Let me know which of these tips you liked the best! If you liked this video try How to Draw a Face for Beginners (7 EASY Hacks!) ruclips.net/video/cbV6TEc_Fjc/видео.html next.
This was so helpful; perspective **is** **the** **one** **thing** that I couldn't figure out, then in 2013 I was majorly injured; but I'm back now and thank you so greatly 😊 Michele! And keeping still was the best tip, for me 👌
Thank you so much for doing these videos. They are each a real treasure for a beginner like myself. The tip in this video that I found to be the very best was how to scale a photo to your drawing or painting. I have a lot of photos from travels of the past and now will be able to use them for watercolors. I am an absolute beginner, have been in isolation for almost 20 months, and will now be able to work on a wide variety of subjects rather than just household subjects. Thanks again for your hard work and great kindness in sharing your knowledge.
@@1msfit I've just found this channel and am feeling the same way as you did at the time of this comment. Well, other than not being at month 20 of total isolation. It's great you've found a way to be constructive in a difficult time, and I hope your art journey has continued forward.
You are one of the strongest resource I’ve seen, your experience as an instructor comes out in all your breakdown.your awesome, listening to you is motivating, clearly helps a beginner like myself, thank you for your work, looking forward to your next one. I’ll keep watching older one’s also to learn more, love what your doing!! John from Indiana
The most useful for me right now has been the tip about using a right angle to draw an horizon line and making a dotted line. I have tried it and it has improved my horizons greatly. Thanks, Michelle.
Completely off topic, but hubby and I are working our way through a series of Aerial America, we watched 'Oregon' a couple of nights ago; fabulous scenery! I am just in awe of the sheer size of your state, never mind the whole country!
learned more about perspective in this video than I ever learned in school art classes. Michele has a simple way of explaining everything, so the information isn't overwhelming and seems almost easy. Keep those videos coming - you are a wonderful teacher. I'll watch this one again to reinforce things I've learned. Next the building perspective video!
❤Please do a video on simplifying details in busy scenes - like forest scenes with lots of bushes, leaves, ground cover. Finding shapes-How much detail to include and different ways to suggest detail without drawing every leaf or grass blade. Your videos are wonderful. Thank-you so much for doing them.
I’ve followed a couple of teachers online who have used reference photos with rivers in them. They haven’t explained how to get the perspective right however, so after watching your video I’m now re-doing these paintings. Thank you so much - this was impossible to master through ‘intuition’.
Thank you for a very thorough and informative video. Perhaps the most, I enjoyed the grasses and fence posts illustrations. I have been guilty many times of drawing grasses the same height! Thanks again.
Wonderful Michele, the number of times I’ve made nearly all of the mistakes is untrue but the one I repeat so most often is getting the horizon level and yes I resorted to using a ruler and was still unhappy and now I understand why. Thank you
All of your tips were great tips. I'm a beginner, and if I'd had seen your lessons sooner, I would have understood why my paintings didn't look right. Thanks for your time.
It's funny that you mention "traveling into the painting". I've done that all my life, wherever I see a beautiful painting, I've "traveled into that painting" It is such a wonderful thing to do. Please don't think I'm mad!
I took couple of nice landscape pictures during last summer and now it feels like it’s about a time go give them a painting try! 😍 Thank you very much Michele for yet another superb video 😍
An excellent video with such useful tips for drawing landscapes. Hard to choose the best ones, but probably they were drawing the horizon line and perspective - fenceposts and drawing things so they don't appear to stand up. Thanks very much!
This was what i was looking for....practical perspective tips. Thank you. Really looking for your perspective tips for urban landscapes. Can't wait for that one. Thank you. Love your videos.
Greatly appreciated your video and enjoyed this as always throughout it's showing many things to achieve amazing details in your paintings and sketches, greatly appreciated Michele for you sharing your talent and calmly explained to inspire others to have ago. Thanks greatly stay safe and healthy
Hi Roy, I have online courses including a beginners watercolour course, you will find them on my website. I am not teaching any 'real life' classes until at least summer of 2021 due to Covid.
