The MOST IMPORTANT Drawing Skill You Can Learn

This is such a fun application of a principle you learn in psychology when you study cognition of perception. The brain has to kind of calculate averages and strike balances with sensory input, all unconsciously, so the information stream stays constant and is useful; and things that are different enough to need attention and action for survival pop out. You know how you can be sitting peacefully in a darkening room at sunset, and the red chair mentally stays "red" long after it's not red any more. This color training teaches you first just to recognize what your brain is doing, for your benefit really, and then how to override it for art's sake. This video is so clear and good: I wish I had it when I was still teaching these things to give my students. But now I'm retired, I play with my colored pencils instead. ✨🤗✨

It takes time to develop the observational skills to draw what you see and you’ve definitely proven that! Excellent work! It’s also another skill to be able to divert and unmarry yourself from the reference image and do something new or different with the details. I prefer the latter for my own art but I still appreciate what you do!

i love this viedeo, you have explain perfectly how observe an reference e see what it's "hide" in there THANK YOU SO MUCH you are the best!!

Perfection!!! You get better and better Gemma

I always wanted to draw well but never got the hang of it but i am a writer some of my characters artists i find it so fascinating

I admire your skills. I have been using colored pencils more, yet I do watercolor light washes for base colors and it seems to make my illustrations less time-consuming. Any comments regarding this method?

how many hrs does it take for you to complete a drawing with colored pencils?

Hello Gemma can you please tell me that how to get values in color . What do you think when you color and how you balance your values and the last how do you judge the color is of correct value

Can you give me some tips on graphite drawings

Perfect work , and its so yammi 🍦🧁, look like real photo 👍🫶