Yes please

Yessir

SLEW Jepp!👍

Oil and arcylic

Yes, please!

Nat Paint That same. I want to paint rather than draw most of the time!

SLEW ☺️yeah, me too

sourcreambaby I just started considering myself a full time artist so in that regard I consider my self a beginner.

You’re always gonna be a beginner in some aspect because, there’s always someone out there whose better.

@@brandenapexo604 You can't think that way especially when it comes to art.....it should be: " because, You are always learning". For example photorealism.....most established artists frown upon photorealism artists simply because cameras exist and if you asked them to do anything else....guess what, they can't.....not even a quick portrait sketch without looking like some 10 year old kid did it. So if you are not an actual artist....you shouldn't comment on something like this. But if you are an actual artist...not someone off deviantart....then you need to change your way of thinking. Comparing yourself to someone else will only hold you back unless its motivating you to do better.

I sometimes feel like WHAT you paint is more important than HOW you paint it.

Branden apexo how about not comparing yourself to others but only to yourself

Laury van de Ven I try to stay organized.. not always the case though

Liz Gridley - Artist nothin like the potential energy of a new sketchbook!

Why don't you show us what you mean by your art works Matthew...

I strongly agree with Karl :)

Karl mejia slew backwards is wels.

loomis the godfather!

Do you thibk that using white pencils to highlight or smeering to shade is something an academic artist should avoid?

@@milosblagojevic5899 not at all! I encourage using multiple techniques and using different mediums. It all comes down to preference. Smudging smooths out the graphite to create an even tone and greatly minimise the appearance of pencil strokes/streaks. This is useful for backgrounds, skin, and transitions to create that smooth look. It's just a fast way to fill in. Afterwards you should always go back with an eraser and darker pencils to create the highlights and shadows and bring more dynamic to your picture. White pencil is only suitable on a darker paper like Slew uses, the grey paper. Its already basically the midtone of the picture, so you'd use darker pencils or charcoal and a white pencil to bring in dark and light tones. When you're studying the behaviour of light, you can use black paper and a white pencil only to do high contrast pictures. Art is not something that's limited...it's open and free. It really comes down to preference and what your lecturer/brief lays out for the project. I also think what Slew is doing, is what we call quick sketch, when you try to draw a pose as fast as possible using gestural lines but still keeping proportions and shading and some details. It's good practice, but that's all it is. The less time you put into something, the less detailed it will be. Beating yourself up about it is pointless because quick sketch is always practice and not a final artwork. Like Slew says, it loosens up the gears and gets you into drawing mode.

@@mariscabarnes1966 interesting. My art professor tells me not to use highlights like erasing, or even smudging, only to use clean strokes or to make gradiations in values using my pencil, not my fingers. He says we are going to an art school to learn how to draw, not how to do make up xd.

@@mariscabarnes1966 but i understand also what you said. Its not prohibited in any way to use highlights or white pencil for our drawings. I agree art should be a free medium. But i also think that the method without use of any highlights, where the only highlight is the paper, makes us be more carefull where we will make dark tones or where we will keep the light ones, and it also makes us learn the importance of value diversity. Otherwise you just rely on a white pencil to do it for you.

@@milosblagojevic5899 Lol! 😅 Sure, like I said...listen to your teacher. Everyone is different, and at our school we allow all techniques and mediums, permitting they don't overpower the picture. It's easy to over-smidge a drawing and it becomes flat and dull. We teach the correct ways to use them so they compliment the drawing. Listen to your teacher, maybe later he/she will let you progress to include more techniques. It's obviously vital that you understand how to purely use pencil. Teaches focus, control, patience and attention to detail. When you're at home you can practice other techniques on your own!

Art by the Anomaly I hear that. Much love ❤️

thanks a bundle! stick around! more in the works

YOU HAVE A FOUR HOUR ART LESSON?! ours were only an hour

Caitlin O'Brien yeah, it’s exhausting sometimes but you get used to it

We have 3 hour ones in my school, typically the break in between helps refresh our minds 😅 tho I like having a movie or playlist play in the background, maybe a talk show or music from a play. All these things are long so I feel like it helps me work on the period of time I'm listening

Alexandria Baker sounds good, we have breaks too but only for 5 minutes max so it’s pretty much like nothing to me. However I try the talk show tip, thanks!

Don’t masturbate or have sex, it helps build up your attention.