People sketching with Concepts app

1. Intro: My name is Teo, and I'm an artist, graphic designer, and urban sketcher who enjoys sketching on location. Welcome to another course that I have here on Skillshare. In this course, I'm going to teach you how to sketch people using the app concepts, which is a pretty simple app to use this app runs on Windows, iPads, and Android tablets. By the way, I have another course, a beginners course on concepts. If you want to learn more about this app before jumping into this tutor, which is considered more intermediate, relatively speaking, check out the beginners course first. So in this course, I'm going to walk you through the workflow that I use when it comes to sketching people. We are going to draw some self portraits and we are going to draw many people in groups. And I will provide you with reference photos that you can use to get more practice. So by the end of this course, I hope you will be able to learn the fundamentals, which is basically how you can judge the proportion of people, how you can get alignment right so that your people sketches can look lively and accurate. Before we get started, I have a favor to ask from you if you enjoy this course and if you find this course useful, do consider leaving this course a review to help other students discover this course. Let's head over to the first lesson. 2. Use a template with your favourite tools: In this lesson, I want to show you a tip that can help you set up your canvas very quickly for drawing people. Whenever I want to draw people, I will just duplicate this ink template and open it, and this will come with all the tools that I have saved. I have this brochure which is for creating line art and I have colors here for coloring. And if I want to add some shades, I can do so very easily. If I want to switch back to the line art or the line brush, I can do so. If I want to color the hair, I just select the hair color. If I want to add some highlights, I can do so very easily. I may also want to have the ice white. So with the preset tools that I have created, it allows me to work very quickly. I already have all the colors that I use frequently, so I can draw and color very fast. To create your own template, just create a brand new drawing that is blank. Tap here on the tools and tap again to go inside to select the tool. So I'm going to select dynamic pen for creating lines, for drawing lines, and here you can switch to a different color. And here I just want black for the lines. For coloring, select the tool, select the field two and then select the color you want. I want to use black. In this case, I'm not using black. I'm using this 100 or 110 black, which is not pure black. I select the third two, which is also a field two, and this one I've set it to this white color zero. I select the next two, which is also field two, and this has been set to the skin tone color E 21. And for the next skin tone color, which is the darker skin tone, I have set this to E 13, which is beside E 21. Now, by default, the layer sorting here is set to automatic. So when you select the pen and you draw with the pen, the line will go to the pen layer. And when you switch to field color two, the field color will go onto the field layer. The field color layer should always be below the pen layer. If it's not below the pen layer, move it down. Below the pen layer. And as you swap the layers, you may notice the swapping will change to manual, so switch it back to automatic. And here you can see I have other layers as well. There's one layer called draft. There's one layer called bottom and there's one layer called top. So you can actually create multiple layers depending on whether or not you need them. I have a draft because sometimes I may want to create a drafting I may want to create drafting lines before I start drawing. And I have this top empty layer, which is always empty because sometimes if I accidentally have a line, a straight stroke on my artwork, I can select that straight stroke very easily from the top layer and delete it. After you have selected all your favorite tools and colors, just tap here and rename the file. I'm going to call this ink template. Now that you have your template or templates, the next time you want to create a new file, instead of using the new drawing button here, you just tap and hold on the template and duplicate the template. Or you can open the template, close it, and tap on new drawing. When you open a file, close it and you tap on new drawing. This new drawing will actually use all the tools from the file that you have opened previously. But if you want to be sure, you can always just tap here and hold and duplicate the template. This will make sure you open up the correct template. After you duplicate it, open it, save that new drawing as a new file. Now you can draw with all the tools that you have created. 3. Basic tools for drawing: This lesson, I want to show you the tools you need in order to follow along with this course. Obviously, you will need the app concepts which is available on Windows and Android tablets and also on the iPad, go to the respective app store to install the app first. After that, open or launch app and go to the homepage or the home gallery. Look at the top right hand corner and tap on the Word Pro. These are the different licenses that are available. Now, Concepts is free to use, but there are many useful tools that are locked behind a paywall. If you have the free license, you only have five layers to work with and there is no selection tool, which is very useful and I'm going to use that a lot. I highly recommend you purchase the essentials set which if I remember correctly, is around US $30 or $40, which is actually pricey. But if you have intention to use this app for the long run, I would say it's worth the money, or you can choose to get everything license, which is a subscription based payment. In order to make this court possible for everyone to follow, I will try to use only the free tools, but I have to say that sometimes I may forget which tools are free and which are the paid ones, so I may sometimes use paid tools. Okay, so let's close this and let me show you some of the paid tools that I am using in case you do want to purchase those tools. All right, so just tap here on one of the tools and open the brush library. All these brush sets are sold individually and it's a one time purchase. So for my course, I will be using the waterf brush set. Me specifically the watercolor before brush. And if you want to, you can also buy this pastels set because there are many nice dry brushes here. Let's see how the watercolor before brush looks. This brush has pressure sensitivity. And you can tilt your pen to get broad strokes like this, which can help you color big areas very quickly. Now, if you don't want to buy this brush set, it's okay because there is an alternative. Just choose this free brush called dynamic pen, and this brush also supports pressure sensitivity, but you cannot tilt the brush for the broad strokes and also the lines that you get are kind of solid, so there is no texture. But if you look at the watercolor brush, you can see texture with the stroke and you can see texture with the tiled effect. I cannot remember whether the free version has selection tool, but the selection tool, which is this arrow tool here, is very useful because it allows you to select objects and move them around. Sketch was drawn with the dynamic pen, and for coloring, we'll be using the field tool, which is free. The field tool lets you draw a shape so that you can color very quickly. If you have the selection tool, you can use the item picker, select the shape and change color very easily. But if you do not have the selection tool, you can still change the color. You just have to paint over the existing color. Another tool that you can use, which is only available on the iPad at the time of making this video is the dynamic palette. This dynamic palette is not available on Android and Windows versions of concepts. On the iPad, dynamic palette should be enabled by default. But if it's not there, just tap here on the color, tap on the S icon and scroll down to look for shades, enable this because this is very useful. Now when you select a color, you will have other shades that are available. Let's say you just colored the face and you want to make some part of the face darker, you can select the shade and just add the shade based on this color that you have selected. This is very useful. Let's say you want to color the hair, red, you select this red color and you color the hair like this. And you want to make certain parts of the hair darker, you can select the sheades here and just make certain parts darker. Now, if you are using Windows or the Android version of concepts, you will not have dynamic palette, but don't worry. Dynamic palette is not that necessary, but it's really useful. So in order to shade the hair, for example, you just have to select the color of the hair, go into the color wheel and just choose a different shade here. Yeah. So you can still shade. It's just that the palettes, the very useful convenient palette won't be available here for Android tablets and Windows tablets. For this course, I will be using the Android version of concepts without the dynamic palette because I want to teach you how you can use the color wheel, which is actually very useful when it comes to picking colors and making sure that the colors work harmoniously. In the next lesson, I'm going to show you how you can create templates for tools and colors that you use frequently. 4. Gallery: This lesson, I'm going to show you some of my sketches with people in them so that I can give you more insight on sketching people. This photo is called urban sketching and all the sketches were drawn on location. They were drawn from observation. This was drawn during a sketch walk with my friends and you can see two people sketching the city skyline of Singapore. When you have people in the scene, it will give you a sense of skill because without the two people there, you probably won't know how big this place is, but once you add two person or a few people in the scene, it immediately gives you a sense of skill. Adding people in your sketch can really help provide more context. This was sketched during a sketch work and I met a new friend from I can't remember whats the country, but she's new to urban sketching. When you're sketching, you may want to consider writing down the name of the person you are sketching and maybe write some additional info so that you can remember who they are. These were sketches drawn on the train while I was commuting to work. I was standing and holding my tablet. And just drawing on the tablet and no one notice me drawing them. And notice all these people are actually standing because I was standing and sketching. I wasn't seated down. This was sketched during dinner time. Yeah. So when you have people in the scene, it gives you a sense of idea how busy this place is. So if there's only one person, maybe this place does not look busy. But when you have many people, you know, that straightaway a glance this place seems popular. So when you have people in the scene, it actually will provide some sort of story and context. And this scene, as you can see, does not have any people. So it looks deserted. And without people in the scene, it also does not give you that sense of scale, like how big is this place. But here we have some chairs, so we know how big a chair is. So when you have something that you can compare to you immediately know how big, for example, the buildings are compared to the chair or how big the trees, compared to the chair. But without any people in the scene, this sketch does not look