My inner critic dislikes you intensely. Thank you for sorting out another frustration and stiffness in my art journey and improving my art and joy in the process. ❤❤❤. I love erasers. It makes me feel safe, and helps me. However non-erasorable tools work for others. They increase my anxiety (and having erasorable tools calm me) when.I try use them like you are suggesting. However I have pushed myself to use non-erasor tools and they grow me in a different way. So definitely worth using them to stretch myself.
@KristyRice you are soooo incredible. I am very grateful to have you as my teacher. I searched for a teacher like you and I am privileged to learn from you. You are 1 of the few channels left that I still make time to watch because I am in a different stage of my journey and life Because of your teaching skills and courage as well as your ability to see the value in my comment that I left exactly for the reason you pointed out. No one is perfect, but I am better off for watching your videos even it is to reasure me when I am feeling out of my comfort zone. Thank you. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️. I am amazed at how you maintain your joy and self compassion throughout your career and that is what I want to learn from you and emulate the most regardless how my painting turns out. My art has benefitted, but so have I. Thank you for giving my comment a boop. I truly appreciate you whether I have the time and resources to support you or not.
I'm right there with you @gilashroot8697, trying to draw or write with ink can be very frustrating. It's the inner perfectionist that needs to be moved out of the way 😆
You are beautiful ! I really enjoy trying out, and following along, all your tips and little delightful endeavors! You are a colorful, bright spot on Earth and I am glad I can be a small part of your world---you makes things better💖
I started using my longest bristled, thinnest paint brush and sketching with that and a xtremly extremely watered down black. sometimes i use a purple or a brown. it has done wonders for my watercolor images. I can 'clean up' the lines with water and going over with a darker outline after but for the actual prepaint sketch, it kinda works amazing
Kristy I have heard you say many times to “put down your eraser” and I try to do so but always think my drawings are not good enough and I find myself needing to erase over and over. Sometimes when I just let myself not be so focused on my subject I do less erasing. Sometimes I certainly need to take your advice more seriously. Thank you ,❤
@janetrusterucci3232 if I can do it, I know that you can. What helped me was taking non expensive supplies and drawing something that I liked enough to draw, but was not attached to or was way too above my skill level to get right. That way whatever came out was fine because I detached from the beginning. Also I found that sometimes I would surprise myself but the results. Once you start getting better at non-erasorable art, it can actually become an independent thing. However I always mentally prepare myself (occasionally it does not work 😅) to be OK with whatever results I get and to always choose something that I am not so invested in. Sometimes I use non-erasorable tools as first drafts or sketches and trace over the lines I want on more expensive supplies. That way I get both practices in and I do not waist so much. I hope these help. Please have the courage to try once.
Grabbing onto my eraser firmly, saying noooooo my line must be PERFECT, PERFECT I tell you! 😂 I was with you until you said get rid of the eraser and use ink because my first attempt is always a disaster 😂😂😂
Haha! You’re gonna love it-it’s totally freeing! Here's what you do....get that "disaster" first attempt out on a scrap piece of paper :) #putyoureraserdown XO
You are a very good artist! I feel it is hard for an artist to convince someone that feels like they can't draw to draw? We are our worst enemies.When it comes to any kind of craft item! And I am number one at that! I am one of those people that will draw and want to draw every detail. I try not to think that way, but it always ends up! I love your easy going art work
There is some great advice there. People tend to change the angle of something, but they will still paint the shape of the object, how they know the shape to be. But different perspectives, shapes change and they will become frustrated, not knowing where it went wrong. In saying that, I struggle to draw and paint loosely. I think that is fine, as I like to learn and master details, but I would also love to be able to have times where I free my brain and just do something that doesn't have too much thought in, isn't 'perfect', yet actually is perfect. Loose paintings can be incredibly beautiful. I have a question for you, what is that pink pen you used? The color was stunning. My art supplies don't need more friends, but I want that pen in my life. I need that pen in! 😛
I just started following you Kristy and I'm glad I found your channel. I'm 64 and never had a drawing lesson, we moved a lot while I was growing up due to my dad's job. I missed art class is two different school districts because of when they were offered. I doodled a lot. Then in my middle 20s I took an oil painting class while my husband was in seminary. I found it enjoyable, but frustrating at the same time. I wanted my paintings to look like photographs...ugh. I did oil painting for a few years, then gave it up because I could only paint from someone else's drawing which I copied onto the canvas. I started taking drawing lessons from a friend in my 40's and drew everything backwards from how it was in front of me (using stationary objects). She moved, end of drawing lessons. Now I'm learning to paint with watercolors. It is stretching me, causing me to do things outside of the box. Still not fully enjoying it yet, but I am determined to do this. Now to quit simply watching videos and getting to it 😁.
I’m so glad you found my channel, and yessss you’re gonna love watercolor!! I will say this, the secret to loving them is a practice in surrendering to the unexpected on the page. You have to learn the new habit of being okay with the medium wanting to control you :)
I have an odd thing I'm wondering if anyone else has experience with. I'm trying to figure out how to make art, draw, paint, and everything with aphantasia. (Aphantasia is an inability to see pictures in a person's head - to some extent. I have a very vague visual memory. At best, the image I see in my head looks like a faded cling decoration on a dirty window and it lasts for a second at most.) Anyone out there have experience with making art with aphantasia? How do you work around it? Thanks.
