Quick Sketch Flowers Module 1 - Help! I've never drawn before! - start sketching lovely flowers

1. Introduction: We're going to do some quick sketching with pens. We're going to make beautiful things. But I can hear you say, Help, I've never drawn before. Great. That is what this module is for. We're going to start with basic steps, and you see me holding a pencil, and that is what we're going to use in this module. I'm going to take you step by step through everything that you need to start drawing, to start quick sketching. Now, we're not going to make detailed elaborate sketches. We're just going to make quick sketches. But for that, you need some basics, and this module will cover all the basics. So what are we going to do? We're just going to start very simple. We're going to draw a box, circle, flower from the side. Flower from the top. And Galla turn that page. Once we've done that, we're going to look at some shading, how to shade with a pencil, and that is very valuable for later on, when we're going to shade with a pent. And once we got that information down, we're just going to create something pretty together. We're going to do a graphy sketch just like this flower. Yes, after one lesson, you're going to have this beautiful flower ready to go. And this is the base for what we need later on when we use pens and create something even more pretty than this. Alright. Well, I would say let's start drawing. So I'll see you in the next lesson. 2. Taking the first steps with a Pencil: Welcome to this lesson, taking the first steps with a pencil. And before we're going to get into ink and learn to draw with that, we need to learn to sketch a little bit with a regular pencil. Now, let me show you what you need for this class, this lesson. You're going to need, obviously, pencils, regular pencils. You can use any cheap pencil you have. You can use fancy pencils, whatever pencil you have. You can use these things, clutch pencils, the cold, and there is graphite in it if you press, and hopefully it comes. There it comes, yes. Now, this is a two millimeter one. Don't use the 0.5 millimeter one, the really thin ones because they're not going to work for sketching. They're for technical drawing. So if you use a clutch pen, two millimeter, and there's some advantages of this, I'll show that later. But a regular pencil will work. Now, aside from a regular pencil, what you need is sketchbook. Sketch paper. Now, mine has some nice, little bit textured paper. And that makes working with graphite and later on ink very nice. So I would recommend getting a little bit textured paper, but if you can't find that, the regular cheap sketchbooks will work. You don't need fancy, expensive sketchbook, I'm just using a really cheap one, and they work great. The next thing you're going to use, most likely, is an eraser or just something like an eraser, pen, pencil. Sharpener, and a little brush. And the brush is, this is a makeup brush, and we're not going to do makeup. I'm not really into makeup, perhaps you are, but not me. And what we're going to do with this brush is just to get rid of the rubble after erasing. Now, another thing you could use, if you have it, electric erasers, great things too. You can use that. Fine. I think that's about it, what you're gonna need. And you're going to need a few photographs. Let me see. We're going to use. These photographs, they're in the book of notes, reference. These two we're going to use. And I've got the flower, which I photographed with it. We're going to use that. And there's another photograph we're going to use. That is this nice one. We're going to use this one, too, and I actually do have that flower, too, but I might not use it for this lesson. But we're going to use this to show something. Okay, I think that's about it. Yes, I think we've covered it all. Yeah. So pencils. Yeah. That's the materials. Pencils. Now, how do you use pencils? No, most people, if they take a pencil, what they do, they grip it like this. Yeah, at the point. That's great for writing, terrible for drawing. Now, this is quite short pencil, as you can see. Then we pick a longer one to demonstrate something. When we're going to sketch, what we're going to do, we're going to put the pencil slightly different. We're not gonna hold it up there, but what we're going to do? We're gonna take a hand like this. We're going to rest the pencil in it and grip it here away from the tip, further away from the point. And depending on what's comfortable for you, either like this or do very far away. Now, if you have a short pencil like this, what you do instead, you top it into there between the thumb and the point finger, and you hold it like this, basically the same. And what this does is it takes off the pressure up the point and gives you a lot of control. Now, if you hold it like this, we intend to put a lot of pressure, and we don't want that. We want to sketch, take a little bit of pressure, and slowly build up our lines and things like that. So pencil holding it like this, if you have a short one or simply putting it there and then holding it like this. So avoid doing it in a tip. Now, as you can see, my pencil is reasonably sharp. And you don't need a sharp sharp point for this, but you do need some lead exposed. We're going to use that. Now, the pencils I'm using I've got for drawing. HB one, and later on for shading, we might use a two B one or even a four B one like this. That gives us nice shading. Okay. What you see here is a pencil extender. Now, if they become really short as this, that we get it out, see, I can't go with that, so a pencil extender, you put it in there, lock it, and then now I can. Also with this one, hold it like this. Alright. Good. So that's the basics into sketching with a pencil, but we're going to do some sketching, of course. Now, this is the explanation, and let's move to different camera. I'm switching cameras. Once in a while you see me, and then once in a while you see things from the top because if you just keep on looking like this, you won't see what I'm doing. So let's switch cameras now and go to the overhead camera, so you see what I'm doing in my sketchbook. Alright, my sketchbook, I'm going to move some stuff aside. Let me go to my sketchbook. Basically, find an empty page. There you go. There's an empty page in my sketchbook. Okay, the pencil. We'll start with the HB pencil, yeah. So I'm holding it like this now. And what you're going to do with sketching, I'm just going to sketch a box. Now, if you would write, you would do this and put a lot of pressure on it. We're not going to do that. We're going to let gravity do its work, and we're going to go very relaxed holding it like this. And we sketch with sketching, what we're going to do is we're going to make short lines, and we're going to start with simple box. Now, with the box, what I'm doing, I'm looking at this line here as a reference and the top and that helps me to create a nice box. Now, that's the first step into pencils. That's all you really need to know. The same technique we're actually going to use with the pencil later on. So there's two ways drawing and most people if they draw, let's