All right so in this lecture we're going be talking about a technique called drawing through and what
that means is drawing through the other side of your object as if it's see through a right or a wireframe.
For example let's say that we are drawing drawn elephant through the new layer here that I can draw
really quick.
OK so it's I'm drawing an elephant right now I'm working on his body.
If this is kind of the front of his body.
Right.
This is the front.
OK.
And this is kind of like the side then we know that we can't see the back side of him right we'd have
a leg here.
Right.
You'd have a leg that comes down and then his other leg break here that would come down.
Right.
But we can't really see the other side of his body.
So this is where drawing through comes into play drawing through helps us to be able to see and imagine
where different parts are that are actually visible to the ER.
So for example if his body is shaped like this we're going to know that his other leg is going to be
over here somewhere some drawing through is if his body isn't visible.
So I can see the other side where his leg would be placed in a picture more easily then when I create
a new layer I can ignore that and draw over these lines that I made when I drew through so I can come
back and just cover them up.
Right.
I only have to focus on the ones that you would be able to see with the back leg.
I imagine it's probably somewhere right around here.
All right so that can help us place those legs better.
Same with his head right.
So we have his head here and his trunk is going to come down.
It doesn't look like a perfect elephant far from it.
But let's kind of just stylize a little bit so that we can be able to see where these ears line so have
it ear there.
It's too big and his eye.
All right.
Here we have this here right here of his head.
And we can draw through by looking at the other side of his head and saying OK this would line up here.
Right.
So we know that's going to be about there the top of his ear is going to go up about there
and will probably actually come back on this side.
Yeah.
So by Drive-Thru through we can picture where exactly that needs to be.
Right.
And then let's add some some sort of tasks.
I was going to kind of flesh out his backside here a little bit and work on his neck to just kind of
clean up the dry a little bit.
Hey
so for his tusks of one right here and the other one we can imagine is going to be over here and it
will come back into his face about right there.
Hey So when you're doing especially when you're doing like stuff with form and you're trying to block
out shapes drawing through so you could see the fourth shape will really help you out.
So for example just finish up this trunk really quick.
So for example if you're drawing a sphere right so that is drawing the visible side.
If you draw the whole the whole elliptical that goes along that sphere can be easier to kind of visualize
the cube right.
Same with if you're drawing like something like this.
If you draw the backside right as if the cube is see through.
Then you can no more clearly let's say that is going to be an arm on either side.
You could picture where those arms are going to go.
Much easier than just trying to guess out of your head.
Right.
So then what we could do if we make a new layer we just lower the opacity on this one.
We can redraw without having to take into account all that stuff we sketched over.
So for example for you what I mean here we're just going to quickly do a little refined sketch layer
on this and you'll see that when I get to the parts where I've drawn through I don't have to go back
and redraw through because I've already done that on my sketch layer and it helps me get my ear placement
a lot more accurate helps me get my leg placements a lot more accurate.
Right now this isn't just going to make you perfect get it right you've got to practice thinking about
things in 3D and thinking about them in forms before this is really going to help you a ton otherwise.
Even if you're drawing three you won't necessarily know where to play stuff if you don't know how to
view the object and 3-D in your head I mean you have to practice a bit to get to that point but this
is how you do it once you start getting to that point and you've practiced a lot.
So this task will come over here
pretty simplified but now we can turn this layer offer down.
You can see we're able to get a pretty good sketch by drawing through.
It looks like everything is placed pretty accurately.
Same like if we do this box really quick you could see we can only make sure that the parts we wanted
to show visibly are showing while still keeping a pretty accurate perspective.
So I mean so that's drawing through them.
It takes practice you to learn where things are actually going to be in place.
But drawing through would definitely help you put them in the right spot.
So that's it for this lecture and I'll see you guys in the next one.