5 Ways To QUICKLY IMPROVE Your Graphite Pencil Drawings

Thanks for the advices👍🎨vive le dessin

Great video and love the layout of it thank you 😁

Thank u so much this has helped me improve

I am new to drawing, love your teaching methods, it's really helpful. Thank you.

For some reason when I look at my drawing after sometime I feel like it looks way better

You're an incredible artist ‼️🙌🏼

Fantastic work! 👏👏👏👏👏👏

Great advice Gemma, you come across very well!! Really liked this tutorial have joined your channel to see more my friend!!👍😀💯

Love this!!

Thank you so much for your excellent video.... 😍
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Just starting out and needing as much help as possible. Your tutorial was so easy to understand and has given me additional confidence.

Very helpful and beautifully presented tutorial. Thanks!🙏 💖💐

Thank you😊

Thank you so much for the compass tip! That changed everything for me

I loved the rabbit

Excellent tips and information. Thank you!

Thanks! I appreciate it very much. I wasn’t sure what you were calling the pencil that you used to really darken the picture.

Very helpful ❤️😊👍

Great video Gemma. Thanks for the tips

Thank you for this, Gemma. I wonder if you'd come across good books on drawing still life. Everyone seems to love drawing people and pets, so not that much info on books dealing with still life.

You can always use a doll/action figure as a reference item.

Where is the pixel bay link in the description?

Thank you! But I still like the bunny draw, though! no matter the low contrast. Beautiful skills

Very useful tips for me. Thankyou for this informative insight.

Hi Gemma! First video I viewed, well done! You’re so authentic and your tips and examples so helpful. Subscribed!

Thank You for the video. My choice of transferring the image is a proportion divider. It helps to establish free hand as you correct and check your sketch.

This is great advice! Thank you! How long does your average graphite drawing take you?

Very helpful tutorial video thank you

So glad I found you Gemma.

Hi Gemma, I've done a drawing and the stubble on the guy's chin is highlighted. I need to make white dots one 8B pencil. any ideas what I can use? Tried Conté, charcoal pencil... no luck.

Outstanding video! I am a beginner just now learning the effects of shading and how to make a drawing "pop". The rabbit example was insightful. I have now learned to look at my subject in grey scale values. This has helped me with landscapes. I now look at any subject and break down the shapes and grey scales next. It helps to get contrast in my drawings and make them "pop"!

Pencil portrait

Keep drawing every day, is what will improve your drawing skill faster! If you keep loving drawing/sketching, using pencils, what now looks like a great drawing, after some months will look so poor and thta, will happen again and again and you will always be surprised! For example, the drawings I was proud of last year and I showed to people, now look so poor, that I can't even show them to the public! After 1 and a half year only, that happened to me 3 times! You can't imagine how good you can become. Just keep reading, watching videos and practice, practice practice. Do not be afraid to do a bad drawing, if you don't make mistakes, you will not improve! Do not choose the "perfect" image to draw, draw whatever you see in your enviroment, or use Google to find Pinterest! You can find thousands of great drawings, sketches or photos in there!!

Thank you that was probably the best tips i have heard from anywhere bc i learned all that by trial and error over the course of about a year maybe and you just summed it up in a few mins but its all very true what you stated thanks

What paper are you using? Smooth? Vellum? Cold Pressed? Hot Pressed?

This exactly what I needed to learn. Great help!

Personally, shading looks mushy and kind of lifeless. Without shading it has got the character of graphite pencils and they look more pleasing to eye - at least my eye.

You are so beautiful! Also thank you for the tips!

Brilliant. The last tip is the telling one…👍

hi Gemma what type of paper quality are you using for this work?. thanks

Another tip is to from time to time during the process prop your drawing up and look at it from 4 or 5 feet away. Most art is viewed from a distance.