Pen & Ink Drawing Tutorial | The "Less is More" Principle

[@scrappielynn]

I am 60 this year....and decided it is time to really learn to draw. I went to KZbin to seek help with ink drawing. Figure that is where I need to start. Found "you" Alphonso. Sure glad I did. So far, you are talking and sharing in a way that I am totally understanding. ~~~terrie lynn

[@alphonsodunn]

So happy I can help : )

[@bengagliardo1080]

65 was a potter had stoke cant pot no more.. this if fun to. and i can do it.. stay safe bset of luck.

[@kevincage1641]

And that is extremely important as well as valuable, to be able to interact with the teaching style of the person. Not everyone is relatable. I totally agree and I salute you. Draw on!

[@goatsplitter]

Checking in: 7 years later, are you still drawing? I'd be curious to briefly hear your journey if so

[@KreativeKill]

this is probably one of the most important art videos people need to see. it will save everyone loads of time. its funny, i think what really keeps people from becoming artists are these stupid myths we're all raised to believe that hold us back from truly expressing ourselves. we feel like we need to overperform and get everything perfect rather than focus on conveying a message in our art.

[@alphonsodunn]

+KreativeKill I agree 100%

[@KreativeKill]

***** keep up the good work. are there any other myths that i should get rid of in my head. i know another one is that some youtube videos showing a photorealistic celebrity drawwing might actually be a transfer or a light trace before the artist fills in the blanks. that make people feel rly low about themselves that they can't draw photorealistically even though they probably can if they practice and they should stop thinking that its just something most artists are born with (otherwise why are there so many youtube videos like that). I know i have put myself down because i saw other peoples work and felt i wasnt good enough, but i think this guy names sketchytrav said not everything is what it seems.

[@alphonsodunn]

Practice reveals the magic. A child looking at an adult riding a bike without training wheels will always be in awe until they realize they can do it too (after practicing enough, that is) And remember, everyone's journey is different

[@Dino-py2bl]

KreativeKill .

[@wenzel32]

Just decided to learn how to actually draw. Loving your videos so far. Thank you so much. Your tutorials are A++

[@alphonsodunn]

Youre very welcome

[@bayusabi]

"Say a lot with very little." I think that method what makes all of your tutorial delivered effectively to me.

[@gsdls]

This video is so good and I am not even done watching it. The permission to keep it simple is so huge.

[@yiz1612]

As an artist, I have seen ALOT of art videos. This is the best one by far. I just follow along and dam, I learnt so much!. thankyou so so much! I have always over shade my art! so, again, thank you thank you thank you!

[@alphonsodunn]

🙂🙏🙏🙏

[@genevieveloveday2016]

Your tutorials are very good. You have taught me so much. I am 77 and will be telling my great niece about it as she is keen on art. For me pen and ink is an interest and with these tutorials I should progress. Well done Alphonsus.

[@katiecramerson7778]

Thank you so much. I had a feeling I was doing too much, that my drawings were losing something as I progressed with them and now I understand why.

[@kevincage1641]

Mr Dunn, YOU ARE AWESOME. Thanks for taking the time.

[@silvertrees1947]

I just wanted to thank you for an alternate view on working with ink! It's easy to grow up drawing and have your own style, but if you don't adapt the principles of nature/light, your artwork can lack a little and maybe not reach their full potential! I really love these tutorials, keep it up!! You're a wonderful artist by the way, awesome job.

[@goatsplitter]

Very well done. This is a lesson that took me a very long time to come to maybe probably longer than it should have. It's so easy to overdo especially with cross hatching

[@carolkristian1146]

Mr. Dunn is a consummate pen and ink artist in the true sense. If you follow his instructions, and learn to really draw, you can learn this art form and produce really beautiful work.

[@archofficial1922]

Also, if you want to get good at shading, go and try and roughly cope some old anime works from Gainax or the likes, especially Yoshiyuki Sadamoto's style, because it's very simplistic and there's not that much flair or anything and it can be done to look as it should with a traditional medium. I've noticed that especially the shading on the clothing, the solid shapes, are something that if you can't get it right, you can't shade anything at all and make it look right in any style. It's all really just value, sharpness of the edge and contrast to me. I think the reason most people tend to over-render is to hide up the simple shadow part that looks bad, because it was essentially just scribbled in due to no practice. Because that cross hatched, rendered shadow was scribbled in, it's probably placed a bit weird too on round forms and the like, but you can "not get caught" if you over render it, but it will still look bad and take time. tl;dr Best way to practice shading is to look at real life, then a good example of how it's done then try to find that point via simple steps. For me it was essentially just shading cubes and stuff in different ways and essentially copying Sadamoto Yoshiyuki's shading to get some ideas for clothing shading. One thing I now pay attention to due to copying him is backlighting, most his pieces have backlighting on the clothing. It's just simply leaving some part on the silhouette uncolored or a lower value, but everyone forgets it. Copying is good if it's productive and you don't make any money.

