Transcripts
1. Class introduction: Hello everyone and welcome
to client exercises, a series of classes that are dedicated to improving
your drawing skills. In this class, we will take a deeper look at
the very core of every train foundation
on which you can build a firm base of
knowledge for what is to come. Series applies a few
exercises to get to there. If this sounds interesting, Let's introduce you to what you can expect
from this class. My name is melon and
I've been an art teacher and painters 2003 acrylics, murals, book covers and illustrations from
all over the world. Still teaching
others how to draw and paint remained one
of my main passion. Now thanks to Skillshare, I'm able to share my knowledge
to a much wider audience. People such as this class is aimed at students with a
beginner scale drawing. And if that's you, excellent because materials applying for this class could be a great addition to
the current skill set, propelling you to
the next level of mastering beautiful
practice, drawing. Throughout the
class. I'll show you how you can hold your pencil. Focus on the head
movement while drawing, and with a few additional
tips and tricks, get you into real
drawing exercise. You will then use
the skills to create your own drawings
with much more ease. I welcome people of all ages. Whether you're just starting
your drawing journey or one to come back to it
after years of neglect. If you want to
become professional over a course of time
or even hobbyist. Because skills in this
class can help you achieve a goal that is outside
the scope of this class. That is, for example, to create our
friends and family, The love to see you on. Another way you can utilize the next skills
explained this class is to prepare you for a much challenging task
when it comes to drawing. Making portraits, dealing with prospective factor
in human anatomy, shading, adjust some of the advanced topics that you
would like to go for next. This class does, is to
make easier to overcome the beginner challenges
and give you an insight into how to approach
these new drawings. Quite the end of the class, you'll have more knowledge
about your 23 rows by hand coordination and the way pull the pencil is so important. And you'll be able to use to
make visceral measurements. And based on that, simple
shapes that in turn make more complex subjects
really excited to see what this class and do for you and see your work in the project
section of the class. So without further delay, let's jump into it.
2. Class Project: Thank you for joining
the class and I really hope you'll enjoyed
in this first video, we'll go over our class project and see what you can expect
from the class when it comes to your assignments
because you can get the most out of this
class like any other issue. Do unnecessary work. It wouldn't be
enough just to watch the videos and stuff like that. But broke on the exercise that I prepared for you and
move on from there. So without any further delay, let's take look at four
most important points about this class and about the
work that you should create. See you there. Concerning class
project, remember to have in mind for
important things. First is the trying formula. And it goes like
k plus p plus t. In order to get the
good drawing skills. Where k is represented
by knowledge, B is for practice, and T is for talent. And as you can see,
practice is most important, but it leads you nothing. If you don't have the knowledge, you don't know
what you're doing. Finally, talent is the
least important part. Because if you're
not practicing, don't know what you're doing, it's really hard to get
good drawings course. Let's go over these
important points as we think about the importance
when it comes to practice. For this class, I hope
prepared three exercises. The first one will be
a warm-up exercise, just like it says, load me up and gets ready for other stuff that are
coming along the way. The second one is to
work with simple shapes. Finally, the third exercise will be to draw a
cartoon character. I think might be strange for some people to think to draw a
cartoon character. But when we get to that, we will see how it all
connects to each other. And y, in this stage of
your drawing journey, it will be a good idea to
start with those shapes. We'll talk about it more when
we come to that exercise. Secondly, is to know
about the knowledge. And most importantly, to understand why we are
doing this exercise. Like I said, in order to get good at what you're doing,
you've got to know why. So I should beginner, you have to know, in this class we'll talk
about how to simplify shapes. To watch out for proportions. Learn to have a good grip on your pencil, your
hand coordination, and be able to use this
principle in an actual drawing. In this class, I hope
we'll cover all of these important matters
and get you on your way. Finally, after we have
practicing knowledge or why we're doing that and rely
on little bit talent. We can finally
make our drawings. And now with that, welcome to our fourth part of this part of the class
project is to deliverables. So those are your student
drawings that the best way to progress from there is to upload them
to Project Gallery. Look feedback from other
students or from me, and load from there. Because that is the shortest, shortest way that you can
move up to the next level. When it comes to
these deliverables, you can take a photo of your
work via camera, your phone. It doesn't matter as long as
the drawing is clearly seen. So we can have good conversation about what
we have done and what we can approve on what
are the good points and how bushy further
you're trying journey. With that out of the way. Let's take a look
at the next video. See you there.
