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Drawing Essentials, Part 1 (Patreon)

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You can find the lesson notes attached to this post (at the bottom).

Coming up:

  • Part 2: Analysis & practice of Bargue drawings (intermediate) + head structure templates (me/Loomis).
  • Part 3: Cast drawing concepts (beginner) + cast drawing demo (I might pre-record this bit).

All that you have to do to take part in these events is to be an active subscriber at the $10 level or higher.

For parts 2 & 3 the dates are TBD depending on my schedule...

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Drawing Essentials, Part 1

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Comments

Kimberly

Hi Stephen. I really love your teaching style and how you really explain the concepts in such great detail. I do ask though if when we begin our Bargue's if we should start with the envelop. Also, I took a different online course where we did Bargue's but used sight-size. Is this method acceptable or should I forget about sight-size? As well, we were instructed to use vellum over the Bargue to check our work for accuracy. Is this a tool I should forget about or continue to check my work like this? Thanks so much for all you are doing!

shaki

Hi Stephen . this video is really interesting , the part on shadow and light is very usefull , well explained and is what i'm searching for, hope to find something more deep about it .Thanks so much

Adan Mauricio Sámano Ordaz

Hey, after watching this video, should I practice? Or at what point practice/"drawing along" will be done?

Elmer Dalangin

Greetings everyone, I am new here and kind of overwhelmed. If my goal is to become a portrait artist, start from the basics, where do you think should i start?

David Schnetzer

Hi Stephen. Assuming that I draw 2 hours per day, how long should I expect to spend on the Atelier lessons 1 through 3.2? I am aiming for competence with the concepts as an amateur artist, not professional.

stephenbaumanartwork
>>155261552

Would love to give you a hard calculation, really. I can tell you that the resultant drawing will not be the evidence of internalization- its kind of like the thing you work on while the knowldge takes root.

Aaron

Thank you so much for your courses. I have only been drawing seriously for 2 months. You share a great knowledge that is easy to digest. I learned more from your free sphere tutorial than I have in 2 months. Do you all think this is the best place to start within this learning environment or is block in also a good place to start?

Andy Rodriguez

This is great! Love it! When's the next session? Also have you considered break out rooms in zoom, just a suggestion! 👏

stephenbaumanartwork
>>49034856

I’ll look into that integration. The next dates are a bit in the air with Xmas and the upcoming full color painting tutorials... I love doing these though- can’t wait for part 2.

Sebastian Rivero

Thanks Stephen 👍🏽! This series looks to be amazing, as my school work comes to a close, I will be watching these and learning, looking forward to it. Martín.

Brooke D

This was awesome, thanks. Really looking forward to the cast drawing demo. :D I'd also be really keen to hear more about figure drawing and how to organise the values in a figure.

stephenbaumanartwork
>>49123208

Maybe this is the format that can work- a live workshop rather than a pre recorded lesson... I will put this on the to do list.

Michael Fairless

Hi Stephen. Did you provide the link to the Bargue plates? I can't locate it? thanks, Mike.

Michael Fairless

hi sorry, me again. were we to attempt the foot plate as shown in the video as that isn't with the others? or does it not matter which we choose? 🙂

Paul ward

3 hrs flew by , first person to actually explain cantwait for next one

Manal Alajmi

Thank you so much! I started studying bargue two weeks ago without guidance and I stumble on your account from proko! I will practice it before the next live!

jia liu

Thanks Stephen for a great tutorial. The concepts you discussed make a lot of sense to me. However, I am struggling to figure out how I can practice to improve my drawing. Any advice? Thank you very much

Wayne Schuyler

Really nice tutorial . I am a total newbie to drawing, and somehow (fortunately) came across your teaching and Patreon site. This is also the first time I have ever heard of Bargue drawings, and I am looking forward to this new adventure. Also, thanks for speaking so clearly. I am hard of hearing so I appreciate the excellent audio quality of your videos, While they are a little fast at 100% speed, I find they are perfect for me at 75%.

stephenbaumanartwork
>>50992739

Hi Jia, at first making a lot of very simple short drawings is very useful. This is to get you more familiar with your materials and just getting used to drawing. After many drawings like that you can start to take longer and more complex subjects.

WarnerCheng1024Bambu

Thank you Stephen, your tutorials really cleanse the self-taught artists' confusing learning path and brought my fragmented and flawed learning system to a relatively complete piece. PS: I open patreon account because your art lessons only exist here.

