All right.
So in this lecture we're going to start out and jump right into drawing.
Now we're going to keep the super simple it's not going to be complex.
This is just going to be for fun to get our creative juices flowing and to just get in there and start
drawing.
OK.
So this is the exercise that I really like to do I did this with my siblings a lot when I was younger
and I do it with kids that I teach sometimes and I think it's a really fun activity.
And honestly I don't care how old you are.
I think it's great for coming up with new ideas.
So it's called the line game and where are you going to do is you have these three lines that are provided
for you and your job is to draw a picture out of each of these is to figure out something that you can
create out of this line so I've created a new layer above my first line set it to multiply and use my
pencil brush because that's my favorite one.
But you know you can use whatever you want.
This is super simple we're not getting any techniques yet.
We're just going to do this exercise to get us going.
So let's see what you can do for this is.
Feel free to you know turn your canvas however you want you can turn this in any angle any position.
OK.
You don't have to keep it oriented the way it came.
All right.
So we are going to draw something out of this and I'm trying to look at this and figure out what it
is I want to draw.
OK.
Now the only rule is you can't erase the line you just have to use it and you're drawing somehow.
OK.
So I'm looking at this looking at the shapes I see a couple of things I could do I could do a face like
this.
I see a nose and a chain and a beginning of a mouth kind of see a dog if I do it this way.
I think though the one I like the most is this one and we'll see what I can come up with using those
angles so I will start out by sketching in here.
OK.
So blow my brush up a little bit OK.
I see kind of some sort of a creature or a dragon in here.
And so that's what I'm going to try and draw.
OK.
So I see this is kind of like the nose area.
He had some teeth
draw comes up there and then maybe like almost like a dinosaur type creature.
OK.
And keep it pretty loose right.
Just keep in this shape at the forefront of what I'm trying to do here though is work this.
Now these drawings probably aren't going to be amazing because you have to work with this line that's
right in the middle.
But while these might not ever be finished sketches they can be really good for helping you come up
with ideas or find interesting shapes that you want to work with when you draw something else.
Right.
So for example this probably never going to be taken to a finished painting.
But if I find an idea in here that I really like or a concept that's actually pretty cool I can take
that and added to another sketch.
Right.
And it's really really simple.
Noncommital we don't have to feel stressed out or obligate to make something amazing right we're just
having fun.
So
Dr. Horn right here up on his nose and if you draw the line a little bit go for it right.
That's just starting inspiration.
Try I over in here.
Awesome.
Now let's see if we can finish up the back of his head.
I'm going to go ahead and move both of these over so I have enough room to drive wreathing and let's
work on maybe a little bit of wrinkles on his neck.
Try not to get too detailed sometimes I get carried away get too excited and I start going to town.
OK.
So this big horn thing on the side of his face.
I want this to be like kind of like a horn sort of thing coming out of like maybe you might find it
like a triceratops type thing.
Whoops too big.
A little creature design so yeah I mean this is pretty cartoony.
Probably won't ever use it but I kind of like this direction.
The head fraile is taking that's something I could end up incorporating into another drawing at some
point they
could throw some more spikes back here in the back of his neck so you can see already very quickly very
fast.
Well to come up with something pretty fun pretty creative right.
So keep in mind by the way he did this exercise.
Don't get stressed out don't try and create a masterpiece to get those juices flowing and you don't
need to copy mine right.
You're supposed to be making your own thing.
So come up with your own idea you know get creative and think of something fun to draw.
Doing a scan so we can compare.
If we turn on the original error versus the new layer you can see the original line and how it fits
in there.
So it's pretty cool.
OK.
Let's go on to the next one.
So have this line here I'm going to make a new layer on top of it and see what how do we want to have
this be oriented.
Trying to figure out what I want to do here.
And I think
what I'm going to do actually is about like this what I'm going to turn in a little bit so is facing
this way.
Perfect.
OK.
Make my new layer set to multiply.
Sharana so great here.
So what I see is another creature.
I'm a sucker for creatures.
I love coming up with different ideas for creatures.
So that's what I'm going to do with this one again.
We'll try to do something different for the last one I just saw this and I thought it looked really
cool.
So this is what I see.
It's like a big lead here.
And then his back comes down.
Right.
They kind of like a some sort of Bunny terror act alarmist.
That's what it looks like to me.
Get in there.
Get some little whisker holes in here.
Man I like this horn.
Maybe we could do something else with it besides just like a big flat sort of street where we could
do maybe like a frill.
I'm not sure I like that we could do more horns on the side but if I like that either or what if there's
like it's like flat and there's a hole in it.
Or maybe you just end up going with it maybe.
Ok how about this.
Let's put some ears on him.
Let's have them do this at first.
There you can see.
OK.
Now I'm going to erase part of the line but that is because it's still there right.
I'm not like just changing it in order to draw something different the line still there just goes behind
his ear.