say, I would draw a circle, most people would start. And like that, now you see right away what happens, you get a really thick, kind of, perhaps even unnatural line. Now, let me draw the circle the same again with pencil, but then doing it like this. Not putting it on its tip, but putting it bit more to its side. And look at that. You get a nice circle. And what I can do with this, I can go over it a few times and create some nuances in this. Get some stronger shaded part, some less shaded parts, and we're all going to make use of that. All right. So we're sketching. So no continuous line, so not like this. If I need a straight line, I'm going to start and do like this. There you go. See? So that's sketching, and that's all the basics you really need to know with a pencil. Alright. And that's it. That's already it for this lesson. So what I want you to practice is just draw some boxes like I've done, some straight lines, even try a circle, although we're going to do some techniques later on to draw a circle more properly. But the first steps into using graphite pencils, just regular pencils is the grip. So mainly the grip, make sure you have a relaxed grip so that you also draw relax. That's the whole thing. If you go tight, you're going to draw tight. Yeah. If you hold your pencil tight, you're going to have an uptight drawing if you just let it relax and then sketch loosely. Don't use too much pressure, then you're going to end up with lovely sketches. Okay, that's it for this lesson. Well, practice that. And once you feel comfortable with that, then I'll see you in the next lesson. 3. How to Sketch a simple Flower: Welcome back. If all is well, you have practiced the pencil grip a little bit, and you have drawn some boxes, some lines, and now we're going to draw a real flower because that's what this course is all about, isn't it? Okay, what we need for this is, then of course, the pencil. And I got to find the right one. We're going to use the HB pencil. That's fine. If you have a to B, that's good. He. We're going to need these photographs. These two photographs of the same flower, but in a slightly different position. We're also going to need this photograph of the clematis from the top. We're gonna use that too. And I'm going to use the flower again. And there's photos in the book of notes and references of this flower, too. Okay. That's it for what we need? You might need an eraser and sharpener and things like that. And, of course, you need the sketchbook. Otherwise, we can't sketch. Okay, so well, let's dive into this lesson. Now, before we start drawing, we need to determine what to draw. Now, we have here a flower with certain elements, and we're not going to draw all of them, at least not in this lesson. We're going to focus for now on this one. And for that, there are some petals we're going to draw, and we're going to draw a stack, and that's it. Now when we draw, we need to determine how large our frame is, what we're going to draw and for that, we're going to switch cameras. I'll show you. So we're going to work with this flower, it's the same as the photo here. And what we're going to do, we're going to draw it like it is straight, and we're going to draw this bit. Now, the first thing you need to do is to frame your image. Now, if you have a whole page available like this, you could do the whole page, but we're not going to do the whole page. We're going to do it partly. We are going to draw a frame here in which we want our flower to stay. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to say, Okay, say, there's a width, there's a length. We're not going to measure everything exactly. We're just going to be estimating a little bit. And for the flower, I would say I'm going to sketch my rectangle, and I want the flower to basically stay in this rectangle. That's going to be my flower rectangle. I don't want it to go outside of the rectangle. I want it to be in here. The flower is a site for now. I'm going to look at the photograph. That's a little bit easier to work with for now, you have the same photograph. And what we see here, we need to divide our frame into two parts, the part where the stark is going to be, that is rather long, of course, due to the flower. And we're going to need to establish the top of the flower, the petals, the flower itself. Now, what we can do with this, we could measure this. I'm going to take a second pencil. And what I'm going to do is let's say this is the width, and I'm going to measure the width, and the width would be almost the whole pencil. Now, the height is going to be up till this point, and that would pretty much be half of the pencil. So if we go back to this one, our frame is now do it this way around. The frame is this big, and I'm going to use the numbers until the eight there. So half would be. If this is my pencil, half would be around here until the R. Now, you could take a ruler for that, but that takes time, so that is why we're more or less guessing everything. We're estimating where everything is. Okay, so I'm saying about till the R is the half of it. A bit till the P. We're going for the P, so I'm putting this one here, and up until the P, that is where my flower is supposed to go. So the length and half of it is here and I'm going to draw in again a line. Now I'm still making use of the reference here of my edge of the paper and edge here to get my lines a bit straight. In here, my flower needs to go. Now, I'm going to look at the flower and I'm going to say this stack here isn't in the middle and I'll show you that it isn't. I'm measuring the length till here and now moving up till there. Stopping around here, see, we've got this bit left. The stack isn't in the middle. So if we would determine the middle, that would be around here, we're going to go a little bit outside of the middle, and here I'm going to draw in the stalk, and I'm going to give it a bit of a curve, align like that with a nice curve. Now, if you look at this flower, this is, of course, a silk flower, not the real one. The real one does have a bit of a different connection here. And if you look at photographs of the real one, you're going to get a little bit a pot, kind of like that, and I'm going to draw that in. That's where the connection or not that bit here, but a bit more like that. And there you go. Now, I might as well do the stock a bit thicker so that it looks like a real stark and not just a fin line. And there we go. Now, you see him make these small sketching motions the whole time, and that gives me real control. I'm not pressing really hard. I'll just pressing lightly. I don't need this to be a strong sketch. Because later on when we're going to work with ink, we don't want to have a strong sketch because that will be hard to remove because we're going to ink over it, and then we have to raise what's under it. And if we press really hard, that will be hard to remove. Back to the flour. Now, I'm noticing a couple of points. This point here, which I could draw in bit in the middle of the starch. There's that. I'm noticing the far end here, that side here, and of course, the top. That are the three major points, well, really four major