Studying Proportions, Part 1, Real Time Edition
Added 2020-06-03 17:10:20 +0000 UTCEvery mark on made from start to finish!
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All of my drawings follow more or less the same pattern of use. Harder pencils first and softer as needed later on. If I can be 100% honest- you will develop a feeling for how this pattern fits the way that like to work and there is quite a bit of room for variation. Best skill to focus on is getting even pressure when applying value.
Stephen Bauman Artwork
2022-09-03 18:20:07 +0000 UTCI do understand this but would like to know how you used it in this drawing. Did you start out with a H? It looks like you used one pencil for awhile. It would be helpful to know how you progressed with the grade of pencils in this drawing.
Kym Chambers
2022-09-03 12:56:51 +0000 UTCThis is from my FAQ's: The various hardnesses of graphite pencils indicate how dark or light a value that pencil will produce. A harder lead (4H) will produce a light value whereas a softer lead (4B) will produce a darker value. Mechanical pencils have different sizes, .3mm - .9mm. When choosing which size to use I take nostly into consideration what size is the shape that I am drawing. Also, I will consider what the grain of the paper is. A smaller diameter of lead will be required to "fill the holes," of a very fine toothed paper.
Stephen Bauman Artwork
2022-09-03 08:34:35 +0000 UTCStephen: I am new to your Patreon. In this video, can you explain what grade pencil you are using through the drawing? I struggle with this and I know how important it is to get the smoothness that you are getting in your drawings. Towards the end, you use some mechanical pencils, can you tell me which size and grade of graphite you are using in these based on the color of the mechanical pencils? This would be very helpful in watching this video.
Kym Chambers
2022-09-01 20:37:37 +0000 UTCWould love to see!
Lewosz Kamil Artwork
2022-08-27 15:06:20 +0000 UTCI think that I have never made a still life drawing... Maybe something to think about for the future.
Stephen Bauman Artwork
2022-08-27 08:05:23 +0000 UTCBy the way, do you have any drawings of full still life compositions on internet? I have seen only paintings.
Lewosz Kamil Artwork
2022-08-25 15:13:47 +0000 UTCStarts with one- eventually at 5 or 6 the improvement will be crystal clear.
Stephen Bauman Artwork
2022-08-25 09:16:02 +0000 UTCHello mr Bauman, I rejoined your patreon since I've been training your foundation tutorials and getting frustrated because i still don't see results. With your full time video, i am very motivated now, and I bieleve I will draw as beautiful pear as here and other objects.
Lewosz Kamil Artwork
2022-08-25 00:15:32 +0000 UTCMost marks early on are a mix of measuring and eyeballing. As for the line at 13:30 it is marking the tilted vertical axis of the subject.
Stephen Bauman Artwork
2022-03-01 08:47:26 +0000 UTCHi Stephen, hope you are great!. In the block-in stage, you defined the top part of the pear so accurate usying two vertical lines at minute 9:15 and 9:29, how did you defined those plumb lines should be exactly there? there are not much lines to compare with, maybe established it by eye? Also the line at the minute 13:30, is also to check relationships between angle breaks? Thank you so much!!
Carlos Polit
2022-03-01 08:40:43 +0000 UTCHello Stephen, I just asked you a day ago if you could make a video showing more precisely the way to take marks but yet you had already done it a long time ago :) Thank you, your courses are so full.
Hermès
2022-02-15 13:24:43 +0000 UTCSure thing.
Stephen Bauman Artwork
2021-06-02 08:58:59 +0000 UTCBeautiful. Can i try this if im a beginner?
Jorge mejia
2021-06-01 23:02:09 +0000 UTCHi Sirius, these are good questions and I definitely talk about the process of adding values to a drawing. Some things however mostly come out of practice, like getting a smooth value. There are. somethings like keeping your pencils sharp and filling the holes of the paper as you go. Most of my teaching is about the concepts you will need to succeed in drawing and paintings.
Stephen Bauman Artwork
2021-06-01 18:25:25 +0000 UTCHello Stephen, I've just subscribed to your patreon today :) This video seems like a rather "beginner" one so I decided to watch this first on, still not yet half way through, but I have not actually done any shading before (not in this kind of sophisticated level at least) and I'm a bit confused... Is there another video in your collection that provide verbal explanation regarding the technical issues involved, like how to create a smooth result through multiple passes, advices on switching pencils (if needed) for different areas/effects etc? Or are these points actually covered in this vid at a later stage so I should just go on? (I paused when you're already shading the mid-tone area.) Thank you :)
Sirius
2021-06-01 14:11:58 +0000 UTCHi Kumari, it seems like you have a LOT of questions- this is a good thing. However, it seems to me that many of them will be best understood through practice. The answer of how to see value for instance is very simple to say: identify the lightest and darkest value of your subject and compare the value in question to each of those to solve. Saying this is one thing, it has to be practiced to be understood well. In most cases the answers you are looking for will be found in the practice.
Stephen Bauman Artwork
2020-12-29 07:53:31 +0000 UTCHi Stephen, as I go through the pear project myself I have lots of questions for you. I understood the proportion part but as we move into showing the mass through value and edge control...I understood the part of moving from unified value to adding value later on....but what about the marks you make in the paper? How can you decide whether to make the mark in a vertical or horizontal way or a little slanted? Does it relate to the direction of the light or how the local value presents itself? I am taking the Dorian Iten shading course and it somehow helped me to understand the light but I am still confused about its application? What to see when we are trying to see the value? How to approach any subject as simple as pear to as complex as a portrait? Because when I start doing some portrait or still life drawing on my own it doesn't take me a lot of time to move from unified value to adding darker tones? How we should go about doing this careful analysis when doing it on our own? What we should look for? And why you put certain strokes in certain way in value stage? Any response will help. Please Please help me with this confusion.
Kumari Budhathoki
2020-12-28 07:57:07 +0000 UTCAt the moment there is only the option to watch/stream online.
Stephen Bauman Artwork
2020-11-16 14:49:07 +0000 UTCHow to download videos
Mortzamir2
2020-11-16 12:35:33 +0000 UTCDear Stephen, I understood that my color value, is totally off... I'm not sitting long enough in my drawings... Thank you!
Ada Gurevich
2020-11-03 05:48:37 +0000 UTCCan't say I recall exactly when- really most measurements are taking place in the early phases of the drawing.
Stephen Bauman Artwork
2020-07-21 05:07:28 +0000 UTCHello Sir, At which point do you use comparison of width of top of the pear to its height like you talk about at the start of the video. width of the top part = 1/3(height) of the pear.
Mark Twain
2020-07-21 03:41:24 +0000 UTCChecking the angle breaks on each side in relationship to the other.
Stephen Bauman Artwork
2020-06-17 15:53:09 +0000 UTCWhat are you establishing with the lines at 11:20? Is that the tilt of the pear or something pertaining to lighting?
Artin
2020-06-16 18:38:30 +0000 UTCHi,dear,I don't see enough content..
Aras Saber
2020-06-09 20:03:42 +0000 UTCIf it's useful then I think it's great. Ive used it to enlarge compositions before but not so far for direct observation.
Stephen Bauman Artwork
2020-06-04 14:46:54 +0000 UTCThank you, Stephen. May I ask for your view on the grid technique, which I have seen used by many artists (i.e. drawing a light grid of squares on the paper and to use those as a guide for placing features and keeping proportions accurate). Grateful for your thoughts.
Chris Langley
2020-06-04 07:12:41 +0000 UTCFeel be like "Pear Portrait". Thank you for share your knowledge.
Cee Triamornpan
2020-06-04 04:58:36 +0000 UTC
