Video tutorial and Serendipity

So this really cool thing happened to me last week.  Do you remember in my post about mapping out the mallow flowers, I complained that it took WAAAYYY too long to do and that I needed to come up with a faster method (if not, click here to read that post http://artbyamandaw.blogspot.com/2013/09/mallow-flowers-map.html)?  Well, last week I got an email from Philip Davies of Arttutor.com with a video on how to do pen and charcoal sketches.

Have you ever had a V8 moment?  Am I aging myself by using that statement?  If you don't know what it is, I'm afraid you will have to look it up.  Anyway, after watching the video I smacked my head so hard I almost concussed myself!  Talk about "Durrr"!!  Why didn't I think of that?!  So, I plan to try out a whole bunch of these style sketches today on several paintings I have planned :)  I'm very excited to see how this will turn out!

Oh, and if you'd like to watch the tutorial, follow the link:
http://www.arttutor.com/blog/201310/how-draw-landscape-charcoal

Happy Drawing!!

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