Easy Way to Draw Accurately - How to Pencil - Artist Advice 

You are the best art teacher I've ever seen. Your videos cover all topics. I'm going on 70 years old and a retired illustrator/graphic artist. I've sat thru lots of college classes and courses over the years and your teaching skills and talents are the best!! 🌿

I like how this method automatically maintains your scale factor from the first object and then applies that to everything. The sight measurement method that I was taught was measure everything independently, but that risks inaccuracy in gauging anything except a 1:1 scaler. Thank you for the tip!

Welcome back, so good to have you tutoring once more😊. Always the best. Hope we don’t loose you again. Wishing you the best.

It has gotten to the point that I only listen to you anymore on RU-vid. You are one of the best art teachers I have ever listened to, and I am an artist who graduated from Kendal School of Design GR, Michigan in 1978.🤩

Another great, practical tutorial on fundamentals of painting, Mark. Thank you.

If only I had been taught this in college drawing class ~ Thank you!!!

Very helpful! Thank-you! I’ve done sight measuring before, but have never used your golden line and one unit measurement method. Can’t wait to use it on my next drawing!

Wow! For the first time, I have understood this correctly. Thank you very much for your helpful videos! 😍👍

Your videos are always top notch!

I just got done doing an oil painting sketch using this method. It worked great! I marked my unit measurement on my paintbrush, with a piece of tape, so it’s much easier to judge my next measurement. Rechecking measurements, as I paint, is going to be much easier too. Thank-you so much!

Wished I knew this sooner. Following the first golden line for the rest of the measurements will ensure the accuracy is as accurate as possible. Did the mistake of jumping around comparing different lines and find it hard to fix when the first few lines are wrong.

That's exactly how I learned to measure, old-school style! I tried others but still think this is the best to not restrain your creativity!

Love this video, thank you for sharing!!

Awesome tutorial! Thanks

Thanks for your generosity

Super helpful, thank you!

As always only pure quality coming from you, Mark.

Such a beaut instructions Mark. Many thanks.

I’ve taken two drawing classes in college and you’ve just made it soo easy. Thank you.

Thanks Mark, i always followed your "Golden lines" and measurements. It helps me a lot since many years 🙏🙏🙏

SO helpful. Thank you.

Very helpful, extremely. Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us.

I’ve had a lot of drawing classes, many included how to draw a scene accurately, and your explanation provides the best directions on how to use this technique. Thank you.

Thanks, Mark very helpful!

Very helpful thanks for the tips

Excellent video. Thank you

Very cool. Love the p. Divider I bought from you. Peace

Outstanding!

Tysm! Just what I needed! 💖💗💓

I want to let you know you have my heartfelt thank you for teaching your technique to us who can only paint occasionally. I have painted most my life and had different teachers but you have taught me the best way to paint and match color. Please keep up your great work.

Gorgeous Sir.

This was very useful information. Thank you.

Always enjoy your videos. This is a variation on how I'd measure objects on a canvas. But really there are numerous ways of going about it as long as you use some standard length to measure everything from.

Thank you for posting this. Not only have I found it extremely helpful but I've shared the link to this video with others.

superb explanation..thank you sir !

this really helped with my scaling and placement i use it for my digital painting. this method can be used for basically anything.

That's how I was taught in college. Pretty simple. Great video!

really helpful and interesting topic, thank you

great demo

Thanks for the tip, really useful

very helpful thank you

This is very helpful thank you so much

This is verry, verry useful cannell! You are Amaising teacher! Thank you!!! God bless you and your work!

Very important video! Mark the whole painting depends on this!

Thanks. Helpful

I haven't seen you in quite a while. So good to see you again, Mark. Thanks for this lesson. Dianne, Colorado Springs, CO, USA

Very cool

I love this method since it's very easy to apply. It tends to get difficult on smaller formats for me though.

You made It easier than we were thought. It's not easy to copy Nature , still Life and all worth not. You earned a new Happy friend.

Thank you I'm in the midst of drawing a still life and this makes it so much easier than what I've been doing

Thank you!

Great video

Fabulous x

Many thanks

You, Sir, are awesome.

Gracias maestro

Thanks Mark. I love portraits. It would be good if you could post a video on portrait painting. They are the hardest to paint though...