My biggest take-away was the notion of composition, balance and perspective. I now realize that doesn't just happen and that with a little thought and advanced planning, I can improve the composition and balance of my drawings. I was also particularly impressed with the placement of horizons and how important that is in the placement and composition of my drawing. I gotta go try this out! Thanks so much Michele!
Thanks Michele. All very useful. I will never remember them all so for right now I'll just pick a couple. I always forget the fence posts get closer together as they go off in the distance. Somehow my brain flips that one. And now I feel better about water on the horizon. 👍💜
This was a clear and simple way to help self learning beginners. I struggle with the relaxed artistist side of my brain and think very technically so starting with a technical method of sketching allows me to paint more loosely. Thank you!
Thanks for posting these there are some very useful tips. I have always wanted to improve my free hand drawing skills and coming from an engineering back ground I’ve struggled with loosening up and suggested details.. if you get what I mean. Some help with using forms and shades to trick the mind into seeing detail such as slates on a roof or stones / bricks in a wall would be great. Windows and doors seen in perspective are also a problem I struggle with. I like your presenting style, it is very clear and easy to understand Best Regards
I liked all of the tips, & am looking forward to your tips on aerial perspective and 3 & 4 point perspective if you do them. I used to draw and paint, but life got in the way for 4 decades. Your drawing videos are refreshing, and reminding my poor, old, tired brain of the 'stuff' it used to know. Love your work and love your tutorials, Michele. PS I wonder if you know anything about ergonomics for artists? Thanks.
Ergonomics, that's an idea. I have a lot to do with exercises actually, due to many years tai chi, yoga and martial arts training. Good idea for a video.
I would be very interested in that too! I suffer with chronic back pain, and have a bulging disc in my neck... I won't let them stop me painting again though!
the stream going uphill is my issue and you have really helped me. I need the trees on the horizon line is my issue on my prespective on my trees in distance and the one close to bottom of painting. I am really not understanding how to make the deer and tree in the foreground the height of those trees on the edge of the horizon line. I haven't painted in 50 years and only had lessons in 1976 so you may have a hint trying to pick up my hobby now is really difficult to get watching you tube. lol Thank you
I really enjoy your videos, simple and to the point with a demonstration. I am a self taught, you tube taught painter, mostly acrylic and do a mix of buildings and landscape in a different perspective from the photographs I look at to get personal details of the houses. Thank you. Gotta new sub in me 😀
Michele, have you tried proportional dividers? Very handy after a bit of practice. On picture 1, you could have added more sky and changed the proportions to fit the paper; I've seen you paint much prettier skys than the boring grey in the picture. Have you ever put the horizon dead square in the middle and gotten away with it?
Proportional dividers are good, but teaching classes has shown me that most students use them incorrectly, or let the screw loosen. All perspective rules can be broken if you know how...
I really enjoy your skeleton drawings & reminders of how to use perspectives! Often I hear you say you’ve not got a maths brain isn’t geometry a section of maths? the houses, fences & walls you draw are all geometric or am I mistaken? I’m sure you’re better than you think, don’t put yourself down! Thanks for all your useful tips!
Hello, I enjoy all of your videos. I am looking forward to trying all of these tips. However, the finding an angle tip confuses me. I understand how you find the angle in the photo but I don't understand how you can transfer that angle to the painting.
There are two ways, you either position the photo above or below and just extend the line out,not more easy, just keep your hand/pencil at a fixed angle and slide it sideways. It's not precise of course but will be fairly close.
I think so, I don't like my students working from ipads and phones, reflections, screensavers they are a bit of a nuisance, I would always advise printing.
Most of my photos that I choose to draw out of is on my phone. I do not have a printer and so how would I calculate the right proportion on my paper from looking a the picture digitally?
