How I got FASTER at PORTRAIT DRAWING 

The big pick up from this video for me…..don’t still be getting proportions right at the 120th minute. 👍🏻

A few years ago, I used to go to the local public library to do "5 minutes sketches" of kids who gathered there after school. The kids were eager to sit for me because they got the sketch when I was finished. Believe me, you have to hustle to do a sketch in a few minutes. But, It was good experience/practice for me. I developed some ways to simplify the process that have stuck with me.

3:24. You are correct it is rewarding to get the Block in stage looking very very close to a likeness. A game that I played with myself is to draw a quick portrait from imagination. And so tired before that I just draw the basic shapes you know age Circle a square a rectangle ellipses I meatspin about 5, 6,7 sheets of paper just doing that just to get warmed up.

Your videos are such a helpful tool to learn, thank you so much for your time and effort, and… not needed to say, but the sketch was also gorgeous, I loved it!

Great video. It is exactly what i needed. Specially the quote , the work expands to fills the time. I could take so long in some drawings and half of that for other as complex.

Beautiful, keep going the good work ❤️

Amazing.

Really great video and superb drawing. Thank you very much🙏

the fact that am learning too much just from dis videos

I could watch Stephen draw portraits all day just see how he captures someone's personality so well... That is what I my am thriving for

Great and helpful tips! Thank you so much

thanks for sharing ...very inspirational and important information that you imparted.

I’m picking up drawing again and it took 7 sketches before I started seeing progress and I got there much faster than I had in the past following this counsel. Thank you 🙏

Liked and Subscribed. Phenomenal.

Beautiful drawing👍😍

1:43 that has been our process exactly I have been in situations with myself where I quit on a drawing but I kept showing everyday these past three weeks and I find myself getting better faster not throwing my old drawings away but just starting all over again and getting better at studying and better at observation. Do I felt like throwing some of the old work away yes I do but I realized that I need to keep it some type of track. So I keep all of my work now. I get it in my head that hate I may have to draw a thousand heads maybe 7000 heads starting with myself portrait. It is actually a therapeutic thing for me when I draw and get into it that mood of drawing, that's space of drawing. And of course watching different videos and learning the different ways to approach always helps I understand now that I can begin anywhere I wish on a drawing. But the number one principle I tried to keep in mind his always make sure you relate forms of the face with other phones on the face otherwise there will be noticeable ambiguities.

great advice, thanks!

Quality info. Thank you, take care, X

love your videos 🥰

Very informative. Just what I was hoping to learn as I am just getting started doing commissioned work.

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I learn a lot from you and thank you for your hard work❤️❤️🌹

for a person that learned drawing by watching tutorial. thanks you are one of my inspiration 😊💪godbless keep inspiring people

beautiful

Amazing video!

당신의 그림은 정말 아름답네요. 과하지 않고, 터치가 살짝 있으며, 빛을 효과적으로 뭉쳐 잘 빼는 모습이 인상적입니다. 오늘 일요일에 본 그림들 중 제 마음에 제일 드네요~~

Thanks for the video. Back around 2,000, I met a portrait artist in the Washington DC mall. He did full-color pastel or pencil portraits in an hour or less and they looked great. I asked how he got to be so fast and accurate and he said it was from just doing it all day, every day for a year. He said he was super stressed that first year because it took him so long and people were sitting there getting restless but he kept at it and after a year, he said he could look at a person's face and feel like he had already drawn them and it became almost automatic. But to be able to get into a position where you can even go that first year is not easy without support! I'm taking forever to get these pencil portrait commissions done because I work all day long, 6-7 days a week. It's my own business of rescreening pool cages in the SW Florida heat and humidity and it wipes me out so, I have no energy ever to work on these things. I used to turn a portrait around in three days or less when I wasn't working so much and I definitely notice how quickly I get into the groove when I have plenty of time but it takes a calm energy to draw, for me anyway and I'm always in hyper-mode because of the intensity of my job. I took today off to try and finish this one portrait for which a man paid me over one year ago! He has been very patient to say the least.

Stick to one medium...is the lesson definitely learnt recently in a hard way...after trying many media for portraits...like pastels, oils, watercolours etc...finally settled with pencil and charcoal...which is much simpler to get the finesse of proportions and likeness which most important than colour

Thanks

I don't know why, but I find human faces so challenging. I've tried everything from the Loomis technique to constructing and measuring. The thing is, you can't do something once and expect to be proficient at it. There are days when I think, "Okay, I've got it," and then weeks pass without a proper drawing. So, I guess I just have to keep going. It's reassuring to hear that even a professional artist like you struggled with this for a long time.

"Block-in bootcamp"...gotta check that out.

