I'm the opposite, i always understate, especially if I start off and it's going well, I get afraid of ruining it by adding too much shadding. 🤦 I'm still teaching myself that it's ok to have an ugly phase and to trust the process.
I think the reason why too many details make a drawing look off is because usually, when our eyes focus on something, we only see one part in details - everything else, like the background, gets blurry. So the drawing must capture that effect.
I think value is almost the most important thing in painting as well. I'm always thinking about values before I concern myself with color. I noticed once I had a good handle on values, my paintings turned out so much better. Your drawings are lovely. I never had the patience required for hyper realistic pieces of art.
I really appreciate you showing your early drawings! I feel like I was born with zero art talent and it has improved over the years. Knowing your tips and tricks (plus lots of practice) really makes for dramatic improvement no matter how weak one's skills are.
I have been drawing for the last 8 years now I am now 17 and I just started doing realistic drawings and no thought me how do do drawing i am a self taught person and am still learning and this video is very help fun for the people who are getting into realistic drawings for the first time.
Thank you for this. I have been drawing and painting for many years and have realized this exact point just in the last several months. I have been working more with monochromatic drawings and paintings and it has really helped me do things more realistically as well as quicker. I just wrote a blog about it today in which I did a pastel painting that was probably one of my quickest to finish, yet has an incredible amount of realism. Moreso than some of the paintings where I made the mistake you spoke of - too much detail everywhere. This is a huge breakthrough for me and I can see how your class will be so beneficial to so many. Also, I am loving being on your mailing list. Thank you for the thoughtful and informative emails. They are very appreciated. EDITED: Wow! I didn't even realize it was free. I went to sign up and I hadn't noticed that it was a free mini class. THANK YOU! :)
This is exactly happened to me and I gave up drawings for years. I was so good with detailed but things looked so flat. I get lots of comments on how great and good they are but that was the problem. No one really opened my eyes by giving me a real critic. I recently decided to come back and researching more on my style. This is what I want to know and hear. I need to learn and fix what I am doing. Thank you.
those old drawings of yours that you showed made me feel a lot less pessimistic about my art journey. im at that level right now so its very motivating to see that if i work hard, maybe i really will make it someday!!
Thank you so much! This has, I hope, helped me over a hump on my piano journey. I've been a professional illustrator for fifty years. You speak my language. I'm learning piano on a deep foundational level at age 71. When my fluency and improvisation coach tells me my busy, patterny playing is 'flat', I struggle to understand. I'm supposed to be driving my moment-by-moment choices with the big waves of the groove I'm feeling, the poetic metre I'm feeling/creating/chanting, but I tend to let the metre flatten to a mere time-keeping function and then my choices are many and similar. If I do it from my depths, two measures can sound epic. If I get lazy/busy, it all sounds what I call diddly-poo. A grey drawing with an evenly distributed texture of tiny details is diddly-poo. A simple, boldly lit drawing can be epic.
I have been involved into drawing from 11 years, and my paintings have been going better when I know how tones and values matter. Everything told in this video is true and helpful.
You read my mind. I was thinking about this very thing as I was working on my drawing this morning. I was deciding on what to detail from what to keep simple from my reference. Thank you for bringing this to my attention! 💞
I improved so much just by listening to you. Your speech is also hypnotising😊 I compared my drawing before and after watching your videos, improvement was huge. I was immediately hooked after watching your colored pencil tutorial :)))))
Thank you!! I used this advice to go back and work on a drawing of my late husband that I was never "quite" happy with, and it made such a difference! 😯 I look back at my pics of how it was, and I'm amazed at the improvement. It's improved to the point I am now pretty happy with it and ready to hang it on a wall 🥰
Thank you for sharing your artistic journey and inspiring others with your talent. Your video has undoubtedly encouraged countless artists and art enthusiasts to explore their own creative endeavors with renewed enthusiasm.
i would literally be so happy to do either of the drawings the one at 5:59 i actually like the original more but i love the facial pigmentation and hair the hair looks glossy it looks great
There’s nothing wrong with adding lots of details as long as the values are there. The world is full of details, lights, darks, colors, shapes, angles, proportions, perspective and more. If you get the values in there with the right proportion and detail, placement of features and forms, you can achieve realism and create drawings like you never thought you could. Just look at her old drawing compared to now. She learned it, I’ve learned it and so can you.