as lively compared to having while people in the scene. This was sketched at a cafe while having coffee. And we can see some people working there, and I can see a straight line here, which I'm going to remove right now. Thankfully, I have this empty layer at the top. So whenever I accidentally introduce any straight strokes, I can just select that empty layer at the top and select everything and just delete it. So this took me maybe 2 hours to complete. Yeah. This sketch was actually quite detailed. And when you're sketching, try to draw people doing something. For example, here you can see the person trying to order food. He's pointing to the menu, and here we can see a person working on his laptop, and there are some people checking their phones in the background. So try to draw action. Try to draw people doing something. That will make your scene look more interesting. And here we have more sketches drawn on the train, drawn during commute. I like to draw people when I'm on the train because this is good practice. And also, this is just a more productive use of time compared to just doom scrolling on the phone, checking social media because at the end of the year, when you look back at what you have drawn, you can see many sketches, compared to you just doom scrolling on social media, on your phone, at the end of the year, you don't really have anything. But when you're sketching, at the end of the year, you have many sketches to look back at. And this is another scene without people. There are actually two people here, three, actually. So you may not see the people there at a glance, but if you look close, you may see them, and again, they will provide context as to how big this place is. So there's this peeler here, which is huge and there's this person here, which is small, so you get a sense of how big this piller is. We have more sketches from the train. Yeah. And one nice thing about sketching on the train is it will train your observation skill. Because when you're standing very near a person, perspective is going to work a bit differently compared to you sketching someone from afar. I'm not sure if I can find an example to show you, but I probably can. Okay, for example, so yeah, these were actually sketch on the train. I'm not sure why I have this perspective of me looking down like this, maybe because the person is not as tall as me. Anyway, the point is, if you are tall and you look down, this is the type of perspective that you see. And if you are short, for example, if you are seated down on the seat and you're looking up at someone, the perspective of the person will be different as well. So when you try to draw people in different perspective, you get practice. You also will learn how perspective actually works in the real world. And here is a sketch at an event that is where this company is selling stationery. So the ladies here wanted us to try the paint and they were printing on those tooth bags that you can see in the background, which brings me to another point. Sometimes you can sketch people alone. And sometimes you can add the background to provide context. In this case, it's the background that provides context to the scene with people rather than the people providing context to the scene without people. I'm not sure if you can get it. Anyway, this was a pretty fun event. They have many wonderful artworks on display, many stationery, many interesting pens, colored pens and markers. This was sketched inside another cafe. This was drawn really quickly. So you can see the artwork is very extremely sketchy. You know what? Let me just remove the colors to let you have a look at the line art. Yeah. So this was drawn really quickly because I only had 30 minutes to sketch. And this was a very detailed as in the place has a lot of things to sketch, and I just cannot complete the sketch within 30 minutes. So I had to just draw whenever I can. So here you can see the people, they don't have faces. They don't even have hands. But, um, you don't need faces or hands. You just need to draw the shapes that make them look like people. And when you look at them at a glance, you can tell that they are people even without facial features or without hands. That's the fun thing about sketching. You can draw something really quickly. You don't have to draw all the details, but your sketch can still look quite detailed and people can just fill in the blanks themselves when they look at the sketch. Let me put the colors back. This was very simply with just gray, yellow, red and blue. And as you can see, there are so many people in the scene. So this place was packed. Yeah, I had difficulty walking from the front to the counter there to take to have my orders taken. Yeah. This was, by the way, a sketching event. Okay, let's have a look at this. This was me sketching some people, some old folks playing chess, and I have this person drawn with just line up without any color. And you can see through to the people behind. The fun thing about sketching digitally is these are some of the styles you can experiment with. Sometimes when I do not have time, I would just use this technique. Yeah. I also have another person standing here, just the line without any color because I don't have the time to, you know, color everything. All these are really fun sketches to draw. This was drawn, let me see. This is a wet market, and this was drawn from the second floor. This is the second floor and I was on the other side. I was on the second floor looking down at all these people buying fish at the fish stores. And if you zoom in, you don't really see much details, but you can make out from the ship that these are people who are, you know, there to buy food, buy fish, vegetable. A sketch can be very simple. So this is probably as simple as it can get. Just a rectangle, some boxes of fruits in front, and we have a person, the fruit store owner selling fruit. This is a really simple sketch that you can maybe sketch in under 15 minutes, you don't even need to add colors. This looks good without colors. More people sketches from the train. Yeah. So for these two I was actually seated down. I'm pretty sure I'm seated down because that's how I can draw them at the seated down eye level. And also if you take a look at what they are doing, she is sleeping and the four no, these three, they are checking their phone. Most of the people on the train are just checking their phone. I mean, as mentioned earlier, I don't find that to be very productive. Sketching on the train is just better than checking social media. That's the reason why I have so many sketches that were drawn on the train to show you right now. These were also drawn on the train while commuting. This was drawn during a sketchwalk with my friends from urban sketches Singapore. You can see some of the artists, some of the sketches, they have very elaborate setup. They have brought their tripod around and they have an easel and they have the painting setup. But some are seated on their portable stools and they are just sketching on paper and many of them have hats or different types of hats. You can tell from the shadow that the light source, the sun is coming from the left to the right. For this sketch, I did not provide much background because the background does not look beautiful, so I just provided a very simple simplified background just to get a sense of where they are, but I have no intention to draw the whole background which looks ugly. You can make a scene a boring scene look interesting just by adding people. Just a very simple addition of people in your scene can just make your scene just look more lively. This was sketched at a turtle farm, and we can see families bring their children to the turtle farm to feed turtles. These are turtles in the water. We have this kid here, a parent, the mom showing her how to feed the turtles, which are on this wooden bot or plank, sometimes the turtles will just jump into the water because they got scared for some particular reason so when you have a scene like this, you can tell straightaway what's the story that's being told and also where the people are, what they are doing. Okay, let's check about the next sketch. So I have so many sketches to show you. So when possible, while you're sketching, try to capture what's happening. So for example, with this sketch, at a glance, you can see there are people who are sketching and they are sketching the row of shop houses from across the street. And where's this place, this is inside the gallery, so we can see all the people seated down on their portable stool, sketching in the comfort of the air conditioned gallery. And there is one piece of artwork here to provide some context because this is an art gallery. These are sketches that I have drawn on my iPhone. If I do not have my tablet, when I'm commuting to work, sometimes I would just hold my phone and just draw. Not with the pen or any pen because the iPhone does not support any pen. I was actually drawing with my finger and with some practice, you will be able to join the lines properly. If you take a close look you can see my coloring is actually spilling out of the lines and I don't care. I'm very precise at coloring within the lines, but it's okay because the main thing you should take note here is you want to draw something that is recognizable. Having the colors spill out may or may not make the scene look recognizable. But in this case, it doesn't really affect the scene. And, whenever I'm having lunch, sometimes I would just take some time to sketch people while waiting for my food to, you know, arrive. This was drawn on the phone with my finger as well. And this two, I was having lunch with my friend Andrew. This was a bit more sketchy. So you can see the color spilling out like this. And sometimes it's all this looseness. Let see, take a look at his fingers. It's all this looseness that makes your sketch look fun. There's this fun element with some of these sketches that are so loose. And this was also sketched with my finger. Sometimes when you are talking to someone, that could be a time to sketch as well. Here I had a quote from this guy, Hugo. Sometimes you may want to write down what's being said and write down the names of the people that you sketch so that you don't forget them. Having the names is really useful. And this was sketched at another meeting. This was sketched at the immigration in Auckland airport in New Zealand. So no photography is allowed, but if you can draw, you can always sketch. This was sketched with my finger as well. Because my tablet was in the back, so the only thing that I can use for sketching without too much hassle is my phone. I have gotten quite good at drawing on my iPhone with my finger, but drawing with a finger is still very challenging. I have seen switched from using an iPhone to a phone with pen support. These are some of the sketches that I've drawn on this phone. This is my daughter, Tricia, sleeping and I drew this before she woke up. Because my phone was under my pillow, I could just pull out my phone and draw that sketch very quickly. So here you can see my legs under the blanket and that's her dresser sleeping. For some reason, she doesn't like to use blankets. If I put a blanket on her, she would know and just pull it off. Yeah. So when I look back at the sketches, I know, I can tell you the story of the blankets being put off by her. This was drawn on the train. Yeah, drawing something like this is actually not that difficult. For this sketch, take a look at the line art. This is not very complicated line art. You just have to get a few lines in just to make the person recognizable, and this sketch is considered complete. Adding colors is just, you know, topping on the kick. For this person, this is also just line, but with some thoughts for shadow or tonal effect. As with any skill, the more you practice, the better you will get and you will also get more confident with more practice, you will also build up this visual vocabulary, which will help you draw from imagination in the future. If you want to draw someone from imagination or from memory, you can rely on the visual vocabulary that you have built up over the years with practice. That's one good advantage of practicing of sketching from observation. 