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Dynamic Sketching With Graphite: An Introduction To Dynamic Graphite Techniques

teacher avatar Imran Mughal, Graphic Designer & Illustrator

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      3:27

    • 2.

      Class Supplies

      10:39

    • 3.

      Surfaces

      6:39

    • 4.

      Technique 1: Covering Large Areas

      9:36

    • 5.

      Using a Sponge

      9:41

    • 6.

      Technique 2: Creating Light Marks

      10:14

    • 7.

      Controlled Marks

      8:57

    • 8.

      Base Sketch

      10:38

    • 9.

      Technique 3: Clean Edges

      8:17

    • 10.

      Shaping Edges

      5:28

    • 11.

      Technique 4: Soft Details

      10:11

    • 12.

      Technique 5: Clean Lines

      4:55

    • 13.

      Technique 6: Building Details

      9:26

    • 14.

      Blending & Refining

      8:14

    • 15.

      Technique 7: Building Texture

      6:12

    • 16.

      Adding White Dots

      8:42

    • 17.

      Technique 8: Smoke Effect

      10:35

    • 18.

      Shadows & Details

      10:55

    • 19.

      Final Refinements

      9:04

    • 20.

      The Washi Tape!

      5:34

    • 21.

      Artwork & Class Project

      9:12

    • 22.

      Final Thoughts

      4:02

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Love to sketch, doodle, draw and illustrate using graphite pencils? Want to learn some new techniques using graphite to take your artwork to the next level? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then you’ve come to the right place!

My name is Imran and I’m a graphic designer & illustrator and I am totally obsessed with sketching using traditional art mediums and graphite pencils are one of my favourite tools to produce detailed artwork in both real-life reference and imaginary world sketching.

In this class I will demonstrate a number of unique techniques of applying graphite to your drawings, sketches or doodles. We will work at a steady pace demonstrating each of the following techniques to produce a small sketch:

Technique 1: Covering large areas quickly and efficiently

Technique 2: Creating light marks with various tools

Technique 3: Perfecting clean edges for a polished look

Technique 4: Softening details to add a gentle touch

Technique 5: Crafting clean lines that define your art

Technique 6: Building intricate details step by step

Technique 7: Adding captivating textures for depth

Technique 8: Unleashing special effects to make your art pop

After completing the lessons and the small sketch, you will be ready for your class project where you will be able to use the dynamic techniques to produce a wonderful graphite illustration.

And remember, when you’ve completed the lessons and uploaded your lovely class project on the project gallery don’t forget to leave a review on the class so other amazing students like yourself can learn from your experience and enjoy the world of dynamic graphite!

So what you waiting for? Grab yourself a nice warm drink & treat, get your graphite and supplies ready, and lets get started with the class.

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Imran Mughal

Graphic Designer & Illustrator

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I'm Imran - graphic designer & illustrator based in the UK. I have over 10 years experience in the field of graphic design and illustration in both traditional and digital output and absolutely love all things to do with art!

In addition to my full-time graphic designer role, I am also the art wellbeing lead for my organisation where I deliver wellbeing classes and advocate mindful colouring to relax and de-stress - check out my published colouring books for adults.

In addition to my design & illustration life, I am an active father of 3, oh and I'm naturally addicted to coffee! My illustration classes are all about getting back to basics mainly with traditional mediums and escaping away to relax with art!

