It takes me on average about 5 days to put a cutting board together from scratch. What I am showing here is the very beginning process of doing so. I will be posting further vlogs which documents the process.

Brand of oil pastels used is Sennelier. They are a great brand but can be costly. I recommend that if you have fine art stores near you that carry the brand, sign yourself up to their newsletters because usually during the back to school sales, they will put them on sale for a pretty good price. That is how I got my first set of them.

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Welcome back everyone to an oil pastel drawing of the northern lights! This was a suggestion that I had gotten on facebook after asking what sorts of drawings everyone would like to see and that one sparked my interest. After searching around for some images, I decided to sort of keep it a bit more bob ross styled but with my own touch of course.

I started this one off with drawing in the mountains. I didn't have to worry about the sky because the paper was black to begin with and that is the color that I wanted the sky to be. It also makes it a lot easier to draw in the mountains with having a black background.

With drawing in the mountains, I started off with a pencil sketch to see where I wanted different details. and general placement of the objects overall. I then got myself going with the oil pastel. I used straight white for the highlighted side of the mountain. I also didn't press too hard on the pastel so that it would give it nice break look so that it would leave a nice texture for it. For the shadowed side, I used a very dark blue and then applied the white oil pastel on top of it to bring out a lighter color.

For the Northern Lights, I simply applied a very potent blue line followed by 2 more to create 3 lines all together. After applying some purple and green to give it added color, I took a blending stump and blended them towards the top of the page to help spread them to give them a better look. Later on I added a lot of white to really help bring them out more.

The trees were done with black oil pastels and did them in the traditional way that I normally do pine trees. I have quite a few videos that explain how to draw in this way. I also decided to add a bit of white oil pastel to make it look like a fresh snowfall just for the added effect.

On the foreground, I literally went to town with that oil pastel just creating different textures and such just to help create a nice area to finish things off. I didn't spend too much time with that. but In the end I think that this one came out really well.

Thank you everyone for watching and I hope you enjoyed the drawing!

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Song: Faster than the Eye Can Persieve

Did another one of those abstract/nonobjective art drawings. Ive done drawings like this a lot in the past and can be great fun to do. Its just doodling on an entire page with random stuff and it looks awesome in the end. It also gives a great boost in drawing technique and skill.

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Artist: Ryan Farish
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Welcome back everyone! This video will be about The Basics of Highlights Midtones and Shadows

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This video is all about highlights, midtones, shadows, cast shadows, and reflected light. I will use an apple to demonstrate all of these and give you a basic understanding of this so that you can apply this method to other drawings.

I wanted to start out by explaining different types of lighting to show you how one light source or multiple can really change how an object looks. Using one light source is a great way of being able to clearly see highlights and shadows. Think of a highlight as a direct reflection or the brightest area of a drawing and a shadow as the absence of light. The midtones are indirect light that is illuminating an object.

Now that this has been established, the next thing is to begin drawing. Before that though, we need to understand where the highlights midtones, and shadows are. This can be difficult when looking at an object in color. So what I like to do is take a photo of the object and turn it into black and white with a filter. This gets rid of all the color and you can see the true value scale of the drawing. This helps a huge amount and this method can be used for anything you wish to replicate in pencil.

Working on the drawing now, I really only used an HB and 2B pencil for the entire piece. I began by drawing a rough circle for the overall apple shape and then the cast shadow. Afterwards, I toned the background. Keeping in mind where the lightest tones would be, I began to shade the whole apple in that tone. Then with the darker tones, I shaded the overall apple starting in those darker areas and working my way around. I want to build up layers while shading to help build up depth. This is a process that can take a bit of time and with practice, you should see some improved results.

I hope you all enjoyed this video and thanks a lot for watching!



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Artist: Plastic 3
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In this video I show you how I drew a castle in the mountains every step of the way.

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This drawing starts out like I usually do. I will use a pencil that ranges from 2H to about an HB pencil. These are rather neutral pencils and are not too light or too dark. They are also easier to erase for making the general pencil lines. I used a lot of perspective to aid me into being able to create this drawing. It took me quite a while to get the sketch done because the drawing changed as it progressed. It was once just going to be a mountain, then it turned into some sort of aqueduct of sorts. but later on, I decided to just turn it into a castle.

This is why I do like drawing from imagination. Even though the drawing is not always accurate, you get to draw what you see fit and create some pretty cool images. I always found it to be a blast.

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Welcome back everyone to a new real time drawing tutorial series. In this series, I will take you step by step to show you how to draw a spring meadow.