So, I've taken up painting recently (watercolor started last summer -- acrylic a year or two ago), and I'm pretty good as long as I have a reference, but I have dysgraphia, so without a reference, proportion and anatomy goes well out of the window. I often struggle to even find shapes - my typical subjects are landscapes, animals (often modified to add whimsy, so... a jackrabbit gets antlers to become a jackalope, for example). Here for tips on creating a sense of anatomy and proportion. On typical sketch paper, I can use the oval here, rectangle, triangle there method, but I can't really do that on watercolor paper, or erasing the guidelines shreds the paper.
I love the freedom of this, but for those of us who find they want to be closer to realism than impressionism, I was once told to spend twice as long looking at the item than drawing it. Because sometimes our minds have no idea how to fill in the gap. That might help some. Rather than looking up and down and up and down, just spend longer looking at it in the first place looking for shapes and relationships between lines before you mark the page.
My inner critic dislikes you intensely. Thank you for sorting out another frustration and stiffness in my art journey and improving my art and joy in the process. ❤❤❤.
I love erasers. It makes me feel safe, and helps me. However non-erasorable tools work for others. They increase my anxiety (and having erasorable tools calm me) when.I try use them like you are suggesting. However I have pushed myself to use non-erasor tools and they grow me in a different way. So definitely worth using them to stretch myself.
Thank you for the honesty and rawness of this comment. I think it will be important for many to read😘😘😍😍
@KristyRice you are soooo incredible. I am very grateful to have you as my teacher. I searched for a teacher like you and I am privileged to learn from you.
You are 1 of the few channels left that I still make time to watch because I am in a different stage of my journey and life Because of your teaching skills and courage as well as your ability to see the value in my comment that I left exactly for the reason you pointed out. No one is perfect, but I am better off for watching your videos even it is to reasure me when I am feeling out of my comfort zone. Thank you. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️.
I am amazed at how you maintain your joy and self compassion throughout your career and that is what I want to learn from you and emulate the most regardless how my painting turns out. My art has benefitted, but so have I. Thank you for giving my comment a boop. I truly appreciate you whether I have the time and resources to support you or not.
I'm right there with you @gilashroot8697, trying to draw or write with ink can be very frustrating. It's the inner perfectionist that needs to be moved out of the way 😆
@@gilashroot8697 and I appreciate you so much! So many kindred spirits being discovered in this community!
You are beautiful ! I really enjoy trying out, and following along, all your tips and little delightful endeavors! You are a colorful, bright spot on Earth and I am glad I can be a small part of your world---you makes things better💖
You're so sweet! We all need to be a part of more delightful endeavors don't we? So glad you're here!
I LOVED this video, Kristy!! Loved, loved, loved!!!
I started using my longest bristled, thinnest paint brush and sketching with that and a xtremly extremely watered down black. sometimes i use a purple or a brown. it has done wonders for my watercolor images. I can 'clean up' the lines with water and going over with a darker outline after but for the actual prepaint sketch, it kinda works amazing
Oh THIS is brilliant - EVERYONE, try THIS! XO
Thank you Kristy 😊 ❤
You bet!
Kristy I have heard you say many times to “put down your eraser” and I try to do so but always think my drawings are not good enough and I find myself needing to erase over and over. Sometimes when I just let myself not be so focused on my subject I do less erasing. Sometimes I certainly need to take your advice more seriously. Thank you ,❤
How about trying the last tip-draw with something you can’t erase! Yessss!
@@KristyRice that would be a big challenge for me! Lol
Ballpoint pen! And timed drawings!
@janetrusterucci3232 if I can do it, I know that you can. What helped me was taking non expensive supplies and drawing something that I liked enough to draw, but was not attached to or was way too above my skill level to get right. That way whatever came out was fine because I detached from the beginning. Also I found that sometimes I would surprise myself but the results. Once you start getting better at non-erasorable art, it can actually become an independent thing. However I always mentally prepare myself (occasionally it does not work 😅) to be OK with whatever results I get and to always choose something that I am not so invested in. Sometimes I use non-erasorable tools as first drafts or sketches and trace over the lines I want on more expensive supplies. That way I get both practices in and I do not waist so much.
I hope these help. Please have the courage to try once.
@@gilashroot8697thanks 😊❤
I don't feel anything extra is need. I really enjoy your technique. Thank you for sharing.
I’m so glad you’re finding it helpful!
Lovely, lovely leaves!! 🍃 Those fruit nails are absolutely amazing!! 🍋
I'm so glad you liked the nails! And the leaves lol!!!
