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1. Hello!: Have you been struggling
to create art lately or are you
procrastinating a lot? Are you too anxious or
stressed to sit and make art? Or maybe you're just not feeling creative and just
generally disconnected. Don't worry, you're not alone. Hi, I'm Joe. I'm an illustrator
and visual artists. In this class, I'm
going to show you ten different drawing
exercises that will get you out of
your comfort zone. It will challenge
our creativity, will help you relax and let go of all this pressure
you're under. And just help you point you in the right mindset to create
more and better arch. From now on today we're
going to talk about the dark times of
the artist's life. Those times when we are lost
and disconnected and we just don't feel like
making art till we feel like we
run out of ideas. I'm here to hold
your hand and tell you that this is not
going to last forever. And in my experience,
the more you fight against that
or the more you force yourself to make
art the worst it gets. So instead today, I'm
going to invite you to embrace this moment just for the duration of this
class, I want you to do. Forget your art style, forget whatever rules are limitations you
created for yourself. Forget trying to make something
beautiful or impressive. This class is not
about the results. It's about the process of letting your creativity come out of you as it comes out of
you without any judgment. Now find a comfortable spot. Grab your sketchbook and
your favorite drink, and let's punched his
art block interface. That was buried real
quick before we started. Don't forget to follow
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2. Materials: Hello friends, welcome to class. For this class, you really don't need any specific materials. You can totally
adapt whatever we do in this class with the
materials you have at home. But I'm going to share what I'm using just in case you
want to do the same. Just tiring to sketch
book or in my case, I'm kind of in-between
sketchbooks. So I'm going to use
simple printer paper. It's basic, cheap,
good, can go wrong. It really don't need fancy expensive paper
for this exercise. Is there gonna be
really experimental? You also want to have
some sketching tools. I usually go for
the four H pencil, which is really easy to erase
and basic plastic eraser. And now to add some fun colors, I'm going to use this fun, fine line pens that I got
from the dollar store. They're super cheap and
super good actually, I'm surprised with
their quality. Yeah, great, simple,
colorful pens. And of course I'm
going to use some alcohol markers because I'm an alcohol marker phase of my life and I'm really
obsessed with them, so that's what I'm going to use, but you can really use anything
that you like to color. It could be watercolors, can be pastels, colored pencils. What else is there in the world? Wash anything you want. Okay, So yeah,
let's get started.
3. Class Project: I'm not going to give you
a specific class project to finish because I
really want you to relax and just
experiment without any pressure off, like
posting anything. But if you want to connect with other
artists and be part of this amazing community
skillshare offers to us. You can post anything that
you create in this class. It could be like a quick
scribble or something elaborate. Whatever you come up
with in this class, you can take a picture and post it in the project
section down below. And this is a way for
you to connect with other students and with
me because I comment on all projects and I give specific feedback for you guys. Now when you're ready,
join me on the next video so we can start to
first drawing exercise.
4. Exercise #1: Consistent Lines: In this exercise, we're
going to start by drawing some random shapes
with a fine line pen. Jj is to not let the
lines touch each other and don't really
plan this ahead of time. Just grab your pen, position your hand
and let the pen touch the paper so your hand can
just start moving with it. There's absolutely no
right or wrong here. You can create any kind
of shape you want. Small, big, pointed,
rounded, anything works. Once you have some
good shapes on paper. Now we can start
filling the spaces with other continuous
lines that follow along with the original
shapes kinda like this. Think of spirals,
parallel lines. And to me this part
is just so relaxing. This exercise really
helps me get in the zone and slow down my mind. I think it's because
we're focused doing a repetitive task that also
requires us to take small, easy decisions like, do
I keep the same color? Do I draw the line in this direction or this
other direction, right? So like it reminds our brain that we're good at
making decisions. And decisions can be easy.