It's quite difficult. Proportions never change, ie if something is a third of the way up (like the horizon) it will be a third of the way up on your paper. But exact sizing is pretty much impossible.
Concerning perspective: man, am I lucky. My husband worked at an engineering firm as a draftsman, so after I've done the basics, (I can't draw for the life of me, but I can paint the few lines I did draw into a realistic painting) I take it to my husband to look at the perspective of my buildings. I do not always follow it to the letter - it is a painting after all.
If you're working from a photo, it's always best to have a physical copy, rather than on your tablet. I've taught people who have tried to work from a tablet or a phone before and they spend a lot of time just keeping the screen alive.
No 4 point 2 point 6 points here im already confused lol Thank you so much for making the videos you do here ! This 70 year old grandma can follow you just fine !
I love your tutorials and learn so much. I find it hard to see your pencil lines. If for the sake of the tutorials you could use a darker thicker line, I would not need to strain so much to see it. Thank you.
I do actually use a line that's much darker than usual, it's still hard for the camera to pick it up. In some videos I have resorted to using a ball point pen!
Let me know which of these tips you liked the best! If you liked this video try How to Draw a Face for Beginners (7 EASY Hacks!) ruclips.net/video/cbV6TEc_Fjc/видео.html next.
This was so helpful; perspective **is** **the** **one** **thing** that I couldn't figure out, then in 2013 I was majorly injured; but I'm back now and thank you so greatly 😊 Michele!
And keeping still was the best tip, for me 👌
@@sojournerkarunatruth4406 thanks so much glad you found it helpful 🙂
Thank you so much for doing these videos. They are each a real treasure for a beginner like myself. The tip in this video that I found to be the very best was how to scale a photo to your drawing or painting. I have a lot of photos from travels of the past and now will be able to use them for watercolors. I am an absolute beginner, have been in isolation for almost 20 months, and will now be able to work on a wide variety of subjects rather than just household subjects. Thanks again for your hard work and great kindness in sharing your knowledge.
@@1msfit no problem at all! Good luck with your work 🙂
@@1msfit I've just found this channel and am feeling the same way as you did at the time of this comment. Well, other than not being at month 20 of total isolation. It's great you've found a way to be constructive in a difficult time, and I hope your art journey has continued forward.
As usual I am rewatching some of your videos. Here is a tribute for the algorithm. 😊
You are one of the strongest resource I’ve seen, your experience as an instructor comes out in all your breakdown.your awesome, listening to you is motivating, clearly helps a beginner like myself, thank you for your work, looking forward to your next one. I’ll keep watching older one’s also to learn more, love what your doing!! John from Indiana
Hello John, glad you are enjoying the videos!
The most useful for me right now has been the tip about using a right angle to draw an horizon line and making a dotted line. I have tried it and it has improved my horizons greatly. Thanks, Michelle.
Best tips on RUclips presented perfectly. No more flat rivers for me.
Love the tips of high horizon heightens the view and increases the forefront whereas the lower horizon increases the backview.
The beginning technique was a new one! Thank you!
You're so welcome!
Making thinks look flat is one of my current challenges. Merci, Michele! :)
You're welcome!
I have no problem making things look flat. I do have issues making them look multidimensional and not flat
Thank you for all the tips Michele, now I feel more confident at attempting a painting of our beautiful church 😊
Amazing tips may God bless you 😊
Glad you like them!
Thank you for these tips. I will use all of these in my next landscape.
Wonderful!
All of them. I love drawing most of all and perspectives are tricky and this was so good for me.
Fantastic!
So happy that you passed the 30K subscription mark! Be well.
Thank you very much!
I live in Norfolk so the skies are always BIG! But always beautiful.
Hello from Oregon! Thanks for showing each tip and explaining why. So many perspectives, so little time. 😁🦜
Thanks for watching Valerie!
Completely off topic, but hubby and I are working our way through a series of Aerial America, we watched 'Oregon' a couple of nights ago; fabulous scenery! I am just in awe of the sheer size of your state, never mind the whole country!