5. Workflow demonstration PT1: Come back. In this lesson, we will have our first drawing project, and I'm going to show you my drawing workflow as well as give you some tips and techniques when it comes to drawing people. This is a hands on tutorial, please follow along. The first thing I want to do is to tap and hold on this pen template file which you should have created in the earlier lesson and duplicate it. Look for the template file and open it. The first thing I want to do here is to rename this file. We will be drawing my younger daughter, Tricia. Look at the layers on the right side and make sure the layer sorting is logical. In this tutorial, we will be creating line art and have colors below or beneath the line art. The line art will go onto the pen layer and the colors will go onto the field layer and the field layer has to be below the pen layer. If the sequence is wrong, please tap on the layer and just track it around and move it to the correct. Position. And make sure the sorting mode here is automatic. If it's manual, set it back to automatic. For this tutorial, I'm going to import a reference image and place it on the canvas so that I can draw from observation rather than draw from imagination. Let me show you what I'm going to draw. I'm going to draw my 2-year-old daughter who was eating a piece of biscuit on the sofa. I'm going to screenshot one of the frames and use it as reference. You can download the reference photo that I have provided and use the same photo for practice. So just tap here under Import, which is the downward facing arrow and go to files or photos and import the photo. Let's import this photo and place it on the canvas. You can scale it down. And I'm going to just put it here. It doesn't matter where you put it because this app features an infe canvas. So after you place the photo, you can just move the photo to the side. The reference image will be placed here at the bottom. And if you need to hide it, you can do so. If you no longer need the reference image, you can actually just tap on the layer and delete it later. So make sure the sorting is set to automatic and we shall select the Pen tool. The Pentool is actually a different tool. We will use the dynamic Pentool which reacts to pressure. Don't be too worried about the accuracy for this first drawing project because I just want to get you familiarized with the workflow. I'm going to have the layers on the other side instead. Let me just tap here on the layer, tap and hole and move it to the other side. Now I have my reference photo here. I have the finger set to move the canvas. If you have not done that, go into settings under interaction, look under Finger action and sell it to pen canvas. Okay, so sorting is automatic. The pen is the dynamic pen. Let's draw. I'm going to start by drawing the head first. Lo and focus at the photo or the image and just draw. We have the head here. As you can see, the sofa will intersect with the hair here just above the year. The sofa will actually intersect here. The hair will come down like this. Oh, yeah. Actually, the hair the hair takes up a smaller space here, so we have to move the so far further in. So I'm going to erase this part here and make my correction and also erase this line here. Yeah. So as much as possible, try to focus on observing so that you can draw more accurately. Yeah, so you can draw more accurately and make less mistakes. Because if you make more mistakes, you will have to undo and draw again, and that is going to take up a lot more time. The more careful you are, the faster you can complete your sketch. Okay, so I'm going to put some strands of hair just to suggest, well, hair. Let's move this image closer. I have set the select tool to the side button of this pen. Now I can press the Select tool and just select this and move it closer to the reference image. And sometimes if I place a line at the wrong location, I can also use the Select tool and just move the line somewhere else to the correct place. The Selectol is very important. Now, if you're using the Select tool and you cannot select anything, chances are the selection mode here is wrong. So make sure it's either set to select on the active layer or all the layers. For this case, I'm just going to set it to select on the active layer to select the lines on the pen layer. Okay, so I'm going to switch the two here back to slice or erase and go back to the dynamic pen, and we shall continue to draw. Yeah. So as I am drawing or as we are drawing, pay very special attention to the alignment. Sorry, no the top of the nose is going to align to the top of the year. The bottom of the nose is going to align to the bottom of the year. As I am drawing, I'm always constantly comparing where the lines are so we have the check here. When you're drawing, try not to have lines like this. Yeah. If you want to draw a line, draw it with one line like this rather than this. So when you have one single line, your line art is going to look more confident. Now let me just select this and delete. Okay, we are back to the Pen tool, drawing on the correct layer, the pen layer, and let's just draw. Focus on the reference image. And as you are drawing, always compare what you have to the reference image. We have a biscuit here. If the line is too thick, you can reduce the line width. So I think this is right for me. Let's draw the bottom lip here. We have a little chin here. And the chin will go here just before the hairline. So I think this is okay. The neck, very small neck, and we have a small neck here, and we can draw, you know, what's this the color. So this collar comes down at a 45 degree angle. You can see the inner side of the shirt and this color has this blue plus a blue collar. For the fingers, just draw what you see, pay attention to the angles of the line. The second finger comes up, has this shape in this direction at this angle. The third or fourth finger is smaller and it's lower compared to this finger. As I'm drawing, I'm always comparing the little pinky finger is between the top and bottom of this finger. This is the thought process that I always use when I am drawing. You see this line here, the wrist is aligned to the neck. I have it at the correct place here. I'm just going to put a very thin line. This wrist is aligned to the neck and we have the forearm, like this. The forearm will come down to the elbow hoops and the elbow is aligned to the bottom of the collar, which is around where I am here. We have the thumb beneath and we have the forearm again and let's draw the shirt. Have some wrinkles. When you're drawing the hand or body parts, try to draw with one smooth line if possible. Here you can see I stop at the bottom before I reach the elbow. Now I have to connect the line. Now if you are going to do this join two lines separately, try to connect the lines as smoothly as you possibly can so that line art can look more confident. Okay, so we have this part here, which is almost vertical. So let's go down. This T shirt here will end below the elbow, so it's going to end somewhere here. Sometimes I may draw the thing that is at the end and then join the lines together like this. And once again, we can add some lines for the ringles of the shirt just to create more details and more texture for the drawing. This point here, the lowest point of the t shirt is aligned to the bottom of the thumb. So it's going to be somewhere around here. Yeah. So I place the point here. Sometimes I do not place the point here, but I will remember this is the ending point, so I can join like this and like this. We have the arm here, and now I'm going to draw a bit faster. Sometimes when you draw faster, you can actually, I mean, your lines can also look more confident. I'm not going to draw the finger nails because they are too small. If there are some details that are too small, you don't have to include them. Just draw the big shapes first before drawing the smaller details. If you do not have any space left to draw the smaller details, then leave out the details, leave the details out. Okay, so I have this line here which is wrong because this line should tilt down like this at an angle. So what I can do is the nice thing about this app is you can select the line if it's a separate line and just delete it. If you cannot select that line, you can use the eraser to or the slide two, which is what it's called in this app. Okay, so now we have well the body already. That's pretty fast. The top of the knee here is aligned to the neck. So as you draw upwards, make sure you don't go above the neck. Like this, like this. There should be a little curve there and move to the right side and comes down, it will stop here hops. I will stop here and we have this and we can draw some wrinkles. I can see the diaper creating a little bolt here and we have the other leg. This is almost horizontal. This top line here is almost horizontal, but it's not, so we shall do that. Look at how the lines overlap here. We have this line that overlaps this line and this will create the d three dimensional effect. When you're drawing, try to think about things like this, how can you create the three dimensional effect? For example, we have this leg here, this foot little foot, which is behind the other foot. Let's draw this. Let's have some wrinkles again. And we have the foot here, and this line will go up and then go down, not go down, become horizontal. Pay attention to the language that I use when I am drawing. Horizontal, vertical, where is it align? So when I'm drawing, I'm always comparing what I'm drawing with things that I have already drawn. Okay, we have the feed here. Don't worry too much about accuracy because for this first project, just focus on the workflow. Okay, so it there should be a little curve here, but I mean, okay, let me just add a little curve here. This toe looks weird. I'm going to erase, select the eraser tool, and erase here and go back to the pent hoops and go back to the pen tool and just draw the big toe more accurately. Yeah. Okay, so this sketch, believe it or not, is almost done and now we can we can color it. So it would be good to add some background as well for the sketch to provide context as to where this place is. Otherwise, the person may just be floating in space. So I'm going to move the reference image to the right side. To select the reference image, you can tap on the layer, select the arrow tool here and this will select everything on that layer, and now you can move it slightly away. So when you do that, the sorting will change to manual. So make sure you go back to automatic and go back to use the pento. And now I want to just add some lines to suggest the sofa. The top of the sofa here is like this and the side or the front is like this. I'm just adding some lines to suggest the contour of the sofa. Yeah. Because, if you don't have these little lines or hints, um, it may not be obvious what's the plane or direction of the surface. Okay. I don't really see a line here, and I think maybe I should add one line. You can add a line there. This will suggest so far is beneath the body and if you want to, you can add a few more lines for the What's that decrease. Let's see what we have here. I'm going to delete this line. I'm going to use the select tool and delete it hoops, delete more lines than I want to, doesn't matter. Yeah. Yes. This is what we have. Now we can color it. Now before we color it, make sure to check that all your line art is on the correct layer. You can tap on the eyeball to hide the line art and see if there are any more lines on the canvas. If there are lines other lines on the canvas, after you hide the line art, very simple just select the lines and drag it onto the pen layer. 