Senne Vos he’s the most talented shader, but not the best artist in my opinion painting is harder and masters of painting tend to be able to shade well and of course paint amazingly.
the crnapagoda no most oil painters sketch there landscapes to master the depth, then they paint with oil once they got the depth right. And many eventually do some drawing with graphite kinda like this guy. Look up Andrew Tischler, and watch how he does a painting. Most people who draw can’t paint, and most people who paint can actually draw. You’ll see, and by the way you aren’t that funny. Lmao
@@nothingbutart7473 Don't make such a big deal out of which people are more talented, shaders or painters. Both are artists and there are both very talented shaders and painters. I don't want a big discussion which has nothing to do with the amazing content this guy makes in his comment section. thank you!
I am only 2 minutes into this video. I felt an emotional response already. I too am self taught and started this journey a year ago at a bit older age. I enjoy manipulating graphite on the page with blending stumps, and Q tips. Most websites or RUclips videos seem adamant against such mark making. I find it hypnotic. I appreciate this video so much and I have 8 and a half minutes left.
Weird how I happened to read this perfectly as he said "add fingerprints" also weird that this video popped up in general. I was literally just looking at my hand and thinking how I could get all the detail of my skin in a drawing
@@stellaqaustralia I think so too. Or perhaps we just notice them more when we're on the right track, or in alignment so to speak. Either way, I think they serve as the proverbial bread crumbs leading us on the trail back home. in these magnificent moments, I always imagine the universe is peeling back a layer of itself & winking back at me as if to say, "Yep. I See you too homie" The observer becomes the observee & vice versa. How cool is that? 🌟 🧘🏻♂️ 🌏
@@Mr.DerekReese beautifully stated! If we could only find a way to make everyone see, now, when it matters most, instead of putting it off for another day
The way u compliment traditional art and the way it compliments you is extraordinary, the way you depict shading as its own art form in a sea of techniques that all revolve around a simple pencil is incredibly satisfying
It’s not just your technique that is exquisite (which it is)... it’s the art which your technique supports. Your eye and your imagination are stunning. Also, thanks for the deep dive into how you work. I get so much inspiration from seeing how other artists work and, of course, the work they produce.
Hey so I'm currently doing one of your pieces "In my silence" in my gcse exams and it's just been an amazing journey exploring your art as well as a huge challenge and honestly one of the hardest pieces I've draw. I love your work and I can't wait to explore more of your work
You're explanation of your shading process is very gratifying for me. I'm definitely not as good as you are, your photo realism is leagues ahead of mine BUT all the techniques are things that I discovered on my own all given all I had was a number 2 pencil ( I still have a few hundred of them). I used cotton swabs for detailed areas. It wasn't until years into my work that someone introduced me to stumps. I used toilet tissue ( fluffy two ply) for the large areas. I used a mortar and pestle to grind my pencils into powder. This whole video just made my day. I thought at the time what I did was out of order and that "real" artist would have a more refined way of doing things... kneaded erasers are literally my fave erasers, they are so versatile. Thanks for the awesome video!
I am absolutely astounded.... My jaw is on the floor. What a remarkable artist you are. It makes me want to cry. I wanted badly to be an artist when I was a kid, won 2 years in a row as best artist in first and second grade out of a school that went up to the 5th grade out of 500 kids in the whole school I was the only sketch artist to win that award. I got no encouragement from my parents my Mom even told me ah why do you want to do that you cant make any money doing that.... The next year in school everyone knew how good I was and at art hour everyone begged me to draw them a pic by the time the hour was up I hadn't even gotten to draw my own picture and that year I failed art the next year they did away with art altogether. I used to take my pencils everywhere I went I could draw on anything napkins in diners anywhere really. I even taught my younger cousin how to draw he went on to be a famous inker at Marvel comics. I look at the magnificent artist you are and all I can do is wonder what I might have been had things went differently for me had I had gotten any kind of encouragement at all. Keep doing what your doing dont let a soul get in your way not ever. May the Good Lord bless your mind heart soul and hands always. Peace to you.
My art teacher said I was rubbish at school. I thought #### you and went to art school at night. I did home schooling and courses etc. I now have commissions . Get starting again, I make mistakes but I learn from them.
@@trinidiana Thank you for that... I have often thought about that.... but as they say if you dont use it you lose it but in actuality its past that point mainly because I now have medical problems that have halted a lot of my creativity it has affected that part of my brain that pretty much cuts across all of my other creative avenues as well. I'm an artist at heart my love for anything artistic that I later did, writing, photography, ect also was cut short or should I say has been short circuited. Now I make jewelry when the mood moves me it helps ease the pain and helps to make me feel not so bad about what I lost its a way to reach my creative side when I'm able. :)
@@scoobysal That's wonderful good for you. :) I truly do wish I still had those skills but for me there long gone. Now sorry to say I have medical issues that have halted the part of my brain where all of that creativity is housed. I still try every now and then to draw but its not really there anymore and its sad because out of anything I ever really did when it came to the arts that was actually one of the most fluid of my creativity side it was natural for me I could draw what I saw in my head so easy now not really. Now I do jewelry making I'd love to sell it but to this date I've only sold 2 pieces mostly I just give my stuff away makes me feel good to do that. If you go to my channel you'll see some of the videos with my work. :)
Nice work Mr Dry, you are the master. The face shading at 1:12 and the hand at 3:45 are great examples, many artists find hands a problem and don't put them in. Fab tip about the cotton wool thanks, what cotton wool does for drawing, a sponge does for mortar & gypsum plaster work where a square decorating sponge helps to take out the float lines for a smooth finish. I spent about 20 years doing pencil lines and flipping paper as an assistant-animator in different commercial studios in Germany and the UK doing feature films where I started work on a desk with an angled light-box with a metal peg bar doing inbetweening line work before becoming an assistant animator helping clean up the rough line work of the master animator. They were pretty intense times, 10 to 12 drawings per day on feature films was normal and at least 40 a day on adverts. We were like animation gypsies with many different nationalities and ages in that business You can never be bored when you create, but you must always have a standby, alternative way to earn money as nothing lasts forever. Once you start wrinkling up and everything goes south nobody wants you. Younger, prettier and faster talent comes along and you are replaced. These days with the w.w.web it's a whole new ball game, I only do friends and family birthday stuff, I quit when everything went digital in about 2002. Live long and prosper, you will go far.
You should make a RUclips channel or a blog and share your stories. It sounds like you've lived a fascinating journey & many people would be interested to hear about it. There are lots of people interested in the golden age of animation
I just wanted to say that I really admire your work. I just see the sun go up and down all the time on your videos and you don't seem to lose focus. Really enjoy your unique drawings.
The moment I saw his Artwork for the first time, he became one of my Favorite and when I found my art style matches with his, Jono became my Favorite Shader & Pencil Artist . Love & Respect !
I don't understand much about paintings nor technics... but man! I'm absolutely mesmerized watching your video and how you express your art on paper. Hats off to you Mr Jono!
