Amazing video, very useful for beginners! I own the Loomis method book, but I had never heard about the other books you´ve mentionned, I´m definitely going to give it a go! As for studying sculptures and the masters, it is something that all the most skilled contemporary artists I know of speak about! I´ve personally never tried, it´s the beginner´s temptation to just skip the steps and draw whatever you want believing yours skills will magically improve. I guess it works for some people, but I it is most likely the way to go if you want to up your game!
@laschizo thanks so much for the appreciation and insights! I can totally relate because I also avoided studying fundamentals like anatomy, drawing from sculptures and masters initially. And it was only after I realised I wasn't making any progress drawing the same type of references from pinterest that I actually said to myself you know what, I'm not going to reinvent the wheel here and let's just stick to what's worked for artists for the past 200 years 😅 You should definitely give it a try and I wish you good luck in your art journey 😊☘️
@@allisonschneider7414 So true! If you use Chrome, there is a Chrome extension called "UnTrap for UA-cam." It has a ton of settings including being able to get rid of yt shorts! It's great and I totally recommend it. Haven't wasted my time watching a yt short in months
FINALLY a someone that actually gives good advices . I am a portrait artist and academy of fine arts students of graphic design and I didn’t know the book you mentioned! It doesn’t have many text but just useful drawing and this is so amazing! You just motivated me right now in bed to start drawing!
Thanks so much for the kind words! 🙏☺ It was a childhood dream for me to study in arts school but I didn't have the courage to do that. Its so cool that you're studying arts in a fine arts academy and persuing your passion. Wishing you good luck in your art journey! 🍀💌
@lastcaresss that's so cool! My niece is studying anatomy for her dentistry exams and she loves drawing anatomy diagrams. I showed her anatomy drawings by Professor Rey Bustos for inspiration and she was blown away ☺️
You should absolutely keep up the work on YT. I really love the light touch you have with your pencil. This video greatly summarises the mindset required when drawing portraits, or anything volumetric for that matters. Big shapes, proportion and structure ❤. Subscribed
Wonderful insights and information on the different reference books on drawing methods,outlined by George Bridgeman, Charles Bargue, Andrew Loomis. Ammar you provide brilliant videos for Portrait Students. Look forward to more videos you produce, you are an Amazing teacher. Keep on creating and inspiring us. Have lovely day. PS huge thank you from me in Australia 😊🙏✏📚
You're too kind! ☺🙏 I am struggling to film the fourth video for my channel and you have given me some much-needed inspiration boost so a big thank you! Means a lot to me 💌 Oh and Australia is like one of first countries on my travel bucket list 🙃
@hoopyfrood4391 oh wow. That's something on my bucket list when I travel. Unfortunately not many sculptures around where I live. Would love to sketch David in person some day 😊
@@ammardraws That would be awesome! I am lucky enough to live about a fifteen minute drive to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Lots of sculpture to draw from.
Ive been looking at the loomis method too lately 😁.. Helps me actually place my drawings on the page! Your style is really nice btw, I like the combining of the shadow shapes.
Thank so much to take your time to show us how too do thing correctly to get raise and be better and be better. Amazing video and amazing person behind. Congrats
Stumbled upon your website a good while ago and i found it super helpfull, i didn't realise you had YT channel. YT algorithm came through, so glad you have a channel! Also great style!
A lovely, unassuming intro to portrait drawing. I've been avoiding the practice, but recently took photos of sculptures that will now prove useful. Thank you for sharing your extraordinary talent.
