Heavy Metal Spheres 🤘
Added 2025-03-31 23:00:06 +0000 UTCIn drawing and painting a sphere represents a perfect laboratory environment in which to explore the possibilities of style, materials, concepts, really anything that you need to work out in a practical sense as a visual artist.
In this lesson, we are drawing a sphere with the intent of determining exactly how far and how much we need to change what we see to embody Grebennikov's unique style.
The materials will need for this lesson as I described in the first part of the video are really everything that you have around. At bare minimum you'll need some very soft graphite probably 8 or 9B, some hard erasers, some needed erasers, I'm just a couple of harder pencils too. I have made this drawing on Stonehenge paper.
By the way, the thumbnail for this video is just a screenshot from the lesson. I dare you to look at it and then ask me if I'm passionate about teaching drawing online 😅
Here's a link to the silent draw along video that includes every mark I made on the paper:
Comments
This is insane and perfect!! My AP Fine Art exam was a white parcel, tied with a white string, on a white sheet background. I ended up treating it like this and got perfect marks!! If I remember correctly, there was a significant amount of ink applied with a brush and powdered charcoal. I still can't believe I was so bold at a moment that it mattered so much 😵💫
Alexandra
2025-07-03 18:03:29 +0000 UTCThis is one of the most eye opening art videos I’ve ever seen and I’m not being hyperbolic. What a freaking great exploration experiment. This is inspiring me!!
Andrew Sapienza
2025-06-04 19:53:03 +0000 UTCwow this is fantastic. I've seen a lot of sphere demonstrations and this is by far the most exciting! Thank you for this!!
Chris
2025-04-21 01:04:39 +0000 UTCLove it. There is more expression and feeling in rendering a sphere in this manner. Can’t wait for the workshop in two months time.
Sonica Odendaal
2025-04-03 18:30:07 +0000 UTCI would second this. Also maybe just the basic 3d shapes. Sphere, cubes, pyramids
Aaron
2025-04-02 17:40:46 +0000 UTCGreat and informative content once again! Thank you for this one. As I haven't really found a personalized style yet, this video helped me understand that everything is not about perfection all the time and sometimes we just have to jump feet first in order to allow our brains to break free from our norms. By being free, I believe, is how we find our style. So far I have just tried to emulate everything I see.
Aaron
2025-04-02 17:37:47 +0000 UTCShowman show ;o)
Jean Pierre Daviau
2025-04-02 16:59:02 +0000 UTCI have never been so on my seat edge watching a piece of Patreon content, full stop. This is the most exciting, daring tutorial I’ve ever watched. Can’t wait to get in the studio.
M Collins
2025-04-02 02:36:34 +0000 UTCLoving this series, it's giving me a fresh perspective - a real eye opener in terms of the possibilities for mark making. I'm thinking of it as a dance between texture and unity... Are these choices just intuition, i.e. pushing the boundaries to see what you can get away with... or are there specific opportunities to push the texture?
Ryan Johnston
2025-04-01 14:54:25 +0000 UTCOh. wooooow. I love this style.
Sascia Schümperli
2025-04-01 12:31:23 +0000 UTCBelieve me, it was just as fun for me to make 😊
Stephen Bauman Artwork
2025-04-01 08:07:18 +0000 UTCIt varies between brands of graphite, but it's realistic to expect some level of graphite shine for any very dark application. Eventually, it's just part of the material.
Stephen Bauman Artwork
2025-04-01 08:06:56 +0000 UTCRandom thought: Would it be possible to include a conceptual sphere into the head study app?
Gesa
2025-04-01 07:04:02 +0000 UTCI was blown away with the sphere creativity!! It was like I was in a way back machine watching Picasso worked up discovering Cubism. It was so fun! I have been carefully learning the fine rendering of the classical tradition but I cannot wait to try my hand at this. How fun was this? Thanks
Nancy
2025-04-01 02:07:04 +0000 UTCHi Stephen, Whenever I apply such a deep value, I tend to get a graphite shine. It seems that no matter how careful and slow I am with my application, there’s always some shine left on the paper. When you apply these values, is there a typical level of shine to expect, or is there a technique to completely eliminate it? Thank you for your advice and amazing content as always
Samvel
2025-04-01 00:00:12 +0000 UTCamazing Stephen!! Nice lesson. I hope there are lessons about Light & forms.Thanks🙌
HAK
2025-03-31 23:13:04 +0000 UTC
