Quick Sketch Flowers Module 3 - A Decoration in 3 parts with Fineliners

1. Introduction: We're going to trade in our brush pen for a file liner. Now, if I put them next to each other, you want to see the difference right away. Fine and rough. Alright. Now, working with a file liner is a bit different. And the file liner, because it is fine, has the tendency to draw you into details. You see a lot. You can do really fine, intricate work with it, and before you know, you're lost in details. We want to avoid that. We close it. So in this module, we're going to learn to ignore things. Now, that sounds strange probably, but once we get going, you understand that. With quick sketching, you just need to discover how to ignore things. If you look at a flower, it can be very pretty with a lot of details, all kinds of nuances, little shades and very nice. But if you want to do quick sketching, you just need to ignore those things. You just need to use your fine liner effectively, just as we've done with the brush pen, we're going to use the fine liner effectively. Now, that doesn't mean that you can't create very pretty impressive artworks. You're just not going to do all the details. The chances are that perhaps you never used a fine liner before. So we're going to start really simple. Even work with regular pen. Regular pen you can do great things with liner and create some simple shading techniques, hatching with a pen, sketching with the pen and going on from there. Now, until now, we've done flowers, very simple like here from the site. We're going to do that a little bit more advanced. And we're going to attempt to do flowers also from angles because not every flower is from the top or from the front. No, they're always under certain angles, and we're going to discover how to do that two together, working with that fine liner. We're going to create a decoration in three parts, and literally, we're going to create a decoration in three parts. Once we've done all the practicing, we're going to create something really nice. And I've got it here, and you say, Oh, wait, hang on. That's one part. Now, there are actually three parts of this artwork. We're gonna draw a rose together in three parts. And as you can see, that looks pretty impressive. Once this lesson is done, you're going to do that impressive work, too. Alright, I'm gonna stop talking. We're gonna start working. See you in the next lesson. 2. Some things need to be ignored: Welcome to this lesson. Now, before we can make our decoration in three parts, I trology, we need some practice, of course. We're going to work with a different material today. We're not going to work with the brush pen, but we're going to work with fine lines with a regular pen or a fountain pen, whichever pen you have. Alright, that brings me right to the material. So let's go through it. You need today a pencil. You're going to need, then, most likely, an eraser. And that pretty brush. You need some paper? We're going to start out for this lesson just with regular sketch paper, whatever sketch paper you have, use that, and you're going to need some pens. Now, a little bit under pens. There's various pens you can get. You could use, for example, a regular pen. Yeah, just a regular pen would work fine. If you want to do that, I'll demonstrate that. You can make pretty flowers with a regular pen. You could do something more fancy. Get a fine liner. Now, fine liners, you can get in all kinds of sizes and even colors. We're just going to use black ones. And I've got a box like this. These are my favorites. And let's see. Today we're going to use 0.3. We're going to stick to one. Fine liner for today. Now there are various sizes, and the danger of the sizes, the smaller they go, the more you tend to it doing details because you can do fine things with it. If you don't have a 0.3, 0.5, something like that, 0.4 is good, too. I think the road rings come in 0.3. So yeah, whatever. Cope all kinds of sizes. Now, aside from a fine liner or a regular pen, you could also use a fountain pen. Now I'm going to go a bit closer with the fountain pen. Hopefully the camera picks it up. You want a fountain pen work that has a little ball on the end, and you can get them in medium and fine extra fine. Go for a medium, I would say. And there's pens like these, too. And fin not fine liners, fountain pens, great for inking. Now, this one comes with a cartridge, you press into it. Well, this one comes with what they call a converter, and you can put in ink. And as you probably see, there's a different kind of color in here. It's a Sepia ink instead of black. Alright, came. Well, that's for the materials. Do we need something else? No, for now, we said, Okay, so you don't need all these pens, of course, h. Just pick whatever pen you have, whatever pen you like, or whatever pen you would like to experiment with. Okay? I'll demonstrate a couple in this lesson, but you don't need all of them. Okay, let's get started. We're going to draw with these materials, so let's switch cameras and get it going. First thing I'm going to do. I'm going to find myself an empty page. We've got some nice sketches already. Here's a nice empty page. Now, I'm going to demonstrate the fine liners and the pen because that's slightly different than what we've done with the brush pen. Now, fi liner, this is a 0.31. I'm just picking up whichever one is closest. And let's draw, again, a box. Now, you see right away why these things are called fine liners. This is 0.3. Now, see how thin that is. Now the problem with fin is that you tend to go towards details and notice all the details and want to draw them because you can draw really fine with a pen like that. We need to learn to ignore that and only draw what is important so that we can have a real quick sketch and not get caught up in details. Now if I pick a different one, this is 0.5. I'm going to draw a line, and now you're going to see that is already a bit thicker than what we had before. Now, if you want to go worse, this is what they call a 0.05. And look at that. That goes so small. Such a thin line. This is great for working details, but let's put that away quickly again. Okay, now, a pen, a pen, just a regular pen is always a bit thicker. Now if the pen is going to work, it