Hi, Tom here with a new Circle Line Art School drawing challenge, start by
drawing a vertical line, make a mark at the center of this vertical line halfway up,
this mark could become a short horizontal line, now divide the two
halves of this vertical line in half again, so now we have a vertical line
divided into four equal parts with three markers, next make the top and the bottom
marks in to horizontal lines, now we can draw two vertical lines either side of
the first line that we drew, we can use this shape to make two equal-sized
diamond shapes one above another,
in this video the line drawing is all in real-time, but you
might find it useful to pause the video at some points, just so you can work out
in your drawing where the lines exactly go,
now we can extend these two horizontal lines
and add a horizontal line to the right at the top and bottom points of the diamond,
we can also add a new horizontal line in the middle,
now this length, the length of the side diamond-shape, we need the same lengths
going along this horizontal line to the right,
next, using that length, we can repeat the shapes of the right-hand side of the two
diamonds, carefully repeating the angles that we have already drawn on the right,
to line these new shapes up we can draw vertical lines from their points, sort of
vertical lines going downwards, to help us find the angles that we need,
next mark the length of a side of a diamond on to the left hand side middle
line, the horizontal line, and now, by repeating the angles that we have
already drawn, this time on the left, we can make another cube,
notice how this also should create another diamond shape, the same diamond
shape as our first two diamonds, we can now make the lines we need a
little darker and erase some of the guidelines that we no longer need,
we are starting at the center of this drawing, so it's important in this drawing, this
part of the drawing, is just right, because we're gonna move out from the
center to a much more complex drawing, so the next step is to look at the three
cubes that we have drawn and we need to add three guidelines, the first guideline
is on the top face, the top surface of the top cube, and goes to the right,
horizontally, along the middle of the cube face and continues to go along the
right, next we can repeat this type of guideline here on the face of the bottom
cube, on the right again, extending the middle line out of the
shapes that we already have and now we can extend the middle line to the left
cube too, again going parallel to the edge of the cube, but in the middle of the
cube, now we have extended these lines we can make another diamond shape, we can do
this three times to make three new diamonds, so now we have a pattern,
so now we have a pattern of three cubes in a hexagon, a six-sided shape,
and I have just notice at all of the shapes we've just drawn, so far, are all identical
diamond shapes, there are one two, twelve, twelve diamond shapes, all packed
together to make this new hexagon, so now we can repeat these middle
guidelines, the three guidelines that we have, we can repeat these with three more
guidelines, going through the middle of the three diamonds that we have just
drawn and extending them outwards, now we can continue this central vertical line
that we drew at the beginning of the drawing, our first line!
and now by continuing our guidelines here, up towards the right, we can draw
this line all the way to the horizontal line and now we can join our top point
to the point on the right with a straight line and now we can continue
this line too, next if we look carefully we can see that we have the start of our
first arrow, so we can make the lines of this triangle darker and then when you
look at the triangle with the face of the cube that it's attached to, as it
were, it makes an arrow pointing to the right,
by carefully extending the guidelines we already have we can find another
triangle, the point of an arrow, but this time pointing upwards, we can extend this
line from the right up to the top and then add a line from the left at the top
too, to create a new arrow pointing upwards,
again once you have found the arrow head, the point of the arrow, we can make the
lines darker so that we don't lose where it is,
if we extend the line from the center of our second arrow downwards to the left
and then join this new point with a point directly above it using a vertical
line, then we have our third arrow, it sort of appears and this time it points
upwards to the left, again we need to make the lines of the arrow darker so
that, well I need to make them darker, so that I don't get lost,
next we can extend this horizontal line towards the right, now draw another
vertical line joining these two points on the right,
and we can continue this line from the left arrow to the base point of
the whole shape that we're drawing and now draw a line from the base of the
point on the right and another line from the base of the point on the left and
now we can darken our fourth arrow, an arrow pointing downwards...
and just by extending these two lines we find our fifth arrow, pointing downwards
towards, the right so now we have found it, let's darken the lines again straight away,
we can extend these lines to find the corners of the arrows, just draw a guide
line through the middle of the cube to the corner of each of the arrows,
can you see the last arrow yet? we need to find one more arrow...
so here is the last triangle, hopefully you have six solid 3d arrows made by six
cubes in the center, the center might look like three cubes, but in fact there
six sort of cubes in the center, but they share some lines between themselves,
there's also a six pointed star in the center of our drawing and all of the six
arrows that we have drawn are now contained in a new larger hexagon!
I find it fascinating how when drawing patterns for me it's often as surprised how
patterns make more patterns and I only realized it after I've made the drawing,
rather than during it,
so next we need to carefully erase the guidelines that we
no longer need before we can add some tone to this drawing, we need two tones, one a
very dark tone and then one a mid-tone, a mid-tone is just a tone between light
and dark, be careful at this stage that you shade the right areas of the arrows
that we have drawn, otherwise it's a lot of efforts to go wrong at this stage, I
think you could use two colors, if you did not want to use two tones, but just make
sure that one of the colors, if you were going to use colors, that one of the
colors that you use is a dark tone, darker and the second color is a light or mid-tone,
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