The #1 Secret to Drawing

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Drawing is a skill that anyone can learn, but there are several bits of knowledge that are especially important in being successful. In this video, I share the #1 secret to drawing. It is so simple and easy. Once you know this secret to drawing and implement it into your practice, you can draw anything and do it well.
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[@briwoodward120]

I so badly wish I could include the drawing I just completed. I followed along & then challenged myself to try drawing an apple, using the same 3 step method. I am in complete awe of what I just created. Thank you so much for posting!

[@coleenlong8212]

@briwoodward120 You CAN SHOW the drawing you just completed ‼️ Simply start your OWN BLOG. That would be FABULOUS ‼️

[@jacktfowler246]

Well done. I spent the last three years my 38 year teaching career, teaching high school art. My predecessor was very hard on the kids and impatient. They were relieved when i took over, i would demonstrate what we were going to do and break it into easy steps. I saw the confidence sore and the talent flourish in the kids. I never believed in critiques, these hurt the kids.

[@hbug13_62]

"Drawing from the Right Side of Your Brain" is an amazingly helpful book. Blind contour drawings are one of the fastest ways to get your right side engaged. Before knowing this, my "good days" and "bad days" were random. Some days things clicked, other days nothing came out right. Knowing this helped me teach elementary students as well. I knew ways to transition them for different skills that primarily used one side or needed both working together. "Brain gym" was exercises that crossed the midline of the body, helping both sides of the brain engage for the task ahead.

[@benderflendr]

Your right brain and left brain are identacle there are no verified scientific studies that show that the left brain is more creative and the left is more logistical. I recommend doing research on how the 2 sides of the brain work, its really interesting and more people should know how there own body works!

[@coleenlong8212]

Hbugg_. Do you know if the “Brain Gym books are still available from any source. Many years ago I had the opportunity to peruse a friend’s few “Brain Gym” books; but had no time other than that brief encounter. In my intermittent search over the years there has been no success. Thank you for any information you may have, or wish to convey. Coleen

[@coleenlong8212]

Hbug13 _ . , Previously, addressing you I did not get your name correct. Apologies. 🤭

[@blondesert]

I love this. I teach art and I will use this concept. The kids will LOVE this.

[@techsolutions8921]

Thank you for the video.Your videos are always helpful.

[@arlflors6273]

I took for granted your teachings in High School, Mr. F. You are such a great teacher.

[@thevirtualinstructor]

Wow, thank you!

[@gamesinfoprofile]

Thank you so much for uploading this video and thank you for not making the final hammer an intimidating masterpiece. It helps so much to know that even great artists sometimes draw simple things. These exercises were fun to do. 👍😊

[@anul6801]

Im high beginner level right now and the most important for me is how to hold the pencil/pen and be loose on your wrist. Also taper the strokes. That had much more impact than understanding of faces body proportions etc.

[@bethnolastname]

Your videos always delight me. I've joined two years in a row, but I still haven't tried the classes! I show up for all the free Wednesday classes and pay for yearly membership because I want to support this channel!

[@melaniereveal573]

Try the classes they are terrific!

[@purplebutterfly412]

I have had the membership for two years now and his classes (courses) are very informative. The membership is so worth it.

[@leslieladyhawke]

Amazing! That makes sense because when I color from a reference photo, I do much better. If I can see it, I can color it. Im trying to stretch my skills by coloring without a reference. Just memory or skill I picked up from past colorings.

[@ds755]

Thanks for the tips and insights. It was a brand new insight to me that while drawing a blind contour to match the angle of your eyes with the angle of the pencil. One of those things that sounds so simple but is brand new information. Mind blown.

[@MrBlack-wt5er]

You're so good it is unreal, lately I just (practice, practice, practice) and hopefully it does me some good and I just about filled my first sketchbook...

[@vicmurai1033]

Thanks for this very informative video. I am a novice artist who started drawing during the COVID pandemic. What a wonderful way to start one's creative juices flowing.

