Learn To Draw #01 - Sketching Basics + Materials

hey folks it's Brandon Schaefer welcome to the drawing series videos there's the first one kind of an introduction and some materials but we're going to get into some drawing here shortly so what I have here in front of me just a few things to get started with with drawing and that would be a small sketchbook this one is five five by eight pretty much you could also get a bigger one you know eight by ten or whatever so you definitely need some sketchbooks also the next important thing are the pencils so you can find a little drawing set pretty much anywhere so a little drawing set usually you can find some a bunch of different pencils and they come with an eraser and a pencil sharpener really cheap we'll go over with all the different different kinds of leads and pencils mean later in a different video so pick up some of those you know where you can get a little a larger set of them whatever your price range is also something that deals less with drawing but will be helpful for painting when we get into thumbnail sketches and such as having some shades of gray markers see they're all just different shades of gray this is really good for value sketching and for doing things of that nature so if you can find these that would be cool but if not don't worry about it but just something handy to have around the next thing are the different kinds of erasers this is a gum eraser I recommend these this these really work the best for me when I'm doing drawing you can also get an kneaded eraser they look like this but usually they're completely square and flat but what you can do is you know you use them and then when it gets black or dirty or something you can you can fold it over on itself so you can shape it and mold it into you know a really fine point eraser that you might need so these are good for really fine details and such like that and they tend to pick up graphite pretty well and then this is just a regular old plastic kind of eraser not the best but if that's all you can get it'll do the job pencil sharpener of course that'll most likely come with the kit these will also come with a kid if you if you get a nice kit these are called blending stumps what it is is a rolled-up sheet of paper and with a really fine point and you you rub it there pretty much for shading and we'll get into that later but here that's what they look like so we'll get into what those do later but if you have some thought be great and this you may not really need but it's pretty much just sandpaper and it's you if you need like a really sharp point on your pencil you just kind of you know sharpen the side of your pencil there to get a nice sharp tip when needed so it can be handy but really more for details alright folks so let's get into it here I usually start out with a 2b that's usually my favorite pencil to use and just briefly I'll go into what these different pencils mean I'm sure if you have a kid already you've noticed that there's a lot of different H's and B's and F well here's a good example an 8b well what B stands for is black so the higher the number this the softer and and darker it's going to be so the B the B's are usually they get softer the higher the number so right here I have an 8 B and a 6b the 6 the 8b is softer and most likely darker than the 6p okay so if that makes sense so one being you know the highest like eight being the softest lead and then it gets harder and harder as you get lower in the bees now for the h's to H H stands for hardness so the higher the number and the H's so if you have like a six H I don't even think they have that in here but if you did have a six H the higher it gets the higher the number the harder it gets so 2h isn't that hard but if you had a 4h the 4-h is going to be a lot harder than the two so hopefully that makes sense now if you see an HB that's kind of in the middle you know hard and blackness this is kind of like a normal pencil that we write with so I usually use to draw and sketch I usually use a two B two little softer and it allows me to get some darks that without switching pencils without going to like a 4 B or a 6b I can get some darker tones just for sketching you know nothing too detailed but after drawing a while you you'll realize what pencils you like is just like paint brushes with paint so we're going to start out with a to be here and one of the first things that you know they do in drawing classes and that you learn to draw is to how to make things three-dimensional and I have a few tricks but I'm going to just show you how we do it in the first this first video I'm trying to make them make a short video so we start out with a simple object and really where I should start is how to sketch most people don't know exactly how to sketch so I'm going to zoom in here just so you can really see what I'm doing so when you sketch you want to draw many different lines so if you're sketching a circle out you know try to find the shape within all these different lines you want to find the shape now that's a very messy circle but you get the idea is that you don't want to commit see this is more of something you want to do and then you go back and kind of darken you know the the line you can you know you find the shape within all those lines dark and go back and dark and where I've committed something you don't want to dice with it when sketching the initial sketching you want it really light totally clean ated right at the door down very light compared you don't want to just draw a circle like this very hard and see now I mean that looks it's just even if I finished it it doesn't look good you know compared to that one this one is more of a circle because I you know I sketched it and this one I committed you know the first time I tried to do it I just committed to it instead of sketching and refine the edges and finding the best line within those lines so now if I go back over and sketch over that and sketching it is just different lines it's just doing lines like you know different different shapes so that's what sketching is and you can see I kind of fixed it up there so don't be committed if you're drawing a tree or something or sketching anything I suggest that you start drawing everything in your