Drawing the Figure in Motion with Robert Liberace (excerpts from the dvd)

[KatonCallaway]

So your work at the LA Art Show, really beautiful stuff and very inspiring. "Pointing the Way" really caught my eye out off all the work on the floor. Hope to take a workshop from you someday. Gonna be in LA anytime soon?

[MrNerdyBrit]

I love the aged paper look :) makes it look all the more eligant.

[perspektyw94]

poor model :/ great drawing btw! :D

[DCRivs]

You've got a very unique style in adding contrast. Impressive work.

[TheFruscianteRocks]

what materials are you using? type of paper. pencils and what not?

[EmilyE257]

damn, I could watch this all day...

[twistedtree01]

does anyone know what kind of paper that is that he's working on ?

[JonnyWynne1]

this is a very good video and helps alot with free up movement and lending energy to the picture. i recently put up my second time lapse video and would appreciate any feedback or opinions from people interested in drawing, so please stop by. thanks

[sassuru]

Does Robert use cold-pressed drawing paper or hot-pressed? Thanks.

[sassuru]

and also, please, what thickness does he use too?

[youtubkevin]

how do you get that color from the paper?

[Philosofy3]

@youtubkevin he paints watercolor on it before he draws

[1mcool]

what material's did you use to draw the figure?

[s2dioart]

good

[BlackMasterJoe89]

Beautiful drawings. You are a fantastic artist.

[rtgerwaski]

Really great work all around. I need to learn how to draw like this, even just a little bit. Cheers!

[Vykuk123]

I think this is one of the best draughtsman from the ones whos publish their works on the youtube.

I like he try to stick with traditional european/rennaisance ways of drawing.This guy simply DRAW !!!!

Today everywhere are overrendered drawings , without any signs of strokes/crosshatching ,loose lines or any signs of "hand" .

[devince1000]

hey look a my art. devince1000..

[EvanPeelle]

nice work! There are three videos that work best for this, they are:

Secret Drawing Technique Revealed: Perfect Proportion Every Time.

Drawing Secrets Revealed: How To Draw Proportion

How To Draw The Nose and Features

[sheldonsartacademy]

You are very good take a look at some of my stuff!!! Maybe we can help eachother!!!

Sheldon

sheldonsartacademy

[robliberace]

@sheldonsartacademy Hey Sheldon, Your work looks great. Looks like you've got quite a program out there. Hope to visit sometime.

[mstriple]

Yes I jumped into that without thinking. People are used to seeing his preliminary studies for the Sistine Chapel.

[robliberace]

I won't get into percentages but don't forget the his early studies of Massaccio and the presentation drawings ( "Ganymede" and "Il Sogno)" or his portraits for friends (de Cavaleiri).

[mstriple]

You guys need to read art history. You are pulling these facts out of the air. Michelangelo painted more than the Sistine Chapel ceiling and he worked with architecture his entire career. He considered himself a sculptor and resisted the Sistine Chapel commission but doing it enabled him to work on other projects in the deal with the Pope. "90%"...total nonsense! 100% of his drawings were for all of his projects. He made drawings to work out designs executed in architecture, stone and paint.

[ArtDVDReview]

Robert Liberace has set the bar high. HIs DVDs truly are educational tools. RL is a master and eloquently expresses his ideas while conducting demonstrations. His fine gestural pencil marks on the toned support demand a high level in production quality and the quality shines through. This is not a pro stepping out of his league to make bread & butter money off of hobbyists. This is a conscientious effort to share knowledge from a master made available to everyone interested.

[CCDELOREAN]

This guy is terrific. When I studied with Vern Wilson, we had 25 minutes to finish the figure drawings, it was good discipline.

[Discipulus1968]

hi im wondering how it is that you tinted your paper? im looking in about your videos and may end up purchasing one Thanks!

[Nothingreallyexists]

you can buy toned paper at most art supply stores or have them shipped to you via the internet

[deaddiscodolly]

you guys do no that there would be better artists out there than Michelangelo that just have not made it big and are unknown or only do art for just them self and nobody else and Michelangelo is old news now take it how u will

[tomestubbs]

Yes! Agreed. There R plenty obscure great artists out there.

[eliteblack]

Thanks Rob for posting a sample of your dvd with audio. I also appreciate you keeping the drawing fresh and "alive" instead of overwrought detail thats so common these days. I had a chance to see one of your life size drawings at Acadia gallery when I was in NY a few months back. Really stunning work!

[mo91919]

Now this, is art.

If he ever starts his own artschool, we might see more artists on the level of Michelangelo.

[PachucoDesigns]

This guy is good. But, I'm sorry, he is nowhere near the level of Michelangelo. Not even remotely. To compare him to one of the leading authorities of the Italian Renaissance is, frankly, ridiculous.

[mo91919]

Reading isn't your strongest point is it.

I said, if he starts a school, we might see more artists on the level of Michelangelo.

Meaning, if he organized a school, got students who kept going deeper into this technique and ended up teaching themselves, we would get other artists at the level of Michelangelo.

In no way did I say he was at the level of Michelangelo, because frankly, that would be impossible with the shitty schooling systems nowadays.

[PachucoDesigns]

My reading is just fine. And he wouldn't compare to Michelangelo as a teacher, either. To get other artists on the level of Michelanglo, we'd need more than just a better school system. We'd need another Renaissance. And with today's economy and media demographics, that's not likely.

[mo91919]

Again, I'm not even saying that he matches to Michelangelo as a teacher. So really, learn to read. I'm saying:

EVENTUALLY.... SOMEONE ELSE... IN THE TEACHING LINEAGE.. OF THIS PERSON... MIGHT... achieve the same level as Michelangelo.

So you need better instruction. The source of funding and the amount of funding only dictate the size of one's work. But it'd be perfectly possible to gain the same craftmanship.

[PachucoDesigns]

Whatever you say, man. Anyone would have big, big shoes to fill if they're going to live up to Michelangelo's legacy.

[mo91919]

At least the road will be fun :)

[danialglover]

People are already as good as Michelangelo now, just, like you said. We don't have the Renaissance, to actually acknowledge these people. In this day and age, too many great artists up in that level of creativity are outcast due to cartoons and comics. Ateliers around the world already produce Renaissance quality artwork, we just don't have the media today to again, show how great art really is.

[tomestubbs]

Michelangelo's construction is very sausage link like, Raphael is more nuanced though also exaggerated. Historians put these artists on pedestals but if you look at all of their work U will C them as human beings struggling with form as does any other serious artist,

[sibrent1]

you don't say . . .

[Dix994]

I think what made Michelangelo so special is that he was not only an artist, but a scientist, inventor, etc....there were many layers to him, not just an ability to draw. And his particular combination of qualities was unusual, as myself and alot of other artists I know really suck at math and science. Right brain, left brain...he excelled at both..

[PachucoDesigns]

I think you're talking about Leonardo DaVinci. I've never heard of Michelangelo being a scientist or mathematician, just a classically trained sculptor and painter.

[kangahmtl2n]

I'm sorry to tel but you are talking about Leonardo da Vinci, he was an artist, anatomic (dont know how to say) scientist, architect, constructor, sculptor, poet and philosoph. I even may have forgot some things, but michelangelo was a sculptor, he was forced to paint the sistine chapel by the pope, and thats the only painting he made, and 90 % of his drawings were for the sistine chapel. And at the end of his life when his hands were to much shaking, he designed some buildings.

[TheOobster]

dang, you are right. I always get my italians mixed up.