Proportions - Fundamental Visual Landmarks - Teach Yourself to Draw

Proportions - Fundamental Visual Landmarks - Teach Yourself to Draw - Drawing Techniques

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In this second episode of "Teach Yourself to Draw", we will cover the fundamental elements of proportions. Proportions are the foundation of any realistic drawing, but they're also the most difficult challenge in a beginners or self-taught artist's journey.
In this episode, I try to share techniques an autodidact artist can put to use in a regular practice. Hope it helps !
#drawing #proportions #techniques
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I am an artist living and working in France. I learned the techniques of the Atelier of the Nineteenth century and now I try to share some of my knowledge with the rest of the world, because I think that beauty still has an important role to play in artistic creation. I do mostly drawing and oil painting, and my goal is always to provide techniques and explanations that can be useful to anyone, from beginners to more advanced artists.
The material I use most of the time (not necessarily in this video) :
Drawing
Equipement
✓ Kneaded eraser
✓ Plumb line
✓ Small mirror
✓ An old synthetic brush
✓ Masking tape
✓ Cutter
✓ Sandpaper or sanding block
✓ Mahlstick or Hand rest (DIY)
✓ Level ruler
Graphite
✓ Pencils 2H, HB and 2B
Charcoal
✓ If available: Nitram charcoals (H, HB and B)
!!! Or, if not::
✓ Square Venetian charcoals Lefranc and Bourgeois
✓ Natural charcoal box (check that the heart of the stick is not spongy and hollow)
Black and white chalk
✓ Sketch pencil Conté white
✓ Square Conté noir : HB and 2B
✓ Chalk or pencil holder
✓ Pencil sketch Conté Pierre noire : H and HB
Sanguine
✓ Sketch pencil Conté : Blood and blood Medici
✓ Crayon Polychromos Faber-Castel : sanguine
✓ Sketch pencil Conté white
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Пікірлер: 82

@garycooley543 2 жыл бұрын

I am 73 years old and just venturing into drawing and oils. I was a primary and elementary school teacher for 35 years and I can say with confidence that you are a wonderful instructor! Thank you for your insightful lessons, hints, and explanations! Much appreciated!

@jeffhreid 4 жыл бұрын

Art is a wonderful solace during these difficult times. Thanks!

@jcsatterlee46 4 жыл бұрын

Votre vidéo est très utile. Et votre anglais parfait ! :-) à bientôt sur Patreon.

@soshigasmic 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome new video! I really look forward to learning so much from this new series 💜 Thank you so much for sharing these things to us for free!

@fatemaalbalooshi1980 3 жыл бұрын

Your videos are so important to me as a beginner because they are guiding me in the right direction. It is like going to art school and learn from a very professional and experienced teachers. I truly thank you for all these fabulous lessons 💖

@godfather531 3 жыл бұрын

Inspiring video with some great tips. Thank you!

@vaibhavikeni349 2 жыл бұрын

I have come back to art after the longest gap and want to sharpen my skills. I just stumbled upon your video and now I'm hooked. You explain these tough things so easily that the whole process starts to feel fun again. Thank you so much for these beautifully explained lessons🙏😊

@templemerlyn3037 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your generosity and for being an excellent teacher!! Much appreciation!!

@kaychristophertv938 Жыл бұрын

Great video, Florent. All of your videos are so helpful. You are both a wonderful artist and teacher. Thank you.

@IconversewithGod 2 жыл бұрын

The video is truly amazing. Thank you for taking your time to post this

@UnityMisfit 3 жыл бұрын

You are the BEST! Will definitely be a Patreon member by the end of this week.

@Sariur1998 4 жыл бұрын

As always, this video is well organised and very helpful.

@sydbarrett7511 4 жыл бұрын

one of the best art channels ever

@bariranabeel9268 Жыл бұрын

Loved watching this video for the smaller tips we often miss

@annaposenka9187 2 жыл бұрын

Dear Florent, Thank you for your great turorials and the training in the Atelier technique! I find it far more helpful than any other drawing tutorial found on KZfaq. I wis the best for you and your family in 2022 and that you continue your successful and beautiful drawings and paintings!