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In this video I show you the basics of how to sketch out the scene. I start out by showing a grid to help line up all the objects with better accuracy. The paper I am using is 6 1/4 inches by 10 inches. I use the paper horizontally so the vertical lines fall at 2 1/2 inches 5 inches and 7.5 inches dividing the page into thirds. The horizontal line falls 3.1/2 inches from the top of the page making the line below center.

These lines help with the accuracy of line placement of the objects of the drawing. This method is great for drawing from a reference image. Just make sure that the lines you create can be easily erased.


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Artist; Ghost
Song: Reverie Small Theme
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This is great drawing practice if anybody wants to gain a boost in artistic talent. Believe me, when I first started drawing, I could only draw stick figures. After drawing like this for about a year or so, I can do all the things I do now. I do believe that art is something you are born with but I also believe that one can also learn the skill. Try and draw at least 1 thing every day and you will get much better as time goes on.

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I show you how to draw a waterfall landscape from beginning to end showing you the pencils and tools you need.

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Drawing duration: 2 hours

Welcome back everyone to another drawing video and this time I draw a waterfall landscape. I started this one off with a darker outline so that it can be easily seen on video. I did it with a 4B pencil and normally I would use an HB pencil for the initial outline/sketch just so that it can be easily erased.

I started the sketch by drawing out the rocks and their general placement. I then moved on to a quick sketch of where the trees would be.

I first started by shading in the sky and then going into the leaves of the tree. To draw them, I use an underhand grip with the pencil and use a circular motion resemble the leaves. I make some spots darker than others to show volume and depth within the trees. It helps to make them look more realistic.

Once the trees were finished up I moved onto the rocks. I had to make a lot of texture to make them look realistic. I do this by using a varying amount of pencils. Use a lighter pencil to create details then go over the same area with a darker pencil. It will create a varying texture to help simulate a realistic texture.

Once the rocks were completed, I added the water and some grass on the right side of the image. That just about wrapped up the image.

Thanks everyone for checking out this video and I hope you enjoyed it!

Welcome back everyone to my new series on How to Draw - Summer in the Mountains Series Part One - Using a Grid to Start a Drawing

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I started in this video by going over and describing a sketch that I had done and I am going to be using that as the basis for this drawing. I will also discuss a method of using a grid to help more accurately transfer over the drawing that was already created. I have always found that the initial sketch is the most important part of a drawing. It is the foundation and everything else gets placed on top of it. Make sure to fix any mistakes in this stage before moving forward. Once a nice solid foundation sketch has been created, some detailing can then come after. I will usually detail the elements of the drawing to an extent to help see more of what is going to take place in the drawing.

I hope that you all enjoyed part one of this new drawing series. Next part will show you the basic tonal ranges of the drawing as well as shading everything to a pretty close range of where they should be. I hope you all join me for part 2! Thanks a lot for watching everyone!!

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Song: Remember How it Started
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Welcome back everyone to How to Draw - Summer in the Mountains Series Part Four - How to Draw Rocks and a Waterfall

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In this video, I decided to get some work done in the background rock cliffs and the waterfall. I start off by darkening and adding in some more details for the rocks so that the waterfall will have more contrast so that it will stand out more. Drawing a waterfall is a back and forth process. I like to add in a small amount of tone with a 2H pencil or so. It really helps to have a sharp eraser for this part. I will start to erase out parts of the pencil to create the highlights of the waterfall. Once this is done, I go back in and darken up some of the water to help build up some contrast and give it a bit of character. Then going back in with the eraser and blending stump to smooth things over and then repeating the process until I get to where I like it. Once that is done, we can go back in and finish up some of the rocks.

Because of the waterfall that I added and some of the objects around it, I had to change the perspective of the water pool just slightly. I did this by adding in more rocks on the bottom that took away from where the water would be. This helped to create the illusion that we were standing in the drawing. When the pool was more rounded, it gave a more overhead look of it which was counteracting the other perspectives that I had already placed in the drawing.

Next video I will start to work on the ground details and get them more finalized. I hope you are all enjoying the series and would greatly appreciate your feedback! Thanks a lot everyone for watching!

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Song: Remember How it Started
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Welcome back everyone to my first Q & A about my childhood Art and the meaning of life as well as many other topics. I had a great amount of fun while doing this and I think this will be a great opportunity for all of you to get to know a little bit more about me.

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Supplies:

Faber castell pencils:

4H 2H HB 2B 3B 4B

Paper mate tuff stuff eraser
sharp needle point
blending stumps

90IB hardbound sketch book.

Drawing duration: about 3 hours.



