The Deception That Stops Your Drawings Improving
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Why is it so hard to improve our drawing? How can years go past with so little improvement? It's because time is not the key factor. A common misunderstanding of how we improve, sets so many up for frustration and disappointment. But in the same way, understanding the key for drawing improvement can fast track our drawing development. This is not just theory, it has been the key for Stephen's own drawing improvement.
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I found copying other artist's work useful when I want to see, touch (repeat on paper) and understand how those artists interpreted, stylized, translated and simplified real objects or designed characters and then drew them in certain styles or techniques.
First I do it by myself, then I go and learn how others do the same. It gives me some fresh ideas!
There are ways and means it can be beneficial. But that said, with self taught beginners, it do easily ends up becoming a misleading, and ultimately demotivating deadend. 😀 Thanks for sharing
@@stephentraversart I heard the idea from many artist that beginners should start from drawing from nature from real life objects etc., not even from photo. And only after a while add studies from photos and other artists.
I think it works!
This is very helpful. Lack of improvement is something i have been struggling with for a very long time, but more recently i have been focusing more on thinking about what i draw before drawing. Sometimes i practice on scrap paper. It has helped, and not only for realistic styles of drawing. Great video.
Thanks Kimberlee, my playlist on Tips for the Self Taught Artist would probably be a big help for you in this.
Something that helped me was to draw the reference from a different angle. Forces you to use your imagination a little and work out all the perspective and line work for yourself
Thanks for sharing this idea. 😀
i love your videos; they're so genuine and passionate. i always come away with something useful. wishing you the best.
Thank you so much! This is very encouraging to be told.
Love it, drawing wilderness, thats me, so I put my pens down, put aside photos I want to copy and took a walk and for the first time really saw buildings in a "fan shape" eye levels, and people close and far away, learning to use my eyes, thanks Stephen great video.
Wonderful to hear Jennifer. It’s always so helpful to put these things into practice 😀
This has been extremely helpful. I hadn't really thought of things that way...and I believe you are right in your thinking.
Thanks Hunter. Hope you can make it work for your drawing 😀
I also think that artists who are too avant garde to do the same thing twice will struggle to see improvement.
repeating a drawing is a great way to fast track improvement, I think
My fav channel to improve pen to paper 🦾
Thanks Brandon, appreciate hearing this.
I’d love to be able to do this! Sadly with aphantasia, the inability to visualize in your mind means drawing over and over with slight changes till I like what I see. Thanks for the informative video. Enjoy your work, thanks.
We can each only do as best we can. Keep at it Pablo😀
Reading Chiang Yee's 'the silent traveller' series is why I fell in love with line and colour
Wonderful. thanks for sharing
I am very excited to think about and try out what you've suggested in this video. I've been feeling stuck lately and your thoughts have cleared up a lot of what I've been stuck on. Being able to approach the drawing process more intentionally and with a clearer perspective of what, why, and how I want to do is going to help a ton! :)
I'm so glad! I hope it revolutionises your drawing process for you. 😀
Drawing the same thing from memory, over and over again, is very useful. Progress, in my opinion, comes from repetition.
It can be very helpful. Thanks for your thoughts Angelika 😀
fantastic Stephen..so I am a little confused. I like to try and copy you as you draw and that may create a fairly okay drawing...but now I realize, blindly copying your strokes, helps somewhat but not really...So how does one draw...learn your principles and draw oneself from a photo or memort?
I suggest you watch my demo and listen to what I say, and then print off a copy of the photo and draw from that without looking at the video again until you’ve finished your drawing. Then compare them. 😀
Ah, this old chestnut. "The best way to learn something is to try teaching it to someone else"
It worked for this old nut!😆
Do you find thumbnails useful? I usually do two or three thumbnails before starting a watercolour to work out my focal point, perspective, tone, light source etc. Should I do this with my drawings as well? Thank you.
I don't use them myself, but I do a little exploring of the marks I think I'll use to create the effects I'm wanting. There are a few videos on that as well.
@@stephentraversart I did a drawing this morning of a building. It was okay but I realised that the composition was a bit dull - it was too front on. Maybe a thumbnail or two might have helped me realise that before launching into a drawing. I don’t know.
If someone takes a photo for reference and copies it or God forbid traces that photo is that still not drawing?
We can all do whatever we want (copyright notwithstanding), there's no problem with that. But if we want to learn to draw our own drawings, copying (or tracing) will not teach us that. My channel is for people who are wanting to learn to create their own, original drawings, whether from photos, life or imagination.
@@stephentraversart Is there a difference between slavishly copying a drawing, and alternatively studying the way an artist makes marks, trying to replicate those marks, and then incorporating (adapting) the things learnt into one’s drawing/painting?