Thank you so much for the kind words! I feel deeply touched 💌 I would love to travel some time and observe sculptures in person as there aren't any around where I live. I hope you get to practice soon and have some really productive sessions drawing from your own references. 🍀
Thank you so much for sharing these art tips! I’m glad I came across your channel in the right time(the start), I’ll be able to watch every video you post and improve in my art journey ❤️ Could you please enlighten us on achieving likeness in portraits, I struggle with this aspect and I’d love to watch your take on it
Thanks so much for the kind words! ☺️ It would be a privilege for me to make content that helps you in your art journey in a small way. 💌 When I started drawing faces, I wanted to draw my favorite characters from the movies and famous celebrities and I got really frustrated when I was unable to get the resemblance right. Initially what I found helpful was to not obsess too much about likeness when I was just starting to learn the basics about portraiture like the Loomis Method and anatomy. And I think as a beginner it can be very liberating to draw faces of strangers so you don't feel the need to make your drawing to look exactly like the reference. With that said, I think drawing the likeness well without using a grid depends on your ability to draw the basic structure well in terms of basic shapes (such as using the loomis method), knowing the basic proportions of the average face, and identifying how a particular face differs from those average proportions. If you're interested, I wrote a blog post about tips for drawing the likeness in portraits if you're interested bingedrawing.com/portrait/tips-for-improving-likeness/ I hope this is semi-helpful to you. Good luck and have fun drawing! 🍀
Such a helpful video! Thank you for walking us through the different methods. I have a clearer understanding on how to approach things now! I hope you will continue with more videos. Seeing your progress and hearing your thinking regarding your process is appreciated. ☺️
@courtneyfarley3152 You're most welcome 😊 I'm glad I was able to help you in a small way. I just finished recording footage for my next video. Will probably edit tomorrow and upload on Friday. 🤞🏼 Thanks for the kind words 😊 🙏
realy good tips! actualy make so much sense that is more easy to my brain understand face shapes when i´m not drawing a human face. (plus: what a exotic pencil grip you have, brother)
Thank you! ☺🙏 I know I have a weird way of holding the pencil and I'm actually trying to get used to gripping the pencil further away from the tip to draw more loosely. But, old habits I guess 😅
@@ammardraws oh just take your time! I'm just asking because you did recommend a lot of useful books about the portrait drawing and they're really helpful so I wanted if you could talk about it in other fields too 😁
Awesome Videos!!! Links in your description- AWESOME Exercise 1: Drawing sculptures Exercise 2: The Bargue method (COPY) Exercise 3: Skull practice Exercise 4: The Loomis head Exercise 5: The Bridgman head cube Exercise 6: Master studies
@simonjohnson3106 I'm planing to do a draw with me video about sculptures probably end of next month 🙂 My next video is about how I shade my drawings and I'll be discussing the materials and shading techniques in that video. Recording the footage in the next couple of days and hopefully it will be edited and uploading by Friday 😊🤞🏼 Thanks for the suggestion and kind words! 🙏 💌
I love them. Especially the white one. I like how they feel in the hand, the buttery texture, the convenience of the built in eraser, oh and they look a mazing. A bit pricey to be honest though 🙂✏️
@quickmaff9349 I like to blend the shading a lot and that gives the drawing a bit of softness. I think I'll share my shading process in my next video so that might help you get a better idea 🙂
@@ammardraws Oh! Well you must stop feeling insecure because you have a lovely voice =) It’s quite relaxing actually. I hope you will continue to make your videos 🙏🌻✍️
I've always admired drawings of statues but never thought of drawing them feeling they're rather outdated!🤪and of course difficult. But the way you said how it helps you see the face objectively- form, light and shadow, etc.... It kind of clicked! I downloaded some free Loomis/method books from an online library. I can print the exercise sheets that I want to make give it a try myself. So do you start with Ex.1 and only work on that for while? What was the order of you routine? Also, your drawings are very good. You are talented. Thank you very much for this inspirational video. By the way the woman you're drawing at the end of the video looks cuter than the one on the phone.😂
Thanks so much! 😊 I just studied each chapter of the loomis book (except for the part about drawing hands, I'm still procrastinating on that) and just recreated the step by step drawings as I went along. To reinforce what I learned, I also practiced drawing the loomis head from photo references using the book as a guide. Hope you get some nice practice!
@misterhope5241 You're most welcome 😊 It's a portrait of Princess De Broglie that I found on Pinterest. Not entirely sure of the painter though. You can check the link in the description for the exact reference.
