I found using a mirror or mirroring a picture of my work on my phone works well in finding errors while learning to draw and paint. Masters used this technique with mirrors to objectively evaluate their work
I was just about to say that when I saw your comment. Another way is to look away either by closing one's eyes or turning one's back for a few seconds. It can trick the brain into seeing what is actually on the paper and not what one would like to see. For a brief second when one looks at the drawing again one can see what's wrong.
For digital artists, this is a pretty common technique which is referred to as "flipping". Traditional artists would definitely find using the mirror as a very useful technique to easily spot mistakes if they feel that something doesn't seem right.
I send thumbnails of works in progress to close friends. Usually, seeing a thumbnail of the composition at 5-10% its original size immediately reveals imbalances and other things that need fixing.
When you said that realistic drawings aren't necessarily creative and are usually meant to be precise, i finally realized why i'm struggling with some of my art. I've been aiming for realistic drawings ever since I was 11 because i thought that realism was the pinnacle of all art. I was naive. In highschool i was introduced to anime, yes shut up. And i saw that simpler art styles like cartoons had so much flexibility and freedom, and i wanted to have that kind of freedom. The problem was that i was so used to copying that i had a hard time making my own characters. I thought it was sad that i could draw a decently accurate face but not even a simple cartoon. Four years ago started taking it seriously and went back to the fundamentals and started training myself to be creative. Only now am i getting the hang of it. Its like teaching myself to draw all over again
I try to marry the two. I like to think surrealism does a pretty good job with it. Greg Simkins is a huge inspiration for me. He balances the two well...
You can do both, actually. Realistic drawing can help you a lot with proportion and movement of the characters. It'll help you make your characters move more naturally and help with with their proportions. Just not let the creativity aside and keeo creating your own characters.
I'm actually a wedding cake designer, but have always wanted to learn how to paint. I figured learning to paint would help broaden the variety of cakes I can create by incorporating them together for painted style cakes. So far I've watched many of your videos and have learned so much more than I have anywhere else. I genuinely appreciate your thoughtfulness and willingness to share all of this information with other artists, it's hard to find this sort of information without going to school for it. Thank you for your time and dedication towards your art and teaching.
watched this with my ten year old daughter while discussing art methods. I showed her the measurement method just the other week, her face lighting up when you mentioned it too was priceless. thank you so much for this brilliant resource, my friend. your art is beautiful.
This method is excellent, it really helps. I draw since I have memory, but I started to improve when I putted serious time in progress, "forgetting" the long term results. What you're not saying, its that this is a craft and you'll not draw photorealistic in a few days or months, it requeres passion and compromise, but the rewards of the daily practice are like the phylosofal stone. It's a meditation, a daily improve, a test with and from yourself to push the limits of human experience, it will raise your patience, tranquility and foreware. Besides notes, you don't need the expensive material, you need paper and pencil, for me it started like a game, my evenings as a child, was draw all the time and now I'm graphic designer and I have a considerate adventage from my collegues. So, start now, this is a really deal and the doors from a awesome way of living. My simple considerations for the ones that are starting: 1. Practice everyday, but in a critic and consciousness way. At first, never draw from imagination. 2. Don't set up in the same figures or themes, push yourself in to the unknown. 3. Watch things that inspire you, make a list of artist and watch how they do their craft, how the hold the pencil, the figure compose, the use of blank spaces, composition, shadows, etc. Emulate that but don't stay there forever. 4. Buy a little sketchbook and a pencil, and carry it wherever you go, you'll surprise yourself in the situations that you start drawing. 5. Have patience, if you buy a guitar you'll not come up with Starway to heaven in the first day, it requeres time, a lot of time, muscle memory, cognitive learning, adopt your way of doing things, etc. 6. Enjoy it, don't tiranize yourself in a perpetual practice that will bore you and you will end giving up, it's a fun practice, a call to adventure to what you can bring from the voids of imagination and materialize that. 7. Gift the people you love some drawings, youll surprise how much they apreciate that. 8. There's no path to this quest, you're steps are unique. Listen to people but don't marry with anyone. 9. Everything is on the internet, you really don't need an academy or studies. With this I am not discrediting that type of path, I studied graphic design, and I have certain concepts that help entirely in progress, but a person who is applied, concentrated and eager to learn cannot be competed. If you want to draw human figures, start with ANDREW LOOMIS. If you want to make buildings, architecture books. If it is a character concept, find and research what designs from games, movies or comics you like and take them apart. 10. There will be days that you feel the world is coming apart, that everything is not in the right place and those are the most important days. If you can overcome that mindset, and start, just start to draw you'll end up the day in a better way, healing from inside. I left my IG account with some of my freetime from work drawings: instagram.com/mist.arg/
You're a really compassionate person, with genuine care towards your viewers, and unselfish concern towards our art education. I wish you all the best things in art and life Florent 🙏🏽
I'm a fine arts student from India! Let me tell you that you are one of my teacher who helped me through my difficult phase. I'm very grateful that I found your channel. My art overall has improved a lot specially my portraits. Thank you ❤😊
I watched some videos , but your videos is very teaching , you mention details and dilemmas , I exactly face with my drawing , and you mention the solutions ,which is very helpful and encouraging not to quit , and keep trying . Thank you .
I never get tired of these drawing videos! I watched a lot of them awhile ago and now I'm back to watch again. I find that the more I progress, the more helpful some of the videos are. When I was a super super beginner, sometimes even these techniques were more than I could grasp. But now I've got a little more understanding (not much, since I'd consider myself BARELY intermediate), the videos are a great tool. Thank you for your content!
I just found your channel. I have been an artist as long as I can remember. I went to art school as well. But this method speaks to me. I want to break through some old frustrating habits I have when starting and executing a drawing or painting.