Mark Twain

These videos are helpful. I wish I could spend more time watching them. One of the questions was about proportions, please can you tell me which part talks about proportions. There were only couple of minutes about proportion in part 1. Did I miss it in part 1 or is there another video about proportions. thank you so much for these video.

Mariana Campos Flôr

Hello Stephen! You mentioned that the type of paper you use for bargue drawings is stonehenge or canson midtone paper? Can you tell me the name or specifications of this canson paper? I am searching for an alternative to stonehenge for quite some time. Cheers!

George Thomas

Hope it's ok to post this here. I found a pdf of the full Bargue book on archive.org. It's got some interesting content before the plates, which I found helpful.

Marissa

I stephen! I'm so grateful for your courses. I wanted to ask you since I am in the process of buying all my materials what kind of birch panel you use? I book marked a ton of different pages from links I saw you reply to other students with. For specifically the New Traditions Art Panels, are you using the NL219 1/4 inch Birch? Or is another one? There seems to be a lot of different options in widths, size, etc. I haven't ever stretched paper over panel before so I want to make sure I get the right stuff.

Ana Tilghman

This is awesome Stephen- very informative, thank you so much!

Patricia Penner

Thank you so much. This is more than I could have hoped for. I have watched parts several times trying to absorb all the information presented. I love the details that help me to improve on my work. I will be reviewing this series over and over until I fully grasp all of the concepts that will help me to be better at my work. Thank you again.

David Suissa

Exceptionnal course. Well done Stephen to explain so complex concepts in such a crystal clear way.

Ali Mohamed

Instructive Course. I love how you illustrate and simplify those complex concepts in such a clear way. Thank you for all of your hard work!

Mairead O Neill

i have just joined the atelier tier & wonder if you could offer some guidance about how I should proceed? I have watched drawing essentials 1 & will continue with those but I am not sure where to go after that?

Mairead O Neill

Thanks Stephen, I draw but definitely beginner at atelier methods so I will follow your advice 🙂

Chris Garippo

You mention a term that means when two planes meet. It’s around the 1:54:00 time mark. How do you spell that term? I wanted to learn more about it. You said you posted an article about them on here but I can’t find it.

Hermès

Hello Stephen, I just subscribed yesterday. The work you accomplish here is GOLD. Thank you very much for your involvement !

Aaron Costello

Got to say thank you Stephen! The amount of information you provide and relay is fantastic, can't wait to continue 👌

Ernesto

Thank you Stephen ! This is great content !

Lois Agyapong

hello Stephan! thank you so for the videos I just wanted to ask to recommend that we watch all parts of the essential videos then begin practice drawings?

J. Debaere

Great lesson, as usual. I wondered what your thoughts are on using tracing paper, as a tool for self correction, in self study from 2d pictures? I tend to think it is an unnatural shortcut, so I shy away from them. But then at the other hand, I started wondering, if you study by yourself, and despite all triple double quadruple checking, keep making similar mistakes you don't see for yourself, tracing paper might be a good tool to detect this? Or does the capacity of the eye grow anyway, over time, even without experienced people nearby that can point out inaccuracies? Thanks for your thoughts on this, Joke

stephenbaumanartwork
>>94129432

Feedback is important- principally to point out errors in thinking and organisation. It can also be good to hear about accuracy issues but this is of secondary concern. A tracing paper can be useful for this but is an artificial way to "juice" the accuracy of the drawing. If we think about the drawing as an experiment and your drawing as the proof of your method, this tracing could result in a false positive. Bottom line, it is not a black and white issue. Use a tracing, don't use one... as long as you are drawing, repeating the exercises, you will progress. It isn't an issue of it being a bad thing, just a different one.

J. Debaere

Thank you, those thoughts hit home. (I started drawing 2 years ago. Was actually never interested in accuracy in itself. I did drawings with fountainhead pen, no corrections, straight on the paper. But then I bumped into work of students of the Florence academy of art. I was so moved by them. One thing led to another. And with studying your YouTube videos, for the first time, concepts like a good organization of values etc.started making sense to me. The almost accidental consequence was a big progress in my accuracy. But it is very good to be pointed out that accuracy in itself is a bit of a cold, or empty goal - those last words are just my translational of your advice. I guess I started tasting the taste of progress in accuracy and started focusing too much on it. )

vasjamesart

i'm in blockin bootcamp but when i go to download your bargue sources it says I do not have access?

Andy Rodriguez

Thank you for this one, love the way you started by introducing the concepts and basics, and then continued into applied examples! These are great! 🤩🙏🏽