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All right.

In this lecture we're gonna be learning about the drawing fundamental pyramid.

Now if you take one of my other courses you've probably seen this before.

But in this course I'm going to teach you how it applies to drawing characters.

Now this pyramid is going to be one of the most important things that you understand about drawing characters

and just drawing in general.

So I had this as a downloadable resource you can download this pyramid with all of the separate parts

of it and you can print it off.

You could put it on your wall or whatever but it's almost like a checklist and you can look at it over

and over again and just remember the order of operations basically.

So let's go ahead and let's start talking about it.

So just like a house or a pyramid the base of it is going to be the biggest part.

And it's also going to be the most important part.

If your foundation or the base of your house isn't well Bill then everything else on top is just going

to fall over and crumble.

So you want to make sure that you have a really strong foundation.

Now the foundation of your character drawings is going to be aligned.

If you don't understand how to draw a line then you're not going to be very good at drawing all the

other parts of your character.

You have to really master a line you have to be able to draw straight lines.

You have to be able to draw curved lines.

There's all different types of lines that you're going to have to be able to draw.

So some examples of this would be a line of action so for example if you draw a line like that that's

our line of action.

So now if we go ahead

you can see I can kind of draw a simple little character in here

and I can draw his leg following this line

to something like that.

But you can see that I start out with that line right there.

And that would be our line of action is just set simple line just kind of gives us a line of action

to base the rest of our POWs off of.

Now we're gonna go into more detail about this in the next few lectures but for now you just need to

understand that line is really important and it's the base of everything you do it makes up your shapes

it makes up every part of your drawing.

Even parts that you can't see that are kind of invisible lines in your head like the line of action

for example.

All right.

Next is gonna be shape shape is incredibly important too because shape language kind of makes people

feel different emotions and not only that but having some dynamic shapes in there and some shape contrast

is really gonna help your character design.

So for example as we did in the last lecture where we actually just draw a character you remember we

started out with a circle for the head so we could draw circle for the head and then we could draw a

square for the body and then let's say we can draw triangle for the hip area that and from those shapes

we can start to connect them and turn them into some sort of a character design

right.

So that's shape shape is very important as well.

Go ahead and raise that.

Next is going to be form.

So form is kind of the next step after shape.

Once you have your shapes blocked out it's time start venomous form.

So for example when you're drawing a character's head like we did before so we drew that head we drew

the center of the face which is a straight line like this.

And then the bottom of the eyes like that.

And it doesn't really show very much form that way because of just looking straight onto it.

If we went ahead and we put the line more on the edge.

So the center line of the face and more on the edge and we curved it around this circle it makes a circle

look more like a sphere that adds a lot of form to it.

Same with here we can go ahead and just kind of sketch in an ellipse like that.

So it's almost like we can see through it and we've just added a bunch of form to that.

Form is also going to be things like adding form to something like a rectangle so it looks more like

a cube

and maybe this is a character's body so we kind of connect all this together.

Then the shoulders might be right there or whatever.

So that's how form plays into our character drawings.

So let's review really quick.

So we start off with the line things like a line of action and there's a few other parts but like we

really want to focus on that line and make sure that everything looks good the balance the line the

line of action all of that that we're gonna go to shape we're gonna block out our shapes keeping it

nice and simple and then our shapes are going to kind of convert into form so they're gonna become three

dimensional.

Next we're gonna go in to space so we're not actually gonna go into outer space but we're gonna create

space in our character or we can even place our character into an environment.

So different ways we can create spaces by doing things like overlapping.

So for example if I have let's say that this is kind of the thigh high and this is the knee down here

and then we have the shin going back like this

man a foot like that right.

Could even draw the other foot like this.

Maybe this is kind of like a Spider-Man pose

Spider-Man sanction coming down like that.

So there's our pose you can see by overlapping the arms over the body and the legs and by overlapping

the thigh over the shin and calf area.

It creates a lot of space three dimensional space that is and it really helps your drawing look more

realistic.

Another example of this would be let's say you wanted to put your character into an environment or if

you want to head and you just drew a street like this for example some buildings on the side just kind

of following some perspective then you can go ahead and you could put your character somewhere within

this space

so let's say a character just goes right there.

Now we're just created space in our drawing because we actually placed him in a three dimensional perspective

environment and in perspective also applies to creating space.

So perspective would be things like this a street for example goes off to a vanishing point right there

in the center.

A lot of you probably already know this but it goes after that vanishing point and sometimes perspective

can be even simpler than that sometimes perspective is just everything following the same line like

this.

So

can draw a bunch of cubes and they're all following that same angle.

That side is following the same angle and this side is following the same angle like that

and then you could turn this into a sphere for example and you could race out stuff like this cube right

here to make it look more like a sphere but that's perspective and all three of these are different

forms of creating space in your drawings and it's really important.

Now if that was a little bit overwhelming that's okay we're gonna go over in this course in great detail.

The last thing is gonna be your detail.

Now this is at the very tippy top so it may be the prettiest part of the pyramid.

It may be the highest point and the thing that people look at the most but it's the least important.

If you don't have any of this stuff right down here the tippy top the detail is not going to matter.

So once you have your line in there so things like line of action and then you get your shapes blocked

out so you have good shape contrast shape language and then you turn those into kind of forms so you

have your three dimensional aspect in there and then you also want to make sure that you have stuff

like space in there so making sure that your perspective and stuff like that looks correct or you have

overlapping body parts and things.

Then after you have all of that done and rough down and blocked out and sketched out then you can add

your detail.

Detail is going to consist of things like texture.

So let me just you raise this really quick.

So this is gonna consist of things like texture so texture can just be simple things like lines and

dots or sometimes it can be part of the contouring line or the profile line so if I draw a sphere for

example I draw an indent like that on my sphere maybe another one right there another one here then

I can kind of draw cracks with those

and you can see that those indents on the profile create a texture tells us that these cracks actually

have some dimension there cracks in not just lines.

They actually kind of curved down into it and texture can also come in by shading.

So if I were to shade like this I would tell you a little bit more about the form of these cracks

but that would be texture and details would also consist of things like details on the costume details

like the eyelashes on the eyes.

Anything that's not that pertinent to the actual structure and form of your character is gonna be detail

and that's the stuff you want to wait to add until the very end.

You remember when we drew our character drawing at the beginning of this cautious in this last lecture

we started out with simple shapes and lines and then from there we kind of turned those more into forms

and then we worked on space a little bit there was kind of a little bit of space involved with her hair

and stuff like that overlapping and then we added detail the last with our darker pencil we pushed harder

and we really added in those details and defined what our character was.

So this is the formula you're going to want to use when you're drawing characters you want to follow

this every time.

Now there are a lot of different ways to draw and especially to draw characters and I don't really like

to tell people that there is only one way but I will say that when it comes to the fundamentals of drawing

characters this pyramid right here there aren't many artists out there that can argue with a structure

like this.

It could be shifted around a little bit but for the most part this is so important that you structure

your drawings this way that you start with the line then shape and form that space and detail.

And some people might add a few other things in there or take some things out or change the names of

them.

But for the most part these three down here are going to be your most important foundation of your drawing

line shape and form.

There's no arguing about it so you want to make sure that you have those down really well and throughout

this course I'm going to teach you how to really draw those super well and design them super well.

All right.

That brings us to the end of this lecture.

Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one.