I hope you enjoy my recent sketching methods - tested during the busiest time of the year, and I'm really happy that I could fit some practice time into my schedule 💙 Let me know if you try any of these, or if you have sketchbook ideas of your own! The first 500 people to use my link will receive a one month free trial of Skillshare! Get started today: skl.sh/evydraws01251 I've been working my way through Marco Bucci's "Understanding and Painting the Head" and also started to sketch more figure drawings through that learning path :)
I always come back at old sketches to add stuff. I feel like my sketchbook is an alive mess, but in a good way. Loved the ideas for sketching!! There´s something that I like to do that is opening my pinterest and sketching the first 3 things that appears, no matter what it is. It´s a fun way of making myself sketch that day, because some days are hard.
Same! I should really add dates to my sketches more consistently, as I keep filling in empty corners on random pages haha... I actually haven't used Pinterest in a while - it's become a bit flooded with weird ai stuff. But I have so many folders of reference pics and movie scenes - I've even rolled dice in the past to quickly decide on random ones to warm up with! :)
A wonderful video - I loved seeing how you made your pencil marks. That venetian red Edith portrait was my favourite, so beautiful. I've been meaning to study chins and mouths myself too, I've recently been seeing how I could improve in that area. I loved that 'correcting sketches' tip - that's something I do a variation of when I'm busy for sketching and need something quick to fit in. I'll take an earlier sketch I've done that I'm dissatisfied with and redraw it next to the original, sometimes with the og ref and sometimes without, to see what areas I liked, what ones I could improve on. It's a good way to warm up, at least! Though my number one way to get art in when I'm busy is always having a sketchbook with me - specifically one I've designated for 'fun', so there's less pressure on whatever I end up doing. I've only been doing this for about a year now, but it's helped so much.
Thank you - and especially for mentioning the Edith one! That one felt like such a lucky accident, just a 5 minute sketch as we got ready to leave the cafe... sometimes, those quick, loose sketches turn out the most natural! I love the idea of re-drawing the same reference next to the first sketch. Just need to remember to leave some more space on my pages :'D And yes, these more critical, analytical looks at our sketches are a great warm-up.
Oh I love the idea of sketching from gifs. Thank you! I love seeing people's studies and sketches - and to see them while they're being drawn is even better.
So happy you read Dracula! My drawings have fulfilled their purpose of spreading the word haha And sketching from gifs is so fun - I think at this point more of my portrait sketches are drawn with those for reference than photos! :)
Loved the sketches especially how you incorporated the lovely sky blue shade in the figure drawing. You should definitely use a dark purple pencil with graphite as an experiment. It could look beautiful too.
Thank you! As a big fan of purple colors, I'll have to try that - or if the figure is drawn in a terracotta shade, that combination could look so pretty, too!
such nice sketches. Thank you for this gorgeous video.I just enjoy your style of drawing so much. Funny. Just today I got a set of the derwent drawing in the mail, that I had spotted on a second hand platform. And I tried them out and thought "oh, that terracotta shade will be nice for portrait sketches."😀 You really got me started on sketching with color pencils.
Thank you so much ❤️ Which set did you get? I'm eyeing the full 24 colors set but it's a bit difficult to find it in Korea. Might just order it online 👀 I hope you enjoy that terracotta shade as much as I do!
Its sometimes hard to feel motivated to draw, especially in winter with SAD, this helped give me some inspiration, thank you. My biggest problem when sketching has always been being too light. I have trouble getting things dark enough and creating values. In school I would sometimes write so lightly that my teacher couldn't read it. Your sketches show a lot of value and detail without going extremely dark or using black, maybe I'll try using other colors and see if doing something like this will work better for me.
I hope winter doesn't drag on too long - the dark and cold really get to me, too.... probably easy to see when I had to huddle up in a café to finally be in the headspace to sketch. As someone who painted with very soft watercolors: I feel you! Going very dark can be scary, and if we do it without purpose just for the sake of it, it might not even be all that helpful. Embrace some of that light touch you have by using soft colors (maybe even conté or soft pastels!) and I hope that helps slowly building up values ♥
Right now I use still references. While I mostly focus on illustrating from my mind, and I understand shading - doing complex or dynamic shading is hard. So lately my practice is about blocking in shadows on figures. I use similar media to you so I am so glad I found your channel. It's been a huge help.