Amazing information! I did not know that about cotton wool and saving the shavings. I enjoy graphite drawing and have been trying to pay attention to the texture. It really is the way to sculpt. Thank you! I have learned not to listen to all opinions. I also noticed that your beautiful method looks faster than all those pencils. Yes you found your method or style and people like me are paying attention. 🤗
you are a blessing to your mom and father and teacher. thanks for showing your secrets to other artists. i am poor writing, leave drawing. all i can do may be buy your print .
I'd love to see narrated complete/longer tutorials of each various stage being done in real-time. About 20-40min each, Bob Ross style, edited for brevity rather than sped up. 1. Materials prep. 2. Composition & planning. 3. Block in. 4. Backgrounds & rough detail. 5. Blending and final touches! Maybe a few diff't 3/4/5 for different types of subjects/textures. The quick overviews are like a tease! Would like to see you teaching a piece or section & showing process from start to end in real-time!
Jono, I just wanted to say thank you for sharing your work in such an open and honest manner. You're truly an inspiration to me. Graphite has always been my favorite medium, but I've fallen out of practice over the years. Drawing used to be my life, and now I've hardly worked on anything in the last 8 years. Seeing your work and watching your techniques like this genuinely motivate me to create my own work. I've slowly started getting myself back in to it, and you have been a major factor in that. Thank you for sharing your love and determination. You are an inspiration to many.
The fact you share your techniques is beyond appreciated but maann.. I could follow everything you do for 20 years and never achieve 1/4 your awesome ability to create such dynamic art. Beyond love it. Btw... why the hell are you not famous??
You are sooo generous and selfless that you are easily willing to pour your knowledge of shading (that you worked hard to master for years) to us, the viewers. I would like to say, thank God for you. No one taught me to draw either. I am learning it through experiments. But thank God the most! God bless!!!!
I appreciate you sharing your learnings along the way with graphite, my first medium, and still one of my favorites. Ironically, I've come full-circle and feel it may be time to re-visit it. Thank you for the inspiration.
@BMO They are not informative lessons, but they are aesthetically pleasing and inspiring. Some might have learned something, such as wetting the paper and using graphite powder. Nevertheless, I hope he keeps going in this direction, I want to learn from him.
@BMO Well perhaps you should get better at drawing by learning through your own means in my respectful opinion. Drawing is not about using one artists way. As a natural artist that didnt learn from anyone I like his videos because he has techniques that I dont typically use, and they produce equal if not better results than my own. I'm not watching to copy his every method which I assume is your mission in watching his videos but to take a little bit of his knowledge and adding it to what I've taught my own self over the years in order to produce my own art and not a style that has been copied. Edit: Also he's not here to teach everyone art alone he is advertising his work so that many will enjoy which I for one do enjoy watching. I don't know why you're complaining about him not teaching his every technique because every artist has certain things they wont tell so people don't to copy everything they do. It's like a cooking recipe from a famous restaurant. Pretty ridiculous for you to expect him to just give you everything you want to learn. Like any real artist will tell you PRACTICE AND LEARN you'll figure out ways that suit you best.
I love your art work, and I am trying to make drawings a little bit like yours. UnfortunatelyI don't have the patience and fantasy. Don't mind, I enjoy your work and explanation. Please don't stop, make every day a happy day. I am 70 years old and I like to paint, big paintings.
These are really great tips, I haven't done a drawing in years. I'm excited to get back into it. I love the tips. Very inspirational and beautiful work.
I am just constantly amazed at your extraordinary talents in creating even the most minuscule details into a whole new arena waiting to be explored; the pores in the skins, the tiny wrinkles, the fingerprints, i love it all man
Amazing, incredible. So awesome that you are willing to share. Thank you so very much. I have been drawing for decades and had stayed in the middle to light zone of the value range. HBish. What you shared was incredible. It’s not thatI did not want to go there but Idid not know how to get there. It seemed impossible to go there without getting a smudge almost oily mess. Your open sharing of your findings have been totally inspiring. Thank you so very much.
A huge thank you for sharing this. I was planning to move from charcoal to graphite as I got gifted a set of graphite from a friend. Thanks a lot Jono!
I have a sidequestion: How do you do these GIANT black backgrounds? is it somehow a giant brush and ink or airbrush or do you actually fill in like a whole squaremeter with pencil of black?
Took me right back to my art class over 40 years ago and remembered working with all the tools (except the wool, although I do remember using old cotton t-shirts). The real gift of drawing never came natural to me. Your hours of dedication to master your craft shows in your magnificent results.
I’ve often wondered , what would an Egyptian or Mayan artist think of this technique and it’s amazing results. Would it be a “ I never thought of that” moment?
such an honest video thank you for making this i will def be watching more of your videos. i feel like art school is suffocating me with loads of information that i forget to just go with what workd for me. kinda lose sight of what you want if you let the world distract you with what they want.
not in any way to disrespect my teachers, thers just SO MUCH KNOWLEDGE and its midterm so i start feeling like im chasing something when its like, why am i rushing??
Unohoo, ha, no...for some reason, it makes my teeth hurt. Kinda like biting down on a napkin. I know that sounds weird, but it’s difficult to describe.
I get the joke but on a more serious note, you shall not become a professional artist if you don’t put time and effort into studying and practicing with art.
This is honestly one of the best art channels I've seen and has inspired me beyond belief to carry on learning, developing and creating. Thank you for all your videos and everything your teaching us Jono! Please keep it up with more tutorials!
Shading is a lot about how to give value and depth to something so I suggest studying light and value. There's a lot of eye trickery that happens that many are not aware of as well and being able to understand and use that will help you go far in creating graphite drawings. It will take practice, but try to separate what the brain is trying to tell you see and what you actually see. You need to turn off the tricky side of your brain to be able to draw what you actually see. You don't even have to draw to practice this, although that would be ideal, you can study things just by looking too...you just want to train your eye to see what you need it to see so you can draw that. Look at b&w pictures and study them. Look for shapes and how the image gets it's depth. Where are the shadows, where are the hard lines, if any (photos most the time do not have lots of hard lines so in most cases you will not leave any hard lines in your drawings). Pay close attention to transitions between dark and light. Look for ALL the details and try to get as much of that into your drawings as possible. See how many shades you can pick out in a b&w picture and try to guess what pencil hardness it is. Play with photo manipulation tools and turn color photos into b&w and study how color changes into value. All these things if done mindfully with purpose will help you start to train your eye and tune out the tricky side of your brain which is essential in creating anything realistic. Most people can control the pressure of a pencil and shade out a good gradient with just a bit of practice but I feel the true difficulty of drawing is capturing the textures, the lighting and the depth and this takes some focused study so in addition to physically practicing. Practice everywhere in your mind...look at everything with artist eyes and do not give up!