"Speak for yourself!" - International Union of Significant Others and Close Family Members of Artists Hahahaha the amount of times GFs and siblings had to let me touch/feel or even measure some aspect of physiognomy haha
At this point I don’t know what to say, I am speechless and so grateful to you. I learned so much and this particular video answered so many of my concerns as beginner. Thank you 🙏🏻 Also I want you to know that I lost my daughter who was an artist, therefore, I started to practice painting because I feel it brings me closer to her spirit. Thank you again 🌸
Me I have lost two daughters in spirit and I am telling you to follow that sprit and remember getiing closer in this way to the reality of God,or Allah maybe in your case , wich/who is the same .Not big words, I often have this feeling , during drawing and modelling in my head, that i step by step understand how He builts, and generates the world.
To learn proper drawing takes one lifetime, at least... after 25+ years of drawing, I still am feeling that I am only at the beginning of the road. With oil paintings, if commissioned, especially in the portrait field, one cannot take chances to play by distorting or bending in any way the proportions (even foreshortening as tool of creativity is perilous if not present in the picture) and values. With landscapes, I think, there is more indulgence present by both parties (artist and spectator) and far greater space for creativity. These are teaching of quintessence that you present in the video! keep up the great work and ambition!
This is exactly what I need right now. We are likely looking at several more weeks of lockdown here (at least), and the isolation has destroyed my creativity. But I still want to grow as an artist - this is the perfect method to try when you have nothing but time on your hands, and little desire for creativity. Thank you!
Glad you enjoy it! I get add revenue and patrons from this, so if the video works well, I get something in return as well. So I appreciate the support!
Hello everybody,Florent ,you and other generous astists are of such great help for self instructed apretices like us . The atelier method is the intuitive method wich I finally choosed to follow after two or three years ago I started this new journey into life wich is painting. Of course , knowing allready mistakes are civen to be corrected and so to teach me... the greatest teacher of all and in every aspect of life.Beeing now in my 60s and therefore pressed by time,first of all I postponed the ideea of colur, realising that nedd to know what I paint.. I also allowed myself to dislike everythin that is modern approach in art, and so I discovered the light and its struggle with the shadow in wrapping al things we see and even think, on the other way.The experience is too long to put it ito acomment but now,reading other comments , I hapilly discover a smalle world of people wich are somehow a hope for the future and you , as individual sure work in that direction because I started now feeling that world. So thank You.
Excellent video. I have just retired and have time to pursue my art. I have cruised youtube for the best part of a year trying to find a method that I can relate to and while most are good they always fell short (for me anyway), then I had the good fortune of stumbling onto this video and instantly subscribed and rang that bell.
Thankyou so much for your time and knowledge. I am a landscape painter that aspires to add depth to my work with figures and portrature. I have a long path to practice drawing, but you encourage and inspire me to improve my art. Happy new year Florent and good health and fortune.
i really enjoy this clip because of the honesty and the reality of what it takes as well as the aspect of trying to be a great artist and how to gain a better understanding of learning other methods as well.
Yes please! Would love to see much more beautiful videos of this series. Excellent work. Special thanks to you in advance for what you bring to the world in such a beautiful way that helps us to appreciate the world around us.
Dear Florent, you are an incredible artist, but more importantly, such a generous person for sharing your considerable skill and knowledge to this level. Thank you so very much. PS Your filming is spot on too - it looks effortless but there's some real technical stuff going on there (as pointed out to me by someone who makes videos as part of their job!).
I appreciate your comments, because I am teaching myself the Atelier method using the Charles Barge plates. I am loving this video because it truly explains WHY you learn using this method. I am an error seeking missile! :) Also, I am loving the painting videos as well. I am an MFA student, and have never learned this drawing method in any class here. It is GREAT! THANKS so much!
Thank you, this is very helpful ❤️ your channel is pretty much everything I've always looked for in terms of drawing and art. I definitely look forward to more of this series 🙏🏻
I just learned youtube a few yrs ago. Im not sure if all these different techniques are confusing me and make it a whole lot more difficult. I've always just read what I see. But I do like what you are throwing down more than anything else I've seen. Makes a lot more sense. Thank you. Although I'm I've gotten very confused with all these different techniques. Not you but in general. I get on here to look for ideas. I found multiple different techniques on how to do the figure in the face list of that. I've always just drew what I see. I've a wall. Feel confident in what ive seen with u today. Thank u..
Thank you for this video! I've been struggling trying to push my art to the next level, I feel that I lack the necessary foundation to move forward with my drawing skills and have decided to return to the basics. So thank you!
Wonderful motivational video. I've dreamed of being an artist since the 5th grade and fascinated with realism the entire time but with a fantasy leaning. My favorite artist when I was younger was Howard Pyle and the Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood. Now that I'm retired I'm able to run down the rabbit hole of art and lose myself in dreams long held. Thanks for your time on UA-cam.
Pre raphaelite. My favorites!!! Do you happen to know of any resources to learning their methods? I live near western PA and the Frick is showing Victorian Radicals this fall. I missed it on my pre-raphaelite trip to England last year but I did get to see the burne-jones exhibition at the tate as well as so many other pre raphaelite works all over London and nearby areas. I am hoping the show is still going to come here and that our area will have very low covid numbers so I can go see it. Anyway nice to know others love them as much as I do.
and Frederic Leighton just to mention a couple. I progressed by just doing it. I recently found some art workshops on UA-cam for classical drawing that I'm going to start that I know will help my painting a great deal. What medium do you use?
