Which of these tricks did you like the best? Don't forget to download your FREE pdf guide (it's in the video description) and try this video next: Building Perspective Drawing (9 Clever tricks!) ua-cam.com/video/rx4WTameWjo/v-deo.html
The method of drawing a diagonal line from small print to maintain proportion and how to find the half way point by drawing diagnols from opposing corners. I have put your video in my bookmarks for future reference that tells you I appreciate this ver much.
It's always about perspective, however I'm getting better watching your videos. Lately I'm using paper coffee filters for wiping my brushes when painting watercolors, it works very well. The filters also can work a few miracles with smoothing shadows for charcoal sketches. I found my old Conte soft pastels, the white Conte is the best white for covering up any cloud lines then softly blending. So in a hurry I shopped online to buy more...OMG the price of Conte pencils or pastels made in France quadrupled in price. Missing the old days. Thanks for sharing, love your tips and techniques. Canada is mourning our Queen Elizabeth, we have faith King Charles will be following in his mother's footsteps. Blessings and take care.
My aunt started drawing and paining at the local Arts Centre when she was in her 60s. She had never done any art before but ended up producing incredible paintings. What was even more astonishing is she was partially sighted. Learning to draw/paint gave her years of joy for the remainder of her life.
@@margiepoulos1028 I own one of her paintings. It is a beautiful scene of a cove with waves breaking on the beach. Whenever I feel life is tough, I look at it and remember it was done by someone who was registered blind. Truly inspiring.
So glad to hear someone say “options that you have just got lying around your house”. Too, too many people these days have started saying “… laying around …”, as if these options are laying tiles or something in various locations around your house.
I really liked the tips on proportion, fitting the turtle image onto a larger paper, and finding the centre of a wall to insert a door. Great tips. Many thanks.
Excellent tips! I have been watching your watercolor videos. I came upon your watercolor painting tip that basically said no amount of watercolor can fix a bad underpainting. I realized that was my biggest problem area, so I clicked on this drawing video. As a retired geometry teacher, I am so impressed with the power of using the diagonals to find the center of shapes and to get the right proportions. Brilliant
So many helpful tips!!!!! My favorite was the flowers facing in different directions, using the dotting tool and symmetry. I think these tips are going to help my drawings look so much better. Thank you!
Great tips! What I would suggest for angles is to place the pencil where the line would be above the photo and above your drawing, and simply slide the photo out from under the pencil. Angles can change while moving it across, so if you hold the pencil steady and slide the photo out from under it, then there will be a higher probability that the angles will be the same. I hope I explained this well enough.
@@samstewart215 I think the point is to duplicate an image without having the drafting or duplication tools. Freehand. And if I were to duplicate an image using tools, I simply would use a projector and just trace the image.
Good tips. Thanks. I thought I'd mention that for the fence line, you can draw a rectangle, like the side of the house with the door, just using the height of the posts at the near end and the far end. With the cross to find the center, and dividing the halves into halves again and again, you can draw the fence line spaced essentially accurately.
I‘m in my mid 70s, have done photography for some years, and am now ready to try drawing and watercolour. I’m finding your tutorials are literally taking me back to my classes at school and the old mind is reactivating! Thank you!
I am appreciating these tips for the light pencil sketches for watercolor paintings. Without having the base correct, no matter how nice the paint application is, it still won’t look right. I’ve been a fan of yours (and your paints) for a long time now!
I just found your channel yesterday, and I've watched 3 videos now. Each of them has held so many "A-HA!" moments for me. I've learned far more from 3 videos than I ever would have guessed. I really appreciate the fact that you not only demonstrate the incorrect way to draw something but then also the correct way. Perspective now makes much more sense. I'm 55 and getting back into drawing after years away. In less than 48 hours, I've learned more from you than I did in all the time before. Thank you so much!
Yeah! This is what I've been waiting for. I'm not much of an artist, my wife is the artist, but I like to create things like woodwork, metal work, music, resin works and my newest thing is making props for my puppet stage music performances. Your tips come in handy when I'm doing colors or using different mediums. Using your tips could possibly make my wife go OOOH! lol Been retired for a few years, but now is when I'm starting to do some projects. Wishing you a lovely day. And thanks so much for sharing...
You are awesome! Thanks for sharing lots of info in a short little video! Each video contains so much valuable help I get overwhelmed at how much I don't know! Thanks to you I keep pushing forward!! Condolences over your Queens passing! Truly a great lady the entire world can celebrate!
