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The Sketchbook Hero Journey:
Coursework, Mission, Plan, Exercises
Your Journey
STARTS HERE
0.0 You
0.1 Purpose: The Why
What is your purpose for this skill?
- Fun - Communicate - Artistic Intent - Plan Course of action
0.2 Goals and Expectations:
Short-term - Long-term - Desire - INTENTIONS - STYLES - Course/ Plan (BEST)
0.22 RAPP2DRAW is the Fastest and Best way to learn to draw: GUARANTEED
0.3 Mindset, Discipline, commitment, and dedication: YES, You Can!!!
Long game- The level and depth of grit, persistence, and perseverance
Time management
Identity: What you do and what you think about yourself
0.4 Habit:
Consistent Practice
0.5 Curiosity and Coachable:
0.51 - Ask questions be Curious
0.52 - Understand, structure, parts, and whole
0.53 - Problem-solving
0.54 - Feedback, Reflection, Constructive Criticism
0.55 - Tools and Materials
0.6 Elements and Principles of Art and Design:
0.61 - Foundational- Language
1.0 Line
1.1 Line is movement:
Flow, sub-conscience movement through time
1.2 Straight Line:
Shortest distance between two points
1.3 Line Quality:
Flowing, Thick, Thin
1.4 Contour lines:
Edges, cross contour, blind contour
1.5 Psychology of line:
Feelings
2.0 Shape
2.1 Everything is made up of shapes:
Structure bored Panda Light of Hope
2.2 Types of shapes:
Geometric (Golden)- Organic - Implied - Negative/ Positive
2.3 Simple to complex:
Basic - Complex - Implied
2.4 Ratios:
Shapes have height and width
2.5 Shapes have axis/ Center lines:
axis
2.6 Angles:
Shapes have angles/ direction
2.7 Proportions:
2.7 Placement:
3.0 Form
Resources
Drawing on the right side of the brain on PDF Drive
The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity on PDF Drive
Below are the points I cover each week in class.
Click on the Focus title to go to the in-depth web page
Week 1 Scratch Video: Progress in Progress-
Sorry about the Ums
This week we focus on taking action as we ponder why we drawing is valuable and what is the biggest barrier to drawing.
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Commitment:
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Enjoy the line:
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Just Do it: TAKE CONSISTENT ACTION
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Praise the process - Practice with purpose-
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Be happy with your work, just not always satisfied
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Intention- Focus
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Materials: Paper & Pencil (Pen- STRONGLY SUGGESTED, > 9:24) Practice your drawing, not your erasing
- Exercise
- 0: Lines & Scribbles Variety & Consistency One line drawing (<2:25:51)
- 1.0: Look for shapes and Ratios
Extra Resource Videos: (+PLUS)
How to Learn Anything! For Creatives & Self Learners—Whiteboard Session Homeschool Edition (>58:46)
TEACH OTHERS, if you want to learn at a deeper level and obtain True Mastery.
The more you help others the more you help yourself
Every person develops at a different pace
This week we focus on taking action as we ponder why we drawing is valuable and what is the biggest barrier to drawing.
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Art Journey: Call to Adventure (WHY)
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Breakdown: Problem Solving and drawing
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Elements of Art
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RAPP: Ratios, Angles, Proportions, Practice
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Ratios: BIG to small (ROCKS)
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Point of View - Orthographic view: Test and badges this summer.
Reference images:
Oaktree Search Oaktree Wisteria Day Lily
In today's class, our lesson will be "angles" and we will be drawing ROCKS
Review-Level of Commitment Discipline- Learner Mindset - Repetition is the Mother (Practice)- Ratio & RAPP method- RATIO CHECK-
Open Minded Learner Mindset “Every Child is an artist”
"Mistakes are the stepping stones to better drawing" ~ Eladio
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Angles: PLUS YOUR WORK
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Rooster Drawing (Web Site)
HardCore Heroes:
Critique: Criticism can Kill Creativity , if you let it ANGLES and Curves
Extra Resources
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DOVE SIMPLE DRAWINGS Special Thanks to
PLUS + Discipline (>) Routine (>)
How to Paint Fur - Photoshop - Wolf Portrait with Aaron Blaise (< 2:04:19) thirty
Shapes and Angles- Forms and angles- Perspective and angles (I will add a new 4 Space Negative pos
Practice: Not prescription- Self prescriptive - Self Paced - Self Commitment
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Proportions: Parts and Whole-
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Placement: Location
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Construction
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Form: Practice seeing and drawing form
Kids in Water
Exercise 9: Drawing the Head. Profile View
Once you know better do better
Art Fundamentals: Shapes & Forms Cube, Sphere, Cylinder (<2:08:57)
How to practice effectively...for just about anything - Annie Bosler and Don Greene (>4:49)
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RAPP- Journey
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Line drawings EXAMPLES 1 (Examples 2) Directions
Once you know better do better
Art Fundamentals: Shapes & Forms Cube, Sphere, Cylinder (<2:08:57)
PLUS +
Everyone Can Draw !!!!!- Cant's in the pants (Brandon Dayton Practice Learn to draw >18:57) (Mark Kistler - Bill 30 days >18:01)
PDFs
Simple Drawings PDF Absolute Beginner PDF Start Sketching and drawing now PDF Realistic drawing secrets PDF
PDF DRIVE
This week we focus on taking action as we ponder why we drawing is valuable and what is the biggest barrier to drawing.
