I deleted the earlier video because there was a repeated segment. Sorry about the lost comments. I have screenshot the comments at goo.gl/kmPXdF

once I was sketching a really stylishly dressed guy in transport, and he noticed that I was drawing him. I tried to hide my sketchbook but he just approached and asked to take a photo of my sketch :))

@teohyc

7 жыл бұрын

That's cool :-D

You are the James Bond of urban sketching :D. I love your amazing sketches of people, I think this video will give me the push to finally get out of my comfort zone and try to draw people on location. Thank you so very much!

@teohyc

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks \ (•◡•) / You should try it. Maybe it would give you some adrenaline.

Well, I have been avoiding eye contact my whole life, time to give it some use.

@teohyc

6 жыл бұрын

+Ishio Shima 😂

@clementepascale159

6 жыл бұрын

ahahah :)

@OneTrueWord1988

4 жыл бұрын

Ishio Shima: 😊👍

Thanks for this wonderful tutorial! I especially like your technique of turning the tables on your subject so that you look at them like "why are you looking at me?" You are very clever!

What a fascinating way to pass time on boring journey...I shall have a go at urban sketching on my up coming holiday,never done it before but i ve learned alot from you, thank you from the U.K

@teohyc

7 жыл бұрын

+Carol Langman Have fun drawing 😀👍

Great idea. Your figures are so full of life considering your economy of lines.

@teohyc

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks (ᵔᴥᵔ)

This is not related as much, but I remember an interview with a street photographer. He would wear this orange vest over his outfit while walking around with a bulky camera. The 'official' look this gave him would cause people to ignore his presence.

@teohyc

7 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure if it actually works. :-D

I REALLY LIKE THIS PEEK INTO AN ARTIST'S MIND. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING

@teohyc

7 жыл бұрын

+daisy3690 Thanks 😀

Thanks Teoh, these are great tips for covert sketching :) I find that drawing with a fountain pen in public attracts attention....simply because many younger people here have not seen one before (older people are interested too....) so sometimes draw with a "normal" ball point.

@higherground711

7 жыл бұрын

I get that. But you don't see many people using fountain pens. I think it'd make me feel unique.

@teaartist6455

7 жыл бұрын

That depends on the country, in some European countries it'll be less of a big deal since people learn to write with them in second grade and should use them till 4th, some use pens after that, others stick with the fountain pen.

@kioumim

7 жыл бұрын

Luna Fowler you are right, in France for exemple a lot of people use it in school and everywhere, I use them

Ah, yes, Teoh, the curse of people looking at their phones in public transportation! Too many people end up looking like they're sleeping because their heads are down and theyre fiddling w/their phones. I tend to concentrate on faces because that's more interesting for me but when someone is fiddling with their phone, even if they have a great face with many interesting lines on it, I'm usually forced to bring in at least the shoulders & arms so that I can show that they're actually fiddling w/ their device & not just snoring. You make a very important point about avoiding eye contact, I feel like my secondary objective after a good sketch is avoiding getting punched in the nose. But then, this is New York. Perhaps people in Singapore are more polite. A quick note in support of your point it is much better to move your eyes rather than your whole head because people are less likely to catch that you're looking at them if they just see a flick of your eyeballs rather than your entire head jerk away if you get caught. It may sound like a frivolous point, but our fellow sketchers need to keep in mind that their safety is more important than a good sketch. Again I may just be speaking as a new Yorker, but you get my point. Another great video!

You are so creative when making videos

@shayusauce8458

7 жыл бұрын

First

Heh, this is sort of humorous about how you pretend not to look at people. I tried sketching on a bus a few weeks ago and I realized then that there is an issue with people not wanting to be drawn which is weird too because drawing is less intrusive really then all the security cameras that are out there. Thank you for making all the vids.

@teohyc

7 жыл бұрын

+Emma Louie I think it's the prolong focus on the subject that makes them uneasy.

These sketch books are so inspirational..thanks so much!

@teohyc

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks \ (•◡•) /

A great way to get regular sketching practice if you’re a commuter. Fantastic video!! Thanks.

Thanks for sharing your tips and tricks. Very useful!

when I first heard the title, I thought you had taken up the spray can. XD

I like how you take public-transport drawing as a way to fill your sketchbook so that you can explore colouring at home! Great fun.

20:44 It made me giggle when the board says "Seen anything suspicious?Inform our station staff" considering your sneaky sketching of people XD I loved your video, it provided so many tips and so informative by the way!, im still shy to draw people so I will try and draw unmoving objects to sketch first. thank u for taking the time to make this video :)

@teohyc

6 жыл бұрын

Weird thing is nowadays, people taking photos of train stations with phone cameras is less suspicious that people doodling in their sketchbooks.

