Raw Umber Studios is a non-profit art school and studio based in Stroud, UK. We run short, focussed workshops teaching the skills needed to create representational art. We also run regular online portrait and life figure drawing sessions.
Our free sessions and tasters are uploaded here, but our subscribers have access to our entire library of classes and reference materials, including bonus content and exclusive art supply discounts!
If you're interested, check out the following link: rawumberstudios.com/raw-umber-subscription/ On the last Sunday of every month, our portrait session is absolutely free!
Some of my portraits are made absolutely directly by you and some can be made only with the Potent Lumos method, so according to you which is right, practice the Lumos method or practice making it directly
my least favorite paint color is cadmium red. oh my god. i can get by with mixing colors! i love mixing colors! but please for the love of god i cannot physically mix good purples with cadmium or vermillion, they're not primary colors and im so sick of the paint sets i get having a bright orange-red as my "primary" red. the amount of sad brown purples ive made is just... unfortunate. really. magentas or cool-toned reds are my best friends. the beautiful purples i can still get while still getting nice and vibrant oranges and cooler toned browns! beautiful, lovely, majestic. nothing a cadmium can compare to.
I both agree and I don’t. All what you said is valid, but in my experience, students in the end become too afraid to use colour. The academia reaches us for years “to not rush into painting with colour” that in the end the enthusiasm is replaced by doubt. I think the best is to practice academic drawing + doing something for fun just for the sake of creating.
Where do you get such different images from? I like this type of photo very much, I also want to be like you, all your images are very good, drawing as well as images
"Talent" is not real, hard work is. Stop with this bullshit, anyone can do this with enough hard work, learn the rules then break them, ain't rocket science.
@@GtsAntoni1 I think, it depends... There are those who work so hard yet still stuck in poverty. Meanwhile, the person which has talent on making money had been lounging lazily on a sofa inside his large mansion.
@@GtsAntoni1 there is TALENT on making money... If you ask a poor person, he will probably choose having talent over hard work... That's just my opinion tho, it's like work smarter not harder kinda thing?
@@ryanronnelvillanueva9361 mixed metaphors and transient topics. What's next? 'You have to spend money to make money'? The question is: "which is more important, talent or hard work?". My answer is that hard work will always be more important, because talent that doesn't work hard will be surpassed by someone who does. Talent alone can't get you there, but hard work can. Although to be truly special, you need both.
I have never had any like, proper instruction when it comes to art, but I've been drawing since I was a kid and think I've built up a decent bit of skill with it, but I lack a lot of the groundwork and feel legitimately like I have hit a wall I can't get past. What im sure I need is to sit down and learn a lot of basics, especially into drawing people since ive never been good at that and thats the direction my other hobbies are taking me with the things i want to draw, but trying to learn all that just feels so... bad. Like it's actively sucking every crumb of dopamine from the hobby I've loved. And I worry that if I keep pushing it, I am going to burn myself out and probably come to hate this thing because I'm forcing myself to do it, but I know I need to do these things in order to progress, and I'm just going to continue being frustrated with my current skill level if I just let myself stagnate here and come to hate and resent it, so it feels like there's no winning here. Any advice?
Depending on the art you do, it is good to study books about subjects like anatomy. But obviously having fun and not being to hard on oneself is tremendously important! Art should be used to heal and express, not to create burnouts! Feel free to check out our website too - we have a lot of courses about various topics and weekly online portrait & figure drawing sessions! You can check out rawumberstudios.com/free to get 8 free live streams that will help you to improve your art! Keep it up 🙌😊
I am really wondering why your videos are not going viral ! Those courses are AMAZING and Academic and very rich of informations and knowledge...THANK YOU RAW UMBER STUDIO
I love using cheap supplies for sketching and experimenting with new ideas and methods, i find that they really allow me to get out if my own head and stop thinking of the work im making as precious
Agreed. 2 things I've discovered about the cheaper paints. 1) all of the oil that comes out in the beginning, makes for a perfect under painting sketch because it's not too strong of a pigment load. 2) Nikolai Fechin ( one of my fav painters) would put all of his paints on a paper towel or paper to extract all of the oil. This can be done overnight, if any of your paints dry too much you can reconstitute them with thinner/liquin/ medium.
