Figure drawing exercises: gain more confidence in these 3 steps

1. 001 class intro: Drawing is a great way to relax. It is an amazing communication tool and of course an essential skill if you want to work in the field. But to get the most drawing, it has to be fun. Hi, my name is Miller. I'm a visual artist and a teatro with over ten years of experience of teaching, drawing and painting. In my experience, main issue that holds many people back from creating the best work and enjoying it is confidence and the lack of good balance between challenging and more fun exercises to, to push them forward. In this class, I will walk you through three blind drawing exercises, try to test it. Exercises that help both me and my students over many years to develop better drawing confidence and have fun time doing work needed to be just that better at drawing. Together. Throughout these exercises, we will explore different approaches. Encourage more confident drawing. Discuss habits that can help you put you in the best place to grow up with much more ease. And finally, share some tips from the technical side of this creative process. If you're brand new to drawing or you haven't picked up a pencil in years, then this class is a great foundation from which to start building your drawing skills and having some fun. If you're a beginner keen to build killer skills, then this class is going to equip you with some tools that will be amazing. Compliment those more other technical sides of learning to drop. Or if you are a seasoned artist or illustrator, then this class would be a great workout for your drawing skills. By the end of the class, you'll have a set of exercises that can you, you can return to again and again. Whenever you feel the need to freshen things up, does this sounds like something you need? Then gathered drawing tools, you can get your hands-on. Join me in the next lesson. We'll, we'll look at the class project. See you there. 2. 02 class project: For the project, this test, you are going to be following along with me as I walk you through these three joint exercises I mentioned in class introduction, as well as the final drawing. Bonus content is optional, but you are more than welcome to try it out as well. The more drawings done, better things will get. By the way, drawings that you create for each of these exercises is your project. The exercises that we're going to work through our warm-up exercise, we simplified drawing of a human figure using triangles. And finally, figure drawing from an upside reference image. Based drawing in class is mostly for advanced students, but anyone can try it out. There should be no pressure to finish it. But if you feel like you're ready to challenge yourself and level up, give it a try. For each exercise. I'll explain exactly what to do and how to act and how the exercise is going to help in developing better drawing confidence. I'll be right there with you, drawing alongside and sharing my useful thoughts, hints, and tips along the way. The exercise are fun, but adding a new level of complexity with each new drawing. This week, I hope you won't feel like you're running in circles but making an actual progress step-by-step. One line, the time. The supplies are basic, just a few pencils ranging from hardware, software, from the pencils, let's say for b, few razors and an eight for Sketchbook. Simple shape sheet of paper. Since we're aiming to help you develop better drawing confidence, It is absolutely up to you how many of these drawings you'll share in the class project. If you draw something that really don't like, don't feel pressured to include it. Still. Feel free to upload the good, the bad, and the ugly too, because progress is never predict. But it helps you get you on the right track. Also, please consider leaving some encouraging comments on other students projects too. Formulating a written response, great exercise on its own. And it might spark some creative ideas for you. But also it provides so much value for that other students, after all, supportive and creative community is why we're all here. That's it for this part of the class. And when you read the, join me in the next video. Bye-bye. 3. 03 warm up exercise, making cut outs: For this exercise, we are going to start by drawing on a thicker piece of paper, a few random shapes that have curved and straight lines. And to save some time, I'm going to speed up this part of the process because more interesting and important part comes later on. Then you draw these shapes and draw the shapes on this paper. You cut them out. But remember, when you're cutting this out, remember not to throw away all the other paper that contain some interesting shapes that you can draw on soap for that. But this class or this lecture, Let's look whatever after that. So here we are. We have some cut-out shapes talked about previously. And the way you played this game is take these shapes. And I want all the ways that you can do it. Go around, flip that shape again. And that is one of the ways that you can do and then try to find some interesting shape in those. But what I most often come out from this is that I use the shapes, the negative shapes that are made by cutting these positive shapes. So sometimes I see a piece of paper that just came out and I find something interesting to draw in the Southern. There's basically these two ways that you can play this game. That you can repeat the shapes and put them on paper and then try to recognize something interesting in them. Or you can use as their source of inspiration these negative shapes that came off while you were drawing the shapes. And I will present each of these in a second. So let's randomly take one shape. Okay? This one here. And you can try to match these and find something interesting. You can do that as well. But for this exercise should be like the game and the rules. You put up your own rules. But for these, I'll try to just repeat flip them and turn them around and try to find something interesting to draw in these shapes around them. Just don't press too hard. Okay. Move it around like this. Way. I can mix and match. Let's do it like this. Then. Turn it around like this. Maybe, like you said, make some similar shapes. But smaller or bigger, like this one here. So I will already see some kind of a character in this one. You can overlap. Can already see maybe we have some character with legs and feet, but you don't have to go that way. Another thing, like I said, is to use some of these shapes that came off while you are cutting. It has doesn't have to be precise. These are just the guidelines for the shapes that you saw. And let's hold this way. So can better see. Let's do this shape here. 4. 