We will be drawing Forms and doing figure drawings today
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Feedback:
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Review: RAPP
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Proportions
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Level One: People Peep Drawings
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Practice Form- Cubes and Cylinders as well as shading (Review focus 5)
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Scribble Sculptures: Silhouette Sketches
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Exercise : Drawing the Horse Head ( |> 1:24:20)
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Reference images:
Always do your best- even when the plane is going down- I think, especially when the plane is going down.
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Perspective or Final Drawing / Artwork
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Simple One point perspective. You will need a ruler or straight edge
End Goal (Why) Tough steps: Badges - Dopamine
Reward your Wall and Effort: Steps/ Process- (>6:00)
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Celebration Next week
Extra Resource Videos: (+PLUS)
How to Learn Anything! For Creatives & Self Learners—Whiteboard Session Homeschool Edition
TEACH OTHERS, if you want to learn at a deeper level and obtain True Mastery.
The more you help others the more you help yourself
Every person develops at a different pace
This week we focus on creating three-dimensional space on a flat two-dimensional surface Space Pods
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We will be drawing plants for the first hour and a bit of perspective Image 1 GSearch Adobe Stock
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Simple One point perspective. You will need a ruler or straight edge
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We will be doing watercolor plants the second hour
Perspective is a technical skill that was developed/ devised during the Renaissance about 500 years ago by the architect Filippo Brunelleschi around 1415 https://mymodernmet.com/perspective-drawing/
Show your work for a class screenshot of your work
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We will be drawing portraits. From level one to level three
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Share - Inspire - Connect
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Reflection - C-RIDE: Celebrate, Reflect (RAPP), Direction,
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Praise the process - Practice with purpose-
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Be happy with your work, your journey
August 5, 2021
We Are Here
Future lessons:
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Egg shading Challenge Ambient Occlusion
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Thumbnail Sketching- 6 ways to Brainstorm ideas Spencer brainstorming
Channels: Semi-arranged by quality Contact me if your favorite channel is not here. (Let's Chat)
Resources:
Draw a Box !!! Skriblio
The myth of innate ability: -> Designer starter Kit
Sketches And Sketchbooks
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Practice with a PURPOSE- with Perspiration, Patience Persistence: RAPP 2 (squared) PPT
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RAPP2 : Ratios & Relationships, Angles And Curves, Proportions & Placement, Practice, Patience, & Persistence
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lITTLE BY LITTLE, sLOWLY BUT SURELY, bY THE yARD IT IS HARD, BY THE INCH IT IS A CINCH - What is your STAGE
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Form review Sketchup Challenging App
- Complex Forms: Videos coming soon
- Shading
- Hatching - Cross-hatching- Circling (Loose to Tight/ Different line weight) Cross contour Shading Feel the form
- Value scale
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Texture and Tone
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Exercise: https://drawabox.com/
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Thinking: How successful people think (> 3:34:34) Self-Discipline (>4:12:54)
Reference images:
Drawing Hands (>37:41) Goes into painting-VALUE MORE IMPORTANT THAN COLOR
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(1)Self- (2) Time 5-10 minutes a day (Plus) 30- 60 minute drawings Self- Discipline (> 4:12:54)
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Containers from a side view: 30-60 minutes How to draw a bottle
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Class Format
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Process: RAPP- Big to small - It's about progress, practice, and process, not perfection!
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Simple to Complex: Simplify KISS 3 Basic Shapes- Geometric/ Organic - Silhouette
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Orthographic view: Shelf view/ Side view Point of View
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Sketching- is not Precious - Scribble book - Quantity over quality -
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Focus on ratios- no details/ Silhouette drawing exercise If you change the way you look at things (")
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Quickly capture the essence- SKETCH What you like-
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Discipline: Motivation Emotional Battle (>19:07) Struggling? (>11:16) Challenges/ Call to Adventure Video Coming Eventually
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Exercise 1: Circles Sketch a Day Warm-up
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Exercise 2: Ellipses/ Ovals Drawing ellipses
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Exercise 3: Spirals- Scribbles and Doodles Jazza (Doodling with purpose Sunni Brown > 5:34)
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Exercise 4: Squares
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Exercise 5: Straight Lines Video explains Lines, Shapes, Cubes, Cylinders
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Exercise 6: Shapes
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Exercise 7: Containers
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Commitment, Discipline, Routine, Training
ZENTANGLES: Examples(Image Search)- Directions (Web page Zentangle.com) Mandala Art image search
Reference images:
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Stage3: Angles
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3 Main Angles: Vertical. Horizontal, and 45 degree
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Angles do not change with size (Scale)
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All shapes have axis lines- Flow/ Movement (Major and Minor axis)
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Perspective follows simple angle rules ( All lines are either Verticle or go to the vanishing points 1-2-3)
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Elements and Principles of Art & Design
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AWARDS- BADGES- Effort- What we Respect and Value
https://archive.org/details/CharlesBargueDrawingCourse/page/n11/mode/2up
Joy is finding and solving problems you want to solve
We will be starting with simple drawings the first-hour complex drawings the second hour and advanced drawings the third hour
Bring links to drawings or pictures you would like to see me break down. Ask questions and be curious!
Eladio