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Welcome to the lesson on "drawing thinly and lightly".

Usually, when we draw, sometimes we can be pretty heavy handed, right.

We may use very thick lines, we may press really hard on the page and get very dark lines in

what we're doing.

And this lesson is really about encouraging you to lean towards drawing thinner, lighter lines in general.

Right.

In general, drawing thinner and lighter.

So for example, I'm going to press really lightly here.

I'm going to draw a head using as thin lines and as light lines as possible.

And what this does, is it gives me the freedom to make corrections.

First of all, by pressing harder where I need to. So let's say I misaligned the ear, no problem I'll draw

another ear and press harder.

And because of the increased contrast in the darkness, in a sense, my brain no longer acknowledges the

lighter lines and it's as if they don't really even exist anymore.

And so drawing thinly in that sense helps me to make corrections and not have to erase as much when

I'm busy trying to work out a sketch, or work out the rough of the sketch.

Secondly as well, drawing thinly helps me control the line weights more.

It's very hard to make a thick line that you've drawn thin.

So if I drew this line over here for the chin, draw really thick and then I decided that I actually

wanted a little bit thinner because I wanted to enhance the line weights,

it's quite a lot of trouble to kind of grab the eraser,

make sure that I'm, you know, I'm on the right type of brush, and then kind of trying to come in here and

thin the line and then I'm kind of ruining my line flow.

And the nice looseness that I had in the stroke and it's just it's not something you want to have to

struggle with. Versus drawing it thinly in the beginning allows me to (let's just erase the

whole line) and allows me to control the line weights much better.

So, let's draw this in again, I'm going to use an nice thin, light line, and now I'll want to control the weighting

and I want to say "OK fine here by the neck where it overlaps,

I want this to be a thicker, darker line, and let that kind of taper off on both sides, and then perhaps here,

where the jaw kind of comes and curves around over the neck,

I want that to be thicker. And you can have a lot more control over your lines when you're leaning more

towards drawing thin, thinly and drawing lightly. So that you can easily modify your construction and

so that you can easily control the line weights and thicken them

Where you need to.

So in a nut shell, that really is what drawing thinly and lightly is about. Construct with thin, light

lines and then enhance your line weights and have more control over your line weights and easily adjust

without having to erase too much. You just press a little bit harder.

OK.

So that is the lesson on drawing thinly and lightly.

So really I want you guys to remember this, this is an often ignored lesson, and then you know we end

up with these really hectically dark drawings and they just look very kind of crazy and even I myself

don't always remember to draw thinly

and lightly. But let me encourage you, please lean towards drawing thinly, drawing lightly.

OK.

I'm obviously talking too much.

This is lightly over here. Drawing thinly and thinly. Drawing thinly and lightly.

I will see you guys in the next lesson. Draw thinly and lightly please.

Thank you.