I love to sketch, draw and illustrate on a daily basis so fo... See full profile

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1. Introduction: Hello and welcome to my class, dynamic Sketching With Graphite. My name is Imran. I'm a graphic designer and illustrator, and I'm absolutely obsessed with all Traditional Art mediums and especially graphite. This class is for anybody who wants to learn how to use graphite in a dynamic way. So you don't need any previous experience of using graphite. I'm going to be sharing with you the techniques that I use With Graphite to produce detailed artwork and illustrations in my very own whimsical style of drawing. We will go through all of the techniques step-by-step and produce a beautiful little mini sketch so that you can understand how to apply these techniques to your daily drawings and illustrations. We will quickly start off the class by going into the materials and tools and surfaces that you need. To start at this wonderful dynamic adventure. We will jump straight into the techniques that I'm going to be demonstrating to you in this class. And we will start off in small steps and then eventually just built a beautiful little illustration where I can explore and show you how to implement each one of the techniques that we're going to be going through. We will look at how to cover large areas using our graphite in the quickest and most efficient way. We will look at how we can create Light Marks and control these marks to produce beautiful shapes and contours. We will look at how to create beautiful, clean, sharp edges that we can use to shape our lovely aspects and elements of our illustration. We will look at how to soften up Details, clean up the lines, and then start building up beautiful details with blending and Refinements and adding texture to our wonderful drawing. And then we're gonna be moving on to looking out some beautiful special effects, where we will be creating some wonderful light, airy textures and using our fantastic tools to aid us in doing this. Once we've completed all the techniques in the class and you produce this wonderful, beautiful little simple sketch, then you're going to be ready to go ahead and implement that knowledge that you've learned in the lessons to produce your own wonderful class project. So what you waiting for, grab yourself a nice drink, get yourself a nice treat. Get those graphite pencils ready and sharpened up. And lets get started with the class 2. Class Supplies: Okay, welcome back. Let's now start the class off by going through some of the class Supplies that we're gonna be needing for the lessons of this class. So number one, we're going to have to have some sort of graphite to use because they class is yes, about graphite. So we're going to need some graphite pencils now you may have some standard graphite pencils. That's absolutely fine. You don't need to go out and buy yourself any specific ones. However, if you want to use the similar ones that am using throughout this class, then do check out the class resource sheet where I'll have all of the supplies listed, brands that I'm using so that if you want to follow along with the same supplies, you can do so. So generally speaking, just having a standard graphite pencil would be great. However, to really get the most out of this class, I would have to recommend that you have some sort of a range of graphite pencils that have a nice dark tone and a medium tone and also a light tone. Now, if you've watched my previous class, graphite for beginners in that class, I go through all the numbers and the wonderful features of standard graphite pencils. I'm not going to repeat that in this class. So if you want to check that class out before we go ahead and do this, then do check that class out. And that will give you a more informed kind of understanding for this class so that we can start off in this more dynamic class that we're doing personally, I use these softer grades of Graphite purely so that you can maneuver them around on your surface. And they just work fantastic for these dynamic effects that we're gonna go ahead and do. But if you have some huge numbers, if you just have a standard HB pencil or even a to H, Then grab yourself your pencils, get them sharpened and ready for the class. However, I do recommend that you have some be numbers. So again, to b4b 6.8 B would be absolutely ideal if you only have, say, maybe two or six Bs and just grab hold of them or any variation that you have. Now secondly, I'm also going to be using mechanical pencils and these are great to add some detail work to your beautiful Graphite sketches. And these I have in the following, a Tooby and eight for OB lead so you can interchange your legs. And again, I went through a lot of this in the previous class, beginners for graphite and do check that out if you want to catch up on the ins and outs of particular pencils. In addition to my standard pencils and my mechanical pencil, I will also be using a graphite stick. And in this case, I'm going to be using a nine be graphite sticks. So nine is the darkest grade of graphite that you can get. You can actually get higher than a nine BC. We can get a ten beat and in some cases even an 11 B. But personally, I keep it to nine because nine be usually is the purest form of dark graphite and it's the one that I've used. So that was the first supply, some pencils in whichever form you prefer or you have Hand. And the second supply is some erasers. Now, I've got a couple of different variations here of a razors. The first one is just a bog standard eraser, just a normal plastic eraser that you can get from any sharp. So if you have one of these, these are great to use as a general supplies. They just get it ready and all cleaned up. Number two, I've got a potty arrays, they're now a potty eraser is a wonderful tool for graphite because you can just mold it into any shape that you like and really craft out those details that you want to bring out from your graphite drawing. So if you have a potty eraser, get it ready, cleaned up and molded into a nice shape. Number three, I've got these lovely pen erasers. I've got the thin one, which is the mono zero eraser, and I've got the thicker one now these are absolutely fantastic for more precision, detailed work or erasing. And again, I'm not going to really be using these erasers for erasing per say. I'm gonna be using them to bring out some beautiful Details. So if you've got them, get them ready. Number four, I've got a unique little eraser tool here. This is an eraser pencil. So it's basically an eraser inside a standard wood casing. And this can be really good to use. But however, I don't tend to use this that often. But if you do have one of these, then definitely grab hold of it and keep it ready for the class. And finally, my favourite type of eraser, and this one is the electric eraser. Absolutely love this tool because with this tool you can get beautiful precise lines and Details out of your graphite. If you have one of these, get the batteries put in, or if it's rechargeable, charge it all up And get it ready for this class. So that was the second main tool that we're going to use for the class number three. Let's now move on. So the fantastic world of blending. So on the screen I've got a couple of examples of some blenders starting off with my favourite, and that is the paper blending stump. Now these come in various shapes and sizes. If you have them, grab hold of them, get practicing with them. You can see on the screen That's so good to create beautiful blends with of your graphite. Great to extend the graphite on the page. Absolute wonderful tool. Number two, I've just got a standard cotton wool, a board, or you might refer to these as Q-tips. Again, these are wonderful to do, more precise blending. Number three, I've got the good old cotton wool. So this is just any cotton moles that you've got. You may have cotton wool balls, cotton wool pads, the really cheap to get older from just normal shops. They usually have them in the general stores. Grab yourself some cotton wool if you haven't already got it. Great tool to use, and I will be using this throughout the class. And number four, the special tool, and this one is a makeup sponge. Now you might be thinking why am why to using makeup sponges for, but I tell you what, this is a fantastic little tool for blending. I use this so much for the backgrounds that I produce in my graphite drawings with detailed work, it's great to really spread and bring out that beautiful darkness of Graphite without that horrible little sheen that comes on top of graphite when you use it with a pencil. So we will come to demonstrate this when we're doing our illustrations. Finally, we have just a standard makeup brush. Yes, it's a makeup brush because these are really nice and soft and they can be used to maneuver your graphite on your surface or on your page. And they can also be used as a wonderful blending tools. So if you have these, get them ready, put them to their side. If you only have maybe a couple of these and again, don't worry about it. You don't need to go out and buy yourself every single one of these blenders or erases that's I have. Just grab hold of the items and get them ready for the class. Okay, Now the fourth item is the interesting one, and this is a sandpaper strip and a lovely little stick of graphite. So I've got my name be graphite here, and I've also got a container. So make sure you have a container if you're going to follow along in the class so that you can collect all your beautiful graphite powder. And yes, that's what we're gonna do with the sandpaper. We're just going to grind down our lovely graphite, stick onto our sandpaper and get that wonderful graphite powder and collect it all up in a nice little containers so that we can use it for our special effects that we're going to come onto later on. So again, grab hold of these atoms if you've got them now if you want to get these particular items that have got, then again, check out that resource sheet where I list all of the items that are used so that it's just easy for you to focus on a complete supplies list. So this is a fantastic little tool. And then what we want to do is we want to apply our graphite powder onto our paper or surface. And for that, I tend to usually use my blending tool. So I use my cotton wool, my makeup sponge, or even my paper stumps. So you can see I'm just picking it up and then just applying it to the paper and spreading its own fantastic stuff. But we will delve into that a bit more when we come to doing it in the lesson. And finally, just a couple more items. We have another makeup brush. Yes. This is not a makeup class. No, it's in both. These brushes is just fantastic With Graphite. So I've got a nice big makeup brush. These are not expensive. I've got these from the pound store, our local home bargain stores, so they're easily available. So we've got this nice big one with a big head on it. And I use this just to dust off the Graphite the excess of my eraser just to make sure that I don't go ahead and smudge anything on the paper. So that's what its main purpose is for just the clean up the paper after we've applied our graphite. And I've also got a nice little round Washi tape. And you might be thinking, why do I need Washi tape? You're not doing any watercolor, but I tell you what. Washi tape is fantastic for creating clean lines and edges and really creating a nice, lovely border for your work. And I'm going to be using that throughout the class. So if you've got these two tools, get them ready and put them to the side. That's it for the supplies. So it's really nice and simple. In addition to this, you would obviously need a sharpener to sharpen your pencils. And maybe some scissors are some extra sheets of card that we may use later on, but they're not necessary. Definitely have a sharpener because you're going to be sharpening your pencils. And if you using mechanical pencils have some spare lead's available just in case they break. But apart from that, generally, this is all we need in terms of the actual tools. And then the most important aspects of using graphite is the graphite paper, the surface that we're going to use a hook graphites on. So let's move on to that one next. 3. Surfaces: Okey-dokey, Let's now talk quickly about the different surfaces that we can use graphite on. Now, I tend to like to change around the surface that I use for my graphite work or generally my other types of medium work that I use, ink, pen colored pencils, it may be watercolor. I always like to mix and match because I have a bit of an obsession with Art Materials as you already know. So currently, I'm in the mood of using these four papers and these work absolutely fantastic With Graphite. So the first one I've got is this lovely multimedia paper that is great to use graphite tone. You can get a really nice smooth finish and it's fairly cheap to buy. So it's not a really expensive Art paper. It's multimedia. You can use many different mediums on it. And again, it works great for graphite. So I might actually go ahead and use this in some of the exercises within the lessons of this class. The second one is a pad, just a normal sketch bad By fabric Estelle and it's good for graphite work, colored pencil work. It's quite thin in terms of the thickness of the paper. But I really like how the surface works with how the Graphite attaches, adheres to the two-thirds of the paper. I think this is a fantastic paper. And again, it's not too expensive in terms of price compared to more expensive premium papers. So it's a nice paper to use. Again, I usually get it from the bargain Art stores. And if you've got bargain Art stores where you live wherever you're from within the world than grab hold of this pad. It's fantastic to use, but do remember it is quite thin, so it's not as thick as the multimedia paper that we showed before. So number three, this again, is a nice heavyweight cartridge paper, and I've used this particular paper throughout my classes that you may have watched with colored pencils, even with markers and ink. I love this paper. It's a local arts store paper. And if you live in the UK, then you'll know what store this is. And it's just fantastic. Whichever paper you find that you prefer or like, just use that paper, test out your graphite on it before you go ahead and do the class just to make sure that it's suitable. And finally, I also use watercolor paper. Now, generally speaking, water color paper just comes in hot pressed and in cold press. I would say that I would use hot press paper for more detailed work. Cold press paper like the one on the screen for more abstract work in graphite. So I'm just demonstrating the cold press here because it has a thicker texture and the graphite will have a lot of gap on it. But when you come to actually blending, it works absolutely great. However, I wouldn't use cold press watercolor paper for highly detailed work. So you can see all four papers that have quickly demonstrated or on the screen and how they will blend with the blending tools that we use are gonna be slightly different for this one over here we've got the mixed media paper. So if we go ahead and start adding a little bit of a blending, blending with our blenders will be able to see how it reacts. So if we just add in a little bit of movement with some cotton wool, you can see that it spreads really nicely, nice and light. I'm just using that circle emotion over the swatch of graphite and then over the little Chrissy cross. I'm just going ahead and doing that same circular motion works really nice and well, the results are very good. Moving on to the next sheets of paper that we did. The next sheet is the heavyweight cartridge paper from the local arts store. This one, again works fantastic. One of my favorite papers to use With Graphite, it tends to blend very quickly and easily, especially when you're using cotton wool on both lists swatch, and also on the crisscross lines. So again, a nice heavyweight cartridge paper with a decent amount of tooth will work fantastic. And then I'm using the fabric Estelle sketch paper. So this was the thin paper. And you can see going on with the cotton ball, it works great. The cotton wool really spreads out that beautiful Graphite fantastically on this surface. But again, it's a thin paper. So when you are spreading the graphite, you can tend to sometimes cripple it a little bit, but that's entirely up to you which ones you use. And finally, I'm doing the watercolor won the Cold Press where we had a nice thick Texture. And you can see when I'm going over it with the cotton wool, it's producing a gorgeous little spread of Graphite blending it out. But you can see that you have a lot of this peppered paper undertone underneath the spreads. So if we have a look at all four, you can see that you get various different results according to the surface that you use. So if we're gonna go in with a mechanical pencil to produce some detailed work, you can see a little scribble on each four of them. You can't really tell that there's much of a difference. They'll probably be more different on the watercolor paper that has the thicker surface and the more texture on it. But if you go in with a blending stump, a paper blending stump and try blending, you'll be able to see that there is quite a difference depending on the tools that you use for blending. And this, again, is all going to be on your personal taste. So which ever version you like or whichever effects you like a graphite just go for that type of surface. I would recommend that you use as many surfaces as you can test them out. Just like I have overhear, do a little swatch, a little criss-cross, and then do a bit of a blending, blending with one of your blenders and see which results you prefer because what you don't want to be doing is using a surface. And then later on spending a lot of time Creating Details and then not liking the results. So do test this out, try out the papers that you have that are available to you if you want to delve into different papers and different brands and go ahead and do that. Remember again, all of the Supplies and the papers that I'm using in this class will be available as a list in the supplies list resource sheets. Do check that out. And that's about it for the complete supplies for the class. So we've gone through everything now. We can now get ready for the exciting stuff. Get yourself, you're drink ready, get your supplies to one side. And now let's get started with the dynamic graphite 4. Technique 1: Covering Large Areas: Okay, welcome back. Let's now start off the class by going through technique number one. Now, this technique is a simple, It's all technique, but is very effective in producing wonderful dark backgrounds. And I quite often use this technique pretty much 80 to 90% of all my graphite drawings and illustrations. So let's dive straight into it and go through the tools and supplies that we're going to need for this particular technique. Okay, So on the screen here, I've got a nice little setup of some tools that we're going to need for this technique. From the left-hand side over here, I've got my lovely little spongy Sponge. So my makeup sponge here in a little box. And you can see, I've got this beautiful, wonderful graphite powder. Now this is nine be graphite powder that app, sanded down using my sandpaper and nine be graphite stick. So it's always best to have an accumulation of this powder, this graphite powder prepared in advance. And again, in the previous lesson, you saw me doing a little bit of a sandy paid promotion using the graphite stick to collect all this beautiful graphite, gold graphite dust. And basically what it is is just a collection of it so it's ready to use. And moving on. This lovely little setup here, I've got these beautiful cotton balls, hair, hair. So these are just clean cotton balls that I've got that we're gonna be using for our blending. And then I've got the lovely wishy washy tape, nice little row of Washi tape ready to create some gorgeous Edges. And then I've also got that brilliant makeup brush. So all the tools are set up. Let's just move these to the side now and get out our lovely surface. Okay, So the first stage now is just get our lovely surface prepared. And I'm using the beautiful mixed media, both the I went through in the previous lesson. So I'm using the paints, mixed media, multi techniques sketch book by clef on ten great little value sketch books, I'm going to pretty much be using this throughout the class. So let's just open up to a clean page now. We've got a nice clean page, the page over here, folded back. Fantastic stuff. So what we're gonna do now is we're going to first of all, create our little shapes that we can use to produce beautiful natural tones of lovely dark graphite. And in order to aid us in doing that and creating straight lines, we're gonna be using our wishy washy tape. So open up your Washi tape and lets get started. So I'm going to basically do is I'm just going to get this Washi tape opened up and it's a nice new row vectors and say patella using new roles for you. Lovely, lovely students. So I'm going to open up my Washi Tape. All I'm gonna do is I'm just going to add in a strip on the left-hand side over here. And again, if you don't have Washi tape, don't worry about this. Just go ahead and draw the shapes that I'm going to be creating with this Tape. All of these sheets and resources are gonna be available in that resource sheets and do check it out if you want it as a template just to follow along in the lessons. So I'm gonna do now is we're just gonna go ahead and create some rectangular outline shapes with this Washi tape so quickly, let's go through that now. Okey-dokey, you can see what I've done now. I've got some lovely little rectangular shapes that I've created with my Washi tape. So three beautiful rectangular shapes that we've got that we can start filling in with our beautiful graphite powder. Now again, if you don't have the Washi tape, just go ahead and draw yourself three similar shaped rectangles. They don't have to be exactly the same. It's just for illustration purposes, just make sure that you have a nice little gap in-between each of them. And that's what the Washi tape is gonna be serving. It's basically just gonna be serving a gap purpose just to produce a nice little space so that the examples don't muddle up inside each other. So Let's start off by using the first tool. And I think I'm gonna go ahead and maybe use the lovely cotton wool. So just getting my beautiful clean cotton wool ready. And it's always a good idea to use a clean cotton roll. Sometimes you might be tempted to just use the same old cotton world that you've used before. Well, what that does is it just adds a little bits of dust here and there, and you might not get a clean finish. So get yourself a nice clean ball of cotton. If you're not got cotton balls, then just go ahead and use cotton Sponge pads or whatever you have that is cotton. So what we're gonna do is we're going to grab hold of our beautiful graphite powder. So I've got my graphite powder here in my beautiful little container, and I've got enough of it for this class. So with my cotton wool, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to go in like this. See if you can see this on the screen. I'm just gonna go in, just dab it down. And you can see just dabbing, get it down, picks up that beautiful graphite powder. It just attaches itself to that lovely, lovely cotton wool balls. So just like that, I've got my cotton wool with the Graphite. I'm just going to move that out of the way. And then this first rectangle here, I'm just going to drop that graphite onto that rectangle area lightly just dabbing it on. So just like this Dabbing it on fantastic stuff. And you can see, I've just got this beautiful coverage of this graphite dust. Now