OK.
So we're not cheating.
We're just adjusting the line a little bit.
OK.
And then we get this other over here.
Perfect.
Yeah.
Maybe we will I guess just keep this as a horn.
He looks like a hammerhead something.
Are you guys tail perfect.
And then let's get some some sort of legs up in here.
Have his legs come down and you won't be able to see all of them because they're underneath his other
foot his big foot.
We get those do some quick whiskers
and I think we could call this on going yeah maybe let's put let's put a few horns going on his back
maybe that will help possibly unify a little more.
There we go.
I like that better.
Now this is just super simple right.
This is not really a finished drawing but I could take this idea right and flush it out work with the
proportions and you know mess around with a tile actually ended up looking like something I really liked.
And so cool.
And let's move on to the last one.
Remember you might be tempted to see what I drew and then that's like all you can see every time you
look at this is that shapen or.
Oh let's look at that.
By the way really quick let's see what the difference looks like.
So this is the full drawing when we take that off that's the line we started with.
And once you see the line again with the drawing taken out it's like oh obviously I mean what else could
it have been.
Of course it was going to be a rabbit creature hampster thing with a giant horn.
But I promise you there's infinite possibilities of where you can come up with.
So don't just copy mine get creative.
All right last one.
What can we make with this.
This one looks like it might be a little bit more tricky.
Turn around a little bit and see see what we can find.
And the shape here
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I like this
so once again I'm just going creatively with whatever the first thing I see is right or whatever I like
the most.
Does it have to be the first thing but just whatever I can find out.
So for me I love drawing creatures and animals.
That's what I'm most comfortable with that's what I see in a lot of these.
For you if you like trying people cars creatures whatever go with whatever you see there's no right
or wrong right.
This is just for fun and this country also once again I'm going to drop another creature because I just
it's glaringly obvious to me.
So that's what I'm going to go with.
OK so Metron this big piece here into thin the spines coming out of the fin
Kandra a little bit of webbing in between these holes flesh them out or more.
Hey there we go.
We'll come back and do the whiskers afterwards actually.
I want to get everything out blocked in and feel the shape of everything before I start adding stuff
like that.
So put another fin upon his back some how I would make sure I get it right.
So let's just work in his body first.
We'll go back and add that stuff.
OK.
Another tail fin back here.
And you would be able to see his other fin on the other side.
So that's what that is it's not a mouth
did some work in here to make it look like it's a little bit more embedded in his flesh.
Awesome.
Let's put some spines on there so we can stop saying it doesn't math at all.
Looks like when I look at it.
OK that looks better.
I'm going to find the center line here because I don't know if these nationals are really lined up correctly.
You think it's going to be more like this.
So that means you have an option here.
So we've got that let's work on these these sort of fins in the back where we got here.
So I get so distracted by eyes of such a fine detail to work on.
OK.
So yeah let's work on this thing and we'll go at the same sort of spine feel that we have for the front
fins.
Go do the same thing and these ones perfect.
And then this last one over here.
OK.
So we got that.
Now see do we want to add anything else in here.
I think we should.
Let's add some gils appeared behind his eye.
That way we can know he's a fish.
I'm going to move his eye a little bit ago.
And then let's do some stuff on his back.
This one I'm honestly a little bit pleasantly surprised because you know if no one told you.
I mean it looks a little wonky maybe just a little bit but with some refinement you could actually turn
this sound to a pretty cool image without anyone telling you otherwise you probably won't even realize
that it was just drawn from a squiggly line.
OK.
So have fun with these if you want.
You can use these for your scheduled day.
Just make sure that the scheduled day make sure that you're not just doing a whole bunch in one day
like if you do all 30 in one day you're not going to get the point of it right.
The point is to be doing a little bit every day right to make it a habit to really ingrained into your
brain.
So if you need to you can do more than one a day but make sure you still do it every day.
So if you do today still do 30 days and then just do 60 or do one of these lines.
Line drawings every day instead of all in one sitting.
If you don't have time to do that much drawing but make sure that you're doing it every day not just
all at once came.
All right.
So there we go.
I think that one looks pretty cool.
Should we add any sort of like Finster.
Now we won't do that but we can go on and just touch up his fins a little more.
He's.
OK.
Like little spikes like this going along his back too I think.
And then now we can add those whiskers if we want
fear.
I really like this one I think it turned out pretty good.
I think we're just going to leave him with out a mouth.
Looks a little better that way thing.
And there we go.
So let's flip that on and off we could see what it looked like before and after that line.
So really there's infinite possibilities.
OK.
Just have fun come up with something creative and be sure to post in a Facebook group.
Let everyone see you are trying to scope slide down.
So that's it for this one.
Have you guys enjoyed it.
Because I'm pumped we're warmed up now let's get into the actual technique lectures.
I'll see you guys in the next one.