Wow! I just leveled up my art. Two tips hit home today. Remembering to fore shorten the barn when inserting the door and letting the top eyelid droop over the iris. I’ve recently been painting my niece. Her expression was very dead pan. She just had a peaceful pleasant face in the original photo. It was just a small adjustment in the corner of her smile that changed the whole expression.
Yeah I agree I've been watching a ton of different content and she takes the cake when it comes to simplifying and explaining so I myself can understand so quickly and clearly..🙂🙂 so glad I found this. Plus the accent is super easy on the ears. Your awesome thank you for definitely helping me understand important information that I never knew even existed. Keep them coming. New Orleans sends love
The best tip for me is to draw, and draw and continue drawing...the more you do it, the faster you educate your eyes to proportions and measurements...tip No 2 though is always useful when you have a composition with different ekements. Thank you! 💜
Lots of great tips. Many I had noticed myself over the years just by drawing, but tips 2 and 3 are the most useful to me, especially 3 (the mini grid). I'm going to use these two scaling and mini grid until I can eyeball it again. I didn't draw for 15 years after being a prolific drawer and painter. Motherhood and side hustles....
All those tips are great. The most helpful to me are the ones on how to keep the proportions of the motive when enlarging it, and how to get a straight line without visibly using a ruler. Thank you very much for this helpful instructional video.
I’ve seen you demonstrate some of these tips before, but I appreciate that you continue to share as I definitely need refreshers as I continue trying to improve. Sure appreciate all you share.
I’m an artist and a lover of drawing and painting I’m a bit new to the canvas and even though I pumped out several paintings at this point I still find it tricky to draw as we all do, I just wanna sincerely, thank you for these tips. They seriously are very helpful.
I'm just learning to draw, and I watch every UA-cam video I can find on the subject, especially those labeled tips and tricks. Most are really disappointing, and the promised tricks are more like advice (take an in-person class, for example). I was blown away by all of your very useful and easy tricks. I'm old enough to know that there's a trick to everything, and I'm so very grateful that you share truly valuable gems here. Thank you! I've subscribed. :)
Thank you so much for this video. I've just recently started trying to draw and sketch things to go along with learning how to paint with acrylics. These tips are super helpful and I can't wait to try them out! My favorite one was the flowers. I struggle to get my flowers to look right when I'm painting.
I remember pencil sharpeners like that from school in 70's & 80's. I used to draw when I was a kid but stopped due to various reasons and I think I will start again. This video is helpful.
I am so thrilled and grateful with this knowledge. I have never taken a drawing class so your "tricks" give me quite an arsenal to accelerate growth and skill. I appreciate the pace at which you present the course and the precise "straight shooting".
I liked the reflection tip best. The importance of mirroring the object instead of continuing it makes sense and was easy to see by your examples. Thank you.
Every tip was helpful to me! Your quick & concise descriptions with demonstrations made it extremely easy to apply these tips to my art. Thankyou so much for all you do!😊👍
This was sooooo helpful. The PDF is appreciated for reference. Thank you for giving this information all in one place rather than scattered only in various videos. I do watch for tidbits of info in your other teaching sessions/ demonstrations but fail to remember them. Thank you so much for this.
The tip (at 15:44) for using a pen or pencil + tracing paper, rather than an embossing tool, for indenting lines is one I will try because not only does it indent but the lines you are drawing show up clearly on the tracing paper and it’s easy to see if you’ve missed any.
THKS FOR SHARING - I appreciated the to find the centre front of the cottage in order to know where to place the door, and also to angle the vertical lines to make a building appear taller. 😊
I somehow fell away from the charcoal for Beginners into this video. I can’t find my way back at the moment, but want to say how you’ve really inspired me to try again with charcoal. I love all your videos I love the way you teach, I don’t think I’d still be even trying to do any form of art if it weren’t for your videos. Thank you so much. Stay safe❤
I only discovered your channel a couple of weeks ago but I have found each of your videos packed with information. So much so that I need to take notes. I am working my way through all of them. One thing I appreciate is that I don’t feel pushed towards certain products, though I did buy a set square just in case. Several things about the way you used it made great sense to me. I especially enjoy the colour mixing tips. I took a short online course in colour mixing a few years back but I had no idea even how much water to put on my brush so it wasn’t a great success for me. You don’t leave anything out and, while you don’t talk down to your viewers, neither do you presume they know things that are that basic yet make all the difference. I would love to be able to draw but I have Essential Tremor and it is very hard for me. I still watch the videos on drawing though. There were so many interesting tips in this one but the one that particularly struck me was how to find the centre point on an angled wall. Also the method of really looking at photos to see that what my brain tells me is straight is actually at a bit of an angle. I do draw even though my lines are wonky. I have learned a lot from you already and I hope you make it well past your 100K subscribers! I always click the Like icon but realized from watching another person’s videos that comments also matter so here I am.