Not sure exactly which one you're referring to but I mostly use one of these: -Blackwing -Faber castell (9000 series) -Faber castell mechanical (TK fine) -Cretacolor monolith woodless pencil (only use this occasionally because I find it hard to get a sharp point). 🙂
I switched from sketchbooks to cheap a4 papers a while back because I was being too precious with my drawings. I actually like the smooth texture that you get with these and I buy the 90 or 110 gram paper stacks so I can make some corrections without ruining the drawing. 🙂
@iHyRisk thanks so much! I plan to publish more posts in the blog once I figure out a routine that works for UA-cam. For now I'm pivoting more towards UA-cam because lately it's been really hard to get an audience from search with a standalone blog. Appreciate your feedback 😊 🙏
Amazing video, very useful for beginners! I own the Loomis method book, but I had never heard about the other books you´ve mentionned, I´m definitely going to give it a go! As for studying sculptures and the masters, it is something that all the most skilled contemporary artists I know of speak about! I´ve personally never tried, it´s the beginner´s temptation to just skip the steps and draw whatever you want believing yours skills will magically improve. I guess it works for some people, but I it is most likely the way to go if you want to up your game!
@laschizo thanks so much for the appreciation and insights! I can totally relate because I also avoided studying fundamentals like anatomy, drawing from sculptures and masters initially.
And it was only after I realised I wasn't making any progress drawing the same type of references from pinterest that I actually said to myself you know what, I'm not going to reinvent the wheel here and let's just stick to what's worked for artists for the past 200 years 😅
You should definitely give it a try and I wish you good luck in your art journey 😊☘️
@@ammardraws That´s very well put! I´m going to try, thank you for your support! Good luck to you as well!
Day two of not watching UA-cam shorts and finding good quality content that I wanna cry
I wish we could remove shorts. So distracting and a big time waste!
@@allisonschneider7414 So true! If you use Chrome, there is a Chrome extension called "UnTrap for UA-cam." It has a ton of settings including being able to get rid of yt shorts! It's great and I totally recommend it. Haven't wasted my time watching a yt short in months
Shorts are propaganda and B.S. they should be removed
It's nice to see videos where the artist shows how they started and the progress they have made, thank you.
@@gwdavidson065 you're most welcome 😊
“ these probably don’t look that amazing”. Proceeds to show us STUNNING drawings❤😂🎉🎉🎉🎉I’m an artist I know skill when I see it.
@@Miss_Annlaug you're too kind ☺️💌
I noticed a shift in my sketching when i started trying to sketch sculptures! Its so much fun.
Yes! I'm addicted to drawing sculptures myself. I find it very relaxing 🙂
FINALLY a someone that actually gives good advices . I am a portrait artist and academy of fine arts students of graphic design and I didn’t know the book you mentioned! It doesn’t have many text but just useful drawing and this is so amazing! You just motivated me right now in bed to start drawing!
Thanks so much for the kind words! 🙏☺
It was a childhood dream for me to study in arts school but I didn't have the courage to do that. Its so cool that you're studying arts in a fine arts academy and persuing your passion. Wishing you good luck in your art journey! 🍀💌
5:26 it’s my favorite I’m majoring nursing my drawings improved after my anatomy classes 😅
@lastcaresss that's so cool! My niece is studying anatomy for her dentistry exams and she loves drawing anatomy diagrams. I showed her anatomy drawings by Professor Rey Bustos for inspiration and she was blown away ☺️
@@ammardrawsThank you for the tips!!!
You should absolutely keep up the work on YT. I really love the light touch you have with your pencil. This video greatly summarises the mindset required when drawing portraits, or anything volumetric for that matters. Big shapes, proportion and structure ❤. Subscribed
Awww thanks so much for the kind words and encouragement 😊🙏 it means a lot to me 💌
Wonderful insights and information on the different reference books on drawing methods,outlined by George Bridgeman, Charles Bargue, Andrew Loomis. Ammar you provide brilliant videos for Portrait Students. Look forward to more videos you produce, you are an Amazing teacher. Keep on creating and inspiring us. Have lovely day. PS huge thank you from me in Australia 😊🙏✏📚
You're too kind! ☺🙏 I am struggling to film the fourth video for my channel and you have given me some much-needed inspiration boost so a big thank you!