what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna go ahead and I'm just going to nice smooth motions go up and down so that that graphite powder melts away and gets into the grooves of that lovely paper to just like that. This is basically just the first layer. And then I'm going to use this circular motion that I'm doing here just to get that graphite powder in every one of those little spaces so that we have a nice filled in shape just like this. Nice and slowly. Don't rush. Take your time doing this. Obviously, I'm doing this on a class, so I'm going to probably work a lot faster. But in the ideal world, what you want to do is you want to really take your time when you're doing these exercises so that you don't get graphite all over the place. Remember, graphite powder and a slight bit of movement will make it dance all over your surface. So just make sure that you have a nice relaxing motion that you do when you're applying this beautiful mediums. So just like that, you can see most of that graphite dust has now melted away into that surface and it's looking great. So just like that, what I've done is I've just filled in that space with beautiful graphite. Now you can see, I don't know if this is clear on the camera, but that to me isn't as dark and intense as I would like it to be. So what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna go ahead and adding some more graphite. And that's what we're gonna do. We're just going to go and adding some more graphite with our lovely cotton wool, wool over here, just picking it up. You can see it's picking up more and more as a debit on. That's the advantage of using cotton ball. It works as a great lifting tool of the medium that you can transport onto your surface. Just so just like this, I'm going to go in now and I'm going to press in a little bit more firm onto the surface so that we get this Graphite really, really blending in. And what I don't want to do is really hit it hard onto the surface because what that'll do is it'll just make it bounce off. We want to do is we want to get that same, nice and slowly and not lift the cotton wool too much from the surface. It just like that. I'm just going into the circular motions and you can see it started darkening the overall look of that beautiful rectangle filled in with wonderful graphite. Look at that, look how beautiful and dark that is. Now, again, I'm using a nine be graphite stick to produce this graphite powder. And this is generally the dark is graphite that you can get within pure graphite pencils, you can get ten dB and you can even get 11.12. And in some cases I have seen 14 be, but I'm not sure if that's actually pure graphite. It could most likely be mixed in, and most probably is mixed in with other elements and materials. So I like to just keep it to nine. But generally speaking, 90 is the dark is graphite that you can get. So just like this, you can see, I've created this wonderful little filled area, this rectangle with beautiful graphite. And look how easy that was to do the cotton ball. The ball is now completely covered so we can move that aside. Probably best to just put it back into the box. That's what I've done. I've just put it back into the box where I've got my lovely spongy Sponge. So let's just have a look and see what we can see on the screen. So you can see we've got this lovely, lovely graphite. Okay, so what we want to do now is let's move on to the next one. 5. Using a Sponge: This what we're gonna do is we're gonna go ahead and we're going to use our lovely spongy Sponge. If you remember, we're using a makeup sponge, eight wonderful makeup sponge to effectively do exactly the same that we did with the cotton wool. So let's just go in and use our makeup sponge and start picking up some of this graphite from the middle, just like this. And you can see we've got a lot of that graphite on there. And then I'm just gonna go ahead and let that Graphite drop. They can see with the makeup sponge, you've got a lot more graphite. And then all I'm gonna do is with that sponges in slow motions go down and look at that. Fantastic, doesn't it look how beautiful that filling up that area. Now, I prefer using makeup sponges to cotton wool to apply for these kinds of big areas of coverage of graphite. And that's purely because you just get this quick, smooth surface that's just done so much quicker and more easily than you did with the cotton roll. There's effectively less movement and more coverage. So just like that, I'm going up and down. I'm not even using circular motions. All I'm doing is just going up and down, left and right just to get it into the corners over there. And you can see the intensity that graphite is already as dark as the one that we applied with cotton ball. And that's because there's more graphite on the sponge. And a Sponge releases that Graphite a lot more than the cotton borders, so it needs minimum movements. So just like this, how easy and beautiful is that? And you can notice that I don't know if you can see this on the screen. There's not much shines and this one, because the cotton wool has gaps in between it. And what happens is when you do lay that Graphite down, it can overlap. It's the overlap that causes the reflection of light for the graphite to really create that horrible Graphite Xin. However, you still going to have minimum Graphite. She, even with a lovely spongy Sponge like this. But if you compare it to just normal Pencil, if you try filling this area with just a normal pencil and pencil marks, it's completely different and we will recap that later on when we demonstrate this in our illustration. So if we just have a look here, you can see there's just a bit more of the dust. Now, I don't even need to add more graphite to this area because it's enough and it's not gonna get darker than this. This is at its maximum. So just like that, I'm just going to use these side movements just to make sure that there's no more graphite dust left on that rectangular area. And remember, you don't want to be pressing down too hard with this, because the surface that you're using will depend on how the application of this graphite will turn out to be. Because if you have a thin paper than it could wear it out. So do use a paper that thick enough to be able to do this technique. Just like that. I'm just gonna go up and down and I'm just using medium pressure to apply this. What you like I said before, you don't want to press down too hard in the Graphite, effectively just comes out of the sponge and just flops all over the surface. So just medium pressure not to Light mediums. So it does get into the grooves of the teeth of that surface. And just like that, it looks FUN. Plastics. So I think that's enough for the spongy Sponge. Let's just move that out. So the way and look at that, we've got graphite fingers. So just remember this is a very messy mediums. So if you're gonna go ahead and do this, I would recommend that you maybe just go ahead and wash your hands or if you have some wet wipes or if you have like a moist sponge or something like that to clean your fingers and grab hold of that. I usually keep a wet wipe with me over here so I won't clean my hands on top of the Graphite, otherwise it's going to spill all over the place. You can see it's already spilled over the head. So I'm just going to give my fingers a clean it clean, and then we can move on to the last one. Okay, Let's now move on to the last one. And for this last one, what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna go ahead and I'm going to use my cotton ball to pick up the graphite and just apply it onto the area. So just like this, pick up the cotton wool, just adding on that graphite powder. Using the cotton roll, we're not going to use the cottonwoods are blended or apply it, we're just going to use it to add it on. So just like that, move that out of the way, that's enough for now. And what we're gonna do is we're gonna go ahead and get our final tool to do this compare and contrast exercise. And that is, yes, it's another makeup item. You get States, it's the makeup brush. So without makeup brush, what I'm gonna do is I'm just going to start slowly maneuvering that graphite powder and just going to push it down. And you can see with the makeup brush, It's not as effective, effectively doing is it's just moving the graphite powder I personally don't think it's that great of a tool to use, but I want it to demonstrate this to you so that you just have an idea of how you can use various tools to do a bigger coverage of an area on your illustration or drawing. And again, it's just a case of maneuvering that Graphite around the area that you want it to. But you can see you get a lot of this excess Graphite going on the edges. It's not really ideal. So again, I'm just going to maneuver it and I'm just going to keep moving it around like this. Again, the makeup brush is a very good option to use if you just want to have some light, fluffy areas of graphite, just use minimum amounts. Again, I've added quite a lot of graphite onto this, so that can demonstrate to you that this is how the result will be and this is the process of actually maneuvering it. So it's not as effective, but it's good to have a light areas created With Graphite. So if we just maneuver this now, we've got a bit of coverage. It's touched all of those areas. I'm just using mediums, very medium to light pressure. If I press too hard like this, what's gonna happen? It's just going to spread it out. So if we just go ahead and just maneuver this along, it's effectively like sweeping away a dirty floor, isn't it? So Let's just clean the surface of this floor that we've got. Let's just move all that graphite dust, the dust to the top over here. And then what we can do is just moving the excess, press onto the excess to pick it up and then just add it back into your tray. Give it a little Debbie dab like list, and you can see the graphite is falling off the brush. So it's a good way to pick up some graphite that you don't want. So just like that, press down and then tap it away. I'll see your box so that you don't waste state and what they'll want to do any wasted, wasted, we don't, so let's just do that and then we've got this little bit here, just maneuver it around and I think that's fine. So you can see that the actual rectangle itself is nicely covered. It's not as intense, as dark as the previous two. We will have a look at that once we remove one lovely Washi tape, I'm gonna leave that as it tastes then to move my brush away. And what I'm gonna do now is I'm just gonna go ahead and I'm going to use my mock brush. So this is the bigger makeup brush. I'm just going to dust away that graphite. And again, as I said in the previous lesson, we have a nice big brush like this just to move away the excess graphite that we get when we using graphite powder or if we'd using a razors just to clean up our surface. So I'm just gonna go ahead and move that off. Just like that. Look at that beautiful a, just in one little swoop. It's all gone. So let's leave that to the side. And what we can do is now the font path actually removing our little tape, the tape. So I'm gonna go ahead and move the tape it saves. And then we can have a look and see and compare and contrast the results that we've got. Okey-dokey, welcome back. So you can see we have three different results. The first result is the cotton ball, and you can see we have a beautiful, soft, lovely application of graphite that looks absolutely fantastic. Secondly, again, we used the beautiful Sponge to create a very similar look, but it was just a lot easier in the application using cotton wool and using a makeup sponge is absolutely fantastic for this technique. And then finally, we just used a makeup brush which gave us like the results. However, it's still filled in the areas. So if you after a lighter background, maybe then go ahead and use the soft brush that you have. If you want a nice, pure, lovely, velvety dark area of Graphite covered with minimum Graphite sheen on it or shine or reflection. Then go ahead and use the cotton wool or use the makeup sponge. So I'm going to leave that up to you. If you have all of the tools, the wall, a cotton ball, the makeup sponge, and the makeup brush and do test this out. It's so much fonts actually go ahead and create these little shapes and really lovely enjoyment of this process. It's fantastic. So that was a technique. Number one. Let's now move on to the next technique. 6. Technique 2: Creating Light Marks: Welcome back. Let's now move on to technique number two, and we're gonna be focusing on using our eraser. So if you have a look at the screen, I've got my beautiful erasers laid out in a gorgeous fashion. So on the left here I've got my standard normal eraser, then I've got a potty eraser, then I've got my pen erasers, the thin one and the thicker one. Then I've got the pencil eraser and then I've got my lovely electric razors. So before we go ahead and use these tools, what we need to do is produce a beautiful couple of swatches of the dark graphite like we did in the lesson before. So I'm going to grab hold of a nice sheets of paper. And again, I'm using the same paper that I used in the previous lesson. So let's just move. I will lovely arises out of the way. And that's just place our sheet on the screen and make sure that it's looking great. So again, this time I've just taken out of sheets of paper from the pad because the pad tends to wobble about. So we have a bit more of a stable surface. And what I'm going to do is I'm gonna go ahead and create some little shapes and use my cotton ball or I might just use my sponge that I used before to produce some dark areas that we can use the erasers on. And that's what the focus of this next technique is gonna be. So let's go ahead and create our dark areas quickly now. Okey-dokey, welcome back. Now we've got some beautiful little shapes here on the page can see that we did exactly the same process. Use the cotton ball and then finish off with a bit of the makeup sponge to have this gorgeous soft, smooth black strip of graphite. So what I've done here is I've just gone ahead and I've just taped down all four corners of the page, and that will avoid it from moving away when we're using the eraser. So that's just a good tip to do. Just go ahead and taped down your sheets of paper onto the surface that you're using, whether you've got an easel and you have a hard backing, just tape it down to your easel holder. Or if you have just a normal table like ABC got, then just tape it down. It just makes it so much more easier to manage. So let's now go ahead and start using our eraser. So first one I'm gonna go ahead and use is my standard eraser. Now again, as I mentioned in the previous lessons, that the standard eraser is the most common eraser that you can get and use, and it can be very effective. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to hold the eraser and I'm going to make sure that the tip of it is nice and clean like I've got over here. Because what you don't want is you don't want a dirty tip for this actual exercise because what will happen is you'll start working your way in to start doing some erasing work. And what effect will happen is that the more you erase, the more that tips, just going to keep getting more and more graphite all over it. It's important to have a, another sheet of paper to hand. So I usually just have a normal sheet of printer paper. What this does is this will serve as a nice clean up sheets. So if your eraser gets dirty, you can just clean it up on the extra sheets of paper. And then every time you go ahead and use this, you have a nice clean tip. So go ahead and get your rough piece of paper out. I just got this little printer paper that I've using is going to fold it up so it's a bit more manageable. And another tip is that what you can do is you can use your piece of paper to just cover up the area that you're gonna be placing your hand on. Because what tends to happen is when you're using graphite, It's because of the nature of graphite. It's very dusty. It moves around and smudges really easily. So to avoid leaning on your graphite like this, just have a sheet of clean paper and just place it over the area where your hand is going to cover or where you're going to rest your hand, maybe the side of your hand, and that way you will minimize the smudges that you have. So let's start off by using this first little rectangle strip that we have. And we'll start on this left-hand side and work systematically across. I'm just going to place my paper on that side so I don't go ahead and do as smudgy, smudgy. And I'm going to use the tip of my eraser, my normal eraser. And I'm just gonna go ahead. I'm going to do these little round motions here now, you've got to remember when you're doing erasing. Do be very gentle with erasing. Don't go into hard initially, because what you'll do is you will damage the paper and you might even damage your eraser while you're doing this. So you can probably see on the screen that it's not really doing much, but it's actually picking up quite a lot of that graphite already. So I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead. I'm just going to clean that Graphite off onto the paper that I have. Make sure I don't put my hand onto that murky parts. I'll just move that a little bit higher, just going to clean that. And again, I'm going to go in and I'm just going to use these circular motions To start revealing some lighter areas. Now you can see that it looks rather smudgy over there. So again, with the eraser, the standard eraser, what happens is that the more you clean it, the more it will start working its magic. And you can see now that we've removed quite a bit of that graphite and the first effective layer has started emerging of the lighter shades. So again, I'm just gonna go ahead and I'm going to clean my eraser over here to make sure that it's not covered in graphite. So that'll be using a clean set. So just like that, cleaning my eraser and that's a little bit better that, so That should work nicely. And again, just going in and lightening this area, look at that. That's gorgeous, that isn't it. Now the harder you press, the more light to it's gonna get. But as I said before, you don't want to go into hard. What tends to happen is that with these types of erasers or with any eraser really, it just creates that friction and starts damaging the tooth of your paper. And we don't want to have Haidt damaged surface to work on. So that's about it. Just a nice little round splurge, splurge shape on that graphite to demonstrate what we can do with an eraser. And again, we're going to come to doing some really nice dynamic sketches in the next part of the class, we're going to use this at our advantage to paint some beautiful work. Yes, I said paint, we're going to paint with graphite and erasers are not going to really paint is going to look like a painting. Well, it depends on where you stand on that. So anyway, let's just get back onto the actual exercise. You can see now I've got a little bit a dusty dust from the excess of the eraser. We can get rid of that by using our mop brush. I will nice, lovely mop brush to move it away. Avoid using your hand or blowing on it too much because you will interfere with the graphite. And I can see, even by using that mop brush there, it's still moved and added a bit of smudgy smudges there. So just be very careful with it. If you want to do a light blobby blow, then you can go ahead and do that. But I don't recommend it. I still say that you should use a nice clean brush to wipe off the excess. So that was the standard eraser. Now let's move on. The potty eraser for the posterior. Raise that. As we mentioned, this is a beautiful eraser to use it. So unique, you can mold it and shape it in any effective shape you want. And this becomes a huge advantage, especially when you want to stop bringing out details on your graphite work. So it's just a very, very flexible, lovely little tool to use in your arsenal in the world of graphite. So what I'm gonna do here is I'm just molding this Insert Shape, needing it. Obviously, that's why it's called a kneadable eraser, which is needing it into a nice little shape over here so that we have a bit of a points. You can see, I've got a bit of a point over there. It's not completely flat. So I'm gonna be using that point to create a similar kind of shape over here. So I'm just gonna go straight in over here. You can see what I'm doing is creating that little shape and look how easy it was to just bring out and lift that graphite. It's so much more easier than the standard eraser. With a standard eraser, what we have to do is clean the eraser again and again. And it took quite a few attempts to get to that stage, but with a kneadable eraser, It's just so quick and easy to do. So just like that in round circles, very little pressure, not pressure, pressing down too hard. We don't want to start making that Graphite disappear because that's what will eventually happen. And again, if you find that your kneadable eraser isn't moving anymore, graphite, just go ahead and start needing it and cleaning it. This is how you clean effectively a kneadable eraser, just like with the normal eraser, we just wiped it off with this. We're just cleaning it by just mixing it in. So that puts the material that's inside of this lovely little eraser. So let's just do that. So that's giving it a nice clean. So again, I'm going to create a nice little rounded point over here. Just mold it. It's like plasticine, isn't it? It's like one of these these toys like the kids play with my daughter plays with it all the time. It's that what I forgot, what it's called, is it called slime? Slime or something like that? It's just absolutely brilliant potty DO, DO, Play-Doh. That's why it's called Plato's. Let's just go in and carry on and create a lovely little highlight there. And you can see absolutely fantastic. Now that one is done, Let's now move on to the next one. 7. Controlled Marks: So now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and use my pen erasers now to create some more controlled shapes. Whereas before we had these kind of circular shapes that were just emerging as we will maneuvering our erases. The control aspect now is going to get a lot more sophisticated with these pens erasers. So let's start off with the thin one. This one is called the Mono Eraser. Again, this is exactly the same material that you have in a normal eraser. But all that they've done is they've just cut it down into a little strip and it's just gone into this pen holder contraption. And all you do is you just do a cookie click and it releases more of it until it completely finishes. And you can go ahead and replace it with these replaceable kind of tips that go inside. So I'm, what I'm gonna do is we're just gonna go up, put that in a bit more. So just pressing the back, letting that come in a little bit. That's about it. And again, with this one, these do get dirty on the edge, just like the normal eraser do. So good idea is to maybe just give it a little clean on just your spare sheets of paper. And that way you have a nice clean tip. So I'm gonna do here is I'm gonna go in and I'm just going to start creating some really nice lines. And you notice that immediately the moment it touches that Graphite, you've got this beautiful, beautiful white line that started to emerge. So just like that, now you can see, the more I use this, the more that tip is going to get more muddied up. So again, just going ahead and erasing that tip so that we have a nice clean point. And just like this, just backwards and forwards and then maybe doing a couple more lines over here, backwards and forwards. And you can see that there's just so much more control that we have now. You may have noticed that I'm twisting the pen after every kind of movements. So just like this, I'm gonna give it a little