The Drawing Lesson That Changed My STYLE 😳

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Description: Bottom line, this lesson transcends the mere act of drawing a skull; it serves as an exploration of artistic expression, composition, and creative decision-making. By embracing the principles discussed, aspiring you can elevate your art to new heights and create drawings that leave a lasting impression.
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My work focuses on the human figure. I've given drawing and painting workshops and demos throughout the United States and Europe. I have been making realist drawing and painting tutorials for two years now that I release through my Patreon page.

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@geezeressa 10 месяцев назад

I was lucky to spend a few months at the Repin Academy in the 90s, they also emphasized understanding how light defines geometric forms in space. There was a fabulous anatomy theater with ecorches, and a museum in the school that had several casts of classical statues. Poses lasted weeks, and the stoic models were paid a pittance despite being naked in freezing studios.

@maximilianomoretto258 10 месяцев назад

Russian and Chinese artists are built different, love this

@stevemessenger9375 10 месяцев назад

that was a PACKED 10 minutes. Props for being humble enough to take lessons and critiques from another artist. There's a lot of power in diagonals, I've been forcing myself lately to embrace that. Turning my paper at an angle sometimes even... or if I'm doing digital coloring (always do traditional line art first), I'll rotate the pencils on my digital canvas until it looks more interesting/fills the frame better. But I like the idea of running "the most interesting details" or focal point along a specific diagonal as opposed to just eschewing everything by a certain degree. thanks for the great content-

@jerryaubill163 24 дня назад

I'm glad I found your video. I'm wanting to get better at my drawing. Thank you!!

@derekmoore1387 10 месяцев назад

I remember at Academy of Art University, we did exercises similar (in vine charcoal) like this, but it wasn’t explained in such an articulated way. Albeit it may not be “Russian Academic,” certain teachers like Henry Yan had us do a lot of tonal layin, then find specifics later. That was really hard at first because I was not used to vine charcoal or soft mediums and preferred charcoal pencil. I was always more of a draftsman. To this day, I still like working constructively, but this inspired me to go back and think about using tone. I think not having a concept, aside from “expressive mark-making” made the exercises too ambiguous for 19 year old me. This definitely helps to create a reason or hierarchy. You introducing choice of line as a compositional tool and not just for reinforcing structure in a contour/ cross-contour helps. Thanks for the free info, I’ll look into your Patreon!

@LarsRichterMedia 10 месяцев назад

The diagonal of hard edges definitely was something I've never thought about. Super interesting! Thank you for sharing this.

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

You bet!

@hibikino 10 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for sharing this knowledge. Russian academic art has always fascinated me. They have such a unique and distinct way of capturing the human form that is aesthetically pleasing without detracting from the imperfections of the subject matter. The difference in philosophy caught me by surprise and I'm definitely going to have to go and do some studies with this in mind.

@tommikakko6888 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for the stump-shading tip! I feel silly not figuring that out on my own.

@autumnrose9922 10 месяцев назад

Oh my goodness this is actually brilliant advice!

@virtualsnake1994 10 месяцев назад

saturating the paper stump with graphite... that alone was a huge revelation to me. so obvious yet i never thought of it.

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

There is always something new in drawing 👌

@robertjohannnewton7489 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing these concepts.

@atibamaule 10 месяцев назад

the video editing on this video really helped me to see what you were talking about when you were talking about it.

@petrap.7256 7 дней назад

I've just come across this video and I'm so happy! It's incredibly useful, thank you, Stephen

@stephenbaumanartwork 3 дня назад

Glad it was helpful!

@GM-yn9nc 10 месяцев назад

WOW! Learned many important techniques. Impressive and interesting. Great information and love your final composition.

@maisie6904 10 месяцев назад

Thank you- that was very helpful xx

@zak5941 10 месяцев назад

Stephen you’re the best, thank you for sharing your knowledge, one day I’d love to be able to get one on one teaching from yourself in this capacity…

@aliciamolloy5948 10 месяцев назад

Thank you so much Stephen !

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

No worries!

@coelhonacartola 10 месяцев назад

This is awesome! Always wanted to learn the russian academic style 😄

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

Go for it!

@massa_art 10 месяцев назад

Very clearly explained and illustrated

@traceyartista2058 10 месяцев назад

Fascinating. Thanks Stephen for sharing what you've learned about the Russian approach to beginning the drawing. I respect how you as an accomplished artist and teacher sought out this training from Loginov.

