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The reason I like the video is the artist is totally not pretentious

2B or not 2B, that is the question.

I hope you appreciate the few hundred thousands that still haven’t given up xD

You can tell he is an amazing artist just his “messy” sketching it looks better than most of my artwork

Years later and these tutorials are still of the finest kind. These videos have aged like fine wine.

"Just try and play with the pencil" *plays with the pencil*

Dude you have no idea how so so grateful I am to have come across your channel. I use to like drawing back in my early school years (I'm now in my 20's) but I stopped because I was really bad at it and I'd see other students' artwork and feel intimidated. I ultimately just came to the conclusion that I wasn't "born" to draw lol, silly me. I wished right now the present me could go back in time and just slap some common sense into the young naive me 😂 I realize now that practice and patience is absolute key! things don't just happen overnight. I hear/d it all the time, if you like, love, and or want something, you need to put in WORK to achieve. After watching your first 2 videos of this series, and now I'm here 💁 I'm more motivated than ever to get back into drawing and hopefully I'll become as good as you one day 😊 Thank you so much dude!!!

Him: *Talks about different types of pencils* Me: “Ahhh I seee” *picks up HB2 pencil..... realizes that’s all I have and use...... also notices that my wallet is empty* Me: “Ahh I see......”

I've been drawing occasionally for years now, just basically looking at something and drawing whatever it was, I randomly shaded for the sake of giving it an effect. I look back at them after this video and realized I had about 40 different light sources lol. I picked up a pencil and was almost amazed at the clarity I had of light and its importance. So thanks, never thought I would get any further and I automatically got better after a 15 minute video.

I've gotta admit, these first three videos so far have explained a lot more than my basic art classes. I feel like, just by watching these, my art has improved greatly. Thanks so much for these! :)

Everything is just simple shapes... **Draws Mona Lisa** See, simple shapes

I didn't take art classes in school, wished I had, so I am thankful to you for sharing these tutorials. It's never too late to learn something.

Yes he is correct in that learning the basics is the foundation of realism, dimension, depth and believability in your art work. I love the challenge to improve my art skills. Brandon is a very good art teacher . Thank you Brandon for your contribution, experience time and effort, Victoria

I like how you say 'play with it' Makes it seem more fun Thanks for these vids. 😁

Your videos teach me more than an actual art class I take in my high school

man! thank you for devoting your time to teach us something like this. I was drawing when I was still in high school but stopped cause I thought it won't be useful in the future. but here I am now getting back to basics, because I work as a graphic designer and I find drawing very useful in this field. thank you for the time and effort! please keep up updated. God bless! and cheers from the Philippines :)

The dots are a living hell, and if they’re not done right sometimes they end up adding nothing to your picture and then you end up wasting your time.

After many years of thinking I couldn’t draw I finally picked up a pencil and tried, with your first three videos I am amazed at what I can achieve, it may be small but from someone who couldn’t even draw a decent stick man to manage circle with a shadow and a bit of shading is a small miracle and for it to look quite realistic is nothing but a revelation to me, I feel for the first time there is hope for me yet…. Thank you 😊

This tutorial is very nice. You get what you pay for here. No trickery to deceitfully draw viewers in, valuable yet simple. This is the direction this platform should head in.

genuinely proud of myself for not giving up o drawing - thank you for being the easiest to listen to teacher ive ever had

Really appreciated your generous teaching skills.

There are many people who need these videos, thanks for making them, I think you deserve more views.

This is me 2023. Learning from your series! Your series is just what I needed. Thank you❤

I know that this is a pretty small detail. But one thing that I love about the artist is that he says something like: ''Let's draw a sphere, it could be anything you want.'' Instead of: ''So now we're gonna draw a sphere.'' You see what I mean? The way this artist talks gives me (and/or other people) more ''freedom'' in drawing. I've noticed that Bob Ross also does that way of talking when painting.

start learning drawing with your video two days ago and today is lesson 3:) it's a lot harder than just watching you drawing. spent almost one hour and still hasn't finish the first sphere...i will keep it up:)

I just feel like Schaefer knows me really well. Its the third video that I am watching and I just feel the connection. Love and respect from Pakistan :)

My fourth video so far and I'm so happy and having fun! Thank you. You're so real and unintimidating!

i used to draw a lot when i was a kid and i was amazing. i stopped because my father accidentally threw away my folder with all my drawings. now im 25 and i started again as a coping mechanism to my depression but i want to make a life out of this, just when i was a kid. im really greatful for your videos. you rock for real fo real

Finally someone who takes the time to do drawing videos. Keep up the great work.

"Most things aren't ever completely white..."... that's true on a practical as well as on a philosophical level!!!!

Something about this video and this comment section just gives me some peace. For once there are people who just want to learn art as it is and are willing get through the process patiently. Idk man maybe i just had a bad day but this just helped me get through the day lmao.

