@@josephbaillache686 Thank you I call him " Slowly dying, but still smiling" :) But seriously this icon was made by "bananatwinky" real funny web comic artist.
Actually your tips on drawing/painting flowers might help other art areas especially cake decorating and polymer clay arts. Being able to see the model of pingpong bowl and petals gives a base that can be turned in any direction. Thank you. My media is metal preferably, but due to circumstances beyond my control I have fallen back to other media. Water color was introduced to me at a young age. No not not the kids version, actual tubed watercolors (pentel and grumbacher). Watching you work helps keep my creativity moving. Hope it is ok to suggest your videos to others struggling with structure of flowers.
There's a chance you might see this!! You're the reason I got into art and watercolor! It's so cathartic and I'm so happy I found it but I don't think I would have without your channel. So thanks so much for being so great!
Hillory Pham Can relate to this 100%. It’s the first time in my life that a person has inspired me to the point of actually getting my lazy, self-doubting ass down to making an action instead of being just a mute spectator. And I’m loving it!:D
Hillory Pham I love Emily, she is so real, inspiring and funny. There are many RU-vidrs who do art videos without really teaching you anything but Emily is not one of them. When she pops up on my news feed I just have to watch and listen to her. So if Emily happens to see this, please, please carry on, you’re awesome. 🐹
Crystal Armaiyah Rose - ❤️ I agree, I love Emily’s blunt humor SO MUCH, and her lack of filming her own face for half the video (a lot of you tubers do this, probably because they are trying to build brand and have less jokes and fun than Emily) or are trying to lengthen a video, which just takes the viewer more time to get the knowledge (like padding an essay with long adjectives to get the paper long enough, without saying anything valuable). It keeps you from learning as much quickly. Emily “speaks my language” and quickly and pretty succinctly teaches technique and deepens knowledge. She just feels like an encouraging big sister or cool cousin who you can be yourself around you feel free to try new things because of their spirit. Thanks Emily!🌷
Omg THANK YOU for explicitly giving me permission to not be 100% anatomically correct. I feel like the biggest barrier I have to keep learning and doing art is the fear that I'm not doing it "right." So that reassurance means the world!!!
@@christinec1232 me, too! I'm building my way up to even attempting people. Maybe I'll start with people in the distance, where they are basically thicc stick people.
Emily: I like pretty thing, how do I draw pretty thing better? Me: That's why I'm here! Yes I like this type of video occasionally, but I also like your usual videos immensely as well, because I love your art style.
Yess, I needed this for so long. My flowers looked like a kindergarten drew them. Can you do a skull tutoriak sometimes? Your skulls really fascinate me and the way you drew them is just yassssss
Your tutorials have always been the most entertaining tutorials I've ever watched I don't even paint anymore and you made me want to dig out my paints and have a go
I loved this video. I’m really starting to get into creating art everyday and working with watercolor. I was really intimidated by some of the artists on RU-vid because they are so ridged with art . I love your colorful banter. When you don’t make it seem so important to fallow every rule and express what you like. It makes me feel like hey you know what I don’t draw that rose perfect but it’s my kind of perfect and that’s okay. Thanks for sharing your time with us!
They can be especially good if you know your good speciFic keywords for specific things you’re interested in If its too vague it’ll legit just show you calligraphy classes or something
I love this tutorial. My flowers look like stick figures, lollipops, or some weird cloud thingys... Lol. I like your idea of the bowls technique. 💙💙💙💙💙
11:13 "I don't know nothing about flowers" - she said, while pointing out the correct botanical names of every part of a flower 😂 Honestly, I study Biology and I forget these names all the time 😅😂
I watch ALOT of watercolour flower tutorials and this one was the first to give me a solid belly laugh, THANK YOU. The tangent was the best part, so real. You're great, keep up the good work.
Absolutely lovely! Understanding these little details is making so much easy to paint flowers! Thank you Emily for all that you share, the fun and all pretty things you do!