@OneTrueWord1988

4 жыл бұрын

Sirenity: I noticed the same sign! 😂 That was so funny!!

What great tips and advice. Body language so important Thanks tech. Will go back to this tutorial time and time again. Been sketching people for years but there is always something to learn.

thank you so much for your excellent explanations of your technique and thought process. I watch quite a bit of these and you have an excellent presentation and teaching style.

Your videos are so informative, interesting and unique. Thank you!

I ride the bus to school and I wanna do this buts it's impossible with the bus always hitting potholes

@teohyc

7 жыл бұрын

It would still be fun to draw on that bumpy bus. :-P

Gorgeous color choices!

all your videos have saved my life thank u

Good video Teoh! When I sketch my neighbors, I always tell them that they are helping me become a better art student, and that I won't draw their real faces. I just want their body poses.

Really like all your videos. You inspire me to try new techniques, tools, and subjects. Thank you for sharing.

@teohyc

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your support ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪

Ohhh I looovvvveee your art style. So pretty 👌

Thank you...I have tried sketching in similar places to you....interesting how artists encounter the same situations. Loving your channel...I have travelled to a few of the same places as you and have done similar things...I guess there is a kinship among artists. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, achievements and sketches!

@teohyc

7 жыл бұрын

+Bestbrushstroke Thanks 😊

Thank you! This video is really helpful. :) I have now the courage to try your tips out.

Love your tutorials!

Amazing theme!!! Thank you, Teoh!

@teohyc

7 жыл бұрын

(~˘▾˘)~ Thank you

Thank you for this! Good tips for those (like me) who have problems with drawing/sektching in public!

@teohyc

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks ~(˘▾˘~)

Thank you, Teoh! Great tips here.

@teohyc

7 жыл бұрын

+Vera's Planet Thanks 😊

Thanks Teoh, that was very interesting.

@teohyc

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪

very helpful tips and great tutorial thank you.

@teohyc

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks :-)

Very helpful, thank you!

Спасибо за видео Я не понимаю английского (жалко нету перевода) . Очень интересно смотреть видео. Изучать ваш опыт . Скетчи это очень увлекательно занятие!!!!!! Столько эмоций получаешь...

I LOVE THIS HAHAHAH kept looking out to see if there happened to be anyone i recognised:-P used to do this kinda thing but maybe i'll pick it up again heh

very nice video

Those tipps are really helpful. I always wanted to try drawing people but so far I always feared I would "get caught"

Extremely good video :)

@teohyc

7 жыл бұрын

+Richard Robertson Thanks 😎

Great video, kind of a sad commentary on our society that so many people are glued to their phones.

Very good suggestions Teoh! I live in a very remote area without public transport so, for now, I will have to practice on scenes without people. This is ok, because I think I would feel quite paranoid about drawing others around me.

Thank you Teoh for this video. Lately , I was hooked to sketching people and your videos have been very helpful. They are presented simply and very motivating. Are you coming to the Urban Sketching Symposium in Amsterdam next year?

@teohyc

5 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure if I'm going to Amsterdam

@cheerp7313

5 жыл бұрын

I hope that you can come, Teoh!

You’re brave!!

Thank you.

wow, amazing video!, thank you Teoh for sharing tour knowledge and tips with us!! :D i'll try to do some public transport sketching, here in Mexico will be a challenge xDD i really don't like when is full of people in the subway, but now i can see it like an opportunity :)

@teohyc

7 жыл бұрын

+Lorena Baz I guess it's just a frame of mind. When I am not sketching, I hate the crowd. But when I'm sketching, I like that there are people to draw 😁😂

Thank you

I have a suggestion for another tutorial video. I think it'd be helpful to people if you did a video on using suggestion in drawings and art. Basically things like how to suggest wavy or curly hair, how to use suggestion for patterns in trees, buildings etc. How to give the suggestion of these things while still keeping the drawing simple.

@teohyc

7 жыл бұрын

I'll keep that in mind for future videos.

@OneTrueWord1988

4 жыл бұрын

James Barton: Yes I agree!! Those are just the things I need instruction about also!

Very good

@teohyc

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

você é fantástico, rapaz! Quem me dera saber a metade do que você sabe. Abraços, parabéns!

I am very grateful for this video🤗😊, since I've been TRYING to do public sketches(it's been difficult for me since I get the exact issues you had so I takes photo instead).😖😣😣 so thank you!

@teohyc

7 жыл бұрын

+Katie Creameans Just practise at home if you are uncomfortable drawing outdoors. Time your drawings so that you can draw fast. Then graduate to drawing outdoors 😁

Teoh, this was a very informative and great video! Do you always start the drawing with the face and head? Does your starting point ever vary? I will be watching this video again, and again! It is really packed with great information! Thank you!

