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Thank u for your expertise..I started drawing after my son died...I needed something to distract me at night..I truly enjoy pen and ink...particularly pointillism....u have much talent
I'm sorry for your loss. I can't consolidate for it or give any advice as I haven't dealt with anything similar, but I hope you're doing better now is the least I can say.
I use charcoal primarily but I'm a chronic overworker, and there's no worse feeling than ruining my good planning stages with messy, muddy looking shading. This was so helpful! Thank you!
thanks for the tips Alphonso I have been following your books as a guide for my latest drawings and I can surely say that you have helped me a ton to improve my abilities, seriously THANKS
You are the most talented artist I know. No attitude or ego. The way you teach is so simple and understandable. I have applied some of these into my work from time to time and it produces such great results.
Alphonso, this is superior quality content. Clear and concise, no fluff, just information from an artist who is speaking from nothing but experience. Thank you for making this available to us. So helpful.
Many timesI have a bad habit of thinking that just a few more strokes will improve the piece I’m working on. I’m sure I’ve never produced a great work of art by any means, but I know I have ruined more than one pretty decent piece by adding more while looking for perfection. Thank you, Alphonso for addressing this topic.
Another AMAZING video Alphonso. You've pretty much summed up ALL my problems. When I compare my good works with my unfinished works, I find that the ones I've actually finished and loved are the ones that I've spent enough time planning and applying the points you mentioned in this video. A very BIG thank you for taking the time to make this.
When I saw the failed drawing in the second tip I laughed and cried at the same time. I don't plan how I want the shades to go, so I end up with a mess, or I skip it altogether for fear of over-shading. I will definitely keep your tip in mind the next time I make a drawing m
Thank you for those videos. A week ago I realized that I am not that far away from my 30th birthday and I still am not able to draw anything really. I used to paint aquarel with my dad when I was a child and did quite okay for that age I guess but when my parents split up I put it down for years. My dad always told me of the pictures my great granddads brother who I was named after painted and it always fascinated me. I dreamed of being able to do stuff like that and... well honour his name or something. I started again, didn't see progress and stopped again. And again. And again. But this time I will stick with it. I will never be able to do it if I don't try every day. Took me quite a while to figure that out. Thanks to your tutorials I have the feeling that I am getting somewhere finally and that feels amazing. Right now I am trying to draw something like that rocky canyon passage thing you showed and damn placing the shadows seems to be way harder than you make it look but never mind I will just draw it 30 times if I need to. Long story short - THANK YOU !
Good advice. Thanks! Overworking our drawings means we don't know what we're doing so we try to hide our mistakes by overpowering those mistakes with more mistakes.
Thank you so much! So excited after in a month getting finally to give my love for drawing the TLC it has been waiting to have for more than 20 years! I love your drawings 💜 and your videos are so helpful to learn and for me to practice myself 🙏
This is a video I need desperately! I always end up doing something I can't take back because I'm such a fiddler. Thank you, Alphonso. Your channel has been one of my best UA-cam discoveries.
Prevention is better than correction also applies to more forgiving mediums. My mentor noted that the good habits I developed from ink I forgot when I used pencil, leading to messy drawings even with the availability of erasing. At their advice I started to treat pencil the same as I did ink, and my pencilwork improved dramatically. Nowadays I pretty much don't erase unless it's to lift a highlight I planned ahead of time.
i mostly draw cartoons but ive learned so much from your videos ! i was wondering could you do a how to on drawing shoes? especially from the facing forward angle lol
Just ordered both books! Can't wait for them to arrive! I've improved so much since I started watching your videos, the least I could do is support you with the books
Wow, i realized my mistake here when i draw the value. Even i already make plan of it, I'm doing it with one part, not the other part. Thanks for the tips!
This was realy useful advice! Thank you for sharing it. I overworked a pastel painting yesterday and had a hard feeling why it happened. Now i know what to do to prevent it!
I noticed that not drawing frequently enough leads to rush when u eventually start to draw, because you subconsciously want to get quick results, as a cure for a guilt u feel of not drawing frequently enough, or not drawing good enough. Such a bad cycle. When u draw every day, u feel proud of yourself and calm and you start to get joy of drawing process not focusing on result at the first place. Mind clears and gives you space to play and try to step out of your comfort zone, so you finally start to progress, instead of spinning on one safe spot, where you can reach satisfying results without risking, but unfortunately, without learning as well.
