Freestyle Drawing Tips

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm David Clemen on behalf of Expert Village and today we're going to learn the basics of drawing. Now that we've done a little doodling. I just wanted to show you a few things about this doodle. Then we're going to go into freestyle drawing. Which is my term that I come up with. Basically, I just wanted to show you that I used small circles for freckles here. They were really simple. I did a straight line here for the...this part of the tear duct of the eye. Then this isn't a straight line, I did kind of a curved line like we did in warm ups. This is another curved line like we did in warm ups. Curved line but they were nice and clean o.k.? Then if you take a half of circle and you just kind of bend it, that's how I came up with the ear. So, those techniques in the beginning are the foundation of loose drawing and then you can play with it a little bit but you have to kind of get used to your tool and what it will do. So, now when we go into freestyle drawing, maybe I saw something of the man that lives by the tree that I liked and I want to take him further and maybe put him in the land of trees or something like that. So, let's come in and draw him again. Maybe I want to develop his character a little bit more. I'm going to draw the eye. He looks kind of mean now so I'm just going to soften his eye up a little bit. I might get a little bit more detailed. Last time he looked more like a character out of a comic book or something like that. I can come in here and just kind of draw his face from the beginning. Maybe he's kind of a smooth cat. So, I'll just come down here and give him those sharp side burns square jaw line. Maybe he's got a dimple in his chin like me. Then instead of doing the circles for the freckles I'll just kind of dot them across the face. Then, maybe he's got this part over to the side looks like James Bond or Simon Bond or one of those Bond's. Then I'm going to come in here. Now I'm not looking at a model or anything, this is just stuff that I know because of I've seen so many faces in my life and I've looked at them and studied them that I can kind of freestyle and come up with different characters as I go. Maybe his hair's kind of messy; he slept in. Then just bring the neck down. Maybe his neck comes all the way down here and then...so, basically, I'm freestyling this person and I don't have any idea who this is but from the stuff that I learned or saw that came out in a doodle I can kind of get a little bit sharper and develop the idea and that's how you freestyle"