Let me know which of these tips you liked the best! If you liked this video try How to Draw a Face for Beginners (7 EASY Hacks!) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cbV6TEc_Fjc.html next.
This was so helpful; perspective **is** **the** **one** **thing** that I couldn't figure out, then in 2013 I was majorly injured; but I'm back now and thank you so greatly 😊 Michele! And keeping still was the best tip, for me 👌
Thank you so much for doing these videos. They are each a real treasure for a beginner like myself. The tip in this video that I found to be the very best was how to scale a photo to your drawing or painting. I have a lot of photos from travels of the past and now will be able to use them for watercolors. I am an absolute beginner, have been in isolation for almost 20 months, and will now be able to work on a wide variety of subjects rather than just household subjects. Thanks again for your hard work and great kindness in sharing your knowledge.
@@1msfit I've just found this channel and am feeling the same way as you did at the time of this comment. Well, other than not being at month 20 of total isolation. It's great you've found a way to be constructive in a difficult time, and I hope your art journey has continued forward.
You are one of the strongest resource I’ve seen, your experience as an instructor comes out in all your breakdown.your awesome, listening to you is motivating, clearly helps a beginner like myself, thank you for your work, looking forward to your next one. I’ll keep watching older one’s also to learn more, love what your doing!! John from Indiana
Greatly appreciated your video and enjoyed this as always throughout it's showing many things to achieve amazing details in your paintings and sketches, greatly appreciated Michele for you sharing your talent and calmly explained to inspire others to have ago. Thanks greatly stay safe and healthy
Wonderful Michele, the number of times I’ve made nearly all of the mistakes is untrue but the one I repeat so most often is getting the horizon level and yes I resorted to using a ruler and was still unhappy and now I understand why. Thank you
I took couple of nice landscape pictures during last summer and now it feels like it’s about a time go give them a painting try! 😍 Thank you very much Michele for yet another superb video 😍
The most useful for me right now has been the tip about using a right angle to draw an horizon line and making a dotted line. I have tried it and it has improved my horizons greatly. Thanks, Michelle.
learned more about perspective in this video than I ever learned in school art classes. Michele has a simple way of explaining everything, so the information isn't overwhelming and seems almost easy. Keep those videos coming - you are a wonderful teacher. I'll watch this one again to reinforce things I've learned. Next the building perspective video!
Thank you for a very thorough and informative video. Perhaps the most, I enjoyed the grasses and fence posts illustrations. I have been guilty many times of drawing grasses the same height! Thanks again.
Thanks for posting these there are some very useful tips. I have always wanted to improve my free hand drawing skills and coming from an engineering back ground I’ve struggled with loosening up and suggested details.. if you get what I mean. Some help with using forms and shades to trick the mind into seeing detail such as slates on a roof or stones / bricks in a wall would be great. Windows and doors seen in perspective are also a problem I struggle with. I like your presenting style, it is very clear and easy to understand Best Regards
This was what i was looking for....practical perspective tips. Thank you. Really looking for your perspective tips for urban landscapes. Can't wait for that one. Thank you. Love your videos.
Completely off topic, but hubby and I are working our way through a series of Aerial America, we watched 'Oregon' a couple of nights ago; fabulous scenery! I am just in awe of the sheer size of your state, never mind the whole country!
Yes I have problems with trying to make columns, I'm trying to draw our local historical court house and historical bank they both have columns on them I cant get the shape right...lol...probably not the best to start out with such hard buldings columns on my journey of urban drawing..lol mikelle newyork mom learning new skills 👩🎨🎨✌😷👋
❤Please do a video on simplifying details in busy scenes - like forest scenes with lots of bushes, leaves, ground cover. Finding shapes-How much detail to include and different ways to suggest detail without drawing every leaf or grass blade. Your videos are wonderful. Thank-you so much for doing them.
Hello, my name is Deahn. Your tips are all fabulous but I'm confused. When you are showing the 1st perspective I was hoping you would paint on the paper a bit to finish showing us how this works when painting. I'm a newbie. Yes. Thank you so much for your time!
An excellent video with such useful tips for drawing landscapes. Hard to choose the best ones, but probably they were drawing the horizon line and perspective - fenceposts and drawing things so they don't appear to stand up. Thanks very much!
I really enjoy your skeleton drawings & reminders of how to use perspectives! Often I hear you say you’ve not got a maths brain isn’t geometry a section of maths? the houses, fences & walls you draw are all geometric or am I mistaken? I’m sure you’re better than you think, don’t put yourself down! Thanks for all your useful tips!
No 4 point 2 point 6 points here im already confused lol Thank you so much for making the videos you do here ! This 70 year old grandma can follow you just fine !
Hello, I enjoy all of your videos. I am looking forward to trying all of these tips. However, the finding an angle tip confuses me. I understand how you find the angle in the photo but I don't understand how you can transfer that angle to the painting.
