All language subtitles for 026 How To Draw Light Loose.en

In this lecture we're going to be talking about how to draw lightly in the importance of drawing lightly

and also fast.

We want to draw it lightly and fast when we're doing our roughs or under drawings.

So first I want to demonstrate something to you.

The reason why we want to draw lightly when we're doing our under drawings is because of this.

So if I go ahead and I draw a circle like this I draw it nice and light.

I'm not putting a lot of pressure on the paper or anything like that.

Then if I draw another circle over here and I draw dark well that's my under drawing.

Watch what happens if I take my razor and I try to erase this one.

You can see it does not completely erase it.

And the harder I have to push the more I can ripple my paper get I have to push harder with my hands

or I'll get more oil into the paper from my hands.

Over here you can see with this light one by race that

it goes away basically completely.

And that's why we want to learn how to draw lightly it so that we can erase things change things while

we're drawing and not only that but our other drawings need to be light because if I draw something

like

a circle like that and then let's say I put it in right here and it is right here giving my chin but

let's say I don't like the shape or the position of that year.

Well when I go back in dark and that with my final sketch lines

you can see I can change the position the size so instead of having it clear up here I had it down there.

So that's why it's really important to learn how to draw lightly.

So what we want to do is first we want to do a little bit of an exercise.

So we're kind of going to do what we did before.

We're gonna draw our basic lines and shapes that show up in character design but we want to practice

drawing them lightly.

So first let's just start with circles so I just want you to practice drawing circles.

But I want you to use very light pressure.

So you're your hand should be moving the pencil around but you shouldn't be pushing at all.

You should just the weight of your hand should be creating the lightness and the purpose of this exercise

is because you want to train your hand to understand how much pressure you should be adding when you're

drawing lightly and you need to get used to this.

It's just like when you drive in a car you need to learn how much pressure you need to add to the gas.

When people first start learning to drive you're probably familiar with the fact that some people just

push really hard.

They don't realize how much pressure they need to add but the more they drive the more use they get

to it.

And they don't have to think about it just muscle memory.

So that's why we're doing these simple little exercises is to build up that muscle memory and remember

sort of muscles remember how much pressure to add.

All right.

So once we've done circles you can fill up a whole page or just a row like I've done here.

Then we want to go ahead and we want to work on lines.

We're just gonna draw straight lines that are very light just side by side like this all the way across.

Not very much pressure at all.

In fact there's almost no pressure it's just the weight of my hand pushing down on the pencil but there's

not actually any muscle force pushing down on it.

All right.

After we've done that let's go ahead and practice your lips is so just drawing like lips is like this

and if these don't come out perfect like your other ones that's OK.

We're mostly just focusing on drawing lightly you can focus on drawing accurately and lightly later

on but for now we just want to focus on drawing lightly.

So once you've done all those lips says let's go ahead and let's do some S curves lightly like this

right.

Now we have a page of really light circles lines ellipses and S curves.

Now it might be kind of hard for you to see right now because they're so light.

And that's good.

You'll notice that the circles are a little bit darker because I went around him so many times so maybe

try not to do that but about that light is as I don't want them to get any darker than these circles

up here.

So practice these.

And once you fill the page with these or you can practice each one on their own individual sheet of

paper once you've done that let's go ahead and move on to actually looking at an example and a real

world project where we're gonna want to make sure that we're drawing lightly.

So when to switch over to a blue pencil because we like to draw my under drawings for my animation styled

characters with a blue pencil.

So we're just gonna talk a little bit more about why we need to draw lightly.

So we've already drawn a character the beginning of this course and we started off with a circle.

So go ahead and draw a circle.

We want to draw it lightly.

Now another reason why we draw with colored pencils for the other drawings which you don't have to but

the reason why I do it because it's another way to differentiate between the under drawing and the final

drawing.

So even if I draw really dark with this I'll bring this paper back here even if I draw a really dark

circle like this and I'm pushing pretty hard with my blue colored pencil.

If I take my darker graphite pencil and I draw on top of that

you can see that my blue lines they kind of just disappear because the contrast is so great that really

what our brain perceives is this darker pencil.

So the blue just kind of fades away.

So kind of works the same as drawing lightly but drawing with a different colored pencil and drawing

lightly is even better.

So that's why I'm using a blue color pencil and I'm going to be drawing lately.

So I start off with drawing a circle like that next what I want to do is I want to go ahead and mark

out the center of my face.

