So glad I found your channel ❤

@drawwithmike

4 ай бұрын

Thanks, Jessica. I'll more for you soon.

Enjoyed this one Mike and might even try something similar. More like this please. Best to all down there.

@drawwithmike

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! More could be a problem... but I'll try. 😉 When these small drawing help a video, then I can please you. But making the videos (for DrawWithMike.net, not KZread) takes almost all of my time, so I don't have the luxury of just sitting down to draw for the sake of drawing. I wish... 🙄

Thank you for making these videos, they are helping me so much :’)

@drawwithmike

Жыл бұрын

Excellent! That's what I was hoping to hear. :) Thank you!

Another information packed video Mike, as always it's great watching you create while you give the verbal information that ensures the viewer has an understanding of the process. I still use the mellotex I purchased from you on the second weekend of one of your Yorkshire workshops. Also the staedtler clutch pencil various grades. Thanks again Mike. ✏️👌

@drawwithmike

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Tom... I'll keep making the videos, then... :)

❣️ Recently bought your book Line to Life. It is now always with me as I learn graphite drawing. Thank you❣️

@drawwithmike

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I poured everything OI knew at the time into the book. Now I'm pouring the rest into video. 😉

Hi Mike! The title is very well thought out. As always, you present incredible graphics and beautiful works to explain the subject and exemplify it. Thank you for the shots and close-ups of the camera and the quality of the images. I watched your video in my laptop in full screen and... Wow! I could appreciate very well the texture that you gave to the leaves. I loved the contrast between the dark background and the lightness of the butterfly. When you mentioned that you made a mistake in the wings, I held my breath 😱and then you calmly proceeded to repair them. 😄☺ In this drawing you used 4 degrees (2H, F, HB and 2B), but I wonder if, in your drawings in general, you usually use only those degrees of hardness or include another one in your range. ¡Linda noche Mike y gracias por tu video! 🥰

@drawwithmike

Жыл бұрын

In the order that you mentioned: FULL-SCREEN: Always the best. I'm sure some folk view on their phones, but they'll lose a lot by watching it so small. CONTRAST: That's something I learned a long time ago. The darker the darkest dark, the wider the palette of greys and white you have to work with. Dark darks improve three-dimensional form, and give your drawing a lot of "punch". MISTAKE: Not planned. Honest! I held my breath too for a while. Especially as I had 10 days of work invested in it. But then it seemed to be an ideal opportunity to say, "Go on - I dare you - ERASE IT!" 😀 GRADES: Yes, 2B, HB, F, and 2H are the grades I use. I use nothing softer than 2B, because I find them to be too grainy. I do have a 6H and 8H, but I only ever use those for graphite indenting in the iris of eyes, nothing else. I also work on a very smooth plate-finish paper (Conqueror Diamond White), and the very soft grades really do look very grainy. The darkest blacks are 2B (with some pressure, which the paper can withstand) burnished with HB on top.

@viajedeldragonresplandeciente

Жыл бұрын

@@drawwithmike Thank you so much. ☺

Awesome stuff. I tend to use medium paper but find the texture to distracting going to try a plate finish to see difference

@drawwithmike

Жыл бұрын

I quickly grew to dislike any paper that interferes with what I'm drawing. If I want a surface to look velvety, for example, I'll draw it that way. I don't want the paper to impose it - and especially if what I'm drawing is glassy and not velvety... if you see what I mean. 🙄 I use 250gsm Conqueror Diamond White. It's plate-finish, archival, pH neutral. If you want to try it and have difficulties sourcing it, I sell it in my website shop, and I ship worldwide. You can read about it here: sibleyfineart.com/conqueror.htm But, what ever you choose, I don't think you'll regret at least trying plate-finish.

I have a general question, Mike. Do you allow to take your drawings as reference?

@drawwithmike

22 күн бұрын

Yes. No problem - as long you don't reproduce it commercially. Also, if you want to try drawing this yourself, you'll find everything you need at www.DrawWithMike.net. It's not free - sorry - but £6/month (or about $7 USD). Look for the GROUP PROJECTS forum in the Support Forum. If you want to use any of my other drawings as references for your own, that's OK, too. Just don't try to use it commercially.

@MrsCurios

22 күн бұрын

@@drawwithmike This is very kind, Mike! No, I don't have the slightest commercial interest, so I am happy to go 'into the weeds'! By the way, I used your way to apply fixator and I am pleased with the fixing effect. But the shine on the hard burnished parts doesn't really go away from all sides :-( It does though when I put the drawing behind a non reflection glass, hm... I'll check your DrawWithMike!

Thanks for the video. What lead grade is in you’re lead holder? It looks so dark

@drawwithmike

Жыл бұрын

Look in the top left corner of the screen. You'll see the grade being used at all times. The softest grade I use is 2B. I find anything softer to be too grainy. And I often burnish the 2B with HB to further darken it. You also have to consider that I draw on Conqueror, which is a super-smooth archival plate-finish paper. I can carve those darks in if I need to without damaging the paper.

@jomeson4081

Жыл бұрын

@@drawwithmike thanks for the reply. I seen the grades in the top left but not when you were doing the dogs nose in the beginning and I thought that it looked darker 2b but I guess it wasn’t thanks again love the videos

@drawwithmike

Жыл бұрын

@@jomeson4081 Now I understand, thank you. That's what happens when you cut a 34-minute video down to 17. Originally, the grades used in the nose were not important. But you're correct - 2B for the line element that you saw. Later, I'd use HB and 2H shading to add 3D shaping on top of that. And the black nostrils were definitely 2B layered with HB - applied with small circular shading, so it covers all the pits in the paper from every angle.