is and there you go. And as you can see, I'm still sketching with it. See? And that's a bit vigor, so you're not tend to go to details. And then, well, let's do this one, too. Fountain pen. Now, fountain pen is a bit like a brush pen. You want to work from the top. And from the left. This way I'm drawing now. And you don't want to go over it and smear things. Now, this is quite different than the brush pen we used. And with this to shade, we're going to use hetching. Now, what you're going to do is just pick your favorite pen and just start practicing a little bit. And hetchings just same as we've done with the pencil. You make these motions, and there we go. So there's nothing new and I'm in the wrong box, really. But we're mixing colosy. And more practice we really don't need with that. Let me get that pen, huh? Okay. And there you go. Now, let me show you one little thing with a file liner. And what you can do with fi liner, most fi liners, this works for now we're just picking it up like a regular pen and we're drawing it. And as you can see, I'm not drawing straight. I think that's very uncomfortable. I'm still using that same relaxed grip. And what you can do with a fine line or two, now, this one is hatching like that again. You can put it on its side too. And then you need to find the right angle. And there we go. Now that's a bit tricky, but as you can see what happens now, you get really faint thin lines. See that? That's a difference than what we've done here when you put it more straight. Y. Now, that should work with a pen too, if you cut it under the right angle. And there we go, see? With a pen that works too. And see, you get a faint. Instead of this fig line, you get this faint. Line. And that would work well for transitioning from light to dark. Yeah, instead of going really dark, you could use a shadow or mid tone. Even with a pen, you can create a mid tone. Alright, do I want to say more? No, I don't want to say more. I think about this. No, we're just going to go into drawing a flower. Alright, as said, we're going to work with a flower now. This lesson is titled Things that need to be ignored. And that is very important with quick sketching. You just need to ignore certain things. Okay, I'm going to get the flower. We're going to use a chrysanthemum today. Now, there will be pictures in the book of notes and references. And we're going to work with this. Now, if I put this a bit closer to the camera, you can see there is a lot of petals on here. And if you look in the heart, you see, even the heart has some different things in it. Now, with a flower dye like this, it is very easy to get lost in details, and we want to prevent that. So what we want to do we want to do a quick sketch of the flower, so we have to ignore some details in it. Alright, let me switch to the camera and work with this. Okay, we're back to the pencil now. Here's that flower. And what we've done before is we create that construction box, remember, to find the circle because this is a circle. But now I look at this flower and I see actually one, two, three, four, five, six layers of petals. That's going to take a while. What we're gonna do we just want to have a quick impression of this flower. Now, what I would do with this flower and I'm going to draw it here. I'm going to first of all, get my box and say, I want my flower, and I'm going to try and get a bit of a square. I want my flower to stay in this box. Now, for you, you can do I want to find the middle. That's for sure. There you go. So I want to go the middle. Now, we can draw the whole circle and the whole construction as we've done in the previous lessons. I'm not going to do that. If you need to do that, please do that. Yeah. Create the construction so that you can create a circle. What I'm going to do, I'm going to create that outer circle first. That is the more easy circle. And then I know roughly where I want my flower to be. And now I notice I don't have a perfect square so I extend my square a little bit. All right. That's the first layer. That is the outer layer and I'm going to just keep that. Now I'm going to do the inner hard layer. And I want that inner hard layer there. The next thing, what I'm going to do, I'm not going to draw all these petals in. That would take a long time. But what I'm going to do, I'm going to give an impression of these petals. And I'm going to start with the first let's do that layer around it. That's a bit like this. There you go. And what I'm going to do next, and I'm going to look closely to these, and I'm going to draw that in like that. Now, again, if you need a circle first, I'm going to let me demonstrate it on the outer circle. So I've got the outer circle. And what I'm going to do on that, I'm just going to make these petals. But give an impression of these petals and here too. There you go. That's my impression of these petals. Now I'm going to do that inner circle here. And that's my impression of these petals, and I'm going to put in between, definitely another layer. And that's it. Now, when I want to with the pen, I can add in this case, with the pencil. Now I'm going to add some lines just a bit random. But I'm following more the pattern. So this one would go straight. This one would go under an angle. This one under an angle, this one would go straight again. Yeah, following the bit of the pattern. And there you go. Now, that is my quick impression of this flower, see? And when I'm going to work in pen with this and erase the rest, then it's going to look like a pretty flower. All right. So what I do next, I'm going to leave this here as an example, and I'm going to draw another box, and I'm going to speed this up this part, and quickly redraw this again. Okay, so now I've got two of these flowers. And what I'm going to do with the one, I'm leaving one as an example, and the other one, I'm just going to take a pen, and I'm going to ink it. Alright? Let's do that. Okay, I'm going to use a regular pen for this one. I'm going to leave this example as this. I'm going to do this one. I'm going to start with the heart. I need a flower bag. I'm going to look at the heart. Now, the heart is all very little hairy things. So I'm going to draw all these little hairy things in and then around it, it's more