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Begin Your Art Journey: Pencil Sketching Basics | Easy Steps to Get Started

teacher avatar Trisha Jain, Art Educator & Art Lover

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:54

    • 2.

      Values and Gradient

      4:53

    • 3.

      Sketching 3D Shapes

      4:51

    • 4.

      Drawing the Eye

      2:25

    • 5.

      Shading the Iris

      4:11

    • 6.

      Shading Around the Eye

      4:57

    • 7.

      Eyebrows

      8:16

    • 8.

      Eyelashes

      5:54

    • 9.

      Conclusion

      0:41

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About This Class

“In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.”- Pablo Picasso

In this class, you will learn that drawing and sketching is more of a skill than a talent. And that you can do it too, as long as you practice. You will learn to sketch various shapes to make them look 3D with one pencil (any regular pencil). We will then proceed to draw and shade a HUMAN EYE

This class is for absolute beginners, and for others who would ditch their pencil sets and take on the one pencil challenge. No prior knowledge or experience is necessary for this class. It's a short class just 30 minutes long, a great first step to learning drawing & sketching. 

Once you learn to shade with one pencil, a variety of pencils will be a delight. You will be able to create beautiful pencil drawings and stun everyone. Once a solid foundation has been laid, you can build up on it as much as you want.

Now don't think too much, if you have reached till here, that means you want to do it. Don't let self-doubt stop you, all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage. See you inside the class :)  

Materials Required - A PENCIL AND A PAPER. No fancy stuff. That's all this class requires. I am ditching all the art supplies I have got, for this class. Reference pictures will be provided. Since this is my first Skillshare class, I am going back to how I started sketching, that is with ONE PENCIL.

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Trisha Jain

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Start Sketching Today!!!!

In this short class, you will learn the basics of sketching and by the end of it, you will be able to sketch a realistic looking eye. If u have been thinking about sketching, this is your cue!

Join me in the class and let your creative juices flow.

