All rights and this lecture we're going to talk about what it means to actually do a study of something.
And I don't just mean draw something from my friends I mean to actually study a subject so well they
can draw out of your head from any angle from any pose anytime without looking at reference.
OK.
Now why would you even want to do this right.
That seems like a lot of work when you could just look up a reference for just about anything and draw
it that way.
Well because one you always have to look up a reference photo which can be work sometimes you don't
have access to that and also using a reference photo can sometimes limit your ability to create something
new out of your head.
Here are some examples of what I have done studies and when I think it could be useful as well.
Let's say for one for me I was hired to work on a comic book that was going to be or graphic novel and
it was about a cowboy who rode this T-Rex all the time and by this cowboy he Rex and I knew that I was
going to have to draw the T-Rex a lot from a lot of different angles and a lot of different poses and
I was a little bit worried about it.
So what did I do.
I did a study of it.
So what does that mean exactly to do a study.
Well what it means is to first understand the proportions and exact dimensions of whatever it is you're
going to draw right so if I were I did the study the T-Rex I blocked out a really basic form of the
T-Rex so I had memorized all of the basic shapes that made up that T-Rex and how big they were in relation
to each other.
Right that way I could take that basic standing T-Rex and draw from any angle right and I would turn
that around in my head and practice it a lot until I got to a point where I could draw that T-Rex standing
in that pose from any angle.
Right right out of my head.
Then I started to give him different poses and do the same thing draw from different angles different
poses until I got to a point where now I can draw you rags in any pose from any angle right out of my
head and it looks pretty accurate.
But it took a lot of work.
I threw almost I think I drew 100 different T-Rexes which I'll show you later in the course but if you
really want to get good at something and you're struggling with it the best way to do it is to do a
study.
So let's say for example you are I mean if you're doing your own comic book and you know there's going
to be a lot of horses and it's a fantasy.
Do a study of horses right now this doesn't just mean go and draw a whole bunch of reference photos
right.
If you just go on Pinterest and find a ton of reference photos of horses and then draw them you're not
quite going to learn it right.
To do a study you're really deliberately and purposely looking at the object and trying to understand
its proportions its dimensions how it moves how it poses to be able to draw accurately.
Right.
A lot of people really struggle with drawing hands.
I'm honestly not the best at it.
I know I can get better one way that I could do that would be to do a study right draw a bunch of different
hands to be able to make my visual library of hands be filled with information so that I don't have
to look up a reference or every time I want to draw hands and make it look right.
So anyways that's what a study is.
And we're going to talk about more in the section on how to do a good one.
So I see you guys in the next lecture.