points of this flower. Let's start with this one. Now I've got my baseline, so if I would draw the baseline here, I would say this is quite a way down. Perhaps even from the total flower, about a third, so I'm going to guess about a third is about there. This one, if I would draw the baseline, put the baseline down there, that's up top, not on half, but well above half around there. And then the middle of this one, that point there. This is the middle. This is the far end. So if this is the middle of this stalk here, then I'll divide this in two, but it's not really in the middle, just off the middle. And I would say around there. So those are the three major points, one, two, three, and now I'm connecting it with that. And there is my flower. Well, bit strange weird flower, you would say, you're right about that. We're going to sketch in the rest. Okay, now I've got my major points, and now I'm going to draw in the flower, and I'm going to say, Okay, this goes up a little bit, but pretty straight, and it has all these small curves. So I'm just drawing in these curves like that, and now I'm going to draw in this line, and that would be the first petal, and it goes down a little bit like that. And that would just be my first petal. There you go. Now, the second petal goes till there. It goes pretty much straight for a little while, and then it curves off like that. So we're just noticing the curves, the lines, everything, and we're roughly sketching it in. Then the bottom here, and that goes pretty much straight down. That would be this one and this one. We got our first part of the flower ready. All right, let's go for the next point. This one. Now, I'm bringing that in here. This one goes down. So I'm just quickly drawing that in, and I'm going to go till about, let's see, that would be around here. This would go up. That would and this would be just adding those curves and loosely drawing it in. There you go. Now, there's one growing out of it, going a bit like that. There you go. And now there's that bit behind it. I'm drawing this in, and now you get a whole flour. Now, you would say it's kind of boring. It's kind of flat, and you're right about that. So we need to draw in some of these lines you have here. Some of these folds the flower has, but not all of them. And we're going to just quickly draw a couple of them in, and that just brings. Now you see that shape right away to this flower. See that? Just do here one, two, and let's do this one to like that. And this one needs a couple here. Alright. And now fold there. Good. Now not going to do behind there. Right. And that would be basically our first flower. Too high. Wasn't too hard, was it? So now we've done the first one, and we've done this one, and we've done it pretty straight. And now, if you take a look at the second photograph on the top, that one is under an angle. So let's try that one, too. We've got the straight one, which is the easy way to start with. We're going to do it a little bit tougher. So let's do that. Alright, so we have the first one now. Let's go for that second one. That one looks pretty nice. We're going to do basically the same and draw another frame, and I might just keep it about the same size as the previous one, but with one slight difference because this one, and I put it under here, So the difference is this one, the bottom one that was straight. This one is under an angle, and the star goes under an angle, too. So we got to bring that information over to here. Now, as we said, we're just going to guess a little bit. We're not going to do it totally. Perfect. And what I'm going to do, I'm just going to bring in this line, and I'm saying, Okay, right, that would be this line, and I'm going to translate it. So see I'm doing that imaginary, that line, and now it's in my fingers, and I'm going to bring it right there, and there you go. Now, about the height of it would be I would go outside of my box now a little bit. But eventually that will work out. There you go. That would be that box, but we're not going to use the whole box. We don't have to go outside because we're going to use that point there is about there. So, right. That's it. Now, this starch, let's see. It's pretty much the same flour, but let's see if things moved. We're going to measure a bit. We're measuring till here, and we're measuring now until there, and I'm going to make it myself easy. It's almost in the middle. So what I'm gonna do, I'm going to do that starch in the middle, too. And let me draw in the stack. And now the prettiest thing is to do to go out and then bring it back with a nice curve bit like that, something like that. Yeah, you can make that up. Actually, nobody has seen your flower, huh? So you can add things to it. You can take away things of it. That's the beauty about quick sketching. You want to create a convincing drawing. Alright, so we have that one. And I'm going to do the rest quite quickly. Bring in that pot again. There you go. And we're following the same system really as before, doing a stark a little bit, noting the major points, I would say go up a bit higher, a bit lower, bring that one around there. That would be good. And we're going to just do pretty much the same. But as you can see, I'm going rather quickly now. And there you go. And you can take, of course, some more time for this. And there you go. And now this bit goes out again. But since we're on a different angle, slightly different. There we go. Now, bring in some of these lines. And some of these lines here, some lines there and there you go, All right, so that is that one. Okay, later when we go shade, we're going to bring some more form and shape in to this, but that will be the next lesson. Alright. That's that. So that would be the second flower. Done rather quickly. And that's the whole thing about quick sketching. We want to do this as quick as possible. Now, not every flower is, of course, from the side, we have flowers from the top too, and that's why we have that second image we're going to do now. And we're gonna just learn how to draw it from the top. This one here, what we're going to do, we're going to draw a circle. Now, I notice that this petal is a bit shorter than the rest, but we're just going to pretend that each petal is about the same length or we can shorten it. But what we want to do is we see two major things here. We see a heart, and we see all these petals. Now, imaginary around these petals, I could draw a circle, and right in the middle, I could draw a circle for a heart. Now, as I demonstrated before, you could draw a circle, loose hand, but I'm going to say nine out of ten times, if you're going to try that, then probably your circle isn't going to be circles like here. We need to have a method for that. The easiest way to draw a circle is to, first of all, imagine a box around here pretty much square as square as we can get it. So I'm going to draw, first of all, straight line like that. Secondly, I'm going to go down, and now I need to make sure that this line is about the same length. So what I make it myself easy, I'm going to measure it. And that's the length, and I need to go around there, and I'm putting it