Hello, everyone!
Welcome to chapter one.
In this chapter, I wanted to focus more on the basics
and fundamentals, as well as to teach you effective ways to
learn and study, so that beyond this class, you will
know how to keep on improving on your own.
So a few of you reached out to
me saying that you were complete beginners.
So, I wanted to have a lesson about drills.
To be honest, this is something I never did,
but I wish I had when I first started.
It's really important to build muscle memory so
that you're comfortable making shapes and lines.
But I think this is a very
useful exercise for everyone, not just beginners.
So if you already have some experience drawing,
feel free to follow along as well.
So as you can see here, I prepare a little worksheet.
You can download it before we get started
so you can draw along with me.
But, feel free to just draw randomly
on the blank canvas if you like.
I just thought this would be pretty cute.
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So, the first drill is rainbows.
The reason why I have this camera on is so that I
can show you the motion that my hand is going in.
We want to aim for smooth lines like
this, and it's kind of a wrist movement,
either a wrist movement or if you're making
larger strokes, it can be an elbow movement.
This way, your lines will be smooth and straighter.
You won't have so much of a wobble
if you are just using your hand.
What we are aiming for is to
have smooth lines with consistent spacing.
You can rotate the canvas so
that you're drawing towards yourself.
That's always really helpful.
So this exercise is really
good for building line confidence.
When you're doing line art,
this will be pretty important.
We want to have nice and pretty lines.
What we don't want to have is what they
call chicken scratch, where your lines kind of go like this.
So don't rush through this process.
You don't have to go too slow, but
do take your time to get nice lines.
Yup and that's rainbows.
Next, we'll move on to sausages.
So many parts of the human body can be
broken down into sausages, and what we're going to
do, is we're going to draw this imaginary circumference
along the sausage just to visualize their volume.
We want to start training your mind to
see these 2D shapes as 3D objects.
If we want, we can even do some foreshortening here, a bit
smaller at the top, and you'll get bigger as we go.
So there's that illusion of the
bottom part being closer to us.
We can even exaggerate the shape here, and try
to think what kind of circumference and what kind
of shape they'll have at different points.
Or we can do a curved one.
You can really have sausages of all shapes
and sizes, just to train your mind.
And that's sausages. So feel free to pause this
video, and continue doing them on your own.
I recommend definitely doing more if you can, and the last
shape will be balls. So we're just going to make a
circle and draw the "T" on it to visualize their volume.
I know perfect circles are really hard
to draw, so take your time.
I struggle with them too.
So one exercise with these circles you can do is, draw
two lines and just draw circles within them.
Try to get them nicely lined up inside.
This can help you with accuracy and control.
So I hope these drills were helpful to you.
If you're still starting out I recommend doing them every
now and then, cos consistent practice will give you
the best results. But in general, this is just
a pretty good warm up exercise, especially when we're
drawing arms or legs or even the torso.
The skill will come in very handy. For the mission,
please fill out this worksheet with me, or you can use
your own canvas if you like. And in the next lesson,
I will talk about what I believe influences art style and
how you can find your own unique one. See you there!