Ah, thanks Esther. If you suffer with tremors/shaking hands it's important to support your wrist, rather than 'float' it in the air, this will help a bit. Take care :-)
Also, don't be too put off if your drawings don't look so much like perfect representations of what you see. Your tremors will help to give your work its own signature, in the way that being left handed or colour blind can. Some very famous artists worked with disabilities of one sort or another and they produced characteristics that made the work special.
My favorite tip was how to get the correct measurement of your surface in relationship to the drawing. As well as using the same technique of drawing a criss cross and the center point being the center of a diminishing structure. Love it!
It is so refreshing to watch someone cram a lot of really useful information into a short video. I don't have time for chatty videos so I really appreciate your staying on subject, and being prepared to quickly illustrate the tips being presented.
This was suuuuuuuch a wonderful teaching video. I learned more in this lesson than I have in 58 years lol. Wow, I love you for being so sweet to offer your knowledge to us ! I just wanted to say, THANK YOU!!!! 😊
Working on a sketch to be used in a watercolor with a bunch of wonderful flowers ... thank you for your help in changing angles. Perspective tips appreciated as well.
A drafting erasing shield is indispensable when erasing graphite and you want to get a curved or sharp edge when shading. They have lots of different shaped cut in them so they are extremely useful for any pencil drawings.
Thank you very much, I'm a horrible drawer (not the cupboard type, that would be weird) but your tips have inspired me to have another go. You are wonderful!
I totally agree with mikejustice. Thank you for not including the annoying music and baby talk! Great video. I learned so much in short time. Liked the tall building tip!
Great video there are to many tips that I enjoyed to mention. I am a beginner at drawing and these tips are so helpful. Thank you for doing this, take care
I loved and appreciated ALL your tips---but my favorite was how to keep my sketches of 'eyes' from appearing as if they were in some fearsome 'starring' contest!. I never considered drawing a lid to rest over the top of the eye!! Also, enjoyed the way to match both sides of a 'Vase' you draw---I'm hopeless! (But, not anymore!) Lastly, I thought 'how clever' to use soft 'skipping lines to keep clouds and trees not looking like cartoons!! Thank you! At age 77, I have just started up drawing again (and coloring in alcohol markers and Prismacolor pencils).It's never too late to color in a 'coloring book' again! Lynn In NYC
What a great video - each tip so helpful. I especially liked: how to make size of drawing proportional to photo, the sort of star grid rather than the usual grid of lines, again for proportion, as well as the narrowing of tall buildings. Proportion and perspective are big challenges for me. Thank you for this help.
Hi Michele, I love your videos, and this one is just perfect for me right now. I LOVE the tip you have of sharpening pencils because they just look at me and disappear. All the tips are great but this tip of light sandpaper for sharpening pencils is a new one on me and is just what I badly needed to keep my pencils that much longer. Also the straight lines without the ruler. Keep these great videos coming I love them, and judging by the comments here, so do many more. And I love your sense of humour. Don't ever take your humour out of your videos. It's great to have a lesson and laugh at the same time. It works. Saying that please dont think I'm demanding it or trying to pressure you into putting it into every video. No. I know its not something you can throw into every video you can't force these things. It would not work. Just keep doing what you're doing now. You know where the humour fits in and when it doesn't. You have the perfect balance. Thank you so much Michele for everything you've done. Much love and God bless. Susan 👍❤❤❤❤🎨🖼🌹🌹🌹🤗🙏🙏🙏
I’m so glad this video was recommended to me today! It’s, by far, the best drawing tips & tricks on one video, I’ve ever seen! Helpful and your instructions are so easy to understand! I’m definitely a new subscriber and definitely sharing to my artistic friends! Thank you!❤️ ⭐️
Thank you so much. I have just started learning to draw because I wanted to use watercolour and realised I needed to know the basics of drawing and your instructions are very clear and helpful.
