I am learning to be a comic artist, and this channel is invaluable to me in learning how to draw backgrounds without spending 20 hours on one page.

@shivanshrao4044

11 ай бұрын

Same 🫂

@eugenetswong

11 ай бұрын

It's interesting that you mention being a comic artist. If I recall correctly, I brought up the topic of computer animation in another comment section of his. I definitely often think of comics or cartoons, when I watch these videos.

@stephentraversart

11 ай бұрын

That’s great to hear. Thanks for telling me 😀

@stephentraversart

11 ай бұрын

It’s not an area of experience for me, but I’m really pleased my videos are relevant for background art. 😀

@ArifRWinandar

11 ай бұрын

Making comic book is 10% drawing and 90% figuring out how to not spend 100% of the time drawing.

That fragmented line... that might just be what's been missing from my cannopy sillhouetes this entire time! It's still so tempting to put a big fat outline around everything, and it just turns everything into a cartoon. Great little tip here that might just have a big payoff if I learn how to apply right. Great video as always :)

@stephentraversart

11 ай бұрын

Sounds like you know the way ahead. You’ll get there quick enough, I’m sure. All the best with it 😀

Definitely needed this one!!

I moved to Australia just over 6 years ago and I’m just besotted with gum trees. I adore them. There’s a massive one right next to our garden that I’ve tried to draw but it always comes out a bit meh. I shall give it a go again with renewed vision and vigour 😄

@stephentraversart

11 ай бұрын

They are so different to European trees in the main, and do present some challenges. Work at observing how they grow and particularly how the branches change direction at times. When we live looking at our subjects it will always be a good session 😀

Trees have always baffled me a bit. Thank you 😘

@stephentraversart

11 ай бұрын

Hope this has helped. I have a tree playlist if you’re interested in more on this 😀kzread.info/head/PLwjv2r1KZs1T6N8jxkM-M6r8m3_hX1Q1v

Very useful, just what I was looking for!

@stephentraversart

11 ай бұрын

Wonderful Alyson. Thanks for telling me 😀

brilliantly broken down x thank u love Alli from UK XX

@stephentraversart

11 ай бұрын

Thanks. Yes, this video and drawings happened so easily. I think the best ones do. 😀

Going back to the basics with trees! This is really helpful, thank you!

@stephentraversart

6 ай бұрын

Have fun. 😀

Excellent tip- draw branches from the top down - will be trying that asap! Thanks

@stephentraversart

7 ай бұрын

Really works for me Barbara. Have fun. 😀

thank you, your videos are always very useful!

@stephentraversart

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for telling me. Much appreciated 😀

This is awesome! I've always had a hard time drawing trees... this makes it so simple. I'm going to try this tonight... Thanks again for sharing this.

@stephentraversart

11 ай бұрын

Great to hear JB. I think it’s an effective approach 😀

I have been looking for instructions on how to draw trees. Thank you SO MUCH, Sir! ❤

@stephentraversart

4 ай бұрын

Glad to help. Here’s my Drawing Trees playlist if you’d like some more: kzread.info/head/PLwjv2r1KZs1T6N8jxkM-M6r8m3_hX1Q1v&si=RZ3g87qf7wfndfAN

@PhuongNguyen-wm8wi

4 ай бұрын

😍 Thank you, Stephen. I have watched a few videos of yours about drawing trees this morning , but it is wonderful to have this playlist. Much appreciated!!!@@stephentraversart

This an excellent tutorial. Thanks

@stephentraversart

11 ай бұрын

Great to hear. Thanks 😀

thanks they are beautiful

@stephentraversart

9 ай бұрын

Thanks 😀

Very helpful ! Thank you 🙂

@stephentraversart

8 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!😀

So so helpful. Your videos are so helpful. I am more in to this kind of thing rather than buildings , but I am learning so much from you.

@stephentraversart

11 ай бұрын

Great to hear Sky. Keep onwards!😀

Truly love & learn from your videos. They are fabulous & your teaching style is wonderful.

@stephentraversart

9 ай бұрын

Glad it’s so helpful for you. Please do me a favour and tell your friends. 😀

Thank you.

@stephentraversart

9 ай бұрын

My pleasure Tim😀

helped me a ton on my poster making thx

@stephentraversart

3 ай бұрын

Excellent! Thanks for telling me 😀

This is really cool thank you a lot , I stopped drawing months ago and I seems to forgot everything

@stephentraversart

7 ай бұрын

Hope this reminds you. 😀

Think you very much I have some difficulty will be practicing your lesson 🙏

@stephentraversart

8 ай бұрын

All the best with it. I have a tree drawing playlist if you want more on this. 😀

ótimo video!

@stephentraversart

10 ай бұрын

Thanks 😀

I'm labouring through an eight-square-foot Canadian landscape at present. Your fir tree example was actually quite helpful 😀

@gnarthdarkanen7464

11 ай бұрын

While you look for a bit of variety on a landscape that large, don't forget some trends in the "personality" of the trees... While his over-all shape works well for most pines, and some firs, there are cedars and hemlocks (if I recall correctly) where the branches are a tad more springy, preferring to reach out and UP, to make a more "artichoke shape" of the things... rather differentiated from a "sagging cone"... Just a thought... along the way... haha ;o)

@iansaxby9264

11 ай бұрын

@@gnarthdarkanen7464 Cheers mate. Yeah, I try to give the trees a bit of character as I go. I'm working from photo references, so there's a variety of images to work from (my training as a botanical illustrator also helps a little 😀).