[@AtelierFleur]

Thank you very very very much! You are so talented and also a good teacher!

[@christianforever4897]

I needed a person who could show me these techniques a long time ago...thank you alphonso 😢👍

[@alphonsodunn]

Very welcome : ). Its never too late

[@makalu877]

I find your videos very helpful Alphonso, thank you for sharing your expertise.

[@susyshepard320]

You are very clever ,thanks for sharing.

[@mrbtboydify]

Thank you alphonso, really helping me, these little simple tips are so effective . I've always wanted to be able to draw but believed I haven't got the eye to draw.

[@alphonsodunn]

Barry Boyd now I hope youre making progress

[@emdomgab]

This is super helpful. You make it seem so easy. Thanks!

[@Tinguaro.]

Enhorabuena Alfonso por compartir tus métodos, aunque no entiendo el inglés, es muy fácil de entender tan sólo con ver lo que vas haciendo. Muchas gracias y espero que continúes enseñándonos. Un saludo

[@Annabells117]

Thanks! This is good advice, IMO especially for rendering natural stuff like trees, leaves, grass, wood & rocks. When i was a beginner i used to do so much texture that pen was really slow so I hated using the medium

[@mauiehalili10]

I am a new subscriber from🇵🇭 and this helps a lot thanks man you are a true hero for us beginners. The way you explained everything its just so easy to understand.

[@janetzefferj1929]

This video is particularly relevant to my needs right now. Thanks again

[@surabhipandey1168]

Thanks a lot .. you are an excellent teacher and the basics you teach are amazing .. thanks again !

[@alphonsodunn]

thanks

[@SuperEdo45]

Amazing lesson thank you!

[@scriptkeeper8243]

Thank you for this! Pen/ink drawing can be very challenging vs. pencil.

[@irEyERWO]

I've only been watching a couple of videos from your channel and I've already learned a lot! Thank you so much!

[@alphonsodunn]

Awesome!

[@byrne15017]

verrry helpful. looking forward to your book.

[@alphonsodunn]

Thanks much!! :-)

[@jorgewashington2981]

Thanks Alphonso for sharing your valuable time and knowledge with us. I purchased your amazing book "Pen and Ink Drawing a Simple Guide" which I highly recommend to everyone. Stay safe mi amigo.

[@aishasajjad5464]

It's really useful for the beginners

[@alphonsodunn]

awesome

[@SB-qs9zu]

Wow! I’ve learned a lot in less than 15 mins. Thanks

[@anviban2]

...EXCELLENT SKILLS, FANTASTIC TUTORIALS, THANKS - OH YEAH, GREAT VOICE

[@alphonsodunn]

🙂

[@zhengqing9891]

Your tutorial is very good, learned a lot watching, really grateful!

[@alphonsodunn]

:-) glad you did

[@v1ct0r12345]

Many thanks for this video! I'm wonderring how to start ink drawing (move from pencil) and this video perfectly illustrated line economy.

[@funkazoid2511]

Thank you again Mr.Dunn

[@artisbreathing]

really helpful video, thank you for taking the time to record it!

[@alphonsodunn]

+Mariacristina Romano no worries :-)

[@ThePrincessBeauty123]

You are truly the best teacher ❤️

[@alphonsodunn]

thanks. Glad I can help

[@kingleon5338]

That was very helpful before I kinda got stuck drawing an arm and thought to myself that I always have to over render until I watched this

[@alphonsodunn]

Glad I could help : )

[@marvinzegarra]

So is it better to add the texture were trhe shadows would be?

[@archofficial1922]

Is it a good thing that these are mostly obvious things in this shading tutorial series? Although it's good that you mentioned these, no one seems to.

[@jb6712]

Excellent.

[@noelbennett4751]

Can you show how to draw a human figure and how is the easy way or how to get started in a basic prospected way what will be the best way to go about it as a beginner,thanks.

