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Drawing exercises: How to make your drawing more fun with a roll of a dice

teacher avatar Milan Glozić, Painter, illustrator, Designer

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      01. Class introduction

      1:53

    • 2.

      02. How to play

      4:17

    • 3.

      03. Class project

      3:54

    • 4.

      04. Drawing time with some tips and tricks

      7:50

    • 5.

      05. Second drawing with additional tips

      7:52

    • 6.

      05. Class overview

      1:04

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About This Class

In one point or another we all might get stuck in our craft, lose motivation to draw or simply don't know what or how to draw.

In this class I offer a game, a challenge if you like, that could help you whenever you feel this way. Main goal is to get back on the track and continue your drawing journey. Also, I'll show you how you can change the game to fit your own style and way of drawing. it will be up to you to decide how challenging this game will be, depending on your drawing skills. 

After this class you'll:

  • Know how to play the game.
  • Get a better idea of what your favorite drawing topics are.
  • Be more confidant with most of the drawing tools.
  • Feel free to try out material you haven't used in a while and rediscover the joy of working with it.
  • Have guidelines to create your own drawing games. 

You'll be creating:

  • A drawing based on the game you played with materials also determined through playing the same game.

Even if you're new to drawing or have years of experience, in this class you'll find simple and effective ways to make your drawing sessions more fun and unique. 

Have a nice day and keep on drawing. 

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Milan Glozić

Painter, illustrator, Designer

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Milan was born in Pozarevac, Serbia in 1979. From a very early age, he got interested in drawing comics, painting nature, and inventing games that he could then play with his brother and sister. He graduated from the University of Fine and Applied Arts in Belgrade in 2003.

He works predominantly in the medium of traditional painting, but his art includes digital illustrations and book covers. He has had solo and group shows in Belgrade at the Progress Gallery, the National Gallery in Pozarevac, "In the Face Labyrinth" exhibition in Amsterdam at Arps and Co Gallery, and many more. Also, he is a Top-level designer at the 99Design platform where he made various book covers and illustrations for publishers and clients across the world.

