The #1 Secret to Drawing 

Thank you so much for uploading this video and thank you for not making the final hammer an intimidating masterpiece. It helps so much to know that even great artists sometimes draw simple things. These exercises were fun to do. 👍😊

I so badly wish I could include the drawing I just completed. I followed along & then challenged myself to try drawing an apple, using the same 3 step method. I am in complete awe of what I just created. Thank you so much for posting!

Your videos always delight me. I've joined two years in a row, but I still haven't tried the classes! I show up for all the free Wednesday classes and pay for yearly membership because I want to support this channel!

Thanks for the tips and insights. It was a brand new insight to me that while drawing a blind contour to match the angle of your eyes with the angle of the pencil. One of those things that sounds so simple but is brand new information. Mind blown.

You're so good it is unreal, lately I just (practice, practice, practice) and hopefully it does me some good and I just about filled my first sketchbook...

Well done. I spent the last three years my 38 year teaching career, teaching high school art. My predecessor was very hard on the kids and impatient. They were relieved when i took over, i would demonstrate what we were going to do and break it into easy steps. I saw the confidence sore and the talent flourish in the kids. I never believed in critiques, these hurt the kids.

"Drawing from the Right Side of Your Brain" is an amazingly helpful book. Blind contour drawings are one of the fastest ways to get your right side engaged. Before knowing this, my "good days" and "bad days" were random. Some days things clicked, other days nothing came out right. Knowing this helped me teach elementary students as well. I knew ways to transition them for different skills that primarily used one side or needed both working together. "Brain gym" was exercises that crossed the midline of the body, helping both sides of the brain engage for the task ahead.

Amazing! That makes sense because when I color from a reference photo, I do much better. If I can see it, I can color it. Im trying to stretch my skills by coloring without a reference. Just memory or skill I picked up from past colorings.

This is a great lesson that was both easy to understand and remember. Thank you!

Thanks for this very informative video. I am a novice artist who started drawing during the COVID pandemic. What a wonderful way to start one's creative juices flowing.

Thank you for sharing the #1 Secret to Drawing, which is amazingly practical!

Im high beginner level right now and the most important for me is how to hold the pencil/pen and be loose on your wrist. Also taper the strokes. That had much more impact than understanding of faces body proportions etc.

I am doing the Secrets to Drawing course. Just finished the 3 point perspective lesson. I have been really enjoying this course

I took for granted your teachings in High School, Mr. F. You are such a great teacher.

Thank you for this Sketching/Art tip. Whenever I draw/sketch a portrait, I try to use a photo. May YUH [God] bless [Baruch] you, your family, and your ministry. And give you [much] Shalom.

Matt, this video is great. Although being a member already (this is a fantastic and outstanding program btw), I like to revisit your videos just for fun, practice and "don't forget"-reasons. I would like to encourage everyone who enjoy these videos on RU-vid to at least try out the membership program. Nothing to loose, but very much to win. Buddy

Loved the drawing exercise. Thank you very much. It revealed a lot about drawing from memory.

Thanks for this class! And when you will return with the 45 min livestreams? They are SO good!

Oh I'm definitely going to try these exercises when I get off work

Thanks, great job explaining to those of us who appreciate your teaching skills.

This blew me away!I wish I could share my 1- memory, 2-blind one line and 3-50% observation pics here. The progression from someone who can't draw was mind-boggling.

There are so many shapes ! Thanks this is awesome

Great teaching! Thank you for sharing.

I'm glad that I found your post and I liked the drawing exercises and I want to thank you for that. That is right that we paint with our brain and I believe the difference between artists is unique vision that every one has. Every simple creation is a image or illusion that we have back in our mind which is known or unknown by our consciousness. You know what I mean! .we all copy the things exist. The way that we present it is different. 🎨🖌

This was a great interesting and simple exercise. Thank you so much!

Another great thing about pencils is that erasing can add a lot to the drawing as well. Cool video, thanks!

EXCELLENT! THANK YOU! WONDERFUL! INSTANTLY MAKES YOUR DRAWINGS BETTER!

Thanks for that. Never thought of it this way.

Thank you. I’ll try this method.

Thank you for providing this information🙏🙏

Smart! Thanks Matt! I've been drawing this way my entire but never knew it! I just thought looking at a picture was how EVERYONE drew, but nope. It's time to break my sketchbook back out!!

You know, I always did this exercise with my drawing students, but I didn't understand all the reasons why. Thank you!

Thanks Matt, very important subject, thanks for share this shhhh secrets drawing😉

Thanks for the video Matt, great video. 👍

I learned something new - thanks!

The blind contour applies to sculpting too, try sculpting with water-Clay inside a paper grocery bag while looking only at your model, it’s another great warmup tool

Thank you for sharing your knowledge to us

Remarkable tips. Thanks.

That was a fun exercise!

I've always drawn fairly well but I've known people who can draw next level and it's been my experience that the better you can draw using observation the better you can draw.

