How to Finish Your Button Drawing

Video Transcript

"ROBYN LYMAN: This is Robyn with Expert Village and Many Hearts. I just wanted to show you again now. This is--when I told you to make a circle of the skeleton and have that, and then that's why I wanted you to have a copy of it. This is the one we've finished off. We haven't finished the center yet. Here's the center I'd like to put into here and I want to show you how to draw that in just a minute. But there's all kinds of centers you can go with. If you'll look at this center, it's got a star pattern. This has kind of a reverse-star pattern. These are all from the same drawing. I can take and make this whole drawing. This is actually the same drawing as this right here but detailed. That's why it's important to make a copy of your skeleton. Some of my drawings I got them so detailed I couldn't find the skeletons, so I couldn't figure out how I drew them anymore. So it's always good to have a copy of the skeleton. Here's another one of the same drawing as this, but I just made it into hearts. And we have one other one with this little pattern; we can zing it down and make it in so it looks like this. So now I'm going to show you how to draw the center onto this right here so we come up with this pattern right there. This is really easy to do. We'll just put a circle on the center of each of these squares. Just draw a little circle. Now come on that circle and just pull it down. We do this on all four ways. You can use this as pattern on a triangle or four corners. Like if you saw on the one earlier, I had the triangle. There's a triangle and I use it with the three- or four-way pattern. So it makes it really fun to do. And it just kind of gives it a little different--besides the squares. Now, the next part, you turn it and just kinda put a little curve on each of them. You just roll around the top, curve it down to that point. See how I'm putting that right under that point? Now, I tell you, these are really easy to do. I've got a little granddaughter, six years old, that can draw this. And she lets her imagination run wild. She did the first one like I showed her and after that she just took off and start doing them. They like doing that because it's--the fun thing with that is you get to color in your own drawings. Of course, you always make a copy of your master so your master is never covered in and you always get a really nice copy of it. Because if you have it copied, you'll always have more copies. Each time you copy, you'll get-- the lines get broader and distorted and they're not as good. And as you can see, it only takes a second to draw it through and make these little patterns on here. So we have our center finished."