Sketchbook Techniques- Portraits in Ink
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Sketchbook time! I just draw portraits in ink and don't say anything weird. This is drawn in my Moleskine Sketchbook, with a Pilot Lucina fine point fountain pen, with Pilot sepia ink.
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people wonder why they develop same face syndrome in their art, but never realize that they have only ever drawn smooth faced young people. instant cure...draw older people from different parts of the world. you'll be better within the hour.
having a realistic variety of faces and feature types is really important to me as an artist and it's to the point where I can sort of tell which artists have really spent time observing people and which ones are following a rigid formula.
"There are people walking around who just look like straight-up cartoon characters, and that is something very valuable to know." Not something I ever expected to hear, but I couldn't agree more.
Freaking amazing! Thank you so much for sending all these new folks my way. Can't wait to see what everyone creates!
this account will make create again i think!
dude i just checked out ur acount, it is so frickin awesome. tbh even more useful than pintrest
it's so cool hearing someone describe people's unique features in a similar way to how I do. I always feel like such a weirdo describing someone's nose as beautiful when it's, by general standards , considered ugly. I found your channel today and it's really relaxing and inspirational listening to you while I draw.
I came for the technical advise but stayed for how beautifully you spoke about the unique quality of these human faces.
Drawing my own face helped me get over my hatred of my features and I began to realize that perception of self is like a piece of art - highly interpretive.
I like how you were able to fit that ideal into what could easily have been a simple tutorial.
You said it. This guy is a deep person.
drawing is one of the most wonderful things about being alive!
Agree!
I was struggling with the idea that how much anatomoical drawing matters when we draw real portrait...thank you for your explanation . Its so good. The tutorials vdos usually choose actors, beautiful jaw line and with light and dark contrst photo. But in real people are there in world, and real human being. Not a showpieces. I am so happy to get this.
From a young age on, when I started drawing portraits, I was always drawn to, if not fascinated, by lively facial expressions. Especially men are captured more often making weird faces. That is the reason, why I never felt challenged by smooth, perfect, similar looking pretty girl faces. Strong shadows, wrinkles, strange angles taught me so much. Great Video!
i hope anything and everything good happens to you dude
2:20 thanks, this is something i was genuinely fristrated with, you put it into words perfectly why my pen drawings looked significantly harsher than the reference because I'd been using refernces with smooth photoshoot lighting, your reference suggestion makes so much sense now
Woah I actually knew about Earth World before this video. Found this video in my recommendations, but saw Earth World in the video preview and had to watch it. Love Earths World. Archive of thousands upon thousands of faces.
JUST WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR!! REAL PEOPLE FACES PHOTOS WITH UNIQUE FACES AND EMOTIONS
Holy shit, it's like you know exactly what I'm into right now 😭👌 pen and ink is my first love. Drawing portraits and figures is something I'm working on/having fun with right now, so this will be great for a background video 🙏
Hey Steven, I just want to thank you your thoughts and videos.
Because of you, I re-found my perfect tool for drawing (a simple ball pen).
After 33 years I'm finally free again.
Thank you.
youre advice is so fucking abstract that I need to hardcore focus just to hear and think hard on what you're saying, you earned my sub
Well thank yah
The precision you show drawing w/ ink straight out is impressive. Nice!
Don't ever be afraid of failure, each of my failures I've considered teachable moments. I keep every sketch that I've done wrong and after a few weeks I've gone back to it and made notes on the page of what I feel was wrong and what I need to learn to overcome those challenges. It's only a piece of paper and ink or pencil, you must have lots of spare paper so why not take chances without fear of failure.
Yes. Thank you. I DID enjoy watching you draw. It was great!
Wow, that earth's world link was an incredible share!!
That insta page is brilliant. Thank you so much for bringing into my life. Some real gems on there. Love your work too.
thanks so much for this video. about a month ago i promised myself i'd practice at improving my portrait drawings. i kind of hit a slump because i didn't know where to find references for normal, everyday looking people. earthsworld is a great reference for artists who want to stray away from generic images of conventional facial structures.
Thanks of sharing this tutorial on Pen sketching, your art is some of the best I have seen, thanks for sharing the earthsworld page too, lots of great images to use there.
I really appreciate the mention of ball-point pens! I have a fountain pen but mostly use it for writing and scribbles, but my ball point is really perfect for fully rendered drawings, sketches, etc. I switched to drawing in pen only sometime in high school since I hated the my sketchbook drawings were smudging a lot. Pen has done so much for me, absolutely love ball point for more detailed drawings! I have used at times my fountain pen for more "proper" drawings and it's definetly hards, but mostly a different process/style, one I do kinda wanna try more often...
You are just great, this is very cool.
