Okay, guys, we're back. Me and Joey, are gonna do this again, this time, you know, previously, we had talked about shapes and all that kind of stuff, right? And we went from basic shapes into 3d shapes, both for circles and spheres and squares and cubes and all that kind of stuff, right? This time, we're going back into shapes, but one that will kind of help you draw posters and stuff in a little bit. Okay. So what I want to do today is for you to just write your name at the top of the screen really easily do I mean my name is Ed?

Or? Yeah, let's just go with that for now. Can you write yours? Yeah. Okay, and listen, we know how to write both in upper and lowercase, right, for example. And it could be this is uppercase, right?

And lowercase would be E, D, something like that. I'm not talking about cursive writing, I'm just talking about like uppercase and lowercase letters, right? I think everybody taking this course. Geez, I'm hoping that you can do that already by now. I think they teach that in grade one or something. Right.

Okay, so, Joey, I see you kind of went Upper and Lower, lower, lower. I want you to do yours all in uppercase if you can. And guys at home, same type of thing for you. I want you to do yours all uppercase. That's okay, you know what it is? We're not going to do anything with this right now.

I just want you to be able to make sure you can write your name. Again, we're going back to grade one here, right? Yeah. Okay, so we've got upper and lowercase, right. My name is actually kind of short for this lesson. So I'm going to change it into add IE, Eddie.

I'm gonna go with it. I know what It sounds very cute. Yes, no. And how many letters are in my name? 12345. I've got five letters in my name for this right?

Joey, how many is in yours? For three, four, right? And listen, like I know my first name here was Ed. And it only had to it was too short for what I want to show you guys here. I know some of the students at home you've got names that can range from anywhere from two letters to 20. Maybe something you get pretty difficult, right?

Um, try to pick a name for this right now that we're going to do. That's anywhere from four to six to seven, eight letters or something, you know, some of you have little nicknames or something like that. use something like that. Okay. So what I want you to do is we're going to draw squares, but just wait, why don't we do this? Right now?

My name is five letters long, right? Okay, so I'm going to draw kind of a two horizontal lines, these are ugly horizontal lines and divided into five squares. So I've got 1234. And what end do I want? Five, right, I've got five squares that are roughly equal size and stuff like that. Right?

Um, obviously, you know, if it's if you got four, it makes it pretty easy. You could just draw a rectangle like this, cut it in half, cut it in half again, that type of joy. Once you do that, make a rectangle. And again, students at home, this is what I want you to doing. starts to draw a square for every letter of your name. If you've got four, it's easy to do, you know, you just divided like Joey's doing here.

Five, you saw me do it six, you know, you just keep rolling with it. Okay, so now that you've got it divided up and very lightly sketched these little cubes and stuff again, we're going to use lettering to try to fill in your names. Right? Okay, so what's my first letter of mine? e? It's an E, right?

So I'm going to use this, this block and try to do in an E. Well, that's not the prettiest E. It'll work for what I'm trying to do here. That's an E, right? Yeah. Okay, next one on mine is a D. My D will kind of come like this. Come down. Right?

And I think you guys have seen this type of block lettering before right? You're just basically we call a block lettering because you're trying to fill in this block. Okay, so you can take this time while I'm talking and start to work on yours joy, why don't you go ahead and work on your your name as well and then add I letters are not pretty They don't have to be pretty this is, this is not what we're working, we're not focusing on being pretty right now. Okay, just try to fill in the blocks have it this kind of fat writing, you can think of it like a fat writing some people, you know, we'll have it kind of, let's see if I can do it. It's kind of round type of lettering or something like that. Um, it's kind of a bubble thing, right?

So, let's see if I can do it with an E. It can be kind of like this. You know, that type of thing could be rounded like this. Or it can be very harsh. Depending on your style, it doesn't really matter at all. All of these will kind of work for what we're doing here. And, yeah.

So don't worry about it. Don't stress about it. Do whatever style feels comfortable for you. And you know what you're going to do it a few different times. The only thing I would say is right now try to stay within the blocks that you have for each of your letters and stuff, right? If you want to, you can kind of take an eraser, clean up some of the loose lines around or whatever and stuff I got.