You know what I mean? And to top it all off, it's so satisfying, right? If you have a nice smooth
pen with lots of ink, it's just so delicious
to fuel the pen, touching the paper and
really using the ink. I love this feeling so much and I really want
you to just relax. Be mindful of what you're
doing in this drawing. As you can see, we
could totally just keep doing this until
we fill up a page. And you can do that if you like. I personally went to explore
some colors on my drawings. So I'm going to use
some markers to paint over some of the shapes. Now, I'm gonna go back
to the lines with a fine line pen and just
time I'm going to use black. Remember that you don't
even need choose colors. I'm just using colors
because I felt like it. You just really need one pen
to do this whole exercise. The more you draw, the more
relaxed you're gonna be. It's gonna be easier to
decide what to do next. Just keep creating
repeated lines in different directions,
following your shapes. And you can basically call
it done whenever you want. There's no deadline or knowns expecting
anything from you. So I just recommend you
get a good podcast, music or a TV show
in the background to really help you
to disconnect from the stress of your daily
life and really just release Anything that you're carrying with you, any tension. So you can just be focused here. When you're done, you can feel a little sense of
accomplishment for creating something which I
think it's really important. Sometimes we feel overwhelmed for not being able
to create for so long that this just adds up to the insecurity
into the art block. So again, the important thing here is to keep creating
and not give up. Soon you're going
to have great ideas and we'll be creating
awesome arch again, kind of like this Trying looks pretty awesome to me
if I'm being honest, I actually really liked it. Anyways, I hope you
liked this exercise. And now let's move
on to the next one.
5. Exercise #2: One Line Drawing: This exercise is super
simple and quick, so you can do anytime of
the day that you want. It's a one-line drawing. We've done this before in
previous classes of mine. And it's a really great exercise when you don't have much time, but you really want to
express herself on paper. All you need is a pen. And I'm choosing a fine line
one because I feel like it. And now you're going
to draw anything that you want with
only one line, which means when your
pen touches the paper, it only lifts again
when you're done. If you don't really
know what to draw, just draw the things that
you're used to drive or maybe look around you and find
a random object to drop. To be honest, I didn't
really know what to draw, so I decided to just draw a face which is super
inside of my comfort zone. In a way, remember,
you can look for references for this exercise. So if it helps you, you can just go online and find a picture of the
thing you want to draw. And then without lifting
your pen from the paper, you can look at the
picture and draw. It can be helpful if you need a little guide because spots to start and draw your
subject lead the line, guide you, of course, you're gonna go
over some parts but the line to be able to
keep it just one line. And as I kept drawing, I noticed that the face was too much the left of the page. I miscalculated the space here. So I'm just gonna add something else to keep the
composition more balanced. The only thing that came to
my mind was a glass of wine. I don't know why. I have no idea, but this is what I'm gonna do. I'm drawing her holding
a glass of wine and guys is not my best work. But you have to understand
that I have an art block two, okay, I'm not faking this class. I needed this class myself, so I'm making it for you. Okay, Anyways, I thought
this was a little fast, so I decided to do another one. This time I'm gonna do a flower and again, I'm playing it safe. Okay, I'm still in
an art block and this is a Florida and I'm
super used to drawing. I drew this a million
times before. So I just felt like
drawing something without a reference and something I'm
feeling comfortable with. So this is why I chose this flower and this is
where he came up with, I know, I know you saw me. I cheated. I thought
about editing this out, but who would I how
would I lie to you? I could never. Okay. So I did add some leaves in
the flour after the one line, but you know what, you're
drawing your rules. Okay? This is a reminder to follow
which if you like doing and not exactly what
I'm saying because even I'm following
what I'm saying. And art blocks are hard and, you know, follow your heart. Okay, sorry guys. We better on the next
exercise, I promise. And since I mentioned it, Let's go check that out. Shall we?