04 warm up exercise, finding the first shape: So except this is just what came off when I was cutting these shapes. So now that you've done that, you can start drawing whatever immediately. When I created this one is this piece. So let's try. You can also flip the paper around. Sorry, I hit the camera. You can look at many different sides and then think about what you could draw. But here, I've noticed this shape could be some sort of a bird. So I'll start drawing. And of course, these, like I said, are just the guidelines. But you, this exercise is to think out of the box and enjoy this process. I was thinking about closing these eyes, but maybe I should make them open. And let's make it eyelashes. Whatever comes. You know, I think this is really cool exercise to practice. If that can be practice at low your creativity and thinking about what you could. Draw. This. No way, this should be a finished piece. Some idea. And to loosen up your hands while you're drawing. Make here, Let's make 50k. How should I do this? Something like that. Maybe you can go as for as far as you like in this stage. Maybe make this like here. Have a little bit of accent, not everywhere, but sporadically across your work. I'll look for the tangent lines, draw a new drawing, try not have the shapes that are intersecting, but maybe I did it too close. Important part is to have fun. But also think about some of the principles of drawing and design. So when you see a mistake, maybe try to rectify it, tried to correct it. Maybe add a branch of some sort. Like I said, in this game, this exercise game. You can go as far as you like. I don't know what these kind of feathers will be actually good. Put the function B, I will help birds fly. But that's okay. This is, like I said, an exercise. You can, if you like the design that you make in this exercise, you can push it further and make changes. But it's good to have something and we feel more ready for the next work. 5. 05 warm up exercise, exploration: So let's move on to the second drawing. And I don't know, looking at these, I notice some like cartoon characters or stuff like that. So in this case, we can see some kind of a carriage or a fish. Maybe. I'll do this. Maybe add some teeth. I didn't imagine it this way. But I don't know if reminded me. Sharks. So let's add another sin. We have on this side, some complicated, complicated shapes drawing. That is also something that you can think about when you're doing these exercises or when you're making your trunk. On this side we have something complicated and on the other side we should have something more simple or fluid. Just to spice things up. At the thin. It doesn't look good. If I erase some of these lines. Better. I don't know why I made nostrils, but that's okay. Then when you draw eyes, you don't have to close the entire high. Maybe it will be interesting. That is left left out. This extra says does it helps you release some of the pressured to have to prepare and create something beautiful. It relaxes your arm and makes it ready for the next drawing and for your work. Like I said, this could really be a good warm up. It all depends. How much time would you like to spend doing these things? And let's see. Other stuff that I draw, maybe actually a figure and I then I added legs. But let's think about it in different way. Maybe to this change during station of paper and see if that reminds you of something. Gives you idea. What you can find this in this drawing. Maybe flip it like this. Now, I have an idea. And again, I don't know why, but I'm also in this cartoon animal characters. So let's say I have put a bigger small nose. Let's go with a small nose. When you're creating characters, drawing stuff. And let's think about having something big, something small, something big, and something small. So I've decided to go with small nose. Actually maybe maybe even smaller, and then draw some big eyes. And what he's doing, I don't know. He looks confused. Maybe start on Mars. Maybe excited. Yeah, let's go with BAP pieces. These are his bunny ears. Make something like this. He's excited. He noticed something, I don't know what could that be? Maybe that for some other time. Maybe I should make this ears little bit flap this way. Like I said, this exercise is also a game and feel free to change things. If you feel like it. The initial drawing was just starting point and you can change it. You should feel like it. Make your own rules. It's important. And what is important is that to draw and create something that you relax your hand and feel good about it. We'll go about drawing and have fun that I cannot say enough times how much that is important. 6. 06 warm up exercise, final thoughts: Let's strengthen the slides that are in the way that he's looking. Have some soft lines on this side, like I said earlier, you don't have to close all the lines. Sometimes it's better to leave them as they are. Shape doesn't have to be exactly perfect on each side. Make it more interesting. And not all trips. I have that. Let's say that you've seen something. Maybe she saw this bird and it was like, what is this bird going upside down or stuff like that. You can even come up with the story of what's going on. And now let's, for the body. I don't know. This. He will be pointing at something that he's seen. Like you see, very rough sketches. Let's make it more around so it can fit to this style of drawing. Make it better, better like this. Making this kind of work. It makes you think about what you're doing, what you're trying to convey, or are you at all or just having fun and trying to warm up. But maybe you should try and use our chance you have to create something interesting. Have fun doing so. Now his posture is different. We know that it's not that excited. Me. See. Let me add something small up here. That's it for this. Can go next one, next one and stuff like that. Maybe I should do this because it looks better when it has this consistent line that goes all the way down here. Like I said earlier, you can have shapes that are on either side, simple and complex on the other. And think about these tangent lines are touching each other, these lines, but they're overlapping going either this way or this way. So don't use it. Touches too much. These are some, let's say, three advices that I can give you. For that. I can go on and make much more, but think I'm now ready for the next exercise. And the way you're going to do depends on you. You can use this negative shapes to find something interesting to draw. You can do this shapes the drone and overlap them, repeat them until you find something interesting. The way they should draw and stuff that you make depends entirely on you and you can decide when you think you're ready. For. The next two are core when you think you can use these drawings to tune into digital realm, trace them, colored them, or stuff like that. So hope you found it useful and hope you can do your exercise like this one and send them over to the project gallery so we can all see them and discuss about them and try to get better at our craft together. So you had fun watching this exercise. I hope you do that as well and see you in the next video. 7. 