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1. Introduction: Let me welcome you
to this module. We need a transfer. That's the title of this module. What do I mean with that? Now, in this art class, I'm not going to teach
you how to draw. But still, I've got these examples in the book
of notes and references, and we need to transfer them to a different paper
to work on them. These are in the book of
notes, but you can't use them. And if you can't draw, we
need to figure out how to get them to a different paper where we can actually work on. That's what this
module is about. We're going to do it
in a couple of ways. Now, we're not
only going to look at how to transfer things from a book or a paper to a
paper you want to work on. We're also going to
do a little bit of basics of sketching,
really basics. You see the file
liner here already. We're going to work on
the basics of inking two, just how to use a fine liner, how to use ink, how to
have fun with that. That is what this
module is about, some basic steps into sketching with a pencil
and a file liner, and I'm going to show
you various ways to transfer drawings to a paper
which you can work on. And from that
lesson, you can pick just the method that you
like or use various methods. I'm going to stop
talking. Let's go.
2. The basics of Sketching: Welcome to this lesson. Well, in the next lesson, we haven't even
started this lesson, and I'm already
starting talking about the next lesson. Yes, I am. In the next lesson,
I'm going to show you ways how to get my designs, all the designs
that I created for this art class to
your own paper. But before we can do that, I need to show you just a
little bit about sketching and how to use a
pencil effectively. Yeah, let me call it that
way. Alright, pencil. Let me pick up a pencil. Here's a pencil. Now,
everybody knows a pencil. Most people, when they draw,
they pick up a pencil, hold it like this, exactly
like a pen with writing, and just start scribbling away. Now that has a huge disadvantage
because before you know, you start to apply a lot
of pressure to the paper, and you just don't want that because we want to erase
stuff later on again. We're going to transfer
our design to paper, and we want to use
a pencil for that. Then use ink, perhaps, or we're going to go right into colored pencils or
watercolor pencils, and we leave the sorry, the pencil markings there. So we don't want to have strong pencil markings because we want to erase them
perhaps later on. So if you use your
pencil like you would use a pen no control. So what we're going to do, we're going to use it differently. We're going to pick
up a pencil and we're going to let it rest. I'm going to show you that
in my hand like this. And we're just going
to let the pencil relax, rest like that, then secure it with our thumb, this finger, goes under it, and we're going to
draw like it is. Now, if I have a larger pencil, I'll show you that.This
different pencil. You could use too. There's a clutch
pencil, 2 millimeters. You have those 0.5
millimeter ones. Don't use them. Yeah, at least
not for this hard class. Same with this pencil.
I'm just going to let it rest, pick it up. And I can now relax, draw. Don't pick it up like this. Now, give it some room
and hold it like that so that you have some distance
from the tip to your fingers, that helps you to relax, to sketch and draw more
relax without putting all this pressure on it so that you don't
have to erase hard. And if you put a
lot of pressure, you get indentations
in your paper, and you can't erase that. Okay, well, that's enough about the pencil, how we use it. So what do you need
for this lesson? Just a regular HB pencil. So paper, doesn't matter. Sketchbook paper, cartridge
paper, printed paper, whatever, cheap paper.
The next thing. You might use perhaps is
an eraser and a sharpener, that's it for this lesson. Alright, so I'm
going to show you a little bit on how to sketch, and for that, we're going
to go to the other camera. Oh, one thing I forgot, if you're going to erase, don't wipe it with your hands, but use something
like a makeup brush, a very soft brush to
get rid of the rubble. That way you won't
smear your pencil. Alright, now we're
really going to begin. So I'm getting this
pencil in a relax script. And what I'm going to do what I just want to show
you is how I draw. Now, most people, I
said, draw like this. They take the pencil to the tip and you start drawing like this. You get nice thick lines. Disadvantage of nice thick
lines is Hard to erase. So what we do we take
that relax grip instead. So this pencil is really not laying I'm not
really gripping this, like, no, I'm just letting that relax lay in my hands and
what I'm going to do. Instead of just drawing
like I did here, I want to sketch
it a little bit, and I'm going to
make soft markings, just hardly any
pressure and get this. Now, you see a huge
difference already. Now, if I take the eraser, yeah. For this, I need to
do quite some work. And if you can see, there's
some indentations there. And if I want to erase this, Look at that, how easy that
goes and how it's all gone. See? So you see
faintly here still, so I need to keep on erasing. So instead of doing this, we're going to just let
it relaxed and just hardly touch the paper and
paper and make nice fin lines. Now, you need a reasonably
sharp point for this. It doesn't have to be sharp, sharp because then
it's easy to break, but no blunt point either. Alright, that is already
really the basic of sketching. When we're going to transfer our designs to another paper? We're going to use
the pencil like this. Now, let me show
you just another little thing what
we're going to do. Alright, I'm going to
show you a drawing. Here's a drawing.