@@hmr28 I haven't been able to find much in the way of instruction on UA-cam although there is some. I have spent most of my self teaching time copying their work,. My favorites are Burne Jones, John Waterhouse,
@@hmr28 not sure what happened to my reply but I was saying that I loved Edward Burne Jones although all of his women looked like his mistress. But there is never a time that I wouldn't be grateful to be able to paint as delicate and lovely a woman as he does. I use oils and started taking classes in high schools after hours in 2006. I retired in 2015. I have often thought I would love to start a pre Raphaelite Sisterhood.
@@delorisgilmore4959 I was suprised by how many of the.preraphaelite works were watercolor especially burne-jones. Such intricate works. It is my understanding that they used some type of a ground and grasille (sp?) like techniques to get their very strong and vibrant colors. In person they glow and shimmer so beautifully. There was a really good book called the pre raphaelite sisterhood with the paintings of evelyn de morgan, and many other women who were part of the larger group of pre raphaelite artists. Many were lovers, models, or sisters of the members of the brotherhood. There is a neat blog on the preraphaelites. I'll see if I can find it. I am trying to learn to draw and paint (watercolor). I can barely draw a straight line as I am just starting but I hope to be able to paint as vibrantly and beautifully as the.pre raphaelites some day. You should start a sisterhood!
A wonderful video and the Atelier method is very interesting wonderful method that will teach a person patients and real skills. Thank you from me for having the passion to make this video.
Such a wonderful set of videos.. I've just seen this one and I'm looking forward to watching the next ones. Thank you so much for imparting your wisdom🙏😊
So welcome a tutorial. Feeling that I couldn't draw held me back for years. Plus a nun painting teacher, angry at me the whole semester and ripping off parts of my canvas with a rag Trauma!! And I was just a beginner at that point in a senior level course with art -painting majors. It may be that drawing and painting are not simply that you're born with raw talent but a skill-techniques that can be acquired with practice, reaching a style that is uniquely yours and fun. We are all artists inside!!!
Your way in painting depends only as much from your teacher,as from your priest in the way to God.Try doing in paralel ,even your own mistakes alone , home and see where you are heading this way, in time....
Really good advice, the creative side should be exercised ALONG with the technical side. The best classmates I had would make the most beautiful still life paintings I ever saw and yet, when asked to create something, their work would look like it was made by a toddler.
One thing you didn't mention but has helped me make significant improvement, is try to learn your brain to see it as abstract shapes rather than a person. So when I started to use the "upside down" method I started to become more accurate with my drawings almost instantainisly.
Thanks for emphasizing the importance of developing your eye, because I just watched a video method that taught to check yourself by drawing on tracing paper and then finding your errors placing it on top. I thought that was brilliant until you made the point that that doesn’t help you train your eye to find the errors yourself!
I have been practicing for a while, still a beginner though. After researching for a while, I was almost giving up to choose the course of my liking, to give a push to my practice. Then I stumbled upon one of your videos, followed the instruction, and liked the portrait I drew that day. I have already been practicing from the Bargue book as you have recommended (in one of your videos). Atelier method is the way I want to take on my practice. Thank you for deciding to do this project. I am going to be in your Patreon circle. Looking forward to learn with you.
Hey Florent this is a great video, I love the way you teach, thank you for sharing your methods and your experience, I appreciate your time I look forward to more of this series. Thank you again for sharing all of this information
Great method and instructions. There was a lot In this video I’d never even considered. Thank you. You have one more avid subscriber and I’m definitely going to watch everything else you’ve uploaded and try to print your reference. ✌️
Great and interesting video, I'm definitely happy youtube recommended this to me since I didn't know of this method from before. I'm currently in the process of teaching myself how to draw, or well, do art in multiple different mediums, and I'll incorporate this learning strategy into my overall plan. Thanks again, and keep up the good work!
thank you, i found you a short while ago, to help me with my motivation ..i really like the way you speak to your viewers and your teaching is so clear .. and precise.. i tend to get part way through a drawing or more often a painting and give up... what you described here is a challenging process.. for me at least but one i want to embark on. thank you again i look forward to learning more from you.. wonderful thoughts and process to learning.
This is all really excellent advice. The one caveat I would have about the measuring on the board is that it's not as much of a cheat as you might think. If you're working from a photograph--and this is definitely something I think you should potentially investigate at a deeper level and do a video on--is that photography introduces inherent distortions in the image that fool your eye in a way that a 3D object or a live model would never do. Photos tend to be more contrasted, have shallow depth of field, and proportional distortions introduced by the focal length of the lens etc. One of the issues with working from photography that I always remind people about is that when you take a photo you're working with depth of field in a way your eye (or your conscious mind) never really has to deal with. Your eye bounces all over the place taking measurements and putting them together into a seamless whole, even in a casual glance without your thinking about it. Your eye makes constant micro-adjustments in focus in order for your mind to perceive everything as being in focus at once. This is something a camera cannot do. (Getting everything in focus is one of the real tricks of serious landscape photographers.) Photographers take photographs with all of the inherent distortions of photography in mind and use them in an artistic way. Copying these factors into a painting are a surefire way of telegraphing to the viewer that an artist works from photos. (I've seen countless paintings where the blurred background from a photo is exactly rendered in a portrait, or where highlights are blown out in a landscape.) There's nothing inherently wrong with that if that's what you want, but I make this point to underscore the fact that working from photos means you have to consciously undo a lot of what the photographer created in order to get the raw essence of the subject in the photo and create your own art from it. Measuring, to some degree, may be necessary in order to do that, because, until the beginning artist learns to decipher them, the tricks of photography can throw the eye off in a big way. With this in mind, I have always worked from my own photos unless impossible, and I deliberately photograph very bland, flat photographs for the purpose of painting. And then I inject the creative interpretation in the painting process.
