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I've been working on a painting which has a very large tree in front of a barn, and is a major feature of the painting. I'm been working bottom up and having the exact problem you describe. I will start thinking and drawing it top down for this next go

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Great subject...very approachable. Thank you. You mention vanishing points and sloping ground - I personally found that vanishing points confuse me and cause me to draw things incorrectly (pilot error, sure but who needs the confusion?). Strange because I learned them some decades ago in an engineering drafting class. I have found they (VPs) are only useful in certain situations so I'm not very practiced when I try to use them (which makes me want to use them less :)). The drawing software I use (Sketchbook Pro) has options to help with that but I'll be darned if I can figure out how to make it useful (for my drawings, at least) even with that help. :)

Thank you for sharing your approach to tree-drawing. You pointed out that if you draw leaf shapes in places, it will make the tree seem closer than it is and destroy the illusion of scale - super helpful, thank you!

Thank you, that was a lot of good tips, exactly what I was looking for (because I was unsure were to look while drawing the line).

2:30 exactly! I try to get people to understand this all the time, but I think Im just bad at explaining it lol😝

Great video on site. you really catch the tree in the drawing.

Very interesting ideas. I am approaching 80 years old, would like to do some artistic stuff, but long ago internalized the conviction that I couldn't do anything artistic. (My parents discouraged me.) I took a watercolour class several years ago, and did all right-- not the best in the class, but clearly not the worst either. That's a nice little woodland you use for a backdrop; I don't have anything comparable. But if I am to draw, say 15 minutes per day, it needs to be done very nearby. Or from photos; but I have a strong feeling that I ought to draw from direct observation. Thank you for the suggestions.

Watching your videos has had me pick up the pen for the first time in years, and I'm already getting back into the muscle memory of things - along with a new perspective! Thank you for your consistent uploads.

Thanks for all your teachings . Long time student of yours !

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I followed it and the result was awesome. Thank you for that. Also, I followed with a pencil mostly so I was wondering if you could give me some tips on shading.

Love the video! Do you have a list of must-have materials when it comes to illustration?

Thank you! These points are very helpful, especially the one to split your drawing goals for 1 picture over multiple sessions. I just worked on a house for beginner drawers where I have finished the outline concentrating on angles and proportion. Tomorrow my goal is to finish the details and the surrounding greenery.

I really like the dynamic look of the quick sketches. Do you ever take these and add watercolors or copics afterward?

I drew along. Great class! Thank you.

I like that you are happy to critique your own work as you go along to see what you would prefer to do if you did it again and thereby telling us how to improve our work. I have only just found your channel but love your teaching style. I paint watercolour but this applies so much to what I do I can only see it making me a better artist. Love all the perspective ones too as this is something I struggle with, and drawing realistic trees 😉

Keep on with the thoughts on this fun and soul restoring craft. Every post from your channel is a very well welcomed “keep on drawing” reminder.

Thank you! Well, it worked out fine but I'll be darned if I expected it to. I think if I tried what I thought you were doing, I would just have hen scratchings all over the page. Hope you do another example much like this - it is a great subject!

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Большое спасибо! У вас замечательные уроки

Outstanding my dear Watson!

Watching you draw is amazing

A challenging subject indeed. My interpretation of the reference is that the gatepost signalled a gate in the fence and that there may have once been a path -- indicated by the darker areas in the center/right foreground -- that led to that gate. All now seriously overgrown. But any sense of that overgrown approach to the gate gets a little lost after your decision to not fully darken that area. But you were transparent about your reasoning (to preserve the darker/closer values in the lower left corner), which is all we can ask. Lacking the lavender hues and with so few clues from the non-lavender areas in view, this came perilously close to a mass of curly marks; again, an extremely challenging subject which you were brave to attempt...!

Do you think having to draw every two days or every other day is a good idea? As in something like a schedule. Thank you for your advice

Thank you for these videos!

You're the reason I started drawing directly in ink most of the time and, as a beginner, I honestly think it helped me relax and be comfortable with mistakes. I fell in love with the medium and I'm thankful you gave me the push to give it a try, instead of "waiting to be ready" Happy drawing!

