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.
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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
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 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.
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
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...
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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
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
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. 👍
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 🙏
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 :)
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.
Hello. How can one learn such sketching? I have a lot of hard time at correctly placing different feautures of the face and angles and all that. Please let me know. Maybe make a tutorial video on that? Love you work.
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.
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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.
A creative exercise, like drawing random shapes for the head, also works well. And doing caricatures.
"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.
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.
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
Thanks!
That insta page is brilliant. Thank you so much for bringing into my life. Some real gems on there. Love your work too.
JUST WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR!! REAL PEOPLE FACES PHOTOS WITH UNIQUE FACES AND EMOTIONS
The precision you show drawing w/ ink straight out is impressive. Nice!
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
You are just great, this is very cool.
Yes. Thank you. I DID enjoy watching you draw. It was great!
Wow, that earth's world link was an incredible share!!
GREAT! Glad I found your channel. Thanks so much!
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.
These people have no idea they were an inspiration and a model for the artist.
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
I am currently studying the art of pen and ink and being at your skill level is my goal. You are my "it" artist.
so interesting for an amateur to listen to the talkthrough whilst watching the progress of the drawing. very helpful for us lesser mortals
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.
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
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 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.
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
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...
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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
I never drew a full page of faces, for some reason this video inspired me, so thank you
just started the video then saw the link to your Instergram ....wow inspired ....ok back to your video.
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
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. 👍
Nice fountain pen. Looks like a sailor.
No se puede creer la mano que tenes, eso es genialidad para el dibujo. mis felicitaciones!!
Love the art
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 🙏
wonderful sketches. Your comment and skills are of the highest level. Thank you for sharing this knowledge.
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.
wow, really enjoyed that! you are amazing
I'm getting back into art and its so relaxing playing this in the background while I'm doing face studies :)
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.
you are incredible!!!
Amazing I really learned a lot by watching how you map a face out, great videos your an amazing artist
Steven, thanks! your work is perfect!
I love ball point pens. All kinds and all colors. I like .7 to 1 mm. size. Using a water brush on top sometimes.
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
Some of these drawings remind me of Bernie Wrightson’s ink style! Great video!
great reference source, thank you!
Your lines are inspirational ❤️
This was amazing. Thank you.
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.
Amazing and hugely useful ... Many thanks
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.
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.
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.
It's really amazing, I Absolutely love it!!! Thank you for sharing. 👀👀👀
what a great performance!
Yees my favorite channel
Hola Steven. Un gran canal y un gran talento. Sería genial activaras en la configuración para subtítulos en español. Gracias
Thank you!
Thanks for Resources, earthsworld
thank you for your videos! they’re very inspiring
Hey man. That is really awesome. I like your drawing style.
Amazing work
Thank you
loving these
Ok man you got me . Im drawing
Im sitting listening and drawing
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 :)
Man you are awesome !
I love the way you describe different kinds of lines like “squaggles“ 😂
amazing drawing technique, no grid👌👍👍👍
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.
Hi Steven, great artworks, happy to find your channel! Thanks :)
Thank you so much for sharing this insta profile. Also, as always amazing art thanks for sharing the tips!
Yes I enjoyed ,I was looking for similar video that's here thankyou for sharing your technique it's helpful to me ❤️
Awesome skills....Awesome tutorial
So much wow.
magnific art
Great job friend congatulations
Its so true when you said ppl actually look like cartoon characters😂.
Enjoyed the vid and the drawings a lot, you also made me want to draw so bad but I have work!
great work!
Thanks man, awesome stuff
You should try drawing with your left hand and then crosshatching with your right, I think the result would be interesting.
BRAVO!!!!
inspiring video. I got a lot from this. Subscribed.
Amazing content and I actually love the fact that Infeel that Michael Scott is talking hahahah, thanks a lot for this great video
analysis,interpretation & inference drawing
Hello. How can one learn such sketching? I have a lot of hard time at correctly placing different feautures of the face and angles and all that. Please let me know. Maybe make a tutorial video on that? Love you work.
I still can't believe that this demo is free. What else could you need in a pen drawing primer?
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.