Doodle Sketch Your Life: Easy Techniques for Everyday Drawing

1. Introduction: Do you ever find yourself stuck at home wanting to draw paint to a sketch? But lacking that little bit of inspirational motivation to get started, It can be easy to get stuck in this idea that when we draw or sketch something, it must be a beautiful natural scene. Something just begging to be drawn. When in fact there is inspiration and beauty, as well as opportunities to develop our artistic abilities all around us filling our lives. The aims of this class are to have a mindful and stress free experience sketching the things around us. With that, we will improve our sketching skills and knowledge, but we'll also develop an understanding and an opportunity to sketch more and more. As we find the natural beauty that is in the mundane of our normal everyday lives. Suddenly we'll find inspiration and motivation around every corner. By the end, we'll have filled up our sketchbook pages together. You'll be confidently adding shadows, adding colors. And really, just like I have, chronicling your life in your sketch book. If you enjoy these classes, then do follow me on Skilsha. You can see more of my doodle sketching series, including how to sketch people and how to sketch your will, doing some outside scenes. You can also find me at Toby sketch loops on Instagram and Youtube. But most importantly, shall we start some sketching today? 2. Project and Supplies: Today we're aiming to produce a page or two like this, doodling our lives, simple objects from home, maybe your living room, maybe your bedroom. Just having fun. That's your project. We're going to work through this in lots of little stages, starting with building up our simple shapes and seeing how the variation in line, a little bit of detail and some shadows and colors can bring simple doodles to life. When you have done your project that is filled a page or a couple of pages or even gone to down and had a full sketch book full of these. Upload a photo and let me know your thoughts. Let me know the things you learned, the things you enjoyed. Hopefully, the biggest thing I'd love you to get out of this is just relaxing. Enjoying and discovering that drawing can be a really fun thing to get in. Now, all you need for this lesson are some very basic supplies you can see I've got my sketchbook. This is quite a new one, so I've actually got much in. I've got some Christmas Eve doodles here and a lot of empty pages. Here's some bird doodles. I think I've got my dog here. Some really simple stuff, but nothing amazing in here. Just really a space for me to be creative and have some fun. You'll need a sketch book or some paper. Really, any paper will do. Just as basically any pen will do. I'm going to be using this pen. This is a Fudencke pen by Tombo. That basically means that it forms a variety of lines. Because it's got a tip which is a bit flexible. It can be really bold on one hand and then on the other, it can be really fine. That's a great fun way of creating quick, quick, fun lines. But I could just as happily use my fountain pen. I could just as happily use my fine liners or a ballpoint or any other pen. Then I've got some other fun things that we're going to be trying out, playing with today. I'm going to be for my grays, I'm going to be using these. So these are some, basically watercolor brush pens. They've got two ends. They've got a brush end and then they've got a finer tip end. And I'll mostly be using brush and got a range of grays. I'll probably only use two, maybe three. Most of these other options could be alcohol markers. Here we've got some alcohol markers just to own brand cheap. Again, just a couple of versions. You can see they come in different depths of gray, different darknesses. You could equally use water colors, some simple water colors, and use a normal water color process to create grays in different darknesses. The same for colors. Obviously, you could use your water colors. What I'm going to be using for a little bit of a change, they are some markers, these are alcohol based ink markers. I'm just going to use a handful. I've got five here. Maybe we'll pick up a couple of others, maybe we won't. But you could also use more watercolor brush pens. You could use pencils, anything to add a B of color, or you could leave things blank, just like my little Christmas doodles look perfectly happy being without color. So we don't need to add color, we don't need to add grainness. It's just something extra to take a, sort of the next step, if you like. And with that, we're ready to start creating our doodle, sketching pages. 3. Simple Shapes: We're going to start by recapping, or if you're doing this for the first time, learning some simple principles of pen work. Here we look at shapes, we look at line weight. We look at textures. You can see it's only going to take us a couple of minutes. And by the end of this, you'll have a huge amount of confidence and understanding of how to achieve little objects using some really simple principles which will let you doodle to your heart's content. Let's dive in. The first thing we're going to look at is just being simple and how simplicity is the way to build up our basic build up our scenes. We start with this idea of simple shapes. This is possibly something new for you, it's possibly a little bit of a recap and revision. Simple shapes are just what they sound like, circles, triangles, squares, rectangles. The idea here is that these simple shapes can build up into