Video on Stephen Fell

Tugboat and Barge

Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

https://youtube.com/shorts/59JW8Kt2giQ?si=ow9JLhk43oR07vkF

Hey Everyone

Here is a sketch from a photo I took on my phone back in 2021. We must have been on a walk or something on the coastal trail and I decided to take a picture of the barge in the water.

I think it may be two vessels - a tugboat and a barge sitting next to each other.

Anyway, I used a 0.5mm mechanical pencil with a graphite hardness of ‘B’, blending stump for the clouds and a 3B pencil for the dark spots down in the deadly mud flats below.

Let's draw a squirrel on the fence.

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Hey everyone, Steve here for another drawing session. If you’re an artist, I’m going to let you in on a little secret - get a camera and keep it handy. It can be the one on your phone or something more advanced. Take a lot of pictures, and try to get a feel for what makes a photo interesting because a lot of that skill also applies to drawing.

Over time, your photo library will grow and you’ll have a lot of material to work from - it feels a lot less like cheating when you reference your own photos.

Mountain sunset sketch

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Hey everyone,

Thanks for tuning in. It’s a sunny, but lazy Saturday so let’s do a quick sketch here in my sketchbook. For this one I’m using a 3H pencil and a 12B faber castell matte pencil. The scene I’m drawing is along the turnagain arm just south of Anchorage. You can see a few chunks of ice sitting in the frozen mud.

Also a quick thank you to everyone who came to my birthday party last week and for the thoughtful gifts and wonderful artwork, I am grateful to have such good friends.

A Self Portrait

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Me Drawing Me

Is it weird to draw yourself? Every drawing is a form of self expression, but this is the most direct form of that expression. For me, drawing is a hobby and I tend to focus more on the skill than the creativity, but the result is the same, the manifestation of an extension of the self that persists afterwards. And that is one of the reasons I keep doing this.

Inkvember Doodles

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A doodle from my noodle. New Video on YouTube.

Let's draw a squirrel.

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

https://youtube.com/shorts/3MeinFKztDU?si=sM_FxXzakXVWte9M

Just a quick sketch here. This winter, I watched this squirrel run back and forth across our fence in the back yard, getting peanuts from the neighbors’ yard to take back to her nest. She’s a hard worker!

Drawing a fox down by the creek in my sketchbook.

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

https://youtu.be/1VHN4HAMu6w

Drawing a snowy sunset scene in my sketchbook.

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

https://youtu.be/l-mm5ydi1tY

Drawing: Finishing up a snowy scene in my mini sketchbook.

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

https://youtu.be/u7mF_HziDD0?si=Rh8dyMyUewR0RNp8

Sketchbook Tour

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

https://youtu.be/dWnb0tQ5oMQ