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1. Introduction to observational drawing: Hey guys, Jeremy, minimum here. This week's class is all
about observational drawing. So today I'm going to
teach you about how to look at something and draw. Now it's quite an amazing skill if you can get
really good at this, it's something that's
really, really cool. You can go out into the world and you can
draw anything you see. We can see it stuff up a new
studio, Android as well. So I'm gonna be teaching you
some of the tricks and tips about using your pencil
to keep different angles. And yet, just a whole lot of different skills around that. We're going to be drawing a cute little soft toy first up. Then we're going to do a globe, which might take you back to the first week where
we did the ball. And then we're going to
finish up with a bit of a more complicated shear
piece of furniture. So, yeah, Hope you
guys are excited about learning about observational drawing.
Let's get started.
2. 1. Using the pencil to measure: Alright, so first of all, we're gonna do is we're going to learn
about using the pizza. Okay, So first of all, we're going to start by drawing my cute little dinosaur thing. Okay, so you're not
doing your thing yet. You just during my dinosaur. And what we're gonna do
is we're going to hold up the pizza to the screen and use it to actually measure
how big the object is. Okay? So get it to the point where you
can measure it like that. And then we're going to do the top and see where my fingers
come down to the bottom. Okay, so we're gonna get the top and the bottom of objects, okay, So basically like this. So we're actually going to
use that pizza quite a lot. It's like a little
measuring stick. All right, then we're
going to measure the same thing where we're
gonna go a crossways. So we're gonna measure
across the middle. It's about that Berg. See, I'm doing that.
I'm doing that. Now. All it does is it
helps me to kind of figure out how big I'm going
to draw the object there. It doesn't draw it for me, it just tells me how
big it's going to be. Now once I've done that, then I'm going to use
my pencil and I'm going to work out any angles. Now this thing is this soft toy, so it doesn't really
have many angles. But what one angle there, there has got is on the tail, you see the tail shape that's coming off on a
weird angle like that. So I'm just going to
measure that and I'm going to hold up my pencil. And then I'm going to take
it over here and go here. I'm just going to draw that
line manner like that. Okay, That's pretty good.
3. 2. Sketching a soft toy: Alright, now that I've
got those sorted, I'm going to start
on my basic shapes. So we've done this purpose
before. I haven't way. Let's look at the heat shape. We've got this kind of oval
squashed oval type shape. Can you guys draw this?
Draw this with me as we go. This is going to look very
cartoony, which is quite fun. I think. The, the breadth of
the body is like another big fat oval like this. Yeah. And then what happens
on the tail but comes along minute because little a little
squishy tail like that. But because we've already
worked out the angle on that, we've already got a head start. Okay. So the last bit is like these two cute little
feet thing there. They're in there. Okay. Oh, wait. I actually will draw
the hand in a minute. We'll do that. We'll draw
this one in a minute. Okay, that's fine.
Now we're going to meet up as shapes and sort
of make it into a picture. So I'm starting up here. Okay, Sorry, I'm just
taking the things. I'm using a to B pencil, but you can use an
HB or whatever. Perspective is very different
via screen, via real life. That is true. Yeah. Okay. I'm trying to teach you the
skills so that you guys can do it when you
do your copying. If the, if you hold your
pencil up like this. But it's too small, like you hold it like
this and it's like tiny. Just hold it back
closer to you here. Okay, So like bec sort
of further like here. And then your pizza
will be bigger than your, than your objects, right? Anyway, don't worry about that. We'll just move on. So we're going to connect
up as shapes here. The board down the body is
sort of goes straight down. And then it curves out so bit lumpy cubes out
like that. Like that. On the other side though. Toxin a little bit
so it sucks in. And then it creates that
little Tommy tommy van. All right. Hand comes out
like pretty much straight. It gives them cool. Now what I'm gonna
do now is I'm just gonna get my eraser. And I'm going to rub out those
first shapes that we did. Okay, so those insights shapes, some of those extra lines. What, 1 ft was too small. Okay, So just gonna try and make that foot a
little bit bigger. All right. Okay, so here's our here's our simple shape of our
toy acute software. Now we need to work out some
of the more detailed stuff. So we've got the we've got the bits around the what
do you call those bits? Like the sticky API
bits, the scales maybe. So just to look at how it goes, kinda starts from about veer
on the heat kills around. They look like they
sort of curved. But then the ones in the
bottom actually look more triangles like that. Maybe the in-between each
curve and a triangle. So at the moment I'm wanting
you to just draw my thing. Okay, so you're just copying my picture and I'm trying
to teach you the skills. And then a bit
later in the class, you'll be doing your own thing. Okay, now I've got my pretty
much in line with the hand. I've got my mouth like this. And then two cute little eyes, angry eyebrows, a
little nostrils. Oh, can you guys see
the teeth as well? That's so cute. Hey. Okay. I mean, the last little arm
off these little feet here, they actually come
up a bit like that. And they sort of kicked down. There we go. All right. That's looking pretty good. I'm pretty happy with that. This one kind of mistake. Do you guys see
what's wrong with it? The tail the tail doesn't
look quite right. So if you do it and it doesn't
look right, That's fine. You can just rub it
out a little bit. And I'm just going to draw a bit more longer tail like that. Yeah, that looks better.