There's the outline. You find these kinds of drawings in the book of notes
and references. This is just an outline. Now, this is easy to transfer, but the next step would be, we would add some shadow to it, and I want to just show
you how to do that. So for that, I'm going
to draw another box. And I want to add this shade. Now, shading with a pencil and
with a pen is really easy, and what you do for that is
called something hatching. Now, Hetching are lines you
put like this under an angle, trying to match bit
of the same distance, but wow, if it is not even
zo, then that's fine. So it's a very simple motion. Yeah. I'll do that in next to
this box again, just lines. You're sketching lines that
gives the idea of shade. Now, if you will do this again, on here, and I will draw slow
quickly a box around this. And I hatch this with shorter lines and
closer to each other. See what you get for idea. You get the idea that
there's sun shining here, and there's a lot of
shadow right there. Now, same as on this flower. This is just an outlying
flower. Nothing interesting. Now, this one is a
lot more interesting because of all the little
hatching and all hatching, all the shading in that. Okay. So that's it
for this lesson. Really, what I want you
to practice is a grip, just a simple grip. And so don't draw, press hard, but let it
rest on your finger. Also, if you notice, I draw under an
angle, not straight. And then you get a relax grip. You get soft lines, and we want that
because those are easy to erase later on. Alright, and later
on, we're going to use these same
techniques with our pen, and even with a pen, I'm just holding it basically
the same as the pencil. Alright, that is the simple
introduction on sketching. Now, I'm not going
to teach you how to draw and how to sketch. Well, only these
simple basics because we need them and
how to interpret things and how to look at something and just get it
onto your paper because that will take just
a long time to do too much for this course. This course is not about that, but I've got other
courses for that. Yeah. There's other
art classes I do have, where I teach you how to
draw, but not this one. We just need basic
Pencil techniques, we're going to go into basic
inking techniques later on. And just more or less, I'm
just showing you how to transfer designs so that you
can quickly start working. All right, good. That's it. I would say practice this.
Once you've practiced, we go to the next lesson where we're going to
actually transfer designs from one paper to another. All right.
I'll see you there.
3. Some ways to transfer the Examples: Welcome to this lesson. This next lesson. I was talking already about
the next lesson. In the previous lesson, now we arrived at the next lesson. So let's go with this. What are we going to
do in this lesson? We're going to transfer
designs from my paper, the book that I made that you're going to use the examples to your paper because you
need to work with them. For that, we need to
that pencil techniques. I'm assuming you've got
them a little bit now. They're not too hard
to do, are they? And I'm going to show
you various methods, how to get your designs
to another paper. Alright, we're going to start
with the classic method. What do you need? You
need. Pencil, paper. Maybe an eraser,
sharpen a brush. That's all. Yeah. And you're going
to need one more thing. I'm going to show you that.
You're gonna need this. This is in the book of note. You see two of them. You're
gonna need this one, and we're going to use this one. Now, this one, you don't like I have here with the
squares around it, you don't need to print, really, but this one you may
need to print for transfer depending on the
method you're going to choose. We're going to start
with a classic method that's called the grid method, and there we need this one. Now, you don't need to
print this necessarily. You could just use it from a phone or tablet
and look at it. Yeah. Okay, we're going
to start with that. All right. Good.
Now, this design, I want to transfer these
puppies to my paper. I'm going to still use that
scrapbook paper for that. Oh, and then one thing
I forgot you may need is a ruler that
will be handy for this. Okay, now, you see that on this side here,
you see those puppies. Now, if you can draw,
it's no problem. You could draw them
to your other paper. And if you can do that, you don't really need
this lesson anyway. Might be interesting,
but you don't need. Then you can just draw it
onto a different paper. Now, if you can't draw, there's methods to get this
to another paper. This is so the classic
method I'm going to show you first. That's
the grid method. Now, the grid method already
says you need a grid. Yeah. And on this the
same design size here, but on here, I put a grid. What we can do with this grid, due to this grid, we can transfer something to
a different paper. Now, you may have
done this actually as a kid in coloring books, often there's little
practices like that. Okay, what I'm
going to show you? So what we do, first of all, we need to transfer the
grid to this paper. Now, I can measure this grid, and I'm going to say it's
about 1.5 centimeters. If you work in inches, it would be something else. So whatever is on your ruler, use that and I would count the ones and
then draw them here. Now, that is quite easy to do. But the advantage
of this method is that you could also
enlarge and go smaller. So instead of 1.5
centimeters for each box, I'm going to use a centimeter and I'm going to count one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 11, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight, nine, ten. So 11, I would need
here 11 centimeters. So I'm drawing 11 centimmeres, and I'm making a mark at every
centimeter, pretty much. And at the bottom, too. There we go. Alright,
so that would be my first. That
would be this side. Let me put this away. Now I need another line that goes straight across.