There are two ways, you either position the photo above or below and just extend the line out,not more easy, just keep your hand/pencil at a fixed angle and slide it sideways. It's not precise of course but will be fairly close.
Concerning perspective: man, am I lucky. My husband worked at an engineering firm as a draftsman, so after I've done the basics, (I can't draw for the life of me, but I can paint the few lines I did draw into a realistic painting) I take it to my husband to look at the perspective of my buildings. I do not always follow it to the letter - it is a painting after all.
Michele, have you tried proportional dividers? Very handy after a bit of practice. On picture 1, you could have added more sky and changed the proportions to fit the paper; I've seen you paint much prettier skys than the boring grey in the picture. Have you ever put the horizon dead square in the middle and gotten away with it?
Proportional dividers are good, but teaching classes has shown me that most students use them incorrectly, or let the screw loosen. All perspective rules can be broken if you know how...
the stream going uphill is my issue and you have really helped me. I need the trees on the horizon line is my issue on my prespective on my trees in distance and the one close to bottom of painting. I am really not understanding how to make the deer and tree in the foreground the height of those trees on the edge of the horizon line. I haven't painted in 50 years and only had lessons in 1976 so you may have a hint trying to pick up my hobby now is really difficult to get watching you tube. lol Thank you
I liked all of the tips, & am looking forward to your tips on aerial perspective and 3 & 4 point perspective if you do them. I used to draw and paint, but life got in the way for 4 decades. Your drawing videos are refreshing, and reminding my poor, old, tired brain of the 'stuff' it used to know. Love your work and love your tutorials, Michele. PS I wonder if you know anything about ergonomics for artists? Thanks.
Ergonomics, that's an idea. I have a lot to do with exercises actually, due to many years tai chi, yoga and martial arts training. Good idea for a video.
I would be very interested in that too! I suffer with chronic back pain, and have a bulging disc in my neck... I won't let them stop me painting again though!
I love your tutorials and learn so much. I find it hard to see your pencil lines. If for the sake of the tutorials you could use a darker thicker line, I would not need to strain so much to see it. Thank you.
I do actually use a line that's much darker than usual, it's still hard for the camera to pick it up. In some videos I have resorted to using a ball point pen!
Hi Roy, I have online courses including a beginners watercolour course, you will find them on my website. I am not teaching any 'real life' classes until at least summer of 2021 due to Covid.
Most of my photos that I choose to draw out of is on my phone. I do not have a printer and so how would I calculate the right proportion on my paper from looking a the picture digitally?
It's quite difficult. Proportions never change, ie if something is a third of the way up (like the horizon) it will be a third of the way up on your paper. But exact sizing is pretty much impossible.
If you're working from a photo, it's always best to have a physical copy, rather than on your tablet. I've taught people who have tried to work from a tablet or a phone before and they spend a lot of time just keeping the screen alive.
It's funny that you mention "traveling into the painting". I've done that all my life, wherever I see a beautiful painting, I've "traveled into that painting" It is such a wonderful thing to do. Please don't think I'm mad!
Sometimes you need to see it a few times, or it may just come naturally with practice. Remember if you can accurately draw what you see then the perspective will be correct, you don't need to work anything out.
It depends on where your eyeline is. If you have a photo try laying a long straight edge on it like a pencil or a ruler. It should show you the direction. Or pop over to my FB group and someone will help you :-)
@@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber A big thanks for responding to my question. I have shared your channel with several of my friends because I think your terrific. I still trouble with vanishing point and perspective but I’ll get there eventally
All of your tips were great tips. I'm a beginner, and if I'd had seen your lessons sooner, I would have understood why my paintings didn't look right. Thanks for your time.
Thanks Michele. All very useful. I will never remember them all so for right now I'll just pick a couple. I always forget the fence posts get closer together as they go off in the distance. Somehow my brain flips that one. And now I feel better about water on the horizon. 👍💜
I really enjoy your videos, simple and to the point with a demonstration. I am a self taught, you tube taught painter, mostly acrylic and do a mix of buildings and landscape in a different perspective from the photographs I look at to get personal details of the houses. Thank you. Gotta new sub in me 😀
My biggest take-away was the notion of composition, balance and perspective. I now realize that doesn't just happen and that with a little thought and advanced planning, I can improve the composition and balance of my drawings. I was also particularly impressed with the placement of horizons and how important that is in the placement and composition of my drawing. I gotta go try this out! Thanks so much Michele!
This was a clear and simple way to help self learning beginners. I struggle with the relaxed artistist side of my brain and think very technically so starting with a technical method of sketching allows me to paint more loosely. Thank you!
So funny. I remember a drawing I did in a graveyard in Oxford. And my teacher knowing I'd bent my head to see around a tree & be able to get the whole name on the headstone...