Way better. Okay.
4. 3. Adding tone: Okay, now, if you've
got a toning pizza, you guys rainwater toning pencil is like, I'm going to use a six. You guys can see that a thing. No, it's not going to
focus on it. That's cool. So maybe using a six bp
and sort of do my shading and how we practice those
shapes back in the first week, we're going to do
something similar to that. Okay,
You're ready to go. Six. Good, Matthew, good work. You've got the exactly
the bright pencil. Okay. So the shading, we're just starting on the dark
side of the body. So on this side of the body. And we're gonna be adding
in a little bit of shading. If you've got any questions, you can put them into the chat. This is not too hard guys. This is pretty,
pretty basic so far. So you should be able to
follow along with this. Just a little bit of shading on. You can see how the
shading comes down, down the tail that a
little bit the array, yeah, it's quite dark in there. So we can just bring
that down here. And I'm just going to use my
classic smudgy technique. You guys don't know
how much I love to smudge a bit of a finger, smudge a bit more, turn around and say, okay. Now what I'm doing is while
I'm drawing this guys, I'm actually looking
at the subject, okay, So I'm actually looking
at it and I'm thinking, what does it look like? And how can I, how can I
do that on my drawing? Recreate that on my drawing. Quite dark underneath
those bits. Okay, nice. So this pretty good
for basic tone. These little rounded bits here
are actually tone as well. So we're going to add a
bit of darkness around each side and we give
them a little smudge. Now we'll just make it feel like it's sort of connect it up. You guys didn't think
you'd be drawing little dinosaurs today. Super finished. Yet, Morgan, you're finished, That's good. Being in Girard I've been doing since I was probably yoga is h. So it's always like a kid. Like maybe likes I'm not
receiving all right. Something like that. Yeah. Alright. That's a good basic thing. And then I'm just
going to fill in these dark details to
see the eyes and black. So we want them to
have a nice contrast. So you remember what we
talked about contrast, nice solid black and the mouth. And same with this. Alright, so it is, so that's
observational drawing down. Okay, so let's recap some of
the skills that we learned. The clause. Sorry guys, I
forgot about the clause. Nice, good reminder. Okay, so claw. Hello. Hello. I don't know why it doesn't have any clothes on this side. It should have. Yeah,
let's add some clothes on the floor for that looks better. Nice. Okay, so that's good. So what we're gonna
do now is recap. Okay, so first thing that
we did is we use the pizza. We held up the pencil to
figure out the proportions, how high something is
compared to how wide it is. Give it. Then we use the pizza
to work out the angles. Okay, So if this any angles like this has got
lots of curvy lines, but we kinda worked
out the Teo angle. So what we could we can practice that by doing it on the base. So do you see the base, the little plant that's on? It's actually got
a slightly angled down a little wooden stand. But each of the angles going
back as in perspective. Okay, So that's
basically like that. And why it goes like that
actually goes under there. Okay. So if you kinda see what
I'm, what I'm talking about, see how you can work out
those angles by using your pizza or two
actually can meet it up. Okay, so there's
that picture done. Now, I'm gonna go and put up a new objects that
we're going to look at. Okay, so give me a
second while I do that. You guys get a new
piece of paper.
