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My basic problem is that I have spent almost all of a rather long life (80 is looking younger all the time) convinced that I am an artistic incompetent, constitutionally incapable of doing anything artistic. I continue to work on that, but it is a huge barrier. I internalized the responses of adults when I was a child; I very strongly remember two particular such events.

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

Sorry to hear that! It can be difficult to get over childhood experiences, if you'd like some different feedback feel free to email me a picture of your sketches

@awatercolourist

10 ай бұрын

I am sorry to hear that, Alan! But welcome to our community. You are welcome to ask anything about watercolours at any time on any video here on KZread 😃. We are always happy to share and assist 😊.

@awatercolourist

10 ай бұрын

@alanjameson8664 And thank you for sharing your experience here; it is a strong reminder for us all to take what others say with a healthy pinch of salt.

@annwornell7510

10 ай бұрын

I empathise with you, I was not encouraged at anything, but decided to have a go at about 60 and now 81, I just do it for fun, and luckily my children who are in their 50s have encouraged me. Aren't we lucky to have the opportunity to watch and learn from all the things available on the Internet.

@awatercolourist

10 ай бұрын

@@annwornell7510 Oh, yes, indeed! I am very grateful that I have the internet to get information from. Horrible things are happening and problems are everywhere at the moment, but I never forget how lucky I am to be able to learn so, so, so much by simply launching KZread or my browser. I am eternally grateful to have this 🙂. And I am also pleased that older generations are joining us, it’s really nice to be sharing art with people like you 😃.

Your concept of simply focusing on the SHAPES has moved my sketching ability along at an AMAZING rate. I’m able to apply it to any subject and getting better every day. THANK YOU!

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

Happy to help!

I have a 284 page book called "How to draw anything" but I learned more and importantly, enjoyed myself more in your ten minute video - thanks as always Toby 👍

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

Wonderful! Thanks Martin!

@janealan2142

9 ай бұрын

Here, here. I have lots of those books too. Prefer following Toby for sketching and Chris Petri for painting. Both are superior teachers like Bob Ross was with oils.

@jmarco117

Ай бұрын

Maybe you learn better visually rather than from a book. Most people learn better from visuals.

This lesson was too good to be free, thanks a lot!

Such wonderful and practical instruction. Thanks so much!!!😊

Brilliant . Thank You so much.

I have watched so many of your courses and this video is one of my favorites. Thank you for such important information in a compact little bite!

Thanks Toby

Excellent techniques 😊

thanks 🙏 so helpful

Thank you for these videos I really appreciate them. I love loose art its beautiful.

@TobySketchLoose

7 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

Your tip on seeing the shapes as the foundation for everything was very helpful. Thank you so much for simplifying it in my head! 😊

@TobySketchLoose

9 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

Thank You. Love from Ontario, Canada

I loved the dueling drawing video with Doug, each 'artist' can express a scene in their own 'style' is great. I also like this video helping me go back to basics. Thank you

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

These are great tips. I love the picture of the seal, still in your unique style. I’d love to see a tutorial for this or something similar. 😁

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

Great suggestion!

Thanks Toby. This is the most helpful yet!!

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it!

Thanks, Toby. Very helpful, so glad I found you here.

@TobySketchLoose

9 ай бұрын

Happy to help!

Thank you,thank you!!

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

Any time!

Thank you for these drawing tips!

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

Your tips are really helping me. I sketched and painted my first street scene. Yay!

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

That's great! Well done!!!!

@awatercolourist

10 ай бұрын

Congrats, Teresa! 😃

Merci pour votre production régulière, je me suis remis au dessin à ma retraite et j’adhère à votre concept maîtrisé, vous avez raison il faut travailler avec aisance et liberté, émouvoir et ne pas se prendre au sérieux Continuez vous nous inspirez

Thank you so much Toby for sharing

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

Any time

Very VERY helpful…and proof that “simple’ (including advice) is often best! Thank you!

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

You're very welcome!

Brilliant. No waffle. To the point. Thank you.

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I really like how you color coded the shapes in 10:13 a scene after you showed the scene. That is very helpful. Likewise I liked your lines that you added to my sketches when I took your coarse. I really would recommend your coarse to anyone with even the slightest interest in learning to draw or improving your drawing. You keep instruction simple, in small bites, and it is a fun way to practice.

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

Thanks Mary for this lovely endorsement!!

