Improve Your Drawings by Avoiding This Detail Trap

Super dragged out video.... But my shit attention span is probably why my realism is flat af

What paper do you use?

What a helpful video ❤

Some of the best advice that made a big difference for me: "You're not drawing the thing. You're drawing an illusion of the thing."

This is exactly happened to me and I gave up drawings for years. I was so good with detailed but things looked so flat. I get lots of comments on how great and good they are but that was the problem. No one really opened my eyes by giving me a real critic. I recently decided to come back and researching more on my style. This is what I want to know and hear. I need to learn and fix what I am doing. Thank you.

I agree with what you say , one tip I got is take your drawing and hold it infront of a mirror , you will see a different perspective

do you practice how to shaed realistic

TLDR: draw like you’re looking through a camera

What pens and pencils did you use here? Thanks for sharing

Nasmaste from India ,Gurgaon.

Thank you for sharing your artistic journey and inspiring others with your talent. Your video has undoubtedly encouraged countless artists and art enthusiasts to explore their own creative endeavors with renewed enthusiasm.

Free download didn’t work but Thankyou anyway

Loved this and the mini course, thank you. I absolutely love doing the shading - that's the fun part. I'm far too impatient with the drawing and getting the proportions right. I still probably don't add enough contrast.

Já pensou em mudar a tonalidade da pele, de branco pra negro ou de negro pra branco?

Your videos always make me want to draw even if I am tired ❤
I hope that the next video will be about the experience of using makeup as pastel pan 😊❤

I make at least 5 different artworks every month. But I don't know how to sell them?
Any idea please.

Could you explain how to blend your shading without losing contrast?

Hello kirsty good job

It means I'm a pro😇

Hello ma'am,
I am following you since 2 years... I really have learnt a lot and improved my art to realism. I love the way you teach us... I started during covid and after so... Much practice I have improved. i just have a request can you please do a art class on colour pencils. I would be amazed to join
Can it also be online (cause I live in other country) please reply if you read

A good tip to see where your missing Value is to take a picture of the subject and your artwork and turn it them too B/W using a greyscale filter. You'll see what you need to change.

Thank you mam you are a great

I know someone else that uses faber castell pencils

do you have any examples of your classes for your colored pencil academy? I have never signed up for any online classes and to be perfectly honest I am little scared of the internet. Guess my age :) !

I Love your fantastic artwork and subscribed to your channel, thanks for all your tips , please keep up your high quality work, looking forward to your upcoming videos , greetings from Germany 😊

In school I had an art teacher that told the whole class “children, you are so scared of using black!” because we didn’t do the full range and I keep remembering that when drawing now
(We were like 16, but she called all students children)

very helpful, thx for showing me some of the parts about drawing I am starting to forget while doing it

The "wrong side" looks better lmao

OML THE SECOND I SAW EMMA WATSON I KNEW THIS VIDEO WOULD BE USEFUL

Wish I could upvote this more than once. It was EXACTLY what I needed to know. Thank you!

Hi I have just joined to your patreon❤️ could you please post new content on there too, I do wanna learn from you especially watercolor

YOU ARE A TOP DRAWER.
yet I ask myself, how do you put your drawing on paper. Greetings from Holland

hint: the teasing/advertising style of not getting to the point does not make for good content. Imagine someone talking to you like that in real life, would it not agitate you?

thank you so much. You've explained really well what I needed to hear. And you have the luckiest husband to have married such a beautiful, smart, and outgoing and just overall good personality artist.

How come you never run out of subjects to draw ,this is my problem never know who or what to draw and I'm my biggest critic

I signed up and also I love you.

Wow if I told you my story you'd laugh and cry and then laugh. I came to art school in America and NOBODY was teaching how to actually draw or paint. It was ALL critique and talking and honestly it was driving me nuts. Then I was prescribed a really bad psychiatric drug which messed up my hand eye coordination. And my seeing. So now I am relearning how to draw after catastrophic art school times and rebuilding my skills. Art school was terrible ! Absolutely wasted $110,000 when I should have just found someone like you to learn from. Your art is amazing and I am genuinely in awe. Your skills are exactly the way I wanted to draw and maybe by signing up to your classes now I will become an awesome artist too. I'm still a really good musician and dj though! Lol and I'd love to send you gifts for free! Where can I send them too ? Much love to you! You are one the greatest artists who has ever Lived. Even better than Da Vinci!

Please, will you make a video on how to draw glass? in color. I can figure out how to draw light shining through colored stained glass. I really need help for that. Like how would it the "shadow" be on the surroundings, and how would you make the color of the glass look transparent and as light is shining through?

I've had this problem for a while now, and i couldn't find any good video or tutorial for it at all. Currently i'm working on a dragon, who has glass stained wings.

I think shape and value is probably the most important part of getting a likeness.

❤

I think the reason why too many details make a drawing look off is because usually, when our eyes focus on something, we only see one part in details - everything else, like the background, gets blurry. So the drawing must capture that effect.

Most important is shape and by that i mean substance/feeling of subject, then tone.

Just a camera not an artist

Detail is the most important part, gotcha

More detail = older model.

You DO NOT want to add more detail than necessary to capture the likeness.

Thank you so much! This has, I hope, helped me over a hump on my piano journey. I've been a professional illustrator for fifty years. You speak my language. I'm learning piano on a deep foundational level at age 71. When my fluency and improvisation coach tells me my busy, patterny playing is 'flat', I struggle to understand. I'm supposed to be driving my moment-by-moment choices with the big waves of the groove I'm feeling, the poetic metre I'm feeling/creating/chanting, but I tend to let the metre flatten to a mere time-keeping function and then my choices are many and similar. If I do it from my depths, two measures can sound epic. If I get lazy/busy, it all sounds what I call diddly-poo. A grey drawing with an evenly distributed texture of tiny details is diddly-poo. A simple, boldly lit drawing can be epic.