Get Better at Drawing quick, ON YOUR OWN!

[@renealbrechtsen9743]

This exercise is awesome and can be done digitally as well: Insert your reference as a new layer. Make a new layer and fill it with pure white. Lower the opacity to somewhere around 30. Make a new layer and mark the top and bottom of your reference. Move it to the side and follow along with the video.

[@redangrybird7564]

Yep, I have been doing this for years with the portraits I paint, the only problems are to get a good picture of the drawing or painting, and it takes a bit of time to load and compare the pictures.

[@katiemaeveart]

Exactly! Or you can split screen then overlay the reference photo at the end to check accuracy.

[@OilPainterStudio]

🤣🤣🤣 You're hilarious, Scott! Thanks for the tips 😉

[@jennawolf9873]

❤❤❤

[@Lima_Lima_Lima]

3:24

[@adamsmith3996]

This is great but it really would help me out if you could do it again with your right hand.

[@johnsmithart]

I've been trying to improve my drawing - trying to draw Bargue plates and using the book by Andrew Loomis but this is one of the best drawing exercises I've ever seen. Thanks Scott!

[@39Bosski]

I couldn't agree more. I actually tried this immediately following the video and I could not believe how much it helped me just to line things up properly. I just bought a couple of pads of tracing paper and was asking myself why. Now I can't wait to practice this more. Excellent video.

[@samarts4308]

John can you watch my art videose this is my art channel

[@JimSerrett]

Great exercise, wish someone had shown me stuff like this when I was first starting out, would of saved me years of art school frustration. Wonderful demo.

[@simon-515]

I haven't been drawing much or even at all the past four years. Watching you put me into the zone. Thank you for the exercise and the bit of peace. It was great!

[@peterlennig]

Thanks master Scott 🌱 So liberating and inspiring. I also like your strong humorous commentary about your experience with the stiff atmosphere at The Academy 🙄

[@jeffkopseng2569]

Thanks Scott. This is a really helpful exercise. I did the portrait at the beginning of this video some time ago from your Patreon page but wasn't happy with the proportions. I'd like to use this exercise and try it again.

[@julianchristmas1510]

Mooonn

[@Letter_J]

I wish I was this rusty.

[@abrahamthunder32]

as an artist myself i can say, if you are an amateur or a pro... this is the best drawing exercise I've seen. I'll be doing it. You do it too.

[@lindabishop9787]

I love how humble you seem. I am loving this exercise and I think this is exactly what I need.Thank you for reminding me that high caliber artists also make mistakes

[@smack3313]

your videos are truly instructive, not just showing off your talent. Thank you.

[@scorpioigor]

I was watching the whole thing feeling that the face was coming up too narrow on your end. I was surprised at how precise it turned out to be, and that shows how my perception needs to improve.

[@valeriaaraujo9962]

Actually I think that the drawing appeared narrow because of the camera angle.

[@watsonwrote]

I second the camera angle making it seem more distorted. It reminds me of when references are at a slightly different angle from the drawing so there needs to be some compensation

[@KienTrung-wv9og]

I try go art school for 1 day & feel it just not for me. So now I'll keep on drawing stress-free, and enjoying all the way!! Nice technique

[@michellehall8734]

God bless you. I love your videos. Plus you’re funny.

[@kullenberg]

Excellent video and excercise, Scott. On the topic of being "rusty" - I would be really interested in an episode where you share more of your thoughts on the ebb and flow of practice as an experienced professional artist. I have in my own work observed that your different skill sets tend to grow and diminish over time depending on what you are focusing on currently and shifts in interests & life circumstances etc., and it's easy to fall behind on certain skills. There is a certain juggling aspect to it if we hope to achieve macro growth across the board in all different skills. I have a feeling you would have interesting and valuable things to say on the topic. Many thanks.

[@erniecelindsey8418]

Great exercise, I am going to buy tracing paper this weekend and start practicing!

