Okay, we're back with another unit for our How to Draw basics course here. Are you ready to roll on this? Yep, definitely. Do you know what we're drawing today? No idea. Okay, uh, you know, we've already kind of covered ovals and spheres and circles.

And we talked about how to make them into 3d, right? We're going to go away from our circles, and go into drawing some basic shapes. Oh, okay. And you're going to help me with this because your vocabulary is way better than mine when it comes to these basic shapes and stuff. Right, exactly. I haven't studied geometry in a while.

Okay, so what we can start with here and this is going to be really simple is let's see, I'm going to draw on Square, you know, a square has four sides, right? Okay, and maybe my square is not going to be pretty to start with. But you know, I can draw small squares, or that one got squished, right? And I'm just gonna, this is, you know, I'm just sketching, right? I'm just using very light lines to rough it out. And then if I draw a rough square, you know, I'll kind of come in, see if I can darken, what I would think is, you know, the horizontal line, the vertical line and the horizontal line.

And so why don't you give that a try a little bit and draw a few squares. They don't have to be really dark to start with or anything like that, right? You're just kind of sketching them out, right? sketch out a few squares around. And then when you when it starts to look more like a square. You know, if you're roughing the lines a little bit, you want to start to darken them in and make it look like it's like yeah, I meant to do that.

Right. I'm meant to Have that looking the way it is. And when you start to darken those lines, you know, you've got a lot of rough sketchy lines, making your square and stuff. But when you start to darken the lines in those, those rough, sketchy ones in the back, kind of they fade away, right and people, the eye is drawn away from them, people ignore them and stuff again. And you just end up looking at the square. Right?

Yeah. Okay. So we're drawing a few here looks good. I'm scared of making them into rectangles. You know what, don't be scared. Let's do it.

Let's, let's make some rectangles. Okay, so we're gonna, you know, what's, what's the difference between a rectangle and a square? Ah, to each? I don't know. Oh, come on. I tried to explain it.

I don't know. It's like two sides are the same, but two other sides are different links. Something similar to that. You could do better on that explanation, but that's pretty much it. You know, we've got with a square we've got four equal sides is the way we usually do. Find it right?

A rectangle will have to have the sides to the parallel sides longer than to the other parallel sides and stuff, right? So you can lay the rectangle down, you get standard up. My, my sheet is starting to look a little bit like a Tetris or some some game, right? Yeah. This is what Notice how I said the word parallel. Parallel means running side by side ready running along each other, right?

That they're both heading in the same direction, right? Because if we start to change it now, and this is where your geometry might come in a little bit, what if one side is long? And the other side isn't as long, you know, all of a sudden I start to get this different shape, right? What's that called? a trapezoid? That's right.

Okay. So when the the two parallel lines aren't equal lengths, you know, this one's this long, right? And this one down here is this long. Then these other ones start to they don't get to run parallel anymore. They're they're shooting off into different directions. stuff, right?

I don't want to get into trapezoids yet. I want us to stick to squares and rectangles and rectangles. Okay? Okay, so you should be practicing them filling up a little bit of your paper with all these squares and rectangles and stuff I got that could be really thin if you want. However you want to do it right. Part of just getting good at this is doing it again and again and again.

Practice makes better than what it was. Yeah. You avoided the old phrase of practice makes perfect, right? That's okay. You know, it doesn't make it perfect, obviously, but it'll make it better than what you were attempting before. Like I said, exactly.

I knew there was a reason I kept you around. Don't take offense. Okay, so we've got some squares, and rectangles and rectangles. Why don't we head into triangles, triangles, instead of Instead of four sides, try three, right, we're gonna do three sides. Now you can make them kind of taller. You know, and of course, we're going to think of pyramids.

But pyramids are, are the 3d version of a triangle. We're not getting into that yet, right? So for now, we're just gonna do these basic triangles, okay, just start to fill up your sheet a little bit, you can start with the base if you want, and go up, and then kind of intersected and then you know, do your, your final, or the darker line in there. Right? You could do it that way. I usually come down for some reason and then draw my base.

