42:50 this lesson is worth years of understanding art. I was even telling my gf the other day that my goal isn't to draw photorealism. To me that's something you can just use a camera. Sure it's a skill that needs to be mastered, but what drives my love for art is what it means to me, what it means to whom the drawing is for. What made Rembrandt a master is the fact that you can see the psychology in the facial features, the purpose in why someone is rendered a certain way, the meaning in the apparel worn in the canvas. When you can captivate your viewer, even yourself, to focus on these particular gestures, then meaning can go from a puddle to an ocean from the impression that is has put in context.

I just wanted to say thank you, a lot of artists wont understand how valuable this info is, It changed my game overnight and im self taught 15 years in

instant sub. thank you for putting this information out here for free and not redirecting people to a paid course.

I just finished this session today. As a self-taught artist, I consider you as one of the greatest online mentors. Thank you for this very insightful tutorial! Greetings from the Philippines

Your videos are amazing and has even thought me more than my classes in art school! Thank you for sharing your videos with us, they are amazing! keep up the incredible work chris! love from the Philippines ❤

Wow! I’m blown away by your candid and remarkable video! Your way of explaining light, values. Is great! What I loved most was the concept of designing a pattern! I had not thought of it that way! My. ‘Aha’ moment! Thanks 🙏🙂

This is a lecture I will watch again and again and again.

I like the egg form for the demonstratrion figure at 27:17 for a couple reasons. First, it's a straight on shot with our eye level roughly the same as the figures, creating an overall oval shape to the head mass. The light direction produces a 3/4 Rembrandt style shadow effect, and int this case Egg lighting seems to fit the figure well. Box forms I would guess come in more handy when the shot is a 3/4 or from a higher or lower angle and one could maybe use the box to help solve perspective problems and deal with lighting when multiple planes of the head are visible? The cylinder also seems appropriate moreso for figures that are turned away from the viewer in some way, and maybe it helps capture wrapping forms like the mouth or browline.

Absolutely phenomenal lesson! I can't tell you how long I've had trouble with lighting, I thought I had all the variables and I just couldn't figure out why everything always seemed just a tad off. This is the biggest click moment I've had with art since learning about shape language and I am over the moon! Thank you so much for releasing something like this for free!

Dear Chris, your series about values Is sooo informative. Thank you for sharing your wisdom. Greetings from Czechia

I go to Instagram and saw some peoples realistic drawings/portraits and my mind automatically detect errors. This means, you are effective teacher.

Very helpful thank you! Going to put this into practice tomorrow!

Fantastic tutorials as usual. Very helpful! Thank you, Chris for your teaching.❤❤❤

Wow! That's one of the best tutorials on youtube! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge🙏🌷 Following you from Montreal Canada🙂

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Thank you Chris! I'll never see dark and light the same way again! Your video is very helpful!

Thank you so much, Chris for a fantastic video! So informative, brilliant! You are the best teacher ever.❤

What a great video! So happy to discover this :) Thanks Chris!

Im a 13 year old whos just starting to take art seriously, and ur tutorials help so much, Chris!

Hi chris loved the video u are a great teacher ive only just started drawing and this helped a great deal . My problem is always going to dark it was like i i was just colouring in 😊 even though i started off light . Thankyou just need to watched thevother parts. Thankyou appreciate your time n effort you put into your videos.take care.

Hi to you love the way you think about your drawing soooooooooiii much fun

Your drawing is noticeably BETTER than the photo reference, which is often the case and the point of fine Art, the girl looks more...innocent & pure in your interpretation of her. photography tends to be TOO sharp especially nowadays there is something about drawings...simplicity that makes an image more subtle &...dreamlike giving it the advantage, not being able to precisely copy a photograph IS the advantage often.

Boris Vallejo (a suburb & original fantasy Artist) says that it's the ILLUSION of a 3d look to aim for in painting/illustrating in his Art technique book, As for hair/fur to me it's okay to take time to...describe it's texture but ONLY at the advanced stages of drawing/painting, & provided you know how, it can be done. With this CARRAVAGIO type lighting I find it best to start with the darkest value first, & keep comparing one tone with another

Love the review of basics. Always important to practice the basics as it all starts from there. I also love your candid remarks and how real you are in your narrative and teaching. Thanks

This series has reaallly helped me and my understading! Thank you sooo much!

Your videos are amazing.. You are explaining it very clearly. It is very helpful for me. Thank you so much for your efforts to make such a great content. Love from India. :)

Thank you for shering good job keep it up 👍💐🌿👍🙋‍♀️👑💕🏆💕❤️

Thank you so much. This is really helpful.

Butterfly lighting is front and above not directly above. You shouldn't have dark eye sockets just a small butterfly shaped shadow under the nose. It's very flattering and used a lot in fashion.

Awesome vedio yea love the way you started oval and the blocked shape then the center lines eye brows love it

Your explanation is too good.👍👍👍

Love your channel

Thanks 🙏 CHRIS

On the chin, did you use shade #4 pie square root of 6?

Thank you for the lesson. Always love your video.

your very underrated

Thank you sir.🙏❤️

49:00 noted

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Helpful lecture. ❤️❤️❤️

This is so good. Thank you!!!

I just found your channel , went to the list of videos and man its a frigin gold mine .

Love it.

Great tutorial thanks

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11:05 not gonna do that mistake again, thanks Chris

Great guidelines

Nice teaching master.

Where do you get the lighting reference photos shown when analysing the male model? Can they be bought?

@42:00 “You need to design a pattern that create effect of realism “ “You can control the value of your drawing…” “Don’t just copy what you see. Design a pattern that creates effect.”

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I go with a cube and cylinder

Good lesson

Three quarter

Hi! I checked out your website and most of the pages are disconnected, even though this video is only a few days old- could you advise where we can study with you, is it the New Masters Academy? I really appreciate your teaching style and am dying to learn portrait and figure drawing and painting!!!!

hi sir, how do u draw eyes with just values??

The eye ball much like a shadow isnt black, is NEVER truly white although minimal shading is required I'd say on it.

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What artists tend to do when drawing faces (especially from photographs) is to separate say the eye iris from the white of the ball more than it looks in a photo, I notice you've done this here which is an enhancement all part of improving on a photo (& some say using photographs, is cheating i would disagree.

I'm guilty sir. thank you.

Very informative. but the language bro. Im pretty sure there are other kids watching this.