A Few Tips For Drawing - An Ink And Watercolour Demo
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- I am currently staying in my parents' house helping my father out while my mother is away on a well-deserved plein air jaunt in Connemara. But despite my days being a bit distracted, I still love to get a few sketches in. If you read my blog this week, you've seen my sketch of Bray Seafront, and next week's blog will have a sketch of my dear father, a lovely thing to do when things are quiet. This morning I felt like sketching something - anything would do, nearly - and I remembered I love sketching tubes of watercolour paint. I always have them nearby and if I don't (like this week) then my mother does.
I have explained my technique for drawing accurately many times, but I am still not sure if I have done a good job of it. You kind of have to practice it to get it to work really well for you. So might I be so bold to suggest that you take a few tubes of watercolour, throw them on the table surface and sketch them? Yes, I am assuming you have a few!
(It goes without saying that any small objects will do, that are similar to each other...I just like watercolour paint tubes because they are very dinky!)
Do comment if you aren't clear and I iwll do my best to explain it. It is the reason why I can draw ANYTHING accurately. Worth the time and trouble of learning it. I promise!
I hope you enjoy the video,
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Róisín
I don’t know how you managed to write so well upside down! Amazing.
Thank you Catherine!
agreed 🙌🏽
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Everything made sense to me. It is an interesting sketch in that you included the information about the tubes of paint. I like your choice of colors.
Thank you JoAnne, I thought they’d look lovely together 🤩
LOVE THIS!!
I’m delighted to hear that!
This was wonderful, Róisín! What a great way to start (or end) a sketchbook. I loved how you included the colour information and the swatches. And I agree with the other viewers, who can write upside down so superbly? You’re amazing!! Thank you for this inspiring video ❤️
PS Speaking of paint… Anyone wondering about ordering Róisín’s Roman Szmal palette? Go for it! It is just the perfect combination of colours and wonderful paints 🤗
Ah thanks DeeDee! I agree about the paints - I love my Roman Szmal, they’re neither better nor worse than Schmincke but Roman has always been just delightful to work with 😍
So enjoyable watching you sketch even the simplest of subjects! You are very inspirational, thank you! 😊
Thanks for saying so. I have just stopped teaching live classes online and I am going full-time into RUclips, so it means a lot to hear that.
This is fascinating, what a good demo☺☺
Thank you!
You’re amazing!! Writing the lettering upside down ~ who can do that?? Very nice!
That’s funny, I didn’t think of it that way! And thank you!
You can do it too. Instead of looking at the upside down letters as letters, look at the letters as shapes, and then it's relatively easy to do.
@jrsinsf good advice - and it applies to drawing anything
Wonderful way to complete your sketchbook. Sketchbook tour, sketchbook tour 😊
On the way!!! Looking forward to it, lots of garrulous chat as usual 😂
thank you for the video! We were just in Connemara a few weeks ago. Loved our hike up Diamond Hill and loved the gorgeous yellow of the gorse.
Sounds heavenly!
Great video, thanks. Love your style, something I aspire to but will never be so neat.😆
You don’t have to be neat! I know it’s easy to say, but you just have to draw the way that comes naturally to you ❤️
5:25 Róisín! What a horrible mistake that was, I've almost unsubscribed. No - nonsense! In fact I love it that your drawings don't look like photographs, love your style❣😊
Thank you! Whew, I dodged a bullet there!! 😂
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Did you use the actual paint colours on the outside of the tubes? Or just put on colours from your palette? Doesn't matter but just curious as you had the tubes open to put on the swatches.
Good question! I had to carefully take each tube and take a blob of paint, then put it back…and one was rogue Daniel Smith (I faked the label from another one!) because I thought it would be disharmonious to have a different brand there!
I just bought my first Fude pen and I can't get it to make marks when I hold it tip-down like your fine lines. It scratches the paper. Do I just need to break it in more so it becomes flexible?
What brand did you buy?
You might need a different paper. What paper are you using?
@@roisincure I’m using the Sailor Fude (green barrel) and a Hannemule paper. Honestly every paper, even the back of an envelope, sounds like this. The nib scrapes the paper and no ink comes out unless I hold it “properly” and not pointy-tip down. I may have to watch your hands more closely. Maybe I’m overestimating the amount of upside down you’ve turned your nib.
@@elaynegiahoover436 use smooth paper (like the ones I used). Use the right inks (like the ones I recommend). If that isn’t working then your pen is blocked (if it’s not new). If it is new, then you have a faulty pen. Sometimes mine don’t work on the reverse but that’s invariably because they need cleaning. Then they work. Go to gouletpens for info on cleaning, I’m not exactly expert myself but it’s easy.
@@elaynegiahoover436 an envelope won’t work unless it’s the smoothest type 🤩
Are you writing words upside down?
Looks like it! 🤩😂
@@roisincure wow!! I was so amazed to watch you do that!! Mindblowing how accurately you do it.
@Artinthecountryside really? I suppose I’m used to drawing shapes without questioning what they actually are…that’s the key to drawing well.
@@roisincure yes, I do believe it's the key. But our mind jumps right onto labelling.
@Artinthecountryside once you start “arting” as opposed to “labelling” (nice description) you lose the sense of it being a word, and you spell it wrong. Even though I warn my students that this will happen, they still do it, and what’s worse, so do I. I tell them (and me) to spell it in one’s head as it’s “written” out.