5. 4. Drawing a globe: Okay, I'm new objects. This is my new object. Well, there's just
gonna be so tricky. Okay. Hang on a sec. I'm going to move this box. Yeah. Alright, cool. Now, what we're gonna do guys, is I'm gonna give you a choice. You can either draw the
thing that I'm drawing. I'm gonna be doing this globe, this world on a stand. You can either draw that or you can draw your own objects. Let's get a bit of a, let's get a bit of a thing from people. Okay, So show me,
give me a thumbs up. If you're going to
draw your own objects, but you're going to
draw your own thing. Thumbs up. Okay? Lots of people want to draw
their own thing, okay? If you haven't got something
to draw, That's fine. You can draw along with me. You can draw my thing. But if you want to do your
own thing, then that's cool. Can we do a Harry
Potter art class? Okay, that's a good idea, but maybe let it. Okay. I got it. So what I need
you to do then is I need you to sit up your
object in front of you. Put it about 1 m away from you. So it's not too close. And make sure it's gotten
nothing around it. It's like niacin
alone by itself, like in a little space. And then we're gonna go through the steps
of drawing it, okay. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to talk
about the using the card later on. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Ryan, the first thing we're
gonna be doing, okay. I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be
drawing along to my picture, but you guys think drawing
along to your own thing, okay, So you can, you can
choose either draw myelin or Giorgio Armani. Okay? So first thing we need to do, the first step is to work
out the size of the objects. Okay, so hold up your pencil and then figure out how
high it's going to be. My one is gonna be this high. Down to here. Yeah. So
that's the height of that. Good. Then I'm going
to work out the cij. How wide the sinus. All right. Cool. Okay. Alright. So whatever your object is, you need to figure out how big you are going to draw
it on your page. Sorry, the train is going
past. It's pretty loud. Dylan, you can't do
either of those. Is that okay? I'm not
sure what you mean. Man. Can you work out
how how big it is? That's pretty bad, isn't that? Okay? You can't make it a meter or you can make it a meter away
from you, that's fine. Don't worry, just put it
wherever you can. Okay. So we've worked out
this worked out how big we're going
to do a join, okay? Then you're going to
do the basic shapes, ok, so you can watch me. Obviously my main basic
shape is just a circle. It's pretty easy. Circle like this. Then let's go to low stains. And actually I didn't quite opaque enough to
live but the stains, the stain actually now
here we can help see how the stand only goes
to that far out. So it only goes to about here. So I can imagine a line down from there and
down from there. And that shows me how
wide the standards. You guys understand what
I'm what I'm saying. And I can say, okay, my standards actually like
an oval shape like that. Okay. But whatever you're
drawing, I don't even know what you
guys are drawing. You might be doing something
totally different. Just use, yeah, draw your
basic shapes for your picture. Someone said that
during a soccer ball, so that'll be really easy. Just be a circle. So I'm still using a actually I was using
a six week I mean, to be using the to-be
pencil for that. Sorry guys, I've just
used the wrong place. You use, use the
likes of pencils for this space because
you want to be able to rub them out easier. Oh wow, dream catcher. That would be cool.
Yeah, headphones arc and that would be
quite cool as well. I've got quite a hard
one for the next one, the next picture I'm
going to draw for this. You can test it out if
you're on a PC skills. Okay, so once I've
drawn my basic shapes, then I'm gonna do
the mixed tape, which is feeling
in or sketching. Okay, So I'm gonna
look at the object. At this point, I'm
going to say, okay, we've got this curve
coming down here. I'm going to draw that thing. Okay? It's, it's like
a magnet sticking up. Well, it's not actually
right at the top though. Is that, oh, that's naughty. It's actually on
a bit of an angle because that's how
the world works, is it's on an angle like that. Yeah. Probably draw
that line and actually, just to help me out. I mean, there's so many
mistakes I'll write that out. That curve goes
around like that. Sticks out. Nice. My objects, pretty easy really. I've got just this
curve at the bottom. It's got like
another curve here. So this is where you just
lightly sketching your object, okay, So your feelings
for filling in? All right. Good work
team doing well. You wanted having any issues
because we're at okay, cool. So what have we done? We've done, yeah, proportions, basic shapes, and now we've
done the sketch again. So now is when you
get your rubber and you come along
and you rub out all the extra extra lines that
you drew, the guidelines. Okay, I'm going to rub
out this line here. I've got this line here. You sometimes you have
to rub it out and just redraw it a
little bit as well. I made it look a
little bit wonky. I'm now a little
tip for you guys. The reason I told you
to grab your, um, to grab these peds is because
if you're drawing while you're holding
something out like this and you're looking
at it like this. It's actually easier to work out the angles and put
them straight on your paper when you're
holding it right up, right. Then when you're doing
the shading and stuff, probably lay it down flat on your desk and draw like that. Yeah. So I've got mine set up on the easel so you
guys can see it. But it can be quite tricky to draw everything in detail
when it's up like this. Cocoa, Cocoa. Alright.
