How to Draw 3-Dimensional Shapes

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Jay French, at jayfrenchstudios.com. Today I'm going to show you how to draw some three dimensional shapes. All right, in drawing three dimensional shapes the most important thing of course is shading and light. Which really truly is the artist's only tool, but that's how you get something to truly look three dimensional. We're going to start with a basic shape here of a box, we have on all these our light is going to be - our light source is going to be from the upper left, slightly forward. So this side is farthest from the light source, this side is completely away from it, so it's the darkest. This side is getting all of it, this side is getting just a little less of it and you could actually do it, I'm going to turn this sideways, darker to getting slightly lighter as it goes down, so it's actually darker on the top. Now if you have a sphere in the same situation, this is a quick sphere so don't mind my imprecision. You're going to have dark to light as you slowly come out, you can do this with all manner of shading, hedging, cross hedging. But the shading is what getting dimensionality in drawing is all about, let's do a cone real quick. Again the same light source, this side is the most shaded. Because it's slightly forward, we do get a little shadow, just a hint of a shadow on this side, on this side, not on this because it's a flat surface, there's no fade there. Or a cylinder, now let's look at this cylinder, it's, we're actually looking at it from underneath, that'll be fun. The bottom of course is going to be completely shaded, it's getting no light at all. And then your edge, you could even go a little darker towards the bottom, make it a little uneven, and just again the hint of shadow on the other side. And that's how you get a pretty good three dimensional look."