You miss showing the most important part...the very beginning. You start this with the face already drawn in. Adding the detail is the easy part...just takes patience. I have been an illustrator for over 50 years. setting up the proportions is what takes skill and practice. Please show this first step in the future.
Mr. Farges wrote "This first video is kind of an introduction in which I’ll share the methods I have been using in the past to practice drawing and painting on my own and that I still use every once in a while to keep my skills sharp... The next episodes will have a more technical, step by step approach, but since this is the first one, I think it’s important to cover all the points that can help you get started successfully." Stay tuned...
@@whitykitty2651 agreed, dont even know why people defend this *teacher when he wasnt taught well himself and promotes tracing mindlessly to get good...a hypocrite professor
Last year or so I have been concentrating on drawing basics, putting much emphasis on value. This atalier method is something to sink my teeth in to get better at realistic rendering. I share your idea's about 'cheating', always had a dislike of tracing or even the grid method. Feels a bit like an advanced form of drawing by numbers...
This is SO worthwhile! I feel my drawing skills (or lack thereof) are the weakest link in my artistic process. I know I need formal training. Some day.
I hate to contradict, but I have learned to draw via many non - formal approaches. When in art classes, there were definitely better artists than me, but mostly not. In fact fellow students often wanted me to be their teacher. This was precisely because I always promoted them to learn on their own. I know this sounds like a paradox, but in the end, all students must do the learning on their own. No one can learn for you, digest for you, exercise for you, rest for you,experience for you. It sounds like you do not want to make mistakes. That is tough. All humans are "mistakes - making" machines, and trying to avoid making mistakes amounts to incredible pressure to be less than one is. The key to success in learning is accepting not knowing. If you do not find out what you do not know, there is likely no chance you will ever find what you are looking for. Every drawing is a quest, or a question. Find out what you don't know. Explore, place, erase. Embrace the adventure. You will be just fine. And unique! As you learn through this Atlier Method, you will likely find things open up for you in all of your art that you never could have predicted.
@Noe D I don't know how old you are, but you are wise beyond your years. Self-discipline is what I believe you are referring to, and you are absolutely correct. I am indeed a perfectionist. It is my greatest flaw as a painter. It makes creating art very difficult for me, as my results come so far below my ideal. Believe me, I understand fully the commitment necessary to become an accomplished artist. Both my grandmother and her brother were classically trained professional artists; she a painter, he a sculpor. Having this family legacy only puts more pressure on me to create beautiful art. In my over half century on this planet I've been fortunate to see a renaissance of classically trained realist painting in the US. When I was in college, over 30yrs ago, this was not even a possibility. So, yes! I hope to one day follow in my grandmother's footsteps to acquire classical art training, as she had. That begins with the Basque drawings. Unfortunately, I do not have the luxury of pursuing that at present. I hope to though, some day.
Thankyou for the info sir, i badly needed this informations cause im a self learner begginer. personally i want this classical , freehand type of drawing but its kinda hard to find a youtuber that tackles a very detailed texhniques or tutorials, cause obviously the detailed drawing course are usually have payments that i cant afford. But i just keep on taking note of every new informations i learned, unlike on photorealism type there is so many tutorials that helps you draw decently, but i just not like the grid method type cause i feel like i just copying a reference box by box . but i really amazed by the detailed drawing photorealism has
I found using a mirror or mirroring a picture of my work on my phone works well in finding errors while learning to draw and paint. Masters used this technique with mirrors to objectively evaluate their work
That's very right, actually, I might make an episode specifically about this
I was just about to say that when I saw your comment. Another way is to look away either by closing one's eyes or turning one's back for a few seconds. It can trick the brain into seeing what is actually on the paper and not what one would like to see. For a brief second when one looks at the drawing again one can see what's wrong.
For digital artists, this is a pretty common technique which is referred to as "flipping".
Traditional artists would definitely find using the mirror as a very useful technique to easily spot mistakes if they feel that something doesn't seem right.
digital artist: *hahahaha mouse go click*
I send thumbnails of works in progress to close friends. Usually, seeing a thumbnail of the composition at 5-10% its original size immediately reveals imbalances and other things that need fixing.
great content for people who need to be self-starters and those struggling with motivation. practice practice practice.
When you said that realistic drawings aren't necessarily creative and are usually meant to be precise, i finally realized why i'm struggling with some of my art. I've been aiming for realistic drawings ever since I was 11 because i thought that realism was the pinnacle of all art. I was naive. In highschool i was introduced to anime, yes shut up. And i saw that simpler art styles like cartoons had so much flexibility and freedom, and i wanted to have that kind of freedom. The problem was that i was so used to copying that i had a hard time making my own characters. I thought it was sad that i could draw a decently accurate face but not even a simple cartoon. Four years ago started taking it seriously and went back to the fundamentals and started training myself to be creative. Only now am i getting the hang of it. Its like teaching myself to draw all over again
I try to marry the two. I like to think surrealism does a pretty good job with it. Greg Simkins is a huge inspiration for me. He balances the two well...
@ESC it depends
You can do both, actually. Realistic drawing can help you a lot with proportion and movement of the characters. It'll help you make your characters move more naturally and help with with their proportions. Just not let the creativity aside and keeo creating your own characters.
I'm actually a wedding cake designer, but have always wanted to learn how to paint. I figured learning to paint would help broaden the variety of cakes I can create by incorporating them together for painted style cakes. So far I've watched many of your videos and have learned so much more than I have anywhere else. I genuinely appreciate your thoughtfulness and willingness to share all of this information with other artists, it's hard to find this sort of information without going to school for it. Thank you for your time and dedication towards your art and teaching.
watched this with my ten year old daughter while discussing art methods. I showed her the measurement method just the other week, her face lighting up when you mentioned it too was priceless. thank you so much for this brilliant resource, my friend. your art is beautiful.