Draw all the time. Every day if possible. Copy things you like, so draw your cat if you have one, draw your X-Box if you have one, whatever you love drawing, draw it. Copy from magazine photos, copy other artists' pictures, download photos of your favourite singers or movie stars, draw those. Put a glass of water on a white background and draw that. Just copy things a lot to begin with. My examples are just examples, pick your own things to draw but make sure there is variety in what you draw. Most great original artists learn the basic technique by copying over and over and over, from life as well as from pictures of various kinds. Eventually you will move on and won't need to copy, but it really is the best way to develop some technical skill. Oh, and accept that if you want to draw really well, you have to be willing to draw badly first. Just keep doing your best and your best will get better. An art teacher told me to keep my pictures and date them, that way I can occasionally look back and see my progress. It really did help to look at two of my drawings with dates on them just a few months apart and clearly see the improvement. As soon as you are old enough try life drawing classes to see if that helps you. How old you have to be varies depending upon where in the world you live, but try it as soon as you can. Also don't just listen to tips and advice from one person, look for tips and advice from lots of people. Some of my advice will may not suit you, so listen to others too. You will often feel within which advice is for you, and if you have no idea if something will help you can always try it for a while and see which advice works for you and which doesn't.
I have been watching your videos for a while now , and I must say that you are an incredible artist ❤️, your artwork is one of the best I have ever seen, keep up good work. Plus I am trying to really work hard and get better at drawing , and you are my top inspiration.
Jono, I’m new to your channel. Your hints & advice are stellar. When I was school I was taught how to render shadows & light. It’s produced lovely work, but took forever to get the same shading you produce. Your method makes my wrist say THANK YOU.
Speechless.. His work speak for is self..young master..It a honour to watch your video..and a blessing that you share wat you have discover and your own..I love your focus and your dedication.. Visionary artist johnnoy smith.
hey! im a 16 year old artist and i really want to know how focused you can be while working in a piece, without any distractions. i really cant work on my art without any movie or youtube running in the background. nowadays im trying to limit myself with music or podcasts. i really want to understand how being constantly distracted by movies or youtube affects my art. btw i love your art, your take on surrealism is simply......surreal :"))
Very nice! Mate, you should try a "makeup sponge" which is a rubber foam blending tool. I originally was given one by an art professor but many are sold in drugstores & Amazon. You can get any size & shape, a flat triangle, a pyramid, a round ball attached to the end of a wooden rod/ brush type tool, etc. It can lift, blend, push graphite, & even make soft lines. My favorite is a "smudger sponge" that came on the end of an eye liner pencil. It's great for softly sketching/ placing the first layer of graphite, bc it gives you the option to gently apply graphite powder without pushing it into the grain of the paper. Some brushes can also work well for graphite if they're sufficiently dense. Water soluble graphite can give u darker values too if you want
TBH I'm glad I took so long to discover blenders. You can really use them as a crutch to cover up poorly thought out pencil work (as well as gratuitously blurring stuff that should not be blurred). Working without them forces you to develop your draftsmanship to a much higher level. Same for erasers.
I agree with D Gowers' comment. Jono Dry also said in the beginning of the video it.is important to focus on your quality (and variety) of mark making first before you venture into using blenders & cotton & erasers. I know it might feel frustrating, but maybe your teacher is trying to assist you to develop a strong mark making foundation first? That being said, nothing hinders you from exploring with blendera and erasers on your personal work. ♡
I found your video very helpful, especially about getting the dark shades. I tried the technique with the 9B block but it wasn't as saturated as yours. But, if I understood you correctly, it's important to keep layering. I haven't done that enough it seems. Thank you for this video!
Thank you for passion and courage for art I'm inspired by your works and everytime I watch your videos.... Your artworks always had to say something in my mind that I need to pursue art....thank you for making me feel this way I will support you from this day and on 😊
Hi Jono, My 13 year old granddaughter is already a talented user of shade. I have come across this video completely accidentally, but I feel that with your help, through this channel, she can reach even greater heights. On her behalf I'd like to say a big thank you to you for sharing your techniques.
You're really an amazing artist and I'm learning alot from you.Im a young artist and trying as much as I can to learn from the internet since my parents dont have time to take me to art class but I think learning from you is better.
I absolutely love your artwork. You are extremely talented. I too decided to pick up a pencil and begin to draw. This happened after my daughter died during birth. Since then I have been drawing on and off for the last 12 years and have always wanted to get my drawings to look the way yours do. And this video truly help me understand the concept of shading. I think believe that shading is what I struggle with the most and sometimes I’m afraid to put too much graphite onto paper because I have not been able to blend the graphite well. I came across your video looking for techniques and tools that other artists use for their graphite drawings. And I am glad to say that your video truly help me find what I was looking for. Thanks!
The self discipline and patience you’ve mastered over the years is very inspiring. Thank you for sharing such in depth knowledge of your experience 👌✌🏼
Learning your way is the best way...unadulterated...pure and direct... I learned renaissance drawing in art school late 70s... I am 60 now...your work is excellent...never stop learning
I have drawn for many years too, but never thought of using cotton. Your videos has sparked a whole new line of drawing for me, and it is so exciting to feel a renewed love for the medium. Also your advice on sometimes drawing details first and then block in shades afterwards is very interesting. I am going to try that out.
Great video. I like to listen to fellow artist discuss technique and method. Since college I hate to listen to or discuss concept. The joy of art for me is making it.
Thank you for sharing. I've started working with charcoal but have been thinking about adding graphite for finer detail work. It's hard though because I work on canvas. You have a few tips that I haven't employed so I'll give them a shot. Beautiful work!
From Argentina, thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience. I do portraits, and because of your lessons, I've improved very much, and still learning from you 👏👏👏👏👏👏
This video was chucked full of things that I feel I can add to my routine. With these tricks and things you say I never thought about will help me alot with problms I've ran into many times while drawing
Hi Jono, you have inspired me to pick up a pencil again, after 45 years (I'm 63). Your clips are very innovative and have allowed me to experiment again confidently. Thank you 😊
Absolutely beautiful work. Total admiration for your level of intricacy and detail . Thank you for this video . It was very thorough and well thought out. Love it!
No one taught you how to draw? I'm almost as astonished by that statement as I am by your work. You are a profoundly talented and gifted artist. I am incredibly impressed.
Wow, thank you so much Jono for all the wonderful tips on this video. I'm just starting out with graphite drawing and love it. So I will be watching more of your videos.
Thank you Jono for sharing your experience! You are right it is all about practicing and dedication. And one should always control what he do in order to achieve the desired results.