here, and then I'm marking it there and I'm going to say, Okay, I need a way down, right. And here I'm going to go straight down, too, and here I'm going to go straight down. Now, if you don't have a perfect square, no problem. As long as it is squarish. Now, I've got this square. The next thing I need to find is the heart of the square, and that is quite easy now. If you need a rule for this to take a rule, but what we need to do is to connect this point to that point, a diagonal line like that. I'm going to just bring in that diagonal line like this, and I'm going to do the same here. And there you go. And now I pretty much found the middle and that is there. But that doesn't make a circle yet. Now let's start with the big circle. If I want a circle, what I can do next is now I know the middle, so I can divide this into four pretty much equal boxes, and I know the middle here too. So I've got four tiles now four squares. And what I do with these four squares, I'm going to put in each square the same diagonal cross lines as I have in that one. So there we go. There we go. And there we go, and that would be that. So we've got that. Now, that doesn't make a circle yet, but what we're going to do now, we're going to look at this line and we're going to find the middle that would be there and just above the middle, put a dot. Same here. The middle would be there, just above it, put a dot. Same here. The middle would be there. We're going to put a dot just above it, find the middle and in this case, under it, put a dot, and now the next one comes the trick. We're going to start at this point and I'm going to show you draw a circle, go up a little bit, go with a curve. And there you go. And we do the same here, go down a little bit, go with a curve and connect it there. And what does appear now? Yes, there you go. There is our circle. Now, of course, you could take a compass or a tool like something like this created, but that would perhaps not be the size you need. So that's why this method is quite handy and quite easy. But if you do it a couple of times and practice this a bit, you get handy in it, and you might be able to draw circles without having all these construction lines. Well, back to this one. That would be the outer one. Now, the inner circle, we're going to say, let's say, if I would measure this, roughly, I would say I would divide it into three parts, and I would say about there, and I'm going to draw a straight line there until it meets this diagonal, draw it down, draw it down. I got a second box, and I'm basically doing the same now again. And now here I'm going to put it around about on the half because just above is hard to find. So I've constructed the same as we've done before, and I'm drawing in my circle, and that would determine where the heart goes. So petals go here, heart goes there, roughly, huh? Alright, the petal. Now the first petal. It isn't straight, it's just off straight, so I'm just going to put in the first petal that would be there. The second petal would go pretty much along this line. This one, I'm going to put straight that makes it easy. This one goes. Along this line, this one is pretty much off like that. That one is there and this one goes around there. So that would be where my petals goes and the petals, I'm just going to look at the petals and I'm going to draw in that shape I see. Oh, that's too far. Uh, unh unh. Now we need an eraser. Right, let's erase this bit. And now you see why I have this brush. I can get rid of the rubble without doing it with my hands. If I do this with my hands, I'm going to smear all of my graphite. Alright, I'm gonna do that again. The petal. Going in like that or need at larger petals probably, but we'll do it for now. Leave it like this. Okay. I'm going to extend them a little bit because this is a heart that is not close but a bit open. This one here. We're just drawing that in and also a bit longer. Then we're going to do this one, and we're going to do this one. This one is pointy. And this one is slightly pointy on this side, close to that one, but really bulging out at that side. So there you go. And now, this one I did that might go, and we're going to do this one here. All right. And that goes there, and this one we would need to bring out a little bit. Now, there goes that flower. Alright, that would be the petals. Now you could draw in a bit of a line on the middle. And look at that. We got our petals. This one we need to extend a little bit like that. That one to connect them. Alright, now we're bringing in the heart in the middle. I'm just going to add some stripes, and now these are all little almost branches like, and let's draw them in like this from the heart going outside. There you go. Add a couple more. Okay, now, observe pretty much what we see, and there would be a clematis from the top. Alright. And that shows how to draw something from the top. Okay. Now, some flowers might be from the side like this, and of course, there's different angles, but we're going to talk about that later. All right. Okay. And that's it. That's the lesson for this one, drawing a flower from the side and from the top. Now, that's not all you're going to do. I would say practice a little bit with that and find yourself some examples, try to draw them from the side and from the top. And there's one in the book. Of notes. That is this one. I'm going to say on the side of it, this one is in your notebook, too, and I would say try that one, practice with it and see if you can draw that circle or drawing those petals is a bit more in it, drawing the stark in this one has a stark. And I would give away that the heart the width of the heart is about the same width as a petal. So that would make it a bit easier. Try that one, I would say. After practicing what I've shown a little bit, try this one and see how far you get with it. Okay, that's it for this lesson. We've done now some construction drawings, and that's what these are called. And learning this will help us to quick sketch later on. And once you develop this and practice this, you get good at it. And once you get good at it, you just start doing this in your mind, not even on paper anymore, but in your mind. And once you're comfortable with it, we draw it in pencil, and then at a certain point, you even do it without pencil, but just go right in with a pen. Okay, well, that's it for this lesson. Practice it, and then I'll see you in the next lesson because so far, it's a bit flat. We want to add some depth to it, some shadows, lights. We'll do that in the next lesson. H 4. Two Ways of Shading: If all is well, you get some flowers from the side now and from the top, but they look a bit flat. So we need to add some shading that's called shading in our terms, and we need to do something with that. So what I'm going to show you in this lesson are two techniques to shade. And one of them is used in inking. A lot. But the other one is used more with pencil, but also in inking, and we're going to get to that later on. Alright. Shading brings in information of depth, form, but also light and shadow. And the main thing we want to focus on with quick sketching is light and shadow