So the things that we want to draw lightly are all of our guidelines all of our guide form so the sphere

right here for example will go and draw the line.

We want to draw all those with blue colored pencil and we want to draw lightly

and this right here is basically the biggest secret to character design which is your under design.

People don't just go into drawing characters and just drawing perfectly without drawing under drawing

that's all rough and stuff and figuring out those shapes in those relationships.

We always have to start off with this rough under drawing and it's always going to be light.

I mean go ahead and add a jaw shape and just kind of rough that in and see if I don't like that I can

still kind of just go ahead and reshape that and it doesn't really matter that much because when I go

back in with a darker pencil it's going to all change.

Go ahead Mark out the ear and maybe that is too big.

So when we go back in there we can go ahead and reshape that with our darker pencil.

Go ahead and kind of reshape this eyeline a little bit more

and I'll go ahead and decide where my neck is gonna be so the neck is gonna come off the back of the

skull like that.

No we want to keep this net kind of thing because there's gonna be a female.

Don't worry we're gonna learn how to draw plenty of males if you're wondering why I'm drawing so many

females.

It's just what I'm best at but we're definitely gonna learn how to draw males and different styles and

stuff like that.

So don't worry if you're thinking that this whole course is about how to draw female characters it's

not

all right.

And then I can go ahead.

It's going to kind of mark out a line like that for her eyes

and you'll notice that as I start deciding where I want my detail to be I'll get a little bit darker

I'll push a little bit harder with my pencil.

So we progressively want to get darker and darker our first construction lines and shapes and forms

and guidelines and stuff like that we want to be really light.

Then our next pass can be a little bit darker so once we start blocking out all those details are going

to be in step we can start making that old darker

maybe I'll bring this ear in a little bit closer and since I drew lightly it's a little bit easier to

race that

that looks a little bit better

go and just kind of block in a basic shape for the hair.

Let's see.

And this is where you get to play when you draw lightly you get to play with all kinds of different

things because you can erase it you can change it trash it like that maybe

and so at this point we can change stuff.

That's why it's good that we're drawing at least because like I said we can trace it so like her neck

for example I don't like the position of it looks like she's kind of doing this really awkward thing

with her neck and her head looking down so I'm just gonna kind of angle that neck back a little bit

more like that

and then I think that the eyebrows are a little bit too low.

So we go ahead and raise that up a little bit.

That's kind of sort of block in the eyes a little bit

looks a little bit too angry.

So maybe I'll just kind of make those eyes a little bit more angular.

It'll give her some eyebrows up here.

This is looking kind of freaky but you know you'll actually this is a good example of why we draw lightly

because you can see that she's certain to look kind of scary but you'll see that I can erase things

and when I go back in there with a darker pencil I can I can really change the way she looks when I

finalize my lines so again and work out where I want her eyebrows to be.

That nose is looking really big.

And this is why this part is called the rough the rough and because it's very rough.

And not only does it look rough the process is rough.

So you can see I'm changing so many things about her.

It's just in constant change.

Sometimes it looks really bad and that's okay.

The roughs usually look bad at first.

And you just have to keep working up until you get them looking the way you want them to look.

All right.

So there we go.

So there's just kind of a light sketch of a character it's the beginnings of it.

We can sell racing's change things if we want.

But the point of this is to demonstrate that we need to draw lightly when we're drawing our roughs and

under drawings then when we go in to do our final drawing we can draw on top of this.

Or if you're using something like Photoshop you can create a new layer go in there and draw on top of

your rough sketch and finalize those lines clean them up and stuff like that and then you could turn

your sketch layer off but always start off really light and really loose which is another point I want

to say is you want to stay really loose and you're drawing lines you don't want to get super sketchy

like this or too tight or anything or pushed too hard.

You want to stay light and when you stay light and loose it's really hard to do one without the other.

So you can see like I can draw a curve and turn into a swirly.

You just want to do really light loose lines.

That's what you're under sketch is always all about.

So make sure that you're staying loose with your drawing light your hand just kind of flow around make

sure that you're not pushing very hard.

Those two things are going to be very important.

Now in the next lecture what we're gonna do is we're gonna talk about line wait which is very important

which is just the thinness or thickness or lightness or darkness of your lines.

We're gonna talk about how it plays into finishing off your character sketch and be able to see also

in that lecture how we can go ahead and change some of this stuff and really change the way our character

looks.

All right.

Thanks for watching this lecture and I will see you guys in the next 1.