Rewrites and this lecture I want to talk about how you can really master a subject that you're drawing.
And now this is a point that a lot of people wanting to get to if you're already this far in the course
then congratulations you start farther than the majority of people do when they take an online course
which says a lot about your desire to get better and learn.
Doing a third of the challenge that comes with this course.
I challenge you to at the beginning is is good.
It's a good thing to do if you're doing that.
Way to go like.
That's still very impressive.
But if you really want to go above and beyond and you really have a strong desire to learn how to master
something it really takes a lot of work and practice.
And the best way to do it is to draw a bunch of whatever it is you want to master.
Right.
I say at least 50 if you could do 100 100 here I have.
I think I don't know if I got to 100 or if there's 100 listed here anyways.
I know I've drawn more than 100 in my lifetime but this I think is 85.
T-Rexes that I drew because I wanted to be able to draw a T-Rex out of my head from any angle at any
pose.
OK.
And this is the one I started with right and I could see as I go that I kind of get better right.
These don't start out a little bit looser a little bit more scribbly came and this one in the middle
here is the one that I started with first.
Whoops.
That's one of the middle.
Here's the one I started with first.
The very first one and you can see that I tried pretty hard to define the forms right.
If you can see my under drawing lines I started out with the box shape of the head.
OK and really worked.
Other forms of his body and I tried to kind of keep that through as I went on to the different parts
of his body you could see my draw through lines and see the cylinder shapes of his torso and the spheres
in his limbs right.
And I really thought about this from different angles I looked at different reference photos to help
me get some poses down better and to see how my perspective was doing.
But I worked really hard to be able to draw this from any angle I could think of in any pose I could
think of.
And I'll tell you something right now.
It's a lot of work and it's really really hard.
And honestly after a while it begins to not be that fun anymore.
Right.
Normally I love drawing T-Rex's.
I think they're super fun to draw.
I think they look super cool and I really enjoy it.
But there comes a time where it starts to feel like a grind and you don't want to do it anymore.
But that's the point where you need to keep going OK because you will get to a point where you think
oh I know how to draw T-Rexes now.
All right.
This is good.
This is fine but part of that is because you're most likely going to start out with the poses and the
angles that are most comfortable to you.
Right.
The ones that you can picture most easily are the easiest to draw and you kind of push away the harder
more difficult ones.
Towards the end and sort of put them off.
And if you give up too soon then you're never going to get to those more difficult ones which honestly
are the ones you need the most.
Right.
Those are the ones that you really need to practice because they're the ones that are going to be the
hardest for you to draw when you're trying to do it later.
Right.
So make a goal.
Decide what it is if you really say you have a really hard time drawing hands make a goal to draw 100
hands or whatever your number is going to be and stick throw all the way to the end and really focus
on the forms the angles that poses right till you get to a point where you can draw that hand out of
your head at any time someone gets a draw hand doing this draw hand.
Give me a thumbs up from three quarters view slightly from above and you can by done and do in a heartbeat.
OK this is an invaluable skill because even though these are just T-Rex's this can apply to a lot of
other things that can apply to other types of similar dinosaur's.
Right.
Just practice an exercise.
Me having to think about the volume so much over and over and over again really helped me solidify the
skill of being able to think about other forms and volumes in 3D and create those out of my head even
though I had never drawn them before.
Right.
So it's really really valuable and you could see these aren't incredibly detailed right.
These are pretty loose sketches came.
But these really loose sketches helped me gain invaluable information that honestly I wouldn't have
gained any other way just by doing a couple of studies sketches.
So these sketches are good especially if you do them right before you're actually about to dry a subject.
But if you really want to cement some information to help you become a master on drawing it then the
secret is going to have to be to just work at it really really hard and put the time in.
People want to hear that there's some super simple super easy thing that you can do that will just be
like the banjo a golden ticket to becoming a great artist or learning how to draw people well or face
as well.
But really it's just a lot of practice a lot of times when we don't a defined goal.
We don't really finish or follow through with it because one we don't know when we're supposed to be
done.
And two when there's not a light at the end of the tunnel it can make it hard to really keep going and
push through the difficult times.
But if you could say yourself a goal and say you know what I'm going to draw 100 of these dinosaurs
then one it gives you a goal to work towards you know what you're reaching.
And you know when you can stop and two it gives you light at the end of the tunnel.
Right.
You don't know if you're just going to be going forever or when you should stop right you know exactly
how many you need to do.
And the other great thing about doing this is after I did this a lot of these images I have these are
separate and different layers so that if I want I can use them for whatever I want.
The great thing is that now I have these all on separate layers.
And I can I can use these are my art right.
I can take this as a base drawing and just plop it into an image and then kind of paint over it and
we rework it move it around a lot.
But now I have basically a stock file of almost a hundred different T-Rex's.
Right.
Which means next time I have to draw T-Rex one it'll be way easier I have to redraw or if I'm lucky
I can just use one of these that I've already drawn and then just rework it a little bit to fit into
my scene or whatever my images.
So it's not it's not glamorous.
It's really grindy and it's really hard.
But if you really want to master something the secret is going to be to just practice really really
hard.
And I know it's difficult and I know there's only a few people who actually have the grit and the gumption
to take me up on this and actually do it.
But I guarantee that if you're one of the people who do decide to do it that you're going to be able
to go so much farther than other people that you're competing with in the industry.
So that's the first lecture I hope it is that will motivate you a little bit and I'll see you guys in
the next one.