Great video sweetheart, lots of useful information and tips. Wow some of those drawings you shown brought back memories ie: the 1950's pin up lady, I remember you doing them and I thought then you were fantastic. So proud of you my love ❤️ 😍
I Love your fantastic artwork and subscribed to your channel, thanks for all your tips , please keep up your high quality work, looking forward to your upcoming videos , greetings from Germany 😊
How I found kirsty: looking through some random art videos, then I saw her. And so, I knew that she was the one that I needed. I was a early learner, I started drawing realistically when I was 11, but I wasn’t getting enough depth. Then when she told me that there was different values of darkness, I was like “WHAT! How didn’t I know that!?! THERE’S 14B! WWWHHHAAAATT!!!!” and so I learned that I needed more darker values then just plain boring HB. Thank you kirsty for helping me understand the stuff I needed to understand 🎉🫶🏻❤️❤️🫶🏻🎉
I signed up and also I love you. Wow if I told you my story you'd laugh and cry and then laugh. I came to art school in America and NOBODY was teaching how to actually draw or paint. It was ALL critique and talking and honestly it was driving me nuts. Then I was prescribed a really bad psychiatric drug which messed up my hand eye coordination. And my seeing. So now I am relearning how to draw after catastrophic art school times and rebuilding my skills. Art school was terrible ! Absolutely wasted $110,000 when I should have just found someone like you to learn from. Your art is amazing and I am genuinely in awe. Your skills are exactly the way I wanted to draw and maybe by signing up to your classes now I will become an awesome artist too. I'm still a really good musician and dj though! Lol and I'd love to send you gifts for free! Where can I send them too ? Much love to you! You are one the greatest artists who has ever Lived. Even better than Da Vinci!
Art schools won't teach you photorealistic drawing. It's something you have to teach yourself by studying the drawings of someone as skilled as Kirsty and practicing! Don't be discouraged! Some people sneer at realism, others love it. But ultimately, to be a happy artist, you must please yourself first. Don't let criticism beat you down! Make your kind of art, for yourself.
Loved this and the mini course, thank you. I absolutely love doing the shading - that's the fun part. I'm far too impatient with the drawing and getting the proportions right. I still probably don't add enough contrast.
thank you so much. You've explained really well what I needed to hear. And you have the luckiest husband to have married such a beautiful, smart, and outgoing and just overall good personality artist.
Please, will you make a video on how to draw glass? in color. I can figure out how to draw light shining through colored stained glass. I really need help for that. Like how would it the "shadow" be on the surroundings, and how would you make the color of the glass look transparent and as light is shining through? I've had this problem for a while now, and i couldn't find any good video or tutorial for it at all. Currently i'm working on a dragon, who has glass stained wings.
I noticed a lot of your drawings have a lot of dark shading on the drawings you did Professionally. Try adding more white and blur instead of too much dark. My friend always tells me that my drawings aren't black enough and I agreed but now I realize too much black isn't good but not enough black isn't good either but really good work! You should try really smooth paper and make your drawings very smooth instead of bumpy, canvas material papers!❤
We came here to learn details just for her to say details aren’t important Then she says details are important then we have to go to her class just to learn what we came here for
Hi Kirsty. Firstly I would like to say that I love your channel. I love to do my art work, which I self taught myself. I just want to ask you, if it’s ok to use a graph set up to help get the dimensions right in a drawing. I feel like I’m cheating. Also I have trouble making my drawings look realistic. Do you have a book out that can help me with my drawings or do know a good book out there that might help me. Anne
Video starts at 2:20 It's fine giving context. Just... it's frustrating for newer artists to learn with so much information to learn. Adding this much and this slow. Yeah, would help to just give a quick blurb in 20-30 seconds.