First off. Those are incredible works of art you have shown. Also thank you for your courage to share your work and style of achieving the pictures you do. As any artest knows, we leave our soul in our work. So, our work an be very personal to us. Now. I,was taught in a simular way. Shadding and learning how to controle our graphite pencil was our foundation to all our work. We were taught our controle of the pencil was our bread and water. It was a sign of how talented an artest is, based on how well they could controle their art pencil. That being said, we did also use the kneaded eraser. And, we used it to pick up some of the darkness of our shading to lighten it up. Basically those two were our tools. It was nice of you to share some of the evolurion and other tools you use: Using different hardness of pencils. It seemed you also used different graphite pencils which had different size points in them.There there is the use of a stencil. That was something we almost only used when doing airbrushing only art. It was neat to see your use. It was also interisting to see hou powder some graphite and its uses. The cotton you use, we were talk to think of it as smuggling. We were also taught not to do that with out teacher, but also taught there are teachers who do use that method and teaches it. You did mention the controle of using the cotton is more general instead of fine details. Maybe if you use q-tips. That should allow you a more finer usage of cotton for smuggling. Then on top of that with the q-tips you can play with how much of a point you can make on them for usage. Or, through the use of cottonballs, much like when making cotton candy, you see how the stick is swirled around to make the cotton portion thicker and thicker. Thus this should give you more usage and variations of your smuggling. I know also many people will also simply use their own fingers to smudge. I think you also said you used ink within your drawings? If so, one of the types of drawings we did were using a paint brush and ink well. Basically like a painting to control the brush and how it would apply the ink. We also utilized what we were taught with water coloring to create different shading with the ink. And, many times with both water color, and using ink for a black and white image, to create harsher division to how far the ink may bleed and fade, we would flip the brush to use the tip without the brush to basically create a groove in the paper. This would create a border to stop how far the ink may bleed. In a way like a stencil. Though some people could also use an air brush on this way, since you said you also use ink. And, Is one medium used in airbrush. Mainly again for only black and white pictures, and a method of shading. Then u have also seen people whensharing, just like a dark graphite pencil to controle lights to darks within shading, i have also seen people who would use white pencil or even a white acrylic pencil to controle shading from the opposite perspective. Many ways i have seen this method create very dramatic whites, and dramatic shading contrasts. Something for you to think about? I was also taught that again some teachers do and teach these methods a well. Where they may take a photo and put it into a slide so they can project the image overpaper, on a wall. We were not told it was wrong and some people use this method. Though from our teachers point of view, we were not allowed to do this in class, and was thought of as a form of cheating. That being said there are somexpeoolexehos arceus thought to be very good, and some well recognized artest who could ask a large price for their work using this method in many/mut8ways. Some arrest would use that projection to trace their pictures, and even map out all the different ways and areas of shading differences. Others would create a grid, much like with quad planning pad. I think some may also refer to that grid on paper as construction paper. And, maybe even architecture papern well people would use a grid so to outline make different points of shading or whatever they wanted to help them doing their art. U though I would share some of the different aspects I had been taught that other artist use within their art/drawings thatcmay be of some interist to you. You may,find some aspect or variation of what I shared to be of interist. I will also ass, that I had heard of a great renaissance artist, I think Leonardo De Vinci's had done in his e ploration of the play and understanding of shadows. He would use a backdrop. I believe only a sheat or white blanket, with a candle for light. He would then draw what he saw, and all the shadings from the candle light. He may have used other objects in the backdrop, though it may have just been the sheat. I think it may have been shared a small portion of the backdrop may have been drawn, though you can choose to use a larger section to draw as well. I am thinking for short and quick drawings and experaments of the play of light in darkness, most likely he would focus on small sections. Now by itself, that may sound like the norm for many peoples art background. And, is a normal practice. Though De Vinci used small sections, he could fairly do in a short and quick amount of time. Once done,da Vinci would keep moving the candel light from place to place to draw the same spot over and over. I am thinking how the change of placement of the light also plays on the visual effect of the same subject. Potentially he may have played with the light coming from dufferent viewpoins such as bird, elet level, and worm eye view. I would even add plaing with the light closer and further away could be another potential difference, and for what we did with my teacher was to also practice 4th dimensional viewpoints that some artest are well known for. This being to draw the subject or backdrop from mutable perspectives while also drawing on top of the precious drawing. By doing so we are also adding the element of time with our picture and how the view point changes from one point of time to the next view point we drew m some times not just two perspectives, but also 3 and 4 different perspectives in the same drawing overplayed over its precious drawing of the same spot. Hopefully I gave you some food of thought. And, like hou shared with us you experance and sequence of things you had learned, I tried to share back as a way to thank you. And, like you I may also add to what you had shared to people here to add to a pool of knowledge and experance. Thank you.
This is the 1st video of yours I have ever seen, just yest... Amazing!!! It freed me from a restricted worldview of drawing to a more unlimited extent and understanding. It gave me huge breakthroughs in my current charcoal attempts and taught me unconventional skills that made me feel like I went from crawling to flying. Thank you!
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You're honestly the most talented artist I've ever seen. Keep up the amazing work!!
Thanks Senne, It means a lot :)
Senne Vos he’s the most talented shader, but not the best artist in my opinion painting is harder and masters of painting tend to be able to shade well and of course paint amazingly.
@@nothingbutart7473 lmao, dont put people who draw with graphite pencils and people who paint with oil paints or whatever..lmao
the crnapagoda no most oil painters sketch there landscapes to master the depth, then they paint with oil once they got the depth right. And many eventually do some drawing with graphite kinda like this guy. Look up Andrew Tischler, and watch how he does a painting. Most people who draw can’t paint, and most people who paint can actually draw. You’ll see, and by the way you aren’t that funny. Lmao
@@nothingbutart7473 Don't make such a big deal out of which people are more talented, shaders or painters. Both are artists and there are both very talented shaders and painters. I don't want a big discussion which has nothing to do with the amazing content this guy makes in his comment section.
thank you!
I am only 2 minutes into this video. I felt an emotional response already. I too am self taught and started this journey a year ago at a bit older age. I enjoy manipulating graphite on the page with blending stumps, and Q tips. Most websites or RUclips videos seem adamant against such mark making. I find it hypnotic. I appreciate this video so much and I have 8 and a half minutes left.
"... Add fingerprints."
Bruh, this level of detail.
Weird how I happened to read this perfectly as he said "add fingerprints" also weird that this video popped up in general. I was literally just looking at my hand and thinking how I could get all the detail of my skin in a drawing
andrew pineda Love life’s little synchronous arrows. I’m convinced they happen more when you are on the right track. ✌️
@@stellaqaustralia I think so too. Or perhaps we just notice them more when we're on the right track, or in alignment so to speak. Either way, I think they serve as the proverbial bread crumbs leading us on the trail back home.
in these magnificent moments, I always imagine the universe is peeling back a layer of itself & winking back at me as if to say, "Yep. I See you too homie"
The observer becomes the observee & vice versa. How cool is that?
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@@Mr.DerekReese beautifully stated! If we could only find a way to make everyone see, now, when it matters most, instead of putting it off for another day
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The way u compliment traditional art and the way it compliments you is extraordinary, the way you depict shading as its own art form in a sea of techniques that all revolve around a simple pencil is incredibly satisfying
It’s not just your technique that is exquisite (which it is)... it’s the art which your technique supports. Your eye and your imagination are stunning.
Also, thanks for the deep dive into how you work. I get so much inspiration from seeing how other artists work and, of course, the work they produce.