house your your whole house layout start sketching everything but if you if you're sketching a tree you know if you're doing like the trunk don't commit you know to this being the trunk don't commit to that you know kind of sketch it out first get to get the general idea you can even get the the general shape you know just do really quick and then okay maybe it doesn't dip in that much so you kind of you know draw another line there another line there and then you know once you start finalizing it you kind of hard and the edge where you need to and then these other these lighter lines will just disappear over time you know you only it's not even important that you have those lines there you can go back and erase later on when you're finishing up the sketch or the drawing but don't commit to the very first you know more than likely it's not going to be perfect the first time you try to draw something and you saw there with that circle that it was not good at all compared to this one where I took my time and sketched so keep that in mind when when sketching that's the proper way to sketch now making something 3d this is two-dimensional because there's no depth there's no shadow really so the first thing you have to do just like in painting if you follow my painting lessons that you've heard this before you need to find a light source so where's the light coming from I'm just going to say it's coming from over here you know something to that effect so you make sure you even sketch in the arrow you never know where you want it to come from so if the light is right here there's the Sun now you have to think three dimensionally is it shining behind it hitting the back of it is it right on the side there is it more toward toward you you know it just depends but we'll say that this is going to be really light so the shadow is going to be over here so this is what you need to practice doing is start shading in really lightly these different areas of shadow trying to make things three-dimensional now in later videos I'll get into some I'll get in I'll go into depth on how to shade different techniques you can do all these things but you know at the beginning I just kind of want to give an overall thing that you need to start thinking about and making things look realistic and determining light sources and things and this is very important foundation before you even begin a painting before you begin drawing always ask where's the light source how many light sources maybe there's another light source over here so then the shadows just down here so I mean it there's so many different factors that you need to be aware of and you know and then it'll have a shadow like this you know and then you have to think what is it sitting on this is sitting on something flat is it you know there's the background something like that a little off but you get my point sitting on something like that is the shadow this is a shadow dip way down like this get more of a 3d look there's many different things you have to think about so I want you to be just practice things like this start sketching everything in your house get used to the sketching lines get used to the really messy lines and have fun with it and just try different techniques start doing some cross hatching we'll get into that a lot later but hopefully this helped you just understand how to sketch and and knowing that it may not be perfect the first time you try it but that's what erasers are there for that's why you have this big canvas of paper you know if this one didn't turn out well okay start over on this one try it again try from a different angle try the light up here and then just you know okay where's the shadow going to be actually well maybe there's another light source here okay so now what do I do you know just shadow it up here a little bit you know depending on the shape of the ball and maybe if you don't know the answer you know get a get a round object and put two lights on each side in real life and see where how does the shadow react you know there's probably a shadow over here like this this they're going to be crossing shadows in real life so like how does this work you know this is going to be a really dark shadow where they cross but this probably still be a light shadow over here and a light shadow on this side so it just depends I mean you have to really think about this stuff and try it out and see see how realistic you can make things just simple sketches like this and start trying trying it with uh with cubes you know rectangular objects make them 3d and get used to just doing these quick sketches it doesn't have to be perfect get rid of the perfectionist mentality and get into the training mode you know lights coming over here you know that's going to be light little shadow there shadow but this is going to be the darkest you know just things like this just play around and have fun with it let's see what you can come up with and you know once you can do cubes and all these different objects that's all nature is you know this is this is just a big cylinder you know and then how is the light hitting it there's a light here so there's gonna be a big shadow coming this way or whatever the case is so play around get used to the sketching lines that's all I ask for you this week and get the materials and play around with everything and have fun start sketching things in your house just get as far as you can just sketch things and and if it looks terrible in the end don't worry about it don't stress over it do your best and next week we're going to get into you know all this stuff you know maybe it'll be shading or how to make things look more 3d using wireframes and you know drawing it on there and visualizing it but we'll get into that when the time comes but for now just play around with the sketching lines and see what you can come up with have fun but anyway hope this video was helpful in any way and stay tuned for next week next Saturday I'd appreciate it if you'd like this video please give it a thumbs up I'd appreciate it biking to subscribe if you wish to see more and take care yourself peace

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Length: 15min 32sec (932 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 28 2013