I blocked the squares around A and B. Then i watched as my eyes adjusted to the light change OR SOMETHING! It was amazing cause all of a sudden they were the same color. I love it!
JD Hillberry i found interesting that the tonal card was a cool grey like the reference photo, but your drawing was a warm grey. Would it be possible to get the shading card tool in warm and cool grey?
Brilliant, thanks, please tell me why you have a bit of paper stuck to your hand when demonstrating the blending tools, i gottta know!!! Love your videos, much appreciated
One, to prevent accidental smudging from the palm rubbing on paper. Two, to prevent oils in the skin from contaminating the drawing paper. Skin oil is also why he never uses a finger as a smudging tool.
Awesome technique,A+ on this tutorial ‼️By the way, where does one come across this bamboo material ? ThankYou very much and keep up your great videos 👍
While I enjoyed wending my way thru your videos, I doubt, unless you come here to the mid-east coast that I will be able to take advantage of your teaching. I need to learn the basics of realistic drawing...being more of a cartoonist...and wishing for more...
Thanks for spreading one of the few real lessons I learned in art school. "Don't draw what you THINK you see, draw what you ACTUALLY see." Well done, sir.
This video was very helpful. I always suspected that my perception of gray values was not absolute and depended too heavily on the adjacent shading. The insight that reflected light areas are perceived to be as bright as halftones but are actually darker is key. People use blending sticks now but the aspects of Chamois, felt and bamboo are interesting, especially when working with charcoal as charcoal probably makes a blending stick spent in a few passes.
The fact that you can produce a drawing that realistic,proves to me at least, that you are 10+ as an artist..( it only goes to 10+ ) Thank you for this tutorial.. Best wishes Bill
Why would anyone thumb this down... This is a great concept thanks for sharing this. I took a screen shot of grid and used the eyedropper tool to measure the values. A and B are Identical
the issue with tissue : depends on the quality, but also don't use scented tissue. But you can also use it without it falling apart by rolling it tightly. It's a pretty efficient use if you don't have blending utensils available. just saying...
I just went in to the Draw program, that came with my computer, and you can make a card like that with any color, I am not going to get any work done today. I will be making some cards and drawing.
Hello, I enjoyed my first video of yours. Personal request: the transition with the floating letters and bells is distracting. Your delivery was very effective and professional. Thanks!
Funny timing. Just today, I opened a roll of bamboo cloth I bought for the kitchen (which I’ve had in a drawer for months) while in the process of trying to ‘up’ my sketching skills. Love those synchronicities ✌️
Wow! This explains why, when I attempt to locate values or shades in a reference photo using Photo Shop, the values always appear to be too drastically dark. Now I see that these values are relative to the values surrounding them. I think you just changed my life. Thank you, JD!
Wow!!! That is an incredible effect you show simply and I'm sure will help me leaps and bounds next time I aspire in my imagination what it would be like to be an artist struggling with chiseling a human face sculpture one day, all the while that it's screaming.
After I took this class in college I went home and did mushrooms and created a completely messed up picture. It has nothing to do with what you’re talking about, but still that it why I remember this exact class. Lol
I like what the bamboo did and how much better it is then other mediums.I have had gOOd luck using a Q-Tip. I didn't see you compare cotton to the other mediums.Great video.
Great video. Little laugh on my side : the you pronounce "Chamois" is really cool and funny for my French ears (yes, "Chamois" is a french word. It's an animal living in mountains). The French prononciation is "Sha-moo-ah". Keep going the great videos. Best.
Yes, bamboo is great and grows fast, but I heard something once that most people might not realize... it takes almost 5 (yes five) years in the ground before anything comes up, but once it does it shoots up like a rocket. Once you plant it...leave it alone!
I use both of them in conjunction with other blending materials to create realistic textures in my work. Here are a few other videos that explains some of my blending techniques and materials: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IY1t6rwbJyw.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eRtiKB2-_hw.html
So i did something cool. I layed a piece of paper over my monitor and traced the A and B squares a thick piece of multi media drawing paper and I cut out the lines with scissors I poke a hole in the middle so the paper held together. When I layed it over they were the same gradation, now I slid the paper upward a little so some of the white around the checkered board came into the top square I made and that white made the A square a little darker, pretty cool.