Amazing Drawing #Hyperrealistic #drawing #colored #art

Loved your video last month about how importing design applications from drawing into your painting practice and how that has lended you some additional vitality there. I wonder if you've ever inverted this formula? That is, making drawing more painterly. I don't fully know what that would look like, maybe drybrush with graphite or charcoal powder. Or maybe even putting mineral spirits to the powder. Curious if you'll ever try this! Wonder too, if this might have a 'speed-up' more immediate effect, similar to an oil block-in

The blocking in planes is definitely faster and more accurate than the Reilly or other shape drawing methods. (I do planes as the drawing progresses, so out of order to you, but still perhaps even faster.) I watch people using those other methods and they almost never capture the likeness in the initial drawing. They get it, instead, in the finishing touches, if at all, and it takes them hours, where I get the entire ready-ro-paint drawing done within the hour (not more than 2 for a large piece), often 20 to 30 minutes for an 8 x 11. The major problem most have is going over the same lines again and again and again, which drives me crazy to watch. Get the line down with confidence and fix bad lines once.

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I have fallen into digital colouring, and Im REALLY good at it, but no matter how small the project....2 hrs is really that magical number it honestly takes to create something... and it actually be good. ive tried to get “Faster” and I have and I am.....but 2 hrs is really it. ive tried And if you take less time.....youll look at the final result and tinker.....and it will STILL add up to that 2hrs. When I finish a colour job and hit 2 hrs and its done, I feel like a formula 1 driver and that I accomplished it SO FAST

I think I draw best doing portraits with graphite and I do it pretty quick but I love using marker and colored pencils isn't that something else

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Or go and do the Charles Bargue course best explained in New Masters Academy and it is one of the most useful subscription I have paid for. They literally have everything you might want as an artist.

Please tell the type of pencils u used

اعجبني الفيديو رغم اني لا اتكلم الانجليزيه شكرا لك اتمنى لو تترجم فيديوهاتك للعربية

Posibilidad de subtitulado en español..... en algún video .? Gracias por tanto ¡¡¡ 👏👏🖐

I understand you exactly two hours he's considered fast you think about it I have learned a lot about myself over there last two weeks when I draw from imagination I tend to get something down really really fast that looks human do to practice practice practice in memory learning the facial structures. This has been a journey for me because I had struggled with emotions verses dealing with actuality of the forms that I see. By that I mean I put a lot of pressure on myself to really want to draw some money or something to scale no matter what the original photo look like with you take a lot of skill in my opinion but it can be done with practice observational skills I find it easier for me to just get the overall shape of the head down without putting too much pressure on yourself to make things look detailedly believable at first. It's better that way because at least you get something down on paper because let's face it the canvas is empty until you put something on it. Hope this makes sense to you

NAAAAH AT THE END I SWEAR ITS EYES MOVEED HELL NAAAA

What kind of pen is used and what is it that he erases with?

May I ask what pen did you use?

This is a nice video. Good points. I am wondering what you would produce within 10 minutes in a monochrome portrait? I meet with a group of artists once a month and we pose for one another in a pub timing the portrait work at 10 minutes, this why I am curious as to what you might produce. I work in black conte crayon on a 9x12 inch Stonhenge cotton paper pad. I enjoy conte crayon quite a bit. But it is chunky. Thanks again !

2:16 what are all the shapes and triangles in the faces? im assuming its to trianglute some features? or for shading, and how did u come up with the lines

Beautiful sketch in 2 hours. I have noticed you use graphite for portrait drawing most of the time not charcoal. Any reasons?

Which mechanical pencil is that. I know everyone hates materials questions but curiosity is driving me nuts because I thought it was a tombow pencil but watched you sharpen in the beginning and then saw silver (I thought on the tip).

Gracias por la info a mi me da otro resultado . 3 hs * 5días = 15 hs * 16 semanas = 240 hs. si mal no etendí. Gracias

Great video as always! Can you suggest a good pencil lineup for drawings like this? Ex. Hb/2b/4b/6b. Tyia!

Anyone know what pencil that is?

Sir , give us a shading totourial please

stephens a youtuber now XD 🙌🤙

5:33

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Have you ever tried to draw without a eraser 😅for fun ofcourse..I find it fun..

Another very good video and piece of advice, thanks. Hey, I am registered with your Patreon but I cannot get into my account: I never receive the e-mail from Patreon to reset my password. Any idea about how I coud fix this? I see no other way to contact them. Take care 😄

Does your patreon teach this?

Bruh Timers actually force u to work fast.Set a timer and commit whatever u make to post on social media that just will give u the motivation to work faster and better.

No, fast to me is 20 minutes -with some life in it vs a static photo type image

I want to learn graphite drawing.

Beautiful, keep going the good work ❤️