Hey so I'm currently doing one of your pieces "In my silence" in my gcse exams and it's just been an amazing journey exploring your art as well as a huge challenge and honestly one of the hardest pieces I've draw. I love your work and I can't wait to explore more of your work
Good luck homie
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You're explanation of your shading process is very gratifying for me. I'm definitely not as good as you are, your photo realism is leagues ahead of mine BUT all the techniques are things that I discovered on my own all given all I had was a number 2 pencil ( I still have a few hundred of them). I used cotton swabs for detailed areas. It wasn't until years into my work that someone introduced me to stumps. I used toilet tissue ( fluffy two ply) for the large areas. I used a mortar and pestle to grind my pencils into powder. This whole video just made my day. I thought at the time what I did was out of order and that "real" artist would have a more refined way of doing things... kneaded erasers are literally my fave erasers, they are so versatile. Thanks for the awesome video!
He is saving our lots of money which we would use in some courses . ❤️❤️❤️ Thank you sir
I am absolutely astounded.... My jaw is on the floor. What a remarkable artist you are. It makes me want to cry. I wanted badly to be an artist when I was a kid, won 2 years in a row as best artist in first and second grade out of a school that went up to the 5th grade out of 500 kids in the whole school I was the only sketch artist to win that award. I got no encouragement from my parents my Mom even told me ah why do you want to do that you cant make any money doing that.... The next year in school everyone knew how good I was and at art hour everyone begged me to draw them a pic by the time the hour was up I hadn't even gotten to draw my own picture and that year I failed art the next year they did away with art altogether. I used to take my pencils everywhere I went I could draw on anything napkins in diners anywhere really. I even taught my younger cousin how to draw he went on to be a famous inker at Marvel comics. I look at the magnificent artist you are and all I can do is wonder what I might have been had things went differently for me had I had gotten any kind of encouragement at all. Keep doing what your doing dont let a soul get in your way not ever. May the Good Lord bless your mind heart soul and hands always. Peace to you.
This was very beautiful , I think you should take up art AGAIN,
So sad what you said but it’s never too late, go for it
My art teacher said I was rubbish at school. I thought #### you and went to art school at night. I did home schooling and courses etc. I now have commissions . Get starting again, I make mistakes but I learn from them.
@@trinidiana Thank you for that... I have often thought about that.... but as they say if you dont use it you lose it but in actuality its past that point mainly because I now have medical problems that have halted a lot of my creativity it has affected that part of my brain that pretty much cuts across all of my other creative avenues as well. I'm an artist at heart my love for anything artistic that I later did, writing, photography, ect also was cut short or should I say has been short circuited. Now I make jewelry when the mood moves me it helps ease the pain and helps to make me feel not so bad about what I lost its a way to reach my creative side when I'm able. :)
@@scoobysal That's wonderful good for you. :) I truly do wish I still had those skills but for me there long gone. Now sorry to say I have medical issues that have halted the part of my brain where all of that creativity is housed. I still try every now and then to draw but its not really there anymore and its sad because out of anything I ever really did when it came to the arts that was actually one of the most fluid of my creativity side it was natural for me I could draw what I saw in my head so easy now not really. Now I do jewelry making I'd love to sell it but to this date I've only sold 2 pieces mostly I just give my stuff away makes me feel good to do that. If you go to my channel you'll see some of the videos with my work. :)
It's never too late never stop drawing remember never give up on your passion.
Nice work Mr Dry, you are the master. The face shading at 1:12 and the hand at 3:45 are great examples, many artists find hands a problem and don't put them in. Fab tip about the cotton wool thanks, what cotton wool does for drawing, a sponge does for mortar & gypsum plaster work where a square decorating sponge helps to take out the float lines for a smooth finish. I spent about 20 years doing pencil lines and flipping paper as an assistant-animator in different commercial studios in Germany and the UK doing feature films where I started work on a desk with an angled light-box with a metal peg bar doing inbetweening line work before becoming an assistant animator helping clean up the rough line work of the master animator. They were pretty intense times, 10 to 12 drawings per day on feature films was normal and at least 40 a day on adverts. We were like animation gypsies with many different nationalities and ages in that business
You can never be bored when you create, but you must always have a standby, alternative way to earn money as nothing lasts forever. Once you start wrinkling up and everything goes south nobody wants you. Younger, prettier and faster talent comes along and you are replaced. These days with the w.w.web it's a whole new ball game, I only do friends and family birthday stuff, I quit when everything went digital in about 2002. Live long and prosper, you will go far.
You should make a RUclips channel or a blog and share your stories. It sounds like you've lived a fascinating journey & many people would be interested to hear about it. There are lots of people interested in the golden age of animation
I just wanted to say that I really admire your work. I just see the sun go up and down all the time on your videos and you don't seem to lose focus. Really enjoy your unique drawings.
Revealing your secrets makes your work no less astonishing. Thank you for sharing your valuable techniques!
The moment I saw his Artwork for the first time, he became one of my Favorite and when I found my art style matches with his, Jono became my Favorite Shader & Pencil Artist . Love & Respect !
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I don't understand much about paintings nor technics... but man! I'm absolutely mesmerized watching your video and how you express your art on paper.
Hats off to you Mr Jono!
I just can't imagine how much patience that he has to finish those wonderful art pieces. Amazing is an understatement for these beautiful artworks
Vlr Srv patience is easy to summon as you see your creation come to life.
Dude!!! Your talent is not just a talent its a gift, so please don't stop...
*You inspired me, so please don't stop* ♥️
Amazing information! I did not know that about cotton wool and saving the shavings. I enjoy graphite drawing and have been trying to pay attention to the texture. It really is the way to sculpt. Thank you! I have learned not to listen to all opinions. I also noticed that your beautiful method looks faster than all those pencils. Yes you found your method or style and people like me are paying attention. 🤗
you are a blessing to your mom and father and teacher. thanks for showing your secrets to other artists. i am poor writing, leave drawing. all i can do may be buy your print .
I'd love to see narrated complete/longer tutorials of each various stage being done in real-time. About 20-40min each, Bob Ross style, edited for brevity rather than sped up. 1. Materials prep. 2. Composition & planning. 3. Block in. 4. Backgrounds & rough detail. 5. Blending and final touches! Maybe a few diff't 3/4/5 for different types of subjects/textures. The quick overviews are like a tease! Would like to see you teaching a piece or section & showing process from start to end in real-time!
I'm literally astonished by the art you have created. Stunning.
People like him should get recognized for their godly talents
Thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos and share your experience. Your tips are invaluable 🙏🏻
Fellow south african here man, i love your work
Was wondering if you could do a detail without timelapse?
Jono, I just wanted to say thank you for sharing your work in such an open and honest manner. You're truly an inspiration to me. Graphite has always been my favorite medium, but I've fallen out of practice over the years. Drawing used to be my life, and now I've hardly worked on anything in the last 8 years. Seeing your work and watching your techniques like this genuinely motivate me to create my own work. I've slowly started getting myself back in to it, and you have been a major factor in that. Thank you for sharing your love and determination. You are an inspiration to many.
Thank you for taking the time to share your skills and knowledge.
The fact you share your techniques is beyond appreciated but maann.. I could follow everything you do for 20 years and never achieve 1/4 your awesome ability to create such dynamic art. Beyond love it. Btw... why the hell are you not famous??
i would love to see the art you made 10 years ago! it would be very motivating to see your progression!