Means a lot to me 💌 Oh and Australia is like one of first countries on my travel bucket list 🙃
Wow, I actually think you are very talented! The video makes me want to give it a try. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks so much for the kind words 😊🙏 You should definitely give it a try! 🍀
I had been going to the local art museum to draw directly from actual portrait and figure sculpture. Very helpful.
@hoopyfrood4391 oh wow. That's something on my bucket list when I travel. Unfortunately not many sculptures around where I live. Would love to sketch David in person some day 😊
@@ammardraws That would be awesome! I am lucky enough to live about a fifteen minute drive to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Lots of sculpture to draw from.
@hoopyfrood4391 sounds like a dream ☺️
can you show us hhow to shade
@WPTHFC I'm planing to make my next video about sketching portraits with me so I'll definitely cover that 🙂
You're great. I love your drawings. Everything you showed shows mastery of line, values and form. I love the subtle stylizations on your portraits.
Thanks so much for the kind words 😊 🙏
Ive been looking at the loomis method too lately 😁.. Helps me actually place my drawings on the page! Your style is really nice btw, I like the combining of the shadow shapes.
This is so useful! I was scared to start drawing again. But I'll do it today and start with drawing sculptures
@@lenakataeva7525 You got this! ☘️
@@ammardraws thanks! ❤️
Thank so much to take your time to show us how too do thing correctly to get raise and be better and be better. Amazing video and amazing person behind. Congrats
Thanks so much for the kind words 🙏🙂
Stumbled upon your website a good while ago and i found it super helpfull, i didn't realise you had YT channel. YT algorithm came through, so glad you have a channel!
Also great style!
Thanks so much for the kind words! 😊 it means a lot to me that you've remembered me from my blog 💌🙏
This channel and this content is literally what I was searching for, tysm man for your hard work.
This video was very helpful ❤
Thanks so much for your kind words! Means a lot to me 😊🙏
A lovely, unassuming intro to portrait drawing. I've been avoiding the practice, but recently took photos of sculptures that will now prove useful. Thank you for sharing your extraordinary talent.
Thank you so much for the kind words! I feel deeply touched 💌
I would love to travel some time and observe sculptures in person as there aren't any around where I live. I hope you get to practice soon and have some really productive sessions drawing from your own references. 🍀
Beautiful renders as always. Incredible work.
Thank you so much 😊 🙏
Your drawings are cool! You are on it, I mean, your skills are almost polished. What I need to improve mine, is some good inspiration.
@elcazacharlatanesycorruptos thanks you so much 😊 🙏
Coming from fellow graphic/artist, you are amazing! Do not doubt your skills and keep going!
It honestly means a lot to me! Thanks so much for your kind words! ☺🙏
Thank you so much for sharing these art tips! I’m glad I came across your channel in the right time(the start), I’ll be able to watch every video you post and improve in my art journey ❤️
Could you please enlighten us on achieving likeness in portraits, I struggle with this aspect and I’d love to watch your take on it
Thanks so much for the kind words! ☺️ It would be a privilege for me to make content that helps you in your art journey in a small way. 💌
When I started drawing faces, I wanted to draw my favorite characters from the movies and famous celebrities and I got really frustrated when I was unable to get the resemblance right.
Initially what I found helpful was to not obsess too much about likeness when I was just starting to learn the basics about portraiture like the Loomis Method and anatomy.
And I think as a beginner it can be very liberating to draw faces of strangers so you don't feel the need to make your drawing to look exactly like the reference.
With that said, I think drawing the likeness well without using a grid depends on your ability to draw the basic structure well in terms of basic shapes (such as using the loomis method), knowing the basic proportions of the average face, and identifying how a particular face differs from those average proportions.
If you're interested, I wrote a blog post about tips for drawing the likeness in portraits if you're interested bingedrawing.com/portrait/tips-for-improving-likeness/
I hope this is semi-helpful to you. Good luck and have fun drawing! 🍀
@@ammardraws Thank you so much, I really appreciate it!
Ngl your art Style is so nice and clean! Hope you best and hope you keep making some portraits on this Style more pls don't abandon this style :D
That's so nice of you to say! I'm starting to like this style too will probably stick with it for some time. Thank you! 😊 🙏
@@ammardraws forgot to subscribe now I did haha :D
Thanks for all the exercises! I am going to try drawing sculptures and bargue method. Great video!