Ping pong ball inside a bowl, inside a bigger bowl... Got it!! 💖 That was super easy to follow for a "I want to paint pretty things!" tutorial!! Thanks so much for sharing this and doing all the leg work for us!! 💖
Emily I love your videos and the way you explained how to draw flowers. I especially love your humor and how you let people know you are not this encyclopedia of flower knowledge. You are just here to show people how you do your art. Rock on!
Emily I love your idea about the bowls and the ping pong ball. I’m going to try it. I love playing with color, but I am not the best at drawing what my mind’s eye intends, particularly lifelike details. I have an especially hard time with proportions, like faces and bodies. Thanks for the inspirations, tutorials, stories and jokes. I’m really enjoying your channel everyday during Covid quarantine as I am playing with watercolors for the first time in like 15 years. I also love your story time sketches. I loved the one about the art thief and the story and portrait of your grandparents.
Excellent video, I would love to see more of this kind of thing. I’m working on learning to paint with watercolors and learn a lot from watching you work and hearing you talk through your approach like this. If I didn’t have kids to get to bed, I would go get my supplies out right now to try applying what I learned. Thanks for the pointers!
Emily, I absolutely adore the way you think! Thank you for doing this video! Frankly, most "how to draw" instruction videos leave me dazed and confused because "I know nothin' about no art stuff". Finally, a video that makes perfect sense to me! Keep on, Emily!
The whole bowl/ping pong ball thing is really helpful! Please keep doing stuff like this--I'd love to see how you go about making those mash up not real but pretty flowers.
I really learned a lot about flowers and how to visualise/draw/paint them, from this video. I think it was a really interesting, informative and pleasantly light-hearted film. I have no time or patience for videos where the instructor has zero charisma and/or sense of humour, those sort of teachers are dull, dull, dullsville! I prefer your light-hearted approach to teaching. Even though you said you know nothing about plants, your descriptions of them was helpful, informative, and interesting. I also think that the way you film your videos is really cool; with lots of fun visuals and neat graphics in them, I really love 'em. You rock Emily! All the best from a fan in South Wales. UK.
I really like your tutorial videos. I'm too busy most of the time with school, so having this sort of "jumping off point" so to speak, helps me get right into art in an approachable way.
These were some really solid tips! Straightforward, and SUPER easy to understand. Always like your content, but this one was greatly appreciated. Flowers always intimidate me but now I feel like I can approach them with confidence. Thank you!
I LOVE this video so much. I doubt myself a lot because I have a lot of difficulty visualizing anything at all in my "mind's eye." But hearing you talk about learning to know a subject well enough to draw/paint without a reference makes me thing I have a lot of assumptions about how other people art and some kind of way we're "supposed" to do art. I am really looking forward to exploring this. THANK YOU!!! More of this format, please! I love hearing about your internal process.
I loved this video! It was really informative while also being super satisfying watching you bring beautiful flowers to life. The time-lapses were rad too. Please do more like this!
Emily, I really liked this video. I am old, and just now deciding whether I can find time to finally enjoy making a version of art. I never had the time until now, at nearly 50. I often feel overwhelmed at all the styles and techniques and such that need to be learned - causing me to feel like throwing in the towel. Your explanation here was easy to understand and implement so I really appreciate the time you took to put it out there. It's the exact sort of video I was looking for. Now if I could just wrap my head around heads and faces lol. Composition sometimes alludes me - my daughter did not approve of my sketch of a cockroach sitting on a toilet looking at a cellphone... Art is a work in heavy construction for me but you make it fun. Thanks so much!
I loved this video! Informative, funny, and inspiring! I think your flowers are gorgeous and I usually am like," ugh another flower painting." Love your style and I totally want to take that portrait class on Skillshare! I think that i'll join next month. Have a great day!
