All language subtitles for 05. Ideas in Shapes.ENGlish

This exercise is called ideas and shapes. It should be totally unsurprising that
we're going

to be drawing stuff inside the shapes we just drew, but of course it's probably
going to help

to have some kind of prompt or idea to start with. So first let's come up with a
theme to draw from.

For this exercise choose a theme based on your hobby, your favorite pastime, or
your job. I'm a

runner so I'm going to use running as my theme. Now if you want you can get more
specific and it

actually might help you come up with ideas faster. Like for instance for me
running might just be

too general, it might be too wide open as a theme. So to help I could narrow it
down into a more

specific experience like trail running or running on a hot day. If you need to
just set your theme

to something general then just choose a general theme and pick an object based
on that theme.

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Like for me it might be a running shoe.

And then just try and fit that into each of your funny shapes. And as you go
along you'll probably

think of other things and you're going to loosen up and ideas will start flowing
more easily just

as you get warmed up. Now I want to remind you that there is no limit on how
many of these

things you get to do. It's your time and your project. You can do a thousand of
these if you

want. So don't feel like you need to have the best idea or the the perfect theme
right away.

I guarantee that even if you have the best theme right now, like right away,

no matter what you're going to think of something better as you go along. So of
course the first

thing we want to do before we get started is choose our theme. And your theme
can be based on

your job or it can be based on your hobby or something that you're interested
in. And so

I'll just quickly show you.

How I would brainstorm that if this will help you come up with something for

yourself here. So of course my hobby, one of my hobbies is running. You know my
job

is an illustrator.

I could also just do a third category here which is more of like things I'm

interested in and maybe one of those things is space. Another thing would be

travel. So you can see there's lots of ways you can figure out what you want

your your theme to be on. I'm gonna stick with running and if I get stuck in the

the running thing I might go more specific and make it about trail

running but the point here is to make it something that I'm interested in

something that I know a little bit about so that I don't have to struggle to

think of ideas for it as I go into the next part. So once you've chosen your

theme you can begin the more fun part. So what I'm gonna do because I'm working
in

Procreate is just activate

that layer again with my original shapes. I'm just gonna use those exact same
shapes as my

starting points again. I'm going to create a new layer and make sure that I'm
drawing in a

different color just so it stands out. And I'll go through these shapes in the
same order that I did

the first exercise in. So the point here is just to be as fast and intuitive as
you can. Don't

overthink things. Don't be critical. Like for instance here I'm already being
critical of

myself. Like I drew high tops because high tops aren't the correct shoe you
would run in. But of

course I can say well it's not a high top it's a running shoe with socks in it.
And you know once

you've drawn that you can move on to the next shape for the circle. I am going
to not overthink

it. The first thing that I thought of here was a tree for some reason even
though it's not circle

shape. But I can use that circle shape just to make it a little bit more fun. So
I'm going to

fit the tree in and then maybe there's a little trail marker on the tree there.
Sometimes that's

what I see and then I'm going to move on. Now the triangle is also a tree shape
and that's really

the first thing that I thought of. So I'm just going to draw a tree and for some
reason I just

thought of a running tree. So maybe what I'll do is I don't usually encourage
editing while you're

in this stage but I want this to be a running tree. So I'll just remove that
stem and put some

eyes on here and there's my running tree. Moving on to the cross shape again
don't think too hard

about oh what could be you know for me it's like oh what could be cross-shaped
and running themed.

Now if I wanted I could get really I could sit here a moment and think about it
but if I get stuck

I can just draw whatever the heck I want and sometimes what I do is I just draw
a mark

and that just gets me out of trying to do the perfect thing and suddenly I see
someone maybe

stretching.

This definitely looks like a hat shape so I'm gonna stick a hat in here.

If you're a trail runner you'll often see a lot of people wearing trucker hats
so that's a trucker hat.

This one I'm gonna draw candy.

This one I'm gonna draw shoes with no toes or with toes sticking out of it I
should say

because maybe he ran so much that

he wore off the end of his shoe. And for this one, it looks like a crown to me,

which reminds me of King of the Mountain, which is if you're a runner or a
cyclist,

and you record your runs on Strava, and you are the fastest one on a segment or
route,

then you get a crown icon, little badge thing that says you're the King of the
Mountain.

So, King of the Mountain. This one will be, I keep seeing shoe shapes, and
that's okay.

I think of like at the start of a race, when the starting gun goes off. This
one, I'm just

starting a mark. I don't know what it's going to be. Maybe it's an arrow marker,
something you might

see on the trail, if you're trying to find your way around.

