Pen and Ink Drawing Tutorial | How to draw water 

Another awesome video tutorial, Alphonso! I looked at your drawing, couldn't imagine I could draw anything remotely close. You showed us the basic pyramid shapes of the waves, how to shade them, and voila! I did it!! On to some of your other water tutorials...

i remember when i was watching photos for the old masters drawing and the water was the hardest things to copy thank you for the great tips i hope i will make a progress

Thanks a lot for your patience in recording these tutorials! It is very kind of you to help all those 'little art masters' I sometimes imagine myself to be! 😉

wow, just wow. I wish I had known how simple it was to draw waves like this before instead of just shying away from them. Thank you

I appreciate how you comment back to every single comment, on top of that you comment back on your older videos! Dude I've said it before, you are the best.

you're the best teacher i've ever had , you make complex things look so easy, thank you sir.

Thank you so much Alphonso. You make magic happen on the paper with your pen, pencils and imagination. You teach with an easy to understand style. I love to draw, but never took any formal lessons. I watched many of your videos and now am applying your lessons to my art and what a difference. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge to help others. Be Blessed.

pls pls pls turn the auto focus of your camera off just focus manually once.

you really make every thing easy. thanks a lot . now i'm looking at the sea photo i can see that 3d form easily!

This is my favorite water technique so far! Thanks! Subbed

This reminds me one of my favorite artist Grzegorz Rosinski. Chapeau bas Monsieur! ;)

Simplification is key, huh. It all makes sense now. I haven't used pen to draw anything, except recently at work doing doodles of buildings and renderings of eyes and such. Besides that, I've always used pencil. Pens just always seemed difficult for me to use but your tutorials are really clear and concise. Looking forward to seeing more from you, Alphonso. Good stuff.

wow the final result looks so beautiful, realistic and intimidating✨ Thank you for simplifying the process❤️

It's like watching someone do a magic trick trying to figure out how they do it. Amazing

I love how well you explain everything

I like how you explain the concept. It makes it so much easier and much less daunting to draw

Thanks for this video. Not only was it fun to watch, the waves I made just practicing are a lot better. Thanks again.

Love your technique. It's simple and it looks good. Best that Ive found

Wow i can actulay under stand how you know like you explain things so well

Great method and great tutorial, ima have fun with this. This is the first drawing tutorial I've followed that I'm actually happy with what I drew and can draw without referring to the steps with just a bit of practice. Still needs more work but I can see how with practice I'll get better as opposed to "this is too complicated and I can't get it so i'ma try the next tutorial". Subscribed!

Thank you for sharing all your knowledge and experience to all of us. I have learned so much that it shows in my work. Have watched all of your lessons, they're great. thanks.

Hey bro I tried everything you told me to do and it turned out more beautiful than anything I've done, thanks!!!!

you're a god man, i've been looking for this for so long

Hey Alphonso your Tutorial of drawing water wave remind me of my child doodling, basic lines are always the fundamental principal of sketching. "Art is Everywhere"..... :)

Great Tutorial. I didnt know how to attack this problem for a commissioned comic book cover. Your tip helped me draw the water around a ship! THANKS!

Bro, your youtube channel is amazing! Thanks so much for your help, it's amazing that lessons of this caliber are free online. Your a great teacher and so generous by sharing your knowledge. I wish you great success in all you do. Thanks.

how, I always think of detail to early when I draw, but I realised now that, I need to think of the bigger picture, and simplicity is key, now I'm able to execute complicated drawings with ease, I'm only 14 and I know I have a long time to practice, but thank you.

Thank you Alphonso, this is very helpful, not to mention very cool.

Very Effective.....master tip. Thnxs for your time. Greets from Holland.

Super video - as well as being a talented artist you have super teaching skills - thank-you!

Verry good instructions great video keep it up

Thank you! Very nice use of brush!!

Love the way you simplify the complex and get into the form of things. Any chance of a 'Drawing Dogs' tutorial? ie. doggie stuff - running, jumping, rolling, stalking etc.

Hi it's a beautiful tutorial. I just have a request: can you make a tutorial on how to do an under water landscape?

Thanks for the great tutorial 😄

neat video, and as someone said already a tutorial a still water that reflects the sun in the backround would be cool :)