[@Portal2099]

Another great thing about pencils is that erasing can add a lot to the drawing as well. Cool video, thanks!

[@TyDmenace]

Im a charcoal guy so I rely heavily on erasing

[@heatheredwards7158]

This is a great lesson that was both easy to understand and remember. Thank you!

[@alicemurphy8715]

I am doing the Secrets to Drawing course. Just finished the 3 point perspective lesson. I have been really enjoying this course

[@gcj7771]

Thank you for sharing the #1 Secret to Drawing, which is amazingly practical!

[@yhwhreigns]

Loved the drawing exercise. Thank you very much. It revealed a lot about drawing from memory.

[@trailwalker19]

I just started drawing again about a month ago after 52 yrs. I entered into a contest where I spent 4 hours drawing a face and later a man from the minnesota art school wanted me to join them. while my parents wanted me to finish high school it did leave a lasting impression...

[@christianfoster3806]

I think one secret to drawing, is the same as singing: to keep going when the initial results are less than satisfying, and refining your technique until it becomes natural to manifest what you're thinking.

[@samejalonibu9706]

Both a form of art singing and drawing

[@wendyhughes2234]

Thank you for this Sketching/Art tip. Whenever I draw/sketch a portrait, I try to use a photo. May YUH [God] bless [Baruch] you, your family, and your ministry. And give you [much] Shalom.

[@Chile-xo6do]

The secret of drawing is confidence and being constant, as long as you have those two things you don't need anything else, as someone who has been drawing professionally for almost 4 years i can say you need that to draw anything, make sure to always start with a sketch of what you wanna draw it doesn't matter if it looks shaky or wrong as long as it's just a sketch it doesn't matter also make sure the sketch is of a light color like light blue or violet so you can confidently draw over it with markers once the sketch is finished

[@lindacarol9484]

Thanks, great job explaining to those of us who appreciate your teaching skills.

[@mikeneale2459]

EXCELLENT! THANK YOU! WONDERFUL! INSTANTLY MAKES YOUR DRAWINGS BETTER!

[@T.C.Bronart]

Great teaching! Thank you for sharing.

[@bettiegrady]

POWERFUL Knowledge! Thanks! 🙏🏾♥️

[@NormanHuard]

I taught visual arts in high school. I used this method. From your imagination/memory draw a profile view of one of the shoes you are wearing. Then the blind contour line drawing. Finally, the 50% observation. Then I’d move on to have reproduce a complex line drawing of a scene with a person in it. To make the students focus on what they were drawing ( and keep their brains from telling them what they were seeing), I had them turn the reference image upside down. Quite a few students discovered that they could draw after all.

[@NahidMohebiPainting]

I'm glad that I found your post and I liked the drawing exercises and I want to thank you for that. That is right that we paint with our brain and I believe the difference between artists is unique vision that every one has. Every simple creation is a image or illusion that we have back in our mind which is known or unknown by our consciousness. You know what I mean! .we all copy the things exist. The way that we present it is different. 🎨🖌

[@fredkelly6953]

I've always drawn fairly well but I've known people who can draw next level and it's been my experience that the better you can draw using observation the better you can draw.

[@reginaldforthright805]

There’s a huge difference between understanding and copying. Someone who understands what they’re doing can draw with or without reference and there is an authority and personal signature that is missing from the works of mere copyists.

[@henriquejanuario881]

Thanks for this class! And when you will return with the 45 min livestreams? They are SO good!

[@jacobhernandez4347]

There are so many shapes ! Thanks this is awesome

[@DesignsbyKellie]

This blew me away!I wish I could share my 1- memory, 2-blind one line and 3-50% observation pics here. The progression from someone who can't draw was mind-boggling.

[@dawnzimmermann2958]

Thanks for the video Matt, great video. 👍

[@laskatz3626]

Thank you. I’ll try this method.