3. Drawing material: Now that we looked at the project that we're
going to work on today. Let's talk about the
materials for this class. I'll try to keep it very simple. Pencils and the plain
old printing paper like this in a foreign sites. More about paper, we'll talk about later
on in this video. But let's start
with the pencils. Here we have some
H pencils starting from four H all the
way to B pencils. And we have theme here, I think that is the
stuff that stands. This H pencils are
predominantly for writing. Then we have HB
pencils that can be used both for
writing and drawing. And finally, we have P pencils that are for drawing
specifically. What is the difference? Well, you will see
that in a second. If we take a look at
the line that we make with four H on here, then let's take an HB. And with the same pressure. This is HB. Let's take a random pencil. This is for me. Finally, let's take, I
think this is six b. Go ahead. An API paths. Yes.
This is HB pencil. You can clearly
see the difference between these when
I'm drawing and what they recommend is to start off your drawing with a pencil that would be much
easier to erase. These ones, Let's say
for this one is h. The lines are, let's
say thinner and could be easily erased using
any kind of eraser. In this case, I have
a kneaded eraser that is more used for, let's say, charcoal
then for the drawing. But in this case, even
with this eraser, you can see the lines
can clearly go away. When uncertain
drawing, then I can use some B pencils that
like I said, for drunk. So when it comes to pencils, at least urge you
to try them out, see which one works
for you better. And then remember to start
with easier pressure. Pencils that are harder. And then move on to
these other pencils, deter drawing your final lines. When it comes to paper for
this particular class, I recommend using this
paper because it's cheap byte anywhere
and you can not, you don't have to stress
about how much have you used because this demands time and practice and trying
out different things. So starting out with these simple paper will be
quite enough for this class. However, what I recommend is that you have some sketch books that you can carry
around with you, such as small ones,
such as these. I carry it on my work. I draw random stuff
in it with ink, pencils, markers,
and stuff like that. So having that always with me helps me to write
down certain ideas. Helps me get other stuff like that and be always ready
to draw whenever I can, whenever I feel bored when
I'm traveling on buses, trains and stuff like that. And it's also a good
exercise too high, which while then
when you're at home, you can have a bigger ones, such as like this one
that's like A4 insights also that you can do
specific exercises. What you see here are drawings that they're
made for ten days. I had a challenge to finish. Then portraits, then
heads in the day. So in ten days I would
have 100 portraits. Some are very quickly, some are taking a
little bit longer time. And even when I've finished
making these exercises, I went on some of
them using inks just to pass the time and exercise
working with things. One of the reason that
I recommend using sketch books is because you're drawing inside your
sketch books and all your drawings remain in one place and
that is very good. So you can take a
look back at what you're drawing and see
if you have progressed, what you should work on. And when you have it
on single papers, it's much harder to
keep them all together. So whenever I can, I recommend drawing
in such sketchbooks. That's basically
it for this video. See you in the next one.
4. Holding the pencil and hand coordination: In this video, we'll talk about holding the pencil and
hand coordination. Because I think that's
also very important whenever you're drawing and
how you hold your pencil, where the Thurman,
the line flow and how your drawing is
going to come up. One of the most common
ways people hold the pencil is like this with their three fingers
around the pencil. And I have seen even
stuff like this. But what I recommend to try
is to hold the pencils, which all your five fingers. And when you draw, you have much wider
range of movement that you can produce with your hand when you're doing
it with three fingers. Of course, there
are other factors that determine how you're going to draw and how you're
going to hold your pencil. One of the things is
the size of the paper. If you're working on a piece of paper like I mentioned
here in this sketch book. When the paper, when the size of the drawing
that you draw is small, then you can use like this. But if you're working on a
bigger scale drawing stand, firmly recommend holding
the pencil like this. That way. In your hand. The
palm of your hand is touching the paper
or these two fingers. And the pressure of your
thumb determines the line, determines the
thickness of lines. And just simply by moving
your fingers around, you can make all sorts
of different strokes. Another thing that
you should think about when you're
drawing is to think about where are you
placing your paper so different if you're working
on a flat surface like this, a table, or if you're
using it on easel, I think it will be much easier to draw on a
surface that this angled so you can have much better eyesight than you're working on
a flat surface. Also can Brooke on a flat surface if you're
having smaller sketchbook, then if you're working
on a bigger piece, working on the bigger
piece is better. Working and working on big, big pieces that are on either on some other surface
that is elevated. So you can have much clear look at it when you're drawing. Another thing that is very
important is when you're drawing your nut,
moving your wrist. Like you see me here, what you should try to do is
to move this part your hand, but your elbow and shoulder. Because that way, when you're
drawing and you're holding the pencil like this,
your entire hand. He's moving along. I'm making the lines that will go like this and you
move in your elbow, but try to move
your entire hand. And I suggest you should
try that right away. So take your piece of paper. If you want to, as a buffer, put one under the
paper that you're working on and tried to make vertical and horizontal lines using the principles
that I just mentioned. Trying to move your entire hand. If you haven't been doing
this before, it's tougher. Start. But as time goes on, it will get easier. Tried to make these
straight lines and then tried to
make circular lines. Why is that important? We'll talk about
in the next video, where we'll be talking about the warm-up exercise
that will produce before going into an actual
drawing. Try this out. Try, like I said, make lines moving
only your elbow or moving your entire head. But remember when you
move in your entire hand that this side of your poem
is touching the paper. It's not in the air. Your hand is not
above the paper. But base, side or side of the pump is touching the paper and
that is going along. Of course, that may produce certain problems when you have already drawing on this side, what I recommend
to other students, have another piece of
paper that will be on top of the drawing
that you're working on so you won't
smudge it and also your pump will remain
clean as possible. The point of this
video is telling you that way hold your
pencil depends on nu, but also on the size
of the paper that should drawing if it's on the flat surface or an NGO
or even better, or a nasal. And how big it is. Remember to draw not from your, from your wrist but from
your elbow and shoulder. Try these exercises
right away and it will be better when you move on to the next section
of the class. Of course, control the line
width with your thumb. You can see it can go from thin to thick to thin to thick. Remember if you
have any questions or you are uncertain
or something's, please leave me a comment in the comment section and I'll try to answer as soon as I can.