like some circles. And I'm going to bring that in. There you go. I might go even a couple outside. And that's it. All right. And now I'm going to draw in the rings, following the pencils, but keeping it nice and loose, you? And do the second layer. Oh And the last layer. Now I'm doing free layers only to just quickly show this is a layered flower. As you can do, it's more almost becomes scribbling like this. And now I'm going to put in these lines Okay, and now the outer lines. And I've got this flower gone. All right. And there you go. Now, that is nice, and that is pretty, but it's a bit flatter. We got to shade it a little bit. So before we go to shade it, I'm going to erase, first of all, all the pencil markings. Okay. And there goes the brush, and there we go. That looks great. All right. So that is this flower from the top. Now, it's a bit flat. So what I'm going to do get that pen back. Yeah, there it is. And what I'm going to do, I'm going to add some shade and especially in let's call it the valley. So we have the petal and then there's a petal under it. And in these triangle parts, we're going to add our shading. And that shows by doing that, I'm just coloring it in. I'm not hatching or anything. I'm just coloring it in. And by doing that, you get the idea right away that there's a little bit of depth going on. I'll leave this flower alone for now. Now, with a fine liner or a fountain pen, this whole process would be pretty much the same, just to show you can create something pretty with a regular pen, too, and now even on the outer ones, let's just add that to it. Okay, and there we go. All right. I'm thicken some of these petal lines a little bit. And there we go. Now, look at that. All right. Now, we could do shade a little bit. We could say the sun is coming, let's say, from here. So opposite would be shaded a little bit. Or let's first of all, add then some shade around here and on purpose only on this side, okay? Not on that side. Even a bit thicker. And what we're going to do now, I'm going to hedge some of these petals really quickly. I'm just following I'm just doing a straight one now. See, but a bit following the contour, rotating it. And there we go. No more like that. But now we need to do these two. And I'm just using a different angle for these. There we go. Alright, and let's add then some shading in the heart, too, and there we go. Now we just need to do the outer ones. The light comes from here. So these would be shaded. And might thicken some of these lines, too. Okay. I'm going to go uptill there. And there we go. There's a flower and what I want to do with these down here. I want to cross edge these a little bit to give the idea that this is a deeper shaded one so more on the bottom than the other one. And there you go. I'm not going to do more on this just a little bit. Here, and there we go. And there's a flower from the top. Alright, so there's this flower from the top. And but ignoring all the lines, the depth parts and things like that, just quickly putting it in. Now, you can keep on going with this, but this is good. Alright. Now, to make it a little bit more pretty, what you can do is I'm going to do it with the pen right away. I'm going to add a stark to it. And put some markings on the stack. Sk, yes. At one side. To be a bit figcker, there you go now. Come while we're doing it. Okay. Let's do one leaf then. Just quickly. Some nerves veins, it were in English in it. No. A little bit of shading down there. Bit more there, and there you go. Alright. That's it. We're gonna leave it like that. Alright. So there's a flower from. Now, it was from the top, but we turned it a little bit now it's from the side. And with a regular pen. Okay, so ignoring things, yeah? Not drawing every little petal you see. Not every hair, not every little part here. Not every shadow, just a quick impression. Okay, and that concludes this lesson, too. So we've drawn one of these flowers with a pen. Now, you don't have to work with a pen, although I would challenge you to just take a regular pen and have some fun with it, too. You'll be surprised what you can make with it, and a pen is often accessible. Wherever you go, there's pens and paper, and you do good just start sketching away wherever you are. Alright. But, of course, you can use the fine liner and fountain pen if you want to. Oh, and do some boxes, too, do some hatching, get used to the pen, and once you're used to the pen, then move to the next lesson, where are we going to go level further with all of this. All right. Have fun and see you in the next lesson. A 3. Sketching complicated angles: Right. You're ready for the next lesson. Yeah, otherwise you wouldn't. Watch this video, I guess, huh? Alright, so if all is well, you have practiced now a little bit with the pen and are a little bit comfortable with it. Now we're going to go to the next level. Now, so far, we work with flowers from the side and from the top, and that is pretty. We even turned them from the top to the side a little bit. But not every flower is like that. A lot of flowers are angled, and now already now you're looking at all kinds of different angles. Well, that is what this lesson is about. We're going to sketch more complicated angles. Alright, what do you need for this? You need your sketchbook, a pencil, eraser, and stuff like that, and you need a pen, fine liner. I'm not sure what I'm going to use. I'll decide that when I start drawing. Okay, well, let's start drawing. Okay, so we've got a blank piece of paper, and I've still got these flowers, and I'm gonna angle it. No, we're going to draw that from an angle. Now, I've got to look at the camera, just to see what you're seeing. Okay, you're seeing it more or less from a top. I'm seeing it from an angle. Let's try it like that. We're not gonna see exactly the same angle. So what we do to solve that problem, I'm gonna put this flower away. And I'm going to take this photograph. Move things over a bit. No, that is not the same flower. That is a sunflower. Right? I folds well, you can see the sunflower well, too. The sunflower is under an angle. It's not straight anymore. So we need to draw that. Now, we're gonna start the same way as we've done. We're gonna draw the box around it and see where the box