and a little bit of form. What do you need for this class you're going to use? Pencils, of course. Now, for now, if you have HB and a two B or even a four B, that would be great. But you need at least two different pencils, HB and two B or a four B or three of them. That's up to you. And you might need your eraser. Who knows? Sharpener. And of course, paper. That's pretty much all we need, and, of course, I like my trusted brush for the rubble I make. Well, let's dive into the world of shading. I don't need this paper anymore. I need a blank paper. There you go. Here's the blank. Paper. Okay. The easiest way to demonstrate shading is, again, drawing a few boxes, and I'm going to do that with the HB pencil. I'm going to draw a simple box right here. Not too big, not too small. Okay. Now, imagine this is a box, you know, and there's light shining. Let's imagine there's the sun shining. Here. Now, if the sun shines, it cast sun rays, and they would go like that. Like that. Like that. Now, the easy thing to remember is and it's very obvious, closer to the sun is lighter, further away from the sun is darker. But of course, not everything is only light and dark. There's some nuance in it, some shades in it. So what we're going to do is the easiest thing for this box, now the first practice we're going to do is we're going to divide it into a couple of parts. Let's say this part is the first part where the most lights hit. Then we're going to go for a second part. There's less light hitting there. Then we're going to go for a third and automatically a fourth part. And now we have four parts. And the least light would be here and the most light would be there. Since we're going to work with ink later on, the easiest way to bring in that information of light and shadow is to hatch. And that is something what is called hatching. And let me demonstrate hedging. Hetching is very simple, making under an angle some lines close to each other, you may have seen that like that trying to keep the distance about the same, and you can do that with big steps and with very little steps. Yeah. And already this shows you that if this would be lighted, then there would be a lot of light here, there would be less light here and even less there. Now, a second technique, let's say, I want this part to be even stronger in dark, I could crosshatch and crosshtch basically is, if I put them on the one angle like this, I'm just going in a different angle, and that would be called crosshatching. See, and that makes it quite dark. Of course, that needs a bit of practice. I'm just doing that easily, but you have to practice. So what you practice is draw a box like here again. Don't make it too large and just start hetching from the top to the bottom. There you go. Then draw a second box. And do the same hatching again, but now bring them way closer to each other. Like that. Now, you don't need to go perfect from side to side. This is totally fine. And I would suggest a third box. And let's go with that one. And this one starts either very close to each other and gradually going further away or start further away and move closer. That's up to you, yeah. And then once you've done that, make a fourth box. All right, four box, and just hedge and then cross head ****, so go the opposite angle. Yeah. And do that like that. All right. And then you have practice one, two, three, and four. Yeah, good. Okay, well, that's not all we're going to do, of course. We're not gonna hedge, we're going to shade two, but first we need to do something with the first box I drawn with the sun and, of course, hedge that a little bit. So let's do that now. Alright. So this box here. Now, the full light is here, and I'm not going to hedge that. Now, the second, what I'm going to do is I'm going to do the rest of them with a very rough hedging, putting the lines pretty much far away from each other. I need one there. Okay, that's one. And I could have chosen a different angle. That's totally up to you. Now the second one, what I'm going to do is I'm going to do this again, but I'm going to bring the lines in a bit closer to each other like that. And for the third box the fourth really, I'm going to do the same again, but bring them really close. Now, look at the effect of this. What do you get now? You get a fully lighted area. You get a light an area that is bit less, less and the least. You get a nice gradation of this. Nice tones going from this way to that way. Now, in real life, these lines aren't there, but we're now constructing and we're having some help lines. If I would do it without lines, without these help lines, I will basically do the same again. This is my box. I'm now imagining that the sun comes from this site. So that means this site is not shaded, and I'm going to first of all, start with the very rough hedging. Then I'm going to go for second layer. Some closer hatching, and I would go for the third layer, but the fourth section and bring them in close. And if I want this really to be dark, I might as well use just a little bit of crosshatching on the bottoms here and now that looks way better than it did before. Yeah, you get some gradual ways. Let me do another box here. And that's a small one. I'm going to use the same setting, but I could also, of course, hedge roughly like that. Stop there, do a second layer. But stop there, do a third layer, which is now going to be really close and stop there, yeah. I need some there. Okay. Good. Now, that's hatching. Yeah. And you could crosshatch and do anything with it. So that's hatching. And with inking, hetching is used quite a lot. But with pencil, people rather shade. So we're going to do some shading to do simple shading, okay? You can make it very complicated, but we want to do it quick and simple. So I'm going to demonstrate that now. Alright, we're going to do pretty much the same as here, but now we're going to shade. I'm moving this up a little bit. And I'm going to draw a box here. Now, when I want to shade, shading goes slightly different, and that needs some practice. Alright, before we go to shade, this one, the sun comes here again. Now, you could put sun there, there, wherever you want. And for shading, I'm going to hold my pencil at the end like this because I want it to be as flat as possible. Now, the first area I wouldn't get any shading. And what I'm gonna do with shading, I'm make sure that I'm touching as much graphite as I can, and I'm just going to shade lines, not really lines, shade a whole area. And the first layer I'm doing on purpose with this HB, and the HB doesn't put off much graphite, so I get a nice light layer. And there I go. Right. Now I could do a second or third and the fourth layer with the HB, I'm not going to do that. Put the HB aside. I'm switching to a two B, and I'm going to take a clutch pencil. Now, the easy thing with a clutch pencil is, I can expose a lot of graphite, which makes shading a lot easier. Now, a two B pencil is darker, so I don't want to do that first bit again. I want to shade and let's say I'm starting here, very gentle. I'm going to do the same again, see? And that is because this pencil is quite a bit darker, you get this. No. There