Transcripts
1. Intro: Hello, my name is
T0 animal artists, graphic designer and urban sketcher who enjoy
sketching out on location are used traditional as well as
digital tools to create art. In this course, I'm going
to show you how to create a detailed textured sketch
using the app concepts. This is an intermediate
drawing costs, so I will not be hovering the software features
of concepts in detail. If you are a beginner, you can check out my beginner's
calls on using concepts. In this course, I
want to show you how to sketch this street scene, and I'm going to show you
how to simplify the details, how to suggest details, what we think about when
you're drawing perspective on dry techniques that I'm
about to teach you can be used with other
drawing apps as well. And you can use
them with pen, ink, and paper because these are universal drawing
techniques. Right? Before we get started, I just wanted to ask for help. If you find this course useful to live this cause a review so that you can help
other students find out whether or not this
course is any good.
2. What is Concepts great at?: In this lesson, I want
to show you some of the artworks I have
created with concepts, just to give you an idea of
what concepts is capable of. I love architecture,
so I have a lot of architecture style sketches. This is the Louvre Museum. This was wrong with
a reference photo. And concepts is a
vector drawing episode. You can actually zooming
all the way without any loss of detail
and sharpness. This is a very fun
sketch for me. This is the National
Museum of Singapore. So I've used a very sketchy
textured style here as well, which comprises line art and
colors beneath the line. These are sketches of my baby girl who is
six months old now. So concepts can be used
to sketch people as well. This is my first
daughter, Tiffany, on her met and can see the
lovely texture effects. So concepts, suppose
to sensitivity. So we can draw thin lines
as well as broad lines, brushstrokes depending
on how you hold the pen. This was drawn on location. I took maybe 1.5
hours to draw this. This sketch is actually quite simple,
relatively speaking, compared to the sketches
that I've drawn because it's just one building with
not much details. Lastly, there is this
cellphone mosque, which is the biggest
most here in Singapore. Again, the line art,
as you can see, it's very loose and sketchy
and that's what I like about the pencil tool with
concepts because it looks really nice and
it looks very sketchy. Concepts can be used to create very detailed
illustrations as well. And Stahl, used here is clean
lines with flat toddlers. But if you zoom in, you can
see the details are actually, are quite sparse,
not very detailed. But when you zoom out, the sum of the parts make
the whole look great. In the next lesson, we are going to
analyze the photo, the thing that we are drawing.
3. Preparation: In this lesson, we
are going to analyze the sin that we are
going to draw so as to prepare and make the drawing
process more manageable. So this is a street scene
and it has a lot of details. So this photo was
probably taken with their cameras at this level and this happens to be the horizon. So let me just draw this
horizontal line across. So at the horizon, you can see that the heads of all the people
walking on the streets, they intersect at the horizon. If you need to add more
people in the scene, just make sure to draw
the head on the horizon and you can draw the body later. But you have to make sure
the head is on the horizon. If you draw a small head, you just have to
draw a smaller body proportional to the
head and your scene. We will have the
right perspective. That's the horizon. And on the horizontal will be the vanishing point
for the buildings. If you're drawing on this
scene based on observation, you don't actually need
to know perspective. However, knowing
perspective can actually help you draw more
accurately and draw faster. So this is again the horizon. So let's find out where
the vanishing point is for the buildings
on the left and also the right side of the road. So for the VP of
the buildings here, we will just draw the diagonal lines and
see where they converge. So it seems like there is
a vanishing point here. And for the vanishing point for the buildings
on the left side. While there are actually many vanishing points because
you can see the buildings, they actually turn
with the street. So let me just switch to a different color
and may be green. So the VP for this