@@defnegulmen6331 you're most welcome! 🙏 Good luck 😊🍀✏️
I was looking for exactly this video u save me buddy take love and be happy and keep growing
@sniper1902 thanks so much for the kind words 😊 🙏
Such a helpful video! Thank you for walking us through the different methods. I have a clearer understanding on how to approach things now! I hope you will continue with more videos. Seeing your progress and hearing your thinking regarding your process is appreciated. ☺️
@courtneyfarley3152 You're most welcome 😊 I'm glad I was able to help you in a small way. I just finished recording footage for my next video. Will probably edit tomorrow and upload on Friday. 🤞🏼
Thanks for the kind words 😊 🙏
Thank you for the video😁
You are most welcome 😊
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Your portrait work is beautiful. Thank you.
@@aubreycraftjr5821 you're too kind ☺️
realy good tips! actualy make so much sense that is more easy to my brain understand face shapes when i´m not drawing a human face. (plus: what a exotic pencil grip you have, brother)
Thank you! ☺🙏 I know I have a weird way of holding the pencil and I'm actually trying to get used to gripping the pencil further away from the tip to draw more loosely. But, old habits I guess 😅
your voice is so calming ! tysm for this video
Oh my. Thank you so much for the kind words! ☺️ I have always been really insecure about my voice so this comes as a pleasant surprise to me 💌
I have found Bridgeman's very useful. I like your video :)
Thank you! 😊🙏
Rysujesz wyjątkowo.Czekam na następne filmy.🙂
Thank you so much 😊 🙏
Another great video with helpful advices! It really reminded me to do more studies!
That's very kind of you to say 😊 thanks 🙏
Such great information! Thanks for posting!
You're most welcome! Thanks for your kind words ☺🙏
This is good stuff! Well done, good vid 👏
@@DudeWhoDraws thanks so much! It means a lot to me 😊🙏
Thank you for this!!
@@jerryaubill163 you're most welcome! 😊🙏
Great video !! Please can you do more? Figures, still life , urban drawings , I have a hard time learning to draw street , buildings 😭
Thanks 🙂 I'll do figures later but probably won't be doing much urban sketching or still life any time soon though 😕
@@ammardraws oh just take your time! I'm just asking because you did recommend a lot of useful books about the portrait drawing and they're really helpful so I wanted if you could talk about it in other fields too 😁
Your drawings look more professional .... good 1❤👌
thanks for these tips, great books
@@LouisBonbondoll you're most welcome 😊
Good content, thanks
Thanks for the kind feedback 😊 🙏
This is really good advice! I also I love your work, and enjoyed seeing your process! Thank you so much
@bamanster5020 thanks so much 😊🙏
amazing video thanks so much
@@gomarrrar7287 you're most welcome 😊 🙏
Awesome Videos!!!
Links in your description- AWESOME
Exercise 1: Drawing sculptures
Exercise 2: The Bargue method (COPY)
Exercise 3: Skull practice
Exercise 4: The Loomis head
Exercise 5: The Bridgman head cube
Exercise 6: Master studies
Very helpful. Look forward to more videos.
@amjadwyne2608 thanks so much! 😊
Great stuff!
Thank you 😊 🙏
Great channel! Maybe you could do a video on the materials and techniques you use to produce a pencil drawing of a sculpture. Thanks man!
@simonjohnson3106 I'm planing to do a draw with me video about sculptures probably end of next month 🙂
My next video is about how I shade my drawings and I'll be discussing the materials and shading techniques in that video. Recording the footage in the next couple of days and hopefully it will be edited and uploading by Friday 😊🤞🏼
Thanks for the suggestion and kind words! 🙏 💌
Parabéns por seu trabalho! Deu-me ânimo para voltar a estudar os grandes mestres. Obrigada pelo vídeo!
Lovely video, friend.
Thanks you so much 😊 🙏 Appreciate your kind words 💌
You are amazing
Keep going ❤
You're too kind. Thank you 😊 🙏
How do you like the Blackwing pencils?