6. Workflow demonstration PT2: Okay. So let's color this. Make sure the sorting is set to automatic tap here for the skin color. Yeah, I can use the skin color first and just use it to draw the shape. You don't have to be very precise with this tool because you can always make corrections later. You can see my color is actually spilling onto the color. Doesn't really matter. If you want to color within the shapes the enclosed shapes that you have drawn, you can certainly do so. You just need to be more careful, that's all. So how accurate your sketch will look really comes down to how patient you are and how careful you are. Notice this line here. This was drawn with one line, two lines. Earlier I mentioned that when it comes to drawing, for example, the skin texture or the shape, try to draw with one smooth line so that your artwork can look more confident. This looks a bit weird. But it's okay. It's a sketch, so don't worry too much about that. Okay, so we have the hair. We have the hair. So this is how useful the template is. Once you have selected all your colors to set here, you can just select the most used colors that you use and just color it like this. Next, we have red for this as your color, I'll make sure the color is going onto the field layer because we are using the field tool. Okay. So here is where sometimes the sequence of coloring is important. Earlier I colored with the skin color first, but you can actually color with the what's this? This shorts color first, and then color with the skin color on top. Don't worry too much about the sequence right now because after a while, you will learn to know what's the correct sequence to use. Okay, for the shirt, I'm going to I want to leave it white, I guess. I can leave it white. But for the sofa, let's have it. Let's have this light yellow for the sofa. Does this look good? Let's switch to a different color, maybe this color. Okay, this color looks a bit closer. Yeah. By the way, you don't have to use the same color that I'm using. You can use whatever colors that you prefer you don't even need to copy the same color that you see from the reference image. You can use your artistic license to just to change things up. For the so far, I'm going to see this curve here. I'm going to use the shape of the color to suggest the shape of the so far, let me just try and fill this properly. So it may be easier to color the sofa first and then color the pens and then the skin rather than what I'm doing right now, which is feeling the color outside of this color. Yeah, don't worry too much about color spilling in and out. You can always correct that later. And sometimes when I'm sketching really fast, I don't really care about correcting little mistakes or details like that. Okay. All right. So we have the sofa. You know, let's correct this. Let's choose the pink. Sorry, the red colour two and color this. And next, I want to maybe have some highlights for the pens, so tap on the color wheel and look at the color wheel and select a color that is lighter. So I'm just going to put maybe this. You can choose different colors. Okay, this is the original color that I was using earlier. Yeah, so choose a color that is lighter. I'm going to choose one color away. This looks fine. Yeah. Let me just choose one color down. Yeah, this is okay. So we can use this to create highlights or shadows. You can choose a darker color to create shadows. Let me choose a darker color to create the shadows on the underside. This here, Yeah. So once you add the highlights and shadows, notice the sketch will now look more interesting. You may also add all these little patterns here on a separate layer. I probably won't mix it with the line art, the original line art. And let's have blue. For the color, let's have this blue. You don't have to follow the exact color that I'm using. Okay. We have some blue there. Maybe we can have some shadows to suggest the wrinkles. And for that, I'm going to use a neutral gray. What is this? This is three and three. Yeah. Just to suggest some shadows. Yeah, you can even make this sketch look more interesting by copying the pattern on the shirt. You can certainly do so. Next, let's choose a different skin tone color. Let's see what color this is. So this is E 21. So the next skin tone color I'm using is E, what's this? 13. Yeah, let's try this. This looks okay. E02 can be used as well. No. To similar E 11. Let's try E 11. No, too similar. Let's just go with E 13. Yeah, E 13 or e02, no. Yeah, E 13. So picking color sometimes is not an exact size. Let's just go with E 13. Let's have some shades here. This side here. And we have the bottom of the feet, which is darker like this and here we can add some shadows shade. Bottom of the finger, maybe it's darker hoops Yeah, feel free to zoom in and out to color the details. We have the biscuit. Let's have this orange biscuit. The color now looks the same as the sofa, but it's okay. If you want the biscuit to look more how should I say, have more contrast, you can change it to a different color. White I can have it as white. Yeah, I have white there. Yeah, so let's have white, and let's go back to choose the skin tone. Now, if you have messed up the colors here and you want to use back the same color, just tap and hold and move it to the color you want. So this is the color picker. Just make sure you choose the correct tool first. For example, if you choose the Pentool and you use the color picker, it's the pen tool that will have the color. So if you want to use the field to, to use the same color, select the field tool first before you tap and hold to get the color picker. Okay, so we have some color behind the neck here and we maybe can put some highlights on the skin. So I'm going to select the skin tone color and now maybe set it to this lighter E ten color to play some, you know, highlights here. Okay. Maybe I want to have white for the eyes. Looks good. Looks good, looks more interesting now. I can add some shadow to the sofa as well. So I no longer have the sofa color here, so just tap and hold onto the sofa color, tap on the color wheel and select a color that is darker and now you can add some shade to the sofa. This will make the sketch look more more three dimensional thanks to the shade and the shadows. Okay. Um, let's have some shadows here and maybe here. Okay. This sketch is actually, well done. You can continue to add more details if you want to, but this sketch is actually considered done. I may want to add some of the details of the lines here and some of the hello kitty patterns. I'm going to maybe create another layer between the line art and the color and select that new layer, select the pen and switch to a different color and just draw some of the patterns. So this step is obviously optional, but it can actually make your sketch look more interesting like this. Okay, let's switch to a blue. And because it's on another layer, if you don't like what you see, you can always you can always hide it. You can always hide it. For the shots here, I want to select a different color. Let's select this black. Yeah. So there are a few blacks here. There is the black black, which is pure black, and there is this 100 and 110 black, which is this black here. So I usually use pure black for line art and I use the whoops, the 100 black or 110 black for coloring so that I can still see the black underneath the pure black. So for the prints on the pens, I may want to create a new layer as well. So just to draw the pattern. I'm not going to be too precise. I'm just going to suggest, well, pattern. Don't have to be too precise here. This is a quick sketch. Uh, yeah. Sometimes when you draw fast, your art will look looser and look more how should I say, more confident, more sketchy, more relaxed. But sometimes if you draw too slow, if you're too careful, your artwork can actually look too stiff. Anyway, all this will become easier as you get more practice. Okay. Yeah. Adding the how should I say? Adding the patterns do make this sketch look more interesting. This is the completed sketch and we no longer need the reference photos so we can hide it. And if you want to, you can rename the layers so that they are more descriptive. So to conclude, for this lesson, we have learned the basic workflow, which is create the line art and then color beneath the line art. And if you need to add details, you can add it above the line art between the line art and the field color. Or just add it to whichever layer you create. We have also learned some alignment technique, like, for example, the hand is aligned to the neck, let me enable the reference photo again. You see this here this arm here is aligned below the neck. Mine is actually below the year, which is why my sketch looks a bit off. If you want to be more accurate, you have to be very careful with the alignment. This line here should actually be below the neck. Not below the year. Yeah. We can check the alignment here. It seems okay, okay. You can see this food here is aligned to the bottom of what's the shirt here like that. We have a little triangle here. Yeah. This hand, sometimes I will use the hand for alignment as well. This hand is below the elbow. This hand is below the elbow, almost below. I could have made the hand move a bit more to the left side so that the alignment is more correct, more accurate. It's all this little alignment that is going to make your sketch look more or less accurate. If you have been following along with this lesson with this drawing project, share with me your drawing, your sketch, and maybe I can give you some creti on how to improve. But chances are most of the time the mistakes are usually related to alignment. Yeah. 7. Self Portraits: Photo Taking: Hello, and welcome back. In this lesson, we are going to draw self portraits and you can use the photos of me that I have provided for practice purposes. But when you submit your projects, I would recommend you submit self portraits of you yourself so that I can see how my students look because it's more fun and interesting that way rather than looking at my own face again. And also in this lesson, I will tell you why sometimes your self portraits do not have any resemblance to the person you are drawing. So if you need to take photos of yourself for practice purposes, try to hold your phone further away as far as possible from your face. The reason is because the front camera on your phone is actually a white angle lens. If you have your phone too close to your face, there will be a lot of white angle lens distortion. So some of your facial features may appear too big. So try to hold your phone as far away as possible and your face will look small in the photo, but you can always crop the photo using your phone later. Take some photos of you looking to the front like this, looking to the side, looking up, looking down, and you can also make some funny faces. After you have taken your photo using your phone and crop the photo so that your face becomes bigger, import those photos onto the canvas and arrange them like that so that you can draw beside the photo. 