Amazing video, very useful for beginners! I own the Loomis method book, but I had never heard about the other books you´ve mentionned, I´m definitely going to give it a go! As for studying sculptures and the masters, it is something that all the most skilled contemporary artists I know of speak about! I´ve personally never tried, it´s the beginner´s temptation to just skip the steps and draw whatever you want believing yours skills will magically improve. I guess it works for some people, but I it is most likely the way to go if you want to up your game!
@laschizo thanks so much for the appreciation and insights! I can totally relate because I also avoided studying fundamentals like anatomy, drawing from sculptures and masters initially. And it was only after I realised I wasn't making any progress drawing the same type of references from pinterest that I actually said to myself you know what, I'm not going to reinvent the wheel here and let's just stick to what's worked for artists for the past 200 years 😅 You should definitely give it a try and I wish you good luck in your art journey 😊☘️
FINALLY a someone that actually gives good advices . I am a portrait artist and academy of fine arts students of graphic design and I didn’t know the book you mentioned! It doesn’t have many text but just useful drawing and this is so amazing! You just motivated me right now in bed to start drawing!
Thanks so much for the kind words! 🙏☺ It was a childhood dream for me to study in arts school but I didn't have the courage to do that. Its so cool that you're studying arts in a fine arts academy and persuing your passion. Wishing you good luck in your art journey! 🍀💌
Thank so much to take your time to show us how too do thing correctly to get raise and be better and be better. Amazing video and amazing person behind. Congrats
Wonderful insights and information on the different reference books on drawing methods,outlined by George Bridgeman, Charles Bargue, Andrew Loomis. Ammar you provide brilliant videos for Portrait Students. Look forward to more videos you produce, you are an Amazing teacher. Keep on creating and inspiring us. Have lovely day. PS huge thank you from me in Australia 😊🙏✏📚
You're too kind! ☺🙏 I am struggling to film the fourth video for my channel and you have given me some much-needed inspiration boost so a big thank you! Means a lot to me 💌 Oh and Australia is like one of first countries on my travel bucket list 🙃
You should absolutely keep up the work on YT. I really love the light touch you have with your pencil. This video greatly summarises the mindset required when drawing portraits, or anything volumetric for that matters. Big shapes, proportion and structure ❤. Subscribed
@lastcaresss that's so cool! My niece is studying anatomy for her dentistry exams and she loves drawing anatomy diagrams. I showed her anatomy drawings by Professor Rey Bustos for inspiration and she was blown away ☺️
A lovely, unassuming intro to portrait drawing. I've been avoiding the practice, but recently took photos of sculptures that will now prove useful. Thank you for sharing your extraordinary talent.
Thank you so much for the kind words! I feel deeply touched 💌 I would love to travel some time and observe sculptures in person as there aren't any around where I live. I hope you get to practice soon and have some really productive sessions drawing from your own references. 🍀
Thank you so much for sharing these art tips! I’m glad I came across your channel in the right time(the start), I’ll be able to watch every video you post and improve in my art journey ❤️ Could you please enlighten us on achieving likeness in portraits, I struggle with this aspect and I’d love to watch your take on it
Thanks so much for the kind words! ☺️ It would be a privilege for me to make content that helps you in your art journey in a small way. 💌 When I started drawing faces, I wanted to draw my favorite characters from the movies and famous celebrities and I got really frustrated when I was unable to get the resemblance right. Initially what I found helpful was to not obsess too much about likeness when I was just starting to learn the basics about portraiture like the Loomis Method and anatomy. And I think as a beginner it can be very liberating to draw faces of strangers so you don't feel the need to make your drawing to look exactly like the reference. With that said, I think drawing the likeness well without using a grid depends on your ability to draw the basic structure well in terms of basic shapes (such as using the loomis method), knowing the basic proportions of the average face, and identifying how a particular face differs from those average proportions. If you're interested, I wrote a blog post about tips for drawing the likeness in portraits if you're interested bingedrawing.com/portrait/tips-for-improving-likeness/ I hope this is semi-helpful to you. Good luck and have fun drawing! 🍀
Ive been looking at the loomis method too lately 😁.. Helps me actually place my drawings on the page! Your style is really nice btw, I like the combining of the shadow shapes.
