All right.
So we're going to talk about some different techniques you can use to help you get better at sketching.
So the first one and possibly one of the most important is to build things up with layers and to keep
it loose.
Now say there's only three times outloud.
Keep it loose and keep it loose keep it loose.
OK.
I can't stress it enough.
Really keep things loose because the faster and the quicker you make things tight and really clean and
crisp the more you solidify your drawing which can be a good thing if you're ready for that but if you've
made a mistake or things aren't quite where you want them to be placed and stuff like that it makes
it way less likely that you're going to go back and change things because you've already put so much
work and effort into making things nice and clean keep things loose it's really easy to adjust and move
things around and tell looks right.
So I give you an example.
This is what I mean by keeping users loose and building up layers.
And this is the technique I use and most of my drawings whether it's under sketch or painting or just
going to be a sketch by itself.
This is what I usually start with so I go ahead and start by figuring out what it is I want to sketch
and I start really loose and with a pretty large brush as well.
And I just start by sketching in these basic shapes.
OK.
So I'm starting with these two sphere.
OK I'm keeping things super super super loose as you can see right now can have the shape back here.
It's going to be a leg that comes down a fairly large foot.
And then up here we're going to have another mother leg that's coming down.
You could see that.
I'm not really getting super defined is pretty scribbly right because this means I'm not hardcore committed
to any of these decisions right.
If I need to or want to go back at any point I can and I'm not going to be a big hassle.
OK.
All right.
So we have those legs.
Let's get some sort of a tale in here.
OK.
And then obviously he needs a head.
So we'll add that.
And I'm just going to do a really flat head here almost like a snake or something.
OK.
And then let's get let's say he has some little cute tiny dragon wings.
So we have those and they're perfect and.
All right so we have this super super loose super basic sketch.
OK.
Now what we do.
We're going to go ahead and move this down so it's more centered.
OK.
Now we're going to do is make a new layer and this layer I'm going to lower the Apache down really really
low till I can barely see it.
OK so now on this new layer I can draw on top of this and I can get a little darker a little bit more
refined and I can start either ignoring or working with some of the decisions I made in the previous
layer.
So for example let's say I'm working on this and I decide I don't want him to quite be so fat right.
I want him to look a little bit more at trial right now I know what server I'm in I also lower my brush
size at this point because I want to start getting a little bit more refined.
So were my breast size and then I start working in here and I'm starting to tighten things up.
I'm not going all the way full throttle but I am getting a little bit tighter.
OK.
So for his chest I've decided I want perhaps to make him a little bit skinnier instead of a big fat
guy.
Right.
So I could still work with these leg shapes that I had.
Right.
Bring his his ankle back here.
I can work with these feet shapes right.
Maybe I want to go a different direction with these.
OK.
So you could see him just slowly going along and kind of changing and or finding anything that I decide
I want to change or keep.
Right.
I'm still keeping it pretty loose right.
The longer I can keep it in this loose phase the more time an exploration period I have to kind of explore
and see what exactly I want to keep or what I want to work around.
OK.
So I'm trying to keep as loose as I can for as long as possible.
OK.
So then we have his neck here in his head.
Yeah we've got a little tighter here but I think let's do some.
I think I'm in a scrap the wings actually on this one said we can just do some little spiky things going
on his back perhaps as we go those are a basic sketch.
Also on this point I'm going to add in his other leg that's supposed to be back there that we haven't
drawn in yet.
OK.
So there's that.
And we are adding a little bit of detail in the face so we can get an idea of what this guy looks like.
I'm thinking it's almost like a snake.
OK.
So there's an X there.
We're going to do a new one.
Same thing lower the opacity way down low so we could barely see it.
And we're going to kind of this new layer lower our Briffa is even more a little bit more refined and
this is going to be where I start to go ahead and tightened things up.
So I'm going to I can still keep changing stuff and moving stuff around for example this leg right here.
I think it looks kind of weird so I'm going to work with it and make it look a little bit more correct.
So for example I think it needs to the elbow needs to come up more and I think that it needs to overlap
more as well like that.
And then I can start to define these toes more.
OK.
Shoulder will come up here then you can come over here with his neck and actually bring his neck even
closer this time and we'll walk them over there and work on that.
Let's work on his back and make sure we get a sense of a hit bone back there.
OK working his tail here.
I'm still not my refined drawing Larry.
Right so I don't have to really worry about getting super tight and super technical with my drawing
yeah I can still kind of have fun and then work out the shapes and the overall feel of what I want this
to to be or get is there come over here goes through his other leg over here his other foot that isn't
quite the spring his stomach and rib cage in
and work in and some of these muscle basic muscle groupings
OK.
Finish up this leg here.
And even at this point if I still want to make a change in something it's not too late for that right.
That's so great about this is that I'm not so dedicated or attached to it that I can't change stuff
because I'm too married to exert so much effort into it.
It's still just super super simple right.
I don't have to really get tight and refine until the very last part so I can still make the sort of
design decisions as I go without either running anything I didn't underneath because if I ever want
to I can just go back to the layer beneath and big you know I want to start here again I like that better
and go back and forth if you want.
OK.
So let's let's finish this up here.
I think I actually I do want to go a little bit more of a chicken here and probably thicken up his neck
a little bit more as well.
All right.
Looking good.
I'm going to work in a little bit more of these sort of muscle groupings and spots on his legs.
Let's add we need to finish his face up a little bit more.
And then also add in his ears to do that.
And we can do the spiky stuff on his back if we want to do that
.
You can see even at the last minute I was able to make some changes.
So do one more layer do one more layer after this to really help solidify the final line are drying.
But we can lower these down even more so we can really see it.
And you know the great thing is you can do.
I mean if you need to do four or five six layers go for it if you need to because you've got it to where
you want it on the second one that's great.
I usually recommend go one more than you think you need because you never know what you might be able
to kind of explore or discover when you are just kind of working it and figure out where you can come
up with.
So that's building up layers and keeping it loose.
And I'll see you guys in the next lecture.