Fantastic lesson, thank you

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

Thank you Toby for your advice and explanation. I really enjoy your video much.

@TobySketchLoose

8 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Yes shapes, yes practice ! Thank you

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

Perfect!

Once again, brilliant. You help me make sense of it all. Thanks so much!!!

@TobySketchLoose

6 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

Thank you. So very helpful. 😊

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

My pleasure

Great advice! Thanks so much!

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

Thank you! 👐🏼👌🏼

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

You're so welcome!

Splendid and friendly thanks for sharing, good video tutorial and tips👍

@TobySketchLoose

9 ай бұрын

So nice of you

I am 38 and just recently started drawing, by following online tutorials, on procreate. I now know that I really like architecture and urban sketching. I love the way you draw! I love the loose sketches! But when I do it, it seems like my 5 year old did it. And I have the hardest time choosing colors for my drawings. Anyway, this is a great video. I'm trying to simplify and find the shapes. Hopefully it would get easier in the future. Thank you for your videos!

@TobySketchLoose

7 ай бұрын

You can do it! Delighted to have you along too 😁

Thank you, this is very useful, I consider myself a beginner although I have been sketching on and off since I was very young. This was very useful and I will check out your class.

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

This is so simple and yet so effective. Truly probably one of the most beneficial drawing videos I've seen so far. Thank you.

@TobySketchLoose

6 ай бұрын

You're very welcome!

Thank you this was great ❤

@TobySketchLoose

8 ай бұрын

You're so welcome!

Very much enjoy your style and explanations...thanks both have advanced aspects of my art.

@TobySketchLoose

8 ай бұрын

Wonderful!

I have just arrived here. What a wonderful teacher you are, I am truly inspired to get started, I have never known where to start. Retired now, I look forward to this enormously. Thank you so much!

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

Welcome!

Excellent understandable lesson thank you 😊

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

You're very welcome!

Thank you! This was so helpful 😊

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

You're so welcome!

Your psychological support to people, your perspective that makes people trust themselves to take a step, is more than drawing🥲😊. People including me:) Appreciations and thanks with love 🙌🏾💙

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

My pleasure

wow thank you im starting your free course today

Brilliant! Step 1 alone is genius. That's almost all ya' need. Almost. Love this video 🤓 Leave "perfection" behind and go for "essence" and "shape"

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

Yes! Thank you!

Ein super tolles Video mit wertvollen Tips. Danke herzlich für die Mühe und die wunderbare Art dein Wissen zu teilen. Das ist so hilfreich für mich, denn ich zeichne und male gern, aber noch nicht lange,🎨

@TobySketchLoose

9 ай бұрын

My pleasure, keep it up and you'll go far!

@bine9526

8 ай бұрын

🧡💛💚@@TobySketchLoose

Thank you! 💕✌️

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

Any time!

Thank you Toby u give excellent advice and have helped me to also luv urban art.

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

Happy to help!

Thanks so much for this Toby. Excellent information and great examples. It really encouages me to keep practicing. My philosophy on art is that if you can write then you can draw. It's all lines and a line is nothing more than a dot that goes for a walk. From Toronto Canada 😊

@TobySketchLoose

9 ай бұрын

Fantastic!

This was really helpful. Thank you for this video!

@TobySketchLoose

Ай бұрын

You're so welcome!

I love your sketches. They're so good. I want to be able to sketch like you, but I find it hard to loosen up

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the lovely complements

I have signed up to take both of your classes and I am thoroughly enjoying the first one, Mark Making. It was this video on "How to Draw Anything" that spurred me on however. It is such a novel idea to me to look at scenes according to shapes and always simplify the scene. I find your style and instruction very refreshing and encouraging. I feel fortunate to have found you in this world of cyber space that usually just takes me down rabbit holes to nowhere.

@TobySketchLoose

6 ай бұрын

Delighted to hear, thanks Sarah!

Thank you so much ❤

@TobySketchLoose

9 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

This is one of your best videos yet. I was quite impacted by your discussion about not following rules. It is one thing to say we shouldn't follow rules because they just cause us to get tied into knots, but that wasn't your point. Your point,, as I understand it, is that a rule of proportions, for example, works only for a head on view of your subject. As soon as there is foreshortening or a distorted figure or a slant etc. the rule no longer can be followed. THAT makes so much sense, and yet I wouldn't have tumbled to it on my own. I would love more content like this....in fact, a whole course!