Thank you for sharing. I have been drawing for a long time and never thought about what I was doing. Your tricks would have saved me many mistakes I made along the way.
I just bumped into this video and bingo, I know what hobby I am now going to get into and with whom. You! Thanks for awakening my desire to draw, something that indeed has been in the back of my mind for years.
Im just getting back into drawing after a few years away from it. I was only a novice before so this video was an excellent step to pull out my pencils and tablets. Very, very informative! Thank you.
Very helpful and professionally done. I have wanted to take up drawing for some time, now, but lack confidence in knowing where to begin. This will help enormously.
Which of these tricks did you like the best? Don't forget to download your FREE pdf guide (it's in the video description) and try this video next: Building Perspective Drawing (9 Clever tricks!) ua-cam.com/video/rx4WTameWjo/v-deo.html
The method of drawing a diagonal line from small print to maintain proportion and how to find the half way point by drawing diagnols from opposing corners. I have put your video in my bookmarks for future reference that tells you I appreciate this ver much.
It's always about perspective, however I'm getting better watching your videos.
Lately I'm using paper coffee filters for wiping my brushes when painting watercolors,
it works very well. The filters also can work a few miracles with smoothing shadows
for charcoal sketches. I found my old Conte soft pastels, the white Conte is the best
white for covering up any cloud lines then softly blending. So in a hurry I shopped online
to buy more...OMG the price of Conte pencils or pastels made in France quadrupled in price.
Missing the old days. Thanks for sharing, love your tips and techniques.
Canada is mourning our Queen Elizabeth, we have faith King Charles will be following in
his mother's footsteps. Blessings and take care.
The lesson on perspective was very helpful - thank you
@@theodoresweger4948 This was my favorite tip also!!! I can’t wait ti try it!!
@@susanholloway975 Ive tried it and it works beaufiful no math needed and math was my major...
My aunt started drawing and paining at the local Arts Centre when she was in her 60s. She had never done any art before but ended up producing incredible paintings. What was even more astonishing is she was partially sighted. Learning to draw/paint gave her years of joy for the remainder of her life.
that is such a wonderful story. Whilst a slight bit younger(not much) than your aunt, I hope to get the same pleasure with my journey
@@Jeff-lk4dv I'm sure you will have many happy hours.
Your story about your aunt is so inspiring. It makes beginners
feel better about themselves.
@@margiepoulos1028 I own one of her paintings. It is a beautiful scene of a cove with waves breaking on the beach. Whenever I feel life is tough, I look at it and remember it was done by someone who was registered blind. Truly inspiring.
I am 85yrs young and want to do drawing and watercolor painting, thank you for the interesting video, hopefully l can manage to make a nice picture
Thank you for no baby talk and no sick music in the back ground.❤️
Oh yes, good point! There are so many videos out there with dreadful music in the background! Thank you for leaving out the tunes.
I completely agree!
Thanks!
Many thanks Eileen, I appreciate it!
So glad to hear someone say “options that you have just got lying around your house”. Too, too many people these days have started saying “… laying around …”, as if these options are laying tiles or something in various locations around your house.
Lots of bad grammar in the world...
One of my pet peaves is grammar AND SPELLING 🤣🤣
@@cindysheets1824 I think I may have missed a comma or two in my original comment. Sorry.
Yeah, those untrustworthy objects. Always lying.
I really liked the tips on proportion, fitting the turtle image onto a larger paper, and finding the centre of a wall to insert a door. Great tips. Many thanks.
Excellent tips! I have been watching your watercolor videos. I came upon your watercolor painting tip that basically said no amount of watercolor can fix a bad underpainting. I realized that was my biggest problem area, so I clicked on this drawing video. As a retired geometry teacher, I am so impressed with the power of using the diagonals to find the center of shapes and to get the right proportions. Brilliant
Thank you Lydia!
Also used in technical drawings , a basic drafting technique utilized in a non tech way. Good lesson.
I also thought about how much mathematics and geometry is involved in many...maybe most...of these tips.
So many helpful tips!!!!! My favorite was the flowers facing in different directions, using the dotting tool and symmetry. I think these tips are going to help my drawings look so much better. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent tips! Thank you for sharing your expertise so freely, it really does make us beginners feel more like “we’ve got this!”