Hopefully you sketch the dope, light enough and rough enough that there's not a lot of these ugly lines there, you know, so I don't care. You don't have to erase them or anything. Okay, you've kind of roughed in kind of roughed in your, your name here, right? At this point. If you haven't roughed in your name, put us on pause. That's what's cool about learning on video and stuff I got right is that you can pause it at any time and rewind and go back over it again.

If it gets really, you know, strange and uncomfortable. You know, and you're confused. just pause, rewind and go after it again. What I'm going to do is in this on one of these sheets, I'm going to kind of imply An entire alphabet with all the letters written in a few different formats, what we call fonts that have kind of thick writing, okay? Okay, so it'll make it easier for some of the students that you're not really sure how you're, how that letter might look fat or thick or in this kind of format, right? So then you can kind of look at the reference sheet that I'm going to include here.

And that should help you right. Is that cool? Yeah. Okay, so let's see Joey looks legit. Yeah, I like how it looks. He is interesting.

It's got character. Well, the only thing I would say with your he is sorry, I'm dropping pencils here is that it doesn't kind of match up here. Yeah, right. Like if I was to do this vertical line and stuff I get the bottom of your Eagles way past right. So you want to kind of like I said, keep it within the box within the the cube of what you've already drawn and stuff, right. Okay, looks good.

So now what we're going to do is this is where it gets a little funky and little difficult. Guys, you know, remember how we talked about how easy it was to draw the shapes earlier and stuff like that, right? This is where it's gonna get tougher. Okay? So what I'm going to do is kind of right in the middle of my word here right in the middle, I'm going to kind of go down from it and draw a dot. Okay, so you can do that now to right from the middle, kind of draw a dot somewhere down the paper.

Okay. Now, you can use a ruler for this, especially if you don't have a steady hand, no problem bringing a ruler. What I want you to do is from each of the points along the bottom here where you'd see kind of these, these corners, I want you to draw a line down to that dot. Okay. It doesn't have to be perfect, but what I don't want to see is curves you know, I want to I want to come straight down To this dot. Okay?

So take a moment and do that. Oh, somebody's using a ruler here. Oh, no. Oh, there you go. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, yours kind of has a ruler effect, right?

Yeah. Okay, keep going. No, I just want from the bottom. The bottom ones. Yep. Just for now.

I want you to do it from the bottom. nice thin lines. How am I supposed to do vo? Well, what you can do is from right about here, like if I was to draw a line from here to here. Yeah. You know, where where does it touch on the edge?

Where does it touch on the edge of the Oh, right about there, right? If I was to draw a line from here to here, you know, where does it touch on the edge? Right about there, right? Okay. Okay, so you can line up your ruler to the furthest edge that it would touch to and stuff right. Okay, now that we've got that You can kind of see, what does this look like?

It looks like the title is coming towards us. You know, it's got that effect already and stuff, right? Yeah. Looks pretty cool, right? I think this looks pretty cool. Um, what we're doing is we're kind of almost turning like, these thick lettering into 3d letters, right?

We're turning them into kind of cubes or stamps or something like that. Right? Okay. Now, this is where it gets a little complicated, though. Already. It's getting tough.

And I know what's going to get a little tougher. How thick Do we want these letters? We could have them really fat and thick. Yeah. Why don't we do that for this? Okay, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to draw a line.

And looking at this, let's see, it's an inch or two, depending on the size of your paper or something like I can fit a few fingers in between this distance, right? Yeah. Okay. So we're going to draw this line. And now what we can see is like all of this down here, this won't matter. We're not going to have this It's just going to be from this point.

So, for example, if I had this he, this line would come down, it would come over and right to here, that's part of this V shape. Okay? Yeah. Okay, cool. If I have this eye on mine, he would come down to here, come down to something like this. Now, this is where we start to go up into the object a little bit, right?