So here is a sketch that I have been wanting to do for a very long time. I have been looking on the web for a reference picture to draw but could not find one that I have liked. So what I just decided to draw this one straight out of my head. Drawing out of my head is something I have been practicing for a while now and it has taken me a while to get used to it. Once you get the shading down, you can draw any sort of convincing composition.

So I started the landscape drawing like I usually do. I outline where the mountains are going to go and then I start working on the sky. I started with a 2h pencil and used the weight of the pencil to shade it in. Then using a cloth, I blended everything smooth.

I have a few erasers that are very fine that I used to start erasing out some clouds. Once the clouds were erased out, I would go back in with a pencil again to add some shadow and detail to them.

Next step is the mountains. I usually leave one side of the considerably darker than the other to show dynamic lighting effect. It helps to convince the viewer that light is effecting the landscape. I will also make very dark lines going down the mountains to show texture on them to help bring them out.

The next portion was the waterfall. This one started out with a light sketch of where I wanted it to be and then I started to plant some rocks on both sides of it. Shading the rocks took me a long time to do. I worked then and shaded them with a lot of texture to make them as lifelike as I could make them.

The last portion of the drawing I just decided to add in a few bushes and eventually a tree. The tree really helped to balance out the overall drawing in the end which really made the drawing come together.


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Song is called "The Owl Named Orion"

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I am going to do my first Q and A video very soon and I need your help to get some questions in that I can answer during it! Feel free to write down any and all questions that you have that I could answer during the video!

Thanks a lot everyone and I look forward to reading and replying to your comments!!

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Song: Our Lives Are Changing
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Welcome back everyone to a new real time drawing tutorial series. In this series, I will take you step by step to show you how to draw a spring meadow.

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In this video, I will cover how to detail and texture the large tree in the foreground of the drawing. This is a very similar method to how I added the details for the other trees in the drawing. This time, I will be adding more volume to the detail because the tree is much closer to the viewer. Because of that, I want to add in more details to really make it pop. Later on in the drawing, I also go back into different areas and begin to add in details to try and get some of the finishing touches going. Next video, I will be covering the final touches to the drawing.

I hope you all enjoyed this drawing and thanks a lot for watching!

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Song: Reverie Small Theme
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Here is a video that will give a description of everything that I will be using in the landscape series.

Some of the supplies I will be using are graphite pencils ranging from 4h all the way to 9b. Charcoal as well as charcoal pencils. These are very easily blended into the drawings and make very good tools to use. The charcoal ranges like pencils do. They range from hard to med to soft to ex soft. Hard being a lighter tone and harder to blend while ex soft is very soft and blends easily. I also use sticks of charcoal to fill in large areas very quickly

Erasers can vary very much. There are so many brands out there and many of them work very well. The pink erasers work very well for making very sharp eraser marks as well as the kneaded eraser. This one is like puddy and can be shaped into any form you wish. Other erasers range from cheap little white ones that are cheap. I also use a triangular eraser that works out very well. There are also gum erasers that leave a mess while erasing but pick things off the page very well. My favorite eraser is the retractable one. This is like a mechanical pencil but instead of lead being inside of it, its a very long piece of eraser. These are very good for making very precise erasing on the page. Very compact and great for on the go.

Blending materials My favorite object to use is a blending cloth. They are very soft and work very well. They are rather cheap and can also be substituted for paper towels and other types of cloth that are soft. The blending stumps come in 2 kinds. Tortillions which are very cheap and come in very long sharp points. These last a very long time and can be used very effectively in the drawing. They are hollow in the center so the points do sometimes get pushed in. The other type is a blending stump. These are fully compressed paper shaped into points at the ends. These work best. They are not hollow and I have used some of mine for over a year. They come in thicknesses of about an 8th of an inch all the way up to almost an inch in diameter.

You an also get a very conformable mechanical pencil with a rubber grip. They are more comfortable to use than regular pencils because you can grip them much easier. You can also get different fillings for it. You can get pencil grades from 9h all the way to 9b.

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I used Oil paints on this one. This is a basic wooden tv table that we found on the side of the road. I got 4 of them and I plan on painting all 4 of them and putting them up for sale.

Hope everybody Enjoyed this. I had a very good time painting on a wooden surface. It was different but very fun.

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Did this with water soluble ink pencils. Its a very different medium that is very unique it work with.

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Hello Everybody and welcome to the Tyler's Art Shack Drawing Contest!!!!
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Today is the second aniversary to Tyler's Art Shack and what better way to celebrate than an art contest!!!

