All language subtitles for 015 Drawing Studies.en

In this lecture we're going to be talking about art studies.

So what is an art study.

An art study is just when you draw something basically from life.

So still lifes gesture drawings anything like that.

And when it comes to character design most of time you're gonna be doing studies of the human anatomy

and the face and the head and all that good stuff and you'll probably also be doing some stuff of fabric

and clothing things of that nature because a lot of your characters are probably going to be wearing

clothing.

So let's go ahead and let's talk about art studies and we're going to create one right now.

So an art study can is basically just teaching you how to observe things from real life because you're

gonna learn later in the course that we want to take things from real life and convert those into our

character designs whether we have a stylized animation style bone or a manga styled one or a realistic

styled one.

We need to know how to draw from real life and know how things actually look and how they work.

So for example the hand which you're about to draw here when you know how that works and how to draw

it so that we can go ahead and convert that into whatever style we want for our character designs.

So when it comes to art studies we need to draw as much as possible.

So right now we're going to do a demonstration of how to do an art study.

And you can do this from a photograph or you can do it from real life but you want to do a lot of these

so you don't just want to draw this hand with me and then call it done if you want to get good at drawing

hands you're gonna need to draw a lot of hands so at least 10 to be an expert can have to draw probably

a hundred to a thousand you can have to draw a lot but art studies is how you get good at drawing.

There's no better way whatsoever to get better at drawing than to do art studies and art studies is

just about looking observing and drawing what you see.

So it's not about quick little tricks or anything like that you just want to draw how you see it and

try to draw the lines freehand and you don't want to use guides or anything like that.

You can do a little bit of I guess shape work in there and form work but for the most part you want

to just try to draw you see so your brain really starts to wrap its mind around what it is that it is

that you're seeing or what it is that you're drawing.

So let's go ahead and get started.

So for this I'm just gonna do like I said where I'm going to start off with some simple shapes.

So that's going to be the palm of the hand I'm going to try not to make my drawings look stretched out

but in order to keep my head out of the shot I have to put my head back a little bit so I don't get

a straight down view of my drawing.

So I really try my best not to stretch my drawings out next to go ahead and just kind of block out where

the fingers are going to be.

And so I'm just looking at this and I'm just imagining what the shapes are.

So right there I see an oval right here.

I see kind of a like a pointy rectangle shape something kind of like that

and then I would say the fingers are probably gonna start somewhere right about there and then we want

the fingers to basically be the same length as the palm.

So maybe those could be a little bit shorter but I think that looks pretty good.

Next let's go ahead and add in the thumb.

So I'm to go ahead.

Just kind of sketch in a shape like this.

I'll go ahead and I'll add in my wrist so my wrist is going to start somewhere right about there.

The other part of it will start somewhere right about there.

Now you can download this photo if you want a better image of it from the resources of this lecture.

Just you know

right great.

So now I have all my shapes kind of blocked in.

I think these fingers could actually just be the tiniest bit shorter especially out here on the outside

edge.

So I just kind of shorten it up like that.

You can just take my razor in there.

You'll notice that I'm kind of drawing lightly I'm not pushing very hard at this point.

Now what am I to do.

Just like we did on our character design drawings once we have the rough and we can go in there and

start detailing this out further.

So first kind of mark out lately where I want certain things to be so right here there's kind of a crack

you can see it right there in the photograph there's another crease right there

and there's a few that come across like this.

Now studies don't have to be super detailed.

They can be as detailed as you want or some little detail as well as you want.

So you don't have to add in highlights and shadows and stuff like that into your studies or if you want

you can add highlights and shadows.

Sometimes your studies can just be super scratchy and sketchy looking and they can just kind of represent

the hand and the shape of it in the form but it doesn't have to look like a super realistic drawing.

Like I said doing studies is all about observing.

So anyway you can observe something whether you're trying to observe the shape the form the textures

whatever it is then that's what you really want to focus on in that study.

So in this case we're just kind of focusing on the shape in the form of it.

