Welcome to our next lesson. Today I'd like to explain how to create symmetrical shapes. Realistic type of drawing requires the perfection of drawing. And that's why drawing this perfect symmetry is necessary in steel life and beyond. Here we are going to look at the basic principle of drafting vases, cups, and similar shapes. I've done a lot of sketching in my life.

That's why when I start sketching, it looks very easy. But when you begin doing it on your own, it seems like it's never going to happen. Just be patient with yourself and repeat the steps and eventually you're going to do just fine. An ellipse is a circle and space that rotates depending on your line of sight, a circle becomes a simple line when we look at the cup at an eye level. But when we move our line of sight up or down, this line becomes an ellipse from different with the ellipses with changes with our point of view. And the more complex your ways are, the more ellipses you must draft inside one object.

When you sketch out, you must draw through the shapes, completing the ellipses even if you don't see them in full. Because a lot of times though objects could be opaque or obscured by another object up in front. This will ensure the drafting accuracy of ellipses. This image illustrates how you can find the ellipses in symmetrical objects, the V have each ellipse changes with your line of sight. That's why a single object would not repeat the ellipse with throughout the talk ellipse would be different from the bottom one. This schematic drawing shows you the rotation of ellipses and how you can draft out symmetrical cups and bases using a central line that always remains parallel to the paper's edge and measure equal distances from it.

Whenever you draw almost any kind of object, you want to look for the symmetry in the object. What works the best is basically making a line in the middle of your I mean, I could measure it precisely to get the precise line but the idea would be making the law In the middle of the object, and then measuring equal distance from the object to make two points and draw the ellipses between the two points. When you draw freehand, you can use the ruler to put the basic lines to make sure that that's straight. And when you start out sketching the basic distances, it's a lot easier to create symmetrical shapes, just by observing the distances and making them equal on both sides of the object. And then the second thing is to observe the width and curvature of each ellipse, unless you see, like over here, we see the distance is shorter than in seems to be in here.

And this is what you're trying to copy whenever you start. Drawing the same way you approach any other object that's in non transparent, you could place the lines in the middle and then start sketching, looking at the distances from that line and making ellipses. If your object is not transparent, you want to draw the entire object despite the fact that you have a, let's say, the diamonds in the center. You still want to draw through the object. This is how you could create nice in even size by not avoiding this area but by drawing through the area. And then you could erase the unnecessary lines but the object itself becomes very nice and solid and it feels like you understand the basic principles of drawing, you can make a line in the center of the diamond.

And then you draw these lines is equal distance measured from the center line. And then you look at the overall shape, which is a triangle, and the another ellipse that you have over here. If you look at this diamond, once again, we can make a line right in the middle of the diamond, and then start sketching out the basic shape, which is a triangle. You could mark these spaces to have a equal distance from both sides, then just connect that and draw the overall shape over here. But whenever you have this line, it's just a lot easier to sketch out the side. more evenly, and it's not going to be as crooked as usual looks in the first sketch.

You can also rotate your drawing or photograph and sketch out this way or check for the mistakes. When you have the crooked forms that are not perfectly there on the rotation is going to show you that and all you do you just fix the unevenness that you see. Common Mistakes These are examples of cops taking the wrong turn. It leaves us don't have corners they must be parallel to the papers edge and they rarely come to a straight line. They can come to a straight line at an eye level on them. If you have sharp angles, and just practice the rotation by drawing this area as a curve with minimal leads Drawing crooked ellipses.

To fix it follow the folding technique, making sure you draw straight and parallel lines first around Visio rotate the elements. Objects don't look solid or connected. The fixed draw through the shapes even if you can't see them completely. If you trace the father and corner, copy the cameras mistakes, you've got to change your perspective and distorted ellipses. If you have a copper base of whatever you have that's reflective, it follows the same role. So you can place the line in the middle of the object and that's going to give you the idea to draw the equally distant sides of the object.

The same is true over here. You have Align in the center. And then you sketch out both sides without even measuring the distances. And if you want to be 100% precise, you use my folding method. Technique explained later. When you're done sketching out, if it looks perfect to you, then you can draw the shapes that you find inside the vase or a cup.

And this still life follows the same idea. You want to place the line that divides the wineglass in half. Then you could measure equal distance from here to there, mark the point and then you start throwing out the lips, observing it's with over here. If Unique it a wide, it just means that you're looking at it from a different point of view. And if the object is complicated, you're going to have a lot of ellipses inside of each shape, sometimes visas could be very complicated and it just increases the number of ellipses you see on the inside of the vase. Just the glass itself, you also have the lips over here and another one over here.