You build it up. After you blend you can add more shading to the area you want darker and blend it again to be seamless. Do this as many times as you need to. Also don't blend the whole area in big motions. I use a tissue or cotton pad and blend in small circular motions.
Hey Kirsty. I'm looking into buying a set of Prismacolor pencils, but I'm a bit apprehensive about the manufacturing quality. I heard that they crumble and break very easily. After a bit of research, I've seen that there's a rebirth of the Karismacolor pencil, manufactured in Japan that's supposed to be made by the same company that does Prisma, but are a better quality build and deliver better quality results in application. Have you tried these? Any thoughts? Thanks! 🙂
I can't get the mini class: the field for the email.address doesn't accept my - valid - email address. It just shows "this field is required". Well, I'll have to refer to your other videos then 🙂
do you have any examples of your classes for your colored pencil academy? I have never signed up for any online classes and to be perfectly honest I am little scared of the internet. Guess my age :) !
Overshading and losing contrast is a pitfall I easily fall into
Atleast you can shade🙄 but seriously how do you shade i wanna know. TELL ME YOUR SECRETS
@@CloudCookie1013 people that are really talented use colors. It's not very realistic in black and white and looks boring 🥱
I'm the opposite, i always understate, especially if I start off and it's going well, I get afraid of ruining it by adding too much shadding. 🤦
I'm still teaching myself that it's ok to have an ugly phase and to trust the process.
I find I make most mistakes when I don't take enough breaks, and come back after awhile to see if I notice something that needs fixing.
@@SUGAR_XYLER I like black & white, yeah the world isn't in black in white but it reminds me of old films (I only have a pencil)
Thank you for sharing your old drawings, it really helps to see how far you’ve come in a relatively short time.
I think the reason why too many details make a drawing look off is because usually, when our eyes focus on something, we only see one part in details - everything else, like the background, gets blurry. So the drawing must capture that effect.
Good point; drawings usually have no depth of field
I think value is almost the most important thing in painting as well. I'm always thinking about values before I concern myself with color. I noticed once I had a good handle on values, my paintings turned out so much better. Your drawings are lovely. I never had the patience required for hyper realistic pieces of art.
What's the difference between values and shading?
6:41. That is where the answer is. In a seven minute video 6½ minutes in is where it starts.
Them yap wildin'
Saved me time
Thanks
Didn’t even have to guess. I already knew that contrasts and shading are the vital parts of what makes for the best results.
I make at least 5 different artworks every month. But I don't know how to sell them?
Any idea please.
You can sell your artworks to known art collectors like Mr nickyhall.
You can become your own boss with the help of an art collector
You can take advantage of NFTs Web 3 smart contracts
@@arnoldchukwudi5342, do you mean Mr Nicholas Hall from USA.
He's really a gem
I really appreciate you showing your early drawings! I feel like I was born with zero art talent and it has improved over the years. Knowing your tips and tricks (plus lots of practice) really makes for dramatic improvement no matter how weak one's skills are.
I have been drawing for the last 8 years now I am now 17 and I just started doing realistic drawings and no thought me how do do drawing i am a self taught person and am still learning and this video is very help fun for the people who are getting into realistic drawings for the first time.
Wish I could upvote this more than once. It was EXACTLY what I needed to know. Thank you!
It’s nothing you didn’t know… value wow
I love those little birds at 2:24 😅, they look so cute and huggable.
I don’t think you know how much this helped me.
Great video! As a photographer, I get this so much. It’s depth of field.
It's interesting to learn even photographers have to fight flatness
Wouldnt it be lighting/contrast or composition?
Thank you for this. I have been drawing and painting for many years and have realized this exact point just in the last several months. I have been working more with monochromatic drawings and paintings and it has really helped me do things more realistically as well as quicker. I just wrote a blog about it today in which I did a pastel painting that was probably one of my quickest to finish, yet has an incredible amount of realism. Moreso than some of the paintings where I made the mistake you spoke of - too much detail everywhere. This is a huge breakthrough for me and I can see how your class will be so beneficial to so many. Also, I am loving being on your mailing list. Thank you for the thoughtful and informative emails. They are very appreciated.
