All language subtitles for 020 Pencil Control Exercise.en

Welcome to drawing bootcamp.

So this whole section is dedicated to basically take you through a drawing boot camp and get you into

tip top shape when it comes to your drawing skills.

So we're gonna be going through a series of exercises that you're going to work on and if you work on

them daily you'll actually get a lot better but we're gonna at least do one assignment for each exercise

and that way you can really start to get good at drawing.

And it's this is mostly about controlling the pencil and being able to see shapes and lines and stuff

like that.

So let's go ahead and get started.

So this first section or this first lecture I mean is gonna be all about just drawing lines and circles

and these are all gonna be really important to drawing character designs and you get good at drawing.

You don't have to be amazing and you need to draw them perfectly but you want to be able to draw them

decently well.

So let's go ahead and start with what I think is kind of the simplest one which is the circle.

Now with each one of these what we want to do is we want to draw as many as possible.

And we want to practice that over and over again.

So ideally if you can fill up an entire page with circles that would be best.

So what we want to do is we just want to draw kind of small circles like this and maybe you can make

some of them smaller in some of the bigger what we're doing is we want to do two things here.

One we want to make sure that we're drawing from our shoulder.

I've talked about this before but it's real important to make sure that you are rotating from your shoulder

and not from your wrist or your fingers.

You wanna make sure you rotate from your shoulder and that's going to give you the best result for drawing

a round circle.

And the next thing that you want to pay attention to is you want to make sure that you're drawing fast

so we don't want to just draw like this because you can see when I draw slow I have less control.

It doesn't make as smooth of a circle.

We want to make sure that we're going fast.

So the quicker we can draw circle works and that was kind of slow quicker we can draw that circle the

better you can see that that didn't look very good cause kind of a weird angle.

But let me try one up here so there is a circle.

Like I said these are had to be perfect it's pretty hard to draw a perfect circle but we're just looking

for something that looks pretty circular does have to be perfect just close enough and a way that we

can check and see how good our circle looks like as we can just draw straight line to the center of

it like that.

And another one here and see how these kind of all match up.

So if I were to draw a circle like this you can see if I draw a line through the center line through

that.

These all look completely different.

That one actually has a rounded curve there and there.

So that's a bad circle so we can test it by just drawing a line through it like that really quick.

And so what we want to do is we just want to fill an entire page with these circles as many as possible

and what we're doing is we're trying to basically build muscle memory.

That's what drawing is really all about.

It's about muscle memory when it comes to the actual physical technicalities of drawing.

It's just muscle memory.

So it's just like an athlete or somebody that knows how to sword fight whatever it is just muscle memory.

And so the more we do this the more it becomes ingrained in our muscle memory and our muscles just know

exactly what to do.

It's just like when you drive a car when you first start driving a car you might not know how much pressure

to put onto the gas pedal but the more you drive the more it just becomes a very easy task and you don't

even have to think about it anymore.

And that's what we're trying to achieve with this as a bad circle.

So Zeitlin that's the thing is like you have to get some of those bad circles out.

And even me who can draw a pretty decent circle I do draw some bad circle so don't feel terrible if

all your circles don't look perfect.

All right.

So once we've filled an entire page with circles next what I want you to do is we're gonna move on to

drawing straight line.

So many go ahead and add a new layer.

You can be doing this with paper and pencil as well so don't feel like you have to be doing this in

Photoshop.

So we're gonna go ahead or we're just going to draw straight lines.

So first we're just going to start off by freehand in our straight lines.

So we want to see how well we can just freehand some straight lines so maybe on this top area up here

to go ahead and draw a line across like that.

Now just like the circles we want to draw quick.

So we just want to begin to move our hand across our canvas or paper.

And we don't want to start drawing.

We just want to move it across so have your fingers kind of holding your pencil above your surface.

And then when you're ready as you're moving you're gonna go ahead and drop that down.

So I'm moving across in a straight line and then I'm gonna go ahead and just drop that down right about

there.

Do the same thing there.

So I start moving in that straight line before I actually touch the surface my pencil to the surface.

And the reason for this is you can see if I just start by touching it and then I go like that.

It doesn't look as good.

You get kind of this curve down here but if you're already moving in a straight line then you drop it.

You get a much more straight line so remember that remember to always keep your pen or pencil or whatever

it is you're drawing with off the surface that you're drawing on until you're ready to actually draw

that straight line so start moving in a straight line drop it start moving in a straight line drop it

now we'll get you much straighter lines.

All right.

The next part of this task is that we want to actually draw dots so that we can actually see if we're

drawing in a completely straight line.

So from one dot to another dot is guaranteed to be a straight line.