And once again, you will be able to make this nice and even when you start sketching out from the centerline. And then if it's still not working, you can use the folding method. If you draw it's transparent object. You've got to understand And that whatever it is in the background is going to appear on the inside of the object in some way. And usually, the value is going to be a little bit darker than the value in the background. But you have to observe you're still live to see the exact difference.

If you have something in the background, maybe like a pattern running across the background, the pattern is going to appear in the wineglass itself, but it's going to be distorted by its shape. And usually it becomes a very abstract kind of pattern on the inside of the transparent wineglass. Folding method, let's look at the folding method in steps. Be sure to press This technique on tracing paper first before committing to a colored pencil drawing. For that, you need a piece of tracing paper to be pencil kneaded eraser ruler, and just the one symmetrical object to sketch. To practice this technique, they begin sketching your cup freehand on tracing paper.

You don't need to be perfect at this stage rather, you should aim to capture the general size proportion interpretation of the cup in space. Observe how wide the ellipses are at the top and bottom of the cup. To add yourself in this process, make a straight line that marks the center of the cup and sketch out the cup freehand around this line. It gives you a general idea how to begin creating symmetry freehand by matching your dimensions visually on board. sides of the line. Once your freehand drawing is complete and proportions look okay, place parallel lines for each ellipse you see in the object.

Here we see just two ellipses and us make two lines. Use your ruler to make lines that are perfectly straight and parallel to each other and to the papers edge. Every hand line is never straight or parallel enough unless you're an excellent draftsman. Next, measure equal distances between the center line and the outer edge in the top elipse basing it on your freehand drawing in step one, now you have to equal a distance points from the center that connect the top ellipse. draft the ellipse again, going through these two points precisely. Most students placed the points but don't draw through them.

You'll begin to see how for Hand ellipse differs from your measured one. Don't forget to observe the correct width of the ellipse to repeat the process for the bottom ellipse. Usually the width of the bottom ellipse is slightly different from the top because they observe it at a different line of sight. Make sure to draw through the cup even if it's a vague or obscured. It guarantees drafting accuracy. Now, use the measured markings at the top and bottom ellipses to connect the sides of the cup.

If the lines appear straight, use a ruler. If it's a curving line, do your best to connect the ellipses freehand. Depending on your drafting abilities and experience. The waist or gap can look quite perfect at this stage. If your object is simple, but if the cup or bass has many ellipses, you might want to press it to the next Look at the two sides and decide which one is the best or more perfect for you're tracing people along the central line erase the world's worst side with a kneaded eraser. Because this paper is so transparent, you will see your best sides pencil markings through the erased one.

If you work on sketch paper, take it to the window light and trace your chosen correct side over the erased one unfold. The cups should look perfectly symmetrical, these identical curves. Practice this technique several times before committing to actual colored pencil drawing. At first your shapes might look a bit crooked or uneven, but if you follow this step, you will improve quite quickly as you gain precision freehand And here I'm going to share some examples of folding method. So why don't we just transfer the outlines right from a reference using a window light or light table? The answer is simple camera lenses distort reality and produce crooked forms.

If you use a zoom lens sometimes you can almost see a fisheye effect that is very noticeable on Linnaeus objects in architecture. Don't be a slave to your camera guys. While I don't have the video for this demonstration, I still want to go through the slides and explain how I created this colored pencil drawing. I'm mostly using Prismacolor Premier, pencils cleaner woodless pencils for just minor touch ups, Windsor Newton portrait pink pigment marker and white pigment marker as well as their heavy weight paper. And if you coins to draw out the marbles are all a kneaded eraser Tombow Mono eraser Sakura pen, touch marker, tracing paper, sketch paper and parent dashboard blender. Please refer yourself to the color checker to pick your colors in accordance is these basic use.

This demonstration was created during the and after the hurricane Irma. And that's why I don't have the video part of it. And I was also very limited with my resources. And I use a warm version of things that deviates from the original photo because if you look at the original reference, it has cool things. So decide for yourself if you want to follow my version of drawing. Well, you can basically pick the colors that represent cool things.

Also, you can simplify this demonstration by drawing just one object. This could be a wineglass and maybe a single marble. It's up to you. I use tracing paper and the folding method to work out the lines, and then I transfer it onto my good paper. If a graphite outline shows, use your kneaded eraser to get rid of all the graphite lines. If you draw on white paper, transfer the outlines with colored pencils such as light pink, instead of using a graphite pencil, I often use colored pencils not to deal with the graphite line later on.