And what I can do. See if I have no clue how my ruler goes, I'm
just putting my ruler. I'm looking at the bottom line. I'm looking at the
bottom of my paper, and I'm just matching
it up pretty much. And I said 10 centimeters. So I'm just drawing
in 10 centimeters. I'm too far already. Every centimeter, I'm
making a little mark. Now, please note, I'm
doing it quite heavy. I draw quite heavy
on the example. You want to do this
quite lightly, but I'm doing that
so that the camera picks everything up really well. But normally I will do that
very lightly and very faint. Alright, so I've got this. Now I'm doing the top one, and I'm kind of measuring up my ruler
to the top and saying, it's pretty much okay. And I'm going to again put
these there and there you go. Now I'm going to just to connect every line and you have
to do that lightly, of course, I'm
doing it reasonably heavy so that you can really
see it well on the camera. Now, you get the idea. So that's all of
my vertical lines. Now I need some
horizontal lines, so I need to do
centimeter there. And something there. All right. That's it. Alright, as you can see, this is now a lot smaller
than this is. This is quite a bit larger. And that's the advantage
of this method. I could now enlarge it or I
can make something small. Now, the next thing I'm going to do, you could number these, you know, so you
could go one, two, three, four, five, and so on, and here go A, B, C, D, E, and so on. I'm only going to do this one,
so I'm not counting more. Then I will do the same here, A, B, C, D, E, one, two, three,
four and five. So I've done my numbers, my numbers my lattice. And now I'm just going to
go and look at the square. Now the first square A one,
there's nothing in it. A two is nothing in
it. There's nothing. I want to focus on
this, so I know that let's see on B two,
there's this part in it. And what I'm going to do,
I see that it pretty much starts in the corner,
comes halfway through. And I'm just going
to draw it in. Now the next part on free, it just stays on one line, but there is a dent in it, so I'm just going to go there. Now, it doesn't need to
be one on one exact copy. You can do it quite roughly, and later on you're
going to ink it. And if you change a
little bit here and there and are not
exact, doesn't matter. Then you get your own
interpretation of it. So now I'm here. I need this part here, and I'm just going to say
Bfore there's this line, and I'm just going to
say it goes right there, then C. Four, it
goes. There you go. And then we're in D four, it goes around,
not to the corner, not from the corner. You could put the dot and
then make a nice line. Now, there you go.
Begin. All right. And that would continue
and so on and so on. Yeah. I think you get the idea. I don't think I'm going
to show all of that. I'm going to continue
doing this and I'll just speed that up and show you the result when I'm done, okay? All right. Okay, my drawing is done. There it is, see? And I sped it through and you've
seen how I've done that. Okay, so that would be
the first easy one. Well, easy one.
Yeah, it is easy, but it takes time,
the grid method. Well, let's move right
into the next one. That's a more easy one. And that is using a light box. Now, we used to have
light boxes with bulbs in it and big bulky things.
That's not anymore. I'll show you what we have
nowadays. There it is. The LED led. Yeah, not a big
light box anymore, LED lights, transverse light. And you can through this. Then transfer a design. I'll show it in a minute.
What do you need for this? Pencil. I'm showing this. If you have a light box or just I'm going to demonstrate
that perhaps you want to go out and buy them. They're not expensive anymore. You can get them really
cheap these days. And the other thing you need is them not the one with the
squares on it, but this one. Yeah, I'm going to show you
that on the other camera. Alright, I've cut the lead box. And I'm gonna plug it in. Now, I have no idea what's gonna happen
now with my camera, whether it's gonna
pick it up or not, but we'll notice
that in a minute. Now, the first thing
I'm going to do is I'm going to move
this paper away. I'm going to put the
lead box right here. And there it is. And what I
do next is I'm going to put my drawing on the
LED box, you know? Now, with this paper, that might become slightly
tricky to do this. So what I'm gonna
do, I'm just going to get a different paper
to demonstrate this. What you can do is you can tape this down so that it won't move. I'm
not going to do that. I'm just going to put
a second paper on it, and now we faintly perhaps
see something crude, and I'm just going
to switch it on. Now, I got to find the switch. Switching it on, hopefully.