It doesn't matter where you put that dot you'll always connect with a straight line.

So what we want to do is want to go ahead and just try to connect those so bad but that's okay.

Not everybody can be perfect not even me.

So we want to practice doing this at different angles because we're gonna be drawing at different angles

all the time.

And we also see so that one almost touched and it was almost straight but not completely straight.

Go ahead try it again so it touched that time but not completely straight but it's pretty close.

And so doing this exercise is also building up muscle memory.

So this might look a little bit easy for me but I guarantee you this was very hard for me to learn how

to do.

And I'm still not even the best at it.

And it's it's not super pertinent that you're able to draw a straight line through two dots.

This is all about building that muscle memory the more you do it the more it's just going to become

more natural for your arm to move in that way and you won't even have to think about it when you want

to draw a straight line you'll just just draw straight line connecting to shape so if you're drawing

a cylinder for example like that you want him to have to think about it.

All right.

So that's the next part of this assignment is.

So first start by drawing free handed lines straight lines like that don't do ones like this.

Make sure that you're hovering above your surface as you move in a straight line and then drop that

line down to get that straight line.

Then over here you're going to go ahead and draw those dots and connect those with straight lines.

And you want to remember to just draw very quick.

Don't don't go slow.

If you go slow you'll get wiggly lines.

Want to make sure you go and just get a nice quick straight line.

All right.

Let's go ahead.

Let's move on to the next part.

So next we don't want to do is want you to work on drawing ellipses.

So let's go ahead and ellipse is just an oval basically so squash circle so an ellipse like that.

Now this one can be kind of difficult for people

but you just have to keep practicing you just keep practicing Keep moving fast.

So even if you want to try to draw a perfect one I'm telling you don't go slow.

Don't don't try to do like this.

Try to draw it perfectly because then you're missing the point of the project or the assignment the

point of the assignment is to learn how to draw these quick and build that muscle memory.

And also you want to get that nice smooth look and the only way you can really get that is if you draw

quick and fast.

You want to make sure even if they look bad even if you draw and it looks something like maybe like

that and it doesn't look super good.

Keep practicing until you get them looking the way you want them to look in a way we can check these

just like what the circles is we can draw a line through them and we can kind of decide if they look

good or not so like that one for example not so good.

That one looks a little bit better.

Want to make sure that it looks symmetrical on both sides.

Right.

So can we draw a line for you.

Well no one's really bad.

That side looks completely different from this side over here.

So we want to fill a whole page with ellipses.

This is gonna be a really important because we use ellipses a lot when we're drawing cylindrical type

forms.

So we want to get really good at doing this.

All right.

Next.

And lastly we want to practice drawing curves so more specifically want to kind of practice drawing

S curves.

So there's a lot of different ask curves but this one is just going to kind of help you get into the

zone and kind of warm you up into drawing as curves.

So this is just kind of a generic S curve.

So what we want to draw is are just kind of on a draw a shape like that.

So it's not even like it's not like an actual s it's just kind of a soft S curve and you can see that

looked wiggly that one right there looks wiggly because I drew that slow.

These ones look much smoother because I draw a fast

and I know you kind of already practice some of this but I want to practice it more.

I really want you to focus on getting these smooth lines

this type of s curve is going to show up a lot in your character designs.

So you want to make sure that you get really good at drawing these S curves because you gonna want to

be able to draw them quick and not only that but you're just going to want to make sure that you get

that nice smooth look in there.

You don't want them looking like this you know like that's not very smooth.

You want that nice round shape so the more you can practices the better your muscles are going to remember

how to draw that smooth shape how much pressure to add where to move your hand to all that good stuff.

So doing this assignment I know it seems kind of boring and mundane but I can't stress enough how important

this is to practice drawing your lines circles and ellipses.

So just to recap go over this one more time.

So for this assignment I want you to fill an entire piece of paper or a canvas and Photoshop whatever

you work in and fill an entire one with circles as many as you can.

Then I want you to go ahead and work on drawing straight lines or first draw them free handed and then

I want you to draw them from dot to dot fill a whole page with those that I want you to draw ellipses.

So you're gonna draw a bunch of those you can draw a line through the center of home to see if there's

symmetrical and fill a whole page with those.

And then lastly draw these S curves.

So just nice soft S curves.

They don't have a huge curve in them it's just a very subtle curve.

I want you to fill an entire page with the.

So the more of these you can do the better you're going to get at them.

So if you really want to go all the way with it go ahead and fill a few pages up with each one of these.

There's not really a limit or fill the front and back of your piece paper up with these lines and shapes.

That brings us to the end of this lecture.

I'll see you guys in the next part of our drawing bootcamp.