It's important to balance this with not being falsely perfectionist. Go slow, but don't go so slow you lose motivation to complete the drawing. If you go slow and it still doesn't look right, don't start over too much, just keeping going. It takes a lot of experience to really get big benefits from slowing down and making things exactly as you want them, because you don't yet have a sense of what you want, what the little building bricks look like before the drawing is done. I think the advice in the video is good, but balance it with not getting bogged down in a nit pick you're not skilled enough yet to fix.
I agree, and also on the opposite side, don't be too loose because your idea won't be understand or could be too simple, poor. So it is in watercolor. I see many 'flat' watercolour paintings considered 'modern' and 'fresh'. Well, they say nothing to me, my little boy can paint more interesting things even if he isn't an artist. On the other side, in the botanical painting every artist tends to achieve perfection and realism in details, but there are other things that I consider equally interesting: composition, contrasts, choice of colours...so the painting of a simple tomato could pe pure perfection and I admire the technique, but I would never buy it. I can take a photo of it.
I think that sooner or later I will try this medium. At the moment I paint with watercolour, sometimes I add some lines with ink in my sketches. But I love ink! Thank you Alphonso for your teaching: this is helpful also for watercolours ☺️
this is why i tend to half works from traditional to digital. I cant seem to make up my mind right after making a good sketch with bad proportions, etc and end up erasing it. I just scan and resize it on a software
Lack of planning, or sufficient planning, has been a bane of my artistic existence more so than rushing a piece but I've done that as well, and once it starts going wrong I inevitably ruin the piece and have to start all over again. Other days, I can't seem to get into a rhythm that just lets me draw and nothing works.
I have a problem with drawing, I can draw the outlines but I can't draw the details and shading and when it comes to shapes without outlines I can't draw them either like on the human body you have bone structures and muscles and clothes. I've tried using geometric shape guides as references like spheres, cubes and cylinders the problem is when it comes to creating my own designs I can't create my own characters unless I copy from references and still struggle with everything and anatomy changes with different poses /perspectives & gestures. Now my art style is basically all silhouettes because that's all I can do my drawing it currently on the same level as a 6 yr old but i'm 26 and i have a disorder called disgraphia which effects my hand writing but also means I can't draw properly. I tried getting into painting because you don't have to draw lines or exact shapes you can use brush strokes to give illusions of plants and hair, etc which I find much easier but then when it comes to buildings and stuff which requires drawing I can't draw so that's another problem. I tried to blend painting the background with drawing and it helps a bit but do you think I should give up drawing? I think some people are just more talented than others at drawing and I have been practicing for over 10 years surprisingly I use guides off pinterest and studied how to draw books and watch tutorials and still haven't improved
i have a question: when starting to draw as a beginner you do the fundamentals , your exercises etc. But every now and then you want to try and do something fun and simply make a drawing of something. I find myself trying/wanting to copy other people's work ...is this OK? Should I try to use real life or photo references and try to come up with something original entirely? But then again, how easy is that when you are a beginner ?
I’d suggest, that when you are learning to draw, avoid working in a medium which is so unforgiving, instead, work in graphite which gives all the potential to re-work, correct your piece. Over -working a drawing really happens when we loose focus and start fiddling, stay focused and you should be fine.
This is why I love our century so much. Masterful artists giving great tips in high quality video format delivered to your doorstep for free on UA-cam.
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Haha Agreed
And it's just the start! (sorry if i made a mistake my english sucks)
Got a bad day at drawing today. This video came out in perfect timing
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Me too!
Thank u for your expertise..I started drawing after my son died...I needed something to distract me at night..I truly enjoy pen and ink...particularly pointillism....u have much talent
I'm sorry for your loss. I can't consolidate for it or give any advice as I haven't dealt with anything similar, but I hope you're doing better now is the least I can say.
I use charcoal primarily but I'm a chronic overworker, and there's no worse feeling than ruining my good planning stages with messy, muddy looking shading. This was so helpful! Thank you!