5. Warm up exercise: Welcome to the warm-up
exercise for this class. And you can start with selecting a pencil
of your choosing. In this case, I chose
5D because I want the lines to be much better seen on the videos
that you are watching. But you can work
out with the CEU, find that you like. Have another piece of
paper on your table. Are we working on
have another one. The nice to serve as a buffer. So let's start for start
to warm up exercise. Suggest you starting with
making us number of circles, going from one site to another, have them all in one size. Or at least try to have
them all in one size. You can make it all in one go, or you can do it like this
with two lines like this. Then try to make a similar row. Beneath depth 1 to this exercise is to
loosen up your arm. Before starting
the next exercise. You can see we're going
to have to be precise. There is no exam here for
this warm-up exercise, Nolan, He's going to judge you. This is only for you and for your satisfaction and to be to feel better when you
start the actual drawing. Looking can see here, I'm not ready, warmed up, but I made certain lines that will make my hand feel
much ready later on. After death, recommend you
feeling satisfied to make, used to make shaped like this. And like I told you, reason why I'm
going from right to left is because I'm left-handed
and I know that wave, my hand will be always on
a clean piece of paper. So when you have
this square here, try to draw circular
shape inside of it. You'll see I haven't
done that here. And to touch only in one spot. Again, if you're not satisfied, maybe change the
proportions of this shape. Another one. I could put, if you feel the need, you can divide these lines. Can work without them. This, and also this
is a good exercise. You dividing these
lines in halves because that will
help you. Later on. It doesn't have to
be 100% accurate, but it has to be
somewhere there. So you can see here
this part is a bit larger than this one. And then drawing tried to
make elliptical shape. Told depends, like I said here, how you want to warm up and
prepare for the next stage. Then if you'd like, you can try to make straight
lines in consecutive order. And think about how much they
are apart from each other. Try to make them low. Here. It's a bit
larger than here. But the next line, I'll try to follow that one. Trial. So putting different ways that you can hold a
pencil like that. You can also try. Same way, working
with the lines. You can try and do it slower, or you can try to go faster. Something like that, and
have these spaces equally, equal, them equally spaced.
Whatever we want to say. Another helpful thing to
try is to draw from you, aligns all come into 1, like you see here when
you drawing to make, to keep your line, keep your pencil
sharpened at all times. You try to rotate it
from time to time. Make a line, rotate
the pencil for a bit. This skill keeps the tip of your pencil sharpen
for a longer time. You wouldn't won't have to
sharpen it as frequent. Another thing is
the practice line and try to determine where is the half of the
line that you draw. I think it's somewhere
around there and then see if you were correct. No. This is a bit longer, so let's say it's
something like that. Yes. Then divide that line here. Check it to see if you're right. Yeah, it's about there. And so on. And so on. The smaller the line, it's easier to
divide it into half. Why is that important? Well, when you're drawing, you will be often, especially in the beginning, making construction lines
to see which part fits. What part of your drawing. And dividing these lines is
very helpful in two ways. You can make an
accurate drawing. And the other one is to train your eyes to get better
at visual measurements. So he won't have to rely on other tools or rulers
and stuff like that, but be able to just eyeball
it to see an object. And then just with your hand, make an accurate assessment. Try this exercise. Maybe make longer lives because they are much
more challenging to find. Half. Let's see if I've
done it correctly. Well, it's there
approximately. That's fine. Be that thick the brush. See if you know. Somebody. Here. For my recommendation for
this warm up exercise is to draw a circular shapes. I have them aligned. Then use squares or some
rectangular shapes, and then try to put oval and
circle shapes within them. Try it to make straight lines or vertical or horizontal with the same spacing between them. Then divide these lines into
smaller and smaller parts. But I would also recommend, if that is not enough to
try to draw a flower like shape with lines, with one line. Then try to do that in a way that every time
that you make a turn, it goes through
that specific spot. This is for h and you
can see the difference. It is much lighter than
the previous ones. So let me take another
pencil that is B, so you can see it clearer. You can instantaneously
see the difference between these two pencils on I'm using the same pressure
for both drawing. You can do it smaller. You can do it faster, slower. I made a mistake. The faster you go. It won't be less precise. But that depends on how ready are you for
the actual drawing. That's it for this
warm-up exercise. Take your papers and start warming up so we can
start with an actual drawing. In the next video, we'll talk about some
five important points to think about when
you're drawing. There.
