Thank you for this amazing and truly helpful video. Since you are filming from left (even if you are left handed, as myself), i got a good opportunity to study your hand. It seems like you have a quiet interesting grip on your pencil. It looks as if your thumb is somehow wrapped around the pencil. Is it a particular reason why you hold the pencil this way? I tend to hold the pencil with the my fingertips myself. It feels like it increases the ability to draw details only moving my fingers. The drawback of holding it like i do, is that the lines often are not precise enough. I think i will try your type of grip for some time, to see if it will increase the stability of my lines. If It would be helpful to see your hand from the other side, so fingers crossed you will film your next video putting the camera on your right side. Thank you again, for sharing your knowledge.
i believe the idea is to draw larger, but to experiment with dramatically different grip styles to achieve satisfactory definition of different sorts of detail. you might hear people talk about "locking" the wrist or hand joints to make strokes from the shoulder or with the arm, but as you draw what you find really happening is that anything allowing the grip to span a greater surface area of your hand (ie. by including the length of your thumb) is going to prevent unsteady line quality because as long as these articulations of your hand are resting against what will be essentially a straight & rigid pencil, any little intervening joints are going to be completely unable to move so you can use more of the hand, and on a larger scale if you need to avoid dilution of precision. but don't forget you sometimes need to just practice holding the pencil in some zany oddball ways you wouldnt think of for basic penmanship - getting the expressiveness out of a pencil isnt necessarily uncomfortable to do, while it is a large part of the reason you wouldnt just be drawing with some other possibly more precise tool in the modern day
Robert thanks for each one of your efforts!!!!!
Love your art works sir
You are my role model
I use your videos for practice 😊
Appreciate this demonstration, Robert.
another great video Rob
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Thank you for this amazing and truly helpful video.
Since you are filming from left (even if you are left handed, as myself), i got a good opportunity to study your hand. It seems like you have a quiet interesting grip on your pencil. It looks as if your thumb is somehow wrapped around the pencil. Is it a particular reason why you hold the pencil this way?
I tend to hold the pencil with the my fingertips myself. It feels like it increases the ability to draw details only moving my fingers. The drawback of holding it like i do, is that the lines often are not precise enough.
I think i will try your type of grip for some time, to see if it will increase the stability of my lines. If It would be helpful to see your hand from the other side, so fingers crossed you will film your next video putting the camera on your right side.
Thank you again, for sharing your knowledge.
i believe the idea is to draw larger, but to experiment with dramatically different grip styles to achieve satisfactory definition of different sorts of detail. you might hear people talk about "locking" the wrist or hand joints to make strokes from the shoulder or with the arm, but as you draw what you find really happening is that anything allowing the grip to span a greater surface area of your hand (ie. by including the length of your thumb) is going to prevent unsteady line quality because as long as these articulations of your hand are resting against what will be essentially a straight & rigid pencil, any little intervening joints are going to be completely unable to move
so you can use more of the hand, and on a larger scale if you need to avoid dilution of precision. but don't forget you sometimes need to just practice holding the pencil in some zany oddball ways you wouldnt think of for basic penmanship - getting the expressiveness out of a pencil isnt necessarily uncomfortable to do, while it is a large part of the reason you wouldnt just be drawing with some other possibly more precise tool in the modern day
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Finally first comment lol