6. 5. Adding more tone: Alright, cool. Now the next step guys, after you've rubbed out
or your extra guidelines. The next is the shading, okay, So now we're gonna go
to S6 VP or for BP. And so if you haven't go
on something like that, and I want you to look at we're, we're on your object. It's really dark. And where it's really life. Now, I can't see your objects, so I don't know what they look like, but I can see my one. So I can see that on my one. It's quite dark around
this side here. So I'm just going to add in
my shading, added my tone. This works on the books on the drawing guide
is don't worry about putting things in the chat unless you've got a
question to ask me, okay? Because you guys have learned you're only here for an hour, so you've got to try and learn
as much as he can in this L. Okay, so here we go. I'm doing my shading. Pressing really lightly. I remember you start
off really lightly. I mean, you can use your finger
to smudge it in as well. And it gives you that
nice soft, soft, smart to look at 3D low code. Now this whole thing
is really dogs. So put a fill it
in, really done it. Okay. How are you going with your, with your toning guys? You don't have any
shade on your objects. Okay, interesting. It might mean that
you've got too much, too much light in your room. So they might be
light's coming from lots of different directions. Yeah. So if that's the case, you can just imagine
it's dark on one side, one side of it, and then
make it light on one side? Dark on the other side? Yeah. Yeah. Cool guys. I can actually I can focus a little bit on the
globe if you want to, if you're drawing my thing. But I just want
to be able to see my drawing if I do that, sorry. Insurance focusing. There we go. That was pretty cool, actually, a pretty cool glow. I might even have a little
try drawing some of the, drawing, some of the
planets and stuff on there. Okay. It's gonna be
a pretty tricky, I mean, not planet's
orbital where countries. Okay. I just drew China and
it looks like I don't know, something we can't even see New Zealand on this
map can like hiding. I should have spin it round. So New Zealand was at the
beginning, at the front. Yeah, I know That's the
thing I can't show you my drawing and the
other drawing tool. Okay, so let's zoom out again. I got to go. Alright, Well, yeah,
that's probably, it's a bit tricky for me to
be able to show you both at the same time
because it wants to focus on the thing
that's closest to it. Nice. Okay, cool. How are you going with
deal during guys? You added the shadow. That's good. Nice. Yeah. It does take awhile. It depends on what
you're drawing too. If you're drawing something
that's quite complicated, I tell you what you
can do if you want to hold it up to your screen so you can have a
look at it. Again. Oh, nice. Hey, these are
looking really good. Well done. Yeah.
Ellie, Caleb, Hera. Rachel. Yeah. Cool. Major. Let's acute TDB guy. Yeah. Okay. I see where you guys are up to. Uh, you've got lots of
sketching Dan Carlin, Moses teaching, but you need
to add some more tone to it. A EJ. Nice, good work. Alright, cool. Alright, let's go back to
carrying on with this drawing. Let's focus back and guys. So let's focus in a
little bit on the tone. Okay, remember how
when you add the tone, you've got a softly
draw the shading. Okay, let me do it. I'll focus on my picture more
so you can see it better. There we go, we've
got that. Okay. Start by adding the shadings
like lightly on this side, on the dark side. And then use your finger to smudge it out
and smooth it out. That works really well if
you're using a 6 ft or for VPN. So yeah, totally make up your
own countries that so good. And I guess the thing goes as important as you've
gotta be consistent. So you see on my, on my planet, on the Earth, It's
more dark around the left-hand side,
so that's cool. So I just have to make sure
I'm when I draw the stand, it's darker around the
left-hand side as well. Now, if you do a
lot of smudging, you'll probably notice
that your pipe, it gets really quiet
gray around the back, around the back and the sides. And so you've got to
like smudge it really, you know, rub it
out really well, get it nice and clean.
