Okay, guys, here we go. This is gonna be our first unit in this course. And I can't say it's an exciting one. No. Well, you know, it's it's an important one because necessary, right? Right.

What we're going to do here is we're going to draw circles. And yes, I can hear the excitement in your voice already and stuff, right? But we're going to draw a bunch of circles, and I'm going to teach you how to draw a circle. Chances are you've already drawn circles in your life and stuff. But let's see how we do it now. So if I just got my piece of paper here in front of me, and I'm just going to try to draw one stroke as a circle.

Like an egg, kinda, yeah, let's see if I do that again. Hey, that's not bad. But you know, that's after about 20 years of practice, and I still can't get it. Right. So this is what I want you doing and you don't have to pick up your pencil yet right or anything. I just want you to watch just for a minute here.

What I want you to do is Very light, start going in a circular motion with your hand. Okay? And so you're gonna draw a bunch of circles this way, just really light. And you'll find as you overlap, and keep rolling around your eye and your hand starts to correct the image, you start to correct it into a much tighter circle and stuff. Okay? So even if you the first time you're doing it, it starts to get a little wobbly.

What happens is your, your mind starts to correct and say, No, no, we should pull this into a circle. That's our goal. Right? Okay. So that's what I want you to do here is just roughly lightly sketching out and like I said, when I say lightly, I don't want you killing the paper. I don't want you pushing really hard.

I want you to just lightly going over it. And a few times, okay, so my kids gonna do it. Let's see it. Do you want me to do it with just one stroke? No, right now. I want you to do how old all the kids are gonna be doing it.

I want you to do it a bunch of times. There we go. Oh, you Big ones and little ones perfect. Yeah, that's good. Okay, so as she's doing these circles you should be following along and doing them at the same time. Or you could just hit pause and do them yourself if you want.

It's okay. Yeah, that's perfect. Okay, nice roll circles. Yeah, right. Okay, so we're going to do this a few more times where we're, you know, roughing in circles, big circles, little circles, you'll find the little ones are kind of easier, right? As you're, as you're doing them, they seem to get a little bit easier, right?

When you start to do bigger circles on your paper, you're going to find your hand comes away from the paper, and you kind of start to draw with your, your shoulder and your elbow a little bit, right, you know, these little small ones, you could put the palm of your hand down on the paper and just kind of use your fingers, right? But as you start to get larger, your hand comes away, and you start to move from your elbow the form everything's moving, okay? And that's how it should be, don't worry about it. So that's what I want you to do. As go over your paper, um, you know, starting from the top and draw all of these types of circles and stuff, okay, big ones, little ones, some as fat as your head. Oh my, like the biggest one you do, that's my head pretty fat.

And listen, I know you're kind of thinking, you know, why is he making me draw this stuff? It's so simple. This is for babies or something? Totally not. Because even, you know, decades later artists still struggle with drawing the perfect circle, right? So just keep drawing them fill up about half a page if you can or something like that.

Right. And have fun with it. Okay, so take the next couple minutes and if you want to, you know, even put us on pause. You don't have to be watching me drawing circles or the kid drawing circles or anything like that. Even though Joey circles are probably more exciting than mine. I don't know.

I don't think so. You don't think so? No, no? Try to fill up your page, right? really huge ones. Some of them inside of them, right?

You could draw all types of circles. And if you don't get it on the first go round, just keep on spinning. You know, use your elbow, use your wrist and try to get those circles don't get little squishy eggs. Not yet. That's not what we want. We want your brain to recognize these circles and stuff.

Okay. How's it coming up? Pretty good. Their circle licious, circle licious sort of circles, but not really circle. I actually, I love the expression circle issues. I think that sounds pretty good.

Okay, so if you've got about a half a page and I can see Joey's got half a page here. I'm hoping that you do too at home that you've got a half a page of circles. I don't I'm kind of behind here but that's okay. I talked too much. Um, for the rest of the page for the lower half the page. What I want you to do is is kind of draw what was happening before ovals, okay, so I want you to try to draw some stretched out circles and stuff.

Okay, now some of them are going to look a little bit egg shaped and stuff, some of them will look a little flattened. It doesn't really matter, I just want you to purposely draw an oval, okay? It's interesting because, you know, in our brains, we kind of think, okay, I want to draw a circle, and then by the time it comes out of our hand, we're, we're drawing ovals, right? And then when we sit down, we're like, okay, no, no, no, no, I want to change, I want to draw an oval. All of a sudden, what comes out of your hand is a circle. So what this exercise is doing, why we're spending time on it today, is to kind of teach you to master what comes out of your hand, okay?

If you want to draw a circle, then that's what you're gonna get. And that's why we practice this okay? To allow your brain to You know, put it out there put out what it's what it's aiming for and stuff. Okay, so what I want you to do for the rest of this exercise and, you know, you don't have to listen to us or watch us to do this is fill up the rest of your page with ovals. Okay? Like I said, top half the page can be circles.

Bottom half the page can be ovals, you can do them whatever size you want. You can do them kinda like like I said, a bit of a squishy egg type type thing, right? I'm someone you're going to ask do you go clockwise or do you go counterclockwise? That's really up to you. You're gonna find your brain kind of has a little pattern that it likes. Don't fight it.

Just go with comes naturally without even thinking about it. Just do it. Okay. Okay, so that's it for this first unit. It's I told you it was pretty easy. Even though your brain wants to mess with you a little bit right?

Would you think Joey Was it easy? My ovals look like rice. They do. Little pokey there. Yeah, I think it's pretty cool otherwise and you know what if if you do one page and you're like, I'm not loving this breakout, another scrap piece of paper, whatever and do it or doodle these things. Maybe when you're in class, no, not in class.

Maybe not when you're, yeah, I don't want to get in trouble for this example. But really, that's what you want to do is kind of train your brain to do what you're wanting it to do. Okay, so keep practicing these circles and I'll catch you in the next unit.