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1. 01. Class introduction: Hello and welcome to another drawing. At this time, it's going to be showing you how a simple game make the drawing more fun, challenge. Most often, questions that I got 11 years. Drawing general is out to get back at it. When you lose the motivation to work. How to pick yourself up and you stop drawing for whatever reason and how to continue drawing. But as things get tough and you feel you have no time to spend to do it. Simply don't see progress in Europe. In this class, I offer valid solutions. Little game of dice. Yes, you heard me right? Dice will use, again, a challenge if you like. That might help you whenever you feel stuck and don't know what or how to drop also will have dried demonstration inoculated to these game and of course, project section, where I'll invite you to join me drawing and create a project on your own. That is the best way to get the most part. You'll have to think about your favorite drawing, subject matters and expand your abilities in this area. Finally, you might try out materials or haven't used while and rediscovered the droid. It's up to you to decide how challenging this game will be, but we'll talk more about it in the next week before this sounds interesting. Welcome to the class. 2. 02. How to play: Thank you for joining the class, and I hope you'll find it yours. But first, let's start with a couple of questions. How do you push forward when things don't go as we assume, or how are other people able to achieve things that seem to defy all of the assumptions. How can injunctive or answers like him draw the window? If you haven't seen. Just make a quick Google search and you'll find some it's safe to practice and years, and years of learning. And of course there's that. But maybe something else. First of all, you have to not just look at subject to draw, but also deconstruct them in your mind and then on paper into simple shapes that are much easier to manage. Here are some examples I quickly found on different devices and again and again. But that's just half of the puzzle. And the other one is to make it fun. So why is that important? Well, in order to get good at tennis subjects, you'll get, make the learning process easier and streamlined as possible. Got to remove the obstacles that will make it Sure and instead, make it more fun. One way to do this would be the hero trend sessions are little of a gaming experience. I'll offer you one of those games that I've been using for awhile. And later on in the class, I'll show you some of the work of meat based on this game and how you can change the game in order to serve you better. So in short, to answer the questions that I mentioned in the introduction class, how to bet at, how to get back at it when you wish to work and how to pick yourself up when you stop drawing for whatever reason is to make more fun and less obligation, you've gotta find joint work and make it feel like it's not worth. But again, something you do voluntarily. And I know everyone is different and that might be much, much harder some people than others. But consider this, taking this class, I mean, as a first step gamifying your journey. So let's start. This game is meant to be fun, but just like any other game, we should have some rules, maybe not proved, but rather guidelines that will help us play the game. Paper in front of you. So you could write it down six of your favorite subject to draw for me, this figure drawing, drawing portraits. He lived, landscape animals and six hour period. I chose these because they cover a great variety subjects. And many people could relate to at least some of them. But you might try something more niche. For example, if you like to draw animals, you'll make great police. Dogs, cats, rhinos, horses. In, if you like character design, you can have a fantasy character, sci-fi characters that by station maybe fantasy outposts and animals that live in the fantasies, rounding or sci-fi month, stuff like that. It all depends on what you monitor. All depends on the subject that appeals to you the most. And what you wanted to specialize in these areas, you'll get is yoga. Then you can write down another six points, but this time, use the materials you want to work with. Ink, pencil number 3, charcoal for coloring brush pens, hyperscalers N6, digital drawing. For the second list you can use to have on you in case you don't have all six, hold five. And if you have, for example, just for, live the last one out and you get five or six rows, just rewrote. Finally, if you want to draw with just one material, that's fine as well. You don't have to make a second, but like I said, it's about making your drawing fun process, not making additional stress. So now handled that. We are ready to roll the dice, but that's where the demonstration part of the class, before that, let's go class project and see some examples of what I mean using game and how you can change it to fit your own. 3. 03. Class project: Before we go into demonstration part of the class, it is time to talk about your project and what you should do. By now, you should have at least six subject matters and a list of dry materials, each represented by a number on the dice. Roll a dice. First goal is to determine tablet drawing. And the second one for the material you'll use. What you can achieve through this game is, first of all, think about what your favorite drawing subjects are. What brings you most joy to draw as much as that seem obvious, putting stuff on paper makes makes it even more palatable. Secondly, creating the list and by the way, don't, you don't have to use same place over and over again after a while. You can make differently and use them in different ways, as I'll show you a little more. But back to our topic. By creating these trophies, you will never run out the topics to draw and material to use. Finally, although your shortlist topics before you roll a dice, you never know what you might get. And for me that's always the fun part and a challenging. But the rest is for you to follow through n many drawing based on the role of the desk. You'll see me doing this in the next figure with additional tips and tricks. That particular subject and training materials. You can use game just by high describe or mentioned, or like I mentioned earlier, you can change it up. What if you have more than six subjects with proper time? Well, recently that happened to me as well. So I changed the game a bit. As I watched the Netflix or king, I fell in love with art style story characters, the whole batch. So I made a list of characters that I wanted