Field Sketching Basics 

This was absolutely brilliant. I started just listening then ended up taking notes and I'll definitely be watching it again. Can't thank you enough.

Thank you John, that was brilliant. It was everything you needed to know and nothing you didn't. There's only one thing left to do - put it into practice!

The part about Cyan and Magenta as primary colors for mixing blew my mind. Thank you.

Now i gonna do 15 drawings and only THEN watch another your video. Thank you so much and really great classes.

I’m loving the idea of a nature journal Thankyou. Page 1 started today. What a great summer activity.

Just discovered your videos and bought your book today. Such great lectures. Just 30 mins in to the bird video and I already doubled my knowledge of bird anatomy. Thanks!

Hi John... you forgot to put the link to the illustrator in the notes... you got me curious :P I really like the way you explain things. Quite a gift for teaching. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you so much John, you are a dynamic and generous teacher. you give me a good motivation for sketching.

John I love your videos I agree 100% Thanks for all what you do

Thanks for making me look insane in front of people! Just kidding! The part about speaking my observations out loud was a game-changer for me. I was able to remember details in a lizard long after he left his hot rock. You're an amazing instructor and illustrator, thanks for posting your videos!

Thank you so much for posting your lectures. This stuff is so fascinating and helpful.

This video was worth every minute. Loved it. Thanks for posting.

Thank you so much for this...

I just discovered your videos and have really enjoyed them and has inspired me to get out there and sketch. I also looked for the Prismacolor copy-not pencil and my local art store only had colorase blue or Staedtler non-photo-blue pencil. It seems work very well like you showed with the prismacolor the only this it erases well with white vinyl eraser. Do you have any opinion or thoughts on the pencil

I wish I lived by you so I could go to your classes

The problem or challenge with mixing paint colors is rooted in the fact that your eye is seeing a range of visible light, but your paint is made of pigment, not light. This seams rather obvious now that I've stated it, but how we describe and categorize color, it is not often thought of as light energy. Painting is an effort to replicate a visual interpretation of light entering the eye. Consequently, paint colors are limited by the pigments that you start with. This is especially true of watercolors. A palette of red, yellow, and blue is very limiting and not very natural looking. As you mentioned in regards to red, I had to go buy a madder rose watercolor in order to get the final hue I was searching for. No amount of mixing with red produced a bright pink.

Speed speed speed! I do birds from my backyard .They grab seeds from my feeder and fly off . I think they know what I'm doing.

I have more of a question than a comment. I understand there is a distinct difference in Journalling with drawings vs detailed drawings - which obviously take more time and discipline. When do you choose one over the other and which is harder. I find sketching in the loose fast way is requiring more discipline and is harder for me to achieve Any tips on how to loosen up more?

Beginner here, how do I do the pencil sketch and not smear my page and drawing? The blue was fine and then as I worked in the graphite I made a huge mess.

And that is why people talk to themselves.:)

Where are the notes on the digital illustrator?

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