How to Draw

Transcript We’re going to talk about sketching a dog. For a lot of people, sketching can be intimidating. When we’re sketching a dog, the most important thing is just to loosen up first. I’m using vine charcoal. I’m going to have what’s called a kneaded gummy eraser, and then I really like having an eraser, …

Transcript Now we’re going to focus on how to draw circles and ellipses, which absolutely come in handy for anything else you’ll want to be drawing. In order to draw a circle, a little tip can be the following, which is to draw the letter ‘T’, or a cross. Some people have a very easy …

Transcript Now we’ll talk about how to draw with your eraser, which is one of my all-time favorite techniques. People think that an eraser is used only to get rid of mistakes. On the contrary, using your eraser to draw can create incredible movement and incredible modes of your own self-expression. Here I have a …

Transcript My name is Rebecca Schweiger; I am an internationally exhibited artist, and the founder of the Art Studio, New York. These days, our lives are so hurried and so chaotic, and everybody needs a break to relax, reconnect with ourselves, and really reconnect with our own expression. The Art Studio, New York is a …

Transcript We’re now going to focus on how to draw a person. What you first want to think about is a certain pose or posture of a person that would be interesting to you. What I really recommend is getting a small wooden mannequin, and you can move that around so you have something to …

Transcript We’re now going to focus on drawing clouds. My favorite clouds are these big puffy clouds. I always think that when I’m in an airplane how fun it would be, in my imagination of course, to bounce from cloud to cloud. Those are the types of clouds I love drawing. What we want to …

Transcript We’ll focus on drawing a mountain. I’ve already prepared a landscape; this is a marsh with a wide and deep field of grass. We’re going to focus on drawing mountains way in the background. Mountains typically, when we see them in a drawing, are very far away from us. I’m going to take my …

Transcript We’ll focus on how to draw fruit. Of course, there are many different types of fruit one can draw; I’m going to focus on an apple. When I look at an apple, what I’m seeing initially is an oval-type form. I’m using vine charcoal, and I’m going to first draw this basic form, again, …

Transcript We’ll now focus on a simple drawing, for beginners. I have a vase here, which is the subject matter that we’ll focus on. I’m going to be using vine charcoal. I have a gum eraser, and an eraser just from the back of a regular pencil. What I’m going to suggest is actually with …

Transcript We’re now going to learn how to draw a realistic eye, for beginners. Drawing an eye is not as challenging as you might think. We can really break it down to a number of very easy steps. What I’m using right now is a variety of drawing pencils. Drawing pencils come in different styles, …

Transcript We’ll now focus on how to draw water drops. I will show you the beginning stages and techniques of drawing a water drop. Truly, you could spend hours perfecting a drawing of a water drop or anything else, but the most important thing is how to get started. Always very important to just relax, …

Transcript We’ll now focus on how to draw a flower. When drawing a flower, you really have the opportunity to capture the beauty and the essence of the flower, and how you connect to a flower. Your first step is going to be to find an actual flower, whether it’s live or a photo of …

Transcript We’ll talk about how to draw a pumpkin. I highly suggest having a pumpkin in front of you, or a photo of a pumpkin. A lot of us think we know what something looks like, but in reality, everything has a unique personality, including you, so you want to really bring your personality and …

Transcript The basics of sketching are easy and fun. Basically, you need some paper and you need a drawing material. This time, I’m going to use drawing pencils. Drawing pencils come in different shades. You have B as in boy, pencils, and you have H as in Harry, pencils. The Hs are much harder and …

Transcript I’ll now share with you how to draw a realistic mouth. I’m going to be using drawing pencils. There are a variety of different drawing pencils that you can use. If you’d like, you can just use one pencil or you can use 3, 4, or more. The different pencils will just show different …

Transcript We’re now going to learn how to draw a leaf. I suggest you find a leaf that you really love. I absolutely love the tropics, so I’m going to focus on a really big, green, lifelike leaf. The leaf I’m looking at is almost the shape of a heart, so I’m actually going to …

Transcript Now let’s talk about shading. Shading is a drawing technique that really allows your drawings to come alive. It gives it dimension, it gives it color, and it gives it movement. I’m going to show you an example of shading with a simple circle. Here you have a flat circle, and through shading, we’re …

Transcript We’re going to focus on drawing a landscape. What’s wonderful about drawing a landscape is that nature is so beautiful and so inspiring. You can find any landscape that you really, really love. I’m going to be drawing a freshwater marsh that has water and many, many, many fields of grass. I’m going to …

Transcript We’ll now focus on how to draw a cat; these cute, snuggly little creatures that many of us love. What I have is a photo of a cat. What I’m going to suggest is that you too, find a photo that you really enjoy looking at, so that as you’re drawing it, you can …

Transcript We’ll focus on how to draw sky. The sky is very vast, very beautiful, and very mysterious. Truly, the sky is different colors at different times of the day, and clearly, all over the world, the sky can look different. The basics are this: The bottom of your sky is always going to be …

Transcript Charcoal is a terrific tool to use when drawing. I’m going to show you a few tips that you can learn and practice at home when using charcoal. First of all, charcoal comes in different ways and forms. This is called vine charcoal. The top is round, it’s very, very delicate, and you can …

Transcript I’ve prepared a landscape, which is a marsh, a freshwater in the front, and a green field of grass. I’ve basically added fields of color, and now I’m going to add these strands of grass. There are literally endless strands of grass. I’m not going draw every strand. What I’m going to do is …

Transcript I’ll talk about how to draw a body of water. You want to find, perhaps, a photograph or an image of a body of water that really inspires you. When you’re drawing, you always want to find something of inspiration so that as you’re expressing yourself through drawing, you feel a connection to what …