07 triangle exercise, first drawing: So here we are at drawing table. And let's make this drawing with triangles. So I'll be using the same example that I've had for the explanation part. And we're looking for directions that we see. And you can use the analogy of a clock that help to determine where to put the lines. So if you imagine, I talk also about deaths in one of my other classes, like a clock here and we have these, they are showing what time it is. So think about if line is going loop this, it should show somewhere after two o'clock. So this line here should point somewhere, let's say half past five or something like that. So you have that thing that helps you help your mind to determine where should each line go. So you can use that analogy. I often use it when I'm making. The drawing will help you figure out where to put in direction to put certain lines. So I'll start off first. Think about that. Can have, maybe put it too close. An example of mistake that can happen is if you're trying to put your drawing too close to the edges. So I just noticed that it was too close to the edge, so I've decided to change that and I'll try to go with the hand that's up. Let's have that. So this exercise, like I mentioned in the previous part, is just to help you figure out shapes. Help you understand what each shape goes. And in the next exercise, we'll go a little bit further along the way and help you draw figures and whatever other subjects that you want to draw with in much more detail. This exercise here is to relax. Put you in drawing mode and tried to figure out to help you find bigger and smaller shapes inside the drawing that you want to make. And when you making these shapes, these triangles, think about where each of 3 of the triangle tips of the triangle are in relation to add the triangles that you make, that you made. Also, think about these negative shapes that you see and see the relations between these shapes. Where is that hand compared to the head? Where is that knee? For this example, I'll use a circle or let's make it a triangle. Where is that knee compared to this hand? Does it should be lower than the finger. The thumb should be higher, where that compares to the neck. So everything should be interconnected and has certain hierarchy to a drawing. So when you're drawing, think about those stuff as well. So I have another triangle for his backpack. Here. We have the button to close because there should be a gap between the arm and the knee. That I have this triangle here. I hope you can see that. I'll make it a little bit thicker than I like to when I'm drawing these things. Because like I said, if I'm going to push this further and make it into a complete drying. I like to use these thinner lines so I can go over them with thicker ones and stuff like that. But in order for you to see better, I'll use different pencil and apply certain pressure. So you can see and you can hear that scratchy noises from my pencil here. Like it says, it can have care triangles for his alarm, for thumb. Like I said, I usually don't do it this hard, this dark, but for the example of certain that you can see better. Here are some of the triangles that are making. Also have here. For the hand. Like you see, this shouldn't be a complete drawing, but rather this part that list, rather an exercise, a few familiarizing with the subject matter that you're drawing. So it hasn't been here. But on the other foot, should be say here. What is normal and what is completely expected is that while you're drawing and making this drawing, is that you'll probably be making mistakes. And that is absolutely and completely fine because there's no other way that you can learn unless you make mistakes. 8. 08 triangle exercise, second drawing: Let's quickly add some other example. So this trunk here. So I'll start with the most obvious triangle presents hand. And again, I'm looking where by using the clock analogy, where should these lines be and how they'd be? How did we meet? So we have this shape here. Then we have triangle. And as you see me draw and I'm not making the drawing straight away. There are few times didn't just slightly hovering with my pencil on top of the paper and not touching it, just trying to see the direction that it would lead me. That. Then we have another triangle for her face, another triangle for the rest of her head. And then we're going to quickly use a gesture line. And when I'm moving across the paper, my fingers, this part, fingers are going on top of the paper and just slightly by holding thumb on my pencil and dictating the pressure that it will be. Maybe like this. Like this. Also depends if you want to have your drawing stylized or being more naturalistic. So it all depends on that as well. Always what you're trying to achieve with your drawing. So I have another triangle there, triangle, thumb and sparked off the palm. And finally, we have this four fingers. And later on, if we were making complete drawing, it could be making the head direction than central line to know where to put the nose, eyes. This part will be for the ear and stuff like that. So it could go something like this. And you will see me changed the way I hold the pencil. Because now if I'm working on details and I'm working on smaller parts, then I can hold the pencil like this. But then I'm not finished. I like better to hold the pencil like this, especially if I'm working with bigger shapes. This will be the place for the eyes and so before the nose. But like I said, this is not the part of the class we'll talk about that. They can do it in the next, the next month. And after that, we'll have our final project, our final, let's say, exam for this, for this class. But let's stick to our main subject. Let's create triangles that, that is the purpose and the sole point of this exercise. Hope you enjoyed this exercise and I hope it will help you get a better understanding of whatever that you are trying to draw. It also helps you to find certain landmarks. If you join figured, if you're making a figure drawing on the anatomy and how each of the body parts looks like. So when you go into drawing anatomy, it will be much easier for you. When you figure out this drawing by triangles. This way, you will have everything already done simplified. So that's the name of the game. Simplify, simplify, simplify. So, okay, these are my two quick examples of what you should be doing for this exercise. So I would recommend for you to, if you can trace a couple of images, if you have Photoshop, you can do it in Photoshop. Lower the opacity of the reference image and on the middle layer go on top of it. But if you don't have that, you can print out images that you want to trace, maybe figures, interiors, some other objects. Animals can be also drawn, but I like to draw human figures, so that's why I chose these. But you can have whatever you like to draw. So tried to trace over three drawings, three images, and then tried to make it like this on piece of paper. And after you've done that, see you in the next part of the class. Remember to post your work in the project gallery because I really love to see how you're progressing, how you're finding this approach. And this is helping you and how it helps you. So, see you in the next video, and I hope you enjoyed this part of the class. 9. 