“Light is what makes things look realistic” You just fixed my problem of shading thanks

Thank you so much for these! I really appreciate that the focus is to get out there and try everything and find what you like best. I've already noticed an improvement in my sketching

"rub it out" "some people use a tissue" woah. good thing nobody else heard that.

This is really good. My 11 year old kid is using these tutorials to help his skills

for the people who still here im so proud of you guys and i love you all hope all you guys the best i appreciate your determination

You're really helpful. As a beginner I think you're really easy to understand and follow. thanks!

I've watched the first two episodes and they are very well put together. I'm a beginner and I've decided I'd like to sketch for now until I have the basics down. So far your videos have been an amazing resource

Man, I like how chill you are in your videos. I’m hoping watching these can help me stay motivated to draw because right now, it’s hard for me. Every now and then, I’ll sit down for hours and just draw a single drawing. The last one was a drawing of Goku, and it took me about 8hrs. Every drawing I start strong. I sketch it out going off a reference photo and I love it. It looks pretty good. I ink it and then I color it and it comes out looking nothing like what I thought it would. Now, I’ll try drawing simple stuff that pops up in my head and I can’t even do that. If anything, it feels like my skills are regressing. I get so demotivated and put my pencil down for long periods of time and refuse to pick it back up because I know anything I draw won’t even be close to what I want. I know I can do it. I can see it in my head and I know exactly what to do but when it comes to making my pencil do it, I can’t. It’s been almost two years since I’ve drawn and it makes me sad. I just want to be good but I can’t get over my own fear of failure. I’ve been planning out this manga story I want to do since I was 18. This story is my dream and I know it will do well if I can just get it out there but I can’t do that unless I get good enough to draw for it. Part of me feels like my dream will just die and I’ll never get good enough no matter how hard I try. I’m sorry, I know this is a long tangent that goes in like 50 different directions and nobody will probably even read it but I have nobody to talk to about it. My only friend that draws is a “professional artist” who does digital design and makes drawings for commission and basically just brags about how good his art is and how it’s better than mine. It’s 5am, I’m exhausted but I can’t sleep because my brain just decided to let me sit and think about how I’ll probably never succeed so that’s fun. Anyways, I’ll shut up now. Thank you for the video, once again. You’re being very generous with your time teaching this skill to others. I hope they can pick it up easier than I can and I hope you succeed in all your endeavors.

This set of videos has made me pull out paper and pencil after 25 years… I always wanted to learn how to sketch and this is the nicest way to start to learn… Thank you for this set of videos, I wanted something like this for a long time…

i started drawing realism by following this series arround 4 years ago. I cant stress enough how much it impacted my art. Came across this video and just had to comment to say THANK YOU

I wish I found this a week ago, my shading has been crap and I only figured it out my angle was wrong today. Watching you shade makes it so much more obvious than other videos I've seen. I haven't quite gotten the hang of it just yet but I will. Thank you.

Thanks for this. Am trying to get back into my drawing...it’s been decades and I quit in 8th grade...so I’m trying to go back and re-learn the basics. This really helps!

Very patient and modest artist with great attitude. Thank you for the great series, I appreciate!

Thank you for producing and making these videos available!

Wow! I'm finally learning to draw. Thanks so much. May you continue uploading your drawing videos!

I love how he responds to comments 7 years after it was made

These videos are absolutely amazing, I recently started drawing more actively and searched for other drawing tutorials, but all of them based the help under the assumption that I knew the basics, which I didnt. These are the perfect videos as a starter who doesnt know anything. I can already feel my drawing skills improving and I only just finished this video. Im gonna spend the next few days trying to perfect the subjects of this and the video before.

Each video: **has less and less views** Me: 👁👄👁 **sips tea** _let's just hope I'm not next_

Ohhh mannn, I really do appreciate these videos 😍 and the non perfectionist attitude towards drawing helps loads 💕

Thanks for the essentials for the shading techniques , this has been highly significant to my draws and I plan to keep watching your videos.

These videos are 6 years old and I’m a new subscriber because of them! I swear I’ve been so into this whole sketching and shading episodes thus far! I use to draw a bit and that was 12years ago! This served as such a great refresher!! Thank you! Can’t wait to keep watching!

i've never been good at drawing but i took up an art class and some intrest but i was so bad and needed to get better and these videos have helped a lot

i just sketched a cocktail glass hahaha i'm proud of what i've done. thank youuuuu! you're awesome :)

Im commenting here just so i can have a placeholder to thank this guy when i actually do art as a career

I do appreciate what you did in this video. It helped me a lot to understand light and dark in shading. I'm a literal newbie in drawing. I thought before that I'd never be able to understand highlights and shadows, but seeing you do it in a very simply way, I got to gain hope. I'm not quitting!! Thank you so much!!!!!! I love your videos!!! 😊😊😊😊😊😊

thank you man i used to love drawing very much but in school they never taught us for real how to draw and i never learned how to do it for real but i really loved drawing and i tried and tried then gave and now i started again from fresh and thanks to your videos my art skills are better than they ever were

Really enjoying this series, watching a video and watching it again while practising. I have always sucked at drawing but this is really helpful thank you. Doesn't take long to start seeing improvement in my work.