I wish you made videos more consistently, you're a master at drawing and teaching
TRUTH BE TOLD
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You have made the most wholesome community ever. Good Job!
thanks for the tips Alphonso I have been following your books as a guide for my latest drawings and I can surely say that you have helped me a ton to improve my abilities, seriously THANKS
Thanks much
You are the most talented artist I know. No attitude or ego. The way you teach is so simple and understandable. I have applied some of these into my work from time to time and it produces such great results.
Thats awesome! And thanks so much
Alphonso, this is superior quality content. Clear and concise, no fluff, just information from an artist who is speaking from nothing but experience. Thank you for making this available to us. So helpful.
Thanks much. Glad its useful
Thank you! I bought both books and would love another workbook!
🙂 thanks so much
Great tips! in my opinion applicable to other mediums too. Summary:
1. Don’t rush 1:32
2. Plan your strokes 2:58
3. Limit your layers 3:37
You shaded the lines and the faces. The expression is so original.
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Great video. I just got back to my art from many years of stopping. Thank you for your videos, they have been helpful.
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and I am guilty of the rushing part :(
Many timesI have a bad habit of thinking that just a few more strokes will improve the piece I’m working on. I’m sure I’ve never produced a great work of art by any means, but I know I have ruined more than one pretty decent piece by adding more while looking for perfection. Thank you, Alphonso for addressing this topic.
Another AMAZING video Alphonso. You've pretty much summed up ALL my problems. When I compare my good works with my unfinished works, I find that the ones I've actually finished and loved are the ones that I've spent enough time planning and applying the points you mentioned in this video. A very BIG thank you for taking the time to make this.
Very welcome
I have been watching your videos for over two years now and me, as a young artist would Really like to see you art when you were younger.
This is exactly the video that I needed! I always tend to overwork my ink drawings.
I'm glad you are still around and appreciate your videos!
Very welcome
I could never exactly put my finger on what's wrong with my drawings. This is precisely what i need to work on!! Thank you so much ☺️❤️🌟
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What I get from this video is the importance of being mindful and having forethought when drawing. This was fantastic thank you!
Haha you can do it
Good luck developing your course! I'm looking forward to seeing that come out.
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I do all of these... glad I could find the things I’m doing wrong and how to improve, this is going to be my year!
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You are great! You adressed all my mistakes in one single video. Gonna work on it.
Thankyou. I always overwork my drawings seriously. Thankyou again
Yeah, Don't Overwork your Drawings. DRAWING LABOR LAWS are a real thing! Drawings have rights, MAN!
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When I saw the failed drawing in the second tip I laughed and cried at the same time. I don't plan how I want the shades to go, so I end up with a mess, or I skip it altogether for fear of over-shading. I will definitely keep your tip in mind the next time I make a drawing m
Reminds me of something I heard when learning to ride MTB single-track - "Go slow to go fast."
Lol
Another great video by the one and only!
Thank you for those videos. A week ago I realized that I am not that far away from my 30th birthday and I still am not able to draw anything really. I used to paint aquarel with my dad when I was a child and did quite okay for that age I guess but when my parents split up I put it down for years. My dad always told me of the pictures my great granddads brother who I was named after painted and it always fascinated me. I dreamed of being able to do stuff like that and... well honour his name or something. I started again, didn't see progress and stopped again. And again. And again. But this time I will stick with it. I will never be able to do it if I don't try every day. Took me quite a while to figure that out. Thanks to your tutorials I have the feeling that I am getting somewhere finally and that feels amazing. Right now I am trying to draw something like that rocky canyon passage thing you showed and damn placing the shadows seems to be way harder than you make it look but never mind I will just draw it 30 times if I need to.
Long story short - THANK YOU !
Beautiful post. Thank you
Good advice. Thanks! Overworking our drawings means we don't know what we're doing so we try to hide our mistakes by overpowering those mistakes with more mistakes.
Essentially
me for the first 25 minutes of class: no rush
Teacher: 5 minutes
Me: rushing
Lol
Thank you so much! So excited after in a month getting finally to give my love for drawing the TLC it has been waiting to have for more than 20 years! I love your drawings 💜 and your videos are so helpful to learn and for me to practice myself 🙏
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one of the only channels that has helped me with learning on drawing. great stuff
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Thank you for the new video! I really appreciate your work.