goes. I want the sunflower, the total sunflower to be in this box. And then I'm noticing that the stalk is further away already outside of the box, and then we have the flower. So the flower goes here and I'm going to look at this box. I'm going to say that is a rectangle, not a square anymore. That is definitely a rectangle. And I'm going to go for a rectangle like this. I should fit in this flower. Now, as with every sketch, and as I said before, we're not going to do an exact one on one copy, we're going to give an impression. Now, if I find here the middle, everything goes wrong. Because the heart is definitely not in the middle. So I need to define where I want the heart to start. Okay, so we've got our basic boxes now, now we need to find out where to draw the heart, where to draw the petals and look a bit at the perspective. Okay, now, perspective, perspective can be really tricky. And what normally would perspective would do? Let's say I would draw something in perspective, I would draw this flower. I would use vanishing points. So vanishing points are simply, let's see if I have an horizon line, I would put a dot on it and if I draw a box, here's my box, then everything would go towards this perspective. Now I have drawn my box. No, not everything has one perspective. Sometimes you have two perspective and then it gets really complicated. We're not going to do that, what would normally happen, but that will take a while to set up. We're going to look at the flower instead, and we're going to say, Okay, what do we notice that the heart is definitely not in the middle. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to just guess where the heart is, and I'm going to say that probably the heart is somewhere here. Now, bigger, of course. What I notice right away is that the heart is not a circle anymore because it's angled. And as soon as you angle things, they don't look straight anymore. Let me pack this box for you. Okay, so the box straight. And once I start turning it, you see a tar starts looking more like an ellipse. Now it's round, and now it's like an ellipse. Okay. We said the heart will start about here, and I'm not going to draw an circle, but I'm just going to draw an ellipse. Ellipse, is it? Yeah. No ellipse. That's Dutch. An ellipse. There you go. Not an eclipse. I know that that's the moon and stuff, but an ellipse. There you go. Right. Now, that looks like that part, doesn't it? Then there's the bigger one, and I'm just going to draw a bigger one. And what I notice is that this part where I'm looking at viewing it is smaller than where it ends. So I might just put a guideline there, a little bit of a line there, and the bottom and top, I would guess they're about the same width. So now I can draw an ellipse in that. And get that a bit. Now, it's a bit exaggerated too far, but there you go. See? So we're guessing, instead of doing a whole construction with all kinds of lines, we're just guessing where everything is and we're noticing shapes. We're not noticing shapes and we're saying This is an ellipse, this is an ellipse, too. And now the petals, now, what I'm going to do these petals go there. I'm going to pick this petal that goes there to my box. Then there's this petal going straight, and then we've got the petals going towards me. I'm just picking a few random petals. Here's one there. Okay, I'm not going to do all of them like this. I'm just going to start with this one. This one I'm going to draw in. That is an easy petal. To a bit of a point. There you go. Looks good. This petal, I'm going to draw in. What do I notice? Well, it's pretty still almost the same as that. Now, this petal here, that one I noticed that has a bit of a curve to it. So I'm going to draw in that curve. And here, too. So now I'm just noticing what is happening. It is a bit of a curved. It's not straight anymore. This one right here, which one was that? Let's pick this one for that. Doesn't got back as that. That would be this one. I want a more straight one. So let's go with this one here, that one, that will be this one. And I'm going to just add a little bit of a fold there, and now the ones there, just thick short ones, and then there's even some here. You hardly see, and then I can draw in the rest. Oh, we do this one, too. That one goes a bit like that. Alright. And now we already see that, you get this perspective automatically. Now the rest, I'm just going to draw in very roughly. That one here, there's one behind there. And then we have this one here. There's one behind it. There's one here. Doesn't go all the way. Now, what you could have done too is draw that same ellipse you have here, draw it in around here so that you get an idea how far you have to go here. I didn't do that. So let's correct that and do the same here too. We're drawing in that ellipse, see, and then we need to cut that one off a little bit, so that we know where we're going to go. Yeah. So we've got the hard ellips the outer ellips, and then we got the outer ellipse for the drawing for the flower itself. Yeah. All right. So sorry about that. I didn't explain that, but there you go. And then I know how far these petals pretty much are going. And now I'm just drawing in some of these petals, as you can see, and I'm doing it rather quickly. Some shorter ones, some longer ones, even some behind it. So in between here, too. And then I've got to do. These ones. All right, then there we setting it up. Okay, and there we go. I'll bring in a little bit of a heart on these petals. And you can even curve the hearts a little bit, those hard lines. And then you get the idea more of a sunflower. Alright. Now, this one definitely needs to be shorter otherwise. It looks just strange outside of perspective. And there you go. Now I've drawn this. Let's add some petals quickly behind that, alright? Okay, so now I've drawn the flower itself, and now I need that stock, so I'm going to work on that now. All right. Well, stark is about here, goes all the way there and goes straight. It's a bit thick. Not that thick probably, but that would work. It has some markings on it here and there and here. There you go. Make it slightly more interesting, and that's it. No, that's about the idea of drawing something from a different angle, you