Hello my name is Paul Priestley, welcome to art tutorials online. This is the third in my series
of drawing videos for absolute beginners. Today we're going to be looking at three things. Three
things that you need to know. Firstly, we're going to be looking at hatching and cross-hatching, we're
going to be looking at the use of tone, subtle tone. We're also going to be using, looking at line. How
line can be moved, by moving your hand and creating different pressures and creating wonderful line. So
why are you waiting. Come on, let's make a start. I'm going to be using two pencils an HB pencil
and an 8b pencil. You need to have two pencils which are different, one much darker than the other
to make this work. Now I'm going to start with the HB pencil and I'm just dragging the line.
I'm going to draw this tree and I'm twisting my hand at the same time as I drag the line, because
I want the line to look more interesting. I don't want it to look too straight and neat, so I twist
the pencil around, just drag my pencil down and I'm drawing it quite lightly. Okay, you should be able
to see this, but I'm drawing it quite lightly with my HB pencil because the HB pencil I want to draw
much lighter than the other pencil that's going to be used. So basically, I'm now going to draw some tree
trunks. You notice I'm drawing them very simply, it's just V shapes and tubes, almost. You see, but
in this context they will look like tree trunks. You see, just simple lines, V shapes in between.
Okay, triangle shapes that's all it is. Okay, just put a little line in to suggest the ground in
the background, and just a nice wiggly, wobbly line right round here look, that's a good term isn't it,
to draw the tops of the trees you see and again I'm just doing it nice and roughly. You see using
the pencil quite lightly in my fingers because I want to give some character to the drawing. You see the
idea? Okay we've got our basic drawing done we now need to start put in some light and shade on it. Now
you'll notice the area between the tree trunks is dark so I'm using some hatching to do this.
Now because this is an HB pencil the hatching that I'm drawing is not very dark, but in the context of
the background it is dark. It's much darker than the tree trunks and as you see this develop you
can see the tree trunks now beginning to stand out from the background. So even with this small
amount of hatching we are creating depth in our drawing. Now the drawing, when it's finished, will
look very complicated and look quite accomplished and yet it's drawn very, very, simply, just by using
line. Now you'll notice here I am shading the tops of the tree trunks. Now the reason I'm doing this
is because immediately it makes those tree trunks look now as though they're underneath the foliage,
which is what I want. I'm drawing the foliage in now by just using a simple cross hatching
method you see. I'm just hatching first, going in different directions, but the crucial thing is that
I am making sure that I leave white areas. Leave blank areas because this is where the sun
is going to catch the lights of the foliage, so it will look lighter. The bottoms of the trees which
are away from the sun are going to be darker, so obviously they will have lots of dark tones, but at
the top here you can see I'm leaving blank spaces. Now using the cross hatching method that you saw
in the previous videos we can now build up areas of tone, so the foliage begins to have a structure
and a shape to it. You see what I mean? And by going at different angles, cross hatching hence
the name you will create different solid areas to the foliage, you see how it's beginning to develop
here. This is what we want to do now, again don't crosshatch everything, leave some bits free so you
got a variety of marks, variety of shapes, which creates a variety of structure in your drawing.
Now imagine we've got some bushes behind these trees here, all I'm doing is cross hatching. Right.
In this context they look like bushes, behind the trees, but in effect they are simply just lines. You
see drawing is about suggesting, it's not about drawing all this intricate detail and fussing
about detail. Just ignore that. You see here all I'm doing is just putting a few little lines down the
side of the tree to suggest shadow on the side of the tree trunks. Keeping it simple. Everything
I am doing is drawn using line. So if you can use line you can make this drawing. Now line here is
crucial, you see this is a steep riverbank, so we'll look at the angle of these lines that I'm drawing.
Have you noticed they all seem to radiate to a point the top of the picture, some invisible point.
