0:00 well hello there guys and girls my name is Mikey welcome back to my room it's time for another of our basic beginner drawing tutorials now we've covered the very most important thing for a beginner or a returning artist back in the last basic how-to videos so make sure that you've checked that one out and today we're going to go through and dive in with some very simple cheap materials any old paper that you've got any old pencil you can use a simple 2b pencil just make sure it's sharp I just happen to be using a disposable cheap mechanical pencil because they're just very convenient that's all and what we're going to do is cover today for free basic shapes that are going to allow you to unlock almost everything in the world of drawing art and illustration this is the video which is
0:45 basically going to be step one how to draw right here so just like when you're doing sports you need to warm up a bit and get yourself loose and relaxed maybe grab yourself a random sheet of paper scratch out a load of loose lines just get a feel for the material the pencil how does it mark the page if you work really hard with an overhand grip can you just have a really loose flow of forms can you just dive in and get some tight lines it's all about just loosening yourself up or stuff like that although maybe not quite as cringy and getting yourself into a relaxed mental state but you can actually just start to get some work done try to get a feel for the materials you're using short but also equally try to make sure you're somewhere where you're not going to be disturbed you're gonna be free of
1:30 distractions and interruptions just for the sake of getting some work done now what we're going to start off with today is simply drawing a triangle a circle and a square you guys might doodle these shapes all the time and think this is simply too basic but trust me we are going to go somewhere with this so why is it important to have a go with these basic shapes now firstly doing something like a triangle is going to level up your perception skills basically it's going to train you to have a go at drawing straight lines sure but it's also forcing your eye and your brain to actually preemptively measure out space and try to understand where different lines might actually intersect now you can do this by just using lighter strokes to build a good line from point A to point B or just try to go in heavy and early but I
2:17 do recommend these lighter strokes means that you can work up to a solid line without actually over committing to any of the mistakes you might make in life which is something I learned from my dad when he walked out now when it comes to squares and rectangles these are really solid shapes to just make sure you're happy with drawing because they're going to end up being the backbone of most of the building blocks of architecture spatial art and standard day-to-day objects over time again I'm just making sure I'm stroking in these lines fairly soft I'm gonna move my page around all the time to get a good solid straight line and you want to just practice working in a straight line as straight as you can make it without actually having to commit to a ruler and that's really going to just help you out in the long term and basically the trick to this is slow and steady wins the race
3:03 and lastly the circle now for good thing with circles and ellipses in general is that these will help you to get to grip with curves and flow which is basically going to fill the gap for anything in life it's not a straight line there are two popular rates people like to make circles that don't involve tracing or cheating now that's either using a series of practice strokes where you kind of move your arm right from the shoulder you get a load of movement in really loose and you kind of theoretically think about where your strokes going to be by hovering over the page working out a circular shape before you then lower the pencil and start to very lightly mark the page and slowly build up what might be your final circle equally what other people like to do is actually visualize the circle on the
3:49 paper in front of them and do a number of very small curving strokes to map out the imaginary circle and basically if you pretend the circles already there you can just imagine that you're tracing it and by using lots of small curved strokes together you build up that line you build up what's going to slowly make up a fairly solid circular form and then once you've got that down you can just come back again and just ever so slightly build up that line and again don't commit too early just be happy by letting it slowly grow and then all of a sudden you've got yourself fairly good circle out of nowhere and for those of you who wants another cheat code for drawing a simple circle then what you can do is actually grab a piece of paper get it all twisty put your hand down on the paper and keep
4:34 it still and simply instead turn the page basically you're using your hand like a tractor and you get a fairly quick simple circle straight off of a bat but that's basically it when it really comes down to drawing solid shapes these are the underlying basics behind the art getting a feel for where lines might intersect and learning to judge space evenly getting a feel for straight lines and we're gonna use this as a building block for forms and much like in martial arts any technique really can boil down to being a curve or being a straight line and if you understand the same thing when it comes to breaking down objects in a world around you you're gonna find you're using a circle or elliptical curve techniques or you're just joining point A to point B and so if you keep practicing even a simple stuff like this
