Learn To Draw #01 - Sketching Basics + Materials

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Learn all of the materials involved in sketching and drawing and also some basic shading techniques and sketching concepts.
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In this video, I start off going through all of the materials you're going to need for learning to sketch and draw. Once you have a better understanding of those, you can start drawing simple shapes and lines and practicing sketching with an HB, B, or 2B pencil. These are good pencils for sketching lightly but also allow you to go a little darker when needed for shading. I plan to cover perspective, values, edges, shading techniques, proportions, landscapes and many other topics of sketching and drawing for beginners and intermediate artists.

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hey folks it's brandon schaefer welcome
to the drawing series videos
this is the first one kind of an
introduction and some materials but
we're going to get into some drawing
here shortly
so what I have here in front of me just
a few things to get started with
withdrawing and that would be a small
sketch book
this one is 55 x 8 pretty much you can
also get a bigger one
you know eight by ten or whatever so you
definitely need some sketch books also
the next important thing are the pencils
so you can find a little drawing set
pretty much anywhere
so a little drawing set usually you can
find some a bunch of different pencils
and they come with any racer in a pencil
sharpener really cheap
we'll go over with all the different up
different kinds of leads and and pencils
mean later in a different video so pick
up some of those you know where you can
get a little larger set of them
whatever your price range is also
something
the deals less withdrawing but will be
helpful for painting when we get into
thumbnail sketches and such as having
some shades of grey markers
they're all these different shades of
grey
this is really good for value sketching
and for doing things of that nature
so if you can find these that would be
cool but if not don't worry about it
it's just something handy to have around
the next thing of the different kinds of
erasers
this is a gummy racer i recommend these
this these really work the best for me
when i'm doing a drawing
you can also get and kneaded eraser
they look like this but usually they're
completely square and flat but what you
can do
it was you know you use them and then
when it gets black or dirty or something
you can you can fold it over on itself
so you can shape it and mold it into you
know a really fine . eraser that you
might need
so these are good for really fine
details and such like that and they tend
to pick up
graphite pretty well and then this is
just a regular ol plastic kind of eraser
not the best but if that's all you can
get it will do the job
pencil sharpener of course that will
most likely come with the kit
these will also come with the kid if you
if you get a nice kit
these are called blending stumps what it
is is a rolled-up sheet of paper and put
the really fine . and you you rub it
that they're pretty much for shading and
we'll get into that later but here
that's what they look like so we'll get
into what those do later but if you have
some
that'd be great and this you may not
really need but it's pretty much just
sandpaper and it's you
if you need like a really sharp point on
your pencil you just kind of you know
sharpen the side of the pencil there to
get a nice sharp tip when needed so can
be handy but really more for details
alright folks so let's get into it here
i usually start out with to be
that's usually my favorite pencil to use
and just briefly i'll go into what these
different pencils mean I'm sure if you
have a kid already you've noticed that
there's a lot of different h's and bees
and f
well here's a good example in 8b well
what B stands for is black so the higher
the number this this softer and and
darker it's going to be so the be the
bees are usually they get softer the
little higher the number
so right here I have an eight be in a 6b
the six the 8 b is softer and most
likely darker than the 6p
ok so that makes sense
so one being you know the highest like
eight being the softest LED and then it
gets harder and harder as you get lower
and the bees
now for the h's 2h H stands for hardness
so the higher the number in the ages so
if you have like a 6-h don't even think
that have that in here
but if you did have a 6-h the higher it
gets the higher the number of the harder
it gets
so two ages and that hard but if you had
a 4-h the for each is going to be a lot
harder than the two so hopefully that
makes sense now if you see an HB that's
kind of in the middle
you know hard and blackness this is kind
of like a normal pencil that we write
with
so i usually use to draw and sketch i
usually use a to be it's a little softer
and allows me to get some dark so that
without switching pencils without going
to like a for beer and 6b I can get some
darker tones just for sketching you know
nothing to detail but after drawing
while you you'll realize what pencils
you like it's just like paint brushes
with paint so we're going to start out
with the to be here and one of the first
things that you know they do in drawing
classes and that you learn to draw is to
how to make things three dimensional and
i have a few tricks but i'm going to
just show you how we do it in the first
this first video I'm trying to make a
mission make a short video so we start
out with a simple object and really
where I should start is how to sketch
most people don't know exactly how to
sketch so i'm going to zoom in here just
so you can really see what I'm doing
so when you sketch you want to draw many
different lines
so if you're sketching a circle out
you know try to find the shape within
all these different lines you want to
find the shape
now that's a very messy circle but you
get the idea is that you don't want to
commit
see this is more of something you want
to do and then you go back and kind of
darken you know the the the line you can
you know you find the shape within all
those lines
you know dark and go back and dark and
where I've committed something you don't
want to join us with it when sketching
the initial sketching you want it really
like totally committed right at the door
down very light compared you don't want
to just draw a circle like this very
hard and see now I mean that looks
it's just even if i had finished it it
doesn't look good
you know compared to that one this one