We might get a little bit and highlights and shadows but not too much.

We just want to really focus on understanding the lines and the shapes in a hand.

Now I know that this hand pose is not super dynamic.

Some of you might be thinking that and you're thinking why don't ever probably want a character doing

a hand pose like this unless you're doing a karate chop and you're right.

But the reason why we're doing this hand post for now is because this lecture is not about how to draw

hands necessarily it's about how to do art studies.

So I'm just kind of demonstrating to you how I would do an art study so that you can go ahead and take

this and do your own studies of different parts of the body or clothing or whatever it is you need to

do an art study of your character designs.

But later in the course we're going to get much more into actually drawing the hand and all the other

parts of the body.

But for now we just want to do this nice and simple art study.

All right.

So we're already kind of running into a problem here that I'm seeing and that's why I'm still kind of

drawing lightly is that we got a finger there and a finger there.

And then if we look at our reference there should be a finger that fits right in between those.

But that's gonna be a really wide finger.

So what I'm gonna do something go ahead and I think the finger is going to look best if I place it right

about there

and then I think that this index finger is what needs to move.

I think it needs to move over.

It's a little bit too far over to this sort of thing you need to angle over more like this.

Something like that.

Perfect.

So now what we can do is we can go in there with our pencil and we can just push a little bit harder

and start darkening in some of this detail a little bit more.

So for example I can kind of darken in that crease right there good crease right there

we're also kind of get a crease right there in that part of the thumb

no go ahead kind of around the shape out a little bit more just like that and I'm going to go ahead

and I'm going to lately just kind of sketch out each part of the finger between the knuckles

and as you can see you kind of get this curved shape.

It's not just a straight line across here the fingers kind of curve because one some of them are shorter

some of them are longer.

So we want to make sure that we kind of follow that that curve shape

right.

Great.

So now we want to just start paying attention to detail so right here you can see there's a crease so

let's go ahead and let's add that into a drawing

and go ahead and you're racing these lines such as that line for example

I have some of these creases out here in the wrist so kind of draw those in as well.

You know if you wanted to you could do things like adding the hair out here on the arm but you don't

even have to get that detailed if you don't want to.

It's not that important.

Next what we want to do is if we wanted we could add some highlights and shadows.

So I want to go ahead and do that.

So if we look at our hand we can see that if we squint our eyes that's the best way to see highlights

and shadows and our reference can see that there's a lot of shadow down here and on the underside of

basically every finger and on the underside of the form of these wrinkles.

So you want to add highlights and shadows in those areas.

So go ahead and timelapse this part and you can just kind of watch Roy Adam and you can Adam in the

same areas.

All right great.

So this looks pretty good.

So what this just did is it actually put this into what's called our visual library.

Some of you have probably heard of this and what it is is it's just basically our library that holds

all of the images in our head that we remember.

And when we draw things it really ingrained into our visual library.

Now if we were to not look at this drawing again and we were to flip our paper over that a blank piece

of paper and we tried redrawing this without looking at a reference we could probably draw it pretty

closely might not look as good as if we're looking at a reference but we've just kind of ingrain this

into our brain and that's what doing our studies is all about is building up our visual library a visual

library.

Are those images that we see and not only that but our understanding of how things work.

So the more hands we draw on different poses the more we can understand the way the hand can move what

it looks like from different angles all of that.

And so we need to do as many art studies as possible.

Now I can't really do the art studies for who you're going to have to do that yourself but it's really

up to you how many you want to do for now what I wanted to do is I want you to go and find a photo of

whatever you want.

That has to do with the human body so it can be a hand foot a whole body.

It can be somebody's head an eye whatever you want and I want you to go ahead and try to draw your own

study of that then I want you to go ahead and take that and take this take a picture of them and post

it to the Q and A section of the course so that we can all see what you're working on if you have any

questions please ask them and I'll get to them as soon as I can.

Either me or my teacher assistant will answer your question.

Thanks for watching this lecture and I'll see you guys in the next 1.