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

Hehe thanks Eva, I've a few more videos like this coming out, I hope you find them just as useful. The feedback is great because they take blooming hours to edit 😅😂

@evaellis4644

10 ай бұрын

I can only imagine the time that is required to edit. This was well worth it imo !

Love your videos!! ❤

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

I'm so glad!

Thank you thank you for explaining you are a good teacher 😊gracias

@TobySketchLoose

6 ай бұрын

Thank you! 😃

Thanks, a great video as usual. More than for beginners I find these tips useful for anyone, no matter which level of experience in drawing they have.

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

@maurotombolini6904

10 ай бұрын

@@TobySketchLoose That’s right :)

Amazing video thank you so much for this fun and informative ❤sketching info 😊

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

My pleasure 😊

Really cool one! Thanks mate

@TobySketchLoose

7 ай бұрын

No problem 👍

It seems a bit like music where we learn to hear pitches, then take two pitches to form an interval and then we stack intervals in clever ways to create chords from a very simple triad to the most complex of chords. Saying it and doing it tho are two different things. We spend our whole life learning more and more about the combinations and how to use them. As for rules in music, I often say that we study the rules in order to break them properly or improperly as the case may be lol! I'm sure that may well apply to drawing as well. Enjoyed your video by the way. I'm an old road dog musically, but just starting to learn to draw now that I'm retired from the road. Still make music vids tho for youtube. Thank you for the video!

I took a drawing class locally. The instructor gave us pictures and had us do shapes with a marker. It is really helpful. This is a very useful video. Thank you.

@TobySketchLoose

7 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Excellent video….very motivating and super ideas.Thank you🙏

@TobySketchLoose

6 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

Thanks!

@TobySketchLoose

8 ай бұрын

Welcome! Thanks for your generosity!

Thank you so much, Toby! This video and tips are simply so insightful! 🤩 Greetings from Chile!

@TobySketchLoose

7 ай бұрын

You're so welcome!

Спасибо! Ваши идеи помогают мне в работе!

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

Мне нравится помочь. Спасибо большое

Great vid Toby

@TobySketchLoose

2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Thank you for this video, Toby. I approach drawing with an architect’s eye and want to draw what I see “precisely “. I am also not very good at it, so I’m going to go back to basic shapes and see what that does to my drawings.

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Architectural sketching can be strangely different from sketching sketching. More focussed on precision, perspective and clean lines.

Great vid. ❤

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! 😁

Ha - I DEFINITELY need more Practice! As well as everything else! Shapes --- must remember everything is really just shapes! THANKS for this - it helps a lot!

@TobySketchLoose

6 ай бұрын

You can do it!

I sincerely love your style. Very loose which makes them more interesting.

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you!

ThanQ. At some stage in your presentations can u pls talk about how to hold the pen, pencil, brush. And when, why? (Frm NZ)

@TobySketchLoose

4 ай бұрын

Good idea!

I avoided drawing people (and animals) like a plague- until I saw your video where you drew 2 people in the back alley, and it looked easy and fun so now I’m doing it and it made me happy to finally inhabit the empty streets I usually go for - thank you for your excellent videos - much appreciated

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

That's awesome!

Your channel is one of the best for education about sketching and aquarel. Thanks for sharing that informations. Greetings from Bosnia and Herzegovina. 😁😁

@TobySketchLoose

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

Hi what fountain pen and nib are u using. Great content. Thank you

@TobySketchLoose

7 ай бұрын

Check the supplies link in the description 😊👍

I love drawing small thing, larger. Like a piece of popcorn, the cracked kernel in the hull, the ridges. Everything can be broken down into lines. Replicate a curved line here, a swirly line there… ❤️

@TobySketchLoose

3 ай бұрын

That's a fun idea 💡

The shape Idea had liberated my efforts. Do you have a simple book I can reference

@TobySketchLoose

7 ай бұрын

Nothing in print at the moment, hoping to get something out next year!

I like sketching landscapes and small buildings. But I love churches and ruins like old abbeys and castles. But there are parts of churches I am finding very challenging. It’s the shapes on the corners of church towers, buttresses I think they’re called. They go downwards in rectangular ‘steps’. But I’m practicing. Thanks for more invaluable tips, Toby. 😊

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

Pleasure 😊

thanks. I really enjoy your videos. do you have anything for someone who love making art but find they keep procrastinating and/or is blocked somehow? thanks in advance.