09 flipped image exercise, introduction: So here we are at the third exercise. And as you can see, I already did it once, but there was a problem when I noticed that the drawing that I was making, especially for the first part of the video, is out of focus. So I'll just make another one. And you see, even if that happens, it doesn't matter because repeating and doing stuff over and over helps you get better and what you're doing, especially if you love what you're doing. For this exercise, what I did, what I recommend that you should do is to have a reference image printouts, paper, take it from magazines and stuff like that. Put it on the side. Drawing but flip it. So you're watching it on the other way. Why is this important and why I recommend this exercise drawing as anything else. Basic drawing is a skill. To get better at what you're doing, better to skill, you have to practice. And sometimes it's very good to have a fresh eyes on what you're drawing. And for example, I'm using this image that I found on Pinterest. I decided to go and try, as I've done in the past, to draw it this way. Because when you're drawing the way, normally you draw the subject that should drawing, you're familiar with it and you're trying to represent it with with the way that you think it should be. But if you flip your reference image upside down, it is easier to focus just on the shapes and not what you think that you should be trying. I hope that clarifies that and try it and you'll see it for yourself. And another important thing is that when you're done drawing, you can flip it back again and then look at the mistakes and try to see what you did wrong. I see here the angle that I drew phase is not exactly as this one. So you can see that there's little mistake. This hand here is a little bit thicker. The leg should have more tilt to it and stuff like that. And it's on the back should be at least further this way, but the overall shape is fine. And also, since I made a mistake, the first part of my drawing of this thing is blurred. The other one is fine. So you'll have a bonus video of me showing how I did on this shading work. That is not primarily the focus of this class. It's showing these three exercises that will help you get better at drawing hopefully faster, but you won't get that as well as bonus with additional computing. So let's try it out again. So I have another one on the, I have another of those references that I've been showing you in the previous part of the class exercise too, I think. And let's go with it. I have it on A4 paper, but if you feel you can try to work on a smaller piece. See what works for you. And I have a couple of pencils and a couple of eraser. Pencil, regular eraser. And if I need, I even have this kneaded eraser. That's about the material that I'll be using. And without any further ado, let's start with the drawing. 10. 10 flipped image exercise, gesture and construction lines: The first thing is to look at the figure C, where and how the main gesture line looks. We have other gesture lines here and here. And then when you've done that, you just flip the paper around and all your conceptions and what ideas, what you think all fall into horror. And you just look at the shapes and see, and think how to represent those easier shapes. That is the whole point. To train your eyes, your hand coordination and everything you have to make us better. Drawing as you can. But remember, this is just an exercise that will lead you to more finished works and set you in the right state of mind when it comes to drawing. I hope. So. Let's do that. And in this case, I'll probably use a little less detail. Go. That way. We'll use all the knowledge and thinking we had from the previous class. Remember, from previous exercises. Remember when at first exercise, warm-up exercise, we used some shapes to find other shapes in the ones that we made. So we can use that knowledge here. And then we have triangles that are talked about in the previous exercise. So that will also help, but will expand from that, and not maybe just use triangles, use other shapes to get this entire drawing. So let's get on it. Because start, let's determine by looking at this image how big a drawing should be. Aware is everything compared to each other. So this is the entire space of our drawing. Now, like I mentioned it previously, previous two times, I talked about gesture line. So I think for this, it goes, It's a little bit more detailed than it should, but it helps me have a starting point. And I hope it goes something like this. I hope you can see it better. But when I'm drawing, I'm trying to have lines that are faint as possible that it can so I can correct correct them if needed, and then move on. Just move this here. So I think you can see the entire page. Okay, with that out of the way, let's just quickly finish. You can, of course, do this and check how it goes there. But for this exercise, I wouldn't recommend it. I would recommend for you to try to just use your eyes, eyeball it and be as precise as you can. Of course, nobody expecting anyone to be perfect. But let's, let's start. So we have our first triangle here. Look at the shapes or an also took look where this is compared to that. If we are sets that this is here and then we compare it to here. So let's say we have some points, coordinates that will help us make that drawing. Maybe we have triangle of sorts here. Then we move their foot, knee. And then look this point, let's place here where it goes from. There. Should be maybe like this. Okay? Then we have this triangle. Starts here, goes there, and back, hold it here. So that's triangle for her arm. New trying to divide and conquer is some might say, tried to divide it into smaller chunks to have the overall shape. And once we have the overall shape, then you can go back and work on the details. Again. Thinking about, think about this. I think about that. If that's the right, this way, right way, this is important stage of the drawing when you're setting things up. And if you make a mistake, then further along, those mistakes will pile up on each other and make an avalanche of mistakes that we'll all come back to bite you later on. But that happens and maybe make another drawing. Start again, try another one. But that is the set to not be, not be a fatal mistakes, but also take your time in this part, the drawing, and establish as much as you can things that should be. So we have another triangle that will show the negative space. I think I talked about those over and over again, but it's never a bad decision to go over. And I mentioned them again. Those negative shapes are shapes that surround our figure, the figure that we are trying to, that's basically it. I'm comparing how long is this line compared to this one, and I'm not thinking about all your smaller shapes just to compare this to this, I think it's little bit longer than this, this part inside that way. And it moves this way here. 11. 