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Get Started Drawing
so we're gonna start out really simply just get a pencil and a piece of paper. Oh and look at it. What do we have here? Nice white piece of paper staring at you. The first thing you want to do when you see that is really quickly put something on top of it and covered up. So get out just an object you have at your desks. Could be something kind of flat and put it down there. Just slap it down and draw around it. You can draw kind of lightly, just trace the edges over here. Mine has a little hole in it so I'm gonna get that too. Yeah hey then you move it, you look at it like ah okay well there's something, there's a little drawing on my page so now we look at it like okay well I'm missing a line here and this is curving up a little. I can fix that. Not a problem. Let's jump right in. Um It's also good just to do this. Just like start getting a warm up. You can do this loose and messy, I can see that this is a little crooked. Take my eraser kind of straighten that up a little. Mhm. Okay c...
lean up, clean up any lines you put that you can put it right on your page next to you, look at it and I noticed also Get some of the three d. aspects in here that actually comes down into their, this is a tube. This is really just to get a warm up to get something down on that page so it's easy to get started and I have a wiggly line online. I'm just gonna do this freehand thing. You don't have to draw exactly what you see. So if you do have a hard time getting started and you bought yourself a really nice $10 a piece of paper and you want to do perfect, great drawing on it. Kind of do get a little jittery, you get that fear of the blank page going a little bit or maybe you get a nice brand new notebook. So I think let's see, I'm starting to feel a little warmed up straightening things up a little. Um, I don't think I'm gonna make this one. Look, I've got a little little one in the back. I'm going to go a little bit three D. But not too much. This is pretty straight on. If you're worried about your blank page two and now you're starting to look at it and like lots of little crooked and your little inner critic starts coming up on your shoulder and saying, I don't know about that. The other thing you can do if you're worried about getting these nice art supplies and and making the messes of them is just get free art supplies. Like the paper you're dying on now. You know, you could probably get a pencil like this and some paper like this pretty easily. Just do a ton of drawings on something free. Okay. So I think we're gonna just call this fairly good. Just finished drawing it instructor unstructured and then going to move on. I'm gonna put a little shadow under here. We're gonna work on shadows too. Mhm. So anybody feeling warmed up yet? I'm starting to Okay. Yeah. When you're starting a project to when you're just looking at this blank page, there's also another tendency that artists get where they start planning it out in their head. They're like, okay well I'm gonna do this technique, I'm gonna do that one but I need I need to get some more materials. First thing I need to do for this project is go shopping. So I'd also like to say start sketching before you go shopping because a lot of times as you're working out your ideas, you'll change your mind about what you want to do. Um so just start out with the basics, your printer paper, your number two pencil. Maybe get a better eraser. Um something else. It's good to get is one of these. Um I use this dusting brush all the time because that's why I because I use it every day. But you can also get a dusting brush like that to the reason you need a brush is because when you get a big old mound of eraser shavings and then you take your clammy hands and go like this. You're gonna leave oil and smudge your drawing and this cleans it up real nicely. This time we're going to think a little bit more about composition. That one was kind of smack in the middle. So grab a few more things that you have around the house. So I'm choosing to grab a bunch of scissors. Yeah, yeah. And I did it this way. And when you're laying them out for inspiration, you can think of something called a flat lay, which is you see pictures of them in magazines or instagram a lot where that's where maybe someone takes, uh, the bags are packed for vacation and they lay everything out real neat on a grid and square and take a shot straight down. Or that's also called Unrolling. Unrolling is usually more detailed if someone takes a part of radio and takes all the little pieces and arranges them. So take a collection of something and that's a great way to practice because you're doing a lot of one thing and lay everything out. Repenting, arrange it on your page how you want to I'm gonna put one here, do a bunch of scissors when there. Think about do you want to have it? Like I'm doing scissors. So some will be open. Some will be closed. Oh and I'm going to do another one here. Okay, that one there. Okay. We kind of like that. That looks good and then do the same thing. So we're already doing something. We already know how to do right? Draw around it kind of block in those shapes
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