This corner. These corners that can view down towards this will bring kind of down, but we're not going to draw through this point. For example, I'm not going to draw through the depth of of what would be the, the lettering and stuff right? It would come down here and it would end. This one would come through here and it would end. This one would come down.

I could see it, it comes down all the way down to there. This one would come down, come down to there. Okay, so just like this is vertical This would be vertical and we would rough out the shape this way. You can see what basically I just did here is make this almost into that rectangle book type of thing, right? The shape is going in here. There we go.

Okay, this one's coming down and this one's coming down. And if this line came came up and give it depth, this is how deep the AI would be. Now what really helps if you want to take just a quick moment to do this is and honestly this is something that might help you if you want to do it. You don't have to but I find that this helps quite a lot is color in your letters. Now you can use a different color if you want or something like that. But it for for some people Don't do it.

But for some people, it kind of helps them think, Okay, well, this is the name right? I can't touch this name, my name is going to stay the same. I'm not going to draw through it. I'm not going to edit it. I'm not going to erase it. You know, you can do it this way so that you know that no matter what, no lines are going to go through this.

Your name is standing and staying the same, right? Yeah. Like I said, you don't have to do this. Some people enjoy it. Some people think it It helps them understand that okay, I don't touch that right? Yeah.

Huh, this D here. I wouldn't see that. Okay, so for the D. This is a rounded curve, right? It comes to here. It would start to hear and this rounded curve would follow this same type of pattern and come up to here. So this is the shape of the D. Like that same type of thing, this rounded curve would come down to here, comes into this point comes into this point.

And the rounded curve goes back up this way. And that's the D on that side. Cool. Cool. Yeah. And then he comes down to here, comes over here.

Good stuff. There we go. Okay, so we got EDP. We've got some depth things going on. from behind. This one's going to come down as if it's coming down to here.

This one's going to come down on this side. They're going to come this way. Come this way. Come as if they're coming to our vanishing point. That's what that's called. Yeah.

VP, we could call it very important person. But it's a vanishing point. Okay. So now you can see how we've got the name kind of stretched out with depth. And as if it's a title coming at you and stuff, right? Listen, I know that for every name, there's going to be some weirdness going on, you could see if we look at Joey's name, we've got these very interesting curves going on, you know, with the the J down here and the Oh, down here, right?

And even the Y curve and stuff I get. So all of your names are going to have a kind of funkiness, you know, with each letter and stuff. And if you want to, you can mail them off to me and me and Joey will go through them and help you and try to sort how it would look for you so you can practice them. That's no problem. Okay? Just realize that basically what you're trying to do, is the level centers that are up here.

You're trying to copy them back here. Yeah. Right. You're trying to copy them as if they're sitting behind behind it and it's been stretched out, right? So whatever shapes are coming up here, you know, whatever roundness or straight edges or whatever, you're going to have them translating into that bottom part two, okay. Okay, now listen, this was a tough unit.

This was probably the toughest one that we've gotten into so far. All right. But if you can master this, this is where it's going to come into later courses where you start to drawing buildings or machines or any of those types of things, right, any vehicles, all that kind of stuff, right? So I would if you found this one really tough, I would go back and do it again. That's what's cool about this, you know, with the videos and stuff I got, you can just roll over him again. Right.

If you didn't get it the first time. Yeah, it's only been about 10 minutes. Do you have a piece of paper? Set it aside? Take a break and tomorrow come back and do it again. Okay.

You know what you could even do is practice with somebody else's name. Yeah. You know if, if this is kind of tough do with my name or Joey's name and follow along how we did it. See if it makes sense. And then do it with your name? Yeah.

Right. Um, also, you know, if there's holidays like Christmas or birthdays or whatever, you could choose one of those words and try to say, you know, thank you, or mom or dad or whatever it is, right? Love whatever word you want to do, right? Hate. No, I'm not recommending that. Anyways, the point is to practices enough times that you think you're like, Ah, yeah, you know what, I think I've got it.

What do you think Joey? Do you got it? I think I need a little bit more practice for otherwise Good, good stuff. Perfect. Okay, keep practicing guys and we'll see you in the next unit.