All of the perspective were helpful, but the one about making things look flat was the BEST! Thanks for making this easy.
Glad it was helpful!
Much congratulations for 30 K!!! 🏆🎉🥰
Thank you so much 😀 Really happy!
Thankyou for this Michele. All of my paths and rivers stand up on the page. Hopefully i can now lay then flat
Thank you so much. I really appreciate the use of angles.
Glad it was helpful!
learned more about perspective in this video than I ever learned in school art classes. Michele has a simple way of explaining everything, so the information isn't overwhelming and seems almost easy. Keep those videos coming - you are a wonderful teacher. I'll watch this one again to reinforce things I've learned. Next the building perspective video!
Thank you!
Thank you, really enjoyed the headshot tips, and centerlines!!!
New to your videos but already impressed. Favorite on this one was the bonus.
I found your tip about not moving your head angle looking at the object very useful
Excellent!
Love the way you draw
❤Please do a video on simplifying details in busy scenes - like forest scenes with lots of bushes, leaves, ground cover. Finding shapes-How much detail to include and different ways to suggest detail without drawing every leaf or grass blade. Your videos are wonderful. Thank-you so much for doing them.
Noted!
I’ve followed a couple of teachers online who have used reference photos with rivers in them. They haven’t explained how to get the perspective right however, so after watching your video I’m now re-doing these paintings. Thank you so much - this was impossible to master through ‘intuition’.
When I started teaching, I vowed to give solutions and techniques, so I am glad this helped!
Thank you for sharing. Exceptional info. Very useful
Glad you enjoyed it!
How did I miss this gem??? Thank you so much!
Dear Michelle. Thank you so much for your valuable help. I have learnt so much from you. Sonja, Namibia.
You are so welcome!
I’ve learned so much from this video. Thank you very much.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for a very thorough and informative video. Perhaps the most, I enjoyed the grasses and fence posts illustrations. I have been guilty many times of drawing grasses the same height! Thanks again.
You're very welcome!
the ruler rule was excellent
This was soooooo helpful!!! Thank you
You're so welcome!
I love your pace and factual approach. Thank you so much.
You are so welcome!
Thank you Michele for helping me! 🥰🖼️🎨
thank you for making painting possible with precise and useful tools. You are the best instructor I've come across on youtube
This is an excellent demo on drawing in perspective. I'm watching for how to draw an RV in a landscape. Thanks.
A wealth of information here to keep as a reference! Thank you 😊
Glad it was helpful!
Really enjoying your tips and tricks over here in Boston, Massachusetts! So happy to have found you Michele!
Awesome! Thank you!
Wonderful Michele, the number of times I’ve made nearly all of the mistakes is untrue but the one I repeat so
most often is getting the horizon level and yes I resorted to using a ruler and was still unhappy and now I understand why. Thank you
Happy to help and you are welcome!
Thanks Michelle..I think the tip about keeping the angle the same is the one that hadn't occurred before . I find all your videos very helpful
Thank you. Very informative. I have a cliff painting I have been struggling with and you have provided the answer I needed.
Wonderful!
All of your tips were great tips. I'm a beginner, and if I'd had seen your lessons sooner, I would have understood why my paintings didn't look right. Thanks for your time.
Glad it was helpful!
It's funny that you mention "traveling into the painting". I've done that all my life, wherever I see a beautiful painting, I've "traveled into that painting" It is such a wonderful thing to do. Please don't think I'm mad!
Excellent info. Clears up a lot of my struggles. Thank you
You are so welcome!
Very helpful. Thank you ❤
Michele, you are an amazing teacher. Thank you so much for sharing your talents with us.
Thank you so much!
What a real good teacher Thankyou
Thanks Marie!
I took couple of nice landscape pictures during last summer and now it feels like it’s about a time go give them a painting try! 😍 Thank you very much Michele for yet another superb video 😍
Sounds great!
You're a lovely person with a much appreciated capacity to teach and inspire. Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much!