Once you're done transferring the image, go to your mirror and check your drawing for mistakes or possible unevenness of the shapes. I usually take my drawing to the mirror and just look into the mirror to see my image as a reflection is it shows me all the mistakes that I made. And then I just I fix them and continue drawing. I shade the entire page with a pink marker. I paint with a chisel tip in Windsor Newton portrait pink, on Windsor Newton pigment marker heavyweight paper that is very smooth and doesn't bleed through as the regular drawing papers though. And then I just let the dry for a few minutes and that's why you see the shading looks quite uneven.

If you don't have the markers, please don't worry. I'm just showing a different type of drawing and the painting with the markers. You can Repeat the same process by using your colored pencils. If you follow the warm color scheme, you can use Prismacolor premier peach to fill in the background. But leave all the highlights on colored and vary your pencil pressure to create light values at the top of the page and darker values at the bottom. I place large highlights with a white marker.

And depending on your brand brand of markers, your whites may be different in strength. This white marker is very subtle and requires multiple applications. However, it leaves the edges soft which is necessary for a realistic appearance. Don't worry if the lights are not too bright at this point. We just want to establish points of contrast now and you can Always go back and strengthen the brightest highlights in the if you work in colored pencil 100% just make sure to reserve the space for the highlights. And don't call them assuming your work on white paper because your white paper is your highlight.

Next I use Prismacolor premier 90% warm gray and dark brown to fill in the darkest abstract shapes found within the wineglass marble, sand and glass. I use a very sharp point to define edges, the wineglass foot and the rim in the small glass. I make small local strokes to create soft shading in the marbles and the stick. This kind of drawing requires a lot of control by constantly checking the accuracy of the outlines of while I keep shading on Because I have to give the edges strong and even while I'm shading softly on the inside of each shape. So what's the difference between shading with markers versus shading with colored pencil. If you under painting markers shapes look flat and the evil create volume with subsequent layering in colored pencil, but if you work in colored pencil 100% you begin layering thinking of volume from the start.

Next time the pain the marbles and the floral, you have a choice to either continue working with markers or replace these colors by working in colored pencil. I work in markers using magenta portrait pink, lemon, yellow, white and Scarlet. I paint this portrait being more Darker inside the wineglass and then add magenta marker throughout the steel life finding this color in all shapes. In this image you can see magenta is a cool dark pink. I also been to the Scarlet and lemon yellow in a single marble and the floral. I think what I could have done better is the preservation of the circular shapes of the marbles.

I lost this a little bit. That's why you have to constantly check your drawing for accuracy by stepping back from it and by looking at it through the mirror. Here develop the color and values even further. I say the background to this Prismacolor peach and light beach adding these colors into the glass marbles simultaneously I use a very heavy tensile pressure to fill them in. I feel in large areas this light Dawn's present inside each transparent object. In other words, your background should show through the objects themselves.

This Kevin pencil pressure I'll say otherwise at the top of the page, and I draw around the highlights leaving soft edges. If your dark edges and outlines get lost, just reestablish them with 90% warm gray to define the form Prismacolor Hannah is a beautiful low Chroma think that you can say this to create soft transitions between the darks and middle tones in the marbles and in the short glass. In the last step, I usually just really focus on the details. Blending and perfection of my drawing. To draw the floral I shade this permanent red on the left and darken the veins with Hannah and dark brown. I also shade this mineral orange ferment red and yellow orange in the light.

I also create teeny tiny beans is a sharp point of permanent red and I add much lighter color which is yellow on the opposite side of it. I add more color to the marbles and the short glass is Bish Sienna nectar and shade this actual and beach at the bottom of each marble. I soften the edges around large white areas in the glass with a white colored pencil. gloss must look smooth. So I overlap and layer my heels to create smooth shading. I usually use the full blender to blend everything together if my heavy pencil brush doesn't quite work.

I also use just a little bit of the sakura pen making tiny highlights in the short glass, marbles and wine glass. Unlike the Lindsey Newton marker, the sakura ban raises the surface this white bean producing hard edges. That's why you need to be careful applying it because sometimes it doesn't look natural or fused with the rest of the drawing. For the finishing touches, once again I step back and look at my drawing from a distance. And I look at color intensity, I look at the accuracy of shapes and I also look at the smoothness of my shading and blending. And then I spread outdoors and this demonstration completes this lesson.