Art Online Tutorials of Jose Manuel Gallego

How to draw apples still life with pencil step by step. With just 3 pencils (HB, 8B and 2B) with can draw a complete still life drawing. There is a longer and narrated version of this video at my spanish channel "Arte Vivo y Divertido" this is the direct link: https://youtu.be/cTDx_sHW_jU Still Life is the one of the best subject in art for learning and teaching drawing and painting. It teaches you how to look at objects and see them like a profesinal artist - with a perceptive awareness of their outline, shape, proportions, tone, color, texture, form and composition, etc. Hope you find it usefull!

Drawing is not only the base to any form of graphic art It doesn’t matter if you consider yourself to be a painter, printmaker, etc, drawing is part of the process. And Drawing is an Art Expression Way in itself. Therefore, we can all benefit from improve our drawing habilities. All of us are born artists and with some practice and learning we can improve our artistic drawing skills. The thing about drawing is that some of us still that artists have an innate hability in themselves, that artists born with all their skills already devoloped, but this is not truth. We believe that there is a certain level of skill that we are limited to, and once we reach that level there’s no more room for improvement. People create all kinds of excuses for why they can’t draw better. Truthfully, drawing is a skill that just requires a bit of knowledge, practice and desire to improve. I have repeated this many times, you can be the greatest artist that you want to be, there is no limit. The problem...

Today I propose one of the best drawing exercises you can do to improve your skills as portrait painters: The self-portrait. Let's face it. Portrait drawing can be scary to some. You sit down to draw a representational drawing of somebody and something goes really wrong along the way. You're not sure what happened, but you know that the drawing you just created just doesn't quite look like your mother or your boyfriend. Fortunately, this doesn't have to be case. With a bit of knowledge, practice, and few tricks used by the pros, accurate and realistic portrait drawings can be created by anyone - yes you can! It doesn't require talent to create amazing, lifelike portraits. It only requires "know how" and practice. This execise gives you the practice required to create accurate portraits, strategies for locating facial proportions, and techniques used by artists and illustrators to ensure likeness. In my portrait courses, I have always advised m...

In today's drawing tutorial we will see how to draw a lioness, step by step, with pencil. If you wish, you can visit my channel in Spanish "Arte Vivo y Divertido" and see the narrated version in Spanish of this tutorial. Link to the Spanish version Link to my channel "Arte Vivo y Divertido" Materials: Canson Paper 120grams Mechanical pencil (mechanical pencil) of 2mm lead, hardness 6B Pencils:  2H, 2B Normal and moldable erasers tissue

Today drawing tutorial goes on how to draw waves, sea waves on a seascape drawing with pencil, graphite pencil. Fully narrated tutorial with step by step explanations. Drawing lesson for every one, hope you like it! And remember, if you speak spanish, you can watch this video in spanish at my main channel Arte Vivo y Divertido

Is it really possible to draw a realistic rose with just a normal HB (2) pencil? Materials: Fotocopy 80 grams paper (or any chip paper), HB Pencil, ear swabs, putty eraser (or regular)

We are all born artists. As soon as we have enough strength to hold a pencil, we start to draw and paint on the walls, furniture and floor of our houses.   Normally, this behavior derives in the screams of our parents and later we learn that it is better to express our creativity on a sheet of paper. Up there, everything normal. The problem arises when the adults who educate us (parents, teachers, etc.) want to make us understand how to draw or paint: -You DO NOT LEAVE THE LINES -NOT MIXES COLORS WITHOUT ANY ORDER -NOT BE GARABATEA - THIS IS DRAWN LIKE THIS, OR SO ... Then at school the thing gets worse. There are exams, level tests. They force us to draw in such and such a way ... all this, with the best of intentions, of course. and in fact, many teachers try by all means to encourage the creativity of their students. But the educational plans are very strict and are intended to show us that the most important thing is to write without mistakes in spelling, and make cal...