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@gdan9923 10 месяцев назад

Thanks! This was a really helpful video

@sharongallagher3443 10 месяцев назад

Great detailed info.

@adambogati2905 10 месяцев назад

The difference between the new American academy’s and the Russian academy (or all the other academy’s of the former Soviet block, that still exist), is exactly that: even when doing a study from life, meaning that observation and realistic rendering is the main goal, an “aesthetic” choice must be made on what to emphasize and what to leave out. That was my concern and sometimes criticism, when I was a student, for a short period, at the Angel Academy, where there was no place in a study, for any interpretation. ( I still enjoyed and learned a lot there…)

@Draw_together 10 месяцев назад

Cool drawing! It was interesting to watch!

@simonaustin5659 10 месяцев назад

Absolutely spot on advice!!

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@HorstTama1988 10 месяцев назад

I love to see, that even someone as experienced as you, still has the attitude of a learning pupil

@annstropes2236 10 месяцев назад

So so so good. I’m working on a large watercolor floral piece. I find myself struggling with the composition as I’ve put too much contrast in certain places, this is going to help me to adjust the piece.

@rakeshchoudhary7391 10 месяцев назад

Great job sir

@ashwiniholidays8456 5 месяцев назад

Love this

@dorkanderson4963 10 месяцев назад

So glad to see a real artist on RU-vid. Most are camera lucida frauds. Can tell right away my their "technique" that they've never stepped foot in an art class.

@michaelmitchell2123 10 месяцев назад

excellent work! Thank you!

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

Many thanks!

@raphaelcesco_art 10 месяцев назад

What a' amazing class, thank you so much. Wrote down all these tips he gave you and will definitely try implementing it in my next drawings. 🙏

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

Glad it was helpful!

@NorahsYarnArt 3 месяца назад

Thanks for sharing this ❤👍

@joycesmith5786 10 месяцев назад

valuable information as always!

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

Thanks again!

@garylangieri2198 10 месяцев назад

Thank you excellent commentary and lesson ❤

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

You are so welcome

@defface777 10 месяцев назад

Thank you, this was very interesting!

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@lastmashstanding2155 9 месяцев назад

I'm learning so much here.

@dukerosendahl6235 10 месяцев назад

Such a valuable lesson to learn! Thank you so much

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

You're so welcome!

@gillinacook1477 10 месяцев назад

Very, very interesting. I will implement this with my drawings and paintings. Thank you sharing this. 😊

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

My pleasure 😊

@chrystianroos9364 10 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for this! I also love the russian art and I was looking for some lessons that I could learn from it. Something that you mentioned that I liked and would like to know more it is about the philosophy behind so beautyful art style. Thanks for the great job!

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

There is a lot more where this came from. We are currently developing parts 2 and 3 in this lesson for my Patreon page.

@ipsitadas6160 10 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for sharing this

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

Any time!

@vivanecrosis 10 месяцев назад

That was cool 👍🏻

@AnnHelle 10 месяцев назад

Beautiful drawing, love how elegantly the forehead highlights were brought out. Though I was waiting for that sharp horizontal shadow between the right chin and jaw to be smoothened out into a triangular gradient to show a more softly curved plane (or maybe with an S-curve shadow). Without that curve the chin looks perpendicular to the jaw, imho, like a tv set. Itching to reach into the screen to fix that area lol (also apologies for unsolicted comment)

@maedekelaye 10 месяцев назад

My dear friend, you are doing amazingly beautiful and great work and I enjoy seeing your work. I hope you will shine with millions of subscribers and I will be with you.

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

Thank you so much 😀

@graveyardian 10 месяцев назад

this was an amazing video!

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

Thank you!!

@360creativeabilities 10 месяцев назад

Awesome

@paul-oram 10 месяцев назад

Very cool indeed.

@ankaolekha865 8 месяцев назад

Superb

@mrea2134 6 месяцев назад

Love that my teacher is still a student!

@stevesloan5935 10 месяцев назад

Very interesting, thank you!

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

My pleasure!

@daveemerson 10 месяцев назад

This is awesome Stephen! You have been a huge part of my drawing training as we worked together in the mentoring program...you are a fantastic instructor. Like you, the Russian drawing style has always intrigued me. So much so that now I am enrolled (online) at the FCAA - a Russian based academy in Florence. I am loving it there with the training. I plan to watch the lessons you made working with Ivan Loginov. Thanks for sharing this! @DaveEmersonArt

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

Glad to help! And great to hear from you Dave!