building here, the one that is on the far
left is actually here. Because when you draw
the diagonal line down, that diagonal line
seems to converge here. And vanishing point for the
buildings in the background. This white buildings here. There are many vanishing points, but let's just draw the
overall vanishing point. So it seems to be here. So this sin has three
vanishing point. When you are drawing later, you can draw the angles just by observing the angles,
measuring the angles. But if you know the
vanishing points, you can just draw those lines
to the vanishing point. And you don't have to think
too much about getting the angles right because you already found the
vanishing point. You just have to draw
the diagonal lines could've vanishing point. So this can help
your sketch look more accurate and how
we draw it much faster. But the way I have another
course on perspective, if you want to learn
more about perspective, do check out the beginners course on perspective
that I have. Alright, the other
thing that's quite important when it comes to
sketching a scene like this, which has perspective, is you need to make sure that you
get the proportions right. Because the perspective can
play tricks on our eyes. So for example, you can see the front of this
or buildings here. But we are actually
not standing in front of the building
due to the perspective, the Friday is actually wash. So when a drawing, we need to pay attention to
the width of the building. For example, the width of this building here
in the background. This is the width and this seems to be the other building, this darker gray building. So the width of this
building is the same as the width
of this building. And we're not talking
about perspective, we are just talking about width. And the width of this building here with the brown bricks. It's this. So this is about three units. If we consider this
to be one unit, this is about three units. But if we are actually
looking in front, standing in front
of the building, looking in front of building. This wave is going
to be much wider, is just that due to
the perspective, this is squashed and the relationship between
these different waves. This is very, very important when it comes
to drawing perspective. So this distance here, this distance is the
same as this distance, almost the same
as this distance. So when you're drawing, you
have to pay attention to the relationship between
this different widths. This is very, very important. And of course, you have
to make sure you get the diagonal angles accurate. So these are things
that you need to know subconsciously
while you are drawing. Another thing about proportion is when you draw the vehicles, you need to make sure
that the vehicles are proportional in size
to the building. For example, the width
of this vehicle, this taxi here is about the
width of this building. This from here to here. And this taxi seems to be directly between or below
these two lines here. And this takes C is smaller. If you look at the
width, it's smaller, relatively speaking, compared to this and this
one in the background, this taxi is even smaller, relatively speaking,
compared to this and this. When you're drawing, it's
always about comparing. So if you draw this taxi first, the next taxi that
you draw should be maybe two-thirds the
width of this taxi. And when you draw this taxi, which will be drawn last
because it's in the background. This is gonna be half
the width of this taxi, and this needs to be behind this taxi because
we need the text, this text, it to overlap. This text is behind
this sense of depth. I love drawing on location. However, there are
certain scenes, certain perspective that are almost impossible to
draw on location. And this is actually one example where it's impossible to draw this specific scene with this specific
perspective on occasion, because this photograph
was taken with a camera men standing
on a street. So the camera man is actually
standing on a street. If you're going to draw this in, you will have to be
standing on the street. So in this case, if you want
to draw something like this, it could be better to just use a reference photo
when I'm walking around in the
neighborhood looking for interesting
subjects to draw, I always pay
attention to safety. So if you want to draw something seen on location to
watch out for safety, do not get in the way of vehicles or other
people walking. Just look for a quiet
spot where you can stand or sit without disturbing
others are obstructing traffic.