@KristyRice 🤗😍🥰
Grabbing onto my eraser firmly, saying noooooo my line must be PERFECT, PERFECT I tell you! 😂 I was with you until you said get rid of the eraser and use ink because my first attempt is always a disaster 😂😂😂
Haha! You’re gonna love it-it’s totally freeing! Here's what you do....get that "disaster" first attempt out on a scrap piece of paper :) #putyoureraserdown XO
You are a very good artist! I feel it is hard for an artist to convince someone that feels like they can't draw to draw? We are our worst enemies.When it comes to any kind of craft item! And I am number one at that! I am one of those people that will draw and want to draw every detail. I try not to think that way, but it always ends up! I love your easy going art work
Set a timer and just start painting when the timer goes off. Whatever sketching you got done is it!
Soooo true!
Great information.
There is some great advice there. People tend to change the angle of something, but they will still paint the shape of the object, how they know the shape to be. But different perspectives, shapes change and they will become frustrated, not knowing where it went wrong.
In saying that, I struggle to draw and paint loosely. I think that is fine, as I like to learn and master details, but I would also love to be able to have times where I free my brain and just do something that doesn't have too much thought in, isn't 'perfect', yet actually is perfect. Loose paintings can be incredibly beautiful.
I have a question for you, what is that pink pen you used? The color was stunning. My art supplies don't need more friends, but I want that pen in my life. I need that pen in! 😛
@@lozantoninocreations Thank you!!! It’s a Pentel sign pen and comes in about 6 colors. I absolutely love them. Gorgeous real brush tip!
Happy mail today, a Kristy Rice painting ❤ so happy 😎
Oooohhhhh!!
I just started following you Kristy and I'm glad I found your channel. I'm 64 and never had a drawing lesson, we moved a lot while I was growing up due to my dad's job. I missed art class is two different school districts because of when they were offered. I doodled a lot. Then in my middle 20s I took an oil painting class while my husband was in seminary. I found it enjoyable, but frustrating at the same time. I wanted my paintings to look like photographs...ugh. I did oil painting for a few years, then gave it up because I could only paint from someone else's drawing which I copied onto the canvas. I started taking drawing lessons from a friend in my 40's and drew everything backwards from how it was in front of me (using stationary objects). She moved, end of drawing lessons. Now I'm learning to paint with watercolors. It is stretching me, causing me to do things outside of the box. Still not fully enjoying it yet, but I am determined to do this. Now to quit simply watching videos and getting to it 😁.
I’m so glad you found my channel, and yessss you’re gonna love watercolor!! I will say this, the secret to loving them is a practice in surrendering to the unexpected on the page. You have to learn the new habit of being okay with the medium wanting to control you :)
@KristyRice thank you 😊
Beautiful!
Thank you! I’m so glad you like it.
I have an odd thing I'm wondering if anyone else has experience with. I'm trying to figure out how to make art, draw, paint, and everything with aphantasia. (Aphantasia is an inability to see pictures in a person's head - to some extent. I have a very vague visual memory. At best, the image I see in my head looks like a faded cling decoration on a dirty window and it lasts for a second at most.) Anyone out there have experience with making art with aphantasia? How do you work around it? Thanks.
I don’t have experience with this but I recall it being mentioned by other commenters :)
I have it too. I also watch Diane Antone here on RUclips and she has it.
@amandaterrio4823 Oh, thank you!
@@KristyRice I'll read through some comment sections. Thank you!
@@amandaterrio4823 Have you known for long that you have it or was it a new realization?
I’d say it looks just enough
Thanks :)
So, I've taken up painting recently (watercolor started last summer -- acrylic a year or two ago), and I'm pretty good as long as I have a reference, but I have dysgraphia, so without a reference, proportion and anatomy goes well out of the window. I often struggle to even find shapes - my typical subjects are landscapes, animals (often modified to add whimsy, so... a jackrabbit gets antlers to become a jackalope, for example).
Here for tips on creating a sense of anatomy and proportion. On typical sketch paper, I can use the oval here, rectangle, triangle there method, but I can't really do that on watercolor paper, or erasing the guidelines shreds the paper.
Hmmm what kind of paper are you using for watercolor?
I realyrealyneed this. I cant even draw a stick figure😂.., so I have onley done abstractpaintings. But now I Will try this❤
You can do it!
I love the freedom of this, but for those of us who find they want to be closer to realism than impressionism, I was once told to spend twice as long looking at the item than drawing it. Because sometimes our minds have no idea how to fill in the gap. That might help some. Rather than looking up and down and up and down, just spend longer looking at it in the first place looking for shapes and relationships between lines before you mark the page.
Ahhh amazing insight and so good to be reminded!
i’ve taught myself along with Social Media watercolor in my retirement & cant/don’t draw ever
Drawing is definitely not a requirement!
What are you drawing with?
I was wondering the same thing.
It's a Kakimore bullet nib. Link to learn more is in the supply section of the description here:)
It's a Kakimore bullet nib. Link to learn more is in the supply section of the description here:)
I feel like it could use a little vein details
@@RaeEvitt I’m always up for vein detail :)
To challenge yourself I suggest drawing with your nondominant hand.
@@inkkvibe ohhhh so good!!! How could I forget? I remember when my first art teacher made me do this!!!