The way you explain things is so easy to understand.
Thanks much
This is a video I need desperately! I always end up doing something I can't take back because I'm such a fiddler. Thank you, Alphonso. Your channel has been one of my best UA-cam discoveries.
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You are highly recommended! I have both your books and this video has prompted me to put these at the top of my pile of arty books!
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your rushing drawing is much better that my 2 hour drawing
Prevention is better than correction also applies to more forgiving mediums. My mentor noted that the good habits I developed from ink I forgot when I used pencil, leading to messy drawings even with the availability of erasing. At their advice I started to treat pencil the same as I did ink, and my pencilwork improved dramatically. Nowadays I pretty much don't erase unless it's to lift a highlight I planned ahead of time.
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i mostly draw cartoons but ive learned so much from your videos ! i was wondering could you do a how to on drawing shoes? especially from the facing forward angle lol
Just ordered both books! Can't wait for them to arrive! I've improved so much since I started watching your videos, the least I could do is support you with the books
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This video is great as well as your books Alphonso! Thx a lot for your fabulous teaching!
Just bought your book at Amazon Books in Lynnfield, MA. Love it. Following your instructions studiously. Thanks!
Thank you for posting this. There is a picture im on the verge of overworking!
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Wow, i realized my mistake here when i draw the value. Even i already make plan of it, I'm doing it with one part, not the other part. Thanks for the tips!
Very relaxing and very pretty, thanks ! It's very useful !
This was realy useful advice! Thank you for sharing it. I overworked a pastel painting yesterday and had a hard feeling why it happened. Now i know what to do to prevent it!
Oops saw this too late
Brilliant. I rush way too much. Thank you Alfonso.
Thanks so much, I remember reading about layers in your book but this really drove it home!
I love the parts where you draw 'badly', I can feel your struggle! Especially when you do them after you show the right way to do it 😆
Awesome video! This solves a lot of problems I have! Thank you!
Glad it helped
I have both the books and love them!!
Thanks much 🙂🙂
Great tips, thanks man!
thanks
Very welcome
Thank you so much for this video. I struggle with overworking, but thinking in layers sounds manageable. I'm going to try it!
Glad it helped
Didn't know the tip with layers. Tysm! Bless you God💖
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Thanks for the tips! 😊
I became your fan and you're one of my favorite artist now just a minute ago after watching your video about hatching in that nose a while ago. Wow.
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I noticed that not drawing frequently enough leads to rush when u eventually start to draw, because you subconsciously want to get quick results, as a cure for a guilt u feel of not drawing frequently enough, or not drawing good enough. Such a bad cycle.
When u draw every day, u feel proud of yourself and calm and you start to get joy of drawing process not focusing on result at the first place. Mind clears and gives you space to play and try to step out of your comfort zone, so you finally start to progress, instead of spinning on one safe spot, where you can reach satisfying results without risking, but unfortunately, without learning as well.
I agree. Thats a keen observation 🤔
Thanks so much Alphonso! Brilliant!
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Great tips, thank you!
I have bought your book and it's amazing
Love the little extra stuff on the sides, long time sub and your vids are still really inspirational
Thanks 🙏
It's important to balance this with not being falsely perfectionist. Go slow, but don't go so slow you lose motivation to complete the drawing. If you go slow and it still doesn't look right, don't start over too much, just keeping going. It takes a lot of experience to really get big benefits from slowing down and making things exactly as you want them, because you don't yet have a sense of what you want, what the little building bricks look like before the drawing is done. I think the advice in the video is good, but balance it with not getting bogged down in a nit pick you're not skilled enough yet to fix.
I agree, and also on the opposite side, don't be too loose because your idea won't be understand or could be too simple, poor. So it is in watercolor. I see many 'flat' watercolour paintings considered 'modern' and 'fresh'. Well, they say nothing to me, my little boy can paint more interesting things even if he isn't an artist. On the other side, in the botanical painting every artist tends to achieve perfection and realism in details, but there are other things that I consider equally interesting: composition, contrasts, choice of colours...so the painting of a simple tomato could pe pure perfection and I admire the technique, but I would never buy it. I can take a photo of it.