8. Self Portraits: Drawing: Right let's start drawing this guy first. Before we draw, make sure you create two layers, one for pen and one for fill, and make sure you set the sorting to automatic and select the dynamic pen brush, and now we draw. As I draw, I will pay attention to the contour. We'll try to draw the big shape first and then fill in the details later. Because we are drawing side by side on this, you can actually just copy as much as possible the height of the head. I'm going to start here on the left side for no particular reason. You can start on the right side as well and just try and look at the subject and just draw just follow the contour of the phase. Pay special attention, very close attention to the face and just draw. Now, if the face does not look right, for example, you can see here the chin, it's off center. You can always just undo and draw again. Another technique that I will teach you later is how you can actually move the lines around. Let me just try again. Just try and copy the shape as much as possible. Okay, I can still see the chin is, you know, to the left side. I want you to select one of the tools here and set it to nudge. This is where we can do some correction, and this is one of the selling point of concepts. You can see as I push the line, I can actually ng the line slightly. Yeah. Now, you may have to adjust the size of the nudging brush so that you can push the lines more well, accurately. Okay, I think this is right. I can use my pen to measure the height. I can actually see that the height is okay, but the chin should actually be lower. I may want to just erase this or you know what? Because this is a vector line, I can actually just select this and stretch it like this. That's the really cool thing you can do with this app compared to other drawing apps. You can make little changes like this very easily compared to having to undo and redraw, which is going to take more time. Next thing I want to draw is the next biggest shape, so I may want to draw the hair. I think this part here should be like this. Okay. The very important thing about drawing faces is checking the alignment. So what I mean by that is, we can see the top of the nose is aligned to the top of the year. The bottom of the nose is aligned to the bottom of the year. The side of this nose here is aligned to the side of this I and the side of this nose is aligned to the side of this I and the bottom of the nose to the eyebrow is it's almost the same as the bottom of the nose to the bottom of the chin, you can see the mouth or the lips here. This is about one third space, and this is about two thirds space here. When you are drawing, you have to constantly be thinking about all these alignment. For example, when you are drawing the nose and you draw it like this, the alignment is off because the nose should actually be the bottom of the nose should actually be aligned to the bottom of the ear. I'm going to select this nose and delete it because the shape is wrong. We'll draw the nose first to help us place the feature. You can see the nose takes up this much width compared to the side of the face, it's actually about one third, interestingly, when I mark out the dimensions like this. So let's try to draw the nose with this shape. So I will draw the underside of the nose, starting from the one third size here like this. I can also draw the side of the nose. Now, if the line is too thick, you may want to, you know, just use venal lines like this, hoops. I think it's a bit off. So you may have to undo a few times. But if you are very careful, you can actually draw it just one time. Next, I will want to draw the spectacles. Now I'm placing the features on the face relative to the shape of the face. And I'm going to draw the spectacles. This side of the spectacles will actually overlap the nostril here. So the spectacle should start here and go out of the face. Like this. Oops, the shape is a bit off, but it's okay. We I'll just draw. You see this line is not curve, so you may want to erase this and fraud. Okay, I can erase this part here as well just to have it curve up. Yeah. And curve here. Let's raise it. Or you can use the notch to to nudge the lines around. We have what's this spot here. We have another curve here, and the specles will go outside of the side of the head and come down like this. Now, you can see for this photo, there is the lens distortion. So the side of the head is actually here instead of here in real life. But for our portraits, we will just draw the side of the head without the distortion. And after we have drawn the spectacles, we can draw the eyebrows, place the eyebrows on top of the spectacles relative to where they are. This ops, I'm just going to draw a very comic style eyebrow. Yeah, always pay attention to your reference photo. Or you may just draw the shape of the eyebrow like this it's fine as well. Maybe I should draw the triangular shape. When we draw the I, we have to place the I relative to where it is in the specle. You can see if I draw this quadrant, I is actually here at the top right quadrant at the bottom left of this box. So when I draw the I here, I have to make a mental note. It's going to be around here. And notice this is not a full circle. This is covered. This is covered halfway. So this is not a full circle, it's not a full pupil. Okay, so now that we know it's not a full pupil, we can just draw it like this. And you can see that there is actually a little highlight. So if you want to, you don't have to cover everything. You can leave a little bit of highlight here. Yeah, I think it looks good. And for this, let's draw the quadrant and have a look. For this e, it's at the top left quadrant, maybe slightly upwards. When you're drawing, you should place the features relative to other features that you have already drawn. If you're not wearing spectacles, you have to draw the eye relative to the nose and also see where the eye aligns to the top of the ears. So it's really all about aligning and you can use your pen or pencil to check the alignment. Now here, remember earlier I said that the left side of the eye should align to the right side of the nose. When you start, you should start there. Oops. You can see this let me show you again. You see this line, it's a bit wobbly. If you are drawing slowly, this can happen. Sometimes you may want to just draw a bit faster so that your lines can look smooth and look more natural. Let me just hide the layers palette. For this eye, it's also not a full circle. Okay. I think it looks all right. I can see that this I, if I use my pen to align it, you can see that this e is actually further up. The nice thing about this app is you can just select this and move it down like this. Yeah. So now the alignment is perfect. If you draw the eye too close inside here, just move it to the side like this. Okay, generally speaking, if you're not while wearing spectacles, the eye will take up about one fifth of the face. For example, if the face is like this, the eye usually will be about this like this when you are looking at the camera straight on. This will be one, two, three, four, five. Yeah. These are the proportions that you should know. But you don't need to know all these proportions when you're drawing from observation. Knowing the proportions will help you check your work. Okay, so next thing, we can draw the lips and I mentioned earlier that the bottom of the nose to the lip takes up one third of the space compared to the bottom of the nose to the chin. So let's put the lips here. I'm just going to draw a thin line, slide with a slight curve. The bottom of the lip will start below the pupil. Like this. I think this looks good. Let's give the lips some volume. Okay. I think this looks fine. This actually looks fine. Let's draw the neck. You can see this line, we intersect here, intersect below the I. You can use the I to help you align the neck. Oops, intersects here and this line here, the other side of the neck intersects to the right side of the eye here. And you can draw the t shirt as well if you want to. Notice the notice on this side, the t shirt is close to the neck, but here there is a little gap. So when you draw draw from observation, just make sure there is a little gap here and try to draw the angle of the t shirt, and you can add some details as well like this. Okay, I think it's not quite there yet. Let's draw the details for the years. Let's draw the side of the face here, try to join the line properly. And when you are drawing the lines here, just follow the lines. Don't think of yourself as drawing the year. Think of yourself as following the curves. So just follow how the curves move. If it's a small curve, draw a small curve, if it's a big curve, draw a big curve like this. On the other side, you may want to make some adjustments as well. If the chin here does not look good, use the nudge to to nudge it slightly. Okay. I think this looks good. Maybe the chin should be higher bit hoops. I may want to move the lips slightly to the left side. For the next sketch, I let's just draw a bit faster. Let's draw using the control drawing technique again. Now for the side of the face here, pay attention to this shape here. Yeah. So when you're drawing the shape, try to make sure that there is this shape there. Okay. Let's see what we have here. Does the shape look okay? Let's try. Let's just draw something. Let's just do a really quick sketch. Okay. Now, here you can see we need to know the alignment again. The left side of the eye, this time round is aligned to the left side of the tip tip of the nose here. And here there is spacing between the eye here and here. The bottom of the nose aligns to the top of the ear and the lips aligned to the mid of the ear and the bottom of the bottom of the ear aligns to the mid of the lips and chin. You can see this I. If we look at the head here, this e is in the center. So when we draw, again, we need to make sure that the placement of features is relative to the head shape you have drawn. Okay. So I'm going to nuch the jaw down slightly like this and nudge the cheek bone out slightly like this, maybe the eyebrow out. Is this a vertical line? It's almost vertical. This is almost vertical. So this actually looks okay. The ear looks a bit, how should I say? It's a bit crooked here, so I can just erase this and maybe draw a smoother ear. Yeah. Okay, so let's draw the nose, which is here above the top of the year here. Actually, this year should go even higher because the shape is a bit more rectangular. See, this shape is square, but the year is at this angle. So we need to draw this a bit higher like this. We can draw the details for the year later. Let's draw the bottom of the nose, which is aligned to the top of the year. I think this looks fine. I think the chin looks fine. We can draw the I. Remember let's draw the side of this nose first. There is a little gap here from the nose to the side of the face. Keep that little gap there. I can see the e is actually to the right side. So I want the side of the nose here. I want to draw what's this the slope of the nose here like this. This point is of mid of this two. So just draw and know that the nose ends here. Actually, the nose will end here, see? Draw this loop here. Let me change it to the yellow line. When you draw it, know that it's going to end here on top of this yeah. So when I draw, I know that the ending point is here to the right side here. Let me just move this. Let me just delete that and draw this again. Yeah. So when I draw the nose, I know it's going to end here to the right side here. Okay, so draw with a smooth line if possible. And now we can draw the I. We can actually draw the specs first. You can draw the big shapes first. So just try and follow the curve. This is almost vertical, but it's not it's tilted at an angle like that. So try to just copy that. This one doesn't go all the way because there is a connector for the glasses. And when we place the I just place it relative to where