know? And we could spend a lot more time on this, but yeah, we're going to add a little bit of these edges to it. And in here, create a little bit of a black part. Now it looks more like a sunflower, and we need some petals in front of this. Alright, good. Okay, so that is the sunflower, at least a quick impression of the sunflower. And now you get an idea how to work a little bit under an angle. But let's not stop here. Let's do the original flower we had the chrysanthemum. And let's try that one, too. So it's back. We're gonna do that under an angle. Now, a pretty angle for this is like where we're looking at now. And it would be a bit more like this for you. That would be a nice angle. But I'm going to tilt a little bit so I can see it good. Now, the same here. Now, what is close? Now, it works a bit different. So if I look at it, I have here the close part, and the further away is indeed a bit larger because it's further away from me, but slightly larger, but not too bad. And this is not a circle anymore, but I'm drawing that. It's more like this. This shape it becomes now. Yeah. Then you add some dimension right away. The sunflower had a hole here. This one, not this one comes out. And I'm just gonna do that. And that's the first shape. And from there, I'm going to draw the outer ring. I'm going to say, first of all, how big do I want it? I'm going to just draw a line I want it about this size. And then this is going away a little bit, and there you go. Now, you could have drawn the box around it. I'm going to look at the bottom, and I'm going to correct that a little bit. This will be my main shape. Now, what we've done in the previous lesson, we're basically going to do again. I'm going to add all these markings to it. That befriends me from going into all these details, all these little petals. No, I do want this quickly. Now I need a second one that's going to go around there. And then I'm going to need that third one bit further away, and that's what I'm going to do. Yeah, free layers I'm going to do like this. And on these layers, I'm going to get these edges of the petals. Hands. There you go. And as you can see that goes rather quick. Now, and I'm going to draw. Stop behind it. Angle it a little bit. Let's do. Just a little bit of a leaf. Which one I'm going to pick DT one here. It's a nice big leaf here. Let's go for this one. But I'm going to angle it a little bit with the flour. Pat the stalk goes like that. So I'm going to angle this a little bit with and I'm going to give a quick impression of this leaf. And I'm trying to follow with the lines, this angle, narrowing it down. See that? That looks good. See? You could go bigger leaves, but this looks pretty good. Small like that. Alright, and that would be this flower. Now, we just need a couple of lines in it for the petals. And make sure you follow a bit of the contour around. So you got to imagine that a little bit how this would go or just look at it very closely and try to determine how it all goes. And there you go, see? And that is how you draw a flower under an angle. Alright, now, I understand that is all easier said than done, probably, so that is why you need some practice with this to get this into the fingers. We say that in Dutch, get it into the fingers, then you really have mastered it to speak like that. But I'll show you a little bit of a trick you can use for this to help you out. Alright, let's go there. Okay, so I've got this now. I'm not going to shade. I'm not going to actually use the pen. Yeah, I just while I'm talking, I'm shading just a little bit to get a little bit of an impression to show you what I actually would shade. There you go. Now, that looks already. Much prettier. I wouldn't do that side. I only would do the side that's closest to me, add some lines here and there. All right. And then get some impression of some darkened light. We do that on the back too. And let's do this. All right. Okay. There you go. Now, it looks pretty good, huh? Okay, well, quick sketch of this flower. Now, to practice what we've done before, but in perhaps a bit easier way, what you can do is you can take the photograph. What I'm going to do is I'm gonna put the photograph here, yeah? So you actually have to get a photograph for this. I'm gonna frame it. So I'm just basically drawing right. Next to it. There you go. I'm gonna put the photograph here. And what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna take a ruler. I'm gonna put that. This would be my top line. This would be my bottom line. This would be where the heart starts. This would be where the heart ends. And the next thing you can do is put then the photograph down here because let's see, this is where the star goes, so that would work. Well, now this is a bit more tricky, and the heart would be there. The heart would be there. The inner heart would be here. The inner heart would stop there and then put this photograph back. And I'm sure you're already getting the idea what I'm doing. And there you go. Now, I need the back of the flower. Put that here. The back of the flower would be here. The petals would stop there. And do I do that for the front, too? Definitely. Got to put that straight with that line and in its box, the flowers, the petals would stop. Right there. Okay, now I got some construction lines. Now I just need to remember. What is what? Now, I know what this is. This is that heart, and I'm drawing in that hard helips. Yeah, that's the first one. Then the second heart. And drawing that in. There you go. That's the second part. Now, I know the petals, where they're going, they're staying inside. This frame, the petals, then I can just let me draw this petal in again. This would be in the middle. It goes to there. I'm doing this now rather roughly. The top petal, this one would go there. There you go. Now, these smaller petals, the first ones would go there. And a bit more there and then like that. And then there would be some petals, behind it. And let me do this petal, too. Now, this petal, this is the top. The other petal, I want these petals here to go for a line two. So then we would have this petal here. So petals there, here. And I'm doing this very rough now. And then we would have the petals going right there and then the long ones