Alright guys, this is where it all comes together. We're gonna do something called still life drawing. Now often you'll see this kind of, you know, somebody who's drawing some flower pots or a baws phase or vase face. You say vase. Yeah, yeah. Okay.

No. vase sounds so much more elegant school. Anyways, what we're going to do is continue on with our, our process of basic shapes, right? Yep, looking at it, and then drawing it off to the side. Now I'm going to include this sheet in the course. So you can just practice along, right.

But this is the beginning of you starting to draw what you see. You're going To be seeing different objects in your life, you know, whether it's stuff set up on your desk, or whatever it is, right? And you're going to try to draw it out as much as you can do. I mean, like, what I would do sometimes is like, grab my pencil crayon box and my pencil case, or, you know, just objects that were sitting around me, placed them on the desk and draw it and see, am I anywhere close right? Here. It's cool, because we've already got these shapes in front of us.

We've been practicing these shapes for this whole course. Right? So it won't be that that tough, but afterwards, I want you to move on. Okay, so let's start with this first though. We can look at the first one. Um, first off, you know, it's it's kind of good to recognize, where's the light source?

Okay, the light source I would say is coming in somewhere from this side, right, you know, we've got a light source coming in. We could see it hitting the ball here. We could see it hitting here and we could see all this cast shadow off to aside, right? Yeah. Okay, so why don't we start to draw this in? What do we got?

We've got a box. That's kind of like this, right? We've got a triangle, that's actually a 3d Pyramid. Right? That's something like this. Actually, it overlaps here.

So I should really, I kind of messed that one. I can overlap it a bit there, right? bring that up there. And then I've got what should be a circle, but it looks more like a squished melon sitting here. Something like this, right? And this is where you start to look at the objects in relation to each other.

You know, this one's in the front. it overlaps the bowl and the the cube right. This one's behind. And then this squished, melon squish melon is sitting somewhere around here, right? Yeah. If you want to, you can come in and start to clean it up.

But really, I'm not that worried about it, you know, you could start to erase stuff and it'll look even clearer, which is sitting in front, right? Yeah. Okay, so not only are we going to try to draw them in position to each other, right in relation to each other, but we're also going to carry forward and do a bit of that shading. Let me see yours for a second. Yeah, that works. Now, the only thing No, no, you know what, I think you got to kind of perfect good stuff.

Okay. Okay, so why don't we do a light little bit of shading. We're gonna do the shading. Well follow. You know, I might as well start with what's up front. I follow.

You know where this triangle is where the pyramid is, and you can see how it's like this kind of light This way, right? So it's kind of everything shaded. coming off of it. Right? You can see the sphere has this rounding of the shading, right? Yeah, but a harsher, harsher drop shadow right?

Yeah, it's much. seems much harsher down there. The way the lights hitting it and stuff, right? Yeah. Okay, and the box you can see how the lights coming here but it's still kind of doesn't quite darken up 100% maybe just around some of the edges and stuff, right? Yeah.

So you can define those edges a little bit more. Something like that. Maybe a little bit up top here. There we go. Underneath, especially even underneath in the front a little bit. There we go.

Nice. So that's still life took us What? Four minutes? Yep. Pretty good. Let's roll, roll on to the next one.

And hey, listen, it took us four minutes. But if it takes you eight, or 10 or two, whichever, right, like, Don't stress, that's the awesome thing about video learning is that you can pause it and do it at your own speed. Right? So just you know, relax. And if you're like cheese, that dude talks too quick. Put me on pause.

That's what my kid wishes she could do. Okay, this next one's got four pieces here, right? What do we got? We've got a cube, a sphere, a cylinder, and a cone. Right? Yep.

So why don't we start with this cube in the front here. I usually like to work front to back. Just roughing it in. Right. And right behind it. Is that cylinder with a cylinder what I like to do usually is just draw kind of as if it's going to be a rectangle at first.

And then you draw an oval on the top. And as if there's going to be an oval on the bottom there, right? This circle is kind of next in line here, somewhere around here. And look how loose my sketches are right? They don't have to be perfect. And then we've got the cone.

But you know what I'm going to kind of draw through just so I could show you guys what it probably looks like, probably looks something like that, right? As it's coming out to a point here. But I'm going to erase because I don't want it messing with us. I want to make sure it looks like it's sitting behind everything. There we go. Okay, so we've got our four objects laid out.

How are you doing? They're doing good. Yeah, looks like you got it to perfect. And then where's our light source coming in? Looks like if we got the cast shadow like the the cast shadow on this site. Looks like our light sources coming in from here.

It's kind of white up top here, white up top here. Right white along the edge. White along the edge here. Yeah. So it looks like it's coming from kind of the top and off to the back end there. So how are we going to do this we can kind of shade the sphere a little bit, right?

Like I said, I like to, you don't have to use the, the way that I'm shading here. You can smudge it if you want, you can do however you want. And then you can see how this sphere cast that kind of oval shadow right. And I'm going to zoom in just a little bit here to kind of I can do it this way or if I want to, I can just shaded out whichever way I want. Right. Are you doing any smudging there?

Ah, I was gonna. Yeah, yeah, I was actually thinking of cross hatching here. I don't know why. Just to show some different techniques a little bit. I don't even know if I'm cross hatching. I'm more like cross scribbling at this point.