I think a lot of us have heard at some point in our lives that using references is "cheating" - when through-out history, artists have used models and tools to help create realistic art of all kinds. So I think using references and then building your style naturally while using them is perfectly valid. :)
Moving references sound super scary to me, but your explanation for doing them makes a lot of sense. Not sure if I feel confident enough in my sketching skills to try it yet, but I will keep it in the back of my mind for the future. Right now I'm focusing on the basic proportions of the face and trying to get a bit faster at sketching. I can usually achieve quite a good likeness, but it takes me a long time, and I'd love to get more accurate faster. Beautiful sketches and I loved seeing the Derwent Drawing pencils here!
They can be quite scary! But I've found that they actually make such a difference exactly with getting faster at capturing a face - though again, the results can be hit or miss 😆 I think if you see it as a warm-up exercise, like stretching before doing sports, it becomes less intimidating. ♥ Good luck with the sketches!
@@evydraws-art Oh, they do?! That sounds great. I'm gonna need to find some good gifs. (This is utterly random, but did you know gifs can play audio now, too? Blew my mind when I found out.) Thank you!
i loved seeing your approaches to your sketchbook. i tried loose watercolor florals again this weekend and i did actually get an old sketchbook out to see how i approached them when i did them last year and i tried to see what i liked about the way i did them back then and what i wanted to improve. and then i also took notes in my current sketchbook, which i think you mentioned in an earlier video and also here. i thought that was a smart idea so i made tiny notes next to my flowers now. basically just what i did well and what i wanted to improve upon or what to look out for. i think that really helped me to also pause and take a step back and analyze what i like and what i didnt like about my dlowers. and so i filled pages of flowers. i liked them and i was happy to show up to my sketchbook that day but i have to admit that only the next day, i opened that page and i thought they were actually prettier than i remember and i could see the progress better and how a flower changed after i took notes and i took that note to heart. so i definitely have to look at my drawings a day later or so bc i'm rarely able to appreciate them immediately when i've done them. oh and also, i have 5 colors of the derwent drawing pencils bc i saw them in a store on vacation last year and i love them. the thicker lead is so interesting but also looser to work with. i dont have the terracotta shade though but it looks absolutely lovely. i will have to look out for that one. i really enjoy the colors i have though and have been thinking about getting more. i just got a smaller sketchbook than i usually use to put in my bag. i think that will hopefully help me to sketch more consistently, as i struggle with that a lot. sometimes i dont open my sketchbook for days even though i enjoy painting and then it sometimes feels like i somehow unlearned all my art knowledge. i really wanna be more consistent! i hope you have a good week 😸🫶
oooh loose watercolor florals sound fun! I miss botanical art and have opened my watercolors more often in the last weeks. :) I'm glad taking notes worked for you, too - it's such a helpful mix of journaling and studying for me, so I'm actually more drawn to the sketchbook pages with some kind of notes on them when looking back. And even better when we can appreciate the beauty of what we created with our own hands after some time has passed! I might get the full set of 24 for those Derwent Drawing pencils. Not sure why I never took that plunge after years and years of rebuying the same few shades and loving them so much! Glad to find someone else who enjoys them, as they seem to be a bit unknown. Btw, since you mention sometimes not opening your sketchbook for days: Despite what it looks like here in these videos, that's for sure the case for me, too. I try to be more consistent, and small sketchbooks on the go help with that for sure, but it can be difficult. Let's both try our best, but also be kind when life gets in the way
Very true for me too :') I actually drew tiny scene sketches while rewatching Alien a few months ago - very challenging but still left enough room to enjoy the movie, too.
I hope I can achieve the perfect comfort of your lines. Each of my drawings takes weeks. I worry too much about the shadow, the scan lines. My perfectionist autism doesn't make me sketch.
As someone who is generally very slow, especially when painting, there's nothing wrong with taking our time for art! Perfectionism can be tough, and I've found that thinking of my sketches as just "warm-up exercises" takes away some of the pressure.
Thank you! It really depends on the gif - some are barely a second long, some around 3-4 seconds. I keep them on a loop and try to get an overall impression of the scene. :)
I hope you enjoy my recent sketching methods - tested during the busiest time of the year, and I'm really happy that I could fit some practice time into my schedule 💙 Let me know if you try any of these, or if you have sketchbook ideas of your own!
The first 500 people to use my link will receive a one month free trial of Skillshare! Get started today: skl.sh/evydraws01251
I've been working my way through Marco Bucci's "Understanding and Painting the Head" and also started to sketch more figure drawings through that learning path :)
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I always come back at old sketches to add stuff. I feel like my sketchbook is an alive mess, but in a good way.
Loved the ideas for sketching!! There´s something that I like to do that is opening my pinterest and sketching the first 3 things that appears, no matter what it is. It´s a fun way of making myself sketch that day, because some days are hard.