much more complex things. For example, each of these could be a person, a circle, and a triangle and a rectangle. We got a person here, we got a triangle and a circle, two triangles, and we've again, got a person. Perhaps we could have a square, and then we can have a, something wobbly square underneath a couple more triangles. Again, little legs. And we've got another person, maybe this one is a little robot man, we've got our simple blocky shapes. And we can even start producing limbs in funky little poses, just like that. We can even start building up little other suggestions. Here we go, simple shapes. And despite them being simple, we've managed to draw what is probably the most complicated thing that people fear, that people don't like drawing, and that is people from simple shapes. We start to develop our lines. All of these are quite flat shapes. What do I mean by that? I mean, we've just drawn a very simple shape. It doesn't have any weight to, it doesn't have a feeling of free D. How we do this is we start to vary the line. The line here can be thin, it can be slightly bolder, bit bolder, really bold. Or even a whole blacked in contrasting area. This is why like using a fu day pen but even with something like a fine liner, which infery just has one strength of line. Well, you can do a fine line, you can do a bolder line, and you can go back and forward and make that line even bolder. There are lots of ways to vary that line, doesn't matter what tool you're using here. We take our circle and we just give it a bolder line down here. Suddenly it's feeling a little bit more. Three D, We can do the same with our little people, just making some of those lines really remarkably nice and bold. Suddenly they're just a little bit more interesting. A little bit more, three D. Next we add some textures or tiny details. Let's call this Textures and Details. This is really where things start to come together. Instead of having a circle, we've got a circle with a little dimple. From that dimple comes a stalk. If we've got, maybe this, we have to call a semicircle, don't we can have a semicircle there. Semicircle here. Actually, if we just lower the edge of that and raise the edge there, we had a mark there. What have we got? A mug. Now, if we lower the edge here ourselves, some of these little circles coming out of it, little other shapes, what have we got now? Hopefully, a little bowl of fruit. We can take things a bit further. So we can start hatching. That hatching is going to add a sense of shadow. We can make things feel big and imposing on the desk. We can add maybe a little saucer around our mug. Just like this. We can build up people, We can build up simple objects, and we can really start just applying these very easy processes to our whole scene. 4. Shadows and Colours: We're now going to look at the simple principles of adding grays to give our objects that sense of being real and being three D of adding colors. Adding a bit of punch of life and fun. The tip here, the key underlying principle is don't overdo it. Keep it light, keep it simple. Just a few touches and you'll be doodling away to your heart's content. Next we want to look at how do you start making things a bit gray. We've got lots of different grays here. I'll just show you for reference what they look like. These are different warm grays and cool grays. Some of them very subtle. That's a very subtle warm gray. This will be probably similarly subtle. This is a cool gray. That might even be even more subtle for me, perhaps for doing a really quick doodle. They're a bit too light, they're not going to give us a real sudden punch. Moving up, we can go somewhere along the line here. That looks like a medium cool gray to me. So we'll pop that one down and we can keep going up. We've got another one here, and then we've got another one here. You can see just working away up a value scale approximately. This one is nice and bold and this one works nicely for me. I'm going to use those as my main to. The ideas here is also that you can layer, we can increase just by layering on top of the previous one. Well, we can layer our boldest on top of less bold and we'll get even darker. Very simple ways of just building up darkness, Gradual shadow. If we take our simple examples here, our little warmup page. Well look, we can just create a little bit more shadow coming around the outside here. Same, maybe with our tomato. We don't need to be really neat or specific. These can be quite big gestural strokes. It's going to work on our people as well. Little touches. And you'll notice we're doing this for the color because this will make adding the color much easier. And you'll see that in the next lesson. Of course, here we add our darkest gray that we're going to be using. Suddenly everything's just got a whole load more shape. It's not perfect, There's lots of little touches we could do. We could add simple reflections. We could learn gently, we could move things around with water. We could do an awful lot, but we're having fun with doodling. So let's keep this really simple and just accept that our pages aren't going to be perfect. They're going to be a bit of fun. Now, last but not least, we're adding some color. So I've just got here a few colors. We might pick up some more, we might not. It really doesn't matter. I've taken one of each primary color, blue, yellow, and red, and I've got some secondary colors, brown and a green. What we're going to do, well, we can just use these to roughly mark in