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A thought on exercise of drawing an upside down picture.could we use a coloring book, color pictures upside down with colored pencils,for perspective.just asking.
Matt the thing I have trouble with as far as pastels, is their limited colors and most especially they are fat at the end rather than slimmed down like pencils...
I really like how you outlined your shadows before hatching. As a beginner, it is really easy to fall into automatic traps. Drawing is a practice that you really do have to use your brain for, and figuring out where you want to place your shadows before actually placing them is one of obvious things which only seem so in hindsight.
I used to draw all the time when I was a kid. I told my father I wanted to be a cartoonist or a comic book artist. He told me I needed to think about getting a real job. I put my pencil down and picked up a wrench and life sucked ever since
Dear Matt, thank you for another wonderful lesson. It's absolutely fantastic that you provide even lessons inbetween one and the next Getting Sketchy season. Buddy
I found this video very helpful! I have a question however! In oil pastel, do you advise to modify value and intensity via white grey black? I was expecting it to work like paint and you use the complementary color to reach greys :) I'm still learning the medium but I was curious about it!
Men, I'm glad I found this channel, u teach well. Never fond of using charcoal but u gave me insights of how cool it is. I'm using pencils for my Sketch portraits, semi-realistic styles cause I still don't fully understand how shading works but this video 🔥, thank you mister ❤
I love how the specific details of shading, which eraser to use where, the highlights... as a beginner it's crucial to be patient as well as paying attention to detail. before I came back to drawing, I would overlook the small details in pictures, wall hangings, portraits, etc.
Nice job. TIP from an equestrian artist: get the eyes positioned and finished first. Then position and proportion of the muzzle to the eyes and then arrange the rest of the outline shape. That makes it easier to get proportions correct. Less fiddling with shading to get the emotion you want. Make the 60 minute drawing a 35 minute drawing. ☮️❤️🙏🏻
Don't listen to these indulgence peddlers, pals. Either you got the talent, or you can at most aspire to mediocrity. They're here to sell their courses and make money out of toxic positivity.
ive learnt a great deal from Matt after doing the secrets to drawing i improved then i did his pen and ink, learnt a lot i think i have to do ink washes left but ill get back to it. ive just started his coloured pencil course. i didnt want to work with colour but doing the colour module i enjoyed doing it. he is such an amazing artist and we can learn a lot with him x
its not that i don’t think it’s a talent- i just think theres something wrong with me, specifically, that stops me from being able to draw the way I want. I’ve tried following a thousand tutorials, art tip videos, and lessons, and I just. can’t. do it. I cannot draw how I want to. Something in my brain is wrong and it makes me unable to draw how I want. I’ve drawn for years, ever since I could pick up a crayon, and have never stopped having ‘art’ as my main hobby. ever. and through all of that, i still can’t do it. Something is wrong with me.
I've used many of these techniques with graphite (AKA good ol' pencil). I've also, with only occasional success, used charcoal with pencil. But generally, the two mediums, while they seem similar, really aren't. Finally, I strongly recommend a pair of latex gloves. They not only help keep things cleaner, they also reduce pesky fingerprints which, once revealed in charcoal, are there to stay.