6. 5 tips for better drawing: Now that we've warmed up, Let's have next exercise. But before that, let's
quickly talk about a few things that I
think will benefit you before going
into that exercise. And I've made the list of
five things that will help you get better results
in the next exercise. The first thing that
we're going to talk about are positive
and negative shapes. So if you're not
familiar with the term, let's take a look
at I don't know, any particular drawing. If you're not familiar with
these terms. Move away from. While positive shapes
are all the shapes that, are, that form the subject
matter that we're drawing. Whether it be, this has
said it's everything. Shape of the ear and neck, shoulders and stuff like that. And negative shapes are the
shapes that are around. These objects. Might have some examples
on the screen as well. Like we see here. Between the chin, neck,
and the shoulder, we can see shape
that has four sides. That can help us when we
looking at the subject, if you're drawing,
whether that be in life or on photograph. We tried to find, of course, positive shapes, but look also for these negative shapes
here we have triangle. If we're, if we're
looking at both of these drawings, triangle, then we have some end when you're thinking
about these shapes, tried to simplify them, not in every details. So I'm not thinking about
these little crevices. I'm thinking more about
broad shapes that form the area around two
figures that I'm drawing. Maybe we can have another
one here, simpler here. That also is important
to establish where your lines here are lines are and how big
certain shapes are. You always thinking
about that as well. Also, what you can use is to use a clock analogy on the
stuff that you're drawing. Whether that be like
portrait still-life, some basic shapes
and stuff like that. So for example, if we see, let's say this drawing here, we see that there's a line
that splits the face in half. How can we know to determine how that
lines should be here? Well, first of all, we can do this and
then think about, okay, That's the line
that goes like this. But also what you can, can help you to visualize
this is to imagine. Hope you can see
that, yes. Okay. Let me use thicker pencil. Let's say five o'clock. And think about,
okay, this line, probably in the direction of one o'clock or maybe
not just one o'clock, but in that direction. If we want to think about
middle line of this face, it goes something like
this and it shows probably around 1030,
something like that. And if we have the imaginary
clock in our mind, Okay, That shows like that
authority and stuff like that. When you have sloping lines or lines that are going into
different direction, think about what in your head, or even maybe it's easier, draw a shape like this. So you can see to
help you remind you in what direction should
show that line B. No matter how small phase
or object you draw, it will always be. In depth direction. That is the second
important thing that I want to mention in
this video and the next one. I think the most important, let me just move this way is to understand and draw three basic shapes that will
help you draw anything. In this world. These three shapes, like I said, always
tell my students when it comes to drawing
these three shapes. Let's name them randomly. 123. Your best friends when
it comes to drawing and mastering them and drawing them can help you draw
anything you would like. Because one of the
most important things when it comes to drawing East, simplify your shapes
that you're drawing. Portrait, landscape
or stuff like that. Try it to see them
into simpler forms. And we'll talk about
more in the next video. But you can make them. Pyramids can make them, combine them, have shapes like
these and stuff like that. But knowing how to do
that will help you draw. And you can see also
some examples on the screen as how
you can do that. And also I think I showed you earlier in an exercise or did when it came
to drawing 10th. Find it after the anatomy. All right, so you
should see here, decided to show how
to draw a hand and to simplify it by using
square shapes. Or like in this case, how to draw a hand by
using circles and bolts. Also deforming them to fit
whatever you're drawing. But what is important and start your drawing journey
is to understand the tube should simplify
everything that you do. No matter how complicated
the scene might be. Complicated stuff that you
want to draw is important too. Break down to its essential
basic parts and dorsal, dorsal, these three guys, if you elongate them, shorten them, combine
them together to form whatever shape that you can recognize and then
translate paper. Another important thing.