This method is excellent, it really helps. I draw since I have memory, but I started to improve when I putted serious time in progress, "forgetting" the long term results.
What you're not saying, its that this is a craft and you'll not draw photorealistic in a few days or months, it requeres passion and compromise, but the rewards of the daily practice are like the phylosofal stone. It's a meditation, a daily improve, a test with and from yourself to push the limits of human experience, it will raise your patience, tranquility and foreware. Besides notes, you don't need the expensive material, you need paper and pencil, for me it started like a game, my evenings as a child, was draw all the time and now I'm graphic designer and I have a considerate adventage from my collegues. So, start now, this is a really deal and the doors from a awesome way of living.
My simple considerations for the ones that are starting:
1. Practice everyday, but in a critic and consciousness way. At first, never draw from imagination.
2. Don't set up in the same figures or themes, push yourself in to the unknown.
3. Watch things that inspire you, make a list of artist and watch how they do their craft, how the hold the pencil, the figure compose, the use of blank spaces, composition, shadows, etc. Emulate that but don't stay there forever.
4. Buy a little sketchbook and a pencil, and carry it wherever you go, you'll surprise yourself in the situations that you start drawing.
5. Have patience, if you buy a guitar you'll not come up with Starway to heaven in the first day, it requeres time, a lot of time, muscle memory, cognitive learning, adopt your way of doing things, etc.
6. Enjoy it, don't tiranize yourself in a perpetual practice that will bore you and you will end giving up, it's a fun practice, a call to adventure to what you can bring from the voids of imagination and materialize that.
7. Gift the people you love some drawings, youll surprise how much they apreciate that.
8. There's no path to this quest, you're steps are unique. Listen to people but don't marry with anyone.
9. Everything is on the internet, you really don't need an academy or studies. With this I am not discrediting that type of path, I studied graphic design, and I have certain concepts that help entirely in progress, but a person who is applied, concentrated and eager to learn cannot be competed.
If you want to draw human figures, start with ANDREW LOOMIS. If you want to make buildings, architecture books. If it is a character concept, find and research what designs from games, movies or comics you like and take them apart.
10. There will be days that you feel the world is coming apart, that everything is not in the right place and those are the most important days. If you can overcome that mindset, and start, just start to draw you'll end up the day in a better way, healing from inside.
I left my IG account with some of my freetime from work drawings: instagram.com/mist.arg/
You're a really compassionate person, with genuine care towards your viewers, and unselfish concern towards our art education. I wish you all the best things in art and life Florent 🙏🏽
Wow, thank you! Very nice of you.
I'm a fine arts student from India! Let me tell you that you are one of my teacher who helped me through my difficult phase. I'm very grateful that I found your channel. My art overall has improved a lot specially my portraits. Thank you ❤😊
Happy to help!
You explain things so well. Whenever I have tried to learn to draw, I always try to make every line perfect but it’s an iterative process.
This is the best drawing video I have seen on youtube. Thank you so much!!
Teaching is an art. You are not only a great artist but also a great teacher. Well done.👍💯
I watched some videos , but your videos is very teaching , you mention details and dilemmas , I exactly face with my drawing , and you mention the solutions ,which is very helpful and encouraging not to quit , and keep trying .
Thank you .
I never get tired of these drawing videos! I watched a lot of them awhile ago and now I'm back to watch again. I find that the more I progress, the more helpful some of the videos are. When I was a super super beginner, sometimes even these techniques were more than I could grasp. But now I've got a little more understanding (not much, since I'd consider myself BARELY intermediate), the videos are a great tool. Thank you for your content!
I just found your channel. I have been an artist as long as I can remember. I went to art school as well. But this method speaks to me. I want to break through some old frustrating habits I have when starting and executing a drawing or painting.
"You can't put a ruler on somebody's face" -- Well, not without asking their permission first, I suppose. Jokes aside, wonderful video.
I am really grateful. Thank yoi
"Speak for yourself!" - International Union of Significant Others and Close Family Members of Artists
Hahahaha the amount of times GFs and siblings had to let me touch/feel or even measure some aspect of physiognomy haha
At this point I don’t know what to say, I am speechless and so grateful to you. I learned so much and this particular video answered so many of my concerns as beginner. Thank you 🙏🏻 Also I want you to know that I lost my daughter who was an artist, therefore, I started to practice painting because I feel it brings me closer to her spirit. Thank you again 🌸
Me I have lost two daughters in spirit and I am telling you to follow that sprit and remember getiing closer in this way to the reality of God,or Allah maybe in your case , wich/who is the same .Not big words, I often have this feeling , during drawing and modelling in my head, that i step by step understand how He builts, and generates the world.
Thank you for this lesson...and all the others. I've been learning by myself for a couple of years, it's not easy. Keep it coming. Thanks again.
To learn proper drawing takes one lifetime, at least... after 25+ years of drawing, I still am feeling that I am only at the beginning of the road. With oil paintings, if commissioned, especially in the portrait field, one cannot take chances to play by distorting or bending in any way the proportions (even foreshortening as tool of creativity is perilous if not present in the picture) and values. With landscapes, I think, there is more indulgence present by both parties (artist and spectator) and far greater space for creativity. These are teaching of quintessence that you present in the video! keep up the great work and ambition!
This is exactly what I need right now. We are likely looking at several more weeks of lockdown here (at least), and the isolation has destroyed my creativity. But I still want to grow as an artist - this is the perfect method to try when you have nothing but time on your hands, and little desire for creativity. Thank you!
It's so amazing that you're sharing so much of your content for free and not charging for this. Thank you very much :)
Glad you enjoy it! I get add revenue and patrons from this, so if the video works well, I get something in return as well. So I appreciate the support!