little touches of color. Here's our banana in the background. Here's our head. Maybe this apple is red. Little touch doesn't have to be neat. It can be neat. There's no reason it has to be not neat. So we could come in on this ball and neat. When neat, do you see how that shadow underneath still comes through? That's why this is a nice way to do things. A nice order to do things in, because it means that our colors are already showing that shadow. We don't have to worry about laying our colors and using different values of red and green and yellow because it's already there for us. Now I'm using pro markers here. These are alcohol markers that are water color markers. And I'm just using these as something different because they're the best thing or because you have to use them. There are lots and lots of ways of adding really simple, lovely touches of color. One thing about alcohol pens, and one of the reasons I'm not using alcohol pens to my grays as well, because they can seep through our pages. I don't know if this is going to have seep through, but I suspect you can get a little sense of it. You can hopefully just see these little shakes are just starting to come through. If we were layering this up lots and lots, then these alcohol pens would soak through our paper. This is quite good quality water color paper. The fact it's not quite soaking through is a lot down to the paper. If we just use normal paper, it will bleed, True. That's okay. We just got to be aware of it and we're not going to be able to draw on both sides. 5. Building Simple Objects: In the next three lessons, including this one, we're going to be building up simple objects. First, we're going to be looking at making our simple objects using those simple shapes. Remembering the line work techniques that we talked about right at the beginning. Now that we have covered the basics, we can move on to simple objects. Simple things from your life, around your house. Perhaps that's what I'm going to be doing is exploring my house in these sketches. Let's do our next page. Next part of our project, rather simple objects. This is where we are thinking about things like this, but just building it up and working out those things which are part of our life and which we can incorporate into our art. And actually make these relatively boring things really cool, really fun through simple, simple doodling. Let's start with something obvious for me. I get up in the morning, sorry for a purists, but I microwave my porridge. Have porridge every morning. Let's draw one of my trusty kitchen companion, or at least my trusty breakfast companion, key part of my life. This is our tiny little microwave. We can find our simple shapes. Now, this doesn't have to be a super accurate representation drawn from life of my microwave. This is the idea, we're remembering, those simple ideas we got hatching, we got little details, and we've got bold lines. Something else which is important as we're building these objects into a scene is having a horizon line or a line where the ground meets the wall, or the ground meets the sky. Inside it's the ground meets the wall because suddenly this line makes the object not float. We can put fun things on our wall so we can make a plug socket as a fun part of our. We can start making these objects interact. On top of this we always keep tray which we put our tea bags into when we've finished using them. There's always a couple of mugs and things up there so we can do some really simple mugs. We keep these very simple because they're not really the main feature we're drawing. The microwave is our main feature. Alongside the microwave, we've got all these jars, jars, bottles, and we've got a thing of salt, we got a thing of olive oil normally have a pepper grinder there. We can just build up, look really simple shapes. But it's amazing how these simple shapes can become really fun. I keep saying they're fun. I keep saying these objects are fun. But they're not, are they? They're really banal and really boring. But this, this process is fun. So we're taking our life, we're making it simple, and we're having a little bit of fun with it. Make those lines bold where there's a little bit of shadow. There we go. So we've got our first simple little objects. Next, I'm going to keep going around my kitchen as a fun way to explore simple objects. The start of your day, maybe this is what you want to do. What else do I find very important for my morning? Well, of course, if you know me, that would be a coffee. Whether I have a decaf or whether I have a sort real coffee, it's definitely going to be there In my life, what we can do is we can get this French press. That's how I like going my coffee. It gets you nice coffee, but it's also quick and easy to make. So we can get our French press here. This is the plunger, and underneath that we have all of our coffee. I can actually get the textures in talked about details and texture. Well, here we go. That's an example to make it darker, We can also hatch and we can get some of the reflections on the top as well. There we go. That's the starting process of our little scene Here, we'll get another mug in, because obviously that's important and we can start thinking about things which will work on later, like touch of perspective. Understanding that having a touch of perspective can make things more interesting. Here, look, we can see just the opening of that mug and we can see this ellipse going down. That is simple perspective. If you can draw