When you're drawing. You have multiple
objects on your scene. To draw. For example, we have a shape that's
behind this object. Draw through. Understand, try to understand
how that shape looks. Not just draw this
line that is visible, but tried to draw and imagine the stuff that's
behind themselves, that this is also very good and important when you are
drawing to have live models. Well, I've objects and
stuff that you draw because if you're working
just on four graphs, you cannot go behind. Take a look from
some other angles. So it's always good
when you're drawing to have some shapes that you will
draw and that you can go, touch, go and look around. So for example, maybe we
don't see that shape here. Stuff like that. Maybe have complicating it more than they need to
maybe for this class. But basically, out
of all those things, it will see the
movement of my hand. Like we said in previous videos. That is always
important to remember. When you're holding a pencil, you're not moving your risk, but your entire hand. He's making the movement. That way. You have much, they want to say your
stroke is much better. And I said also, this goes. On the paper. But when
you're doing that, what can happen is you might smudge your work and
stuff that you're doing. If you're doing that, maybe one thing that
you should have, let me erase construction
lines and you can see, in this case it did the opposite of what they said earlier. And that is when you're making
a construction drawing, new red pencil and then later
on you can use B pencil, but I can see when
you know the rows, you think about them, then feel free to break them. I'm here to show you how you
can practice and what to do. It's up to you to decide
how to go further, what classes to take, who to listen, how to
practice and stuff like that. Think about what is
good for you and then progress through
the class and make the drawings that you
will feel proud about. Lastly, when it
comes to drawing, always make sure to talk about after the first
exercise about proportions. To fit everything
you draw and make it be on the piece of paper
that you are working on. It's a good exercise to
think about the position of the main elements
of your drawing and how to put them in
the place of your, of your drawing, of your work. May be difficult sometimes, but it also depends on the speed at which
you're working on. But please think about
that and how to fit. Because when we come into later with your
talked about proportions, we'll talk about measuring
and stuff like that. And that will really
show you how to do that, how to measure, how to see that object that you're drawing in 3D
environment and space. But those are how
to translate that, what you see on a
two-dimensional pieces of paper. The last thing I
wanted to talk about in this video, like I said, let me address recap all
the things you should think about negative shapes that
we see on our drawing. We should think about positive shapes that we see are drawing. The negative shapes are shapes
that are around objects. Use the clock analogy. When you're making lines to see in what
direction do they go. After that? Use, always use these
three basic shapes. That will be your best friend
when it comes to drawing. Draw through. Don't put your lines
just like you see. Just think about how that
shape these placed on a plane, on a piece of paper
and stuff like that, then you can always erase these lines if
you want to, later on. Finally, when you're drawing, don't start at one place of your drawing and then
move on and then you have a problem that
certain elements of your drawing are missing and
going outside of the paper, try to concentrate and
positioned the main elements of your drawing and have
them all inside that space. Without, With that
out of the way. Let's go on on an actual
exercise. In the next video.
7. Simple shapes exercise - part 01: Here we are at our second
drawing exercise and we can finally start to
implement all the things that we talked about in
the previous videos. So we'll start pencil. And like I said earlier, I would usually starts with a pencil that is a bit
harder and make this thinner and then go over
them once again when I'm satisfied with lines with softer pencil and
make final drawing. But in order for you to see better each stroke
that I'll make, I'll start with some pencil that is a bit softer so you can
see better what I'm doing. I think I'll start with
Tooby pencil in this case, but you can try. And what I would recommend
is to go with a hard pencil. Take your drawing paper and
be weather so we can draw along or you can watch the entire video and then
go with your drawing. I would suggest to have to
arrange a few simple shapes, cubes, oval, cylinder, Cuban, stuff like that and put them in front of you so
you can see them. And benefits when you're drawing from real life is
to take a look at what you're drawing and
see it from more angles. But if you don't have or you
want to do it first row, we just don't have these
objects or stuff like that. You can use reference images. And then I'll
provide the link for the sets, the thumb using, I'm using set of
some 300 images from Noah Bradley was kind to make all these res-sources
resources available for free. And you can see the
link on the screen for this reference images. And he has a lot of
other resources. So I recommend you to download those images
and working from, I think 013 image or stuff like that for
this example here. So let's start and
remember to use all those five points
that I've talked about earlier to draw positive
and negative shapes, use clock analogy, simplify these shapes
as much as you can, but they are already simple. Then draw through these
shapes and finally, think about the entire
piece that you're drawing and position it so it is firmly In the
space of the paper. Example that I'm watching is that I will start
with a cylinder. And since it's not at
the center of the image, I'll place this cylinder
little bit on the left. Tried to do that. Remember,
we will talk more about visual measurements
in the next video and in our final exercise. But for now, try to eyeball it. I think about how
tall is this shape, these shapes compared that to
other shapes that you see. And then move on. So I'll start with the top
of the cylinder. Since it's the top-down view, this part of the
cylinder should be a bit thicker than this one because we would see if this
is transparency, much bigger part on this side. Then think about the
position or the cube that's behind this shape. Make lines are thinner. Seeing it, maybe this
cube should be still a bit taller than this. Like you can see. It is. Okay to make mistakes. Think about posters
and negative shapes, and you can always
correct things. Later on. It goes here, think about
negative two shapes. Wherever we land,
something like that. Look at the drawing
that you're making. Then other side. Go something like this. Move your hand like I
talked about earlier. Entire hand. Target farm. See how big these shapes are
compared to one another. I have this shape here. Let's take another softer
pencil and then go over these lines where
there are overlapping. Are there any tangent lines? Lines. I think it should
be a little bit here. Look at the reference image. These corner overlapping,
this surface here. Perfect. I made it look like it's all a
little bit tilted. Let's see what I did wrong. Maybe this should be
a little bit longer. For this exercise. We are not concentrating,
thinking about shadows. We addressed trying to make just trying to make
sizes of these shapes? Correct. Maybe it
was a bit of eraser. After you're done. Then
just go on next image, but try to see mistakes
or stuff like that and see if it's all correct. So looking at the
reference image, I think I made this
shape a bit little, a bit bigger than it should be. And this placements here could be done a
little bit better. That's basically it. The depth, you can try another image and
work your way up.