An excellent video with such useful tips for drawing landscapes. Hard to choose the best ones, but probably they were drawing the horizon line and perspective - fenceposts and drawing things so they don't appear to stand up. Thanks very much!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This was what i was looking for....practical perspective tips. Thank you. Really looking for your perspective tips for urban landscapes. Can't wait for that one. Thank you. Love your videos.
Yes buildings must be done I think!
I love all your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
So nice of you
Thanks Michele ❤
No problem 😊
Great tips. Thanks.
Repeating motifs and horizon line dots caught my attention especially. I'd be interested in more videos about all things perspective. Thank you!
Noted!
Great lesson!
Greatly appreciated your video and enjoyed this as always throughout it's showing many things to achieve amazing details in your paintings and sketches, greatly appreciated Michele for you sharing your talent and calmly explained to inspire others to have ago. Thanks greatly stay safe and healthy
Thanks Philip!
Hello Michele thank you for your story
Michele, I really enjoy your tutorials, I would like to join one of your beginners classes
Hi Roy, I have online courses including a beginners watercolour course, you will find them on my website. I am not teaching any 'real life' classes until at least summer of 2021 due to Covid.
well done great information.
Thanks so much for this. Can't wait to try it out
Have fun!
My biggest take-away was the notion of composition, balance and perspective. I now realize that doesn't just happen and that with a little thought and advanced planning, I can improve the composition and balance of my drawings. I was also particularly impressed with the placement of horizons and how important that is in the placement and composition of my drawing. I gotta go try this out! Thanks so much Michele!
No problem!
Congratulations on reaching over 30,000 subscribers Michele!! Another great tutorial, thank you!
Thank you Melanie!
Thanks Michele. All very useful. I will never remember them all so for right now I'll just pick a couple. I always forget the fence posts get closer together as they go off in the distance. Somehow my brain flips that one. And now I feel better about water on the horizon. 👍💜
Great, glad it helped!
Perspective always gives me a headache but you made it easier for me.
Glad to hear that!
Great tips and tricks Michele. Funny and useful. Thx as always. 🥰
Thanks Alicia!
This was a clear and simple way to help self learning beginners. I struggle with the relaxed artistist side of my brain and think very technically so starting with a technical method of sketching allows me to paint more loosely. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Loved these lessons❤
Thank you! 😃
my favorite tip(s) are about 18 minutes into this video. and , i liked the tip of ocean (water) horizens too.
Very helpful, thank you
Thank you so much for these tips. They are very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent! So helpful!
Relly enjoyed all these tips!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very helpful
Thanks for posting these there are some very useful tips. I have always wanted to improve my free hand drawing skills and coming from an engineering back ground I’ve struggled with loosening up and suggested details.. if you get what I mean. Some help with using forms and shades to trick the mind into seeing detail such as slates on a roof or stones / bricks in a wall would be great. Windows and doors seen in perspective are also a problem I struggle with.
I like your presenting style, it is very clear and easy to understand
Best Regards
Your videos are alway very helpful. Thank you🌈
I'm so glad!
I liked all of the tips, & am looking forward to your tips on aerial perspective and 3 & 4 point perspective if you do them. I used to draw and paint, but life got in the way for 4 decades. Your drawing videos are refreshing, and reminding my poor, old, tired brain of the 'stuff' it used to know. Love your work and love your tutorials, Michele.
PS I wonder if you know anything about ergonomics for artists? Thanks.
Ergonomics, that's an idea. I have a lot to do with exercises actually, due to many years tai chi, yoga and martial arts training. Good idea for a video.
I would be very interested in that too! I suffer with chronic back pain, and have a bulging disc in my neck... I won't let them stop me painting again though!
@@melaniebaynes2730 Same. Chronic ack pain and disc herniation, the latter causing pain and altered sensations down my arms and hands.
Thanks
Thanks so much, I appreciate it!