6. Exercise #3: Your Perfect Safe Space: This was one of my favorite
exercises from the list. It's a cozy and
therapeutic exercise. I think you're going to love it. So I once heard that
when we have our blogs, we're not really feeling
safe for some reason. So just start. We're going to use the prompt
what makes her feel safe? And we're gonna make a list of everything that comes to mind. It could really be anything. Some of the things that
came to my mind were t, because I love tea and I drink tea when I'm feeling
cozy or whatever, a nice comfy chair
who doesn't love that rain because if you know, you know, OD is my dog. I know. I know. Don't you feel safe
when you look at him? I do. Anyway, sweatpants, which no need to explain
my grandma's cake because grandma's cake is the solution to all
life problems always. I also thought of music
and of course, making art. It's a total safe space for me, has always been when I feel
stressed or overwhelmed. I'm always going back
to my little bubble, you know, me and my
art stuff anyway. Now we're going to turn
our list in a beautiful, awesome illustration and
create our perfect safe space. To start, we're going to sketch. You can use a pencil
and eraser for this. And I'm really just
following my gut here. No reference pictures, no
judgment, nothing fancy. Just trying my best. Even though this is super far from my usual drawing style, I'm always using
references when I'm drawing for a final peace
and anything like that. So this is really just me relaxing and drawing
whatever comes to my mind. You don't really have to
create an exact scene. You could really just draw each element on your
list like independently. Or you could do like
me and try to create a scene or a composition where all the elements
are together. So in my case, I actually had a very clear picture in
my head at this moment. So I'm just going to draw that. I am drawing myself sitting
in a coffee, drinking, see drawing and listen to
music while it's raining outside and I'm wearing sweats and my dog is
laying on my foot, which is what he always
does when I'm drawing. So yeah, this is my
perfect safe space. I love it so much. Just the concept already
makes me feel cozy and happy. And once you have
your sketch ready, you can outline the drawing
with a black fine liner pen. And remember that
the creative process is alive and breathing. So if you have any ideas
while you're drawing, even though it wasn't on
your list, go for it. I like to think that our
drawings are creating themselves and we're just
channels for them to exist. So I feel like this is a great mindset to allow us
to just change our minds and get out of this controlling
position of wanting to know exactly how things
are supposed to look like. And in my case, I thought about my
first dog, Billy. He passed away in 2018 and he used to lay on my lap
when I would sit to draw. So in this scene, he would definitely
be part of it. In my perfect safe space. He will definitely be
there since I already had outlined some of the stuffs
and I couldn't erase it. I just drew him next
to OD on the floor. Yeah. I just wish they had met because I met already
after barely passed away. And you would be so perfect if they could hang out like
they could be brothers. So I know this is maybe too much information
in a little personal, but I just lake sharing. Okay. Sorry, I'm human behind my pins. Yeah. This is my perfect save space. If my two dogs existed
in one reality, that would be my
perfect reality. It makes me feel so inspired
to be able to create a reality that I
can't create in life. You know, that's what
art is about, isn't it? Yeah, I hope this
exercise gives you all the inspiration
and helps you really get some clarity on
what is your safe space like? What is your physical
and metaphorical space in your life where
you feel safe, like who is with you? What are you doing? What's nature doing? What time will the day it is, you know what I mean? So yeah, now that we
have the outline ready, we can erase the pencil
lines and just color it. And again, I'm not
really focused on any technique whatsoever. I'm just trying to relax here, so I'm plain and simple
coloring between the lines. I just want you to relax
and makes them easy. Small decisions that
don't stress you out. Like what colors to use, you know, just have fun with it. Embrace this feeling of safety are creating
with this illustration. And this will slowly help you
build your confidence back. And soon you're gonna be feeling super inspired with your art. Again. I really love the feeling
of finishing a drawing. And even if this is not something that aligns
with your style, your portfolio, or
whatever you're used to creating your art for. I hope you get a little boost of joy and that you feel proud of yourself at the end
of the day for just finishing one of
these exercises, be gentle with yourself
because you were doing your best and your best
is way more than enough. Now that we're done
with this drawing, let's move on to the next one.