8. Simple shapes exercise - part 02: Here we have another
three objects and we have our same cylinder. Here. This is h. Maybe you want to
see that very well. So I'll use different pencil. Start with an oval shape. Here. The clock analogy to determine
this line, how it goes. See how far would
it go into space? Maybe sometimes when
you're drawing, just go over that shape and then make the decision
to draw a line. Like I said, like
I said earlier, it doesn't have to be perfect. Just try to observe, tried to find the right angles. Learn from your mistakes. Go watch how further up this
line B compared to this. We'll go over the same steps. The next video, when we'll be drawing cartoon character,
much more detailed, but I think this is
good exercise to train your eyes to see without
measuring horse. In the next video, we'll
go over that as well. Go something like here. And then I have since this should be parallel to this line, or they move to one
vanishing point like that. And lastly, we have
our third object. Here. See how long this
line should be. It should be a little bit
longer than the previous one. Now we have, let's
say this one here, compare it to other shapes. You're constantly,
when you're drawing with this, constantly learning, constantly comparing these
shapes to one another. This will do bigger,
this would be smaller. Something like this. Vertical line. Tried to simplify
this rectangular shape to each other. The February close. That. What I'm noticing is
that this should be lower. Again, a little
bit softer pencil and then go over the lines. I would recommend this
final step as well. Because that way you
stick to your decisions. You're also practicing. Making lines longer. Have a much more defined
look over your training. Some other classes
I'll talk about how to shade and stuff like that. So that is for another time when we finished
with this exercise at home. I'm hoping while I'm drawing, you're doing the same, having reference
image on your screen or have these objects
that you draw. The table in front of you. Make a third final drawing
and try to do it quicker. For this last drawing. And I'll go straight
with some pencil. Let's do it too.
It might be time. Look at the reference
that you're using about where to place
your first object that will determine where
or other shapes are. Thinking about positive
and negative shapes. Then we have the objects, object that is behind
this 1.5th one. Oh, you're very likely even if you're working
with this softer pencil, you're lightly drawing on paper, so that will make your reason
if it's needed much easier. Lastly, we have, let's see where it is
compared to objects, something like this,
something like this, and to cause this value. So in this case, I'm trying to show you is many ways you can
approach these objects. Can, you can do it
something like this thing? You know, that the boulder, your drawing will
fit this space here. If you want. You can erase the lines that
you no longer need, but we'll still
keep some of them. So you know, the
process that took you here that's helped you
make this drawing. Really hoping you enjoyed this video and
learn a few stuff. Haven't known that already, and that you will
now proceed and make these drawings
for yourself. So see you in the
next video and also in the project section
where we can discuss our work and improve and get
better at drawing together. See you there.