Great tips! What I would suggest for angles is to place the pencil where the line would be above the photo and above your drawing, and simply slide the photo out from under the pencil. Angles can change while moving it across, so if you hold the pencil steady and slide the photo out from under it, then there will be a higher probability that the angles will be the same. I hope I explained this well enough.
Great tip!
Or use an adjustable drafting triangle.
@@samstewart215 I think the point is to duplicate an image without having the drafting or duplication tools. Freehand. And if I were to duplicate an image using tools, I simply would use a projector and just trace the image.
Wow Michele you are great and make understanding drawing so easy and love your style
Thank you so much 😀
Good tips. Thanks. I thought I'd mention that for the fence line, you can draw a rectangle, like the side of the house with the door, just using the height of the posts at the near end and the far end. With the cross to find the center, and dividing the halves into halves again and again, you can draw the fence line spaced essentially accurately.
Great tip!
Oh wow! This is very clever! You put those two tricks together! I absolutely love it. Thank you!
I‘m in my mid 70s, have done photography for some years, and am now ready to try drawing and watercolour. I’m finding your tutorials are literally taking me back to my classes at school and the old mind is reactivating! Thank you!
Wonderful!
I am appreciating these tips for the light pencil sketches for watercolor paintings. Without having the base correct, no matter how nice the paint application is, it still won’t look right. I’ve been a fan of yours (and your paints) for a long time now!
Ah, thanks so much Lynn!
Loved how to create an even sided vase!
I just found your channel yesterday, and I've watched 3 videos now. Each of them has held so many
"A-HA!" moments for me. I've learned far more from 3 videos than I ever would have guessed. I really appreciate the fact that you not only demonstrate the incorrect way to draw something but then also the correct way. Perspective now makes much more sense. I'm 55 and getting back into drawing after years away. In less than 48 hours, I've learned more from you than I did in all the time before. Thank you so much!
We are the same age 😊 let's call it young 😄
I have been drawing for 60 years and I am not ashamed to say I learnt something today. Thank You!.
You are very welcome
Yeah! This is what I've been waiting for. I'm not much of an artist, my wife is the artist, but I like to create things like woodwork, metal work, music, resin works and my newest thing is making props for my puppet stage music performances. Your tips come in handy when I'm doing colors or using different mediums. Using your tips could possibly make my wife go OOOH! lol Been retired for a few years, but now is when I'm starting to do some projects.
Wishing you a lovely day. And thanks so much for sharing...
You are very welcome! Drawing helps with all sorts of crafts I find :-)
Not long after an operation and you are a great help in my recovery.
Ah, wishing you a speedy recovery!
You are awesome! Thanks for sharing lots of info in a short little video! Each video contains so much valuable help I get overwhelmed at how much I don't know! Thanks to you I keep pushing forward!! Condolences over your Queens passing! Truly a great lady the entire world can celebrate!
Indeed!
Wow! I just leveled up my art. Two tips hit home today. Remembering to fore shorten the barn when inserting the door and letting the top eyelid droop over the iris.
I’ve recently been painting my niece. Her expression was very dead pan. She just had a peaceful pleasant face in the original photo. It was just a small adjustment in the corner of her smile that changed the whole expression.
This is a keeper! Best set of drawing hints I’ve ever seen in one collection! Thank you!
Thanks so much!
Yeah I agree I've been watching a ton of different content and she takes the cake when it comes to simplifying and explaining so I myself can understand so quickly and clearly..🙂🙂 so glad I found this. Plus the accent is super easy on the ears. Your awesome thank you for definitely helping me understand important information that I never knew even existed. Keep them coming. New Orleans sends love
The best tip for me is to draw, and draw and continue drawing...the more you do it, the faster you educate your eyes to proportions and measurements...tip No 2 though is always useful when you have a composition with different ekements. Thank you! 💜
Yes practice is everything!
I love the tip on drawing flowers facing any direction.
You are most welcome!
You are such a natural teacher. You found your calling which is a nice combination with your art talent!
Thank you! 😊
Lots of great tips. Many I had noticed myself over the years just by drawing, but tips 2 and 3 are the most useful to me, especially 3 (the mini grid). I'm going to use these two scaling and mini grid until I can eyeball it again. I didn't draw for 15 years after being a prolific drawer and painter. Motherhood and side hustles....