7. Exercise #4: Drawing With The Opposite Hand: In this exercise, we're going to draw with the opposite hand. I know exciting. This is honestly great to get your mind off of that
automatic mode where you're doing things without
thinking too much about them or being mindful of
what's really happening. And whenever we are in this
more mechanical state, more logical state
where things just repeat itself and you don't really think about
them too much. Our brain is not
being challenged and there is no reason to come
up with new ideas, right? Because our brain is like,
I know this scenario, like I know what to do here, I know how to drive
and know how to ride a bike. I know
how to do this. I know how to eat with a fork
and audit brush my teeth. You know what I mean? So like if you're bringing already knows what's
going to happen, why is it going to get creative? So when we change habits or behaviors that we're used to
doing in a different way. Our brain is like,
whoa, what's happening? How are we going
to do this again? Wait, this is different.
What am I supposed to do? And this friends is
your creative brain. Come into action. New ideas happen when
we're trying to solve new problems and deal
with new situations. So just grab yourself a pen and freestyle a drawing
using the opposite hand, not the one you
usually draw with. To me, that's my left hand. And I'm having the
urge to draw one of those architectural,
minimalistic scenes. You know what I'm talking about? Where people draw like
arches and stairs. And it's very simple but
interesting at the same time, this is honestly very
out of my drawing style, super out of my comfort zone. But this is what's coming
to my mind right now. So this is what I'm gonna do. But again, you can probably do whatever comes to your mind. There's no rules.
You could stay in your comfort zone with
your subject or not. You're challenging yourself butt joint with the loved hands. So really just go with it. Okay. I'm gonna go
straight to the markers because I don't feel like
drawing thin lines on this one. I feel like that would be
harder with the left hand. All that matters is that
you use your opposite hand. If you still don't
know what to draw, look around, you, pick
an object and drop. It could be a plant or
a piece of furniture, maybe even your pad here, I'm just painting some shapes. I'm trying some
stairs over here. I'm not really sure what
I'm doing, to be honest, it's just interesting how
I'm suddenly aware of basic things that
I don't even pay attention to when I'm
drawing with the right hand, you know, like how weird
it is to hold the pen. It just feels weird and I
feel like I'm doing it wrong. I've kinda feel like a child
learning how to use a pen. Again, I also chose this type of illustration
that has a lot of straight lines and
it's just so much harder to make a straight
line with my left hand. It's crazy because
it's like, hi, I'm still me, but I have
less control of this hand. I know this is obvious, but it's kinda like
hitting me right now. The realization,
just keep trying whatever you want with
the opposite hand. Observe how different it is. And remember that this is not supposed to
be a masterpiece. It's just an experiment and a little break for the
logical side of your brain. This is my illustration. I hope you like it. I'm actually kinda
surprised with the results. And I totally want to
do this again with a more complicated
type of drawing. But for now, let's move
on to the next exercise. That's going to be
a super fun one.