I don't think there's a right way. Everybody's brain works a little bit differently and stuff. So you know, whichever way you want to go. How do you make a triangle? Usually, um, you start from the top start from the base, what do you I don't know what I start. I it varies from each and every one.

Because sometimes I start from the side and sometimes I start from the base times I start from the top right, right. It doesn't have to be you know, sometimes your brain is interesting. It'll just do what it wants to do. Right? Oh, I start from the side. Oh, really?

Yeah. So like when I dry I go this instead of starting up base. Oh, interesting. So for this one I do. So you, you basically your brain wants to go left to right. Like I read.

Yeah, yeah. And that's okay. You know, everybody, like I said, everybody's kind of got their own way that the brain enjoys functioning and stuff I get, you don't have to fight it, I don't think but sometimes you know what, it's good to kind of branch out. So if you're always going 123 Why don't you try the other way? 123 and see how it works for you. You know, I mean, it's good.

It's almost like a sport. When you think of like shooting a basketball a certain way. You always have your good shot, right? Your good pattern or whatever it is, but if the more you try to flex and move around that pattern, the stronger you'll be as an artist and stuff, right. Okay, so draw a bunch of triangles. Oh, do you realize that we're drawing Like, like three different types of triangles like this geometry we're doing.

Oh, right. Yeah, I saw Well, you kind of did this, you know, horizontal and vertical line and then you connected them. I was watching that is this Galeana? That's escaping. Yeah. Okay.

Listen, I do appreciate how much you're studying this in school. But if we use too much of that, it's gonna hurt my brain. No, it's simple. If you look at my screen, I will draw the three types to try. Okay, let's see here is the equal lateral, which means all three sides are equal. Yep.

Good. Good. We have the isosceles which means two of them are equal. So like, two of them are longer. Okay. Yep.

And the ceiling would probably just be like, each of them are different size. Okay. Oh, each one's a different size. each one's a different length. Right? Yeah.

Yeah. Okay, that's cool. Thank you for the geometry lesson. It's been a few decades since I studied that. Okay, pretty good. We've got squares rectangles.

Triangles. Those are some basic shapes. Do we want to do a few more episodes? That you know what? Why don't we just throw in some irregular ones. You know, everything from a Pentagon, octagon, whatever, you could just start making funny little shapes, you know, they can all be irregular.

You know, it could you could put out five sides. You could try to put 1234566 sides, you know, try to put eight. That's gonna be hard. How do I do this? For? No, I usually try what 123456780 That's good.

And obviously, once we start doing that even more, eventually it kind of gets almost oval ish looking at it, you know, there'll be enough sides to it that it almost gets into this kind of round shape, right? Like, enough sides to it, and you end up having a circle or a curved right circle just like continuous. Pretty much, you know, that's that's eventually what we get into. So you know, we're not going to go that far into it. But why don't we try you know, a few of those irregular links and stuff like that. practicing them out and seeing how, how they might work.

You can actually, what's the shape where, even though they're, they're parallel on the same length, they're offset, so you can have it like that, like a rhombus or something. Again, you You're the one I don't know. I think it's either a rhombus or parallel. No, not that No, no. Okay. But you know, I think the more we practice this type of thing, the more we're just trying to flex and that's really what what this exercise is about, is just listen, I know, you know what a square is.

I know you've seen rectangles before. I'm not going to teach you these things right away. A lot of what we're doing here is just training the brain to connect with the hand to connect to the pencil to connect to the paper to get these patterns down, okay? So really what I want you to do for the next, however minutes at the end of this lesson, and the end is right now, the end of this unit, is I want you to fill up this page of different shapes. Okay? So just run through it fill up the entire page, you know, like, if you could draw a you can draw them small, you could draw them attached doesn't really matter.

But I want you to start or just finish off this page rather, of shapes. Okay, so that's the assignment. Are you ready? No, I know you don't like homework. But anyways, get to it, and I'll catch you in the next year.