under it, and there you go, and so on and so on. You could do the same here to measure to where they go. They go until there, put this photograph in the frame, and it goes up till there and not further. And then now I know the distance of this. Now, there you go. Yeah. And you could keep on going and so on and so on. I'm going to end that here. You get the idea. Yeah. Right. And then the stark would come out and that would be, you could measure that again. That would come right there, so the stark would go. Right there. Bit thicker. Okay, and I'll let you figure out the rest by yourself, and some of these petals go deeper in, of course, and so on. Yeah, so figure that out a little bit. That's an easy way if you have a photograph, just to get a bit of an idea of perspective. Alright. Well, that's it for this lesson. Now let me get that flower with it. Now, this method, what I've shown you, works for flowers that are like this one here. Oh, where can I point that? That is this one then on the front, but also for a flower that you would look at a little bit like from the top. Or really from an angle like this, yeah, all kinds of angles work. You just need to figure out the angles and where you want your boundary box to be. Now, you could take some photographs of flowers and just do the method I showed you, copy these lines and then try to fit the flower in. And once you get experience with that, you're starting to notice angles and depth too a little bit. And again, this is not exact science. We're just estimating we're quick sketching. Okay, practice this. And once you've practiced this, we're going on to the triology. We're going to make three frames of the same flower in three different ways. Okay, well, enjoy practicing, and I'll see you in that next lesson. 4. Project - A framed Trilogy: Okay, so you've practiced some complicated angles now. Hopefully, you've put the flower in some positions and just played with it. And don't worry. The more you do this, the better you get at this. What we're going to do in this lesson, we're going to create a triology. We're going to create free pictures from the same flower, but in different ways. Now, let me show you the flower first. There you go. I've got a rose, a pretty rose. Now, as you can see, there's a lot in this rose. We're going to do it in three ways. What we're going to do first, we're going to focus on only one of the roses. Then we're going to take one of the branches, and then we're going to create the whole. So we're going to get from a close up further out, or depending on how you would frame them and hang them on your wall or whatever you do with them, you could go from zoomed out to zoomed in. Yeah, you get an interesting effect. Now, that will become clearer once we start drawing. Alright, what I have for that, I've got a frame like this. Now, that is very interesting. See, frame in freeways. Okay? I'm not sure if you can get it, but you can get also just regular frames and frame it and hang it on a wall next to each other. Play a little bit with the composition, bit high, a bit lower, straight. Yeah. But I'm going to use this one, and when we're done, I'll show you the results. Now, what do you need for this? Now, you need a pencil, eraser, and so on. Paper. But for the paper, you need the size that your frame will be. So I just measured my size, and this is the size I need ten by 15 centimeters, something like that. Your frame could be different. If you don't want to frame it, that's okay, too. Then just create exactly the same images. Now, not images, exactly the same size paper so that you can use them. Alright? And I've got some thicker paper, but use any paper you have. This one got a bit of a structure on it. It's more like watercolor paper, but use any paper you like Watercolor paper, Bristol paper, smooth paper, bit rough paper. Even your sketchbook paper would work as long as you get it in the size that you need it. And what you need, else, I'm going to use fine minus for this one. I think that's about it. What we need for this one. Alright, now, let's get going. Okay. I've got my paper and I've got my flower. And I said I want to do it in three stages. So I only need one of these papers. Let me get this one. I have my fine liner. Now, you can set it all up first with a pencil. I'm not going to do that in this lesson. What I'm going to do? I'm just going to draw right away with my fine liner, yeah. Now, if you're not onto that stage, you don't want to do that, please by all means, use your pencil. Alright, I zoomed in a little bit so that you can see the paper better. I'm going to put this aside. So I want to make three images. So I'm going to start with the first one. And for the first one, I only want this flower, and I want to do that a little bit at the angle I'm looking at now. So I'm going to take my pen. And what I see is I'm going to notice I'm going to start with the heart, the heart is just Got to hold the paper. Okay, I'm swapped it around. Now I can see the flower a lot better. For my first frame, I'm going to do the whole flower. So I've put it under a certain angle. And what I'm gonna do, I'm just going to sketch that now. If you need to set that up with your pencil and everything, do so. But I'm going to start with this, okay? I want the leaf with it, and I want the flower. I got to look at the flower. I'm gonna say, Okay, we're not gonna throw that mini tiny flower. I'm gonna do that pig, of course, so I gotta make it big. I'm going to start with the heart. And the heart goes. Like that. But it has some things on it. And now as you can see, I am really quick sketching. Now I'm going to draw in some of these petals, the first line of petals. Now, there's photographs of this where you can see that better and zoomed in. So if you not see it now, right, then that is not a problem. You can take that photograph with it. So here's my first line of petals. And there you go. So as you can see, I'm doing it roughly because I want this to be, of course, a quick sketch. Now, there's more defined petals around it. I saw one. These petals in here a little bit more. Clear. There you go. And under here, I'm going to give it some shade right away. And now I'm going to do these Oh, wait. There's some shade in there, too. Now I'm going to