8. Exercise #5: Stacked Drawing: This exercise is one
of my favorite ones. I think. I don't know. It's hard to choose favorites, but does one really
challenged my creativity? And it was a good level
of challenge for me. So here's what we're gonna do. You're gonna need to use
a different piece of paper and cut a hole
in it like this. And I'm making
this crap, but you can do whatever shape you want. And I'm also using this thicker
paper because it's less transparent and it prevents me from seeing
what's underneath, which is important
for this exercise. And it's gonna make
sense in a little bit. Basically, you're going to place the paper with a hole on top of your drawing paper
and start doodling random things that comes to
your mind inside the hole, you can really draw anything, can be elaborate or
a simple like this. Just remember to have fun, even though this
might be super out of your comfort zone
as it is for me. Once you fill the
hole with doodles, you're going to move the top
paper to another part of the white paper where
you can still see a tiny little bit
of your doodles. Then complete that section of the drawing
with more doodles. And basically completing
this space with drawings. Sometimes you're
going to notice that whatever else you have left of the first doodles
that are visible to you will spark a new idea. So like for example,
if there was like a curved line that was a road, maybe you can't see the road, but you can see a little part of that curve and that can
be someone's belly. And then you can draw as if it's someone's belly out
and then you can draw the rest of that person. Do you wanna be
just let pieces of your doodles inspired other
things completely different. This exercise is
super fun to do with a friend as well because even though you're
covering it like you knew what you drew before. So if you're doing
it with a friend, you won't know what they drew. And it's gonna be even
easier to transform whatever It's left's of their
drawing visible to you into completely
new things. But it works fine if you're joined by yourself to
just keep the link. And if you run out of
ideas, look around, you draw some random objects
you have in your house, or even draw some
funny creatures like you can always draw a shape with two Ys and make it into a
little funny creature. You can also play with
the sizes of things. I'm drawing everything super
small to fit in this square, but I could draw
something bigger and only draw part of it and then complete it later as
a different thing. In the beginning it
was easier for me, but after a while, I started kind of
running out of ideas. And this is where I really found this exercise helpful
because I had to find in my mind something
to draw still, it's simple. It's a tiny doodle. They will take 20
seconds to draw. It's not a masterpiece that will take me hours to complete. So it's easy to just make a small decision even if I
don't like it in the end, it's okay because it was tiny, it was simple and it was quick. So the pressure of
making something good doesn't really exist. So it's a way to teach your brain that you can
make little decisions. You can make big decisions. You can make decisions. It's okay to make decisions
without stressing about it. You know what I mean? I find that art blogs happens a lot with me when
I'm starting to put out too much expectation on myself becomes
really overwhelming. And this exercise is just a great reminder to
take it slow, simple, and to take risks, even if they're really small, It's okay to take risks. It's okay to try. And if you make a mistake or if you don't like the
result, It's okay. We have time and
we can do with it. So yeah, it just have fun and let go of your expectations. At this point, I was
getting so curious to see the result even though
I have an idea of it, because I can see the areas
around the wallpaper. I guess ideally, we could use a larger paper than our
drawing favorite to do this. But I didn't think of
that ahead of time. And I still really want
to see the whole page, so it's still making me
feel curious and excited. So, yeah, when you're done, you can review to
yourself your creation and this is so fun to create and so
on, African Rift zone. Now, just feel free to color
it or leave it as it is. I kinda like this
black and white look, so I'm just going to leave it, but yeah, just enjoy the
feeling of finishing a drawing. Is this awesome? Now
let's go to the next one.
9. Exercise #6: Two Pens: Hello friends. This one is going to be
one of the fast ones. It's more about doing
something new in a different way than
the result itself. We just kinda like
all the exercises, but this one is
specifically where we're going to do is draw, holding two pens together. I'm gonna go for the markers, but you can totally use
the fine liner pens if you prefer, or
you can do both. Because this exercise is
so quick that you're gonna be able to do multiple
drawings with this method. Again, you can draw
whatever you want, Look around you to
find a random object, or just go to Pinterest if you think some references
would help. I'm personally just going to
draw a simple face to start. And whatever you decide to draw, you're going to start
noticing that this makes you more mindful
of what you're drawing. It forces you to pay attention to what
you're actually doing. Like right here, for example, when I'm about to draw the nose, I usually guide myself
on the position of the eyes to decide where the
nose is gonna be, right? But now I have four eyes. So my brain is like, well, which eye level or
my following here. So this funny little
questioning that your mind will start having will help
trigger your creative brain, will help you solve this
little new problems, new situation that you're
not used to having. It just really helps you
shift your perception. As I already told you before, new ideas come with
new situations. So this is indirectly helping
your creative brain to come into action later on so you can have amazing
ideas for your art. Now, I feel like doing a
second drawing and I have this full body like fashion style drawing
idea in my head. So I'm just going to try to
draw a person standing up. I'm picturing like a SEA girl walking on the streets with her coffee cup and sunglasses. So this is what I'm
trying to go for here. It's a fun little experiments super out of my
usual drawing style. And to be honest, drawing a face for me is still playing it really safe because I'm used to
drawing portraits. But this right here is super
out of my comfort zone. I never really draw
places are like scenes. So I'm trying to draw a
little coffee shop on the side and like
traffic lights here, some lines on the floor. I don't know. I mean, it's simple. I'm using the markers that have this thick line so I can't
really do too much detail, but I kinda like it. It's kinda making me want to explore drawing scenes
like this in my own style. It's just interesting
how creating this random drawings can spark some sort of inspiration and really help you create
new ideas for your art. Just keep drawing and
when you're done, meet me on the next
video so I can show you another super cool
exercise we can do.