11 flipped image exercise, making simple shapes: You can see starts of the drawing. For me, it's really, some might say messy and doesn't look like much of anything. But that's the way I do it. Maybe you have this class and think you're not drawing that same way. But I find it helpful to the cook what people are doing and do it yourself. Find a way that works for you. This names. Yeah. Also when you draw it, don't stay on just one. Pair, your work and your drawing constantly and see if you're making any mistakes. And if you do an issue, things you're doing, then you erase. Because if this elbow is here, then this should be there. And then take a look at this. Maybe think about drawing through shapes like come down here and see if everything comes to a place. Like said, this is an exercise and the point of this exercise is to get better. So use anything you can and everything that's on your disposal to get better. So we have another triangle here. And these types of triangles, yes, they don't have to be sharp. Especially if you're trying something organic. It can be rounded. So like I'm doing here. Then here we have the foot. Because some thing like this. I find this part of the drawing very interesting. Exploring ways how to draw a test. Like I said earlier, it's very important to stay to dry. When you're examining, exploring the drawing. Try to fit everything that should be when you're checking things and stuff like that. And I hope you find that drawing as well because that will be very, very helpful, very helpful if you do and hard if you don't find this part enjoyable. There's not much to say about this part, just to figure out where to place the head. Whereas the most part, it's going knee on this side. And I'm trying to just make a box where everything should fit inside. I'm talking about this part here. The hair, hair smaller details and that can be much easier than later on. Then of course, we have the hand goes something like this. And attend finishes. The sleeve is maybe that's too far. Sure. The palm fingers can be very complex things to draw, but for now just please place very roughly. And I had a ball. Okay. That's out of the way. The shape for past. I can see 123455 sides to it. We have this chunk of hair here and another chunk here. Let's make the line that will go across the face. And when we're at it below, I have the hat. So for the head, think about making like this. Think about it. Think about also where the eyes looking a little bit down. So I have the side of the face that quarter. And that's the basic premise of what I'm trying to drop. A hat. And a near should be there. I shouldn't be there, eyebrows, nose, mouth, and so on. So following that logic, we have our eyes switch. Best. Or no. No. We're doing this entire drawing with list. This beginning stage with this one. So we have the eyes here. Space for the eyes. And nose. Tip of the nose. Don't touch with the outer shape. The face. And below that, we have space for the mouth. 12. 12 flipped image exercise, adding details: And now we can finally add the rest here. Also, if you're working, remember, not like me. Try to find a better image. When I say better image, not mean the gesture, stuff like that. I mean the resolution tried to find. So you can see better that all the details for the face. I just hope I'll be able to make all the details. Alright, important. Again, we have another triangle here. So that's another thing that I hope this exercise does is that helps you to locate simple shapes within the more complex ones. And that by doing this exercise with times and even more, you will then start. Blake routinely find simpler shapes within the more complex ones. And like I said, that's important. When you're trying to draw realistically or wherever you're trying to draw. Because it will inform you and help you get better at drawing and draw faster. Let's continue. Let's just erase sold and smudge the papers much. Remove that. So we're at the next stage of our drawing and I can switch to a little bit softer pencil. And like you see, since I'm left-handed, I have my image on the right side and I'm drawing on the left side. And also when I'm drawing, I'm trying to draw from left, from right to left. So my hand would always be on a clean. So now we're doing a second pass. I have already drying. So what I would recommend is to have another piece of paper that will go over your drawing so you wouldn't smudge it. And also destroy maybe the work that you've already done. So let's move on. Now with you at the stage that you are drawing and thinking with more details. Now it's time to think how detailed you want to you want to be. Now I'm just trying to get the outlines of the shapes. The thumb, joy and amusing belong sort of long strokes to find those. To find the shapes. Most of the hard work is done. And now it's all just filling the lines. Like I said, most important part will come later when you flip paper and see what you've actually done. Of course, you can do that thing even when you're working. But for now, I'm not doing that. I think it's quite find a nice should. And I'm thinking I should be doing this more often, drawing. This way. It just gives you a fresh perspective on what you're doing. Because especially if you're working in the face, we're all in time. Learn how to draw features of the face. And this exercise removes you from that routine a little bit and makes you treat the features of the face as. Any other element of the dry things that's good. And important. Question, should I add all those details? Are they irrelevant for the drawing, or should you do that? Or is it more important to establish the figure, know which parts is where, and then move on to next exercise and draw that. So that depends on you and what stage of your drawing journey you are and what you want to expand on neurologic want to achieve for this exercise. But for now I think it's more important to get all the features in place. This also, in this case, I won't be doing the shading I did for this, but you can see me shade in another video that I have for that as a bonus because like I said in previous, that was wasn't in the focus first part of this drawing. So that was a good thing because now I have that additional material that I can share for you and it concerns shading. Now for the fingers. Always love to think about the fingers and all its parts and see how I can represent them in the best way possible. It doesn't always work and that's fine. But you should always try to do your best. But don't be harsh on yourself if things don't turn out the way you think they would. Okay. We are done with this pencil. It's to be like I see, I started with the pencil. So it will be softer. And then I move to Tooby. And finally, I'll go to this five-week pencil and I'll take just a look at the reference image that I'm drawing and think about adding the thicker lines. More bunch that are we from the sun in debt are in the shadow. So that will conclude this drawing and give it a little bit of what you do depends entirely on you. If you feel like that just happened. Bristow Hart in these battles and I could see they can break very easily. If you're pressing too hard. I can do it. In this case. 13. 