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Drawing Tutorial For Beginners (EASY Garden Pots & Containers!)

In the Studio with Michele Webber

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In this step by step tutorial video for beginners I cover methods for drawing and sketching garden pots and containers. I also show you the most common drawing mistakes made with this subject.

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Introduction
1:59 What is an ellipes, and how to draw one
5:10 How to find the eyeline in a photograph
8:13 How eyeline affects elipse depth
11:50 Correct and straighten your ellipse
14:18 Flatten things that tip up
15:20 Get your container straight with a guideline
17:33 Forshortening and lips of pots
19:50 Perspective and decoration on pots
22:54 Shading tips for three dimensions
24:33 Keeping structure of things that go behind
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20 Comments

@IntheStudiowithMicheleWebber Creator 3 years ago Pinned

Let me know if you like this sort of content where I concentrate on drawing or painting one specific thing? If you enjoyed this video don't forget to watch 20 FAST Tricks to Transform your Drawing Skills! https://youtu.be/Z6ZPq9Q4A0o

@karenlin3919 3 years ago

Yes more deep dive videos please! I’d like one on placing shadows on buildings and how to paint reflections in water

@theronb1177 3 years ago

Yes, please, more "deep dive" videos. These are very helpful to this beginner!

@arlynroycraft561 3 years ago

I just watched this for a second time. Needed the review.

@lisaguggenheimer2055 3 years ago

This was fantastic. You hit on every problem I have ever had! Keep these in depth videos coming. I find your teaching style very direct and I appreciate your giving so much to your viewers. Thanks again.

@jsmith5068 3 years ago

You have a gift for breaking down subjects into nice bite sized pieces and making it accessible and doable. Thank you. 🌺

@erohan7686 3 years ago

I needed to learn this. Thank you for your excellent explanation! I greatly appreciate your videos and I've learned so much from you. Please continue with perspective. I'd love to see something on stairs.

@colleenmcchesney1482 3 years ago

Fantastic video! Yes I really appreciate you doing this deep dive. Thanks for the refreshing of my memory of how to find the eye line/level in reference photos. I sometimes get in a rush & forget to check it when using one. Definitely lots of valuable information in this one. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. Love how your hairstyle/color looks after the holidays! Have a great weekend!

@karindodge9814 3 years ago

I really liked this deep dive because it was all about 1 subject instead of overwhelming with a whole scene. It was a step by step on improving 1 thing, but it could be applied anywhere.

@sylviecullen8299 3 years ago

Learning to draw with the correct basics is so important and I must thank you for this. Please let us continue in this way. As others have said, you are a fantastic teacher Michelle. 👍👩‍🎨🧡

@suspage 3 years ago

Yes, I really do appreciate the "deep-dive" approach. It helps me in learning a subject when I can know the details of how and why certain things are done. I especially liked the part on drawing decoration on the pot. Thanks!

@susanbuckley1964 3 years ago

Yes to more deep diving please. Loads of hints and tips to take away here (and refresh the memory!). Thanks Michele!

@heatherburrell3502 3 years ago

Thank you Michele. I really appreciate your in-depth video. I had a couple of ‘aha moments’ with foreshortening, and realised that I have done this all wrong. Can’t wait to try out these tips.

@mermaidjaffa9135 3 years ago

A trick that I learnt at sewing school is to, drawing one perfect side, trace over it with tracing paper, cut out that shape, flip it over and line it up with the one you've already drawn, and finally, trace around your cutout. Ta dah! One perfect vase!

@artatjules 3 years ago

I'd love more hints and tips on fore shortening the human body please. Really enjoying these videos. I've been taking art tuitions for a long time now and always learn something new or finally grasp a skill from you. Thank you x

@biancagadi786 3 years ago

Yes Michele, I find it very helpful when your lesson focuses on a specific item/thing. so funny that this week's lesson is about containers.........In my early sixties, kids grown, sort of frustrated how things have changed in this crazy world, I recently concluded that a new long term goal is exactly what I need, a goal that would not depend on other people for cooperation. Since I enjoy to look at art, photography, nature, decorating and color/patterns, I would love to learn how to draw and eventually may be paint, so I would be able to bring those elusive beautiful things I see onto paper. There are a couple of specific images that triggered my desire to acquire the skill of drawing.
1. My grown daughter + son each holding my mother-in-law's aging frail hand in their own. They are holding the hands that cradled them when they were little, that cooked food for all of us for decades, that held their hands to safely cross the street................ I know it requires a lot of skill to draw hands, but my goal is to learn that to bring that image to paper.
2. My all time favorite flower is "lily of the valley". unfortunately, in Los Angeles there are no lily of the valleys. For a long time I have been looking for a painting or photograph of this magical little flower, never able to find just the right one. I have my vision what that painting should look like, because I grew up collecting beautiful bouquets every year in May from our garden. And that is where this week's lesson fits in perfectly. I own a particular "woven pattern" ceramic pot that would look stunning with a bouquet of lily of the valleys. I ordered all my art supplies and am ready to learn. P.S. don't laugh, but this very lesson is precisely where I need to start, because my container/vessel drawing skills are at the level of a 4 year old. Excited to start. Thank you Michele

@LusiveBod 3 years ago

Lots of terrific tips that can be used when drawing loads of things. Always rounding the "points" of an ellipse immediately improves the look of your drawing.

@NatuProg 3 years ago

Very clear and helpful.

@carolynneumann412 3 years ago

Please continue with your deep look into drawing objects. Well demonstrated, thank you

@janicestubblefield-tave229 3 years ago

Yes, I have alwasy lliked your deep dive drawing tutorials, so keep them coming! In this one, I especially appreciate the attention to drawing the rim on a container.