Your skills will come back, I took a break too at one point :-)
All those tips are great. The most helpful to me are the ones on how to keep the proportions of the motive when enlarging it, and how to get a straight line without visibly using a ruler. Thank you very much for this helpful instructional video.
The faster grid is one I didn't know. What a good video to refresh our memories. Thank you,
No problem!
I’ve seen you demonstrate some of these tips before, but I appreciate that you continue to share as I definitely need refreshers as I continue trying to improve. Sure appreciate all you share.
You are so welcome!
I’m an artist and a lover of drawing and painting I’m a bit new to the canvas and even though I pumped out several paintings at this point I still find it tricky to draw as we all do, I just wanna sincerely, thank you for these tips. They seriously are very helpful.
I'm just learning to draw, and I watch every UA-cam video I can find on the subject, especially those labeled tips and tricks. Most are really disappointing, and the promised tricks are more like advice (take an in-person class, for example). I was blown away by all of your very useful and easy tricks. I'm old enough to know that there's a trick to everything, and I'm so very grateful that you share truly valuable gems here. Thank you! I've subscribed. :)
Thanks so much!
I liked the tip to finding the centre of the angled wall of the building. So simple.
Thank you so much for this video. I've just recently started trying to draw and sketch things to go along with learning how to paint with acrylics. These tips are super helpful and I can't wait to try them out! My favorite one was the flowers. I struggle to get my flowers to look right when I'm painting.
More flower painting tutorials coming up this year!
I remember pencil sharpeners like that from school in 70's & 80's.
I used to draw when I was a kid but stopped due to various reasons and I think I will start again. This video is helpful.
I am so thrilled and grateful with this knowledge. I have never taken a drawing class so your "tricks" give me quite an arsenal to accelerate growth and skill. I appreciate the pace at which you present the course and the precise "straight shooting".
I really like the geometry tricks for getting the right sizes and perspectives.
I also caught the green nails with the frog ring, a nice touch 🐸
Thank you! Cheers!
I liked the reflection tip best. The importance of mirroring the object instead of continuing it makes sense and was easy to see by your examples. Thank you.
Glad it helps!
Every tip was helpful to me! Your quick & concise descriptions with demonstrations made it extremely easy to apply these tips to my art.
Thankyou so much for all you do!😊👍
You are so welcome!
You have given me some thngs to work on to improve my tecknique and prospective. Thank you...Very well done
Thanks for watching ☺️
This is so incredibly helpful and has made drawing more of a pleasure. Thank you!
Was very impressed with ur honesty about being an introvert
This was sooooo helpful. The PDF is appreciated for reference. Thank you for giving this information all in one place rather than scattered only in various videos. I do watch for tidbits of info in your other teaching sessions/ demonstrations but fail to remember them. Thank you so much for this.
You are so welcome!
The tip (at 15:44) for using a pen or pencil + tracing paper, rather than an embossing tool, for indenting lines is one I will try because not only does it indent but the lines you are drawing show up clearly on the tracing paper and it’s easy to see if you’ve missed any.
thank you Learning a lot and easy understand
Glad to hear that!
THKS FOR SHARING - I appreciated the to find the centre front of the cottage in order to know where to place the door, and also to angle the vertical lines to make a building appear taller. 😊
I somehow fell away from the charcoal for Beginners into this video. I can’t find my way back at the moment, but want to say how you’ve really inspired me to try again with charcoal. I love all your videos I love the way you teach, I don’t think I’d still be even trying to do any form of art if it weren’t for your videos. Thank you so much. Stay safe❤
Ah thanks, you should find the charcoal video in the drawing playlist I believe :-)
All of these tricks were all new to me. Thank you for sharing. The way you demonstrate makes me think I could maybe learn to draw.!
I'm so glad!
I only discovered your channel a couple of weeks ago but I have found each of your videos packed with information. So much so that I need to take notes. I am working my way through all of them. One thing I appreciate is that I don’t feel pushed towards certain products, though I did buy a set square just in case. Several things about the way you used it made great sense to me.
I especially enjoy the colour mixing tips. I took a short online course in colour mixing a few years back but I had no idea even how much water to put on my brush so it wasn’t a great success for me. You don’t leave anything out and, while you don’t talk down to your viewers, neither do you presume they know things that are that basic yet make all the difference.