@stephentraversart

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Ian. In Australia, we call everything like that a pine tree, but I’ve been corrected in the past. So it’s a fir, not a conifer? I’m on a learning curve here. 😀

@iansaxby9264

11 ай бұрын

@@stephentraversart A fir is a type of conifer, but not technically a pine. Pines carry their needles in bunches of two, three, or five, while firs and spruces carry theirs as singles. I tend to generically refer to conifers as firs because that's mostly what I'm painting here in Canada 😀

@gnarthdarkanen7464

11 ай бұрын

@@iansaxby9264 That's cool. I've just worked around enough remarkably old-school wood craftsmen to get how a man can look over a quarter mile away and KNOW FOR FACT that he's looking at a Douglas Fir, or a Spruce, Hemlock, Virginia or Tabletop Pine, etc... Works fairly readily with the broad-leaves, too. Each species has a sort of character to its silhouette and then color and a few other things from proportion to a dubious tendency toward where they sacrifice branches (creating bare-spots) if you know what to look for. I'm okay finding some species that way from a distance, but I still occasionally get shook by the old timers... haha... Anyways, granted you won't be out to impress a guy who's been 40 or 50 years as a work-a-day sawyer... BUT the odd tip here or there to show a few different characters can help simplify the means by which you're NOT just stamping out the same trees... kind of like "how to avoid same-face syndrome" with people... Good luck in your work... ;o)

Hi from Singapore. Very useful tips. Thanks

@stephentraversart

11 ай бұрын

Glad you think so. Thanks for telling me 😀

Porfinnn dibujos de árboles

@stephentraversart

11 ай бұрын

I love drawing trees😀

nice tutorial

@stephentraversart

11 ай бұрын

Thanks. 😀

Simplify is the answer…👏 thanks for the lesson 11:59

@stephentraversart

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Joni. Must say, I’ve never heard anyone else make that 11:59 point. 😀

The tip at 2:30 helped quite a bit! 😁 why didn't I think of that before...

@stephentraversart

11 ай бұрын

Great to hear Ali. 😀

Herzlichen Dank ☺️ ❤

@stephentraversart

9 ай бұрын

My pleasure 😀

This is very amazing I can now draw at 3x the speed

@stephentraversart

8 ай бұрын

Great 😀😀😀

I'm not really smart with words since english is not my native language, but Thanks this really help me😅😊

@stephentraversart

3 ай бұрын

My pleasure to help Farid. 😀

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@stephentraversart

11 ай бұрын

😀😀😀😀

Great video! How do we know exactly where to place the shadow and light correctly? Thanks 😊

@stephentraversart

11 ай бұрын

If we have a reference, that tells us. I just drew these quickly from my imagination so I chose where the sun was and imagined where that would create shadows. Both ways work.

jrw1219 5: 30am Montana USA I like your teaching method. It is so easy to follow!! Thank you.

@stephentraversart

4 ай бұрын

That’s great. Thanks for saying so. 😀

Good advice. But how do you draw trees in winter which are only branches and twigs? Do you summarize them somehow?

@stephentraversart

10 ай бұрын

Here’s a link to one my videos on this: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dn5nrLuPnc3Rcco.html

@OkieSketcher1949

10 ай бұрын

You have just shown me a different way to draw trees. Thank you. I think I will get my pen and paper and start giving this technique a try. -OkieSkeetcher1949

Stephen. Do u have a video about your draw station? Im starting to learning to drawing and I have doubts about this matter.

@stephentraversart

11 ай бұрын

I’m sorry Jaraki, I’m not sure what you mean. Do you mean where I draw?😀

@jaraki

11 ай бұрын

@@stephentraversart Yes. Do we need a table tilted to draw? Sorry about my english 😅😏

@ManWithoutThePants

3 ай бұрын

@@jaraki This is 7 months late, but don't worry about that as a start. Especially if you are sketching an smaller paper. Tilted drawing board might come handy if you are drawing something bigger so that you don't view it from angle or you don't need to hunch over it which can lead to back or neck pain over longer time. But in general drawing flat is fine way to go I would start and later you can get more equipment depending what you want.

This is crazy

@stephentraversart

9 ай бұрын

Crazy good i hope!🤣

@kinisiko

9 ай бұрын

@@stephentraversart this is crazy fast to me

-07/02/2023 @ 1047- 🤔🤨🤔

all this time ive been trying to draw "realistic" by drawing all the structure behind everything, but it makes everything too slow and grueling, i think the idea here is to know the structure in your head, but don't draw it, just imply the structure with the other things...

@stephentraversart

11 ай бұрын

Have you seen my videos on drawing effect, not detail. I have a playlist list that shows how it works on different subjects if you’re interested 😀

My mistake is trying to draw leaves! I am trying to stop doing this.

@stephentraversart

11 ай бұрын

Sounds like you’re on the right track Bruce. All the best with it. 😀

Why not finish one by one? Annoying

@stephentraversart

2 ай бұрын

It shows how the steps work for different types of trees more effectively I think. But you don’t have to agree. 😀

my god his nails. terrible

@stephentraversart

4 ай бұрын

Sadly, I have the urge to pull out weeds every time I pass my garden. Even on my way to record a video. It’s so much a part of my life I do it like breathing - without thought. I’m trying to remember to check now, but this is an old video. I hope the teaching was more helpful.😀

@Yanbdesign

3 ай бұрын

man the video is gold but you could prepare everything before to shoot it.@@stephentraversart

He doing waaay to much. Just finish the tree u started on then go to the next one. Smh lost interest, I'm going to the next video. Sorry bro but u doin the most.

@stephentraversart

6 ай бұрын

Never mind. Most of my tree videos are just one tree. 😀

Thanks cool lesson

@stephentraversart

7 ай бұрын

No problem!😀