10. Exercise #7: Start With Random Shapes: Ready for another exercise? I hope so because this
one is really cool. Grab your pens and paper. And this time we're going
to draw five random shapes. I'm using the markers, but you can really use anything you'd like to make those shapes and just be as
random as you can. Once we have the
shapes on paper, we're going to draw
things on them. Each shape is its own thing. So whatever comes to mind
on each one of them, you can go for it. So like maybe one shape can remind you of
something specific. Like you could turn one of
these shapes into a frog or a little creature
that you invent and just draw like little
eyes and arms, legs. Or you can do something
abstract with it, like drawing lines and
smaller shapes inside of it. Kinda like our first
drawing exercise for me, what came to mind was this like mountain scene with pine trees for
the first shape. So I'm just going to draw that
for this first shape here. Now for this other
shape, I don't know, I kinda wanted to
change the point of view of the drawing. So I thought about a scene that is being observed from above. And this first thing
that came to mind was a dining table for whatever reason maybe I was
hungry when I was doing this. So I'm drawing a table
from above with plates, forks, knives,
glasses, and food. For this third one, I felt like drawing like a little
aquarium. I don't know. Maybe the way V-shaped
maybe think of a fish. So I'm just drawing some fish in here and some abstract
lines and bubbles. Very simple. I really actually enjoyed drawing the abstract
lines on the last one. So for this next one, I decided to just draw a bunch of lines
together, you know, wavy abstract form edge Jimmy, this is just so
satisfying to draw, especially in a small
space like this. It just feels so good. So yeah, I just wanted to do
something that felt good. As I was drawing, I decided this could actually be the oceans. So I drew a little
simple boats in-between the lines and now
it's, it's the ocean. For my last shape.
I think I still had that CD scene in mind, so I decided to draw that again. I drew some people walking kinda like they're
crossing the street, some buildings in the
bag, the traffic lights. And I don't know, it's weird why I have this
scene in my mind, but here we are, you know, not judging, just
go with the flow. Now it's your turn. Once you
have finished this exercise, join me on the next
video for one of our quickest exercises
that you can do, following along with me.
11. Exercise #8: 20 Second Drawings: Hey guys, this exercise will be a little different
than the other ones because in this one
you don't have to pause the video to go
do your own thing. In this one, you're going
to follow along with me. It's like a super quick
five-minute exercise that you can do right now. So just grab your pen and paper. And what we're gonna do is just draw whatever I say
every 20 seconds. I'm gonna say a new
word every 20 seconds. And once I say any word, you have to stop drawing the thing you're withdrawing last, even if you haven't finished and start drawing
the next thing, okay, this is really good
to help us get out of that perfectionism mindset where we have to make things
beautiful and amazing. Here, you just have to represent that element
in the simplest, quickest way you can
into any seconds. And yes, sometimes
it's just not going to finish and it's so K, okay, you can just go to the next one and your exercise is
gonna be perfect, whatever it looks like. Okay, there's no known judging
your 20-second drawings. Okay. So grab your pen and paper and we're going to
start right now. Mushroom, lamp, drink, whale, shew, bread, music player. Turn it off. Candy, chair, headphones, mailbox, nail polish. Yeah, you did. So this is the digital
like the exercise. It's kind of a weird exercise. I know, but it's fun, right? It was kind of a
challenge for me as I honestly like to take my
time when I'm drawing. Okay. But that's the
goal of the exercise. Get us out of the
comfort zone and just challenge new situations
in our minds. I hope you had fun and
when you're ready, meet me in the next video for another awesome
drawing exercise.
