I have learned more drawing skills through your videos than I have learned in 5 years of art school 😆😆😆

Thank you, Stephen. I agree that it is very challenging. I think seeing you draw is helpful, but hearing why you made your choices is much more helpful.

Yep, it is a challenge to convey depth on a subject like this with a pen ( specially technical/felt tips due to uniformity of line width and opacity). My go to method to subdue background foliage is to render them with as sparse line work as possible, otherwise they'll crowd/ overpower the foreground details. But man, your architectural sketches blows my mind - much respect!

So stunning! What an inspiration you are!!

Really love the attitude you have around drawing, it's very relaxing watching you draw and hear you talk about your process. I always feel the itch to pick up a pen after watching one of your videos.

I learned so much watching this! And it was like magic near the end where it came together, and really showed the scene. Thank you for putting time in to this, it is a genuine blessing for many of many of us ❤

Let me be honest: I thought this was going to be a really boring class. But it was just the opposite, I loved every second! What a great explanation and how wonderful that a piece of wild nature is drawn so beautifully. Thank you Stephen🤩

Been watching your videos for about a week now and the have helped tremendously! Thank you for your knowledge❤❤❤

I watch your videos every morning now. Thanks for sharing your insight. It's truly priceless. 🙌🏾💐💐💐

Dear Stephen. Your tutorials are incredible. Thank you very much. And I had to laugh because at this very moment I'm sitting at a forest scene and I'm a bit desperate about the details. So I thought I'd see if I could find something on KZfaq about it - et voila! 😅

I'm not currently working with pen, but with watercolor. I'm gaining some ideas from these drawings, about depth, etc. Thank you for your excellent explanations/demonstrations.

So cool! I d love to see you drawing at normal speed

I am new to sketching, and this helped me tremendously!❤

Thank you so so much for sharing your skills. Your channel has been an absolute eye opener for me. 🙏

Hello, I'm kind of new to taking art very seriously. When people say to look at someone's style to discover what style you would like to do, I look at yours. I love it so much. I was wondering though if your style could only really be applied to illustrations or if you could use it in animation. Thanks for these videos!

You teach exactly what I have the biggest issuez with. Thank you for your videos!

I've learned so much through this video, thank you so much

Im no where near your level, but since Ive subscribed I watched your cross hatching tips video and noticed. I feel as though your method in that video couldve helped with this to show depth of field and the trees further in the back. the vertical lines even though they work to show a little mid ground, hurt the back ground depth (if that makes since) I dont know if adding circles or different variations darkness to lightness couldve helped make the foreground and background so much different. especially since youre dealing with a pen and lack of colors 😂😂😭😭. but then again this challenge is very CHALLENGING and the point of your video was to not get entagled in the details which is the pitfall of many artists. DEFINITELY ME. thank you for your lessons teacher.

God bless, this is what I always wonder, how to manage details especially in forest etc scene.

Excellent class !! Thank you !!

Fantastic information. Thanks Stephen :)

Hi, I really love watching your videos! I've done a few line and wash paintings but want to define my drawings more. What do you feel are a few of your tutorials that I should start with. Thank you for sharing your talent 😊 have a wonderful Sunday 😁

Final product looks a bit messy tbh (I see too many scribbles, why not make more solid shapes?), but the tips are accurate.

I’m loving your videos. You mention having done oil painting for 10 years and missing it. What made you switch to black and white line art?

Do you make notan sketches? I always strive to observe the largest shapes before the final details. I find that the longer I spend on the large, vague shapes, the more time I have to make corrections before committing to dark lines. If I do this long enough, the details begin introducing themselves to me! 😂 Regarding details, working on small, or even tiny pictures can be a first step; tiny squares in your sketch book with sight-sized subjects drawn in them. Or a study of the details within a parallelogram created by some branches.

You should use camera stabilizing software in post if you ever have jitter on your video like this. I love this tutorial but watching for too long makes my head spin lol

Hey Stephen, nice video and now you got me curious, what were the reasons that motivated you out of the painting to go into this long inking endeavour?

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Would have stopped much earlier, about halfway.