EDITED: Wow! I didn't even realize it was free. I went to sign up and I hadn't noticed that it was a free mini class. THANK YOU! :)
Hello Sheila how are you doing,
where are you from?
I LOVE YOUR FLOWERS IN BLACK AND WHITE
This is exactly happened to me and I gave up drawings for years. I was so good with detailed but things looked so flat. I get lots of comments on how great and good they are but that was the problem. No one really opened my eyes by giving me a real critic. I recently decided to come back and researching more on my style. This is what I want to know and hear. I need to learn and fix what I am doing. Thank you.
those old drawings of yours that you showed made me feel a lot less pessimistic about my art journey. im at that level right now so its very motivating to see that if i work hard, maybe i really will make it someday!!
Thank you so much! This has, I hope, helped me over a hump on my piano journey. I've been a professional illustrator for fifty years. You speak my language. I'm learning piano on a deep foundational level at age 71. When my fluency and improvisation coach tells me my busy, patterny playing is 'flat', I struggle to understand. I'm supposed to be driving my moment-by-moment choices with the big waves of the groove I'm feeling, the poetic metre I'm feeling/creating/chanting, but I tend to let the metre flatten to a mere time-keeping function and then my choices are many and similar. If I do it from my depths, two measures can sound epic. If I get lazy/busy, it all sounds what I call diddly-poo. A grey drawing with an evenly distributed texture of tiny details is diddly-poo. A simple, boldly lit drawing can be epic.
I have been involved into drawing from 11 years, and my paintings have been going better when I know how tones and values matter. Everything told in this video is true and helpful.
Im one of the person without commented about how much you taugh me and your speech is like hypnotising . Have a gud day my teacher ❤
You read my mind. I was thinking about this very thing as I was working on my drawing this morning. I was deciding on what to detail from what to keep simple from my reference. Thank you for bringing this to my attention! 💞
THANKS Kristy😭💜lots of help
I struggle with realism but I can draw animation really well like anime AND THIS HELPS ALOT💜
I improved so much just by listening to you. Your speech is also hypnotising😊
I compared my drawing before and after watching your videos, improvement was huge.
I was immediately hooked after watching your colored pencil tutorial :)))))
Thank you very much for the tips and your free mini class is very helpful. Love everything on your website!
Thanks for the tips Kirsty. Your mini course is fantastic.
The Best in the Business.! Thank you for all that you do.!
👊😎
Thank you!! I used this advice to go back and work on a drawing of my late husband that I was never "quite" happy with, and it made such a difference! 😯 I look back at my pics of how it was, and I'm amazed at the improvement. It's improved to the point I am now pretty happy with it and ready to hang it on a wall 🥰
Your tutorials have helped me a lot, thankyou so much for making these! :)
Thanks for your tutorials. It's really helped me improve.
Thank you for sharing your artistic journey and inspiring others with your talent. Your video has undoubtedly encouraged countless artists and art enthusiasts to explore their own creative endeavors with renewed enthusiasm.
This whole video was informative and helpful for a beginner like me. Thank you Kristy Partridge Art. ✨🌷🎨
Thank you for all the wonderful advice! I can't wait to use it. I mean, I REALLY can't wait.
Just joined your mailing list! Art critiquing is such a great idea, I look forward to seeing them ☺
Your videos always make me want to draw even if I am tired ❤
I hope that the next video will be about the experience of using makeup as pastel pan 😊❤
i would literally be so happy to do either of the drawings
the one at 5:59 i actually like the original more but i love the facial pigmentation and hair
the hair looks glossy it looks great
Some of the best advice that made a big difference for me: "You're not drawing the thing. You're drawing an illusion of the thing."