That works. There we go. And now you see the design
really good through it. Now, hopefully my camera won't
go crazy and pick it up, right? But I think we're okay. And if I want to
transfer my design now, I'm going to take that
pencil loosely again. I'm just going to
quickly sketch it. I'm not going to trace it, but I'm going to
quickly sketch it. Hardly touching the paper. Transfer this design. I'm again doing only one flower, but as you can imagine. This goes rather
quick. All right. I'm almost done with that first flower
and the advantages, it goes rather quick, but also very accurate
I got this part. Yes, I've got this part. See. And if you move
it around like I do, that's a bad idea because then you don't
know where you were, but I think I'm okay. And I'm going to just
even do this one in. Now, in the same time I did
the other one with the grid. I'm done with this one already. I only did a few couples
I could have done. Do this hofing in probably
the same time because you're just basically
copying one on one, again, using faint
lines, not really. Pressing too hard now. There we go. Let's check. And there we go. And
there's our flower. And now, if I missed anything, I can just switch it on again. I missed something there,
or I can just add it like this and those hairs
and that's it. That would be the easy method. Okay, so that is
really easy to do. It's very fast method
and it's great. It's not expensive, inexpensive. The disadvantage is you
just need a printer. You need to have access to a
printer to do this method. If you don't have
access to a printer, then the grip
method is the best. All right, we're
not through yet. I'm going to show you another way if you have a smartphone or an iPad or a tablet, you can use them to
transfer images too. And now this is going
to be tricky on tape. I'll see if I manage this. Okay? Let's see if
we can manage this. Okay, so what do you need
for the next one then, if you would do this, still the pencil. You need some paper. You need your phone
or your iPad. And let me get my iPad with it, and I'm going to do this from the top again.
Alright. I'll see you. I'll put all this stuff
away, and then I'll see you. So I've got my iPad and this is an app called DFIs af inci. I got to pronounce the
guy's name, right? You can see it hopefully here and it's swapping,
turning around. Yeah. This you can use to trace. Now, there's different
apps on Android, on IOS, different apps for that. So, what I'm doing
next is I need this to put this a
bit higher for that. I have a little vase, and let's see how
that goes or if it even is gonna pick that
up, probably not anymore. So I need to swap
cameras for that. Okay, what I'm going
to do is I'm going to get a piece of paper. Gonna put it right here. And you don't see
it under there. I'm going to get another
pen, a pencil for this. And what I'm going to do
is you see my screen, I'm going to hit draw, and I would ask me
to find an image. Now there's all kinds of images, and I got that image on
it, and there you go. This is asking me. I'm
going to go class. Now, what it does through the camera that is
here, you see my hand, it's showing the paper, and it's also
showing this design. Now I can go move this design, so I'm going to say here, move. I want to move the picture. I want to put this a bit
more sturdy like that. I want to turn the
picture around. There you go. I'm going
to line it up a little bit with the iPad. And what you see
now is my pencil under here. So
this is the paper. And now I've done this totally wrong, but I'll manage this. I got to move over to the side. And what I can do now, see
you see my pencil there, and you see the design on the iPad and I got to
say, I'm done with this. All right. I'm done. And
now I put my pencil, and I'm just going to trace and just like a light box,
but the other way around. And I'm just sketching. I'm going to do
this rather again, roughly so that
you get the idea. Probably skipping a lot. This needs some time
to get used to it. Should you have to go stand right on top of
it. I'm not doing that. If I'm standing on top of it, you can imagine what happens. You see my head, you won't
see what's happening, see? So I'm tracing this. And I've got no idea where
I've been right now, you can change the
opacity of the picture. So if I would press
here, say opacity, then it goes down a lot
and hit on it again. Now I need see, now I can
see see there's my drawing. I can see it a lot better and now I can clearly see I
missed the part there. The trick is to keep on
looking to the screen, it's gonna be tricky from this angle and not
to your drawing. You need to keep on looking
at the screen. So, right. And there we go.
It's good for now. I'm going to put
this one away again. All right, so switch the camera. As you can see,
it's a bit wobbly. That is simply because I'm
drawing from a wrong angle. But as you can see, pretty
much everything is there. So that's a quick way too, and there's various
apps to do this. The one I'm using is the fincye. But there, there's quite
some. Yeah, apps for it. Bit different than the LED
box, but this works great. Alright, so that
works good, too. Yeah, okay. My result
isn't optimal, but that's because I'm
standing on a wrong angle. You have to stand
right on top of it. Then the method works
great to transfer. Okay, that's nice.
You say, Well, I don't want to use
an app like that. I don't have an LED box, and I'm definitely not
gonna draw all these grids. There's another
way. We can do it. But for that, I have to put my cameras in a
total different way, rearrange everything. So I'm going to do that,
and I'll see you back. Yeah, for you to put
a couple of seconds. For me, this is going
to take some effort, but I'll show you how to
do it differently, too. The next method is
an easy method, too. It's a bit harder to film for me because of the setup,
but it should work. I'm reaching over the camera. Now, what you see here, I've taped the original
design to a window. And what happens if I put a blank piece of
paper over that? You'll see that just
goes right through. Well, this works
great at daylight. If there's no daylight
and it's night, then you're in trouble
unless you would put a strong light at the
other side of the window, and that would work great, too. Or if you have a piece of glass, this would
work, too, of course. You don't have to do
it on the window, but a piece of glass, put a light under it, or if it's daylight, it
would work great. And you have your own
light box this way. If you see some tape here, now I've taped it
with sensitive tape to the window because my wife is not
gonna be happy with me if I leave marks
on her windows. Or if you don't have a wife
and you live with your mom, she's not gonna be happy. But what I do is kind
of a sensitive tape, just regular masking tape, and I put it on there,
and what I would do is just put the other piece
of paper on top of it. I would definitely tape it because then the
paper can't move. And the next thing you need for this is, of course, a pencil. And then you can just
easily trace everything. And that's it to this method. And there I go, see?