@sarahvipondzara2943 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for putting this video together, anchor points make it so much easier.

@roneyyoneda556 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏🏼 I can see you’re really want to help us.

@lelanhurst7953 2 жыл бұрын

Yes! Tune the proportions...to free the creativity...thanks for the great explanation of Atelier method!

@tinlidtoo6615 3 жыл бұрын

Again I'm amazed that you can show me more useful information in 11 minutes than I learned in 5 years of art school. Thank you

@soupcuber4049 2 ай бұрын

I haven’t been to art school but how did you even get in without knowing proportions???

@jebajahin8592 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the helpful tips!

@alycevonrothkirch8698 4 жыл бұрын

Very useful video, especially the bit about landmarks. I'd love to see how you use the plumbline with 3D models, like a still life in a shadow box or even a live model. Keep up doing these drawing videos, they're excellent.

@Redskirt 4 жыл бұрын

It was very helpful to show the paper with the plumb line and anchor points drawn on. That made what you were teaching much clearer. 👍

@Aqua0276 4 жыл бұрын

That helped me a lot. The plumb line. I'm going to try it tomorrow. :)

@natashanep308 4 жыл бұрын

This really helped thanks!!

@xy4669 4 жыл бұрын

fantastic advice thank you

@smitty1105 Жыл бұрын

Great video. Keep up the inspiring work.

@m.i.miller8008 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent video.. thank you.

@nancie66612 4 ай бұрын

Thank you, I learn so much from your videos

@katjamohr8097 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much again

@sashavonspakovsky311 2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@christinawysockiart1521 Жыл бұрын

Excellent video

@divinedia 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful explanation.

@rosamondjourdan1487 2 жыл бұрын

I am very new to oil painting and used to watercolour. I love to paint portraits and want to learn about the face and figure. I found this beginning basic drawing video very helpful and will move onto the next one. I am enjoying watching your videos very much.

@shemyshaun 3 жыл бұрын

Florent: Thank you very much

@JM51CASTILLO 4 жыл бұрын

I've tried several times to teach myself to draw in perspective and to draw accurate proportions in perspective! It's SOOO difficult! (at least for me).

@jimmyha1898 4 жыл бұрын

I think it's incredibly difficult for a vast majority of people :) I am also quite bad, and trying hard to improve but it is quite difficult.

@Permanent12344 4 жыл бұрын

I recommend you start learning basic perspective methods like rotating boxes in perspective, before getting into complex “sight size” methods. There is a free course called “Draw A Box” on youtube that really helped me understand perspective. And moderndayjames’s perspective videos. Perspective to me is the most important element of drawing and once you understand it you’ll feel free drawing anything you want, but first you have to start understanding the basic shapes first then mold them into anything you want.

@crisalidathomassie1811 3 жыл бұрын

Permenant1, what a great advice! You are so right! Without the basics, it will be very difficult to understand everything else. Blessings and be safe.

@manuelcantu8572 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, Once you explained how to go about measuring points and distances drawing doesn't seem as daunting as I believed. Great, great video, Cheers !!!

@rjlausartDesign 4 жыл бұрын

very useful ,, love it friend,, watching here.. thanks for your tips..

@Master_Sensia 3 жыл бұрын

Very helpful I was terrible at proportions especially in the eyes this really helped now it’s time for practice practice practice

@konciksable 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks again..🙋‍♀️🙏😍

@OpPo-er8ir 2 жыл бұрын

I really like this channel, and Im a not English speaker, I might have a hard time understanding some words, but I will rewatch it, and practice again and again to improve myself. Thank you so much

@misadarelax1250 2 жыл бұрын

Thank u very helpful

@fidanabasova7642 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot!