I taught visual arts in high school. I used this method. From your imagination/memory draw a profile view of one of the shoes you are wearing. Then the blind contour line drawing. Finally, the 50% observation. Then I’d move on to have reproduce a complex line drawing of a scene with a person in it. To make the students focus on what they were drawing ( and keep their brains from telling them what they were seeing), I had them turn the reference image upside down. Quite a few students discovered that they could draw after all.

So simple...yet so powerful.

Very true... I have steady hands and good at drawing but have a terrible mind when it comes to thinking in detail.

thanks for the tutorial of this !!

What a great exercise!

Great teacher!

I just started drawing again about a month ago after 52 yrs. I entered into a contest where I spent 4 hours drawing a face and later a man from the minnesota art school wanted me to join them. while my parents wanted me to finish high school it did leave a lasting impression...

🙋 Thanks for the video.. I definitely needed it.

Excellent and insightful tip. Thanks

Wow your channel is amazing. All the subjects you talk about drawing is very good. I am a new subscriber!

Facts, observation is really important, many dont do it correctly. Theres a difference when you truly “see” and understand what youre doing. Especially when youre trying to 100% copy a refrence :) take time to pause and step back and look

thanks a lot! the methods blew my mind!

this video is a piece of art. thank you

Brilliant!

thank you so much of your videos' I can't stop watching your videos

Excellent video! Thanks very much.

Thanks for this video @Drawing & Painting - The Virtual Instructor I want to learn to draw good without copying and so I need your help but thank you do much for this video

Awesome video. A real beginner here and I hope I can apply this to my drawings. I observed my hammer still doesn't look nearly as good as yours or the photo itself but I hope one day it can get there....

Thank you for your video and channel. I just found you and shared this video on Pinterest.❤

Thank you so much.

POWERFUL Knowledge! Thanks! 🙏🏾♥️

It’s that Southern drawl. Love listening to him!

Thx, It will be useful for me to practice with it. :⁠-⁠)

I so love this thank you for your insightfulness

I love your videos. I have learned so much thank you ❤

Good Job, you started out with the BRAIN. Betty Edwards, was who also did this. I was good in art when very very young. Being Dyslexic, did not help me. Good art class back in the 60's taught drawing without looking at the paper. Perspective( took me awhile to spell it), vanishing point , and many basic tools were TOSSED out all over in late 60's. It was Andy Warhol and Picasso, a simple yellow square next to a blue square is in Art Galleries. Anything in Nature, only if dead ( like a bird with feet in the air ) is accepted , or like the artist who did beef carcuses hanging in a slaughter house by a hook, YES agree it was very good, but that got Rave Reviews by art critics. I met Robert Bateman, when young, he thought my art was great, But I read in one of his books and he said art critics would not accept his art in an art gallery. too copied, or illustrative type work. Single parent, all art supplies, sketches of plants, birds, animals, stolen, no money to replace. I am 75 now, have some art supplies. but starting again, but now supplies are not as available, prices went up. But at least out doors is still there, and the few nature notes help. GOOD JOB, I used the book "ANIMAL PAINTING AND ANATOMY", b y W. Frank Calderon. Helpful when in my 20's, Think it just came out, when NEW AGE ART was all ready in, so the book did not sell as well.

Great advice + tips thanks

This tutorial is just awesome just as all of those posted in youtube

Great video lesson! Thanks.

Obrigado pelas dicas 😊

Great tutorial!❤

Great class Thanks for posting it

good teaching. thanks.

Very good, very helpful, thank you for sharing this awesome content with us, it really helps. 😁

I just watched your video and am inspired again to draw. I want to draw my grandsons face, but it will take a lot of work cause I have a vision handicap, depth perception. Pray I won't get to discouraged. I will keep watching your tips and hopefully I will succeed. :)

bruh you really helped me THANK YOU

You are excellent teacher thank you.

Thank you for this video.

This Artist is a great Craftsman!: Look at the work! Not just what he says!

Hello! Thanks for such a good video. I liked it very much.

I love the creativity of this channel. Feel free to check out a few pieces of art when your super bored lol😅, keep up the good work!

Really cool ideas and insights here. Sub, thank you!

Thanks for sharing man 😉

I had taken a class many years ago and it was called Drawing with The Left Side of Brain, it was mind blowing how our brain stores the images.

What an interesting exercise. I don't think I did too badly!

Thank you very much!

Thank you!

I am just a beginner and this video already taught me 60% of drawing

Very helpful thank you

I surprised myself with how well my third drawing was! Maybe I can draw after all. Cheers 😃

Woww.. wonderful 👍, from now, i know the secret. Thanks friends

Amazing! 😊

This got me into The school paper!

Thank you so much 😊😊 you helped e get good at drawing thank you😊.

Wonderful job👍👍👍👍👍

drawing scret so cool 👍

Amazing tutorial❤

Im a Texas girl and we have a drawl on words. I did have to chuckle at your question. It was cute. Very good viedo very helpful

Well i think this is the channel i need to follow .

That was interesting and fun 😂