Exactly !
Amazing! That’s a very honest and down to earth artistic sharing I’ve seen here in RUclips....keep up the high quality of art works
On art school we never used classic hard rubber to erase we always used this soft one. Your art looks amazing.
You are sooo generous and selfless that you are easily willing to pour your knowledge of shading (that you worked hard to master for years) to us, the viewers. I would like to say, thank God for you.
No one taught me to draw either. I am learning it through experiments. But thank God the most!
God bless!!!!
It’s an honor to get insider advice from someone so advanced- thank you!
fabulous! I am just amazed at how realistic your artwork is...I like the idea of the cotton balls...I hadn't thought of using them before.
Your collection is lovely, your art is inspiring..the way u explain is captivating...in short, keep drawing, keep making videos and keep motivating
I appreciate you sharing your learnings along the way with graphite, my first medium, and still one of my favorites. Ironically, I've come full-circle and feel it may be time to re-visit it. Thank you for the inspiration.
This was the most useful video of yours so far, in my respectful opinion.
@BMO They are not informative lessons, but they are aesthetically pleasing and inspiring. Some might have learned something, such as wetting the paper and using graphite powder. Nevertheless, I hope he keeps going in this direction, I want to learn from him.
@BMO Well perhaps you should get better at drawing by learning through your own means in my respectful opinion. Drawing is not about using one artists way. As a natural artist that didnt learn from anyone I like his videos because he has techniques that I dont typically use, and they produce equal if not better results than my own. I'm not watching to copy his every method which I assume is your mission in watching his videos but to take a little bit of his knowledge and adding it to what I've taught my own self over the years in order to produce my own art and not a style that has been copied.
Edit: Also he's not here to teach everyone art alone he is advertising his work so that many will enjoy which I for one do enjoy watching. I don't know why you're complaining about him not teaching his every technique because every artist has certain things they wont tell so people don't to copy everything they do. It's like a cooking recipe from a famous restaurant. Pretty ridiculous for you to expect him to just give you everything you want to learn. Like any real artist will tell you PRACTICE AND LEARN you'll figure out ways that suit you best.
BMO That’s slightly disrespectful.
I love your art work, and I am trying to make drawings a little bit like yours. UnfortunatelyI don't have the patience and fantasy. Don't mind, I enjoy your work and explanation. Please don't stop, make every day a happy day. I am 70 years old and I like to paint, big paintings.
Wow his eyes and brains should work like a camera !! I love how lovely he talks about his work process !
These are really great tips, I haven't done a drawing in years. I'm excited to get back into it. I love the tips. Very inspirational and beautiful work.
Quite interesting to see how other artists do their craft!!! I definitely got some tips I'm gonna try out!!
I am just constantly amazed at your extraordinary talents in creating even the most minuscule details into a whole new arena waiting to be explored; the pores in the skins, the tiny wrinkles, the fingerprints, i love it all man
Will you detail a small part without timelapse. Please 🙂❤......if possible....thank you
The most useful video on this topic, very simple but full of mastery.
Thank you very much for this class.
this guy aint an ordinary human, this art unbelievable, believe me !!
Amazing, incredible. So awesome that you are willing to share. Thank you so very much. I have been drawing for decades and had stayed in the middle to light zone of the value range. HBish. What you shared was incredible. It’s not thatI did not want to go there but Idid not know how to get there. It seemed impossible to go there without getting a smudge almost oily mess. Your open sharing of your findings have been totally inspiring. Thank you so very much.
well we can proudly say that our generation is also gifted with great ARTISTS.
A huge thank you for sharing this. I was planning to move from charcoal to graphite as I got gifted a set of graphite from a friend. Thanks a lot Jono!
I have a sidequestion: How do you do these GIANT black backgrounds? is it somehow a giant brush and ink or airbrush or do you actually fill in like a whole squaremeter with pencil of black?
Davd Kiesewalter he did a video on this already
Hi David, this video may be helpful ruclips.net/video/TB4vhWSy_sA/видео.html
Very helpful thanks for all you contribute! You are so inspiring for me! Thanks again!
Thank you so much for making this vid. It is really helpful, and I'll definitely use these techniques in future art.
Took me right back to my art class over 40 years ago and remembered working with all the tools (except the wool, although I do remember using old cotton t-shirts). The real gift of drawing never came natural to me. Your hours of dedication to master your craft shows in your magnificent results.
I’ve often wondered , what would an Egyptian or Mayan artist think of this technique and it’s amazing results. Would it be a “ I never thought of that” moment?
such an honest video thank you for making this i will def be watching more of your videos. i feel like art school is suffocating me with loads of information that i forget to just go with what workd for me. kinda lose sight of what you want if you let the world distract you with what they want.
not in any way to disrespect my teachers, thers just SO MUCH KNOWLEDGE and its midterm so i start feeling like im chasing something when its like, why am i rushing??
Am I the only artist that gets heebie geebies from using a blending stump or cotton to blend on paper?
Unohoo, ha, no...for some reason, it makes my teeth hurt. Kinda like biting down on a napkin. I know that sounds weird, but it’s difficult to describe.
I've always had issues using that method as well, there's something about it that just really irritates my entire being
Yes! I have a few sensory issues like that lol
Sip a Warm Drink.. It helps!!
@@cmarkme Really? I'll have to try that.
Very helpful in gaining more understanding without having to find out by trial and error always. Thank you.
jono after only 10 years: master at drawing
me after 24 years: still broke, not professional artist yet lol
back to the drawing board for me XD
I get the joke but on a more serious note, you shall not become a professional artist if you don’t put time and effort into studying and practicing with art.
This is honestly one of the best art channels I've seen and has inspired me beyond belief to carry on learning, developing and creating. Thank you for all your videos and everything your teaching us Jono! Please keep it up with more tutorials!
Beginners tips? Im a 16 year old doing my grade 11 art and want to pursue pencil drawing
Shading is a lot about how to give value and depth to something so I suggest studying light and value. There's a lot of eye trickery that happens that many are not aware of as well and being able to understand and use that will help you go far in creating graphite drawings. It will take practice, but try to separate what the brain is trying to tell you see and what you actually see. You need to turn off the tricky side of your brain to be able to draw what you actually see. You don't even have to draw to practice this, although that would be ideal, you can study things just by looking too...you just want to train your eye to see what you need it to see so you can draw that. Look at b&w pictures and study them. Look for shapes and how the image gets it's depth. Where are the shadows, where are the hard lines, if any (photos most the time do not have lots of hard lines so in most cases you will not leave any hard lines in your drawings). Pay close attention to transitions between dark and light. Look for ALL the details and try to get as much of that into your drawings as possible. See how many shades you can pick out in a b&w picture and try to guess what pencil hardness it is. Play with photo manipulation tools and turn color photos into b&w and study how color changes into value. All these things if done mindfully with purpose will help you start to train your eye and tune out the tricky side of your brain which is essential in creating anything realistic. Most people can control the pressure of a pencil and shade out a good gradient with just a bit of practice but I feel the true difficulty of drawing is capturing the textures, the lighting and the depth and this takes some focused study so in addition to physically practicing. Practice everywhere in your mind...look at everything with artist eyes and do not give up!