I am a beginner ♥ I am practicing to get better, and then I am going to sign up for your course. I am not good enough for the course yet ♥
There’s nothing wrong with adding lots of details as long as the values are there. The world is full of details, lights, darks, colors, shapes, angles, proportions, perspective and more. If you get the values in there with the right proportion and detail, placement of features and forms, you can achieve realism and create drawings like you never thought you could. Just look at her old drawing compared to now. She learned it, I’ve learned it and so can you.
You deserve a lottttttttttt of subscribers
very helpful, thx for showing me some of the parts about drawing I am starting to forget while doing it
Love your videos always helpful and amazing there are basically no words to describe how amazing you and your drawings are ❤️
Ban-Kai!!
sorry I couldn't help myself😄
Amazing 😍
I need teacher like you
TLDR: draw like you’re looking through a camera
Well done.
i love how it took her a solid 5:30 just to say "value"
Thank you very much for your tips. I improved my drawing
Waited 6 minutes for her to say the most important part💀 /j
Simplicity is sometimes better sometimes less is more
great work, Kristy! i wish i could draw as good as you. ❤
Great video sweetheart, lots of useful information and tips. Wow some of those drawings you shown brought back memories ie: the 1950's pin up lady, I remember you doing them and I thought then you were fantastic. So proud of you my love ❤️ 😍
Love this video very helpful ❤️
Glad it was helpful! 🥰
I Love your fantastic artwork and subscribed to your channel, thanks for all your tips , please keep up your high quality work, looking forward to your upcoming videos , greetings from Germany 😊
How I found kirsty: looking through some random art videos, then I saw her. And so, I knew that she was the one that I needed. I was a early learner, I started drawing realistically when I was 11, but I wasn’t getting enough depth. Then when she told me that there was different values of darkness, I was like “WHAT! How didn’t I know that!?! THERE’S 14B! WWWHHHAAAATT!!!!” and so I learned that I needed more darker values then just plain boring HB. Thank you kirsty for helping me understand the stuff I needed to understand 🎉🫶🏻❤️❤️🫶🏻🎉
I appreciate this knowledge thank you
Hi....if it's not too much trouble...could you please make a short list of the items I'll need to make a drawing like these? 😊😊😊
Lighting is really important . Kelvin dgree plus contrast and harmony
Thank you for this video 🙂👍
I agree with what you say , one tip I got is take your drawing and hold it infront of a mirror , you will see a different perspective
That was super helpful thanks but wish we can do it easily still struggling in same place unfortunately 😢
I signed up and also I love you.
Wow if I told you my story you'd laugh and cry and then laugh. I came to art school in America and NOBODY was teaching how to actually draw or paint. It was ALL critique and talking and honestly it was driving me nuts. Then I was prescribed a really bad psychiatric drug which messed up my hand eye coordination. And my seeing. So now I am relearning how to draw after catastrophic art school times and rebuilding my skills. Art school was terrible ! Absolutely wasted $110,000 when I should have just found someone like you to learn from. Your art is amazing and I am genuinely in awe. Your skills are exactly the way I wanted to draw and maybe by signing up to your classes now I will become an awesome artist too. I'm still a really good musician and dj though! Lol and I'd love to send you gifts for free! Where can I send them too ? Much love to you! You are one the greatest artists who has ever Lived. Even better than Da Vinci!
Art schools won't teach you photorealistic drawing. It's something you have to teach yourself by studying the drawings of someone as skilled as Kirsty and practicing! Don't be discouraged! Some people sneer at realism, others love it. But ultimately, to be a happy artist, you must please yourself first. Don't let criticism beat you down! Make your kind of art, for yourself.
Thank you for the emails too!
I received it and love reading all the things you've shared!
the video is very helpful as well!!!
Loved this and the mini course, thank you. I absolutely love doing the shading - that's the fun part. I'm far too impatient with the drawing and getting the proportions right. I still probably don't add enough contrast.
thank you so much. You've explained really well what I needed to hear. And you have the luckiest husband to have married such a beautiful, smart, and outgoing and just overall good personality artist.
I am a big fan of implied detail.
