It in this lecture we're going to talk about a technique that I think is super undervalued and super
underutilized and is really one of the most valuable tools available to you as a digital artist especially
when you're sketching.
So we have the sketch here that I did drawing and I'm afraid that under drawing here as well trying
to be a patsy so you can see now you can see this doesn't quite look like what this final one looks
like.
Right.
The proportions are different.
The head is smaller the neck is shorter.
The tail is different stuff like that.
So I'm going to show you one of the best ways I think to help you explore ideas in different proportions
when you're drawing digitally.
So if using Photoshop you'll be using the Selection tool that's under your side bar for us and pro-create
will be using the Selection tool here and the selection tool where you can do is select parts of your
image.
So for example I want to select just as head and without selected I can detach that and move it around
however I want.
OK.
Now if I wanted to be bigger I can scale that up or if I want to warp I can hold down one of the corners.
Hold on one of the corners and kind of stretch it out to get more of a skew to it.
You can see here and if we like right now it's on magnetic.
I changed to free form so that I have more control over it.
But we can mess with these dimensions and switch things around how we want to.
So if you're using Photoshop you're going to have to go to the edit tool and click on transform form
and then select Free Transform to build to do that.
But it's the same just so for example maybe we want his eye to be in a different position and possibly
be bigger.
Right.
So I can move it down here make it a little bigger maybe why his ears to be significantly longer than
what they are now.
Right.
So since this is on our roughly where we can edit these things around and message them to try and get
them how we want.
And then when we draw our layer on top of it we can do that fairly easy without messing up anything
permanently.
So let's do is try something here with his legs and see if it will work and look good make his legs
a little bit longer with his whole body up here.
So I use this all the time like all the time when I'm working on my sketches.
I will just keep moving stuff around until I find a way that I really like it then I'll just draw over
and cover up kind of like all the loose ends because you could see here like we zoom in it doesn't quite
connect to pray or there's some overlap over here were removed his head around.
But that's what's great about it is you could just go back and draw a new layer on top of it to refine
it which is what I did with this.
When I moved everything around to how I wanted it.
So you can use this you can use this at any point but the earlier the better.
Using this to try and really get out your rough really rough stage drawings because if you do this later
once you've already started to refine it then it can make it difficult to kind of redo and you're going
to have to redraw the whole layer.
So the rougher you can do this sort of resizing effect the easier will be to later go over and draw
because you're not super committed to what you've drawn already that that makes sense so survival skill.
And I think for most people I just don't remember that this is there because I have seen some artists
that do all the time and other artists instead what they do is they just go about like say they draw
their ear and they don't like it.
And so the go back in the race it and then redraw it which is one thing you could do or you could just
resize it and kind of work it around tell us how you want it and sort of having to redraw the whole
thing and erase it because it takes a lot more time than just doing this.
I barely ever even use the eraser tool.
So anyways that's it for this lecture and I will see you guys in the next one.