I'm starting off with no idea what I'm drawing,

except for I have this notion that it's like a giant watch

on a person, on a runner, I guess.

That does not make any sense.

These two shapes I'm going to put together

as if someone really trying to go for it.

This is an arm holding a water bottle. This will be a medal. You can see that

I'm just drawing over my other doodles as I go along and that's completely okay.

Now here I see mountains and maybe it's like a weird landscape where you're

running and then there's a trail getting you to the mountains and a sign that's

disproportionately large. It's bigger than the mountains and for some reason

pointing you that way. I'll figure out what to do with that later. I just have

one more shape to fill in here. Maybe it's just a rock.

with some grass and dirt around it.

Okay, so I am done this exercise.

Now, sometimes I come up with stuff

the first time through this exercise and I love it.

And there's lots of stuff for me to work with.

For some reason, I really struggled

to get through this one for some reason.

And so what I'm gonna do is just say,

like, try again and see if you can go a second time.

There's no limit to how many times you do this.

I think the important thing is just to keep

that momentum going and not to get frustrated with yourself.

This is just sketches.

This is supposed to be fun.

And so what I'm gonna do is just to make this different

this time around is I'm gonna rotate my page 90 degrees.

I'm gonna use a different color.

And I'm gonna just try my running theme again and maybe try and just relax and

draw without thinking more. It's okay if you struggle to come up with ideas the

first time because this is really just about free-floating, free-form, free

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association type ideas. A big thing about improv is this idea of yes and where
no

matter what you're given, whatever prompt you're given, say from your audience
or

from your fellow actors on stage all participating in this improvised

performance, is you have to take what you get. You have to work with what you're

given from the other people and try and make the best of it. And you're gonna
bomb.

Things are gonna work out if you're if you're saying, oh, that's not good
enough. I didn't get

the right cue. I didn't get the right prompt. I didn't get the right setup for
this or whatever.

You can always blame the outside for why I didn't have the right conditions. And
here it's just

about making the best of it and saying yes and yes. I'm gonna go with that. And
how about this?

Yes, I drew a weird propeller. And how about drawing some hands on it?

Figure out what to do with it later. So I've filled out actually two pages worth
of these

improvised drawings in my shapes. And honestly, as I was doing this, I was
starting to get frustrated

with myself, I was starting to feel like I wasn't coming up with good ideas, I
was being critical

of myself. And this is the exact thing that I'm trying to help you overcome in
this class. But

I'm going to leave what I've done here because I still have a lot of hope in

the process.

I trust the process enough that I know that I can come up with some good stuff,

even from these things that a part of me is just like,

I could have come up with better ideas. And well,

I just want to quickly review what I've done. Um, the,

so the first thing here was that I, I, I,

I had my running theme and I went in and tried to fill in these shapes.

My first attempt was in red. And so I have this stretching guy,

I have a hat, I have a shoe with my toes coming out.

I have a running tree and,

and then for some reason I thought maybe I could do better and,

or at least come up with some more ideas.

And so I went again and this is what you can see now in the cyan drawings and

I came up with a few more and I got kind of got weirder. I got bolder. I just
was like,

why don't I try something that I totally haven't tried before? And so I did some
lettering,

I did shapes that just didn't make any sense at all, like this P with a foot and
stuff like that.

So I'm just going to leave these behind and move on to the third exercise and
see what I can make

of these. But before we do, I just want to say a big takeaway here is that we're
often given

shapes to work within that seem restrictive. Now I'm talking about when we're
actually doing

assignments or jobs for clients. For example, if you're working on a kid's
picture book

and the layout of the text is already in place from your art director, you can
use the shape of

the space that you've been given as the starting point for your idea. In other
words, you can

respond to the shape of the spaces that your art director has left to you.

Another takeaway here is that this is an example of how constraints can make us
more creative.

Sometimes we encounter limits or less than ideal conditions in our projects and
we feel like these

are getting in the way of our true creativity. But creativity doesn't happen in
the absence

of limitations. It's how we can solve our visual problems in spite of them and
sometimes because

of them. You know what could be more ideal as a canvas shape to work with than a
basic square

or rectangle? It's not like they sell triangle or octagon canvases at the art
supply shop but

because we have to work within these more random shapes as you can see it's
actually easier to find

ideas because part of the idea starts in the shape itself. Maybe one of the
problems with

canvases is we have this blank canvas syndrome or this blank page syndrome.

The problem with it is that they're squares and rectangles.

At this point, of course, feel free to share your work on the class projects
page.

Share your chosen theme, your original shapes, and the sketches you created.

Other than that, we can get on to the next exercise.