And that works great. So you have your
own light box that doesn't cost anything at all. Now, of course, working
up straight like this, It's a bit tricky, especially if you're reaching
over a camera, but you won't have that problem. And there we go, and more
I won't do for this one. And as you can see,
now I've traced that design really easily and
let me take it off again. Hey, you can see
it. Right on there. And there it is,
see? Next to it. Really easy method. Taping your design to window
and just trace over it. We've covered quite
some methods already, but there is another method. If you don't want to
use your light box, you'll want to go
against a window. You'll want to use
that grid method. There's another way to do this. Or, actually, there's
two ways to do this. One way is to just draw it
yourself if you can do that. But that is not for this lesson. Now I've got other
art classes for that to teach you
how to draw flowers, or you might want
to look them up. But for now, we're going
to stick to the plan. And we're going to
use the pre made. Flower to transfer that to a blank piece of
paper in another way. What do you need is, then?
Of course, the print. You need a blank piece of paper, which you're
going to work on. I'm just going to use
this cheapy paper. But if you're going to
work on an artwork, you probably don't use that, but for demonstration, that's good. And you're going
to need a pencil. Now until now, we've
used the HB the most. But for this, I would
recommend A to B. Hope you can see that, right. But this is a very short one. You need four pencil, quite some lead exposed, or you can use a
clutch pen like this, make it yourself easy. Oh, very blunt one. See that? It doesn't matter. It's blunt because we're going to
go to use the site. I'm going to demonstrate what we're going
to do with this. Different kind of method. Let's go for that. So I've
got this flower here, and I want to transfer
it to this paper. And what I'm going
to do with this is I'm going to
turn this around. And I got to remark that there, keep in mind that the
flour is about here. Now, I'm not going
to do all of them. I'm just going to
concentrate on this one. What you would do is you
get your pencil out, and you're going to
add graphite down, and you want to press
reasonably hard for this. So this is not for
the fainthearted, press nice and firm. Now, let me see through it. Oh, I can go a bit here. And make sure what there's
no rubbish under it. Oh, let me go, too. That's good. For
demonstration purpose, this is good enough. So I'm putting down
quite some nice layers. I'm doing it rather quickly. If you want to take some
more time for this, let me see, how
does it go there? That's good. You can do that. The more time you take that, the more even you do this, the better your result will be. Now, you could also use pastel sticks for this that
would work a lot quicker, but then you have to be careful for the next
step that you don't just wipe everything
or graphite blocks. And if you have a
graphite block, this goes really quickly. Let me just get a graphite block with it while we're on it. Okay, now, this would
be a graphite block. And a graphite block
has a large size, a large portion,
flat size there. I'm going to show you that too. Alright, if I would
use a graphite block, let me do that on this flower, I would just go like this. And I'm not sure what this is. Probably two B,
graphite block two. I don't know, it looks quite
different than that one. And then, as you can see, I'm pressing reasonably
hard for this quite firm. And that would go a lot quicker. Alright, I'm going to
put that block away. And I'm going to
continue a bit here, add just one more layer
of extra graphite. The more I do, the better it is. And I got a nice even Wow, not totally even, but this
will do for the demonstration. Let's see. I need some here. All right. I think we're fine. Okay, so I've got
a great artwork. But this look nice for
a background wound it. And this is great artwork, too. And my fingers are getting
black slowly, too, and that's a good sign if
my fingers getting black, both of them, because
we need that. Now, we don't need
black fingers, of course, but we
need grab fight. Alright. The next step will be taking this blank
piece of paper, and then putting this one on
top of it. Let's do that. So wherever you
want your artwork to be, you put this on it. Now, you need a pencil again, doesn't need to be sharp, can be an HB, doesn't matter what. And I've got now these two. Let me do the regular
graphite first. And what I'm going to do,
I'm make sure this is not so far away, so extended. And I'm just going
to trace this. Now, I'm going to do
this really roughly. There you go. Let's do
that one with it too. Oh, we need to do that
hard. This one there. All right. I think comes on. Now, let's pull this up
and look at that. See? We've got this
drawing right there. Now I can see I forgot a bit and I never can
put it back on, so I need to put
that in faintly. But, you get the idea. Let's see if I can move it a
little bit and do this one. This two, the other graphite, the block, there we
go, doing the same. Pressing reasonably
be firm for this. Um, Right. That should do it. Let's move that S. There it is. Now, as you can see, this
is a bit smeared now. I can erase that. But sees that works
pretty well, too. Alright. Now, there it is. It's not strong, strong, and that is really good
that it's not strong, strong because from here, you can do your next step. This method, you can transfer anything to
any kind of paper. That is the use advantages
of using this method. Grid method, of course, too,
but this would work too. And this goes quicker and
then the grid method, but you're going to
need a printout, like we've done here,
all way around, a printout of whatever you have, then transfer it this
way to the next paper. Alright, that's it.