@@FlorentFargesarts its why i watch every ad fully through!
Hello everybody,Florent ,you and other generous astists are of such great help for self instructed apretices like us . The atelier method is the intuitive method wich I finally choosed to follow after two or three years ago I started this new journey into life wich is painting. Of course , knowing allready mistakes are civen to be corrected and so to teach me... the greatest teacher of all and in every aspect of life.Beeing now in my 60s and therefore pressed by time,first of all I postponed the ideea of colur, realising that nedd to know what I paint.. I also allowed myself to dislike everythin that is modern approach in art, and so I discovered the light and its struggle with the shadow in wrapping al things we see and even think, on the other way.The experience is too long to put it ito acomment but now,reading other comments , I hapilly discover a smalle world of people wich are somehow a hope for the future and you , as individual sure work in that direction because I started now feeling that world. So thank You.
Excellent video. I have just retired and have time to pursue my art. I have cruised youtube for the best part of a year trying to find a method that I can relate to and while most are good they always fell short (for me anyway), then I had the good fortune of stumbling onto this video and instantly subscribed and rang that bell.
Excellent. Thank you! Can’t wait for the rest of the playlist.
You are the best I have seen after proko
Thank you Florent. Very good instructional material and method.
I Love all of your videos that I have watched so far. Great teaching and functional ways to improve.
Thankyou so much for your time and knowledge.
I am a landscape painter that aspires to add depth to my work with figures and portrature.
I have a long path to practice drawing, but you encourage and inspire me to improve my art.
Happy new year Florent and good health and fortune.
i really enjoy this clip because of the honesty and the reality of what it takes as well as the aspect of trying to be a great artist and how to gain a better understanding of learning other methods as well.
Thank you for you - your gifts, skill and encouragement.
Yes please! Would love to see much more beautiful videos of this series. Excellent work.
Special thanks to you in advance for what you bring to the world in such a beautiful way that helps us to appreciate the world around us.
So nice of you Thank you very much.
Always appreciate your time and clear concise instructions...thanks!
Dear Florent, you are an incredible artist, but more importantly, such a generous person for sharing your considerable skill and knowledge to this level. Thank you so very much. PS Your filming is spot on too - it looks effortless but there's some real technical stuff going on there (as pointed out to me by someone who makes videos as part of their job!).
I appreciate your comments, because I am teaching myself the Atelier method using the Charles Barge plates. I am loving this video because it truly explains WHY you learn using this method. I am an error seeking missile! :)
Also, I am loving the painting videos as well. I am an MFA student, and have never learned this drawing method in any class here. It is GREAT! THANKS so much!
I always find your videos very relaxing and stress relieving.
Glad you like them! Thank you!
Can’t wait for the next episode. You made me draw something that really makes me feel good saying that I did
You are absolutely adorable and also an excellent teacher! Thank you for great content.
I learned more than I thought I would. Merci.
Thank you, this is very helpful ❤️ your channel is pretty much everything I've always looked for in terms of drawing and art. I definitely look forward to more of this series 🙏🏻
I'm glad you like y work! Thanks
Thank you for introducing this to me! Can’t wait to start!
I just learned youtube a few yrs ago. Im not sure if all these different techniques are confusing me and make it a whole lot more difficult. I've always just read what I see. But I do like what you are throwing down more than anything else I've seen. Makes a lot more sense. Thank you. Although I'm I've gotten very confused with all these different techniques. Not you but in general. I get on here to look for ideas. I found multiple different techniques on how to do the figure in the face list of that. I've always just drew what I see. I've a wall. Feel confident in what ive seen with u today. Thank u..
Excellent presentation, Florent. Thank you so much. This is extremely helpful! I'm really looking forward to watching the series.
I am a graphic designer. Amazing work . Hat's off your work.
I'm learning so much from your videos.
Super helpful to give yourself a break. Learning from the imperfections.
Sight size is difficult at first but I’ve learned it and the result is very impressive if the measuring is done right .
Thank you so much for this video. It is just what I was looking for...you are so talented.
Excellent lesson. Thank you so much.
Thank you for this video! I've been struggling trying to push my art to the next level, I feel that I lack the necessary foundation to move forward with my drawing skills and have decided to return to the basics. So thank you!
Thank you for this Florent, great presentation and solid techniques, and you made a really beautiful drawing.
Many thanks!
Comme dessinateur débutant, j'était déprimé et complètement écrasé au sol et je suis arrivé sur votre video. Vous m'avaez sauvé. Merci
Wonderful motivational video. I've dreamed of being an artist since the 5th grade and fascinated with realism the entire time but with a fantasy leaning. My favorite artist when I was younger was Howard Pyle and the Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood. Now that I'm retired I'm able to run down the rabbit hole of art and lose myself in dreams long held. Thanks for your time on UA-cam.
Pre raphaelite. My favorites!!! Do you happen to know of any resources to learning their methods? I live near western PA and the Frick is showing Victorian Radicals this fall. I missed it on my pre-raphaelite trip to England last year but I did get to see the burne-jones exhibition at the tate as well as so many other pre raphaelite works all over London and nearby areas. I am hoping the show is still going to come here and that our area will have very low covid numbers so I can go see it. Anyway nice to know others love them as much as I do.
and Frederic Leighton just to mention a couple. I progressed by just doing it. I recently found some art workshops on UA-cam for classical drawing that I'm going to start that I know will help my painting a great deal. What medium do you use?
@@hmr28 I haven't been able to find much in the way of instruction on UA-cam although there is some. I have spent most of my self teaching time copying their work,. My favorites are Burne Jones, John Waterhouse,
@@hmr28 not sure what happened to my reply but I was saying that I loved Edward Burne Jones although all of his women looked like his mistress. But there is never a time that I wouldn't be grateful to be able to paint as delicate and lovely a woman as he does. I use oils and started taking classes in high schools after hours in 2006. I retired in 2015. I have often thought I would love to start a pre Raphaelite Sisterhood.
