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‘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 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.
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.
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!
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.
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
The Cliff Notes of drawing. Great tips here! Favorite cheats were - - sizing up the paper to the photo reference - finding halfway point in a foreshortened plane
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
Super ah ha effect on turtle.Many clever tricks.The tracing paper & distance in perspective etc just great! Really good tip on shading & facial features, now I just need to put into practice!!
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.
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...
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!
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!
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!
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!
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! 💜
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'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. :)
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....
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.
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.
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!😊👍
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
Thank you for this tutorial. It was so much help! I'm looking to perfect a fuzzy dandelion or a wish. Like when you blow the seeds around. I think they're very elegant on paper with charcole. Thank you again. I'll be watching all the time!
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.
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.
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.
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 👍❤❤❤❤🎨🖼🌹🌹🌹🤗🙏🙏🙏
The bit about drawing tall buildings with tapered tops and smaller features at the top reminds me of how that had been used within actual famous architecture. I remember learning that Walt Disney actually did this with the castles at his park to make them seem even grander and impressive to look up at. The tapering effect was also used for the same purpose in the columns for temples of gods in ancient Greece.
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!❤️ ⭐️
Most of these techniques are things I learned or figured out on my own when I very young. Art has always come very naturally to me. BUT, I found this video most helpful in reminding me where others might need help, patience and guidance. I have no ambitions of being an art teacher, but I may want to do some tutoring down the road. I thinks the best teachers are often the ones who have had to struggle to learn the craft. If I ever want to be good at helping others then, I'll have to work very hard to put myself in the right mindset. Anyway, thank you! P.s. I didn't know the whiskers trick! So helpful!
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
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 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.
Thanks Michele. I am Jyotilekha Koppikar from India and have just joined your channel. I like your vedios. There is lot to learn. Thanks for sharing even the small things.
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.
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!!!! 😊
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!
I have been drawing for 60 years and I am not ashamed to say I learnt something today. Thank You!.
You are very welcome
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‘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 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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
Loved the flowers.
Excellent tips! Thank you for sharing your expertise so freely, it really does make us beginners feel more like “we’ve got this!”
The Cliff Notes of drawing. Great tips here!
Favorite cheats were -
- sizing up the paper to the photo reference
- finding halfway point in a foreshortened plane
Glad it was helpful!
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
Super ah ha effect on turtle.Many clever tricks.The tracing paper & distance in perspective etc just great! Really good tip on shading & facial features, now I just need to put into practice!!
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!
love this woman shes taught me 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 very welcome! Drawing helps with all sorts of crafts I find :-)
My favorite was the first tip. Great vid. Thank you
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 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!
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!
I liked the tip on expanding the drawing to fit the space.
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!
So helpful! I am a 45 year old trying to learn to draw. Just found your channel. These tips are amazing. Thank you!
BTW Your frog ring is adorable.
Awesome! Thank you!
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 keep going back to your drawing tutorials, this one included. So well explained and touches on those tips that help me.
Glad you like them!
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!
Thank you, blessings!
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.
All 20 tips are so expository, thank you Michelle.
Glad you think so!
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!
The elipse hack was a great one....thankx
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 :-)
Wow! This was absolutely awesome. Respect from South Africa
You never stop surprising me with your incredible tips!!!!! You rock, Michele.
Thanks Sherry!
The lips and eye tips were great, as were the texture and winding road and fence posts.
Glad you found it useful!
thank you Learning a lot and easy understand
Glad to hear that!
I liked the tip to finding the centre of the angled wall of the building. So simple.
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!
the embossing trick is amazing!
I know, it's like magic!
Very good tips Michele. Thx as always. 🥰💕🐶💕🥰
You're welcome Alicia ☺️
I LOVE YOUR GREEN NAILS
Thank you!
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!
Thank you! I finally know what else to do with the dotting stick ;)
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!
I love the tip on drawing flowers facing any direction.
You are most welcome!
This is so incredibly helpful and has made drawing more of a pleasure. Thank you!
You have given me some thngs to work on to improve my tecknique and prospective. Thank you...Very well done
Thanks for watching ☺️
Great tips . Thank you ❤
You're welcome 🙂
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.
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!!
You are such a natural teacher. You found your calling which is a nice combination with your art talent!
Thank you! 😊
Love your drawing tutorials. I always learn something new and love the encouragement. Thank you 🙏 🌵🌵🌵
thank you for your time in showing these tricks
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!
You are a great teacher.
This was sooooo helpful- and I’ve been an illustrator for decades! Fantastic tips! All of them!
Praise indeed then Susan, thanks for watching!
The eyeball drawing helped me the most! Thanks!
You're welcome!
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 :-)
The faster grid is one I didn't know. What a good video to refresh our memories. Thank you,
No problem!
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 so glad I happened on this video! Thank you so much, Michele.
You are so welcome!
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 😉
Glad I came across this content ..digest for dummies👍🏻🐼
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!
Thoroughly enjoyed all of it, thank you so much!
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!
Thank you for this tutorial. It was so much help! I'm looking to perfect a fuzzy dandelion or a wish. Like when you blow the seeds around. I think they're very elegant on paper with charcole. Thank you again. I'll be watching all the time!
LOVE this!! Thank you so much Michele!! Wonderful tips and tricks. Please do more, especially for drawing. Thank you!!
Noted!
Thank you very much for your sharing generously with us.
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!
Very glad I stopped by! I enjoyed ALL your tips and tricks! Thank You and God Bless ❤
So glad!
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!
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.
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 loved this! Great tips and you didn’t take “forever and a day” to get your points across. I have a short attention span. 😄
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!
The bit about drawing tall buildings with tapered tops and smaller features at the top reminds me of how that had been used within actual famous architecture. I remember learning that Walt Disney actually did this with the castles at his park to make them seem even grander and impressive to look up at. The tapering effect was also used for the same purpose in the columns for temples of gods in ancient Greece.
Yes, I think a lot of English churches do this too, to make them seem a little more dramatic!
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!
I’m only half way through this video, and I’ve already learned so much. Thank you
Loved how to create an even sided vase!
Most of these techniques are things I learned or figured out on my own when I very young. Art has always come very naturally to me. BUT, I found this video most helpful in reminding me where others might need help, patience and guidance. I have no ambitions of being an art teacher, but I may want to do some tutoring down the road. I thinks the best teachers are often the ones who have had to struggle to learn the craft. If I ever want to be good at helping others then, I'll have to work very hard to put myself in the right mindset. Anyway, thank you!
P.s. I didn't know the whiskers trick! So helpful!
You're very welcome ☺️
So glad I watched this. Valuable guidance for a beginner like me. Much thanks
You're very welcome!
Not long after an operation and you are a great help in my recovery.
Ah, wishing you a speedy recovery!
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!
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 love this teaching style!
A huge thank you. I need to re-watch this and take notes of all these tips.
You are very welcome!
Very nice tips for beginners! Thanks!
Everything was useful. Thanks! Proverbs 3:5&6
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!
Thanks Michele. I am Jyotilekha Koppikar from India and have just joined your channel. I like your vedios. There is lot to learn. Thanks for sharing even the small things.
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!
❤so very helpful Michele😊. Thank you!
You are so welcome!
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!
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!
Brilliantly explained, thank you. ❤️