Emily, I enjoy all your videos. This one is a favourite because I love flowers, love colours & love how your flower art looks. So if I can manage to create anything that looks a fraction as lovely as what I saw here I will be one happy camper =)
I LOVED this style of video. I really got your ping pong ball bowl analogy and I’m going to apply it when I next paint. There were so many helpful hints and tips and it was all still done with your usual humour, sarcasm and beautiful randomness xx
Im a newbie to watercolors..... eventhough I paint nonsense... I am having the best time!! I LOVE this video! Super helpful! Thanks for you for sharing your talent!
I liked the style of the video. It gave a nice overview of the flower's anatomy, and a breakdown of how to build one. Also loved the flower timelapses - good to see plants living their lives. I've got to start drawing some bowls of ping pong balls now
I had the "Reproduction" song from Grease 2 going through my head at the start of this video lol! Love the breakdown for a flower's structure in this; it's a way I never thought of it before. I was learning how to paint flowers with oil paints, and I hit such a plateau and got so frustrated that I've not touched my paints in over a year. I got to a certain point with it and kept effing it up. I saw where I was going wrong but could not figure how to get it right, even with tutorials and the instructions and materials I had to work from. The frustration grew enough that I put everything aside, intending to take a small break but haven't picked it up in ages. Perhaps this insight may help me with that as well as drawing and watercolor. Thank you for sharing!
I'm currently practicing sketching stuff starting from their basic shapes, so thank you for reading my needs through your telepathic internet mom instinct and making this video. I'm sure this is why you did it
You may not read it, but I will try. You are the reason why I got back to watercolors, why I got better and why I love them! Thank u so much Emily for the tutorials and the important stories, thank u!❤
Thank you so much! I have studied Botany in order to get closer to understand the things I'm painting and I'm a geek. Your method of painting is unique and absolutely beautiful for understanding the structure of flowers. I plan on using this method.
I enjoyed it, and the ping-pong ball bowel thing actually is helpful to me. Because even though I mostly do fantasy flowers it's help in how to know how flowers react. Because everything fantasy has some basis of truth in there
Loved this video. I've been obsessed with your paintings of flowers and a lot of people find it relaxing, where as i'm stressed about it all the time because mine turn out as balls of hot flaming garbage most times. Definitely going to try the ping pong ball/bowl design and see if it helps any
Super interesting take on it. I just draw what I see, but this perspective is a great way to envision it. Awesome instruction and detail. Ranunculus has always made me giggle, because the name is fun and I'm a child!
Ever since I saw that other flower video iv became obsessed with flowers I now have a cupple physical flowers and am currently propagating a lot of suculance and have been drawing flowers constantly I love flowers and tho I still can make up a non existing flower to draw it is just nice to draw them
I love love LOVED this video. As someone who has been lurking on your channel for a while now, this one got me to subscribe. Though I have no clue why it's taken me so long since I love your style and your content. Keep these coming! I need all the watercolor help I can get.
As I commented on another video, I only really ever learned how to draw roses because... well... my name. And even then they're not all that great, but this! This explanation makes SENSE! Whaaaaaaat finally a tutorial that's informative and yet vague enough to click! I've been wanting to design my next tattoo with different stages of flower growth for like six years now, and this was very very helpful in aiding my understanding on how the movement of petals works. Thank you so much, Art Mom!
