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I love these videos! Just watching you and hearing your thought process is so helpful to me

Enjoying your videos alot, especially the format of watching you draw sped up while you talk us through the process. I spent the morning watching a few videos, before going out to a park and trying out drawing trees with the techniques you go through. Wonderful!

@stephentraversart

4 ай бұрын

So glad it works for you Leonie. Have fun trying it out. 😀

I always enjoy your videos, Stephen! You offer a really nice variety of subjects to try out.

@stephentraversart

10 ай бұрын

Great to hear Daniel. 😀

Wonderful

@stephentraversart

10 ай бұрын

Thanks 😀

Great Demo Stephen: It's shown me how I try to be too realistic when I'm trying to draw the foliage of trees. As you show it's all about the mark making to give an impression. Thank you.

A very algorithmically engaging lesson. :) Seriously your drawing came out very well, I thought. I felt like your description of how to approach detail/abstraction was very understandable. Thanks very much!

Fantastic ...

@stephentraversart

10 ай бұрын

Thanks 😀

Great video Stephen. Thanks

@stephentraversart

10 ай бұрын

Thanks 😀

great job with all of the different textures😀

@stephentraversart

10 ай бұрын

Thanks 😀

As always super useful. Sometimes I think you read my mind 😂

@stephentraversart

10 ай бұрын

AleYs pleased to be useful. 😀

Thanks Stephen. Great teaching points regarding adjacent tonal values and making marks not lines. A very intimidating subject to draw. I’ll give it a go and hope for the best. Likely I’ll have to bush bash a few times:)

@stephentraversart

10 ай бұрын

Drawing is like juggling. Keeping everything in the air and getting them to the right positions. 😀

Perfect!

I think that last little bit really helped balance out a lot of the visual input. Having a little more on the upper right just helped and I was feeling it for a bit, the top half of the drawing kinda felt lost because there was so much info but it was all on the same level. Thank you so much for posting these. It’s really helping me with my own pen work and the courage to keep making more. Keep it up!

You deserve more subs! Great work as always!

@stephentraversart

10 ай бұрын

Haha. Thanks. I’ll put you in charge of that 😆

I think it makes complete sense. Your style of suggestive realism inspires me a lot to also train myself in this technique. Wondering, do you have experience drawing straight from your imagination, as reference to hints of real scenes?

@stephentraversart

5 ай бұрын

That’s great to hear. Thanks. No, while I happily adjust my references for a better drawing, I can’t say I draw from imagination 😀

I'd love to see a location drawing of a forrest tbh! great video as always!

Amazing work. It's a pleasure to watch you work. Love how detailed your commentary is, extremely educational. Thank you!

@stephentraversart

10 ай бұрын

Encouraging to hear. Thanks 😀

Thanks for the video Stephen👍🏻 Requesting you to please make more content on foliage (vines, ivy creepers, bougainville climbers, even moss)🙏 I'm struggling with mine looking more like a squiggly mess.

@stephentraversart

10 ай бұрын

We don’t have a lot of that round here, but I’ll see what I can find. 😀

@CC-hv6yt

10 ай бұрын

@@stephentraversart yes please 🙂

thank u

@stephentraversart

10 ай бұрын

My pleasure 😀

Beautiful work, and very helpful as always :)

@stephentraversart

10 ай бұрын

Very kind of you. 😀

I like how you say massage the value. This is the hardest part, getting the distance to sit in the distance, and getting what you want to pop to pop! I don’t think I understand value.

@stephentraversart

10 ай бұрын

It’s the principle we need to keep in mind. How it works in practice changes every drawing. 😀

I am not going to attempt this yet as I get disorientated in my own drawings when they are this chaotic. I don’t know how you keep track of what you are doing in complicated scenes like this.

For me its way too busy and complicated. It looses so much because there are too many marks. Its a mess of marks and the subject and focal point are unclear. Sorry, but you did ask what we thought :)

@stephentraversart

10 ай бұрын

That’s always the risk. As I mentioned, I would often use 2-3 different pen widths, to help distinguish planes of depth, but I wanted in this drawing to still have a sense of the crowded clutter (and spikiness) of the Australian bush. But I appreciate your thoughts Russell 😀

@frodethorsenbrseth5014

10 ай бұрын

I both agree and disagree. For multiple of Travers' videos I've been left with an impression like you describe at the end. But at the same time, I also remember seeing the thumbnail of the video, displaying the finished drawing, and how I felt drawn in to the scene, my eye convinced by the messy suggestive lines. Watching the drawing made from start to finish, I think we end up blind to the overall effect, like how when you repeat the same word over and over it starts to sound like giberish. If you leave for a day, and come back to look at the finished drawing of this video again, especially if you don't watch it full-screen on a large monitor, I think you will be surprised. I certainly am, over and over. This is also something I struggle with as I try to do my own drawings. I end up not seeing the forest for the trees, literally.