5:20 you're going to master the world of what we call shapes now it might seem obvious but I'm calling these shapes but in art that very specifically means for these are two-dimensional flat objects they don't have any depth so now we're going to use these shapes to make something that's supposed to be free D which means we're going to go from shape to making something which is supposed to be a form and these basic building blocks but we're just about to have a go with can actually be used to describe almost anything so I'm rotating the page a bit so it's a comfortable angle for my hand and we're going to take what we learnt from the circle and flatten it just a little bit so that in this instance I'm going to end up with an ellipse I'm going to just slowly build up the curve this way like so and you can imagine
6:06 that we're viewing the circle as if it's ever so slightly flat on the page and if I go back this way what I'm going to do is I'm going to imagine a point straight up from the middle of this and just like this triangle I'm gonna join the fire edges to make quite clearly but now a cone or a spike is the 3d version of our triangle you could do one which has a flat square base or do one which has a triangular base for a pyramid there's loads of geometric variations but when you really think and boil it down you're either working the circular curves or you're working with straight lines so here's our cone here very simple and then what we're going to do is take our square and imagine this as a box in 3d so a nice way to look at this
6:53 in a 3d perspective is imagine you've got the line of the corner of a box straight in front of you and then you've got almost a very flat diamond shape on top so that's one edge of our box the other edge needs to be exactly the same but mirrored and then you need to make a line just like this one which is perfectly parallel going off at the exact same angle this way and then perfectly parallel kind of going off that way as well and then we're going to do the same down here parallel ish of that angle and don't notice I keep moving my page around so it works naturally and conveniently with the position of my hand again trying to very loosely rough out those straight lines and then I'm just gonna drop a line down
7:39 here to build up this side a line down here to build up that edge as well so now you can imagine this is a 3d shape this could be anything it would be a very square building from a distance it could be used to describe the initial shape that we'd fit in like a chair or a car but these building blocks are going to map out everything so when it comes to our circle we can basically map it out into being a sphere by doing pretty much nothing different whatsoever because circles or spheres well they look pretty much the same from any angle so that's kind of a win-win I'm just using loads of light strokes again imagining I can already see a circle and just trying to map that out so it's just curved round in a slightly more solid more confident
8:27 version now as we come through and any place where you think your circles just a little bit flat or bumpy as you go over renegotiate that edge until you get something it's working a little bit better for you right as we come round and again remember we're practicing these shapes none of this has to be perfect but more you do it for more use to it you're going to be and eventually you'll get these basic shapes to be something that's fairly standard as part of your repertoire lovely and then the last very common form that's probably worth talking about a little bit similar to the cone is going to be the cylinder so once again what we're really doing is we're working with our elliptical circular shapes here and just going to
9:14 map this one like so and then what I'm gonna do is just follow this edge all the way down here straight line down here we've got another straight line parallel as well we're basically making a column or a tube or a drinking straw anything you like really flat and then duplicate at circular shape at the bottom end as well just get that curve round here's our near edge is on their edge here and voila we've basically got I mean there's all sorts of variations but basically we've used three basic shapes
9:59 and we can use visas and all sorts of combinations to build up for very very common forms these forms are really going to help us break down everything now in order to help describe these things as being three-dimensional shapes to you guys I'm going to put some dotted lines along four halfway points just so that you can understand the shapes of the surface and the form a little bit more clearly and then what I'm probably going to do is grab out some pens to increase the depth of the line and also maybe use a little bit of shading on the markers just to give the illusion that these things cost a bit of shadow and a three-dimensional now I don't want you to worry about that part too much but if you do have some other pens and markers at home then go ahead and have a little bit of a player of your shapes and see what you can achieve we have yet to cover about perspective texture light
10:45 and shadow which is something that we can worry about for another day but what I want you lovely lot to do is just nail down these basics because if you look around at loads of stuff you'll start to see but really they're made up of just a combination of basic shapes and that will then make complex things actually become much easier to draw and is what I do all the time so I will go into this in greater depth in a future tutorial so make sure you've hit that subscribe button but if you look around at anything you'll start to see that maybe it's just constructed from lots of simple forms take this modern computer and boom it's just a lot of different boxes this random yellow dog in a series of gentle circles and ellipses this deep space gas nebula so thanks a lot for watching guys and girls it's because of
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