Today, I'll draw our most intimate emotion, Mother's Love. Her tenderness, her care for us, our mother selfishness, that's what I'll try to draw in this drawing tutorial. It is longer beacause is a full drawing lesson. No cuts, no time lapse. Video is only 2x to make it a little shorter, but it is complete.   When I drew this painting, I did it for a commission. a man, thirty years old, had just become a father. He had been an orphan for 20 years, and seeing his first child sleeping with his wife made him long for the love that his mother gave him when he was a child. I never knew if this drawing was given to his wife or if he kept it for himself. But I do know that when he saw it, emotion overwhelmed him. In moments like those, it is when I most realize that art is always a cure and care for the soul.

Today's Painting with Acrylics Tutorial, goes on, How to Paint wild Flowers bouquet with a very limited Palette. Materials: 400 grams Acrylic painting paper Acrylic colors: Yellow Cadmium Dark, Magenta, Cyan, Black of Mars, White of Zinq, Sap Green, Phtalo Green Brushes Knife painter Disposable Palettes Did you know that one out of every two paintings that are painted around the world, its subject are the flowers? The flowers are beautiful, varied, there are for all tastes, they represent life, joy, hope, love and thousands of other emotions. Their shapes may look the same, but you will not find two flowers exactly the same all over the world, so they are a subject of almost infinite painting! In addition, they develop a lot of intuition in the use of color in artistic painting. I encourage you to paint with me these humble and simple wildflowers!

Do you really want to draw impresive, terrific mountains? Here you'll find how! In this tutorial you'll see a really easy and professional techniques to draw mountains with just a pencil. In this video I'll talk very little... I'm testing to make a tutorial series in the same way, please comment if you like or not this.Free Drawing and Painting Tutorials: Fine Art Alive and Funny  is a channel where you can learn to draw and paint like a pro, but in an entertaining and fun way. The artist and professor Jose Manuel Gallego Garcia will guide you every video, so you can learn and enjoy drawing and painting. Materials: ONE REGULAR PENCIL (2B hardness is better) Drawing paper 90 grams Kneaded eraser regular eraser   Tips: Take the pencil with ease, do not grab it as if it were your life in it. Elevated mountains like these are no more than triangles with slightly irregular sides. Nothing happens to have to erase, the eraser is one more element of artistic drawing (...

Introduction to Acrylic Painting, and how to paint a complete landscape with a limited palette. ACTIVATE SUBTITLES TO READ EXPLANATIONS. All this painting tutorial is completely explained in the subtitles, including list of materials, painting techniques, etc. I have a narrated version of this video in spanish at my channel "Arte Vivo y Divertido" Direct Link: https://youtu.be/EXGkgI4uNmA Materials: Acrylics (Vallejo, Amsterdam and Reeves): Lemon Yellow, Dark Cadmium Yellow, Ftalo Blue and Ultramarine Blue, phtalo Green and Sap Green, Magenta and Cadmium Red, Burnt Sienna, Black of Mars and White. Gesso. disposable palettes Brushes: Flat brushes nº 24, 14, and 4; Filbert nª12, Round nº3, Fan Brush. Gesso Watercolor 300 grams paper Water Absorbent Paper When I made this painting, practically live, I did not know that so many people were interested in learning to paint with acrylics. Personally, I consider acrylic painting the real present and future of arti...

Today´s watercolor tutorial goes on how to paint realistic drops of water. Materials: Watercolor Brush Fabriano 300 grams paper watercolor especial Waterproof black ink pen marker. There are times when a painting seems very difficult, until we see how it is done. Today I show you a very effective and simple technique to paint water drops. The video is very visual and you can see many watercolor tricks and tips hidden in it.

Today´s Drawing techniques tutorial, goes on how to draw a deer with pencil, hope you like it! Materials: Canson 150 grams Dry Techniques paper Pencils: 2H, HB, 2B Erasers regular and kneaded One of the themes to draw that can help you learn the most is: draw animals. The huge variety of animal species, as well as their anatomy, their poses, their coats, types of teeth, eyes ... all this will help you a lot to train your hand and your eye. I strongly recommend that you consider starting to draw animals. Do it with ease and make use of photographs and references (like this video) as much as you need. You will see how in a short time, your drawings and your strokes achieve a ease and vitality that they did not have before.

