You Won’t Believe How Quickly This Method Will Improve Your Drawing

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I am an artist living and working in France. I learned the techniques of the Atelier of the Nineteenth century and now I try to share some of my knowledge with the rest of the world, because I think that beauty still has an important role to play in artistic creation. I do mostly drawing and oil painting, and my goal is always to provide techniques, thoughts and explanations that can be useful to anyone, from beginners to more advanced artists.
The material I use most of the time (not necessarily in this video) :
Drawing
✓ Kneaded eraser
✓ Plumb line (DIY)
✓ Small mirror
✓ An old synthetic brush
✓ Masking tape
✓ Cutter
✓ Sandpaper or sanding block
✓ Mahlstick or Hand rest (DIY)
✓ Level ruler
Graphite
✓ Pencils 2H, HB and 2B
Charcoal
✓ If available: Nitram charcoals (H, HB and B)
✓ Square charcoals
Black and white chalk
✓ Sketch pencil Conté white
✓ Square Conté noir : HB and 2B
✓ Chalk or pencil holder
✓ Pencil sketch Conté Pierre noire : H and HB
Sanguine
✓ Sketch pencil Conté : Blood and blood Medici
✓ Crayon Polychromos Faber-Castel : sanguine
✓ Sketch pencil Conté white
Oil painting
Palette
(Extra-fine paint, recommended brands depending on availability: Sennelier, Lefranc Bourgeois, Winsor and Newton, Royal Talens Rembrandt, Blockx, Michael Harding, Gamblin)
✓ Titanium White PW6
✓ Flake White (or substitute) PW1
✓ Cadmium Yellow light (or "lemon") PY35
✓ Yellow Ochre PY42
✓ Raw Umber PBr7
✓ Transparent Red Oxyde PR101
✓ Burnt Umber PBr7
✓ Venetian Red PR101
✓ Pyrrole Red PR255
✓ Quinacridone Rose PV19
✓ Quinacridone Magenta PV19
✓ Ultramarine Blue PB29
✓ Mars Black PBk11
✓ Cobalt Teal Blue (turquoise light) PG50
✓ Phthalo green warm PG36
Brushes
✓ Filbert hog bristle and Synthetic sizes n° 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12
✓ Flat Synthetic brushes (same size)
✓ Round sable brush or round Kolinsky sable n° 4, 8, 10, 12 (from the size of the nail (about one inch) or synthetic imitation
Medium
✓ Linseed stand oil
✓ Odorless mineral spirits
✓ Or Alkyd medium (Liquin, Galkyd, Flow'n'Dry etc.)
✓ Safflower oil
Surface
✓ Linen canvas, fine grain universal coating
✓ For studies : Canson oil-acrylic oil paper Figueras
Others
✓ Palette
✓ Sponge and spalter brushes
✓ Palette knife in the shape of a water drop, no souldering
✓ A few small pots, containers, jars...
✓ Paper towels
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Thanks for watching !

[@IOSARBX]

Florent Farges - arts, I loved this video so much, I had to hit the like button!

[@FlorentFargesarts]

✨✨✨Thanks and I liked your comment so much, I had to hit the heart reaction ♥️ 😊🙏✨✨✨

[@zaugitude]

Lot of great information and techniques, especially the positioning of physical models for sizing.

[@richardsong8]

I've been away from the atelier (ARA Toronto) for years. Thank you for the welcome reminder. I will set-up a Bargue, a Hogarth or a Fechin as a model, and do a 'size-as' study. Excellent way to remove the "block"!

[@stucker3188]

Great video Flo. This technique is excellent.

[@FlorentFargesarts]

Thank you! 😊🙏🎨

This, for sure, would be an awesome class as always! Thanks, Florent!

[@FlorentFargesarts]

Thanks 😊🙏

[@mathieuvart]

You improved a lot your english. Tu es un bon professeur. Merci de partager tes connaissances.

[@eldelatristefigura1]

You're the man!! Thanks.

[@OkieSketcher1949]

What a great way to lay out proportions, common intercepts between what you are trying to draw with what you are drawing. This idea never occurred to me yet it was right there for me to see and utilize. Great class! Thank you for this. I really enjoyed following your class and I actually learned something useful.

[@FlorentFargesarts]

Thank you so much 😀

[@J3ss4u]

That was a nice run-down on how the brain works when measuring at different scales, I had no idea. And as someone who's been making good use of grids for measuring, I know that being overly dependant on these rulers could turn into a crutch, so I try to keep that in mind.

[@celiamuncaster2046]

You are brilliant!

[@pebblesm6626]

Thank you, you've got a great way of explaining things!

[@EllenR654]

This is so helpful, so simple too; thank you for sharing ❤

[@FlorentFargesarts]

You're so welcome!

[@leoalvarado6466]

Good advice, you make it look easy! Thank you 😊

[@bettykayeS]

Thank you so much for sharing this. It has really improved my proportions!

