Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and today I will show you tree ways
to draw a perfect circle.
Actually, two of them are hacks but they are very effective.
And the third one it is a true artistic technique to draw
a circle free hand.
This is the first trick: If you want a small circle,
place your middle finger by the lead, and then firmly on the paper.
Then smoothly turn the paper
around.
It will be turning around your finger which is the axis.
And hold your hand and the pencil
very still.
And we have a small circle.
If you want a slighter bigger circle, use too fingers, like this.
Good!
For a still larger one,
use tree fingers,
and place the pinky down [laughter].
Like so…
Good!
And for a bigger one,
use this bone of the wrist.
Put it down firmly, but not with a lot of pressure
because otherwise it is hard to turn the paper.
The whole hand and the wrist are locked, not moving,
And apply a constant pressure with the pencil.
Taraaaan [laughter].
Let´s do this again, but this time using a fine marker.
We place the hand very firmly, standing on the bone.
And I begin moving the paper before putting the tip down,
so that it smooth and I don´t get a mark.
There you go!
Let´s do another version of this, with two pencils.
They can be of different sizes.
We arrange the tips so they are level, place one firmly on the paper,
and draw with the other one.
This is very precise!
Ok, these tricks can be very useful, but now let´s go to a real artistic
technique.
We hold the pencil more perpendicular to the paper than usual, and smoothly
start making circles.
Move the whole arm from the shoulder.
Good!
And now if you want to,
you can go over a single line,
in this fashion. I rotate the paper to keep this position, because
the other side of the circle is more complicated.
This side is more natural; if you are left-handed, it would be
the opposite, of course.
Very good!
Ok!
Let´s do one more.
Hold the pencil perpendicular to the paper…
and I usually make a couple of circle movements without
touching the paper.
Then I start lightly and at even pace.
Remember, practically all the movement will come from
your shoulder, and whole arm, and the elbow will move just
a little bit.
I made so many lines that one must be correct! [laughter].
So we go over it.
Visualize the circle you want to make, and go over it.
Like so.
You could leave it like that depending on what do you
need it for, or how you want it to look…
or you can clean it up.
In this case erase all the lines that shouldn´t be there
both outside and inside the circle.
All right!
We have a circle!
This of course requires some practice.
One good exercise that you can do, is to trace a circle, using an object,
with a marker,
and then go over the line with your pencil.
Over and over and over and over.
I usually go over it without touching the paper, for two or three circles
and once I feel I have the hang of it more or less, then I start pressing
lightly.
Do this with circles of different sizes
and you will become profession at it.
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Subtitled by Grethel Trejo