Same! I should really add dates to my sketches more consistently, as I keep filling in empty corners on random pages haha...
I actually haven't used Pinterest in a while - it's become a bit flooded with weird ai stuff. But I have so many folders of reference pics and movie scenes - I've even rolled dice in the past to quickly decide on random ones to warm up with! :)
I want you to know how inspiring you are! I sketch every day and it's always good to do the basics. thank you!!
Thank you so much! ❤️ going back over basics is my goal for the start of this year :)
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This is amazingggg
Thank you! 🥰
These techniques are so beautiful 🤩
Thank you so much! ❤️
A wonderful video - I loved seeing how you made your pencil marks. That venetian red Edith portrait was my favourite, so beautiful. I've been meaning to study chins and mouths myself too, I've recently been seeing how I could improve in that area.
I loved that 'correcting sketches' tip - that's something I do a variation of when I'm busy for sketching and need something quick to fit in. I'll take an earlier sketch I've done that I'm dissatisfied with and redraw it next to the original, sometimes with the og ref and sometimes without, to see what areas I liked, what ones I could improve on. It's a good way to warm up, at least!
Though my number one way to get art in when I'm busy is always having a sketchbook with me - specifically one I've designated for 'fun', so there's less pressure on whatever I end up doing. I've only been doing this for about a year now, but it's helped so much.
Thank you - and especially for mentioning the Edith one! That one felt like such a lucky accident, just a 5 minute sketch as we got ready to leave the cafe... sometimes, those quick, loose sketches turn out the most natural!
I love the idea of re-drawing the same reference next to the first sketch. Just need to remember to leave some more space on my pages :'D And yes, these more critical, analytical looks at our sketches are a great warm-up.
Oh I love the idea of sketching from gifs. Thank you!
I love seeing people's studies and sketches - and to see them while they're being drawn is even better.
So happy you read Dracula! My drawings have fulfilled their purpose of spreading the word haha
And sketching from gifs is so fun - I think at this point more of my portrait sketches are drawn with those for reference than photos! :)
You are so talented and I love how your videos are so calm and soothing. Beautiful work 🥰
Thank you so much! These sketches were so calming for me to make, so I'm glad that comes across in the video, too 💙
Loved the sketches especially how you incorporated the lovely sky blue shade in the figure drawing. You should definitely use a dark purple pencil with graphite as an experiment. It could look beautiful too.
Thank you! As a big fan of purple colors, I'll have to try that - or if the figure is drawn in a terracotta shade, that combination could look so pretty, too!
such nice sketches. Thank you for this gorgeous video.I just enjoy your style of drawing so much. Funny. Just today I got a set of the derwent drawing in the mail, that I had spotted on a second hand platform. And I tried them out and thought "oh, that terracotta shade will be nice for portrait sketches."😀 You really got me started on sketching with color pencils.
Thank you so much ❤️ Which set did you get? I'm eyeing the full 24 colors set but it's a bit difficult to find it in Korea. Might just order it online 👀 I hope you enjoy that terracotta shade as much as I do!
@@evydraws-art I do. It:s the 24 set.
Its sometimes hard to feel motivated to draw, especially in winter with SAD, this helped give me some inspiration, thank you.
My biggest problem when sketching has always been being too light. I have trouble getting things dark enough and creating values. In school I would sometimes write so lightly that my teacher couldn't read it. Your sketches show a lot of value and detail without going extremely dark or using black, maybe I'll try using other colors and see if doing something like this will work better for me.
I hope winter doesn't drag on too long - the dark and cold really get to me, too.... probably easy to see when I had to huddle up in a café to finally be in the headspace to sketch.
As someone who painted with very soft watercolors: I feel you! Going very dark can be scary, and if we do it without purpose just for the sake of it, it might not even be all that helpful. Embrace some of that light touch you have by using soft colors (maybe even conté or soft pastels!) and I hope that helps slowly building up values ♥
your sketches are beautiful! this makes me want to practice portraits more!
Thank you so much! I hope you do :)
Right now I use still references. While I mostly focus on illustrating from my mind, and I understand shading - doing complex or dynamic shading is hard. So lately my practice is about blocking in shadows on figures. I use similar media to you so I am so glad I found your channel. It's been a huge help.
I think a lot of us have heard at some point in our lives that using references is "cheating" - when through-out history, artists have used models and tools to help create realistic art of all kinds. So I think using references and then building your style naturally while using them is perfectly valid. :)
Moving references sound super scary to me, but your explanation for doing them makes a lot of sense. Not sure if I feel confident enough in my sketching skills to try it yet, but I will keep it in the back of my mind for the future. Right now I'm focusing on the basic proportions of the face and trying to get a bit faster at sketching. I can usually achieve quite a good likeness, but it takes me a long time, and I'd love to get more accurate faster.