Every single one of your videos are helping me a lot just learn about light and shape and general when I had problem seeing how light interacts in general with forms
I never drew a full page of faces, for some reason this video inspired me, so thank you
Late but this just showed up for me! Just wanted to say I feel the same way about how I learned to draw with pen first and it actually prepared me for other mediums. Also taught me a lot about planning enough to not make mistakes while also being able to intuitively correct them as I'm processing the drawing
Ohhh am I in love with your video's. Inspiration, tips, jokes, and amazing Illustrations. Great as background noise while just drawing! Thank you Steven
GREAT! Glad I found your channel. Thanks so much!
I am currently studying the art of pen and ink and being at your skill level is my goal. You are my "it" artist.
Your comment about being intentional with what reference you choose to draw really struck a chord with me. Some combination of popular appeal and the platforms artists tend to use to find reference can easily lead you to end up doing the same thing everyone else is doing. Just looking around on the internet, you quickly find a lot of people drawing from the same old references of cute pinterest girls.
So insightful and I have to agree with what your saying. Going straight in ink does lend for a different drawing. I always start with the geometric form and kinda find that my drawings almost look “formulaic” im going to do some more practice!
so interesting for an amateur to listen to the talkthrough whilst watching the progress of the drawing. very helpful for us lesser mortals
Thank you so much for this! The instagram is so anti-instagram-- I keep going there to find unique references and I'm blasted with contour makeup selfies.
These people have no idea they were an inspiration and a model for the artist.
I like this channel i think because unlike others that start with white paper at 1 min and done a life size portrait by the 7th minute. Kinda hard to follow those steps in 7 mins with any expectations other than mastering a forehead lol. 👍
This is soooooo helpful. For years I struggled with sketching faces. Now I can follow along with this video in slow motion gaining all of your excellent suggestions in this GREAT LESSON....thiks sooooooooo much for doing this.
I've never been able to draw and I've started at an old age, I've decided from the beginning to draw like that, direct with dip pen or fountains pens and black ink, without pencil sketches or guidelines, embracing failure and learning to observe more and fail again. I'm slowly getting better and I still like those unpredictable ink blotches ruining my sketches... nobody, apart me and some friends, will see my drawing anyway :)
I'm getting back into art and its so relaxing playing this in the background while I'm doing face studies :)
wonderful sketches. Your comment and skills are of the highest level. Thank you for sharing this knowledge.
Ok man you got me . Im drawing
Im sitting listening and drawing
I Love drawing with you taking. I went to he phots and started drawing keying in on what you were and applied it to whatever on my drawing. Plus you have a nice voice to draw to.
I love how mean you are to young bloods but motivating to make me better. I want to improve mysteriously like u always sayin in your videos.
Super inspiring video and beautiful sketches, Steven! For me it's almost always the same. It starts good but I get carried away with the rendering, which leads to unorganized values and therefore a lost sense of light. The sketches get that overworked, insecure, unfocused look with muddy patterns all over. It's definitely a challenge to stay structured and focused. What I find the most interesting with your videos is your curiosity and eagerness to ask the "right" questions, try different techniques out etc. I think I'm letting the fear of doing an error hinder me from having that curious and exploring internal dialogue.
I use the uni ball air .05 ballpoint in my watercolors. And I don't know much about pigs and lizards but monkeys and apes are crazy fun to draw
If you like folds, draw old people. So much fun. You got a lot more "meat" to work with, which makes it easier as well. More shapes more shadows.
You can go to an old folks home and you will most likely find one of them sleeping on a bench or in front of the TV posing for you involuntarily.
You can ask them to pose for you, which they do most of the time, but I especially like it when they are asleep.
Hey Steven. Firstly, wow! I am continually in awe of your artistic talent. As I watched this video, I started to think that you had a preference for heads facing towards the left, until you started on the other page. As I reach the end, I see that composition plays a strong part. Being right-handed myself, I have a preference for left-facing heads. I need to push myself more to draw portraits facing the other direction.
That's was really wonderful. I teach window painting on RUclips and patreon but I am also an eternal student. I spend at least two hours a day practicing with pencil and also ink. I love the pentell brush pens, microns and also ball point. I totally get what you mean about ballpoint and it's ability to create subtle light lines. A great tool
Hola Steven. Un gran canal y un gran talento. Sería genial activaras en la configuración para subtítulos en español. Gracias
You should try drawing with your left hand and then crosshatching with your right, I think the result would be interesting.
Love the art
No se puede creer la mano que tenes, eso es genialidad para el dibujo. mis felicitaciones!!
Amazing content and I actually love the fact that Infeel that Michael Scott is talking hahahah, thanks a lot for this great video
great reference source, thank you!
just started the video then saw the link to your Instergram ....wow inspired ....ok back to your video.
This was amazing. Thank you.
Nice fountain pen. Looks like a sailor.
It's really amazing, I Absolutely love it!!! Thank you for sharing. 👀👀👀
This was a fun video! That little whisper at the end xD you mentioning drawing flowy forms as a warm up reminds me of Proko's video about 'automatic drawing'
analysis,interpretation & inference drawing
I love ball point pens. All kinds and all colors. I like .7 to 1 mm. size. Using a water brush on top sometimes.
