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Hey! my name is Evan Yeh, and this is a time-lapse video of me drawing the Eiffel Tower. Right
now I'm using the grid method, I'm just drawing lines and making squares, so that I can enlarge
my original small picture and still have it to scale. I went into Photoshop and laid a
grid on top of that picture and I put it on my tablet. Right now I'm just sketching out
the basic outlines of the Eiffel Tower so I have kind of a reference. I work from top
to bottom so that since this is such a large piece of paper, I wouldn't smudge the bottom
if I worked from bottom to top. And this project originally started out as a personal project,
I started...well I drew the small version of this exact same picture in my sketchbook
a few months before I started this and I really liked how it turned out, I liked the angle
of this picture, I liked..just drawing architecture. This is my first time experimenting with architecture
and I kind of liked it. I wanted to make a big version of this, so I could hang it up
on* my wall, and it'd be cool. umm...and then I started this project in March of 2013, I
worked on it for a few weekends, but... I stopped because it was getting a bit frustrating,
all that repetitive line work and filling in the tiny spaces it was very tedious work
and I kind of gave up. I just put it away and I focused on other things. Fast forward
two months later, May of 2013, final art...well our school finals were coming up and for art,
our teacher Mrs. Boyd who's really cool, uhhh... what we had to do for our art final was just
do anything art related, any medium*, anything, very flexible, so i decided to pick this back
up and finish it, and, best decision I've ever made...in art, I guess :)) I really wanted
to finish this and this was a good motive for me. So right now, instead of drawing those
little black squares, rectangles*, I drew in a solid line and then erased the gate,
I believe that's what it is. So, it's a lot quicker, a lot easier. Now this part is probably
my least favorite of the whole project, because it kind of steers away from all the strait
lines, it kind of goes into curves and ball shapes. So, it's really..uh...and the picture
wasn't really that clear on this spspecific part, but I kind of imagined what it would
look like and drew it in. and for the shading part, I wanted each and every one of these
boxes to be evenly shaded, because that's what it is. So, instead of shaving each...hmmm...shaving...hehe,
instead of shading each box, and blending it and fixing it up with all the details at
the same time, I shaded each one roughly first, and then went through with a blending stump,
all of them , and then I went through and finished up the details. So it's kind of like
a production line, where one person does this, another person does that. and this part umm...
this project* involved a lot of lines and a lot of erasing, because the main steel structure
is white, I guess you could say, I mean there's a lot background black space that had to be
drawn in, and I thought it was better to lay down a background first, and then like what
I'm doing right here, I'm shading it in first, I'm shading the background in first*, and
then erasing the parts that I want, about at this point, I kind of figured that this
grayish shading wasn't enough for the background, so I decided to go back and shade in every
single part black, as you can see right now.this took a long time, super tedious work, but
I thought I got to make this project look good, I don't want it to be half good, half
mehhh, so I went through, I took my time, and I was really happy that I did, because
it looked better. I thought shading all this much would cost me a few pencils, but actually,
for this whole project, I used a 4B, and an F, my 4B was a full length pencil at the beginning
of this project, but now it's really tiny, you can see the progression of it shrinking.
It's the one on the left right now, now it's in my hand, but it grew smaller and smaller
especially at the end where I did a LOT of shading, but that's it, it just cost me that
pencil, I thought it would take me probably another one of my darker B pencils, but it
didn't, so I'm quite happy that I get to save some money. This part is probably the most
detailed part of the whole picture(Eiffel Tower), I had to study the picture quite a
bit and find the pattern, but once I found the pattern, it was all good and it was just
really easy. you can see all the notebook paper, all the notebook paper is so that my
hands don't smudge what's already there......1. so my hands don't smudge it, and 2.so my hand
doesn't leave unwanted oils on the paper, and it'll catch the graphite. This is the
final product and I hope you enjoyed this video.