do these big petals. God, I look like that. And they're going right around coming there. Okay, now, the angle, of course, difference from where you view a little bit. I need that second petals. And there we go. And now we need those really larger petals around it. And definitely around there, too. And there you go. There is our rose. And good. Nice. Now, these petals do need some hard lines in it, a little bit. And there you go. Now, that would be the close up one. The next thing I want to draw is the leaf. I'm going to draw. With the stalk first that comes from right here. There you go, and I'm going to connect it to the stack. And I let that run here, put my paper like this a little bit. And my light comes from there, obviously. All right. And bit on the bottom, there you go. And now I've got that first flower in. I want some shading under the petals. Where they overlap. Other parts. Not on there, really, only here. And there, too. Now, look at that. Good. Bit more shading there. Now, it would be really tempting to do a second flower, but as I said, I wouldn't wouldn't do that. But what I'm going to do is I'm going to do that leaf there. And when I let that come out and what I'm going to do, I'm going to do basically this leaf here, if you can see it well, that leaf. But what I'm going to do, I'm going to let it go around here to fill up the empty space. So I'm going to not go all the way to the bottom. I'm leaving a little bit white there. And what I'm going to do I'm gonna do it like this. And now I'm gonna throw that leaf in. And that leaf has a lot of checked lines. And there's my leaf. Now should've gone a bit rounder probably. There's my other leaf. There's the leaf coming towards me. And then there's a smaller leaf and a smaller leaf there. Get that jagged line in. There you go. That smaller leaf into here a smaller leaf. And now I just need that last leaf in following the contour a little bit. And there you go. Now, some of those fins in Two lightly here too. And look at that. Now, there's my rose. The first one. Needs some connection there. Needs to go there. So connection there. There you go. Now, to make it a rose, we need some ferns on it. Even on the big star That's too close to the edge, most likely. So they are there, but you probably can't see them. Now, what we're going to do with this one, I'm going to extend that up shade it on one side. Some forms on it. And there we go. Alright, so that is. The first one. Don't fall. Stay where you are. Okay. Now, you could do up here, for example, make it interesting. Do a branch. And do a little bit of petals, get the idea, see, that there is more there. And now I'm calling this done. Alright, let's see about the shading, at least for the drawing. Now, for the shading, my light comes from here. Then I'm going to shade this very lightly. I'm hardly touching it. And as you can see, I'm using hedging to do that. Trying to follow a little bit of the contour now here a bit stronger to get a nice depth effect here too. And there, too. Now, look at that. That looks very pretty, doesn't it? Some shading around there still. Thicken that a little bit, and I'm going to let the rest be basically more or less be in full light. Okay? The branches. And the branches, not the leaves, I mean, okay? Light comes from here, so this leaf turn my paper around, I would lightly shade this and shade that part. Now, that's nice. Same here. Shade this. Lightly shade that part. This one I shade all the way. Since it's under there, this one, half again, and this one goes very lightly. And there we go down here a little bit. All right. And that would be the first rose. Now, a few more thickened lines. Under there. All right. And that is a pretty rose, isn't it? Good put some dots here and there to make it more. Just a bit lifelike, but that's it. Okay. Alright, so that's my drawing. At least that's the first drawing of the close up rows. Now we're going to do three of them, one of the complete one, then one of a branch. But I'm not going to draw all three of them. Yes, I am going to draw all three of them, but I'm not going to demonstrate all of them. I'll leave you to figure out one, and I'm not even going to show it on camera, but it will be in the book of notes references. There it is. Yes, I'm going to show the result, but I'm not going to take you through it step by step. I'll let you figure that one out. But what I do, I will do the whole of it, and I'll do that right now. Okay. So I need to sicken paper. And I need I've got that paper, right. Now, the paper is on camera. The whole rose, as you can see, I'm not going to get on camera. So you just more or less see me drawing this rose. I want to put it in the position I like, and I like it this way. And what I'm going to do, I'm going to start, put it closer again. Perhaps you can see a little bit of it. Yes, you can see a little bit. I want to start with that same rose again. But now, of course, since I want only certain part, I'm going to draw it the heart. A lot smaller. And there's petals coming out of there and there's petals going out of here again. There's petals behind it. And there is petals right there. Okay. And I'm going to bring in some larger petals right around it. There you go. And now I'm going to do those large petals. And as you can see, again, we're still quick sketching. So this goes rather quick. And there you go. That would be the impression of my first rose. All right. Now, that is a very rough impression. So now I'm just putting it right away some shadows here and there so that I get some definition here too. And I want to signify these layers. The rose is layered and by adding just some shadow at the bottom of these petals, you get that whole idea right away from layering, see? All right. Good. And that's it for this one. Might do some shadow in a minute. Okay, now I see the next one. Right behind it on top of it, there is one here. But that one is in quite a different angle. And there we go. And it has that leaves coming out. There you go. And I can see the heart in it. Alright. And there needs to be something in the back. Now here, too, on some of these overlaps, I'm going to do some shadow right away. There you go. Now, this one goes. Like that. This one goes. Like that. And now there's some