to draw on benefit and the materials I wanted to use on an up close my eyes and with penicillin, hand hovered over first paper and wearing the pants lended character that will be closest would be the one control first thing with materials. This is one suggestion on how you can rework the k. Here are some drawings that I made so far. Other way that you can change the game is to put your subject on a piece of paper, cut them up, and put them in a jar. And you want to draw without looking, take one piece of paper out. That is what you will be drawing. In the second job, put pieces of paper with drawing materials on them. After that, take one piece of paper from the car, as well as to determine what materials are used for drawing. And that's it. These are my suggestions on how you can play game, but based on what they've just said, you can make your own versions for the project class. Choose one or choose one of the ways to play. Once again, you can use dice with six topics and materials. Use pencil to determine what to draw or cooler topics from a drug, or simply make your own game. In the project section of the class, you can tell us what they do. What do you doing? The end? What? Tell us what is the favorite drawing topics or share your own games. Most importantly, centers, you're trying. All the stock is for nothing. If you haven't started drawing, that is above all else. And that is why I really look forward to seeing your work and discussing both mine and yours in the comments and discussion. Now, it's time for the triangular spatially particle de facto. See you in the next video. 4. 04. Drawing time with some tips and tricks: Welcome to the demonstration part of the class. Let's roll the dice and see what we'll get. The drug. First row will be for the topic, our drawing. And it will be animal. And the second one, the materials that we'll be using. This case with pencils. And here you can see what we're drawing. I decided to go with horse. That was one of my favorite animals. And they are really fun and challenging to draw. Let's see how I made this drawing and give you some additional tips and tricks on how to go about it. So for this drawing, first thing that you should do is to have an image that you will work on. This case, I decided to draw an image of a horse and it is important to observe carefully the image that you draw and then start doing. First of all, make the big shapes not go too much into any kind of detail. Your drawing should be light at this stage, short the work because you might need some erasing in order to finish the entire drawing. So take it light and place, roughly all the major landmarks of the body. Use simple steps to achieve this, like squares, triangles, circles, and stuff like that. Like you've seen me do here. I'll do quickly with a kneaded eraser, make some, make those lines a little bit fainter and less obvious before I go any further drawing. In this state, use drawing. After that is done, you may start some shading like you see me do here with the head, the neck, and all of the parts of the body that are in the shade. To determine which are, which part of the body are in shadow and which are light squint your eye is determined. After that. Go into some of the details on the head, but take it slowly. Don't rush things in drawing the drawing, observe the reference image. Constantly look at your drawing and then look at the stuff drawing, and move on from there. Put some music, relaxing and lets the same that drawing happen. After that. The second pass, shading focus mainly on the parts of the body that are in the shadow. Like you see me here. Make that on the entire part. Can also work on background a little bit. Adding certain details, and work your way up. It's important at this stage. Think about the shadow and light parts of the body and have those things not overlap in a way that the lightest dark, the darker should be darker than the darkest dark and the light part of the drawing. We have that consistency of light and are carriers. That, that way we keep the families of light and dark, shadows and parts of the body in the same manner. We don't have that abrupt shadows and lights all over the place, so that will make your drawing more consistent. After that, you can go into some finer details and occasionally use an erase lightly on everything we do. Observe the image. When you have the chance, compare it to the drawing that you have in front of you. Again. Squint your eyes and observe which shouldn't be lighter and which should be more dark. You can now, even using little bit of eraser, add some elements and details on a body on the head. And also to add more depth work on the background. When you finish the background, like see me do here. With razor, can add more details on the neck. Other parts of the body. That is, for me, very fun thing to do is you see, I don't specialize and don't go on details. Just one part of the body. You should try to do it across the entire figure that you're drawing. That will make your drawing more consistent. To give it more, let's say, or interest. Go and add some details and texture you have on the back side of the dog. The more further apart. The point is to slowly work on the entire piece at the same time. And like I said, make it more consistent. I erased a couple of bits here because I noticed you can mistakes happen. And it is best to notice them on time and erase what is needed. And now you can see that I'm making some outlines and making that parts of the drawing where the shadow is thicker and have the lines to describe the front legs. Harder to give the drawing some more depth in order to separate and show what is in front and behind. Work with harder pressure on the parts that are in the front. Same thing can be said about the shading. Work on the tail. And furthermore, to separate the figure from the background, add some more details. Front legs, entire body, and drawing will feel more complete also. Now it's finally time to use softer pencil to give you more details in the darkest areas. With it. We're going to make final path shading. Work some more on the background with an eraser and interest on some parts. Finally, working with eraser some more. And you'll see me use the eraser to make a more interesting shape of the background. And that's basically it for this drawing. I hope you found this interesting and got something useful from it. So let me know your thoughts in the comments and discussions and get ready for the next video because I think it will be even more interesting. 5. 