Draw all the time. Every day if possible. Copy things you like, so draw your cat if you have one, draw your X-Box if you have one, whatever you love drawing, draw it. Copy from magazine photos, copy other artists' pictures, download photos of your favourite singers or movie stars, draw those. Put a glass of water on a white background and draw that. Just copy things a lot to begin with. My examples are just examples, pick your own things to draw but make sure there is variety in what you draw. Most great original artists learn the basic technique by copying over and over and over, from life as well as from pictures of various kinds.
Eventually you will move on and won't need to copy, but it really is the best way to develop some technical skill. Oh, and accept that if you want to draw really well, you have to be willing to draw badly first. Just keep doing your best and your best will get better. An art teacher told me to keep my pictures and date them, that way I can occasionally look back and see my progress. It really did help to look at two of my drawings with dates on them just a few months apart and clearly see the improvement.
As soon as you are old enough try life drawing classes to see if that helps you. How old you have to be varies depending upon where in the world you live, but try it as soon as you can.
Also don't just listen to tips and advice from one person, look for tips and advice from lots of people. Some of my advice will may not suit you, so listen to others too. You will often feel within which advice is for you, and if you have no idea if something will help you can always try it for a while and see which advice works for you and which doesn't.
I have been watching your videos for a while now , and I must say that you are an incredible artist ❤️, your artwork is one of the best I have ever seen, keep up good work.
Plus I am trying to really work hard and get better at drawing , and you are my top inspiration.
5:44 when he said "back to lifting work out with erasers" sounded like he was doing an exercise video for artists lol
Jono, I’m new to your channel. Your hints & advice are stellar. When I was school I was taught how to render shadows & light. It’s produced lovely work, but took forever to get the same shading you produce. Your method makes my wrist say THANK YOU.
Awesome! So glad it's been helpful to you :)
One more crucial tip:
Make sure your name is jono dry
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Speechless.. His work speak for is self..young master..It a honour to watch your video..and a blessing that you share wat you have discover and your own..I love your focus and your dedication.. Visionary artist johnnoy smith.
hey! im a 16 year old artist and i really want to know how focused you can be while working in a piece, without any distractions. i really cant work on my art without any movie or youtube running in the background. nowadays im trying to limit myself with music or podcasts. i really want to understand how being constantly distracted by movies or youtube affects my art. btw i love your art, your take on surrealism is simply......surreal :"))
self discipline... Traditional art especialy at the high end requaiers a lot of it and absurd amounts of mental fortitude...
@@Asmitha90 i am working on that, just to settle my thoughts and focusing on my art is harder than i imagined it to be.
@@jiteshtk130 he has a video specifically about focus. ruclips.net/video/QScMGBZUgrM/видео.html
Do as HiNi suggested. Watch Jono's video on focus. I think he has the most wonderful advice ever.
@@jiteshtk130 there isnt any magical way dont be naive it may turn out that this isnt for you...
You are such a talented artist! And all your pencils look so cool!!!! I wish I can see all your drawing tool
Do u teach your skills at a college lvl. You'd be a great teacher.
Very nice! Mate, you should try a "makeup sponge" which is a rubber foam blending tool. I originally was given one by an art professor but many are sold in drugstores & Amazon. You can get any size & shape, a flat triangle, a pyramid, a round ball attached to the end of a wooden rod/ brush type tool, etc. It can lift, blend, push graphite, & even make soft lines. My favorite is a "smudger sponge" that came on the end of an eye liner pencil. It's great for softly sketching/ placing the first layer of graphite, bc it gives you the option to gently apply graphite powder without pushing it into the grain of the paper. Some brushes can also work well for graphite if they're sufficiently dense. Water soluble graphite can give u darker values too if you want
My schools talented art teacher hates blenders 😢
TBH I'm glad I took so long to discover blenders. You can really use them as a crutch to cover up poorly thought out pencil work (as well as gratuitously blurring stuff that should not be blurred). Working without them forces you to develop your draftsmanship to a much higher level. Same for erasers.
I agree with D Gowers' comment. Jono Dry also said in the beginning of the video it.is important to focus on your quality (and variety) of mark making first before you venture into using blenders & cotton & erasers. I know it might feel frustrating, but maybe your teacher is trying to assist you to develop a strong mark making foundation first? That being said, nothing hinders you from exploring with blendera and erasers on your personal work. ♡
Art Germinate thank u peoples
Thank you, so much!
I love this video!
I'm very much looking forward
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Awesome tip......I use cotton wool as well to achieve soft tones with my drawings
I found your video very helpful, especially about getting the dark shades. I tried the technique with the 9B block but it wasn't as saturated as yours. But, if I understood you correctly, it's important to keep layering. I haven't done that enough it seems. Thank you for this video!
Love listening to you explain your way of working. Thank you for your time.
Thank you for passion and courage for art I'm inspired by your works and everytime I watch your videos.... Your artworks always had to say something in my mind that I need to pursue art....thank you for making me feel this way I will support you from this day and on 😊
Hi Jono, My 13 year old granddaughter is already a talented user of shade. I have come across this video completely accidentally, but I feel that with your help, through this channel, she can reach even greater heights. On her behalf I'd like to say a big thank you to you for sharing your techniques.
Please let your granddaughter know I wish her all the best!
You're really an amazing artist and I'm learning alot from you.Im a young artist and trying as much as I can to learn from the internet since my parents dont have time to take me to art class but I think learning from you is better.
I absolutely love your artwork. You are extremely talented. I too decided to pick up a pencil and begin to draw. This happened after my daughter died during birth. Since then I have been drawing on and off for the last 12 years and have always wanted to get my drawings to look the way yours do. And this video truly help me understand the concept of shading. I think believe that shading is what I struggle with the most and sometimes I’m afraid to put too much graphite onto paper because I have not been able to blend the graphite well. I came across your video looking for techniques and tools that other artists use for their graphite drawings. And I am glad to say that your video truly help me find what I was looking for. Thanks!
I'm so happy to hear it was helpful, Jenyfer! Thanks for watching 🙂
Thank you for sharing. Your teaching is brilliant and in-depth, extremely generous . Cheers from Australia
The detail of your drawings are very good, you are talented.
The self discipline and patience you’ve mastered over the years is very inspiring. Thank you for sharing such in depth knowledge of your experience 👌✌🏼
Learning your way is the best way...unadulterated...pure and direct...
I learned renaissance drawing in art school late 70s...
I am 60 now...your work is excellent...never stop learning
Woooooow sooooo extraordinary honestly never seen anything this this... EXTRAORDINARY
I have drawn for many years too, but never thought of using cotton. Your videos has sparked a whole new line of drawing for me, and it is so exciting to feel a renewed love for the medium. Also your advice on sometimes drawing details first and then block in shades afterwards is very interesting. I am going to try that out.
Great video. I like to listen to fellow artist discuss technique and method. Since college I hate to listen to or discuss concept. The joy of art for me is making it.