@TheMarcello78 10 месяцев назад

Grazie Stephen!

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

Prego!

@hoophoop-cb7do 10 месяцев назад

i come to your channel cuz i know youre great portrait artist

@simpley6256 8 месяцев назад

Your human anatomy knowledge is good.

@jamiecanfield1624 9 месяцев назад

So does this mean there's a more complete lesson on this on your Patreon page? I'm very interested!

@stephenbaumanartwork 9 месяцев назад

Yep. For this and dozens of others

@ingridcoke1360 10 месяцев назад

Excellent presentation of this lesson. My HUGE takeaway is to focus on making a composition to include the subject versus a study of the subject. Wooooow! Wooooow! Wooooow! Thank you for sharing.🙏🏽😊💖✨💖

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

Excellent!

@algernonwolfwhistle6351 10 месяцев назад

Very interesting. Thanks

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

Very welcome

@AzureSymbiote 9 месяцев назад

I've learned much from this short video.

@rasamasala 10 месяцев назад

Ive been learning this concept in my painting class and it's been really helpful but also tricky learning what I find interesting and what I want my focal point to be. We have the control as artist and it's now what do we want to say about our pieces

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

Exactly 👌

@matthewwilliams3827 8 месяцев назад

How about the skulls of other creatures?would be cool

@SKalapishev 10 месяцев назад

Ivan is the Login to great drawing 😉

@user-xe5sv1dv9f 10 месяцев назад

I need to ask about portraits, how do you really draw a person that really looks like the person i always keep drawing but it doesn't look like the person of my drawing Id love it if you can make on drawing facial features and tips for them

@bozoclown2098 10 месяцев назад

Like shadows , highlights have a trail(tail) also.

@wildblackje027 9 месяцев назад

I know the russian artist Alexander Ryzkin,he's a wonderful artist and scientist of anatomy. You and Alexander are my favorite artist!😊

@stephenbaumanartwork 9 месяцев назад

Thank you so much 😀

@peachiee1 10 месяцев назад

bro was a model in 1999

@generalfishcake 10 месяцев назад

This was a revelation for me. Thank you. I've been watching some modern Russian digital artists like Kolesov and Kupriyanova - and now I see why they focus on composition design.

@NATUREDRAWINGS 10 месяцев назад

Interesting video

@siaziz0019 10 месяцев назад

Bien 👌

@royaebrahim2449 10 месяцев назад

❤

@hoophoop-cb7do 10 месяцев назад

hello Mr. Stephen i have been studying and drawing portrait for a months i already know bout general proportion, tilt, perspective, and basic lightning of the face shadow but i cant capture the likeness of my drawing, im getting frustrated easily but i badly wanna learn i know i still have a long journey to master this, pleaseee help me thank youuuu sir

@PappuDas-fq1ll 10 месяцев назад

You telling 100% right

@fragtwilight153 10 месяцев назад

A really interesting video covering something I've always wondered. Shame the clickbait looking title made me instinctually dismiss it but that's just how RU-vid works I suppose. Very informative thank you for the amazing video.

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

The YT ecosystem is such that certain thumbnail/title conventions must be followed. Thanks for watching!

@magic-art64 10 месяцев назад

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@PanulaoCG 9 месяцев назад

Thank you very much for sharing this! I have a question, why did you do so big contrast on the back of the scull? It is a distant, not focal point, can't really understand why it should be so contrast? For me it looks too prominent and distract attention from focal point.

@stephenbaumanartwork 9 месяцев назад

I think you’re right. That’s a mistake 😳

@luluna5228 10 месяцев назад

I’m always confused on basically the divide between shadow and light. It suppose to be sharp if it’s direct . And it’s soft if it’s ambient. But I sometimes see a mix? This means the core shadow can be seen as a bit soft before it’s transition to halt ones, this means the light isn’t mathematically/ literally direct right?

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

Shadow edges come in all shapes and sizes. Best to not rely on a formula.

@pentachronic 10 месяцев назад

FYI, from my experience in photography, light fall-off mostly comes down to how fast a form turns. A slow turn is soft, a fast turn is hard. Slow turn being a slow gentle arc, fast being an edge like a 90 degree edge of a cube. There are other factors such as spot lighting vs diffused lighting which have different effects too. If interested look up “light fall off, flash photography”. It’s a whole area of study.