[@adelegiles5795]

Love your videos. The comedy is appreciated, and quality not sacrificed. You are like the high school art teacher everyone wished they had (but more knowledgeable)

[@tessa6307]

I do this through Procreate. I have one layer with my reference image and then create a transparent layer with a photo of my actual drawing. This way probably leaves more room for error but I’ve still noticed an improvement in my drawing

[@lindalamb6643]

What an amazing exercise! I love it! I'm amazed at the heavy lines you put down while sketching. You exude confidence in your ability.That's awesome!! Thank you for sharing I will certainly be using this tip!👍😁

[@ElaineFoster101]

Hey, good exercise. I like that you mentioned that a person often tends to make the same mistake. I'll watch for that.

[@LBV222]

Dude! I can totally relate with the intro of this video!! 😂 🤣 You’re so funny, man! Thanks for this exercise. I am definitely going to start using this exercise right away!

[@TB-fb1sq]

Aw, you're handsome.

[@propergunjah8726]

I do this exercise by drawing on the printer paper and then I put it on my reference sheet against the window, and that's how I check accuracy.

[@peppermint6691]

Do you have any technique for beginners.. I like to draw but I can't able to continue my interest .. now i'm stable in my life and try to start but I have no skill . I can still draw but I haven't learn proper skill which give me best result. So can you share any method which help me to improve

[@jiaazhen]

(Sorry for spelling mistakes, I’m super sleepy ahaha)-A method I find really helps is drawing 10 heads for 10 days straight! You can look back and reflect on what you might want to improve. You can spend however long or short you want on these but I usually find myself doing it in thirty seconds, not to make it harder or easier, but because with only thirty seconds your brain will start focusing less on the little details and create the most important or recognize-able parts of the drawing! This is great practice for beginners!!! Try not to compare yourself to other’s or feel down on yourself when you create one thing you don’t like. Drawing takes time. And patience! Patience is a very big thing in art. A few other thing’s I’d like to mention is that I started out by learning about techniques like (cross) hatching or layering and then moved onto learning about foreshortening like perspective and all that! I would also try my best to draw everyday and maybe even watch a tutorial or two before I go to sleep. Though remember, if you don’t feel like drawing, or maybe you want a break, then that’s totally fine. There’s no need to push yourself to draw. If you drew something you might not find “beautiful” or “astonishing” then that’s okay! As long as you had fun creating that thing then that’s all that matters. If you’re looking for more advice towards how to get better then I’d recommend looking at other pieces of art and examining it. Mark down the things you notice. Also draw from what you see!!! ALSO don’t shade too dark! Learn how to properly apply pressure on your pencil. One of my habits is that when I create an eye I might not be very proud of, then I’ll start to shade aggressively around it, as if it’ll cover up most of my mistakes. But after I do that, the basic outline of the eyelid and everything else other than the pupil is hard to see. Another thing, shade in circling motions!! Always start with light sketches and also practice everyday! I know these might be some random tips but they can seriously help. I wish you luck on your journey!!

[@peppermint6691]

@@jiaazhen Thank you so much ♥️.. for your moral support and tips . I'll follow what you said . I'll practice every day . And of course 30sec challenge will be best I guess . In starting maybe it's hard for me 😰 I mean for me all I do in 30sec is just pick my pencil and draw few lines and boom Times up ! But maybe after few days of practice I guess my stupid mind work properly 😂. Wish me LUCK !

[@alextabet7495]

Scott thank you so much for this demonstration. Your drawing skills are insane. I'm super impressed by how accurate you were in such a short amount of time. I always find drawing to be the most difficult aspect of representational art. I'm definitely ordering some tracing paper to practice this exercise. You're amazing 🙏

[@inkchase]

hi Scott is it possible to use the same reference your using? where could i find it? thanks a lot

[@jl.7739]

I kind of figured this trick out for myself. I would do it a little bit different: I have the photo on my Computerscreen, draw it free hand on paper, correct it as much as I can, and as a last resort „cheat“ I would sometimes just hold the paper over the screen. If the paper is thin enough, the picture shines through. I figured out, that I usually draw the skull to narrow, and the nose is to narrow/short. What I somehow didn’t figure out until I watched your video is, that it is a great exercise to recognize my pattern of mistakes.

[@MrGreen-ci2mm]

Where’s the shading man ? Where’s the rest of the video ? You need to finish your videos and quit using these as a way to sell your workshops. Maybe if you focused on actually helping people maybe you’d get more subscribers.

[@watsonwrote]

I used to do this frequently when I was in art school, but using a digital paint program. It's cool that there's a way to do it analog.