4. Let's draw: Hello patrons, welcome to
another drawing tutorial, and this is going to be a
digital drawing tutorial. However, I will talk more about the drawing process
rather than the app, because this app is actually
quite simple to use, you just draw with it. So this is a street
scene in Europe. If I am not wrong, if you want to follow along
with this wrong tutorial, we can download the
reference photo which I have provided. This is the reference photo. We have street wave, some taxis, bright yellow taxis,
which contrast and very well against the darker
streets and darker buildings. The buildings on the right
side are in mid value and the buildings in the background are in
the lighter value. So we have good contrast
between light and dark. And we have the sky, which looks like a cloudy sky, a cloudy day, and we
have some reflections of the texts see lights
on the street. So it seems like it may have, it may have read earlier. There are some people, pedestrians on both
sides of the streets and those are nice because
we've cars with people. See, they will make
your scene look lively. There are several vanishing
points for this street scene, even though it looks like it's a one-point perspective
scene because the buildings, they are not line up perfectly
parallel to one another. So we need to find some of the vanishing points to make
our drawing process easier. This sin can be drawn without the knowledge
of perspective, but knowing perspective
will help you draw more accurately and faster. I shall show you later. Let's start off with a blank canvas and the
brush that I'm using, curious the soft pencil
brush in this app, there are two brushes, the soft brush and
the hot brush. The soft brush has darker lines. So I started this
sketch by marking out the vanishing
point for the building on the right side first before proceeding to draw the
building on the right side. This is the same
process that I will use when I am drawing
on actual paper. So by marking out the
vanishing point, it makes me, it makes it so much
easier to draw those diagonal lines that are affected by the
vanishing point, the VP. Now when I draw diagonalize, I can just point them to the VP. I don't really have to measure
those diagonal lines and there are many of those
lines in this scene, we have diagonal lines from the top and bottom
of the windows, the top and bottom
of the sine parts that doors the balconies. If you have to measure all those diagonal lines using your citing or
observation skills, it's going to get
tiring very fast. Mental fatigue, we'll
set it very fast. So sometimes it's easier
to just mark out where the VP is and use perspective knowledge
to help you draw faster and more accurately. So I drew a few vertical lines up to mark out the
side of the building. And I left some space
for the taxis in front. If there are foreground
elements in the foreground, make sure to leave some space
to draw those elements, because it's easier to
leave space to draw those foreground elements
rather than draw those elements and
erase the lines behind. And I want to talk more about the buildings
on the right side. This scene is kinda like a
one-point perspective scene. And buildings on the right
side are compressed. The wars are compressed
due to perspective. So in this case, it's very
important to make sure you get the distance or the width of the wars, the
buildings, right? So when you're drawing, always be comparing one
building to another. You can tell that
the buildings are different just by the colors
of the bricks that are used. So it's very important to make sure that they
are, weaves are correct. If the diagonal
lines are trying to distract you from
drawing the weaves, the proportion of
the waves correctly. You can zoom in real close to compare the widths
of the buildings. It's very important
to get a width right, because if the proportion
of the waves are wrong. The Press back, the illusion
of perspective will be lost. If you look at the buildings on, on the left-hand side, the waves are so small that you can't see
the front of the building. So, yeah, so when drawing, pay a lot of attention to getting the proportion
that weaves, right. Once you have drawn the
front of the building, the walls of the building, you can proceed to add
the details later on, such as the windows which are on the walls of the building, the sign boards which are on
the walls of the building. It's important to
get a perspective or accurate at a start so that you can draw the other elements
accurately later on. If your perspective is off
at the start of the sketch, It's going to affect all the other elements
that you draw later on. Okay, so now I'm still drawing the right side of the buildings. The vanish off drawing digitally is you can
erase the lines. If you draw the lines wrong, you can undo or you can raise. But don't let that
don't let erasing lines be a habit because if you are always
correcting your mistakes, you're not really drawing. You're just trying to
fix your mistakes. And it's, I mean, the whole drawing is going
to take much longer. So it's actually better to pay
attention to what you see. Draw them carefully so that you make less mistakes rather than go back and correct
that mistake switch will spend more time, which will make you
spend more times. So if you are always
correct a mistake, you can spend twice the amount
of time compared to you. Just pay more