@teohyc

7 жыл бұрын

I always start with the head because if the person moves away, at least the half completed drawing has a head so people or you can tell what you're drawing.

Do you use all media sketch book or watercolor sketch book?

Hi Teoh! I enjoyed your video, as always. It have never thought that it might be a problem to draw people. You mentioned that you might have used markers, what kind of markers do you use. I just bought the copic markers and thought maybe you could share your experience drawing with them if you have it. Thanks.

@teohyc

7 жыл бұрын

I'm not very experience with markers. You can check out this book for some inspiration www.parkablogs.com/content/book-review-visualizing-ideas-scribbles-storyboards

That area with the escalators looked so overwhelmingly crowded. My town has just 4000 people. Plenty of elbow room, but incredibly hard to draw in public without it being very noticeable.

Thanks Teoh that's exactly what is stopping me from sketching people in public, I get so embarrassed...

This is good, but would it not be better to get peoples' permission before drawing them? I understand that they would maybe not be so natural, as they will be conscious of you looking at them, but then at least you won't have to be secretive.

@Captain_MonsterFart

4 жыл бұрын

What like, make an announcement to everyone on the train?

Love your videos. Can you tell me what kind of sketchbook you're using?

@teohyc

6 жыл бұрын

It's the field drawing journal from Global Art Materials www.parkablogs.com/content/review-field-drawing-journal-160-global-art-materials

Thankx teoh.. instructions are good , exactly if people know that i draw them they show thier interest and i don't know they feel good or not but I'm very uncomfortable at that time😁 My English is not good 😏

@teohyc

5 жыл бұрын

Don't have too much movement and they won't see you. Or sketch people who are looking at phones.

@paintwithayesha5062

5 жыл бұрын

Ohh that's good at least you can understand what i wanted to say 😃

I was a 7th standard student but i think this idea help to draw in many many subject's so fantastic

When drawing on public transportation, knowing you may paint the sketch later, do you use watercolor paper or sketching paper?

@teohyc

5 жыл бұрын

I'll use watercolour paper. Non-watercolour paper don't work well with water.

Lmao you're so sneaky

Hi, do you have a tutorial video about which techniques to use to sketch people like this?

@teohyc

4 жыл бұрын

I’ve a video on sketching video that I’ll put out very soon.

@danflanagan9536

4 жыл бұрын

@@teohyc Are you mostly using line and contour style techniques to sketch your subjects when you're on the subway or outside?

@teohyc

4 жыл бұрын

@@danflanagan9536 A bit of that technique too. You can mix match whatever techniques you feel like

Teoh, around 16:14, you talk above "eye level." Do you have a video where you explain this in depth? I am determined to become a "better" sketcher, and I'm watching and/or rewatching all your videos. Thanks!! Barbara :)

@teohyc

6 жыл бұрын

I don't think I have one video specifically on that topic. Here's a related one. kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZXuN19yBmMjZY7Q.html

@bluovalgal

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Teoh! That video helped a lot!

7:42 Sans, is that you?

thank you for your in depth instruction. it's like being in art school.

@teohyc

6 жыл бұрын

Welcome 😁

another place would be a courthouse

"Those are some of the tricks I merely use to avoid eye contact". Mood💀💀

It was interesting to hear about all that tricks. As for me - after 2 years of almost everyday drawing people at subway I don't give a damn. It was just a 5 or so times when someone obviously didn't want me to draw him, so he turned away. It was never something even near aggressive or problematic. Sometimes people watch me draw but lose interest pretty fast. Also there was one time when a couple of cute girls approached and asked me to show them drawings. Well may be they expected to see beautiful portraits but drawings was pretty shitty so they left with disappointed faces. That was painful. I have a couple of examples if you interested. vk.com/artofmetro?w=wall-60733340_5711 vk.com/artofmetro?w=wall-60733340_5700

@teohyc

7 жыл бұрын

You sketch very well. Those are good. Thanks for sharing!

@OneTrueWord1988

4 жыл бұрын

anon hikka: Your drawings are excellent! Thank you for the links!

why avoid eye contact ? good video

Well, once I tried to draw in public, I was drawing an asleep woman in front of me and then some other men sitting next to the women started staring straight into my sketchbook, so I closed it. And they impertinently say smth like: "What, is it a secret?"

@teohyc

7 жыл бұрын

People say all sorts of silly things. If you let them get to you, it makes you upset. But why should your mood be determined by what they say? After they say things like that, they go back to their day as if nothing happened. So just ignore them and go back to your day as if nothing happened too, except you made a nice drawing that you can be happy about.

@VIProach

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, sure. Just not comfortable in such situations. )

@higherground711

7 жыл бұрын

That's good advice.

This is the kind of ark I want to create so badly 😤

LOL! you can draw better than I can make videos

@teohyc

7 жыл бұрын

+Bigdee Thanks 😂