Such a helpful video! Thank you for walking us through the different methods. I have a clearer understanding on how to approach things now! I hope you will continue with more videos. Seeing your progress and hearing your thinking regarding your process is appreciated. ☺️
@courtneyfarley3152 You're most welcome 😊 I'm glad I was able to help you in a small way. I just finished recording footage for my next video. Will probably edit tomorrow and upload on Friday. 🤞🏼 Thanks for the kind words 😊 🙏
Stumbled upon your website a good while ago and i found it super helpfull, i didn't realise you had YT channel. YT algorithm came through, so glad you have a channel! Also great style!
@simonjohnson3106 I'm planing to do a draw with me video about sculptures probably end of next month 🙂 My next video is about how I shade my drawings and I'll be discussing the materials and shading techniques in that video. Recording the footage in the next couple of days and hopefully it will be edited and uploading by Friday 😊🤞🏼 Thanks for the suggestion and kind words! 🙏 💌
Awesome Videos!!! Links in your description- AWESOME Exercise 1: Drawing sculptures Exercise 2: The Bargue method (COPY) Exercise 3: Skull practice Exercise 4: The Loomis head Exercise 5: The Bridgman head cube Exercise 6: Master studies
realy good tips! actualy make so much sense that is more easy to my brain understand face shapes when i´m not drawing a human face. (plus: what a exotic pencil grip you have, brother)
Thank you! ☺🙏 I know I have a weird way of holding the pencil and I'm actually trying to get used to gripping the pencil further away from the tip to draw more loosely. But, old habits I guess 😅
@@ammardraws Oh! Well you must stop feeling insecure because you have a lovely voice =) It’s quite relaxing actually. I hope you will continue to make your videos 🙏🌻✍️
I've always admired drawings of statues but never thought of drawing them feeling they're rather outdated!🤪and of course difficult. But the way you said how it helps you see the face objectively- form, light and shadow, etc.... It kind of clicked! I downloaded some free Loomis/method books from an online library. I can print the exercise sheets that I want to make give it a try myself. So do you start with Ex.1 and only work on that for while? What was the order of you routine? Also, your drawings are very good. You are talented. Thank you very much for this inspirational video. By the way the woman you're drawing at the end of the video looks cuter than the one on the phone.😂
Thanks so much! 😊 I just studied each chapter of the loomis book (except for the part about drawing hands, I'm still procrastinating on that) and just recreated the step by step drawings as I went along. To reinforce what I learned, I also practiced drawing the loomis head from photo references using the book as a guide. Hope you get some nice practice!
@hoopyfrood4391 oh wow. That's something on my bucket list when I travel. Unfortunately not many sculptures around where I live. Would love to sketch David in person some day 😊
@@ammardraws That would be awesome! I am lucky enough to live about a fifteen minute drive to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Lots of sculpture to draw from.
@@ammardraws oh just take your time! I'm just asking because you did recommend a lot of useful books about the portrait drawing and they're really helpful so I wanted if you could talk about it in other fields too 😁
@misterhope5241 You're most welcome 😊 It's a portrait of Princess De Broglie that I found on Pinterest. Not entirely sure of the painter though. You can check the link in the description for the exact reference.
@quickmaff9349 I like to blend the shading a lot and that gives the drawing a bit of softness. I think I'll share my shading process in my next video so that might help you get a better idea 🙂
I love them. Especially the white one. I like how they feel in the hand, the buttery texture, the convenience of the built in eraser, oh and they look a mazing. A bit pricey to be honest though 🙂✏️
@iHyRisk thanks so much! I plan to publish more posts in the blog once I figure out a routine that works for RU-vid. For now I'm pivoting more towards RU-vid because lately it's been really hard to get an audience from search with a standalone blog. Appreciate your feedback 😊 🙏
I switched from sketchbooks to cheap a4 papers a while back because I was being too precious with my drawings. I actually like the smooth texture that you get with these and I buy the 90 or 110 gram paper stacks so I can make some corrections without ruining the drawing. 🙂
Not sure exactly which one you're referring to but I mostly use one of these: -Blackwing -Faber castell (9000 series) -Faber castell mechanical (TK fine) -Cretacolor monolith woodless pencil (only use this occasionally because I find it hard to get a sharp point). 🙂