[@jacomans9078]

At first everything looked to close together to bunched up…my perception was off, you were on the mark.

[@donartcorner5248]

Really good way to check accuracy. I do have a question. Once you know you are always doing something wrong (example: like making the nose too long). What do you do to correct how you are seeing? Do you find another way to measure? Any pointer here? In any case, thanks for this video and all the others.

[@janetmatthews5564]

Brilliant I’ve always try working freehand & aways felt tracing isn’t for me or gridding but this is great shore gonna have a go Thankyou

[@peacockandfig]

Omg at the "g'day mate" I laughed SO hard that I scared my cat.... 😂😂 Love how you have SUCH great info, but you're so authentically you and your natural humour shines through. Very much appreciated.

[@darranthompson8202]

Great exercise think i need to do hundreds am a complete newbie😂

[@rhyannonp8231]

so once I find those things I always do wrong, how would I correct?

[@miric6224]

Good practical idea! Got any more? 😉Thanks!

[@inktologist]

This was super helpful. Thanks for the amazing video.

[@prichardgs]

Scott-Do a self-portrait you will look great!!!!

[@Kaotiqua]

This is a great exercise. But it should also be noted that _actually_ tracing is also a great exercise. I learned this way for years, and always felt like it was cheating. Art school taught me that tracing to learn, and to train your hand, or to work a base idea into something else is an entirely valid tool and study technique.

[@BassamAlsharki]

can i use construction drawing like the lomis head

[@AnD2LPU]

This was an amazing tip, gonna try it for sure!

[@Angie_flores]

Anyone have or know where to get good reference photos?

[@40bdg]

Thanks, I'll give this a try!

[@ripples1072]

you should stop hating on yourself

[@kirkcalma4365]

Good Info. Constructive criticism: Do a voice over while your drawing video is rolling. Don't stop for the filmed explanations. If a person clicks on your video, they want you to "show" them, not "tell" them.

[@melissawaddell3358]

Excellent another Waddell... Thanks for the excellent info. Just stumbled upon your video. 😁

[@janeekitchen7727]

Brilliant! I sort of arrived at this exercise on my own as I want greater accuracy on canvas without gridding up etc....thank you....I will do more of it ......I am learning so much from you!

[@caelidhg6261]

I am 53. I Have practiced my drawing on and off for many years.. I will do a bunch.. then set it down and forget about sketching for a long time years... and then pick it up and I notice improvement. I last sketched in 2019 and when I picked sketching back up here in the last week or so MAN that stuff was percolating. While I wasn't great on making my faces look like the actual person in the photo.. I was still pleased at how i actually made it look MORE real than it has ever been... so I am inspired.. I just bought some more tracing paper. I do have a light box but I will do it this way.... I am struggling to place the eyes correctly

[@marymullins7297]

Thankyou so much for sharing, have learned so much since watching your videos, its like you dont know what you dont know😁, you are a God send, love your humour too, much appreciated.

[@meredithboswell4003]

Lol glad u are chanelling us aussies

[@jan-martinulvag1953]

I can see the lines underneath the tracing paper

[@-maccabee]

best painter on youtube by faR

[@oliveuk]

I just found this video and I was already doing this by comparing my drawing and reference in Photoshop but using a simple piece of tracing paper is a much simpler and better idea. Thanks!

[@humacao01]

10 minutes in and I'm like the Lion King.... awesome tutorial man, simple and to the point. BTW one video and subbed, I liked your approach.

[@JH-pe3ro]

A variation I do digitally is to copy the reference into a new layer, and then put a mosaic filter on that layer so that it becomes blocky and blurred. Then I begin tracing over the mosaic layer. This gives me a starting point that's very similar to copying from a grid, but to take it any further I have to start interpreting the shape and use my construction skills to establish the exact proportion. When I'm done(and I usually aim to just capture the main elements quickly, within 5-10 minutes), I reveal the original, trace a second time, now more accurately, and take out the red pen to find the differences. Because blurring eliminates the small details first, those are where the biggest differences appear, and if I make the filter very strong I can turn it into something almost gestural. Something I've been doing more recently is to test my ability to interpret light by lowering the contrast of the source image and then applying an edge detect filter, so that there's a flat base with little lighting information; I don't think I've perfected how to set up this kind of study yet(perhaps tracing contours by hand is a better setup), but any study method that includes an easy method of finding and self-correcting errors is extremely powerful for building up fundamentals.

