Hello my name is Paul Priestley, welcome to art tutorials online.com. Today I'm going to
be showing you how to draw a simple boat, like this one here, you see. Now to be able to draw the boat
you have got to be able to spot the number eight. The number eight is on each side. Can you spot it?
Here it is. If you can draw the number eight and the two lines down the side, you've more
or less got the drawing of the boat. So, let's make a start. For this drawing I'm going to be using HB
pencil, a 4b pencil and a piece of graphite. Now as you can see here, I'm practicing drawing my
number eight. I'm going to do it very, very lightly first of all. Now make sure that the circles of the
number eight are very long and thin. You don't want them like circles, you want them very thin, oval shapes.
As you can see. Now I'm going to just draw very lightly a couple lines at the front for the bow of the
boat and I'm also going to draw the line at the back. Now you notice everything has been drawn
very lightly. Draw it lightly first of all and then you can check to make sure you've got everything
right. Before, as you can see now, you start drawing over it with a stronger darker line. I'm using an
HB pencil for this and as you can see I am just drawing over the basic shapes. Now I want to try
and get the outlines right, the basic shapes right. You can see here and I'm working down the side
of the boat. Now when you're doing any drawing you must always try to sketch out the drawing
very lightly first of all, and check that that is correct, before you start doing anything else. Once
you've done that, everything else is easy. You can see here I'm just doing the top part of the boat
here and drawing the inside of it, just to make give it that 3d feel to it. The same besides here
with a few little horizontal lines. Here for the inside structure of the boat and your little side
pieces, here just to show how the boat actually fits together and has been constructed. Okay, now
we're going to draw the planks on the side and again the planks on the side remember, I've got
to follow the curve of the boat. So the lines are going to sweep down in a nice sweeping motion. So
that you can see how the drawing comes together. Now you've just got to do this, just go, go for
it and as you can see here, if the lines are not absolute, that's not a major problem because the
boats not going to be absolutely perfect either. A few little dots here to represent the the way
the boats being constructed. The bolts that have been put into the boat to put it together. Now I've
swapped over now to my 4b pencil and I'm going to start adding in some of the shaded areas inside
the boat. Now what I'm trying to do here is to get the structure of the boat. Now remember that light
will catch the edges of these planks, which is why I'm leaving those little white lines. Okay, and I'm
just shading in the shadow, you'll also notice that I am not pressing on as hard now as I was
a moment to go. Vary the pressure that you put on with your 4b pencil, it can give you a
whole range of tones. So don't just press on the same way all the time, keep varying the pressure.
Keep leaving little white sections. You can see here, you see and it picks up the highlighting
of the edges of any planks. Now you'll notice when I'm drawing the shading on here, I'm using
the shading to follow the shape of the objects. Horizontal shading on horizontal planks, vertical
shading on vertical planks. Save the front here. I'm just blocking in this piece here, this area here is
very dark, so I wanted to do underneath the very thick plank that runs along the top of the boat.
Now we're just going to strengthen these lines here and this is why we have made sure, initially,
that we have got them in the right place. Because now that you strengthen them it's easy to get them
correct, you see. You can just go over them and we don't want to be rubbing them out and making
mistakes. So here we go making all these lines which work nicely. Now you'll see here I'm going
to put in these little blocks. Now these represent the nails that construct the planks. You've got
to make sure you don't make them too precise. You see what I'm doing here? I'm just putting blobs
down and because I'm doing that, it looks so much more interesting. Don't be too neat and precise. So
just going over the edges now, adding a few little darker tones to the inside of the boat as you can
see here. This is working quite nicely now, nice and structured. Again horizontal shading on horizontal
areas. Now I'm using a piece of graphite here as you can see, to do the front bow of the ship. But
I just noticed I forgot to put that plank in. Haha! Even I make mistakes you see. So I've rubbed that
little bit out and I need to just redraw that little section there. Now we go back to our
piece of graphite. This area is very dark so I'm using the side of the graphite pressing on quite
hard here but gradually blending away putting less and less pressure on as I come across the
boats as you can see. So you get a gradual change of tone, works really nicely. Okay, do the same on
the side, main plank that runs along the top of the boat. You notice I'm going right to the top
here. I'm leaving some little areas white, because it gives everything a sense of highlights.
This area here is much darker, I'm pressing on harder with my graphite. You'll notice now, because
I'm emphasizing the graphite here at the front part of the ship, you see how three-dimensional
the boat is beginning to look. Looks so much better. Add a little bit of graphite to the
back here. Now we're going to do the reflection in the water. You'll notice that the reflection
is simply that, it's a reflection and you can measure that out as you can see here.
Now I'm doing that reflection by simply using horizontal lines, rough lines which follow the
basic shape of the boat in the water. This is obviously very calm water as you can see
here. I'm just darkening some of these tones here getting the highlights. Now you'll notice it's suddenly
got very atmospheric. The reason is one of the bulbs of my side lights have just packed up, so
it's gone dark on one side, which actually makes the drawing look rather nice. So I'm just going to
finish off now with the darks. I hope you've enjoyed the drawing. Thank you for watching
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