Real Life Intuition I can’t imagine the mess that would make on paper after oiling... or does it absorb into the chamois? If so, How long does full absorption take? I’d hate to ruin what I have so far. Thanks in advance for an answer. 😊
No no no. I have used chamois for years washing cars. When they get dirty, you can wash them in soap and water and then let them dry. You can make them soft again by working them in your hands. Do NOT put any kind of oil on the chamois.
Man this is an important thing to understand. Meanwhile everyone in the class including me, is trying to add final details before we have really built the values correctly.
I'm working on a tattoo concept, what would you recommend to achieve a semi glossy stone texture, specifically knapped obsidian ? I know it's not the same for needle work but i would like to get the best reference for the artist to work with.
If you go to a good artist they should already know how. Check out their past work and make sure they have plenty of examples of doing similar styles, textures etc.
To say our eyes or brains a "little bit screwed up" is false. If we didn't see things the way that we do, then everything would be flat and we wouldn't see things as they are in 3D shapes. Lights and shadows create depth. Our eyes and brains are actually incredible for being able to do what they do! Also just wanna say I appreciate this video. Very cool to have someone break things down and explain how to achieve what we're going for when creating lights and shadows.
Hi JD, I have seen the squares example on a screen before but I never realized until you explained it here how it would be a serious hazard to realistic drawing. It makes the illusion all the more fascinating. I now consider the value-finder tool as a must-have tool. Even though I live in a large UK city (Sheffield) I just know from experience I would be wasting my time going into town to look for something like that so if I don't find it on-line I will just have to make my own - which may not be a bad thing since a DIY value-finder would match my own pencils. Watching art advice videos on RU-vid leads me to believe that in the US you have a great art store in every town, sadly in England, outside of London, all we have are small art sections in the corners of stationary shops.
+mcquinn01 Thanks for writing. Actually, I think most artist in the US order online these days. I offer the value finder is included in my bonus pack along with lots of other hard to find items. And yes... I ship to the UK. Below is link that explains everything in the bonus pack that will figure the exact shipping cost to your location. www.jdhillberry.com/Shipping_Kit_outside_USA.htm
+mcquinn01 Hi there. I know what you mean. I'm in Newcastle upon Tyne. You can get the value card on amazon but not the accurasee dividers in one of his other productions.
I don't really get what type of bamboo fabric you've shown to us: can you please precise if it's wadding, towelling fabric, bamboo/polyester blended, bamboo/cotton blended, other? Thanks
I guess you would call it towelling. It is marketed as a replacement for paper towels. Here's a link: bambooee.com/collections/cleaning-collection/products/bambooee . If used for drawing a roll of this would last 1000 lifetimes. I combine several sheets with some other blending, measuring, and erasing tools in my bonus pack here: www.jdhillberrytutorials.com/store/p13/Bonus_Pack.html
No offense, but I really have a question of realistic drawing. Why do we need realistic drawing when we can take pictures with camera? We draw exactly the same as the picture. Why do we do this then? I don’t understand the meaning behind it. It’s very boring to draw exactly the same as the original thing. ;(
@@petergale6594 LMAO, I totally thought the same thing! I've been noticing something really strange lately while scrolling through comments. There's something so annoying going on, not sure if I'm just now noticing it or what. There are many many people who are not using any punctuation. At all. 🥴 It's bad enough when it's just a couple of sentences. However, it's downright comical to try to decipher a long drawn out comment which contains absolutely NO form of punctuation anywhere. 🙉🤷♀️🙈 Just one long, nonsensical string of words. You know? Oh well, just venting I guess. Take care!
i appreciate that so much, i have a natural talent (always first in art but never took it seriously) I couldnt never get what you are showing (my goodness thats so annoying that what is so clear with the naked eye is all wrong!) Thank you for sharing that, i came across you i was looking up something completely different and you caught my eye thank you so much. I'll watch the rest of your videos and hunt down my old school crayons! Hehe
Hi Judith, Yes, I use stumps as well as other blending materials. You can see a video about that here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IY1t6rwbJyw.html
There a few types of ultra suede that you may want to test. They range from super light at 4 dollars a yard to pieces equal to six ounce suede that are 160 dollars a yard. Yeah, the shredded milk jugs can be three times more than real suede. :( Flat screen monitor cleaners are good for blending. My personal preference was Max-Professional, AKA Blow Off shammy. They are microfiber and are quite good. They aren't like those cheap plastic terry cloth ones. They feel exactly like animal skin.