7. 6. Drawing your own subject: All right, that'll
work. Okay, cool. Hopefully you guys can
all see the screen. Now I want to be
able to show you my, my paper because this bit is going to be using
my paper a lot. Alright, now, this is a
really cool little cheer. It looks like a
real sized chair, but it's like a miniature
version of a chance, so that's like a dog's
chair or something, okay? Um, if you guys want to, you can choose again, you
can draw your own thing. If you don't want to draw
this chair, you can. But if you wanted to
learn how to draw this, then you can follow
along with me. The reason I chose this
chair is because it's got lots of different
angles on it. So I'm gonna be using my pencil to work out a bunch of
the different angles. So here we go. Let's
jump straight into it. If you want to draw
your own thing, you just, you just work on that. And you can show me the
e-mail the class in. Yeah. That'll be good for
your own practice. So the first thing I'm gonna do, remember the first thing is
to get the height. Same Ruff. Hi, I'm gonna be
okay, like this high. Because what it does is it
helps us to get to know where the top and the bottom of the
drawing are going to be. Okay. Based on that, how wide is my objects? It's about two-thirds,
roughly that size. Now let's start working
out the angles. So I'm going to look
at this first angle is the back of the chair. So this part that I'm
pointing to here, I'm going to work it
out and go, Okay, cool. It's like this angle here. What you do is you
put your pencil down and he just lifted up and draw down the line. And then I can just
compare it it and go home. Is that look right? Yep. That looks pretty good. And I know that the both sides of the back of the
chair the same. Okay. So basically they're
going to be like boom and boom or maybe not
quite so wide woman bone. Okay. And I reckon the armory
Spitzer actually level. That's really helpful. Okay. So now like horizontal. So boom and boom. Then but my seat, the seat of the chair is
actually on an angle. It's actually
slightly angled down. So yeah, like this. You guys following
along, there's anyone during along the cheer with me. Some of you might be
quite a tricky one. Maybe if you're
finding this too hard, then you can try
drawing your own thing. Okay? Alright, so my mix
angle is this back leg. It's like kind of angling
back a little bit from here. So then yeah, parallel,
who sued parallel? Someone's really smart. Actually, we need to work
out this angle here, so the angle of the
back of the seat. And then that is the other the other Chile
here binds there. Okay. We're nearly there. We nearly kinda able
to start sketching it. I've got my front leg is
like on this angle here. And my other front leg
should be the same. This is actually
quite similar to perspective, isn't it guys? You see how this sort
of fitting within the shape of that
almost like a 3D box. But it's kind of coming down. Okay? Now, if you're doing
your own drawing, that's cool. You
keep working on it. And I'm going to
check it out soon. Okay? Okay. Here we go with the basics
of my chair so far. Getting those angles right. And what I like to do now is I just like to really look at this and compare it to my object and say,
Does that look right? Does it look right? I
think it's pretty right. What do you guys think? Does that look right to you? Someone go to the microphone. Okay. So good. Sorted that out. No worries. Okay. So
now I'm looking here. Okay. We've got an arm reach
to me with a one level. But they kind of attach on a
weird angle to the league. Yeah, like that. Okay. So you can see what I've
done is I've created, I've used all these
different angles to create my structure of my chair. So that time it took
quite a long time, didn't that to actually
get to this point? So once I've got this
point, mean I can, I can rub out some of those extra guidelines
that I don't need anymore. So it's really the same process. Each time you do a drawing, you do the same process. But sometimes the steps take a really fast and
they don't take very long. There are hardly any angles on their cute cuddly dinosaur
when we first started. This one's got heaps of English. Alright, now, now I
can start sketching. So the only bit I
really need a sketches. See how around the top here it's got this kind of curve thing. I'm just going to draw
like a little curve and then a curve. And it's got like a solid to solid side bits
that come down. Although I then go it's got those extra lines. Okay. Now this part of the PO, the seat is quite deep as well, so you can sort of see
how that's working. And I think I did that back
leg a little bit too long. All right. Good work. Now you can start to
practice them more and more. Drawing is about practicing. Every picture that you draw. You're gonna get a little
bit better each time. Do you understand?
So don't get too obsessed about one
particular drawing. So if you're doing one drawing, It's not looking very good. Or if you're sick of doing it, just leave it, put it
aside and start a new one. Okay? So don't be afraid
to just have a note book, or a journal or an iPad and just have heaps and heaps and heaps of
drawings in it. There's a way you can get
really good at drawing. Your, um, your
challenge this week is to draw some things in
that you see in the world. Okay, so I'm going to challenge you to draw
three things that you see. So they can be at your house. Oh, good work. Good work guys. They could be at your house. They could be at
school if you want. Danny, you guys get to
drawing a school. Sometimes. Little bit. Okay. Whatever it doesn't even
have to take along, you can do a
five-minute drawing. And next time you guys can plan, next time you go on holiday. You could imagine doing some drawings while
you're on holiday. Like drawing like a cool scene, like a beach scene or I don't know if maybe
you go to the zoo, you could go to the zoo and try and draw some
really cool animals. That would be amazing.
Joe McMenamin, Artist - Illustrator - Teacher