9. Managing the proportions: Point to this segment
of the class is to prepare you for
the last exercise where we will combine
five things we discussed earlier with
visual measuring. In this video, we
will see how to properly take visual
measurements, how to apply and how to
apply them on trial. And finally, why are we drawing a cartoon character as our
final exercise for this class? So let's get started. For our measuring tool. We can use many objects we
already have in our houses. Still. I like to use
the tool that I already have in my hand at this pencil or even
better along brush, how to use this tool in the most efficient
and precise way. Here I have a few suggestions. Tips wherever we
like to call them. For one, hold your arm straight out without
bending the elbow. Bending the elbow will bring the measurement closer to
your eyes, increase the size. The measurement will only
be consistent if the elbow is blocked or doesn't move in to filter heads to bring the eyes as close as possible
to your shoulder. This is important to keep the measurements consistent
throughout the whole drawing, but keeping the eyes as close as possible to the pivot
point of the shoulder, you minimize the trends is for inconsistencies in
your measurements. Three, close one eye. And then for use the pencil at the top point of whatever you're measuring and put your
thumb at the bottom, 0.5. Now that you have the unit, you can compare the another part of the substrate,
the two drawing. Move your measurement
down below the chin and note where the thrombus
repeat down the figure. And Kantians, this pulse
is about 2.5 headstone. You can do this to measure relationships of anything in the pose and not just the head. You can compare the length
of the arm, for example, to the length of
the leg or whatever works for dispose
and so on and so on. That's all fine and great. But what are other ways visual measuring can increase
your drawing skills? Well, it involves
measuring relationships. Eclipse on you're trying to make that drawing fit on the paper
that you're working on. We already established
that this policy is 2.5 heads tall or
something like that. The size of our paper allows
posts to be about this big. Mark the top and button, then break it up into 2.5 units. That tells you how big the
head should be on the page. And you'll have points for all the places where the head
unit slide in the joint. During this helps to prevent one of the most common
beginner mistakes. And that is progressive
with drawing things bigger or smaller as
you go down the page. If we focus only on the small portion of the drawing we're
currently working on. We can relate only to the things near that small
portion of the drawing instead of the whole that is placed where most
of the mistakes are made. And as time goes on, it gets harder to fix them. It is much wiser to step back and look at
the big picture. Take your time, make
visual measurements, and work on the
big shapes first. Make sure the foundation works before adding the
rest of the parts. Already. This tells us a lot and it makes measuring the rest of
the figure much easier. It can also rotate
the head units horizontally and do the same
thing with all the posts. This neatly brings us to the
last point of this video. And that is why I
suggested drawing cartoon characters as a beginner or someone who hasn't made much of the
drawings in a while. To start simple and
work your way up with a simple but healthy amount of challenge if everything
is easy and simple. Well, whereas the funding debt, I think these
drawings can give you adjust that fun element. They are made by professionals with years of experience
of drawing and making some of the
greatest animations the whole time, all by hand. Professionals who knew that
they would have to draw these characters
over and over again. So what they did, they
refine, simplified, and condensed every element
of their characters to make them more visible and recognizable
to the audience. Beginner. When you break down
these drawings into their main building blocks, it becomes much easier to draw them also over and over again, but also you get to see how
to grade professionals work. And that can be very inspiring. With that other way. Let's jump into the next video and assisted demonstration part.
10. Cartoon character exercise part 01: So here we are at our third and final
exercise for this class. And let's straight
jump into, of course, relying on all the
knowledge that we acquired through
other exercises. So let's start here. That will be the
top of the head. Somewhere around here will be the place where it will end. So like we talked in
the previous exercises, we will have to divide this line into 2.5 or something
like that parts. And it's much easier when
you have round numbers. We will try to do this as well and we can make the corrections. You can see how
that goes as well. Let's say I have to divide
this into 2.5 measurements. Let's say this is the
first one. We'll see. How much did they go off
like that? That's too. And see Let's see
if this is half. If I did it correctly
about that. There are 2.5. And as I looked the image, I said, the feet are not
exactly at 2.5 million, so it will be
somewhere around here and it will have enough
space on the bottom. But we see here. This will also leave us with enough space
for the ear as well. So our figure will be something
like from here to here. So I think that's
a cool amount of space for this piece of paper. First thing, like I said, I will have to make a hat. Let me check up again. For start. Let's make a circular shape. Like you see me here. You can make any amount of line. Just be careful not to go
overboard and press too hard. Next, now that we have the head is to think about other shapes. So here we have
place for our elbow. So let's see where
can we put that? Have the shoulder of
our mouse here n, constantly working
on looking at stuff, something like where should
end using clock analogy. What's the position of
the arm and stuff like that. Like you see here. We'll start with simple
shapes, broad shapes. Then go further on. Let's see, ER, remember to make these construction
lines look drawing. And also, let's see how big
the shape of the ear is. It should go somewhere
around here. In the upper part. Also, I'm looking both
positive and negative shifts. If you're worried about
making too many lines, remember that you can always, always use a kneaded
eraser before going making your
final decision. Somewhere around here,
we can make loop. Here. I'm gonna run Middlemarch. You can make this inner part. Now it's time for the second arm and it's like 45 degree
angle going from this place, but its ends somewhere
around here. And we also have this shape
here for the other arm. Drawing, you'll
constantly comparing one part another
how that relates. Let's see. I can't see. For our second, I've
made a mistake. Let's just check it out. Good community, if you make a mistake,
that's absolutely normal. Just try it again. What I can see, the
reference image I think is hand should
be overlapping. These parts. Shoulder, maybe a bit. Baker. Also. While
I'm doing that, trying to find the place
where I can fit in place. The cheek off. Little friend goes
something like that. Next. Next poem. Ankle for the hand. Comes to looking at displace
compared to this, where, where it goes, what are the negative shapes that
make this entire drawing? How long each part
is compared to the other one and
stuff like that. Now if we want to
draw the belly, we look where the bell starts on hand compared to
these two points. Is it before this or after? If we draw a line
that goes straight? Well it intersect with this
shape, we're not there. Those are the little details
that you should want to try out and see for yourself. This is an exploration
part of your drawing. Can be very fun to
see where to end it. Somewhere around here. So this is basically the
line to draw his belly. This here. 40 other side. Then we have line. You're constantly looking at the reference image that
you're drawing in order to make it all fit on the page and make the drawing that you would like to have. The other ear,
something like that. Middle, it's the highest point. And then it goes back down.
