I just bought some oil pastels and was watching some following along tutorials on RU-vid. They used a blending stump but I didn't have one, now thanks to your video I made my own that works great! 🙂
Wow this was like a year ago but yet probs the best thing I have learned to make in 2021 its Fantastic! I am trying it now I will let yall know if it works.......So bye for now! 😏 Nvm it works rlly well tysm I was just about to spend 14 pound on like 30 of those tysm!
Thanks for showing how to make these! The ones I bought get dirty so fast and even after cleaning them the way instructe they are still dirty and smudge too dark. It's great to know how to make my own!!
Edit: I rewatched the video and realized he suggested photo copy paper opposed to photo paper so I guess it's safe to say the Canson XL paper is being extra. Keeping up the original post as a lesson learned, it's okay to misunderstand as long as you are willing to continue trying to understand. * * * I tested 3 different stump tutorials tonight and this one is by far my favorite. The blends look like watercolor on regular printer paper I can't wait to try this in my nice sketchbook. I ended up using a piece of canson xl mixed media paper since I figured it would have a similar weight to a nice photo paper and I think it served me well. For folks that don't have photo paper try finding a thicker soft paper (think cardstock). It may not loose the tape as willingly as photo paper but it can save you a trip to the store. Thank you for sharing your knowledge you've got a new subscriber in me. 😁
In fact using a piece of board or photo paper may just work great because it is a bit more rigid than standard photocopy paper. I will have to test that myself :)
The title of this video doesn't begin to describe all the invaluable tips, instructions and knowledge its packed with! Wow, thank you so much for really going above and beyond and delivering!! Straight to the "point" I might add! Especially in a world FULL of clickbait and nonsense!
Thank you, excellent tutorial. I’m intrigued with your accent. We just watched The Last Kingdom and your accent is just like Uhtred who was Saxon and Dane. Viking clipped words. May I ask what you consider your accent, what your first language is?
Thank you! 😃I was born in South Africa which has 11 official languages each with their own accents. My accent is an English speaking South African accent.
@@PaintBasket you are right about different accents. My dear friend was raised in South Africa and has a more British accent but with just enough odd twist that people ask her too.
This is a great video. Very useful information! Your accent and speech patterns and the use of certain words remind me of home. Whereabouts are you from, roughly?
It looks like he goes from dark to light shade when blending. Is it better than going light to dark or does it not really matter? It would seem to me that going dark to light would darken the whole section overall, but I’m an amateur lol
You normally work from light to dark when drawing, but when you are blending with the stump you are using existing graphite on the paper to blend with. As a result you need to start from the darker area which has excess graphite which you then blend into the lighter area.
Great tutorial. I do that with newspapers( I am cheap, but there's the risk of the ink smudging your drawings. ) I also appreciated your frugality about trimming the paper to reuse. Thank you.
I really appreciate this tutorial! Not only did you teach me what I came for, I left with even more knowledge than I had about something I didn't even know I'd learn about?! I had no clue that different pencils like that would help reduce overworking the paper. I have a pencil currently thats a 2H pencil, and when I read about blending years and years ago they made it sound like the pencils were just for different artist levels. 😂 I think the book must have thoroughly confused me there; and so I only used one or two pencil grades, cause I thought "I only need one type of pencil to draw really good details until I get better" 😂😂 This sounds so silly, but granted I'm only 22 and a hobby artist 😅 Live and learn 😂😂
It is funny though cause I do remember learning about blending with different textures, however. I think that this explains why I struggled today when I tried to get back into trying realism and shading 😅
I am glad the lesson helped you. What I suggest you do is watch this video on my drawing channel where I explain about the different grades of pencils: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Nczcbmyat4I.html It part of a free drawing course so you are welcome to follow the rest of the lessons as well :) Good luck
Blending with a stump is always a gentle process as you are simply moving loose graphite on the paper to a new area, or using it to smooth out existing graphite. If you find you are wanting to press harder on the stump, that is you signal to use a pencil instead :)