it is within the glasses, within the frame. Okay. And we can see there's this line here that goes down this hook. So this will end at the midpoint between these two. This. Now, if you look at the photo, you can see that there is this little curve here, but I do not have my little curve here. So if you want to, you can actually nudge it slightly to get that little curve. Hey, I have some extension here. We can draw the connector. And for the other I, remember this I is actually in the center of the face. So when you draw this I, make sure it's in the center of the face. You can either draw the frame first, then draw the I, maybe I shall draw the frame first and then the I. And then draw the I, make sure the I is placed. Correctly? Is it in the center of the face? Let's see. Yeah, I think it's almost in the center and we can draw the eyebrow. Here, the eyebrow is hidden behind the spectacles. We can draw the lips like this. The bottom of the lip is aligned to the right side of the nose. It's one third here, this. The lips are quite thick in this photo Yeah, I think this looks fine. Maybe the chin needs to go up slightly. You see this line, it's not that smooth. It doesn't look that great. So I may want to select this, crush it, and redraw this. Yeah, so draw it a bit faster so that the line looks smoother and looks nicer, and there we have it. Okay, for the back of the neck, see how this line sort of continues down. So when you draw it, make sure it sort of continues down, and now we draw the curves in the in the year Okay. Oops. Again, if you draw too slow, the lines are not going to look smooth, so try and draw with confidence. Okay, looks fine, I guess. Yeah. So why is there? Oh, the eyebrow disappeared, and there is this straight stroke here. Let's draw the eyebrow again. 9. Self Portraits: Troubleshooting: Now let's do some troubleshooting to see why sometimes your drawings or the faces do not look like, well, faces. I'm going to place this somewhere here. I'm going to show you some of the sketches that I have drawn. Anyway, you can actually group all your lines. I'm going to group all the lines here, select everything and click here with the small small squares and group it. Now you can actually just move all the lines as a group. Oops. This is also selecting the photo, just tap here so that you don't select all the layers. Just select the lines on this layer. Group it. This is the portrait that looks most like more accurate because the proportion is right. Yeah, so this is quite accurate, even though this is a very simple line art. But this, you can see, it's not that accurate. If I overlay this to the hoops onto the let's change the color for this. Yeah. If I overlay this onto the photo, you can see that the shape is wrong. So there should be more heat here on the right side and also the year should be down. The alignment is actually okay, as in the bottom of the nose is aligned to the top of the ear. But but the angle is wrong. Angle is wrong, which is why it looks a bit off. Once the angles look a bit off, the portrait will look a bit off. For this catch, I will probably need to add more hair here here. Because if you look at the year, the hair actually starts on the right side more towards the right side. I just need to add a bit more hair here like this. And it should work a bit better. Let's take a look at this. Wow, this is very cartoony and there are many things that go wrong here. If you take a look at the Wow, nose, you can see there is this huge gap here. But here in the photo, it's only a tiny little gap. So when you get the placement of the features wrong, your drawing is just going to look cartoony. Yeah, it's just going to look cartoony. And you can see the lips here, it should be closer to the side of the face, but here it's more towards here in the center, and also the lips do not align to the bottom of the nose. So um the problem here is just alignment. The head, you see the hair, this hair goes down and intersects the year by the right side. But here, the hair intersects at the top. So that's another inaccuracy there. How accurate you want your sketches to be really comes down to how much time you want to spend checking the alignment um when you are drawing, try to focus on drawing the right shapes first at the start because if the angle is off slightly, then the angles for every other feature on the face will be off slightly. Okay, so now let's maybe do some really quick sketches for other pass. Let's just do, like, a very quick, one, two minute sketches. So, same thing, let's just draw the draw just very quickly. You know, sometimes when you draw fast, you actually draw better. So let's just draw this. The spectacles are here, going out of the frame, out of the face, eyes are here. The nose comes down at this very steep angle, goes to the right side and Oops the nose is aligned to the bottom of the ear. So when you're drawing, try to remember the alignment. The lips are closer to the left side. In this case, the speclesT point here is in the mid of the left and right. As are here. Yeah. So this level of detail is actually enough if you are just drawing something really small. Now let's draw a side portrait. And now let's draw a side portrait. Sometimes I like to draw the hair, just put some hair here just to get a sense of where I am. The year here. And because the year is here, the nose will be year aligned to the ear. We have the spedacles here. The eyes are here. The hair will cut here. This part here will be below the tip of the bottom tip of the nose so it doesn't go all the way. This part here aligns the bottom of the eye. The jaw. I may have to move the eye closer. Okay, the specs are the wrong shape. Should be more compressed. Delete this, delete the I, draw this again so that it's more compressed. Hairs like this at an angle. Sorry, the back of the neck comes down from this place. We have the curve for the year. There is a Y shape here. The bottom of the neck here comes down from the bottom of the lips here. We have this muscle here, the neck muscle, Yeah, so a quick sketch can be drawn like this very quickly just by placing the features at the right places. If we double check this, we can see that there are some errors. So the spectacles are tilted at an angle. Mine are not. Mine are spectacles here is just horizontal, which is wrong. So I may want to adjust that trash this and redraw it. Yeah. Set this, trash this. Let's delete the eyebrow as well. Let's draw this slightly up at an angle like this. Okay. Eyebrow looks weird. Looks a bit weird. Looks a bit weird because I've used too many lines here. So sometimes to draw one line, use one line. Don't draw one line with two lines or three lines. Okay? So if you draw one line with one line, that will make your art look more confident. Your line art look more confident. And this line here is a curve as well. Sloops up. Okay, so we have the nose here. This This is vertical. And I will be here. Yeah, it looks okay. There will be some imperfections. The nose is imperfect. You can see here the nose is the bottom edge of the glasses is here, the nose is here. But here you can see my nose is here. It's not at the bottom edge of the glass. So this means the nose is wrong. I may just want to use the nudge tool to nudge it. This down slightly. Okay. Sometimes you may have to delete. So if you cannot notch, then you may have to delete. Okay. I think now it's now it's definitely better. Yeah. Looks okay with some. You see the chin here, this angle here versus my angle here. This is vertical. This is at an angle. So this is wrong. Select this, trash it. Let's erase this and place the bottom chin here to the bottom of the nose here. Here the nose is here. So yeah, check the alignment. Yeah. So now, when I place the chin here, it's aligned to the bottom of the nose here. Here here. Like this. See? Like this. Alignment is very important. Once you get the alignment slightly off, the face is going to look slightly off. While you are practicing, I want you to check your alignment and also when you're drawing, try to draw a bit faster so that your lines can look more fluid and more confident and make sure you get the proportions right, place the features at the correct places relative to the shape of the head that you have already drawn. Sometimes your sketches are not going to look good, but that is just part of the practice because the more you draw, the more you will be able to identify how a phase should look, how much space the features will take and where the features should be placed. So once you have that knowledge, the next time you draw, you can actually use that knowledge to check the accuracy of your drawing. That's why it's important to practice from observation as much as possible. Now if you are drawing from a photograph, as mentioned earlier, there will be wide angle distortion. So try as much as possible to draw on location. I mean, you can draw at cafes. For example, when people are at cafes, they don't move around that much, so you can quickly draw a face or when you are at the train station, if you have a sketchbook in hand or your tablet in hand, just pull out your tablet and quickly draw a face as fast as you can, place down the main features just to capture the essence of the person's face and make sure you place the features at the correct places and you should be able to capture the essence and look and feel of the person just by placing down a few key lines. So those are the same techniques that are used to draw people when I am commuting on the train. So just draw them quick, draw them fast. You don't have to place too many lines. You just have to place a few important lines to capture the essence of the people you are drawing. 10. Self Portraits: Creating quick sketches: Okay, so now let's maybe do some really quick sketches for other phases. Let's just do very quick, one, two minute sketches. So same thing, let's just draw uh, draw just very quickly. You know, sometimes when you um, draw fast, you actually draw better. So let's just draw this. The spectacles are here, going out of the frame, out of the face, eyes are here. The nose comes down at this very steep angle, goes to the right side and Oops nose is aligned to the bottom of the ear. So when you're drawing, try to remember the alignment. The lips are closer to the left side. In this case, the speclesT point here is in the mid of the left and right. Eyes are here. Yeah. This level of detail is actually enough if you are just drawing something really small. Now let's draw a side portrait. And now let's draw a side portrait. Sometimes I like to draw the hair, just put some hair here just to get a sense of where I am. The year here. Because the year is here, the nose will be year aligned to the ear. We have the speacles here. The eyes are here. The hair will cut here. This part here will be below the tip of the bottom tip of the nose so it doesn't go all the way. This part here aligns to the bottom of the eye. The jaw. I may have to move the eye closer. Okay, the specs are the wrong shape. Should be more compressed. Delete this, delete the e, draw this again so that it's more compressed. Hairs like this at an angle. Sorry, the back of the neck comes down from this place. We have the curve for the year. There is a Y shape here. The bottom of the neck here comes down from the bottom of the lips here. We have this muscle here, the neck muscle. Yeah, so a quick sketch can be drawn like this very quickly just by placing the features at the right places. And if we double check this, we can see that there are some errors. So the spectacles are tilted at an angle. Mine are not, mine are. My spectacles here is just horizontal, which is wrong. So I may want to adjust that trash this and redraw it. Yeah. Se like this, trash