[@Cariena66]

Matt, this video is great. Although being a member already (this is a fantastic and outstanding program btw), I like to revisit your videos just for fun, practice and "don't forget"-reasons. I would like to encourage everyone who enjoy these videos on KZbin to at least try out the membership program. Nothing to loose, but very much to win. Buddy

[@thevirtualinstructor]

Awesome, thank you!

[@JessicaCardarelli]

This was a great interesting and simple exercise. Thank you so much!

[@jimrogers7841]

The blind contour applies to sculpting too, try sculpting with water-Clay inside a paper grocery bag while looking only at your model, it’s another great warmup tool

[@cvanDOTnet]

Thanks for that. Never thought of it this way.

[@shreyasj.purkar3229]

Thank you for providing this information🙏🙏

[@claritzairosario68]

Thanks Matt, very important subject, thanks for share this shhhh secrets drawing😉

[@godfreymambwe191]

Excellent and insightful tip. Thanks

[@barryallenflash1]

Smart! Thanks Matt! I've been drawing this way my entire but never knew it! I just thought looking at a picture was how EVERYONE drew, but nope. It's time to break my sketchbook back out!!

[@reginaldforthright805]

HAha copying a picture isn’t drawing my dude

[@miaschu8175]

I think it's the part about "keep looking back at what you are drawing" that those of us who have never been good at drawing don't think to do. We look once, or just occasionally, then think that we are just incapable because what is on our paper doesn't look like what we had looked at (way too briefly). I've recently found that I don't look in enough detail, either. There is an art to seeing, as well as to drawing.

[@xadrezazul8712]

Obrigado pelas dicas 😊

[@Lokeshkumar-3699]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge to us

[@user-hd4cn2vk4p]

Excellent video! Thanks very much.

[@ElizabethBattle]

You know, I always did this exercise with my drawing students, but I didn't understand all the reasons why. Thank you!

[@MenTalThePoet]

Oh I'm definitely going to try these exercises when I get off work

[@patriciafeehan7732]

I had taken a class many years ago and it was called Drawing with The Left Side of Brain, it was mind blowing how our brain stores the images.

[@mute_ed984]

In my book it's a teamwork of brain, eyes and hands. Brain bringing memories and information and coordinates the whole "Operation". Eyes are the Field agents that report back to Brain and keep it updated about the Operation Status and maybe needed adjustments to the plan. And the hands - they are just that. They execute the orders of brain and bring them finally to life.

[@babubars23]

thanks a lot! the methods blew my mind!

[@tusk242]

Good Job, you started out with the BRAIN. Betty Edwards, was who also did this. I was good in art when very very young. Being Dyslexic, did not help me. Good art class back in the 60's taught drawing without looking at the paper. Perspective( took me awhile to spell it), vanishing point , and many basic tools were TOSSED out all over in late 60's. It was Andy Warhol and Picasso, a simple yellow square next to a blue square is in Art Galleries. Anything in Nature, only if dead ( like a bird with feet in the air ) is accepted , or like the artist who did beef carcuses hanging in a slaughter house by a hook, YES agree it was very good, but that got Rave Reviews by art critics. I met Robert Bateman, when young, he thought my art was great, But I read in one of his books and he said art critics would not accept his art in an art gallery. too copied, or illustrative type work. Single parent, all art supplies, sketches of plants, birds, animals, stolen, no money to replace. I am 75 now, have some art supplies. but starting again, but now supplies are not as available, prices went up. But at least out doors is still there, and the few nature notes help. GOOD JOB, I used the book "ANIMAL PAINTING AND ANATOMY", b y W. Frank Calderon. Helpful when in my 20's, Think it just came out, when NEW AGE ART was all ready in, so the book did not sell as well.

[@anitajulaniya1959]

Remarkable tips. Thanks.

[@cheesyboii11]

thanks for the tutorial of this !!

[@kemt6234]

🙋 Thanks for the video.. I definitely needed it.

[@michaelervin2621]

I so love this thank you for your insightfulness

[@thissunchild]

What a great exercise!