Excellent thanks heaps👍🌸
You're welcome 😊
the stream going uphill is my issue and you have really helped me. I need the trees on the horizon line is my issue on my prespective on my trees in distance and the one close to bottom of painting. I am really not understanding how to make the deer and tree in the foreground the height of those trees on the edge of the horizon line. I haven't painted in 50 years and only had lessons in 1976 so you may have a hint trying to pick up my hobby now is really difficult to get watching you tube. lol Thank you
Glad you are finding it helpful!
Thank you!
You're welcome!
I really enjoy your videos, simple and to the point with a demonstration. I am a self taught, you tube taught painter, mostly acrylic and do a mix of buildings and landscape in a different perspective from the photographs I look at to get personal details of the houses. Thank you. Gotta new sub in me 😀
Cool, thanks so much!
Brilliant!!! And I’m American and do math! Thank you! BTW one LIES on the beach here ~💁🏼♀️
I hate maths, so math is probably better because it sounds like there's less of it!
Rest tips, thanks Michelle : )
Great video
Great ideas thanks
Thanks for watching!
Michele, have you tried proportional dividers? Very handy after a bit of practice. On picture 1, you could have added more sky and changed the proportions to fit the paper; I've seen you paint much prettier skys than the boring grey in the picture. Have you ever put the horizon dead square in the middle and gotten away with it?
Proportional dividers are good, but teaching classes has shown me that most students use them incorrectly, or let the screw loosen. All perspective rules can be broken if you know how...
More like this!
LOVE
thank you
Any time!
I really enjoy your skeleton drawings & reminders of how to use perspectives! Often I hear you say you’ve not got a maths brain isn’t geometry a section of maths? the houses, fences & walls you draw are all geometric or am I mistaken? I’m sure you’re better than you think, don’t put yourself down! Thanks for all your useful tips!
Maybe, I had a very interupted education!
Hello, I enjoy all of your videos. I am looking forward to trying all of these tips. However, the finding an angle tip confuses me. I understand how you find the angle in the photo but I don't understand how you can transfer that angle to the painting.
There are two ways, you either position the photo above or below and just extend the line out,not more easy, just keep your hand/pencil at a fixed angle and slide it sideways. It's not precise of course but will be fairly close.
Michelle,. I mentioned your casts and name in WatercolorLive last week k. I really enjoy your videos, Dixie
Oh thank you!
Great tips. So it’s more accurate to paint from a print rather than from an IPad?
I think so, I don't like my students working from ipads and phones, reflections, screensavers they are a bit of a nuisance, I would always advise printing.
Most of my photos that I choose to draw out of is on my phone. I do not have a printer and so how would I calculate the right proportion on my paper from looking a the picture digitally?
It's quite difficult. Proportions never change, ie if something is a third of the way up (like the horizon) it will be a third of the way up on your paper. But exact sizing is pretty much impossible.
I found that I can scan photo then enlarge it, then i print it . For A 4 size.
Great idea.
Concerning perspective: man, am I lucky. My husband worked at an engineering firm as a draftsman, so after I've done the basics, (I can't draw for the life of me, but I can paint the few lines I did draw into a realistic painting) I take it to my husband to look at the perspective of my buildings. I do not always follow it to the letter - it is a painting after all.
Indeed!
How can I measure working from a photo on my tablet, if I don't print it out?
If you're working from a photo, it's always best to have a physical copy, rather than on your tablet. I've taught people who have tried to work from a tablet or a phone before and they spend a lot of time just keeping the screen alive.
No 4 point 2 point 6 points here im already confused lol
Thank you so much for making the videos you do here !
This 70 year old grandma can follow you just fine !
Glad you like them!
I love your tutorials and learn so much. I find it hard to see your pencil lines. If for the sake of the tutorials you could use a darker thicker line, I would not need to strain so much to see it. Thank you.
I do actually use a line that's much darker than usual, it's still hard for the camera to pick it up. In some videos I have resorted to using a ball point pen!