hello my name is Paul Priestley welcome to our art tutorials online. This is a second
in my series for absolute beginners to drawing. In the first video you saw that
we looked at four things you needed to know. In this video we're going to look
at two things you need to practice. Yes it's very simple. You need to hold your
pencil and you need to move your hand in this direction and then you need to
flick, flick, flick, like that. We're going to put those two things together and we're
going to create some interesting drawings. So why are we waiting. Let's make a start.
Come on. I'm going to use an 8B Derwent drawing pencil. It doesn't really matter
which one you use, but what we're going to concentrate on
first is, creating these curves. So very, very small tight curves, that's what
we're looking for. Okay, so let's make a start on the curves. Now you'll notice
what I'm doing is going backwards and forwards creating the curves. Nice and
carefully here, nice and strongly, nice and boldly. You see and we can create a
nice rounded effect, even though the paper's flat it looks rounded. Now if we
apply this idea to a very simple tree shape. I'm just going to draw a few lines
here this is going to represent a very simple tree. Okay, it's not necessarily a
tree drawing. This represents a simple tree. Now we're going to start about here
and we're going to start drawing the curves. Just as we've done already. You see
how I'm going backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards, making the curves.
Quite tight sometimes, overlapping them, making each one slightly different.
Varying them sometimes ,not quite so curved, flattening out. You see how it
works? Now notice how it's made that whole section more tree like. It looks as
though it's leaning backwards. You see it's all suggested by using line. So if
we do the same thing here, you see the line now looks at though the line is
curving upwards. Okay, if I start again here and add some very tight
little curves, getting wider and wider, pressing on a little bit harder. Look at
this. I'm going to move the curves in a different direction. It looks
like a root , you see, going off in a different direction. All this is
suggested by the curves themselves. Put a few more little lines in, slightly curved,
but in a different direction. You see how it works now, I'll just simply draw the
curves again. Look at this, you see how it flattens out. You can keep
doing this all the way along here. I'm going to use wider curves this time. You
see this part of the tree trunk, it's very wide, then it gets very close and tight
together. You see how you can suggest the different shapes and patterns of the
tree, just by varying the curves. Curves are wonderful to use. See how I'm
doing this here. Okay, now we'll just go up here and finish off the top. Here I'm
not making this look like a real tree, so please don't say it doesn't look like a
tree. It's just meant to show you how to use the curves, but you notice the curves
are getting tighter now as we would, if we were going to develop these into
branches. You see the idea. Now if you're wanting to put a little bit of shading
on then again, follow the curves. Just drawing between the curves, you see how
this has been suggested. I'll suggest a little bit more three-dimensional
effect by putting on a little bit of shading, but I'm just using line. To do
the shading I'm not using flat shading. Do you see what I'm doing? Just adding
more and more line, but notice how everything now looks curved. The line has
told us that the tree is curved. Okay, let's look at flicks now. If you are
going to draw the grass it's really important that you flick upwards. The
idea being that you follow the line of the grass. Okay the grass grows upwards
you see like that, but if you draw downwards you get a big
thick blob at the top which you don't want. You want the sharp bit at the top
where you have flicked upwards. So always flick upwards if you are going
to draw grass. Flick in the way that the
grass grows and you will not go far wrong. Okay, now we're going to apply this curve
technique to a different type of tree. This is going to be a palm tree, but
we're also going to introduce a different idea. Here now I'm going to
introduce the idea of eye level. If you don't understand what eye level is, check
out this video. It which explains all about eye level. I'm going to do
it now. Okay we've suggested eye level that's
where it's level. Now everything above eye level this time is going to curve
upwards. See what I'm doing, starting very very shallow curves and making the
curves get more and more curved as you go further and further up the tree trunk.
You see the idea. Now below eye level the curves curve down. Again starting very
shallow and then getting more and more curved as we curve down the tree trunk.
Do you see the idea and how this works? I'll just put a simple outline around my
tree trunk here. This is going to be a tree. You'll notice when I don't
use eye level, the tree on the left leans backwards. When I do use eye level and I
change the angle of those curves you see the tree trunk looks much more vertical.
So remember it's a good little tip to use. Now I'll just fill in a few little
shapes here, you notice I'm just scribbling. I'm suggesting the top of the
palm tree here. Right we're now going to flick, now watch. Flick, flick, don't fiddle.
Don't fiddle along the line, just flick it, okay. if you're going to draw the
leaves of the palm, then basically what you are doing is drawing lots of very
very thin triangles. So lots and lots of thin triangles and try to vary each one.
Flick again, and draw the lines along the triangle, okay.
You see, do it quickly, do it boldly, okay. Don't make it too neat, the tree isn't
neat. Okay flick, flick up and down up and down, round there we go. Be
confident, be bold, that's what you got to do. There we go
you see it looks really good now. You could even flick across and on top of
another one. You see what I've done here, and I'm now going to press on harder with
my pencil. Make it darker and actually draw over the previous one. You see it
makes my tree looks so much more three-dimensional. It makes it look so
much more interesting. You see the idea. So we've produced a really convincing
looking tree trunk, just by using curves and flicks. Remember flick up for the
grass, flick up, up, up. Don't forget what do you do? You flick up,
not down,. That's it, so we keep flicking along here like this just to finish our
little drawing. Now you'll notice how by using curves and flicks you can
produce some wonderful drawings. Practice the flick with your wrist, use your wrist,
use your fingers to produce the curves and then you'll produce a
brilliant drawing. So don't forget to practice this and the flicking and bring
the two together in your drawings. I hope you've enjoyed the video and if you have,
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