@greyphite 10 месяцев назад

Just posting the first comment as an appreciation of how much I've learnt from you.

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

I appreciate that!

@Tito_michi 9 месяцев назад

I love how historically Western traditions of Academic drawing were kept in Soviet Russia thanks to socialistic realism (while in the West abstract art won) and are called "Russian way of drawing" now. Chinese way was created after their Socialist revolution took place and along with the Atomic bomb Chinese "brothers" were provided with art teaching methods by the USSR.

@bozoclown2098 10 месяцев назад

I realized many things unmentioned (anywhere,anybody)

@AeronCargill 10 месяцев назад

This is great insight into the Russian academic drawing. I'm excited to implement this in my drawing studies. Thanks for sharing.

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

Glad it was helpful!

@PhilipLeFou 10 месяцев назад

5:25

@dougg1075 10 месяцев назад

I’ve noticed professional artist apply their medium like they are hanging out, killing time. Not like they are racing to a goal like me

@greekveteran2715 10 месяцев назад

The more experience you get,the slower you draw,because you spent more time looking at your reference. You have to take a good look,as also think,how you are going to create,the part that you just examined on your reference.

@bananenshake_123 10 месяцев назад

Wutang forever

@joaco264 10 месяцев назад

I thought there wasn't going to be a lot of content in a 10 minute video. I was wrong. By the way, who is the author of that painting of Piazza San Marco?

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

Etorre Tito

@Pose005 10 месяцев назад

what style?

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

Tiger style

@Pneumostome 10 месяцев назад

This is great. Thank you. I haven't studied in Russia, but I have studied how the Russian Academy derived a lot of their foundation from the French Academy, ie. Bargue studies, etc. It's worth looking into. It's also interesting to see how Russian Academy drawing style, perhaps most clearly shown by the work of Nikolai Fechin, became a major influence on the art education for Chinese Socialist Realism during the days when they were the big Socialist states together.

@E.Pierro.Artist 10 месяцев назад

The paper stump thing is a good idea. You shouldn't share your secrets too readily. Thanks for your time.

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

You’re welcome 😊

@belenok007 10 месяцев назад

Very impressive! What do you think about Ukrainian artists? Maybe some of them inspired you before?

@stephenbaumanartwork 10 месяцев назад

For sure. There are many artists from this region that I love.

@bozoclown2098 5 месяцев назад

Say some unmatched things about their academy .Any female nude drawings ?

@aydakoprulu1404 10 месяцев назад

🙏🙏🙏🙏……..

@malik_alharb 3 месяца назад

Ive always loved the Russian style

@bozoclown2098 10 месяцев назад

Who impress the Ivan (Russian artist) . 2. Any American he liked (impress him),to emulate

@MikeCamMadeIt 9 месяцев назад

u really had to shape all that out.....

@Thesamurai1999 10 месяцев назад

Isn’t this kind of what John Singer Sargent and other great masters does? Loosen and tighten up portions of silhouettes they prefer?

@dmytrandr 4 месяца назад

I also like russian academic drawings but collaborating with russia based artist in a middle of the war seems fishy for me. What else can be expected from American though. Oh, yeah, I know culture has nothing to do with the war, yeah? 😂 What a pity that ruissians have never thought that way and always have used culture as a weapon to promote their agenda of great mother russia and just suck in all they can from their colonies while destroying and repressing their culture. Even Repin in honor of which they have academy is actually.. Ukrainian😅Also wondering how many of Loginov's taxes are going to the purpose of killing us 😅With all that being said, we in Ukraine also have quite similar academic approach with no less remarkable drawings (for example in Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Fine Arts which is btw on the constant risk of being shelled) and we don't destroy neighboring countries.

@vibelini 2 месяца назад

Such powerlessness when the world continues to glorify russia completely ignoring the fact that it is waging a bloody war killing Ukrainians, both adults and children, every day. But people immediately justify themselves by saying that it is "culture", completely not seeing the connections with the politics of russia, and they also accuse you of hating "innocent" russians. Anyone reading this comment, remember: culture is a weapon like missiles or bombs. For anyone who doubts, look up how russia uses culture to distract and absolve itself of responsibility for the crimes it commits, you can also read how for centuries russia destroyed the culture of other peoples, killing or appropriating talented people who did not identify themselves as russians