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I was suprised by how many of the.preraphaelite works were watercolor especially burne-jones. Such intricate works. It is my understanding that they used some type of a ground and grasille (sp?) like techniques to get their very strong and vibrant colors. In person they glow and shimmer so beautifully. There was a really good book called the pre raphaelite sisterhood with the paintings of evelyn de morgan, and many other women who were part of the larger group of pre raphaelite artists. Many were lovers, models, or sisters of the members of the brotherhood. There is a neat blog on the preraphaelites. I'll see if I can find it.
I am trying to learn to draw and paint (watercolor). I can barely draw a straight line as I am just starting but I hope to be able to paint as vibrantly and beautifully as the.pre raphaelites some day. You should start a sisterhood!
A wonderful video and the Atelier method is very interesting wonderful method that will teach a person patients and real skills.
Thank you from me for having the passion to make this video.
I just binge-watched several of your videos! So happy I found you!
This is great! Thanks for taking the time to share this.
Great teacher Thank you I love all you videos
Such a wonderful set of videos.. I've just seen this one and I'm looking forward to watching the next ones. Thank you so much for imparting your wisdom🙏😊
Thank you so much, looking forward to the next episode. Be well, my friend.
Thanks, you too!
This kind of video is what I need🧡🧡
So welcome a tutorial. Feeling that I couldn't draw held me back for years. Plus a nun painting teacher, angry at me the whole semester and ripping off parts of my canvas with a rag Trauma!! And I was just a beginner at that point in a senior level course with art -painting majors. It may be that drawing and painting are not simply that you're born with raw talent but a skill-techniques that can be acquired with practice, reaching a style that is uniquely yours and fun. We are all artists inside!!!
Your way in painting depends only as much from your teacher,as from your priest in the way to God.Try doing in paralel ,even your own mistakes alone , home and see where you are heading this way, in time....
Really good advice, the creative side should be exercised ALONG with the technical side. The best classmates I had would make the most beautiful still life paintings I ever saw and yet, when asked to create something, their work would look like it was made by a toddler.
Really good I have been practicing drawing for 2 years and this is a technique I aim to understand can’t wait for next one keep up good work.
Vraiment, tes vidéos sont utiles et enrichissantes . Merci beaucoup.👋
Hey youtube, I just wanted you to know this video is worth watching.
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Dear UA-cam, thanks for taking Exayevie comment in consideration, everybody knows she's always right ! 😉 Haha thanks for the comment !
One thing you didn't mention but has helped me make significant improvement, is try to learn your brain to see it as abstract shapes rather than a person. So when I started to use the "upside down" method I started to become more accurate with my drawings almost instantainisly.
So true
Thanks for emphasizing the importance of developing your eye, because I just watched a video method that taught to check yourself by drawing on tracing paper and then finding your errors placing it on top. I thought that was brilliant until you made the point that that doesn’t help you train your eye to find the errors yourself!
I have been practicing for a while, still a beginner though. After researching for a while, I was almost giving up to choose the course of my liking, to give a push to my practice. Then I stumbled upon one of your videos, followed the instruction, and liked the portrait I drew that day. I have already been practicing from the Bargue book as you have recommended (in one of your videos). Atelier method is the way I want to take on my practice. Thank you for deciding to do this project. I am going to be in your Patreon circle. Looking forward to learn with you.
Thank you so much Sifat, I'm glad if my work can encourage you to push through ! See you around then ;)
you have a really good approach, thank you. I'm sharing this with a friend who is starting at art school as a mature student. Best wishes.
Slowly learning pointers styles that best apply to own skills 👏🎨👍
Always worth watching!
I'm so glad to have found this channel. Can't wait to dive deeper into the art world.🖤
This has been so much fun and beneficial.
Excellente vidéo!
Très instructif!
Merci beaucoup 😊
I'm not sure how comments help the creator, however I've liked and subscribed, and so this is the final step to helping despite being broke.
Hey Florent this is a great video, I love the way you teach, thank you for sharing your methods and your experience, I appreciate your time I look forward to more of this series. Thank you again for sharing all of this information
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much, this is invaluable!
Great method and instructions. There was a lot In this video I’d never even considered. Thank you. You have one more avid subscriber and I’m definitely going to watch everything else you’ve uploaded and try to print your reference. ✌️
You were born to teach
Great and interesting video, I'm definitely happy youtube recommended this to me since I didn't know of this method from before. I'm currently in the process of teaching myself how to draw, or well, do art in multiple different mediums, and I'll incorporate this learning strategy into my overall plan. Thanks again, and keep up the good work!
Salut Florent for the lessons I love you and your work as always !
Wonderful video! It reminded me of a bunch of things I used to do in my drawing classes with professors who taught in a classic style.
thank you, i found you a short while ago, to help me with my motivation ..i really like the way you speak to your viewers and your teaching is so clear .. and precise.. i tend to get part way through a drawing or more often a painting and give up... what you described here is a challenging process.. for me at least but one i want to embark on. thank you again i look forward to learning more from you.. wonderful thoughts and process to learning.
Totally worth watching.
Thank you for these super helpful videos♡
Really great video!! Love this method and all the resources provided! Such a wonderful art channel!
This is all really excellent advice.
The one caveat I would have about the measuring on the board is that it's not as much of a cheat as you might think. If you're working from a photograph--and this is definitely something I think you should potentially investigate at a deeper level and do a video on--is that photography introduces inherent distortions in the image that fool your eye in a way that a 3D object or a live model would never do. Photos tend to be more contrasted, have shallow depth of field, and proportional distortions introduced by the focal length of the lens etc.