Well, easy method, but with good results. Okay, well, that's it for
this lesson. We're done. All right. Pick a method, I would say, practice
a little bit with it, and then we'll go
to the next lesson. Where I'm going to
show you how to ink. All right. See you
in the next lesson.
4. The basics of Inking: So we're using a pencil now. We know how to transfer
stuff to our paper, the final paper we want to use. But of course, we want
to use some ink, too. We're not only going to use colored pencils like they
are or watercolor pencils, we want to have some mixed
media and use some ink. So we want to use a pen
because the combination of ink and colored pencil
or watercolor pencils just looks beautiful. Oh, you wanted to
see an example. Well, hang on. I got
to look for it, huh? So I've got an example. One was laying around
in my sketchbook, I kodle. It would
look like this. Combination No this one, uh, This is just ink, some
practicing this one. Ink, combined with
colored pencil, that is. That looks pretty, doesn't
it? That's what we want. Pretty stuff, yeah? And this
is quite easy to accomplish. Now, we're not only
gonna do that. We're gonna go paint too and have some fun
with other things. But for now, before
we can get there, we need to work with Ink. So we're not going to work with bottles of ink and pens
and fountain pens. We're going to stick to fine inus and we need special
kind of fine liners, too. We need something
like where is one? They're all gone.
Ah, here they are. Something like this, pigment
liner, pigment lins. They need to be waterproof,
not water resistant. That is something else, yeah.
I've got another pen here. This one here is a rot leering, ticky graphic pigmented ink. This is not waterproof. This is water resistant. And if you put water on it, too much water on
it, just go to fade. We want something that
is waterproof like Stetler pigments or most of
the pigma brushes, microns. Those are good. And Copic. Yeah, and different brands, yeah. There's other brands. Just make sure that
it says on the box, and I'm going to
read it for you. It needs to be pigment
liners, and they need to be, and I got to find the
English one. There you go. Waterproof on paper, light
fast or archival, yeah? Waterproof. And
that's important. Not water resistant,
waterproofing. What size do you need? Doesn't really matter,
but a 0.30 0.4, 0.5 would be best. Preferable or 0.3, that
gives a nice smooth crisp. Small lines where you can add
some a couple of details, although we want
to work quickly, so we don't want to
add too many details. We just want to have quick fun. But 0.3, 0.4. If you don't have
that if you only can get a 0.5, that's fine, too. So aside from a pen,
what else do you need? You're gonna need? Let me
find something pencil. Regular pencil, yeah,
clutch pencil, pencil. Then you might need an
eraser and things like that. We need that, and
you need some paper. It doesn't matter what kind
of paper for this lesson. Pen, pencil, paper,
and your set. Eraser, sharpener, perhaps. Okay. Then you need
that brush, too. That one, you're gonna
erase. But that's it. Alright. Okay,
let's get into it. You see all kinds of
stuff on this paper. Just ignore it. I just want to use this paper a
bit economically. And later on, I'm going to refer to some things
in the next lesson. So I want to draw on this
paper. What am I going to do? We're going to draw another
box with our pencil. And loosely, put a box
here, and that's it. We're just going to practice
a little bit with the pen, so let's put a second box. Alright. Just a box, and this box I'm going to hatch
and evolve as well. You know how to hetch
and with this pencil, I'm gonna add another
layer of hatching. Now, later on, this hatching becomes really
important for light and shadow that will be
explained, in the next one. But for now, let's continue. I put down my
pencil, I'm going to switch to the fine liner. And for that, what I'm going
to do with the fine liner, I'm going to do exactly as
I done with the pencil. I'm gonna hold it loosely
like that. Yeah, that's it. Alright. Good. So I've
drawn these boxes now, and what I'm going to
do, I'm going to do really exactly the
same as with a pencil. And I'm just going to
trace this loosely again. I'm sketching, okay? See? It's okay with a pen to go over its previous part,
so I'm drawing a line. I'm just going over and
let me demonstrate that. On top of here, yeah? Drawing a line, and I'm
just drawing one bit, then drawing the next bit, but I always overlap
a little bit. Then you get nice Great,
loose lines like this. And the quicker you go, the
more interesting that cuts. Alright, so that would
be the first box. Now, that's it. Yeah. So that's basically that. The second box, I'm
going to do too. I'm going to just basically trace those lines, and
that is really easy. And that's how you do a pen. Now, you may need to
press a little bit more firm than a pencil
depending on your pen, you know? Some pens got really
smooth and others, you just need to apply slightly
a little bit of pressure. Now, hedging, exactly the same. As with a pencil, there I go hedging and
I do a second layer. And now with a
pen, you see right away that that becomes
a lot stronger. Okay. Now. That's it. And that's
what you do with a pen. Now, there is one
little technique we may use once in a while, and that's called stippling. And stippling is very easy. You just put your pen upright. You put the pen upright
like this and you hold it a bit firmer and you're going
to make dots like that. Yeah, we might make use of that. And the more dots
you put somewhere, The darker it becomes, and the more you get
the impression that there is shadow there and that there is a
lot of light there. So, yeah, that's the
techniques we're going to use. So simply sketching, hatching,
and stippling, yeah. Stippling really easy. By the way, lots of fun to do. That's it. Simple. Easy,
isn't it? Right. Simple. But with simple things, you can make really
pretty things. Okay, practice
this a little bit, draw some boxes, get
comfortable with a pen. Once you're comfortable
with your waterproof pen, then I'll see you
in the next lesson.