is more of a circle because I you know I
sketched it from this one I committed
you know the first time I tried to do it
I just committed to it instead of
sketching and refine yet the edges and
finding the best line within those lines
so now if i go back over and sketch over
that and sketching it is just different
lines it's just doing lines like you
know different different shapes
so that's what sketching is and you can
see I kind of fixed it up there so don't
be committed if you're drawing a tree or
something or sketching anything I
suggest that you start drawing
everything in your house your your whole
house layout start sketching everything
but if you if you're sketching a tree
you know if you're doing like the trunk
don't commit you know to this being the
trunk
don't commit to that you know kind of
sketch it out first get to get the
general idea
you can even get the the general shape
you know just do really quick and then
okay maybe it doesn't dip in that much
so you kind of
no draw another line there another line
there and then you know once you start
finalizing it you kind of hard in the
the edge where you need to and then
these other these lighter lines will
just disappear over time
you know you only it's not even
important that you have those lines
there you can go back any race later on
when you're finishing up the sketch for
the drawing but don't commit to the very
first you know
moat more than likely it's not going to
be perfect the first time you try to
draw something and you saw there with
that circle that it was not good at all
compared to this one where I took my
time and sketched so keep that in mind
when when sketching that's the proper
way to sketch now making something 3d
this is two-dimensional because there's
no depth there is no shadow really
so the first thing you have to do just
like in painting
if you follow my painting lessons that
you've heard this before you need to
find a light source
so where's the light coming from I'm
just going to say it's coming from over
here
you know something to that effect
so you make sure you even sketch in the
arrow you don't never know where you
wanted to come from
so if the light is right here there's
the Sun now you have to think
three-dimensionally is it shining behind
it hitting the back of it is it right on
the side there is it more toward toward
you
you know it just depends but will say
that this is going to be really light so
the shadows going to be over here
so this is what you need to practice
doing start shading in really lightly
these different areas of shadow
trying to make things three-dimensional
now in later videos I'll get into some
I'll get in I'll go into depth on how to
shade different techniques you can do
all these things but you know at the
beginning I just kind of want to go give
an overall thing that you need to start
thinking about and and making things
look realistic and determining light
sources and things and this is very
important foundation before you can
begin a painting before you begin
drawing always ask where's the light
source how many light sources maybe
there's another light source over here
so then the shadows just down here so I
mean it
there's so many different factors that
you need to be aware of and you know and
then it will have a shadow like this you
know and then you have to think what is
it sitting on this is sitting on
something flat as it
you know there's the background
something like that a little off but you
get my point
sitting on something like that is the
shadow this is a shadow dip way down
like this
get more of a 3d look there's many
different things you have to think about
so I want you to just practice things
like this start sketching everything in
your house get used to the the sketching
lines get used to the really messy lines
and have fun with it and just try
different techniques start doing some
cross hatching
we'll get into that a lot later but
hopefully this helped you just
understand how to sketch and and knowing
that it may not be perfect the first
time you tried but that's what erasers
are therefore that's why you have this
big canvas of paper you know if this one
didn't turn out well
ok start over on this one try it again
try from a different angle
try to light up here and then just you
know okay where's the shadow going to be
actually well maybe there's another
light source here
ok so now what do i do you know just
shadow it up here a little bit you know
depending on the shape of the ball and
maybe if you don't know the answer
you know get a get a round object and
put two lights on each side
in real life and see where how does the
shadow react
you know there's probably a shadow over
here like this there is going to be
crossing shadows in real life so like
how does this work
you know this is going to be a really
dark shadow where they cross but they're
probably still be a light shadow over
here and a light shadow on this side so
it just depends
I mean you have to really think about
this stuff and try it out and see you
see a ballistic you can make things just
simple sketches like this and start
trying to trying it with the with cubes
no rectangular objects make them 3d and
get used to just doing these quick
sketches it doesn't have to be perfect
get rid of the perfectionist mentality
and get into the training mode
you know lights coming over here you
know that's going to be like a little
shadow their shadow
this is under the darkest you know just
things like this just play around and
have fun with it and see what you can
come up with
and you know what you can do cubes and
all these different objects
that's all nature is you know this is
this is just a big cylinder
you know and how is the light hitting
that there's a light here so they can be
a big shadow coming this way
whatever the case is so play around get
used to the sketching lines that's all I
ask for you this week and and get the
materials and play around with
everything and have fun starts catching
things in your house just get as far as
you can just sketch things and and if it
looks terrible and then don't worry
about it don't stress over it
do your best and next week we're going
to get into you know all this stuff you
know maybe it'll be shading or how to
make things look more 3d using wire
frames and
you know drawing it on there and
visualizing it will get into that when
the time comes
but for now just play around the
sketching lines and see what you can
come up with have fun
anyway hope this video was helpful in
any way and stay tuned for next week
next Saturday
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