13 flipped image exercise, final touches: These lines are in shadow and what I would like to do is to make them a little bit darker. So this is basically your exercise. And I would love for you to see this exercise and see what you produce and post them in the project section of this class. Let's do at least this thing. So we can have a discussion and see how we can improve our work and travel together along this journey. This is now the important part, like I said previously, is the part when you release. See what you've done. And doing that. I see I made her more unhappy and like worried face, maybe finished that. She has that kinda worried face but not as much as I did. Her eyes are also smaller. We work on those lips. That is little better and nose. And that's also one of the problems, is too long and her mouth too close to the chin. Just didn't notice that before and maybe not the entire US. Soft, harder brush for that. Think about a node. It's not just these shapes, but also a collection of shapes. Then mouth shouldn't be promptly. Here. Always helps when you have a fresh eye on things. That's a bit better. But let's move on. Let's see where factor lines should be. Should be darker. Slash just be darker as well. Something like this. This line can be thin like this. I think it's always good to have a good balance between thick and thin. Think about the shadow. And more thick lance their finger goes here and we have pinky finger. Use this pencil. Okay. Here. Thing that you can use while you're trying, if you don't feel like drawing upside down is to occasionally from time to time, use a small mirror, put it somewhere that you can see and then look at your drawing in reflection of that mirror to see if everything is the way it should be. Okay. This leg here I think, should be the current. Not too much. This is the sound this side. So maybe not that harsh line, but we can use the eraser. Now we don't see her feet on this side because those are the grass. Okay. That's that for this class. Let's see, you probably didn't see that last bit. I did. Of course, bowl. And this is quite enough for this exercise. So I hope you found this video helpful. Remember, drawing is a skill and you can get better by practicing and doing more exercises, but not just any exercise when you're drawing and exercising. Think how this exercise should benefit your work and how it will improve and understand why you're drawing on hope you understand now why we draw this thing in this, in this way and how it is helpful for your work. And if you have any other questions, objections your ideas, so sad, stuff like that. Limit in the comment section and post your work in the project gallery so we can have that conversation and improve our work together. So when this third exercise, we finished that part and in the next video, we'll talk about final drawing that you did for this class. So you will have Exercise one that will be about recognizing those shapes. Exercise to about drawing triangles and this upside down drawing. Those are step-by-step exercises the tool bring you to the final exam, then create a finished drawing with shading and stuff like that if you like. And we'll talk about that in the next video. See you there and have fun drawing. Of course. 14. 14 final drawing exercise, construction drawing: Welcome to the last exercise for this class. I hope you'll find it useful. There's all other exercises. It took me about two hours to complete, so it will be the longest one. But also, I'll try to talk about the other exercises that we did in this class and previous to expand on those and add more stuff on it. So it'll be a bit different approach. But I think that all the other stuff that we learned so far, there'll be very helpful. So without any further delay, let's get into it. So in this case, I decided to look at the reference, the take close measurements. And for start, I decided for this measurement to use the human head, the head of the model that I'm working on, and see how much time it repeats in the figure, in its height and width. And then draw this as you can see, to determine the basic shape and the space in which the entire figure will be. So I made a grid that will help me determine where should every little part of the figure should be. And after that, as you can see, I'm using some shapes and light pressure when my pencil to determine where all it should be. Like I said, since the head will be the main measurement unit that I use for this exercise, I start with drawing just debt. And like I mentioned in the previous exercises, go with the bigger shapes and then move on to the small, all along looking for positive and negative shapes, positive shapes that make a figure, and negative shapes that are around the figure. And like in the previous exercises, I talk about using the triangles. But this time, as you can see, I'm using also the oldest because I wanted to try that and show you that. Because you can try to figure out whatever works best for you in every situation. Sometimes you can use this. There are no like to say written and specific rules that can apply for every join. You should know them. And then determine which ones work for you in any given exercise on any given drawing and then work from there. As you can see, I'm making the drawing comparing constantly, where each line should go and where should I put the figure? This beginning stage of the work? And it is probably the most important part when you are laying the foundation for the entire piece. If you make mistake that will pile up and make problems for Iran. So take your time. While you're making these initial stage. Use light pressure when you drawing and take your time to look at the reference image that you working from and then translate that onto your paper. Details are not recommended Navy to do in this part of the exercise, but try to find the overall shapes, bigger forms that you can then later stage push and give it more, more, more detail, more and more of these things that will be important for now. Lightly use the eraser if you need to. And lighter pencil pouch. As you can see here. I'm using the kneaded eraser to remove certain lines so I can progress further with the drawing. So I can have very faint lines on the paper. And I'm back like you see here in working in layers. Don't ever try to fix and finish one piece and then move to the other. Try to do it in layers and slowly progress on the entire piece. Because sometimes you can really make some mistakes, but it's important to notice them. As you can see here, I've noticed that tilted head is a bit wrong, so no problem. Fix that. Take a look at the reference. No rush. And then if you need to erase, tried to do it better. Observe, not just to look at objects that you will join, but try to see it and understand where everything goes. As motivation is always good to have a one-piece of the drawing more finished than the other. And in that case, in this case here, I'm using the head. I'm trying to finish, flesh out these parts the most and then move on to the other. But that doesn't mean them completely finished with the head part and gives me