Thank you for sharing. I've started working with charcoal but have been thinking about adding graphite for finer detail work. It's hard though because I work on canvas. You have a few tips that I haven't employed so I'll give them a shot. Beautiful work!
From Argentina, thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience. I do portraits, and because of your lessons, I've improved very much, and still learning from you 👏👏👏👏👏👏
This video was chucked full of things that I feel I can add to my routine. With these tricks and things you say I never thought about will help me alot with problms I've ran into many times while drawing
Your art is outstanding, a tremendous skill, congratulations on your very special gift.
Hi Jono, you have inspired me to pick up a pencil again, after 45 years (I'm 63). Your clips are very innovative and have allowed me to experiment again confidently. Thank you 😊
La primera vez que te vi me fascinaron tus dibujos, desde entonces la campanita me notifica cuando estás ahí. Gracias, me encantan 😍
Absolutely beautiful work. Total admiration for your level of intricacy and detail . Thank you for this video . It was very thorough and well thought out. Love it!
No one taught you how to draw? I'm almost as astonished by that statement as I am by your work. You are a profoundly talented and gifted artist. I am incredibly impressed.
Wow, thank you so much Jono for all the wonderful tips on this video. I'm just starting out with graphite drawing and love it. So I will be watching more of your videos.
Thank you Jono for sharing your experience! You are right it is all about practicing and dedication. And one should always control what he do in order to achieve the desired results.
I love your art and you're a huge inspiration. You deserve a lot more attention ❤️
Goodness no! You're working magic with that graphite my dude!😍 Your work fascinates and inspires me to create again!
Thank you so much 😀
I'm really encouraged to learn pencil shading by your works .. really mesmerized 💓thanks a lot for sharing
You are an inspiration to many people.An amazing artist who works from heart. Continue to inspire us.
Thanks. I'm heavy handed and focusing on using softer graphite sounds like a great idea, if unorthodox.
You are the best graphite artist I have ever seen. I love watching your videos.
First off. Those are incredible works of art you have shown. Also thank you for your courage to share your work and style of achieving the pictures you do. As any artest knows, we leave our soul in our work. So, our work an be very personal to us.
Now. I,was taught in a simular way. Shadding and learning how to controle our graphite pencil was our foundation to all our work. We were taught our controle of the pencil was our bread and water. It was a sign of how talented an artest is, based on how well they could controle their art pencil.
That being said, we did also use the kneaded eraser. And, we used it to pick up some of the darkness of our shading to lighten it up. Basically those two were our tools.
It was nice of you to share some of the evolurion and other tools you use:
Using different hardness of pencils. It seemed you also used different graphite pencils which had different size points in them.There there is the use of a stencil. That was something we almost only used when doing airbrushing only art. It was neat to see your use. It was also interisting to see hou powder some graphite and its uses. The cotton you use, we were talk to think of it as smuggling. We were also taught not to do that with out teacher, but also taught there are teachers who do use that method and teaches it. You did mention the controle of using the cotton is more general instead of fine details. Maybe if you use q-tips. That should allow you a more finer usage of cotton for smuggling. Then on top of that with the q-tips you can play with how much of a point you can make on them for usage. Or, through the use of cottonballs, much like when making cotton candy, you see how the stick is swirled around to make the cotton portion thicker and thicker. Thus this should give you more usage and variations of your smuggling. I know also many people will also simply use their own fingers to smudge.
I think you also said you used ink within your drawings? If so, one of the types of drawings we did were using a paint brush and ink well. Basically like a painting to control the brush and how it would apply the ink. We also utilized what we were taught with water coloring to create different shading with the ink. And, many times with both water color, and using ink for a black and white image, to create harsher division to how far the ink may bleed and fade, we would flip the brush to use the tip without the brush to basically create a groove in the paper. This would create a border to stop how far the ink may bleed. In a way like a stencil. Though some people could also use an air brush on this way, since you said you also use ink. And, Is one medium used in airbrush. Mainly again for only black and white pictures, and a method of shading.
Then u have also seen people whensharing, just like a dark graphite pencil to controle lights to darks within shading, i have also seen people who would use white pencil or even a white acrylic pencil to controle shading from the opposite perspective. Many ways i have seen this method create very dramatic whites, and dramatic shading contrasts. Something for you to think about?
I was also taught that again some teachers do and teach these methods a well. Where they may take a photo and put it into a slide so they can project the image overpaper, on a wall. We were not told it was wrong and some people use this method. Though from our teachers point of view, we were not allowed to do this in class, and was thought of as a form of cheating. That being said there are somexpeoolexehos arceus thought to be very good, and some well recognized artest who could ask a large price for their work using this method in many/mut8ways. Some arrest would use that projection to trace their pictures, and even map out all the different ways and areas of shading differences. Others would create a grid, much like with quad planning pad. I think some may also refer to that grid on paper as construction paper. And, maybe even architecture papern well people would use a grid so to outline make different points of shading or whatever they wanted to help them doing their art.
U though I would share some of the different aspects I had been taught that other artist use within their art/drawings thatcmay be of some interist to you. You may,find some aspect or variation of what I shared to be of interist.
I will also ass, that I had heard of a great renaissance artist, I think Leonardo De Vinci's had done in his e ploration of the play and understanding of shadows. He would use a backdrop. I believe only a sheat or white blanket, with a candle for light. He would then draw what he saw, and all the shadings from the candle light. He may have used other objects in the backdrop, though it may have just been the sheat. I think it may have been shared a small portion of the backdrop may have been drawn, though you can choose to use a larger section to draw as well. I am thinking for short and quick drawings and experaments of the play of light in darkness, most likely he would focus on small sections.
Now by itself, that may sound like the norm for many peoples art background. And, is a normal practice. Though De Vinci used small sections, he could fairly do in a short and quick amount of time.
Once done,da Vinci would keep moving the candel light from place to place to draw the same spot over and over. I am thinking how the change of placement of the light also plays on the visual effect of the same subject. Potentially he may have played with the light coming from dufferent viewpoins such as bird, elet level, and worm eye view. I would even add plaing with the light closer and further away could be another potential difference, and for what we did with my teacher was to also practice 4th dimensional viewpoints that some artest are well known for. This being to draw the subject or backdrop from mutable perspectives while also drawing on top of the precious drawing. By doing so we are also adding the element of time with our picture and how the view point changes from one point of time to the next view point we drew m some times not just two perspectives, but also 3 and 4 different perspectives in the same drawing overplayed over its precious drawing of the same spot.
Hopefully I gave you some food of thought. And, like hou shared with us you experance and sequence of things you had learned, I tried to share back as a way to thank you. And, like you I may also add to what you had shared to people here to add to a pool of knowledge and experance.
Thank you.
This is the 1st video of yours I have ever seen, just yest... Amazing!!!
It freed me from a restricted worldview of drawing to a more unlimited extent and understanding. It gave me huge breakthroughs in my current charcoal attempts and taught me unconventional skills that made me feel like I went from crawling to flying. Thank you!