Its so true when you said ppl actually look like cartoon characters😂.
you should've made them all zombies lol, such great artwork bravo and thanks for adding some insight into your thought process
Some of these drawings remind me of Bernie Wrightson’s ink style! Great video!
Amazing I really learned a lot by watching how you map a face out, great videos your an amazing artist
I hope you know I cannot resist commenting and turned into a bugaboo---LOL I get a lot out of your videos and they bring me joy. Also holy f**** that instagram with the faces is amazing! And like I never thought about "lines doing the work" just like doing acrylic nails (which is my profession) you let gravity do the work by pointing the finger down....so sick..THANK YOU
Amazing and hugely useful ... Many thanks
Steven, thanks! your work is perfect!
Thank you
I love the way you describe different kinds of lines like “squaggles“ 😂
Thanks!
My absolute favourite portraits I love to draw is the elderly, there is so much beauty to be found in all those wrinkles and blemishes. The most striking portraits I've ever done was an elderly man from the middle East but my favourite just happens to be the profile picture I've used for my you tube account, that took me nearly 100 hours to draw every wrinkle and skin pore even the beard was a challenge.
I just wish that I could post my portraits on here so that anyone with greater skills than I could point out were I'm going wrong and how I can improve. For the last 4 years I've been trying to reach photo realistic level in my portraits, I do feel that I am improving but I have so much more to learn.
I love drawing older women most likely because I was raised by both of my grandmothers, and it tends to make people feel weird when I describe that I find a beauty in wrinkles, I'm so glad there's other artists like me!
@@jamiecarmack8846 it's such a shame that society sees beauty in youth and photoshopped images of the perfect thin young woman or man. If people just take a step back and re evaluate their concept of beauty and understand the lies fed to the masses through glamor magazines and TV they'll see what we see. When I'm drawing the elderly I'm seeing the beauty of those wrinkles as a life lived or the hardships some go through. I've drawn portraits of a range of elderly people from a broken man from Syria to an elderly couple sharing a kiss and each one of them I focused on true beauty, honest and untainted by our modern sensibilities. The initial reason for my decision to do this was to challenge myself, to see if I could attempt something so different but as I moved on to the next piece I found a deeper meaning to my work and for the first time in years I was satisfied and proud of the work I've done.
@@nemo9540 I'm currently working on a project focused on the love between my grandfather and grandmother during her chemotherapy and final hours, I see classmates in my art class painting the youngest women with no true emotion in their faces
@@jamiecarmack8846 I would seriously love to see your work.
thank you for your videos! they’re very inspiring
Thank you!
you are incredible!!!
wow, really enjoyed that! you are amazing
Your lines are inspirational ❤️
Yes I enjoyed ,I was looking for similar video that's here thankyou for sharing your technique it's helpful to me ❤️
Thanks for Resources, earthsworld
Loved the way you explained unique faces...I'm into portrait drawings at the moment and this was perfect ...your art is spectacular 🥰
what a great performance!
One method of teaching that , the great, Andres Segovia would do is play and have his students watch him. Thanks for letting us watch you and learn your thought process and choice of lines.
Thank you so much for sharing this insta profile. Also, as always amazing art thanks for sharing the tips!
Wow that Earthsworld thing is hilarious! Americans are really funny looking. Thanks for telling us about it.
These photos make for much more interesting drawings than that booooooring pretty girl warrior babe art that everybody does.
So much wow.
BRAVO!!!!
love it
Ballpoint? My favorite three Parker Jotter (they have nice ink in my opinion), Pentel Energel 0.5, Uniball Jetstream 0.5 and my favorite fountain pen is Moonman Vancai mini (it's so small and it writes well).
P.S. Love your art!!
Great channel also!
Cheers 👍
amazing drawing technique, no grid👌👍👍👍
Enjoyed the vid and the drawings a lot, you also made me want to draw so bad but I have work!
Yees my favorite channel
Hi Steven, great artworks, happy to find your channel! Thanks :)
magnific art
Thanks for inspiration and the Instagram account to draw from! 🎉
Subbed. Such an amazing demonstration of skill and so eloquently explained. I am working on learning pen drawing and it's been a task. I love you style. Jung Gi is one of my inspirations, and you have some similar techniques. Love your hatching, it's so impressive.
awesome thank you.
Great job friend congatulations
Hey man. That is really awesome. I like your drawing style.
I totally agree with the sentiment, a good example: A few months ago I went to an event with my blood sister's live action role play group and I really couldn't stop myself, I just blurted out at some point "I just realized something, humans are incredibly ugly" which actually isn't meant as an insult or a nog, but actually somewhat of a compliment, there's so much more visual interest in humanity, than just the smooth Barbie dolls, which I have pretty much gotten desensitized to, they are so boring and usually their behavior and interests even more so.