Alright you lot, happy Tuesday.
Today’s video is somewhat of a challenge video, it’s something you may have seen
before in I think one of my sketchbook tour videos, I basically fill a page with random
silhouette shapes and then challenge myself to make something out of the shapes, sometimes
I just do faces, in this case I decided to do objects as well.
So shoutout to the instagram peeps that guessed this one right from the sneak peek I posted
yesterday!
And I’m using a copic ciao marker from a greyscale set, I think the colour is C1, I’ll
have all the proper info in the description.
I started out with something I thought would be relatively easy and turned my first silhouette
blob into a face.
I did a really light sketch at first just to get the ideas in place and see if it would
work and then just cracked on with a harder line.
I really liked this one, it just worked really well.
It fit the shape almost perfectly, the top of his head is a bit dodgy but I think it
gives him character.
I ended up with something more stylised than I would normally draw and I wish I could draw
like this more ofter, I find myself always accidentally putting things into the right
proportions and stuff even when I’m trying to make things exaggerated or cartoony, so
this is a great way to force yourself out of that.
Next was another relatively easy one.
I decided to turn this squarish shape into a building.
Um and I wasn’t using references at al for any of these which was another part of the
challenge.
But then it goes to show the the more you draw something the more of like a mental encyclopaedia
you build up in your head because I found it quite easy to make up a nice building,
taking aspects from real buildings that I’ve remembered from drawing them before.
The next one took a lot of thinking to figure out what I could do with the shape.
I actually spent more time trying to come up with things than I actually did drawing
for this challenge.
I felt like this is quite a head shape but I wanted to be a bit more creative than that
and I got the idea that it could kind of be a hand in a loose fist.
So yeah, more hands to draw.
I do definitely think my hands are improving.
I actually think this tuned out to be the best hand I’ve ever drawn, maybe not visually
but for how easily it kind of came to me, like I felt more confident in knowing what
I was doing for this one.
Which again just shows how doing things over and over again can gradually bring improvement,
and you know, how you can’t just avoid the things you’re not good at.
With this one I really didn’t know what to do with it and in the end I settled on
like a guys head with a weird helmet on.
This one is probably my least favourite.
And apologies if it goes off screen at any point, my camera was a bit too heavy for how
I had it positioned so it just started to like sag a little bit the longer I went on
filming.
This one was the only one I used a reference for, just to look at like the positioning
of the different craters and marks on the moon.
I don’t know if it’s cheating to have drawn like half a thing in this space rather
than drawing something that would be a semicircle shape.
Well it’s not cheating cos I set the challenge for myself but you know what I mean.
Anyway I was happy with this idea.
I don’t know if i’ve even drawn the moon like this before so it was fun, I thought
it was a cool idea.
And I think it turned out alright.
I think it fits on the page really nicely.
This is a great way to fill an awkward space on a page by the way.
Colour in the shape of the space and then outline it as a thing.
Okay so this is actually the last one, I’ll tell you why I didn’t fill in the other
space on the page in a bit.
This one took a lot of thinking as well.
Sometimes it helps to break it up into shape.
So in doing that with the sharp pointed bit of the shape, I got the idea that it could
be a bow, and the bow could be attached to a teddy bear that’s like sagging, leaning
up against a wall.
This one went surprisingly well as well, for something that don’t have a lot of drawing
experience with.
Now for the space next to it, I genuinely couldn’t think of anything and I was racking
my brain for ages and then I thought maybe a fresh pair of eyes could help.
So rather then one fresh pair of eyes I thought you all could weigh in with some ideas, there
are so many great creative people that watch these videos and you guys have helped me so
much in the past so yeah, I’d love to hear if you can see anything in the this weird
shape.
Thanks for watching anyway, I hope you enjoyed this video and I’ll see you all in the next
one.