5. Project 1 - from my Book to your Paper: This lesson is titled from
My Book to your paper. Or in this case, I'm going to demonstrate from my book to my paper, but you're
going to do it, too. So in the previous lessons, we've practiced with the pencil, with the pen, and I showed
you various transfer methods. Now, what you're going to
do, you're going to pick out a piece of paper,
and preferable, not that floppy print paper, but a bit nicer paper, like, for example, the sketchbook I'm using a bit thicker paper. This also has a bit of texture which makes it really nice. If you can get a sketchbook with a little bit
of texture in it, that would be awesome for
call it pencil stop later on. If you can't get it for now and you just use regular sketch
paper, that's okay, too. So you're going to need paper. You're gonna need your pencil, we're going to use a pen. And you're gonna pick
one of the methods to transfer the
design to your paper. And which one are
you going to do? Let me find it. What a price? You're
gonna do the puppies. Now, in this case, all of the No, no,
not this, huh? All of this is with
the grip method. This is the other one.
All of the puppies, transfer them to a paper. You can go smaller. You can
go exactly the same size. You can go big. That's up to you. I'll leave
that up to you. I've done that
already, of course. And you've seen that in the
previous lesson already. You saw this image already
that I already did it. I used the LED box, and I did draw this
with the pencil. And the reason I
did draw this with the pencil is purely
to practice with the pen and to show you how to draw a little bit with
the pen and how that goes. And we're going to add a
little bit of shading, too. We're going to play
a little bit with the light and shadow
in this lesson. So you're going to transfer that picture from my
book to your paper. Once you've done
that, I would say, come back and join me
in this lesson again. So then with modern technology, just press that pause button
or come back another day. However much time
you need for that. So if you have done
that, I would say, then continue go along
with me in this lesson. Alright. I'll see
you in a minute, but I'll just keep on going, and I'm switching cameras for this. So I've transferred this
design to the paper already. And what I want to do with
this, I want to ink this. So I'm going to just basically what we've done
with these boxes, and that's why they're still
there, I'm going to do that. So I'm going to start here. And with inking,
what you want to do, you want to preferably work
from the left to the right. Unless you're right handed, then you want to work from
the right to the left. And the reason for that is that if you work from that side, you won't per accident, go with your hands through ink because ink needs
some time to draw. Depending on the pen you use, some are very quickly, others just take a
little bit of time. And if you would go through it, you can smear it and
you cannot erase it. Yeah. That's the
disadvantage of ink. An eraser won't work once
it's there, it's there, especially since
we're working with waterproof archive
or pigmented ink. It's stuck on the paper. And preferable to from
the top to the bottom. Yeah. Otherwise, if I
start at the bottom, I'll go up and then I'll
smear through everything, and we just don't want that. I'm going to start
demonstrate this poppy. And what I'm going to do, I'm
just going to trace this, but not trace trace
with continuous lines, but sketching with this small sketching
motion, there we go. Just relax, having
not a firm grip, but a reasonable grip. It just rest a little bit in
my hand and just having fun. That's the great thing about inking inking is a lot of fun, and it is very relaxing to do. All right. This one, I think I might be done
already with this. Now, obviously, I missed
some lines there, and I'm going to do this one, not this line first, but this one because
it is further away. There you go. And now I'm
going to do this one. And I'm always thinking, making sure I don't have
to go over something. Now, if I need to go back
over something again, not a problem, of course, but
then make sure it is dry. Once it's dry, you can go
over it with your hands. Nothing will happen because
it is dried up ink. But make sure it is dry. If you need to go back
and forgot something, make sure your ink is
really dry. All right. Good. I just noticed
I missed a line. Okay. And I missed
some here, too. And there you go, now I
need to do the stock. Alright, and that is it. Good. Alright. My
first one is done. The other I'm going to do now, but I'm going to speed them up. You don't have to
watch the whole thing. You've probably seen it. So when I'm done, I'll get back to you. Okay, so mine is done. Well, almost the next
thing I'm going to do, I'm going to take my eraser. I'm going to erase
my pencil markings. Right. I'll do that. So, use your eraser. Make sure, huh,
everything is really dry. Otherwise, you might end up with some unintended
ink stripes, blurs, marks, whatever you
want to call them spots, and you're not
going to be happy. Now, this is a nice,
really a mess. So that is why I
