How to Draw Landscapes, The Hay Wain after John Constable 

That is beautiful. Funny, but I've been drawing, painting, etc., for almost sixty years, but I'm still addicted to watching art videos. Even ones aimed at beginners because I seem to learn something new every week. There was no available internet and no RU-vid for most of my life, and I wonder if new artists know how extremely lucky they are to have such a resource? Anyway, the time factor is where I see a lot of beginners fail. When something doesn't work in an hour or two, or ten or twenty, they give up. They don't seem to realize how long it can take even an expert, professional artist to get a drawing right, let alone a painting. I have a friend who's is a wonderful woodcarver. He carved a horse a couple of years ago, and it was only about fourteen inches long, but it took him six months to get it right. Patience may be even more important than talent. I don't really know him, but I met a woodcarver at a local show several years ago who does incredibly complex, stunningly beautiful works of art of birds and landscape that seemingly are alive. The kicker is that he was blind. Needless to say, it takes him a very, very long time to create one of these wonderful wo0rks of art. Most would have quit when they lost their eyesight. I suspect I would have. But he didn't, and even though it took years,, and even though each creation can take two or three years, he kept going. Patience is a virtue. A necessary virtue, if you want to succeed.

Stunning. Thank you.

That is a magnificent drawing. Dare I say it, I think I prefer it over Constable's original painting.

WOW!! Your GREAT smoothie77! The basic outline of the drawing was far, far better than anything that I could ever do! I think that there is something therapeutic about someone recapturing in detail pictures in drawings and paintings. Thank you so much for posting!

Talking about the roof tiles reminded me of a modelmaker I came across some years ago. He made scale models of things like castles which you will know were built out of blocks of stone. Originally he would try to represent all of the stones in a wall. But realising what a mammoth task this was he decided that instead of representing all of the stone blocks he would just add enough for the person viewing the castle to see that the walls were made of stones. So you would get a patch of five or six stones in the middle of the wall along with a few at the corners rather than the whole wall. The human mind would fill in the blanks. I do wonder how many people would later be convinced that the while wall was covered in stones.

ive just done an oil painting of this , as you said a bucket list memory to do

Smoothie I hate to repeat myself but any time I look at trees that you draw it makes me envious. And I say to myself 'work hard and who knows maybe one day mine will be at least half that beautiful'. You are the best and of course I admire not only the trees 😀. great drawing

Impressive👍

40-50 hours you said? Wow ... and with such meticulous attention and patience. I'm always amazed!

This is BRILLIANT, KEEP DOING THIS

Superb details!

Putting Constable aside, your above artwork is really wonderful and shows your mastery of pencil artwork! Thanks for sharing.

Oh wow 😯 love the depth in your drawings and detailing goes without saying

Hi Smoothie 77 , Big Thank you People are so Small Minded, it's the only way to Learn. Learning from the Masters that's why they are the Masters, I've Learnt so much from Buying Books of the Masters from Caravaggio to Drew Struzan. A Big Thank you, More Please, Best wishes, David.

This is superb!!!....brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!!!!

That is a fantastic rendering of 'The Hay Wain'... I love Constable's paintings, and if you ever get chance to learn about them in more detail, they are truly fascinating! (a lot of them ended up with changes made to the original figures/animals). They were a huge favorite of my Nan, she had prints of them all around her living room walls, and they remind me so much of those fond memories... Thanks for that, and once again, excellent job! :) xxx

Thanks for putting this video up smoothie, I just started drawing this painting and then noticed you had done it too, great job ☺

cant stop watching the result, so beautiful.

That amazing work love it

I'm amazed how you proportion everything. You have an incredibly accurate eye.

Beautiful Constable painting. Exquisite detailed drawing. Great video with most helpful advice. Thank you! 🙋🏻

you are a very fine artist , just getting back to drawing after forty years and these drawings have realy spured me on

Wow!!!

amazing drawing of a masterpiece!

amazing drawing! im always impressed by the great detail and on a small scale. well done!

Wonderful piece Jon, thank you for sharing! I love the trees in this one:-) There are so many wonderful surprises in this one, I just love it so much!!!

Smoothie, this is SO good!! I really love how you experiment with different ideas and you're never set on just one type of landscape! One of the greatest I think is John Constable - always wanted to go to Flatford Mill. Absolutely brilliant! Keep them coming, please!

