Thru the years I have taken many classes and read many books on sketching etc. Guess what , I am over 70 and I learned today. Was fast enough for someone who has studied but detailed enough for a beginner. I have been a teacher, I know a good teacher and you sir are great. Mr. Law, thank you now I will be looking in dick blick catalog for that pencil.
Came to this video because Denise from In Liquid Color was ranting and raving about it. These techniques are SO important and I hope there’s a huge uprising of people doing gesture drawings in blue pencils and making their art incredible.
John, it's amazing to see the changes in your presentation style since you started six years ago, when you first wowed me with your natural teaching ability. Impressed with your logical, practical approach, as always. :)
That's a tremendously helpful class on how to approach drawing from the ground up. I've seen countless tutorials but none was as helpful as this video. Thank you!
Great lesson John. I worked along as you suggested (rather than just watch) and feel I now have new tools to use. I was getting bogged down in the details way too early. Thank you for sharing this advice.
I love what you said about the first line being the one you should be least committed to. I admit, I was thinking about it all wrong. I was telling myself: The first line is the only one that can’t be wrong, because it’s not in relation to anything else yet. The mistakes only come if I don’t adjust all the other lines to fit the first one (and each other). LOL
Thanks John! This lesson was a great reminder to me on how to start a drawing...its so easy to lose track of this even after having done it for a while. I'm also going to use this in my Bioart class with my students.
UA-cam has a lot of good drawing instructors, but John is hands down one of the best of them all. Such a great teacher!
Thru the years I have taken many classes and read many books on sketching etc. Guess what , I am over 70 and I learned today. Was fast enough for someone who has studied but detailed enough for a beginner. I have been a teacher, I know a good teacher and you sir are great. Mr. Law, thank you now I will be looking in dick blick catalog for that pencil.
This is a drawing changer. The negative shapes, visualizing , markers... This is awesome! I haven't felt this educated since school.
Came to this video because Denise from In Liquid Color was ranting and raving about it. These techniques are SO important and I hope there’s a huge uprising of people doing gesture drawings in blue pencils and making their art incredible.
Brilliant this is the best explanation I have ever come across -thankyou
Best drawing tutorial ever
Hands down - very happy to see oldscholl and newest way of teaching all blended wonderfully . Thanks
John, it's amazing to see the changes in your presentation style since you started six years ago, when you first wowed me with your natural teaching ability. Impressed with your logical, practical approach, as always. :)
That's a tremendously helpful class on how to approach drawing from the ground up. I've seen countless tutorials but none was as helpful as this video. Thank you!
wow! I have learned more from this video than i have over the past one month of sketching lessons. Great job and thanks for posting!
Great lesson John. I worked along as you suggested (rather than just watch) and feel I now have new tools to use. I was getting bogged down in the details way too early. Thank you for sharing this advice.
Great talk john! Super helpful
I love what you said about the first line being the one you should be least committed to. I admit, I was thinking about it all wrong. I was telling myself: The first line is the only one that can’t be wrong, because it’s not in relation to anything else yet. The mistakes only come if I don’t adjust all the other lines to fit the first one (and each other). LOL
He is a really great teacher, which he worked in Scandinavia.
Thank you! I've known that gesture drawing is vital for sketching, but I've never been able to work out how to do it correctly!
Thanks John! This lesson was a great reminder to me on how to start a drawing...its so easy to lose track of this even after having done it for a while. I'm also going to use this in my Bioart class with my students.
Enjoyed that. And so useful and helpful too!
This is really helpful. Thank you!
That's a cute giraffe
I'm only 5:00 in and this is going against everything I've done in the best way possible...
I want this trip haha
Draw a bunch of approximate lumps or gross outlines then connect them and "skin" over them almost like making a stuffed giraffe toy
where is the flow ? gesture ?