[@rosavaldes2599]

His so fabulous & great teacher☺️👍🏻🖊🖌🖍🖋📒✏️

[@alphonsodunn]

thanks much : )

[@medbendi6445]

Hello. First of all thank u, Isaw all ur videos. U're simply Awesome Thanks a lot. Please İ want to know if you can make a video about "Footsteps". I think it would interesting. ;) 🖒

[@spirallion6829]

👍👍👍

[@alandawson7957]

Alphonso .excellent demos,though is there any chance that you could do some thing that involves more objects with different local values as everything seems to be on objects that are white or there about,i know that you touched on it with the tube demo.Thanks alan.

[@alphonsodunn]

Thats a good idea

[@MedusaK666]

Thank you so SO SO much!!!!

[@alphonsodunn]

no worries :-)

[@paulrivera3252]

You are a great teacher

[@alphonsodunn]

Thanks

[@suryakiran3085]

You gotta up your video quality , great tutorial as usual😈

[@derekcutting]

Very helpful video! I would love to see a video on how to apply this principle to drawing people.

[@anaiscarpenen8269]

Thank you! ^^ it's just amazing :D I never paid attention to these small details ! :O

[@ajdonnelly7160]

I like it, the most out for the least in. If only my bank account worked like that. Great lessons.

[@ss0bye317]

This is actually helpful! thanks m8!

[@alphonsodunn]

No worries 😊

[@ChronicPixels]

this is very helpful thank you.

[@КоневАлександр-р4м]

Olright!

[@peterArt123]

nice video！

[@millaj9290]

Just wondering how you do this without making it look cartoon-like? I find whenever I do that it looks overly simple.

[@alphonsodunn]

vary your line quality and don't over simplify the form just the details

[@alexlinthicum]

I would like to contribute to your kindness and purchase your books. Are they still available?

[@alphonsodunn]

Yes they are. Thank you

[@gustavofalcone]

Hi from Brazil

[@MsLeebee2]

thankyou

[@alphonsodunn]

no worries :-)

[@zetas78]

thanks!

[@matsushiamvs5523]

hello guyss,y'all good?

[@peace1599874566]

I think u are an amazing artist but can u please fix the audio

[@JSheetzArtwork]

10 dislikes were from people who gave up drawing the tree.

[@lizzy9975]

The 10 dislikes are clearly from individuals who are not prepared for the hard graft of practice, repetition and more practice!

[@JSheetzArtwork]

@@lizzy9975 What should i eat for breakfast?

[@lizzy9975]

@@JSheetzArtwork Food maybe? But I can cook a pretty mean scrambled eggs, grilled tomatoes and sauteed mushrooms!

[@JSheetzArtwork]

@@lizzy9975 Why are they so angry? :( They need love.

[@lizzy9975]

@@JSheetzArtwork They are either jealous or suffering from low self-esteem! You need to love and accept 'you' before anyone else can. When it comes to actual artistic talent, in some cases it's god given.... for most of us mere mortals any 'talent' is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration! Hard work is what gets you over the line!

[@sameehakhaliq8327]

You are a fallen angel

[@Runaletters]

Links in annotations which are setted on 8:40 are not working

[@alphonsodunn]

Руна Гуддойтир not sure why...will look into it. Thanks

[@ELKINCASTRO123]

How are you Fidel?

[@myeonghakim2619]

thank a lot!!!! i want to give you 1000 likes if i can!!!

[@alphonsodunn]

Lol thanks

[@bicnarok]

I keep overdoing it, dreaming away and get carried away, very annoying.

[@fakebobbyhill296]

It’s funny to me how your point is to keep it simple, and yet you seem terrified that you haven’t explained well enough. You made your point in the first 2 minutes, and spent the rest of the time repeating yourself.

[@alphonsodunn]

Lol repetition isthe mother of learning

[@fakebobbyhill296]

@@alphonsodunn I do agree that you need to repeat yourself to teach people anything. From what I hear, it's adequate if you tell people what you are about to teach them, you teach the thing, and then you tell them what you just taught them again. Not that I'm a teacher myself.

[@PuppetMaster8707]

Am I the only one that the Audio was terrible??? It sounded like he was in a cave

[@alphonsodunn]

Hahaha I was

[@PuppetMaster8707]

Alphonso Dunn ahahaha well hey it still was very helpful advice thank you very much sir

[@alphonsodunn]

lol no worries