more behind it. There's one here. That is a bit sued squished squished in. And as you can see, I'm tackling this one slightly different. I'm going with the outside first, and now I'm moving to the inside. Alright. And I need some there. And there I go. That's my next rose. And I'm going to connect them right there. This one goes in the middle. And there you go. I need to define that heart a little better and I need to do this a bit dark. All right. That would be the next one. Now, there's more in it and what we can do. We can play a little bit with this. Do I want more or do I say, I like this and I might just do one here. No, we'll keep on. We're going to do these leaves. We're drawing this stark that is here. And let's see. There's one behind. There's one on top here. Goes there. There you go. And that one is quite different from the angle. See, now I got pretty much all the angles. All right, so now I've got the rows in different angles, looking right at it, looking from down under, and some squeezed in from the side, all kinds of angles. And that makes a drawing very interesting. Okay, let's continue this. And there we go. I've got my roses. And there's one in between, I notice. I'm not sure if you can still see that. Probably, there's one in between. I'm just gonna squeeze that in a bit like this, give an impression of that there's a rose, and that is See, it. That's it. Just an impression and then get start going and not define that anymore. Alright, now, as I've done with this one, I probably got to extend these leaves a little bit. And let's do the fans on it first, L. Then I need to define this a little bit better. Now, it looks like a pretty rose. All right. And what I'm going to do now, I'm going to look at this one. So I had this one, this style here, so around here, I would say around here, I had these leaves, and I'm going to basically do them different, let them come here and I'm going to start doing the leaf first. This leaf, I'm going to draw right here. So I'm going to take that middle part, make these edges that's the first leaf. And then there's that going here. Then there's a leaf towards me. There you go. Then there's that leaf going up, but I don't want it to go up. I don't want it to go towards me. And then there's that leaf. Back there, and I'll let it go behind. It's going over, but I'll just let it go behind there. There you go. And then there's this small leaf. And I'll let it go behind too. Now, look at that. Nice composition, huh? Alright. Some of these veins in it. And that would be this one. All right. Now, I got it thicken. That a little bit. VienTh a little bit. A little bit sense of shadow. There you go. Now, let's see. Look at this. Now, the light we're keeping the same way, so I'm going to just barely hatch this. And I'm doing one side of every leaf I'm hatching, except for this one, but I would have the full light more here. So I would hatch two sides in. There you go. Now, that's nice. Okay? And now I'm going to do some of these leaves. And there's a leaf there and this one. I'm going to do a little bit thicker again and add a little bit of shadow, and that's it. Alright, now I need to look at this rose. Going to do the shadow there. We're getting pretty advanced with it yet. Just a little bit of shadow, and then we should be done with this one too. That's in the back. That's getting some shadow. What I'm going to do with this. I'm going to give a bit more shadow on purpose to show that's on the back. Now, the one that is under there, I'm going to leave like this, but this one, I'm going to give just a little bit of shadow. And that leaf especially to make it look a little bit better. Now, this one would be all in shadow. Let me do the contour first, a little bit better. And now stark more clear. And now let me carefully in one go, crosshdge that one. Alright. And the rose I'm not gonna do except for on that bottom, a little bit. There you go. Now, good. Alright, so that would be my second impression of this. Alright, so I'm done with this one. Now, let's take a look at it. And you can clearly see that the focal point is up there. This is all a bit more faint, and also what is in the back is a bit more faint, and that is on purpose because if you play a little bit with dark and light and put more pressure where you want the people to focus, that is where they will focus because the darker parts will catch your attention right away, and later on, you see the lighter parts. Alright. Well, that concludes this one. Then there's one more left, but I'm not going to demonstrate that one. So I'll show you that when I'm done with it. Alright. I'm done. Here is my total overview. Now, as you can see, if you compare the two, I left out some details because with quick sketching, I don't want to spend hours on doing the whole thing. So I picked the main important part. I also brought in a focal point right here and a little bit there so that the viewer has some interesting things to look at. So, now I've got three of them. And all has left to do for me is to frame them. Now, the important thing with quick sketch to remember is, don't go into the details, only do the important stuff, which makes for a pretty quick sketch, a pretty picture, convincing yet not overly detailed and spending hours on it. So this is the complete flower, and there's way more on it, but I just picked the most important parts and drew them on these cards. Now, there's only one thing left for me to do, and that is frame them. So let's do that. Okay, I framed it, but I'm not sure if I can get the whole thing on camera. Why can. Nice. Well, there you go. There it goes from. Away. So totally zoomed in. So this is what our triology looks like. Pretty, isn't it? Okay, well, and that concludes this lesson, too. So I've demonstrated to. The third one is up to you. Now, the photos are in the book of notes. You can pick a different flower, too, if you want to, but just create something pretty. Yeah, this is a nice frame to have. You can also use loose frames and hang them on the wall or put them in these picture stands. That is totally up to you what you're gonna do. That concludes this lesson. We're done. I've got my triology. It looks really pretty. So now it's your turn to create something beautiful. Enjoy.