I would love to be able to draw but I have Essential Tremor and it is very hard for me. I still watch the videos on drawing though. There were so many interesting tips in this one but the one that particularly struck me was how to find the centre point on an angled wall. Also the method of really looking at photos to see that what my brain tells me is straight is actually at a bit of an angle. I do draw even though my lines are wonky. I have learned a lot from you already and I hope you make it well past your 100K subscribers! I always click the Like icon but realized from watching another person’s videos that comments also matter so here I am.
Ah, thanks Esther. If you suffer with tremors/shaking hands it's important to support your wrist, rather than 'float' it in the air, this will help a bit. Take care :-)
Also, don't be too put off if your drawings don't look so much like perfect representations of what you see. Your tremors will help to give your work its own signature, in the way that being left handed or colour blind can.
Some very famous artists worked with disabilities of one sort or another and they produced characteristics that made the work special.
Wonky lines are great for sketches, they look more interesting than straight lines 😉
My favorite tip was how to get the correct measurement of your surface in relationship to the drawing. As well as using the same technique of drawing a criss cross and the center point being the center of a diminishing structure. Love it!
Thanks Mary!
You never stop surprising me with your incredible tips!!!!! You rock, Michele.
Thanks Sherry!
Thank you for sharing- your time & expertise is much appreciated!
This was sooooo helpful- and I’ve been an illustrator for decades! Fantastic tips! All of them!
Praise indeed then Susan, thanks for watching!
It is so refreshing to watch someone cram a lot of really useful information into a short video. I don't have time for chatty videos so I really appreciate your staying on subject, and being prepared to quickly illustrate the tips being presented.
Glad you enjoyed it!
You never cease to amaze me with how savvy and helpful you are. I love your channel so much! Sending love from Virginia! 💗💗💗
Thank you so much!!
This was suuuuuuuch a wonderful teaching video. I learned more in this lesson than I have in 58 years lol. Wow, I love you for being so sweet to offer your knowledge to us ! I just wanted to say, THANK YOU!!!! 😊
You are so welcome!
Love your drawing tutorials. I always learn something new and love the encouragement. Thank you 🙏 🌵🌵🌵
I'm barely a 'beginner' and been dreadfully discouraged at my attempts/practices to learn to draw. Your tips are soooo helpful. Thank you for sharing.
I'm so glad!
Very good tips Michele. Thx as always. 🥰💕🐶💕🥰
You're welcome Alicia ☺️
Awesome video. I will watch your other videos now. Thanks for sharing your knowledge Michele!
Great tips . Thank you ❤
You're welcome 🙂
Working on a sketch to be used in a watercolor with a bunch of wonderful flowers ... thank you for your help in changing angles. Perspective tips appreciated as well.
My pleasure 😊
A drafting erasing shield is indispensable when erasing graphite and you want to get a curved or sharp edge when shading. They have lots of different shaped cut in them so they are extremely useful for any pencil drawings.
Great tip, thank you!
A huge thank you. I need to re-watch this and take notes of all these tips.
You are very welcome!
Thank you very much, I'm a horrible drawer (not the cupboard type, that would be weird) but your tips have inspired me to have another go. You are wonderful!
Aw, thanks!
I totally agree with mikejustice. Thank you for not including the annoying music and baby talk! Great video. I learned so much in short time. Liked the tall building tip!
Great video there are to many tips that I enjoyed to mention. I am a beginner at drawing and these tips are so helpful. Thank you for doing this, take care
Thanks for watching!
I loved and appreciated ALL your tips---but my favorite was how to keep my sketches of 'eyes' from appearing as if they were in some fearsome 'starring' contest!. I never considered drawing a lid to rest over the top of the eye!! Also, enjoyed the way to match both sides of a 'Vase' you draw---I'm hopeless! (But, not anymore!) Lastly, I thought 'how clever' to use soft 'skipping lines to keep clouds and trees not looking like cartoons!! Thank you! At age 77, I have just started up drawing again (and coloring in alcohol markers and Prismacolor pencils).It's never too late to color in a 'coloring book' again! Lynn In NYC
Colouring is great, and practice WILL lead to improvement!
LOVE this!! Thank you so much Michele!! Wonderful tips and tricks. Please do more, especially for drawing. Thank you!!
Noted!
I liked the tip on expanding the drawing to fit the space.
Brilliant,Michele! Thank you so much for all your videos and hard work. They are so helpful. You are an awesome teacher!
Thanks so much!
I'm so glad I happened on this video! Thank you so much, Michele.
You are so welcome!