There we go. Okay. Yep. And you can see how, if I'm going to back out just a little bit here, you can see this. This is also a cast shadow from the, from the square here, right? For the cube rather, yeah.

Straight in here to the cast shadow coming on out. Right? Usually you'll find like, right under the objects. That's where the shadow was often darkest, right? Right, where it's sitting on the ground, you'll find there's a harsher line. So sometimes that helps to go in and just, you know, start that harsh line and then start shading off of there if you want.

Yeah. Um, with a cylinder, it's nice and gradient, that it goes from dark, kind of light there. That's got that rim, right. That's the thing about like, curvatures often, there's this cool effect that like you've got like a really dark spot on it, and then it fades into a lighter part and then fades into maybe a lighter part, right? And I think if I remember correctly, yeah, there's a little bit of this one gave a little bit of a cast shadow on top of the cube here because of the height that's going on. Right.

And if I wanted to, you know, I would clean this up a little bit, make sure it's it's dark all the way up top here and stuff, right? Yeah. What makes mage here kind of feel like smudging gives that smoothness you know, I feel like when it comes to a lot of hard objects, you know, like we're drawing machines or these cubes and everything. You can get away with that hatching and stuff I get, but when it comes to round essence you know, there's something about that smudge that really makes it a lot easier to deal with and stuff. Yeah. I agree.

Oh, and I'm forgetting I think I'm forgetting my this site is pretty dark side of my cube and this side was a bit lighter. Yeah. Cool okay no bad. Yeah. Listen, I'm not looking for perfection. Oh, but I'm looking at yours now joy and I like the look of it looks pretty good.

I just have to finish smudging. It's taking a while because I'm stretching it. Oh, yeah. No, that smudging has a nice effect. But like I said, you got to watch the paper that you're working with them stuff. Sometimes it can get a little you know, especially greasy fingers Something just doesn't always have the consistency that you want, right?

So, play with it. Play with all the techniques and see. And you know what you might change it like, for two months, you're cross hatching or just hatching and then all of a sudden you smudge and you're like, Ah, that's what I want to do. You start smudging for a year or something, then you bounce back to hatching. Don't worry about it. It's okay.

And as I'm talking here, I hope you're still drawing. Just like my kid. Okay, we're almost done. We'll head on to the last one. Yep. in two seconds.

Yep. Good. Okay. Last one. We've got three objects. What are the objects join a sphere, a cylinder and a cube.

Got it? Right. Yeah. Which ones are in front of the cube and the so I mean, here in spirit, it's like a melon again. Yeah, I don't know. These spheres are kind of like squished.

So what I would do That would come in here. Drop the, you can draw on the shapes first, right? Like I would drop the, the cube on the same general plane as this squished melon squish melon behind it. I'm going to kind of draw through again and draw that cylinder. And then I'm going to come in and I'm going to erase it because I don't want it to mess with us but I wanted to show you how, how it would take shape behind everything. Yeah.

Okay, now, which way is the light source coming from? top left, right, center where? Left, left? Yeah. Coming from the left, coming in this way, coming in this way, coming in this way. So it hits you know, it hits this area hits here hits this area, right.

Yeah. Okay. So we're going to keep that consistent, we're going to bring it in from the left. That's where the light is coming from, right? Well, does that mean that means, you know, roughly on this sphere, the right side of it is gonna shaded, the cast shadow from it is going to be stretched out and look at how it kind of goes up on here right up onto the cube. That's pretty cool looking.

It's gonna go up there. There's the cast shadow. Ah, it seems that right around the rim of this gets shaded and then on this side of the cylinder that gets shaded and like I said, you could shade whatever technique you want right arm a little bit on the the edges here, but mostly on this one side of the cube. And then the cast shadow is jutting back from the cube. And it's that's how it rolls right? And of course, you know, you can darken up underneath.

It's that really kind of helps punch it, right? Yep. Wherever That's it, the object is usually meeting the floor. Right? There's that special almost room of shadow that really darkens up there, right? Yeah.

Unless it's sitting on a light bulb, or light table then the glow is coming in from underneath, but almost always, you'll have that nice dark rim of where the objects sitting right? Yeah. Okay, so while Joey's smudging it out and having fun with it. I'm gonna remind you, I gave you three examples of basic shapes that we did for these still life practices. But I'm really hoping that you start to look around you, you know whether it's candles on the kitchen has tons of fun stuff. shapes and everything, bathrooms, shampoo, containers, whatever it is, you know, stuff on your desk, like I said, like a crayon pack or whatever, start putting it in front of you putting these objects in front of you start with just one, then at a second, and then the third, you know, and then work your way up till you're kind of stacking them a little bit, right.

Yeah. And, and just try to draw what you're seeing here. Try to draw what's in front of you. Okay? So that's your homework assignment, not just to do this sheet, but to start to grab things in real life, things that you're surrounded with things that you're familiar with. Hey, I'm looking at yours now.

Joey and that looks pretty awesome. Yep. Good job. Yeah, I think that smudging just makes it look cool, right? Yeah. So that's your homework.

Make it look cool. And keep at it, don't just think because you did this sheet, you're done. It's gonna take doing it many, many times. So hey, listen, if you want to print this sheet out, few times and do it over again, or print it out and say, Well, what if? What if the light direction changed on this or something like that right? Play with it, get comfortable with it, because as you go on through these courses, you're going to need some of these fundamentals to move on.

Alright, have fun and you know your assignment.