I love them. Especially the white one. I like how they feel in the hand, the buttery texture, the convenience of the built in eraser, oh and they look a mazing. A bit pricey to be honest though 🙂✏️
How do you get that soft shadows? Mine always look scratchy
@quickmaff9349 I like to blend the shading a lot and that gives the drawing a bit of softness. I think I'll share my shading process in my next video so that might help you get a better idea 🙂
Thanks
@@jameslabs1 you're most welcome 😊 🙏
thanks brother
Fellow Charles Barges Enjoyer , subbed
Thanks for the sub! 💌
wow great video dude
Thanks 🙂
You have a nice voice. Your drawings are great! thank you for the advice =)
@onepartyroule thanks so much! 😊🙏 honestly I have always been a bit insecure about how I sound so I'm quite pleasantly surprised to hear that 😅💌
@@ammardraws Oh! Well you must stop feeling insecure because you have a lovely voice =) It’s quite relaxing actually. I hope you will continue to make your videos 🙏🌻✍️
@@onepartyroule you're too kind! Thank you 😊
That’s beautiful its almost like water colour no? 🥰😌
Thanks so much! 😊🙏 You're actually the second person to say that my drawings resemble like watercolors ☺️
I've always admired drawings of statues but never thought of drawing them feeling they're rather outdated!🤪and of course difficult. But the way you said how it helps you see the face objectively- form, light and shadow, etc.... It kind of clicked! I downloaded some free Loomis/method books from an online library. I can print the exercise sheets that I want to make give it a try myself. So do you start with Ex.1 and only work on that for while? What was the order of you routine? Also, your drawings are very good. You are talented. Thank you very much for this inspirational video.
By the way the woman you're drawing at the end of the video looks cuter than the one on the phone.😂
Thanks so much! 😊 I just studied each chapter of the loomis book (except for the part about drawing hands, I'm still procrastinating on that) and just recreated the step by step drawings as I went along.
To reinforce what I learned, I also practiced drawing the loomis head from photo references using the book as a guide.
Hope you get some nice practice!
Great vid, thank you. Could you tell me the name of the portrait you’re doing from your phone?
@misterhope5241 You're most welcome 😊 It's a portrait of Princess De Broglie that I found on Pinterest. Not entirely sure of the painter though. You can check the link in the description for the exact reference.
great advice thx
You're most welcome 🙂 🙏
Thank bro
i will the support the channel👍👍👍
Thanks you! Your support means a lot to me 🙏😊
I really like the video, I subscribed. Can you also make a video for someone who's a complete beginner?
@@se-uh8br sure I will! Thanks for your interest 🙂 🙏
@@ammardraws Thanks!! Looking forward to your future videos!
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What pencil are you using ??
Not sure exactly which one you're referring to but I mostly use one of these:
-Blackwing
-Faber castell (9000 series)
-Faber castell mechanical (TK fine)
-Cretacolor monolith woodless pencil (only use this occasionally because I find it hard to get a sharp point). 🙂
@@ammardrawsthank you so much ❤
I never know that a4 paper are performing so well for sketching
I switched from sketchbooks to cheap a4 papers a while back because I was being too precious with my drawings. I actually like the smooth texture that you get with these and I buy the 90 or 110 gram paper stacks so I can make some corrections without ruining the drawing. 🙂
This drawing book name is please tell me .sir
@@KishorBongshiary all books are listed in the description of the video 🙂
I love your videos so far but please push your site a bit more. That’s where we can find the real gold! Thank you for everything.
@iHyRisk thanks so much! I plan to publish more posts in the blog once I figure out a routine that works for UA-cam. For now I'm pivoting more towards UA-cam because lately it's been really hard to get an audience from search with a standalone blog.
Appreciate your feedback 😊 🙏
Thanks for this sir, it's a big help (^^)
Happy to help! :)
BRO I saw you from reddit
You're the second person to say that 😅 I'm quite surprised because I haven't posted there recently
Add more tutorials
Wanna know
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i've seen your post on reddit before about your portraits being boring lol
@@Klimmilk-i2s small world 🌎 😅
@@ammardraws very small. your portraits are great btw i'd like to learn how to draw like you, so please keep posting and ill keep watching