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1. Introduction: Do like pencil drawings. Have you always wanted to create them but didn't know where to start, then this is the class for you. Hi, my name is Trisha and I do all things art from drawing, sketching to even painting. Here are some of my favorite pencil drawings I've created for this class and getting on my art supplies and sticking to just one pencil. The project of this class would be to draw and shade a human. I don't be intimidated by the project. Trust me, once you complete this class, you'll be amazed at what you just created. I still remember when I first joined shaded and I it was in November 2019. I was astonished. I just marvel at the fact that our drew in. I want you people to feel the same. I have made this class keeping in mind what I needed to know when I first started my pencil drawings. We will begin the class by shading in various values we can get from one pencil. Then I will show you how to shade a sphere cube and encoding, I'm sharing with you in this class the easiest foolproof method to draw an eye. If you follow along with me step-by-step, you won't be overwhelmed by the project. You don't need any fancy stuff for this class. All you need is a pencil and a paper. Pencil I'm using here is an HB regular pencil. I will also be using a kneadable eraser. You can use any result of your choice. Last but not least, the most important thing that you will need to complete this class is the willingness to learn and having fun in the process. Since you just need a pencil and a paper, you can complete this class anytime, anywhere. You can pose your questions in the discussions tab. I'll make sure to answer all of those. By the end of this class, you will be able to share it with any pencil. Grab your pencil and paper and let's get shading. 2. Values and Gradient: In this lesson, we will shade with this one pencil, which is a very regular pencil. In this first block, we will shade the darkest weekend with this pencil. So we push the pencil literally hard. As much pressure as you can apply in this first box. You don't have to be very clean about it at this point where we just have to fill in the box. You can go over it a few times so that you drew it, it gets dark. You want it to be the darkest, dispenses concrete. Now in the next box we'd apply a little bit less pressure than the first one and create a color which is a bit lighter than the first one. We can go over the block a few times so that we can achieve the desired Carlo. You can follow the way I'm doing it. Now in the next one, we can go even a little bit more lighter than the previous one. Goal here is to create the colors one lighter than the other. The next walks and go a little bit more lighter than the previous one. We want more pressure. We can hold events in the very front, but as we want less pressure on the pencil, I'm moving my hand backwards on the pencil so that I can exert less pressure on the pencil. When we are shading, we begin light so that we can always bend up the dark sheet, but it's very difficult to come back to a lighter shade. As you can see in the last two blocks, I will hold the pencil on the very back and apply the least amount of pressure I can do achieve very light gradient. You can probably even see the last box I filled in because it's that light. So what we want to create is a smooth blend kind of gradient in the box below. So I'm just going to turn my paper so that it's more comfortable that weighs. So now we'll again begin with the darkest color and achieve the dock and stones on lines. You need to go over the color a few times to get a very dark tone. As I'm moving down the gradient, I'm reducing the pressure of lying on the pencil. As I'm moving towards lighter part of the radiant, I'm applying less and less pressure. You need to go over the whole gradient a few times and apply appropriate pressure to achieve very smooth-looking gradient. Now, this is the final gradient we have shaded. And it looks pretty good to me. All the big names out there. What do you need to do is to practice this gradient a few times, develop a Muslim memory for shading and soon you'll be a pro at it. See you in the next lesson. 3. Sketching 3D Shapes: In this class, we learn how to shade a sphere, Q and a cone. As you can see, I've drawn the two-dimensional shapes of the tree right here. And now we'll children to make them look more 3D us. We'll begin with the Q right here. And now we make the light source, the place where the light is hitting the cube. The top part of the cube will receive a lot of light. Hence, it would usually light in color. In the top part is the highlight. I would like to leave it plain white. The front part of the cube will receive a little less light than the top part. So we will put a mid tone. Now this third part of the cube will receive no light at all, so it will be the darkest and we will put the highest value in this part two, Let's begin shading. If you're not familiar with these terms of highlights, midtones, and shadows, you can just follow what I'm doing. Just try to copy it as it is. And I mean, aim here is to mean the object look three-dimensional. So as you can see, I'm drawing the shadow that the cube will cost on the surface. It will be parallel to the light source. The cast shadow would be a bit darker than the midtone value, but lighter than the darkest core shadow value. Now let's move to the sphere. A sphere right now is looking like a circle because it's a circle. You can draw a circle freehand or use any circular object I used. Paint bottle. First, we'll begin by defining where the light is coming from. Somewhere here would be our highlight, and somewhere here would be our main shadow. Since it has spherical object, the shadowed also bend with those objects. I'm very lightly marking out where the highlight would be because that would be the lightest part of the drawing. The other board would be again, midtones. I'm just beginning very, very light and eventually I'll darken things up. You need to go over the whole sphere of few times so that all the shadows up blended in. Halloween draw a car shadow of the sphere. Since it's a so-called, the shadow would be an, or. This shadow will be very, very dark near the object. And it would gradually lighten up as we move towards the other end. You can always go in with an eraser incorrect. Now let's move on to the cone. And to draw a cone, what do you need to draw is a triangle with the hemispherical bottom. I would like you people to shade in the cornea itself. And here's how the code should look. In the end, it would be a little fun practice for you guys to do it yourself. You can pause right here and see how I have shaded the cone. And go ahead and try it. Hope you enjoyed shading these three-dimensional objects. See you in the next lesson. 4. Drawing the Eye: In lesson three, how to draw an eye. So first we'll draw big enough for the iris of the eye. Then we'll draw a smaller circle within the big sack, which wouldn't be the pupil of CI. Next I'm drawing two circles, which would be the highlights in the eye. Next I'm going to draw a reference line below the pupil of the eye. Now I'm going to mark two points, which could be the beginning and the end of the eye. We'll begin by drawing a coastline from the first to the iris of the eye. Then we'll go off the line from there over the iris because that would be at eyelid. Do the second endpoint. Next we'll draw the lower border of the eye. Now I'll draw a tear duct below the reference line. And it will golf to join. It will go around the iris to the end point. Now I'm going to just erase the reference line because I don't need it anymore. We are also going to erase the top part of the arteries. If you want to draw a different kind of I, you can always look up at Jefferson's photos. Now we're going to draw the upper eyelid for the eye. And it will basically follow the contour shape of the eye, but just a little bit above the eye here, and I'm just adding a little decrease below the eye. The next lesson we'll talk about how to shade design to make it look realistic. 