12. Exercise #9: Repetitive But Different: Hey friends, I'm so glad
you're still here with me. You are amazing. And this exercise is just super, super, super helpful
for art blocks. We're going to really challenge
our creativity by drawing the same thing multiple
times in different ways. Hold on. I know this sounds
a little boring, but let me show you what I mean and how amazing this will
be for a creativity, you want to choose one
item you usually like to draw or maybe even something you went to get
better at drawing, or maybe something
that you want to get more creative with
in your future. Drawing something that you
like and that you enjoy. Or I don't know, something
interesting to you. For me, I'm really into
drawing eyes and I love adding some mystery eyes and random places
in my drawings. So I'm going to
choose the element I. Once you've made a decision, you're going to start drawing
your elements of choice, and you're going to try to draw a different one after that, and then a different
one after that, and so on until you have a
full page of your element, they all have to be different. So for example, here I started with a basic kind
of boring line art. I, nothing special about it. I was feeling a bit
bored when I drew it. I was really stuck
on the art block. I did not have any better ideas
than this at that moment. And I really played safe
and that is basic I, which is great because it
doesn't really matter where you are in your mind and your
life and your moment. Just started this exercise, whatever you start is the
perfect place to start. Now for the second,
I, I was like, okay, gotta do a different one. So maybe I'll do
more stylized ones. Still kept too simple. So stick to my black pen here, which I have a million pens, a million things, right? Like none of it came to mind. I didn't I feel like doing
anything other than this. Next, I guess I could make a different one by
adding some color to it. So I'm just going
to do kinda like the same thing I was doing with the first one, but with colors. And I'm going to add
some hatching just to make it a little bit different
than grade some depth. I liked the colorful vibe, so I'm going to paint inside the second eye to make it
a little more interesting. So by watching my process, you can see the
creativity starting to move and to give me
new ideas, right? And now they're, my
creativity started waking up. I decided to do another realistic style I
with markers this time. And to make it more creative, I added some details like this, like lines and dots
around the eyes. Kinda looks like makeup or whatever just to make it
a little different. Okay. The only rule is to make it
different than the last one. For the next one, I was like, I'm kinda playing,
it's just save. Okay, I realized
that I was going for a realistic
style of drawing. I'm so used to drawing
like that, sun-like. Okay, I need to do
something different. So I decided to do the
simplest I could do just to, I shaved with a circle inside, couldn't resist and
edit some lashes. At this point, after drawing some versions
of your element, you will start
getting inspired by the amount of
possibilities you have. To be honest in the beginning, I was totally out of ideas. I could only draw eyes the way
I was always drawing them. But after you get
your comfort zone out of the way, your creative ring, we'll have to come
into action to solve this new problems
you have in your hands. You know, how do I draw a different version
of this element? I already drew Five Eyes
I had in my memory. How am I going to create something new that I
never drew before? How do I draw drift and I write? And you're going
to start naturally coming up with possibilities on how to draw a new version of this
thing that you're drawing. Can I use new colors? Can I use new materials? Can I use lions? Can I use dots, can use shapes, can use solid colors, can exchange the
original shape of my elements and
make it different. Can my element get
more abstract? You have millions of possibilities
here and it's so fun. Just start tapping into that pool of creativity
again, right? Just keep drawing and
you're going to start feeling creative
sooner than you think. In my case, I drew some cartoony eyes,
some abstract eyes. And he was just really
fun to see what I'm capable of creating
beyond my comfort zone. I'm even thinking I'm
going to explore some of these concepts in future
drawings as well. See inspire you. I hope you're feeling
inspired as well. And now join me on the
next video so we can do our last exercise of this class.
