Is Pen drawing new for you? Turbo boost your progress with these 8 very practical tips. Watch the drawing at the end where all the tips are put into practice.
Oh dear! An astonishing oversight, and particularly when a fountain pen was my first encounter with ink, when I was 9. 😀Apologies to all fountain pens.
Yours are the very best videos. I live alone & try to doodle/draw every day and would become very frustrated. Your teaching, lessons, have helped me tremendously and my shaky hands are far more “creative” than they were. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you, youtube algorithms! This video just popped up. I seem to get every artist on my homepage, but your videos are new to me. The ten tips are very helpful, even after taking drawing classes you offer new tips: smaller nib for distance, using pen to measure angles, etc. Thank you!
Another fantastic lesson. Hope you realize that any type of educating would suit you, even if RU-vid is the only method of distributing that knowledge. You’d fit right in a classroom as teacher.
Thanks Scott. That’s very kind. Actually I was a classroom teacher 1980-82. Vocal cord issues put an end to that. I do also have an online drawing course, if anyone is after a more systematic teaching approach from me, although it does cost money. But I’m really glad to be able to connect with people in drawing through RU-vid. I guess I am a bit of a teacher at heart. 😀
I a struggling artist of ballpoint pen art what I feel is a better solution to get better pen drawings is understanding gesture and movement.it improves the strokes , that's what I found helpful in the long run .
Thank you Stephen!!! Your videos and teaching style are incredible! As someone having recently started their artistic journey, I cannot express my gratitude enough!
The first point was a revelation for me! I recently got into pen drawing and expected that all drawing pens have quite a liquid flow, so I’ve accidentally bought the fiber nib and thought mine were just faulty! Glad to see what their advantages are :)
I tend to draw very literally what I see, so that little tip about leaving some space around objects in the foregeound was maybe the biggest tip in this entire video! Will certainly be revisiting this channel.
Great tips Stephen. Have you done a video on value and relative values and how you approach those with hatching/line work ? I’m just starting to play with value in ink whereas I understand it well in pencil. Blending would be a good topic to cover too.
yes!!! i've always been good at drawing portraits of people in scratch papers...more like doodling! i've always wanted to pursue watercolor but i never got good at it...just had a sudden epiphany how i've always been good at drawing with a pen...and thought about what if i pursue that! i found your channel!!! i feel hopeful!
Great teaching content as always. Many thanks. I guess the answer to this question is ‘it depends…’, but generally do you use the same width liner for hatching as used for the drawing, or a smaller / lighter one?
I recently came across your channel and I’m loving it. Your instruction with your channel with all your tips and tricks are so easy to understand and to follow along. Have you ever written any books? If you haven’t you should. I’m benge watching all your tutorials.. Could you recommend any good drawing/sketching books to read for beginners and also are there any good books in perspective drawing?
Thanks Sarah. I don’t really use books myself but one of my drawing ms is in a book by Stephanie Bower and her perspective book is excellent. She’s an artist and an architect. 😀
I’m sooo sorry Alex. I’ve only written with fountain pens and that was in school, so I just don’t think of them as the drawing option they really are. 😩
Really appreciate your approach! Your demos are excellent and very encouraging! Thanks. Copic markers are not lightfast. The Peabody Museum at Yale tested markers for lightfastness years ago. The lightfast ones are the Pitt Artist Pen (Faber-Castell) and Micron pens (Sakura), but the Pitt pen was the only one they recommend for specimen marking, because the Micron pen smears when the acrylic sealer was applied over it.
I am so happy I found your channel. I am noticing teeny circle of ink where I first start my lines. Am I pushing down a little more to cause this? I am wondering how to minimize this.
Me too Jan. It’s probably because you push up slightly as you start to move your line across. Do line practice focussing on a crisp sideways movement. And don’t let the pen rest on the paper before the movement starts. See if this helps. 😀
I recently bought a set of fibre tip fineliners for pen drawing. Staedtler so a good make. The second time I went to use them the nibs were all dry, I was horrified but had only used them once (and only some of them) so knew they couldn’t have run out already. They’d been left at an angle, tip upward, as per the packaging design for while in use (a kind of built in prop in the case). I stood the pack upside down and after a while they revived. I now have the pack standing upside down at all times, ok but not terribly convenient! This doesn’t seem like it should happen so easily, is it normal in your experience?
Fantastic Janet. Never too old is my experience. I’ve just posted a video to celebrate my first million views on RU-vid with my considered top three tips from all the advice/ teaching that I’ve given in over 470 videos. Have a look if you’re interested. 😀