some major landmarks that that can help me go on and further into the drawing and finish the rest of the work. Right now, I'm laying the first pass of the shading and they could see it. There's broad shapes are large chunks of the figure that I'm putting in the shadow. But to touch that I'm using and the lines that I'm making are very faint. I'm constantly looking through my eyelashes, squinting at the reference image and seeing all the big parts of the figure that are in the shadow. So I'm not making all of those right way. Doing the fingers is also something that is very important because hands, fingers and the face or something that most people will pay attention to, those parts you go figure are very important to be done correctly. So I paid attention to that very much just to position them at this stage, then move on. Also, if you're not happy, like you see me do here in the face, you can erase, watch. It's a game of observing and comparing what you have done with your drawing and the reference image. And then you constantly going back and forth. What you're doing, Dan, dan head, erase, maybe do it again. Try another step and stuff like that. Sharpen your pencils. If you're working with pencils or using the technical technical pencil, that will be easier. I like to use technical pencil in this case because this drawing is rather small and the lines can be faint. Awesome doing this other technical pencil for more shading work. If you're working at this stage, depends on that I would recommend would be B or Tooby. And as you go further on the drawing and you are adding more lines, it's more shadows. You can use softer pencils, but for this part of the drawing, it's about B are to be pencils. 15. 15 final drawing exercise, rendering: Once you've done and completed the first pass of shading, again, you squint your eyes, look at your reference image, and then add the second pass of shading I'm doing right now. And always when I'm working, going always most of the time going from right to left since I'm left-handed when I'm drawing. And that way I don't smudge too much of the drawing with my hand as I'm moving my hand across the drawing. So it's either slightly hovering above the drawing or amusing the paper that they put under my arm, my, my hands too much to drink. Also, when you're shading, think about the overall shape of the part of the body or the two drawing and think, oh well, is it round? We are, the shadows should be because the oval shapes have different, different Li, let's say, shaded than the parts that have edges that are straight. And that's what I'm doing right now because there are always some reflections on the shapes that are over there. Don't have flat surfaces that always taken consideration and look at the reference image. You have to, you can look at several references and see how certain shapes and shadows are reflected on these surfaces. Also think about the thickness of the lines and when possible, make the lines thinner on the parts of the body that are exposed or to the right, the direct light and thicker lines to the parts of the body that are in the shadow. That can also help you get better and have a, have a better drawing and have a variety of lines on your drawing, it will make it more. Let's say. Interesting. Again, use sparingly, use the eraser if needed. Like I said for this exercise, it is best to have not just regular eraser but needed race. The tools just slightly lift off the just the right amount of pencil lines from the people but also not smudge it. When you're exercising. I used to not recommend not to use the blenders and stuff like that to have soft edges, but try to make it just with your hatching and crosshatching. It that I think is very important, especially when you're learning and trying to get better at drawing to make all the transitions from lighter to darker areas. Just by using lines and crosshatching and doing it in many layers and stuff like that. So take your time when you're drawing. Like I said, that this drawing took me about an hour and 5055 minutes. And a lot of that time is spent looking at the reference and trying to see where everything ends up and see how it goes. It doesn't mean that this is no way in a perfect drawing, alright? Perfect representation, but I had fun time doing it and trying to put everything right on the paper as I seen it to the point at that time. Now, you can see me adding some anatomical features, the legs to chest to stomach and feeling all also those lines erasing with kneaded eraser if needed, to make it more interesting. And of course accurate. I feel like it's slowly coming together. Most of the work had like two or three, some parts four layers of shading. But that came After the good base was made and I was certain that everything was in its right place after making the measurements, after looking at the shapes, putting the older construction lines that are needed to finish the drawing. And finally, moving to the leg that wasn't on the floor and adding further details. It's important, like I said, to squint your eyes when you're doing that and see where our darkest parts and where are the lighter parts. And by squinting, you lose the details that may trick you to add more darkness to the parts of the drawing that shouldn't be there. But squinting, you lose that and you see only the big masses. And when you've done that correctly or mostly correctly, you can then add more details. With harder press, harder pressure on the pencil. Work with the parts of the shadow where it should be thicker lines, erasing. Somewhere, where it's needed to be thinner lines, playing some music and enjoying the work. This is part of the drawing when you're really enjoying the work because all the heavy lifting is already done. And you're left with shading and observing, watching the reference coming to the drawings. Drawing. Again, watching the reference comparing, using the eraser if needed, and stuff like that. That is when the most of the work, like I said, he's done and you only have to render and finish all the work that to make the final image. Hello, I'd say more appealing or more complete. So this is really it. So once again, start with bigger shapes. Use triangles that I talked about earlier. Or in this case, I used ovals. But it likes that. It all depends on the situation and what you should be trying to look at the proportion, make good measurements. For the figure. It is the human head that is usually the main unit that we'll compare and see how many times it repeats in height and length. And when you're really at the end, take a pencil like four or five dB and make those thicker lines and or harder pressure on those areas and just bring your drawing to life. I hope you found this exercise useful and I hope to see your work in the project section so we can discuss our work, talk about it, and get better at drawing. So take care and see you in the next video. 16. 