have that brush. And there you go. Now the mess is gone. And if you use pencil, then you won't smear. I think all of my pencil
markings are pretty much gone. Alright. Okay. Okay. Okay, well, that's the drawing. Now we're going to
do some shading. Alright, let's do
that. Okay, shading. Let me explain a little
bit about shading. If you want to add shadow
and light to it, now, lights you cannot
add to a drawing, but shadow you can do plenty. Now, the simplest thing I'm
going to get my pencil again. We're going to use hatching or you use stippling for that. And later on, we're going
to use some colors too. But for now, we're
just going to use some stippling and hatching. I want to continue with
this drawing and finish it. And I see I missed
a little bit here. Okay, now it's done. But I don't want
to color this yet. I want to show you a little
bit of how we can later on incorporate color
and shading with inking because that looks really great, as I've shown you. And what we're gonna do,
we're going to say, Okay, we're going to pick a side
from where the color. No, not the color
the sun comes from. I'm going to say my
sun shines right here. Now, as with these boxes, yeah, if the sun
comes from here, that means this part is really bright light, and
that would be dark. And we're going to transfer that principle to a drawing too. And you could do this
right away in ink, but I'm going to demonstrate it with the pencil
first a little bit. Now, if it's dark,
then this part here. Yeah, I'm going to do
that really roughly. Would be quite dark. And down here might be
quite dark too in here. It would be reasonably dark. And there too. And now the
sun is hitting really there, hitting there and inside here, it would be a little
bit dark, too. So that would be
basically the flower. Let's add a little bit of
shading around there, too. Now, this part here this would get shadow, a
little bit under there. And with the stark,
there will be some under here and some
on the edges there. Alright, that's what I'm
going to do with this one. Now, if I take this one here, the light would be
there, but there would be definitely shadow here. And I would add shadow. I would definitely
add a lot there. And with this one, I would have shadow here. I would have a lot more there. And, of course, I would
get shadow there. Now, this one, I would shade
on this side, the leaf too. I think I only
would do one side. This leaf at the bottom, this leaf, all the way. And then the stalks
pretty much the same. And that's how I
would shade this really quickly,
really effectively. Might have a little
bit more here, and I think I would put
some there and this bottom. I would add some more
Okay, so that's that. Now I just need to take my pen and all the information
I added to my drawing, put them there with my pen, too. So let me get my pen. Alright, so I've got
my basic information. Here now, I'm just
going to take the pen, and I'm going to just hedge. And I'm gonna follow what I've brought in here. I'm just
going to follow that. I'm going to start
up here, and I said, Okay, this is going
to be pretty dark, so I'm making sure
my hetching lines are close to each
other, down here, too. There you go. I'm noting this. I can do a bit rougher
and down here, I'm going to go closer again. They're a bit rougher and
there little bit there. I want some in here. I put this straight on purpose. This I want Black and down here. I'm going to go black
all the way here. I'm going to go a bit
dark there a little bit, down the stalk and
down there, too, a bit dark and add just a
little bit of a line here. All right. Well, that is basically it adds just some stripes
there, and that would be it. Now I need to let this dry. And once this is dry, I can take a next step.
Might want some more. Now, on the edges here, I'm going to lay down a little bit of extra
ink and what that does. That adds a little bit of That adds a little bit more
dimension to my drawing. Okay, I'm good with this. All right, I'm letting that dry. The other two, I'm
just going to do, but I'm going to
speed them up again. Don't talk you too through it. Just probably we've
seen what we do. So I just keep on going
with the process. And when I'm done, I'm
showing you the results. Okay, that's it. I'm going to let it dry
now for just a little bit, and then I'm going to
pick up that eraser again and erase all the pencil. And then I'm left with a
nice ink drawing. Okay. Let's try that. That looks pretty, doesn't it? That looks really,
really pretty. Okay. So that's our
first ink drawing. Now we're ready for
the next stages. So the next stages
we'll be adding color. Practice this. The more you practice something,
the better you get at it. So transfer. You've done
that as well as well. You've transferred the drawing. Now use the ink on it, the pencil, give
it some shading, then hedge with your ink, and then once everything is dry, erase it, and you're left
with a pretty picture. Now, this could be a
great base to add color. Not for this module, we're going to do that in
the next module. So now practice
this a little bit. Once you're comfortable
with the pencil and the pen and transferring, then I'll see you
in the next module.
Benjamin A, Art Teacher, illustrator Art by Benjamin