this. Let's delete the eyebrow as well. So let's draw this slightly up at an angle like this. Okay. Eyebrow looks looks a bit weird. Looks a bit weird because I've used too many lines here. So sometimes to draw one line, use one line. Don't draw one line with two lines or three lines. Okay? So if you draw one line with one line, that will make your art look more confident. Your line look more confident. And this line here is a curve as well. Slopes up. Okay, so we have the nose here. This This is vertical. And I will be here. Mm, it looks okay. There will be some imperfections. Okay, the nose is imperfect. You can see here the nose is the bottom edge of the glasses is here, the nose is here. But here you can see my nose is here. It's not at the bottom edge of the glass. So this means the nose is wrong. I may just want to use the nudge tool to nudge it. This down slightly. Okay. Sometimes you may have to delete. So if you cannot notch, then you may have to delete. Okay. I think now it's a, now it's definitely better. Yeah. Los okay with, you see the chin here, this angle here versus my angle here. This is vertical. This is at an angle. So this is wrong. Select this, trash it. Let's erase this and place the bottom chin here to the bottom of the nose here, here, the nose is here. So, check the alignment. Yeah. So now, when I place the chin here, it's aligned to the bottom of the nose here. Here here like this. See, like this. Alignment is very important. Once you get the alignment slightly off, the face is going to look slightly off. While you are practicing, I want you to check your alignment and also when you're drawing, try to draw a bit faster so that your lines can look more fluid and more confident and make sure you get the proportions right, place the features at the correct places relative to the shape of the head that you have already drawn. Sometimes your sketches are not going to look good, but that is just part of the practice because the more you draw, the more you will be able to identify how a phase should look, how much space the features will take and where the features should be placed. Once you have that knowledge, the next time you draw, you can actually use that knowledge to check the accuracy of your drawing. That's why it's important to practice from observation as much as possible. Now if you are drawing from a photograph, as I mentioned earlier, there will be wide angle distortion. So try as much as possible to draw on location. I mean, you can draw at cafes. For example, when people are at cafes, they don't move around that much, so you can quickly draw a face or when you are at the train station, if you have a sketchbook in hand or your tablet in hand, just pull out your tablet and quickly draw a face as fast as you can place down the main features just to capture the essence of the person's face and make sure you place the features at the correct places and you should be able to capture the essence and look and feel of the person just by placing down a few key lines. Those are the same techniques that are used to draw people when I am commuting on the train. So just draw them quick, draw them fast. You don't have to place too many lines. You just have to place a few important lines to capture the essence of the people you are drawing. 11. Drawing people in groups: That we know how to draw faces, let's move on to drawing people from the head to the feet. Please import this reference photo onto the canvas and have a look at it. This photo was taken with a white angle n, so there is actually very severe white angle lens distortion. People nearer to the lens will appear much bigger and people further away will appear much smaller. Now for this tutorial, we will draw as what we see in this photo. A few key points. When drawing, pay attention to the proportion. For example, we have the head here and this head is one heat away from the arm, which is one heat away from the trousers here. If we take a look at the body, we can see that this is about the same height as the feet. Maybe maybe if we include the head, this is maybe about the same heights from the trousers, the pants to the bottom of the feet like this. We need to make sure that we get this proportion correct. Next, we'll move on to drawing people besides other people. This is my friend Kaken, who is standing beside this guy and you can see the height difference. When we draw him, we need to align the top of the head to the bottom of the nose of this guy and the bottom of the feet will align at the same place. And when we draw Rob Skechmans another friend, we need to align him relative to Kaken who is standing beside, and when we draw her and him, we need to place them relative to other people that we have already drawn. So when drawing people, we are actually using the same techniques as when we were drawing faces earlier. Same thing, let's set the sorting for the layers to automatic, select the dynamic pen Brush, and let's start. I'm going to start with the head first. I don't have to be very precise. I just need to place the head, but you can see the line is actually thick, maybe I will want to reduce the line width to maybe something that is a bit thinner because this looks too thick right now. Let's just delete this. Okay, let's just draw the head. Like this, we have the hair. With the nose. It doesn't have to be that precise. I'm just drawing the shapes. I'm just trying to get the proportion. If you want to be precise, you can do so. You just have to spend more time. I'm drawing the shoulders relative to the width of the head and we have the arm here. As I'm drawing I'm paying attention to the height of the head relative to where the arm is. You can see this shirts folded here, and this is to align to the side of the head. When you draw the folded shirt, make sure this is aligned to the side of the head. Like that. The hand is to the left side of the head there. Notice I am actually drawing I'm still drawing with this very thick brush. Yeah. The shoulder here is too long, relatively speaking compared to the width of the head, let's erase this slightly and we can draw the arm here goes down. The folded shirt here aligns to the top of the hand there. So, I'm a bit off here. I need to undo, select this, trash it, and redraw again. One technique you can use is instead of drawing from the shoulder down here, you can draw from here up. So that is actually an easier way because you know where it's going to end. So you just draw where it's going to end and then just join it to the top like that. You can add some texture or details for the wrinkles on the shirt. We can draw the side. And now we can draw the pen. So the feet this feet here is below the chins directly below the chin. And we can draw the stomach here. This is, I would say, one unit, and then we have another unit here. So the feet will be here. You can draw the feet first and then just draw like this. Yeah, so I'm drawing the feet and join it to the top like that. Or you can draw from top down. So it's just personal preference. Sometimes it's easier to draw from the bottom and join to the top and sometimes it's just easier to just draw from the top and join it to the bottom. Okay. Now we can add some additional details like wrinkles on the shirt. If this line is too thick, it is too thick, select it, trash it and just draw with thinner lines. All this is just additional details. Okay, so now we have actually a person. It's a very simplified person. We don't even have the facial features, but you can see the posture is quite similar. Okay, so this is done. This is good. We don't need to sketch people with too much detail. If you want to sketch the person with more detail with facial features, then you will have to draw this person much larger so that you have the space to actually draw the details like the eyes, the eyebrows. But here you can see, if I try to draw the eye, I can't draw the eyelid and if I draw the eyebrow, it's too thick, if I draw the mouth, it's just too thick. But this is actually sufficient detail for a sketch that's meant to be small. If you start with thinner line, you may actually have more space to draw the features. Let me show you. The nice thing about this app is you can select this and since this was all drawn with this stroke, you can actually go here into the stroke or you can just swipe here to adjust the line width. Now the lines are much thinner and because the lines are much thinner, you actually have the space now to actually hoops. You also actually reduce this size. You now have the space to actually draw all the little details. Yeah. Like this, and even years like this. But if the lines are too thick, like a year, let me show you again. So like this, if I set it to you 2.7 or higher, you can see that it's a bit difficult to make out all the details. So okay, set it to six. This is still okay. But you can see the details are starting to merge together because there is no space. So, which line thickness do you use is just personal preference. It really comes down to how much details you want to put in the sketch. For a simple sketch like this, um, if I want to capture the facial details, I may actually try to capture and draw the facial details first and then expand outwards. I may not draw a quick head shape here. Next, let's draw the other person standing beside. So when drawing other people, when drawing many people, you should draw them relative to people that you have already drawn or things that you have already drawn. For example, if there are some people in a room and there are furniture and you draw the furniture first, then the person that you draw, the size of the person must be in relation, must be proportional to the furniture. So if you draw a small chair, then the person has to be drawn smaller to fit onto the small chair. So everything that you draw is relative. So now I'm going to draw the next person. So the height of Kakien my friend, the height is relative to this person on the right side. So I'll start here. Is this line too thin. Let's make it a bit thicker. Yeah, so I'm not going to pay too much attention to drawing the details. I just want to capture the proportion. The bottom of the chain will align to the four arm here here like this. Okay. The face is actually should be more should have less width, by the way. I can see this nose here, it's wrong. Maybe let's just trash this, redraw it. The thing about drawing people is once you get the shape of the person right, once you get the shape of the face right, I'm going to draw the back here relative to the bottom of the shirt here. So once you draw the shape of the head accurately, the person should actually start to look realistic. For example, let's say you see your friend across the street your friend is standing across the street and obviously you will not be able to see the facial features that clearly because your friend is quite far away, but you will be able to identify that your friend is standing across the street just by looking at the body shape, the body posture, and maybe the shadow of the facial features, even though you cannot see the facial features correctly. You can still identify your friend who is standing quite far away across the street simply because of the shape of the head and body posture. So that is how important that is how important ships are. I have the back here. The feet will be here. Same thing. I'm going to draw the bottom of the feet. Again, you can just draw from top down, bottom up. Sometimes I will draw things like this and then expand out from the center. But most important thing you need to know is as you're drawing what you are drawing should be in relation to things that you have already drawn. For rob sketchment the bottom of the chin here is above the hand. I can see here