In our next class, we are going to be doing some finger drawing. Now finger drawing is not full arm drawing, there are at least three approaches to drawing and this illustrative style is what what we would call cartoonists use to use back in the day, because they have to draw small pictures. They didn't want big pictures. So you can see that with my hand on the paper that I can draw this shape in one continuous line. And then after I've drawn that shape, I add this shape. And let me just show you quickly how fingers Drawing is an illustrative style of drawing, but you have to keep it small.

And I'll give you an example right here of doing that we start with just to shake. Notice that my fingers are doing the moving. I've got a firm grip on my pencil. And because I've practiced so many of these, I can guide my pen. And it really can feel the muscles right in here, like I can really feel them. And then I'm going to add a little round on the top straight in here.

You'll notice that I've worked this picture out quite a bit. Meaning I know exactly where the steps are just like an animator or a cartoonist. everything they do is worked out and I'm still controlling everything with my finger drawing. I'm going to have a little variation here. Just bring And then I have a little drawing of a penguin. How do I draw realistically like a rock or something?

Well, because you've practiced all these rounds and rounds and up and downs and back and forth and zigzags. Let's just take something simple like, I mean, in drawing class, sometimes they'll do something like a piece of tape or, let's drop the pen. Let's draw still life. Choose something that is simple that you can draw. Here's something that at least test some attraction to it. It's at all as a brush.

You put it right in front of you and then and then just start using rounder rounds. Find out well that's more of an ellipse do a little talking. Another round and round, and another round and round. I'm almost doing it. Like right. Exactly.

With what's in front of me like That life size see. So there I've drawn basically, that shape. Now you can leave it at that, right? But let's go over what we did, we used to round and round. We used another little oval, another little oval and an oval here. Now I can probably add some back and forth.

There's my ellipse. And I'm having a good time drawing it because I feel confident. I square this off, and I'm looking at it. So this type of drawing, we will definitely be doing one of these in the next class. Because not everybody likes the cartoon look. And here we go.

Okay, now, how long has this taken me to draw? A couple? Not very long. Then Okay, then some of you might say, well, I like shading. So we could start with like, here's your back and forth stroke. You You start with shading and adding a little bit of shading here to make it look three dimensional.

And you just start looking at shading, adjusting everything. Putting in a shadow maybe with learning how to use our finger to put in a shadow. Okay. And adding some accents, dark accents. And there we go. We have a fairly good drawing of this little badger hair.

I think it's a shade it is it's a shaving brush that I used to. When you're drawing, it's good to have a brush to sweep it off. Now, my eraser, what do I do with my eraser? I use it to clean up the edges on my drawing. So, look, it goes that way. That's what we're gonna do.

Some of you might like flowers. We will be doing lots of different things and lots of different ways to draw And I want you to just do these basic exercises I've given you in this class and get really good at rounding around, up and down, back and forth, zigzag zigzag. We always go, dot, dot dot, because we're going to the next level in the next class. There's always another level to go to stay with me finish this class, and I'll get to work on the next class. I promise to deliver what you want.