the CREATIVE TECHNIQUE series
Dark, medium, and light values
Drawing Dark Values
Duration: 17¼ mins
Explore the creation of solid darks and blacks that are essential to quality results. Understand how soft grades perform and how you can make them behave in the way you want.
Drawing Mid Values
Duration: 17¾ mins
Middle values are vital for describing substance and three-dimensionality. Features 2H-layering, sculpting with pencil, reverse-layering, and using an old blender for hazy backgrounds.
Drawing Light Values
Duration: 24¼ mins
Light value shading might be used to create an expansive sky or the flawless skin of a young child's face. Learn, in four demonstrations, how to shade smoothly with no visible lines or joins.
Negative Space
Negative Space Intro
Duration: 10¼ mins
Negative Space is the artist's best friend - when you know how to see and use it. An introduction to what it is, and how to harness its power.
Using Negative Space : 1
Duration: 14 mins
Negative Space is an unbelievably powerful tool. This video focuses on areas outside of the subject that assist in accurately seeing and understanding the shape of the subject.
Using Negative Space : 2
Duration: 14 mins
Internal Negative Space should assist you in seeing shapes within the subject. But, natural internal boundaries often don't exist. Mike explains how to create your own boundaries.
Negative Drawing
Negative Drawing: Intro
Duration: 16 mins
Negative Drawing is our white pencil. As the only white we have is the white of the paper, and the only way of drawing white is to work around it, negative drawing is an essential skill.
Negative Drawing: Part 1
Duration: 25 mins
Exploring both the Controlled and Spontaneous uses of Negative Drawing. Includes three demonstrations and oodles of drawing advice. You cannot afford to be without this technique.
Negative Drawing: Part 2
Duration: 34¼ mins
Concluding the "must have" Negative Drawing method. Includes a comprehensive demonstration with step-by-step negative drawing advice, and general tips too.
Light, shade, and contrast
Contrast and Mood
Duration: 19 mins
An exploration of lighting; the practical uses of contrast; digging more detail out of references; the mechanics of dark shading; and how we see and understand light.
Shadows and Light
Duration: 32 mins
How shadows and light work, and how to create and use them. Includes Simultaneous Contrast and the problems it creates for artists.
Recession and Depth
Duration: 20½ mins
The various ways of creating the illusion of depth in a drawing. And their connections with the quality of cast shadows.
Creating realistc textures
Texture: the Basics
Duration: 27¾ mins
Creating texture is not about copying what you see but drawing what you feel. Learn the best approach to drawing textures and how to extract their "killer content".
Creating Textures: Part 1
Duration: 28¾ mins
Five textures with three demonstrations - from smooth skin through to coarse tree bark. Discover why prior thought and exploration will greatly improve your texture drawing.
Creating Textures: Part 2
Duration: 31 mins
Copying severely restricts your freedom to imagine. Explore spontaneously creating textures, and enjoy reference-free drawing.
With two demonstrations.
Drawing Hair
Drawing Hair: Intro
Duration: 28¾ mins
Discover why some drawing methods fail to produce realistic hair; and why one DOES work, and exceptionally well. This video explores all the "fails" and demonstrates the "best".
Drawing Hair: Part 1
Duration: 27 mins
Looking into the mechanics of drawing hair and its fundamental properties. And introducing you to an important method that makes everything simpler to manage.
Drawing Hair: Part 2
Duration: 22 mins
How to break down any drawing of hair into easily manageable sections, and inventing detail where detail is not remembered
Drawing Hair: Part 3
Duration: 39½ mins
Finding and using Visual Clues to create 8 types of hair - human and animal; extracting 'invisible' detail from your photos; basic indenting; and the "Wet & Wiry" hair technique.
Drawing Hair: Part 4
Duration: 23 mins
Tackling the task of clearly suggesting the colour of hair. Advice on Spots and Patches, using Visual Clues, and clealy telling your story. And more...
Drawing Grass and Weeds
Drawing Grass
Duration: 21¼ mins
Explore three effective and enjoyable techniques for drawing grass. Lawn grass to rough and wild grass, these spontaneous and intuitive techniques can be adapted to cover all types.
Drawing Weeds
Duration: 27¾ mins
Take a walk in the fields to explore the foliage. Learn how to avoid the most common problems. Then Mike demonstrates his way used in "Spinney Lane End" with superior results.
Jerry
Your videos are excellent, and I mean excellent. Most good books I read three times, first a quick overview to see what's there, next to get the meat and finally to get what I missed (there is always something) and integrate it with other sources. Your videos are like a good book.