this, you're drawing the beginnings of perspective. This microwave is flat, it's facing us, There is no perspective. It's really fun, just like these, really flat, but no perspective. We can start building up and just imagining things that we're seeing them at a slight angle. Now alongside this, I don't tend to have anything, but we can always just add perhaps a little bit of milk. Now, I tend to be vegan, if I can be. Here's my little bottle of vegan Milk tends to be oat milk. Oaks are hard to draw on there, they're just little circles, so I'll do a little oak on it. There we go. That again is in perspective. Do you see how we've drawn a box? If we went back up to our basics, you can draw a simple shape like this, that's two D. Or it can start to be in perspective. It can have two sides, or it could even have three sides that you can see, Depends on your viewpoint. We can start working in how to make our scenes just a tiny bit more interesting by incorporating a touch of perspective. Now that we started talking about that, it's important to jump in with a little bit of our shading, which we'll do in the next lesson, and work out how that really helps bring about some of this perspective. 6. Adding Shadows: Now having done our simple shapes, which have made simple objects, we're going to make them that a little bit more interesting. We're going to start adding a bit of shadow to make them feel three D. We've just started working that actually, even simple doodles can have a sense of perspective and become three D. And to build that idea up, we can use our 2 grays and we can just show one side is in shadow. Or in the case here, we've got two sides in shadow, but one of them is underneath, probably going to be darker than the other. That's what we're trying to do with our shading is show that we've got a light source which is giving us a sense of shadow. Now the shadow will often be a little more complicated than just one side. There'll also be shadow coming off it. On a spherical thing, like a mug, there'll be shadow curving around it here. We haven't just got shadow, we've also got dark coffee. The hatching, along with the graying of this. We'll start providing more information than just simple shadow. But you see how this simple banal, little silly scene can suddenly actually be rather interesting just because we've introduced a bit of shadow, of free, tiniest bit of that perspective. We can use the same little touches even on our more two D scene over here. We can make things in the distance, be a little shadow. We can show that there's an interior here. Something murky going on just through touch of shadow. And then of course we can give things a shadow around their base as well. Sopping back to the slightly darker color, we just layer up in a couple of places. And the key here is just a couple of places. Don't overdo it. Don't need to be too fancy, too clever. Suddenly we've built our simple objects into real, quite quirky, quite fun scenes. Next we'll add tiny touches of color, and I'll show you that tiny touches of color is really all that you need. 7. Punches of Colour: Finally, for our simple objects, we're adding a punch of color. Something just to make them jump off the page. And make our page just brim with a little bit more life as promised. Some tiny touches of color coming up for now. I'm going to stick with these five colors I've got here. So this is a brown, they are calling it saddle brown, but something like a burnt umber, burnt. That's the kind of feeling of this. I'm going to use that just on top of here to deepen that neutral grain. You might not be able to pick it up super well on the camera, but in person it's giving me a nice slight change to that shadow. We can use this same brown maybe in a couple of other places, just really simple touches. Maybe one of these mugs can have that nice, warm bit of brown. Then we can move on. Not every bit needs color. What could be fun is adding a bit of color to some of these bottles and containers. And again, not every bit needs color. We can use the color just where the shadows are, for example. Or we can use the color where the shadows are. Lots of ways to play this. The colors don't have to be realistic. They can just be there to pull apart these objects. In actual fact, these bottles are actually all dark, dark brownie colors. This one's white. This is my salt, and it's white. But we've pulled them apart by applying our own little artistic touches. Then of course, we've got little buttons in here. It's all electronics. Give it a nice glow. We could do the same here. We can get this glowing feel coming out of our hot coffee. But the mug itself maybe can be a little touch of blue on there. And then the oak milk and the coffee. We could just leave because already it looks fine and we don't need to overcomplicate things. What I'd suggest you do now, and what I'm going to do in a speed up version is just fill up your page here, if you've got some space with really simple, delightful. Fun little objects. 