16 bonus drawing: Welcome to the bonus part of this class. And like I said earlier, first time doing the exercise, three failed because first part of that drawing was blurred, so it was unusable. Luckily, I managed to save the second part when it's doing when I was doing the shading. So you can see that here. For your convenience. Part, a smaller part for cutout. Others were sped up. But also there's much of that video that is with commentary and I hope you will enjoy so without any further delay, let's take a look. For starters. I'll make something that resembles the local color. And I'll follow by doing this. The lines. These lines have a bit easier time. And when you're shading who can follow the forms on the object that you're drawing. Remember when you're starting to shade. To squint your eyes from time to time to see the darkest compared to the lightest parts. By doing that, you will eliminate the details. Well, they don't interfere with your work. And when you're building your shading, go from lighter pressure to low pressure and believe harder pressure for most darker spots. So because greater easily drawing can become too dark. And you don't want to have that. Usually don't like to smudge, use those smugglers. Shade with lines and slowly build from that. Nationally. Use the eraser. Just have the areas shining. Or it like this. Or we can have a clear representation. Is this important parts? No. Then you can stop whenever you feel like you've done enough or if you're having fun, trust, continue to make the finished drawing. I'll go just create certain outlines and try to finish. If I was doing this for commission work or something like that, some serious stuff, then I would go to full details because now we have everything we need. And then you can push it further to have more completed work. What I'm doing right now is to make these shapes darker in order to separate one leg from the other. And like you see, I've started at pencils that are harder with B pencil, then use these that are little bit softer to be n. Now, I'm working, finishing with these five feet that are softest and have greater impact on the drawing. Closely coming to the market 11 hour and try to finish before that. So now we have some 45 minutes or so. I'm not so relevant for this exercise. So just quickly over time. This part of the class, this video is a bit sped up because they didn't want to waste too much of your time on watching the videos, but going straight to your work, still, I think it's good to see this part. Well, at least in a sped-up version, you'll see me going over the shading and see how I'm going about it. For some areas, I use lighter touch and just using crisscross lines to shade the iris or like this piece here for the hair. I just like to use curly lines. So when you're shading, think also about the texture of the part that you're doing and follow entire shape of that object. Tried to make these lines represent what surfaces. That would be like. The final thing that I'll say about shading this object. But also try to unite to unify the entire piece. Because it could be a bit strange if the entire piece has all sorts of shading on it. So try to show the texture of that thing to shading. But also remember that your drawing should be one cohesive work and not to overdo with all sorts of shedding. Stick to one or two types of shading. Lines. Hatching, crosshatching, or making squiggly lines. But try not to overdo it. And that's very close to the end. And I will use a kneaded eraser for the rest of the work. Thanks for watching this bonus video as all the other videos. And I hope you found it useful, helpful, and that it will benefit your work. The last part of class, we'll go over to the next video. Well, we go Make an overview of the entire class and once more, go over your project. 17. 17 class overview: Congratulations on finishing the video material that I prepare for this class. And I really hope you find it useful for your work. And also if you do, please remember to leave a review, it will help this class reach more people and help them in their drawing triangles. Now that you've watched all the videos, it's done to you to create your own work. As I think that is the best way for you to get the most of this lesson. So these are the three exercises that are recommended for this class. First off, start with a warm-up exercise. Take some cut out paper cutouts, put them, arrange them on your paper that you're drawing, and try to find something interesting. Tried to recognize the shapes that you see. Maybe do like me, this cartoon stuff. Flip paper around. You don't have to be on this side or the other. Tried to do something that works for you. After that exercise in as you feel comfortable, you've seen me draw this. So, you know when you should stop. Great, another exercise. These are all exercise. The first one is about 20 to 30 minutes, depends on how much filled in. This is the case for the second exercise as well. When you should have a reference like this one, or you can have it on your monitor and try to draw these figures are like traffic you can use to life. You can even draw references from animals, cats, dogs, cars, whatever you like. And try to do these fingers tried to analyze and break down the figures into more simple shapes. I like. In this case, I said to use triangles and their battle than all those because triangles and these shapes that have corners, Let's say make, makes you think about the shape. Think about direction. Think about how the figure or your object that you're drawing eastern what is facing and gives you more stuff to learn then by using simple ovals. And finally, for the third exercise, I recommend that you take your reference, turn it around, and then draw beside it looking at your reference. So this way, your mind is as a fresh eyes on whatever that you're drawing. And you look at your reference, but not necessarily think about it, what it should represent you. This till the shapes by just recognizing the shapes, not the overall, not be too bummed down by the overall figure or your subject that you're drawing. And finally, after that, we can move on to the final image that you're working on, the final exam after these exercises. And I really hope you do these exercises in the order I commend, put them on the project gallery and we can discuss and have a minimum for more meaningful conversation about that. So you can take the images via phone, camera, whatever you using. What is important is that lines clearly visible. We can all learn from one another compared drawings. Steve, How can be approved, and so on. Now, I wish you happy drawing and creating your project and your work also. And if you'd like to learn more, see other classes. Remember to check out my profile page on Skillshare and see other classes that I created in the drawing exercises here is we have classes about right hands, portraits, basics of drawing, using shapes for figure drawing, shading, level of glass and stuff like that. And if you liked this class, please remember to leave review as it will greatly benefit my work here at Skillshare and create better classes in the future. So have a great time drawing and see you in the project section or some other class that I've created so far.