you go. Now, I got a harsh line here, so I'm just going to use very little pressure and work that harsh line away, and there you go. That's nice. Now, you can continue with this pencil and do we have one, two free the fourth part that would be around here. And apply a bit pressure and just and at the end, do a little bit less pressure, and there you go. Now, that looks different, then, because this is graphite and that works really well with that. Okay, now I could have also switched to a four B pencil. Let's see. Is this a four B? Yeah. And I'm doing the same. I'm holding it like this. This is longer pencil, as much graphite exposed as possible. And if you see this one going over it, see, that is again, I need just to work away that line a bit. A bit stronger now, see? That look nice, see? That makes a nice drawing. That's all there is to shading with a pencil. Yes, you can do a lot with this and make it as hard as you want. But this is the easy way. And since we quick sketching. We just want it the easy and quick way and do it like this. Alright. Now, there was a quick demonstration, of course, and I understand this needs some practice. Now, contrary to what we've done, make sure you pick this pencil a lot further away from the point where you're comfortable so that you can put it as flat as possible and as much graphite exposed as possible. And then you can shade in a lovely way. Now, we're not going to expand on this anymore. This is enough and practice this, ah, okay? Practice the hatching and the cross hetching draw some boxes, even some circles, yeah, figure out, see how that works. Then do we did the first ones here, practice a little bit, closer, closer closer and mix them a little bit. Once you are a bit comfortable with the crosshatching, I would say move on to the shading like we've done here. Alright. Good. Well, okay, I could talk a lot longer about this and show a lot more. We're not going to do that. We want to have some quick sketching, quick shading. In this case, it is quick. So I would say practice this and then move to the next lesson, the last lesson in this module, where we're going to draw a flower, and we're going to shade it. So everything we've learned, we're going to apply to one flower and make a pretty flower. Alright. Good. See you in that next lesson then. O 5. Project 1 Filling up a Sketchbook: Well, I hope you had fun with the shading. I find shading very relaxing. Somehow, it's really relaxing to crosshatch and to shade. Now, I understand that is just a practice for now, but we're going to do something with it. We're going to shade a flower. We're gonna draw a flower, and we're going to shade it. We're going to use the pencil shading techniques. So the bottom one I used. We're going to use that one. And the hatching will come back later on when we're inking, we're going to use that. So for now, we don't forget about it, but we leave it at this, but we're going to use the pencil shading. Alright, the flower. We're gonna draw the puppies. What a surprise, huh? I think you figured it out already from the beginning. Now, in the book of notes and references, there are photos of this, and we're just gonna draw this yeah, we're gonna have some fun with this. Okay. First, we're going to set it up in a drawing. So let's go to that straightaway. Oh, no, we can't. Hang on. What do you need? You need those photos, of course, and you need your pencils, the free if you have two, an HB 2b4b, if you have all free. Great. Yeah. You might need your eraser and your sharpener, and, of course, you're gonna need sketchbook paper. Okay? We're going to do that. Now, for the sketchbook, what I'm going to do, we've done landscape. We're going to turn it into portrait mode. Yeah. And that makes this drawing quite a bit easy. Alright, let's swap to the other camera, and I'll show you what to do. I'm going to draw these puppies on the piece of paper. I'll do it on the landscape, sorry, on the portrait because this is a long tall one. Now, the first thing I want to determine, of course, is my frame, but to be honest, I'm not gonna frame it because I'm just gonna use the whole paper as a frame. Now, what I want to make sure I don't want to draw all the way to the edge, I want to keep a little bit of white there in case I might want to frame it or something like that. Yeah. Okay, so I've set up my Workspace. And the idea is now to fill up our sketchbook with sketches. Now, that's going to take a while. And if I'm going to do that in this video, in this lesson, you will have to watch me a long time doing it. So I'm only going to do one, but I encourage you not to do one only, but do a couple more, too. So I have this puppy. I have these puppies, and I'm going to actually draw one, two, three, and I draw that bit. I draw everything, even some leaves in it, but make it myself easy and do it quickly. So I've got the whole sketch. Now, the first thing I need to determine where all the elements go. Yeah? And how large I want them, and I'm going to start with that one. Now, if I take this as my main guide, this is the straight one. And now we're having a slight issue probably because you're looking from top. I'm looking from this angle. So it might not totally be what you see, but we're going to make it ourselves easy. We only want to draw this more or less from the side and forget about all the information that you see back there. So we want to draw this side. We'll make sure of that. The first puppy goes here. Now, first of all, we have the stark here, and that is pretty much on one side and it goes out to this side. So let's start here. Let's start with this fourth this first poppy there, that's going to be my guide. The first poppy, I want to have drawn, and I wanted that to be my major guide, and from there, I'm going to go for the rest. So if I draw it this large, that would be the poppy. And I'm using the HB pencil for this by the way. Later on, we might raise a little bit. Okay, that's it. Then if I look at the second one, yeah, it's a little bit away from it, this one would fit more into a square and then halfway cut off. But I'm going to draw square a little bit away from it. And that would be my square. The second one I want in here. Now, then we have this bit here that is under there and I'm going to draw that. I want that right there. Okay. And then the next bit is this poppy under it. Now if I would have a stalk, it would go over that stalk. Probably I would have needed to brought this one in slightly closer. But let's go with it for now. Let's look at it and it's going right there. It's not as big as that one. It's smaller. So I need to make sure it is smaller a little bit. I'm going to get it into there. Right. This one is a bit longer now. Yeah. That's good. This one is slightly smaller. That's my element. So I now determined where all the major elements are going to go. Now, we have here a leaf. I'm going to draw that, but I'm going to leave that to later. All right. Good. Now, the idea is with drawing, if I start here, draw and I'm right handed. So I'm drawing here and move on there. Then I'm going to smear all of this. So I want to start at the left. If you're left handed, you