How to Draw Trees & Buildings, What Pencils Should You Use 

You are very good at explanning thé processus you are my favorite teacher. Sorry for my english cause i am french

I don’t think I will ever get bored of watching you draw. You are a master!

As usual, your mastery over drawing,( specially landscapes) is commendable. I really liked the accompanying commentary. Your honest and frank tips are worth their weight in gold(of course,mainly to serious art students). This particular landscape is totally mesmerising.

excellent drawing, I lieke the way you draw the trees, wish I could learn to do it your way, thank you very much for your channel Smoothie77 and all the inspiration you give to all of us..

Solid advice. When I was younger an arty friend talked me into buying this big derwent graphics set, with harness going to at 9h, think I never used anything harder than 3h, the rest of the hard range is gathering dust under in my pencilbox.

Beautiful drawing as always. What I love the most is how you draw trees, it's magic.

your drawing ,brings tears of joy (at least) to my eyes.I wish i had the money to buy them all.Keep up the excellent work sir.

Lovely to see you drawing again! Your details never cease to amaze. Take care dear one.

@smoothie77 Thanks for this video! I’ve missed seeing your drawings and I’ve been watching your old videos over and over! Keep up the good work because you inspire me so much to keep drawing!

John 20 April 2020 Thank you again smoothie 77 ,your drawing technique is amazing I love it.

Very nice indeed. I have a lot to learn. Not quite sure how to proceed with my very novice beginner landscape drawings. Fabulous to have found your channel.

It's good to see you with something different and basic to draw it gives us all hope and inspiration . An amazing talent 👍👍👍👍

awesome video...masterful as always smoothie

See you working is mesmerizing! That hills show up like magic :) Thank you for inspire us every day! Virtual hugs from Uruguay

Absolutely fantastic

Incredible!

Outstanding as always. Man would I love to see you pick up a paint brush and a set of oils to see what kind of a landscape painting you could knock out of the park!

You talent is absolutely amazing. Wow

Oohhh my God. Beautiful. Parabéns professor. Pura perfeição. Essas obras de arte me inspiram muito e me fazem voltar no meu tempo de criança. Show

Excellent work! I am going to be buying my art supplies through your links whenever I can. It's the least i can do. Take care of yourself!

This beautiful Jon, it really does remind me of the Yorkshire dales which I loved. I actually think it looks better than the reference photo

You answered a lot of questions I had here Thank You. Also absolutely amazing drawing. I hope I get as good as you one day. As for pencils I actually went about buying the 12 pencil pack that was all the same degree. The problem there is I ended up with too many pencils or at least too many for me. I’ll probably just sell those and keep the sets I have. I have the Staedtler 24 set and 3 of their 12 sets plus tons of carbon and charcoal pencils. Those ought to see me through getting better and then some. Im not an expert at all though. Now all thats left is to practice.

Just one word, Awesome

Absolutely brilliant I was a bit worried not heard from you in a while

This looks SO REAL! I have Mitsubishi Uni, I am interested that you consider them "soft" I think I would like a softer lead. It would possibly not allow me to get the detail I'm seeing you doing here.

I've had the same problems with two Derwent sets, 5H-6B and H-9B. I also have problems with the weak leads snapping off with very little pressure in the darker grades.

Thank you for sharing

Awesome experience

Very nice sir.

You should create your own website.

I'm really enjoying your videos and learning a lot. How do you deal with graphite shine?

What gsm paper do use please.. love watching you draw and listen to you talk. Thank you for sharing.

Hi Jon, great work as usual 💖 Question: how long did it take to complete this piece? Thanks

Two or three things: 1. What type paper is being used in this drawing? I am finding that on buildings with fine detail smooth works best for me. 2. I was surprised to hear the "grade range" usually used. Guess my "b" dominant range may need to be rethought. I have usually used wood pencils, noticed the use of mechanics a lot in this drawing. I have been using them some lately. I find them a whole new discipline, but like them. Hard to make an old dog use new tricks!

Also, when do we use clutch pencils( lead holders) and when do we use wood pencils. Can we only use clutch pencils?

Hello, can you asnwer a question? Where do you find these images to draw? I can't seem to find myself anything as good as the images you find and draw.

¿Dibuja sobre una mesa (horizontal) o sobre un caballete (vertical)?... gracias, es Usted un Artista.

Can I ask do you work on your drawings on a flat surface or do you use an angled easel ?

Thank you for this video. Do you ever do insects, animals, or plant videos?

Derwent import their Graphite now, it's not mined in Borrowdale anymore.

A lot about what pencils to use but not much about \drawing the landscape. HOW DID YOUGET THE STONE WALL? A nice picture but not enough sketching information.

What brand and weight of paper are you using?... thank you

Please read this whole comment. Solid advice. You should seriously have courses on Udemy. The reason why you only have 32.8 K subscribers isn't because you don't have good content( no seriously you have the best content ever) it is because not many people knows about your channel. Like millions of people around the world knows about Udemy for graphic design and drawing courses so if you have courses on Udemy, Jeez, I can't even imagine how popular your courses would be and how much income would you get. Please for the sake of god and yourself, please have paid courses on Udemy(not free courses)( a lot of people are going to pay your courses even if it is super expensive since the content is super duper super duper awesome.) Please apply this to your to-do list and probably( I mean definitely) your channel would rock and fly to 400K or even 900K also your Udemy account would have at least 20,000(this is a huge number of student even though having 20K subscribers on youtube isn't that much because imagine 20,000 * 199$ which is the average fee for one course = 3,980,000$ or even 100,000 students which is 100,000* 199$ = 19,900,000$) (even though Udemy has the courses on sale for only 19$ but you would earn 199$). Also, it is better to have courses STRUCTURALIZED( from level 1 beginner to level 2 intermediate then to level 3 advanced and to level 4 expert). I'm NOT a person from Udemy advertising trying to convince gg. I'm just a student trying to learn art and has sympathy on you that you have only 32K subscribers. I really want that number to increase and also develop my art skills. Also, from a student's perspective, I find it hard to commit to your tutorials because they are not structuralized and I also hope you could explain your methods of doing it like in a course instead of tutorials. Also, because alot of people around the world don't have access to Patreon but want to pay your tutorials.

If you were in prison and were allowed one pencil and one paper, what would they be?