I really loved this type of video! Would love to see more of this kind of thing. As always you rock and bring some humor with a side of silliness to my day, thank you! :)
This actually really helped me bring my flowers to life and not just make those kindergarten five-petal daisy things that lie flat on the page. This is the most comfortable and informative video on watercolor flowers I have ever seen 🙌🙌
This video was amazing, especially since I've been wanting to get into flowers. I've been following you for about a year now, and I still absolutely love your send of humor, presentation, explanations, and overall personality, paired with such beautiful and interesting art. :) Catching up on what I missed due to life things, and never disappointed with your stuff. :)
I really liked this video, the teaching flower tips part and the insight into details of flowers most overlook, as well as how you've researched them to improve. I struggle a lot with bulbous flowers but your ping pong ball/bowls explanation has me thinking about how I just wasn't picturing them correctly, like on the where and how when it came to the petals.(they were a mess to say the least) With these types of explanations I think most artists would gain a lot of confidence in doing florals, that this could be great help to those just starting to attempt anything from cartoon to realistic flowers. Also I wouldn't mind at all if you decided to make more videos like this, to me they don't conflict with the videos you usually post. And honestly, even when you post videos without your active drawing and painting process present I still enjoy them a lot. Especially the moment in some videos where you gush over da babes, that's just adorable.😊 (p.s I'm one of the ones that constantly missed the stringy pollen bits inside some flowers when I first began drawing and painting them. I'd think I was done the piece and then notice them in my reference like "shhhiiieeet" then pop them in last minute 😂 )
Love the video. Laughed AND learned. Ping pong ball inside bowls....DUH....I have been killing myself trying to simplify flower and you did it in one video. Thank you!
Brilliant video!!!! Ping pong balls in bowls..gahhhhh I wish I could get past the suck stage of learning watercolor but your videos are uplifting and super fresh! Thanks for painting pretty things!!
Dear Emily, First of all greetings from Venezuela and from a watercolor beginner as well. I simply want to tell you that your videos are you AWESOME! Yo're one of my favorite watercolor artists here on youtube and I really want to thank you for your time and well... for being you (you remind me a lot of myself when talking and expressing ideas), your pingpong ball and bowls actually helped me A LOT to u nderstand flowers' anatomy...guess it's time then to practice :p Thank youuu for being you ♥
I love this so much Emily. I love drawing flowers but they always look like floral sadness I also love seeing how big you've gotten. I've been with you for a while and I love seeing you grow as both a youtuber and an artist. You're pretty damn fantastic
When Art meets Science😊 Thanks for a throughly enjoyable "botany" lesson for the Artists who reject learning Science and just want to make pretty stuff!!
I can’t even begin to explain how much your ping pong ball and bowls helped me visualize flowers when I want to draw one, with or without reference. I’ve been trying to figure damn flowers out for so long lmao and when you did the ping pong ball in the bowl I instantly was mind blasted like 🤯 so thank u!! I loved this kind of video from you and found it obviously very helpful. I’m kind of a noob at art and am thankful for your channel as I do not have the money or resources to go to art school like I so desperately want to. Sorry I’m really bad for rambling on about shit.
I loved this video! One of my favorites! I love all your videos, but really love when you do tutorials like this one & share your knowledge with us! I remember your tutorial for drawing smoke, I ended up doing smoke a little different, but your video on it is what allowed me to get there, I think I'd still be stuck if I hadn't watched that!
My dad loves to watch these with me, it is out father-daughter bonding time. I'm surprised he never dislikes your cussing haha. He loves your informative video's a whole lot! He loves to learn little random bits of information haha.
I thought this was a really interesting approach! Maybe I’ll be able to draw roses from different angles now instead of just top down. I like this type of video, it’s a great addition to the different types of videos you do now!
As someone who has studied botany, THANK YOU. OMFG, I try and just draw a cartoon flower and the next thing I know I’m obsessing over petal structure and basal leaves and what-all and this will be very helpful to simplify. 👍🏻👍🏻
Finally, I have been waiting for this video because seeing you drew those flowers make me amazed how pretty they look, and also wanting to know how to drea them
I love your video's! They are funny and makes you want to keep listening without spacing out. 😅 Also the flowers are gorgeous and a great tutorial! Can't wait to tey your techniques out 🥰
I actually learned a lot from this. Wish that we could learn this in school instead of "These are petals, this is a stem, this is a bud, this is a leaf." Now i can sound like i know my flowers!
I love your personality. Your videos always make me so happy. 😂 Plus I learn stuff and get to watch pretty art get created! You're probably my most favorite art youtuber.
