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Hi, I'm David Clemen on behalf of Expert Village and today we're going to learn the basics
of drawings. Now that I've given you some basic drawing techniques and tools we...and
we've done some doodling and freestyling had a little bit of fun. We're going to get a
little bit more advanced and we're going to try a still life. So, I've set up here on
my table this little plaster Paris sculpture that I made in high school. This is a small
book here and then we've got a wooden giraffe. His name is Jeffery. I don't really know if
it's Jeffery but we're going to use him. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to...this
is where we can apply the gesture drawing technique. Basically before I go to a final
drawing I just want to kind of lay out what this...the book, and the sculpture, and the
giraffe is giving me and kind of get where I want to lay everything out. These are the
straight lines that we practiced in warm up. Just go in here. And I'm just...all I'm trying
to do is get the gesture right now, I'm not...see this is a sphere I can just bust out into
my spiral technique get that there and now drop a straight line here do my spiral technique,
go here. So this is kind of an odd shaped sculpture but see if I kind of look at in
the spiral technique, I see that it kind of wraps around and gets bigger and it gets smaller.
So, all I'm going to do is go in here just kind of pick out the shape and it's got a
big knot up there but it goes back. Got a knot here like this o.k. now the way I've
drawn it on this page I'm really only going to get up to the chest of the giraffe but
that's alright cause see I'm doing a concept drawing. I'm just doing a gesture to see if
I like the composition of this particular drawing. Now that I've done that I'm going
to just...remember how we drew *** the Wooden Doll over here. We're doing the same thing.
We're basically kind of tracing it to get our lines on the back of the giraffe and how
his legs are structured. See an animals legs are not too different from a humans legs.
They kind of connect here at the hip. They get down, they get bigger then they get smaller
to the knee. You can apply it in lots of different cases. O.k. and so now that I've got the gesture
if I want to add in Jeffery's jubilee of jumbo spots I can and see all of a sudden, I have
gesture drawing of this still life and that's the beginning of still life drawing.