5. Shading the Iris: In this lesson, we'll shade the iris and the pupil of the eye cell begin by darkening the pupil of the eye. The pupil of the eye there will be fairly very dark, but the most amount of pressure in the Benson and shaded in. Now I'm making these lines which are like little muscles in our iris. I'm going to shade the top part of the eye pretty dark because it will receive shadow from the eyelid. Make sure to leave the highlights that we drew completely white. Next, I'm going to draw a lash line on the lower part of the eye. The lower lifetime we follow the shape of the eye, but it would be a little thinner towards the front end of the eye. Similarly, I'm also going to draw an upper lash line, but you'd be very, very thin. You can totally skipped upper lash line if you want to. I thought she was the I was looking a bit all so I just corrected it and erase the part of the eye and redrew it. I'm just darkening the shape of the artists, also darkening the shadows on the iris. Shading around the outer edge of the iris and just darkening the lines, the muscles Edwin true to make it look more prominent. That's about it. We have successfully shaded the iris of the eye and it's starting to look a little bit realistic, isn't it? 6. Shading Around the Eye: In this lesson, we shade around the eye. So first we'll begin by shading above the eyelid. So I'm very lightly shading the area above the island and the area below the lower lash line. Next I'm going to shade the tear duct. So I made these shapes inside the tear duct and I would shade the tear duct and leave those spaces white so they will look like a little wetness in the tear duct. Now we are treating the white part of the eye. So oftentimes the mistake a lot of people make is leaving the white of the eye a white, though it's Hawaii, but it's not white actually. What I'm doing here is I'm shooting the outer edge of the eye. As you can see, that the eye starts to look a bit GVHD. I think it's very important when you are doing print initiating is to begin light, because you can always build up. Here, I'm cheating a little dark values on the outer edge of the eye and the inner corner of the eye. If you see closely on the outer edge of the, I am shooting in circular motions I'm going but the shape of the eyes so that it looks circular. One the outer corner of the lower lash line a bit dark and the inner corner a bit light. I'm just defining the eyelid a bit more. Cheating in dark value is above the eyelid. Light pressure. I'm just shading around the eye so that the eye just pops out. Not literally though. 7. Eyebrows: In this lesson, we'll learn how to draw an eyebrow. I'll begin by defining the shape of the eyebrow. Slightly reserve the shape that I just drew so that it won't be true the drawing. And now dooming the eyebrow hair, we need a very sharp pencil so that we can get very clean, crisp strokes. At the starting of the IRA, the hair would be straight up and then it would turn a little bit. As you can see, as you move towards the arch of the eyebrow, it will begin to move down. You can turn the paper as you find comfortable. We need to go about the eyebrow a few times to make it look full. You can even change the arch of the eyebrow if you want, if you want it to be a really high arch die brow or maybe a bushy eyebrows, maybe a thin I wrote that up to your own imagination. I'm just going to lightly shade below the eyebrow. Here. I'm just darkening the dog pods and Z bit more which would be the dark part of the iris, the lower lash line and the inner corners of the high, the inner and the outer corners of the eye. You can also use your finger to blend here because I got like really strong strokes and I wanted a blended look. I just use my fingers a bit to blend the strokes in. Now we'd shade then eyelid. The eye lid would be pretty light in color. As we move towards the front friend part of the eye, it will become even more lighter, so I'm leaving it almost white. Right now. I don't have any deference picture of any in front of me which I am following. I'm just making a regular looking I out of my head. I'm just adding and subtracting whatever I think is essential at this point. It's very difficult to define and describe each and every step I'm doing. I'm trying not to fast-forward the video so that you guys can watch me shade. 8. Eyelashes: In this lesson, we learned how to know eyelashes. As you can see, I'm already done the eyelashes on the eye. And I later realized that I need to individually tell you how to draw eyelashes. It may come naturally to me. I didn't may not come naturally to a lot of people. And the clip of me drawing eyelashes is attached after this clip and before you draw the eyelash incidentally on the, I would recommend that you just practice a few strokes on a rough paper before drawing it on the eyes. So basically it's just a tick mark. But a little GVHD tick mark to the lashes will go to the right at the outer corner and to the left in the inner corner and straight in the middle of the eye. And venom practices motion a few times, you'll just get used to it and make sure your pencil sharpened before joining the eyelashes because we want it pretty crisp and clean. Also, as a general rule, the lashes are pretty long at the outer corner of the eye and pretty small at the inner corner of the eye. Now we are making the lower lashes. As you can see, the lower lashes are very small and very spaced out. They're not as thick and dense as the upper lashes. The eyelashes in the inner corner would be also, would also be a little shorter than the outer corner. You can make as many eyelashes as you want and as little as you want, It's totally up to you. I definitely love and enjoy making eyelashes. In not making a lot of them. I'm initiating a little bit more around the eye, inside the eye, just darkening the shadows a little bit more. Just darkening the muscles in the eye a little bit more. Now we're going to make these tiny details. And that would be a little crevices and drinkers sort of on the bottom part of the eye as I have made it. I've also made a few lines on the upper eyelid. What I'm going to add in this drawing, like little knobs, like little red nerves. You can see in some people's eyes from the corners of the eye, you can totally skip it if you want to. It's not the necessary thing, but I like drawing them too, just to make it look a little bit more. Go ahead and I'm, you're shooting a little bit more around the eye. This is the end product. I really hope you enjoyed making this. 9. Conclusion: Congratulations on completing this class. I hope you had as much fun as I had by creating the class. In this class you learn how to shade different values ingredients. Then you learn how to draw and shade a human eye. I hope after this class you'll gain confidence in your shading skills and don't forget to live in your comments and suggestions about this class. Do post your artwork in the project gallery on Skillshare. And if you're on Instagram, make sure to tag me. As Pablo Picasso famously said, that new drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt. And be happy and pat yourself on the bag because you guys have made the first attempt.