attention and drawing. And also when drawing, try to visualize the physical
form of the building. Before you draw, spend some time to visualize the form
of the building. Like if there are any balconies
coming out from the wall, how should the balconies look? And if the balconies
come out from the wall, extend from the war, they should look like they
are extending from the wall. In this case the balconies
on the right side, they overlap another
building on the back. I have some people
on the street. This photograph was
taken with the camera at the normal height, as in the height, where are those hits are? The horizon line is where those hits are slightly
above the taxi. So if you need to add
more people in the scene, just make sure you draw
the hit on the heads of all those people
on the horizon line. This will make your perspective
look more convincing. So once you start
adding the details, the scene will start
to come to life. Now for this sketch, I did not use a brush that can change the line
width due to the pressure. So the line waves are fixed. It's almost like drawing
with a mechanical pencil. If you run out of
space to draw details, just leave out the details. I've just deleted VP. So now I'm visualizing the VP, the finishing point in my mind. So the VPU is actually to
the left side of that taxi. Drawing the buildings
on the left side is a bit more challenging. Is it actually known? Drawing the buildings
on the right side with those diagonal
lines is more challenging compared to the
buildings on the left side, because the perspective for the buildings on the left
side is very compressed. So in this case, you can actually just
draw that black shapes. Just draw the black shapes. Don't think about perspective. Just follow what you see
and draw the black shapes. And the perspective will
present itself later on. For the buildings
in the background. For the buildings that are lit by the light in the background, notice I drew the windows
with short vertical lines. Again, if you don't
have space to draw a square or rectangle
for window. In this case, you can
just use vertical lines. And we have more
people on the street. We can see the pedestrian
walkway on the left side, the right edge of that. What way is almost vertical? It's like a vertical line. And there are some bullets
on the right side. So make sure to draw the bullets first because they are
in the foreground. And now I'm drawing the
building on the left side, which is very compressed. So I'm just drawing
the shapes that I see. This photo doesn't have
a lot of dynamic range. So some of the areas in the
darker areas are just black. So I'm actually using
my artistic license to add certain details. Because I've drawn
scenes like this. Very often. I kinda know what kind
of details to add, like how the balconies loop. So this sketch is
actually almost complete. This sketch, together
with coloring, took me 25 minutes
to draw and color. So this was Ron Ferrari quickly. It really helps if you
know some perspective, because if you are going to draw this whole scene just
from observation, it might take much longer
because you have to be very careful about measuring
those diagonal lines. And as mentioned, there
are many diagonal lines. And I really liked the
pencil brush of this. App. Concepts are concepts. It's available on Android,
iPad, and Windows. So it's freemium app, which means it's free to use. However, certain tools are
locked behind a paywall, but the pencil to its free. So I'm using the pencil
tool to draw the lines, and I will be using
the pencil tool. Thicker pencil to color sketch. Another advantage of drawing
with software wireless with this particular app is this app features
and infinite canvas. So I can actually just
continue to draw on and onto, extend the lines to draw more
details in the foreground. But I'm only extending this
scene because I want to zooming closer to do
a screenshot of it. And if I don't have the host
details on the right side, that sketch will
look unfinished. Speaking of unfinished or
rough looking sketches. If you draw on a big piece of paper or a canvas and you
don't have much details, it's going to look unfinished. It may look unfinished. So you have to decide
how much details to add. And one good way to know
how much details to add or not add is if you don't
know what else to draw, you can stop drawing because that's the right
amount of details. Those cables, those
overhang cables, definitely draw them because they make the scene
look more lively. Those cables are the lines, they are not perfectly straight. So they also add to the
sketchiness of the gap. I find that when I am
drawing digitally, usually less calf wound or a more colors because
back in my mind, I know I can redo. But as mentioned again, try not to redo that often. You see me just erase all the
lines to redraw them again. That's the advantage of
using digital tools. Using digital tools is good
for certain types of work. Work that needs a
lot of revisions. And if you are doing
professional illustration, I'm actually really depends
on your preference, whether you go digital
or traditional. So for example, if I'm
illustrating for a book, I will probably use digital so that I can make corrections. If I draw with traditional, with pencil and watercolor, if I make any mistakes than, well, it's gonna be difficult
to correct those mistakes.