There watch, you see they'll all radiate to that point, now, because I'm doing that, have you noticed
now that that Bank looks steep? So the lines are telling us that the bank is steep, because of the
angle of the lines. If you draw all the lines the same way up and down it's just going to look like
a brick wall. It's not going to work. So by using angles you can create depth in the drawing. Now
underneath here I put in some shadow in, again just cross-hatching, nice and simple it's not, it's
not difficult. You see the idea, nice and simple. So a little bit of softness there. Now as you're doing
this continue to keep looking. I'm using this nice broken line here, you see as it goes all the way
along the riverbank. I want it to look rough here. I'm going to darken those tops of the trees, tree
trunks. You see how now they really do look as though they're underneath the tree. Yes? The tree
looks more solid, again I'm going to darken some of the foliage. Notice now that I've probably got three
or four different tones because of the hatching that I've been doing on top of each other. You
see the different tones. You see how the trees are beginning to have a structure to them. But
it only works if you leave some light areas, don't go over everything, otherwise it just looks like a
big black blob which doesn't work. Now around the edge I'm using this broken line just to suggest
the edge of the tree. Don't draw a nice neat line around it, it's not going to work. Break it up,
just suggest a few lines. Do you see the idea? I'll just darken the foliage behind, you see my bushes
behind, again all it is cross-hatching. Simple. You see I'm just suggesting, again suggesting
cross-hatching nice and simple you see very very easy now we're going to draw the water. Now the
crucial thing here is two things. One I'm rolling the pencil, I'm rolling it backwards and forth just
like it would be in the sea. Imagine you're in the sea and you're rolling about, my pencils doing
the same thing. But the other important thing is that the lines are getting wider and wider the
closer they get towards me. And have you noticed by doing that it creates depth. Have you noticed now
the background water looks further away, because the lines are closer together and as it comes
closer to to us at the front of the picture by the big tree, you see the lines get wider apart
and it gives a sense of depth to it. You can go over some of these lines again. Do it roughly, you
know, just drag your pencil across, just to give a little bit of structure to the water, a little bit
of shadow or reflection in the water. You could reflect the trees in the water if you wanted
to, depends which way the sun's shining and so on. You see the idea? So we're just dragging this
across, nice and neatly, just imagine living near water. Now I'm changing to my dark 8B pencil, twist
the pencil, press on hard, drag it, make the line rough. Notice already how dark that line is, notice
how that line stands out from the background. Notice how it looks as though it's in front of
the trees behind already and we've only drawn a few lines. Now we use the same technique that we
did with the water, we're just dragging the lines up and down pressing on hard going over each one.
Don't draw nice neat stripes, neat stripes are boring, it won't look, it won't work. This is an old
oak tree, you see. You want to get some character to the oak tree. By the way have you ever gone up
to an oak tree and hugged, and felt it? It's lovely, you see it's a living thing that's been
there hundreds of years, beautiful. Now have you noticed here the line just goes up, I'm just dragging it,
rolling it up and down, pressing on hard, there, there we go, looking good. Now you see as you do this you
keep putting line upon line, the more lines you put on top of each other the denser the line becomes.
You see little bit of shadow in here, so the lines are getting very close together. You see the idea and
here a hole in the branch, so I'm going over that, shading it by hatching and then cross hatching
so you get a nice dense section. We'll do another section here look, we imagine another hole in
this poor old oak tree. There we go to, see more lines, they're hatching and cross-hatching. See
if you can draw lines, you can draw this drawing without any problem at all. So we drag some more
lines down. Now, there's something interesting. I wonder whether you'll notice it as I'm drawing
these lines up and down. Watch what happens here now, can you see that the lines are getting
slightly wider apart and as you do that have you noticed now that the tree trunk is looking more
and more curved. Do you see the idea? Now we'll exaggerate this little a later on when we put
more and more lines on, but the wider the lines are apart, against lines which are very narrow,
you will get a sense of roundness. So it's a quite different technique to the one we saw in the previous video.
You see here, I'm just going over and over this bit here, the lines look closer together so the
tree is already beginning to look rounded. You see here, look up and down, very relaxing this, you see.
There we go, just drawing away. I imagine yourself outside drawing this in real life, wonderful. You see
you just roll your pencil up and down, ah beautiful, there you go. Keep doing it, notice by building it
up you see how we can make the tree trunk look a little bit twisted. It's got some shape to it.
You see as you go around some of these areas here, we'll put this little extra branch in here look, or
section in here. There we go. Notice how the tree is really standing out from the background, see
it's looking really good. Now we're just going to go over a few of the lines here, because as I
say this is going to make the tree look that little bit more rounded, you see. Just put a few lines
along here, just keep going over to make sure you keep twisting the line. Make each line individual.
Remember each line is important, each line has got a life of its own. You've created that line,
that line should be wonderful, you see. Here we go. Now we're going to do the grass. Now remember from
the last video you flick upwards for the grass. Okay, the way the grass grows, it grows upward,
so you flick upwards. Okay, you can do some going down behind just to give a bit of variation, but
essentially you want to be flicking upwards all the time because it's going to make your drawing
look really really good. Here we go you see the idea. Brilliant. Now we're just going to tidy up
one or two things, just darken this little bit a bit more I think, but just by hatching a little
bit more on top. We might put a little shadow on the side here, this will look really quite, quite
good. A little bit of shadow just to touch this up. Now you could do more of this as well obviously,
but we're coming to the end of the drawing now. So I hope you've enjoyed working on the drawing.
I hope you've added the shadow, remembered to do the lines and I hope your drawing has worked
successfully. So don't forget to practice, practice practice, cross-hatching, using tone and using lots
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