I used to think I couldn't draw cause I would get nervous and my hands would shake and mess up the drawing but now I have finally started to loosen up and all these tutorials from you help a lot...Thanks!

Hi Brandon and peace be with you! Thank you for these videos. I wanted to learn a skill during covid and decided to go with drawing. Your videos have helped and inspired me tremendously. Wishing you all the best and a happy, healthy and safe 2022. Thank you again.

This videos are so wonderfully informative. As much as skill requires practice, I've already fixed a ton of techincal mistakes in my own method from this series, and it's starting to show. Wonderful tutorials!

By this video i am totally sold......i have gone out and ordered some art supplies here i go to art school.

A channel where beginners can feel welcome

Wow after 7 years this videos are still use full😍

When he moves the paper I feel like I'm watching a sample through microscope

thanks for teaching me how to draw sir because when I wanted to draw my drawings didn't look good thats why i didn't like drawing but this is the best drawing tutorial series i've seen and now my drawings have been improved. Thanks for Teaching me

These videos are so enormously helpful. Thank you for doing them

Never have I ever been told such useful tips of art, I am starting get the hang of this

you desserve at least 1 to 5 mill at this point at the good videos u do

The thing i learned in these 3 lessons I learn to draw cicle😂😂😂

Thank you for making these videos. We can still learn from them years after you posted them.

I started these videos years ago, 2017 in fact then stopped but I'm back at it again. Thanks for the quality!!!

Thank you so much for these videos! I'm trying to recover years that I lost because I stopped drawing. It's like starting from scratch.

Thanks for making these, picked up a gel pen and paper after watching and discovered I was OK at the basics so picked up a pad and set of pencils today. I look forward to seeing where it takes me.

Just learning to draw. Very good videos, you're doing an awesome job, thanks for taking the time to show us! Thanks so much.

I like how I don’t actually draw it but just watch for entertainment

Excellent video! And you really seem as such a nice guy!

I brought my kit and I am truly enjoying following your videos!!! Thank you for you work!!!!!!!

I just love you mate... You did so much detailing in art and made my art the best... I literally made a whole scenery like literally 4K

You're a humble guy. Thanks for these videos

I absolutely suck at shading. I can do absolutely anything, except shade. Hopefully your tips can help! Good video(:

I am not an artist, but I really love to learn to draw. Yout videos really inspire me. Thank you for your generosity in sharing your knowledge. This is so helpful!

I'm loving your lessons. Thanks.

"when I was younger I would rub it out... Some would use a tissue" please tell me I'm not the only one that heard it 🤣

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Thank you so much for this wonderful series. I love drawing but never had a chance to learn it properly and now with the help of these lessons, my sketching has improved alot. Thanks again

Your down to earth videos are a massive help. Thank you

2018 and your really helping with my art, dude you rock.

The unrestricted way of teaching really help allow me to teach myself to find my way of drawing. I've been putting off learning to draw and this really pushed me since I actually see myself progress. Thanks

Thank you.i put all the things I learn in my bag of tricks.sometimes going back to the basics helps me evolve

Again, thanks Brandon for this series of tutorials for the beginner....I'm having a blast and learning so much from you. You are an awesome teacher and I'm completely understanding what you mean, which is usually challenging for me. Three tutorials from you and I'm drawing better than I ever have before and, having fun! Cheers

Thank you so much for tips I am downing way better at drawing I'll try and try you opened my drawing mind thank you so much 🙂👍🏻

Thank you!! You're BETTER than my art teacher!

Amazing 🤩! Wish I could show you the sphere I just did ! Thank you ! I’m exhausted after just 3 episodes and practicing for an hour but it takes time ! I just lost my natural nack for drawing/sketching…… I will enjoy to continue learning with you ! Thanks so much !!!

thank you it was soo insightful and I appreciate your help. I have been doing these exercises for several days and I can see the change. it does not make sense at the beginning, but with time I start to figure out things^^ sooo glad.

Me before these videos: Look at this great self-portrait I painted! (points to lousy garbled painting) Me after seeing these first 3 videos: Look at the great ball I drew with shading and shadows! (awesome job!) Planning to spend a lot of time with pencils sketching shapes I now see in everything in the house.

Great videos! So helpful:)

Thanks Schaefer. I haven't sketched since I was in high school, which was 15 years ago. I decided that Nursing was too hard on my family and me so now I'm training to be a Computer Science major with a minor in Web and Graphic Design, so it's nice to have somewhere to refresh my art training before I take college level art courses. I really appreciate it. :)

Thank you for making and sharing these great tutorials. You explain the things very well.