[@RafaelBeckel]

That’s so cool to hear! I kind of developed this method intuitively in life drawing sessions and never actually called it a “method”. It’s so effective that feels like cheating! One big advantage is that it’s easy to fit the model in the paper. When I’m downscaling or upscaling with a short time constraint, I tend to make the model bigger than the drawing area. With this 1:1 method, it’s nearly impossible to mess the composition up.

[@FlorentFargesarts]

I like methods that make complicated things so easy they feel like cheating 😉everything should be like that!

[@Majjoo06]

This is the method I’ve been using and I’ve been feeling like a cheater for it. Someone told me it wasn’t any better than tracing. 😅 thx for making me feel more valid

[@FlorentFargesarts]

It's a great technique because it ultimately evolves into more spontaneous IRL drawing skills, which tracing doesn't provide.

[@Poiinsettia12]

I feel the same. I never use this, better do a print lol. But I trained myself to do whatever I want even if I look at small pieces. It’s possible. And now I’m not forced to have a reference photo the same size which can be problematic.

[@juicedgoose]

I have the same headphones! Super comfy

[@elleeo1495]

Great video reminder, Florent!

[@TAka-dc1rb]

Thank you for sharing this method !

[@FlorentFargesarts]

You are so welcome!

[@rubenscasco801]

Thanks Florent, this would be very helpful to me🙏

[@sylvainst-pierre8725]

Très bon merci !

[@bonniewallace2992]

Thanks so much for your generosity! I had an AHA moment.

[@FlorentFargesarts]

You are so welcome!

[@mainelymomsthilaire8425]

Great ideas!

[@louisea966]

great video and yay horizontal! thanks Florent

[@FlorentFargesarts]

You're welcome!

[@lisasremnant]

Ta-Da! Thank you!

[@timclayton8214]

Excellent video, thanks

[@FlorentFargesarts]

You are welcome!

[@richardswift2330]

I have always used that process

[@nickrodis6862]

Salamat po

[@krahnjp]

I think fractional dividers are almost always a bad idea for enlargement. If you're measurement is off, even a fraction of a mm, the divider will enlarge that mistake just as much as it enlarges the image. Much better for reducing, but, just like you said, it's generally easy enough to just move the model farther away to reduce it.

[@FlorentFargesarts]

Same thing, never really liked prop dividers.

[@patricklestrange9006]

Do one on measuring angles.

[@DerekHarris-ki1qc]

Great video Florent, drawing is so overlooked these days...Side note, are your colour wheels still available anywhere?

[@dsmith9572]

Start at 8 minutes, that's when he does.

[@njmccormackgmail]

That's Florent. Thank you!

[@flamegurl97]

Tbh id have watched the whole vid no worries if I hadnt seen this comment first. Made me feel impatient 🤔

[@annabelcleare138]

The info in the earlier part is also relevant and helped me too.

[@MrPanetela]

would it be appropriate to use the term "cheating" when describing the actions of bees, horses, and eagles in their natural behaviors. I marvel at the mysterious process of drawing and acknowledge; there are no strict rules in art, and yet pondering how one can create without follow some sort of imagined formula. Ultimately, I think that drawing transcends the concept of cheating.

[@kathleencommerford9664]

lol ty

[@belladupont6777]

Such great advice, thank you! Plus, I'm obsessed with the colour of that pencil. How pretty ot is! What colour is it please? ❤❤❤

[@april67leo]

I think is Sanguine Medicis /618, brand Conte a Paris

[@belladupont6777]

Thank you! ❤️😁❤️😁

[@FlorentFargesarts]

Conté and Faber Castel Sanguine pencils indeed. There are several shades, I have many!

[@gidkideon]

If you're doing a portrait do you mark with tape on the floor the position of your easel when it requires more than one sitting? If the model is seated do you sit as well or raise the model up?

[@rachel18809]

The most simplest answer is usually the best but often forgotten.

[@bozoclown2098]

I thought I'd that but never used it , I made my own Tool

[@mc_va]

I call this✨AIR TRACING✨ not cheating of course 😎 you try to retain the original image when looking at your own drawing

[@daniellorena6267]

Hi there, can you tell me where did you find that skull?

[@colourkingdom]

Art shop?

[@FlorentFargesarts]

Weird: this skull was a money box from urban outfitters 7 years ago, it was glittered and golden 😅I painted it white ! Try Fountainhead gypsoteca or Atelier Lorenzi, Paris for great casts!

[@daniellorena6267]

@@FlorentFargesarts I am in Portugal and you wont believe how much i´ve been looking for one skull anatomical correct. Tks for your information Florent, great video by the way

[@shuvoDhar.5537]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@oluwagbemigadaniel9860]

Sir what if you have a bigger project

[@francischataigner9454]

y nous font chier les americains!