Excellent, Mark! That's the easiest to understand instruction for that method that I've ever heard. It can seem a bit tedious when you first try it, but it really will make your drawing much more accurate. Does anyone know if that's a Stabilo pencil that he is using?

Thank's much🙏👍👍 🌹🌹

Thank you

THANKS.SUPER.❤😊

Well I was absolutely blown away by this over complicated stuff start with one plum it takes years of study to learn to draw

Very helpful! Now, if I would stop painting over my guidelines.

I purchased a Proportional Divider from you a few years back. I guess you can go back over your measurements to check their accuracy using the PD...yes?

For literally the first 3 minutes of this video you kept mentioning plums, and I was thinking here we go, now I have to buy a carpenter's plumb line just to do a proper stinking still life. So glad this was as advertised on the tin, and we indeed are measuring actual plumbs with our paintbrush.

I'm curious what you think about the grisaille method of painting

Hiii, sorry, how often do you restock your shop? I’ve been waiting for the mixing pallet for a year now and customer service isn’t responding

СПАСИБО!!!,,,

This is a great video. I have always wondered how artists use their paint brush to measure with. I do have one question though: Do you need to sit in the exact same spot in front of your canvas and make sure your arm is stretched out the same way every time you measure? I have tried your other drawing method using a proportional divider and I can't for the life of me get that right. Using that method, you have a string hanging in front of the light box where your proportional divider is supposed to be even with when taking measurements. Is this method sort of like that?

What is the advantage of using the height of the first plum and not its width to measure / gauge the placement of the remaining plums in this still life ? Would the same process be used if we were arranging a still life of horizontally placed flowers ? Thanks !!

Awesome tool for measuring a scene or still life! I’ve sketched out 4 still life’s so far as practice…but the only problem is that they all have plums in them. I’m scared to do a landscape…I can’t image how many plums units it’ll take to measure out a mountain…

This is exactly how I teach my students to do, almost word by word. Still some of them need 5 badly drawn still lifes to realize they really should pencil and not just trust what they think they know 🙃

Do you not sell the proportional divider anymore?

I like using the proportion divider better

Very interesting video. Would it be easier to mark several 'plum height units' on a length of wood and then use that instead of the paint brush. This would make it easier to count plum height units across the scene.

How do you measure angles?

What do you use to draw on your canvases?

Mark the left flower was double of left plum!

Is this why it's called a plum line?

I have tried this method before - and it's much more complex than it seems. I find that you have to keenly note where each unit of 'measurement' visually lands on the scene in front of you before surgically moving the pencil along for the next measurement. Something (my thumb) always obscures the next starting or landing point! Then there is the grabbing of another pencil (with your non-dominant hand!) to make your mark on the paper while the other holds the position on the paper. I'd love to master this but for me its like walking a tight-rope. Any suggestions, any one please?

Hi. I'm interested in buying your 14 inch proportional divider. When do u think u will have more available? There's no contact info that I can find.

Yeah, I'd like Thing Addams to take measurements for me too.

Why use the height of the first plum and not the width?

Why not use an horizontal measurement for horizontals and a vertical measurement for verticals. That way you’re not reorienting the measurement rule and potentially rotating it slightly causing distortion ?

Sorry, guess I'll have to watch again, I totally didn't understand! Uh, I did have a major stroke about four years ago so maybe thats why!😇 I'll watch again and see if I can get it! Thanks though! Looks cool to know!🤪👍🏻✌🏻

Must be me! Never been able to use this method. There are scale issues. Are you always the same distance from the subject. I am not brilliant at drawing but usually manage ok through observation and a few corrections when viewing the whole scene. I have also seen this method used quite poorly by people on many occasions. Wish I could do it but sadly no! Great lessons though snd what a fantastic artist you are.

Once you can paint and draw anything at will then what?

Is it just me or is that a plumb line? Don't worry I'll show myself out

Literally a plumb line. 😅

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Do you live in a painting?

What has happened to Geneva? Seems never to have recovered from fire

Plumb lines

First 😎👍

This is similar to the Bargue 'notional space box' method.

Literally as easy as engaging your brain.

Why am I so dumb I can't even follow this, art really makes me want to die sometimes