that my alignment is a bit, it's a bit off, that's off. I need to take this and move it up or just trash it and redraw again. The bottom of the chin is actually here. Draw it like this. So once you place the once you can manage to capture the location of the head and the size of the head relative to things that you have already drawn, it's just going to make your sketch look more accurate as you continue to draw. Always checking always be checking the alignment and placement. For example, this hand you can see, it's near the back. So if I draw the hand, I will have to draw it near to the back like this. Sometimes you may have to use your artistic license just to switch or move things around. We have this hand here, which is to the right side of the face, the hand should be here overlapping the leg. This part here should actually be erased so that I can draw the hand be below here. And yeah, so this has to erase. Notice I'm doing a lot of erasing. That's because I get the so if I get the placement wrong, I have to do a lot of erasing. And that will, well, how should I say? Me me spend more time to sketch. This is his iPad that he has. And we have another person here. Now though he's the head of this person, it's as big as the top body of Rob scuten. As I draw the head here, it has to be big. Make sure the glasses are aligned to the bottom of the hand. This 45 degree angle, we have the hair here. Let's just block it out like this. Draw the curve. I do not refer to this as the color even though it's a color, but I refer to this as well, a curve. This is the angle. We have the line. Instead of referring to this as the shoulder or the sleeve, I'm referring to a line because if you think about the subject that you're drawing, if you're drawing a head, you may draw from your memory where instead, you should be drawing from observation. So when you draw from your memory, it may interfere with the accuracy. We have, what is that Jane, another friend. The top of the head of an here is aligned to the hand, we draw Jane here, that's the head. That's a ribbon. The ribbon is aligned to the hand here. Yeah, so there is actually a lot to check when you are drawing. But as you are more familiar with drawing, all this will be part of your subconscious. So when you are drawing, you will automatically check. So right now I'm actually voicing out how I draw so that you can know how to well, what to check. Okay, we have the head here. Notice this curve here will go up like this. Okay. I need to delete this because notice the curve here that goes to the ribbon, it goes to the ribbon, comes down like this. The dress comes out from here, from the um here and here. So you can have some texture for the dress. We can draw other people as well. You can see there's a little hip popping up here. Top of the head will align here. The head will pop up here, top of the line here, there's the headline. Okay. If your brush if your line is thin enough, you can actually go in and draw hoops, draw the hoops. Let me just draw the eye with a very thin hoops. You see, if you place the eyes wrongly, just like this, it's going to look weird. Perspective is off. Even when you're drawing little details like this, perspective actually does matter. Yeah. But more importantly, the placement actually matters. This is a bit weird. You can see the head popping out of Jane's head here, but we don't see her body. If I'm actually drawing this on location in real life, I may actually move her or use my artistic license to place her by the side so that I can actually draw her body so that it's clear that she has a body because right now it looks weird. So when you look at people here, you can see, we can see the head and body, we can see the overlap. So it's very clear that there are two people standing here, but here it's not as obvious. So yeah, sometimes you have to use your artistic license to place people where, uh, they should be so that they can look better. Okay, let's draw some people in the background. These people in the background, um, you may not be able to see their features because they are so far away, so you don't have to draw their features, but you have to place them, draw them at the correct size. So, this guy here without hair, his head is actually higher compared to this guy. So I'm going to draw him here. This is the body. We can draw the arms We're going to draw the feet. Yeah. This looks right. The size looks right. Maybe I need to put out the shoulder slightly, so I will delete this Oops, let me just put it back like this. I think this looks okay. For someone that's not going to be drawn with much detail, this is actually right. Next ticky. The head will align to this guy. The body here we align to the bottom of the chin. We have an angle line here, which represents the um This guy is standing with a posture like this. And believe it or not, this is actually enough. This is actually all right. You can draw other people in the background, draw the shapes. Make sure the size of the head is much smaller because now they are further away, so you have to draw them much smaller and just draw the feet. It would be tempting to draw very quickly from your imagination, from how you think a person should stand, but it's more accurate to draw based on what you see. So even though you are drawing something very stylized like this, as long as you draw accurately as accurately as you possibly can, then this is still going to look pretty good. So when we zoom into these people here, you can see that they don't really have much details. But when we zoom out, the lack of details is actually right for a sketch like this. Let's remove the photo. So, this can be drawn rather quickly. If you want to add more features, you can just start maybe with a thinner line and then draw the shapes and then draw the features. 12. More practice: To get more practice, you can use some of the reference photos that I have provided. Let me just quickly go through some of the photos to tell you the things that you should look out for when drawing people. This was taken with me standing. The eye level is here. So when you are sketching, it will be good to find out where the eye level is. In this case, my eye level will intersect with the eyes or the head of all these people. So that's why you see all the heads, they are kind of at this eye level. For people who are taller, the head will be higher and for people who are shorter like this kid here, this is the eye level. This kid is shorter, so the head will be lower than the eye level. When you are drawing, draw the big shapes first. In this case, it would be good to draw this lady here first because this is the biggest element here and also she is overlapping other elements, so it'll be good to draw her first before you draw the people behind. After you have drawn this, you can then draw the other people. For example, this man here, relative the height relative to this lady. Top of the head will align to her eyes, but the bottom of the feet will align to the knees. And when you draw this little kid here, the top of the head will align to the elbow. The bottom of the feet will align to the bottom of the knees. So the next person you draw, same thing, just find out where the head is relative to the main subject that you have drawn and find out where's the bottom relative to the main subject that you have drawn. So everything has to be in proportion. If you draw this person smaller, then all the other people will be drawn smaller in proportion to the main subject that you have drawn. This next photo was taken from a higher elevation, so we are not sure where the eye level is. The eye level here is actually not important. What is important is, maybe you can draw, again, people in the foreground first, so you can draw maybe this person first and then draw the person behind and then just draw the people one by one. When you draw the hit, make sure they are placed relative to one another. For example, this hit is below this had. This head is almost at the same level as this head and this head is smaller and to the top right side. This head is much lower, aligned to this head, and you can see how the relation of all these heads, how they are relative to one another. You should be able to place where the heads are if you draw the feet, again, you should try and align where the fit is and check where the fit is, align to where the head is. Yeah, there is actually a lot of checking and alignment checking to do. But again, as mentioned earlier, once you are more experienced, all this will become second nature and you don't have to think about it anymore. For this photo, I may draw the head of this person first, then draw the what shoulder. This line here is aligned to the left side of the head. The plastic gloves here will be aligned to the bottom of the nose. The plastic gloves here will be aligned to the midpoint of the arm here, top bottom, this is the midpoint, there is this shape here, which is an empty shape, negative shape that you should draw. This is 45 degree angle. So make sure you check the alignment. This line is almost horizontal and this line comes out from the midpoint of the nose from the face here, this line is almost 45 degrees. And we can see the next person that you should draw. The nose will be aligned to the right side of the gloves here. For this lady, we can see the chin aligned to the bottom of the nose. The head is higher than this person, but the head is aligned to this lady here. The V shape here, this is aligned to the bottom of the hair here. When you're drawing hair, I'll make sure you check the bottom of the nose relative to where the bottom of the ear is. Yeah. The left side of the eye is the right aligned to the right side of the nose. Yeah. Once you check all the alignment, you should be able to draw this rather accurately, even if the facial features are not precise. Try to draw the setting as well. For example, this is actually a food store, so they are preparing food, so it would be good to draw the bowls and noodles, just to provide the setting because otherwise, if they are just people standing around, it looks like they are actually just floating in space. This is a photo of my friend, Tony. He wears a big hat. So if we take a look at the height of the heat, you can see that this heat is actually bigger than his face. This part here, will be the same height as the face. When you're drawing the head, in this case, I'll probably draw the head first because this looks like the biggest object. Then I will use the size of the head to draw the size of the face. When I draw the face, I will align, I will draw maybe the hand first. And this side is aligned to the right side or under the year here, and the left side is under the eye here. And we have the hand here this hand is higher compared to the hand here, and we can see the shirt coming out from the mouth or the lip here. We have this shoulder coming out from below the glasses and the glasses are aligned to the bottom of the nose. The ear is actually higher midpoint of the spentacles we can see this ribbon here at the back. This ribbon is aligned the bottom of this ribbon is aligned to the bottom of the glasses. And this point here is to the right side of the singlet here. Yeah. So when you're drawing, just check the alignment. So you can use these photos for your practice purposes and do send me your sketches so that I can give you some critique on how to improve. 13. Outro: We have come to the end of the course. I hope you have enjoyed the course and I hope you find the course useful. If you have created any sketches, I would highly recommend you upload them on Skillshare so that I can have a look and give you some critics on how you can improve. Thanks for flowing me. See you guys in the next course. Bye.