twist on what that does, is it just helps and aids. It's shaped from being formed from the tip so that it doesn't start wearing down too much on one side. So that's just another little handy tip. Keeps saying tip all the time. So just a handy trick that you just keep twisting your pen eraser so that you have an even where down of that a robot tip. So just like this again, I'm just going to add in a, another line over here and you can see that these lines look absolutely fantastic. Let's just do a little. Move away, clean up with our mop brush and look at that fantastic stuff. Who would have thought that you could create beautiful designs and gorgeous lines with erases. We thought they were just made to rub things out. So let's now move on to the thicker tips over the thicker tip over here. Same process again, same type of systems or it's just make it come out like that from the back. And if you want to put it back in, It's usually a case of just pressing it down. And it works great. So again, that tube is fairly clean. It can be a little bit dirty from side. So let's just go ahead and give that a little erase erase. So just twisting it around to make sure that we have a nice clean surface or just get rid of that excess over there. And then I'm gonna do the similar movements here, just up and down. And you can see, look at that beautiful, clean, gorgeous controlled line over there. Just like this, just up and down, keeping it really simple for this illustration, we're going to start getting a lot more creative when we do our sketch. So just like that, so quick and easy, move that away. That's just give the page a bit to the clean, a little bit of a clean, fantastic stuff. So we got four of our eraser is used. Let's now move on to the next one. And the next one is the lovely pencils. Okay, So for the Pencil, what I'm going to do is I'm just gonna go ahead and use the pencil just like I did with the pen erasers and just create these lines coming down. You can see that it does a very similar job, just moving it up and down. The actual tip of the rubber part on this Pencil, it does be quite flexible, so do bear that in mind. Don't press down too hard, otherwise you may just snap it off. But the advantage of this tool is that you can go ahead and sharpen it like a normal pencil, and it will just reveal more of that eraser tip so it can be used at your advantage, but it all depends on your personal preference. As I said before, I tend not to use this tool that often, however, it is a good one to have in your supplies. So just like that, we've created our four lines with the pencil. Give that a clean, a clean, nice, clean surface. There we go. We have a five of our erasers done. Now for the exciting one. And you know what I'm talking about, this one is the electric one. So with the electric one, I've got this old electric one that I've got the new ones these days that they've made at an angular shapes so they would be really effective. I might actually go ahead and get myself one of them for more angled workbook. Again, I've had this one for so many years now and it works great. This one's a battery worn battery operated one. The newer ones, you can have them as a rechargeable. So again with this, the tips come out so you can just pull that whole contraption out and you get these replaceable little rubber tips really cheap to buy I usually have quite a lot of them in my supplies. So all you do is just pull that down, clamp it back in and it ready to go and just press the button and look at that, pressing that button and it's ready to go. So with this one, Let's go ahead and just drawing some lines. You can see I'm drawing in some wines and look how easy that is to produce beautiful, beautiful lines. Now you notice that these look a little bit more wobbly compared to the other ones. And the reason for that is, is because it shakes around. So I am going to show you a nice neat trick to get really clean lines with this eraser. But we will move on to that when we go ahead and do the sketch. But just generally speaking, if the fastest way of getting a beautiful clean line of white to remove that graphite. And you can see it's just fantastic. So just like that, some lovely straight lines. And then maybe we can go in and do some squiggly wiggly lines like this. You can see, you can actually go ahead and draw with it. It's just so easy you're using minimal effort or you're doing is holding this like a normal pen or pencil that you would normally use. And you're just going ahead and creating these wonderful Lines. Now you can see this will get dirty as well from the tip. So the way to clean this is very similar like with the other ones. Just get a nice clean piece of paper and then just run it on that clean piece of paper. So you can see what will happen is that tip will get cleaned as you use it. The more you press it on Graphite, the more dirty it will get. And I'm just holding it at an angle here. You can see I'm just holding it up that angle. And what that sometimes it does is it shapes the tip of that eraser. So that's a, another fancy little thing to do. Can hold it at an angle on a clean sheet of paper. And what that will do is it will wear down the tip and it will create a nice sharp point. So there we go. Oh, and I've gone and got it all over my lovely artwork. So let's just do it. Clean it clean of this very lightly with the brush so it doesn't interfere with our beautiful marks that we've created fantastic stuff. So again, I'm just going to play around with this. You can see I'm holding this with both hands like this. If I hold the main contraption like this and then just hold my other hand like this to keep it steady. What we can do is we can create these beautiful little dots. Look at that absolutely fantastic, beautiful little white highlight Dots that you can use to draw, create Texture. As we will come to do in the sketch. Can't wait for that. And just like this fantastic stuff, look at that beautiful work with erases. So that's it for this second technique demonstration. I think what we need to do is get ourselves a nice warm drink because I do fancy a slicer cake as well. Yeah, I do, right. I'm going to get myself a nice warm drink and a slice of nice, sweety cake. And then let's do the exciting part and use our erasers from technique to produce a wonderful little mini sketch. So I'll see you on that one. 8. Base Sketch: Okay, welcome back. Let's now start the exciting stuff and move on to the next couple of techniques. So if you have a look at the screen here, what I've got is I've got my lovely sheets of paper taped down on all four sides with my Washi tape right to the edge of the paper to hold it in place. And we're going to work in the beautiful white area of the paper using the same paper that we've been using in the previous lessons. And what I've got here is I've just got my standard to be pencils. So the first step of this technique is actually lay down a sketch. So we're not going to delve into the technique yet. We're just going to do a quick little sketch, outline so that we can build on the techniques that we've already gone through and continue within newer technique. So let's go ahead and do that. So I'll just grab yourself a Pencil. It can be any Pencil if you ever to be great. If you have any other pencil, HB or whatever for B, then just grab hold of that Pencil and lets stop this quick little sketch. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to start off by just doing a light line that goes across the bottom here like this. This is just to establish a little bit of a focal point, a bit of a map where the horizon is going to be. And then I'm just gonna go ahead and I'm going to create these little bumpy lines like this, just little roundy, round line over here. And then it goes up again. Very simple, nothing complicated. We're just illustrating to show how these techniques work. And then I'm just gonna go ahead and find a little points here, maybe around about here. And then I'm just gonna do a angular line coming down here, another angular line coming down here. And you've guessed it, well, I'm gonna do next is a line going across. And what this will do is represent a roof of a house that's buried behind these lovely little hills just to give a lovely shaped. And then we're going to adjust, add maybe a little chimney here, just a simple little rectangle. And then from the top, just a line going across to make it a bit more 3D. And then just the shoots of that rectangle there. Very simple straight lines, fantastic stuff. And that's it for this first stage. All I'm gonna do is just lay down this little line drawings. It's very rough, very loose. So just follow this along. And if you want me to provide you with an image of this, I'll do this in the resource pack so you will get a nice little image, outline image of this for you to just go ahead and copy it out to make the process easier. Don't concentrate too much on the image. It's more about the techniques that we're going to do. So that was the first quick little stage, laying down a nice little jarring so that we have a base to work and build our techniques on. The second step now will be to do the first technique that we did, which was to fill in the large areas that are what you're thinking. You're thinking, oh, you've done a Drawing, How are you going to fill in a large area? Well, let me show you. So what I need to do is I need to grab hold of my lovely graphite powder. I've got my graphite powder here. Beautiful nine be graphite stick grinded down to a lovely powder form. So we've got the graphite powder here. I'm not going to lean this onto my paper just in case I get smudgy. Smudgy is everywhere, so graphite powder there. And I've got a couple of my sponges that I like to use with the Sponge, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and I'm going to get that Graphite, pick it up with a Sponge just like we did in the first technique. And then I'm just going to carefully just drop some of that graphite into this area. Now, what we want to do here is we want to add the dark first. And this is usually the process that I do in producing my Graphite artwork, adding the dark background first so that we can bring out the details later on. So just like that, I'm just going to drop that graphite. And now you can see that what I want, don't want to really do is they don't want to go over these areas over here where I've got the outline. I want to just have the dark where we've got this background sky area. So just like that with the tip of my Sponge just going in and creating that fill area around our image. Now, don't worry if you go over this with your Sponge or whatever tool you're using, we can easily fix that later on. The key really is just to get that graphite to touch the Areas of that background. Now, I'm using this sponge that has a nice little point here. If you have a similar Sponge, that'd be great. But if you don't, if you Sponge is just big and round, then you can also use your actual blending stump. With your blending stump, what you can do is you can go in and actually pick up the graphite as well. So if you just grab hold of your graphite like this, can go in and you can drop in your graphite with your blending stump. And that's another way of adding graphite into areas that are rather small. I personally tend to work on big pictures and big illustrations when I'm working in Graphite using this technique. But just for this demonstration, I'm just doing this small little drawing here. So Following along, then maybe use a bigger sheets of paper. I've only got this little A5 sheets in front of me because they won't fit on the camera if I work on a bigger sheets. So just like that, I'm just basically painting around those edges without trying to get the Graphite into the whitespace of the objects that I've drawn. So just like that, keep going around and it's a good way to just maneuver that graphite into the areas that you want. And don't worry if you go over the area or within it. Just don't worry about that. This is not about keeping everything perfect. It's just about seeing the process and following along the best you can. We practice. And with being more accustomed to using graphite powder this way, you will get a lot better at this. Just like that. What I'm doing is we've got a little bit of 44th there, so I've got a bit of fluffy, fluffy, lets get other way. But to flow from that cotton wool that I used in the previous lesson, we don't want that getting in. No, we don't. So just like that, I've got my graphite into those areas and I'm just using the tip now of that blending stump to just fill in these detailed areas. Over here, you can see how easy that is works absolutely brilliantly. And you can see it's already creating some sort of an abstract form in the background. You've got all this lovely graphite dust Creating these wavy waves in different directions. It actually looks quite nice that it doesn't say it's a nice little marbled effect. Well, that's not the effect that I want to go for. What I want to do is I want a nice smooth background In beautiful dark graphite. And what that will do is with great when it comes to looking at the contrast of the sketch. So just like that, I've got all those areas pretty much touched with some points of graphite. So what we want to do now is let's go in and start making this nice and dark. So I'm going to just move my little sticky stick out of the way. And I've gotten the Graphite fingers, but it doesn't matter because that's what we're doing. We're working with graphite, again, the Sponge now. And then I'm gonna go in and stop pressing a little bit harder. Now, just like that, I'm going to press harder on these edges that I've got here. So just pressing harder, making sure that I don't go over my drawing part. And that's looking really good. So just like that, from the top area, we have this nice space to fill in that graphite and look at that, look how easy that is to fill. Imagine doing that with your pencil by itself. You'll have marks all over the place. So it just makes the whole process so much easier. And again, where I've got this graphite dust kinda like pooled together. I'm just using that Sponge, pressing it on and just blending it into the surface of that paper, just like that in circular motions just to make sure that it gets into every little groove and tooth of that paper so that we don't have any of that white left. Fantastic stuff. And using the Washi tape just gives it a beautiful clean edge. And it's looking great. So just like that, now I'm going to do Harris. I'm just going to use the side, that side part of that Sponge and do exactly the same so that I don't smudge it all over. So just using that side pop in round shapes and just forward and backwards. Not too much pressure, medium pressure. You don't want to press too hard. You don't want that the graphite to just dance off that page. You want it to blend in. Once it's blended in and it's kind of emerged into a nice, subtle soft tone than, you know, that that's looking great. So just like that, we've got this area here now again, just with the side. We're going up and down. And then around the shoot of lovely little chimney. And in this little tight area overhead, just like this, using the edge effectively as a brush, using this as a brush to paint the picture. Imagine if you've just painting a picture with normal paint. Just be painting, using your brush, laying down your paint if you are painting. But in this case we're laying down, I will. Lovely graphite powders are just like that. I've got most of those areas done. And then just as a final, I'm just gonna go ahead and just press down and smooth this out like this from left to right to make sure that we don't have too much of that dust excess leftover. And just like that, you can see how beautiful that is. Look at that gorgeous stuff that isn't it. Smooth, velvety, creamy graphite on your beautiful page. And that's pretty much just doing a little bit more here. You can spend as much time as you want with this. Take your time, relax and do it. Don't stress. Like I said, if you accidentally throw your sponge on this area and you get a mark, don't worry about a don't need to worry because you can easily clean that up with your potty eraser or whichever eraser that you have. So let's move on now let me just get this out of the way and it's a good idea to do a cleaning, cleaning of the Graphite fingers. Let's quickly clean our fingers 9. Technique 3: Clean Edges: Okay, we've got nice clean fingers now. So what we're going to do is begin to grab hold of our mop brush. I will lovely big mop brush, just giving it a little clean before I use it to make sure that there's not a lot of graphite on it. So just giving it a little clean it clean with my hand and just giving it a little kind of like a dab to make sure that it's not completely covered in graphite. So just like that, very carefully, what I'm going to do is I'm just gonna go in this direction. So I'm going to move this excess graphite dust away from the white area, just like this very lightly not pressing down, just literally just holding the tip of that brush and just lightly letting it just touched the surface. Let's and get just glide away. Now you can see what's happened there. What I've done is I've gone and done that and I'm not dusted it away, so we don't want to do that. So let's just clean that brushing again, just giving it a little cleaner, clean onto my hand or onto a clean sheets of paper. And we just want to move that Graphite away. And just like that, it's beautiful and it's just off our page. I'm just going to maneuver it away just like that. Fantastic stuff. And again, just nice and lightly, maneuvering gets a waste that we don't have any dusty dust on our area. And just like this, looking beautiful. So I'm just going to clean the table, just make sure we have a nice clean table before we move on. And it's looking great, but my hands gone dirty because I've been using the brush on my hands. So let's just get my hand a nice clean, fantastic stuff. So clean hands, we've got a nice smooth finish. Now you'll notice that you have some areas on the actual drawing where we've got White, but that's where this next technique comes into play. So this is technique number three. We've already done technique number two where we've applied the graphite powder into the area that we wanted with our Sponge. So the new thing we're gonna do now is we're going to grab hold of a piece of paper. And I've just got the same type of paper that I'm using for my sketch. And we want to make sure we have a nice straight edge. So if you see here above the actual area of the roof that I've got this house, we've got a nice straight shape. So how to get the graphite to be a beautiful line, or we're basically doing is using our shape like this. So I'm just going to place that straight shape there. And then I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna go and get my lovely graphite powder onto my blending stump. And then I'm just gonna go ahead and create a nice straight line. And it's just a case of moving that graphite powder right towards the edge of that paper and that people will effectively stop it from going anywhere else. So just like this very lightly in circular motions using the paper stump, just gonna go ahead and fill that area to make sure we don't have a horrible little fluffy white area on the edge and it should give us a nice clean shape. So just like that, I'm going to let that graphite powder just stay there. The key really is to make sure that you get this edge. So even if you go over the paper, that's fine. The paper that you're using to hold it in place, just make sure that you don't move the paper around with movement, then the graphite powder is just going to spill. So the area and it won't be nice and clean, the finish. So just like that, fantastic stuff. And if we just move that paper away from their look at that cell types like magic isn't a beautiful, clean straight line. Now what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna go ahead and get my brush. Brush. And I'm just going to, oh, where did that come from? Those a little bit little Tape wanted to jump into the actions. So just move that out all the way. Let's just give the bushy bush a little dab away. So that noise is me just dabbing the brush on the edge of my table instead of my hand this time. So let's just move that graphite powder away from that line. And again, I'm just going to dab, dab my brush on the edge of my table. And then again, move that Graphite away. Look at that. Fantastic, isn't it? So again, with the card, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and I'm going to do this area over here. So I'm just going to make sure that the edge of my paper is clean. So that was the edge that I worked on. You can see we've got a bit of the Graphite on there. You're going to make sure that back edge doesn't have any graphite on. And then I'm going to place it at this angle. So it's just basically at the angle where we have a little bit of that white of the paper. And then again, I'm just gonna go in and very gently and lightly, effectively just paint in that graphite and just maneuver it around, which is already on the tip of my paper stump, just like this, up to the point where we have that straight edge not pressing down hard. You don't need to press down hard because what you'll tend to do is you might start moving the Graphite away from the paper and create a little smudgy smudge that will be more prevalent. So avoid doing too much pressure, just very light. Just make sure you're touching the edge of that paper. That's the most important part. It touch the edge of the paper that you've placed down to create that sharp edge. And just like that, nice circular motions lay melts away. And then slowly in one movement, move it back and look at that gorgeous stuff, isn't it? So I'm gonna do now isn't just going to move my graphite powder all the way before it spills all over the place. And we're going to continue and do the same for the chimneys of the chimney here. I've got a nice straight edge on that side. So all we're gonna do is place our paper on this edge. So we've got this lovely straight edge there. And then just with my lovely, lovely, lovely paper stump, I'm just going to go in and start doing the same thing. Now, if you find that on your paper stump is not much graphite, go in into your graphite powder wherever you have that, and just dip it in, just dip it in and pick a little bit up. And then you have a bit more of intense graphite powder there. So that's just a another little tip that you can do to make sure that you always have some graphite on the edge of your paper stump. And the reason for using a paper stump is, is because it's so soft, tip is so soft. Have a really nice soft touch, and it works great. Alternatively, you can just use a pencil and do this, but with pencils you're gonna get harsh marks and that's what you don't want. And then it's just going to leave a horrible little graphite shine everywhere. And that's the whole point of this. So let's just move that back and you can see, it looks great. So we've got a nice clean edge over there. Now, you might not be able to use the edge of your piece of paper in all of the angles there. It can be a little bit fiddly, just do the best that you can. I'm going to move that graphite powder away now because I don't want it to interfere. So you can see we've got a nice edge on that side now, the chimney, if you want to go in and maybe just create that edge on the top part where we have the shoot. You can go ahead and do that. So just dropping in that paper on that angle there. And then we're just going to go in circular motion. And then maybe just here, just do a line coming in down. Can you can see we've got a bit of a gap. And then like this, just a little one there, a little one there. And then it can represent that