@TobySketchLoose

6 ай бұрын

Sorry I didn't answer this sooner! I don't have anythign specific to this, would just say go back to simple doodling and have some fun :)

Great ten minutes about "How to scetch..." Btw i like your style of drawing and the way you explain it

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

Which app do you use for tracing?

@TobySketchLoose

8 ай бұрын

I'm using procreate here probably

Can you pls do a video about style? And finding an own style? I am a beginner and find myself often trying to copy sketchers like you.

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

What a great idea, I'll try and get it done in the next couple of weeks :)

@mikafoxx2717

10 ай бұрын

Basically.. style isn't something you find, it's not something you seek out. It's a result. It's where you accidentally end up. Think about it like photography - a photographer's style is just what they end up liking to take pictures of, and in the way they like taking pictures of it. Same for art. Look at art and find what speaks to you, like for instance watercolor and pen, and go from there and let your style end up where it ends up when you draw what you like in the way you like drawing it.

can i ask a question about 1:20? Because if you look at it, the ask italian building is slanted in the pic and the door is straight but the shape your drew around is the opposite - the building is a straight square and the door is a sort of oblong triangle. is there a reason for this? or am i not seeing things clearly?

@TobySketchLoose

6 ай бұрын

The photo has a vertical perspective, I removed that in my sketch :)

nice

@TobySketchLoose

9 ай бұрын

Thanks

What pen are you using?

@TobySketchLoose

9 ай бұрын

Mostly my twsbi - check urbansketch.co.uk/supplies

3d artists use the same concept. From simpler blocky shapes to a finer detail. Otherwise life would be too complicated))

I find drawing mech is quite challenging .

@TobySketchLoose

Ай бұрын

🙏

I thought I couldn't paint with watercolour, I'd forgotten Tip 6 and was trying to conform to "A Watercolor Artist" that painted realism and perfect flowers and animals - i dont like painting realism or perfection with any medium why would watercolour be any different. Loose sketching is perfect because it doesnt have to be perfect - it can be a bit abstract and that's the artist i am - thank you for helping me to remember that I am the artist I WANT to be, not the artist I think I SHOULD be

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

Great reflections, thank you

@mikafoxx2717

10 ай бұрын

Honestly sometimes the art being more up to abstraction lets the imagination fill it in, it's more unique than trying to print a photograph in an overly complicated manner.

How to enlarge shape and pics?

@TobySketchLoose

6 ай бұрын

I'm not sure I understand... sorry :(

Draw by the Pirate Code. As Barbossa said in Pirates of the Caribbean, "The code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules."

@TobySketchLoose

8 күн бұрын

Haha yes!

Rule number 3: Don't rely on rules!

I am horrible at drawing I can't do anything not even a stick figure so I'm watching this so I can do simple things

@TobySketchLoose

8 ай бұрын

It takes a little practice that's all

Seems my problem is not learning, but about unlearning the things that inhibit my abilities

You must learn PERSPECTIVE. You can draw anything with it. ANYTHING

I wish u health and peace

@TobySketchLoose

3 ай бұрын

Thankyou

How about watching the nature as it is : made from 3 D = 3 dimentional shapes .....? Thouse shapes are : cubes , prismatic shapes = "boxes", cilinders and spheres☝️☝️☝️ and of course , their VARIATIONS ....☝️☝️....Never really find in nature thouse perfectly geometrical shapes, but their variations and combinations of thouse....... Circle, triungle, square, etc are JUST BIDIMENSIONAL ..... Even the drawing it happens on a flat surface that has only 2 dimensions , You ALLWAYS MUST TO suggest the 3-rd dimension in your drawings.......☝️☝️☝️

First!

@lynnedalrymple

10 ай бұрын

nope lol

@TobySketchLoose

10 ай бұрын

🤣

@awatercolourist

10 ай бұрын

Well, well, well! I was not first after all! 😂😂

I tried to draw my lovebirds but my proportions were wrong so they ended up looking like pigeons 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

@TobySketchLoose

2 ай бұрын

Hehe :)

i enjoy drawing/doodling disturbing creatures but beginner so its not that impressive or detailed enough, wonder if these tips works still :/

🥀🪶🫶

@TobySketchLoose

6 ай бұрын

🙏

Of course most people can draw anything. But drawing it well is another story.