How to draw an old wood ship? today drawign tutorial is on how to draw it. Materials: Paper 120 grams Canson dry techniques Pencils: HB, 2B, 2H, 8B Erasers: regular and kneaded A few weeks ago, a follower asked me to make the drawing of an old ship, a sailboat, with graphite pencil. Whenever you ask me for specific drawings, I write them down and file them for future tutorials. I have always been fascinated by the sea. I have visited it, I have sailed through it, I have painted it, drawn ... The sea calls me, and boats are one of my favorite themes to draw. Unfortunately, the professional commissions that make me, are usually portraits, and other popular topics. So the days go by, the months go by, and I never found time to draw my great passion. As you can see, a fundamental part when we draw boats, are not only the proportions, etc. but, for example, correctly represent the wind in the sails, and also, of course, the sea on which it sails. In this case it is a rough sea, and ...

How to make a complete watercolor landscape painting? this video is full of watercolor techniques. Hope you like it! With a limited color palette, good watercolor effects can be achieved. This video, recorded as always without cuts so that you can follow it, and copy it if you wish, shows you many tricks and tips of the technique of painting with watercolors. Materials: 300 grams cold pressed watercolor paper Brushes: nº10 round sinthetic, nº4 round red sable, nº2 round sithetic, fan brush Paints colors: Cobalt blue, Ultramarine blue, Lemon Yellow, Light Red, Raw Sienna, Grey of Payne   Note: In the entries of this blog, you can see that some of the materials mentioned are in another color: They are direct links to those products at Amazon or another trusted provider. The reason that not all products have links, is that I only recommend brands and specific products that I have tested myself, and whose quality I can recommend without any doubt. If there is no li...

In today's drawing tutorial, I'm going to draw a peregrine falcon. I will use graphite pencil (see list of materials). It is the complete recording of the drawing session, without cuts, only a little accelerated. You can watch it more slowly using the YouTube options. I have a slower version and narrated in Spanish of this video. You can see it on my channel in Spanish "Arte Vivo y Divertido". Here is the direct link: https://youtu.be/bH-4JAsSF0w Materials: Canson 180 grams paper Pencils: Faber-Castel Artistic Drawing Pencils Putty eraser Regular eraser Tissue

Is it really possible to draw a realistic rose with just a normal HB (2) pencil? Direct link to narrated video at my channel "Arte Vivo y Divertido" https://youtu.be/vazJp_jvJJo Materials: Fotocopy 80 grams paper (or any chip paper), HB Pencil, ear swabs, putty eraser (or regular)

In today's drawing tutorial, we will draw a landscape with mountains and forests very easy, for beginners. I have a version of this video narrated in Spanish on my channel "Arte Vivo y Divertido". This is the link to it: https://youtu.be/A0_av-ywbHI We will use the following materials: Pencils: Faber-Castel Artistic Drawing Pencils Erasers: Normal and moldable Ear buds Drawing paper of 110 grams

Do you want to know how to paint a waterfall with acrylics for beginners Here you have how to  make it. During my stay in Montana, when I was younger (an eternity ago), I had the opportunity to paint many sketches in the open air, with which I later developed many of my paintings. Today I show you how you can paint a scene, typical of the depths of Yellowstone, (although it is actually completely invented). I will use acrylic paint and throughout the video, which is very visual, you can see techniques and artistic painting tricks. The Idea of this painting came from my years living at USA and my trips to Montana and Rocky Mountains. Hope you like it! Materials: Paper: Canson Acrylics Painting Paper Brushes: Fan brush, flat brush and round brush. Palette knife

How to Paint a Tree with Acrylics? With this technique you'll be able to paint even a forest, easy, fast, and beautiful! Materials: Flat wide brush Palette knife Sap Green, Lemon Yellow Black, Magenta Canson Acrylics Painting Paper   Today I show you one of the thousand forms that exist in artistic painting to paint a tree, in an easy, fast and at the same time very beautiful way. You will only need a wide and soft brush, some paint and a good support, in this case I use 400 grams paper, specific Canson brand to paint with acrylics. Before painting on paper (or on any support) it is convenient to apply a primer with "gesso". The video is very visual and I think it is well understood, but any clarification you can ask me with a comment. A greeting!

