Hello my name is Paul Priestley, welcome to art tutorials online.com, Today I'm going to be
showing you how to draw a complicated object by using simple shapes. The video is designed for
beginners, but if you watch towards the end of the video, you'll find I outlined four
advanced drawing tips that will really help your drawing in the future. I hope you enjoy
the video. So, let's get started. This is what we're going to draw, a woodman's plane. You can see it's
quite a complicated object, but if we reduce it down to simple shapes, it's much easier to draw.
Now if you look for the red lines that will show you the simple shapes I'm looking for. So
we're going to start with the base line. You can see that here. Next thing I'm going to find the
tallest point which is about half the width of the base line. So I'm estimating that. I've made
the point at the top I'm going to draw the line down right hand side and then you'll notice the
front part of that triangle is about two-thirds of the way along that line. Next I need to work
out the height of the front handle. You'll notice that is just below halfway up that diagonal, so
I make a little mark and I draw the vertical as you can see in the drawing at the top. I'm going
to draw a line either side of that now to work out the width of the handle. You see how we just
defined the basic shapes measuring, now the top of the curve of the bottom part of the plane, and
I'm just going to draw a triangle. You see I'm working out all the time where the points are.
You're looking for the points. Don't look for the detail. Look for the simple shapes. So we've defined
that. Next thing the top of this handle. Here you see it's just a very small amount down from there.
A nice straight line and the curve we're just drawing that curve round very simply. There you
can see how the drawing is beginning to evolve now, by looking the simple shapes. Don't look for the
detail. Please don't look for the detail. Right, draw the rest of the handle, you notice the curve comes
down to the lines. I'm just gently drawing that in, drawing the curve down there, and coming down nice
and gently so the design is beginning to work. Now you notice the other sections here, you can
see that big metal part at the front there with the curve on, I'm going to draw that in now. You
can see I'm constantly referring to my lines that I've already drawn. This is really important that
you keep comparing all the time. Don't draw things in isolation. Look at where they are in relation to
other objects then you'll get the size correct. Get the little, that round handle here, which I'm just
representing by two rectangles, you can see here. Okay, draw the little err catch at the top here.
I don't know the proper name for it, but I'm sure somebody does, err and we'll finish off with the
little handle around here, the curved round section here which I'm just drawing in very, very lightly.
Now once you've got all these basic shapes and you check to make sure they're correct, the next
thing then is to draw around the outline and to make sure you've got that correct. But before we
do that we'll just rub out one or two of these guidelines because we don't need all this in here.
Okay, just to tidy things up a little bit so you see we just got rid of those nice and simple. Okay, there
we go. Now we're going to start drawing round, I'm pressing on, I'm using a 2b pencil for this and I'm
pressing on quite hard. You can see now I'm looking for those curves. Draw things lightly, first draw
them lightly and then you can draw over them. Don't draw them very hard straight away just in
case you make a mistake. You see I'm just blocking in now these little sections of the front of the
drawing, putting in all these basic shapes and I can now start adding the detail to this. You can
see here I'm just adding these little sections that I can see, the little detailed parts, see
the little structures even the little curve on the front. Now what we're ending up with is a very
simple drawing here which has got a very strong outline to it. Now there's nothing wrong with that
but outlines do tend to flatten drawings. Now I'll show you later on some interesting ideas of how
to get around that, but we'll leave that for later on. We'll keep it simple for the moment. So I'm now
looking for the more detailed elements and I'm drawing those in. You can see this little section
here has got a curved end to it so I'm just going to draw slight curves here. Can you see those very
slight curves? I'm just going down, putting the round rings on and just by drawing simple shapes.
You can make things look quite complex. There we go, just about finished off the basic drawing and
a line along the bottom. Okay, now what I'm going to do is to add a little bit of light and shade
to this, once we've done the drawing, Now what I would suggest you do and this will come in
a moment when I start talking about four points, is to start shading the darker tones in first. I'm
still using my 2b pencil, but I'm varying the tone by simply pressing on hard for the dark
tones and much lighter of the light tones. Here's a piece of graphite I'm using. You can see here that
by using the graphite on the side, I can get much simpler, much lighter tones which makes things work
much, much better. I'm just very, very, gradually putting on these lighter tones. Sometimes I might
have to change hands. Now some drawing tips. First of all, always establish your dark tones first. Now
you'll notice here, I am beginning now to start looking for the darker tones, shading those in
and you'll notice as I'm doing those darker tones it makes the object stand out. You see, so
the bits you want to emphasize make them darker. Now tip number two. If you're using a piece
of graphite use the side of it to shade larger areas. Can you see what I'm doing here? That's it.
So using that. Now the other tip here is when you draw with outlines it tends to flatten things, so
if I shade up to the outline I create an edge and the outline disappears and it looks much
more 3-dimensional. You can see here where I've shaded right up to the edge and made the shading
dark, the edge disappears. It makes the drawing look much more interesting. Remember strong outlines
flattens drawings, edges make a drawing look much more 3-dimensional. So we're just going to finish
off now with a few more shaded areas here. Just a little bit more with my graphite just to
finish those elements off, just to make it look a little bit better. You can see by emphasizing
the background and creating an edge it makes things stand out and it makes the whole drawing
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