Awesome tutorial as usual! I wrote you a while back, but RU-vid inbox is weird and linked to G+, maybe you haven't seen it, so I'll post it here instead, if you don't mind: Hey Alphonso! I just wanted you to know that your tutorials are greatly appreciated and put to good use! I'm a self taught artist, still struggling to get out of the hobby area and possibly earn a living from this. I tried different mediums, mostly focusing on logo design and character design in Adobe Illustrator, doing vector graphics. But since I was little I was always doodling away doing pencil sketches. But I always wanted to learn how to work with liners and markers, but never quite knew where to start, and what techniques to apply. Pen and ink is quite difficult to master as is, but I was really struggling with the transition from pencils to liners, especially with shading. Long story short, your tutorials helped me out a great deal, and I've been doing them as often as I possibly can! The shading techniques, the explanation on how to break down complex objects to simple 3D shapes and so on. I'm from Romania, a country in Eastern Europe. It's quite a poor country with an average salary of 300 $/month and art books are quite expensive, so to get all this knowledge for free and with step-by-step instructions is truly invaluable. So please keep up the good work, because it really does make a difference! Here's a link to some of my sketches based on your tutorials, feedback would be greatly appreciated, only if you have the time of course: i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn273/Galador1987/Random%20drawings/linersketch_zps9d2b78e1-1.jpg With respect, Robert P.S.: I hope you won't mind if I make a suggestion. Sometimes I'm really struggling with making out the drawing due to the poor video quality of the camera. The pencil sketches are barely or not visible at all. If you are using a webcam might I suggest an upgrade. I've recently bought this based on many reviews and suggestions from other video enthusiast. I will be using it to make miniature painting video tutorials for Games Workshop miniatures and such. It has a really fast auto-focus and can record up to 1080p quality. It's called Logitech C920 Pro, here's an amazon link: www.amazon.com/Logitech-Webcam-Widescreen-Calling-Recording/dp/B006JH8T3S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386012737&sr=8-1&keywords=Logitech+C920+Pro

Great tutorial !! I learnt so much in only 7 minutes !

Thanks for the video. One of comments, after i had drawn was: "This water is incredible!"

It like completly transformed thankyou It might just help me illistrate for my books

Thanks you so much for the lesson!

Wow . nice video .yet so simple! really helped me.

Alphonso, i´m from Brazil and really liked your vídeo and tips. I guess that now i can finish a draw that i´ve started last year but didn´t have idea of what i should do to put the ocean apperance. Actually after this i still have one problem: the net of the fisherman in my draw. You have a tip for drawing this??? Thank you very much, man. I´m your new fan. Hugs from Brazil, Cadu!

awesome video man. can I use this same technique if I wanted to create very small/ less aggressive waves?

Mr. Alfonso sir tnx for uploading you're tutorials men... its helping me a lot thank you a lot men....

As I was drawing it I really did not see the picture. Took a little break and then omg. I posted on my facebook and already have a couple likes. Thanks your the best.

I drew this piece I even surprised myself. Thank u again

This made my heart beat with passion.

thanks ,good teaching

awesome ! simple tutorial but very cool :)

you Sir ! are the best. thank you for your great videos

Oh, esa una técnica bastante sencilla con un resultado increíble Simplemente brutal 🗿☕

Great tips once again. Just out of curiousity, what is stopping you from doing something like a short webcomic? Your style seems very suited to it.

sweet tips, I must say ;)

Omg thanks so much for posting! Do you think you could do a tutorial on drawing jewelry? Or giving tips on becoming an artist? Your tutorials are really helpful, :)

Your videos make me draw better at the speed of light

Im gonna try this. Thanks Al. :)

Thank you for your guidance

another great tutorial. I really enjoyed this one.

Thank you so much I was struggling to draw a ocean waves but ur tutorial helped me its was the great video I ever seen

Awesome!

Phenomenal as always, hate to be a burden, but what was the song you used in this video?

very helpfull..!!! the best man!

A huge thanks from brasil

Thanks, dude! That was really helpful.

Is it possible that you could do a tutorial on still, calm water? Iv had some trouble with this. Great vid byw :)

Awesome tutorials! Thanks :)

do you use a graphic paper?

This is so awesome!!! Thank you so much!!!

Inspiration.

you're the best .

This is amazing.

Thanks! I don't really see where the triangles you draw in the beginning fit into play though.

yo, thanks for this tip!!

Can this be done without using the pencil first ?

waw

Thank you this was extremely helpful.

Thank you so much!

How do you draw like a calm river or something

thank you verry much! verry verry helpful!

bro make it easy /o.o\. Thank you appreciate your video

Thanks a lot for this tutorial! My question now is how would you apply this technique if you were drawing a beach scenery where the waters are calm or a lake in a forest?

THX!!!

You are so helpful.... thanks😂

Nice

dancing bananas in that boat

like because you are awesome. just bought your book! in my drawing class at California state u Northridge, we went outside to sketch. this is helpful to manage information overload for beginners!

Thank You!

Thx bro

Could you redo this explanation, I feel it's great but the whole prism thing in the beginning is a bit confusing and should take some more time to clarify. Also I love your book! I Read it and study it almost every day.

Rất thích

you can turn off your auto focus camera when get focus. thank you so much for tutorial i wachted all your videos.

hello mr dunn. do you have an ETA on your book, or is it to early to ask?.

Mine looks like a dying ocean. By dying I mean, no waves just goodbyes, no boat just wood floating motionless. Lol.

first i was like wtf is this shit .. and then i was like O.O cool

thats my problem i pay too much attention to detail, this Loose drawing looks nice. meaby that is the key..

Ohio. Wish you had some classes here.

pen and ink drawing tutorial/ how to draw water for me . You Tube and camera/ how to focus a camera for you

Would you happen to have an instigram?

what is the pen used?