@timclayton8214 3 ай бұрын

Excellent

@Brother-er2vk 3 жыл бұрын

Good teaching for a beginner 👍

@carliiuxiiz 4 жыл бұрын

Leaving my comment here so I can somehow pay you for these vids :) so thankful for them 🙏🏻

@waynerogers5485 3 жыл бұрын

I started using a “proportional divider”. It largely seems to be unknown but really helps me. I would appreciate your view of it. Thanks.

@mealghost7830 4 жыл бұрын

Good work man

@quirkyhonor3427 2 жыл бұрын

Ooh, I see! Thank you! The lines and dots make sense. =D

@user-gt6ux6gf5f 8 ай бұрын

I just discovered you and I think your awesome. Outstanding teaching skills! Bravo.

@FlorentFargesarts 8 ай бұрын

Thanks and welcome

@Kolba_Team 4 жыл бұрын

Nice cant wait head and proportions of it my weak point

@susanwong6471 4 жыл бұрын

Great tips! Can you show what strategy to use if we are not drawing sight size, eg, if drawing a bit larger than the object?

@behroozkousari2334 Ай бұрын

I really like the idea of using plumb line, it makes so much easier to get started. if it is possible will you please comment of scaling up and down a drawing from a photo. Thanks

@anthonypc1 4 жыл бұрын

Hello KZfaq, this video is one worth watch. :)

@abcrrudtcth4490 3 жыл бұрын

❤️❤️

@titogonskitchen 4 жыл бұрын

HI Sir!new subscriber here!..stay safe!

@at8630 Жыл бұрын

For your algo rhythms. Thank you.

@FlorentFargesarts Жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍the algo certainly appreciates ! 😊

@2gohan002 4 жыл бұрын

Talk about the hatching in a French style, please

@Noufalsart 4 жыл бұрын

Nice..i like 👍. Connected

@richardbaeyens1313 Жыл бұрын

Bonjour Florent. Je me permets de t'appeler Florent car à force de regarder tes vidéos, c'est comme un ami à qui je téléphone tous les jours.😊Merci pour les partages. Je faire prendre ta formation peinture en français et devenir un soutien Patreon. J'ai attendu de m'améliorer en dessin. Pour ma part, je m'aide d'un compas. Reste d'une formation chez les Compagnons.😅A bientôt dans ton cours.👋 Richard de Belgique

@murokmakto9723 2 жыл бұрын

Dear Florent, thank you for these in depth tutorials! Another question occured to me which I couldn´t find an answer to in your videos. What technique do you use when drawing in a different scale than your reference? While some techniques of the sight size method still work, like comparing proportions, others, like comparing dimensions and measuring, do not. So what are possible ways to solve this? I have noticed in some of the videos of your large scale oil painting that you occasionally use some kind of grid, but it seems to me that this is more for the purpose of the composition rather than the scaling..

@sujanithtottempudi2991 4 жыл бұрын

Mark carder says golden lines..same like this....it makes life so easy

@UnityMisfit 3 жыл бұрын

What type of Easel do you recommend to draw on ?

@asmaarateb6863 Жыл бұрын

You look like a painter...you literally look like it. It's like in you blood and soul

@gradybell1370 4 жыл бұрын

What would you teach a very beginner who has never drawn anything but wants to learn

@monopixel5569 4 жыл бұрын

Proportions! That should be your main goal!

@squarz 4 жыл бұрын

Draw everything you want from life or not one hour or more every single day once or more during the day. Seriously nothing beats exercise, even the most unorganized one.

@Permanent12344 4 жыл бұрын

Drawing basic forms in perspective and values.

@moimoi8180 3 жыл бұрын

hello can you put in French subtitles in your video because I want to learn

@laauralucchese Жыл бұрын

i have a question, is it "too much" to use two or more plumb lines?

@cynthiamarston2208 3 жыл бұрын

Did a copy of a drawing side by side same size and I raised the drawing with something so new drawing paper would have a decent position for theresult. Everything was 1/4 inch lower than original. That’s ok but why?

@sujanithtottempudi2991 4 жыл бұрын

Why not a scale instead of plumb line?