[@miaschu8175]

Great video lesson! Thanks.

[@PrototypeFreak89]

Very true... I have steady hands and good at drawing but have a terrible mind when it comes to thinking in detail.

[@user-hk9zv9wr7i]

You are excellent teacher thank you.

[@lapetitemoma]

I just watched your video and am inspired again to draw. I want to draw my grandsons face, but it will take a lot of work cause I have a vision handicap, depth perception. Pray I won't get to discouraged. I will keep watching your tips and hopefully I will succeed. :)

[@Cariena66]

I am convinced that Matt&Ashley will come up with a helpful anwser, don't be shy to ask them. :-)

[@teacup3133]

Good luck!

[@vergil778]

Wish you succeed!

[@laurieturnpaugh7994]

You can do it, 😊

[@artieross9537]

Thank you for this video.

[@scottguziec3007]

Great teacher!

[@aydakipsikolog]

this video is a piece of art. thank you

[@paulagreen6005]

That was a fun exercise!

[@AtizayFantezi_Art]

Facts, observation is really important, many dont do it correctly. Theres a difference when you truly “see” and understand what youre doing. Especially when youre trying to 100% copy a refrence :) take time to pause and step back and look

[@catsmeow6858]

I learned something new - thanks!

[@ritawashere5787]

Thank you for your video and channel. I just found you and shared this video on Pinterest.❤

[@williamramos3350]

So simple...yet so powerful.

[@3valastingstudios]

Great advice + tips thanks

[@annsiebel3682]

Thank you so much.

[@terrystrong9787]

Great class Thanks for posting it

[@cinderblockstudios]

@5:42 For anyone looking for the quick jump. FYI though...this is taught in every book and class you can find out there. It's not a secret, it's just learning to look then draw and repeat

[@JDB_Art]

Thank you, I highly appreciate it 😁

[@lifesence71]

Very good, very helpful, thank you for sharing this awesome content with us, it really helps. 😁

[@speeddemontrackandfeild6292]

Thanks for this video @Drawing & Painting - The Virtual Instructor I want to learn to draw good without copying and so I need your help but thank you do much for this video

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Wow your channel is amazing. All the subjects you talk about drawing is very good. I am a new subscriber!

[@smartheartart]

Great tutorial!❤

[@Joy-tl1bk]

I love your videos. I have learned so much thank you ❤

[@Ionecoyote]

Awesome video. A real beginner here and I hope I can apply this to my drawings. I observed my hammer still doesn't look nearly as good as yours or the photo itself but I hope one day it can get there....

[@evamellor1922]

It’s that Southern drawl. Love listening to him!

[@glr_creations]

Thank you very much!

[@ssn1972neumann]

Hello! Thanks for such a good video. I liked it very much.

[@igotguts09]

This tutorial is just awesome just as all of those posted in youtube

[@F_N.artgallery]

Thank you for your video ❤

[@artworld9799]

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[@b00gi3]

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[@rustythecat2163]

Thank you!

[@MintyIshi]

Thx, It will be useful for me to practice with it. :⁠-⁠)

[@Xanderades]

Very helpful thank you

[@vincentcooper9139]

Brilliant!

[@EasyAndcutedrawing2295]

Amazing tutorial❤

[@johnhoag4698]

good teaching. thanks.

[@onsidebike7262]

I am just a beginner and this video already taught me 60% of drawing

[@Robloxgamer-ii3dg]

Thank you so much 😊😊 you helped e get good at drawing thank you😊.

[@rajatkataria4875]

Thanx for tips

[@rocklee7509]

Thanks a lot sir👍❤❤❤

[@jamessotomayer2941]

This Artist is a great Craftsman!: Look at the work! Not just what he says!

[@joshuabauer8419]

Thanks for sharing man 😉

[@jackiemuller813]

I surprised myself with how well my third drawing was! Maybe I can draw after all. Cheers 😃

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