Beautiful sketches and I loved seeing the Derwent Drawing pencils here!
They can be quite scary! But I've found that they actually make such a difference exactly with getting faster at capturing a face - though again, the results can be hit or miss 😆 I think if you see it as a warm-up exercise, like stretching before doing sports, it becomes less intimidating. ♥ Good luck with the sketches!
@@evydraws-art Oh, they do?! That sounds great. I'm gonna need to find some good gifs. (This is utterly random, but did you know gifs can play audio now, too? Blew my mind when I found out.)
Thank you!
GIFs can play sound?? I didn't know! My phone is always on silent so I wouldn't notice 😂 And I hope you find some good ones for sketching!
i loved seeing your approaches to your sketchbook. i tried loose watercolor florals again this weekend and i did actually get an old sketchbook out to see how i approached them when i did them last year and i tried to see what i liked about the way i did them back then and what i wanted to improve. and then i also took notes in my current sketchbook, which i think you mentioned in an earlier video and also here. i thought that was a smart idea so i made tiny notes next to my flowers now. basically just what i did well and what i wanted to improve upon or what to look out for. i think that really helped me to also pause and take a step back and analyze what i like and what i didnt like about my dlowers. and so i filled pages of flowers. i liked them and i was happy to show up to my sketchbook that day but i have to admit that only the next day, i opened that page and i thought they were actually prettier than i remember and i could see the progress better and how a flower changed after i took notes and i took that note to heart. so i definitely have to look at my drawings a day later or so bc i'm rarely able to appreciate them immediately when i've done them.
oh and also, i have 5 colors of the derwent drawing pencils bc i saw them in a store on vacation last year and i love them. the thicker lead is so interesting but also looser to work with. i dont have the terracotta shade though but it looks absolutely lovely. i will have to look out for that one. i really enjoy the colors i have though and have been thinking about getting more.
i just got a smaller sketchbook than i usually use to put in my bag. i think that will hopefully help me to sketch more consistently, as i struggle with that a lot. sometimes i dont open my sketchbook for days even though i enjoy painting and then it sometimes feels like i somehow unlearned all my art knowledge. i really wanna be more consistent!
i hope you have a good week 😸🫶
oooh loose watercolor florals sound fun! I miss botanical art and have opened my watercolors more often in the last weeks. :) I'm glad taking notes worked for you, too - it's such a helpful mix of journaling and studying for me, so I'm actually more drawn to the sketchbook pages with some kind of notes on them when looking back.
And even better when we can appreciate the beauty of what we created with our own hands after some time has passed!
I might get the full set of 24 for those Derwent Drawing pencils. Not sure why I never took that plunge after years and years of rebuying the same few shades and loving them so much! Glad to find someone else who enjoys them, as they seem to be a bit unknown.
Btw, since you mention sometimes not opening your sketchbook for days: Despite what it looks like here in these videos, that's for sure the case for me, too. I try to be more consistent, and small sketchbooks on the go help with that for sure, but it can be difficult. Let's both try our best, but also be kind when life gets in the way
Everytime I try to sketch from a movie, I end up watching the entire movie without drawing :')
As always, thanks for the video !
Very true for me too :') I actually drew tiny scene sketches while rewatching Alien a few months ago - very challenging but still left enough room to enjoy the movie, too.
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Thank you, glad to have you ❤️
I hope I can achieve the perfect comfort of your lines. Each of my drawings takes weeks. I worry too much about the shadow, the scan lines. My perfectionist autism doesn't make me sketch.
As someone who is generally very slow, especially when painting, there's nothing wrong with taking our time for art! Perfectionism can be tough, and I've found that thinking of my sketches as just "warm-up exercises" takes away some of the pressure.
@@evydraws-art I will remind myself of this idea, thank you♥
Great video. When you use moving reference gifs, do you watch them in loop while you draw? How long of a loop do you run through?
Thank you! It really depends on the gif - some are barely a second long, some around 3-4 seconds. I keep them on a loop and try to get an overall impression of the scene. :)
@@evydraws-art Thank you! I'll try it out.
What's the smaller sketcbook you hold on 7:47 please? Thanks for sharing.
It's a Hahnemühle one - they're called travel booklets :)
@@evydraws-art Paper looks great on that! Thanks for sharing!! Keep up the good work
I highly recommend it - I always travel with that one in my bag.
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