want to start at the right and work your way to the left. If you're right handed, you want to start left and work your way to the right, that's the easiest. So I'm going to start with this. Now, the idea is, of course, to quick sketch this. Yeah, you practice this a little bit with the pencil, so I don't want to spend ages and I don't want to think too much about it. So what I'm going to do with this first one, I'm going to say, Alright, I'm going to just put it in the middle, and there you go. And I'm going to draw the starch in and bring it all the way down to there. Now, that's my major shape following along here a little bit, yeah. And from there, the second one comes. I'm going to draw you in the middle too, because you're pretty much in the middle. This one, I don't know yet where it goes because I need to determine that because it's under an angle. But this one I can draw in pretty much straight until it meets up there, too, and make sure I don't go all the way to the bottom. And then we have this one here. That goes around there and meets actually comes there and goes with an angle, but you wouldn't see the rest of it most likely. Alright. Now let's do this one a little bit better. That one is under an angle. So let's remove this box completely. Alright, and draw in an angled box right away. Okay, yeah, sometimes even I make mistakes. Everybody makes mistakes, and that's why we have the eraser and the brush. We clean up our mistake and we just keep on going. Start over again. All right, so we're starting over again with that one. We know it's going here. That might be too close. No it's going there on top of the other here and there, and now we're drawing up the rectangle under an angle. There you go. Now, that is better. Now I can determine that I want also this bottom there in the middle. And then we can do the line and that one goes through it again, like bit like that. Right. Okay. Now I've got that. Now I know where my stalks are going to go. Now I can do the leaves. Now, let's see. I'm going to draw this leaf in. Yeah, this one, I'm gonna probably ignore this leaf. Let's see. That leaf is on here. And goes out a little bit bit lower. Now, let's go. Since we shorten this because I don't have the total length of this one on the paper. So I shorten this so I need to draw that leave a little bit different. I'm going to put the leaf here and I'm going to do one side of the leaf and like that. And I'm going to draw in that leaf, as you can see, rather, very, very roughly. And let's see where the poppy ends. And then the second leaf this leaf, I'm going to not do all the way at the bottom. This leaf here. I'm going to bring it up a little bit. And I'm going to bring it out slightly. There goes that leaf, and I'm going to draw that in. And then I'm turning it a little bit so we all can see it very well. So you could draw the branches like that from the leaf. And then bring in roughly that shape. Okay. And that same we're doing here. Go in front of that one. And there we go, see, very quickly. Bit jacket, bit rough. That is our leaf. Okay. And this would be my main composition. Okay, we've got all these elements, and now I'm just going to fill them in. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to draw this one and I'm going to let you figure out these two, right? So I'm going to draw this, and I'm going to take you through. Now, I've done this one. I'm not going to draw the top one. Let me do this one for you because we have done the top one. I'm going to draw this one here. Let me see where that goes. This will be the bottom. Goes from here all the way there, and then curves back nicely like that. Then there's one coming out, goes here, and then it has a fold, a curve And I need to bring that in. So there you go. Then what we're going to do that one, the back one, I got to lift it up to see it. You could see it easily. I can't see it well. All right. Lo going to be one from there. And then there's going to be one there. And that is that one, right? I'm going to leave that one like this. And then I'm going to bring in some of these lines, these folds. And I got to lift it again, these pretty much go down. And there you go. Alright. That's that. Okay, now, let me do this one, too for you. And I'm gonna move that around a little bit. And I just see that it comes around here. There's a leaf. There's a leaf there. There's one there. And then there's that nice middle part in it. And there you go. Okay. And that's it. All right. I've got them now. Now, these two, I'll draw in. And once I've drawn them, I'll show you. I'll continue drawing. But what I'm going to do, I'm going to speed it up. Yeah. So you will see this next beat sped up without me talking, and this is just quickly draw. I draw them all in so that you see what I'm doing, but I'm not going to talk you through it. Alright, let's go. I Alright, that's my drawing. Now, the next step we're going to do, we're going to shade this. Now, same with as the drawing. I'm not going to show you every step, but I will do one or two elements and leave you to shade the rest, but I'm going to again speed it up and show you how I'm shading it. Yeah, then it will be sped up then. But I'm going to first of all, show you a couple of them how to do them. Alright, let's do that now. Okay, so I got this. Now, I need to determine one thing. Got all these stalks and things. Where where, where, where? Do I want the sun to come from? Now, the nicest thing is just from this side. So the sun would be here casting its sun, then some elements get nicely lighted and some get not too nicely lighted. They get the shade. Alright, so what I'm gonna do? I'm going to do this one. I'm going to do this one, I might do the leaf. Okay? Let's start with this one. Now, this one is obviously, let me shade. With the HB pens I'm doing that part behind, I'm going to roughly slowly shade. This petal, too. I'm going to shade this petal. Leave this a bit lighted, I'm going to shade in here. Leave that lighted, and I'm going to shade. This part two, bit higher up. That is basically the main information. Then, of course, this needs to be shaded. And the stack I'll show you in a minute. Now, to avoid that I'm smearing all of this out, what you can do just take a piece of paper, put it on there, cover it, and then now you can focus on this bit alone. Alright, so I did my first lay with the HB. Let's switch to the two B pencil. I'm going to now pick this contraption that should be my two B. I'm just doing the same. I'm holding it like that. Now this is a lot longer, as you can see, so I'm holding it here. I'm going to do now the darker parts. Now that would be pretty dark. This one would be dark. I'm leaving that line a little bit perhaps around that edge, now here around the edge a little bit. This part would be dark and that part would be dark. A little more. Now with this pencil, what I'm going to do carefully, not point, but on its side, bring back some of those line which are now slowly disappear, and I want to make sure that doesn't happen because then I have no clue what I'm doing. There you go. From there, I'm going to shake these lines a little bit. Just to make it look a