5. Colouring: The line art is done and
now it's time to color. I'm using this pastel brush, which is a paid brush. If you use different
tools and concepts, layer will be created
automatically for that tool when you have layers
sorting set to automatic. So in this case, I'm
drawing with pencil. It will automatically switch to the pencil layer for my drawing. And if I'm coloring
for the pastel, it will automatically
switch to the pastel. Coloring. This sketch is pretty
straightforward. I'm using a limited
color palette of analogous color scheme, where the colors
are close to each other on the color wheel. And I'm using warm colors because in the reference photo I see mostly yellow or
brown or reddish browns. So I'm using warm colors. I'm actually not
trying to replicate the exact colors that I see
because there is no need to. If you want to replicate the
exact colors that you see, yeah, you can do so. You can use the eyedropper
by in this case, there really isn't any need to. What I wanna do is to capture the look and feel of this scene. So colors that look
kinda similar, it will be good enough. For this particular app. Unfortunately, there is
no multiplayer mode, so I cannot add shadows easily. So if I need to paint
the darker areas, I would have to choose a
darker shade of the color rather than choose a gray
and multiply over it. So if I'm using watercolor, I'll probably paint the
scene with yellow ocher or raw sienna and makes a shadow
layer to paint over those, over the initial wash. That's the easy way to
paint the shadows. But in this case, I have to
choose the darker version of that color as the shadow. And if I need to change the color of
the building later on, I would have to change the
color of the shadow as well. So in a sense, when I'm coloring
this right now, I'm coloring it knowing that I will not be making
any corrections later on. So it's kinda like using
watercolor when you're painting. If you make any mistakes, It's going to be difficult
to correct them later on. So you have to be more
careful when coloring. And that's what I'm
doing right now. I'm trying to be a bit more
careful when coloring. By choosing a limited
color palette, it makes it so much easier
to color this piece. When you have too many colors. Sometimes it's confusing
to know which colors to use or which colors
will work best. You may know your color theory, like how to use an
analogous color palette, complimentary color palette, how to match warm and cool colors. But the easiest way to color is actually to use a
limited color palette. You can use more colors when
you are more experienced. But for beginners, it's
so much easier and so much faster to use a
limited color palette. And later on, I will be adding spots of colors to make
this scene look more lively because right now is just our warm colors with
the striking yellow taxis. I mentioned earlier
that I like to use this soft pencil and
the pastel brush for drawing and coloring
because I love the texture that's created. This app actually has many wonderful textured
brushes that I really like. The colors from this app is using the coal
pig coloring system, which is an interesting
coloring system because there are no really dark colors. So the darker colors are
actually the brown colors. Here I'm using the white pencil to draw some lines against
the darker background. It's always good
to have a mix of light values against
darker values and darker values
against lighter values. This will make your
sketch look way more interesting
compared to just drawing all the lines
with black lines and coloring the color on top
or beneath the lines. So always try and mix
and match your values. This cache probably
would have worked well. Without colors, because
even without colors, the line art, the scene, the composition looks alright. And this is where the
line art is important. Because if your line art
doesn't look good enough, adding colors later on
is not going to make the sketch or the
drawing look better. So line art is important. Sometimes adding
colors to help make the sketch look better. It can help you create
more contrast in certain areas to make certain
areas look more clear. However, you should strive to make your line
art look clear. As in when you're drawing. Makes sure that it's clear to the person was
looking at our sketch, what you are drawing. Clarity is very important
when drawing and painting, and you can use many
techniques to improve clarity. For example, if you are
drawing with lines, you can use composition
to improve clarity. For example, in this case, you can have the taxis overlap the buildings behind to create a sense of
foreground and background. That is clarity. So when you see the scene, edit lines straight away, you know the taxis are in
front of the buildings. You can also use contrast
to create clarity. Contrast of shapes, or you
can use contrast of colors. I actually had a lot
of fun sketching this because I drew
this really quickly. I just started this
sketch by finding the VP and started drawing
the diagonal lines, straight lines
where the buildings and adding the details. If I were to draw this on
paper with watercolor, I would definitely be more
careful because again, with actual paper,
you can't undo. And it's very difficult
to fix mistakes. But with digital art, you can draw more freely, which is what I'm doing here. So you can see the lines, they are a bit more
sketchy than usual. And when you dry
them off, really, your art can look
more confident, can look more sketchy
and can look better. The art can look less
rigid, less stiff. Sometimes it helps to Macau your composition
with pencil first to really help you
make sure that you have enough space to draw all the things that
you need to draw. So I just need to add
a few more details like making their
site curb darker. The vertical side of
the site curves darker. I've also added
splashes are lots of colors in the background. For the shops, for the awnings, and also for pedestrians. Those spots of colors. We will draw the attention
to the street level because on the street level is where you can
find all the colors, the yellow taxis, people, the pedestrians wearing
the colorful shirts. And if you look
at the buildings, they are just yellow and brown. So there's this contrast
of colors that will make the person look
to as the street. So that's another way to use
contrast to improve clarity. The last thing to do is
to add some textures. I'm adding some textures to the wall laws to make
them look more bad debt. And also, I need to add some
textures to the ground. I can also add some perspective
line to the street and to draw attention to the buildings in the
background and also to just basically create a
sense of perspective. So after you add the textures, the shot lines, the scene
will look even more lively. So now I'm just adding more
lines to extend the scene. This sketch is a very simplified and the final
thing about drawing is you can use the power of suggestion to suggest details so you don't actually
have to draw everything. So for example, if the windows for the buildings
in the background, I just drew them with
short vertical lines. I did not draw them with
vertical rectangles. And those short vertical lines, when presented to you over, we will suggest that they
are actually windows. So that's the power
of suggestion. And when you use all these
powers of suggestions, it can make your scene you're drawing look really
interesting and fun.
