Ian Fenelley should do a Theo Yi Chie style sketch! (I guess what I’m trying to say is: While I applaud your efforts to try new things, Theo, I think you have a fabulous and original style all your own.)
Ian Fennely’s work is so funky and full of personality. Glad to watch your version....thanks! I have been trying to do Ian’s style and it is definitely a challenge.
I think it's great you are trying new things and sharing it with us. I love your approach to urban sketching but I also know as an artist it is fun to learn new things by trying new things. I'm totally going to try Ian Fennelly's style of lining after painting just to see what I can learn too. :)
Ian Fennelly has been inspiring alot of sketchers lately. I wish he had more online video content, like you do, for people who cannot attend a symposium
That's great, he's quite good this Teoh character isn't he? 😉😀 Perhaps the best book for information and inspiration is 'The Art of Urban Sketching' by Gabriel Campanario (founder of Urban Sketching). Well worth taking a look and getting if you can. It's a big book, really inspiring and very good value for money. Good luck with your sketching, enjoy!
Awesome Teoh! Loving the loose style! Watching it all unfold as you go is amazing! Thank you for sharing the beautiful artwork of Ian Fennelly- will check it out!
To me, this is a perfect drawing. I loved the result. I didn't think the greys were too dark at all. Gave amazing contrast and weight to the buildings. And the line weight was also good. Made the buildings pop. No need to emphasise the watercolour.
I will be urban sketching with Ian Fennelly next year in a small town in Germany and really looking forward to it. You have done a super job but your own unique style still comes through Teoh.
Thank you so much ! I learnt to sketch with your channel. Sketching becomes easier with your vidéos. It is very interesting to analyze other sketchers' techniques. I wish for another videos like this one. Thank you again !
Omg, I JUST discovered him a few day ago and can't believe he hasn't put out an artbook yet. His art is so beautiful and I was thinking it would be so cool if you put out a video profiling him and other urban sketchers we should know about. Perfect birthday present, thanks!!
I love the sketches. Could you do one with only ballpoint pen to show how everyone can draw well and you dont need special pens. Loving the content keep it up!
Thank you, Theo. Btw, former USSR Art makers still use a standard sizing for the paint brushes. The number on the handle tells the diameter of the heal/ferrule of the brush (not the belly) in mm. So it is easy to buy what you need.
I like the process and have tried it. It does take planning but the results u get the lines do pop in my drawings. I like his drawings a lot. Thanks Teoh’
I didn't even know Mr Fennelly was such a well known artist 😂 he taught art at my primary school and it's only now I looked him up and saw his massive fan base 😂😂
I love his artwork and have not had the courage to try but after watching your video, I might just give it a go! I’m more of a Pencil>Pen>Watercolour person... Thanks for this video!!!
Teoh, I like when your describing your thought process . The good and the not so good. Your sketches always fascinate me and they are truly terrific. As always thanks for all you do. Your friend in Tallahassee, Florida.
One thing that I've noticed it's that he always lives the sky blank, so he uses blue to pop up another areas of the sketch. That brings attention and interestingness to specific areas of the drawing, I think it's very clever.
Hey I just bought the visual journal (it’s smaller than that) today at hobby lobby! I wanted to try a different type of paper than constantly buying masters touch brand. I used my birthday money.
Yeah when you ink on top of watercolors, the ink line is bolder due to the watercolors filling in the pours/channels of the paper. And, as you've learned you need to use a fineliner pen to bring the piece together. Ian also uses tombow dual brush pens before inking to define depth, corners, and structure. Thanks for the video Teoh!
Something to note is that despite the name, 48:4 is not the most lightfast pigment. It's not rated by the ATSM, but on the BWS it is about 5 or 6 out of 8 in tints. It's permanent when compared to the other varieties of the pigment, but really it is good or fair rather than excellent as one might think when they see the word "permanent."
Thank you Teoh for sharing your great work, as usual. The title is misleading as you decided in the middle that it's hard to replicate Ian's style. It's definately is, but maybe you should give it a serious try. Big shapes only with pencil, large blended vibrant watercolor areas, light brush pen, the fine dark details. Keep it up!
I like it Teoh. Have you pulled this out after being away now for a while, and see what you think? The bold look is nice as a change. I agree that maybe more wash in hindsight knowing now what would be covered by gray tone. Good to try new things.
Though i like your art better, i like when you use fennelly as an influence because you left more room for white areas in your sketch and it looks great. It's like your eye can take a breath and the contrast is nice as well. :)
Thanks for sharing another great video, you help make sketching achievable. I would love to have a go with your referance photo, but cannot locate the video link to it?
Very nice work inspried by Ian, I like how your using the graphite to sketch, would you consider this a lose sketching type or tight? I do like the natural colors here. this is sherbear,
Beautiful work! Looking at Ian’s Instagram, it seems like maybe he does some shading with ink lines (eg crosshatching) and other inking techniques. It’d be interesting to see this painting done again with that in mind instead of brush pens. Nevertheless, I learn something from every one of your videos. Thank you for all of your hard work!
Ian Fennelly makes much more use of lines, his work looks more like a drawing than a painting. But he does use brush pens in grey tones for shading, before drawing in ink.
@@EstrafaDC I use a couple different brush pens with L. Gray. One more diluted than the other. It's great for blocking out shadow areas, particularly out of doors as a alternative to water-soluble graphite. Some ink will block your brush pen up but I guess since LG is made for fountain pens, that hasn't been an issue.
By 7:10 I thought that it was a bit of a disaster but quite happily I was proven wrong when the fine tipped pen was used and further detail added and it turned out to be a fantastic watercolour. I love the loose style where details are far from perfect but the end result is very nice indeed.
This is more like a Fenelly riff on your own style than a Fenelly style sketch, which is great. It is still recognisably yours and as usual in the last moments everything pulled together. I don't think the thicker lines detracted, but maybe you were wanting to get the slightly more delicate effect that Fenelly achieves? I like how you spiralled off into using your own familiar triedandtested things to get a result you were ok with. I just got a couple of those lamey style brush pens, couldn't get the gorgeous yellow mine are a space grey metal body, just as good value. Do you have a grey and a black ink you would recommend, and how did your brushpen fare?
Well, that was fun! It’s definitely more a Teoh than a Fennelly 😊 In some ways, your styles are quite different. You’re both very expressive, and graphic. But Ian would have built up his image by drawing many small details. You style is much more painterly and impressionistic.
when you do an underpainting in say, oil, the idea is youre drawing, but instead of a pencil youre using your paintbrush. i wonder if this could be applied to watercolour. might even be what this ian guy does, I probably should have checked out his process before writing this.