[@heavenrobinson211]

Get better at drawing quick, ON YOUR OWN! Guess I don't need to watch this video then.

[@sovonkumarnaskar7199]

👍

[@krisannecajano9684]

Amazing ... Grid method for me is a bit tedious yet rewarding once done... But i appreciate this new technique sir it is not like i was tracing it 100...

[@vekkdrums]

this is how i look like. bro, i felt that. tha's why i don't make videos xD Thanks for the insights my friend! Really helpful

[@jacqulynhilyard1561]

Haven`t caught you for years due to personal changes, but am glad to be back with one of your episodes. You may be rusty, but you are an incredible artist and that will come back, what you have is a great way of teaching that others I have checked out don`t... namely, you don`t have off putting pretensions. You are kind; that makes you a great teacher, that alone makes your students capable of greatness, no matter where we start from. Thank you.

[@kevinhayler3499]

First time I've watched one of your videos, interesting idea. I can't help wondering why your initial top pencil mark was the hair and not the forehead/hairline?

[@Raminakai]

You have a sense of humor - that is an enduring quality that will never be destroyed. I appreciate your help. Thank- you!

[@todorkovacevic]

I go to a really shit art school where they don’t actually teach us how to draw so I gotta take things into my own hands, it’s KZbin videos like this that have become my art school now. Thank you.

[@tommullinerart]

This is a great exercise, Scott.

[@cliffberry1900]

Excellent exercise idea!

[@justmedidi]

so glad that i found your video. i've been trying to think of ways on how to improve my proportions and accuracy and this exercise fits the bill perfectly. thank you so much!

[@sergejdraskovic1962]

Intresting exercise! Btw this photo is so inspiring to me, where can I find it in full res, if possilble? Thank you!

[@Twinzma]

First, you’re hilarious…second, my goodness, someone that finally got through to me, how to do the angles! Thank you so much!

[@ashleighzee1611]

I know what you mean about "Is this what I look like?" Great video, new subscriber!

[@jamessilverthorn-hudson6822]

Thanks for the tip I been having trouble with my drawing of the face

[@Andrew_Navarrete]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge ! This is an awesome exercise !

[@lonbayartistry9105]

Very honest and not afraid of errors..cos you learn from it..great way of sketching..

[@Kathy-kr1sv]

That was fantastic. Thank you. Very helpful. I too love the eyes most 😊

[@jamessilverthorn-hudson6822]

Lol this guy is funny 😆

[@T3po69]

You’re so damn funny

[@Lingel-Sama]

Im 1min into the video and I can already tell that you’re a very good person keep up the good work 😁💪

[@mr.skeemz4530]

I'm have to be honest. This is one of those brilliant ideas that seems like something that could have been easily thought of. This method of practice is fantastic.

[@spirallion6829]

Great idea ❤️❤️👍👍👍

[@ishikanalla]

very beautifully explained thank you so much

[@cherylm1982]

I love your intros! lol

[@beast_gohan]

I am school art 🤔👌

[@ionlyemergeafterdark]

I find the background music is distracting and unnecessary.

[@Dropthatpickle]

This tilt right here

[@lookaroundyou8108]

Video starts at 4:33

[@amygibsonpaints]

You’re awesome!!

[@OscarJLopez-ln1jy]

Great exercise!!!

[@richardalonzo2879]

Thank you Scott ! This is an Awesome exercise !

[@selwynbriones1958]

How about drawing on not the same size. Thank you!

[@vanzweedenart]

Great exercise!

[@jashergrey6503]

I love the opening, that as itself is art.

[@alrightalrightalright972]

I’ve never heard the word tilt so much in my life 😂

[@franckalcidi599]

Great exercise! Certainly one I never thought of doing. I'll definitely be giving it a go!

[@TomBernardes]

Amazing tip! I will certainly try to do it on my own.

[@janicedavidson6437]

Thank you

[@dillardparker7546]

This was a nice exercise. I will definitely try it myself.

[@DutchCreekRanch1]

Thanks

[@Gwenny89]

What a wonderful exercise!!!