8. Our First Scene - My Living Room: Time now to start putting everything together, everything together all at once. So we are stepping into my living room. You might be sat there right now watching this. And it's a lovely place to sit and doodle. Perhaps with the radio on, perhaps with the TV on, or perhaps just into mindful silence. And that's what we're going to explore. Simple little scene, tiny bit of how to make things free, dear, and considering that perspective that you often get indoors. But mostly about making things simple and being able to doodle, sketch your life. So we're going to start moving now. Around my house. Around your house, and pacey exploring mini scenes. So we've done very many scenes and now we're going to scale them up. So I'm going to do a very simple sort of doodle in the middle. So we've got my house. Yeah, and let's just start with some really fun things. So these are my version of what the inside of my house looks like. Let's start with a couple of things from the sitting room that might be where you are now. It's only a comfy place to just sit and sketch what you see in front of you. For example, for me, we have this lovely arm chair. Call it my old man arm chair. It's a big comfy armchair. Betty is not allowed on Betty, of course, being my dog, she so often finds herself somehow on notice again that this is an opportunity to explore the idea of perspective. We've basically got a box. We, we've got a box, we've just chopped a little corners off it. In doing so, we've created a very three D object. Then we can start deciding where the shadow is here. Might be that the shadow is inside here and coming up there. This shadow just shows, you've got interior to this arm chair now behind this arm chair, this arm chair, at a little bit of an angle, behind it we've got a little cabinet. One thing which will be really helpful is knowing where the edge of the wall is. We draw in our little line. Remember from our bottles over here, this little line is how we can base everything else in the space. We know the line is there, so the back of our cabinet must end here. Then it's going to be facing slightly that way. It's another thing which is in perspective. We can just start drawing ourselves basically a box which is in perspective. Now this little cabinet has big doors. These are glass doors, you can see inside them. Underneath it's got, I don't even know what to describe it. Little rolling shutter where we put away just random nonsense. I think there's birthday candles in there and that thing. Then in here we've got of course some bottles of wine and beer and things like that. Quite a lot of non alcoholic beer because just like I like my coffee and I often have it, tea calf. Actually, sometimes it's nice just to have these slightly, I think hopefully, healthier options. But we can just do really simple touches to suggest what's going on here. Now notice, unlike here where we were really certain about our shapes, here because it's inside, I'm leaving it quite uncertain. I'm not trying to make it really obvious, we can even show that it's behind something budding, some very simple and gentle hatching. If we now start blending our processes, I can also immediately add some shade over there. Because inside there is very shaded a little touches of shade like under and around as well. We can put some shade onto this wall behind, a little bit onto this chair. Then we can continue building up our scene around those little touches behind everything. I have actually got four bits of art, and these are really fun, I think, to doodle as well. We just have these four little bits of art. We can again, apply these same processes. Instead of trying to make them look real, what we do is we make them really loose and gentle. This is a sunflower here. I've got a funny hut on a beach that's just showing that really simple idea here. Little portrait of a few people and here a little more typical street scene look really simple shapes. We then give our frame that D feel, hopefully suddenly it becomes a little obvious what we're trying to achieve here that we're trying to show that this is a wall. We want. We could add a little illustrative touch and we could go look just to show that it's hanging. Obviously, the hangers are actually behind the frame, but we can put those hangers in. It's bit of art, not a bit of realism here. We've got a big plant notice, I've already drawn this line in. This is where I think people get stuck. Sometimes you think you need to plan the whole scene before you do it. But look, if I put my plant down here, remembering the perspective we're going to be able to see inside that plant pot. I'm very much able to sketch over that previous line. I'm actually not sure what it is. It's quite a big tall plant and it just climbs up the wall and we've got big leaves and some little leaves, and there we go, look. It's in front of everything we've drawn, but it's still there. Next in here, we've got a corner. In this corner, we've got another box. I'm going to draw this box, but now it's facing the other way. I need to work out my perspective. And this is where things get awkward, because in interior spaces, and we're going to do another scene like this, but in interior spaces the perspective can warp around us. Here, look this box, we're seeing that side, this box, seeing that side. We just need to think carefully. It doesn't matter if we get a bit wrong in this box. This is where of my dog lives. In the little corner. There we go, there is my dog. On top of that, she got a few little boxes of treats and food, and toys and things in the front. Another illustrative touch, of course, is a bone. Now here we can show that it's dark inside. By hatching around the simple shapes, we can come back and we can pick up our little bits of shading again, just to start making sure that everyone knows this is a two D. It's three D, something extra going on. And see when I go around the shapes I've made for my dog, we'll find, hopefully we'll find