11. Cartoon character exercise part 02: Maybe smaller. Moving on. The legs, goes back. Comparing it to be also
fast at this point. Also, you can see all
this done in real-time. Then we have place
for second luck. And it's somewhere
above buttocks are out there compared to
the drawing and see if this compared to
this, how that relates. And then compare. If there are aligned or maybe this should be a little bit
further than this point. So make vertical
line to check that. Check this. Check this. If I take it sooner, I would say that this
is completely wrong. You can do is move this here. You would notice the difference. But like I said, it's all part of the
program, part of learning. Compared to this one, it goes somewhere similar. We have like that. Now it's much better. We'll go into detail a little later on. Like you can see stuff
like that can happen. But don't get discouraged. Keep on pressing,
learning to draw. It's important, like I said, to work with pressure
is not so big. You can easily erase
if you make a mistake. We have another
elliptical shape here. Little dent on this side. Again, another elliptical
shape for nose triangle. Because like I told you earlier, you can do with all the
shape and if you need, you combine the shapes
to create new ones. Whiskers. Much relevant
at this point, but we should make them as well. Finally, we have the other one. It intersects with. Thank you. That's
how it's called. On top of that, we
have the eyebrows, my five graphs, but in
this case, finally, curl, right? That almost, I almost forgot this part here. What is important? Start simple. Make the measurements compare where these elements are placed
compared to one another. Then finally, I almost
forgot to make the tail, whereas that tail
chair measurement down their tail is phototherapy. Make that line. Compared to the other. Like you have to make
a system for you. This is the one that I'm using. Compare and many other
people also working is to compare one thing to another
and then Third Reich. But be careful
because if there are mistakes that you haven't
noticed and you then you are comparing
to the other stuff. The mistakes can multiply. We can go details. Fingers. Also. See how
I hold the pencil. Think about how you
should hold your pencil. Like that. This is basically it. Now. I can use my kneaded eraser just
a little bit to make the lines less visible to
lower the opacity line. So I can use software
pencil lines that they're like
drinks are disjoint. Debt used to be. So basically, here's
our finished drawing. I just use a pencil to
make more defined lines. I'm going to process,
I lost a tip of the pencil because
they're pressed too hard, but that was also fine. I hope you learned something
from this exercise and hope to see who works also in the project gallery
of this class. Then we can discuss about the work and
improve from there. Recap. See how the big piece of
paper that you're drawing is tried to put the entire subject that you draw on debt pieces, a paper, make
measurements before that. See how big pieces
that your drawings, that you're drawing are. Compared them while
you're drawing. Think about positive
and negative shapes. Use simple shapes, simplified, draw through these shapes, use the eraser if needed, but you may use Midrash or
any kind of irregular eraser. But also be mindful and think about what
you're trying to achieve. That's basically
it for this video. And see you in the last one. I hope you enjoyed this
class and hopefully trying.
12. Class overview: Congratulations on
finishing the class and I really hope to find it. It was a pleasure coming up for this class and
bringing those exercises and I hope you will use
it in your work and stuff that we discussed
in the class will benefit further drawing skills. Remember if feel that
this class will help, was helpful to you, please remember
to leave a review this class because it will
really benefit me and see what are the good
sides and bad sides of this class where I
can improve on that and make even better
classes in the future. Also, if you feel like
you want more material, you can also check out my
profile page on here on Skillshare and see
some other classes that I have in
addition to this one, because they can tackle
more advanced topics that I discussed in the previous
videos such as portraits, simple shapes, human
figure or shading. Also have some classes about tips and
tricks about drying, human anatomy and
stuff like that. So see you in the project
section with your work and continue to have a
great day and have fun.
Milan Glozić, Painter, illustrator, Designer