13. Exercise #10: Abstract: This next exercise is the
last one of the day and I want us to really relax
or logical brain now. So we're going to do a
simple abstract join. I know that when
we have no rules and anything is possible, it can be scary
and overwhelming. So I'm gonna give
you a few steps in case you find it
helpful to follow them, but you don't need to
follow them at all. Just start, you can
draw some large shapes. I'm using the markers for this
because I want you to play with transparency and I like
the texture of the markers. So I always recommend
when you're doing this exercise is to use materials that you
feel good with. To me right now is the markers. You can also play with
different colors and overlap the different colors
and shapes if you want. Again, you don't have
any rules to follow. So it's a great time to
listen to your body, your intuition and just
let your hand move. Does your hand, if
you like, doing something sharp and straight, round and wavy, small, big, just go with it. No judgment. I like to ask myself if this
artwork had a personality, feelings, ideas,
thoughts, what does it want to be like, right? What if I'm not in control? And there's some other
forests influencing this artwork and I'm going spirits or anything
like that, guys. Okay, It's just a simple
way to start teaching your brain that it's okay to not be in control
all the time. It's okay to not know what
the result is gonna be like. It's okay to not know
what you're doing, right? It's okay to just relax and
allow things to just unfold. I think it's a
great lesson to be learned in life and in art. So just keep creating shapes and following
your intuition. At this point, I was
craving some contrasts, so I decided to add
this darker color. It's like a dark caramel color, and I loved the way it blends
with the other colors here, I feel like everything just popped once I added this color. Now, once your page is
filled with shapes, if you want to fill it
with shapes because remember you don't have to
follow my instructions. But if you want to follow
my instructions, then, now you can use your fine liner
pens to add some details. Think of dots, other
shapes, lines. You can even draw like
an actual elements. Like you don't have to
keep abstract all the way. So like if you feel
like drawing a flower, go for drawing a flower. You don't have to
draw a whole flower. You can draw part of a flower or something that represents
a flower, right? I'm just giving you ideas. Really. You can do
anything you want and just really let your imagination
take you there. Remember, no one's expecting
it to finish this. You don't have a goal, you don't have a deadline, you don't have any
expectations to fulfill. It's an experimentation. Think like you're
in a lab and you're just like trying things out. I know I'm being
repetitive with this, but this is just so hard for me. I really struggle with turning
my expectations off and my productivity mindset like I need to create art
and I meet you posted on my Instagram
and each of them does, and he showed that it just
can be so overwhelming. So that's why I'm
repeating myself so much. Because I'm hoping I'm
going to learn the lesson. You know what I mean? I am kinda kidding, but I'm kinda not. Anyways, I really
hope this helps you out because this
is how we create a safe space for our
creative brain to blossom or relaxed mind will
wander and have ideas. It's just going to happen. Think of all like
a child version of yourself when you
had less problems, no bills to pay, less things to worry about. It's just easier for the
child to get creative, right? It's easier to be
creative on we're not stressed or tired
or overwhelmed. So this is the lesson of today. I hope you enjoyed this exercise and that you feel inspired, creative, relaxed, and more
competent in your art. Now, join me on the next video so we
can wrap this class up.
14. Thank You! :): Hi friends, congrats on finishing another
amazing drawing class. I'm so happy, came all this way. And I hope you're
feeling more relaxed and more creative maybe. And I can't wait to
see what you guys came up with the exercises, so don't forget to share your projects in the
project section down below. Also, if you feel like posting
anything on Instagram, you can always tag
me and I will share your creations with
my audience as well. Also, if you want to keep
your creative juices flowing, you can go to my
profile right here, just click on my name, artsy, GO up here and there you're going to see all the
classes I offer. I have a ton of classes
for you to have fun with. Don't forget to follow me. So you can be the
first one to know when I post a new class or discussions or giveaways. To wrap this up, if
you want to have some shorter
inspirational art videos, you can go to my
YouTube channel. It's really knew, I'm really just kinda starting this out. I would really appreciate your
support and your feedback. And yeah, I'm really having fun creating these
videos for you guys, but I would love
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