a try and I love it! Thank you for sharing all your tips! They are fun, and I like the results, even though I'm not a watercolorist, and not strong on portraits. But this I can do!

[@mariabankston9337]

I’ve never seen this technique! You are so talented! Thank you for sharing this!

[@condorreades2148]

Never mind! Five minutes after I asked the question about paper buckling, the question was addressed in the video!!! 😂

[@paulinehughes5325]

Thanks, love the effect I will definitely be trying this Derwent pen*

[@bordeauxcarol]

Loved this technique and yes! Landscape thumbnails please :D

[@maureengale1657]

Yes, to landscape thumbnails using this sketching method. Thanks. Great video!

[@davidallsebrook8523]

That is inspiring! Thanks for sharing. Can't wait to try it.

[@glynstimpson]

Great video like portraits

[@keithroy9217]

Yes please on the landscape demo! Excellent demo on this release. Thank you.

[@olivesdream]

You are so talented. I’m a subscriber. I’d love to see this technique in landscape, if you have the time. Thanks for sharing.

[@deejay2838]

love watching you do the people, its so relaxing and I have a hard time with faces, so its always interesting and fun to see them take shape . Thanks for sharing it.

[@mynaturediaries4402]

Really enjoyed this technique…great idea! Would love to see landscapes as well…thank you!

[@ThomiBMcIntyre]

Great demo! I do a version of this - I use diluted ink in the brush, which simplifies the process in the field

[@alysesteidler9169]

Yes landscape with water brush please.

[@Mr.Booeedy]

A great job

[@OliviaAndOlive]

I love watching your videos a lot. Thank you for sharing your expertise. You're a very talented artist and mentor.

[@k.d.5786]

Wow! So nice! Isn’t it great that no matter how long we’ve been producing drawings, there always seems to be some new, technique/approach, to learn about. Thank you Sir!

[@ZarahMcIntosh]

That was great! 👍

[@ginistewart9636]

I love this!

[@sweethomes674]

Excellent 😊

[@haiku292]

yes please do some landscapes

[@followyourbrush]

Your blending is amazing.

[@mindofwatercolor]

Hey thanks Pam!

[@ChantelleArts]

This is really interesting! Gouache is such a versatile medium 😊

[@rebekah1362]

I really enjoyed watching this process and it seems you enjoyed yourself! I'm putting in a request to see this method used in landscapes. Thanks for this, it's offered me some good ideas. Even in trying it with marker.

[@aleidadiaz2261]

I loved this video. Please do more! I think your portraits are so skilled and appear so easy.

[@sharonmorelli6056]

Your sketches are amazing! I not sure about the instrument you are using, it’s a fine point brush with water attachment. Not sure , but I do want my sketching to improve, and you are a-great instructor 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@mindofwatercolor]

Yes, a water brush. All the supplies I use have links in the video description.

[@sharonmorelli6056]

I check it out, thanks

[@Sherlock2022]

Great video, I would love to see this process being used for landscapes. Thanks for sharing.

[@moma-b]

@mindofwatercolor I have to admit that I bought these brushes because you have recommended them, and I haven't used them since. 🙈 I just can't switch to a waterbrush.

[@cocoandwheeler]

Intriguing process.

[@jasonbuhagiar2997]

I am a professional artist, I absolutely love watching these quality videos. Thankyou for sharing

[@louisklein9207]

This is interesting because I’m 53 and have drawn my whole life. I’ve recently started to work with color but tend to paint like I draw and it doesn’t work so well. This looks like a natural transition between the two. Do you cover how to do this in more detail somewhere? What is the differences between your patreon and your KZbin channel?

[@mindofwatercolor]

See the link in the video description for the original video about this process. Patreon is where people have signed up to sponsor my channel and there is some exclusive content there also.

[@kathleengarness1660]

This is wonderful!

[@DiRidpath]

I love this. I need to get back to my sketchbooks and try this. Thanks for the demo. 😍