that we are pulling out. We're going look. It's really obvious. That may not be really already obvious to the dogs, but there's obviously something inside this space and that's what we're trying to achieve as well with these simple ideas. Little shadows of the legs darkening some of these shadows. And we're probably ready just to do our tiny touches of color. And then this simple scene is done. So little bits of yellow. Our tree bush plant can have touches of green. Notice I'm being too careful to get the colors actually within the leaves. This is a bit of doodling fun. Just having it even splurge out a bit is I think, really fun. Don't be too, if you don't need to be, if you don't want to be, don't be too panty. That's exactly where your little touches of color end up. Just have a bit of fun little splurges to just bring a bit of life into your first slightly more complicated scene. 9. Plants and Window Sills: We're now going to doodle some house plants lying around the house. One thing which comes with house plants often is a window view. You might have them sat along your window sill. We're going to look first at drawing a big plant, getting some shape, and working out how to apply color in a fun way. Then we're going to look at how we can put plants on a window sill and get an interesting, but not overdetailed view out of that window. Next, I thought it would be fun to draw a few more plants. Plants are in everyone's houses. Plants are outside everyone's houses. Certainly in our house, we have a number of plants because my partner is a very good gardener, she really loves her plants. Takes a long time carrying over them. I'm going to use plants as a nice little filler for some of these awkward gaps. For example, up here we can draw ourselves a nice little plant stool. I'm going to be drawing things, which again, are in my house here. We've got, it's a stool, we've got a layer here on that, We have our plant pop underneath this. This is another chance to practice a little bit of awkward perspective. These legs come down and coming out, coming towards us is a slightly larger bottom layer to this stool. From that come down the legs. What we're doing here is we're imagining these squares getting bigger and bigger. Also, as they come down, they face us more and more. They start off very flat. We just see this line, and then they open out because you can see more down towards them. This isn't trying to be very clever with perspective is not drawing in 1 million structural lines. This is just doing it sensibly by and by guesswork. But guesstimation. Not just total guessing, but using our own little artistic judgment and being prepared to get things a bit skewy and a bit wrong and that's okay. Coming out of here, we've got some bigger leaves. Leaves just are simple shapes. They face in all different directions. Sometimes a leaf might just be that, it might just be on its side. Sometimes it will turn around and you can see my palm now and you can see the side. Now you get different shapes emerging. Here we go, we can do the same here. A couple of little textures. You can give them stems, you can give them a little bit of hatching, whatever you want to think about them, and that's all we need to do. Let's give this a bit more context. So we sit down here, because it's right next to a couple of chairs, You'll find Toby's old mugs, much to the consternation of the gardener of our house here, a nice bold and red, really bright plant pot. And then I'm going to focus a little bit of shadow elsewhere. The underside of these leaves can feel that shadowing effect. And a little bit up here as well. Then those leaves, they can have just a touch of green. They don't need to be filled with green. They can even have bid yellow in another place. Now we can spend a bit more time on our one things, a little bit of brown just coming in and around. That's a fun little plant. We can do the same with all sorts of different plants. We can make a little cactus up here, really simple. And we can have a little succulent, little, simple plant shapes. Again, just like we're filling up our space, we're both filling up our space. We're also learning things about ourselves and about the place we live in, and things we enjoy as well. At the same time, over here we can, we got this funny little dangling plant, the bead like leaves. All I'm doing, I don't know what these plants are, but you can still draw them and get them really effective. These are all sat on a window sill. Suddenly we can also give these plants a context. We can have this window, then just like here, we do really simple shapes. We look here, we can out this window, we can see a, we can see a little tree. Give it a tiny bit of hatching, little tree in another little house coming across there. Now to make these stand out, we just make them a little bolder. They're definitely in front. Gives them some hatching for that shadow. Come back with our pen. Simple hatching. Get that hatching perhaps underneath as well. A little bit there and a little bit. Do you see how just pulling out the sides of those windows makes it three D? It opens it out instead of being a lot of two D shapes. Then we can use our lovely blue that we have as a sky elsewhere. Now it's obvious as a sky in the background, a tiny touch of green in our tree. Then I can turn it around, use the more specific end to really make our leaves stand out, all these little dotty green leaves. Then maybe to keep the continuity feel we can make. All of these plant pots have that touch of red. There we're going idea of how to doodle some plants which you might have around your house or in your life. Next we're going to move into another scene. Again, it will be a little bit of awkward perspective working out how we can make the corners of a room feel real and feel there. 