little edge of the chimney and the shoots. So we're not going all the way to the end of the edge of this paper. We're just leaving a little bit of a gap that will represent where the chimney is. So you can just go ahead and do that. And that way what we're doing is we're effectively molding a shape using our beautiful graphite on the end of our paper stumps are just like that. We move that back. You can see I've created that nice little edge of that chimney area that's coming out. And again, just gonna give that a little move around because we don't want that powder to interfere 10. Shaping Edges: Now you can see that this can be a nice, slow, tricky process, but just take your time on it. Don't make your shapes too complicated at first. If you're finding that you're finding it difficult to get into these areas. Don't worry about it. All you need to do is just get your graphite powder onto the end of your stomach. Use your paper stump stick that has a nice sharp point to it. And then just go in and just start maneuvering the Graphite. So I'll just put a little bit of graphite on the end of that stick like this. You can see graphite there. Go ahead and just draw it in instead of using the sharp edge. So that's another quick way of getting it done. If you don't want to use a sharp edge of the paper. If you find that process a little bit fiddly and tricky, you can just go ahead and paint it on me and like this, that's absolutely fine. It's still gives you a nice soft edge. Just make sure you use a light circular motions to blend it away like this. Just using light circular motions are blended and then just maybe clean up the Areas you missed out earlier on. And actually, that's what we're gonna do for the mountain areas over here. These little hilarious. So I think we'll leave that as it is. It's looking rather nice. I'll just move my paper out of the wave. Okay, so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to continue with my paper stump, that sharper end of the paper stump. And I'm just going to add in a little bit more graphite on that tip. So just dipping it into that Graphite, moving That's away. And then I'm just gonna go ahead and I'm just going to add that graphite in so that effectively am using the paper stump as a Pencil with that nice sharp tip and just cleaning up these edges so that we have a nice soft touch and it doesn't look to wobbly bit all over the place. It looks like it has some nice form and it was done by intention. So that's what it's all about. It's all about the intention, not about the results. It's about what you planned for it to be and it can be whatever you want it to be isn't to get through psychological about say, let's just enjoy the process. So enjoy that process. You can see I've clean that area, Rob. I'm going to do the same over here. I'm just gonna go ahead, am going to clean this area up and maybe add a bit more graphite into the actual paper stump to get a bit more of a darker contrast. It looks just like that dropping in the graphite and say I'm dumbing it down. And then I'm using that graphite that dumped on to just push it in those areas that I want to create that round edge. Now alternatively, you can even make yourself a little stencil, if you like, of this entire shape out of paper. So what you can do is use a sheet of paper and then just cut out this shape, place it on top, and then just use your sponge to go over the entire thing. I sometimes do that, but again, that becomes a little bit more advanced. You need some cutting tools for that, maybe a exacto knife and maybe a thicker piece of card. So I'm gonna say avoid doing that for now. But if you do want to try that out and give it a go experimental little bit with it. But just for this class because it's aimed at more beginner level and just like an introduction into this dynamic style of using graphite, I would avoid doing that. I would maybe do that later on once you've got a bit more comfortable with your graphite powder and how to apply it onto your page. But then again, if you've already got experience of it, then why not give that idea ago? Just cut out a stencil very carefully of your shape where you don't want the graphite to be and just add on the Graphite just like we have using a Sponge are some cotton ball to create that beautiful edge. For now, let's just concentrate on what we're doing here. And I think that's looking great. So look at that looks fantastic, That doesn't it. So I might do a little bit more down here because I want this area to be a little bit more accurate. So just like this, I want the edge to go in a bit more. And from here, I want that edge into go a little bit more. And then just correct this a little bit like this. But you can go as deep as you want into the actual Details that's entirely up to you. We're not creating a highly detailed during Harris is just a quick little sketch I'm going to leave the highly detailed with to you for your class project, but we will discuss that after we've done all the lessons. So let's just leave it out that I think that's looking quite nice. So let's just do a final little dust off with our brush. So just like that, move that Graphite away. Don't want that graphite to ruin all our beautiful work. There we go. So it's nice and clean. If you want to just give it a little below, you can go ahead and do that. Again. I would avoid doing that. I can't really suggest that you should do that all the time. I sometimes do it. So if you want to do it, just give it a little blow to get rid of the actual graphite if you don't want to spend too much time with your brush, but do remember blowing on it. You'll tend to maybe have a little few droplets of moisture going onto your graphite and that can muddy the whole thing up, but I'll leave that up to you. Just a quick little dry blow up the Graphite away, but best to use a brush. So that was technique number three. So we use technique number three to create beautiful clean edges with our graphite powder on our illustration. Let's now move on to the next technique. 11. Technique 4: Soft Details: Okay, welcome back. Let's now start looking at the next technique. So for the next technique, what we're gonna do is we're going to start building in some light details using our to the Pencil. And what we're gonna do is we're going to focus on the area of the roof where we have the slabs and the roof tiles in this imaginary image that we've got. So what I'm going to firstly do is I'm gonna go ahead and clean up the areas where I can see a little bit of the Graphite that's just muddied up some of the lighter areas. And this can happen if you have a break in-between your drawing and come back to it later on, you may find that some of the graphite dust that you hadn't cleared up as just come over and it's just smudged its way into those little nice clean areas. No problem if that happens is most likely to happen anyway. Just grab hold of your eraser. So I've got my potty eraser here and I'm just gonna go ahead and clean this up. Don't worry if it doesn't clean up completely, like I said before, we're not here creating beautiful, perfect Art. We're just trying to learn new techniques on how to apply graphite and create some gorgeous dynamic drawing. So just like that nicely clean it cleanly on there. And then if you want to get some real little details out of the areas that have muddied up. So just use your mono eraser if you have one and if you haven't, don't worry about it, just use the eraser that you have. And if you find that your eraser is too big or too heavy to get into the detailed areas that I've muddied up and just leave them, don't worry at all. So what I'm going to do now is I'm just gonna go ahead and just going to clear that off the page so we don't have the excess and That's looking great. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to grab hold of my to be pencils. So as I said before, I'm gonna be using my Tooby Pencil to start adding in some detail. So let's go ahead and do that. Now. For this technique, this will be technique number four, and we're gonna be building in some detail. So just with my pencil, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and I'm just going to drop in some very light lines that are growing across like this. So again, this is just going to be nice and loose, not really bothered about having them super straight. It's just about demonstrating this particular technique that I'm going to show you. What you can do is effectively, you can just go ahead, leave these lines as they are, but to add a bit more depth and a bit more interest to your artwork With Graphite, what we can do is we can start using a paper stump that I've got over here, which is a very thin one. So just as a side note, these papers dumps that I've got, if I just bring a couple more onto the screen over here, I've got different various sizes of paper stumps. I usually get these impacts and they last for ages and they come in different thicknesses or different roles amounts that they come in. And these are so handy when it comes to adding details with graphite because you can use a really thin small one and hold it at a peculiar angle that will help you to create a different effect and make the whole process so much easier to do experiment if you do have a couple of these, don't just stick to one, try the others, and see how they go when it comes to adding and Building Details. So what I'm gonna do is I'm just going to grab hold of this end and make sure that the end is nice and clean. I mean, I know it's got a bit of a mark on it, but that's fine. You do find that your paper totally alien or your paper stump hasn't mark on it. Then as I said before, just grab hold of some normal paper just to clean sheets of paper. I just give it a Robby Rob. So I've got a rubber rub on there and it just gets rid of the mark and cleans it up. I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna do, is there's going to go in and I'm going to just lightly go over the line that I've just done like this. And what that does is it creates a little bit of a blend and a bit of a TO Soft tonal edge to that line. So just like that, I'm gonna go ahead and Dave that a couple of times. And I'm going to repeat this, these ones over here. And the point of this is really to add that depth like I was talking about before, because you can just leave Lines basic than the can be a little bit boring. So change it open little bit, make it more dynamic, and add these different techniques of using graphite to really enhance your beautiful drawings. You can see it's very subtle ways, but what we're gonna do is we're going to build on today. So again, just going to carry on on them lines and then move it across. Now, do note that the softer your graphite, the more easily it will smear and smudge when you're doing these techniques. So do bear that in mind. This is just a to B Graphite. So a to B isn't going to be as soft as say a six SBI or an eight beat. If we use six B and AB here, it would get really dark and they would smudge all over the place. So that's another point to consider. Another tip, if you like, is to make sure that you use the right grade of Graphite for when you're doing your smudgy. Smudgy is on your Details, so that's fine as it says. Well, I'm going to actually do now is I'm gonna go ahead and grab my phobia because I want to darken this up. So I've got my 4-bit Pencil now. And then what I'm gonna do is I'm just going to tilt myself to decide because I'm attached to the paper to make the angle a little bit better for me. Then I'm just gonna go ahead and I'm going to drop in a Darker line just over that initial one that I had. And you can see what that's doing. Is it Building a bit of a sharp edge just like this. It doesn't have to be super streets can be a bit Weebly wobbly if you like. Keep it organic or keep it straight. It's entirely up to you. Whatever effects you like or whatever finishing like, go with that one. So just like this, I'm gonna go over with that. I'm look how cool that looks, that looks great. That doesn't say it's so nice bits of dark, sharp contrast there. And then again, I'm going to grab hold of my paper stump and I'm going to do exactly the same, but this time, press down a little bit harder with my and you can see we're getting a bit more of a blend. So this is effectively just Building in layers of detail and making them a little bit more interesting. So just like that, now if you find that your graphite isn't moving too much, you want a bit more of a blurry effect on this, then just go ahead and use circular motion, but do this very, very lightly. Don't press too hard. Keep it a very soft touch and take it timed this, don't rush it because if you rush it, then it can smudge and smear all over the place. And then it you're just going to have to try erasing it out. Again with circular motions. You're gonna get a bigger spread, spread it across however you're right, I'm going to spread this a little bit further down, a bit further down from the sharp allied to add a shadow to it. And that's what these stumps are great for these papers, stumps or tortellini stones or blending stumps, whatever you want to call them. They just fantastic tool. So again, circular motion than I do quite like that. So I'm going to do that on this first line over here. So circular motion, just like this, going nice and round, it's just maneuvering that Graphite. Really soft touch. And look at that. That looks fantastic. That doesn't say, okay, now what we're going to do is we've done our lines that are going across. Now we're going to do lines coming down in this angles. But instead of using the pencil, what we're gonna go ahead and do is we're just going to use our end of our paper stump. The papers stump you can see now is gotten nice pizza, graphite powder or granules of graphite on since tip of it. And that's what we're going to use to our advantage. So what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna go ahead and I'm just going to lightly, but beforehand, before I do that, I need to get my piece of paper. So I'm just going to grab a nice clean sheet of paper. Again. I'm going to draw in some beautiful lines like this Look at that we're effectively using our paper stump as a Pencil. So just lightly Bringing those lines in like this, trying to space them out and best I can, just dropping in four lines. I don't know if you can see that on the camera. So in that case, if they're very light, then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and grab some graphite from my graphite powder. So I'm just going to open up my graphite powder box over here. And I'm just going to dip it in my lovely stick, paper stump stick into just a little bit of Graphite. Not too much. I don't want lots of graphite on there, just dabbing, get in a little bit, moving that back out the way so it didn't fly all over the place. And then just testing this out a little bit on my clean sheets of papers. You can see I don't want particles, so I'm just giving that a little Db, Db. The particles have graphite for love. But what that's effectively doing is that's just added a bit more dark to it. So what we're gonna do is we're just gonna go ahead and make sure that I don't smudge that little thing that I've done there. So just go ahead and just add a little bit more definition to the lines that way. Dropping in and look at that fantastic, That isn't it. It's just darkened up light and then just pressing with medium pressure backwards and forwards. And look how nice that looks. Beautiful stuff, a beautiful stuff. So just like that, twisting the stomped to get a bit more of the darker graphite on their fantastic. So again, do this as much as you'd like going really dark if you want. I like to keep these Details and nice and soft so that they don't distract away from the main elements of the illustration. Just like that. We're done. So let's just move that out of the way. Okay, so look up that we've created this nice, lovely crisscross little pattern just using our Pencil and our lovely paper stump. Let's now move on. The next one. 12. Technique 5: Clean Lines: What we're gonna do next is we're just going to fill in some detail areas now without doing too much blending, we're just going to stick to nice, clean, crisp lines just to give a bit of contrast and variation in what we're doing. The next technique, which we're working on is now technique number five. And that's just dropping in some nice little Details and keeping them really nice and clean. So what I'm gonna do is I'm just going to use my pencil and I'm going to make sure that I've got my piece of paper at hand so I don't do so much is smudges. So just like that, I'm just going to place that here and I'm going to work on the chimney areas, so ensuring that my pencil is nice and sharp, doing sure that you've got sharp pencils when you're doing detailed work. Otherwise it's going to get a little bit messy. So what I'm going to basically do is I'm just going to start doing some outline work over here. So just lightly dropping in a line over here and a little one up here, just to give this a bit more depth and definition. So just like this, a little line going across there, another one going there. And this is just giving it a bit more forms. So with the actual details on the actual parts of the chimney and we're gonna go ahead and I'm just going to go and drop it in some lines like this. Nice and light, but trying to keep them a bit more defined rather than loose. So just like this, some nice lines going across that represents some bricks. So this area here is a bit fuzzy, it's a bit soft, so I'm just going to sharpen it. And then down here, a bit more of a sharpen. And then over here, I'm just going to add a more defined line, bring that across, and then just bring a line across there. And there's clean and tidy it up from here on all these edges. So what we're really doing is we're just refining the edges and making them a bit more sharp so that we don't have too much of a soft look. And what this will do is this will enable us to focus on a little bit of detail when we're looking at the overall picture. So just like that, maybe what am I do here is I might just add in another line that goes across, just have a play around design in whatever patterns and shapes you want. Then from here, I might just do a number line going across the middle and make this into a funky little chimney design with two of these shoots that are coming out where the smokey smoke will come out from. And we're going to look up that later on. So maybe throw in a couple of lines like this to represent some bricks. So just a bit of shape of a break, but just randomly just throwing them in, not doing it on every single one. And then possibly on this side over here, just dropping in some more lines just to darken up that area that might be in shadow. And then just basically just cleaning this area up, not pressing too hard, letting the Graphite work for you. That's really important not to press too hard. Because what'll happen is then you'll have this buildup of graphite and then the Graphite Xin will go all over the place, especially if you're using it in larger areas. Again, over here, maybe I might just do a couple of lines going up like this just to add a bit of texture to the shoots on the chimney. And that's about it for the chimney side. So you can see now if I move the card away, you can see now that I've got a nice little contrast of Details, nice detailed work over here. Then I've got this, a softer touch over here where the tiles are. We going to work a little bit more on those tiles and we will do that later on because we're just looking at different techniques. So we will on the fifth technique now of adding details, we're going to repeat these techniques in this area. Over here, we've got these two hilly shapes. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and start adding in some more details there. But before we do that, let's just quickly clean up the edge of the house. So I'm just going to again put my paper down and I'm just gonna go ahead and drop it in a nice sharp line like this with my pencil. Just to clean and tidy up that line. And you can see it looks a lot more defined now. So again, just move that across. And then just with my pencil, I didn't get that darker line. You give it that beautiful edge. And you can see that's completely changed the look of it. So we've got nice soft area at the back and we've got some nice crisp details in this mid ground elements. So what I'm gonna do now is I'm going to start building in some details into these areas. And like I said before, we're going to use a combination of technique number four, which is using the Tertullian Or the paper stump and some detailed work. And we're going to merge them together to create some interesting textures. So let's move on to that one next. 13. Technique 6: Building Details: That's looking quite nice. Looking quite nice to know that for the Graphite. Pretty good. Take that sine is one. That good old roast aroma. Been beautiful stuff that, oh, okay, hello. Hi, how are you doing? Lets get back to class. So what we started doing in the last class was we looked at technique number five and we're going to move on to the next techniques. So if I bring your attention back to the screen, we've got the lovely little Drawing up to this stage that we have it. So what we're gonna do next is actually we're going to take these little Tape it tapers off from the corners. If you've noticed, I'll just zoom back on the camera. If you've noticed that I've got these little curly tapes curling away on the corners. I know that's not by accident, That's by intention. So what I've done here is I've just removed the tape so that they're not attached onto the surface of my actual table. This red carb that I've got. And the reason for that is is because it's stopping my flexibility of moving the actual sheet and rotates and get when I'm doing the detailed work. So that's a nice little tip to do as well. Just remove the tape that's attaching your actual sheets of paper that you're working on from the table, let the little curly kills curl up and then just turn it around. And if I show you on the screen here and just give it a little flat back like this. Flap it back, attach it to the back part of the actual garden, flipping all over the place. They're just at the back there, so it's nice and neatly tucked away. What this will do is this will give you a nice sheet to work on that you can easily maneuver around your table or surface that you're working on. So do this. If you want to do this, if you don't want to do this, absolutely fine. If you've watched any of my classes, you know, the I like to twist and turn my sheets as I'm drawing to get the right angle. So there we go. Now I have a sheet that twists and turns according to how I want it to. So let's just get that zoom in, zoom back on this Okey-dokey. So what we're gonna do now is we're going to work on some detailed areas. But before we go ahead and do this, I want to add in some placeholders for the actual next technique that we're going to work on after this one. So let's go ahead and do that. I'm just going to grab hold of my Tooby pencils, so it makes no difference what Pencil you use as long as it makes some decent marks. I'm just going to grab hold this till this to the side. I'm going to drop in maybe a couple of these round shapes like this. Just like that. Couple of round shapes. They don't have to be equal in size. The more bumpy, Bumpy they are, the more natural they tend to look. So just like this, a couple more of these going across, maybe one coming in from this side. And that's it. So basically what that's done is added the last line of detail right at the bottom of our sketch. So we have this little gap that divides it up. And what we're gonna do is we're going to actually concentrates on this gap. So we've got the nice too hilly hill areas over here. Then we've got our little border effect going at the bottom. It gives us an indication of where we need to work. So I'm going to grab hold of my clean sheet of paper or card. Drop that over here. And let's concentrate in this little Areas section over here. So let's do a bit of a Zoom is zoom so you can get the best angle and not miss a single thing. So that's looking good. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and do technique number six, which is actually just a combination of technique five and maybe a little bit of technique four. But let's go into the detail of it. With my to be Pencil, I'm gonna go ahead and I'm going to start dropping in some little shapes like this, just like that on the top, just these little round shapes. And then we're gonna go a little bit random with these. A little one here, a little on there. Just like that they're overlapping to create a bit of an interesting pattern. Just like this. Just going to add in this kind of scaly look that's on top. It's like these little scaly things coming down. But what it is is it's just a case of doing these semi-circles, these round shapes, and they're just following along the shape of the actual bump or that hilly hill that we've got up there. And that's all I'm going to do. So just like this, you're gonna go ahead and I'm gonna do this, and I'm gonna do this across the entire thing. So if I just bring this back, you can see here, zoom back actually, that's better. So just across this entire thing, maybe two or three levels down. I'm just going to continue this pattern going all the way across. So I'll quickly go ahead and do that, and then we'll move on to the next stage. Let's go ahead and do that now Okey-dokey. Now you can see that I've got this nice little pattern, this kind of organically style pattern going across the top edge of the two peaks or hills that we've got over here. And it's just a random pattern that I've dropped down. So you don't need to worry about following this exactly how I've done it. Just go ahead and throw in some of these half circles or semi-circles, or even some of these full circles that are scattered all the way across the top edge of this shape. Try keeping them as compact as you can. Because the next part, what we're gonna do, it adds onto this effects. So what we're really doing here is we're just adding in some details to produce a variance in Texture to give the overall look on the illustration something a little bit interesting. So next what I'm gonna do is I'm going to grab hold of my phobia Pencil. I want a little bit of a darker pencil for this part. And all I'm gonna do is I'm just going to go ahead and drop in some lines. So basically from the bottom edge of these little shapes that we've done over here. I'm just going to drop in these lines like this, just some straight lines that are going down. I'm going to add in a little gap in-between them. So just like that you can see, it's just adding in this really nice dark line. They don't need to be super straight. Keep them as organic as you can. Just from the top, I'm just bringing them down. You can bring them from bottom all the way to the top like this. It's entirely up to you. However your hand is comfortable and you can see it's already started creating a beautiful variants in Texture and look and feel to what we're doing. Can you see that? It's a gorgeous little pattern over there. So I'm just gonna go ahead and repeat that now. All the way across Okey-dokey. Now we're done on this. You can see we've got this beautiful little straight line Texture at the bottom of the peak with our lovely little round shapes at the top. It just adds that beautiful visual texture to the overall image so that we can have a bit of a variance. Now, what we're gonna do is we're going to grab hold of our lovely paper stump. And I'm going to use the same one that I used in the previous example, my nice thin one. And it's got a little bit of the Graphite answer. I'm just going to make sure that I don't have too much graphite on. I'm actually just cleaning gets onto my finger. So just like that makes sure that there's no graphite on your paper stump. Otherwise, we just kinda get a muddy mess, but really grab hold of a sheet of paper and do this on a sheet of paper so that you don't actually go ahead and get graphite all over your fingers and hands. It just like this in the bottom corner, I'm just gonna clean this always best to use a sheet of paper and not do that all shortcuts like somebody. So I'm just going to do that gives us a nice little clean, clean and move my sheets of paper away. And fantastic. So what we did here is we just did a continuation and a bit of a mix of technique number five that we did previously where we it detailed to the actual chimney over here. So we just went in straight With our pencil, nice and sharp, added into different types of textures with some detailed work. And what we're gonna do now is we're going to switch to number four. So in four, if you remember what we did, We did some software details here on the tails. So we're gonna go ahead and incorporate that into this design. So with my paper stump, I'm gonna go in at the bottom here. Let's get a zoom in. Zoom. You can see this a bit better. So just like this fantastic stuff 14. Blending & Refining: A nice focus. So with the tip now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and I'm just going to use these small motions that go upwards like this. I'm pressing down with medium pressure. And what this is doing is the Graphite that I've laid down. As those lines. It started getting a bit of a blend on. As you can see, it's adding this little bit of a blend and that's all I'm gonna do. I'm just gonna go ahead and continue doing that all the way from the edge of these shapes that I've got over here. And I'm gonna do it approximately halfway the length of each of these lines. I don't want it all blending and Soft all the way to the top. Adjust once it halfway. So just like this, just going up and if you find it doesn't blend too much with just a single movement like this. Then just go upwards and downwards like this. Just do it in this motion like this. Like a quick little upwards and downwards, but just be careful not to do it too hard. Otherwise, what will happen in all get dark are fairly quickly. So just like this, I like to take my time on this. And if it's not blending or giving me a nice soft blends, then I'll just go in up and down like this. But very likely when you're doing the up and down motion, keep it really light pressure. Otherwise, it's going to get rid of all the details. So just like the up-and-down, fantastic stuff and where we have this kind of area now where we don't have any of the blending graphite, maybe just give it a little flick up like this so it doesn't look too sharp. The difference from the blend and blend. So just like that, as long as we have the darker area, the bottom. And then what I'm going to do is once I've done that all the way across, I'm just going to use the paper stump can just go around the edges on the top part there, just to intensify the dark and to really give it that lovely effects are just like this, just going left and right. So that's what I'm going to do all the way across here. So it's just going upwards like this, upwards and downwards to create the blend. Then going left and right to follow the shape of the edge that we've got on these shapes here. So let's get a zoom back so you can see this while I'm doing this all the way across. So just like that, you can see when you zoom back, you can see the effect take place. You can see how beautiful That's already looking compared to the ones where we haven't got that lovely blending, blend. So let's just go ahead and continue and do that. Then I'll come and speak to you once that's done. Okey-dokey, you can see now we've got this nice little soft blend going on from the bottom area, going to the top. Next, what we're gonna do now is we're gonna go ahead and grab hold of our four be Pencil. So with Mike for B, we've got to make sure that you're Pencil is nice and sharp. What we're gonna go ahead and do is we're going to start darkening these circles from the bottom where we've got these lines touching the edge of that shape. So let's just get a zoom in, zoom in on this. So you know what I'm talking about when I go through this. So let's start maybe on this side over here. So that's looking good. Okay, So basically what I'm gonna do with my sharp pencil, nice and dark is the under areas of each one of these shapes. I'm just gonna go in with my dark pencil like this to effectively add a kind of a shadow underneath each one of those shapes. You can see adding this dark line, not all the way around it, just at the bottom area. It just starts making those shapes pop out, doesn't it? It'll come nice. That looks, I do this all the time in my illustrations using graphite and love doing this than the Texture work and pattern work and incorporating it into the illustration. Then coming up with this nice contrast of dark and light. And you can see it just enhances that beautiful texture to the point where you're thinking, wow, that looks quite nice, that doesn't it? Just like this, I'm gonna go ahead and continue doing these little darker lines. And then maybe a couple on the top, but not all the way to the top, just maybe a few over here just to balance it out so it doesn't look too abstract. What we want to do is we want to make it look as organic as you can. That way it just blends in and looks rather than natural, rather than a little bit abstract or robotic. It's just a bit more pleasing to the eye, isn't it? So just like that you can see I've quickly added in then dark lines. And once we've added these dark lines in all the way, then the kind of Areas of those lines that are touching them, dark lines. I'm gonna go ahead and just darken them slightly as well, just like this, a dropping in some darker, dark lines just over some of those lines that are touching these lines that we've just added in. So if you have a look on the screen here, all I'm doing is I'm just adding in a couple of lines. And then again, this just merges that nice bit too dark detail together so that it doesn't look too abstract. Or to isolate it. We don't want little pockets of different things going on. We want it all to blend together and look lovely and have a nice harmony. So what we're doing here is again, just dropping in these lines. And that's all I'm gonna do and I'm going to do this across the entire thing. So let's just get a zoom in, zoom back on there. Don't worry if you haven't got the same shapes as me, that's absolutely fine. Just let the shapes come out. The circle shapes you might have some more at the bottom here are some more on the top or they might not be as close together. Don't worry about that. Just dropping these shapes and follow this technique of adding in some nice soft Areas with some blending work at the bottom and then refining it with some dark, lovely lines to create this gorgeous contrast. So I'm going to continue doing that now. Okay, That'd be go now you can see we've got this beautiful pattern with some nice textures going on and a lovely bit of contrast. So what I'm gonna do next is I'm just gonna go ahead, add in some more dark lines from this area now just lightly sweeping in an awkward style. So just like this, I'm not necessarily following the lines that I've already got on there. All I'm doing is I'm just throwing in some of these lines like this, just giving this a flick, flick of movement, just like that. And what that does is that intensifies that lovely soft area and it merges the entire pattern together. So just like this and just going to quickly do a flick, flick, going up, randomly spacing it out. However I feel looks good. So just like this, pressing down fairly hard so we get a nice dark line. This effectively just Complete that pattern. So just quickly dropping that in like so. And you can see having a darker pencil just produces so much more contrast. And that's the advantage of using graphite, especially if you have a nice range of pencils. And I always advise at least have three or four different pencils from different tonal ranges from light, medium to dark. And then you can produce beautiful textures like this. So that's the technique Complete. We can now sit back, maybe take a couple more sips of our lovely hot beverage, and then let's move on. So the next one 15. Technique 7: Building Texture: Okay, welcome back. Let's now move on to the next technique and I think we're on technique number seven are technique numbers seven. So let's have a look at the screen. We've got our lovely illustration that's approximately halfway done. And for this next technique, we need a nice dark Pencil. So what we're gonna do here is we're going to concentrate on these little elements that we've got at the bottom that we added in, in the last part of the class. So what I'm gonna do is get a zoom in, zoom in on this or that you can see what I'm talking about. Lets get it nice and clear. So just like this, get that focus back on beautiful stuff. So as I said, I'm gonna be using my pencil now and I've got my lovely HB pencil over here. With the HB pencil, we're going to have the darkest marks that we can get in a standard pencil from the set that I've got anyway, I know there's nine beats and B and all the weights of 14, 15. But generally the higher numbers come in the graphite sticks, but we don't need to worry about that. Just use whatever pencil you have. So if you've got a six B or a four beat, just go ahead and use that. The darkest tone for this technique is going to work best. So I'm gonna do is I'm going to grab hold of my pencil now. And if you see on the screen how I'm holding my pencil, I'll see if you can see this a bit better. Actually lets get to zoom in, zoom back so you can see the position of my hand. So what I'm doing is I'm not holding the pencil in the classical way of how to write, but I'm holding it by holding get on the side like this. So we want to use this side of the actual pencil itself. So instead of having harsh lines, we want to have some nice soft lay down. And this is a great technique to use to just lay down your graphite on some bigger areas. So just like this, I'm going to hold the pencil like this. And then with my hand, I'm just going to put the pressure on this finger over here and just press down on the entire surface of the Pencil. And then what will happen is we'll get this side Pencil Effect if you see like this, just a nice side Pencil Effect. And the reason to do this, this so that you can get quicker coverage instead of having to use the tip like this and press really hard and get those horrible harsh lines. It's just, it just gives you a smoother look. So just like this, but I'm going to do is I'm just going to drop in that graphite. So let's just see if it can get a bit more of a Zoom is zoom. You can get a bit more close up. Lots of looking, great, fantastic stuff. So just like that, I'm going to drop in lovely graphite. And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna do it all the way to the edge of these shapes. And then once that's done, then it's just going to be a case of doing the exciting stuff. So because filling that shape up over there, I'm not going to leave too much of a gap and wants to get as much coverage as I can. So that's looking good for that one. What I'm gonna do next is I'm gonna go ahead and do eight another layer of graphite using the same technique. Just like that, using the same technique slightly changing the angle of how I'm applying it. What that will do is it will fill in those gaps a little bit better. So that's another technique if you want to fill in the areas of your paper and you don't want to have too many gaps, but you only have just a pencil. Then go ahead and use this side of the Pencil to do your initial layer. And your second layer just changed the direction of your Pencil I am doing and you can see it starts filling in those grooves and gaps that the original layer left over. That fantastic. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and I'm going to continue all the way across the bottom little shapes. And once I've done that, then I'll come back and move on to the next stage. Let's do that now. Okay, so you can see now I've got a lovely little fill in my shapes. You can see I've left a slight little gap on the top, but don't worry if you've got all the way to the edge, we're going to cover that up anyway. So the next stage now is to go ahead and use our blending stumps. So I've got my nice thick blending stump here. And it's just a case of going in and creating a nice Light blend over here so that we have even tone going all the way inside that shape. And you can see here now I'm just pushing that blend all the way to the edge of the shape and it covers up that shape quite nicely. Just like that. Very likely I'm not pressing down hard at all. So just like that in circular motions, just making sure that it all blends out and it goes all the way to the edges of the tape so that we have a nice clean finish. And then just like that, I'm gonna go ahead and do exactly the same. So just like that, make sure I go all the way to the edges where those gaps were covered, them gaps up to make sure that we have a nice, subtle, soft, lovely feel of Graphite just like that. I'm just going to continue doing that all the way across. Okay, brilliant stuff. We've got a nice smooth little fill in our shapes at the bottom. And you'll notice immediately if I bring this down a little bit, the field that we have here has a slight texture to it naturally because we use a pencil and the field that we have on our top area, what we did with the graphite powder is a lot more smoother. You can see the contrast in the difference between the two Techniques and it gives a completely different finished. So that's the advantage of using graphite it you can come up with some gorgeous various finishes using effectively the same materials. Let's now move on to the exciting stuff. 16. Adding White Dots: So for the exciting stuff I'm gonna be bringing out my favourite tools, the tool and yes, that is my lovely electric eraser. So what I'm going to do with the electric eraser now is, and this is what I do a lot in my graphite drawings. I'm gonna go ahead and do as me zoom in first so that you can see this. So let's work on the first one over here. What we're gonna do is we're gonna go ahead and we're going to start dropping in some little dotty Dots. So just like this, I'm going to drop in some little dots, the dots in the top sections of these little round curves that we've got very likely not pressing too hard. Now I know my arrays is going to make a lot of noise, so the bear with me. So just like this, just to create a nice little texture so you can see how quickly I was able to create that texture. So the next stage after that is going to be to go ahead and get my little blending stump and lightly just go over those little dots that we did. So from the bottom, going lightly over them so that they look really nice and subtle. So we don't want them to be too contrasty, just very lightly, just give it a little dB dab to get them nice and subtle. This is effectively Building Texture and beautiful patterns using our eraser. So let's go ahead now and clean our eraser because our eraser is a little bit dirty. So get that card out. So just get that clean card out and give that a nice little clean it Clean, can see there. Give the eraser and clean, beautiful stuff, will get that lovely clean eraser. So I'll move that to the side now. Don't want that to interfere into our drawing. And then again, what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna go over them again. So just over those same Dots again, lightly just on the top areas. And effectively what this is doing, just adding a nice highlights across the top. Now you can see that now we've got this nice subtle part down here. Then you've got these beautiful sharp areas on the top. And that, that's what I'm gonna do to continue right down here to the side. And you can see where effectively carving out that lovely little shape with those little dotty Dots. Now how difficult would that be if you have to physically draw them in and then use your graphite to go around them. It would be really difficult. So that's the advances that we have with this. I'm just gonna go ahead and adding some more dots down here. Light ones over here, just drop them in. Make sure that we have Texture in every area of the shapes just like that. And then on the edge, just some light ones there to blend them in a little bit. Fantastic stuff. Now again, I'm gonna go in with my paper stump, the small one, and then I'm just going to give it a little dB DHAP like this, so that the ones at the bottom are more blended in and merged with the shape rather than the top one so that the top ones effectively have a bit of a highlight on them and it creates that separation. So I kept that fantastic, isn't it lovely, right? I'm gonna do that same pattern now across all of these shapes. So once I've done that, then we'll discuss how we're going to align it all up. So let's move on to that one next. Okey-dokey. Now you can see that we've got a nice little peppered dotty effect that goes within the shape itself. And I just went ahead and used my lovely little paper stump to blend out these little bottom areas in little curly motions. Do this as you feel, how it looks good and don't worry about it if you have too much dark or too many dots. It's just about experimenting with this technique. And then eventually you'll get the hang of it. Especially if you're using an eraser, like I've got here, a big one over here, which can sometimes be a bit difficult to control when you're doing tight little details like this, which is why I tend to do my graphite drawings on bigger scales, especially when I'm using this technique, but for demonstration only, it's absolutely fine. So just like this, I'm just picking where I want these. And I think that's don't on this stage of this technique. Let's now move on to the next part. Okay, So for the next part, I'm going to grab hold of my HB pencil again. What we're gonna do is we're gonna go ahead and we're going to concentrate on darkening these areas to really create a beautiful dynamic deep contrast with this shape. So with my pencil now what I'm gonna do is the bottom areas. I want this to be really nice and dark. So I'm just gonna go ahead and use circular motions and keep them outside of these white marks that we've got. Outside of these might marks that we've got. I'm just going to use circular motions Just add a little bit more of a darker feel to them. And what that does is effectively pops them out a little bit more. And it just adds to the more refinement of the actual shape itself. Just like this, it's very subtle, not pressing too hard, just using round circular motions like this. Just round circular motions to effectively just outline a type of a shadow that exists to make the form of these shapes a bit more prominent. Just like that, not going all the way to the top. I'm just doing this in the bottom half of the shape just to give it a bit more of a cleaner look. And you can see how quickly that's emerged into something rather nice, doesn't say so just like this. Just around them, white parts here, maybe just a few little speckles of dark over here, and then just maybe a couple of lines. It's effectively doing the same that we did on this area. However, on this every we used Clean sharp lines on this. What we're doing is we're just doing this kind of blending round movement to just filling those gaps and effectively just merge and bring out some details. So just like that, you can see now that is looking really nice. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and I'm going to continue doing that for all of these all the way across, keeping it nice and dark at the bottom just like this. And don't worry if you go over it too much and you've covered up with too much dark, just leave it as it is. Don't stress about it. Don't try getting this first exercise demonstration. Perfect. It really is about experimenting and really getting the feel for how to use graphite in this dynamic way to build beautiful details. So I'm going to continue doing that now across all other than that, I'll speak to you once. That one is done. Okey-dokey. Now we have finished our lovely little dark edit to our little shapes at the bottom. And you can see that it's created a beautiful contrast. I just went backwards and forwards filled in the areas that I thought needed a little bit more dark. And you can see that this technique of building this beautiful texture and detail, it's just a fantastic. And as I said, I use this all the time in my bigger drawings with graphite. And it just adds this excellent depth that you wouldn't really be able to get with a another medium, especially if you're just using one medium on its own. So let's now leave that as it is, and we can move on to the next technique. 17. Technique 8: Smoke Effect: Okay, welcome back. So this next technique is actually just using technique number two, which was Creating white mark. We created White marks in our lovely little example over here like this. And what we're gonna do is we're going to focus on these soft white marks here that we created for this kind of final technique or an edit of this technique. And we're gonna be using our potty eraser. So grab yourself, you're putting eraser, get it nicely or molded up into a shape. So I'm just going to do that with my eraser, get it to a decent shape. And what you want here is you want it to be nice and sharp, but it needs to be rounded from the edge. So just like this, I've got it nice and sharp towards one point so that I can hold it like this from the back. And then I can use this kind of rounded point to craft out the shape and design of what I want. So what we're gonna do is we're going to concentrate on the chimney areas. So we're going to have some lovely puffs of smokey smoke coming out of the chimney area. And we're going to create this using our potty eraser. So what we're gonna do here is we're just going to grab hold of the posterior razor. And just like this, we're going to swoop upwards. And you can see just swooping upwards has already created that lines. So sweeping upwards here, I just added that beautiful line, keeping it nice and thin using the edge. And then I'm just gonna do a Debbie, Debbie with the potty eraser like this on the left, just giving it a Debbie dab, pressing. Get on. And actually I'll get a bit more of a Zoom is zoom in so you can see this one a bit better. Let's just move this to the side so you can see the area we're working on. And just like that, I'm just pressing onto my potty eraser onto the left-hand side to give it an indication of Smoke. So I'm just giving it a little tap like this. And if you notice that now it's not taking much off and that's because we've got a bit of that Graphite attached to the actual end of that potty. So I'm just gonna go in, give it a folding, fold. And that basically gets rid of where the graphite has touched and you've effectively got a Clean point again. So just like this now, you can see there, it started adding more. Now you can go in and do these circular motions as well to add a bit more of a shape and definition. But I don't want to do that too much because I don't want it to be too defined. It to be nice, light and airy. So just doing these round little shapes like this. Now, do remember that the paper that you use will determine the effect that you get and you don't want to be rubbing too hard with your potty eraser at this stage. Because what can happen is that if you're using paper that is too thin, then it will rip and tear. And you don't want to do that because it just leaves a horrible mess then doesn't say. So just like this, just dabbing it on. Now you can see I'm twisting and changing the shape of my posterior razor. As I do this, I'm just manipulating that shape to give me some nice little puffs, cloudy puffs of this smoky effect that I've got here. And it's just fantastic. You can see it's coming up with some nice, nice effect over there. So again, just going to rub it in to my potty. So just like that, not doing it too much, just keeping it nice and soft. So let's leave that like this, as it says. And now let's move onto our blending stump. With the blending stump, what we're gonna do is we're going to start refining this a little bit. We're gonna go ahead and use the blending stump to just melt in them edges like that. Just like that. And you can even get some movement of that Smoke. Now, the paper that I'm using here is not usually the paper that are used for my bigger pieces. With my bigger pieces, I do tend to press down quite hard to create this effect. And you can see with this paper over here, if we just get the brush and move it across, we can see we're getting a little bit of a kind of like a darkish tone. And that's all that is, is just a graphite with the potty eraser pushing it into the grooves. If you don't want to get this type of effect where you get this kind of like blotchy effects over here. Then make sure that the paper that you use as a decent tooth to it and test out this actual practice exercise before go ahead and use it on your artwork. So what you don't want to do is you don't want to start pressing down and getting results that you don't like. And it effectively ruins your artwork. But even if it does ruin your artwork and it's not the effect that you wanted, we can easily go in and start adding and changing and correcting it With Graphite. That's not a problem. So that's one thing to watch out for. Doing sure that the paper and graphite that you're using, you have tested before, before you go ahead and do a more detailed, time-consuming drawing like this. So again, with my eraser now, I'm just gonna go into those little areas there And then just lift a bit more graphite from the corners. Can you see over there? And just using the edge of the eraser to really add in that highlighted look. So just there. And over here we've got the edge of the eraser adding in that highlighted look. That's about it for the posterior razor, I think what we're gonna do now is let's move onto my lovely electric razor. So I'm just going to get hold of my cards so I don't go and do some smudgy welcome, I lovely artwork. And with this, but I'm gonna do is I'm just going to add in some more highlights. So what this will do is this will completely remove the graphite as much as possible. And this will start giving some definition. These little puffy puffs of smoky clouds. So just like this, just a little bit, they're a little bit there. We don't want to overdo it. Just a little bit there and a little bit coming out of their fantastic stuff. So just like that, there's areas that you want to cover up maybe that you don't like and go ahead and do that. Want to show a bit more and go ahead and do that. So just like that, I quickly went in with my lovely electric eraser. And what I'm gonna do now is I'm going to grab hold of my brush. So this was just my normal brush over here. And let's just give this a little clean to clean. You can see that there'll be a residue of graphite on there. And just give it a little tap. Now that's already to use. And with this, I'm just going to use this to soften up the smoky, smoky area. So just like this, I'm just going to soften it up, add a little bit of Soft to it to make it look gorgeous. So just like that Softening that Graphite, don't want to move the Graphite completely off. Don't want to mess up our beautiful velvety background, but just softening it up just like this. And then just doing a couple of sweeps across, I will get latte looking fantastic. So now the next one is to use my little thin stomp and going in and just creating some blending, blends with this near the highlights, I'm just using it on the edge of the highlights just to make this more interesting. So just like that, just gonna go over those highlight parts like this. Just really nice and soft. Blending it out, making it look like it's just floating around in the air. And again, working on bigger sheets of paper. It just adds so much more depth and interests to this effect when you're doing this smoky effect. I've done this as so many times. We will go through some of the artworks that I've done on the bigger sheets to show you how to apply this on other drawings. And it's just absolutely brilliant. So just like that, I've got that nice little beautiful smoky Smoke going on up there. So if we just do a zoom in, zoom back, and we can see this in context and get a bit more closely ROP, fantastic stuff. So just like that, have a play around, just maybe add a couple of Cloudy Cloud puffs of smoke up here and maybe a few more up there. Just lightly with your potty eraser, just press down, press down and do a little twisty motion like this, not too hard, just keep it nice and light and airy. And it's going to look great and it produces such a nice contrast with the beautiful smooth black background. Now you may have noticed that there's a lot of shine going on over here. And the reason for that is that I've got all these lights on. So if I turn my lights off a little bit so you can see it's darkened up that area. If I turn the other one off and then you'll be able to see a bit more of a contrast. So I've actually got loads of lights on here. So if I turn them all off, Let's see what it looks like. That one off and that one. Oh, well, now it gets completely dark but you know what I mean? I just wanted to show you the difference in the actual contrast. So let's put the lights back on. And again, that Graphite shine is always going to exist. It's very difficult to get rid of, especially if you're using different types of graphite or if you're using the sharp edges via blending. And basically you've got to maneuver your movement of layering down that graphite to try eliminating it the best you can. But in the end of the day, if you're going to go ahead and put your artwork in a frame or something like that, then it's absolutely fine. You'll be able to look at it at an angle where you won't see any shines. So that's it for the final technique. Again, that was a technique that just added on the second technique that we did where we created this beautiful, wonderful Lines. And effectively we've really gone ahead and used the second technique, mostly in different forms all the way across our lovely little sketch over here, up here, and a little bit on the edges. So that's it for the main techniques. Let's now move on to adding some final details. So let's do that next. 18. Shadows & Details: Okey-dokey, welcome back. Let's now do a little bit of detail work in this house seat house areas. So let's get back to the screen now and have a look at what we need to do. So I've just got a bit of a little dusty dose there. So I'm gonna go ahead and I'm just going to get rid of it with my lovely little brush from time-to-time, if you don't come back to your drawing for awhile, sometimes you can get an accumulation of dust and a good tip to avoid that is always cover your artwork if you're going to leave it for awhile with a clean piece paper. So just puts a clean piece of paper over it like I've done here. And that way you won't have that horrible accumulation of dust or bits and bobs going all over the place. Okay, so let's now move that Sheets away and let's concentrate on this area over here. So for this, what I'm gonna do is I'm going to be using my lovely little mechanically pencils that I've got. I've got the two grades, like I mentioned before, I've got a Tooby and a four beat lead in these pencils. But before we go ahead and do that one I'm going to do is I'm going to create a little bit of a shadow work to make the house pop a little bit to just add a bit of a illusions. So I'm going to grab hold of my lovely blending, blend stick over here. And before I go ahead and do this, just got to make sure that we have a little bit of graphite on here. So just like this on a piece of paper, I'm just going to see, and I've got a bit of graphite on there that will do, don't want to have too much graphite powder on your blending stick. Otherwise you're gonna get smudgy smudge is. So let's now have a look at this area over here. So I'll just get a bit of a Zoom is zoom in so you can see this a bit better, fantastic stuff. So what I'm going to do is I'm gonna go ahead and I'm going to drop in a little shadow area over here. So just like this, very lightly, just put this backward and forward motion which can add in a little shadow, which is basically the shadow from this kind of hilly hill that we've got here. And it's just adding a bit of that cast shadow onto the roof. But we don't want to get into too much details of cash shadows and reflections and things like that, which just want to keep it basic. So you don't have to worry too much about this, but I'm just adding this lovely little shadow here. So just like this, I'm adding a little shadow and this will really give it a bit of depth and make the illustration pop. And it will effectively separate these elements so that they don't all look too flat. So just like that, I've just lightly with a bit of very light pressure, tap down and added this layer of shadow over here. So nice and easy to do with our beautiful blending stumps. And I'm gonna do the same over here. I'm just going to follow along this shape and just add a little shadow. But I'm going to do, we're gonna do it till details because it's just going to make it easier for me. So just like that, a bit of a tilted tilt and then I'm just gonna go ahead and I'm just going to lightly just add a shadow line. Just like that. So soft and subtle that you wouldn't even know it's there, but it makes a huge difference. So just like this, maybe a little bit higher and following the pattern of the edges of those round circles that we've got over here. So just like making them a little bit bumpy. So it looks like we've got this shadow reflection going on over here. And that's about it. So I'm just going to move that back. And you can see that it's made such a nice subtle difference. But you can see that there really is something going on. Now, what we're gonna do is we're going to move that one to the side again. And now I'm going to grab hold of my Tooby lead mechanical pencil to just gonna do a click at the click to make sure that it's there and that we've not run out, so we don't want to run out halfway through. So just like that, we've got enough of it there. And then what I'm gonna do is I'm going to start concentrating on the roof tiles and adding a bit more detail on them so that we can have a little bit more interests. I'm just going to tilt this to the side like this. And then we're gonna get my piece of paper where I can rest my hand on, put that over here. And then basically all it is is a case of just following the direction of the lines. So just like this, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to lightly dropping a line like this in these tiles. And that just adds that extra element of detail. So I'm just dropping in three lines there. Whatever space you have in this part, just dropping that many lines. If you have a bigger tile dropping four lines or dropping two lines, just dropping a couple of details like this. Very light, nice and easy. Don't need to be super straight. It just adds to the organic weakness of the actual drawings. So you can see that's just enhanced that lovely, lovely shape. And it's just made it pop out a little bit. So just like that, just gonna go over this area quickly. And you can see with a mechanical pencil you have that uniform Mark that nice and easy straight line that's staying the same all the time. It's not wearing down and creating thicker and thinner lines like you get with a standard pencil. Just like this. And you can see I'm doing the same over that shadow area that I'd built. And again, that's just going to add to that extra elements of depth. So with that, I'm just gonna go ahead and do another tilt, the tilt T to get my angle right for my hand. And I'm gonna do the same and base effectively what we're doing is we're just doing a bit of a cross hatch details. So just like this, and I start at the bottom here, 123 and then 123 and maybe for on that one. And then just like that, just adding these in. And again, I do this quite often with my drawings. I usually these type of detail towards the end, especially if I have a nice light element or elements in my drawing after I've done a lot of the blending, blending work with the dark graphite powder. I like to just go in and just flesh out some of these lovely little Details. Not too much. They're very light, they're not too prominent. But when you have a look at the picture once you've completed, you can just see these lovely little details pop out. And it just adds that extra dimension to your artwork is just so much one, isn't it? So just like this, I'm just going to carry on and add 34 lines, maybe sometimes five. There's no exact formula to it. Just adding couple of lines that will fit your drawings shape. And just like that, what we've done is we've created a beautiful little Texture over there that looks fantastic, That doesn't say so if you want to make it a bit more defined and a bit more prominent than what you can do is we go back over here. We can just go ahead and add a long line that goes all the way to the top, which follows that initial timeline that we had. And it's effectively just outlining the tile lines. So just like this, follow it along. Don't want to overdo it. If you have a slightly broken line, it's fine. You don't need to keep anything. Perfect. Art. This is not an exam. So let's just tilt this again the other way. Got it. They're beautiful. And then what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna go ahead and maybe just lightly just adding a little bit of a line on the top over here. Just like that to give it a bit more of a sharper edge. Because what you can, if you remember that when we created this initial sharp edge on the top, we did it with that beautiful technique that we did earlier on. Sometimes while you're working with graphite and other areas, you can actually muddy up or smudge those beautiful clean lines that you did. So you can easily fix them by just using a nice sharp point on your pencil and just Crafting it out and just Refining it like dislike what I'm doing here. So just like that, a little bit of refinement there and here. And that's looking great. So what we're gonna do now is we're going to move on to some of the details on this front part of the house where we've got this front panel. Okay, so for this part, what we're gonna do is we're just gonna go ahead and maybe dropping a couple of brick lines. So what I'll do is I'm going to do another tilted, tilted on this just to make the angle easy for me and just lightly with a very light touch. And you're going to drop in a couple of lines, going in, in this direction. Very light, not pressing hard all the way down to where that shadow part is, and then turning it again. And then what that does is it gives me a bit of a blueprint to follow. So just like this, I'm just going to add in a couple more of these brick lines going the other way, nice and vertical, not going to fill the whole thing up. I don't want to add in every single brick and then maybe just add in a little window over here. So just like this, we don't want to just have a plane effective front wall of the house or edge of the house. We want to add in a little window. So nice curvy, curvy window from the top. Just like that drop in any style of window that you want here. You don't have to follow the exact shape that I'm doing. I'm just dropping in this window like this. It's just like a curvy top rectangle. Just like that. Maybe give it a little bit of a border, a window frame. Nice and easy and quick. No need to worry about how big the window's going to be, where you're going to place it. Just keep it nice and simple. Just like this couple of lines that cross, couple of thin lines going on top. There you go. You've got yourself a lovely window. So I'm gonna do, is just to add a little bit more interests to that window. I'm gonna go in and just give it a bit of a shadow. So I'm going to use that same toward cilia and papers stump that I did with the shadow before. I'm just going to very lightly just add a little shadow over here on the right side and on the underbelly of that window and that will just make it pop. And then on the inside, I might just add another shadow here on the left and on the right. Look at that just a couple of little movements with your lovely paper stump, and it's looking great. So let's move that on the side. Now we've got ourself, a nice little almost finished drawing. So the next step now is going to be to just go ahead and tidy up some of the areas that we want to just clean up. But before we do the final movement, and that's gonna be removing the tapes, which is the most Fun part of the entire project. So let's move on to that one next. 19. Final Refinements: Okay, welcome back. Let's now do a final little clean up of our sketch. And what I mean by clean or pairs, no, I don't mean that we're going to clean it up with a map or a brush or anything like that. I'm talking about just adding in some fine details to do the last bits of Refinements that we want so that it gives it a complete look. So let's get back to the screen. What I've got is I've got my phobia Pencil. I usually like to use a base Pencil such as a for B, which is the middle ground between not too dark and not too light. And it gives a nice consistency in terms of the Graphite to just do these kind of like touch up areas that we want to correct or just finish up and make them look a little bit better. So just by looking at my drawing here, I'm going to make sure I've got my paper at hand so it doesn't start doing smudgy smudges everywhere. Well, I want to do is I want to just lightly just adding a little bit of form on the edge of the top part of this border because I don't like it being too fluffy as it is. So let's go ahead and do that. I'm just going to tilt this to the side. And all it is is a case of just lightly dropping in some lines, not pressing too hard. The four b's should be able to manage this nicely. I'm just going over those bumpy bumps very carefully, just like that. And using circular motions should just blend out those areas that seem a bit fuzzy. So just like this, it's just a refinement exercise to final lovely little touches that we're gonna do to have a complete drawing and make it look really nice and balanced and make it look finished. We don't want an unfinished piece now. Do we know we'd just like that. I'm just going around those areas and it's just adding that beautiful layer onto that Graphite. Not pressing hard as I said before, just going over it like this. Just adding that beautiful edge. I'm going to continue over here and I'm just going to keep my pencil really light. So it's just adding a kind of outline so that we have a bit of a separation between the shadow of that back panel of the house and these fancy Areas. Or just bring this a bit closer over here. So just like different, just adding discontinuation of a nice darkish lines going across just to create that separation. Following the shapes that we have to keep it nice and organic. You don't want a straight line here. You want it to follow the initial shape that you had. Now, these shapes might be a lot bigger for you on your drawing or they might be smaller. That's fine. Just go ahead and do it the best you can just to make sure that we don't have any gaps. And if you have any gaps here in between the shapes, just fill them up with your graphite by