One of the issues with working from photography that I always remind people about is that when you take a photo you're working with depth of field in a way your eye (or your conscious mind) never really has to deal with. Your eye bounces all over the place taking measurements and putting them together into a seamless whole, even in a casual glance without your thinking about it. Your eye makes constant micro-adjustments in focus in order for your mind to perceive everything as being in focus at once. This is something a camera cannot do. (Getting everything in focus is one of the real tricks of serious landscape photographers.)
Photographers take photographs with all of the inherent distortions of photography in mind and use them in an artistic way. Copying these factors into a painting are a surefire way of telegraphing to the viewer that an artist works from photos. (I've seen countless paintings where the blurred background from a photo is exactly rendered in a portrait, or where highlights are blown out in a landscape.) There's nothing inherently wrong with that if that's what you want, but I make this point to underscore the fact that working from photos means you have to consciously undo a lot of what the photographer created in order to get the raw essence of the subject in the photo and create your own art from it. Measuring, to some degree, may be necessary in order to do that, because, until the beginning artist learns to decipher them, the tricks of photography can throw the eye off in a big way.
With this in mind, I have always worked from my own photos unless impossible, and I deliberately photograph very bland, flat photographs for the purpose of painting. And then I inject the creative interpretation in the painting process.
You're right, it's not as much "cheating" as I say. But I just want to emphasize the importance of checking with the naked eye at first.
oh my god, thanks for this. This is amazing!!
You miss showing the most important part...the very beginning. You start this with the face already drawn in. Adding the detail is the easy part...just takes patience. I have been an illustrator for over 50 years. setting up the proportions is what takes skill and practice. Please show this first step in the future.
His first step is tracing.
@@prisonerofearth yep all he does is trace the proportions first then has the nerve to teach us the right away...
@@livetochange974 ...this is a joke right?
Mr. Farges wrote "This first video is kind of an introduction in which I’ll share the methods I have been using in the past to practice drawing and painting on my own and that I still use every once in a while to keep my skills sharp... The next episodes will have a more technical, step by step approach, but since this is the first one, I think it’s important to cover all the points that can help you get started successfully." Stay tuned...
@@whitykitty2651 agreed, dont even know why people defend this *teacher when he wasnt taught well himself and promotes tracing mindlessly to get good...a hypocrite professor
Last year or so I have been concentrating on drawing basics, putting much emphasis on value.
This atalier method is something to sink my teeth in to get better at realistic rendering.
I share your idea's about 'cheating', always had a dislike of tracing or even the grid method. Feels a bit like an advanced form of drawing by numbers...
Yeah, I also never recommend the grid. It's too mechanical and doesn't bring any improvement overall.
I just love all your videos 🙌🏻
1 of the best lesson to train our drawing skillset..
Awesome👍
Wow, this is wonderfull and the "perhaps, perhaps, perhaps method" it sounds very good, as if it were a song ;)
This is SO worthwhile! I feel my drawing skills (or lack thereof) are the weakest link in my artistic process. I know I need formal training. Some day.
I hate to contradict, but I have learned to draw via many non - formal approaches. When in art classes, there were definitely better artists than me, but mostly not. In fact fellow students often wanted me to be their teacher. This was precisely because I always promoted them to learn on their own. I know this sounds like a paradox, but in the end, all students must do the learning on their own. No one can learn for you, digest for you, exercise for you, rest for you,experience for you.
It sounds like you do not want to make mistakes. That is tough. All humans are "mistakes - making" machines, and trying to avoid making mistakes amounts to incredible pressure to be less than one is. The key to success in learning is accepting not knowing. If you do not find out what you do not know, there is likely no chance you will ever find what you are looking for.
Every drawing is a quest, or a question. Find out what you don't know. Explore, place, erase. Embrace the adventure. You will be just fine. And unique!
As you learn through this Atlier Method, you will likely find things open up for you in all of your art that you never could have predicted.
@Noe D
I don't know how old you are, but you are wise beyond your years.
Self-discipline is what I believe you are referring to, and you are absolutely correct.
I am indeed a perfectionist. It is my greatest flaw as a painter. It makes creating art very difficult for me, as my results come so far below my ideal.
Believe me, I understand fully the commitment necessary to become an accomplished artist. Both my grandmother and her brother were classically trained professional artists; she a painter, he a sculpor. Having this family legacy only puts more pressure on me to create beautiful art.
In my over half century on this planet I've been fortunate to see a renaissance of classically trained realist painting in the US. When I was in college, over 30yrs ago, this was not even a possibility.
So, yes! I hope to one day follow in my grandmother's footsteps to acquire classical art training, as she had. That begins with the Basque drawings. Unfortunately, I do not have the luxury of pursuing that at present. I hope to though, some day.
Thankyou for the info sir, i badly needed this informations cause im a self learner begginer.
personally i want this classical , freehand type of drawing but its kinda hard to find a youtuber that tackles a very detailed texhniques or tutorials, cause obviously the detailed drawing course are usually have payments that i cant afford. But i just keep on taking note of every new informations i learned, unlike on photorealism type there is so many tutorials that helps you draw decently, but i just not like the grid method type cause i feel like i just copying a reference box by box . but i really amazed by the detailed drawing photorealism has
Thanks man, you're an inspiration.
Great basic instructions and totally agree that you need to be very disciplined too do a good job 👍
This channel is amazing!!!
Oh my God! I love this! Merci Monsieur! 😃
Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge, looking forward to next episode. Stay safe
Thanks, you too!
Thank you. I realy like the way you explain things. And love your art.
Thank you so much!
Thank you very much.it is very useful and couraging.🙋♀️🙏😍