10. Adding Perspective: Now we briefly touched on the idea of what three D objects and the idea of perspective. Seeing things from an angle and getting that three D feeling onto the page. We're going to do another scene now where we touch a little bit more on awkward perspective. And most importantly, what we're going to think about here is how to make it simple. This is not an in depth book about perspective. This is how to feel good about translating the scenes in your life onto the page. So now what we're going to do is grow a more challenging interior scene. Here we had a flat scene, just the beginning of some perspective that we were talking about. But now we can actually start with the corner of a room. And this can get a bit challenging. It can be a bit head spinning. Now what I'm not going to talk you through is like all the exact ways to mark out those of angles and things. But I'm just going to show you how to gently think about it, how to skew things to make it feel right without putting too much pressure on you. So we've got the corner of our room, one of our walls will be quite flat. I'm actually going to draw just here, coming in the edge and crossing over my pages. It's a sketch book, which is great, we can do that. Can draw my bed. I'm going to pop a couple of pillows on there. Simple shapes. Then we think about where is this bed? So if we are stood here, for example, where does the bed end? Because if I'm here and it ends to the left, we get to see the front of it ends right in line with us. We won't see any. If it ends to our right, it will curve over. I'm going to end it just to our left. That means we get the front edge, we get the front edge, it's just a box. And we get the front edge like that, that we can see. That is, again all we need to think about. If we've stood here, do we see that edge or do we not? We got little pillows. We can draw a ruffled edge to get a feel of a dove on there. Give it a bit of hatching to show that it's got a different texture to everything else going on. Then got the head board. This bed was all all handmade by me. I know it far well, it's structure for part. Well, I spent many hours making it. Then we've got our bed stuck in the corner of the room. We can add. We've got a dip tick of paintings up here. We've got a lighthouse. And over here it's just a little boat on the edge. Then we've got our window with some curtains coming down. Curtains are texture more then I think sometimes we just draw them as this little pulling down texture. We've got these mini little plants we can just draw again. We've got a window so we can see a house just like we can here. We've got a house and a tree that we can see. Got a little bar coming across for our curtains. And then we get to the other corner of the room. Here again is where we just think, where are we? So here we have a, not a wardrobe, but a chest of drawers. And where are, where are they? They're against this wall. So we're drawing in this wall now. So they're going to go along like this. And we can see the front edge. So we're now draw a really very simple cube. Doesn't matter. This perspective has been walked. I've got it. So we're looking down on the chest of drawers. It's wrong. It's absolutely wrong. But it works because it's just quirky and fun. If we get in the edge of the building there, it just looks like we're viewing it through a sort of funny little lens, like we often use a lens with a wide angle view. It distorts everything. It pushes everything out. Can hang up a plant there. Again, use some very simple hatching. Finish off our process with a little bit of shade where things will be shaded. So that's going to be facing away from the window. This time it'll be up here as well. Get out my darker brush, a little bit of shade in a couple of places. Shade here, of shade here, around and behind the curtains. And then very simple touches of color. Perhaps outside perhaps we can have a blue plant pot here. We'll stick with the green leaves. Today, they climb all the way down like that. The chest of drawers is a bit of a feature, so we'll make it nice and brown. Again, not put in color everywhere by any means. This is all made out of wood, so that could be nice and brown. And perhaps today we've got a red dive on, so we've got a bright red dove and bright red pillows. Is there anything else you want to add? Well, maybe a little, just a touch of something in here and then you go a more awkward scene. But let's by thinking it, by letting our sort of mistakes flow together and not worrying if things feel a little walk. We've still got a really fun, simple, cool little scene. 