Here is what you will be drawing:Since my youtube channel name is Tyler;s Art Shack, I want you to draw what you think my art shack would look like.
You can draw any kind of scene you like but it has to include some sort of building, structure, or seomthing that resembles what you think my art shack

would look like. Your drawing can be in any medium and digital is just fine. Be Creative!

Scoring

I want the community to have a big say in who is the overall winner of this contest. Scoring will be based on feed back from the comunity. The more

likes and positive feed back yoru entry recieves. The better chance you have at winning.

Qualification

Subscribe to Tylersartshack
Post in the comments containing the words "im in"
Post in the youtube feedback forum advocating for a visual arts category. Try to make your post unique to avoid it being deleted for duplicate messages.

Your post should explain why you think we need a visual arts category. It can be as simple as "We need a visual arts category" but please add more to

that statement so it does not get deleted for duplicate posts.


when you finish your drawing:

You can post your drawing in 1 of 2 ways.
Make a video response to this video showing the finished piece of art work. you can show a speed drawing of the video, That is just fine. As

long as you show the end result at some point in the video.
Post the result to my facebook fan page. But please if you post it this way, include your youtube channel name along with the photo.


The drawing contest starts on feb 8th 2012 and ends on feb 23rd 2012. This gives you 15 days to submit entries. Only videos posted after this date will

qualify for the contest. Your video has to be specifically made for this contest video.

I will respond to every single entry that this contest revieces and I will also put them into a playlist for easy accesibility. I will also share your

videos to help promote your work.

Help me to spread this video by liking and favoriting it!!! I lookforward to seeing what you come up with! Good Luck!!!!!



Here is what the prizes are for first and second place!!!!


Both Winners will be featured in my channel box for 1 month

Here are the prizes.

2nd place

Faber Castell Drawing Pencils: 4H 2H HB 2B 4B
Generals Compressed Charcoal: White, Black
Generals Charcoal Pencils HB 2B 6B and 2 white charcoal pencils
10 pack of blending stumps and tortillons
Artgum Eraser
Kneeded Eraser
Tuff Stuff Eraser Stick

Package value: $25


1st place

36 set Prismacolor colored Pencils
24 set Derwent Pastel Pencils
Faber Castell Drawing Pencils: 4H 2H HB 2B 4B
Generals Compressed Charcoal: White, Black
Generals Charcoal Pencils HB 2B 6B and 2 white charcoal pencils
10 pack of blending stumps and tortillons
Artgum Eraser
Kneeded Eraser
Tuff Stuff Eraser Stick

Package Value: Over $100


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Song name is Junk Ship Gold.

Welcome back everyone to How to Draw - Summer in the Mountains Part Seven - Drawing Distant Mountains

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Before I made this last part, I spent a lot of time just looking over the entire drawing seeing what needed to be added. After spending the time and asking some others. I came to the conclusion that everything looked great except for the background. It got lost in all the foreground details so I wanted to go back in and make it more pronounced to help it stand out.

In doing this, I used a light pencil for the very background mountains. I wanted to make them the lightest and have each mountain closer get darker and darker. So going through the pencils I did exactly that. I wasn't too worried about the detail or texture for these mountains because they are quite far away. So after playing around with different tones and slight texture, I arrived to a point which looked nice. Which is where I will leave off this drawing.

I hope that you all enjoyed this drawing series and for those of you that followed along, feel free to post your results on my facebook page! Thanks a lot everyone!

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Artist: DanoSongs
Song: Remember How it Started
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This is a tribute drawing I did for Pinsetter1991 aka Andrew in response to his waterfall drawing.

I did this drawing and divided it up into 3 parts. The sky and trees, the rocks, and the water below. By dividing the picture into 3 areas it made it easier to draw. This was mostly drawn with pastels.

With dividing the drawing into 3 key areas I was able to start the drawing very quickly and draw it very efficiently and effectively. I started off with the rocks and quickly go over the entire area with a brown/orange color to do something I like to call the "greatest common color" Whatever this color happens to be in this case brown, I shade the entire area that color and work from there. From that point, I add highlights and shadows and rocks start to form. I do not use pastels for highlights and shadows, instead, I used charcoal and white charcoal. These for some reason really apply to the paper very well and much better than pastels would.

The next part of the drawing I worked on was the sky and tree area. This was easier to do that the rocks since there was much less detail that was needed. I started by erasing out the blue that I used to create the night sky so I could more easily apply the color of the trees. I applied trees as I saw fit and didn't over do it. I used cotton balls for smoothing out the sky portion of the drawing.

The water was quite difficult to do because of the water ripples. But then I was able to draw then im quite well after using charcoal. It ended up looking quite nice.

The music is by Kevin MacLeod and it is called Cattails.