Hello, my name is Paul Priestley. Welcome to art-tutorialsonline.com. Today's video is aimed
absolute beginners. If you can draw a wiggly line you're going to be brilliant at this. I want to show
you how to draw grasses, ribbons, flags, cliffs all sorts of interesting things. So don't hang
about, let's make a start. For these drawings I'm going to be using two pencils, an HB and the 4B graphite
pencil on cartridge paper. Okay, we'll get rid of one pencil. We'll start with the HB pencil. Now
the idea is to simply draw a curve, right, you can see down here. It's like a long wiggly line. Okay
now I'm going to duplicate that underneath it you see now this is quite difficult to do but
I'm sure you'll get the hang of it, okay there we go, brilliant. Now, by adding a vertical line, I can
now make this into a ribbon. You see the idea? Just join up the two curves with a ribbon. Now
I'm going to swap pencils, use the 4b pencil and I'm going to shade in and there at the back. Now, I'm going to
do this by pressing on hard to start with and then pressing on light from lighter. You see, so we get
variations of tone. Do the same on the other bits here as well, you see. You can now see how this is
beginning to look like a piece of ribbon and if we were to take away those little lines, which we
don't need, rub those out at some stage. You see this would look like a really good drawing. Just
going to go over the edge, there see, see how simple it is really simple, anyone can do this, even you you!
See really good. Okay, let's swap pencils we're going to now draw a piece of long grass. Now, all I'm
doing, is just doing again, the same sort thing to curves, but this time you see where the two curves
make the two circles or circular shapes, join up with two lines and that creates a little triangle.
Shade the triangle and one of those curves and you can see how this will begin to develop into
long thin piece of grass, for example, but it could be anything else really. But you see the idea, again,
I'm pressing on hard and then varying the tone, so I'm pressing on less and less each time. So start
off very hard, press on dark, then press on less and less. Gradual change. Put on the line along the top to emphasise the edge.
Look how that as though it's curved, you see ,very simple. Now very simple curve like this will create a
flag. Vertical lines this time you see and then just duplicate what you've drawn at the top the
again. You see now we've done that, brilliant and again you can see how I would have gone along
there, but we're not going to draw that in. Okay, go back to my softer pencil, the 4b pencil and we're
going to do the shading again. So we're shading down here pressing on really nice and firmly and then
getting lighter and lighter and lighter. See the idea? It makes it look as though it's curved. Do
the same here, start very dark, going vertical. Very important you do the shading up and down like that.
You see how it goes get lighter and lighter, now it looks like a curve you see the idea? Put a little
bit of shading on here as well, just to tidy it up a little bit and then at the top here. I'm
just going to put a little oval shape, little line underneath and I've got a flag. It's so simple
you see, curves have really brilliant things to draw. Now, I'm going to draw some cliffs, again start
the line twiddly curve. This time vertical type lines again, but not quite too vertical. Keep them
simple, repeat what you've done at the top with the curves and we've got some cliffs. Line here
for the horizon and now I'm going to do the shading. Its' the same process, again start off very dark get
lighter, see. Start off dark and get lighter, makes those indentations in the cliffs really
stand out. You see the idea is brilliant, so dark here, really press on hard and get lighter keep
doing the same sort of thing. I've got a video on drawing cliffs so you might want to have a look
at. There we are, goes into it a bit more detail than this. But you see the idea. That's
looking good. Now we're going to just put a few finishing touches here then we're going to draw
the water. Now it's really important when we draw the water to draw this horizontally, you see so it goes
horizontally to the cliffs. That makes the line tells us that that surface is this horizontal, you see
the idea makes that stand out. Now the top of the cliffs, we might want to make the top of the cliffs
look as though they're curved upwards. Notice what I've done with the lines, you see how the lines are
at an angle? It makes the cliff look as though it's going upwards, brilliant. Right final thing, we're
just going to draw a nice curved number eight, you see, very simple. Add a line. Now that triangle and
the circle we're going to over, now you didn't notice I changed pencils then to my softer pencil.
I'm going to shade in the triangle and one of the circles you see the idea. Keep shading there, nice
and dark, really, really dark all the way along that bit there. Now that's looking great. Brilliant. Now
just go along the edge and I'm going to extend that down to the stem of the leaf, come around
there. You see how this is beginning to work. A little bits down the centre of the leaf
there there we go. Add a little bit more shading to it, little bit around the edge, and I've got a
twisted leaf. You see how simple it is, using curves Remember to keep practicing and good luck with
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