20 FAST Tricks to Transform your Drawing Skills!

Anyone can learn to draw, including you. In this beginners tutorial I show you 20 fast and easy step by step drawing and sketching tricks and tips to instantly improve your skills.
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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Introduction
1:31Trick for scaling up paper size
5:19 Trick for a faster 'grid'
7:10 Trick to draw a straight line
8:01 Trick to get the point back on your pencil
9:01 Trick to check angles without measuring
10:53 Trick for drawing things that grow
12:04 Trick to make rivers and paths lay flat
13:15 Trick for drawing non-solid objects
14:26 Trick for drawing water reflections
15:15 Trick for drawing fine white lines
17:13 Trick for drawing things behind foreground objects
18:39 Trick for drawing a smooth ellipse
19:50 Trick for drawing flowers facing in any direction
21:58 Trick for keeping tall objects symetrical
23:18 Trick for making buildings look taller
24:46 Trick for finding the centre point of an angled wall
25:51 Trick for adding distance to landscapes
27:13 Trick for drawing lips
28:07 Trick for drawing realistic eyes
28:56 Trick for showing smooth and rough textures

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[mckenzie]

My aunt started drawing and paining at the local Arts Centre when she was in her 60s. She had never done any art before but ended up producing incredible paintings. What was even more astonishing is she was partially sighted. Learning to draw/paint gave her years of joy for the remainder of her life.

[evevince]

I am 85yrs young and want to do drawing and watercolor painting, thank you for the interesting video, hopefully l can manage to make a nice picture

[mikejustice]

Thank you for no baby talk and no sick music in the back ground.❤️

[trishf]

I‘m in my mid 70s, have done photography for some years, and am now ready to try drawing and watercolour. I’m finding your tutorials are literally taking me back to my classes at school and the old mind is reactivating! Thank you!

[gaemlinsidoharthi]

So glad to hear someone say “options that you have just got lying around your house”. Too, too many people these days have started saying “… laying around …”, as if these options are laying tiles or something in various locations around your house.

[cncpreferred]

Great tips! What I would suggest for angles is to place the pencil where the line would be above the photo and above your drawing, and simply slide the photo out from under the pencil. Angles can change while moving it across, so if you hold the pencil steady and slide the photo out from under it, then there will be a higher probability that the angles will be the same. I hope I explained this well enough.

[lydiacade]

Excellent tips! I have been watching your watercolor videos. I came upon your watercolor painting tip that basically said no amount of watercolor can fix a bad underpainting. I realized that was my biggest problem area, so I clicked on this drawing video. As a retired geometry teacher, I am so impressed with the power of using the diagonals to find the center of shapes and to get the right proportions. Brilliant

[lizbamford]

I really liked the tips on proportion, fitting the turtle image onto a larger paper, and finding the centre of a wall to insert a door. Great tips. Many thanks.

[bite]

So many helpful My favorite was the flowers facing in different directions, using the dotting tool and symmetry. I think these tips are going to help my drawings look so much better. Thank you!

[randicommand]

Good tips. Thanks. I thought I'd mention that for the fence line, you can draw a rectangle, like the side of the house with the door, just using the height of the posts at the near end and the far end. With the cross to find the center, and dividing the halves into halves again and again, you can draw the fence line spaced essentially accurately.

[Jestunes]

Yeah! This is what I've been waiting for. I'm not much of an artist, my wife is the artist, but I like to create things like woodwork, metal work, music, resin works and my newest thing is making props for my puppet stage music performances. Your tips come in handy when I'm doing colors or using different mediums. Using your tips could possibly make my wife go OOOH! lol Been retired for a few years, but now is when I'm starting to do some projects.
Wishing you a lovely day. And thanks so much for sharing...

[AnEnchantedLife]

I just found your channel yesterday, and I've watched 3 videos now. Each of them has held so many
"A-HA!" moments for me. I've learned far more from 3 videos than I ever would have guessed. I really appreciate the fact that you not only demonstrate the incorrect way to draw something but then also the correct way. Perspective now makes much more sense. I'm 55 and getting back into drawing after years away. In less than 48 hours, I've learned more from you than I did in all the time before. Thank you so much!

[annieh]

Excellent tips! Thank you for sharing your expertise so freely, it really does make us beginners feel more like “we’ve got this!”

[isabelchacon]

The best tip for me is to draw, and draw and continue drawing...the more you do it, the faster you educate your eyes to proportions and measurements...tip No 2 though is always useful when you have a composition with different ekements. Thank you! 💜

[mountainside]

This is a keeper! Best set of drawing hints I’ve ever seen in one collection! Thank you!

[vonniebash]

You are awesome! Thanks for sharing lots of info in a short little video! Each video contains so much valuable help I get overwhelmed at how much I don't know! Thanks to you I keep pushing forward!! Condolences over your Queens passing! Truly a great lady the entire world can celebrate!

[lynnhass]

I am appreciating these tips for the light pencil sketches for watercolor paintings. Without having the base correct, no matter how nice the paint application is, it still won’t look right. I’ve been a fan of yours (and your paints) for a long time now!

[Lynn.Panadero]

Wow! I just leveled up my art. Two tips hit home today. Remembering to fore shorten the barn when inserting the door and letting the top eyelid droop over the iris.

I’ve recently been painting my niece. Her expression was very dead pan. She just had a peaceful pleasant face in the original photo. It was just a small adjustment in the corner of her smile that changed the whole expression.

[raisdbywolvz]

I'm just learning to draw, and I watch every YouTube video I can find on the subject, especially those labeled tips and tricks. Most are really disappointing, and the promised tricks are more like advice (take an in-person class, for example). I was blown away by all of your very useful and easy tricks. I'm old enough to know that there's a trick to everything, and I'm so very grateful that you share truly valuable gems here. Thank you! I've subscribed. :)

[Richie_]

I remember pencil sharpeners like that from school in 70's & 80's.
I used to draw when I was a kid but stopped due to various reasons and I think I will start again. This video is helpful.