Please, will you make a video on how to draw glass? in color. I can figure out how to draw light shining through colored stained glass. I really need help for that. Like how would it the "shadow" be on the surroundings, and how would you make the color of the glass look transparent and as light is shining through?
I've had this problem for a while now, and i couldn't find any good video or tutorial for it at all. Currently i'm working on a dragon, who has glass stained wings.
Very few of us are born w/artistic "Talent"; we work our a**** off to become Talented. ( & your tutorials definitely help u get there 👍)
Great video! Super energy! 💖💖💖
I noticed a lot of your drawings have a lot of dark shading on the drawings you did Professionally. Try adding more white and blur instead of too much dark. My friend always tells me that my drawings aren't black enough and I agreed but now I realize too much black isn't good but not enough black isn't good either but really good work! You should try really smooth paper and make your drawings very smooth instead of bumpy, canvas material papers!❤
Can you please give tutorials for drawing bug's eyes? Like bee or fly eyes. Thank youuu ❤
What pens and pencils did you use here? Thanks for sharing
Love your channel. Learning so much 😀
We came here to learn details just for her to say details aren’t important Then she says details are important then we have to go to her class just to learn what we came here for
I got it right! I guessed contrast was the most important thing!
This helps so much
Hi Kirsty. Firstly I would like to say that I love your channel. I love to do my art work, which I self taught myself. I just want to ask you, if it’s ok to use a graph set up to help get the dimensions right in a drawing. I feel like I’m cheating. Also I have trouble making my drawings look realistic. Do you have a book out that can help me with my drawings or do know a good book out there that might help me.
Anne
Great video 😊😊
Most important is shape and by that i mean substance/feeling of subject, then tone.
❤❤❤❤❤❤so informative.... As always.
Omg get to the point
RIGHT!
This video could have been so short
Right!! 😂
Agreed!!
Geez give her time to explain..
What a helpful video ❤
Great advice, thanks!
So beautiful 💐💞
Video starts at 2:20
It's fine giving context. Just... it's frustrating for newer artists to learn with so much information to learn. Adding this much and this slow.
Yeah, would help to just give a quick blurb in 20-30 seconds.
I have a question about the paper I want to buy canson Bristol 180g A3, it's work to drawing to pencil or color pencil?
YOU ARE A TOP DRAWER.
yet I ask myself, how do you put your drawing on paper. Greetings from Holland
I am interested in your beginner art class.
Value, form, light and shadow
Tone of deep shadows is the key.
Love your videos 💖💖💖💖💖 so amazing
VERY EDUCATIONAL, I ENJOYED YOUR VIDEO TODAY
Could you explain how to blend your shading without losing contrast?
You build it up. After you blend you can add more shading to the area you want darker and blend it again to be seamless. Do this as many times as you need to. Also don't blend the whole area in big motions. I use a tissue or cotton pad and blend in small circular motions.
@@kelleyspartiatis4776 I use a blending stump. I might try that since I kinda got super good with values, but stopped blending my drawings.
Hey Kirsty. I'm looking into buying a set of Prismacolor pencils, but I'm a bit apprehensive about the manufacturing quality. I heard that they crumble and break very easily. After a bit of research, I've seen that there's a rebirth of the Karismacolor pencil, manufactured in Japan that's supposed to be made by the same company that does Prisma, but are a better quality build and deliver better quality results in application. Have you tried these? Any thoughts? Thanks! 🙂
I can't get the mini class: the field for the email.address doesn't accept my - valid - email address. It just shows "this field is required". Well, I'll have to refer to your other videos then 🙂
I like both lol I think both artistic styles are valid
I think shape and value is probably the most important part of getting a likeness.
do you have any examples of your classes for your colored pencil academy? I have never signed up for any online classes and to be perfectly honest I am little scared of the internet. Guess my age :) !
I should have added - especially putting in a credit card number!
Thankyou for this
From where you take your photos for drawing
I literally just came here looking to shade some flowers because I suck at shading
I also never draw flowers
Mam but how can we properly hold powder with brush