Why Artists Get Frustrated (Draw This Spiral With Me)
Video | 1 months ago
Why is learning to draw or learning anything creative so frustrating? In this video I draw one simple spiral and explain why creative progress almost never happens in a straight line. Whether you draw, paint, write, compose music, garden or build things, ev...
Open this video on Shoo Rayner Drawing
Did You See Him?
Short | 2 months ago
Was surprised to see blackberries ripening but then I had another surprise! Subscribe to this channel ➡️ http://bit.ly/Sub2Shoo for lots more drawing videos Website for my newsletter, images, books and to support this channel - https://shoorayner.com Music ...
Open this video on Shoo Rayner Drawing
How I Sketch on Family Days Out
Guide | 2 months ago
You don’t have to wait for the perfect time to draw. I took my new sketchbook on a family day out to the farm park after my two-year-old granddaughter had completely taken over my old one! Between the animals, watching the GD and enjoying the day, I found a...
Open this video on Shoo Rayner Drawing
Why I Started Sketching in Public Again
Video | 2 months ago
I hadn’t been out sketching in public for almost a year, so opening a sketchbook in the middle of Matlock Bath felt surprisingly intimidating. I’m glad I did. I stopped to sketch a beer delivery, then wandered down to the river where the rowing boats and pe...
Open this video on Shoo Rayner Drawing
Gorgeous new plant - Santolina
Short | 2 months ago
I got this gorgeous plant on Sunday. It was in a shady corner of a tiny nursery and the flowers sparkled, catching my attention. the flower buds are first encircled by a ring of tiny stars like a planet ore galaxy, then they mushroom out like a tiny univers...
Open this video on Shoo Rayner Drawing
What If the Real Job of an Artist Was Never Making Pictures?
Video | 2 months ago
For the last few years I’ve watched AI become astonishingly good at making pictures. Like many artists, I found myself wondering: what is the point of spending a lifetime learning to draw if a machine can produce beautiful images in seconds? I realised what...
Open this video on Shoo Rayner Drawing
I'm a bit obsessed with doors at the moment
Short | 2 months ago
I am rplacing the doors in our new house. Upstairs they were 1960s hardboard and cardboard honeycomb centres and downstarirs they are 1980s pressed hardboard victorian style. It turns out I've chosen the most popular oak internal doors in the UK, which mean...
Open this video on Shoo Rayner Drawing
Why This Sketch Means More Than a Photograph
Video | 2 months ago
People often ask how I get my loose watercolour sketching style. The truth is that I don’t think it can really be taught as a technique. This sketch was made on a beach on Brownsea Island while my wife and a newly-discovered relative braved the cold sea. Lo...
Open this video on Shoo Rayner Drawing
AI Can Draw Anything… So What Is an Illustrator For?
Review | 3 months ago
In this video I explore a question that has been bothering me for some time: If AI can produce almost any illustration in seconds, what is the purpose of becoming an illustrator today? Looking back through art history, illustration was originally about maki...
Open this video on Shoo Rayner Drawing
A Drawing About the Universe Listening
Video | 3 months ago
Yesterday I let AI bully me into picking up a pen and drawing whatever came to mind. Today Benny returns with a question: If we’re supposed to “put it out there to the universe,” how exactly does that work? Along the way we stumble into physics, the inverse...
Open this video on Shoo Rayner Drawing
What to do when you don't know what to do?
Video | 3 months ago
I reached a point where I didn't know what to do. Do something, said Chat GPT! Subscribe to this channel ➡️ http://bit.ly/Sub2Shoo for lots more drawing videos Twitter http://twitter.com/shoorayner Instagram https://www.instagram.com/shoorayner/ Website for...
Open this video on Shoo Rayner Drawing
Draw an Otter - Teach your kids to draw
Guide | 3 months ago
Learn to teach your kids how to draw an otter as a story starter or a way to become a hero to the kids in your charge! Not confident enough to draw in front of the children? Watch and follow then practice a few times. Talk though it like I do. It's much bet...
Open this video on Shoo Rayner Drawing