bit nicer. There you go. There you go. Now, if you have a four B, I should have a four B, then use it with this one, I'm going to do that really dark part behind. Shade that shade the bottom of this one, a little bit, definitely shade this one there a little bit and bottom, just a little bit of that one, maybe inside here. And that would be it. All right. Now, look at that, see? That's nice. Going back to my HB, I want to extend this layer a bit also along the folds, just a little bit here too. And there you go. Now, here was a fold. Going to bring that pig back in. And with the HB, go to darken this a little bit so that that stands out. Now, look, that looks like a lovely graphite drawing. Done really quickly. Let me do the stark. I'm going to go to the two B for that. I'm going to get the clutch pencil that's a bit less long. Where is it? There it is. That should be it. Yeah. And the opposite side so the sun is from here. So the opposite side of this one, I'm going to draw back in that line again. Bit there, here to down, and then carefully shade in the rest, but very lightly so that it becomes a bit of a stack. And away from the light. I'm ficking it a little bit, see? That looks nice. All right. Looks good. Okay. Well, let's do the leaf. I'm gonna move that paper away. I'm going to get that HB pencil again. The leaf. I'm gonna not shade these parts, but the rest opposite of the middle. I'm definitely going to shade all of that. Hold it a bit further away. So I'm starting with that, and as you can see, we're shading because it's quick sketch, we're shading rather roughly. I'm trying to keep the pencil as flat as possible, and now I'm going to shade a little bit here a little bit there. And there you go. I'm switching now to that B pencil again. That's this one. And not this side I'm not touching, but I want this side to be darker. And And there we go. Now let me bring in that hard line a little bit, and also these branch lines. Not really branches. What are they? Nerves? Veins. That's the word I'm looking for, right. I'm bringing in the veins. And opposite of this vein, let me make it a bit stronger, see? Now something nice appears. All right, see? Now it looks like a great leaf. And with the four Bee, I'm going to now shade the bottom parts. Under the nerves. Sorry, under the veins, they're called nerves in Dutch. That's the whole thing. Neovan. That's the Dutch. But in English, they're called veins. So under the veins, I'm shading, see, and on this side too a little bit. And look at that. Now, that's a nice branch, isn't it? We just need the HB pencil back again a little bit on this side of the vein and under here a little bit. So that it becomes clear. Do the stock a bit there again and there, too. And that's that. Look at that. Now, carefully with the brush, don't go too wild, then you're gonna smear this too. Alright. There you go. That looks good. Now, one more? Yeah. I'll do one more. Wait, we need something there. So the HB we're going to do this one. Now, this one is shaded right there. And, of course, these are shaded. And the branch would be shaded under there would be a bit of a cast shadow, and there you go. Okay, switching to the two B pencil. That's my dear. This is a bit shorter. Let's see. We want to have. Definitely. This one shaded. Definitely. That one shaded. I want to bring in a little bit of a shadow there. And under there, and I'm switching to the four B pencil, let's do the bottoms of these a little bit. I'm not going all the way up. There you go and let's do. Start a little bit, and that's it. All right. That's it for my quick shaded quick sketch. All right. The other ones, I'm going to do exactly the same as before. I'm going to speed that up, so you can see still what I'm doing, but I'm not going to talk you through it. You have to figure that out by yourself. Alright. Enjoy it. Yeah, it's kind of enjoyable to watch, and then I'll be back in a few seconds. We'll see. All right. Okay. Okay, I finished my drawing, but not completely. We got to do one thing about it still. So let me show you what we're gonna do to just clean it a bit up to tidy the bit up. Okay, I'll show you that. Alright, so mine is done. I've done some shading, so we're the darker parts, darker parts where no light comes, where the light comes, and then filter that in a little bit. Looks nice, but one thing I really don't like The boxes. We got to get rid of those boxes, don't we? Yes, we actually do. So that. Of course, an eraser. And I'm gonna carefully erase those boxes now. And that means I might have to restore something. But the main the big parts, I'll do with this one. And then when I need to get in there, really, I want to switch to the other one. In between that, that little box needs to go. Okay, now, let me get rid of the mess carefully, especially with that four B now on it. If I do this too hard, then I want to smear all the graphite everywhere. Okay, now, what I could do is but use carefully the side of the eraser to do this, or if you have one, let's go for this one. That makes it slightly easier to control and get into those small spots. And there's also pencil erasers that are just pencils in the shape. Now, the other way around. Erasers in the shape of a pencil, and those are very handy, too. You can just even with an eraser. Now, what am I saying? With a sharpener, even sharpen them. Right. Okay? Let's see. Box there, in there. A little bit, too, and I need to restore some of that in a minute. There you go. So, cleaned it up a little bit. No, that looks a lot better, doesn't it? Okay, our first project is almost done. Perhaps a little bit of touch ups here and there. Let's get rid of this. Ah, that's good. And there we go. Ah, right. In there? A little bit, and there's a line I don't like, and the rest I'm fine with. So here. Okay, good. There you go. Now, that looks good. Now, let's go with the HB pen up here. Carefully. Restore that a little bit. And there are two little and around this edge and around there. Now, with this one, I want to have more in real life, it is this pot is a bit hairy, so I'm just going to bring those in right. So there you go. See if I shade it enough, and now, let's say, this one goes, but I want to have that leaf on the line bit stronger. Now I got to see where this one goes here and draw that one in. Okay. And now we're pretty much almost done. Let's do this one. Right. Okay, let's see. Now only this leaf here. Let's add a little bit on the bottom there, so it becomes a leaf. Alright. Well, that is that. We have finished the drawing from this puppy here. These poppies huh. We've made a nice drawing. See? Well, you can follow this one along pretty much, but then I would challenge you create your own too. There's plenty of space in a sketchbook. The more you practice this, the better you get at it. The better you get sketching with a pencil, the more it will benefit you later on when we start inking and using pens and things like that. All right. That concludes this lesson. We've got a nice, lovely project at the end of this module. Practice this and once you're comfortable, then it's time to go to the next module where we're going to pick up some pens.