6. Sharing your art: Now that you have
completed your drawing, you may want to share
your art online. But before we do
that, let's take a closer look at the sketch. So because concepts is a
vector illustration app, it will retain the
sharpness and the DTU regardless of the zoom. So you can zoom right in to look at all those
lovely details. For this sketch, I have drawn a lot of details
and I've drawn this big. So I can use a
horizontal composition, just zooming and
compose it like this. Or I can use a vertical composition just to get the height
of the buildings. I will decide later. First, I will choose to export this drawing as a screenshot that captures everything
that I've drawn. So let's go to the export, but then I'm going to
export this as a PNG file. If PNG file format is
not available to you, you can use JPEG, which has a slight
drop in image quality, but it's usually not
that noticeable. Next, under region, we
will do a screenshot and on the options we will choose to include the paper texture. You can change the paper texture
using concepts settings. So this is the paper
texture that I have. And lastly we have put details
and the output details. This is the resolution the
FAO is gonna be export with. So I usually choose 200%. Choosing 400 per
cent may actually cause the app to crash. And it happens quite often. I mean, the app crashing
at 400 per cent. So I usually choose
200 per cent, which is good enough. So just tap, Save and save this drawing onto your
internal storage. And I'm going to save it here. After you have saved your phone, go look for it in the folder
or in the photo gallery. So minus here. And I wanted to share
this on Instagram, so I'm gonna do a square crop. Let's take a look at
the cropping options. Under add debt. There is the cropping
option here, and I'm going to choose
one-to-one ratio. So this allows me to crop
this in to a square. And I can save this and save it. So for this photo app, it actually allows me to
revert to the original. So I can save this as
a square format first, save it to Instagram and go
back and add did it again. This time, I can choose maybe three to four to
four vertical composition. Save it again. This time I may want
to share this on Facebook or on Twitter
or on my blog. So there are many cropping
options available or you can customize your
own crop being size, your own aspect ratio. It's really up to you. So if I want people to look
at the details close up, I may want to do a
horizontal crop. Go for 16 by nine
and just zoom in all the way like this
to do close crop, if you find that image
to be pixelated, you may want to export the file as a higher
resolution form, maybe up to 400 per cent
if your tablet is powerful enough to process the export
so that it doesn't crash. So this are the three different
crops that I've used. A square crop for Instagram or vertical Crump format
block of Facebook and Zoom in detail crop
for showing details.
7. Bye: We have come to the
end of the course. I hope you have found
this course useful. So Conservancy is
a really fun app to use for drawing, sketching, and it can even be used to
create detailed illustrations. I hope you can go on to draw
more often with concepts. And before we go, I just wanted to let you
know that if you want to learn more about drawing, you can check out
my other courses. Alright, thanks for filling
me with this course. See you guys in the
next class. Bye.
Teoh Yi Chie, Sketcher, watercolour lover