I'm excited for the online course. I hope it becomes available soon.
It will be
Very helpful
Thanks for your tutorial
Will the course be a video or a new book or sth different ? I loved your 2 books, they really helped me to change from pencil to ink drawings.
Great vids, I've just ordered the books.
🙂 thank you
Very helpful advice! Thanx!
Very welcome
Looking forward to see your new videos
Good vid! Helps a lot.
I think that sooner or later I will try this medium. At the moment I paint with watercolour, sometimes I add some lines with ink in my sketches. But I love ink! Thank you Alphonso for your teaching: this is helpful also for watercolours ☺️
Give it a shot
Master of arta
Understandable tutorial
I love your books Alphonso! 😁 You did an awesome job!
Thanks you 🙂
this is why i tend to half works from traditional to digital. I cant seem to make up my mind right after making a good sketch with bad proportions, etc and end up erasing it. I just scan and resize it on a software
Oooo you're working on a course? I can't wait!!!!
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Thank you for the tips.... God bless you...
Very welcome
Lack of planning, or sufficient planning, has been a bane of my artistic existence more so than rushing a piece but I've done that as well, and once it starts going wrong I inevitably ruin the piece and have to start all over again. Other days, I can't seem to get into a rhythm that just lets me draw and nothing works.
Sweet I’m in on that class 👍🏼🙏🏼🦎
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thanks for the tips!
Very welcome
Helpful!
Thanks
thanks for this video! great reminder to slow and and have a plan. :)
Thanks much
i love alphonso dunn, remember when u only had 8k subscribers 5 years ago
Looong journey its been
thank for share.love video
Always great teacher bravo man
Thanks 🙂
Your videos are sooooo useful thank you
Glad they help
U r like a god of teaching drawing 😅😍 damn i wish if i could reach to that advanced level one day ❤
Than you, sir! I also watched the 7 L's yesterday and I really loved the results. 🙋♀️🌷
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Thanks dunn 🙏💓
Very welcome 🙂
Thank you!
Very welcome
I have a problem with drawing, I can draw the outlines but I can't draw the details and shading and when it comes to shapes without outlines I can't draw them either like on the human body you have bone structures and muscles and clothes. I've tried using geometric shape guides as references like spheres, cubes and cylinders the problem is when it comes to creating my own designs I can't create my own characters unless I copy from references and still struggle with everything and anatomy changes with different poses /perspectives & gestures. Now my art style is basically all silhouettes because that's all I can do my drawing it currently on the same level as a 6 yr old but i'm 26 and i have a disorder called disgraphia which effects my hand writing but also means I can't draw properly. I tried getting into painting because you don't have to draw lines or exact shapes you can use brush strokes to give illusions of plants and hair, etc which I find much easier but then when it comes to buildings and stuff which requires drawing I can't draw so that's another problem. I tried to blend painting the background with drawing and it helps a bit but do you think I should give up drawing? I think some people are just more talented than others at drawing and I have been practicing for over 10 years surprisingly I use guides off pinterest and studied how to draw books and watch tutorials and still haven't improved
Thanks, very helpful like always. Cant wait for your course to go out.. Keep up the good (amazing) work
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Great tips! Thank you :)
Thanks
Awesome thanks
Respect master ❤❤
i have a question: when starting to draw as a beginner you do the fundamentals , your exercises etc. But every now and then you want to try and do something fun and simply make a drawing of something. I find myself trying/wanting to copy other people's work ...is this OK? Should I try to use real life or photo references and try to come up with something original entirely? But then again, how easy is that when you are a beginner ?
Thank you for the video. I'm starting to use a G-Pen and I was rushing too much with it as if I was sketching with a pencil as usual.
Slow down
I’d suggest, that when you are learning to draw, avoid working in a medium which is so unforgiving, instead, work in graphite which gives all the potential to re-work, correct your piece. Over -working a drawing really happens when we loose focus and start fiddling, stay focused and you should be fine.
Hi, had a question : does it make sense to use a gray and a black pen to hatch/crosshatch just like doing it with graphite pencil ?
Sir please make series on animation vedios. Please sir
Love your vids your amazing keep it up
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I love u, thanks so much for the videos