If there is one thing common to all beginners in pastel painting is that they think that soft pastels can be mixed as we would with any other means of painting, such as oil, acrylic or watercolor. And the truth is that it is not like that. soft pastels are difficult, and in some cases impossible to mix.   For this reason, it is always best to have a very high range of different colors. The problem is that soft pastels are expensive, in some cases very expensive. What to do then when we are beginners? The solution has existed for many years and is the half bars.   Many brands sell sets of half bars. Some are better than others.   My favorite range for students is: Faber-Castell Soft Pastel (half barrs) In this tutorial I show you several techniques of drawing and painting with pastel, and to do so I use a game of only 72 Faber-Castell Soft Pastel (half barrs) I hope you find it useful!

In today's drawing tutorial, we will see how to draw a waterfall in pencil, step by step, very easy and with many drawing techniques hidden in the video. This video is a non narrated version of the origininal at my spanish channel Arte Vivo y Divertido: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkggcB4wg1ba7st3uvFCyXQ Materials Drawing Paper: Strathmore 340-11 300 Series Drawing Pad, 11"x14" Wire Bound, 50 Sheets Drawing Pencils: Faber-Castell 9000 Graphite Sketch Pencil Sets Art 8B - 2H set of 12 Kneaded Eraser Faber-Castell Paper towells The drawing of landscapes in pencil is one of the most beautiful techniques. The pencil drawing techniques have their tricks and tips, and in this tutorial, as in others of my channel, I will be counting (or narrating) many of them, I hope you like it!

This time I thought ir could be a good Idea to upload an speed drawing video. As always you may see this video at real time at my other channel "Arte Vivo y Divertido" this is the direct link to it: https://youtu.be/pNny-cY8JvQ Materials used: Mi-Teintes Pastel Pad, Assorted Colors 9"X12" Fold Over Royal Talens Rembrandt Soft Pastels General Wood Box Set, 90 Stick Set

Today "how to paint" tutorial is a landscape painting with oil paints. All colors used and how to mix may be seen on screen. I have a narrated version of this tutorial (spanish) at my channel "Arte Vivo y Divertido" this is the direct link to it: https://youtu.be/NdIjV1OHLWI If you are a beginner, in oil painting, I recommend that you buy a varied and complete set of materials.   So, as you paint more and more paintings, you can see which materials are best suited to your preferences, and so you can buy what interests you most separately.   For example, this is a fairly complete Professional Oil Painting Kit For Artists of reasonable price and average quality, perfect to start painting. It is also advisable to have a varied set of brushes that are suitable for oil painting, like this one: Paint Brushes Set I hope this tutorial is useful for you. A greeting.

My name is Jose Manuel Gallego Garcia, I am a painter, draftsman and art teacher for more than 30 years.   Since more than 10 years ago, my body became ill, I had to leave the classroom teaching of drawing and painting.   Teaching people to express their art and creativity has always been my passion. After several ups and downs, I risked uploading a tutorial to YouTube, on my channel in Spanish (and at that time, my only channel): "Arte Vivo y Divertido" . And it was very well received, so much so that today, it has 175,000 subscribers and 3 million minutes of reproduction every 4 weeks (and increasing).   Some time after this I decided to create a parallel channel for people who do not speak Spanish but want to learn to paint and draw. and so "Art Online Tutorials" was born.   Today, I start this blog where I intend to expand, whenever I can, the information contained in my videos.   I hope you like the idea and it will be useful! See you here...

Today I start a new blog. I want this to be a meeting point for all those who want more information about my tutorials, my works of art, etc. and myself. I hope this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.