All language subtitles for 04. Exercise 01- Simples Shapes (warmup).ENGlish

This exercise is called simple shapes. In this exercise we're gonna start by

drawing just some basic shapes on our page and then we're gonna do a quick

little warm-up exercise using these shapes just to get us in the creative

mood. So just a quick note about the tool that I'm using. I'm gonna be doing
this

exercise on Procreate on my iPad Pro and I'm using my Apple pencil and I'll be

using the number six pencil brush that comes with Procreate. If you want to find

the same brush that I'm using it's in the sketching brushes and then you'll

find that right down there toward the middle 6B pencil. So to start what I want

to do is draw a few basic shapes fairly large on the screen here or fairly large

filling out your page I should say. So draw a square, draw a circle,

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and a triangle. And then below that, draw a nice big open cross shape. Now the
key here is make

sure that these are nice big open shapes. Don't do any of the parts too narrow
or spindly. The next

thing we're going to draw here, just one last big shape here, is a more organic
blob. Now let's

actually continue to fill in the spaces here. So there's some spaces and try to
draw shapes that

aren't super straightforward. Anything but circles or squares. All I would say
to remember to do here

is to make sure that the shapes are somewhat open. The more irregular these
shapes are though,

the more interesting things will get later on.

So once you have filled your page with a variety of these shapes, but most
importantly the square,

the circle, the triangle, the cross, and the blob, it's time to move on to the
second part

of this exercise. If you're using a digital illustration tool like Procreate,
what you can do

is add a layer above this, or if you're using physical media like paper and
pencil, of course

you can use tracing paper or a light table to do the next part here. So I'm
going to just choose

a different color. I'll use the cyan color for this layer just so we can see it
distinct from

the other shapes. And actually what I'm going to do is just take the opacity of
my shape layers

beneath down a bit so that they're not so distracting. And once you've done
that, be sure to

select your photos.

the new layer that you just made. And we're going to start by writing our names
in these shapes.

You can do your first name if you like, or your full name. And what you'll find
is that the way

you want to draw on your name, or this is what I find anyway, is sort of based
on the shape. It's

responding to the shape. And what you end up doing is arranging your letters in
ways that perhaps

you wouldn't have thought of without that shape's help. And in this case, here's
my name with the

cross. It's very natural that I'm going to try and make this work in a sort of
crossword way.

And it just so happens that my O in my first and last names

works well in the center there. So just keep going and respond to those shapes

as instinctually and intuitively as you can. Don't think about it too much. This
is

a warm-up exercise. We're not trying to be super clever here. If you want to get
super

bold, just write one of your letters really large and then figure out what to do
next,

as in what I'm doing here. I drew that T really big and now I just have to
figure it out. And

somehow I forgot the E, one of the E's in my name. So as you can see, once I
have finished

my main shapes, the square, the circle, the triangle, the cross, and the blob,

I can start to move on to these other shapes. And you can go on and do this.

right to the end. I encourage you to finish the whole thing

just to really get warmed up.

Have some fun. Okay, so I finished drawing my name or writing out my name in all
these shapes.

Now let's just take a look and see what happens, see what we can learn from it.

So what I found when I did this exercise is when I started with the box,

my name is pretty regular. Like I just kind of spelt it left to right and top to
bottom,

just like I would if I was writing my name on a square piece of paper, kind of
normal.

But once I hit the circle and the triangle and the other shapes, I really did
find myself responding

to that shape. So of course, we're not drawing yet, we're just writing with
letters. But you

can really get a sense of how

no matter what kind of marks you're making in these shapes, they just end up

being influenced by the shape around it. And you just end up doing things that

your more critical and logical side

wouldn't have thought to do. I particularly like

what happened when I started getting these super irregular shapes

like the the blob for instance. Things got pretty wacky there. And the way I

write my M's and my E's and stuff, they really look

the same and so they start to really mess with my head when I look at that.

And I think that's good when you can do things that kind of mess with your head

and confuse even you as you're drawing them. That's kind of a

sign that you're doing something right in this exercise.

I also just like how these steps made me just

keep it real simple and just stick with my first name,

t-o-m. And just to break my own rule so I don't get too caught up on

following rules at all, I did

just draw a happy face there, broke a little rule and drew something that didn't
even fit in the

shape here with my initials and an arrow. Sometimes it's okay to break your own
rules,

it can be fun and it can actually like kick you into something more creative or
it can actually

like just keep you moving. So of course this is just a warm-up, it's nice to
loosen up without

having to worry about what to draw. We all know how to spell our names and so
this is a great way

to just start thinking responsibly on the page. But this actually does have a
more practical

component to it or a more practical use to it and that's if we're doing any kind
of creative

lettering or branding. Starting with the shape and learning how to respond to
that with our lettering,

with our writing, without worrying about if it's correct, is a really good thing
to practice.

Now that we've warmed up, let's move on to the next exercise.