Such valuable and accurate information presented in a quite consumable manner. Thanks you so much! Instant subscribe

videos coming right on time for my journey of drawing again! thank you for videos ❤

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Thank you so much for these regular videos, they're such a fantastic resource and a great source of motivation to keep on trucking. There's been something I've been meaning to ask, do you have any tips for drawing cylindrical shapes directly in ink? Specifically, on a more micro level, like those long camera lenses on beautiful old cameras and other smaller objects where nailing the effect of the cylinder is really important for the picture to be read believably. I've found that with buildings and larger structures, because you're typically only seeing a smaller portion of the cylinder/ellipses, it's easier to get away with fudging it but on smaller scale subjects it becomes quite unforgiving. I found your advice of looking for "patterns" that give you clues to drawing the effect of perspective rather than worrying about plotting specific vanishing points that might be meters off the page, like looking for the fan shape on buildings, really helpful. Are there any patterns that you look for on cylindrical objects, and how do you personally actually draw the constituent ellipses of a cylinder? The way I often see is to do it all at once with a great big whirling motion of the arm... but that's always seemed a bit messy to me if you're working directly in ink with no pencil underdrawing. Hope this makes sense! Keep up the stellar work. Big fan and very grateful for your insight as always.

This is great advice. I often feel guilty for not finding time to practice, but shorter sessions more consistently just makes more sense. Thank you

These videos and references are very helpful.. thank you for making ❤

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I love this series, especially the less complicated ones that you’ve chosen recently.

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This looked relatively easy to me so I thought I'd give it a try ..... I drew it in freehand and thought it looked just fine. Then I did some checking of lines and spacing and I was off in comparison to the picture. So I decided to do it again in freehand and I did not enjoy the experience. I have a hard time drawing perspective lines freehand. I think my perfectionism, trying to draw exactly what I see, works against me in my drawings. However, my figures turned out pretty good. So for my next drawing, I'll try something easier.

no story has been told that has not already been told before, therefore it becomes HOW you choose to tell it. It's about your style in which you choose to tell it that resonates or not. Style, style, style.

Hi Mr. Travers, your technique for coloring the sides lightly before shading the center is definitely interesting! I've managed to use this to some extent. I know you mentioned that tape isn't always feasible, but one approach that I've found to be slightly more accurate is to have a second piece of paper covering up parts of the line work so that the marker can "bleed" off onto the scrap paper. What do you think about this approach? I guess it creates an "uneven surface" where the paper transitions.

I like these. The simpler the better, for me. I’m so slow I can only get a small portion of the more complicated drawings done within even 30 minutes. Thank you.

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Thanks very much! You've motivated me to start this from tomorrow (albeit with minor modifications to the system you suggest). During the Covid lockdowns, I'd ordered a whole bunch of art supplies and started teaching myself to sketch from RUclips channels such as yours, but I don't do any nowadays-- exactly for the reasons you diagnose. Hopefully your 15 min routine idea will not only help me restart to continue, but also reduce my hesitation with pen as well as unnecessary clutter from my trials (for starters I intend to use the same reference photo for the next 7-10 days for this).

thank you for the video and all the previous. i'm starting to learn city sketching. and your videos inspire and help to understand that it's a little bit easier than it looks at the very beginning. please keep posting new content

I started drawing 4 years ago and I told my personal trainer about it. I told him that some days I feel like drawing and other days my motivation is just not there. His advice was to draw every day but on days when I am not feeling the desire to do draw something quick and simple. To be clear my trainer is not an artist. While it is not exactly what Stephen is suggesting in this video there is a consistency in the message. Drawing every day, even just a quick sketch, without judging the drawing will produce good results in time. Whenever some one suggests that I am talented I just tell them that the only talent involved, in my case at least, is being stubborn. I still have a long way to go but I am enjoying the journey. I hope everyone else learning to draw is also enjoying the journey even if it is not a very scenic journey when you start... I think Stephen's advice in this video is applicable to a lot more than drawing. Glad to give it a thumbs up!

every beginner should see this video. when i first started learning about Perspective i ran into this problem about horizon being the eye level even though its not, there should be more videos like this on youtube.

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