05. Second drawing with additional tips: This drawing was made as an afterthought and shows you what can come out from this came from this class. Because when I made the list of six drawing topics and created the previous training, I realized I wanted to do something more challenging for me that will be to draw car with the same materials are used for the course. Found a reference image that I wanted to work on and started drawing. That is exactly what this simple game can do for you as well and push you forward. I'm thinking on the subjects, do you haven't worked for awhile? And that can be very beneficial or using materials we haven't in a while. So let's now take a look at how I made it. Start. I use comparative measurement to determine the proportions of the car and see how can I scale it down in order to make it fit inside the size of my paper that I use a common measurement for a figure that tends to be the size of the head. And you measure the entire figure based on how many times the head repeats in height and length. In this case, in this case destroying it. I use the height of the front tire to make this measurement. But be careful, small errors grow into large ones before you know. That happens with all forms of drawing. And it's part of the learning to draw. What you see. Compared to measurement depends upon the scale proportion. So each new dimension relies on those which proceeded. That's an issue because none notice that mistake from a few strokes that go will negatively affect everything that you do from then on the solution. Those mistakes early enough in the process to make the corrections before the drawing falls apart. The idea, of course is to never make mistakes when scaling, but realities that we all make mistakes and seeing them in scale format is difficult to be patient with yourself in your skills. Observed practice. Now have a critical eye for your own work. Also, what you can do is to work with the faintest lines in the beginning, like you see me do here, as well as in the previous drawing. And constantly compare your drawing with a reference or the model in front of you. Only then you can move on to the next layer of drawing. Now, you can see me finishing all the big shapes of the drawing and it constantly checking if all things are in place, erasing and stuff like that. And when I noticed a mistake, I quickly use the eraser to correct it. There are lots of trial and error in this part, but this is the most important part of the drawing and everything must come together. So learn to be patient. It will pay off in the end. So that way you don't have problems later on. Now, it's finally time to do some shading and adding smaller shapes for your drawing. In the previous drawing for start, go easy with it. Think just one or two values, light and dark forms. Then go with the first best, slightly shade the entire dark carrier, adding smaller secondary shapes. And then go from there. Observed the reference image or your model that you're drawing. Erase, drop, repeat that all over again. After death, you can go into some details, maybe add Reflection, additional shadows that are a bit darker and slowly in layers. Push, your drawing is more finished, look like always. Go over the entire body and make the drawing more cohesive and not overdo on one part and then move to the next. But work on the entire drawing. You can also look in the previous example, work on some simple background and make the lines follow the shape of the object that you draw. If it's too much erased like we see me here. You are in charge of what to leave out and what to let remain on your drawing. You're not a photographer. You can freely erase the parts that are not needed or you feel that will not be beneficial for the drawing on the entire place. Also, what I can say about this part of the trend, that is a more relaxed part of the drawing and everything is already set in place and you can focus your intention on rendering the drawing to the state you want it to be. In this case, I didn't want to go super realistic by using blending materials, blenders and stuff like that. I wanted to explore hatching and crosshatching and see how much can I push this drawing with just simple lines and they're overlapping. Little bit eraser and pencil. That is all materials that I'll be using for this drawing. Finally, for the darkest details, I use the software brush to really bring on the darkest starts. Drawing even further. Go over the entire drawing and carefully select the errors were all use it. But still if you started using the software pencil, you can always go back and use the harder pencil eraser. This stage, if that is what is needed, make the tools work for you and get good at using them. Td is to have fun discovering which one to use in any particular state that both the training and have fun with this game. When you don't have to feel applies in this case, to work with just these materials if you want, you can use brushes, you can use blenders. Make the drawing the way you want to do it. And like I said, introduction of this class, it is up to you how much you want to push this game, how challenging you wanted to do it for you, and still making it fun. Changed the game to fit your needs. But think about what you want to achieve with this hand, of course, post to work in a session so we can take a look at who work as well and have additional comments. Also, if you have any comments about this drawing, let me know. We can all learn together from each other. And finally, this is the final result, the image that I made for this class. I can previous reader hope you'll find it useful. Before we go on, let me say that we have only one more video before the end of the class. So please remember to post your work in the project gallery and happy drawing. Susan. 6. 05. Class overview: Congratulations on finishing the class. I hope you will use the paint I showed you in the work and finally, tools. If you do, please remember to live a life review is it would greatly help me make more classes like this. Remember, main call, this class, have fun time drawing in order to get better at it. And even if you fall into that situation. So don't feel like you're progressing in games that will help you push on gamifying, your learning and growing and finding ways to make it more fun for unexpected, but at least partially unexpected and make more challenging and entertaining talk. Also, let me know if you have any additional questions and I'll try to answer them. It's only the cat pose tumor infection. And if you'd like to see more content about drawing, painting, take a look at profit, NC, some advice is my CPU. So have a great day drawing and see you in the project section or some other past. Take care.