11. Drawing People: To fill up that last space in our sketch book, we're going to add some people, people can be scary, but we looked at the very beginning at how people can also be really simple, simple shapes. Here we go, adding some people, giving those people a bit of purpose and life, giving them a little task to do perhaps in our house. And last but not least, let's add a couple of people in doing things, having a bit of fun. Now remember, people are really simple shapes and we can liven those people up just by being a bit more fluid with those shapes. So we can have, perhaps this is me here and I've got my hand waving in the air with the other. I've got my brush and I am just dabbing away on an easel. And I do sometimes do a bit of easel painting when I get my cryltics out, so this could be a scene for my life. Again, all we need to do is very simply build up those bold lines in a couple of places. We build up an idea of this scene. What else can we do? Which is really fun, really simple, and captures the idea of what you might be doing in your house. Something really important to me in my life is cooking. I love cooking. I mentioned earlier, I think I mentioned earlier that I'm vegans. I do a lot of cooking from scratch. Why don't we just get me over here somewhere. Here's a little stove top, a pan going on it, our extract a fan. Then here's me. The way I'm going to get me in the scene is remembering simple shapes. But to get me interact, what I'll do is I'll place the objects that I'm interacting with, A little wooden spoon and a pan. Then I'll place my hands, I'll work out where does my head need to be. I'm going to be slightly bent over this stove, stooped over, cooking for tash in another hard meal, slaving away. Then I'll join up the arms. I think that's the simplest way. Pop the hands in first, then the head, build the rest of the body around that. That tends to mean that your seam works in the background. We can add maybe a little spice rack. A little spice rack again, just hanging up behind here. We can even pop a window in here just interacting, intersecting with my other seam. No reason they can't be two of me in the kitchen. One of me painting because you can paint anywhere. And then here's the sort of extractor hood. And there we go, Really simple scene. Why don't we just enliven it up with our touches of shadow. And a bit of a darker shadow in the couples places as well. Here and here, down there. Then we can use tiny touches of color. We'll do a little bit of red to show that this is something hot blue for that nice, lovely silicon spoon instead of a wooden spoon. Here's a window, so it's got some blue in it as well as spice rack that's lots of chilies and things. So that can have little touches like so and little touches of yellow on there. And why not just in the background. We can have some yellow as well. Maybe a couple of little scenes of me having fun. And we can fill up these tiny spaces as well. What else is important for me? I do a lot of running, so here's me running along. I actually do a lot of running with Betty. We do some sort of candy cross races, so I can just do really simple doodly shapes. And we've got me running with my dog and we're filling up by sketchbook. Here's some little trees in the background. Another important part of my life, and we can jump in, apply our simple shadows. Using those shadows to pick apart key parts of the scene, not worrying too much about anything too specific or too clever. Today I'll be wearing a red simple running top. Last but not least, the key part of our family, We call him Cedric. Cedric is of course our car. We'll do a little portrait of Cedric to finish off our page tip. If you are not wanting to get too attached to your car, don't name them. I found it's very hard to actually not feel sorry for him all alone outside just for the simple act of naming him. There we go, really simple shapes and we get him in, we can actually pop him in the background. Why do we have me just really simple doodles? Betty can be sticking a head out here. That is finish project. We finished tiny touches of reflection here. This is our house and I've mentioned earlier bright red tour for our house. I'm really rather happy with what I've done. Very simple. So we got bedroom, we got living room. So we call this Betty's room, the kitchen. And there's so much more that you could do, so many more ideas that you could fill your sketchbook with. And that's exactly what I'd love to see you do. 12. Completing Our Project: So well done, guys. We got there and hopefully you two have filled up your pages with a series of doodles which make you feel proud. Don't expect them all to go well. We know that not everything in my sketch book has gone perfectly. But be proud of what you have achieved. Part of being proud might be to take the next step and share your project in the project gallery. To do that, press the Resources and Projects tab and just click Create. Project. Takes a minute or two to upload a photo and just write a few words if you want to, about how the whole class went for you. Anything you learned, anything you've found a little bit challenging. If you enjoy this class, then there's a couple of other classes I mentioned in the introduction which might really interest you. One of them is about doodle sketching people. Filling a page with simple people and really advancing our confidence in that tricky area of the other is doodle sketching our world. We've been inside exploring our lives inside our houses today. But what about the scenes you see all around you every day? There are just a couple of options that you can find on my skillshare profile. You can also find me at Toby Sketch loose on inscram on Youtube. Finally, if you want to leave a review, it's always hugely welcome. Click the reviews tab and it takes a minute or two as well. With that though, most importantly, what I really hope you get from this is I can do it. Attitude a confidence which just means you fill up Sketchbook after sketchbook and just begin to explore, or continue to explore and develop your creativity.