Glad it was helpful!

I use 220 and 400 grit so perhaps I should say 'very fine' sandpaper. Thanks for the question :)

@@ThePencilRoomOnline - Thanks for the rapid and useful answer.

Hi, can you explain what do you mean by shortening? And I'll see if I can help you out 🙂

@@ThePencilRoomOnline I guess it’s called foreshortening- : to shorten (a detail) in a drawing or painting so that it appears to have depth.

Ok cool, thats what I guessed but as it was on the proportion video I just wanted to check you weren't asking about heights or something 😊 I'll add it to my list

@@ThePencilRoomOnline Thank you. I love your videos.

It's a different approach to the other videos which start with simplifying shapes. This video is more about practicing looking in a different way and recording what you see as you go slowly around the edge. It does take practice but it's also not a vital skill to have at this stage, especially if you are focusing more on geometric shaped based subjects and drawing with that simplifying process. Instead of trying to see different edges, take a look at the leaf again and see if you can see where light is hitting more on some edges than others (it is a very subtle change in colour or value). All we are really doing is emphasising where the light or shadow is by using a thinner or thicker line. If you want to face the challenge you could check out my other videos on continuous line drawing: How To Do Contour Drawing: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/atd-gN2Ax5OoiWw.html Continuous Line Drawing Of Your Hand kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ep6EZ7udvafahIU.html But if it's not for you at this stage, don't worry! Thanks for your comment 🙂

@@ThePencilRoomOnline ty for the help

Yes generally the same thing.Traditionally we say draw from the shoulder but I usually say from the elbow because when I say the shoulder I find people think too much about it and forget what their hand is doing! The idea is to have the hand sweeping freely across the page to achieve longer, fluid lines. Drawing from the wrist is fine, especially on a smaller sized drawing. It's good to try out moving from the elbow/shoulder to learn different ways of moving your hand and to develop coordination for different movements. Thanks for watching!

Totally fine, work whatever way is comfortable, especially if working on a small scale. It's good to be aware of other ways you can move your arm/hand to get different types of lines. So give it a go working from the elbow/shoulder but work with whatever is most comfortable :)

Im currently putting time into videos for my membership but I hope to bring you more KZfaq videos soon! Thanks for watching ☺

Im currently putting time into videos for my membership but I hope to bring you more KZfaq videos soon!

Yay I'm glad to hear it's clicking! Grids can be useful in some situations but good observation skills will give you much more flexibility to draw from life, draw quickly, draw at any size 🙂

You're welcome, thanks for your kind comment ☺

Thanks for watching!

Thanks!

yayy glad that helped! I try to make things as easy to understand as possible so I'm happy to hear you had a breakthrough :)

Im always trying to find ways to make the process easier to understand so I'm really glad to hear that tip helped! Thanks so much for watching ☺

Very common problem especially for left handers like me 😅 Softer pencils (2B-8B) will smudge more than hard pencils. Aside from turning your page around to avoid resting your hand on the drawing, you can use a paper towel under your hand, over the areas of the drawing you've already done. It may pick up a bit of the graphite from the drawing but it shouldn't smudge it 🙂 Thanks for watching!

So I can get better in drawing

Its the only way to get better!

You're welcome :)

Thank you for your kind words!

Glad to hear they've helped :)

Nicely summed up - after coordination skills it really is all about understanding how to translate 3D info to a 2D page 🙂