Exelent drawing thumbs thumbs thumbs 👌👌👌👌👌

Love this drawing. You are a true talent.

Thanks smoothie I love John Constables work it's a pleasure to watch you. Doing even though it's greatly edited I

Absolutely beautiful, you are more than a master you are an excellent teacher, too. Well done.

Wooonderful!!!

Wow nice job great detail

Amazing

Oh wauw!! John Constable!! Great fan of him and you did an excellent job (also with the horses Hahahaha) Love it! ;)

Again you've inspired me to attempt Master John Constables marvelous "Hay Wain". Your technique is wonderful. I'm at the moment working on an image from my boat a lake scene with huge billowing clouds...and thanks to you for the inspiration if watercolour/Pencil.

Simplesmente amo essas obras maravilhosas. Meu amigo, eu fico sem palavras. Lindo demais parabéns professor show 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Smoothie - you da man!

Excellent drawing there Smoothie, Really like the way you done Willie Lott's cottage, I read once that the small building at the front of the cottage was the outside toilet, and Constable put that small tree in front of it to cover it up ..lol, anyway, Nothing wrong with copying the masters, It's a good way to learn, I've done the same in the past, Another one of Constables I done years ago was "Boat-Building near Flatford Mill" (used to do oils then, but not anymore) but like you, just for my on benefit. Stay happy and keep drawing....

Oh as soon as I knew last week that this was what we were going to be doing I was so excited, as you know I just love constable and while at 11 I thought I would love to do something like that I never dreamt it would happen, not in oils of course. Your right about patreon I've made some really good friends on there and although I will never meet them I feel I know them so well. Of course all the videos help too and I know I've improved so much since I joined you on there, fantastic teaching

Fantastic sir.

Great video, Great drawing , have the hay wain in my sitting room unfortunately not the real one😊

Fantastic, always a beautiful job :)

Lovely video smoothie! 👏👏 Nicely drawn and I doubt Constable would disagree! 😁

This really is beautiful😊

I cant see why anyone would be against copying old masters. That just doesnt make sense. They are fools if they think so. It's the best and only way to learn art.

I am an oil painter myself and I have painted the hay wain 3 times. Two 30x20cm ones, and a very large one which is almost the size of the original. I can say you have done an excellent job here. Even though you don't have to worry about colour, only values, it still seems difficult to do it by pencil, specially the trees. Excellent job! My only criticism is the perspective of the lake shore near the house is a little off and the sky's values are a bit off. Other than that.... Excellent

Simplesmente admirável, não me canso de assistir seus vídeos. Parabéns professor show 👏👏👏.

"Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees." The Robert Irwin book which every painter and draftsman should read.

Brilliant work, must try more old masterpieces like Turner if you have the time👍

I like the constable painting my parents had the painting over the fireplace in living room, I spent many hours just looking at the painting sometimes it was better than watching the TV. enjoyed your work please can you do a Canaletto painting :)

i wish i had the money,so i can pay you to draw for me.you 're just amazing.

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Thank

Fantastic, can I ask how you maintain the patience not to rush, as this is an issue for me, I start off slow and then lose focus.

Hi. Wish you would notice my comment. May I know where do you get this kind of reference? Is it royalty free image? Pls reply

Hi Jon: the trees are so gorgeous but you showed them to us after you had done them. In the future, when you have a chance can you show us how you did them, please. Your trees are always beautiful, still these are the best so far. Thank you.

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Smoothie, have you ever worked with Caran D'Ache graphite pencils? Their Luminance coloured pencils I believe are top notch but I haven't heard much about their graphite pencils.

It's me again Jon, watching this 2 times in a row because I can't stay away from the gorgeous trees. When you do this kind of trees again - and I wish you will soon - will you be so kind to have a close up and slowly for a few seconds so I can see the movements of your hand and the strokes you make so that I can imitate it? Thank you in advance. If I can learn only one thing from you, that'll be to draw those trees. nga

Hi. How can I find your video completely?

Hi Smoothie, is it possible for you to upload some of your pencil drawing courses to Udemy?

Are you drawing in canvas paper ??

My nan had it on her wall too .must have been a nan thing lol

👆 this is Amazing beautiful

Great drawing, but i like it more if you dont make cuts, but just let the Video run in double or trible speed. Do you know what i mean?