What a great video - each tip so helpful. I especially liked: how to make size of drawing proportional to photo, the sort of star grid rather than the usual grid of lines, again for proportion, as well as the narrowing of tall buildings. Proportion and perspective are big challenges for me. Thank you for this help.
Glad it was helpful!
These tricks - each one of them - were practical, useful and clever. God bless you
Glad you like them!
The tip to determine the paper size is extremely helpful. Thanks for all the tips. I always enjoy your videos.
Thanks Marti, I am glad!
I’m only half way through this video, and I’ve already learned so much. Thank you
Hi Michele, I love your videos, and this one is just perfect for me right now. I LOVE the tip you have of sharpening pencils because they just look at me and disappear. All the tips are great but this tip of light sandpaper for sharpening pencils is a new one on me and is just what I badly needed to keep my pencils that much longer. Also the straight lines without the ruler. Keep these great videos coming I love them, and judging by the comments here, so do many more. And I love your sense of humour. Don't ever take your humour out of your videos. It's great to have a lesson and laugh at the same time. It works. Saying that please dont think I'm demanding it or trying to pressure you into putting it into every video. No. I know its not something you can throw into every video you can't force these things. It would not work. Just keep doing what you're doing now. You know where the humour fits in and when it doesn't. You have the perfect balance. Thank you so much Michele for everything you've done. Much love and God bless. Susan 👍❤❤❤❤🎨🖼🌹🌹🌹🤗🙏🙏🙏
Thanks for your lovely comments Susan, I appreciate it!
Not only are you, an absolutely gorgeous instructor, but also, very thorough and talented. Thank you for this video.
Wow, thank you!
I’m so glad this video was recommended to me today! It’s, by far, the best drawing tips & tricks on one video, I’ve ever seen! Helpful and your instructions are so easy to understand! I’m definitely a new subscriber and definitely sharing to my artistic friends! Thank you!❤️ ⭐️
Thanks that's very kind of you!
You are very clear in your presentation. I appreciate your videos very much.
Glad you like them!
Thank you so much. I have just started learning to draw because I wanted to use watercolour and realised I needed to know the basics of drawing and your instructions are very clear and helpful.
Best tip for me today was how to angle reflecting objects. You are the best!😁
Thank you 😊❣️
Fantastic, thank you! Even after 30 years of drawing I learned new stuff. Stellar.
Thank you, blessings!
Michele, thanks again for your practical advice. Good teachers, like you, anticipate what students don’t realize. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
A treasure trove of tips!! The eye trick is going to make such a difference!! Thank you so much! 🙏
You're so welcome!
Liked the angles with the pencil, shadows in water, and drawing flowers. Thanks for explaining this so well.
My pleasure 😊
Thank you for sharing. I have been drawing for a long time and never thought about what I was doing. Your tricks would have saved me many mistakes I made along the way.
That's great, glad I could help!
I just bumped into this video and bingo, I know what hobby I am now going to get into and with whom. You! Thanks for awakening my desire to draw, something that indeed has been in the back of my mind for years.
You are so welcome!
Great tutorial Michele. All super tricks but my favourite was the flowers. Thank you for sharing.
I think I have a flower drawing video too if you have a look in the drawing playlist!
Thank you so much for taking the time to share that wisdom. I’ll be incorporating all of this into the journey to better my artistic skills.
Very glad I stopped by! I enjoyed ALL your tips and tricks! Thank You and God Bless ❤
So glad!
Gr8 haircut Michele! I appreciate all of your tips & tricks as a beginning watercolorist. Thank YOU~
Thanks, my hair is back but it's an ever changing process :-)
A very enjoyable class. Thank you.
You're very welcome!
THANK YOU FROM HEART.
The best educational video I have ever seen.
I subscribed without hesitation.
My best wishes.
Wow, thank you!
Im just getting back into drawing after a few years away from it. I was only a novice before so this video was an excellent step to pull out my pencils and tablets. Very, very informative! Thank you.
Great to hear!
The best tips I’ve seen. Thank you! I am 65 and just starting drawing. Hello from Mexico 🇲🇽
Welcome!
Very useful, especially the scaling up. Thank you.
No problem at all!
❤so very helpful Michele😊. Thank you!
You are so welcome!
Very helpful and professionally done. I have wanted to take up drawing for some time, now, but lack confidence in knowing where to begin. This will help enormously.
You can do it!