doing circular motions like this. Just filling it up and making it look really nice, just like that. You can see, I just filled it up and it's looking fantastic. So just here, a little bit more there, make sure it's all the way to the edge. So it looks really, really nice. If we have a look at it, again, look at that beautiful stuff. So the next part that I want to refine is really this area over here. Because again, because we were working on it quite a lot, I'm most likely just did a bit of a smudgy smudge or we didn't get too much coverage. So let's just go on the edge of our lovely chimney area. And just like that, what I'm gonna do is I'm just going to use my pencil now to do these kind of circular, very, very light movements, not pressing hard at all. You don't want to have that Graphite overlap too much. Otherwise it's just going to create that horrible Shane. So just like this, very nice and light, very light pressure, circular movements. And you can see we're just filling in this area to refine it a little bit, a bit more over here, starts off with circles and then just move into the sharp lines. And then maybe a little bit up here, a little bit of handover, a model modelled area over here. So that's going to bring it out a little bit more. And then this section here where it's very difficult to get the blender and because it's so tight, just like that. Just keep using the side part of your Pencil. Don't use the sharp tip of the lead. Just use the side part of it and just keep going in, in very light gentle circles. Go ahead and finish that off. And then I'm just going to do a tilted tilt on the side. And I'm going to continue with the movement up here. I want this to be really nice and sharp. So if we just do it like this very lightly, not pressing hard at all, keep it nice and soft and that's looking rather nice now. So we got a little bit more down here. I think we have. So over here again, I'm just gonna go ahead and use my lovely circular motions with my soft lead graphite for be Pencil. And it's talking fantastic. You can do this with a darker pencil as well as six B or an eight beat. I like to use the middle level Pencil. I'm this because what I don't want is I don't want it to get too dark that you can actually see too much of this blended, blended stuff that we're doing. So we want it to merge in nicely with the background. And because we've got the darkest area up here, we've got the eight be up here, sorry, it's actually the nine beats and hindbrain powder, not the eight B. What am I talking about then? What you don't want is you don't want to have something to dark over here because it will just add a layer of shine on it. So just a nice little for B, we'll do the job, but use whatever pencil you have. It makes no difference because you're just learning these lovely little techniques and tricks, and it's all good. So we've got a little bit more over here. We've got a bit more of this fluffy fluff over here. So just nice round circular motions. Keep to that soft circular motion. Keep your pencil slightly tilt it to the side, not wanting to do any pressure or detailed work and nothing like that. It's just a smoothing exercise. That's what it's like. A smoothing exercise. So reminds me of a smooth ER, actually fancy, fancy a smoothie, a nice mango ice-cream smoothie. Who am I make myself one of them. Okay, right. I think I'm going to make a note of that. A nice mango ice cream smoothly, okay, the things that make us excited, right? So what I'm gonna do is now with my pencil, I've just noticed that I've got a little bit of a fluff here where we did the window. So I'm just gonna go ahead and refine that with my same Pencil. Just press down a little bit hard, they're a little bit harder. We're here. And look at that. Just adding in those slightly darker lines are completely enhanced. That window, again, a little bit dark there. No need to do it all the way around. And then maybe just a little flick up like this, where the bottom part is. Fantastic and maybe one going across at the bottom. It's always good to add a nice dark line where we have some shadow work. It will just make the difference a little bit more prominent and you'll have more contrast and it will direct your eye towards where we have that separation of Details. So that's another tip. Just add a nice little dark line where we have the shadow so that it all doesn't look too blurry or merges into one another. Fantastic stuff. Okay, so what we're gonna do now is I'm just going to have a look at this step back and have a look at this. I think that's, are looking rather nice. Now what you can do is you can go in as much as you want. You can add in a little bit more shadows here if you want. You can add in some more details on the house, the house. So maybe just refined the smoky area over here. I'm going to leave that entirely up to you, but I'm going to stop it at this point. Otherwise, I'm gonna be here forever and I'm just gonna keep doing more and more because I'm never satisfied with the things that I do. But you need to be satisfied. Otherwise you're going to stress out and it's not about stressing out, like I always say. It's about relaxing, so leave it at that point, give yourself a little bit of time. Once your time is finished on that, then just leave it alone. So that's basically it. Now we've completed all the techniques. We've used, all of them in the various areas of this sketch. We built this SketchUp from the ground up using the first technique, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh. I've lost count of how many techniques we've had. But again, they're all gonna be available in the resource sheets that you can follow along. And if you follow this step-by-step, which I hope you have, then you will have something similar like mine. It won't be the same, but it's gonna be fantastic as your first initial jump into the adventure of dynamic graphite. Let's now look at how I've used these techniques and some of my more complex artworks. And then we can also discuss the exciting part of your Class Projects. Let's move on to that one. Next. 20. The Washi Tape!: Oh, but before we move on to the class project, we've got to do the most exciting part that I said, and I think I forgot to show you that, so let's do that now. What we're gonna do is because we've finished our lovely sketches, sketch. We're gonna go ahead and we're going to remove them tapes. Oh, this is the most exciting and satisfying part. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to make sure that I don't have any graphite all over my table. I'm just gonna get a clean piece of paper now. I'm just going to put it onto my table like this nice and clean. I'm going to get my artwork, turn it around, flip it around, got a little bit of Graphite there. So just like this, I'm going to remove them back tapes that have got, so just guessing vaccine can see this a bit better. And so we're just going to move these tapes very gently, very carefully. Oh, it's exciting, isn't it? I love this part of Art. When you get to remove them tapes, especially if you've used a Washi tape to create a lovely white border, sometimes this can not work out the way you wanted it to. Sometimes you do end up tearing some of the paper, but it's all good. Just take your time. Be gentle with it. Don't rush this part. If you've folded the tapes behind the sheet like I have, then do be very careful when you're moving them off. You don't want to tear your paper. Sometimes in the excitement of things, I end up doing this a bit too fast and then my paper gets torn and it's sometimes goes into the artwork and we don't want to do that, otherwise we won't be happy bunnies then will we know we won't. Okay. So just like that, I'm going to get hold of it now. I'm going to turn it around. And basically we get there, alright, with the sheet now you can just move that one out of the way. Now, the best way to do this is move your tapes. So I'm going to use this tape over here since just get a bit more of a zoom in, zoom back with the Tape. You want to move it up and away. You don't want to downwards like this. So debit and one quick swoop. You want to slightly move it up anyway. So what I'll do is I'll demonstrate this CSR. I'm pulling this up, just hold it down from the other corners. So I'm pulling it up and away like this, very, very gently look at that. It's coming off. Beautiful, beautiful stuff that isn't it. Just like that. I'm pulling it away. How satisfying is that great stuff? Look at that. It's like the reveal, isn't it? The reveal of your final piece. And you can see that Washi tape is creating a beautiful, clean, gorgeous edge to the artwork that we did. Move that to the side. And again, with my other hand, now what I'm going to do is I'm just gonna go ahead and I'm gonna pull this one back, just like this very gently. Pull it up and away from the artwork. So we're going to the left-hand side. You don't want to pull into the artwork, it away from the artwork. So just like that, very slowly and gently look how beautiful and clean that line is. Wow, Okay, Ryan, need to calm down. So let's just move them sticky tabs to the side. And again, I'm going to grab hold of this one now. And it up and away from the artwork. So it's away from the artwork, really gently pulling it away. And that's the advantage of using Washi tape because it's very low tack. It doesn't have too much glue on it. It can easily be removed even after a few days of it being taped down. So you can see just like, Oh, we'll get that beautiful, beautiful stuff. And then finally this one up and a way towards me now I'm pulling it just holding down the sheets of paper with my other hand. Look at that. How beautiful is that? So just like that, really nice and easy, not doing it too hard. And if you find that it starts tearing, just slow it down a little bit and maybe just press down on the tape while you're doing it so that it doesn't take off too much, but so far so good. And again, it depends on the paper you use. You need to use good quality paper for this to work. If you're using cheap paper than the surface can easily get pulled away. So there we go. There's that final one. Look at that beauty. Let's now have a quick look at this and you can see the artwork looks so nice. It's like it's already ready to be framed and that's why I tend to do, I tend to frame a lot of my drawings that I do. I don't frame all of them, but I like to have a wall full of my artwork so that I can see what I'm doing and it's an inspiration for myself to make more artwork and try out different techniques. And it's just a nice way to see what level you're at, at the moment and gives you just so many more ideas. So I highly suggest that the artwork that you produce mechanized body like this with Washi tape when you start it off and then just go ahead and put it on your wall, put it on your wall wherever you have space, accumulate these beautiful pieces that you do. And even if they're not perfect, just put them on and then try again and then take that one often put one, put on the one that works best for you. So it's just a nice visual of what you've been doing and it works great. And I think it's a really nice place to sit down and just look at your artwork. At my your beautiful artwork. Have a nice cup of coffee, relax, and what more do you want? So let's continue. Now. We've done the Tape it Tape reveal. We've removed the tape. And let's now look at some of the artworks that have applied these techniques to and talk a bit about the class projects. Let's do that next. 21. Artwork & Class Project: Okey-dokey. Hello and welcome back. Let's now look at some of the artwork that I usually produce With Graphite and graphite powder as we went through the techniques in the class. This is just to give you a little bit of inspiration and a bit more extra insight into what can be produced With Graphite using these simple techniques that we've done. And that's all I've used for my artwork. All I've done is I've spent a little bit more time paste out my drawing and gone much more bigger scale than what we practiced with the exercises that we did. So let's have a quick look at this on the screen. You can see I've just got my lovely little artwork that we've done. So let's just move this one out of the way. And just to put it into context, this is the size. What we did. The artwork that I generally tend to do is a lot biggest. We've got these lovely white sheets on the side over here. So let's just put that on this side. And then all I'm gonna do is I'm just going to do a reveal. So let's just move these sheets away. And there we go. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, Oh my gosh, look at all that detail. How complicated is that? Both. I assure you There's no other technique that I've used in this that we haven't covered. So let's have a look in a bit more detail. Okey-dokey. So on this one, what I've done is I've used pretty much all of the techniques that we went through in the class. If you can see over here, if I just bring your attention into this area over here, you can see I've got that nice little, lovely detailed work and then some blending, blending work onto this little tandem, little lamppost area. And then over here I've got some texture work where I'm just Building in the dark and then leaving a little bit of light and using the eraser to highlight certain areas where I want the light to shine. And you can see this looks absolutely fantastic. And then if we move on to this area over here, you can see that I've got these little round ball, the ball things over here. So let's just get a bit of a Zoom is zoom in on that so you can see this a bit better. You can see over here we've got these little round balls and then we've got these kind of like basket that I've put this thing inside. So again, this is very whimsical style of drawing, which you know, if you watch my classes before, that's my particular style that I love to do. Just love to come up with these little designs that are just in my mind. But again, you don't have to do this on whimsical style. You can do this on realism. So if you maybe have a kind of like a setup where you just following the outlines with Drawing on maybe, I don't know, some toys or set of pencils or just some little bits and bobs that are lying around that you want to draw. You can use all these techniques on that. So use the same principles that we went through in the techniques of just building this lovely little texture that you can see over here. And we've got some more textures over here that we had on the house. You can see we've got the tails. We've got similar things like with the brick lines and then we've got the darker areas with a little bit of cross hatching. And again, it's just the case of Building that Texture, just like we did in our lovely little sketch where we demonstrating those technique, just building those textures, adding in those darks with our paper storm. And again, the paper stump is just fantastic to really add that depth and layer that you can't do just with a graphite pencil on its own. So you can see over here we've got a lot more detail going on and I've got a little car over here and then some more funky little details hairs. If you just get a zoom back, you can see a bit better on this one. So over there we've got a table with all sorts of lovely treats and coffees and cakes and all sorts. So just like that, come up with an idea sketch, just like we did in the exercise. So do a quick little sketch and then go ahead and start adding in those details in little pockets. Now I know that looking at this picture over here, it might seem a little bit overwhelming. But all I wanted to show you the overall effect that you can get by using the same techniques and kind of strategy that we used in this, in the steps introducing this illustration, you can go ahead and produce something a lot more complex and more detailed, but you just do it in stages. So that's what I really want you to do for your class projects. So the first thing is to go ahead and follow the techniques in the original sketch that we did here. So go ahead and follow all the techniques that you did in the lessons to produce a nice small sketch to get you familiar with these dynamic ways of using graphite and graphite powder. Then for the main parts of your class project, go ahead and come up with a nice creative sketch or sketch from realism. Just maybe sketch a tea pots or maybe just a few items of food or anything that's lying around in your house. Just go ahead and give that a sketch, outline first. Then go in with a little bit of graphite powder to block out the background like we've got here. We've got the background over here. I did this entire drawing hair in the exact same Stages and steps. So I did was I did the outline over here of this shape where I had the outline of the shapes and the house is first and then I blocked in all that dark from the sky area with my graphite powder cleaned up the lines just like we did it over here, just cleaning them lines. And then I started building in those details. And then I did that smoky Smoke Effect right at the end, just like we did in the final parts of the lessons for our lovely little sketch. And you can see that once you have a beautiful, nice big drawing like this, then it's just so much FUN to just put it in a frame and then just put it on your wall. And that's what I tend to do. I work on these a bigger pieces. I'll just work on them step-by-step a little by little, so I don't do it all in one go. And I advise you not to do this all in one go when you come to doing your Class Projects, even with your lesson areas sketches that you're doing with the first, initial sketch that you've got here. Take your time on it. Don't rush, do a little by little every day. And then that will build up your technique and it won't get bored of doing the same thing. Because sometimes that's what happens when you're doing Art, when you're using the same median again and again, you can get a little bit bored of just that repetition. So it's always a good idea to take a few breaks and break down your sketch into the different stages. Do the outline first, maybe have a little rest, then adding your lovely powdered background with the graphite powder, and then just have a break from it all and then come back to it and then adding more details. And then just keep building those details. Do it in short little sessions like maybe 15 min or 10 min. Don't go longer than that because you'll just have Graphite fingers and you'll just get tired. Both if you're the type of person who wants to just get something started and just get it all finished in one, go, Go for it. But I do recommend work small, maybe not work on something as big as this, this one that I've got here on the screen. This is an A3 size, so this was a five and this is a three. So you basically got four of these in one. So I would suggest maybe stick to A5 even for your class project Creative Sketch, or go to A4 if you want to do that, the advantage of using a bigger sheets is that you can go ahead and do a lot more contrast work and detailed work and not have to worry about doing too much a smudgy, smudgy. So that was just a nice little look at how these techniques can be used to produce lovely little sketches that you can use and get inspired from and then put up on your walls. That's it. So basically now you will be ready now to do your class projects. So remember, do your Class Projects, Cavaco at all the lessons to produce this initial sketch that we did over here, get that practice and then number to go ahead and create your own sketch. Whether it be a whimsical, Creative sketch from your imagination, or whether it might just be a still-life during or even a little doodle here and there of anything that you like. So apply those techniques the best that you can. Then once you've done, make sure that you upload your class project onto the class project gallery so that we can all see your beautiful artwork and process. And then don't forget to leave a review on the class so that we can all learn from each other and be inspired by each other and that other. Fantastic students like yourself can enjoy the class and enjoy your beautiful journey in the world of dynamic. So I'm going to let you get on with that. And then we can just finally wrap up the class with some final thoughts. 22. Final Thoughts: Okey-dokey, welcome back. So now hopefully you would have gone through all the lessons and produce a wonderful, a little sketch that we did step-by-step with our techniques. And this will have hopefully inspire you to start doing your class project, as we mentioned before. Now remember, just keep it nice and small. Don't go ahead and do a huge drawing that you might end up starting and then you'd might not want to finish because you don't want to be de-motivated with too much detail or too much of a bigger task. I want you to keep things nice and small to keep to that A5 size for your class project after you've done lovely techniques in the lessons for the small sketch. And then hopefully this will give you that building block to really delve into creating beautiful artwork with graphite that you may just end up putting on your ball like I did, is, I hope you enjoyed this lovely journey into the dynamic world of Graphite. Please ensure that you do go ahead and upload all the work that you've produced, whether it be just the sketch that you did with the techniques following the lesson and also the class project. I went ahead and produce, upload them systematically. You don't have to wait until your class project is complete. Upload your lovely sketch that you did on the follow along step-by-step, burst and then work on your class project and then go ahead and upload them. That way, we can all see how our progress is and you can get inspiration from each other. And that's really what it's all about, learning from each other, getting inspired and motivated and sharing our lovely artwork and lovely techniques that we've learned within this beautiful world of arts. And if you fancy learning about other mediums, I have more than 20 classes on arts and traditional media, and I even have some on digital. So do check out my Skillshare homepage where you can see all the classes that I don't read the student reviews and have a look at what this lovely students like yourself have produced in there Class Project. It's a huge inspiration, not just for other students but for myself. A lot of the times I personally get inspired by what the students produce in my classes. I'm not spurs me on to create more lovely Art and produce more classes just for you. So do follow me on Skillshare and do also follow me on social media, on my Instagram. I post on a daily basis so that you can stay in touch with me and see the types of drawings and doing. I also have a very active sketch book lifestyle, so I do post that on a regular basis and we will be focusing more on sketch book part in the coming classes in the future. So produce, staying tuned for that. And again, just relax. Art is all about relaxing. We all have very busy lives where we're stressed out and we're busy and we don't want, I want to do and things can become overwhelming. Use Art as an escape into a beautiful world of creativity. So hopefully, you would have enjoyed the entire class and you thought to a point where you're ready to do your Class Projects or you've already done your class project to share it with us or take care of yourself, keep yourself safe, healthy, add focused on the positive stuff. Yes, That's what I always say. Focus on the positive, don't worry about the negative. And let's work together and enjoy this wonderful world and the wonderful world of arts. So thank you so much for your time. Thank you for your support. And thank you for being brilliant students in this lovely, lovely world of Art and Design. And I'll see you on the next one. Take care of itself and pace