I appreciate that you are so encouraging! “Give it a go” rings in my mind, which helps keep me motivated. Looking forward to this play list. Thank you!

Congratulations Stephen! That’s a lot of sharing!

The main reason I avoid tracing my pencil sketches with total exactness is that my mind begins to wander at how rote that inking procedure is and the product will reflect that as I get sloppy and distracted. So I will omit details for the inking to keep myself creatively engaged. I don’t typically use reference for my work but I enjoyed your ideas and it really rings true.

Hi mate, I absolutely love your work and appreciate everything you do. Thank you so much for the tutorial videos you have put together. Congratulations on your 1000th video 😊, looking forward to the new videos 😊. Teaching is not easy, it is one of the hardest profession, both my parent's were school teachers for over 40 years. You are one of best teachers 😊, thanks again.

Day 30. A milestone for me. Spent far too long trying to darken the front trees. And if I use the blurry test - ie looking at both with glasses off - I prefer my 5 minutes pre sketch because now the trees look like fur in the main drawing 😅 Interesting exercise but not necessarily the one I would pick to draw in pen completely, one for the watercolour book maybe? For me anyway. 👍 Thanks Stephen 👍

Congratulations on the posting of the 1000th video on your channel. I start each morning drinking a cup of coffee and watching a few videos on your channel. You have inspired me to start drawing in my 70’s. Looking forward to your next thousand videos.

It would be so nice if you could provide more viszualized subtext and a summary table with most important information. Especially for the long videos. Congratulations for your 1000th video

I have to admit that I've encountered your channel year or two ago when I've started my journey with drawing and honestly 'talking head' and black&white pictures weren't as much interesting to me as other more entertaining channels. But things have changed few months ago and amount of knowledge, experience and encouragement you are presenting is enormous. I've gained a lot and I see that my drawing skill is improving. Thank you! By the way, that's the first video where I saw train on tracks behind your garden :)

This is such a happy coincidence! I recently subscribed to your channel because I would like to learn to draw despite being rather late in life. This will save me from scrolling thru 1000 videos😅. Thank u for your clear explanations

Artists are bizarre.

Wow just as I wanted to start collecting your tutorials in one playlist and bam new upload 🎉

Congrats on 1000

Congratulations Stephen on reaching this mega milestone! I saw the number clock up to 998 yesterday 😊. Your channel is one of the go to tutorial channels I look at daily. Whenever i get the chance I share and promote your channel on Instagram as my YT channel following is miniscule. How inconvenient are the trains going by 🤣. Thank you and looking forward to syncing up and joining you on one of your Lives! Here's to another 1000 😲 videos. 🎉

Here is to another 1000 🥳🥳 👏👏👏

CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 we appreciate all of your efforts 🎉

This is great Ty 🎉

Good work

Great video, if your where drawing outdoors rather then from reference, do you still do the same warmup or go straight into the drawing?

very good idea 👍👍 and particularly usefull for not be lost in the forest of the youtube videos It'salways very interresting to hear you. Thanks a lot for your teaching work👏👏😍😍

Fantastic video ! I have done 2 previous drawings of the first ref picture and I'm excited to give it another go now! Very helpful info 😊

Your drawings are amazing fiend ❤

I have a minimum two of every drawing, a pencil one and an ink version. I’ll use a lightbox to ink on a separate piece of card/paper

I think this tutorial needed color markers, hard to follow all the lines.

Thank you!

Day 29. Love drawing trees and have done quite a few stylised tree drawings recently. I added a bit of the street scene as I wanted to practise giving the impression of things far away. My tree is not as dense as yours, but i didnt want to scratch about too much as i thoight I'd already got yhe light and dark captured. Thanks Stephen 👍🏻

Very interesting, Stephen. Am curious, in your journey from oils to Copics did you ever try a dip pen? With all the the various nibs available they apparently can produce quite a variety of lines. Perhaps you'd find them particularly useful in capturing your "effects?" In any case thanks for the video. Provides much to think about.

From my point of view it would be extremely helpful if you visualize your main points in form of a short summary and divide your videos into chapters. At the end of your always long explanations I often try to resume what you said at the beginning. This would strengthen the effect of your content.

drawing as it is

very productive video about freehand drawing

I'm so happy I stumbled on this

This is really helpful. But to apply this tips, I need to unlearn many of my practices. It will be a difficult process, but I think that it will make me better. Thanks for such practical tips.

I'm hoping I won't meet the man with the scary teeth, but no neck and no ears, in my dreams tonight! 😅

One trick we do when putting tape in paper is to stick it first to our pants or short to remove some of the adhesive... But the fabric material shouldn't have too much fibers that can stick to the tape and might stain the paper. Rarely happens though.

I wish I had caught this live! I have so many problems with line work, where to start!?

Thank you, Stephen, This is one of your best videos. I've learned so much from you. But this video gave me a deeper layer. I'd love to point out my favorite, or most helpful part, but I guess I can't. Unless it is one of the most common lessons... keep looking at your reference. You took that direction and turned it into a complete, fleshed-out thought.

Murphys Law I didn't look at KZfaq whilst I was at the gym last night. I thought I'd have a change. There's a pattern, must check KZfaq at 11pm my time! 😅😅 Have downloaded to watch ... at the gym!

Good points 👉 👈 😊

Experential reality versus the spontaneous imagination. Finding peace with your drawing along that trajectory. Do we not allow ourselves that flexibility or is rigidity with expectations better?

Love the gorgeous backdrops you've been filming recently... Makes me want to visit Aus!

I normally don't comment but this is such great tips! I love your channel so much! Life long subscriber!

TL/DW: Never use a pencil. It will ruin your art.

I love your channel so much

Great topic. Really enjoyed your perspective

Great tips! I've been going back and forth with pen and ink drawing, and the distinct challenges it creates vs. traditional painting. I've done the doodling and warm-up exercises with the mark making, and those are fine, but what I've found is that I enjoy just doing what you describe - making marks of specific subjects - from imagination. So, practice drawing various trees from memory, or even while looking out my window, and drawing mesas and desert washes, rocks, etc. I've found that as soon as I start going from an actual photo, I suddenly switch into a tighter "copy mode", and it makes it more difficult. Doing some practice thumbnails and scrap mark-making as you demonstrate/describe, is really a great transition. I also love photographing and sketching birds - I have sketchbooks full of pencil sketches and some ink overlays. Drawing skills, and the ability to draft accurate proportions in general are highly under-rated in terms of their importance to any genre of art or medium used. One only has to look at Picasso's expertly-rendered realistic drawings to see they were crucial to him later being able to "break the rules" and develop his cubist style. Even spending 10 min a day sketching from life is invaluable. Cheers, and happy drawing!

Great use of examples to illustrate your points about "warming up," and an interesting mixture of your two primary presentation modes -- actual drawing and camera-facing verbalization/discussion.

Day 27. I was time challenged today so didn't add as much shading as I would have liked. Met objective of draw once only. But the lamps were a bit wonky 😅. Might redo this evening.

So helpful for my experience as a beginner in drawing, thanks.

Very helpful for my future drawing time....thanks Stephen.